Comment on Majority of French, Germans and British think Trump is a 'dictator'

• Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  2008 is 17 years ago.

  You gotta be pretty young if your parents don’t remember that.

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  • anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I was living in New York in 2008.

      I remember picking up a copy of Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post days before the election, and reading the op-ed page.

      There were two pieces that particular day. One said a vote for Obama was a waste, because he was just a warmed over neoliberal who’d push conservative ideas weakly. The writer thought that instead of a wishy-washy softy it was better to have a real conservative.

      The other writer, on the same page, felt that Obama was a fire breathing leftist; a revolutionary who’d destroy America if he had half a chance.

      The GOP was throwing everything it had at Obama, regardless of whether it made any sense whatever.

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