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Democrats now openly attack Mamdani (lemmynsfw.com)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

It’s been so fucking ridiculous to watch the US left spend three decades just completely buying into the conservative smear job against the Clintons. Just licking up every drop of the trash they’ve fed you.

Perfect? Not by a long shot. But you’ll be goddamn lucky to ever get another president as qualified and capable as Bill or Hillary ever again.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Bill "Epstein Island" Clinton?

Hillary "Let's promote Trump and sabotage Bernie" Clinton? Very capable politicians. Have a "ButHerEmails".

How the Hillary Clinton campaign deliberately “elevated” Donald Trump with its “pied piper” strategy

In its self-described “pied piper” strategy, the Clinton campaign proposed intentionally cultivating extreme right-wing presidential candidates, hoping to turn them into the new “mainstream of the Republican Party” in order to try to increase Clinton’s chances of winning.

The Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee called for using far-right candidates “as a cudgel to move the more established candidates further to the right.” Clinton’s camp insisted that Trump and other extremists should be “elevated” to “leaders of the pack” and media outlets should be told to “take them seriously.”

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Pat Buchanan would be so fucking stoked to hear anyone on the left parroting this

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Are you claiming it's false? Of are you just mad it's true?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Pat Buchanan drinks water and you drink water, therefore you are as bad as Pat Buchanan /s

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But you’ll be goddamn lucky to ever get another president as qualified and capable as Bill or Hillary ever again.

Provided you're a billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

“No, I’m not at all susceptible to right wing media messaging”

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, I'm not buying your support of two center-right corpodems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

And who are literally a mile to the left of anyone the DNC has to offer.

American “leftists”: ready to throw fists in defense of 1990s Rush Limbaugh talking points but absolutely incensed at the suggestion that they’re not doing enough to stop the fascist overthrow of their government. 🤡

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And who are literally a mile to the left of anyone the DNC has to offer.

The clintons and soulless corpodems exactly like them are all the DNC is willing to offer.

American “leftists”: ready to throw fists in defense of 1990s Rush Limbaugh talking points

Why would rush limbaugh say that they're too far to the right? Just because the clintons are to your left, that doesn't mean they're acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The Clintons are far to my right. They’re also far to the left of anyone you’ve ever put up that’s actually qualified.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

They’re also far to the left of anyone you’ve ever put up that’s actually qualified.

Where "qualified" means "have the last name Clinton."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Define "qualified"

Was Obama "qualified" in 08?

When has "qualified" ever mattered except when Hilary tried to use it as a campaign slogan and lost repeatedly (first to Obama, then to trump)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Good joke

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

2016 was eight years ago, get over it.