LOL. Biden was blaming Trump for stuff up until the final days of Biden’s presidency. Yes, it is perfectly appropriate and correct for a president to point out his predecessor’s failures only a month in.
Joe Biden left the White House nearly a month ago, but he’s never far from Donald Trump’s mind.
The former president has been a recurring punchline – and punching bag – in nearly every appearance Trump has made since returning to power. With Republicans in full control of Washington, Trump is forever in search of a foil and Biden tops the list.
“Much of this stuff is because of Biden,” Trump said last week in the Oval Office, referring to federal employees being allowed to telework. “It’s his fault.”
For Trump, the buck stops with Biden – not with him. It’s a new wrinkle to the sign that sat on Harry Truman’s desk, “The Buck Stops Here,” a phrase has been a guiding principle of most presidents ever since.
So how long does he get? That must mean you believe that the inflation early in Bidens term was due to the previous administration.
When in reality it had everything to do with Covid and the shutdowns. But that didn’t stop Rs from blaming Biden. And now he is STILL blamed. Interesting.
But we have had a steady inflation rate for 18 months. Maybe something else changed.
And who called for the forced Covid shutdowns? Fauci and his Dem patrons. At least he is still two people’s poster child. Except for you and Biden’s pardon, most of us call him criminally liable with Dem support. Dems will always carry responsibility for Covid shutdowns by anyone who considers all the facts, they forced those problems. So no, the early inflation is Dem responsibility as well, as it certainly wasn’t caused by Trump and he would not have shut things down, it was a Dem Congress that did that. You will live with blame as long as you support past Dem spin on that subject just like he should be blamed (or in your eyes lauded?) for the border problem. These, as well as all the Covid money given out that was not used for Covid related projects, and illegal student loan forgiveness are Biden legacies, not that interesting, so don’t look to us. Biden pardoned everyone else, he doesn’t need it and he and his followers deserve that legacy, it is the truth and should stay with him forever.
Let’s say for arguments sake that we want to start blaming Trump for inflation. A steady rate near 3% as Biden’s last 2 years had been (better than the 6-7% rate of his first 2 years, I guess) would be unacceptable. If Trump does not have inflation back down near 2% after 2 years, I will blame him. A steady 3% is still too high. Your champion was still failing the last 2 years too. Inflation is still 50% higher than it averaged over the last few decades in his ‘successful’ years.
So all those shutdowns during the Trump administration were Dem fault??!? Even in the red states?? And the worldwide shutdown that led to the worldwide inflation too?? Man, your selective memory must be a nice way to live.
I don’t blame Trump or Biden, that inflation was hitting no matter what. I am just happy that it wasn’t as bad as other places.
The Covid money Trump gave out too that was abused??
So all those shutdowns during the Trump administration were Dem fault??!?
No. They were caused by the “experts” LYING to Trump. The plan was to disrupt his Presidency, and it worked. THe “Experts” also lied to all the State authorities, of course.
that inflation was hitting no matter what.
Really? Why, pray tell?
Didn’t hit in Sweden nearly as badly, one of the few countries to not shut down. I disagreed with the court of public opinion based on Fauci’s say so back then and overall i would say my beliefs were vindicated. No selective memory, I spoke out for not shutting down throughout the entire Covid scare.
>I don’t blame Trump or Biden, that inflation was hitting no matter what.
I don’t blame Trump either. There were alternative ways to deal with Covid. It was the Dem majority and their LSM news sources that scared the country into forcibly shutting so many businesses down. Like me, Trump was against that as well. I blame Biden because he was the figurehead of the criminals in Congress who perpetrated it so he could get elected and they and their election funds could pocket billions.
Do you think Biden beats Trump if the ‘news’ is giving daily updates on the hopeful status of Op Warp speed rather than a death count? Death counts are another Dem specialty. Remember the daily death tolls from Iraq under Bush? And how there was never another one after Obama was elected? it did not stop when the pull out plan was announced by the Bush Admin that Obama followed, but had nothing to do with. It stopped when Obama won the election. Did the deaths stop right then? Maybe the LSM you read says they did, I dunno.
>The Covid money Trump gave out too that was abused??
Probably. Most of Trump’s exec orders targeted corps and surely some took advantage of it, but i will bet that Trump put none of it in his pocket. The same cannot be said for many Congressional and State politicians throughout the country.
T, not sure you are correct on Sweden.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/529547/sweden-monthly-inflation-rate-of-cpi/
Inflation hit almost everyone due to worldwide disruptions. Labor shortages and shipping rates. We were not immune to that.
And the news SHOULD have been talking about the death toll, don’t hide it. Trump himself was holding regular press conferences with updates.
Didja look at your own link?
Our covid inflation began to sharply increase in April of 2021 and was mirrored world-wide around that time as the West closed down.
April 2021 inflation rate US 4.2%, Sweden 1.8%
Sept 2021 inflation rate US 5.4%, Sweden 1.5%
Jan 2022 inflation rate US 7.5%, Sweden 3.2%
May 2022 inflation rate US 8.6%, Sweden 6%
Sweden’s peak is in 11/22 and the beginning of that peak coincides with the Russo-Ukrainian war which is very much in their sphere of influence. It doesn’t match Covid in any way. This is what happens when you try and use your brain rather than LSM disinformation. You can’t decipher your own information. So yes, I am correct and if you can decipher your link, you should be able to see that it supports my conclusion. Their imports/exports were certainly affected, but it did not start to hurt until war broke out in the area. Maybe I don’t know, what did you see there? Care to elaborate, or are you really just ‘not sure’ because i said it?
>And the news SHOULD have been talking about the death toll, don’t hide it.
So why were there no death tolls at all during Obama years? There was certainly war going on in Afghanistan through his entire peace prize winning tenure. I saw no swine flu totals during that time either. If you are for death notices, why aren’t you upset that they only pop up when non-Dems take responsibility?
T, Ukraine played a role most certainly at the peak. Energy costs. But they were climbing before that. As well as supply chain issues from COVID. They were able to push it back, but were not immune to it. World.wide. At least that is what their own reports say.
And even if you don’t believe their own reporting, they are an outlier. And while they didn’t shutdown they did force distancing in certain spaces and their culture is much more homogeneous and listens to experts. Less of a rebel streak we have. And they are generally a healthier group.
The swine flu didn’t cause a worldwide shutdown. It sucked, but was not nearly as deadly. There were not bodies piling up. The optics and situations were different.
>T, Ukraine played a role most certainly at the peak. Energy costs.
And you believe that for a full year while world inflation was increasing great guns and Sweden stayed flat then increased even faster a full year after shutdowns were enacted worldwide just means they had a delayed reaction to Covid? Okay, believe that, but that was not said by Swedish reports. No country that shut down stayed even close to flat, but then the entire region around Ukraine and Russia followed Sweden’s ascent in inflation as tensions increased beginning the summer before the war broke out, so I will believe that the Swedish inflation increase was primarily caused by that because the graphs match up with that event while not coinciding with Covid patterns.
Was Sweden affected? DUH!!!!!!! Did I say immune? Of course losing many of their trading partners to shutdowns impacted them, but their inflation remained largely unaffected during the lion’s share of the shut down by the rest of the world. Inflation was the topic, not all effects caused by Covid. And inflation was not just caused by ports greatly limiting imports and exports. Experts say that it was primarily caused by closing down tens of thousands of businesses by force. The fact Sweden is largely a homogenous people (and relative to the rest of the world much more spread out geographically) has nothing to do with whether inflation increased. I saw no information given by you or elsewhere that Sweden was only able to push back inflation by staying up and running as an economy.
>The swine flu didn’t cause a worldwide shutdown.
Neither did the war in Iraq. My comment there was aimed specifically at death counts, not inflation. Face it, your misdirections and non-germane segues usually won’t work on me.
>And while they didn’t shutdown they did force distancing in certain spaces and their culture is much more homogeneous and listens to experts.
Another interesting conclusion you came to here. Most people would conclude that they did NOT listen to experts by not shutting down and what expert opinions they did listen to were completely false and thus useless. The conclusion this fact leads me to is that Swedes are not mere sheep governed by wolves. It leads me to believe that their Government cares a bit more about their population as a whole than the rest of the world. It is supported by your last comment on that paragraph:
>And they are generally a healthier group.
All of the Scandinavian countries are and that is largely because their FDA equivalent bans much of the shit that our FDA approves to be put into our food. And ours does it because they are lobbied (read legally and illegally paid) by the giants of the food industry to approve all kinds things banned in other countries.
>It sucked, but was not nearly as deadly. There were not bodies piling up.
Oh lord you are an idiot.
and their culture is much more homogeneous
Except for the “No-Go” zones……..which we do NOT have in the USA.
https://www.newsweek.com/sweden-police-vulnerable-areas-no-go-zones-628029
Homogeneity is a relative, sometimes, thing.