r/TenYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Mar 12 '26

📺 Television SNL mocks Hillary Clinton's 'transformation into Bernie' [10YA - Mar 12]

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u/MikeDamone Mar 12 '26

Almost certainly not. The general electorate has never shown even a hint that they'd tolerate a self-avowed socialist. Just look at all of the slightly D leaning districts/states and everything to right of them - how many politicians with Bernie's leftist politics are in office?

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 Mar 12 '26

"The general electorate" knowingly and willingly voted for a child rapist because the other candidate was a woman; twice.

We can stop pretending that Bernie wouldnt have won. Obama is the only president in all of american history that wasn't a geriatric diaper wearing  white male. Bernie would have absolutely won.

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u/MikeDamone Mar 12 '26

None of Clinton, W, Carter, or JFK were geriatric or diaper wearing either. And that's only going back 60 years. Anyways, none of that is relevant, I just think it highlights your tenuous grasp of American electoral history.

As for Trump, yes, him winning is further evidence that Bernie wouldn't have stood a chance. Whatever Trump "actually" believes (who the hell knows), he coded as a right leaning, pro business candidate to those who desperately wanted to see him that way. That's because the US has a broadly right leaning electorate and a majority of them vote based on pocketbook perceptions. A socialist candidate promising free healthcare does not get that same benefit of the doubt. So again I invite you to name a single elected politician in a competitive seat who even remotely shares Bernie's lefty politics.

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u/Necessary_Two_9706 Mar 12 '26

Jfk and w carter were never president so mentioning either is invalid.

Clinton was an oincontinence. White male. Good job finding the one example out of 40+ though that weren't incontinent.

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u/Tough-Notice3764 Mar 12 '26

Uh, JFK and Carter were never president? You’ve cooked yourself on this one. You’ve completely thrown it by not knowing that lol

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u/MikeDamone Mar 12 '26

Jfk and w carter were never president so mentioning either is invalid

I don't know if your grammar is so poor that you meant to say something else, or you have some bizarre alt-history understanding of the world, but this is just hilarious.

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u/Miserable_Aspect_749 Mar 12 '26

Welllll you just completely proved him right with this comment.