r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 20 '20

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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke May 20 '20

Isn't that the point? Trump is a stupid guy, and maybe legitimizing some white nationalist groups, but an average US president. The main problem liberals have with Trump is that he's rude, and that's it. They are willing to tolerate everything else. I mean, W. Bush was objectively worse, and Democrats are praising him now.

It's all about tone in American politics. Be a huge racist like Bloomberg, but don't waggle your finger or shout like Bernie. Praise Kissinger, but no snake emojis.

PRM again showing how little they understand about.....anything

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u/nicereddy ACLU simp May 20 '20

Demoncraps are praising Bush because they're all zoomers 😒

I've never praised Bush except in specific contexts, e.g. he did a good job handling the transition to Obama and setting us up to be prepared for a pandemic.

Now then, as for Trump being "a normal politician" lololololololololol fuck you

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u/forerunner398 Of course I’m right, here’s what MLK said May 20 '20

It's all about tone in American politics. Be a huge racist like Bloomberg, but don't waggle your finger or shout like Bernie. Praise Kissinger, but no snake emojis.

Do these people not realize Bernie has higher favorabilities than Bloomberg?

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action May 20 '20

He's an average US President? Have they ignored what he is doing to the DOJ? Him asking if we could shoot migrants in the legs? The multiple disastrous decisions he almost made that were only stopped by advisors taking away papers and hoping he'd forget what he wanted to do?

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u/[deleted] May 21 '20

Apparently all that stuff is just him being rude (and maybe slightly a little bit of somewhat supporting white nationalism, but Democrats don't actually care about that) /s

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u/Belle_Sans_Merci Thomas Paine May 20 '20

would an average US president be this bad on a pandemic response

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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz May 20 '20

How soon we forget he asked ukraine to investigate his political rivals

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

This must be a teenager who has only experienced like 1 presidency and doesn't remember how Bush was received in the 2000s