• @burgersc12@sh.itjust.works
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    1911 months ago

    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
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      1811 months ago

      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.

      • @Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de
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        011 months ago

        With respect, it looked like a “try” in many cases but consider his decades in politics and knowing likely outcomes of any given proposal. Then consider his best of the best, Ivy League-educated cabinet, advising him on every chess move. If you don’t look at both sides, you might find yourself in a disingenuous ruse.

        I tried but what could I do?
        How could I have known Joe Manshun would say no?
        We didn’t have a filibuster proof majority (which we could have eliminated with a simple rule change like we did with the debt ceiling- but oddly didn’t for infrastructure).
        Oh those legal challenges came out of left field and our best and brightest from Harvard never saw it coming.
        I co-authored the bankruptcy bill that exempted student debt when I was a Senator but now my intentions are different. Student debtors, I’m on your side now. Don’t you see?

    • @Socsa@sh.itjust.works
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      411 months ago

      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.

      • SeaJ
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        111 months ago

        And he bitched about the Fed under Obama for keeping interest rates low and claimed that the real unemployment rate was like 42%.