You don’t beat republicans by becoming them. How about instead we actually push policy that is POPULAR to win. Democrats haven’t tried that in decades. Maybe try actually listening to the progressives who built the Democratic Party in the 1st place and the middle class. Y’all can’t win w/o us so..
Who you "ya'll"-ing dude. :P I agree in principle. We need to fight instead of hand-wringing and being morally superior - maybe that's where we disagree. But I absolutely agree on policy. One of the big mistakes made was to insist on a strong economy but miss workers not getting a fair share.
I’m “y’all-ing” the people on the democratic side acting just like MAGA who are incapable of criticizing their own party or admitting they made a mistake. Biden’s fiscal policy makes Eisenhower GOP look far left. Right wing economics have NEVER worked so why is a supposed democrat using them?
WAIT WAIT WAIT. Did you just suggest you are fighting but I’m just hand wringing? HELL NO. Do you have any idea how many protests & town halls I’ve been to? The ones not fighting back are the “centrists” who keep voting for trump policies and trump nominees while getting absolutely nothing in return
There has never been a strong economy with a healthy middle class run by a conservative government anywhere on earth at any time in history. So maybe democrats should stop w the right wing policies? And any objective analysis puts the “centrist” corporate Dems as decidedly right wing not centrist.
Strong economies don’t set record highs for homelessness. Strong economies don’t have a starter home costing over 10x median wage. Strong economies don’t have a min wage worker unable to afford a tiny crappy 1 bedroom apt in any county in America Strong economies don’t see tourism plummet 50%
Why do you think real estate has undergone those changes? What makes you think tourism plummeted 50% during the Biden Administration?
Real estate is very clear &simple. It’s corporate scumbag slumlords & Airbnb. In municipalities that took steps to ban or greatly restrict them prices have plummeted over 20% EVEN IN MAUI. Corporations bought almost half of home sales. THAT is the entire problem. There is NOT a housing shortage
Yea that tourism plummeting was under trump but it’s because of Biden & democrats passing the biggest ICE increase ever & we’re still on his fiscal year.
I'm sorry. You're going to blame Biden for what Trump is doing? Seriously? This isn't a Biden fiscal year. This is absolutely a Trump economy now.
The economy was already ruined under Biden. Trump won’t help but it absolutely did crash under Biden. The president has the authority during national emergency LIKE A PANDEMIC to freeze all prices and it takes a supermajority in both houses to override. Biden CHOSE to let price gouging destroy us
Nothing Biden did puts us on the path we are on now. Trump came in and pulled the rip cord on economic policy. This is Trump's economy. Sweeping price controls are economically and politically dangerous (if not outright illegal). I'll agree that Biden should have done more. But that isn't it.
Biden’s 94 fascist crime bill helped get us here militarizing police. Biden being so goddamn anti immigrant did in fact help move the Overton window. So did his fascist crackdown on protesters. But more than that his LACK OF ACTION doomed us. No accountability for trump No min wage No Roe
Might quibble on some details. But largely agree with you on these statements. Especially a lack of action and bringing accountability.
Not just talking accountability for republicans. Also for people like Gavin Newsom and his wife & the grifting of fire recovery donations. Eric Adams corruption. And on and on.
Obama too. That motherfucker was a bait & switch. He pretended to be Black FDR to get elected and instead we got Black W Bush. He had the dirt on trump Epstein Putin & kept to himself. Deported 4x as many as trumps 1st term. Dropped bombs every day on 7 different countries. Reauthorized patriot act
They are not illegal they are very specifically spelled out in federal law. price gouging is what should be illegal. And Biden doing absolutely nothing about cost of living helped get us here. So did Biden nominating a GOP to run every branch of fed law enforcement so trump wasn’t held accountable
Targeted price controls can be managed. Sweeping price controls aren't that clear cut - and very likely unconstitutional if not political suicide. Ignoring the steps that Administration did take to go after some economic segments.
They are not unconstitutional. MONOPOLIES ARE.
According to who and what law where? That’s just plainly false. They are not illegal they used them in WW2. and if you think it would’ve been political suicide to stop the catastrophic inflation that is destroying our lives you are badly mistaken. Biden’s popularity wouldve skyrocketed 50 points
I’m sorry are you seriously claiming you missed Biden & Harris bragging about how they deported more people than trump and gave ice a bunch more funding all campaign season?
Going down the "border control" rabbit hole was a mistake. Deportations at the border were absolutely up - using Title 42 if I remember right. And yeah - using those metrics to counter MAGA border control narrative was a losing gambit. It was never about the numbers. Trump demonstrates that now.
It’s not border control. It’s a fucking gestapo engaged in the biggest ethnic cleansing operation since the trail of tears. This is exponentially worse than even Japanese internment. And every fucking democrat who voted yes on raising ice budget is just as guilty as trump. They knew what it was for
Are you blaming Biden for Trump's current actions again?
No I’m blaming Biden for his own mass deportations and being a racist pig with decades of known ties to the fucking KKK. You don’t beat trump by becoming trump.
Oh FFS they are both at fault not just one. Yes, trump is directing this now. Yes, Biden and Harris deported WAY more people than Trump’s 1st term, raised the ICE budget, and helped move the Overton window farther right. Criticizing only one side when they’re both doing it is cult behavior
Yes and that’s why democrats trying to “meet in the middle” was a fools errand. Compromise with fascist absolutely never works and even attempting it is abysmally stupid. You just allow them to keep dragging you right a little bit at a time.
Biden Harris spent 24 bragging how many more people they deported than trump. Literally every democrat who brushed off progressives warnings that ICE was gearing up for an ethnic cleansing operation and we needed to defund them is culpable in this.
Biden raised the ICE budget by a record setting amount. He is just as guilty as trump. He’s always been way to the right of Reagan on immigration, far right authoritarian on law enforcement and he’s a huge fucking racist who’s given the eulogy for at least 2 klan members that we know of.
They LIED about a strong economy let’s be clear. The stock market isn’t the economy. What is? Wealth inequality, the worst on record. Adj for inflation the min wage is smallest it’s ever been. Unemployment which they deliberately undercounted. Homelessness which is record high.
Disagree that they lied. Its just that it didn't mean anything to the average American. As I noted - fair share. Put another way, wealth inequality.
Anyone who is brain dead enough to actually believe the economy is good when homelessness skyrockets 50% in less than 3 years, catastrophic inflation has rent doubled in 5 years, groceries up 50%, utilities skyrocketing while min wage unchanged for almost 20 years is too stupid for elected office
No they intentionally LIED. They aren’t dumb enough to misunderstand Literally every metric that told us a big crash was coming in 06 flashing a great big warning light. Foreclosure way up Repo’s way up Defaults way up Home sales down Wages down inflation skyrocketed Homelessness up 50% under Biden