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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 100 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Inflation is out of control. Housing is unaffordable. The healthcare system is broken. Everyone is drowning in student debt. Ecosystems are collapsing. We're constantly on the brink of war.

This is a better description of Trump's presidency than Biden's, especially right now when inflation is not out of control, and Biden has done everything he can to forgive student loans.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago (3 children)

That's how it always works. Republicans shit in the bed, but it's only uncovered after a Democrat gets elected. Then they fix everything, only for the next republican to start the process over.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Kind of like how W. Bush ran up all kinds of debt off the books in Iraq and Afghanistan and Obama gets slammed for bringing it front and center:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/11/us-public-defrauded-hidden-cost-iraq-war

And that doesn't even take into account the massive Pentagon fraud perpetuated year after year:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/pentagon-audit-budget-fraud/

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[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 25 points 10 months ago (53 children)

I mean none of these things got better under any president in recent memory, they just got eroded a lot less quickly under certain ones

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 70 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Didn't Obama try to come up with a healthcare solution that was undermined by conservatives? Which Trump tried to neuter as hard as possible?

Didn't Biden try to forgive student loans, which conservatives kept stopping?

I feel the "both sides are doing it" argument isn't entirely true.

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[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 20 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Trump was literally on Twitter bullying the fed chair to not raise rates, threatening to fire him. The inflation situation is very uniquely his fault.

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[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Things got infinitely better for the rich under Reagan. Remember Ronald Reagan, the corporate, senile puppet who taxed grandmothers on Social Security while giving huge tax cuts to the wealthy and also opening the door to corporate raiding?

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[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 94 points 10 months ago (5 children)

The real problem is pronouns. We have to get rid of them. Nothing but proper nouns.

“George likes proper nouns in George’s sentences.”

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

If they want a dick pick. All they have to do is ask.

I won’t judge.

[–] bappity@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago (2 children)

if they did that you'd see them asking 6 year old kids

[–] OpenStars@kbin.social 14 points 10 months ago
[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Well, I don’t have that. But if they want to be specific I’ll be happy to refer them to the appropriate department…

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[–] Farticles@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago (6 children)

If you stop having kids, who the fuck am I going to send to my war??

  • ouR Congress
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[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 51 points 10 months ago

Of course those genitals are important! If they don’t do that, then their god will not magically fix said problems. They themselves are of course powerless to do anything about it. Far too busy lining their and their donors pockets!

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 51 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Just to clarify the point: Republicans only shriek about issues like transgenderism to put the focus on these non-issues, away from real issues like healthcare, poverty and inequality, war, climate change, etc..

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 36 points 10 months ago (7 children)

If conservatives want to be a part of the solution, they can be. But they aren't.

Newt Gingrich was the last Republican to create policy and even he is problematic.

[–] A7thStone@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 22 points 10 months ago

The only way conservatives can be part of the solution is if they take themselves out of the equation.

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[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

The older I get the more apt this aphorism becomes:

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

[–] dipshit@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The conservative question: “can I fuck it?”

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[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They've missed the entire point. It's about manufacturing outrage to distract from things people should really care about.

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