Re: the meme here, a reader opines: Brandon has nothing to do with it. No politician had anything to do with it.
I agree that, generally, U.S. presidents tend to get too much credit when things go right, and too much blame when they head south.
Yet in this case it’s unclear, to me at least, how much credit Biden actually deserves for what appears an extremely robust economy, as measured by job growth, stock market valuations, inflation control, etc.
One can identify a great number of public sector investments that are aimed at rebuilding/expanding infrastructure, bringing manufacturing jobs (especially cleantech) back from overseas, expanding energy security, and post-COVID recovery. One can add, of top of that, that these investments are simply paying off precisely as they were intended.
Many economists are surprised that so much growth was possible without, for instance, huge rates of inflation causing rising interest rates that in turn sent us into recession. It wasn’t that long ago that the idea of a “soft landing” was something of a pipe dream.
Granted, all this is not an easy pill to swallow if you’re a Republican, praying for a meltdown going into election season, but it does seem to be the case.
What the boob at left is saying is partially true, in that only some people in the rest of the world are laughing at the United States.
The vast majority of people I meet from other countries are crying, not literally, but they almost uniformly express their astonishment and profound sorrow that the former envy of the world could have been reduced to a banana republic — and in such a short period of time.
It’s hard to understand how someone can be so apathetic that they sit out an election where what’s at stake is American democracy.
Suppose you’re one of the idiots who believes that Trump is an honest and effective leader, that the 2020 election was rigged, etc. Wouldn’t you go vote for the Republicans in the midterms?
Suppose you understand that Trump is a pathological liar who has wreaked great damage on our nation. Wouldn’t you want to vote against the Republicans?
There are two funny aspects of what JD Vance says here:
1) The Trump administration is by far the most corrupt in the entire history of the United States.
2) Working hard no longer produces a livable wage. Want to be a teacher? Better be prepared to struggle financially.
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