I missed that when I would forget to check the news for a couple days that all I’d essentially miss was republicans scrolling through Hunter Biden’s dick picks in Congress.
Instead now if I don’t check hourly, I’ve missed 3 new trade wars, a new dismantled federal agency, some political opponent being extorted, Elon gained even more access to my private data, and for some reason Russia getting more sanction and tariff relief for literally doing nothing.
Russia is getting sanctions relief because they are willing to come to the table and demand land that they don't own. They are even willing to care for all of the children they have kidnapped and sold. What has Ukraine done. They refuse to surrender, refuse to give up their territory, and demand their children back. And have they ever said thank you to Russia?
It's pretty easy to be a good president. Just let the experts do the work, give you the details, and you make the final decisions. Too bad the current pres don't hire experts.
Right, when by definition opsec cannot be good. The pentagon sent out a memo warning against signal, one of your guys is on a Russian network, another one isn't in the country, there are people on the chat that you don't know, you're running this on your personal device... But "opsec is good" or something
And then a bunch of dip chewing yokel hicks with more toothpicks in their mouth than teeth went in an accent entirely undecipherable to anyone with an IQ out of the negatives:
I know the worst part about the first 4 years of trump was having to hear about every ridiculous thing he said and I really enjoyed the peace my nervous system experienced the last 4 years
It's just absurd to have a president whose #1 goal is being the topic of conversation all day, every day. This isn't how a functioning country runs. Just how a cult does.
Part of the problem is that he was TOO quiet. We legit got some of the most important and most progressive legislation of the 21st century passed under Biden. And 99% of people don't even know what bills got passed. I'm not blaming him for Trump winning, but they absolutely failed to capitalize on what should have been a slam dunk election.
That’s precisely why he was able to pass those legislations. He kept his mouth shut and made sure to convince few republicans to vote for his agenda. If he was boasting and ridiculing the other guys like the Cheeto Mussolini does, those few that voted for his legislations would stop cooperating. He got shit that made a positive difference for this country done.
It’s honestly so sad that most people will never know his accomplishments. He had his issues, sure, but he did a handful of great things that were passed bipartisan. That’s what effective leadership is. Improve the country and let me generally ignore the politics of it😂
That honestly kind of hurt him and subsequently Harris. Their administration did an enormous amount of work to improve the country, but they were terrible at publicizing it properly. A lot of people simply had no idea. The Dems have been really bad at pushing their own propaganda.
uh…i mean look i don’t hate joe or anything but towards the end there it was extemely clear that he was not all there all the time. I don’t think he was just “quietly working.” He was definitely being handled, and hidden a bit.
Well yeah, thats fair. But you don’t really want to be stuck without clear leadership for too long. History has shown it doesn’t work well. I was pretty worried at that time. There was really nobody to answer to the american people asking “who’s running the country right now?” Not that im saying the current leadership is “good”
To be replaced by a narcissist who is at least as cognitively damaged as Biden but just shouts his malignity and idiocy loud and proud. If you print any of Trump's "speeches", none of them make sense. At all. But he does deliver his idiocy loudly and proudly, I suppose. That's not a sign that the ole synapses are clicking: "Buy a Tesler!"
I know people think Biden was old and boring, but here's the thing: He quietly got some stuff done, didn't make a big stink about it, didn't make it all about himself. It was just basic competence.
Unfortunately, we live in a stupid world that values hype and bullshit over boring normies just doing their job.
Also, we have a culture social media activism that means you have a lot of people who would criticize Biden for being quiet about an issue but then give him no credit when he comes through.
Prime example: the railroad strike. He got a lot of flack for breaking the strike, but then he kept negotiating on their behalf and ended up getting basically everything they asked for. The news cycle had already moved on, and her didn't make any big announcement. This just happened quietly in the background and no one noticed
He kept the trains running and got the union guys their sick days, yet somehow his party 'lost touch with the working class.' Just today Republicans voted to remove his caps on overdraft fees.
Honestly, it's because people didn't show up to vote. Whenever voter turnout is low these days, it seems to skew in Republicans favor. Seriously hate people that didn't come out to vote and are complaining.
Even with low turnout, I have more animosity towards the ones who knew better but still voted for him. People who should have seen that the Republican Party has been taken over by lizards. The ones who just see republican and vote because they can’t imagine voting democrat
The perfect president is one who just quietly takes care of the country. I don't want to have to wake up every day wondering what the hell we've started up today.
I hate to admit it but this was my exact sentiment when Trump was in office the first time and everyone was calling Joe sleepy Joe, I would much fucking rather have things kind of operating as they have been, just chugging along, then the goddamn chaos that is the trump administration every single day
Unfortunately sleepy slept after donald tried to overthrow the government instead of putting his shitstained ass in jail. That’s why we now get not so sleepy, this motherfucker is up all night.
you have to give the right a few minutes to rewrite their narrative. just don’t ask them about their barely coherent president who’s now older than biden when he was elected.
You guys should speak for yourselves, I saw all this shit coming and pumped my whole portfolio into gold.
Now he's gonna spend the next 4 years fucking up the economy, and I'm gonna do swell as a result, ain't no asset safer than gold.
Every time he announces some batshit move my portfolio is gonna jump like its been doing for the past 2 months, and when a competent adult is elected in 4 years I can dump it all into a cheapened market right before shit starts to get fixed
Nah the value of gold appreciates in spite of inflation and becomes more valuable in times of crisis because its a secure universal asset. As opposed to paper money, which can lose value due to several factors including inflation and the political machinations of orange dipshits who imagine themselves to be playing 5d chess
Yeah what situation was that? A vibe-cession where people said “I’m personally doing okay but it feels like others aren’t”? What happened to all of those “it’s the economy, stupid” articles?
The vibecession was the ultimate self-own. Millions of people tricked themselves into a real recession because they couldn't believe we were actually doing as well as the numbers said.
Americans by every metric were doing better under all 4 yours of Biden than under Trump currently. American inflation was the lowest of the developed world. Record breaking GDP growth the likes of which the US hadn't really seen since 2008. The largest wage increases seen in decades. Under Biden actual wage growth was at a high of 7.5% in 2022-2023 while under Trump's 1st term actual wage growth was around 3.5% at its height. However there are fascinating studies regarding Trump's "growth" you can look up: there was actually no across the board real wage growth, employees getting wage increases, it was thanks to the Fed's low interest rates that the CPI barely increased during Trump's 1st term. The real wage growth under Trump at its height was ~1.1% while under Biden at its height it was ~3% according to the FED. Trump benefited from low prices when he says he gave us the "the largest wage increases ever" which is just completely false.
However according to various Federal Reserve Branches' studies many of the main causes of inflation during Biden's term were directly caused by Trump. 1) Trump adding nearly 30% to our national debt during his time in office and rapidly increasing the budget deficit and spending each year of his administration to the point it was nearly on par with George Bush's budget deficits caused by the 2 WARS HE WAGED contributed to inflation. Rather than spending money on anything tangible like war equipment, Trump's 1st term saw him not only increase spending but also singlehandedly enact one of the largest wealth redistributions, nearly $9 trillion, from the bottom 90% to the top 10% by the end of his tenure. Which leads to point 2) According to some of the Federal Reserve Branches wealth redistribution under Trump from the bottom 90% to the top 10% was one of biggest drivers of inflation next to the Pandemic ending and the economy opening up. That is the case because it has been understood in Economics for quite some time now that the spending habits of the 10% are the drivers of inflation right after government and business spending. More so, large increases in wealth of the top 10% is followed by a drastic rise in the inflation rate of a country. It's been seen to happen all across the globe even decades before the Covid pandemic. 3) Since Reagan cut the highest tax bracket from 75% to 30ish%, for decades now economists have been warning of the sharp rise in inflation that would eventually happen once the wealth of the 10% reached a critical mass point. Next to austerity, which has been proven to not work, the single best way of reducing inflation is increasing taxes on the top 10% of earners and through taxes reducing their spending (modern austerity is based off a paper from 2007-2008 in which the authors outright lied when stating government debt is bad and slows growth because they fudged their data. When the data was corrected it showed not only is high levels of government debt good in developed countries but that it is followed by the increase in the economic well being of the bottom 90%. It also showed that austerity and low government debt is good for only one group, the top 10%. That paper had to be withdrawn but the damage was already done).
In conclusion, if Trump and Republicans premise about how their policies are the only good policies for economic growth was true then inflation should be slowing down even more than it was already doing by the end of Biden's term. However under Trump inflation is picking up again and Trump and Republicans' budget proposals not only do not lower spending but are projected to raise the deficit and debt more than it was raised under Trump's first term while again giving tax cuts, wealth redistribution, of another $4.5 trillion to the top 10% while cutting spending that actually makes American lives easier. If you think inflation is bad now. Wait until food prices soar since the super majority of American agricultural is reliant of the very subsidies Trump has stated he will end. Wait until Home and energy prices soar 25% thanks to Tariffs on the inputs necessary for both.
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u/jpk195 8d ago
Let’s go back to sleepy. Sleepy was nice.