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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,741 posts)
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 02:57 PM Mar 2022

Billy Barr says liberals' reaction to Trump's election in 2016 was 'contemptible' and 'beyond the

Former Attorney General William Barr in his new memoir condemned liberals and progressives for their reaction to President Donald Trump's election in 2016, calling their initial opposition to his victory "contemptible."

In "One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General," Barr breaks with Trump, who he worked for as attorney general from 2019 to the end of 2020. Barr was critical of Trump, sharing how the former president "went off the rails" after the 2020 election and should not be the Republican presidential nominee in 2024.

Barr also rebuked President Barack Obama, the Clintons, and the left more broadly, calling the "radical progressivism" he saw emerging during the Obama years a kind of "Jacobinism—the same kind of revolutionary and totalitarian ideas that propelled the French Revolution, the Communists of the Russian Revolution, and the Fascists of twentieth-century Europe."

For that reason, Barr wrote, the country was "in no mood for four more years of Obama-era progressivism and Clintonian mendacity" by the time 2016 rolled around.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/william-barr-says-liberals-reaction-to-trump-s-election-in-2016-was-contemptible-and-beyond-the-pale/ar-AAUNk6b

Go fuck yourself Barr. The left's reaction wasn't anything close to what the Trumpers did four years later.

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Billy Barr says liberals' reaction to Trump's election in 2016 was 'contemptible' and 'beyond the (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2022 OP
Contemptible? Hey, Billy, I'm rubber and you're glue... Ocelot II Mar 2022 #1
aaannnd we were correct Kali Mar 2022 #2
My thoughts exactly! boston bean Mar 2022 #22
Barr surely doesn't understand revolutions very well bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #3
Furthermore, revolutions originate almost always from the left, fascism from the right /nt bucolic_frolic Mar 2022 #14
Because we saw he was already off the rails? LisaM Mar 2022 #4
I didn't think it was possible for me to loathe him more than I did Ocelot II Mar 2022 #7
That's it right there gratuitous Mar 2022 #13
At least we didn't try to overthrow the Capitol nt BlueLucy Mar 2022 #5
Less people voted for Trump lame54 Mar 2022 #6
STFU Billy, you are not forgiven. FalloutShelter Mar 2022 #8
Compared to the coup that his side attempted? lagomorph777 Mar 2022 #9
Trump's reaction to losing 2020 was to attempt to overthrow the government. Initech Mar 2022 #10
Note that he doesn't mention the obvious and REAL threat... keep_left Mar 2022 #11
There aren't any meds for him. LiberalFighter Mar 2022 #12
Barr Belongs In Prison Obstruction Of Justice DanieRains Mar 2022 #15
I am so tired of hearing about and from this bloated fat fuck Bev54 Mar 2022 #16
What you talkin' 'bout Willis? BootinUp Mar 2022 #17
Billy Barr drinks his own pee. PdamnedQ Mar 2022 #18
He drinks his own pee to wash down TFG's shit. Ocelot II Mar 2022 #20
Ha ;) - Now I need brain-bleach. PdamnedQ Mar 2022 #21
Meanwhile the Slobfather and his ReTHUG goons orchestrated a coup malaise Mar 2022 #19

bucolic_frolic

(43,052 posts)
3. Barr surely doesn't understand revolutions very well
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 03:07 PM
Mar 2022

Revolutions are driven by broad popular ideas in the face of economic hardship and the perception of an unjust economic society. Totalitarian ideas are the tools of would-be dictators. I have no idea how he lumps them together and then adds fascists. Barr is a looney who can't think very well. IMO

LisaM

(27,794 posts)
4. Because we saw he was already off the rails?
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 03:07 PM
Mar 2022

Okay then.

The reaction most of us had was fear and nausea. And it was well placed.

Ocelot II

(115,589 posts)
7. I didn't think it was possible for me to loathe him more than I did
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 03:22 PM
Mar 2022

when he whitewashed the Mueller report, but I do. He's proved to be even worse than I thought he was, and that's very, very bad.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
13. That's it right there
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 03:29 PM
Mar 2022

Barr sounds upset that we could see what the former guy was so clearly, while it took him years to figure out. Barr may not be as smart as he thinks he is.

Initech

(100,038 posts)
10. Trump's reaction to losing 2020 was to attempt to overthrow the government.
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 03:26 PM
Mar 2022

So yeah you don't really get a say in this, Billy...

keep_left

(1,780 posts)
11. Note that he doesn't mention the obvious and REAL threat...
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 03:29 PM
Mar 2022

...alt-right Nazism. You can't escape it on social media. Constant whining about "degeneracy", "soy boys", cuck-this, Jew-that...absolutely sickening.

Bev54

(10,039 posts)
16. I am so tired of hearing about and from this bloated fat fuck
Tue Mar 8, 2022, 03:57 PM
Mar 2022

He should be in prison for his life of political criminality.

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