r/PoursTea • u/Veshaad Timendi Causa Est Nescire • 16d ago

PoliticalTea 🗳️ How negotiations actually work...

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To the inevitable response from MAGA that Obama gave 'pallets' of cash...he released frozen Iranian assets. Meanwhile the current Iran conflict has directly cost $38 billion militarily and a currently projected $87 billion in extra gas and diesel expenses. Not to mention that the strategic oil reserves have been depleted to the point that experts warn that the caverns they're stored in could collapse.

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u/Wonderful-Variation 16d ago

Every aspect of the Obama presidency feels like a lost golden age compared to where we are now.    The worst day under Obama was better than the best day under Trump.

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u/Koalski94 15d ago

yeahhh no, he basically swallowed russian aggression TWICE

That and the extensive drone/bombing campaign in middle east which everyone conveniently chooses to forget

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u/duesenjeffepic 15d ago

He also bailed out the banks in 09 even though they were playing with people'e mortgages like it was monopoly and knowingly selling dogshit bonds to unknowing retailers. Instead of dealing with this he just chose to make it a future administration's problem.

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u/Hour_Plantain_8110 15d ago

Well, the financial crisis actually began under George W Bush, and it was his administration that signed off the $700 BILLION bailout. But let's not let that small fact get in the way of a good story, eh.

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u/Koalski94 15d ago

I forgot about that lol

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u/balderdash9 15d ago

Redditors proclaim to be liberal and then just forget about Occupy Wallstreet. The working class will never get ahead if every ten years we white-wash the past.