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Dare ObasanjoIn my lifetime, we went from a president so squeaky clean that his opponents tried to make fist bumping his wife a scandal, to multiple Supreme Court justices mansplaining to us that just because they accept gifts from billionaires doesn’t make them corrupt.
Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉@carnage4life he also wore a tan suit. He was no angel.
hlfshell@swelljoe @carnage4life He asked for grey poupon too :faints:
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Dan Walker@carnage4life I have stronger anti bribery rules in place and I make software to help people spend money on ads more effectively. That seems backwards.
wasabi brain@carnage4life can’t we admit that while gop is exponentially worse, Obama’s center right administration led to the disheartening of younger and minority voters who didn’t show up in 2016? He was so friendly to banks he let hsbc go with slap on wrist for money laundering for drug cartels? Libya now has open air slave markets? Okay right wing nut machine lost their mind over fist bump, but he was by no means above reproach
Tom Bellin 
@virtualinanity @carnage4life Voters have agency. Trump's racist birther nonsense should have made him radioactive. Instead, it got him elected president.
Obama's pragmatism didn't do that.
Michael Gemar@virtualinanity @carnage4life Obamacare was a big achievement for the US. Although I’d agree that it didn’t go far enough, largely because he negotiated against himself with the GOP.
Laure@carnage4life autocratic corrupt oligarchy is for reals
Toby@carnage4life TIL "in my lifetime" == 6 years.
PointlessSpike@xenotrope @carnage4life It feels like decades.
@PointlessSpike @carnage4life Every day felt like a month for a while there. TV personalities would outline the fifteen insane new things that have happened and remind viewers that was just a week or two ago.
Kat O’Brien@carnage4life in a 10-year-old’s lifetime, no less!
Jeff Atwood@carnage4life oh, it's even worse than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_tan_suit_controversy
jobelenus@carnage4life technically those justices started taking those gifts at the same time as he was president (if I’ve got the timeline right)
Shawn@carnage4life and until average GOP voters see corruption amongst their own as actually worse than working along side the Democrats they purport to share a country with, nothing will change.
Philip Mallegol-Hansen@carnage4life And somehow the group of people hellbent on keeping assault weapons, in case a tyrannical government needs to be fought, is rooting on the sidelines.
Why isn’t that surprising?
Kevin Fox@carnage4life @acdha Not to mention normalizing a president who brags about “grabbing women by the p——“ and kissing women without consent.
Roger Sherman 
@carnage4life the terrorist fist bump!
Sze Hui@carnage4life it's worse than that - not just inside your lifetime, but also inside my teenager's lifetime
geobeck@carnage4life
Early in my lifetime, a president's involvement in robbing his political opponents rocked the nation and led to his disgraced resignation before an almost-certain senate conviction.
Today, near-universal corruption is accepted as business as usual.
Ru🐇🧋🏳️⚧️@carnage4life don’t forget the flag pin “scandal” and I’m pretty sure there was something about the type of mustard he ate one time (really)
Aviva Gary@carnage4life I'm not saying this is a sign of a collapsing society but...
Veronica ⚧ 🏳️⚧️@carnage4life WTH are you talking about?
We have never had a "squeaky clean" president!
Even our best presidents: like FDR, Ike, Carter, & Truman did some harm & made mistakes.
You are clearly wearing partisan blinders. Wake up, try reality.
Fight me; who are you calling squeaky clean?
My best candidates:
Ralph Nader
Bernie Sanders
Dr Jill Stein
Dr Cornel West
Have EACH said & done things that I am VERY opposed to as has every administration during my lifetime.
Because I pay attention instead of syndicating my brain.
Jon (now at neuromatch.social)@carnage4life when all the spotlight on the scandals started up I was thining about Abe Fortas, which which the previous big scandal in the late 60s/early 70s. Fortas had a retainer from soebody whose cases where before the Court, which was indeed pretty bad -- and apparently he wasn't the only one. But stuff that's come out about today's justices is arguably worse.
Fortas would have been impeached, so wound up resigning, but alas the political dynamics are different these days.
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺In my lifetime, we had a President who was intimately familiar with the perils of nuclear power put solar panels on the White House.
They might still be there had his successor not been so much of an idiot and asshole.
Bridget (née Bill) Phillips@carnage4life This is just as much about changing norms around corruption, weirdly:
Scalia was on a billionaire sponsored hunting trip when he died; yet there was hardly a peep from Democrats about this potentially being problematic.
Court Cantrell does not comply@carnage4life We went from one to the other within my kid's lifetime, and she's only 10. 🫤
toxtethogrady@carnage4life I can't tell if that's mansplaining, whitesplaining or Trumpsplaining...
Darius@carnage4life Come on now... the dude also wore a tan suit. A tan suit!
Sam Bowne 
@carnage4life To be fair, we've had plenty of corrupt officials before; Agnew took bags of cash in the White House as bribes; Sacco & Vanzetti were executed despite the judge admitting they were innocent, etc. This stuff goes up and down.
Burr Deming