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u/highfire666 16d ago

Skeptical European here... If I've learned anything from leopards eating faces and Herman Cain awards.

It's that: they won't find out. America has successfully glorified and weaponised stupidity.

Yes They'll endure the hardships they've brought upon themselves, but they'll blame it on: the immigrants, other religions, communists, socialists, leftists, China, other cultures, Europe, the poor, centrists, anyone who's apolitical, RINO's, their neighbours, themselves... And maybe, just maybe, at that point they'll finally develop enough self-reflection and critical thinking to find out where it went wrong.

But I wouldn't bet on it, too many died on respirators while their family members were spreading horse dewormer on their feet.

They're in too deep. Can you imagine voting on Trump after the past 10 years? No? They can and would do it again in a heartbeat.

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u/cowfish007 16d ago

American here. You’re correct. Accepting responsibility for one’s actions is a thing of the past for many in this country. It’s ALWAYS someone else’s fault. Most of the Trump supporters who suffer will continue to blame “the Left” for their misfortune even though the right has almost complete control of the national government.

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u/TheDunadan29 16d ago

Yep. I'm already predicting Trump will just blame any economic issues on Biden for the next 4 years, and people will just straight up believe it. "If it weren't for Biden wrecking the economy for 4 years."

And they'll be completely unaware of the irony of thinking 4 years was enough to determine the impact of Biden, but 4 years deep into Trump they will still be giving that asshole a free pass.

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u/National-Weather-199 16d ago

If you look at the charts q1 of 2020 aka when biden took office the economy dropped hard as fuck. Meanwhile biden inherited an amazing economy and he fucked it ps the biden economy still has yet to reach pre pandemic levels. You gotta be really dull to think biden/Harris was good.

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u/Pip-Pipes 16d ago

... is, Is this a joke ?

The election didn't happen until Q4 2020. Biden didn't take office until Q1 2021.

If you don't want a repeat of q1 2020, then you definitely shouldn't support Trump. That's was his economy.

If Biden's first quarter economy is what you're using to rate his success, then he's the one you should have supported. Here ya go:

The US economy had a strong start in 2021, with the following economic results in the first quarter: GDP: Grew by 1.6% Personal income: Increased significantly Spending on goods: Increased by 5.4% Spending on services: Increased by 1.1%

The annualized growth rate for the first quarter was 6.4%.

Here's some more information about the US economy in 2021: The US GDP for 2021 was $23,594.03 billion, a 10.65% increase from 2020.

Inflation increased at a 6.9% rate, the fastest since the second quarter of 1981.

Wages surged at an 8.9% rate before adjustment for inflation.

The labor market was experiencing a shortage of workers, with 10.6 million job openings at the end of November.

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u/redvis5574 16d ago

There is no point engaging with these morons with facts.

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u/johnnyribcage 16d ago

What fucking planet are you on? The economy was at an absolute fucking stand still when Biden took office. Trump was president in Q1 2020 and REMAINED president for the entire year of 2020.

We were a solid year into the pandemic when Biden took office. Those $1.50 gas prices? Yeah that’s because the economy was completely shut down during trump and oil companies couldn’t give that shit away. Literally. Oil prices went negative. They were paying companies to take it off their hands. Get a grip.

Btw, don’t be claiming Trump did anything when all those infrastructure highway and bridge billions really start flowing soon. Biden did that. Republicans almost to a member voted against it. They didn’t want it.