“What’s going to happen in this next election? I’m terrified about what could possibly happen, because our leaders matter. Who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit, it affects us in ways sometimes I think people take for granted,” Obama told Jay Shetty on his podcast “On Purpose.”

“The fact that people think that government — ‘eh, does it really even do anything?’ — and I’m like ‘Oh my God, does government do everything for us, and we cannot take this democracy for granted.’ And I worry sometimes that we do. Those are the things that keep me up,” she said.

“The bars are different for people in life. That I’ve learned,” she said.

Without naming Trump, she continued: “Other people can be indicted a bunch of times and still run for office. Black men can’t. You just learn to be good. And in the end, you benefit from that extra resilience.”

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    11 months ago

    If America pulls out of NATO, I wonder if NATO would disband and if the EU militarizes.

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      11 months ago

      You made me wonder if Trump would pull out of NATO and ask a few NATO members to move to Russia-US alliance instead.

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        11 months ago

        I think this is coming. Trump and Putin will invite the world to a Friendship Union. We can call it “FU World”…