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That Lincoln fella seemed alright. Plus, Garfield was literally assassinated for not being corrupt enough.
Carter was a homie.
Reagan was satan.
Clinton balanced the deficit.
Bush rented out the army for oil.
Obama brought us medical coverage, subsidized lower and middle class loans for cars, homes, and education.
Trump rapes children and throws infant corpses in lakes.
Biden was old but mid, pardoned thousands of marijuana convictions and attempted many times to forgive all student debt but only managed about $70Bn of it.
Trump still rapes children and throws infant corpses in lakes.
The Clintons Had Slaves
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If your only complaint about a president is that he didn't change a practice older than the nation itself, indentured servitude / prison labor, then that sounds like a damn fine president to me.
Sadly, Clinton was not the saint you make him out to be, he was actually pretty anti-welfare and you would do better to criticize him for things like that which he actually wrote policy on.
That's not my only complaint by a long shot. But there's a straight line from keeping slaves in your Governor's mansion to keeping them on Epstein Island. If the standard of decency for a human being is so low that brutalizing someone into servitude is a step below sainthood, we're a nation that deserves a thousand years of Donald Trump.
I think if the Trump admin had any dirt on Clinton in the Epstein files they would have unloaded it all by now. Hell, Bill Clinton actually threatened the Trump admin and asked for the immediate unloading, image attached.
I've heard Chuds say the same thing about Trump under Biden
I don't recall Trump's lawyer calling Biden a pedophile and demanding the release of the Epstein Files.
Most of the cheap heat was directed at Hunter, if I'm not mistaken. And then Joe had to issue a pardon for his son to keep him out of jail.
Lincoln committed the largest mass execution in American history, as punishment for fighting back against mass starvation imposed on the Dakota by the American government and the accepted, continuing theft of dwindling tribal lands by white settlers. It was part of the ongoing genocide against indigenous peoples.
There are no hero presidents.
John Adams? He was willing to sacrifice his career if it saves an entire nation by refusing to declare war on the more powerful France, despite American public opinion baying for blood. He also didn't have slaves.
Guess who signed Trump’s favorite law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798?
His treatment of indigenous peoples is more complex, but it’s not really what you would call good either. He certainly had racist views of them, even though he opposed slavery.
Lincoln several times supported massacres of natives and Garfield spent much time fighting against unions and was a huge supporter of big business.
readsettlers.org
CW for genocidal racism
- Abraham Lincoln
https://archive.org/details/autobiographyper0192butl page 903