trinket-the-bear:leupagus:leupagus:This is a great example, actually, of “look for yourself before y
trinket-the-bear:leupagus:leupagus:This is a great example, actually, of “look for yourself before you reblog bullshit posts that make you feel good about whatever political points you’re trying to score in place of actually caring.”Because while Clinton did sign the bill, he signed it because it passed with a supermajority in both GOP-held houses, meaning it could not be vetoed. Some Democrats in the House and Senate voted for the bills to be sure, but claiming that this was something Clinton had any control over is bullshit of the highest order. The government simply doesn’t work that way.But learning even the tiniest bit about how our government works is too hard. Posting screencaps is so much easier and more satisfying.Like COME ON:Look what interesting trivia you can find when you’re not obsessed with dunking on whoever you’ve decided is Evil And Bad today: And even stuff that’s not so trivial, such as discovering that Clinton worked to prevent the bill from being even worse than it was:Look, if your argument is that President Clinton should have done more, should have not put a brave face on a shitty piece of legislation that he knew he couldn’t stop and that he shouldn’t have allowed his administration to enforce the new laws quite so rigorously as they ended up doing, that’s fucking fair! But don’t act like Bill Clinton is your rival in 7th period debate and you’re just looking for anything to make the rest of the class go “OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHThis is our country. Grow up.#I swear to god!#also like thanks I guess to the twerp who originally posted this because I’ve spent an hour or two looking into this law#and let me tell you literally none of the equally glib and snarky articles written lately about it#and how it’s somehow directly responsible for Trump’s super racist policies#not ONE of those goddamn articles mention even offhand that Clinton had no choice about the bill becoming law#or about the fact that literally months before his reelection he pressured the GOP into taking a lot of provisions out#and in fact split the bill up#so that undocumented immigrants would not be harmed AS MUCH by this bill#and he doesn’t get credit for that because he shouldn’t get credit for not even quite meeting Bare Minimum Decency bar#but my god you’d think REPORTERS wouldn’t be this fucking lazy#as to not double-check how the bill was passed and by what margin#anyway (via @leupagus)reblogging this again for more info and further snark and also these excellent tags -- source link
#politics#united states#immigration#deportation#bill clinton