• Zeppo
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    8 months ago

    Conservatives managed to blame Bush’s economic disaster on Bill Clinton (for signing a deregulation bill sponsored and presented by 3 prominent Republicans) and Obama. Their line with Obama was “well he’s president now, it’s his responsibility!!” and accused him of tanking the economy, as if it makes ANY sense. Meanwhile you have Trump saying “I don’t take accountability for anything” and the same people think he’s great. Trump claimed the economy under him was a ‘disaster’ because of Obama, nothing to do with Trump, yet also recently tried to take credit for low unemployment and rising wages under Biden. Massive inflation caused by Trump’s policies goes uncommented upon, of course. Or in conservative world, same shit as Obama - “the BIDEN economy!!”. Republicans manage to take credit for anything positive and blame anything negative on Democrats even when it has nothing to do with facts, logic or reality. A real “heads I win tails you lose” line of bullshit. It’s a trait of narcissism.

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      8 months ago

      Massive inflation caused by Trump’s policies goes uncommented upon,

      well put! we need to switch the narrative on this - price gouging and billionaires becoming massively richer are happening thanks to republican policy, we need to make them own it.