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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jesse-watters-barack-obama-american-perspective_n_649aa8aae4b0ccfd6dbe8e85#
Jesse Watters Says Obama Doesn't Look At Things 'From An American Perspective'

Fox News host Jesse Watters on Monday accused former President Barack Obama of “never really looking at things from an American perspective.” (Watch the video below.)

Watters was named Tucker Carlson’s permanent replacement in the channel’s 8 p. m. time slot, but held his usual spot on “The Five” when he criticized Obama’s take on the Titan submersible tragedy.

Obama told CNN that news coverage of the Titan implosion that killed all five aboard dwarfed that of a shipwreck of migrants off Greece that killed hundreds. “In some ways it’s indicative of the degree to which people’s life chances have grown so disparate,” Obama said after noting that “obscene inequality” was threatening democracy.

Watters didn’t mention false far-right claims that Obama was not born in the United States, but he seemed to dance around them.

“When you are a citizen of the world, you always think about the world instead of the United States,” Watters said. “Remember, this is a guy whose father has roots in Africa. This is a guy who spent a lot of his childhood in Southeast Asia … and then spent a lot of time in Hawaii.” He noted that Hawaii, Obama’s place of birth, was the last to earn statehood.

“He’s never really looking at things from an American perspective,” Watters continued. “He’s always speaking to the world. Even when he’s speaking to us, he’s appealing to the world.”

Watters said the intense interest in the submersible stemmed from the Titanic angle, the perceived suspense when those aboard were thought to be running out of oxygen, and the drama’s proximity to the United States.

We are not sympathetic. We care only for ourselves. When a family runs out of money their homes and cars are taken and sold for cheap, where the rest of us make a profit.

It’s a zero sum game of “I win, you lose”. There’s really no equal. A “non-zero sum game” means both sides are happy. But that’s rare.

Even helping homeless comes with a risk of being had. I bought a sandwich for a guy who said he was homeless, and saw him later at a grocery store with a basket full of food.

There are just people with less shame, less pride, who can psychologically take advantage of people, openly.

Yet we all - ALL - take advantage of people. Just not openly. People die of famine “over there” so we can live how we want here.

This ain’t really a call for action. Just stop acting so fcking righteous.

When you sit in church and feel holy, fck you. When you vote for the ideologue you believe will make things great again- fck you.

This lack of self awareness is our BIGGEST problem. If we could accept the fact that we are not sympathetic, and we’re actually GREEDY that’s a good first step. And we can try help people from a better position.

For instance, there are a lot of obvious differences between Millennials, Gen X, and Boomers, but the differences between Millennials and Gen Z seemed to be a few compared others. Both Millennials and Gen Z grew up with digital technology and social media (to a lesser extent for Millennials), and both the average Millennial and Zoomer typically lean politically more on the progressive side.

This is obviously mostly a question for our American cousins, since here are some statistics:

19 Countries with the Most School Shootings (total incidents Jan 2009-May 2018):
United States — 288
Mexico — 8
South Africa — 6
Nigeria & Pakistan — 4
Afghanistan — 3
Brazil, Canada, France — 2
Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, & Turkey — 1

And if you think that's bad, there's a fact check here https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/05/26/fact-check-school-shootings-far-more-common-us-than-elsewhere/9944841002/

"Our rating: Missing context
Based on our research, we rate MISSING CONTEXT the claim that the U. S. has had 288 school shootings while other countries two or less. The data cited here tallies only shootings from 2009 to 2018, so it doesn't include a vast number of shootings before and after that timeframe. One database pushes the tally past 2,000 school shootings in the U. S."

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Why does he think he's above law. If he wasn't rich and had a big cult following he would be spending his life in jail for many crimes.

Is he a hypocrite?

Rumors are he’s running. Or he’s recruiting (buying friends). But freaking out about this Wagner thing.