• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    1 month ago

    joe biden made a huge deal about how america had made a great recovery (and honestly kudos to him that he inherited the worst possible situation and made it better) but there was something incredibly tone deaf about acting like the problem was fully fixed and everything was going great. i think he would have been better off saying “i’ve done this much with a narrow majority. i want to do more to help you, the person making less than $238k, live comfortably, but for that i need more support from congress and more time”

    saying everything was going great just told those people struggling it was never going to get better for them. obviously falling for trump is… embarrassing since he’s who made everything so awful in the first place (well not the first place. that honor goes to the establishment of a political and economic hierarchy 12k years ago), but still, joe biden opened a door for trump to come back. he opened it a little with his messaging, and opened it all the way by not doing anything to ensure any kind of consequences for doing a coup. what the fuck was everyone waiting around for? the gathering of evidence? why? we all saw it

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      That and the people voting for Trump had no fucking memory of how bad it was…

      “We were better under Trump!”

      “Really? Not knowing where your next roll of toilet paper was coming from was ‘better’?”

      The problem was, neither Harris nor Biden encountered having to buy black market toilet paper out of the back of a car in a parking lot so they were unable to use that in their campaigns.

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      he opened it a little with his messaging, and opened it all the way by not doing anything to ensure any kind of consequences for doing a coup.

      Also not going after price gouging. That and letting Trump go are the two big mistakes of his administration.