Biden says he was ‘stupid’ not to sign Covid stimulus checks as Trump did
Biden says he was ‘stupid’ not to sign Covid stimulus checks as Trump did
President says failure may have contributed to voters blaming him for high prices even as economy improved
Also stupid: ignoring calls that you're too old, dropping out way too late for a primary and handing off to your VP who was not particularly popular last primary.
156Also putting a heritage foundation sympathizer as your AG.
Not accounting postal board members who would remove the scum that is DeJoy.
Letting Israel genocide Palestine without cutting off the weapon supply. While also dragging us into shit with Iran.
72She'd had done fine if she did three things:
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Continued the initial push of laying her foot into the collective asses of the MAGA collective. That first month or so was great and Dems needed that energy.
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Gone against Biden and condemned the situation in Gaza AND remind everyone that Ukraine is still going.
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Not listened to the idiot Dem "strategists" who seem so fucking convinced that courting modern Conservatives is a good idea.
Had she done these three things and even the shit communications of the Dems could not have stopped the word of mouth and internet celebrity status she would have had.
66Or, she could have courted conservatives by going after the health insurance industry. Democrats are still operating like it's the 1990s.
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You know, almost feels intentional. Would not surprise me, for sure. I can totally imagine that jackass thinking better for him to hand the reigns to Trump than to some dirty socialist like Bernie.
13....so which is it?
1The Democratic primaries and caucus finished in May.
Calls for Biden to step out down started in June.
-8That's not the whole story. The concerns about his age were present since before he was elected as president, which is what led him to promise to be a one-term president. His presidency was llagued with stories about his age and appearances that made clear he was no longer fit.
He reneged on his promise and, as the incumbent president, was a shoe-in for the primary, preventing a real primary involving real competition for the candidacy to occur. In June, the calls for him to drop out began coming from the highest levels of media and the party due to the disastrous debate, but Dem voters and the nation in general considered him to be too old years before that.
I'm sorry, but it is stupid to acknowledge that your age is a liability, then after 4 years have passed, refuse to step aside so that your allies are forced to downplay your fitness issues and elect you as forerunner of the party, then to be exposed right next to your opponent on an internationally-watched debate.
14He also let everyone believe he was just gonna run for one term. Then, when election season comes around, when asked if he was gonna step aside and that most Americans would like him to not run, his response?
Fuck you, Jack. FUCK. YOU.
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"I wasn't a lying duplicitous bastard like Trump. That's where I went wrong."
just... what?
To be fair, it says a lot about the intelligence of the average American when a lot of them think these checks were from Trump's personal bank account, just due to the signature.
Literally all you had to do was offer universal healthcare, as evidenced by *sweeping gesture at everything.
49That was my exact response - he's right in a very limited sense, and notably a sense that hinges on the sad fact that too many Americans are dumbasses who thought that Trump's signature over a check drawn on the US Treasury meant something, and therefore the absence of Biden's also did.
23You need House and Senate Supermajority to pass universal healthcare, just like it took 60 dems to give us Medicaid Expansion and Protections for Preexisting conditions in 2010. We would have had Single Payer but Joe Liebermen was the sole blue holdout and he didn't die until 2013.
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He was.
A better point is refusing to listen to voters and keep repeating that the economy is great showed how wildly out of touch the modern DNC is.
29TBF yeah people were complaining that the creation of money for the stimulus checks in the midst of deficit was causing inflation, but the fact that the economy and inflation rate both recovered and they still blamed him means he should have done it anyways.
22holds the door open for Trump
Controlled Opposition
10stupid just that one time huh.
5That wasn't the mistake.
5Did he sign the 2,000-pound bombs that he sent to israel? Regarding the stimulus checks, biden is stupid alright, but it's not because he didn't sign the stimulus checks, but because he promised $2000 checks and then shortchanged it by claiming earlier payments that went out before he even entered office counted towards it.
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3This has nothing to do with Biden's failures AND not signing another unplanned handout was the right thing to do.
You can't just produce stimulus out of thin air without economical repercussions. If people that were economically affected during COVID in the US are feeling economic pain now, they have to now understand that they will have to work to pay that "free" money back. It wasn't free, it was the money that "essential workers" paying taxes kept you afloat.
A lot of victim and grifter mentality revolving around this idea, which is pretty gross.
BTW: I'm not divulging personal information, but I feel like the system has let me down and I'm drowning in debt too. There is, however, a gross misunderstanding of how global economies work, and a lot of it is shit that none of us peons will ever see or change, even if on a local level.
1Well we at least agree on one part of that statement.
-2I'd rather my food not cost three times as much as it did five years ago.
-15Well buckle up cause here comes the trump economy choo choooooo
45I am fully aware how fucked we are. I don't recall displaying any enthusiasm over that prospect...
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You gotta love how the cost of everything went up 30% minimum but "inflation" is only up 3%
13% per month. That's how those inflation numbers work.
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