MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
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Kids in cages, kids taken from parents and put up for adoption
Outing of all undercover ops in Russia (who were then jailed or murdered)
Installing the most corrupt supreme court justice since the 19th century
Attempted violent overthrow of the government
Ivermectin, "inject a little bleach..."
And that's just off the top of my head without coffee
You need some covfefe, because you forgot the most important one:
And how about packing the courts with right wing nutjobs? Roe vs Wade's demise is far from the only consequence there
~~That happened under Biden. Sure, it's a direct consequence of Trump's presidency...but this sort of causal reasoning may well be too advanced for the folks parroting this inane content to comprehend.~~
Edit: what I was trying to say (apparently unsuccessfully...) was that the kind of person who thinks nothing bad happened under Trump probably won't acknowledge that Roe vs. Wade being overturned was a direct consequence of Trump. Which is stupid
in addition to the "acute" damage that Trump did, the ongoing damage being done from his judicial appointments is arguably the most damage that he has (and will continue to) do.
How high are you?
I'm saying that the folks saying "nothing bad happened under Trump" may be a few fries short of a happy meal.
I have seen dimwits literally try to claim Dems are responsible for Dobbs because of timing. Perhaps they are the reason why people are reacting strongly to what you wrote.
I see them blaming the Democrats for what they did. Overturn Roe vs Wade? Dems fault for the letting them do it. The mental gymnastics they do along with having the goal posts mounted to a Bugatti is amazing.
We only use the finest Bugatti Goal Posts in the Republican party.
They’re just making up bullshit
They don’t actually believe that Dobbs was the Democrats’ fault, any more than the Republicans actually believe that Trump was a genius at international politics who got the best of China and fixed the Iran deal. They’re just making noise with their mouth, like the kid who always wants to argue about the rules and everything always needs to turn out his way and every call is in his favor or he’ll make a big stink about it.
Absolutely. Seems like a good thread to turn into a handy bookmarkable catalog of anti memory-hole of those nightmare years
For people on grad it's a feature
It literally is. When I used argue with them about Donald intentionally destabilizing the US so China could gain influence they would drop everything and write long-ass comments praising the idea.
I guess they love the economic system of "state capitalism with generating hundreds of billionaire characteristics." They'll certainly excuse any amount of Uyghur genocide for it.
The police response to the BLM protests
Yeah everything looks bad when you notice it
Tbf one of those things was a bipartisan effort.
They decided to separate the children with full knowledge that they did not have the resources to track them. They straight up lost children. How many of those missing children were trafficked?
The absolute nerve that the Qanons were ever screeching about pedophile rings. Their guy is the pedophile ring.
Seeing my old college professor suggest that shit was wild. I remember telling the school his ass needed a sabbatical. They later ended up paying him a large settlement after students chased him off campus with baseball bats.
Withholding aid (voted on, pledged, budgeted) to Ukraine unless Zelenskyy made up some crimes about Hunter Biden.