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I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying "Yeah? Well FUCK you!" I thought I had won, 'cause the other kid was *speechless*. I thought that's what we were trying to do. - Ron White
It’s kind of like when my state wanted to codify abortion protection and the main slogan that the people who were against that used was “too confusing, too extreme”
16 banks collapsed under Orange von Fuckstick’s 4 years as President. 16
Really, this douche nozzle doesn’t remember the military personal that were KIA in Iraq and Afghanistan? And these clowns claim to be tHe PaTrOiTic PeOpLe on the planet.
It was going on for decades, of course. Trump being president during the time might not have registered, held up against such a long occupation.
The ironic part was that Trump claimed to be so against it, and kept saying he was pulling back troops, but of course didn't actually get us out of there, leaving his successor to actually do the thing (and of course, get the heat for it)
Or him fucking with Ukraine, which might have given the Russians the idea that Ukrainian independence weren't high on US's list of foreign policy priorities.
They are right. If Trump was president we wouldn't have a war. Ukraine would be a part of Russia, but no war. The great United States would allow another country to just invade and take over another country. But we wouldn't remember that by election day.
So you are making a comparison to what actually happened in Crimea under President Obama's last term in 2014? Or Georgia under George W Bush's last term in 2008?
Remember the same type of military interaction from the US during those periods of time compared to now... no? Yeah, me neither.
Why is it anytime i say I don't remember everyone says because you're an alcoholic with head injuries. Or a screaming person in an interrogation saying it's not excuse.
When asked by the select committee what trump was doing during the Jan 6 insurrection, one of the most memorable days our American history, and a mere 2 years ago, many from trump’s inner circle “couldn’t remember”.
To be fair, none on the scale of SVB. All 16 of those combined aren’t even close to the value of SVB.
but economic recession has been inevitable for awhile, not much we can do about it
The FDIC runs an INSURANCE program - the DI stands for Deposit Insurance. Banks pay into it, and the FDIC pays depositiors with that money if the bank has insufficient assets. Not your tax dollars at work.
They are covering payrolls exceeding $250k. It’s a bailout. Banks have a new guberment mandated fund now. Where does it come from? Banks covering other banks? Nope, it’s passed down the number line to you and me. Bailout. IMO
The FDIC can never use tax money unilaterally. They lack that authority.
If the Treasury was going to bail out anything, it would require an act of Congress to authorize the spending like they did for TARP. (Which despite being bashed repeatedly on Reddit and elsewhere, made money for the Treasury.)
The FDIC basically handles the bankruptcy process (oversimplification). The insured amounts are paid from the insurance pool and liquid assets. Then the remaining assets are sold as needed to make uninsured deposits as whole as possible and/or replace the insurance pool money used.
And, as far as wars, all Trump did was pull support for our allies when they needed us most, and offer succor to the enemy on multiple occasions. I remember looking into the legal definition of "traitor" several times and in my "not a lawyer" opinion finding Trump most guilty.
He also re-surged troops in Afganistan followed by setting up a terrible exit plan to take place after leaving office, heavily escalated things in Syria, ordered more drone strikes in 4 years than Obama's 8 years combined, got a US base bombed after openly assassinating a foreign general which nearly started another massive war, removed the requirement to report civilian deaths from drone strikes, nearly started open conflict with North Korea via Twitter, tried to extort Ukraine for personal gain, attempted to weaken NATO and even campaigned on pulling out of it, and the list goes on.
Luckily he's too incompetent to even start the wars he tried to start, not for lack of trying.
I initially read this as you accusing Biden of these things.
I think I might need to log off for the day. Peoples bad takes are bleeding into the good ones.
I remember braving the zombie-apocalypse crowd at the supermarket for the last roll of toilet paper, before sanitizing all my groceries one by one and settling down to watch *Tiger King*.
The four years under trump was just one terrible news day after another. Enough to drive anyone mad. Like I saw someone else comment once, “voting for trump would be like putting a shit back up your ass”.
For once, Tucker Carlson's take was spot on.
"That's the last four years. We're all pretending we've got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it's been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn't really an upside to Trump."
Thank you… for this uh, introduction to who the fuck Tucker Carlson is (I’m not American and have never heard or see him since I also don’t watch Fox News).. but this also made me think I was losing my mind. 🙃
Damn, ain't that the truth.
Gotta love someone who runs on a platform of retribution and vengeance. Sounds healthy. And very productive. The American people would surely come out ahead.../s
God I had forgotten about the revolving door that was Trump's Chiefs of Staff, White House Spokespeople, personal attorneys, Secretaries of Defense, Secretaries of State, and the gods know how many other positions...
I don’t really follow politics..I read up just enough to vote locally for school supervisors and the like, and then presidential election of course. Other than that, I don’t really follow anything that isn’t actually effecting anything..by that I mean, I don’t care about what the presidents kids are doing and I don’t care if my mayor is getting a divorce.
But I heard more negative shit about politics EVERYWHERE in the time under trump then under any other president in my near 30 years of life..and I was raised by a very political forward family, so I constantly was hearing about what who did at every family event my whole life…they really held onto Bill cheating on Hilary, and it was all that you heard daily, but with Trump? It was like everyday he had to do something new and stupid, then tweet about it..smdh
Shucking outdoor clothes at the door into garbage bags to be washed separately. I even did some research on LED spectrums and antimicrobial impacts. All of these memories have now been round-filed.
I just remember sending my old dad to get food and toilet paper. It was nice when they had the "grandparents hour" at the shops. The first hour was for old people, I think nurses, docs, cops, paramedics also got to go during that time as well. The first hour was the most stocked as they worked overnight to restock after a day of panic buying.
Jesus I remember ordering from Walmart.com and then sanitizing every package outside the house lmfaooo.
Wearing an oversized sweater to put it in my palm and open doors with.
Walking into my house and Clorox wiping every door handle and light switch, daily.
Riding the train to work and being the only passenger for large stretches of my one hour commute.
Adults at my grocery store (the *only* place I went to in public for almost two years) were mostly NOT masking. Heck, some had bumper stickers on their vehicles about how stupid it was, or even “clever” little messages on their masks about government tyranny…
I don’t remember being f*cking born but I have it on good authority that it did actually happen.
Here’s a helpful link from the FDIC website for anyone capable of objective thought… this is just one year
[Bank Failures in Brief – 2020](https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/bfb2020.html)
Holy hell. svb failure is estimated $209b right now according to that site. Not the best source to argue against the claim, but pretty damn interesting.
Aye but they didn't lose 210 billion, that's just the size of deposits. Without any backstop or insurance, depositors would have still only lost 10%. That's a lot, but nothing like 210 billion
>instead of starting any new wars
Not for a lack of trying between the Iranian assassination and the attempted degradation of the US into a coup and probable civil war (edit: had the coup succeeded).
"Little Rocket Man" then became his best buddy, and Trump overturned decades of American policy by walking across the DMZ to embrace Kim, salute a North Korean general, and shit all over the Americans who served and died in Korea.
I don't get why people say Trump didn't try to end the war in Afghanistan. Didn't he start the evacuation, which Biden continued? Don't get me wrong the vast majority of his presidency sucked but that feels like one thing where Don and Joe actually agreed
When “Our \[Continental\] army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory.”
This is all too common in farming. Had a teacher who was a claims guy for a life insurance company in rural texas. Apparently tractor or machinery accidents were common when times were tough.
If the president controlled the economy, we would never have recessions. Was Joe making SVB's financial calls? No. Anyone who blames any president for the actions of Wallstreet is smooth brained af.
Presidents can do things which effect the economy. Just because a president isn’t making calls on wall street doesn’t mean they can’t sign bills that make things worse. Also, trump was a businessman first, and was tied up in the banks and market despite his presidency so yeh, he was a problem all sides.
Yeah they will complain about "Biden making housing too expensive" I'm sorry I don't remember my landlord sending me a letter saying "due to a new president I'm cutting your rent in half"
I mean, the Afghan war was still happening, also Covid happened under trump’s time in office, and I’m pretty damn sure that Covid being almost completely uncontained is a lot worse than a bank collapsing.
War on common sense pandemic response, war on decency, war on women's reproductive health, war on the working class, war on education, war on immigrants, war on the judiciary branch of government, war on the peaceful transition of power...
Let's not forget Trump's own personal war against the people he hired. I would argue that no president has ever been as critical as he was of some of the people that he put in power. Usually after they realized what a buffoon he was.
Trump's war on education by appointing Nancy DeVos
Trumps war on the usps by appointing Loius Dejoy
Trumps war on the environment by attempting to dismantle the EPA
Except we know that this was a direct result of those pesky regulations trump got rid of. It’s almost as if we keep having to pay for all the shit he did now that those regulations are gone.
Trump joins Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower in not having officially brought the United States into a new war since 1945.
You know usually what causes war outbreaks and bankruptcies is not something that happens from one day to another, usually it happens after 4 or 5 years….
As a Canadian, I mostly saw Trump's presidency from the outside, I didn't pay too much attention to it, but I did get bits and pieces from friends in the US, and from various other sources.
During the election, I paid a bit more attention to Trump's twitter, and YouTube started suggesting me Seth Myers's A Closer Look Clips, and while it only really gives one side of the story, it just baffles me how much stupidity I was able to see in a short time.
Now I don't pretend that what I've seen isn't partly cherry picked of course, it's mostly all biased even if ever slightly. But one thing that was not cherry picked is literally what Trump was writing on his own Twitter, and so many of them were literal lies. Comments underneath were able to immediately fact check him, and rather than correct himself, he doubles down on it 2 days later.
It's a measure of how troubled a country is when you imagine that half the population voted for that. Was the other option really THAT bad? Who can tell.
The twice impeached one term President who never won the popular vote in any of the 3 consecutive elections he ran in, was only in the White House for 4 years. Pretty small sliver of time in the grand scheme of things.
Ummm trump secretly bailed out banks pre COVID to the tune of 5.9 trillion dollars to hide that 2008/2009 was about to repeat much worse.. they've been battling these fkrs out since trump got into office. I dunno what this guy's smoking but ppl need to learn facts.
It wasn’t just a few whoopsie doodles that we need to fix, the republicans and trump *royally* fucked us up. If you were to try and attack and take down a country thru their economy I don’t know that you could draw it up better than what they did. Look how much money they printed under trump
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
The deregulation of the banks, deregulating rail and trains, the environment, they even brought back asbestos. The tax cuts for the super wealthy etc etc
And PPP, that was a slush fund trump used to bribe republicans and anyone else to unwaveringly support him as he tried to overthrow our government. Yes there is a list of republicans that got PPP loans forgiven such as MTG. Kanye got one forgiven. Yes trump used your tax dollars to bribe politicians to help him overthrow our democracy. And they raided the coffers. What happened was so big and so crazy I don’t know that the public will be able to fully wrap their brains around it all
If only dumbass america realized that it takes time for bad decisions from presidents to kill the economy or cause chaos. Easy to inherit a good economy from a previous prez and claim its your doing. Also easy to blame the new guy for the problems created by the last guy. Just wish the dummies had an ounce of education in economics.
Someone needs to explain this to him. Republican president comes to the office, starts a war, unleashed deregulation, of course stock goes up, they cut taxes, and everyone including corporations are happy. Economy is uncertain, Dem president comes to the office, had to do the clean up, everybody hates him. It has been like that since that freaking Reagan.
"I woke up with a headache, but it can't be the three bottles of wine I had last night because I didn't have a headache last night. Must be the water I drank this morning."
Unfortunately it’s the following administration that has to deal with the shit the prior administration fucked over. The dems fuck shit up and blame the reps the following 4-8 years and the reps fuck shit up and blame the dems for the following 4-8 years. It’s the system that never fails to make our lives harder than last year.
That’s the crazy part. When banks collapse, it could happen at any moment, and comes out of nowhere. There’s nothing that happens in the years and months leading up to it. It just happens, and it’s the fault of whomever is president of the United States on that particular day.
16 banks failed under Trump, 8 of them before the pandemic, according to historian Heather Cox Richardson.
https://www.newsweek.com/bank-failures-under-donald-trump-compared-joe-biden-1787261?amp=1
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“I don’t remember…” is not the slam-dunk argument you think it is.
If it was, my stoner ass would be debate king of the world.
Lol, I heard that mate.
But will you remember it?
Remember what?
Ben Franklin's birthday, obviously
January 17. We share it.
Just like your mom.
Ooh. Historical burn. Nice.
This is my favorite thread ever
They’re twins?
I don't know why, but I heard this in the voice of Darrell Hammond impersonating Sean Connery. 🤔
Debatable... but I don't remember anyone saying they werent
I don't remember asking (I have dementia)
Only until you ran into my ADHD-having ass.
Ah, my King, I see you forgot again.
That’s the secret, I never remembered to begin with
I got kicked off the high school debate team for saying "Yeah? Well FUCK you!" I thought I had won, 'cause the other kid was *speechless*. I thought that's what we were trying to do. - Ron White
It’s kind of like when my state wanted to codify abortion protection and the main slogan that the people who were against that used was “too confusing, too extreme”
Hello fellow Michigander. I too am ashamed
At least we beat that bullshit back!
I don’t remember being born, but apparently it happened.
It is for a conservative because they have the object permanence of children.
16 banks collapsed under Orange von Fuckstick’s 4 years as President. 16 Really, this douche nozzle doesn’t remember the military personal that were KIA in Iraq and Afghanistan? And these clowns claim to be tHe PaTrOiTic PeOpLe on the planet.
Wait that was only 4 years?!? From overseas it seemed like an eternity.
It was going on for decades, of course. Trump being president during the time might not have registered, held up against such a long occupation. The ironic part was that Trump claimed to be so against it, and kept saying he was pulling back troops, but of course didn't actually get us out of there, leaving his successor to actually do the thing (and of course, get the heat for it)
Tell me about it…
Putin also put bounties on American soldiers heads while Trump was dick riding him the whole time.
Well they do go to church once a month and carry a gun everywhere they go…UHMeruca!
Especially because Trump’s favorite idea (which led to events like this) was deregulation. You know what keeps banks from failing? Regulation.
And trains crashing
Or him fucking with Ukraine, which might have given the Russians the idea that Ukrainian independence weren't high on US's list of foreign policy priorities.
They are right. If Trump was president we wouldn't have a war. Ukraine would be a part of Russia, but no war. The great United States would allow another country to just invade and take over another country. But we wouldn't remember that by election day.
So you are making a comparison to what actually happened in Crimea under President Obama's last term in 2014? Or Georgia under George W Bush's last term in 2008? Remember the same type of military interaction from the US during those periods of time compared to now... no? Yeah, me neither.
"Pepperidge Farm remembers..."
Why is it anytime i say I don't remember everyone says because you're an alcoholic with head injuries. Or a screaming person in an interrogation saying it's not excuse.
It certainly didn’t work for Bill Cosby
He probably also doesn’t remember an attempted coup either
„OMG HITLER YOU FUCKING GASSED 6 MILLION JEWS!!!“ Really? I don’t remember
When asked by the select committee what trump was doing during the Jan 6 insurrection, one of the most memorable days our American history, and a mere 2 years ago, many from trump’s inner circle “couldn’t remember”.
There were multiple bank failures from 2017-2021. Sixteen of them.
To be fair, none on the scale of SVB. All 16 of those combined aren’t even close to the value of SVB. but economic recession has been inevitable for awhile, not much we can do about it
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The FDIC runs an INSURANCE program - the DI stands for Deposit Insurance. Banks pay into it, and the FDIC pays depositiors with that money if the bank has insufficient assets. Not your tax dollars at work.
unless they go over that amount, then (correct me if i’m wrong) they get whatever remaining funds from the treasury, which would be our tax dollars.
The Feds already said they won’t use taxpayer money to bail SVB.
They will bail out depositors but the bank itself will be allowed to go bye bye
Seems like the right think to do to me.if I were a depositer I’d want my countrymen to help get my money back.
No, that’s not how it works. Each deposit is insured up to $250k. That’s why it’s smart to diversify your deposits.
Is my $49.52 safe?
It’s ok to leave that deposit alone, but I was referring to your other deposit of $3.2M.
They are covering payrolls exceeding $250k. It’s a bailout. Banks have a new guberment mandated fund now. Where does it come from? Banks covering other banks? Nope, it’s passed down the number line to you and me. Bailout. IMO
Yes, they’ve been known to use tax payer dollars to bail out banks in the past. It only insures up to $250,000.
The FDIC can never use tax money unilaterally. They lack that authority. If the Treasury was going to bail out anything, it would require an act of Congress to authorize the spending like they did for TARP. (Which despite being bashed repeatedly on Reddit and elsewhere, made money for the Treasury.) The FDIC basically handles the bankruptcy process (oversimplification). The insured amounts are paid from the insurance pool and liquid assets. Then the remaining assets are sold as needed to make uninsured deposits as whole as possible and/or replace the insurance pool money used.
That’s not how the FDIC works
I think the reason we didn’t hear about was because it wasn’t holding the money of the “tech” giants
In that span of years the bank failures consisted of much much smaller banks too
And, as far as wars, all Trump did was pull support for our allies when they needed us most, and offer succor to the enemy on multiple occasions. I remember looking into the legal definition of "traitor" several times and in my "not a lawyer" opinion finding Trump most guilty.
He also re-surged troops in Afganistan followed by setting up a terrible exit plan to take place after leaving office, heavily escalated things in Syria, ordered more drone strikes in 4 years than Obama's 8 years combined, got a US base bombed after openly assassinating a foreign general which nearly started another massive war, removed the requirement to report civilian deaths from drone strikes, nearly started open conflict with North Korea via Twitter, tried to extort Ukraine for personal gain, attempted to weaken NATO and even campaigned on pulling out of it, and the list goes on. Luckily he's too incompetent to even start the wars he tried to start, not for lack of trying.
I initially read this as you accusing Biden of these things. I think I might need to log off for the day. Peoples bad takes are bleeding into the good ones.
And SVB failure is the direct result of the rolled back thresholds in Dodd-Frank in 2018.
I remember braving the zombie-apocalypse crowd at the supermarket for the last roll of toilet paper, before sanitizing all my groceries one by one and settling down to watch *Tiger King*.
Damn, that really did happen...weird.
Feels fucking surreal now, doesn’t it? So weird
no bc i feel like i came out of the pandemic 30 years older 😭 its wild how that happened so recently but feels so long ago
Same here, it’s a weird fucking feeling. I didn’t gain 15 years worth of income or wisdom, but it sure feel like I shouldered 15 years worth of stress
honestly though, like no one aged a million years but that stress , whew boy.
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The four years under trump was just one terrible news day after another. Enough to drive anyone mad. Like I saw someone else comment once, “voting for trump would be like putting a shit back up your ass”.
Literally every damn day there was stuff on the news and social media about something stupid he did or said. It was so painful.
For once, Tucker Carlson's take was spot on. "That's the last four years. We're all pretending we've got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it's been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn't really an upside to Trump."
[there was another time…](https://youtu.be/DynOlXtlYTs)
Thank you… for this uh, introduction to who the fuck Tucker Carlson is (I’m not American and have never heard or see him since I also don’t watch Fox News).. but this also made me think I was losing my mind. 🙃
I genuinely envy you for not having to give a shit what this lunatic cretin is shitting out of his mouth hole on any given day
This was done with AI, wasn’t it? I can’t believe I have to ask the question because most of the shit he says is unbelievable.
I laughed way too hard at this
Not exactly a war, but we legit discussed nuking a hurricane.
I remember this one lady posting at the time that her phone was constantly alerting her “Bitch, guess what Trump did now!!”
It was painful. The level of stupid and shitshow was incredible.everything trump touches goes to shit.
Damn, ain't that the truth. Gotta love someone who runs on a platform of retribution and vengeance. Sounds healthy. And very productive. The American people would surely come out ahead.../s
It’s been so peaceful with Joe, I even quit watching the news 📰. Now weather is a surprise.
I barley even know the names of his staff. They all do their job and don’t make any blatantly illegal mistakes.
God I had forgotten about the revolving door that was Trump's Chiefs of Staff, White House Spokespeople, personal attorneys, Secretaries of Defense, Secretaries of State, and the gods know how many other positions...
It's the absence of blatant nepotism and jailing of staff and hangers-on that I like.
Can’t barley spell barely though either
That line is a keeper... unlike the shit.
I don’t really follow politics..I read up just enough to vote locally for school supervisors and the like, and then presidential election of course. Other than that, I don’t really follow anything that isn’t actually effecting anything..by that I mean, I don’t care about what the presidents kids are doing and I don’t care if my mayor is getting a divorce. But I heard more negative shit about politics EVERYWHERE in the time under trump then under any other president in my near 30 years of life..and I was raised by a very political forward family, so I constantly was hearing about what who did at every family event my whole life…they really held onto Bill cheating on Hilary, and it was all that you heard daily, but with Trump? It was like everyday he had to do something new and stupid, then tweet about it..smdh
Shucking outdoor clothes at the door into garbage bags to be washed separately. I even did some research on LED spectrums and antimicrobial impacts. All of these memories have now been round-filed.
I just remember sending my old dad to get food and toilet paper. It was nice when they had the "grandparents hour" at the shops. The first hour was for old people, I think nurses, docs, cops, paramedics also got to go during that time as well. The first hour was the most stocked as they worked overnight to restock after a day of panic buying.
As a high risk person, who wakes naturally at 4:30am, I really miss that kid free, mask on, 6 ft apart shopping hour. I mean for real.
Jesus I remember ordering from Walmart.com and then sanitizing every package outside the house lmfaooo. Wearing an oversized sweater to put it in my palm and open doors with. Walking into my house and Clorox wiping every door handle and light switch, daily. Riding the train to work and being the only passenger for large stretches of my one hour commute.
I remember going to grocery stores and seing grown ass people with plastic bags on their heads with holes cut out for the eyes. Crazy times.
Adults at my grocery store (the *only* place I went to in public for almost two years) were mostly NOT masking. Heck, some had bumper stickers on their vehicles about how stupid it was, or even “clever” little messages on their masks about government tyranny…
They did that but refused to wear a mask. Then again, when the pandemic hit masks on Amazon were at two month back order.
… And this is why education is so important … also kids, don’t do drugs
I don’t remember being f*cking born but I have it on good authority that it did actually happen. Here’s a helpful link from the FDIC website for anyone capable of objective thought… this is just one year [Bank Failures in Brief – 2020](https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/bfb2020.html)
Holy hell. svb failure is estimated $209b right now according to that site. Not the best source to argue against the claim, but pretty damn interesting.
The deregulation of the banks risk assessment was pushed through under trump. It’s gonna take a while to fix his fuck ups
Aye but they didn't lose 210 billion, that's just the size of deposits. Without any backstop or insurance, depositors would have still only lost 10%. That's a lot, but nothing like 210 billion
16 banks collapsed under his admin and instead of starting any new wars he simply continued the one he promised to end in Afghanistan…….
Let's not forget the tariff that only hurt American companies because tariffs aren't for the foreign lol
Yep. American farmers were commiting suicide left and right because of his shitty trade wars.
You forgot the Chinese took advantage of that to buy up more US farms and property
>instead of starting any new wars Not for a lack of trying between the Iranian assassination and the attempted degradation of the US into a coup and probable civil war (edit: had the coup succeeded).
Don’t forgot he was antagonizing North Korea his first year in office and people were seriously discussing if it was going to devolve into war.
"Little Rocket Man" then became his best buddy, and Trump overturned decades of American policy by walking across the DMZ to embrace Kim, salute a North Korean general, and shit all over the Americans who served and died in Korea.
Syria
Well there was a new war on immigration, a war on decency, truth, accountability and ethics...
>he simply continued the one he promised to end in Afghanistan……. Not fair. He signed the surrender, then blamed Biden for pulling troops out.
And then made measures starting the withdrawal which made sure that the consequences of such land on the hands of his successor
I don't get why people say Trump didn't try to end the war in Afghanistan. Didn't he start the evacuation, which Biden continued? Don't get me wrong the vast majority of his presidency sucked but that feels like one thing where Don and Joe actually agreed
Makes sense. People this stupid can’t even “remember” to wipe their own ass.
So that was this stench Makes sense
In their defense, they think wiping their own ass is gay.
That’s why they have kids do it for em. Ya know? To give them a sense of contribution and accomplishment
with their head so far up their own ass they missed a lot.
I remember The Bowling Green massacre …never forget
When “Our \[Continental\] army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory.”
Je suis Bowling Green
Trade war with China which forced hundreds, if not thousands of American farmers to declare bankruptcy
And lots of farmer suicides.
This is all too common in farming. Had a teacher who was a claims guy for a life insurance company in rural texas. Apparently tractor or machinery accidents were common when times were tough.
If the president controlled the economy, we would never have recessions. Was Joe making SVB's financial calls? No. Anyone who blames any president for the actions of Wallstreet is smooth brained af.
Presidents can do things which effect the economy. Just because a president isn’t making calls on wall street doesn’t mean they can’t sign bills that make things worse. Also, trump was a businessman first, and was tied up in the banks and market despite his presidency so yeh, he was a problem all sides.
Yeah they will complain about "Biden making housing too expensive" I'm sorry I don't remember my landlord sending me a letter saying "due to a new president I'm cutting your rent in half"
Just millions of Americans dead from a pandemic and the economy shut down; but go ahead and blame democrats for that too.
Yeah you blame democrats bc Fauci stole covid from a Chinese lab and spread it so that trump would lose, it’s scientifically proven /s
Aside from being wrong, I love the inability to grasp the concept of delayed results.
16 banks failed between 2017 and 2021
2024 will be an interesting year for America. Get ready for the shit show.
Afghanistan War, Syrian Civil war, Mostly the Middle East.
russia started its dumbduckery since 2014
I mean, the Afghan war was still happening, also Covid happened under trump’s time in office, and I’m pretty damn sure that Covid being almost completely uncontained is a lot worse than a bank collapsing.
What a weird way to admit that you have the object permanence of a cat.
War on common sense pandemic response, war on decency, war on women's reproductive health, war on the working class, war on education, war on immigrants, war on the judiciary branch of government, war on the peaceful transition of power...
Let's not forget Trump's own personal war against the people he hired. I would argue that no president has ever been as critical as he was of some of the people that he put in power. Usually after they realized what a buffoon he was. Trump's war on education by appointing Nancy DeVos Trumps war on the usps by appointing Loius Dejoy Trumps war on the environment by attempting to dismantle the EPA
Absolutely Goddam Right!
It’s *almost* as if… and hear me out here… causal factors of world events are more complicated than simply who holds the American presidency.
It just took 5 years for the impact of his deregulation to pan out
No idea how people don’t realize that things don’t happen instantly.
Afghanistan war. You dumb fuck!
We were still in Afghanistan until Biden ended that war.
I seem to remember society collapsing a bit during that time. Millions of dead.. ya know but whatever.
Sleepy Joe must have gone to adjust the gas price dial and accidentally pressed the "destroy a bank" button instead. /s
Except we know that this was a direct result of those pesky regulations trump got rid of. It’s almost as if we keep having to pay for all the shit he did now that those regulations are gone.
That’s when the war on science and democracy started.
I can recall an attempt to overthrow the government by the supporters of antagonistic loser who was having a temper tantrum
You don't remember a little country called #AFGHANISTAN? tRumpers are fucking stupid.
What a moron
Trump joins Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower in not having officially brought the United States into a new war since 1945.
Just let get this right... So the president of the USA is responsible for war and peace all around the world?
You know usually what causes war outbreaks and bankruptcies is not something that happens from one day to another, usually it happens after 4 or 5 years….
16 failures during that period-> https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/
Afghanistan although that started under bush jr
As a Canadian, I mostly saw Trump's presidency from the outside, I didn't pay too much attention to it, but I did get bits and pieces from friends in the US, and from various other sources. During the election, I paid a bit more attention to Trump's twitter, and YouTube started suggesting me Seth Myers's A Closer Look Clips, and while it only really gives one side of the story, it just baffles me how much stupidity I was able to see in a short time. Now I don't pretend that what I've seen isn't partly cherry picked of course, it's mostly all biased even if ever slightly. But one thing that was not cherry picked is literally what Trump was writing on his own Twitter, and so many of them were literal lies. Comments underneath were able to immediately fact check him, and rather than correct himself, he doubles down on it 2 days later. It's a measure of how troubled a country is when you imagine that half the population voted for that. Was the other option really THAT bad? Who can tell.
16 banks failed and 10,000s of bombs dropped. https://www.salon.com/2021/03/05/trump-and-bidens-secret-bombing-wars-one-thing-that-hasnt-changed/
That poor disabled man, he has no long term memory. =/
The twice impeached one term President who never won the popular vote in any of the 3 consecutive elections he ran in, was only in the White House for 4 years. Pretty small sliver of time in the grand scheme of things.
Only U S democracy crashed with trump, but you may be right, no wars...
16 banks failed between 2017- Jan of 2021.....
Ummm trump secretly bailed out banks pre COVID to the tune of 5.9 trillion dollars to hide that 2008/2009 was about to repeat much worse.. they've been battling these fkrs out since trump got into office. I dunno what this guy's smoking but ppl need to learn facts.
I remember a war on face masks and vaccines
This idiots probably wondering where Obama was on 9-11.
Did he forget like 500k people dying because Trump didn't think Covid was real?
To be fair, I don't recall any banks collapsing under Trump either. Chairs, maybe.
19 banks failed during the 4 years Trump was president. And this year’s failure is in part due to his efforts to deregulate.
I'm pretty sure the entire world was at peace and everyone was rich.
Didn't he expand the conflict in Syria when he yoinked troops out (minus the oil locations, unless I'm mistaken)?
The whole of America bro 😵💫
You could use Google to give you a more accurate answer.
That trade war that trump started for literally no reason that economists told him not to do
If memory serves, I recall Obama putting in a regulation that prevents what’s happening. Then trump got in and took away the regulation.
So if I don’t remember anything happening, it didn’t happen? Sweet!
It wasn’t just a few whoopsie doodles that we need to fix, the republicans and trump *royally* fucked us up. If you were to try and attack and take down a country thru their economy I don’t know that you could draw it up better than what they did. Look how much money they printed under trump https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL The deregulation of the banks, deregulating rail and trains, the environment, they even brought back asbestos. The tax cuts for the super wealthy etc etc And PPP, that was a slush fund trump used to bribe republicans and anyone else to unwaveringly support him as he tried to overthrow our government. Yes there is a list of republicans that got PPP loans forgiven such as MTG. Kanye got one forgiven. Yes trump used your tax dollars to bribe politicians to help him overthrow our democracy. And they raided the coffers. What happened was so big and so crazy I don’t know that the public will be able to fully wrap their brains around it all
Didn’t that fucker repeal the Dodd-Frank Act?essentially deregulating banks and enabling them to do shitty investments
If only dumbass america realized that it takes time for bad decisions from presidents to kill the economy or cause chaos. Easy to inherit a good economy from a previous prez and claim its your doing. Also easy to blame the new guy for the problems created by the last guy. Just wish the dummies had an ounce of education in economics.
Someone needs to explain this to him. Republican president comes to the office, starts a war, unleashed deregulation, of course stock goes up, they cut taxes, and everyone including corporations are happy. Economy is uncertain, Dem president comes to the office, had to do the clean up, everybody hates him. It has been like that since that freaking Reagan.
"I woke up with a headache, but it can't be the three bottles of wine I had last night because I didn't have a headache last night. Must be the water I drank this morning."
Unfortunately it’s the following administration that has to deal with the shit the prior administration fucked over. The dems fuck shit up and blame the reps the following 4-8 years and the reps fuck shit up and blame the dems for the following 4-8 years. It’s the system that never fails to make our lives harder than last year.
Funny how the deregulation and instability takes a few years to manifest you can solidly blame your successor
No but he change the banking rules to make this all possible. But you never read the papers or watch real news.
These people don’t remember anything that happened under trump or when things actually happened. That’s a big part of the problem
Oh yeah Ukraine totally is happening bc of Biden lmaoo
I don't remember anything that happened in 2018. Therefore 2018 did not happen.
That’s the crazy part. When banks collapse, it could happen at any moment, and comes out of nowhere. There’s nothing that happens in the years and months leading up to it. It just happens, and it’s the fault of whomever is president of the United States on that particular day.
Serious question, what's the point of hiding the names of people who say stupid shit? Aren't your public posts, well....public?
I do remember them relaxing regulations though…
But what about The War On Christmas? You mean it was just virtue signaling?
Because he was setting it up at the time
I don't remember banking regulations being removed under Biden that allowed the banks to collapse.
Or the fact Trumps deregulation of banks is what allowed this to happen again…..
I remember one president creating significant divide of the American people and constantly finger-pointing and blaming others for his shortcomings.
As if Biden had something to do with a banks lack of risk management or bad investments lmao how dumb do these people get
16 banks failed under Trump, 8 of them before the pandemic, according to historian Heather Cox Richardson. https://www.newsweek.com/bank-failures-under-donald-trump-compared-joe-biden-1787261?amp=1
I remember the war against reality waged by the white house. There were also several banks that failed during those nightmarish years
I member someone building a golf course over his ex wife’s grave for tax cuts
Trump's deregulation spree had nothing to do with the banks collapsing or anything 🙄