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Well if that isn't just about the most evil thing you could openly admit to doing. (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

There’s is a thread that goes from Bill Clinton creating the meme of the welfare queen to DOGE.

That was famously Ronald Reagan. Not sure why anyone would pay attention to anything else you say after fucking that up that bad.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 hours ago

    Yeah he got that wrong, but I think this still highlights the dynamic at play. Regan pushed the horrible cultural narrative around welfare, but then he was followed by Clinton saying he was going to “end welfare as we know it.” Softer language than Regan, but pushing in the same policy direction, enabled by Regan’s earlier propaganda, and in the act of making it bipartisan, he normalized it as a position that we’ve been stuck with ever since.

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  • [–] -1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

    I may have fumbled that reference, but Bill Clinton managed to make a bipartisan effort to reduce welfare work.

    JFC, Bill Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act because he wanted to look tough on crime, but Trump is the big bad boogeyman that came out of nowhere.

    Cut me some fucking slack and stop looking at Democrats through rose-tinted glasses, for Christ's sake.

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