:sweat:I'd like someone to name a US president who has advanced liberal (or progressive) reforms who was not also a corrupt pro-corporate / establishment opportunist. — 180 Proof
:clap:I'm with the Sage of Baltimore, H.L. Mencken, who said that every election is a kind of advance auction sale of stolen goods. That said, the quality of some stolen goods is better than others. — Ciceronianus the White
Scion of the Establishment - proves my point.I accept the challenge - and without a lot of discussion that you wouldnodoubtendorse. Starting with FDR ... — tim wood
No "liberal accomplishments" (desegregating the military was a logistical manpower issue as the NSC apparatus ramped up the Cold War), Truman was mostly caretaker of FDR's "New Deal" & "Yalta" legacies.HST
Proves my point. Gave a valedictory warning of the "Military-Industrial Complex" his 2 administrations had engineered. Balked at desegregating schools (& civil rights movement more broadly) and promoted segregation in housing, etc.DDE
Proves my point. Irish mob colluded with Italian mob in Chicago to "throw" Illinois to Kennedy in order to beat Nixon in 1960. MLK, Jr lead March on Washington in August 1963 to pressure JFK to enforce federal laws to protect non-violent Civil Right protestors in the segregated "Deep" South because JFK had mostly appeased the anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-Negro 'Dixiecrats' he and RFK had calculated (correctly) they needed for reelection in 1964.JFK
Proves my point. V.I.E.T.N.A.M. ('Gulf of Tonkin Incident' ruse--> Agent Orange, Tet Offensive, My Lai, etc).LBJ
No "liberal" accomplishments, ergo 1980 reelection-destroying primary challenge from the left by "liberial lion of the senate" Ted Kennedy.Carter
Effin' Romneycare! Toothless Dodd-Frank. Surrounded himself with the same Clinton adminstration hacks who in the late '90s had deregulated (& regulatory captured) the US banking-financial system, which subsequently crashed by 2008, because he was naive or corrupt enough to trust them to fix what they had deliberately broken. Moscow Mitch's willing (i.e. ineffectual) punching bag for 6 out of 8 years in office. Also, Obama's DOJ didn't criminally prosecute any Wall Street executives for securities & mortgage fraud, etc or killer cops for violating the civil rights - public executions - of minorities. Green-lit rigging the 2016 Democratic Primaries by DNC decidedly in HRC's favor at Bernie Sander's expense (thanks Wikileaks) ... which (IMHO) helped elect DJT. Atrocity of drone strikes against civilians (orders of magnitude greater than GWB). And so on ...Obama
"The truth of the matter is, when you look at some of my policies, in a lot of ways Richard Nixon was more liberal than I was," Pres. Obama to Bill O'Reilly, Fox News, February 2014Nixon a horror who may have done some good things - none come to mind.
The woman accusing Donald Trump in a Jane Doe lawsuit of having raped her when she was 13 years old voluntarily dismissed her lawsuit Friday for what appears to be third time.
So one has to admit that D. Trump played so well his given role (better than his precedents and the greatest actors at Hollywood did) to the point almost all people (right, left.. etc..), if not all, were fully convinced that he is a real top decision-maker and not just another official speaker (just a great talented actor behind whom there are... sorry I don't like talking politics). — KerimF
Don't forget about the other 12 (out of 14) federal grand jury investigations and/or indictments still under steal which are referred to in the redacted version of the Special Prosecutor's Report. Even if "Individual-1" pardons himself or receives a presidential pardon in some other way, Mueller's investigation has shared much of its discovery with state prosecutors in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, California & Florida, local jurisdictions which are outside the federal jurisdiction covered by presidential pardons (and only Florida has a GOP governor who might consider it). Because of Mueller's "witch hunt", covIDIOT-1 is rightly terrified to lose reelection and all the immunities that go with the office. FDT - dead twat tweeting.At least the Müller "witch hunt" gave us obstruction of justice. — Benkei
The suit was dropped because she was intimidated and threatened. Your guy did it and you know it but you don't care. Again, that's all anyone needs to know about you.
Beto O'rourke is what keeps people around here awake at night — ArguingWAristotleTiff
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