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Nope. He can do whatever and inflation erases all that and then some.
Take your statistics home and use them to line your hamster cage.
Ah yes, the inflation that started because of the pandemic, worldwide, all Bidens fault. Good job, you solved inflation!
If that was the case, address it. Somehow Biden et.al., thought ignoring it was fine and the people would understand.
That turned out to be not the case.
He did address it. Inflation has returned to pre pandemic levels. If you bothered to look into it instead of repeating bullshit “facts”, you’d know that.
The problem? Americans don’t “feel” like it is better. “But prices didn’t go down!” No shit that’s not how inflation works.
So he didn't make people feel inflation was behind them because prices aren't down and your answer is "no shit? That's not how inflation works?"
Because stop me if I'm wrong, but when prices go up and salaries don't, then that's having a lasting impact. And if you haven't done anything about that lasting impact, you haven't done enough, or convinced enough.
Anybody saying no shit too bad you're too stupid to understand this deserves what they get.
I know I"ll get downvoted for saying this, but you're right.
Stopping inflation without getting the prices to lower or the wages to raise is like...
Say you get stabbed by a psycho-killer, I shoot the killer in the fucking head and haul away his corpse.
Then I say "I have solved your stabbing issue" and call it a day.
This doesn't change anything about the fact that at no point did I take you to the hospital to address the fact that you are bleeding out, and now you're crawling around on the floor praying you can get to a phone to call 911 in time for the Ambulance to save your life.
Sure the killer's gone, but I've done absolutely nothing about the fact that you've been stabbed and if you die I would then in fact be guilty of negligent homicide.
<.< You’re literally bitching that the thing that happened didn’t happen. I don’t have the answer you’re looking for, because it’s predicated on the thing that happened having not happened.
The lifeguard can’t save your son from drowning, he already did. I don’t know how else to say this.
It's all about communication, not facts. That's what you refuse to acknowledge.
God you must be tired with all that goalpost moving.
Same message all the way through. You can be right, but if you don't communicate that adequately to the common people, you'll lose.
Apparently none of the facts here can stop you from just oozing your feelings. So We don't really see the point in trying.
Didn't stop the voters' feelings either.
Shockingly, being told you are doing better when you're still paying more than you can afford for food and shelter doesn't suddenly make it true and makes you mistrust the person telling you that.
Is the economy doing better on the macro scale? Yes, but when prices have only continued to increase from their COVID levels, the working class doesn't see the improvement. We just keep seeing corps making record profits year after year while our savings (those of us who have any) disappears before our eyes.
Disregarding the feelings of the working class like you are doing is one of many reasons Harris lost. Feelings aren't easily swayed by facts.
I'm just hoping the same stupid smart people who don't recognize mass communication don't get it wrong again next election.
Conversing with y'all, I'm not feeling hopeful.
BTW, didn't want Trump, voted for Kamala, but I still think we deserved to lose. Our campaign sucked.
Wait, you're mad you didn't get a good raise for a few years, and that's somehow Biden's fault?
Dude, greedy business owners keeping as much profit for themselves happens under every president.
I think you are confused as to what POTUS does. POTUS doesn't set or approve your payroll.
Conservatives be all "market" this and "market" that. The markets biggest influences are on costs of goods and costs of labor, and when the market does what the markets gonna do, that's the Democrats fault? Motherfucker, do you understand the society we live in?
I'm retired, I got a huge raise from Biden. Stop personalizing this, like I'm making an emotional plea. You got it wrong. Having the "facts" all lined up doesn't win you the election, never will.
Fight for your faults and you get to keep them.
The job when running for president is to give people a vision of your leadership that excites them. If instead you spend your time and money against your opponent without making a case for yourself, you get lost elections.
Biden’s labor report card: Historian gives ‘Union Joe’ a higher grade than any president since FDR
https://www.govexec.com/management/2024/05/bidens-labor-report-card-historian-gives-union-joe-higher-grade-any-president-fdr/397002/
Intellectual says he did a great job. Everybody on the couch with a Duff beer stand and bow before the great truth!
The nice thing about reality is that it's the same whether or not you believe it.
And the reality is that Harris lost because her messaging entirely failed to account for the pain voters are still feeling. It's absolutely astounding that you're not getting this.
The reality of election outcomes are entirely based on what voters believe.
Democrats are forever divided between two masters. They want to make voters happy, and they want to make their sponsors happy. The Harris campaign seemed to think they had the first part nailed down, so they spent the last month of a three month campaign super serving their donors.
Democratic consultants are notorious for running campaigns aimed at the Democratic consultant class, and they did it again. Nobody with any involvement in the Harris campaign should ever draw a salary from the Democratic party again, but Democrats just keep rewarding failure. The consultants who made a fortune running Hillary's campaign came back and made another fortune running the Harris campaign. Harris may have lost, but they didn't.
Yes. As long as you recognize that the reality you just spoke of is that one guy in an ivory tower thought Biden did a good job.
But Mr ivory tower is right. What do we do now that we know everyone really is too stupid to understand that? What do we do now that a bunch of ignorant assholes prefer the lies?