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Oneironaut

(5,504 posts)
Thu May 17, 2018, 05:31 PM May 2018

We cannot let Trump become worse than Bush. [View all]

Of course, there’s still time, but with Bush we had:

- The Iraq War, which killed millions of people
- Mercenaries running around shooting people in New Orleans. The President’s mother felt that they were better off this way.
- High profile Liberals being blackballed from their positions because they only disagreed with the Iraq War. You were either “with them or against them,” and free thought was heavily discouraged in favor of rigorously-enforced group-think.
- The media was totally in the tank for Bush, and made its mission spouting cartoonish patriotic platitudes while negatively stereotyping all Liberals.
- The oxymoronic “Patriot Act”
- “Mission Accomplished”
- Dick Cheney and his thirst for never-ending war
- An administration that would have invaded Iran next, had there not been such war weariness
- The prospect of gay marriage looked bleak
- Gay people were literally not allowed in our military. They had to keep quiet, almost like criminals
- A bunch of other stuff that was equally as terrible. Too many things to list.

I know it’s only been over a year, but we will get through this. Not to minimize Trump, but we’ve gone through this and worse before. Now is not the time to fight over petty issues (not that you can’t make your opinion known!) - a united front will minimize the damage Trump and his cronies can do.

We came so far in 8 years, but we’re falling into the abyss again. I’m confident we can get through this, but we need to start rallying now. It’s already 2018!

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If you're not a woman. Or POC maybe. But to the Dem base, he's horrid. bettyellen May 2018 #1
Good thing I never said Trump is "not so bad." Oneironaut May 2018 #5
He already is, if you're a woman losing her rights or a life endangered bettyellen May 2018 #10
I'm LGBT, so I would probably be first in line for the Pence express. Oneironaut May 2018 #15
Is this a comment on Trump? He hasn't had any success harming LGBT but please do go on. When you bettyellen May 2018 #18
You're right. He has only been making transpeople his punching bag since he first started. Oneironaut May 2018 #21
He's not caused nearly the huge denial of reproductive rights or endangered LBGT citizens with hate bettyellen May 2018 #25
No offense, but that's absurd. There is an ongoing campaign to ban transgender people from Oneironaut May 2018 #28
His normalization of hate has been completely directed at others. bettyellen May 2018 #29
Um, no. EffieBlack May 2018 #2
K... Oneironaut May 2018 #6
Bush did not dissemble America...he did horrid things but trump is beachbum bob May 2018 #3
Time will tell, I suppose Oneironaut May 2018 #4
he lied us into war! unblock May 2018 #8
I agree. Trump is already 10x worse and he has only been in office a year smirkymonkey May 2018 #22
hmm, a pile of damp, decaying dead skunks; or a giant vat of bodily waste and sewage in the hot sun? unblock May 2018 #7
trump is much worse. bush's warmongering was deplorable, but he didn't deport immigrants and Hoyt May 2018 #9
can you imagine if 9/11 happened under Trump grantcart May 2018 #11
Thanks. Now I've got something else to lose sleep over. LastLiberal in PalmSprings May 2018 #19
Sorry Mate he already is. apnu May 2018 #12
+1000 smirkymonkey May 2018 #23
He already has, elleng May 2018 #13
True. I feel like it's the Odyssey, where you dodge one monster, only to land on another's island. Oneironaut May 2018 #16
I don't remember W conspiring with a foreign hostile govt to dismantle our democracy nini May 2018 #14
He was just dumb enough to destroy us from within. Oneironaut May 2018 #17
It's hard to say northremembers May 2018 #24
He's already worse than Bush. MariaCSR May 2018 #20
He's already worse. This is not a defense of Bush, but The Velveteen Ocelot May 2018 #26
Seriously? Clarity2 May 2018 #27
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