r/agedlikemilk • u/karmaceuticaI • 20h ago

Curdled.

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u/Wonderful_Eagle_6547 15h ago

GW Bush was president for 5 years with a Republican House and Senate. Worth noting the entire global economy melted down toward the end of that period. So it's not like this hasn't happened before. Somehow they managed to re-frame that time period as "That time Democrats made a bunch of poors buy houses they couldn't afford" and their followers actually deeply believe that narrative.

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u/deviltrombone 14h ago

Nothing that unusual about W.

Every “Unified Republican Government” Ever Has Led to a Financial Crash

https://thereformedbroker.com/2016/12/13/every-unified-republican-government-ever-has-led-to-a-financial-crash/

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u/Iboven 15h ago

The GW presidency didn't enact even a fraction of what Republicans wanted.

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u/Particular_Opinion63 13h ago

Didn't more Democrats than Republicans vote to bail out the banks instead of the poors in 2008?

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u/Lewis-and_or-Clark 11h ago

I mean they are also slimy assholes, but like you think a Republican admin wouldn’t have done that?

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u/Auer-rod 13h ago

Conservatives have an effective propaganda network. Liberals do not. They have some media bias sure, but nothing similar to conservative networks.