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    7 months ago

    The American fascist party was born prematurely. They’ve spent the last eight years incubating within the Republican party and are ready to go mask-off now.

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      7 months ago

      Bush was way worse than Trump.

      Aside from saying some real dumb shit Trumps presidency was a lot milder than expected.

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          There also wasn’t any hurricane katrina style fiascos under Trump, as well as Trump deciding not to invade Venezuela, which was a surprise. The Syria shit wasn’t great, but it was NOTHING like Iraq.

          God the bar is set so fucking low it’s embarrassing.

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            7 months ago

            He pulled out of Afghanistan which was amazing.

            Trump’s biggest fail was when he drone striked Iranian general Suleimani at the request of Israel. But luckily Iran didn’t decide to escalate it so we didn’t get a big war back then.

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                7 months ago

                Trump started it actually. Biden just did it a bit poorly but better than an extended fight.

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                  7 months ago

                  Yeah. I feel like Biden did that because he knew he could divert all the military funding directly into the Ukraine situation and not piss off his Raytheon people.

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            Nobody thought Trump was going to win until too late. RBG thought the next president would also be a Democrat.

            But she was also naive and thought that she should do her job as long as possible, and that Republicans could be reasoned with. The court really needs a max age.

            Regardless, this is a bit moot, since Trump had 3 total SCOTUS picks. RBG’s seat was just one.

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              7 months ago

              And once again, we can thank the DNC for sabotaging Bernie to make Hillary the candidate.

              Even better if we just go back to Obama who had all power and was asked to codify abortion rights, and then didn’t. Because it’s a great tool to keep people voting Democrat.

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                7 months ago

                The President does not have the power to codify abortion rights. That power lies with Congress. And I believe I’ve previously explained why Democrats were unable to do that. They had a 60 vote majority for all of a few months, and you had Democrats more conservative than Manchin in those days.

                It’s kind of funny in a sense. The two parties were much more similar in the 2000s. Clinton’s third way in the 90s allowed Democrats to win, but at the cost of becoming more conservative. They’ve since diverged significantly. Abortion didn’t used to be nearly as partisan.

                I think people really underestimate how badly Reagan fucked up the country. His era led to conservative dominance in US society, that’s only recently started to be torn away. Society has moved much more to the left since 2010. Another way to look at this – Sanders wouldn’t have gotten the support he did in the 2000s or earlier. His message has only recently resonated with American society.