• P00ptart@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Obama got it before the drone bombings. It was more of a hope kinda thing but the hope didn’t turn out that great. And really just indirectly led us to vaguely gesture around

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        6 days ago

        Obama not fighting for his Supreme Court appointment is a lot more than indirectly responsible for all of this. He abdicated his duty to execute the office and fucked us all in doing so.

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          5 days ago

          Ah, we’re to “blame Obama for this” instead of blaming the senators who outright refused to look at Supreme Court Justices for a year.

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            5 days ago

            Lots of people share blame but Obama did not fight for it at all, which amounts to appeasement. There should have been a Supreme Court case about it.

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          5 days ago

          Look, I’m not going to say Obama is blameless, but come on man. You’re kind of victim blaming here.

          Mitch McConnell and the GOP are responsible.

          Also, sure, Merrick Garland would have been better than what we ended up with, but how much better really? We all saw how Garland handled Jan 6 and Trump as AG.