Just Politics

[jbsliverer]

I would say we're better off. At least the current President isn't mass killing us and selling our national secrets to foreigners or selling a can of beans from the presidency for favors and personal gain. The stock market is better off. What do you consider better off? Jobs are better. Wages are better compared to historical differences in inflation and increase in a wages together. Infrastructure attention and funding for it greatly improved, attention to our climate crisis, even though not even close to enough, has greatly improved compared to trump. We've started to minimize dependence on China and other sources, making good progress or at least more than any time in current history and a lot more than trump did, which is pretty much nill. Trump took in millions from China and put it in his pocket.

Border wasn't secure, hasn't been secure for ages and trump didn't secure it, had a cheap barrier that literally blew over several times in as little as 30 mph gusts and was put up without any supporting mechanisms to make it any real barrier which promptly was penetrated on a regular basis and causing constant repair and damage replacement ever since. At one point, trump released more migrants into the US percentage wise than Biden. Don't really fault him for that part other than he was just focusing on the political theater for himself with a "wall", and only doing a half ass job protecting the border.

Without the manpower, resources, and means (money from congress), barriers are worthless and won't stop the onslaughts of migrants. Plus most of trump's barriers was just replacement and repair of old barriers, and very little of a new wall comparatively. Barriers are still continuing to being put up, using the money that was appropriated from congress for it from the trump's time. That's just his job following a structured system and the laws of governing.

Laws are made in congress, funding from congress. When republicans had the house, senate, and the white house, did they do anything that would change the laws regarding our migrant problem? No. Why trump failed in court with his policies on immigration and other issues, and that was with a lot of republican judges. The president has to follow the laws, if the laws don't address the problem, congress has to get to work and do their job. For reference see this site;
https://policyintegrity.org/trump-court-roundup Use the drop down lists for different queries.

What are the republicans doing now under direction of trump? Blocking the funds that would help secure our border and just using immigration for political fodder.

Just one example, there's lots of them;

Scanners that spot smuggled fentanyl at the border sit unused because Congress hasn't provided the cash to install them
The money to install the screeners was in the supplemental funding request Republicans blocked.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/border-fentanyl-scanners-unused-congress-provided-no-money-rcna141432

Inflation is a pretty complex subject, causes of and beginning of a flaring inflation begins before it actually happens, sometimes way before and it definitely doesn't happen overnight or just because administrations change in the short run. It also can become sticky even if all the right things are done. What was the cause of recent inflation? 40-50% was caused by corporate greed, so there's that out of the way. We had a devastating virus that killed millions with trump and republican party killing 100's of thousands of people helping that kill rate along. I for one will never forget or ignore the massive slaughter they perpetrated, neither will all the ones left that lost and still losing. It was a crime against humanity. Expenses from that crime are still being paid, some to never recover from the financial burden that was put upon them, let alone the emotional, physical, and mental damage that followed. All contributing to the inflation rate.

Supply and demand issues entailed a big part. Trump and the republicans taking from the poor and giving to the rich didn't help anything out. You own a house? How's your insurance rates going? The climate crisis, in which trump did everything he could to hide it, and favor the fossil fuel industry taking kickbacks from them in the form of political funding for himself at the cost put to us. The insurance industry lost 120 Billion last year to the climate crisis. We've got to pay for that and we will. Even if you rent, the insurance rates have a lot to do with increases in your rent, also has a lot to do with anyone's ability to buy a house or maintain it. That's part of the inflation rate and not Biden's doing. You bring up cost of gas, blaming President Biden for it. There's evidence of price manipulation by oil companies controlling the price affecting gas prices at the pump. That's nothing new, they've been controlling and buying politicians and justices for quite a while. Why the environmental mess we're in. Are you aware that the trump administration allowed for full control and ownership of one of the largest refining plant and a jewel of refining plants in Texas to the Saudi's? They import a lot of their own oil in, refine it here in the states at their own plant, and sell it to the American people. I'd say that's a part of inflation and what we pay at the pump. Trumps family got billions from the Saudi's, so I guess it paid him to look the other way,

And if an administration is given an utter mess to deal with like President Biden had/has to deal with, it takes a lot to come out of it, especially with a disjointed and conflicting congress following instructions from a guy who has no business instructing, telling them to sabotage anything President Biden does no matter what, no exceptions, conflict and mayhem creation allowed only.

There was war and conflicts, people killing people, constant cyber attacks upon us from Russia, North Korea, and China. You want to blame President Biden for Putin attacking Ukraine, blame Biden for some terrorists attacking Israel, please. If trump had his way, Russia could take over the world as long as there's something in it for him.

I could go on, but I think that's more than enough. Don't want to overdo it. lol. I'll let it go and agree with you on one point, if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.


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