Watch: Obama's Remarks About Social Media Regulation Are Raising a Lot of Eyebrows

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It seems when Democrats are in trouble, Barack Obama tends to show his face. 

But he doesn't end up helping the situation. 

When black men weren't getting on board with Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election, Obama ended up chastising them, and that may have backfired. 

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Once again, the Democrats are in a mess, trying to figure out a message to appeal to people, with the DNC in turmoil and reportedly in financial difficulty. 

Suddenly, Obama rears his head and is opining as if people should listen to him. I don't think he realizes his time has passed. Or perhaps he does know it, and this is his desperate effort to recover some relevance. He pulled out the same tired autocracy attack on President Donald Trump when speaking at The Bushnell Performing Arts Center in Hartford, Connecticut, on Tuesday, and my colleague Rusty Weiss just decimated it. 

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Obama Wants to See More ‘Pushback,’ Warns America Is Teetering on the Edge of Autocracy

Indeed, the American people rejected this attack when they voted with full-throated enthusiasm for Trump in November. 

But if you listen to what Obama says in another comment in the same interview, it's laughable. Who's the autocrat as he talks about how it "will require regulatory constraints" to get social media in line? 

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"Part of what we're going to have to do is to start experimenting with new forms of journalism and how do we use social media in ways that reaffirm facts, separate facts from opinion. We want diversity of opinion. We don't want diversity of fact. It will require...some government regulatory constraints around some of these business models." 

Obama spoke about dealing with platforms elevating "hateful" voices, “And...that, I think, is going to be a big challenge for all of us that we're going to have to undertake."

He quickly adds during that screed about regulatory constraints, "In a way that's consistent with the First Amendment."

But that's an attempt to slap a tiny band-aid on a huge open sore of a slippery slope if the government is involved in "regulatory constraints" on speech. Who gets to decide what the "facts" are? 

We've already seen the loose grip that Democrats have on the facts when it comes to saying anything to help themselves. We've already seen with the Twitter Files what they did in trying to control speech, for example. 

Democrats are projecting when they talk about autocracy. 

Speaking of facts, here's just one example of Obama's problem with them, talking about the "very fine people" hoax.

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People just nuked his comments on X. 

Editor's Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.

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