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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes
 

I literally do blame the Democrats for Trump, and if you don't, you weren't paying attention.

Plenty of us were critiquing Clinton's campaign on those merits and were consistently talked down to in shocker the same way we're being talked down to now. Shocker, she lost. I remember saying a few weeks before the election "We're about to get Brexited." I put my vote down for Clinton, because Trump is fucking insane, and that was clear before he was President. It was clear in the fucking 1980's.

Being able to critique our leaders is supposed to be what is the difference between us and conservative voters. They're the cult who unquestioningly believes all the bullshit that comes out of Trump's mouth and diapers. I find it weird that people think we should be more like them in regards to our leaders like that would be a good thing.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Given the state of the economy at the time, I don't blame him for this. He also said he believed marriage to be between a man and a woman back then. He evolved. If Obama joins Joe on the campaign trail I'm willing to bet he'll be bringing up abortion because it's getting voters motivated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Sure, but for the proceeding seven years FOCA was not touched. It would likely have motivated voters in the last eight too, let alone now. It is almost cynically insulting if it can be brought up again solely as a campaign tool for voter motivation.

[–] go_go_gadget 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Given the state of the economy at the time

Except that he did fuck all about that either. Zero prosecutions just billions in bailouts for failing corporations while people were losing their homes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-A09a_gHJc

Remember how the GOP decided they weren't gonna let him do fuck-all? The only things he could ever get done was during the slim window that the Democrats just barely had a supermajority.

[–] Ensign_Crab 2 points 9 months ago

They could have done away with the filibuster with a simple majority.

They didn't want to.