• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Oh, they were a joke long before that. In 2006, when we went from having a congress that rubber stamped everything Bush wanted to a congress that said they were displeased with Bush as they rubber stamped everything he wanted.

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      9 days ago

      I don’t know much about the US politics before 2010, that’s when I migrated to the US.

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        8 days ago

        Basically anything was approved as long as it was framed as national security.

        The terrorists won with 9/11

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          8 days ago

          Oh yeah, I’ve heard about that from some YouTube folks. Isn’t that when the patriot act was started when the government started reading people’s texts and listening to their phone calls ever since?

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            8 days ago

            Yup, it was the catalyst that led us to where we’re at. It let the government seize unconstitutional levels of power.