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2017-04-26T4:05:06+00:00

What about prosecuting government whistle-blowers under the Espionage Act? What about deporting more undocumented immigrants than George W. Bush? What about having to "evolve" on social issues? (an evolution that curiously, occurs when it's politically convenient!) What about all but letting the war crimes of the Bush administration slide, with not a single individual among them being prosecuted for what they had done? What about extensive (financial and other) ties to Wal-Mart, the private-prison industry, the finance sector, the private health insurance industry, along with fracking, defense contractors... What about letting Wall Street executives off the hook for crashing the global economy? What about supporting unpopular "free" trade deals of dubious-at-best social value? What about regularly giving paid speeches to the very same people who crashed the global economy and profited off of it? (and continued to profit off of it, for that matter.) Not an exhaustive list, of course.

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Whataboutism. murielm99 Apr 2017 #1

+1... N/t obnoxiousdrunk Apr 2017 #2

Whatever it takes to bash Democrats and avoid a hide. SaschaHM Apr 2017 #3

Not at all melman Apr 2017 #4

if they are always criticizing the party and even calling to primary the dem president then yeah JI7 Apr 2017 #5

Hahahaha. This was supposed to make Democrats mad, inspire a long alert-worthy thread. betsuni Apr 2017 #6

I'm telling you. You guys are going to need a BIGGER BOAT. JTFrog Apr 2017 #7

murielm99

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1. Whataboutism.

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Wed Apr 26, 2017, 12:15 AM

Apr 2017

A close relative of the straw man argument.

obnoxiousdrunk

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2. +1... N/t

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Wed Apr 26, 2017, 12:22 AM

Apr 2017

SaschaHM

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3. Whatever it takes to bash Democrats and avoid a hide.

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Wed Apr 26, 2017, 12:26 AM

Apr 2017

melman

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4. Not at all

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Wed Apr 26, 2017, 12:32 AM

Apr 2017

It's just pointing out how enormously full of shit and dishonest all the howling about You Know Who's supposed effort to 'move the party to the right' really is.