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Bill Clinton Ended Welfare and Paved the Way for MAGA (foreignpolicy.com)

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[+] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -16 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

Obama bailed out banks instead of people which paved the asphalt for their runway.

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 6 hours ago*

More importantly, Obama's justice department declined to even really investigate Bush or Cheney for war crimes... Setting the stage for letting Trump get away with as much and now more.

He also legalized, codified, and expanded the drone war, kickstarting the modern drone war state of war.

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[–] Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 36 points 6 hours ago* (1 child)

No, he didn't. The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was passed and signed into law by Bush a month before the 2008 election even happened. The only thing you can really say is that Senator Obama was one of 70 yes votes on the bill in the Senate.

Obama signed the American Rescue and Recovery Act of 2009, which was heavily focused on stimulus and assistance to individuals and working families. He also signed Dodd-Frank which put a ton of new restrictions on the banks.

Basic facts matter.

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[–] tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 3 points 1 hour ago

That and Citizens United really drove the last nail in the coffin. What an awful era.

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