• metallic_substance@lemmy.world
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          8 hours ago

          Did you completely forget about 2 terms with Obama? Turn your head sideways and let the bong resin flow out of your ear. It might take some time

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              No, he had a black Muslim African father, an active campaign to paint him as not-American (with a heavy subtext of not-white), and the middle name Hussein when trying to succeed the War on Terror president. And Republicans (including Trump) tried their damnedest to make that define him. And then Democrats won a supermajority.

              Obama had way more to overcome, but all that stuff is irrelevant if you have charisma and a popular platform.

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          I hear you, and it’s a fair claim to make. But you can’t assume people will be able to fill in that gap accurately unless you say what you mean. Especially in an online, text-based forum that’s likely full of trolls and bots. That’s probably why you got downvoted to oblivion.

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      11 hours ago

      Given the choice of a Nazi pedophile or … a woman, the former has proven to be the choice twice already.

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        History has proven again and again that the first woman to win will be a conservative. With more of the blue collar union guys starting to vote conservative, this becomes even more probable.

        Even so, I really hope I can look on this comment 3 years now and be proved wrong.

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          9 hours ago

          the first woman to win will be a conservative

          Sort of like how Colin Powell was our first black president?

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            6 hours ago

            These people proactively enforcing the preferences of bigots just act like Barrack Hussein Obama never existed.