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K1nsey6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Bidenomics has been a disaster. Things are not as rosy as they claim.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 months ago
supanovadova@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Because it was paid for. Plain and simple.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If i want politics I’ll go to a news channel. If I want music I expect the channel to not be politically involved.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If you want to avoid reading political ads while listening to the radio, just don’t read the radio.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Being anti-Biden is not equivalent to being the KKK
520@kbin.social 7 months ago
No, things aren't rosy. What happened under trump was a corporate apologist shitshow though.
SCB@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Things are honestly pretty fuckin rosy in the greater context of what could have happened
520@kbin.social 7 months 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.
20hzservers@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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K1nsey6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So, exactly what we have right now?
520@kbin.social 7 months ago
Much less of one than what happened under Trump. When disaster struck, Trump's first thought was to bail out big companies over actually helping the people. Infact frequently he put the people dead last. At least Biden has done and tried to do a few things for the common person.
BearWolf@lemmings.world 7 months ago
Luckily for Americans, Biden is the scourge of corporate America…
520@kbin.social 7 months ago
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
BearWolf@lemmings.world 7 months 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!
Marsey_Enjoyer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
donuts@kbin.social 7 months ago
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...
Beefytootz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
evatronic@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Obviously that was Obama.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Thanks Obama
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Which guy is that?
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Jerome Powell
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Donald Trump shut down the entire American economy by force, while printing trillions of new dollars into existence. Trump ruined the American economy, and likely started WW3 in the process.
MedicPigBabySaver@voxpop.social 7 months ago
Yep, you’re definitely “trash”.
Marsey_Enjoyer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That’s very classist of you to say
MedicPigBabySaver@voxpop.social 6 months ago
STFU
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I bet you listen to the other, opposite “they” with a sense of full validity
Pratai@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
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.
Kengaro0@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You mean like tax cuts for the rich to fix every problem? Because that’s all they have.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
As I said….
Franklin@lemm.ee 7 months ago
That accelerated with Regan and has been the status quo for every president since, not doing he wouldn’t do more to cut it but leading 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.
Kengaro0@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You mean every Republican president. Democrats have not chased trickle down economics.
BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Soviet flag PFP… That’s all you need to know
Theres no arguing with these people - that would be expecting the most basic level of critical thinking
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Supporting genocide Joe and Im the one lacking critical thinking?
gamenac@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Isn’t that the new dog-whistle term being used to disenfranchise younger voters and muddy the waters for democratic or liberal leaning politicians?
No offense, but that really isn’t a great way to show you’re a critical thinker.
Tygr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This type of comment that says their side is right… are just hilarious to me. Corporations bought your government through bill riders packed in 1,000 page bills.
Neither side wants to fix this mess, because their millions in campaign funding relies on keeping corporations and fat cats happy.
If you are in the bottom 95%, you aren’t being served by your government anymore.
This Conservative vs Liberal fighting is exactly what they want. Serves as a nice distraction.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
bOtH siDeZ tHo, riTe?
This type of comment that says both sides are equally bad are just hilarious to me. People riding the fence is what got us here.
Shit of get off the pot. We’re not in a pace where we can afford to NOT choose sides anymore.
K1nsey6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Liberals thinking they were voting for ‘lesser evil’ got us here. This is 100% on the shoulders of shitlibs that cant tell the difference between red fascism and blue fascism.
Marsey_Enjoyer@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Both sides suck and always have sucked.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I have heard a thousand variations of this same comment. This is not a very insightful thing for you to say. Unless you can add some specifics, I’m tempted to interpret this as you just regurgitating what you see on the internet.
It’s so weird you reference yourself here, when this is obviously not your own thought.