Well he saw how a moderate democrat was treated by republicans for 8 years, right up close. Same shit, no matter what he'd do.
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It's sort of a "ha-ha" for both sides: the left thought Bush was bad/incompetent.....until Trump showed up.
The right thought Obama was bad...until Biden won.
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You all deserve each other.
I think Joe Biden and progressive don't belong in the same sentence. I respect HB a lot, but think he's off there insinuating that Biden is any kind of a progressive. He's not.
Obama was basically a Republican. His healthcare plan was basically a nationwide rip off of a plan thought up by the Heritage Foundation (a Republican think tank) and implemented in the state of Massachusetts by a Republican governor (Mitt Romney and RomneyCare). Obama was a tool of Wall Street- he raised more money from Wall Street than any candidate in history and his first cabinet was basically hand-picked by Citibank. Obama was also a massive schill for the intelligence/military industrial complex. He expanded the security state and spying apparatus to levels Bush II could only wet dream of. Obama also went after more journalists and whistleblowers than every President before him combined. WikiLeaks released a leaked white paper written by the CIA in 2009 or 2010 I want to say- about how Obama was basically a god send for the CIA in terms of messaging and selling US wars of empire around the world. Read it a long time ago. But I'll find it and link the document if you care to read it.
Bush II was bad/incompetent, and it's kind of a joke to me for you to even begin to compare Trump to him and insinuate that Trump was actually worse or more incompetent. He wasn't. Trump was
INFINITELY better than Bush II by any objective measure. It's not even close, really.
Trump was actually great for this country in that he put an ugly face on the empire. He actually told the truth about US empire at times and showed it for what it was. That's probably why the stenographers and propagandists in the media hated him so much.
Obama was pretty bad. But I'd take him
any day over Biden. Biden is one of the worst Presidents in US history. You can put him right up there with Jimmy Carter and Bush II. Complete f***king disaster.
US absolutely deserves what it gets- because it has one of the dumbest and most propagandized populations on planet earth and the people won't actually band together to change things. We'll just go on playing Team Blue v. Team Red forever and buying all the bullsh*t WWE-like political theater.