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[+] -259 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Bidenomics has been a disaster. Things are not as rosy as they claim.

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  • [–] 126 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    When one of you are willing to offer up an alternative solution that even remotely resembles an inclination that you’re paying attention to the problem at hand- we’ll start taking you seriously.

    Until then, you’ll remain the joke that you are to everyone with a functioning brain.

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  • [–] 84 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You mean like tax cuts for the rich to fix every problem? Because that's all they have.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    That accelerated with Regan and has been the status quo for every president since. Biden proposed a wealth tax and it got stone walled by a Republican congress. You could argue it's all for show but laying it at his feet is a little "mask off" with your intent.

    Still likely a troll account just don't want you convincing the less critically inclined of insanity.

    Edit: replied to the wrong person, this was meant to be a reply to the parent comment saying that "bidenomics" was the problem oops.

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  • [–] 87 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    And that justifies political ads in the metadata of a pop station because ....

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  • [+] -62 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Because it was paid for. Plain and simple.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So anything is allowed if the ad is paid for? The KKK can pay for an ad that says "Kill the N---s" and that's ok?

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  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Being anti-Biden is not equivalent to being the KKK

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I never said it is. That is not what I responded to.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You implied, that it was implied, by the comment you responded to. The KKK is a terrorist organization. There’s no implication that a terrorist organization gets to advertise just because they paid, in the comment you responded to.

    This anti-Biden website, being anti-Biden, is not in the same category as the KKK.

    So the answer to your question is no. The KKK doesn’t get to buy ad space on that radio station.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    No, things aren't rosy. What happened under trump was a corporate apologist shitshow though.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Things are honestly pretty fuckin rosy in the greater context of what could have happened

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Sure the worse case scenario would have been a fucking disaster, but the truth is America is still on the path to ruin. Things are still getting worse, just at a slower rate.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 years ago

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Luckily for Americans, Biden is the scourge of corporate America...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What do you want me to say? The choice was between total shit and kinda shit. That's what's wrong with the two party entrenchment

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    No, it's not parties that are entrenched, it's laziness and complacency. America could have a viable third party, the status quo could be shaken. But it would require a bit more drastic measures than just canvassing and making YouTube videos. It would require an election boycott campaign to shake the legitimacy of your democracy (and with two parties that serve the same corporate master, just how legitimate is it in the first place?), it would entail a period of instability with perhaps something even worse than Trump emerging for a while...

    But by and large, Americans are comfortable. Despite the economic downturns, despite the drug zombies in the streets, most Americans are not ready for the hardcore sacrifices that are necessary to drastically change a political system.

    So you trudge along, always choosing between two piles of shit, carefully weighing which pile is a bit smaller and stinks just a bit less. And you say, this is democracy in action!

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Just wait until you learn who cranked the interest rates down to nothing and handed a bunch of free money to the rich at a time when supply chains were almost completely shut down during the pandemic...

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I feel like that doesn't get discussed enough. The supplements provided under trump hindered way more than they helped. Might I remind you that those were promised and then delayed because Trump wanted his fucking name printed on the checks. Outside of that, the paycheck protection program was a disaster! So many companies took advantage of that while shitting all over the employees that that was supposed to help. All the while, mom and pop shops and other local places got shafted because the mega corporations tapped the fund. Then it all got forgiven?? You've got what is essentially neutered unemployment benefits performed solely to act as a clout grab, and you've got hyper inflation into the absolute wrong end of the scale of where it should go. More people focus on the former instead of the latter like the latter never happened.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Everyone knows it was all bullshit but try to remember nearly every day of all four years of Trump's presidency, and months prior campaigning, were filled to the brim with bullshit. Many people, myself included, just gave up on politics for a while after he lost to Biden just to try and stay mildly sane.

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  • [+] -32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Wait until you hear that Biden kept the guy that cranked down those interest rates, the same one that now has interest rates for homes in the upper 8%. Then kept those tax cuts for the rich, while pretending the inflation was due to supply chain issues and not capitalist greed.

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    Economy in freefall, constantly rising inflation, interest rates through the roof and home prices not falling at all

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Free fall, meaning? Inflation is going down. Interest rates are a mechanism to control inflation, and historically are not all that high. Housing is a problem, but nobody is going to do much about it because something something free market. Not everything is great, but not dismal either. I don’t really see how this is Biden’s fault, but I am sure people will still blame.

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