Yes he was, he always looked lost and would fall and stumble all of the time , there is nothing wrong with that as well get older , but not for the freaking president of the United States ! I didn’t dislike him because he was old , I disliked him because he was a terrible president which made it easier for Trump to get in because the whole country was pissed
So true. Why would you vote for one of those know-nothing rock stars when you could get a “sits in the back of the class and eats paste” type!
His administration was far more competent than you give it credit for. Regardless of him stumbling which you both say you care about and don’t care about at the same time.
We were. As I told you when it was happening, it was largely a combination of emerging supply chains from Covid and energy markets in crisis trying to rebalance after half the world boycotted Russian oil.
lol. I can’t remember a bigger economic miscalculation than not recognizing the inflationary pressures and then attempting to dismiss them as transitory. Injecting amother trillion dollars into a system already experiencing labor and material shortages was brilliant. When a dumb real estate attorney can see it but the leaders of our country can’t we have a serious problem with those running our economic policy. At least Yellen finally admitted the error I suppose.
They knew exactly what they were doing. They had Congressional leaders and a donor apparatus to appease regardless of the consequences.
Have to agree. If I knew the situation they surely did as well. Aston was a sheep but most of us could recognize the inflationary pressures and that describing inflation as transitory was insulting to anyone who had a basic understanding of economics. Those labor and material shortages combined with a huge injection of capital into the system and existing inflationary pressures abroad were never going to be a short term deal
You are just wrong. If that was the case we would still be seeing effects as stimulus has continued in the form or the IRA and CHIPS acts.
There’s no doubt the global inflationary pressures contributed to our record inflation. There’s also no doubt the Biden Admin was completely wrong when it came to believing inflation was transitory and injecting another $1T into the system when MOST of us saw the writing on the wall. Im with Huffy on this one. I can’t imagine anyone with a basic understanding of economics not realizing the situation at the time. I certainly saw it coming. No chance the Biden Admin was that incompetent.
She says that having fully endorsed supporting Kamala, as far as I could see. I'm sure she wanted it to happen earlier, but we don't really know if she wanted to have a primary.
Sounded like some Monday morning quarterbacking to me.
This fascinates me. IMO, as I mentioned before, I felt like most of that messaging was just fearmongering that fell on deaf ears. This is one person's opinion, and I know @drboobay disagrees, and I appreciate his point of view. I watched the RNC and DNC, and then rallies on both sides, plus many interviews of both sides. I found it odd that the Harris/Walz campaign wasn't talking more about the issues -- what they feel is right and why they feel Trump is wrong. It was mostly that Trump was a "threat do Democracy," coupled with things like Obama pushing the 'very fine people' hoax and Oprah saying if Trump was elected it could be the last election we ever vote in. The list goes on, and it was a lot of non-sensical things. I just didn't understand that strategy.
The Covid stimulus contributed little to inflation. If you want to complain about it hitting the debt, fine, but I fundamentally have no evidence that it was the leading cause of inflation.
The supreme leader was too busy talking about completely sensical things like Haitians eating cats. Damn those cat eating Hatians!
There were Dem advisors and pollsters who were telling her she need to talk about the issues more and less about how Trump was going to destroy the human race. She ignored them and chose the end of mankind argument. In the end it failed. James Carville is a bit of a nut but also a fairly savy political advisor. He was screaming “talk about the economy, immigration, war”. She was the same candidate who failed miserably in 2020. Ironically, the majority of voters who listed “Threat to Democracy” as their #1 issue backed Trump.
Just because Trump is putting out BS doesn't preclude you(sanders) from including a little non BS along with your BS.
Lots of papers on the subject
To be fair there’s a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking going on with the entire campaign. Not unusual for the losing side.
Let's get a recap of Trump's sensical contributions to our political discourse:
First of all, I was talking about Harris' campaign, not Trumps. I call it fearmongering because that is how it came across to me...so that's my opinion. I had my 20-year old liberal daughter asking about all the stuff filling her "for you" social media pages about how she was going to lose her rights, which is absolutely insane, IMO.
I'm not a Trump fan at all, but I did live through is first presidency. Democracy didn't end. So I guess that's what I'm basing it on.
…and yet he beats the crap out of the Dem nominee 312-226. Wins the popular vote. Wins the Senate. Wins the House. Dems must have nominated one awful candidate and/or ran one awful campaign.
I think you quoted the wrong post, as mine is about Harris' campaign strategy.
Suppose I’m with most Americans in that I’m not overly concerned about democracy ending. Now if Trump starts censoring or silencing.dissenting speech or enacting unconstitutional mandates I might change my mind. Until then this is where I am. Hopefully I’m correct. I never viewed a bunch of unarmed nut jobs as a threat to overthrow our democracy. Just not how our democracy will end. Again….leaders who actively silence those who oppose them pose a far greater risk based on history. Let’s revisit in a few years
Chris were you not troubled by Trump's election denialism and nanchalant-at-best reaction to the January 6th riots? How does that not stoke fear that our democracy is at risk?
She did not fear monger. She just reminded people of the demonstrated risks of Trump.
Just because your fear mongering is justified doesn't make it not fear mongering.
Of course it was concerning. I didn't like it, but our legal system does allow a process of challenging election results, and once his legal team exhausted those avenues, it was pretty much done. After that, he wasn't claiming he was still president or that Biden wasn't the president. And I don't like that he was still mentioning four years later that he thinks it was stolen from him, but everyone's entitled to their opinion I guess. I wish he'd keep that opinion to himself.
I'll take Ben Bernanke's word for it over Mr. Bianchi's no offense to him...
Can I key in on a concept? Had the Jan 6th insurrectionists intervened and Congressmen had actually been trapped in congress, there might have been a far different outcome. Recall that they were trying to obstruct the congressional certification procedure. If they succeed in that, maybe by capturing Pence, it could have been a different outcome.
My only fear is that Trump will break down those checks with both the house and Senate going Republican. He will be given carte blanche on appointments and attempt to change the civil servants hirings and firings, that he has so far been forbade from touching.
Your daughter already lost her rights. Now its just further written in stone.
