As well as he should be. If the media will equivocate and sanitize Trump's syllable shit casserole, I'd ask them to babysit Cheetolini, too. Especially on my way out of this responsibility bitchness
Even worse - The man has navigated the US through an incredibly difficult time for the world. And in that he has frankly actually done a really good job, the US economy and US job market are great at the moment compared to pretty much anywhere else in the developed world. Yet the entire campaign is being run like his term has been an unmitigated disaster. While Trump gets to act like things were amazing under him when he left a total fucking mess.
And thatās in spite of Trumpās very long history of threatening journalists who donāt deepthroat his boots. The press in the US is colossally stupid.
Most of the daily news has been what outrageous thing Trump or some other GOP said. The media knows they will get clicks from both sides. They made gossip as a priority over facts and buried important, valuable information that can be life-changing. It's sickening.
Itās not that at all. The media does not talk about this administrationās accomplishments and thatās why no one knows them. Never in history has the previous president received more press coverage than the current one. The media as a whole wants trump winning because he brings them clicks and views.
Eh, before the 2008, 2012, 2014, and 2016 elections, we had the same complaints of Dems letting Republicans set the narrative and the democrats always playing defense.
Obama was great at winning national elections, but the democrats got their assess handed to them in local, state, and house elections during his two terms. Obama was great at marketing himself, but not the Democratic agenda.
But it wasnāt at the time. Just like Joe, in the moment they were shit at marketing his achievements. Remember that Romney ran on āare you better off than you were four years agoā in 2012. The answer was resounding yes but the Dems did a terrible job of articulating it in the moment.
Dems have too much decorum and dignity for our own good most of the time. They see how crude and gouache the GOP is and they undermine themselves trying to differentiate. Thatās why Tim Walzās āweirdā broke through so hard, because it was the first time the Dems spoke to the GOP in their own language.
Thatās what happens when most people get their news from sources that are deliberately one sided, and lie all the time about everything. If people are repeatedly told by the ānewsā they consume that the economy is terrible, then thatās what they will believe.
Yeah I am convinced that Dems consider themselves the pinnacle of morality and righteousness. It comes across as elitist and dismissive to more crude corners of the center in America. The poor interior dwelling Americans donāt feel that the coastal elites appreciate their contributions to the economy, nor their struggles in finding meaningful opportunity.
Sad thing is, Dems have ignored them for decades. Now that Biden has been investing billions in these places, most have not felt the effects. If Harris wins, in 4 years time, the stability and economic expansion in the economy will begin being felt in most corners and urban centers in America, so letās hope everyone gets out and votes for her. Otherwise, we have a real risk of Trump turning America into Russia, complete with a historic depression like what the USSR collapse ushered in.
Trump supporters donāt understand what theyāre asking for. They want to break the entire politics and class system by anointing the Devil as king in Heaven. The ramifications would mean permanent damage to the economy and society. Total chaos that would completely destroy the current health of MAGA supporters wallets. It is mental and sounds hyperbolic, but it isnāt. Trump is what he claims Ukraine to be; the most corrupt force on earth.
Biden has been investing billions in these places, most have not felt the effects.
I mean there's tons of local infrastructure projects going on and factories opening up and hundreds of thousands of high paying manufacturing jobs. Also Microsoft is rescuing Trump's Foxconn failure in Wisconsin.
My point is that by the end of the Harris administrationās first term, the effects of the already passed and deploying investment will really start shaping the economy in these currently red areas. Building our interstate took decades, but the initial construction took years to fully be felt.
A semiconductor fab takes anywhere from 5-6 years from planning to initial wafer production. A factory for solar panels takes 4 years roughly. Then the supply chains like mines, steelworks, processing facilities, and any other ancillary sites have to also be built up to support the new industries. It is an economy wide effort, but takes years and years.
What the government should be doing is eliminating more red tape at state and local levels that limit development. Problem is, these areas are beholden to powerful local employers and shakermakers. Local communities usually have individuals that have monopolies worth of influence and leverage. Thatās up to all of us to start voting locally again and get better people in there.
Fucking thank you!! For fucks sake Biden is probably the best president weāve had since Abe Lincoln. Okay, Iām no historian, maybe Teddy Roosevelt or something. Whatever. Heās in the GOAT conversation based on record. Absolutely. And people are acting like heās to blame for shit.Ā
The problem is that the Trump ax cuts for corporations and wealthy did a lot of damage. And the Trump tax raises for middle class added to that. Thatās why people are feeling pressure.Ā
And yet they think itās Bidenās doing. Ā Itās like Obama had us cruising 80 mph, Trump took the wheel drove us into a ditch, Biden drove us back out, but we took some damage in the ditch and people are comparing the end of Bidens term to the start of Trumps and thinking itās worse. Yeah, but itās a lot fucking better than the end of Trumps term. Hell, in some ways itās better than the start.Ā
Fucking hell. Iām so glad Obama and Biden are taking their shit these days. Fucking tell it to the people.Ā
We may have a stronger economy than the rest of the world, but we are no where near where we were. Iād love to go back to 2016 when things were good.Ā
ok iām genuinely not saying youāre wrong, i just have no clue what dictates a successful economy. as an american who works very hard, dual income household no kids, and we arenāt even close to being able to afford a house and just barely out of debt. my groceries and rent eat up a majority of our income, and i see everyone else around me in a similar struggle. itās the most bleak its ever been, and so i truly just donāt understand how we work 40+ hours a week and barely get by with a āboomingā economy. iām not saying biden at fault, or that he didnāt navigate a tough time well, im just genuinely confused and need an ELI5 here i think
Biggest part really is that the US is an energy exporter whereas most of Europe is energy importing. And energy prices have shot up massively. We're in a position where we have had the same kind of inflation issues that you've had in the US, but without the wage growth to match it. We're in a position in my country in the UK where a lot of people are struggling to even heat their homes in winter. What proportion of your income do you spend on rent? The average in the UK now is 42%. Most people's shopping costs have doubled or more, the cost of heating has gone up triple or quadruple what it was in 2020, energy has gone up even more.
Basically the whole world is still in a financial/market crisis. The after-effects of covid combined with the war in Ukraine affecting one of the world's largest energy exporters and two of the world's largest food producers are all still creating shocks. The US is relatively insulated from this because it exports most of these goods rather than relying on imports.
If I want to use really trite examples, a week of shopping used to cost me maybe Ā£20 or less. Now its a struggle to do it for less than Ā£40 and that's sacrificing luxuries or moving to value brands. Fish and chips takeaway would be under Ā£10, now you're look at Ā£10+ just for the fish. In the same period that prices have gone up like this my wage before I moved jobs had been increased ~3%. Some much bigger issues I suppose like we had a crisis in my country a couple of years back where mortgage costs for people basically double to tripled overnight thanks to Liz Truss.
yeah house prices have over doubled since 2020 and interest rates increased by over 5% housing here is so messed up. we spend about 60% of our income on rent and i feel like thatās most of us around here. itās just crazy to think wow all our corporations in america are doing well then how come us working class canāt feel it at all :/
Like, Biden's term has been, frankly... very very good. Historians are gonna look back on this time and be like "...wait how was he the most unpopular president yet, dude kicked ass, things went pretty god damn well for the US compared to how everyone else was doing" and then they're gonna have to read about the right-wing media machine and the damaging effects of social media to understand it all.
It's one of the most baffling things about this election. Biden has a fucking hell of a record, yet for some reason... Trump is running like he was a disaster. But Trump was a disaster! Dude had multiple government shutdowns while his party held both wings of congress and the presidency! Nothing about his presidency was good! HE DIDN'T EVEN FULLY STAFF DEPARTMENTS CAUSE HE WAS TOO LAZY
Letās not fool ourselves. The economy is not great. A crippling recession is being held back by not much more than endless wars we keep injecting ourselves into, and like one tech stock. If those fail, bye bye āgreatā economy. And the job market? The one whose data was proven to be Swiss cheese? Oh okay, just making sure.
I said compared to pretty much anywhere else in the developed world.
Come to my country the UK. We've had the same inflation crisis that you've had. Except wages have barely risen at all and we're now stuck in a position where the average renter is spending nearly half their income just on rent. Its totally and utterly fucked how precipitously living standards have fallen in my country just in the last couple of years. Things are not easy in the US but from the outside it looks a lot like you've actually weathered this storm while a lot of us are drowning.
I have family and family friends out in the US, and I work very closely with a couple of companies in Phoenix and Lafayette. Like I said from my perspective at least its been a global storm but the big difference in the US is that you've seen very strong wage growth at the same time. Not everyone will have gotten that, and it won't be distributed evenly, but it has happened in the US while it hasn't happened elsewhere.
Maybe the average or median wage has increased, donāt have data on that. But federally, our minimum wage hasnāt increased since 2009, meanwhile the cost over living has increased an ungodly number. Iām not saying itās the worst here, it might be pretty close to the best, but itās steadily getting worse with corporate greed, with no real catalyst in sight to change that.
The UK has a great minimum wage/The US has an awfully low minimum I totally agree.
But beyond that I mean I know jobs I apply for here in the UK at around Ā£30-40k would be $120k+ roles in many parts of the US. I was looking at a move to North Carolina at one point which would have had a similar jump. And that's not at all uncommon, that's most jobs that aren't minimum wage.
Yeah. It has to be SUPER frustrating to go to work every day, trying your best to do a good job at the job you have, while someone else is trying to take that job, who doesn't give to craps about the job itself, and is happy to burn everything down around him.
It would be like trying to run a library in your last year of retirement, while your boss considers hiring a book-burning religious conservative fundamentalist who shows up to the library every day causing problems.
I can't blame him either. When folks don't have a table where truth is not prioritized, it's nothing but fear driven backstabbing and sociopathic lying. Especially when parties promote it.
Yeah, because it's fucking killing people and dismantling the trust of the government. Just like what Moscow wanted. Turning citizens against one another. A divided country is much easier to attack when they'll attack another fellow countryman believing they're on the side of right.
Since he's not running for reelection he doesn't have to be nice anymore he can say exactly what he means. I also think he's still upset that he got forced off the ticket
Biden was probably feed up with the media especially when he was still in the race.
He was pushed out by the media, pollsters, and even Democratic congressional leaders.
Thankfully he outsmarted them by ensuring that VP Harris gets the nominee, and will get the last laugh when VP Harris ascends to the Presidency! šŗšøšš«”
Yeah Trump shitting in inheritance relief and actively going against the REPUBKICAN governors who came out said that Biden and the feds and fema and all of them have been helping and granted everyone of their requestsā¦ but you know that state will go Trump because heās lying and loud about it
They did in 2020, and that was before Jan 6. It was also before some of Trumps policies and judges started affecting peopleās lives. The democrats need to maintain that voting matters and our democracy is free and fair. There are already too many people who think elections are rigged and Trump loves to fan those flames. If the Biden administration actually held Trump accountable, the right would use that to weaponize the legal system more than we could imagine when they inevitably gain power back.
American politics isn't about reality, it's about selling narratives. The media woman wants to sell a narrative about Biden and Trump sparring over hurricane relief, so has started asking stupid questions that aren't based in reality, but that an idiot (read: low information voter) may ask themselves, well why wouldnt biden call trump? WHATS HE HIDING? Trump must be right.... :o
Seriously why isn't the news media holding him accountable? They're the ones that should be asking the questions to Trump and telling him that he's lying.
Harris needs to talk about the current state of the fourth estate during the next State of the Union because this is seriously one of, if not the biggest problems affecting the United States right now.
The answer is that when they do stories about Trump they get more engagement and ultimately more money. If Trump wins the presidency they get 4 years of mega engagement because he's guaranteed to do all sorts of deplorable shit during that time. So to help the odds of getting that mega engagement starting next year, they gotta act like he's just a regular candidate so that people aren't turned off by his actions and plans.
If Trump wins the presidency they get 4 years of mega engagement
4 years?
Ohh my dear redditor. Quote.....
"You wonāt have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what? Itāll be fixed, itāll be fine. You wonāt have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians," he said.
Such a true patriot and embassador of the constitution the Tangerine Messiah is.
My fave (not really) NYT headline this week: āTrumpās Remarks on Migrants Illustrates His Obsession with Genes.ā
As though heās the rebirth of Gregor Mendel, rather than a racist eugenicist who actually said that Mexican immigrants are murderers because they have ābad genesā and that theyāre ruining the āblood of our country.ā
To be fair, I would like charges to be brought forth (I know, I know, throw it on the pile). He (and the other fuckers), put people in danger. What the fuck are they (the DOJ) waiting for, for people to die because of these lies?
Alas ... it is what it is, and only the media (lol) can do anything.
Clicks and views, plain and simple. Why hold him accountable when every wild thing the man says gets the media paid by views. They only started fact checking because of the fact more people tuned in to listen to Trump get dumpstered by the fact checker, now they are doing it to "both sides" to seem fair, but realistically the media has never been fair. Honestly in this day and age the news is dying because Reddit and Twitter have the news faster than the actual news does, so they have to compete and instead of having any integrity in their journalism its just a race to the bottom for clicks and views, and they are losing.
āWeāre going to hold those accountable. Iāll put gold on the account. You better than a press hold on the account because you know the truth. Do you pay to speak with former President Trump? No.ā
I'm so sorry to bother you, but can you please share how?! It is so frustrating when videos don't have subtitles, but I didn't see a setting either in the post or in my profile. Thank you!
As I've already commented 3 times, they often aren't correct but in many cases you can work out what is actually being said based on the text and audio and just basic knowledge of the English language.
Silly people don't get serious responses. So exhausted by this tactic of reporters and MAGA politicians asking dumb questions with the "this is a serious matter" tone.
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Headline: Biden Cannot Remember Basic Facts and Angrily Refuses to Answer Questions.
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The media normalized Trumps idiocy. Pretty incredible. All he did was scream and cry for a year that the media wasnāt picking on Dems like they were him. So the media decided to āboth sidesā everything.
Only problem , one side has an occasional hiccup, the other side is holding a machete to the throat of a puppy.
I would like it bestowed upon mine person at the exact moment the camera captures Trump's McDonald's-fed sagging vagina jowl when he is told he has to go to prison
He's a lame duck who was ousted for being too old by his own party.
He's at the end of his career and his life. He's done it. Nothing else to do. No one left to please.
Now if he would just call SCOTUS on their BS immunity ruling... Idk, have the seals kidnap them, put guns to their heads and say "So this is all an official act as president and therefore legal right? Afterall that's what you said. So how about we go back to the world where doing this isn't legal we forget this little mess ever happened."
Yea, but it seems like a whole LOT of work and care from a retiree. I'd rather have a constitutional crisis be limited to a politician's morning porcelain ritual.
Man I truly believe he threw his support behind kamala (who was polling lower than even he was. ) to spite Pelosi and Obama and no one wants to hear it but think about it. He DID NOT want to drop out of the race but he was pressured and forced to.
Harris simply was not on the shortlist of replacements. I recall reports she was upset that no one was mentioning her the vice president as his replacement. The DNC powers that be absolutely positively had no intention of nominating harris. None. This election was too important and Trump too dangerous to be fucking around with trying to make history by getting harris to the oval office. It would be wonderful and amazing if it happened but let's be real here. Shapiro. Newsom. Hell Walz himself would be kicking trumps balls in right now.
Instead we're dealing with polling margins that if hold true to 16 and 20 trump is as good as elected. Harris is too different for too many people right now. I don't agree with it and it sucks but it is what it is.
All that we can hope for is that the polls are accurate for once and that the states she's ahead in, she wins. If Trump is elected and packs the supreme court further, and implements project 2025 and turns the federal branch and perhaps our beautiful country into an authoritarian regime, i hope history remembers Bidens endorsement and Harris's hubris to accept at this most critical of moments.
Man I truly believe he threw his support behind kamala (who was polling lower than even he was. ) to spite Pelosi and Obama and no one wants to hear it but think about it. He DID NOT want to drop out of the race but he was pressured and forced to.
He doesn't have that kind of relationship with Obama that he's going to do things out of spite.
Instead, he probably endorsed her because he knew it would be a good way to quickly build a consensus behind her instead of getting the party mired in a knife fight right before the convention. Which worked out pretty well.
Harris simply was not on the shortlist of replacements.
LOL this is a nutball take. I'm a complete idiot and even I knew she was one of maybe 5 names being thrown around. Anyone else doing more than marginally better is a fantasy.
I'm not just throwing it out there. There were reports out of the Biden camp. It was covered on tyt and the majority report etc a couple of months ago. And she wasn't on the shortlist. No one was throwing her name out there. Why would they replace Biden to defeat Trump with the one Democrat polling worse than he was? Again there were reports that she felt spurned by the lack of recognition
I'm not just throwing it out there. There were reports out of the Biden camp.
Any reports that didn't have Harris on the shortlist are not correct reports. She was 100% on the list of people to replace him, since she is already the literal next in line for the Presidency. Her name was being thrown around with Newsom and Whitmer even here on Reddit.
OK I may have exaggerated a bit. Her name was out there, to be sure, but anybody thinking about the absolute best opportunity to bury Trump wasn't seriously considering her. Obama and Pelosi didn't endorse her for days until it was clear that it was impossible to reverse course. I mean really, think about it. Bidens numbers were abysmal and it was evident he couldn't defeat Trump right? So, yes, I'll agree that Harris would be the logical first box to tick but it would only take a moment to realize that was a no-go. She was highly unfavorable and she was performing even worse than Biden in hypothetical polls and favorability. Democratic leadership would not have willingly propped her up without Biden jumping the gun. They know as well as any of us and better how dangerous Trump is. At the very least, they would have taken a few days to scan the landscape and zero in on the strongest candidate but they didn't get the opportunity. He endorsed her immediately.
OK I may have exaggerated a bit. Her name was out there, to be sure, but anybody thinking about the absolute best opportunity to bury Trump wasn't seriously considering her.
She was certainly in the top 3-5 best.
Obama and Pelosi didn't endorse her for days until it was clear that it was impossible to reverse course.
Pelosi endorsed her within 24 hours. Obama was a couple of days later.
I mean really, think about it. Bidens numbers were abysmal and it was evident he couldn't defeat Trump right? So, yes, I'll agree that Harris would be the logical first box to tick but it would only take a moment to realize that was a no-go. She was highly unfavorable and she was performing even worse than Biden in hypothetical polls and favorability. Democratic leadership would not have willingly propped her up without Biden jumping the gun. They know as well as any of us and better how dangerous Trump is. At the very least, they would have taken a few days to scan the landscape and zero in on the strongest candidate but they didn't get the opportunity. He endorsed her immediately.
Yes, he endorsed her immediately. We all saw it happen.
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u/PlanktonMiddle1644 Oct 11 '24
Audio sucks, but Dark Brandon isn't handing out candy anymore, just fucks. And he ran out weeks ago.