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Random thought… does anyone remember Ron Paul?

What do you think would’ve happened if he actually won in 2008? Would anything be different today, or would it have played out the same?


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Apr 22 2026 10:18pm
Random thought… does anyone remember Ron Paul?

What do you think would’ve happened if he actually won in 2008? Would anything be different today, or would it have played out the same?


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No difference. Luckily he didn't win, if not he will be Pepsi'ed.
Thank God Bernie never win too. Will be stomach churning to see decent or half decent politicians be unalived .
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No difference. Luckily he didn't win, if not he will be Pepsi'ed.
Thank God Bernie never win too. Will be stomach churning to see decent or half decent politicians be unalived .


Surprised you'd say that, I thought Bernie was the champion of the Democratic socialist party movement. Pushing a platform with aspects offsetting a lot of the line outside of the triangle imagery you post.

I do think if a populist like Ron Paul or Bernie got in they would unexpectedly perish.

Would have been nice to get an audit of the FED though.

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Surprised you'd say that, I thought Bernie was the champion of the Democratic socialist party movement. Pushing a platform with aspects offsetting a lot of the line outside of the triangle imagery you post.

I do think if a populist like Ron Paul or Bernie got in they would unexpectedly perish.

Would have been nice to get an audit of the FED though.


small hats, huge problems. :lol:
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Anyone who refuses to name the jew is irrelevant
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lol what does that mean for most of the posts on PARD that don’t even meet that threshold then?
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Apr 23 2026 09:13pm
Random thought… does anyone remember Ron Paul?

What do you think would’ve happened if he actually won in 2008? Would anything be different today, or would it have played out the same?


https://i.imgur.com/t5DiMgo.gif


The uniparty would just have stonewalled and grinded him down, basically sat out his presidency while trying to deflect as much of the blame for the financial crisis as possible on him. They would have used Ron Paul as a lightning rod to distract from the fact that this huge recession was, in fact, a systemic failure of the neoliberal deregulation project.

In the long run, Obama having to own the bailouts and the sluggish recovery was for the better.

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