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Cubone posted:Obama definitely took some questionable risks that are not often talked about in the mainstream media, because they're neocon and archconservative risks that don't fit with the narrative of a left-leaning Democratic Party, for example:
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the other day someone said the taliban had links to 9/11 lmao I wanted to strangle them
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call to action posted:Eh, this is extremely school specific. You're not gonna get an Econ BA at your average State U and immediately land an NYC finance job with no experience. You don't know New York. That poster knows what he is saying.
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Modest Mao posted:does literally a single American remember or understand what happened in the bush admin jesus gently caress Nah, don't worry about it, I'm just watching the kids fuss in here. To the thread: That's right chirren', rail about Obama when Trump is coming to power tomorrow! Throw that chair! It's the only path to success! This message has been brought to you by my party, and you've bought it hook line and sinker.
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The new frontline documentary has a huge section about how big of a pussy Obama was in dealing with the banks.
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I'm grinding my teeth rn listening to this poo poo. This is the angriest I've been about politics in a long time.
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The Kingfish posted:The new frontline documentary has a huge section about how big of a pussy Obama was in dealing with the banks. Good to know will check out lol. Everything about feckless and spineless Obama is true isn't it?
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I love that smooth-voiced Frontline boy
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fits my needs posted:Good to know will check out lol. Everything about feckless and spineless Obama is true isn't it? I couldn't tell you if its new information or not, but the way the narrative gets laid out is infuriating.
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Just remember that precisely zero people went for jail destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands if not millions, meanwhile thousands are in jail for selling weed.
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Obama posted:"One year later, the emergency is past, but the devastation remains. Many people don't understand why bad behavior on Wall Street is rewarded but middle-class hard work isn't." E: Obama posted:"I suggested that we needed to put a tax on banks. If these firms can afford the big bonuses, they can pay a modest fee to taxpayers to rescue them in a time of need." The Kingfish has issued a correction as of 02:50 on Jan 27, 2017 |
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look at all of the political capital he saved up though. that valuable, valuable political capital.
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Digiwizzard posted:look at all of the political capital he saved up though. that valuable, valuable political capital. that scene from the dark knight where the joker burns all the money
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Digiwizzard posted:look at all of the political capital he saved up though. that valuable, valuable political capital.
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Relin posted:i laugh when people talk about trumps political capital. his capital is "being part of the party that controls all three branches of govt" But now he's running his political economy entirely on political credit, and who knows where that madness will lead him?
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Obama, 3 months in, blaming Wall Street greed and incompetence for the crisis:quote:Recessions are not uncommon. Markets and economies naturally ebb and flow, as we have seen many times in our history. But this recession is different. This recession was not caused by a normal downturn in the business cycle. It was caused by a perfect storm of irresponsibility and poor decision-making that stretched from Wall Street to Washington to Main Street.
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Obama is as responsible for Nawar al-Awlaki's death as Trump.
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The Kingfish posted:Obama, 3 months in, blaming Wall Street greed and incompetence for the crisis: as part of the left i would suspect you think this is good? ![]()
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He didn't follow through
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I was doing an irony. If you read Obama's spiel he doesn't actually blame them at all. He just mentions them alongside politicians and every-day Americans as some of the people who were careless.
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The Kingfish posted:I was doing an irony. If you read Obama's spiel he doesn't actually blame them at all. He just mentions them alongside politicians and every-day Americans as some of the people who were careless. ah, understood, makes sense now
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not getting rid of filibuster to pass the public option demobilizing the base after 2008 election (guess what trump isn't doing lol) trying to be centrist to appeal to the electorate while slapping his base in the face trying to compromise and forge a consensus instead of plowing ahead with the majority he had 2008-2010 like FDR or LBJ would have done only got re-elected by reminding everyone who he ran as in 2008, completely nullifying his supposed cross-over appeal believing he can get support by being the adult in the room utterly failing to understand that he come across as weak and the republican base overwhelmingly voted in people who humiliated him oversaw the demolition of the democratic party on every level of government Typo has issued a correction as of 23:33 on Feb 23, 2017 |
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Typo posted:not getting rid of filibuster to pass the public option But he was wildly popular!!
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Typo posted:not getting rid of filibuster to pass the public option don't forget he bent over backwards for the banks that ruined us in 2008. he let them off the hook for crime after crime.
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Typo posted:not getting rid of filibuster to pass the public option But he was the first African American president that showed us anyone can do it!*
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Obama was gathering political capital to create a spirit bomb that will destroy republicans and bring full gay muslim communism. Any day now.
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He took a vacation with a billionaire after he left office. Sad!
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Not allowing Bush tax cuts to expire (ok he allowed some portions of it to so i guess he does get some credit) Agreeing to "grand bargain" with 1 trillion + spending cuts and then having it fall through anyway cuz the tea party thought he wasn't bending over backwards enough appointing a moderate to fill scalia's scotus seat and hoping the voters would punish the GOP for obstructionism, but then McConnell basically said "vote us in if you want scalia 2.0 to get rid of gay abortion bathrooms" and the GOP base was like "Trump is bad but i guess i really hate gay abortion bathrooms so we'll vote for trump anyway"
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things he wasn't pussy at: droning the crap out of america's enemies
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Typo posted:things he wasn't pussy at:
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what if Obama wasn't swimming the in ocean with billionaires what if he was Scrooge McDuck'ing it in a vault full of saved political capital with billionaires
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Anime Schoolgirl posted:putin wasn't droned tho oh right which reminds me: knowing his party is getting hacked by russia cuz cia told him but refusing to come out and tell the US public cuz that would be interfering in the election too much
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the funny thing is obama actually really pissed off wall street cuz he wouldn't do poo poo like have dinner or take photos with their ceos while at the same time pissing off the liberal base and the tea party by not punishing any of them for 2008 centrist governance appealing to moderates!
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Typo posted:Not allowing Bush tax cuts to expire (ok he allowed some portions of it to so i guess he does get some credit) Yeah! Oh my God talk about a pussy move. I completely forgot about Merrick Garland. What a lovely nominee. Obama was a dipshit. He wasn't even willing try for a Supreme Court nominee that would excite the base! Gets nothing done during his last four years thank to GOP obstructionism, then for the grand finale: Obama drops a big centrist turd down right on our laps. E: "Merrick" The Kingfish has issued a correction as of 03:52 on Feb 24, 2017 |
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"Acting"
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The Kingfish posted:Yeah! Oh my God talk about a pussy move. I completely forgot about Eric Garland. What a lovely nominee. Obama was a dipshit. He wasn't even willing try for a Supreme Court nominee that would excite the base! Gets nothing done during his last four years thank to GOP obstructionism, then for the grand finale: Obama drops a big centrist turd down right on our laps. That's Merrick Garland. Eric Garland is a dipshit on Twitter.
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Obama for all his ills probably saved lots and lots of americans from dying of curable diseases with obamacare, his problem was that he genuinely believed his own campaign rhetoric of being above politics and healing the country. So he sought out compromise to forge a new consensus disregarding the fact that the two previous consensus makers: FDR and Reagan more or less did so by crushing the opposition instead of making peace with them. His legacy was for the people he sought to reach cross the aisle to to usher in a president who is against everything he stands for. he's a tragic figure in his own way. I suspect history will say that Hillary and the Republicans were correct about him in 2008: too inexperienced to lead. He ran his primary campaign on healing the divide between red and blue, Hillary ran on "turning up the heat on the Republicans". It would have being better for Obama to sit out 2008 and wait for his moment in 2016 or 2020.
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The Kingfish posted:Yeah! Oh my God talk about a pussy move. I completely forgot about Merrick Garland. What a lovely nominee. Obama was a dipshit. He wasn't even willing try for a Supreme Court nominee that would excite the base! Gets nothing done during his last four years thank to GOP obstructionism, then for the grand finale: Obama drops a big centrist turd down right on our laps. [DefendObamaMode] What the gently caress does "excite the base" have to do with anything when you're a lame duck president with a minority in both houses? You know this poo poo isn't just for fun right? [/DefendObamaMode]
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The longer I think about it the more I become convinced. Obama was a retard freak who thought West Wing was real life. His one plan for every political situation: Destroy the GOP with its own logic. Obama is thought politics was like a tv show.
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The Kingfish posted:Yeah! Oh my God talk about a pussy move. I completely forgot about Merrick Garland. What a lovely nominee. Obama was a dipshit. He wasn't even willing try for a Supreme Court nominee that would excite the base! Gets nothing done during his last four years thank to GOP obstructionism, then for the grand finale: Obama drops a big centrist turd down right on our laps. I always kinda wondered why anyone would think that's a good idea after the republicans shut down the government and got rewarded with the largest congressional majority in 60 years
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