Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama are broadening out these days. They have recently signed a multiyear deal to create their own production company, called Higher Ground Productions, to produce content for Netflix. The pair has recently been spotted on the road, delivering keynote speeches at corporate events and large conferences.
Mr. Obama delivered a powerful but apocalyptic message about America’s future Wedsenday at a technology conference in Las Vegas hosted by identity security company Okta — where he warned the audience of an uncertain future for America.
Mr. Obama used his time on stage at Okta Oktane 2018 conference to explain what ventures he is pursuing in his post-presidential years, and further warned about division in America. “We live in a culture today where everybody feels the crush of information and the collision of worlds,” Mr. Obama explained.
Okta CEO and co-founder Todd McKinnon chats with former president Obama on stage atOkta Oktane 2018 conference. (Source: Okta)
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At the heart of the issue, the world is more interconnected than ever before, and technology is fundamentally reshaping relationships, as the access to information is rapidly fragmenting society.
Obama said, “the great thing about the United States is that we have had a head start over the rest of the world in trying to figure this all out.”
“We are a people that came from everywhere else, so we had to figure out how to join together and work together, not based on race, or religious faith or even, initially, language, but based on creed and a sense of principals,” the former president said
“All of us are trying to shape and absorb information in ways that can be confusing. If you ask people in Washington DC what identity means, they may well first describe their racial identity.
By definition, we [Americans] are a nation of people that came from everywhere else.
I think the big challenge we have today is how do we maintain a sense of common purpose rather than splinter or divide.
We are seeing this debated on social media every day, but if we don’t figure it out then our society and democracy may not survive.”
Obama expressed several important ways of how Americans can sustain and develop a national identity, where citizens view themselves as Americans first, rather than being members of a political party, or gender, or race, is by communicating with each other through stories. He said the more we can share stories with one another, the more we can view each other as fellow humans, rather than enemies.
Obama makes an interesting point, he suggests — Americans should expand their media sources. So no more CNN?
“Right now part of our polarization is that if you watch Fox News all day, or you read the New York Times, you are occupying two different realities. We have to be able to figure out, in this multiplicity of platforms, to have some common baseline of facts that allow us to meet and solve problems.”
While Obama cautions the audience about division in America and how it could lead to a collapse, the whole keynote speech seems to be a ploy to subliminally drum up support for his next venture of films and TV shows on Netflix.
Here is part of Obama’s keynote speech at Oktane 18
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After about a year and a half, it seems as the Obamas/Clintons have finally emerged from their Washington war room, and are ready to launch the next phase of an infowar against President Trump. Do not believe us? Well, on Friday, Hillary Clinton announced she wants to be the CEO of Facebook. Can you imagine that? Now that is some next-level shit…Couple it with the Obamas on Netflix pumping out content, and you start to get the picture of an imminent infowar.
Not much will remove these 2 from the influence they try to peddle.
Indictments for treason or sedition can’t arrive fast enough. Please.
Patience wore thin months ago. It’s time to move.
Them.
To.
Gitmo.
That isn’t going to happen, it’s a fantasy that diverts action from realistic endeavors that actually can be made to happen.
America is not going to recover from Obama, he divided us irreconcilably.
Mr. Obama is a stooge, a front-man for the real overlords. Valerie is his frontline supervisor. He is on assignment, reading scripts carefully vetted. So are all the rest of the politicians, all over the world. Those same overlords run the big media, and (not quite as completely, yet…) control access and distribution over the internet. Pretty soon now, in the next few years, the world wide net will be completed and dropped neatly (they hope!) over all of us.
Then the real slaving will begin. Enjoy this respite while you can, hard times are coming.
This, exactly. Are you aware who the overlord (singular) is? What and how he has accomplished so much?
Looks like his latest bullshit tour has begun.
I’m delighted that we now have a president who doesn’t hate America. 8 years of a community organizer hater wannabe tyrant was wearing thin.
He spent 8 years trying to insure America wouldn’t survive.
Fuck that communist.
It is astonishing to hear the ex Divider-in-Chief is proposing a “common purpose” to bring citizens together – as I read further, this is to be accomplished through stories.
Obama and Hillary ARE my enemies; that is my story.
How can half of this country support this hating globalist. The theme repeats its over and over. An evil sociopath takes to the streets to become the savior of the downtrodden and turns everyone into one of them while they continue on in a mythical existence; Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, China, North Korea, Brazil, etc. This one with his gay agenda and transgender wife has pushed the envelope to include every fringe kook group there is. It is a national revenge of the nerds. He needs to go down and take Clinton, Soros and Schiff with him. I am so sick of his bull shit.
Because half of this country consists of parasites and non hackers.
Cancel Netflix Immediately!
Fact!
I was a netflix subscriber for 17 years. I used to get DVDs in the mail lol. I canceled 3 months ago.
We did too…when they started the program of “Hate Whitey” or something like that. The writing was on the wall.
The social experiment of placing a colored boy in the White House failed at every level. Melania is getting sick of sitting around while Servicemaster techs try to get all of the watermelon seeds out of the carpets and the fried chicken stench out of the WH kitchen. Hillary hag will never be VP of Facebook and if a Netflix gig is the best the yard apes can do. ..there isn’t really too much to worry about. TV is all about ratings.
I understand your anger, but your type of rhetoric divides us. There are plenty of wonderful black people that feel the same as whites and saying the things you have said is stereotypical and inflammatory. There is no need for that. We have enough division already. We don’t need to demean those that are in line with others that know Obama’s agenda is destructive and not of value to anyone. You just cause more harm even if said in jest. We are past the time of being able to make fun of such a serious situation.
If this vile bastard ever got anywhere near me I would be tempted to call him a God damn communist nigger just to see the look on his face.
I learned this much by dealing with Jews on the internet.You can call a jew anything and he will just laugh it off but call him what he is and he reacts with horror.Like he knows he’s been found out.
Barack and Michelle are now going to overtly live out their true calling: show biz. They have found a home in a shallow, destructive industry which truly deserves them. Maybe the animus of division that Obama carries will manifest and ruin all the fun.
“a sense of common purpose” that simply doesnt exist anymore. When half the country literally seeks to destroy it with endless welfare for every illegal invader that jumps the fence, there is no peaceful future visible anywhere on the horizon.
What exactly is “America?” If we are talking about the “united” States of America, we have been irrevocably broken since at least 1860. If we are talking about an ideal that is about personal freedom, individual liberty, private property rights, small government, income freedom, sound money, honest banking, and the like, we haven’t had that for at least 120 years either, and thanks to the blathering of 99% of republican and democratic party candidates, the mainstream media, and the government monopoly day prison propaganda machine, most Americans have no respect for any of those concepts anymore anyway. If we are just talking about the 50 states forced together under the tyrannical regime of D.C., I happily look forward to the permanent dissolution of the regime and the federal authority someday with true sovereignty restored to the 50 states. Hopefully that will be followed by massive decentralization of even those 5o into 100-500 more. Associations and cooperative agreements between like-minded subunits would be a far superior way of getting along than what we are all being subjected to today. Obama should not be held up as anything more than one of the worst symptoms of our dysfunctional nation. But he is hardly the root cause of the problems.
“By definition, we [Americans] are a nation of people that came from everywhere else.” ~ Obama
Bullshit.
What’s up with all the liberal politicians wearing purple?