Comment on Really shows where their priorities are, doesn't it?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 months agoObama did nothing with it.
And he had a supermajority for a time, which makes his inaction that much worse.
Comment on Really shows where their priorities are, doesn't it?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 months agoObama did nothing with it.
And he had a supermajority for a time, which makes his inaction that much worse.
EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
YES! And people still brainlessly say over and over “best president of my lifetime” about a guy that deported more immigrants than any other president combined, more than Trump, Obama was the one who started putting kids in cages, Obama that pretended Flint Michigan’s water was fine, Obama allowed fracking to happen, which caused tap water in many places to become flammable. Obama took us from two illegal wars against countries that never attacked us up to at least 7. His drone bombings killed 90% civilians and those drone bombings were so frequent that they ran out of bombs for the drones.
Yes you read that right! The US military, which gets a bigger budget every year perpetually…ran out of one of their ammunitions, because they used it that much.
And under Trump, Pelosi and Schumer went out of their way to make sure the Trump administration got an even bigger military budget increase than they were even asking for TWICE!
Pelosi “TRUMP! With you! All roads lead to Putin! Now have a bigger military budget YOU RUSSIAN SCUM!”
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Obama also made the deliberate choice to bow to Big Pharma and Big Insurance by killing single payer.
The military budget’s interesting, though. We spend more and more every year, trillions, but if you look at the war budget as a percentage of our GDP, it’s actually lower than it’s been in the past.
(Which still pisses me off, but it’s an interesting fact.)