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Saving this in case my employer wants to send me to the US
Sure, must have nothing at all to do with massive tariffs on food and construction supplies and arresting a lot of the food and construction workers.
That's only the most recent reason making things worse.
Oops looks like we elected people who cant fix "the damage biden did." Impeachment anyone?
lol yeah, disastrous biden economy. It was booming you fucking fascist cunt. Stop lying.
Well, he sure can't blame the ultra-wealthy oligarchy that groomed him to wield power on their behalf.
"...we’re making progress"
Let's check on their progress. One of the major complaints during Biden was gas prices. One of the things I explicitly heard Trump promise to do was to cut gas prices in half during the first year. This wasn't some vague statement that could be interpreted another way. He stood up on the stump on camera and directly said that gas prices would be cut in half in the first year of his second term.
The national average price of retail gasoline on January 20th, 2025 was $3.18 per gallon. Half of that is $1.59. What progress have we seen toward that $1.59 benchmark with less than 4 months to go? The national average price now is $3.17.
One cent lower than $3.18. I guess JD is technically correct. They've made progress. We're nearly 0.63% of the way there, two thirds of the way through the year. Think we're going to make it?
He can hardly blame the real reason, or he'd be out of his job in a minute.
They'll be blaming Biden in 2028. Trump will run for a third term and still pretend he's running against Biden. Joe Biden might literally die by then and Trump will still be taking jabs at him and calling him "too old".
"Don't you want a president who's only half decomposed?", he will say. And the crowds will cheer.
Here's hoping this orange clown doesn't get past 2025.
What 2028 election? Let’s see how 2026 goes.
Before that it was Obama
They will kill you and your family with the military if you disagree because disagreement is terrorism
It’s good to know my opinions terrify those in power.
Is this "Biden" in the White House with you right now?
Trump literally put tariffs on food you fucktard.
"No, you are wrong, it was a knock on from bidens economy...ok, you are not wrong but slightly incorrect. And by that I mean yes you are completely correct that it wasn't biden at all, and completely the tangerine imbeciles fault but I was also say that I'm waffling on and being distracting. However by this point tRUMPs base of complete idiots will have totally tuned out and will only remember the first words about it being bidens fault.
Also, don't mention the Epstein list, or how the orange fucktard raped children. We are distracting people from all that as well"
This stuff boils my piss. The same thing happens in the UK. I get that you need to show restraint to maintain access but there shouldn't be anything wrong with posing their argument as a negative!
"So you're saying this administration is failing to get a grip on the economy?" Even if he responds, he'll be angry, angry people make mistakes. Or even then just say, "Perfect, youre responding with feeling instead of thought: how does it feel knowing your boss is in the epstine files?"
How the hell can no one get a grip on this narrative.
Just turn to the camera and ignore them! "You heard it here first! The VPJD has no confidence in the administration!"
It is also infuriating because Biden spent his term dealing with the fallout of Covid.
Americans got totally fucked during the pandemic. The government handed out a one time payment to some of the population that wouldn’t be enough to cover a months rent on a single bedroom apartment.
They then did the paycheck protection program where they handed out gobs of money to business owners. These “loans” were forgiven and plenty of wealthy business owners just ended up pocketing piles of money.
So you have an incompetent trump government failing to do public health policy, then only helping the owner class, causing massive inflation.
The republicans always do this. They take over a healthy economy, pass policies that supercharge it in the short term but are completely unsustainable in the long term.
The economy crashes, the voters put a democrat in office, the democrat spends their term cleaning up the mess, and then gets shit for having a crappy economy.
The worst part is, as soon as the other side is in charge, it's suddenly on them now and not the previous administration like it was before.
And people fucking buy it
When people treat politics like a team sport this is where you end up. My team can do no wrong and I will go to the mat to defend them.
But, but, Gold Team rules!
These assholes came in and fucked everything up and then have the fucking balls to blame Biden for their obvious failures.
No way in fucking hell they'd be able to get away with this level of propaganda if it weren't for the Republican Noise Machine, but a whole lot of dumbfucks believe that the economy under Biden was terrible and that Taco is working to fix it.
Biden's economy was described as the envy of the world, a Goldilocks economy, etc. And these chucklefucks will stand there with a shit-eating grin and use phrases like "we inherited a disastrous Biden economy". Get the fuck outta here with that bullshit.
If you think the economy of 2021-2024 was 'goldilocks' I think you're conflating massive AI investment with a "good economy"
Unless your job was developing and implementing AI solutions, you were probably getting fucked. The majority of big companies implemented RTO for softlayoffs, and then warn notices were a record outside of the pandemic year for 2023 reaching nearly 350k roles.
Signs right now point to AI literally holding the company up as greedy CEOs and Boards shoot for infinite money machines that will never materialize with current AI/ML techniques and methodologies. When that slumps the stupid valuation of companies like nvidia are going to bomb so hard the great depression of the 21st century will be underway.
In my lifetime I’ve never seen Conservatives take personal accountability for any of the consequences of their actions. They are so used to being entitled little babies that they always have to cry victim and find a scapegoat to blame. They refuse to even have productive national conversations on the results of their failed policies. On the flip side I have seen democrats take personal responsibility and try to fix mistakes as flawed as their party is. Conservatives on the other hand capitalize on the democrats taking personal accountability and just double down on their denial while escalating their bad behavior.
That's what shattered the illusion of Christianity for me as a younger person. Horrible individuals hiding behind an institutional veil of morals.
The past ten years have been even more illuminating. As all of these sorts of issues have been brought to the forefront. One of the common themes I've noticed is that the Venn diagram of these types of Christians / conservatives is the overlap is nearly a perfect circle with abusers.
Because their playbook is literally "blame the outgroup".
The guy was literally standing in front of eggs clearly priced at $2.99 and blamed Harris for being priced $4.
When caught on camera for lying, the guy says "I was told there wouldn't be fact checking", which was in it of itself a lie.
It is a defining characteristic of the ideology at this point.
No, it was/is supply shock. Two giant global events, pandemic and Russian invasion, disrupted global trade and screwed up supply chains. Things were normalizing until Dumbass took the reins and decided to fuck up the supply chain on purpose with shitty trade policy.
The housing market problems go back to the housing market crash in the 2000s. It allowed the rich to completely lock up existing supply while at the same time freezing new construction. So now there is no path to home ownership for the vast majority of North Americans. This is unfortunately not a US only problem, it’s a capitalism problem.
Bizarrely? Republicans deliberately taking no responsibility at all is as normal as the sun rising and setting.
We'll see this exact headline presented unironically as news every few months for the full duration of the Turd Reich.
Crazy how grocery prices and housing prices are both low and high at the same time. Republicans are really having a Schrodinger's economy right now.
Maybe if they cut my bosses taxes a few more times I'll start to prosper???
‘I would say they’re too expensive because we inherited a disastrous Biden economy, and we’re making progress,’ the Vice President told Fox News
Nah, prices have continuously gone up since you idiots took over. Your fucking trade war BS isn't helping.
Now you can't blame it all on their trade policies. They also snatch people off the streets that we rely on for food and construction work.