Obama, for all practical purposes, was a dictator (Brian Cates) Here is an excerpt from Brian's latest thread found here:  https://threader.app/thread/1247904101855137792  "This may very well be the best thread Carlos has ever done. (He is referring to Carlos Osweda)  See, Obama, for all practical purposes, WAS a dictator. NOBODY STOPPED HIM. When Congress/Courts told Obama 'No!' he told fed. agencies "Do it anyway." So they did. He’s right. Trump spent most of his first 3 years in office just getting our military back to where it can function. Remember when some people were claiming McMaster was about to invade Syria in 2017 with a 150,000 US troops? What a joke. Obama was a dictator and he was sandbagging our military a thousand ways from Sunday. One reason Trump went small on military actions, surgical strikes & Spec Ops is because we couldn't have put 50,000 new US troops ANYWHERE even if we wanted to back in 2017. Everybody brags about their guns, how they’d never let a dictator run this country. Carlos is pointing out out we already HAD a dictator running this country. The Supreme Court & Congress would tell him "No." and Obama would tell his people "Yeah uh I don't care. Do it anyway." And it would be done. Oh SURE. Members of Congress HOWLED. Newspaper editorials were written! Commentators on TV were outraged! "Can he do that? I don't think he can do that!" It didn't matter that he was breaking the law. NOBODY STOPPED HIM. Obama's DOJ, firmly under the control of his 'wingman' Eric Holder & then Loretta Lynch moved not a single finger to enforce any Court ruling against Obama and his illegal actions. Republicans, of course, didn't have the balls to impeach Obama for his blatantly illegal acts. Whole lot of people here on the right are constantly bragging about how armed they are, about their guns, how they’d never let a dictator run this country. Carlos is pointing out out we already HAD a dictator running this country. Not only did nobody STOP Obama, he got RE-ELECTED. We got the full 8 years of what was, for practical purposes, a dictatorship, especially after 2010 when Democrats and Obama lost full control of Congress. Obama bragged about having a pen and a phone. Holder/Lynch kept the courts in check, Congress did nothing to stop Obama beyond empty talk, and no armed citizens showed up to make Obama follow the law. Hillary was supposed to finish us off. Carlos is right, we were ONE ELECTION AWAY from losing this country. YOUR GUNS LITERALLY DIDN'T MATTER when Obama was committing 188 lawless acts in defiance of the law, the courts and the Congress. They wouldn't have mattered if Hillary had won either. These corrupticrats go after corporations, banks, robbing & looting to sustain themselves. Which group of armed citizens showed up in year seven of the The Great Obama Lawless Robbing And Looting to enforce the law and stop him? None of them did. None of them would've shown up to stop HILLARY either. Chew on that. BRUTAL TRUTH: Half the Trump base hates corporations, banks, business owners. Absolutely HATE them. Same as the Left. They wouldn't life a finger to stop Obama from doing this. Hurts to realize this, doesn't it? An actual lawless gang of thugs were shaking down corporations, banks and businesses while patriotic gun owners sat on their asses and fantasized about shooting the kevlar-wearing gov't agents breaching their door. He is 100% right about this. No group of armed citizens would have shown up to stop Hillary either. CHANGE MY MIND. Get down on your knees right now and thank GOD for the miracle of that 2016 election. I am not joking when I use this meme. It was a MIRACLE. Hillary had ALL THE ADVANTAGES. Trump beat her ANYWAY. It should NOT have happened. But it DID."