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Adam McKay Profile picture
@ZombiePanther2
Aug 19 • 8 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
A lot of ppl on here defending Bill Clinton as a “successful President.”
Personal definition of successful aside here’s a review of Bill Clinton’s record.
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Clinton signing the crime bill that resulted in the mass incarceration of millions of people of color.

aclu.org/news/smart-jus…
Bill Clinton and Repubs Corp written trade deals (China MFN status, NAFTA, GATT) cost America between millions of manufacturing jobs and created fertile soil for the rise of the extreme right.
All so big Corps could pay slave labor wages & break unions.

epi.org/blog/nafta-twe…
Clinton deregulation of Wall Street which played a major roll in the housing market collapse of 2007.

cjr.org/the_audit/bill…
Deregulating the media.
There used to be rules against conglomerates just buying all the news.
Not so much after Bill Clinton.
Thank him & a bought Congress in large part for the train wreck that is our modern news media.

billmoyers.com/story/media-co…
When Covid hit it was time for our social safety net to do its job & prevent millions from falling into poverty.
But there was one problem. It wasn’t there anymore.
Thanks Bill!

theatlantic.com/business/archi…
How tight were Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein?
Tight enough that Bill invited Epstein’s pimp, Ghislaine Maxwell, to his daughter’s wedding.
Trump, Bill Gates, Sec. Richardson, and a ton of other powerful people all hung with Epstein even after he was a convicted sex offender. Image
Extra bonus: look up Brooksley Born. She had a crazy idea that financial derivatives were dangerous and needed to be regulated.
So Clinton and his gang of economic advisors fired her.
Ten years later the housing market collapsed because of, yup, unregulated derivatives.

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Adam McKay Profile picture
Aug 20
I somewhat understand how certain people downplay or ignore climate breakdown, mass corruption & genocide in the U.S.
Our economic system & resulting culture rewards lack of curiosity & cowardice in the face of entrenched power.
But I will never, ever understand mask bans.
1/
Why possibly would someone care if someone else wears a mask?
Is it a subconscious “you must be willing to get sick and maybe die for the economy” loyalty test?
A thousand people died last week in the States from Covid.
2/
What is the possible downside of another person you cross paths with for five seconds wearing a mask?
Our collective culture is wildly dysfunctional but even for America this is f’n bizarre.
3/
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Jun 7
I've noticed a lot of capital D, Dems responding to honest expressions of anger & horror over ethnic cleansing in Gaza, escalating climate warming, corrupt Gov, predatory economy etc. with words like "nihilism" "doom saying" “not serious”
1/
But these feelings r exactly what drive mass movements like the rise of org labor, civil rights, Indian independence, AIDs action.

We need anger, fear, frustration now more than ever.

There are 2 kinds of populism. The bad kind (fascism) & the good kind …
2/
… that gave us the Middle class, the end of the Jim Crow era.

Big $ loves fascism. Labor gets wiped out, regulations overturned, etc. So it's no accident large swaths of a Professional class captured by monied interests consciously or unconsciously dismiss the good kind.
3/
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Jun 2
One of the dissonant things about having a news media refusing to keep a daily drumbeat of coverage about the climate crisis (literally the biggest story in human history) is there r these moments literally affecting billions of lives most have no idea about.

For instance…
1/
… we r coming of an El Niño that explains some of the 1.63c warming we’ve seen the past 12 mos but not all. Reduction of dirty shipping fuel plays a significant part too.

But past July with a La Niña approaching how much will global temps cool?

If they just go to 1.5C…
2/
…& we were at around 1.3C entering the El Niño 1.5C is very bad & VERY dangerous. Everyone should be talking about nothing else.

If they fall to 1.4C that’s also extremely troubling.
I hope and pray they get back to 1.3C.
Although it’s unlikely.

It’s a massive deal and …
3/
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May 31
In the yrs I've been saying climate is much more urgent
than we think I've been met with 100’s of eye rolls from establishment liberals but not once, except a few interviews, has anyone asked "Why do you say that?"

So here is an answer to the question almost no one asked…
1/
We all know once we started burning oil, gas & coal at the start of the Industrial revolution the gases produced started trapping tremendous amounts of heat in our planet.
We went from 180ppm of CO2 to 426ppm today which in terms of heat created looks like this:
2/ Image
So after a LOT of delay, in 2015 at the Paris Accord world Govs set a "do not cross" line of 1.5c or 2.7f warming above pre-industrial to keep warming "well below 2C.” Which everyone agrees could shift the planet into changes resembling, well, hell. However…
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