• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    Then you should have voted blue, idiot. This situation exists because of apathy and antigovernment sentiment.

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      19 days ago

      Did Clinton ever undo all the load of crap Reagan and Bush gave us?

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        18 days ago

        Clinton is one the few presidents in the last 100 years that has operated on a SURPLUS. Meaning he’s the only president to lower the national debt

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        18 days ago

        Clinton was 30 fucking years ago and Republicans have been stonewalling ever since then on every since one of these issues.

        What the fuck are you talking about about???

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          18 days ago

          Clinton signed into law a whole raft of neoliberal policies that were started by Bush, and the cumulative effects of those policies over those decades are what we’re feeling right now and what we warned about back then. The frogs have been boiled while the populace bickers about which neoliberal corporate shill sits on the puppet throne. They’re after all our money and they’re getting it by distracting us with the political circus and dividing us with wedge issues.

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          18 days ago

          Not the case but nice try, random person from the internet

          I’m not even an American. To my knowledge, democrats are currently in power. Other guys did a good job explaining the actual situation, you on the other hand…

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        19 days ago

        Holding one of three branches is not “in power.”

        All spending bills have to originate in the republican controlled house. Anything the administration tries to do on it’s own has to survive a heavily politicized Supreme Court. A Supreme Court that would be radically different without the Trump presidency. We’ll be dealing with those Trump appointees for a generation and they’ll do far more harm than he ever did. Not enough people voting blue in 2016 is going to have very long lasting consequences.

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        19 days ago

        House is 220 R to 212 D

        Senate is 51 D (+I) to 49 R

        The last time there was a Dem Supermajority was over a decade ago and it lasted about a month.

        And the Supreme Court is stacked with Republicans with lifetime appointments.

        But yes the blue currently in power that tried multiple times to cancel student loan debt, enshrine reproductive rights, protect and expand healthcare coverage, raise the minimum wage. The current blue that successfully ended several huge corporate mergers, fined companies for raising prices of goods, and has a housing plan to add 3 Million available units. Literally everything the meme cares about and more is as simple as voting correctly for your interests.