thank you baker!
Think Trump is āoutrageous?ā Heās nothing compared to these past presidents
Unprecedented, unprecedented. Everything is unprecedented. Nothing like this has ever happened before.
Except it pretty much has. Whenever you see the word āunprecedentedā in the media, you should ask yourself: Has this reporter ever read a history book? Make the case against Trump if you want to, but if you pretend the sorts of things he does are without precedent, you simply make yourself look ignorant.
Virtually any presidency you examine is guilty of far worse acts than whatever you think is the worst thing Trump has ever done, from John Adamsā Alien and Sedition Acts, a breathtaking offense against freedom that was meant to punish political resistance, to Millard Fillmoreās Fugitive Slave Act, which made it so the evil tentacles of the Southās slavery regime could reach up North and pluck back people who had successfully made it to freedom. Even Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus and did nothing to stop his troops from shutting down newspapers they didnāt like.
Think Trump is more vulgar than anyone whoās held the office before him? In 2016, when Marco Rubio once implied he had a small dingle-dongle, Trump responded, āI guarantee you thereās no problemā ā and everyone got the vapors. But Lyndon B. Johnson actually liked to show off his Johnson, peeing in the open air outside the House Office Building. When reporters once asked Johnson why the US was in Vietnam, he pulled out his todger and exclaimed, āThis is why!ā
You say Trump is an unprecedented threat to civil liberties? Woodrow Wilsonās administration threw people in jail for opposing his policy to join WWI the year after he campaigned on the slogan āHe kept us out of war.ā A leading political figure of the day, Eugene V. Debs, was imprisoned and still behind bars when Wilson left office two years after the end of the war. (The administration of Warren G. Harding let him out). Imagine Trump throwing, say, Beto OāRourke in jail for opposing his Iran policy. Wouldnāt that be more outrageous than anything he actually has done?
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https://nypost.com/2020/02/29/think-trump-is-outrageous-hes-nothing-compared-to-these-past-presidents/