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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We were also actively in Iraq and his super majority would not have supported him if he wanted to abolish DHS or ICE

[–] SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Perhaps not, but Obama and his supermajority in Congress still didn't do shit about fuck about anything, even within the horizon of political possibility of the time.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Nope, and in fact, he made it all worse by normalizing corrupt WoT practices. Hell, during his administration we learned that local PD's were running their own black sites.