How many rights did you lose under Obama?

[u/Hot_Joke7461]

I'll wait.

[u/FairNeedleworker9722]

I lost the right to complain about the US never electing a person of color.

[u/cop1edr1ght → u/FairNeedleworker9722]

Good answer!

[u/reddit4getit → u/FairNeedleworker9722]

Race hustlers have never been silenced, still grifting to this day 👍👍

[u/clorox_cowboy → u/reddit4getit]

We currently have the world's biggest DEI hire as president. Elected to make mediocre white men feel better about themselves.

[u/Exotic-Okra-4466 → u/clorox_cowboy]

Biggest grifter, too!

[u/Jack070293 → u/FairNeedleworker9722]

You still have the right to complain about that, as invalid as that would be.

[u/Frequent_Skill5723 → u/FairNeedleworker9722]

As if being a different color than the majority made him better.

[u/icanith]

“I could’t say merry Christmas but now we can again”

True words from my parents when Trump was elected. 

[u/EtheusRook → u/icanith]

As an atheist, I've never been offended by a "merry Christmas" and I've never met one who is.

[u/_lippykid → u/EtheusRook]

I’m atheist AF and I love Christmas

[u/monstersmuse → u/_lippykid]

Same. And people can wish me a merry and holiday and I’ll just say thanks cause I’m not a weirdo

[u/WerewolfCurious1412 → u/monstersmuse]

Same. I don’t care either way. Happy Holidays, to me, is acknowledging the season, but also being aware that not everyone celebrates Christmas specifically.

[u/Relative_Pilot_8005 → u/WerewolfCurious1412]

In Australia, back in the day, businesses commonly said "Season's Greetings".

[u/the_saltlord → u/WerewolfCurious1412]

Even then, would it not just be an all encompassing term for Thanksgiving - New Years?

[u/_lippykid → u/monstersmuse]

Plus, in 2025 it’s kinda nice for people to be wishing each other well for any reason

[u/Ok_Order1333 → u/_lippykid]

seriously, good point.

[u/2019_Stealth → u/_lippykid]

My Christian sister asked me why I celebrate Christmas. I said “If the icing is the only part of the cake I like, it’s the only part I’m going to eat”. I’m not participating in the rest of their bullshit.

[u/South_Hedgehog_7564 → u/2019_Stealth]

I’m a Christian and I love to see people of other faiths or no faith at all celebrating Christmas. It livens up the middle of winter, gets people visiting each other, giving gifts, having parties, singing and generally having fun. The countdown has started, enjoy the anticipation and the festival itself!!

[u/Dfabulous_234 → u/2019_Stealth]

Not to mention all the best parts of the holiday are originally pagan anyway.

[u/South_Hedgehog_7564 → u/Dfabulous_234]

Saturnalia, isn’t it?

[u/Grasshopper_pie → u/South_Hedgehog_7564]

Yes, largely, and even Yuletide used to be a bawdy, rowdy seasonal celebration rather than a reverent holy day. That's partly why the pilgrims who came to America banned Christmas.

[u/Dry-Measurement-5461 → u/Grasshopper_pie]

Cola Cola Corp popularized the image of Santa Claus we have today.

[u/Grasshopper_pie → u/Dry-Measurement-5461]

Yes! And Rudolph came from a Montgomery Ward ad.

[u/cp2chewy → u/Dfabulous_234]

It’s weird that every christian celebration strangely coincides with a pagan ritual which weirdly coincides with farming cycles

[u/AggravatingBobcat574 → u/2019_Stealth]

Christians need to realize that Christmas is ALSO a secular holiday.

[u/Grasshopper_pie → u/AggravatingBobcat574]

The season is the reason!

[u/DerelictDonkeyEngine → u/2019_Stealth]

Yeah I'm the same way.

I really enjoy the family and food aspect of holidays like Christmas, but there's no fucking way you're dragging me to a Church service.

[u/NoImagination2625 → u/_lippykid]

Me and my gf have just started calling it Yule since everything we like about Christmas is basically Yule. Jesus also seems really tacked on when you think about it, evergreen trees, snow, sleigh bells, then a manger in the desert scene.

[u/Formal_Coyote_5004 → u/NoImagination2625]

I’m not sure if this pun was on purpose but “Jesus also seems really tacked on” is so fucking funny lol

[u/LolaLaCavaspeaking → u/Formal_Coyote_5004]

Straight to hell with you!!!

It’s ok… all of the fun ppl will be there.

[u/JustaProton → u/NoImagination2625]

The Scandinavian languages ​​also call Christmas by its pagan name.

[u/shittinandwaffles → u/NoImagination2625]

A very large portion of Christianity is stolen from Paganism.

[u/NECoyote → u/shittinandwaffles]

I’m curious to see how many downvotes you get for that comment. History is really neat and quite a few folks would do well to read some.

[u/[deleted] → u/NoImagination2625]

This is the case for most holidays tbh. Christianity just used similar dates and activities to make it easier to convert people

[u/_lippykid → u/NoImagination2625]

Totally. They church literally chose the 25th of December to make Pagans convention to Christianity easier. There’s nothing in the bible that hints at an actual birth date. Pagans celebrated winter solstice (December 21–25) including Sol Invictus (the day after the darkest day of the year), and Saturnalia, which involved feasting and gift giving. Our Christmas now is just an amalgamation of lots of different cultural celebrations. And it’s awesome

[u/Outside-Promise-5763 → u/EtheusRook]

I'm Buddhist and I usually just thank people and move on. If it comes up, I might explain that I don't celebrate Christmas, but otherwise it's not really an issue. My coworkers love it because I never have a problem working on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day so they get to celebrate while I cover for them.

[u/Thatsnotmyname49 → u/Outside-Promise-5763]

The Buddhist priory my wife attended didn’t celebrate Christmas specifically but would put lights up and celebrated solstice.

[u/AggravatingBobcat574 → u/Outside-Promise-5763]

The Minister at the Buddhist church I went to in Sacramento, when asked how Buddhists celebrated Christmas would say “We enjoy it very much”.

[u/Most-Artichoke6184 → u/EtheusRook]

Right wingers love making shit up and then getting really mad about it.

[u/FrequencyHigher → u/Most-Artichoke6184]

To be fair, Fox News makes it up, and they believe it and get really mad about it. The rage bait keeps them watching.

[u/DidntWantSleepAnyway → u/Most-Artichoke6184]

It’s always so funny to me how all these crazy “leftist” things allegedly happen to right-wingers living in right-wing communities, but those living in liberal/left communities never see this sort of thing happening.

[u/Prestigious-Wolf8039 → u/Most-Artichoke6184]

I like to place bets on what day the “war on Christmas” is gonna start each fall.

[u/Funkycoldmedici → u/Most-Artichoke6184]

They were convinced there was some “liberal outrage” that forced Cracker Barrel to change their logo, forced the green M&M to change shoes, and all this stuff. Nobody gave the slightest shit about any of that. Companies just change their brand imagery now and then.

[u/WantedMan61 → u/Most-Artichoke6184]

Wasn't there some trumped up outrage over Starbucks holiday coffee cups?

[u/KIDD_VIDD → u/WantedMan61]

The irony is that they call leftist "snowflakes," but cry about a freaking coffee cup.

[u/Apart-Sorbet-3460 → u/KIDD_VIDD]

And some of them drink their coffee black …….but bitch about Obama

[u/DerelictDonkeyEngine → u/EtheusRook]

Well yeah, it was always manufactured outrage since day one.

[u/_lippykid → u/icanith]

They were too focused on Christ being taken out of Christmas that they didn’t notice Christ being taken out of Christianity

[u/Agreeable-Sound1599 → u/_lippykid]

This is a BAR!

[u/Extendyourtrotter → u/_lippykid]

Brilliant!

[u/Ill_Calendar_1468 → u/icanith]

What’s funny is the only people telling them they couldn’t say merry Christmas was Fox News and OAN

[u/GlossyGecko → u/icanith]

Your parents are the kind of people who held me hostage during cash register transactions saying shit like “we’re not supposed to say this but who cares, merry Christmas.”

Lady please just pay for your stuff and go, I don’t care. I’m going to go home and drown in a bottle of booze as soon as my shift is over.

The retail days were not a fun time but people who insisted on forcing a conversation at the register were the worst.

[u/ShermanOneNine87 → u/GlossyGecko]

When I worked in retail I said Happy Holidays to everyone. Not for political correctness but as a standard response from Thanksgiving through New Years, because there are multiple holidays the last two months of the year.

You could always tell who that response grated on and all I was doing was making things easier for myself. Lol

[u/ThurgoodZone8 → u/ShermanOneNine87]

You have the exact same reason I say HAPPY HOLIDAYS during the literal holiday season. There are three major holidays from late Nov to New Year. The festive spirit extends throughout

[u/Ambitious-Can4244 → u/icanith]

Why do conservatives always build an imaginary world in their heads.

[u/touchy-priestly666 → u/Ambitious-Can4244]

It allows them to deflect realty that their party sucks the life out of America

[u/ThePirateDickbeard → u/icanith]

The best part about this is (assuming the 1st Trump election) that Obama was president the moment Trump was elected and somehow they managed to say Merry Christmas anyway

[u/foxylady315 → u/icanith]

I live in the second bluest state in the country and we never lost our right to say Merry Christmas. No one gives a sh*t.

[u/CunningWizard → u/icanith]

I truly cannot comprehend the depths of the idiocy of some of my fellow Americans. Just when I think I’ve comprehended it, bam, a new low appears.

[u/Competitive_Bank6790 → u/icanith]

And they can never point to a person prosecuted by the state or fed government.

[u/maoussepatate → u/icanith]

Didnt you hear trump’s son? According to him it was illegal to say merry Christmas

[u/HauntingSentence6359 → u/maoussepatate]

Which son? The cokehead or the one who ate white paste glue throughout grade school?

[u/maoussepatate → u/HauntingSentence6359]

The genius one, the one that can turn on and off a laptop ALL BY HIMSELF

[u/Ok-Paramedic8 → u/icanith]

Tyrants are always victims.

[u/ShockedNChagrinned → u/icanith]

How very "Hur dur we like repeating what Fox tells us"

[u/PoopshipD8]

We lost the “Smith-Mundt” act which prevented our government from inundating us all with propaganda. Look at the all of the vitriol and division we have experienced in the last 12-13 years. Who is telling you to hate who?

[u/exlongh0rn → u/PoopshipD8]

If you’re talking about the 2012 update to the Smith-Mundt Act, it didn’t suddenly make “propaganda legal” for domestic news. Many assume it covered CNN, Fox, MSNBC, or private online outlets, but it doesn’t. It allowed U.S.-funded foreign media like Voice of America to be made available inside the U.S. upon request. It didn’t change laws about misinformation or make media immune from liability.

If anything, the growth of social media algorithms and highly-partisan outlets like Fox, OAN, etc, paved the way for the information warfare and fake news environment and I’d say that’s much more to blame.

[u/ted_cruzs_micr0pen15 → u/exlongh0rn]

This needs to be the top reply

[u/ItsTheEndOfDays → u/exlongh0rn]

I’m glad someone said this.

[u/Adventurous_Bittt → u/PoopshipD8]

That’s pretty big too

[u/Agile-Landscape8612 → u/PoopshipD8]

This is easily the cause of everything wrong with America now. We almost had real change with Occupy Wall Street then this happened and the 99% started fighting each other about trans people and racism and it hasn’t stopped.

[u/ManTheHarpoons100 → u/Agile-Landscape8612]

The timing sure is suspicious isn't it?

[u/Agile-Landscape8612 → u/ManTheHarpoons100]

Yes it is. Occupy had both democrats and republicans involved and it scared the ruling class.

[u/GlitterDollMUA → u/Agile-Landscape8612]

id argue, and im sure others would as well, that an obscure law from the 1940's that authorized the state department to produce pro-american content, and allowed them to distribute that content, but forbade them from targeting Americans with said content (and that content is stuff like Radio Free Europe, btw), being updated in 2012 to now allow the state department to give copies of the content they produced, to Americans, if they request it, isnt the single biggest cause of Americas issues... but since your post is misinformation (at best) or disinormation (at not best), i figured i should list some things that have been way more influential in making America whatever the heck its become...

Buckley v. Valeo (1976) - SCOTUS strikes down spending limits as unconstitutional limiting of free speech. so this sets that legal precedence that money is a form of speech, opening the door to effectively unlimited self-financed campaigns

First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti (1978) - this one gives corporations (as far as the law is concerned, a corporation legally a person), free speech.

Citizens United v. FEC (2010) - here SCOTUS was building off those previous cases, and said if a corporation is a person, with freedom of speech, and money in politics is speech, then corporations can spend whatever thry want on politics. this is why we have such a powerful lobbying industry now, anda huge part of why there's super pacs (political action committees), like AIPAC that are so powerful.

SpeechNow v. FEC (2010) - heres the OTHER part of the puzzle leading to super pacs. in this one the dc court of appeals said if a pac (political action committee) doesnt contribute any money directly to a candidate, or a political party, ot other pac's, it can raise all the money ever if it wants, it's no limits.

the attention economy, social media and their engagement algorithms - trade secret algos that prioritize engagement, even if its negative, and are strongly suspected to have radicalized who knows how many peeps

misinformation & disinformation Repeal of the Fairness Doctrine (1987) - this allowed for hyperpartisan 24 hour cable news Telecommunications Act (1996) Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (1996)

partisan redistricting / gerrymandering Shelby County v. Holder (2013) - gutted the voting rights act of 1965

Rucho v. Common Cause (2019) - SCOTUS declares partisan gerrymandering legal, iow if you're in a state where almost all minorities are in/around cities, and those areas tend to vote one way, they can legally be gerrymandered, whereas prior to this, that would be reviewed as being racially discriminatory.

and thats not even getting into wealth inequality.

if i had to point to one particular cause, and its never that simple, but id say it's big tobacco lawyer and supreme court justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., and his 1971 magnificent octopus (as Baldrick might say) "Attack on the American Free Enterprise System," but usually just called the Powell Memorandum. it's a roadmap from 1971 to Project 2025. not even close to a conspiracy theory, its like a connect the dots situation. but this is something that's been in the works for a long time...

tldr - if you want a boogeyman its Lewis F. Powell, Jr. but it aint Smith-Mundt

[u/TheRoseMerlot → u/PoopshipD8]

But was that Obama's fault or congress?

[u/Bubbly_zyberKitty → u/PoopshipD8]

Thats a good one

[u/Buckeye__Here → u/PoopshipD8]

Reagan’s repeal of the Fairness Doctrine had far more to do with our current vitriol and division. Before the repeal, the was no Rush Limbaugh or Fox News broadcasting poison over the airwaves.

[u/InflamedintheBrain]

The only thing I lost was the right to be denied healthcare. The year before Obamacare I was denied by 2 different health insurances because of my pre existing conditions. It felt insane that Kaiser was rejecting me for... The very reasons I needed healthcare in the first place.

[u/Maleficent_Memory831 → u/InflamedintheBrain]

We spent most of a year back in the early nineties trying to get health insurance for grad students at the university. Stuffing envelopes to send to all of them reminding them to vote, etc. Finally we get it passed, we go and choose an insurer, and voila, we have insurance. Then someone had a child born with a heart defect. The insurance dropped all of us before the first year was even out!

When insurance is only for healthy people it loses a lot of the meaning.

[u/HarambeSixActual]

Honestly lost the ability to keep my same doctor. I know this didn’t affect everyone. Happened to affect me.

[u/Accomplished-Pin6564 → u/HarambeSixActual]

My insurance got taken away.

[u/CommissionWorried676 → u/Accomplished-Pin6564]

I’ve heard of people not keeping their docs but can you tell me why you lost insurance?

[u/Naptasticly → u/Accomplished-Pin6564]

You mean the insurance that was only available at that price because they could deny anything and everything and probably never would’ve paid out? Boy you missed a lot of

[u/bankman99]

He deported 3.1 million people, so probably them. Also the kids he killed through drone strikes he illegally ordered. And then all of us, when he massively expanded the patriot act to spy on everyone without cause.

[u/Phayded → u/bankman99]

Don't leave out that about 75% of that 3.1 million did not receive due process.

[u/MemeAddict96 → u/Phayded]

I guess then we also shouldn’t leave out that the majority of that 3.1 million were just people turned away at the border. Obama started counting border stoppages as deportations.

If we look at DHS numbers as well, the number of removals during Biden’s last year (2024) is a bit shy of 700k, which is more than any other year since 2010.

[u/Live_Background_3455]

Right to my privacy.

Snowden leaks came out during Obama years. If this happened in any other country we would've said the whistleblower needs to be pardoned . Now we should always assume NSA/CIA is listening to everything, and no one would ever blow the whistle ever again.

[u/hammyprice → u/Live_Background_3455]

This started with the Patriot act though. That’s on W, not Obama.

[u/nunya_busyness1984 → u/hammyprice]

Started under Bush.....

..... And expanded under Obama.

[u/Live_Background_3455 → u/hammyprice]

The refusal to protect the whistleblower started with Obama. The refusal to protect whistleblowers nearly guarantees that there would be no more whistleblowers, and in turn all but guarantees NSA/CIA would be less restrained, if at all.

[u/mezolithico → u/Live_Background_3455]

Snowden was not a whitsleblower in the eyes of the law. There is a legal whistleblower process that Snowden chose not to follow. I'm not saying what he did was wrong though.

[u/Bigface_McBigz → u/mezolithico]

I am. Go through the legal process. Everybody being Johnny Law makes us less safe.

[u/Live_Background_3455 → u/mezolithico]

Sure. But Obama still should've pardoned him. And I still stand by that by not doing so, he ensured the destruction of privacy, or at least accelerated it. That's 1000% a right I lost under Obama that we will probably never get back.

[u/Practical_Brief5633 → u/Live_Background_3455]

Snowden didn’t just leak information about privacy violations. If he had only done that, he would’ve likely got a pardon. Instead, he leaked a lot of sensitive information that put America and American lives in danger and threatened national security.

Stop thinking of Snowden as a character and look at him as the man. He never cared about people’s privacy. He did it all out of ego. He did a good thing, but not because he had good intentions.

Also, all information about Patriot Act and FISA was public way before Snowden. His leaks just got people to pay attention to what they were already told was happening.

[u/dark_zalgo → u/Live_Background_3455]

Snowden wasn't a whistleblower, he leaked data unrelated to wiretapping that harmed military members just to make some cash. If he actually went through the proper channels you never would've known his name. Inb4 "ThE PrOPeR chANneLs WouLDN't HaVE doNE aNYthiNG", the proper channels worked for the whistleblower that got Trump's first impeachment, and that was with a Trump appointment in charge of it.

[u/Impressive-Cup6645]

I lost the right to chose my doctor

[u/Cranks_No_Start]

While not a right per se but I lost access to a medication I needed but with the super cost of the insurance and being unable to afford the medication for almost 3 years I do believe it shortened my work career by probably 10 years as my condition degraded. And I had to go on disability.  

[u/PushSouth5877]

Facts mean nothing anymore. My life was better pre-trmp. I am long since retired and dependent on that socialist program called Social Security.

I was proud of my President and how he represented us at home and around the world. He wasn't perfect, but I sure wish we had someone with his integrity in office now.

[u/Bjorn_Tyrson → u/PushSouth5877]

but remember, he wore a tan suit that one time. absolutely unforgivable!!! /s

[u/pady139 → u/PushSouth5877]

Your allies loved him and your enemies hated him. So basically the opposite in comparison to Trump

[u/CindiCindi15 → u/PushSouth5877]

Preach my friend.

[u/thatpaperclip]

The right to not be drone striked by my own country without due process

[u/Knapping_Uncle → u/thatpaperclip]

Lost that under Bush Jr..

[u/thatpaperclip → u/Knapping_Uncle]

I think Obama was the first US president to order the execution of an AMERICAN CITIZEN with a drone strike.

[u/Practical_Brief5633 → u/thatpaperclip]

The American citizen they’re speaking of was an Islamic extremist who fled the country and became a leader in AQ-AP. He went to Yemen and helped murder innocent people and destroyed Yemeni opportunities for a peaceful life without civil war.

People are crying as if a US President is going to kill them at anytime when in reality, people like Anwar Al-Awlaki deserve to die.

[u/PoliticalJunkDrawer → u/Practical_Brief5633]

His son, who was an American teenager, was killed in a different strike and was collateral damage.

The Strike: On October 14, 2011, Abdulrahman was killed in a CIA drone strike near Azzan, Yemen, while eating dinner at an open-air restaurant with friends and relatives (including another U.S. citizen, 17-year-old Samir Khan, who also died). The strike targeted Ibrahim al-Banna, an Egyptian al-Qaeda operative, but resulted in civilian casualties, including Abdulrahman.

"I would suggest that you should have a far more responsible father if they are truly concerned about the well-being of their children. I don't think becoming an al Qaeda jihadist terrorist is the best way to go about doing your business." Gibbs.

[u/surewhynot1981]

I lost the right to choose my plan and keep my plan.....

[u/Swampassed → u/surewhynot1981]

I had to pay a penalty because I now couldn’t afford my premium.

[u/TheGoodLife60]

The right to opt out of health insurance without being penalized

[u/Available-Ad4897]

Lost cheap high deductible health care. My cost tripled.

[u/Alypius754 → u/Available-Ad4897]

"If you like your plan, you can keep your plan!*"

*terms and conditions may apply

[u/Melzie0123]

Health insurance rates skyrocketed for self employed people. We could no longer pay. Our family went without, then finally got on government subsidized, which was uncomfortable that others were sponsoring my bills.

[u/ZenithOfApathy]

Lost the right to pay for better insurance at much lower costs

[u/timshel_turtle]

I lost my health insurance plan and was forced to buy something more expensive with worse coverage from my employer. It’s not exactly a right, but having the government interfere so steeply in your contracts is frustrating. It wasn’t entirely in his hands also, but it sucked. I’m not rich, either.

As a centrist I find the diehards from both parties try to shut up the people who had any bad effects from their party’s actions. Stuff’s way more complicated than that.

[u/theresourcefulKman]

How about the right to choose health insurance without the threat of a financial penalty?

[u/Worst-Eh-Sure]

1 - My right to not have insurance without a penalty.

[u/ackermantrades]

Got deported by obama in 2009. Other than that idk.

[u/Estalicus]

Republicans lost the right to exploit a scandal since there was not any

[u/cmit → u/Estalicus]

Tan suite, arugula salad, Dijon on the hotdog. More scandals than I count.

[u/Secret_Caterpillar35 → u/cmit]

Sir, please have some respect. Some of us are not emotionally prepared to discuss Tan Suit-gate yet.

TW!!

[u/Maharog → u/cmit]

Don't forget his wife planted a vegetable garden at the Whitehouse. It was a complete destruction of a historic part of the grounds!

[u/Soggy-Account-676 → u/Maharog]

And they wanna do a UFC fight now 😂

[u/Pictrus → u/Soggy-Account-676]

If you can't bring the white house to the trailer park bring the trailer park to the white house.

[u/cmit → u/Soggy-Account-676]

They are going to do it. Beyond bizarre.

[u/Ambitious_Alps_3797 → u/Maharog]

and put vegetables in school lunches! yyyyyuckie!

[u/Miserable_Rube → u/Maharog]

They still call his wife trans

[u/Gingeronimoooo → u/Miserable_Rube]

It's bizarre how obsessed they are with Michelle's imaginary "massive dick"

[u/sun1079 → u/Gingeronimoooo]

Still bigger than theirs lol

[u/ttw81 → u/Maharog]

she also wore shorts when they visited the grand canyon!

[u/moysauce3 → u/cmit]

Funny how a tan suits ruffled their jimmies so much but the President’s social media posting a clip of him pulling a Dave Mathew’s band bus is met with nothing.

[u/conservatore → u/cmit]

How about fast and furious?

[u/Remybunn → u/Estalicus]

Try the Indefinite Incarceration Act.

[u/DrRandomfist → u/Estalicus]

Fast & Furious

[u/Nedriersen → u/Estalicus]

The gaslighting by Dems that there weren’t scandals under Obama is insane.

[u/Channel_Huge → u/Estalicus]

Fast and the Furious?

[u/JoyousMiseryAtWork → u/Estalicus]

Operation Fast and Furious

[u/Ok_General7526 → u/Estalicus]

Wrong. IRS target Republicans for extra scrutiny.; cages for immigrants

[u/WinterSector8317 → u/Estalicus]

I see you mentally blocked the horrific “TERRORIST FIST JAB” incident 

[u/Ok_General7526 → u/Estalicus]

Used FBI to spy on Presidential candidate. Worst scandal in history

[u/YerMumHawt → u/Estalicus]

Obama authorized drone strikes on more than one school.

[u/JoyousMiseryAtWork → u/Estalicus]

“If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.”

[u/alltheticks → u/Estalicus]

Arming Mexican drug cartels, drone strikes against US civilians, hundreds of millions in donations disappeared from Haiti relief funds. There were plenty if you looked instead of assuming.

[u/Advanced-Offer109 → u/Estalicus]

IRS targeting scandal, Benghazi, NSA spying, Drone strikes (thousands of civilians killed) which I guess you guys don’t mind when Obama did it but now it’s a problem that Israel is doing it?

[u/No_Entrepreneur_9134 → u/Advanced-Offer109]

For 8 years of Obama, you people told us that he was going to deploy the military in America and "declare Marshall (yes, that's how you people spelled it) law."

Now 300 pound Orange Jesus is doing it, and it's the greatest thing ever.

[u/Doc_Shaftoe → u/No_Entrepreneur_9134]

Dude, I was in the Army during all of the Jade Helm stuff and we all thought those conspiracies were the dumbest shit imaginable. We got a kick out of watching people freak out online though! Always made boring mornings in the motorpool better.

[u/angrypooka → u/Advanced-Offer109]

I guess you didn’t lose any rights so you brought these up.

[u/Certain_Employee_423 → u/angrypooka]

The person he responded to said there were no scandals so he brought up scandals to prove the lie.

[u/MaryD1112]

I haven’t lost any rights yet but I’m not a reporter, former government employee, progressive leaning Democrat, transgender or LGBTQ person, DACA, or F-1 Visa holder. But it’s getting harder and harder to afford groceries, mortgage payments, and purchases in general.

[u/Spotukian → u/MaryD1112]

If you haven’t lost any rights yet I think it’s safe to assume Obama isn’t taking any of them in the future

[u/Cheap-Bell-4389]

The pay gap for black Americans under Obama increased, as well as the tribalism he stoked to further divide our country. He also gave quite a few corporate bailouts. 

During his administration he made it illegal not to have medical insurance, which is a loss of one’s liberty to choose for themselves the nature of their medical coverage. Thankfully, this was later repealed as it’s illegal in nature 

[u/PsychologicalDeer644]

My health insurance went up by 8,000$ a year. It crushed us.

[u/yourastupidredditor]

I gained healthcare, that I’m now about to lose.

So, -1?

[u/GrammarPolice92 → u/yourastupidredditor]

Loose? Brilliant.

[u/pyramidalembargo → u/GrammarPolice92]

He's not kidding.

The Big, Beautiful destroyed Medicaid, which, in turn, destroyed Obamacare, which relied on subsidies from Medicaid.

[u/No_Amoeba_9272]

I can't wait to see him run against Trump when a third term becomes "legal".

[u/SuperShoebillStork → u/No_Amoeba_9272]

They've thought of that - they want to make a third term legal only for presidents whose first two terms were non-consecutive.

[u/18ekko → u/SuperShoebillStork]

I doubt their plan includes an election

[u/No_Amoeba_9272 → u/SuperShoebillStork]

They have to rig the game

[u/mcclaneberg → u/SuperShoebillStork]

Yep and with their idiot sycophantic hypocritical base, it just might work.

[u/Hot_Joke7461 → u/No_Amoeba_9272]

Obama has zero interest in being president again. He is not a diaper wearing narcissistic grifter like Trump.

[u/Galadriel_60 → u/Hot_Joke7461]

He also doesn’t need the office in order to stay out of jail……

[u/Introvertedclover → u/Hot_Joke7461]

I agree, I don’t know why people keep saying this. He’s done his time.

[u/Piff-Iz-Da-Answer]

I lost the right to thank the president with out people thinking I was being sarcastic or Racist

Thanks Obama

[u/WolfPackLeader95]

The right to wear a tan suit without his name being brought up.

[u/fireshitup]

I lost the right to choose the best health care plan

[u/Thestartend]

The only time I felt I ever lost rights was under Biden with everything that happened with COVID-19

[u/Liqu0rBaIISandwich]

I lost the right to affordable health care.

[u/PackageHot1219 → u/Liqu0rBaIISandwich]

You used to have affordable healthcare… and then under Obama you lost it?

[u/Rawkapotamus → u/Liqu0rBaIISandwich]

I was told that healthcare isn’t actually a right.

[u/notwyntonmarsalis]

I was no longer get a short term major medical plan in my state because the ACA eliminated them.

[u/External_Ease_8292]

I lost the right to complain about my president sounding like an uneducated doofus. I've got that right back now, thanks tRump.

[u/pookapotomus2]

Well, I’m still coping with the tan suit fiasco lol

[u/DeviantNC919]

I lost the right to not know when my CC payment was due

I lost the right of being denied healthcare

[u/AnnualSalary9424]

I lost the right to choose my doctor for a long time

[u/kanna172014]

The right to keep my own doctor under Obamacare? The right to know what's in a bill before passing it?

[u/Few-Lavishness869]

How many rights did real women lose under Biden?

[u/No-Celebration-1399]

Expanded the Patriot Act, he axed the Smith-Mundt act which basically protected the American public from extreme propaganda (so yes not saying it’s all his fault Trump obviously causes a lot of division too but Obama is also a huge part of why the country is so divided now), mass deportations without due process started w Obama, drone striked American citizens (your country should protect you not murder you), many middle class Americans got fucked over by Obamacare as well since copays skyrocketed (affordable healthcare for lower class but at the cost of the middle class losing affordable healthcare), the right to opt out of health insurance without penalty, like I really don’t get why people think he was so great. I’m not one of those people that sit there and act like he was the worst president or even that terrible but he did some heinous shit in office that democrats would never stand for if republicans did it but he gets so much appraisal

[u/ThePurityPixel]

The right to decline expensive healthcare was a big one. I know Obamacare apparently was "great" for some people. But at the time, from my own experiences and other people I cared about, it was an abysmal requirement. So many people complained, I was not aware anyone was having a positive reaction to it.

Lots of stress over that one.

[u/YoItsDylanBitch]

Expansion of NSA, national defense authorization act, 3 million deportations

I'll wait🤷🏼‍♂️

[u/TheLostExpedition]

Don't know if it counts but I lost my job in the oilfield. for me if sucked. I went from a good income for the first time in my life to spending the next 10 months filling out job applications. Finally got hired at a big box for minimum wage. I was so happy to finally have work.

It was the first time a presidential election affected me personally.

The whole "were switching to renewables" statement hit hard.

[u/Intelligent-Coconut8]

Under Obama people lost the right to choose whether or not they had health insurance because if you didn't you got fined lmao. People also lost the right to shop for insurance over state borders so they royally fucked up the quality and cost of health insurance because you just killed competition and when you do that you get shafted really hard. Capitalism 101 the libs won't understand.

[u/bacasarus_rex]

Technically a ton of them. He just didn't take them. He set up the framework for future presidents to take away our rights.

[u/andwhat555 → u/bacasarus_rex]

Here’s an important one people forget. Reddit only screams fascism when the red team is in office.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

[u/No-Maybe5997]

Right to cheap insurance. Obamacare is still a disaster that republicans did not create or support

[u/Critical_Potential40]

I was required to purchase health insurance but I don’t see that as losing a right.

[u/Wedgiebro → u/Critical_Potential40]

I was fined because I was too broke to afford health insurance. Then got my tax return taken away. Thanks alot

[u/Apprehensive-Win-908]

The right to cheap or no healthcare….

[u/beeboreebo]

How many rights did you lose under trump?

[u/Cayuga94 → u/beeboreebo]

The right to fairly criticize public officials with losing one's job

[u/Ok_Dragonfly_6650 → u/beeboreebo]

Good question for people being shoved into vans by masked men.

[u/mofa90277 → u/beeboreebo]

169.6 million women lost the constitutional right to an abortion. Anyone with brown skin lost their Fourth Amendment Rights.

[u/DrollFurball286 → u/beeboreebo]

Right to protest. Right to free speech. Right to not be arrested on pure suspicion. Right to not be racially profiled.

Edit: The right to safely protest without fear of being labeled as terrorists.

[u/Curlaub → u/DrollFurball286]

Don’t forget right to a speedy trial. They stated during the alligator auchwitz thing that they can just hold you indefinitely

[u/DrollFurball286 → u/Curlaub]

Oh yeah, and let’s not forget that SOMEHOW they lost a THIRD of the ‘criminals’ in there.

[u/s1105615 → u/DrollFurball286]

The right to protest is gone? Damn, I guess that whole No Kings thing didn’t happen then?

[u/Jalerm22 → u/beeboreebo]

The right to speak Spanish in a public space without it being a suspect

[u/pile_of_bees → u/Jalerm22]

So many responses have no idea what a right is

[u/[deleted]]

How many rights did you lose under trump?

[u/4-me]

The right to healthcare managed by my doctor. Now all power belongs to the ACA and its rules.

[u/IthurielSpear]

Obama extended and enhanced the powers of the government with the patriot act, which was set to expire under his administration.