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Yeah, I mean other than my family having insurance coverage for pre-existing conditions. And having years of insurance. And therefor much better quality of life
by _DeadFred_ 5mo ago
Yeah, I mean other than my family having insurance coverage for pre-existing conditions. And having years of insurance. And therefor much better quality of life then/now. Obama has what, a few weeks of actual mandate majority power.
Mamdani is basically doing the same thing other Dems do, only the Internet lefties give him the benefit of the doubt/kudos instead of the piling on they give Dems. Abigail Spanberger has been insanely effective yet gets zero of the kudos Mamdani gets because she's just a Dem.
- tstrimple 5mo ago[flagged]
- _DeadFred_ 5mo agoWomen lost the right to chose when? Representation for Black Americans in southern elections was lost when? LGBTQ+ rights/right to exist has been decimated when? Immigrants started being mass deported when? But Democrats weren't doing anything and both parties are the same.
- malshe 5mo agoObama promised change, remember? We were in the worst financial crisis of the modern times and what changed exactly after Obama took over? How many bankers went to the prison? In his 2012 book, Neil Barofsky wrote that Obama appeared to care far more about the Wall Street [1]. Obama also completely ignored the Bush administration lies which led to Iraq invasion. Nobody got punished. During his presidency the senate Democrats were asleep at the wheel, not filling many vacant positions for federal judges, which McConnell later exploited. Overall, Obama's presidency was a lot of talk but no concrete action. It's just because his was sandwiched between two even worse presidencies -- Bush's and Trump's -- he comes out ahead. 1. Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street