Ah yes Elon, Bill Clinton balancing the budget was a MAGA policy!

    by icey_sawg0034

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    1. Bill Clinton was pretty conservative. I would put him decently right of center. Calling that MAGA is of course batshit crazy for just so many reasons. MAGA is more fascist kleptocracy than conservative.

    2. This makes no sense? He is dense and dumb. AND, he is not an American. He is trying to drive division

    3. It was actually because Newt Gingrich was an old stick in the mud who refused to budge on anything.

    4. Like Bill Clinton’s bill added trillions to a ridiculous deficit and took healthcare from millions

    5. He’s talking about the fact that Bill Clinton fired a copious amount of government employees. The truth is actually a far different than what this dumbass tried to do

      Namely that Bill Clinton coordinated with the unions To deduce who could get fired and who couldn’t. He also made sure they were properly compensated. If memory serves most of the people who were “fired” Were people that were already nearing retirement age and because he coordinated with the unions they were able to get their pensions on their way out. The difference is a Galaxy worth of shit. He’s comparing to what was a standard procedure done with scalpel with proper equipment versus his mentally challenged Godzilla Who smeared its shit all over Washington DC

    6. Bill Clinton didn’t balance the budget. Congress did. Also, he shit talked spending so much that he couldn’t do a big infrastructure bill with the savings they made from it because if he proposed one he’d look like an idiot. He also governed based on short term polls which made it so he was popular, but his policies were all over the place, but mostly right wing. His presidency yanked the Democratic Party to the right and set things on course to make it so we continuously moved right on financial policy and set the stage for Trump.

      Oh and fun fact: Monica Lewinsky saved social security from being privatized.

    7. Bill Clinton made NAFTA a thing, taxed rich people, and cut military spending. he did all the opposite things from trump.

    8. He’s likely referring to Clinton’s downsizing of the federal workforce. The Clinton reduction was done after careful analysis by people with experience and took years, compared to the sloppy slash by 20yo’s named Big Balls that is DOGE.

    9. fredandlunchbox on

      Jokes aside, I think he’s referring to cutting the size of government. Bill Clinton presided over one of the biggest headcount reductions in US history, dropping 17% of federal employees in his 8 years in office.

      However, what’s not obvious about this comparison is that Clinton was mostly resizing defense because the cold war ended.

    10. If I recall, Bill Clinton was the cause of the housing crisis. He made it so anybody could get a loan. Suddenly the banks wanted a bunch of money, and loads of houses were forclosed.

      He did his share of damage. But nothing like what’s happening now.

    11. I guess he gave up on forming his own politcal party. Back to getting back into big pedo daddy’s good graces.

    12. Doesn’t Trump’s voter base hate Clinton? Even if this comparison held any water, what a seemingly self-sabotaging thing to say.

    13. Informal_Process2238 on

      Businesses and the country as a whole have done better during democratic administrations for the last fifty or so years The republicans deregulate taking away safeguards that always end in a crash but they don’t care because the few people they actually represent cash out long before the fall. This administration isn’t even waiting for an inevitable crash they’ve decided to intentionally crash the economy multiple times for their own shirt term profits

    14. i’m gonna say when a president actually made the country better, and was good for economy, that would actually be exactly what Trump claims to achieve, or to have done, and it no longer was when he was out of office, and then said he would do again, or whatever…. still can’t figure out the metrics. I just know that now he uses the word “hot“ because he’s trying to compete with Taylor Swift somehow.

    15. I highly recommend listening to The Dollop’s recent 3 episodes on Clinton. He’s not maga because they wasn’t a thing but he’s a huge reason we’re where we are now

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