• cranakis@reddthat.com
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    5 days ago

    Democrats let it happen and let it slide after the fact. The GOP is criminal. The Democrats are just lazy and weak.

    Unger reserved his most intense criticism for the Washington Post, which owned Newsweek at the time and, he says, had an outsize role in quietly killing the story. He’s also equally critical of Congressional Democrats, who he claims never pursued the dramatic charges as earnestly as they should have.

    “Democrats were lap dogs,” Unger said

    From here:https://www.press.org/newsroom/media-covered-1980-iran-hostage-deal-october-surprise-author-tells-club

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      3 days ago

      Democrats serve the rich class. They’re a red herring to make us believe that we are a democracy

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        When the majority of our voting public just chose the GREATER evil in all three branches of government, the lesser evil is still significant harm reduction.

        And if the lesser evil had won all three branches of the federal government, maybe we’d instead be talking about how the voters sent a signal that the greater evil needs to tone down all the evil, and things can move in the right direction.

        But nope, let’s just pull the lever on the max-evil slot machine to see whether we end up ma more in cyberpunk, nazis, or mad max!