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Maybe Biden should have done some shit the first two years instead of "looking into things" until right before midterms.
Then after losing the House, saying it was too late to do anything.
People didn't elect Joe Biden so he could spend 2 years looking into how to undo the damage of trump.
And Biden failed at that.
Now he's telling us that this time will be different. Historically, this is what makes 1 term presidents.
So how should he have "done some shit the first two years"?
You mean like:
The American Rescue Plan
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
The largest gun safety bill in 30 years
The CHIPS and Science Act
The Inflation Reduction Act
and support for Ukraine so they can fight off the orks that directly impacts our economy by giving Ukraine old weapons that would have rotted in wearhouses and resupply with new ones providing high paying jobs to American workers.
Stuff like that?
I ain't writing an essay to talk about the whole list at once.
Oh yeah, that thing that's the reason American inflation is higher than comparable countries?
https://www.vox.com/23036340/biden-american-rescue-plan-inflation
Also...
You know only a tiny little slice went to working class Americans right?
Like, everyone got the $1400, even Bill Gates. But a lot went to people, companies, and states that just didn't need it.
That article is really good, and somebody got paid to write it.
So go read that, soak it up.
And then, if it's not too late, I honestly wouldn't mind getting into that infrastructure bill. That's a doozy, and if you're bragging about, there's a lot you don't know.
But let's be honest, this comment and that article are more than most would read.
Bruh.
If you're going to claim nothing happened in the past two years and someone gives you a laundry list of milestones and events, you can't just say "eh I don't feel like writing an essay on it". Either explain why none of them count, or concede the argument. As it is, your argument is incredibly weak since you're barely addressing their point.
Also,
Bruh. What.
If you aren't going to write a proper response, don't bemoan that people aren't reading shit.
Don't feed the troll.
I mean, I said that...
Went over the first on the list...
Then said:
Because that was the next thing on the list...
Did you notice how that person never replied?
It's known as a gish gallop.
None of them pass scrutiny alone, but it would take a lot of effort to disprove all of them at once. Especially when the likely result is the person latches on to a small part of a source you quoted and refuses to read the actual source that goes in depth and was written by a professional
Did you try reading the whole article for more info?
Or did you really think those three paragraphs was the whole thing without clicking the link?
Well, you could have read the article and gotten a great explanation...
Instead you choose to hurl insults, weird how often the people blindly supporting Biden do that.
Have a nice life bud, life's to short for that type of discourse about something so serious.
You sound like a real treasure. Glad I don't know you.
Your article is two years old and provides a mountain of speculation about economics that didn't pan out in reality. Seriously, check it out, inflation in the US peaked lower than the UK or EU, and has trended below them consistently through today.
Go ahead and argue about the relative stability of more insular economies like Japan and China, but the Fed did exactly what they set out to do, and they did it more effectively than other comparable central banks.
Objectively, verifiably false. Single taxpayers under $75k, couples under $150k. Bill Gates didn't benefit. Maybe you're thinking of the stimulus that Trump signed that blindly handed out thousands of dollars to businesses with little to no accountability?
So what do you want, Trump?
I want Biden to smarten the fuck up while there's still time to beat trump, and the DNC to learn their lesson about shoving unpopular conservative candidates down our throats.
But I don't think it will happen.
I always wanted every state to have delegates for the primary, I thought that was a low bar too.
So excuse me if, like most Dem voters, I'm kind of pissed about it.