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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Damn that's crazy, maybe you should have supported the popular progressive instead of getting the DNC to gg ez your primary for you lol.

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know right! We showed her!!!! Her rich old ass is definitely going to suffer the consequences of our inaction now! LOL amirite!?!?

[–] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Her husband's been outed as a pedophile, her legacy boils down to being a whiny sore loser who ran hard right from even Obama's politics and failed, and she personally has ensured no one with the last name clinton will ever hold a political office ever again in the country.

As far as modern consequences for rich people in the US, that's really the best case scenario. She's not poor enough to get Luigi'd, and she's not dark enough to get arrested.

Realistically the same fate is the best case scenario we have for what will happen to Trump, who will never see a jail cell, and the rest of his billionaire friends.

The solution to being in an plutocratic oligarchy turning into a fascist oligarchy is not to support the oligarch that super duper promises not to do bad things to you, just everyone else in the world.

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[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 84 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sure is a good thing that she and her husband got the ball rolling for the Republicans! What would we do without deregulated and monopolistic media, Neo-liberalism globalization that gutted the middle class, deregulated markets that created the sub prime crisis of 2008, and a judicial system that punished people for being poor and/or BIPOC.

She was not wrong, she just was also complicit.

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The legislative branch are just cowards, period. Don't like the way the SC has interpreted a law? No fucking problem: re-write the law. It's LITERALLY thier fucking job.

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[–] Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 days ago

YUP. So much deregulation happened under the Clinton presidency and everyone sings his praises. He's a traitor to his constituents and country.

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If a Republican president can do it, so could Biden in order to prevent that from happening. Why didn't he? Why didn't Kamala run on stacking the courts in her favor?

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Because the president needs the congress to approve those judges, and the last time team blue had both the presidency and the congress was when Obamacare was passed.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Uh what the fuck? Dems won both houses in 2020.

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

You mean Romney's ACA? Cause Dems love to co-operate with Conservatives?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

which was watered down because we had people LIEBERMAN.

[–] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago

It was 'watered down' because Obama is a Reagan-era conservative that fully believes and has wrote about supporting neoliberal economics (aka trickle down) and was using naive 'progressive' liberals to get elected and take the steam out of popular protest and progressive movements that did threaten the oligarchy. Just a reminder the same exact companies sat in his cabinet that sit in Bush's and Trump's.

There was never any 'Hope,' there was never any 'Yes we can,' there was only 'Please God stop protesting and don't ever realize that with literally 2% of the country freshly homeless due to the 2008 crisis that Obama's future cabinet members directly explicitly caused knowing it would cause a massive economic crash that there are more than enough people to actively revolt against the US government and oligarchy that have absolutely nothing else left to lose.'

There's a reason Biden, one of the most right-wing politicians in the History of the United States, tapped Obama and encouraged him to run for the presidency despite having practically no political, military, or economic experience outside being a mayor and senator for a couple of years.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

DMC: Run Biden 15 more times you say?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

It will be 2036 and AOC will make her presidential bid and the DNC will be like "guess we need to get the shovel to dig Biden back up"

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I guess more people should've voted for Bernie in 2020.

[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There were also the superdelegates.

[–] pfried@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

The superdelegates vote for whoever the primary voters vote for. https://www.politico.com/story/2008/06/superdelegates-surge-to-obama-010792

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[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] InputZero@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

It's Tricky

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

they have no need, 6-3 is already a supermajority. thats why they have been brazen in the last 2 years repeal every case they can, they cant touch interracial relationships yet, because alot of gop are married to poc wives. they made sure thier scotuses arnt that old fart, if they are about to step down they replace it under 30days much like with RBG.

[–] Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The tweet is from 2016

[–] Spinoza@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know people were saying this since at least the 80s and I wasn’t even born. Hillary’s not just stating the obvious, shes rattling off old talking points of the dem platform.

[–] underisk@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

You’re telling me that dems have known about this problem for decades but did nothing but fundraise and campaign on it? How unlike them!

The people who needed to hear it weren't listening while the rest of us were screaming.

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 25 points 2 days ago

Yeah. I remember saying this shit 10+ years ago too. Jesus fuck I'm tired....

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago

"Ben Ghazi and the Buttery Males" is still a 10/10 band name

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] TheYojimbo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She was a better candidate. Better than trump.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

That bar's so low, it's in the Earth's core.

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[–] lauha@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is false. Any president in US has the power to do this and in a proper democracy no president should have the power to meddle with the justice system. Sepaeatipn of power and all that.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"in a proper democracy, power should be vested in lifetime appointments to the court that cannot be changed by later elections"

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was sorta expected they would be highly qualified senior judges, so you have like 20 25 years, not grabbing law school grads that can sit for 50 years. I would support 20 year term, the point is that they should be less sensitive to politics.

[–] mattyroses@lemmy.today 1 points 18 hours ago

they should be less sensitive to politics

How's that working out in practice?

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