• grte@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    Yeah, if the lesson you’ve taken from the last decade of American politics is that they used to be too hard on corruption and they’re doing things right these days, you are probably very corrupt.

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    6 days ago

    A VP saying something like that only 15 years ago would have been a career-ending move. This being a nonevent today should tell you how far America has slid into fascism.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      The cons now feel empowered by Donvict to say the quiet part out loud. I bet roughly the same amount of people embraced these terrible notions before, however.

      I grew up in the aftermath of Nixon resigning in disgrace, in a deeply red area, and I cannot count how many times I’d hear some butthurt old redneck bitching about how Nixon was given a raw deal by the “Jewish-owned media” and so on.

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    4 days ago

    LOL, “modern”. I’ve been asking various cons - when they are slobbering all over Ronnie Raygun - “hey how about that Iran/Contra, they really won one for the Gipper there, didn’t they?” for decades now.

    Iran/Contra is arguably far worse than Watergate.

    Wanna guess what kind of responses I got from cons on that one? I want someone to explain the difference between a “modern” GOP and the not-modern GOP.

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    5 days ago

    One of many reasons the entire GOP should, at the very least, be barred from ever holding office or working with government again.

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      4 days ago

      What we need is our version of William Tecumseh Sherman to go scorched earth on the GOP and rid this planet of a deadly infection.

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      5 days ago

      well, sure,. voters could ensure that happens but it seems unlikely,. as they keep electing these bottom feeders