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I once got heavily downvoted when suggesting that Andrew Jackson, Nixon, Reagan or either Bush were all easily worse. I think you’re giving them too much credit.
Imagine thinking Trump is worse than Andrew fucking Jackson
Every slave owner president is worse than Trump as well but I'd be like speaking to a wall to libs
Not quite "ownership", but reminder that Bill Clinton (and almost-president Hillary Clinton) used prison slave labor in the Arkansas governor's mansion, and enjoyed it quite thoroughly according to Hillary's own writing....
Do you have the text where she writes this?
Nathan Robinson wrote about it. He quotes directly from her book It Takes a Village:
See Current Affairs: The Clintons Had Slaves.
I read about it more extensively somewhere else, and I'll see if I can find it. There was a place where she was also quoted as talking about loving the murderers especially, because they were allegedly even more docile than people who had committed less-violent offenses.
were these prisoners all Black? I know Arkansas jails aren't 100% Black lol
As far as I can tell. The writing seems to indicate that.
Another quote from her same book furnished by fucking Glenn Beck, if you can stomach that source, with the bit about people convicted of murder:
Like, it’s hardly even fair to compare any president pre WW1 to the ones after, the ones before are sooooooo much more evil except maybe Lincoln
I mean the handsome general era was not good but those guys did at least serve the union, more than can be said for Woody who was a full lost causer
"They were a product of their time."
20 years later
"Trump was a product of his time."
You'd think every president who literally owned slaves would be worse, and yet liberals surprise us.