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Oopsie Doodle (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 36 points 1 year ago (14 children)

White people won't even blame the white guy making the USA a police state.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    In my lifetime, Jimmy Carter has been the only president that hasn't been a complete fuckwad. I know people see Obama with rose tinted glasses because he was sandwiched between a doofus who let an evil war criminal drag us into wars so his buddies could profit and the literal worst president of the 20th and 21st centuries.

    Old man Biden did well as president but in my mind he will always be tainted by what an absolute piece of shit he was as Senator Biden.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    No clue why you’re being downvoted. Obama was a neoliberal who made a good faith effort, but intentions pale in the light of obvious moral ignorance. Imagine signing indefinite detention into law. Just imagine. What lunacy?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I would say that Biden did better than I had expected in the first half of his term and then more or less coasted off of that momentum through the second half. The probable dementia can't be ignored, but even without that he should've been doing more. He mostly stabilized shit, which is what a status-quo neolib is supposed to do, and he even expanded equitability and built framework for a better tomorrow, but he was I guess too humble to brag about it? He should've been holding up graphs every week and told the people "this is an improvement, and you may not be fully feeling it yet, but you will over time. I've expedited relief to get to you faster, but that means it's on the scale of years instead of decades. The downside of bureaucracy and democracy and proper checks and balances is that solutions can take time, but that's also a benefit in that any would-be malevolent authoritarian couldn't break everything overnight. Just hold on. We've stopped the bleeding, and now the healing takes a little time."

    Instead, we got bounced from our hospital bed and immediately started picking at the scabs with a rusty knife. We're fucked. Tariffs? What a fucking moron. We'll be referring to turned-out pockets as trump flags by the end of the decade.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Biden gets a lot of credit for Covid, but he did very little on that front. The vaccines were something Trump actually did well in getting them developed ASAP. He did sign some additional spending related to Covid. Inflation wasn't 100% his fault, but he did sign a lot of spending that probably shouldn't have happened, the interest rate staying low under Trump was also a big contributor.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wasn't really thinking of covid. Biden made sure we got free test kits mailed to us when they were impossible to find, but yeah otherwise he just kept on course. Covid vaccines were maybe the one thing that I agreed with trump on. And he could've sailed to reelection if he had just let the experts talk to the people instead of sowing doubt about masks and lockdowns. If he had just sold red masks that said "trump 2020" on them, he would've won reelection while lining his pockets.

    Biden's first half achievements that I was referring to were things like the infrastructure bill and the chips act. Inflation cooled, shit got fixed, manufacturing started coming back, and we started investing in a greener path forward. He should've communicated those accomplishments much better because most people don't really get a glimpse beyond what catches their attention in everyday life. Like egg prices. But there's a very good reason that egg prices rose, and it has very little to do with Biden and everything to do with bird flu, culling, and supply & demand; reduce your egg use for 6-12 months and the prices will come back down.

    The same strategy will not be so effective in the incoming crisis due to tariffs, mostly because trump is such a stubborn dipshit that I'm not sure he'll ever fully walk it back. He always chickens out of the high rate shit (probably mostly as a pump and dump scheme) but he'll never admit that he was wrong about what tariffs are and what they do when deployed the way he insisted on doing them. His whole thing is pretending to be brilliant at business, but he doesn't know basic shit that most people know before even enrolling in econ 101, so that's pretty damning for the knowledge of the tens of millions of people he managed to trick into believing that he's even remotely passable at business. His multiple bankruptcies are evidence of either incompetence or maliciously fraudulent looting, and the latter is only really necessary if you're so bad at business that you have to cheat to get ahead despite the monumental inheritance left to you.

    Sorry for the wall of text lol.

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