Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

BidenWonBigly wrote:

hunter wheres the blow wrote:

The incumbent always has to say things are going well, and the challenger say they aren’t. I don’t think the economy is bad exactly. I also think it’s ridiculous to say it’s really amazing. If the economy was actually amazing right now, we wouldn’t be so worried about Biden being re-elected. The economy is the most important issue to voters. I would agree that low unemployment high inflation is way better than what happened in 2008, but in 2019 we had low unemployment, low inflation, increasing wages, and fair or not, that’s what your average voter will be comparing the current economy to because that’s when Trump was president.

You are assuming that most voters are doing any thinking for themselves. That is incorrect. They are listening to their X / facebook feed that only tells them what will get them clicking and that means what will make them angry, facts or not.

Example 1: Talking to a guy at a car show. Highly skilled blue collar, travels a lot, gets paid very well. Has about 10 classic cars, first one bought in 2020. Said he'd take a pay cut to work locally. Then goes off on the terrible economy, dementia Joe and longs for the good ol Trump days. He is ignoring the facts of his own life in favor of right wing media.

Example 2: Getting work done at a shop, owner tells me he is so busy it is going to take extra time and cost 25% more than 2 yrs ago. Says he is having a difficult time hiring people even for substantially higher wages than a few years ago, but his profits are way up. Then talks about the terrible economy. Media feed overriding his own reality.

comedyre1eaf wrote:

hunter wheres the blow wrote:

The incumbent always has to say things are going well, and the challenger say they aren’t. I don’t think the economy is bad exactly. I also think it’s ridiculous to say it’s really amazing. If the economy was actually amazing right now, we wouldn’t be so worried about Biden being re-elected. The economy is the most important issue to voters. I would agree that low unemployment high inflation is way better than what happened in 2008, but in 2019 we had low unemployment, low inflation, increasing wages, and fair or not, that’s what your average voter will be comparing the current economy to because that’s when Trump was president.

The only reason Biden became president was COVID. He didn’t really do anything to solve it. Ultimately Omicron provided the ultimate “solution”. We still have excess deaths, they just stopped reporting them the way they were. COVID was always going to become endemic.

Nnonquals wrote:

hunter wheres the blow wrote:

Oh right, the dumb people on the right are brainwashed. My favorite argument. Not you though. You're immune. You see through the noise and find the truth, and somehow it's always exactly what you wanted it to be. I think brain surgery is probably less challenging than getting a rich democrat to admit inflation is less than ideal.

Thing is, when you rattle off the many, many absurd things that Trump and his sycophants easily sell to 30-40% of the population, you simply can't find anywhere near that number of equally un-true/inaccurate things successfully being sold to the other 60-70%. In fact, I think that you'd have a hard time getting to 2 or 3 truly equivalent things.

And remember, we're talking about equivalent to election was stolen, COVID will just go away, Mexico will pay for the wall, I didn't try to extort 11,000 Georgia votes, I didn't shake down the leader of Ukraine for a dirty political favor, I didn't say to lock up my political rival MANY times.......

As pointed out so, so many times, there IS no equivalency. In quantity or magnitude.

comedyre1eaf wrote:

hunter wheres the blow wrote:

The incumbent always has to say things are going well, and the challenger say they aren’t. I don’t think the economy is bad exactly. I also think it’s ridiculous to say it’s really amazing. If the economy was actually amazing right now, we wouldn’t be so worried about Biden being re-elected. The economy is the most important issue to voters. I would agree that low unemployment high inflation is way better than what happened in 2008, but in 2019 we had low unemployment, low inflation, increasing wages, and fair or not, that’s what your average voter will be comparing the current economy to because that’s when Trump was president.

The only reason Biden became president was COVID. He didn’t really do anything to solve it. Ultimately Omicron provided the ultimate “solution”. We still have excess deaths, they just stopped reporting them the way they were. COVID was always going to become endemic.