Highlander wrote: ↑Fri Sep 02, 2022 11:18 am
DColeKC wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 3:24 pm
How anyone and I mean anyone could think Biden's administration is good or has accomplished anything of importance blows my mind.
Horrific exit from Afghanistan (We're probably going back)
Worst inflation in decades
Highest gas prices ever (I know I know, presidents don't have a say in gas prices.... BS)
Insane immigration issues
Fentanyl chaos
Recession/Economy
Record homicides in major cities
Medicare premiums increase the most they ever have
You risk losing your credibility if you truly believe Biden's administration is responsible for most if any of these issues. That is an incredibly simplistic take on recent events in the US. The seeds of inflation were sewn during CV-19 while Trump was president. If he was still president we would still be having the highest inflation in decades. Gas prices are a function of the world petroleum industry shutting down during Covid (with some impact from the Russian-Ukraine war), they are not, contrary to republican talking points, a function of Biden administration policies. Again, nothing would change with a Trump presidency.
Biden followed the Trump exit plan for Afghanistan. I truly doubt things would have been any different had Trump still been in charge.
Regarding immigration issues - "insane" is your word. They were just as "insane" under Trump and homicides in US cities rose under Trump as well. They were record highs then too but most Trumpers pawned that off on the administration in "Blue" cities.
I do not think Biden is a panacea for any of the economic problems in the US but he certainly isn't the cause. We would be having each and everyone of these issues with the same severity regardless of whom was president.
Well, i'm not too worried about my credibility in the politics section but you may want to look within. Of course I'm simplifying things because even when simplified people respond with TL;DR.
Same could be said for you regarding credibility as you go about making excuses for all our issues under the current administration. Theres a double standard in this country. When Trump was in office, anything negative was his fault. The things blamed on him personally never seemed to stop but now Biden doesn't have anything do with the current state of our country?
I'm fully aware of the complexities involved with these issues. There are endless factors involved but it falls on the current administration to deal with the issues and hopefully not make them worse. It's hard to argue that Biden's policies have done much to help the current situations.
As for the "but if Trump was still president", he's not and you're speaking in hypotheticals. Trump was more aggressive in wanting to get the country back open. Who knows how his administration would have handled the inflation situation.
Immigration - I'm confused here. How can you compare Trumps immigration policies to Bidens and not be realistic about the data we have available? Illegal border crossings are at record highs and that's before Biden's DHS cancelled the Remain in Mexico policy. Trump took a hardline on immigration and was often called various names for it.
Afghanistan - Heres where your credibility suffers. Do you really think that Biden was "just following Trumps plan"? Lol. Biden spent his first few weeks undoing every single thing he could that Trump had done. Yet we're supposed to believe he just followed Trumps Afghanistan exit strategy line for line? Once again, a hypothetical but I don't see Trump leaving 7 billion dollars worth of military equipment to the Taliban. Same dude that proudly cut the cost of Air Force One by a few million has no problem giving the enemy 7 billion worth of USA gear?
Murder rates going up in 2020 with Covid makes sense. Why are we still experiencing these issues with such a hot job market? What's the excuse now because Covid can't be it forever. Would lenient policies on crime and prosecution have anything to do with it?
Ignore the democrat vs republican thing, is Joe Biden really the guy we need right now to deal with all of our issues?
It took terrorists flying planes into buildings to actually unify us last time. I don't think Joe Biden and his calling half the country fascist is going to have the same impact.