Thread by @eshaLegal, Seems like I need to do a thread on the Clinton Years. [...]

Seems like I need to do a thread on the Clinton Years. This extreme shilling and apologia is getting on my nerves.

Btw: Those people in the back are prisoners. This is Stone Mountain (Mt Rushmore for the confederacy)

1. On the campaign trail, to show he is tough on crime, he executed Ricky Ray Rector. Ricky Ray Rector was so mentally incapacitated that he didn't know what an execution was. He saved a piece of pie from his last meal to eat afterwards. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/bill-clinton-rickey-rector-death-penalty-execution-crime-racism/

The Death of Ricky Ray Rector

How the execution of a mentally ill black man delivered Bill Clinton into the Oval Office.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/bill-clinton-rickey-rector-death-penalty-execution-crime-racism/

2. Btw, don't let Hillary have Schrodinger's experience. They billed it a co-presidency. So she gets all the blame and all the accomplishments, or she gets none of it.

Also notice: the #MAWA. Awfully close to #Maga *

*Yes I know when Clinton said MAGA, I'm getting there.

3. This is funny actually watch it. Especially the "shade" Barack Obama throws at Clinton for his silly lie!

4. Remember how he insulted rapper Sistah Souljah for no good reason other than to placate racists in the south?

5. Why did Clinton say " you are not worth being on the same platform as my wife?"

and second question: Why did Jerry Brown endorse this guy over Bernie in the 2016 primary? Seriously...

6. How is this campaign ad any different than anything Paul Ryan says?

7. 1994: Passed the Uruguay Agreement which included the TRIPS provision. Read about how bad it is for Copyrights. Eventually, I'll get to the bigger patent problems. https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/1004018596345995265

https://twitter.com/eshaLegal/status/1004018596345995265

Correction on #4.
@MagnumMiserium is 100% right. I amend tweet 4 as follows:

Thanks for making sure I check my internal biases.

-Denied the Rwandan Genocide.
-Gave out order to evacuate white people only
-Didn't evacuate any Tutsis. Even the ones who worked at the embassy

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Made a conscious decision not to intervene during the Rwandan Genocide

* Intervention doesn't always mean war and bombing the daylights. He could have evacuated those in danger.
- Given refugee status and bringing the over.
- Humanitarian aid.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/31/usa.rwanda
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US chose to ignore Rwandan genocide

Classified papers show Clinton was aware of 'final solution' to eliminate Tutsis.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/mar/31/usa.rwanda

Up until the 1992 election, when the @nytimes called him out, Clinton would pay $20k to be members of an all-white golf club.

(h/t) to @QuintonBarnes
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/4/14/495291/-

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NYT: Bill Clinton Paid $20,000 to Play Golf in All-White Club

You want to talk about elitism? Well how about this: according to The New York Times, Bill Clinton, often called the "first black president", was a member of an all-white golf club in Arkansas, The...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2008/4/14/495291/-

Christopher Hitchens explains details about the execution of Ricky Ray Rector that I couldn't explain. Please watch it!

Addendum to #1 on Ricky Ray Rector and thank you @jamezdhawaii for this jewel of a discovery.

Forcibly repatriated Haitian refugees back and many of them were persecuted, imprisoned etc.

Interesting: Maxine Waters used to be so bold and willing to stand up to the establishment. I wish we had that Maxine back.

#11
http://articles.latimes.com/1994-05-06/news/mn-54547_1_haitian-refugees

#12. Had slaves when he was Governor

13. Bombed a civilian pharmaceutical facility in Sudan that made Malaria drugs.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/bill-clinton-al-shifa-sudan-bombing-khartoum/

(h/t @AnlinWang )

Bill Clinton’s Act of Terrorism

In 1998, Bill Clinton ordered the bombing of a medicine factory in Sudan. The country has yet to recover.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/10/bill-clinton-al-shifa-sudan-bombing-khartoum/

14. US first response to crisis: is shoot first and ask questions later. The Clinton administration, they cut diplomacy and development by 30 percent — and the results were disastrous.
(Thanks @DraftTulsi ) https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/18/603301691/shoot-first-ask-questions-later-ronan-farrow-on-a-diplomacy-less-state-departmen

'Shoot First, Ask Questions Later': Ronan Farrow On A Diplomacy-Less State Department

Journalist Ronan Farrow worked for years in the State Department. In his new book, he describes what he sees as a dangerous whittling away of the agency's influence.

https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/18/603301691/shoot-first-ask-questions-later-ronan-farrow-on-a-diplomacy-less-state-departmen

15. Put Haitian refugees who had AIDS in Guantanamo Bay

16. For some reason refused to get Osama Bin Laden when the Taliban agreed to hand him over.

17. He went to a trade war with Europe over bananas

On a totally unrelated note, We should have voted for Ross Perot

18. Signed "Zero tolerance" laws...and tied it to Federal funding.
It criminalized many routine student behavior, while creating the school-to-prison pipeline

19. Refused to sign the Ottawa treaty to ban the use of landmines

20. Fake job growth created by wage stagnation!

It looked good in the papers back then, but it was insidious!

Bernie explains it well in 1995

Bombed Sudan’s Al Shifa factory, which produced 90% of the country’s pharmaceuticals, including the nation's only malaria medication.

Thousands died from curable disease

22. Sanctions against Iraq https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/01/world/iraq-sanctions-kill-children-un-reports.html

Iraq Sanctions Kill Children, U.N. Reports

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/01/world/iraq-sanctions-kill-children-un-reports.html

23. I wonder if these 30K or so votes, mainly of minorities would have swung the election for Gore (who lost by less than 500 votes)

23B. There seems to have been an exponential growth in the prison population during the Clinton yearws

24. NAFTA. I will let Thomas Frank explain all about it:

25. Crashed the global economy by repealing Glass Stiegall

http://bit.ly/2LMhYSy via @BillMoyers

Why Bernie’s Right About Glass-Steagall – BillMoyers.com

Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are talking tough about Wall Street reform. But only Bernie Sanders is advocating a reprise of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, specifically that section of the...

http://bit.ly/2LMhYSy

26. Rigged the Russian election and put Yeltsin in power https://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1017650957105221632

https://twitter.com/historic_ly/status/1017650957105221632

27. In 1993, Bill Clinton praised Charles Murray and said that Charles Murray was essentially correct.
(h/t @ryanlcooper )

http://theweek.com/articles/586503/grotesque-moral-atrocity-blaming-poor-being-poor

28. Pushed this quasi-eugenics bill that he considered "welfare reform" through congress and increased income inequality.

29. 1996 Telecommunications act which shielded corporations from liability for harassment under the guise of free speech

https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1083023753729187843?s=19

https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1083023753729187843?s=19

30. Theft of Russia.

31. Steinbrenner company got a bailout for his failed ships. He then went on to buy the Yankees.

Notice the bipartisan nature

(New York Times, Feb 1, 1993)

32. When he was governor, he tried to cut funding on the disabled.

33. Approved this merger which was later the recipient of the biggest bailout.

https://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/07/news/citicorp-and-travelers-plan-to-merge-in-record-70-billion-deal-a-new-no.html

34. Started the "Too big to fail" by bailing out a hedge fund whose owner completely gambled away the investments.

35. In 1987, when Bill Clinton was Governor, he signed a bill to commemorate the confederacy

36. Sabatoged derivative regulations (which would probably have prevented the 2008 crash) https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2014/04/how-clinton-team-thwarted-effort-to-regulate-derivatives/

How the Clinton Team Thwarted Effort to Regulate Derivatives

In April 1998, a decade before a historic crisis wreaked havoc on global financial markets, an obscure regulator saw a potential gap in the government’s oversight of Wall Street and tried to do...

https://www.pogo.org/investigation/2014/04/how-clinton-team-thwarted-effort-to-regulate-derivatives/

37. Harry Reid asked for a report on paying prisoner's wages. This is how the Administration Responded.
https://www.gao.gov/assets/220/217999.pdf

38. Signs a bill that forces the Pentagon to fire soldiers who have HIV.

39. Used to be deporter-in-chief, until Obama took his mantle.

40. Forced sterilization of Peruvian women https://fee.org/articles/the-us-government-led-a-program-that-forcibly-sterilized-thousands-of-peruvian-women/

How the U.S. Government Led a Program That Forcibly Sterilized Thousands of Poor Peruvian Women in...

The Peruvian case is especially horrific because so many of the sterilizations were forced. But, even if only subsidized or "encouraged," programs of this sort are nothing more than government...

https://fee.org/articles/the-us-government-led-a-program-that-forcibly-sterilized-thousands-of-peruvian-women/

41. Proposed Drug testing of teenagers for marijuana https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/20/us/clinton-proposes-drug-testing-plan-for-young-people.html

CLINTON PROPOSES DRUG-TESTING PLAN FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Pres Clinton will propose measure to require teenagers to pass drug test before receiving driver's licenses; also tells weekly radio audience that Administration will issue final rule implementing...

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/20/us/clinton-proposes-drug-testing-plan-for-young-people.html

42. Began his career on day 1 by bombing Iraq!