• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    And none of them attempted a coup or tried to destroy all the checks and balances of our government in order to set themselves up as a dictator with unlimited corruption!

    Bush absolutely destroyed all sorts of checks and balances and got near-limitless power, which has be maintained by every president since. Warrentless wiretapping? Mass surveillance? Authorization to attack every country on earth? Indefinite detention without trial in the torture dungeon at Guantanamo? He was not held accountable for any of it, because as Edward Snowden revealed, Obama wanted to keep most of it going himself. That’s why he became public enemy #1 and was hunted to the ends of the earth.

    You wanna talk corruption, who benefited from the multiple wars of aggression Bush started? Oil companies and arms dealers. Nobody else.

    We used to have some pretense of civil liberties and privacy, but that was all long gone before Trump ever ran for anything.

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      11 hours ago

      Did I fucking say “Bush?”

      No, I did not!

      You keep using fascist Republicans and ancient history as your examples and then trying to pretend that there’s been no difference when “liberals” have been in charge – a bullshit lie that serves only to promote the right wing. Obviously the Democrats aren’t all that good, but they sure as Hell aren’t the same as the fascists and only a fascist would pretend they were.

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        11 hours ago

        No shit Trump isn’t foreign, but he also isn’t “normal” or a continuation of how the US was in the '90s through 2010s,

        YES you did fucking say Bush.

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            Bush was president from 2000-2008

            2000-2008 is within the time period of “the 90’s through the 2010’s.”

            I don’t know how it could possibly be more clear that you are the liar and I’m not.