[Trump will be the first President of the United States to leave office having fewer jobs in his administration than when he became President.](https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_46420af7-f98b-46d9-bf71-b5b119a386a6)
[Violent crime is down and the US murder rate is plunging, FBI statistics show](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/10/us/us-violent-crime-rates-statistics)
Remember when we were locked down under Trump for a while because he refused to do anything to help mitigate the effect of COVID? Remember when the economy collapsed at the end of Trump's term? Remember when countries laughed at us and made international deals without involving the US? THOSE were the days! (/s, obviously)
Just to clarify, locking down *was* mitigating the effects of COVID and was done in spite of Trump and Republican state gov's opposition. Doing a lockdown was a good and necessary thing.
Even with the barrel of an overwhelming mass casualty event pressed hard into their temples, Republicans still only begrudgingly and halfway did the right thing, and they screeched like banshees the entire time (some of them are still at it to this day). Lockdown would have been more effective and shorter if the selfish fucks had gotten on board early and adhered to it closely. Instead, the CDC was undermined at every single step and the whole thing was instantly made political when it should have been a slam dunk competency win. Hundreds of thousands of their voters threw themselves into the blender based on lies, and took hundreds of thousands of innocents with them.
A classic example of short term solutions to long term problems. The Republicans only ever take half measures, which end up failing and costing more than just doing it right the first time.
That was kind of my point. If he had told his cult members to shelter inside and worship him indoors, everything would have been over a lot faster. I love how he provided the funding for the vaccine, but his base is still too stupid to get it because they're all hiding in their living rooms waiting for us to become magnetic zombies.
It really is crazy how Trump could have literally just told the country to listen to the experts, and then sit back and let them do everything and it would have been fine, he could have even taken credit for it. All he had to do was go “it’s okay everyone, I’ve got the best doctors here, they’re great doctors, fabulous doctors, very smart, I hired them myself and they’re gonna make sure everything’s okay” and just let them handle the crisis, and he could go back to tweeting and golfing. But instead he absolutely fucks everything up and makes things way worse by opening his mouth
The most annoying thing about COVID conspiracy theorists is their lack of consistency. 9/11 truthers may have been divided on the details, but at least they generally agreed that the conspiracy was that Bush did 9/11. COVID deniers meanwhile are like COVID isn't real, but it's harmless and it was manufactured to kill people, but the vaccines are actually killing people and the masks won't stop COVID from killing people! Maybe hold a meeting and figure out your position?
Reminds me of the folks who said similar things until it affected them, and then they were begging to get the vaccine much too late for it to help.
They died, homie. The only difference between you and them is luck.
No it wasn't. Even the GOP's hallmark of lower taxes is bullshit. When I was a grad student, Dubya taxed my stipend. When Trump was in office, he killed the tax credit for home office equipment - this at a time when people were working from home because of the pandemic. The GOP likes tax cuts for the plutocrat class, while fucking over everyone else.
Under Trump’s tax scam they did away with the personal exemption and just added the amount to the standard deduction. As a result I was no longer able to itemize and deduct my mortgage interest and my taxes actually went up.
We have a sizable number of conservatives who falsely believe that we're in a full-blown recession right now, because that's what their "news" is telling them every day.
It's crazy to hear Republicans try the "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" routine. Four years ago was 2020. Everyone who isn't doing better now than they were then is dead.
They did this with Bush Jr. too. They just want you to think that corruption and human rights violations are the cost of putting the economy back on track, and they don’t want anyone to think too hard about how the economy isn’t actually on track.
That assumes a lot of them to claim Trump was president during 2020. Even in 2020 the Trump campaign would put up video of riots happening at that moment and say "this is what Biden's America looks like."
A lot of the election could be coming down to "who was in charge in 2020?"
All they remember is Trump's little tax trick. The government withheld less money in our paychecks and people had smaller tax returns or owed more taxes at the end of the year.
But all they know is "number went up" and never connected the negative consequences of that to Trump but just "the government" in general.
It was the Tax Cuts and Jobs act. Individual income taxes were *temporarily* lowered. It also removed the individual mandate for health insurance which drove up insurance prices. It also permanently cut corporate taxes.
Then what happened? We ended up having a national emergency. Trump was hoarding appointments so important government jobs were unfilled or held by temps. This is meant to be a TEMPORARY measure while administrations bring in their own people. Trump viewed these appointments as important bargaining chips instead of critical cogs of our system that needed to be filled.
So covid hits and We. Are. FUCKED.
The government could not move to do a goddamn thing it would normally be able to do and we all suffered the consequences.
This will never work for anyone who lost someone during covid. I lost my dad and have never been the same. My dad had Parkinson’s but had a few more years until covid took him. I blame trump and his covid inaction for robbing me of that time with him. I had so much left to say to him. But instead I had to watch him die over facetime. I will never be the man he was and will miss him every day for the rest of my life.
See I remember 100’s of thousand of people dying because Trump ended our virus surveillance program so we were unprepared.
I also remember thdd we piss poor handling of the crisis and millions of jobs being lost.
I remember Trump pumping $7 trillion into the economy and triggering massive inflation.
I remember Trump triggering a trade battle with China that cost American farmers billions of dollars.
I remember Trump validating dictators around the world. Even saluting a top North Korean general. Yet, calling our military personnel suckers.
Etc, etc, etc.
Trump fired the pandemic response team, took the word of a Cameroonian female doctor, hung around a giant cult, and took the word of a dictator at face value when said dictator claimed he had no knowledge of what happened to a student who died after being released from North Korea.
[Trump will be the first President of the United States to leave office having fewer jobs in his administration than when he became President.](https://www.cnn.com/factsfirst/politics/factcheck_46420af7-f98b-46d9-bf71-b5b119a386a6)
[Trump ran up national debt twice as much as Biden: new analysis - Axios](https://www.axios.com/2024/06/24/trump-biden-debt-deficits-election)
[Violent crime is down and the US murder rate is plunging, FBI statistics show](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/10/us/us-violent-crime-rates-statistics)
Americans elected a guy whose catch phrase was “you’re fired” and then we lost our jobs. SurprisedPikachu.jpg
Remember when we were locked down under Trump for a while because he refused to do anything to help mitigate the effect of COVID? Remember when the economy collapsed at the end of Trump's term? Remember when countries laughed at us and made international deals without involving the US? THOSE were the days! (/s, obviously)
Just to clarify, locking down *was* mitigating the effects of COVID and was done in spite of Trump and Republican state gov's opposition. Doing a lockdown was a good and necessary thing. Even with the barrel of an overwhelming mass casualty event pressed hard into their temples, Republicans still only begrudgingly and halfway did the right thing, and they screeched like banshees the entire time (some of them are still at it to this day). Lockdown would have been more effective and shorter if the selfish fucks had gotten on board early and adhered to it closely. Instead, the CDC was undermined at every single step and the whole thing was instantly made political when it should have been a slam dunk competency win. Hundreds of thousands of their voters threw themselves into the blender based on lies, and took hundreds of thousands of innocents with them.
A classic example of short term solutions to long term problems. The Republicans only ever take half measures, which end up failing and costing more than just doing it right the first time.
That was kind of my point. If he had told his cult members to shelter inside and worship him indoors, everything would have been over a lot faster. I love how he provided the funding for the vaccine, but his base is still too stupid to get it because they're all hiding in their living rooms waiting for us to become magnetic zombies.
It really is crazy how Trump could have literally just told the country to listen to the experts, and then sit back and let them do everything and it would have been fine, he could have even taken credit for it. All he had to do was go “it’s okay everyone, I’ve got the best doctors here, they’re great doctors, fabulous doctors, very smart, I hired them myself and they’re gonna make sure everything’s okay” and just let them handle the crisis, and he could go back to tweeting and golfing. But instead he absolutely fucks everything up and makes things way worse by opening his mouth
To this day, they still can’t decide if COVID was: 1. Just the flu. 2. A democratic hoax. 3. Obama’s fault.
It was a bioengineered Chinese biological weapon that didn't make people all that sick, as I recall.
COVID isn’t real
>COVID isn’t real ~~Neither are you.~~ EDIT: COVID is real, but you aren't.
The most annoying thing about COVID conspiracy theorists is their lack of consistency. 9/11 truthers may have been divided on the details, but at least they generally agreed that the conspiracy was that Bush did 9/11. COVID deniers meanwhile are like COVID isn't real, but it's harmless and it was manufactured to kill people, but the vaccines are actually killing people and the masks won't stop COVID from killing people! Maybe hold a meeting and figure out your position?
Why do I give a fuck what other people think?
You should at least care about being coherent if you're gonna put your thoughts out into the world.
Because other people think. Maybe you should observe enough normies so you can learn to think, too.
Reminds me of the folks who said similar things until it affected them, and then they were begging to get the vaccine much too late for it to help. They died, homie. The only difference between you and them is luck.
The jab kills ya
No it wasn't. Even the GOP's hallmark of lower taxes is bullshit. When I was a grad student, Dubya taxed my stipend. When Trump was in office, he killed the tax credit for home office equipment - this at a time when people were working from home because of the pandemic. The GOP likes tax cuts for the plutocrat class, while fucking over everyone else.
Under Trump’s tax scam they did away with the personal exemption and just added the amount to the standard deduction. As a result I was no longer able to itemize and deduct my mortgage interest and my taxes actually went up.
We have a sizable number of conservatives who falsely believe that we're in a full-blown recession right now, because that's what their "news" is telling them every day.
It's crazy to hear Republicans try the "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" routine. Four years ago was 2020. Everyone who isn't doing better now than they were then is dead.
They did this with Bush Jr. too. They just want you to think that corruption and human rights violations are the cost of putting the economy back on track, and they don’t want anyone to think too hard about how the economy isn’t actually on track.
But gas was so much cheaper when everyone was in lockdown and you couldn’t drive anywhere
That assumes a lot of them to claim Trump was president during 2020. Even in 2020 the Trump campaign would put up video of riots happening at that moment and say "this is what Biden's America looks like." A lot of the election could be coming down to "who was in charge in 2020?"
All they remember is Trump's little tax trick. The government withheld less money in our paychecks and people had smaller tax returns or owed more taxes at the end of the year. But all they know is "number went up" and never connected the negative consequences of that to Trump but just "the government" in general. It was the Tax Cuts and Jobs act. Individual income taxes were *temporarily* lowered. It also removed the individual mandate for health insurance which drove up insurance prices. It also permanently cut corporate taxes. Then what happened? We ended up having a national emergency. Trump was hoarding appointments so important government jobs were unfilled or held by temps. This is meant to be a TEMPORARY measure while administrations bring in their own people. Trump viewed these appointments as important bargaining chips instead of critical cogs of our system that needed to be filled. So covid hits and We. Are. FUCKED. The government could not move to do a goddamn thing it would normally be able to do and we all suffered the consequences.
This will never work for anyone who lost someone during covid. I lost my dad and have never been the same. My dad had Parkinson’s but had a few more years until covid took him. I blame trump and his covid inaction for robbing me of that time with him. I had so much left to say to him. But instead I had to watch him die over facetime. I will never be the man he was and will miss him every day for the rest of my life.
See I remember 100’s of thousand of people dying because Trump ended our virus surveillance program so we were unprepared. I also remember thdd we piss poor handling of the crisis and millions of jobs being lost. I remember Trump pumping $7 trillion into the economy and triggering massive inflation. I remember Trump triggering a trade battle with China that cost American farmers billions of dollars. I remember Trump validating dictators around the world. Even saluting a top North Korean general. Yet, calling our military personnel suckers. Etc, etc, etc.
Grandma misses all the race riots we used to have
I guess if you are related to trump, it was.
>EVERYTHING WAS BETTER UNDER TRUMP Not according to Stormy Daniels
This is when you ask for proof. And what’s funny is you never get it. Just word scrambles that make no sense.
Trumpers: Let's conveniently forget that Trump was president at the start of the Covid pandemic.
For who?
Trump fired the pandemic response team, took the word of a Cameroonian female doctor, hung around a giant cult, and took the word of a dictator at face value when said dictator claimed he had no knowledge of what happened to a student who died after being released from North Korea.