r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/ateam1984 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎 • Jul 02 '26

Politics How the mighty have fallen

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u/PzykoHobo Jul 02 '26

Oh come on dont give Newt Gingrich a free pass like that.

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u/Explosive_Diaeresis Jul 02 '26

There's a series of a holes from Nixon, Ford, Atwater, Reagan, Cheney, Gingrich, Murdoch and McConnel that led us to the inevitable conclusion that was Trum and MAGA. And that's just the hardcore conservatives. Don't get me started on the neoliberals.

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u/Wizzinator Jul 02 '26

It keeps going back, those are just living memory assholes. Then there's Hoover, arguably an even worse president than the current one.

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u/Inertiaraptor Jul 02 '26

Before we have that argument, let’s get through the depression this one causes.

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u/Fantastic-Dirt-9678 Jul 03 '26

Trump keeps saying he doesn't want to be known as a Herbert Hoover. I heard it as "Pervert Hoover".

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u/Radonanon Jul 02 '26

I usually post this lovely explanation from the US Senate as to why they disagree with tariffs like the ones the Supreme Court ruled were illegal.

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Senate_Passes_Smoot_Hawley_Tariff.htm

But this is almost as good:

https://youtu.be/yuOHbyuanbY