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Tulip posted:Obama was president lol Obama wasn't a uniquely bad president.
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i ALMOST feel bad for romney
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Jul 12, 2020 20:59
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not like i wanted him to be prez but as a dude who's been clowned on god drat
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Jul 12, 2020 20:59
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I don’t at all. One of the worst people alive
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Jul 12, 2020 21:00
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mitt romney liking michigan because the trees were "the right height"
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Jul 12, 2020 21:21
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Of all the things that are fake about Romney, which is most things, I have never doubted that he likes hot dogs. That quote is just purely embarrassing to him and his brand, there's no reason he'd say it if it wasn't true.ikanreed posted:Obama wasn't a uniquely bad president. He was a thoroughly average president who convinced me and many others that he'd at least close gitmo lmao
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Jul 12, 2020 21:23
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Tulip posted:
He's certainly why I think electing Joe will make every single one of Trump's most evil policies the new normal
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Jul 12, 2020 21:49
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GalacticAcid posted:smokin these meats sweet baby ray's
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Jul 12, 2020 21:54
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GalacticAcid posted:I don’t at all. One of the worst people alive he killed toys r us
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Jul 12, 2020 22:07
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lol romney bitched about being poor in college and using carpet samples in their basement apartment and also having to "sell some stock" instead of getting a job
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Tulip posted:Of all the things that are fake about Romney, which is most things, I have never doubted that he likes hot dogs. That quote is just purely embarrassing to him and his brand, there's no reason he'd say it if it wasn't true. Yeah. It’s not that he was particularly awful compared to other recent presidents, it’s just that the gap between expectation and reality was so wide.
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Jul 13, 2020 00:01
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ikanreed posted:Obama wasn't a uniquely bad president. He wasn't, but he was still really bad and almost every element of our current dystopia can be traced back to him building off of something Bush left him or failing to implement even half assed reforms
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Jul 13, 2020 01:52
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vyelkin posted:Mark Zuckerberg making and enthusiastically chomping away on dry toast I've done that before while really sick cause it was all i could keep down
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Jul 13, 2020 01:59
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Jul 13, 2020 01:59
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obama was uniquely bad in terms of completely squandering the moment. with a democratic supermajority and all the energy and momentum of being the nations first black president he could have ushered a new era of progressive politics. instead he sat around doing nothing and trying to be conciliatory with republicans who understood instinctively that their new goal was to antagonize him at every turn, and meanwhile the forces of reaction are building up. a very sad combination of having the right skills to get there but lacking the vision and ambition to do anything with it
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Jul 13, 2020 02:00
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obama accomplished exactly what he wanted which was pleasing his paymaster billionaires while holding off the proletariat revolt another 8 years
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Jul 13, 2020 02:01
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Kitfox88 posted:obama accomplished exactly what he wanted which was pleasing his paymaster billionaires while holding off the proletariat revolt another 8 years this kind of thinking is not helpful for actually understanding how anything works
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Jul 13, 2020 02:05
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babypolis posted:obama was uniquely bad in terms of completely squandering the moment. i would argue that dubya also did this with 9/11, he squandered the absolute poo poo out of some insane nationwide and even international unity
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Jul 13, 2020 02:15
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Romney is a bad person, but he seems actually capable of joy and enjoyment, unlike so many political goblins. I don't know if that makes it better or worse. For example, witness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3okMs6q7c
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i would argue that dubya also did this with 9/11, he squandered the absolute poo poo out of some insane nationwide and even international unity this is definitely true, to the point that he squandered international unity so badly that obama won the nobel peace prize just for getting elected and not being him (which incidentally is another funny politics thing I just remembered ITT) and then obama squandered it too by being so gung-ho for murdering people
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Jul 13, 2020 03:23
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it's really funny that obama won a nobel prize for not being bush when he essentially was.
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Obama only eats 7 almonds
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babypolis posted:this kind of thinking is not helpful for actually understanding how anything works Actually that kind of thinking describes exactly how things work. Your assertion that: babypolis posted:obama was uniquely bad in terms of completely squandering the moment. with a democratic supermajority and all the energy and momentum of being the nations first black president he could have ushered a new era of progressive politics. instead he sat around doing nothing and trying to be conciliatory with republicans who understood instinctively that their new goal was to antagonize him at every turn, and meanwhile the forces of reaction are building up. a very sad combination of having the right skills to get there but lacking the vision and ambition to do anything with it is so naïve that I'm surprised the Tooth Fairy doesn't make an appearance. Gosh, it sure is a shame that the guy clearly articulating progressive policies during the campaign, winning in a landslide, and bringing his party into power in both houses of congress can't actually do any of those things he promised! Oh well, nevertheless...
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:i would argue that dubya also did this with 9/11, he squandered the absolute poo poo out of some insane nationwide and even international unity im not sure what else he could have done other than invading some country tho. it was a purely jingoistic sentiment LastInLine posted:Actually that kind of thinking describes exactly how things work. Your assertion that: i dont know why you think im absolving obama of blame here. what he did is very clear. but yes im pretty sure his thinking went beyond "gonna get rich as gently caress hell yeah" because there are about a billion easier ways to make money than becoming the president of the usa. almost anyone who gets that far has some kind of vision they want to impose upon the world. and it turned out obamas sucked dogshit right out of a dogs rear end
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Jul 13, 2020 06:23
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babypolis posted:im not sure what else he could have done other than invading some country tho. it was a purely jingoistic sentiment he decided to invade a completely unrelated country under false pretenses and killed a million civilians dude so uh maybe anything else 
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Jul 13, 2020 06:39
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Toph Bei Fong posted:Romney is a bad person, but he seems actually capable of joy and enjoyment, unlike so many political goblins. I don't know if that makes it better or worse. what on earth
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Jul 13, 2020 06:41
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i've been following politics and giggling since 1999 how have I never seen Mitt Romney's junk and bare chest
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Jul 13, 2020 06:42
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Toph Bei Fong posted:Romney is a bad person, but he seems actually capable of joy and enjoyment, unlike so many political goblins. I don't know if that makes it better or worse.  the gently caress...
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Jul 13, 2020 06:49
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:he decided to invade a completely unrelated country under false pretenses and killed a million civilians dude yeah that was a weird way to phrase it lol. i guess i was trying to say there was no way to embrace that sentiment for any good end
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Jul 13, 2020 07:03
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babypolis posted:yeah that was a weird way to phrase it lol. i guess i was trying to say there was no way to embrace that sentiment for any good end i was being a little glib but yeah, it's not like he could've used 9/11 to pass m4a, or i guess the republican party's equivalent which i suppose at the time would've been the draft or zero income tax or whatever it does ultimately make sense that he went hard for what he and cheney wanted most, personally
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Jul 13, 2020 07:07
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9/11 let bush to do everything he wanted unopposed. i don't know how you'd call that squandering an opportunity.
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Jul 13, 2020 07:19
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Animal-Mother posted:That old man who was dying and said, "drat, I won't get to read the Mueller report." Mueller's absolutely astounding inability to find crimes
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Jul 13, 2020 13:20
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It owns that Roger stones free after doing everything wrong before and after crimes
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Jul 13, 2020 13:28
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This is only a kind of meta-funny but I just remembered Andropov and Chernenko existed.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Andropov and Chernenko existed. Impressive that you summarized all their major accomplishments so succinctly.
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Jul 13, 2020 15:04
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Eric Cantor torpedoing the Grand Bargain to shore up his conservative bonafides and then getting primaried by a guy he thought he was 30 points ahead of
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Jul 13, 2020 16:05
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remember qaddafi's scrapbook of all his favorite condi rice moments
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Jul 13, 2020 16:10
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Qaddafi's elite royal guard of sexy lady soldiers
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zegermans posted:Eric Cantor torpedoing the Grand Bargain to shore up his conservative bonafides and then getting primaried by a guy he thought he was 30 points ahead of ...is Dave Brat the Republican AOC?
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moist turtleneck posted:It owns that Roger stones free after doing everything wrong before and after crimes NPR described Roger Stone as "Trump long term friend" and I remembered Stone's Nixon tattoo and laughed at the idea of either of them having friends.
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