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And then Trump read the message and was like “dude, I have to be good now!”…
Is that all they do in the opposition? Writing letters? No wonder you guys are all going to hell.
Bill Clinton tweet: Everything Slick Willy should say
Angry Leftists: Bah! You suuuuuck! Fuck you Clinton! BlAARghh! DEAaaaaaTH! Deth to ALL!1
Me: Huh.
It’s a nice tweet and I agree with it but I’d rather he was testifying about what he did on Epstein’s island
My prediction of his testimony of Epstein Island: “I saw, but I didn’t partake.”
Just wait for the ‘contempt’ power play. If the House follows through, Clintons get discovery! Oops…
I would like him to testify in front of competent people. I mean with the republican party questioning him do you really think they’re going to ask him anything interesting when so many many answers would likely be: “Hey I was there with half your political party, just ask the president and all your colleages who were there.” I do hope the contempt goes through because if it goes to an actual court you might get some names.
Yeah people really struggle to hold two thoughts at once these days
Oh, so you’re gonna give a call to action then? Maybe designate a day for a national strike? Call out individuals most responsible and push for their impeachment? Call for boycotts of companies? Anything like that?
No? Just general words and a subtle wish that things will magically get better?
Ok, thanks Billy.
Can’t be a day, any protest has to last until the desired change happens otherwise it’s a party.
Says the man whose wife gave us Trump.
Fortunately, she saved us from that scary socialist.
Words are great and all, but please put your money where your mouth is, Bill.
You don’t have to go Unabomber but funding has impact, too. If anything, it’s the only language besides violence that works here.
No no. Other people pay politicians to have opinions, silly. They don’t fund political movements, they use them to gain leverage in elections. Duh /s
Deregulation champ weary about lack or regulation.
What actions of a lifetime are you (Bill, not OP) suggesting to stop ICE?
Probably exercising the 2A rights
To make matters even worse, at every turn, the people in charge have lied to us, told us not to believe what we’ve seen with our own eyes, and pushed increasingly aggressive and antagonistic tactics, including impeding investigations by local authorities.
Oh! That’s an interesting development. Now let’s see how the other two react (three? Can Biden still even talk?)
We now live in a world where Slick Willy is a voice of reason.
We now live in a world where George W looks like a fantastic president.
And we look back at the ‘nucular’ brockly puking right wing warmonger who wasn’t trying to kill our own civilians with only moderate disgust.
We already lived in a world where Dan Quayle saved Democracy, at least for a few years
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No. I mean calmly explained to Pence that there was no way to legally justify doing what Trump wanted him to.
Oof.
Potatoe
funny meme that. I had no idea Bill Clinton is a microblogger.
post this somewhere relevant
Why are all your comments deleted? Are you a bot or a troll?
They were complaining that this is not technically a “microblog” I think.
Indeed. But he still has questions to be answered and his victims deserve those answers regardless of the ‘moral’ high ground he perceives to take. They all do.
Except, you helped significantly get us here, Bill.
You and you shitty fucking wife, not only moved the Overton Window MUCH further right with your presidency, but you and your wife forced themselves upon Dem voters in 2016 regardless of the fact you were and are both insanely unpopular with the voter base.
You’re an asshole. Hillary is an asshole. You both enabled this shit, and should be held accountable too.
… and the statement is typical of the milquetoast “strongly worded letter” response that made Democrats into the weak hand they are now
Well that’s a revisionist republican take. Dude balanced the budget. Hillary’s primary was fair, Bernie was never popular with registered Democrats, he was never going to win and anybody not buying republican bullshit was well aware of it. If anything Clinton pulled the window left before 9/11 and revenge of the Bush put the final nails in the coffin.
You don’t deserve the down votes for stating uncomfortable truths. The DNC was NEVER going to give Bernie the nomination, for the simple reason that he’s not a Democrat.
There’s too much to explain how fucking awful bill Clinton is and how hard he fucked us from NAFTA to the crime bill and so much in between. So laugh your ass off to this and see you in a few hours.
Also the Democratic supermajority killing Bernie when he was winning the vast majority of popular votes of the Democratic primary made it clear to many that the Democratic party isn’t ever going to work in their interest or budge a fraction left of enabling conservatives. There’s just zero evidence that he wasn’t going to win, but there was plenty that Hillary was much less popular.
Jesus Christ some jackasses podcast isn’t a source. This dumb fuckery is why Americans deserve what we’re getting, we’re a bunch of belligerent dumb fucks listening to other dumb fucks like they know shit. Bernie got barely half the primary votes that Hillary got. It wasn’t even close. Bernie was popular with progressives who didn’t register Dem or vote in the primary. Y’all are too stupid to understand first past the post or the spoiler effect or the way the two party system means you have to vote for the lesser of two evils or you are explicitly condoning the greater evil. If you wanted Bernie you all should have registered Dem and voted for him in the primary but you didn’t, nevermind that Bernie isn’t even a fucking Dem and the idea he’d get the party nom was ridiculous from the get go. Fucks sake the Bernie bullshit is literally Russian propaganda and I’m tired of hearing idiots repeat it.
Idk bout ur whole argument of russian propaganda but
“Y’all are too stupid to understand first past the post or the spoiler effect or the way the two party system means you have to vote for the lesser of two evils or you are explicitly condoning the greater evil.”
Is both seemingly valid and entirely a crock of shit that will result in ratcheting towards fascism every single time.
No it won’t if you primary establishment with progressives and actual leftists. If progressives had registered and voted in Dem primaries everywhere every time we’d have an actually progressive party. But too many dipshits buy the both sides bullshit.
It really doesn’t play out like that though.
Blaming the voter base will never work, and just serves the interest of the right wing steer.
You must hold the dems accountable, and primary them for sure.
But both sides ARE terrible and the dems are highly complicit, it’s not about people ‘buying’ anything, it’s about not rewarding people who happily increase funding to ICE under the current scenario.
You can’t expect fundamentally disenfranchised people to play in a game that’s rigged against good without inspiring them with hope.
Look at Mamdani, there were no candidates in the 2024 election like that. Why? Simple… THERE WAS NO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY.
BLAME THE PARTY, who forced this upon us! They lost an easily winnable election, no-one else is half as culpable.
. Scorpion ass motherfuckers.
Not sure what it is like in other countries, but you should know that it is extremely RARE in US politics for a former president to speak out against the current president. Even rarer to issue a formal statement.
Oh wow! So brave!
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Not explicitly, no, but he’s referenced by “The people in charge.”
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Because Trump isn’t the only one responsible.
Yeah, that’s cute. We’re a little past the point where the ruffling of the ruling class’ powdered wigs impresses anyone.
Not sure the little kids screaming for their parents care.
I don’t think folks getting their faces kicked and scraped against the floor care.
Side note: this being a rarity is probably a net good thing. History shows that when the old guy and the new guy fight, it doesn’t bring unity or peaceful transfers of power which are arguably more important than the bad one getting whatever they deserve.
Argue how its more important then, i’d like to hear it
If the incumbent knows the new guy will put him in jail, which is a common thing in parts of the world where power is not often transferred gracefully, he will fight to the death to hold on to power.
If the new guy lets the old guy slink away, it reduces political polarization. Who cares about the old guy at that point? Because everybody benefits from less polarization and more unity.
It was also rare for the current president to bitch about post presidents. Or sell cars, phones, etc.
At least in my lifetime, every president has commented critically about the previous administration.
You’re absolutely right that US presidents have historically not used their position for personal profit, or at least not overtly so. Jimmy Carter famously sold his potato farm upon being elected in order to avoid potential conflict of interest.
Oh, sorry, I might not have been aware of much of the smaller things (I’m not from them USA parts) - but I was trying to make the distinction between ‘polite criticism for distancing themselves from the previous admin’ (something all politicians do on all political levels, even in cases of direct policy/friendship/spiritual succession, even in companies actually, it enables the new admin to be their own distinct thing & get traction among the people & coworkers sooner) & just bitching for the sake of it, calling names etc.
Also wasn’t it a peanut farm?
Yes! I meant to say peanut lol. Had to go back and see what the heck I typed.
“I love tessler!”
Fuck Bill Clinton, he might have done more to get us here than any president before Trump, but how is this finger wagging? It’s critical of Trump but is directed toward the general population.
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I wouldn’t be so sure. Dubya didn’t turn the democrats into a party that could lose to Trump.
That wouldn’t matter if it wasn’t for all the unconstitutional policies the W administration put in place post 9/11. That was the day the terrorists won.
This really doesn’t seem like something worth arguing over.
Dubya has him beat by a country mile, but still, fuck this guy. Fuck Reagan too.
There’s plenty of blame to go around. I think Clinton turning the Democrats into a bunch of corporate tools was a response to Reagan.
