Yeah, he wasn't great, but I'd still vote for him over ANY Republican.
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Welfare still exists, right?
If you become skilled at writing articles to even slightly plausibly blame the outcomes of Republican conservative policies on Democrats, you can develop this into an extremely lucrative career.
And get plenty of attention around these parts.
Republicans are innocent, it was the mean ol' Dems that did everything.
The entire government and media apparatus have been inching us back toward fascism ever since they missed their first chance in the 1930s. Socialist upwelling was so strong that the powers that be allowed FDR to win 4 terms versus the alternative, actual dismantling of the capitalist system. Looks like history is repeating, but like with fucking losers
Clinton did a lot of stupid shit, but he didn't "end welfare". For one, welfare still fucking exists, so...
Dude was an orator and he said we were going to end it as we know it. Are people this dense?
There's a lot to criticize Clinton for, so let's not just make shit up
He did start the work requirement bullshit though…
To appease the majority Republican congress at the time. They did attempt an half ass with the first lady to implement Medicare for all
Please... maga has been on its way since Reagan.
Newt Gingrich is the biggest POS who pushed us to where we are
Carter wasn't the saint we think he was
Paul Volcker, history's greatest monster.
Basically, he is the same as Trump.
Just blue maga and pro genocide.
If we voted Reagan, Trump would have never happen.
I am very smart by the way. Uneducated can’t see it though.
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Don't forget the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which allowed for the mass media consolidation we see today.
Also working to repeal glass-steagal for his Wall Street buddies which set in motion the collateralized debt that created the 2008 recession
Also DMCA which led to weaponizing copyright against fair use with basically no recourse (and even a path to easily dox people by invoking it, though this was unintended)
And wrt the op shifting the welfare burden onto the disability system. Since the changes in 1996 disability claims have significantly increased year after year (especially claims related to mental health, which are impossible to quantify objectively) which has led to it becoming substantially more difficult in most states for the disabled to receive benefits.
At this point in my state it is basically well understood that if you are claiming disability for any mental illness (including things like autism and intellectual disability) unless you’ve spent years in residential inpatient you should anticipate being denied and having to do a lengthy appeal. It’s also highly recommended to get a lawyer involved which is either costly (typically they take 25% of back pay, max $7200, so if the appeal took two years and payments would’ve been $1100 a month they get $6600 of the 26,400 that is owed to you and you likely desperately need as someone who has had no income for at least 2 years (possibly ever). Or you can get legal aid but qualifications for that are very strict and you’ll likely wait awhile as they’re always slammed
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I can’t believe Clinton wrote and passed that legislation. He also wrote a lot of blue MAGA pro Trump stuff and expanded global warming with his climate change hoax!
I can’t believe Clinton wrote and passed that legislation.
40 Senate Democrats and 97 House Democrats seemed happy enough to put their signatures on it.
He also wrote a lot of blue MAGA pro Trump stuff
Former United States President Bill Clinton asserted that the legislation strengthened "the rule of law by cracking down on illegal immigration at the border, in the workplace, and in the criminal justice system—without punishing those living in the United States legally". However, IIRAIRA has been criticized as overly punitive and intensifying border militarization. With IIRAIRA, all aliens, regardless of legal status, were liable to removal and it expanded types of transgressions that could lead to removal.
Hardly a secret that the 80s/90s was the peak of "Both Sides" politics, given that both parties seemed to be marching in lockstep to send the whole country over a cliff.
Yes, agreed, they are the same.
Don't pretend that Clinton didn't write this behind closed doors with his billionaire buddies and blue maga.
it is all meant to harm true progressives.
Please vote R to support Bernie and the real progressives.
It is the only way to stop the wrong kind of dummyrats and get the right dummyrats as kings!
Don’t pretend that Clinton didn’t write this
I doubt Clinton wrote it. Why would he need to when Congress had an army of lobbyists to write it for them?
Please vote R to support Bernie
I mean, you say this, but if the hard left turn in NYC is any indication, it really does seem to help the Socialist cause when you've got fascists running things. Neoliberals like Clinton, Obama, and Biden can tread water for a minute and keep the lights on. But it takes a failson reactionary like Bush or Trump to really fuck up the imperial core hard enough to spur a revolution.
He did! He was a roads scholar and had a lot of writing ability so think about that for a minute.
Money, billionaires, writing, eliminating all welfare, saxophones but NOT Baker Street.. All characteristics of the blue maga scourge
See, you get it.
The true progressive vote is for the republicans most likely to implement a fascist dictatorship to imprison millions and tear down all our systems. It is the only logical way to defeat the real enemy, blue maga.
Look, for the non wokeys, all we know is when something bad happens and a democrat is in charge it is blue maga's fault. And, we have also proven that if something bad happens and a republican is in charge... you guessed it, blue maga is to blame!
No one is as smart as us true progressives. Welcome to the party pal!
He was a roads scholar
*Rhodes, you dunce.
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Hmmm... So you're telling me the president that followed the "let's cater to the conservatives to woo them over" turned out to be devastating to the Democratic party...
Let's see what the Democrats are doing now as they obviously learned that lesson...
...wait... They learned that lesson right?
(Insert Padame & Anikin meme here)
This book explains what happened and why it's still happening pretty well. They've basically created a social bubble that includes rich people and politicians, and excludes everyone else. Now, they're in too deep to admit they were wrong, and fascists are taking advantage of that.
They weren't wrong. They accomplished exactly what they intended to accomplish.
Exactly, and brilliant. If dems would have voted for bush Trump wouldn’t have happened.
So very smart!
Buddy we get it, you're an unhinged weirdo. How many comments do you need to prove it?
I'm just proving both sides are the same so you should vote R.
I want the progressives to win. It is the only way to stop blue maga
I'm not sure how you got that out of my comment.
If Dems didn't move to the right under Clinton we'd have had a better shot at avoiding this. They still have this obsession with catering to "moderate conservatives" as opposed to the left wing of their support group.
Absolutely right. We had three candidates Clinton, Perot, and Bush. Bush lost because Perot split the conservative vote. We absolutely should have run the most left wing candidate possible.
I'm having a hard time remembering all of the democratic socialists we had in the house, senate, or as governor but it was like 86.78% of them or something. Just too many names to remember. They were everywhere and in almost all positions until blue maga came along. Anyway, they went with the absolute most conservative democrat, Bill Clinton, whom is essentially a political mix between Hitler and Mussolini to RATCHET toward conservatives.
If you didn't know RATCHET theory is when a fascist pretends to be nurse ratchet by making blue maga more magaee and killing all human rights for billionaires to protect pedophiles. Basically, all the stuff you see in this thread about Clinton and how he is exactly the same as Bush but also worse because DEI, woke, and blue MAGA.
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