• Soulphite@reddthat.comBanned from community
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    Lucky! As a citizen of the US we currently don’t have a president and haven’t for nearly a year.

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            “The founding fathers would be ashamed!”

            George Washington was a wealthy slave owner who hired a bounty hunter to hunt down a teenage slave girl who ran away from his house (while he was president).

            Thomas Jefferson was quite literally a pedophile, while also being a wealthy slave owner.

            James Madison had a secret half-black son who he SOLD AWAY when his wife got annoyed with him.

            Woodrow Wilson held a special screening of “Birth of a Nation” (the pro-KKK movie) IN THE WHITE HOUSE. He is also in the credits of that movie as a consultant.

            Harry S. Truman committed a genocide against Korea.

            LBJ and Nixon committed acts of genocide in Vietnam and Cambodia.

            Reagan: AIDS crisis, Iran-Contra, “War on Drugs,” destroying Unions, etc. (list of crimes is too long to recount).

            George W. Bush: Directly caused millions of deaths in the middle east.

            In reality, Donald Trump has just taken all the special qualities of previous presidents and combined them into one “Voltron” of American leadership. The power of racism, the power of pedophilia, the power of genocide, the power of willful ignorance, and the power of capitalist realism combine into one, the ULTIMATE AMERICAN. Coming soon, from the makers of Cyberpunk 2077, comes: Technofeudalism: 45/47

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              Carter actively courted the evangelical movement bringing them into US politics in a mainstream way.

              Reagan was literally a movie star and on a reality TV show prior to being president (General Electric Showcase House where Reagan and Nancy lived in and showed off a “modern” house as a giant advertisement for GE)

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                  Yeah definitely I brought up the evangelicals because that was the new horrible stuff Carter added that later reactionaries perfected.

                  US Presidents have been doing and allowing genocide to happen pretty much the whole times it’s been a country.

                  But even Trump being a reality TV star supported by whack job Christian fundamentalists isn’t new.

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              Didn’t George Washington rotate his slaves out of Maryland, since Maryland had a law that; after ninety days (?) they would be emancipated? He would send them out with his wife when she left the state.

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                It was actually Pennsylvania that had the emancipation law. When George Washington was president, Philadelphia was the temporary capital, as Washington D.C. was still being built. If you watch the John Adams miniseries from HBO, you can see the moment Adams moves into the White House while it is still being built (by slaves of course).

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                  Ah… That makes sense. I thought it was in Maryland, misremembered it. Looking into it, it was six months or 182 days actually. He would rotate them between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Mount Vernon, Virginia; resetting the six month clock. Thanks, I was spreading misinformation, unintentionally.

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      Trump is the most american president the country has had in my lifetime. What you’re not understanding is that everything you believe in is unamerican and they will come for you for it if you don’t radicalise further leftwards like the rest of us and fight.

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        Maybe I miscommunicated my original comment, as everyone is attacking me here… I am in no way shape or form in support of pedonald the pedophile rapist piece of shit.

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              Yeah if you think Kamala wouldn’t have done something like this, you’d be wrong

              Sure she probably wouldn’t have actually kidnapped Maduro (more likely she’d have killed him outright) and wouldn’t do it literally at the start of the year or have openly said she wants to steal the oil but what she would have done is wrap this imperialism in humanitarian language to make it more palatable to libs like you and she would have launched the operation in late spring or early summer to maximize the possibility of a military win making her and the party look strong in the midterms

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                I remember when she said: “I will ensure that America has the strongest, most lethal fighting force.” The crowd went fucking wild. The only reason you’d say such a thing is if you’re planning on doing lots of military adventurism.

                Considering she called Iran the greatest adversary of the US, it’s highly likely she would’ve gone all in on bombing and invading them, and the libs would’ve cheered her on and called her a girlboss for having the courage to stand up to bAd CoUnTrY. Shit would’ve been insufferable.

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                  Hillary said in 2016 that if she were elected there would be US boots on the ground in Iran, she was basically promising to start new wars and the Dems still called her the most qualified candidate in history

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                Sadly there are tons who are totally okay with her doing the same thing, as long as it was in the middle east.

                Hell even fetterman is using lines from her in positive response to trumps attack

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          I think people are being a bit too harsh here, but I think what they took exception to is the implication that Trump is not representative of the USA or that he is different from previous leadership. Sadly, the USA has always done things like this.

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          Hell yeah brother, unlike the previous president who certainly isn’t on video over fifty years of his life touching women and girls without their consent anytime they’re within pawing distance

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      Who’s “we”? I am not represented by the illegitimate terror regime known as the “US government” which has failed to produce any free or fair election for decades (if even at all really if we’re being honest).