Obama Explains What He Plans To Bring To The Table For Netflix

A few days ago, Netflix announced that it secured a deal with the Obamas.

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have entered into a multi-year agreement to produce films and series for Netflix, potentially including scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries, and features.

— Netflix US (@netflix) May 21, 2018

Threats of boycotts followed. Heck, my dad canceled his subscription for that very reason. I can’t say I blame him, but it kinda sucks for the people who have been mooching off his account for years. *sinks in chair*

#boycottnetflix WE ARE OUT! pic.twitter.com/hKHBq1UHid

— Gary Gersin (@GaryandMichelle) May 21, 2018

#netflix you really sold out to the Obamas? Looks like I’ll be canceling your subscription even before you price hike again. #BoycottNetflix

— Mark LeBlanc (@MarkLeblanc) May 21, 2018

Just canceled my @netflix subscription! #BoycottNetflix

— Chad Zichterman (@chadzichterman) May 21, 2018

#BoycottNetflix yep I’m canceling my subscription. Why would you ruin a perfectly good thing by involving Obama and all his thugs??

— Deplorable Tracy😝 (@Tsall24) May 21, 2018

I’m annoyed but curious. What is it, exactly, that Obama thinks he’s going to bring to the table?

Stories. He wants to tell stories. How completely vague and unoriginal, eh?

“We want to tell stories,” Obama stated during a tech conference in Las Vegas. “This [Netflix deal] becomes a platform. We are interested in lifting people up and identifying people doing amazing work.”

“We did this in the White House,” he added.

HAHAHAHA. No you didn’t.

He recounted his first job out of college as a community organizer, helping bring various factions together to solve local problems from crime to underfunded schools. An older, experienced community organizer told the young Obama at the time that before he started to suggest solutions to problems, he should spend a month talking to people and hearing their stories.

“Everyone has a story that is pretty sacred” about the significant events in their lives, he said. Listening led to relationships, which led to people working together.

Except for conservative America’s stories. Those don’t count. No one needs to hear those.

Obama went on to say that he wants to tell stories that he thinks are important, which obviously means he won’t be telling any of YOUR stories, Trump supporters.

“I continue to believe that if we are hearing each other’s stories and recognizing ourselves in each other, then our democracy works,” Obama said. “We are all human. I know this sounds trite, and yet, right now globally, we have competing narratives.”

We’re all human except for violent gang members of MS-13. They’re animals. Right Dems?

Obama acknowledged that America, both at home and abroad, hasn’t always lived up to those ideals, particularly when it came to racism or gender equality. But he said we’ve made steady progress, “in fits and starts.”

“And now there’s a clash in those two ways of seeing the world,” he said, without naming any names or current political figures.

“I’m putting my money on the latter way,” Obama told the conference crowd. “That’s what we hope to be a voice to, through Netflix and through my foundation, where we’re identifying and training the next generation of leaders here in the United States and around the world. So they can start sharing their stories and cooperating.”

It sounds like this is a politically divisive venture after all. He wants to tell “stories” that will brainwash young people into believing his crappy, regressive worldview.

Way to go, Netflix. Way. To. Go.

h/t Business Insider