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Just watched the Boy Boy video on George Bush’s Masterclass, and they made me think about which U.S. President was actually worse.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure how you can claim with a straight face that Trump caused 0 economic crises when we're still in the process of recovering from a economic crisis tied to a massively bungled initial pandemic response. Remember how Trump and his cronies came out every day for about 4 months and pretended that there was no pandemic, that it was under control, and that it would magically disappear by easter 2020? That cost the world a lot of money and, much more importantly, a lot of human lives.

As for war and war crimes, Trump removed all transparency around drone strike operations that had been in place during the Obama administration, so...

Second source: https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/trumps-secret-rules-for-drone-strikes-and-presidents-unchecked-license-to-kill

[–] Jumpinship 3 points 1 year ago

Unlike every other country that handled it perfectly right?