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mcmagic posted:The fact that Obama came into office with the house and 60 votes in the senate and did nothing but drone some folks and do a corporate health care giveaway makes him bottom 10 at best. He did what the people who hired him (capital) wanted him to do, and was incredibly successful in carrying out their demands, for which he's been well-rewarded post-presidency.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:07
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If the list were who has made the most money post-presidency obama would have to be no. 1.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:07
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Willa Rogers posted:He did what the people who hired him (capital) wanted him to do, and was incredibly successful in carrying out their demands, for which he's been well-rewarded post-presidency. one of his first acts was signing the bill that shut down ACORN
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Feb 19, 2024 01:09
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https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1759306902838579240?t=65eCwp_pis2pN0KDRE0CTg&s=19 "politics reporter"
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Feb 19, 2024 01:22
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:one of his first acts was signing the bill that shut down ACORN my favorite wikileaks was the citi guy spitballing obama's cabinet before the election, most of which appointments came into fruition a few months later.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:25
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1759306902838579240?t=65eCwp_pis2pN0KDRE0CTg&s=19 "msdnc"
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Feb 19, 2024 01:25
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Willa Rogers posted:my favorite wikileaks was the citi guy spitballing obama's cabinet before the election, most of which appointments came into fruition a few months later. I remember reading that and when obama nominated geithner I got so mad I finally started reading marx
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Feb 19, 2024 01:30
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1759306902838579240?t=65eCwp_pis2pN0KDRE0CTg&s=19 they do have a point, if biden stepped aside his successor would face the exact same same challenge hubert humphrey did: separating yourself and your candidacy from LBJ/Biden. the dems aren't going to let anyone run on a platform of "actually biden sucks poo poo" while biden is still in office and they'll have to deal with biden continuing a highly unpopular war. newsom could probably thread the needle by running as biden but with better brains but that still leaves the problem of everyone who wants a ceasefire refusing to vote for biden or biden 2.0
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Feb 19, 2024 01:32
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Ronald McDonald is traveling through Northern Ireland during the Troubles when he's stopped by the police. They ask him, "Are you Protestant or Catholic?" "Well, I'm a clown." ".......... Protestant Clown or Catholic Clown?"
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Feb 19, 2024 01:34
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mcmagic posted:The fact that Obama came into office with the house and 60 votes in the senate and did nothing but drone some folks and do a corporate health care giveaway makes him bottom 10 at best. Those senate votes don't count because ten of them were Joe Manchin.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:37
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Raskolnikov38 posted:they do have a point, if biden stepped aside his successor would face the exact same same challenge hubert humphrey did: separating yourself and your candidacy from LBJ/Biden. the dems aren't going to let anyone run on a platform of "actually biden sucks poo poo" while biden is still in office and they'll have to deal with biden continuing a highly unpopular war. newsom could probably thread the needle by running as biden but with better brains but that still leaves the problem of everyone who wants a ceasefire refusing to vote for biden or biden 2.0 yeah exactly, the dems have worked themselves into a position where it is impossible for any candidate to successfully replace Biden at this point. If Biden resigns, Harris is woefully unprepared as a candidate. If Biden doesn't resign, Newsom getting the nod would crumble for the reasons you list. but this is a situation created entirely by the DNC and the powers that be in the Biden White House. they chose this situation, they created it, and they're the ones to blame for it. and they chose to do it because it personally benefits those who control Biden at the White House and the DNC. instead they want to blame the people who point out that the party has chosen an insanely risky proposition for pointing out that the emperor has no brains.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:38
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Raskolnikov38 posted:they do have a point, if biden stepped aside his successor would face the exact same same challenge hubert humphrey did: separating yourself and your candidacy from LBJ/Biden. the dems aren't going to let anyone run on a platform of "actually biden sucks poo poo" while biden is still in office and they'll have to deal with biden continuing a highly unpopular war. newsom could probably thread the needle by running as biden but with better brains but that still leaves the problem of everyone who wants a ceasefire refusing to vote for biden or biden 2.0 The remark is dumb because it doesn't acknowledge that Humphrey lost because Humphrey was nominated in the first place. It was Eugene McCarthy's unexpected popularity that got to LBJ, followed by RFK gaining momentum, and then the Dems ended up with a candidate that stood for more war anyway.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:44
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Willa Rogers posted:my favorite wikileaks was the citi guy spitballing obama's cabinet before the election, most of which appointments came into fruition a few months later. Excuse me, the only thing Obama did wrong was wear a tan suit.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:44
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Obama gets to hang out with the Illuminati all day now and that's the best way to win at life if you're completely amoral outside of inventing a way to become immortal.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:47
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uber_stoat posted:Obama gets to hang out with the Illuminati all day now and that's the best way to win at life if you're completely amoral outside of inventing a way to become immortal. Finkelstein's description of him* as a howling void of narcissism is genuinely frightening. *Which is extensively researched and full of citations, is the crazy thing.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:48
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mcmagic posted:The fact that Obama came into office with the house and 60 votes in the senate and did nothing but drone some folks and do a corporate health care giveaway makes him bottom 10 at best. It still makes me lol that people on this website have told me this is evidence we need to vbnmw "We couldn't accomplish our progressive platform because we couldn't get the votes due to all the moderates in our party, which proves we need to be LESS particular about how likely prospective candidates are to vote for the poo poo we want to pass."  See, if we had voted as blue as possible with as little matter who as possible we could have gotten SEVENTY votes with 20 Joe Manchins which is better somehow
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Feb 19, 2024 01:51
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Finkelstein's description of him* as a howling void of narcissism is genuinely frightening. “In Chicago, for instance, we’ve gotten a foretaste of the new breed of foundation-hatched black communitarian voices; one of them, a smooth Harvard lawyer with impeccable do-good credentials and vacuous-to-repressive neoliberal politics, has won a state senate seat on a base mainly in the liberal foundation and development worlds. His fundamentally bootstrap line was softened by a patina of the rhetoric of authentic community, talk about meeting in kitchens, small-scale solutions to social problems, and the predictable elevation of process over program — the point where identity politics converges with old-fashioned middle-class reform in favoring form over substance. I suspect that his ilk is the wave of the future in U.S. black politics, as in Haiti and wherever else the International Monetary Fund has sway. So far the black activist response hasn’t been up to the challenge. We have to do better.”
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Feb 19, 2024 01:57
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Any presidential ranking that doesn't have Buchanan dead last can be laughed at. 
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Feb 19, 2024 02:02
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1759306902838579240?t=65eCwp_pis2pN0KDRE0CTg&s=19 Yeah, that's the idea. Democrats should be punished for their eager embrace of Israel's butchery.
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Feb 19, 2024 02:06
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Don't you guys think you should be finding a way to exert pressure on the Democrats that doesn't involve them ever losing a single election ever again
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Feb 19, 2024 02:08
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Or being rude to them obviously
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Feb 19, 2024 02:08
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loquacius posted:Don't you guys think you should be finding a way to exert pressure on the Democrats that doesn't involve them ever losing a single election ever again Yeah, by telling everyone they're idiots and need to start voting Democrat or else
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Feb 19, 2024 02:09
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Willa Rogers posted:Imagine you’re pregnant and living in one of the 20-something states where abortion is banned or heavily restricted. You want to know if it’s feasible for you to get care in another state, or learn how to avoid the legal risk posed by ordering your own abortion pills. But, thanks to a bill passed with support from both Republicans and Democrats, you can’t access the websites or social media accounts for abortion funds or online forums where people answer abortion questions. Quoting this post as I was just hearing about this KOSA poo poo and apparently there is a new push on it that's gained some more traction/sponsors. Seems bad!
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Feb 19, 2024 02:25
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Maybe Lincoln should be 45th for saving the US
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Feb 19, 2024 02:26
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Raskolnikov38 posted:they do have a point, if biden stepped aside his successor would face the exact same same challenge hubert humphrey did: separating yourself and your candidacy from LBJ/Biden. the dems aren't going to let anyone run on a platform of "actually biden sucks poo poo" while biden is still in office and they'll have to deal with biden continuing a highly unpopular war. newsom could probably thread the needle by running as biden but with better brains but that still leaves the problem of everyone who wants a ceasefire refusing to vote for biden or biden 2.0 I think it always comes back to "if you want to win elections, do stuff that people like." As far as I know, people tend to not like being denied healthcare so that we can kill children abroad.
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Feb 19, 2024 02:44
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Hillary should be 44. Dot Com.
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Feb 19, 2024 02:44
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Nichael posted:I think it always comes back to "if you want to win elections, do stuff that people like." new mandala: Explaining the Prabowo landslide quote:[T]he president used his control over state institutions to drum up support in sympathetic quarters and depress votes for rivals. The main battle grounds were Central and East Java, and the target of this strategy was Ganjar, presidential nominee of PDI-P. It is the party to which Jokowi belongs but with whom he split in order to put Gibran on Prabowo’s ticket. ah gently caress guys it turns out giving people cash and goods is a way to win votes, and even works well enough to let you win elections so hard that the competition is left in the dust. What are we supposed to do??? it's also bitterly ironic for these people to hem-and-haw about the loss of "electoral competition" in a country that exterminated its communist party in an orgy of violence and then banned the left from ever running again
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Feb 19, 2024 02:58
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Using incumbency to help suffering people is "a dangerous precedent." lmao
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Feb 19, 2024 03:07
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Besides the ridiculousness of putting Trump below Buchanan, it's absolute insanity putting Dubya above the mid-19th century parade of can-kickers.
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Feb 19, 2024 03:19
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these polls always seem like such bullshit to me
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Feb 19, 2024 03:39
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Andrew Jackson literally ignored the supreme court which even then was like "no you cant do genocide like that" and he was like "gently caress you" and did genocide anyway. Also hated central banking and caused a whole bunch of bank runs. But somehow not dead last in the list? loving liberals make up your mind.
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Feb 19, 2024 03:43
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/1759306902838579240?t=65eCwp_pis2pN0KDRE0CTg&s=19 56 years ago my dude
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Feb 19, 2024 03:44
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SixteenShells posted:still convinced Pelosi has been baiting a confrontation she could sue over for a long time. why else is she getting out the car in the driveway instead of the garage She can barely walk in there let alone put a car there what with her giant Funko Pop collection.
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Feb 19, 2024 03:45
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click the link to see Biden being rated the 6th most under rated president
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Feb 19, 2024 03:49
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I don’t understand why anyone would think Truman is in the top ten
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Feb 19, 2024 03:52
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libs cream their pants when the president uses his big boom boom toys
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Feb 19, 2024 03:54
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so presidential 
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Feb 19, 2024 03:55
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Joementum posted:I don’t understand why anyone would think Truman is in the top ten it's pretty easy to grasp: liberals have been [more vocally] demanding that Russia be nuked since the 2022 conflict, and Truman was willing to pull the trigger against Japan
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Hairy S Pooman. The S stands for poo poo but he was embarrassed to say so.
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