• MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The economy is worse under Trump, that’s pretty hard to deny. Yet we continue to insist that Biden was just as bad. It doesn’t make a ton of sense.

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      2 months ago

      Biden was a horribly inadequate President, and senile besides… an embarrassing alternative. The worst Democratic President of my lifetime, and I am old.

      Truly, he was an AWFUL response to Trump’s presidency, and he’s the reason that Trump was reelected.

      This is all humiliating for Americans, our parties need to be dismantled

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        2 months ago

        Biden was a horribly inadequate President, and senile besides…

        Biden was not senile, take your bullshit MAGA propaganda elsewhere.

        The worst Democratic President of my lifetime, and I am old.

        Based on what? This is a ridiculous assertion.

        • Infrastructure Law, which put major federal money into transportation and other infrastructure.

        • signed the CHIPS and Science Act, more domestic semiconductor manufacturing, less dependence on fragile foreign supply chains, and more U.S. manufacturing investment. Commerce Department said by August 2024 it had announced over $30 billion in proposed private-sector investments across 23 projects in 15 states, expected to create over 115,000 manufacturing and construction jobs.

        • Inflation Reduction Act: created Medicare drug-price negotiation, which CBO estimated would lower average prices paid by Medicare and reduce the deficit. It also led to a $2,000 annual out-of-pocket cap for Medicare Part D enrollees starting in 2025. Same act also led to a clean-energy push and EPA regulatory action.

        • unemployment rate fell sharply from the pandemic period and stayed relatively low by historical standards.

        • American Rescue Plan expanded ACA premium tax credits, making low-premium marketplace plans more available, and later HHS credited the ARP and IRA premium-credit enhancements with increasing Marketplace enrollment and affordability. Same act also included the Child Tax Credit expansion which was the leading driver behind a 46% decline in child poverty in 2021, cutting it to the lowest recorded annual rate.

        Biden was far from an “awful” president.

        and he’s the reason that Trump was reelected.

        The reason Trump was reelected was phony “progressives” like yourself that would rather Trump be president than “establishment” Democrats. You obviously know nothing about policy. Even more obviously, you don’t give a fuck about progressive causes.

        This is all humiliating for Americans, our parties need to be dismantled

        Yeah, that’s realistic, good fucking job you goddam dumbass. We’ll wait for your stupid fucking fantasy to come to fruition while Trump destroys the country. Anyone who thinks Biden and Trump are the same is a delusional fucking moron.

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          2 months ago

          Biden was not senile,

          Maybe not, but man was he a shell of a former self.

          That last debate…man…I’m not a very empathetic person to start with, and even I felt second-hand embarrassment.