What progress could they possibly be thinking of?

And then there's the classic lib thought process that criticizing or not voting for Dems means voting for Trump.

Link: https://hexbear.net/comment/4460883

  • CTHlurker [he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Didn't he only lower gas prices because the war he started caused them to spike?

    • OpenStars@startrek.website
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      10 months ago

      The war that he started... while Trump was President?

      Or earlier when Obama was President?

      My point is that there is nuance and subtlety - he may not be the greatest President we've ever had, but then again the challenges he faced while in office were significantly more numerous, diverse, and severe than most any other. Even those who started during wars mainly had just that one thing to do, while he had the border (which he's done little about), the economy (similar), the housing crises (same), jobs (same), the pull-out from Afghanistan (which he f%cked up), and the pandemic (this he did a LOT on tho - remember Trump ordered the vaccines to be created, but then he handed them out only to his friends, and they only would get the 1st of 2 doses, and he was going to leave >4/5ths of Americans without access to them at all... the worst return-on-investment that I've ever heard of, which would make those millions of deaths turn into, well, tens of millions, at least). And I am not even smart enough to realize how all the things that he is not doing are helping us. It is not everything, but neither is it nothing, methinks.

      And if we were allowed to have a primary, any of that might actually matter:-D. The DNC remember is not a democratic, government institution - it is a for-profit private one. We might get the illusion of choosing between two sides, but they are the ones who pick the sides. :-|