• pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 days ago

    Americans had made it clear that we don’t take chances on electing politician relatives and family.

    There had only been two instances where father and son served as presidents. The last time this happened, the Bushes ruined this country. We didn’t want Hilary Clinton, despite how well Bill Clinton was as president (and these days we probably won’t want him anymore because of Epstein). We shot down Jeb Bush’s chance of making it in office.

    And if Donnie’s little son wants to run, we’ll shoot him down too.

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      2 days ago

      Bill Clinton was a horrible president, balanced the budget on the backs of the working poor and more “tough on crime” neoliberal cut taxes for the rich and corpos, sold us NAFTA by telling us our manufacured goods would cost less and Mexican standards of living would improve and both were lies. And he threw a vulnerable barely out of college aged kid under the bus for one of many dalliances.

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        You’ve barely even scratched the surface.

        He also destroyed the social safety net, he cut the regulations that caused the 2008 crash and let billionaires buy up the press…

        He really just cut all the straps holding our county together. I’m still learning new ways on how he opened us up to the problems we’re now facing

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          19 hours ago

          Oh I know! When I said he balanced the budget on the backs of the working poor, cutting social safety net is exactly what I meant and then some. And let’s not pretend Obama was better. He was better on idpol but once again, he was socially ledt and economically right. Corporations and ultrawealthy got tax cuts at the expense of the poor.

          We can do better, and politicians can do better; but they won’t until we make them do it.

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            14 hours ago

            Agreed. It was uniparty bullshit. The neolibs and neocons are basically the same, plus or minus a couple superficial issues

            We can’t go back to that bullshit. We have the political momentum, we have to vote in progressives

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                14 hours ago

                Lmao wtf, I use swipe typing. I don’t know how the fuck progressive turned into conservative

                No, I meant progressive. I can define that if you like, but I see where the confusion is lol