• akilou
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    3 days ago

    Why would we ever elect an asshole president though?

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        3 days ago

        People voted for him because he was a war hero and said fuck the banks. As a result, when he was elected he paid off the national debt. I don’t mean he didn’t run a deficit, he paid off the entire balance.

        If you think Trump is comparable, just look at the deficit he left us

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          Meanwhile, he also held degenerate parties at the WH (actually pretty cool) and committed horrible wholesale atrocities against native Americans (very not cool).