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Re:We Live in the Age of the Bullshitter by acdha on Saturday December 31, 2022 @02:32PM (#34199837)
> Obama never said he would solve these problems -- much the opposite, he conditioned the solutions on the people being willing to work for it.

That really soured me on the author’s credibility — there’s no mention of opposition, and no matter what party you’re in you should agree that 6 of the 8 years he was in office were intensely adversarial.

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Re:We Live in the Age of the Bullshitter by skfingngihg on Saturday December 31, 2022 @03:00PM (#34200139)
there was more adversity for the Bush and Trump administrations. The dnc lied to get the fbi to go after trump and all the Iraq war protests during bush
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Re:We Live in the Age of the Bullshitter by acdha on Saturday December 31, 2022 @03:10PM (#34200246)
> The dnc lied to get the fbi to go after trump

Dude, if you want to blatantly lie HN is not a good place for you.

> all the Iraq war protests during bush

Now read up on what that meant politically: was the Congress more or less supportive of his initiatives? Did those supporters find popular support or opposition? Were millions of dollars spent astroturfing them into a movement like the Tea Party or did Democrats largely dismiss them as a fringe?

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