RedditsuxTrump Says the U.S. Can't Pay for Healthcare or Daycare, Only War
10 years ago, a statement like this from ANY potus would have turned into a month off front-page freakout. Now? It gets a one-second shrug.
Fuck. Where we are now. So quickly.
The Velour Fog Not even 10 years ago tbh… If Biden said this when he was president, Republicans would inexplicably become the number one advocates of healthcare and childcare and screech endlessly about him being a warmonger for several news cycles.
It’s not “10 years ago,” because it has nothing to do with time passing. It has everything to do with Republicans doing a coordinated and concerted capture of all media.
It goes away because they want it to - the silly non-news used to stick around for a month because of their manipulation. It’s important to remember and talk about this widely
Just. Start. Shooting. Them.
Big strong scary words behind an anonymous handle. You sound real tough.
The toughest thing you could do would be to write an op-ed and publish it under your real name and talk this tough.
You can’t. You won’t. Sit down.
We all agreed on what to do with Nazis 80 years ago. When did you change your mind?
Coward. Did you write your op-ed under your real name yet big scary tough guy?
Show us the way with your big strong words
We all agreed on what to do with Nazis 80 years ago.
Sneak them into the USA to work as high level civil servants and scientists?
I don’t think that will really help now, tbh.
Excellent point.
Remember Mustardgate? I do and I’m not even American…
baronvonjNice use of the interrobang!
Such useful and underused character, I always appreciate when I see it.
Maybe, but in my entire lifetime (certainly more than 10 years), Republican POTUS can say or do literally anything they want with little to no actual repercussions at the polls. I feel 100% confident that Reagan could have said this, his policies were doing this just not so explicitly stated. Bush Jr got the USA into war over false pretenses and it took many, many years after his presidency was long over before public opinion shifted slightly on the topic in terms of realizing how wrong it was.
wonderingwandererWhat was the actual quote?
Like, I know trump sucks and absolutely says these things with his actions, but…
MeidasTouch is one of the most clickbaity, reactionary, and misleading excuses for “journalism” that we have on the left. The kid does a good job going head-to-head with conservative pundits on televised news, but I don’t take any of their headlines at face value, especially because they all tend to be inflammatory and are often no more than speculative.
I’m not giving them the web traffic to see if there’s anything of substance behind this headline. Anyone who did, care to share the direct quote?
CharlesDarwinI doubt it would have applied to the cons.
IOKIYAR.
Newt and his team have been working to divide America since at least 1990. Actively. And it gets little mention. Meanwhile, plenty of reactionary centrists and nearly all of the mainstream media and of course the unhinged right wing would say things like “Obama is divisive” as some kind of serious analysis.
Meanwhile, the cons have been intentionally trying to divide. And were not called on it every single day, as they should be.
The GOPAC memo “Language: A Key Mechanism of Control” is something every American should be aware of, but I bet maybe 1% are.
So if earlier asshole GOP POTUSes were to blurt this out before, it would probably get bothsidered and downplayed back then, too.