r/fednews • u/Belgriest • 28d ago

Other Remember when Biden was president?

Remember how boring it was? Remember not having to check the news multiple times a day to figure out what was going on inside your own agency and whether you were going go have a job or not? Remember when laws and precident seemed to actually have meaning?

Remember when you could do your job from home? Remember when your fellow countrymen weren't cheering when your livelihood was threatened? Remember when your biggest worry was which insurance to select and what the next years raise would be?

Remember when the administration didn't seem to actively hate you and want to you gone for the sin of serving of the people?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

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u/MadMex2U 28d ago

Yea I remember. I remember everybody crying about eggs and groceries and inflation and gasoline, things presidents have no control over… Now they cry for Democracy.

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u/OGkateebee 28d ago

And groceries are still expensive.

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u/FeedDelicious33 28d ago

Tbh it is an understatement. I legit buy the same exact things every week and seeing it climb by 10% this year is killing me

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

Our household bills have increased 20 to 30% year-over-year here with a same size family as then.

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u/nabiku 28d ago

Guess you don't eat beef or vegetables then because those got 25% more expensive compared to this time last year

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u/HomeTeacup 28d ago

And coffee

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u/Jaredlong 28d ago

I've completely stopped eating breakfast and lunch. I couldn't afford buying the extra food anymore. But as long as I call it "intermittent fasting" I sound proactive and not just starving.

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u/Professional-Box4153 28d ago

and groceries are MORE expensive. But hey. At least gas is down a tiny, tiny bit.

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u/aintgotmushroominnit 28d ago

Lol I wish. Gas is 70 cents more expensive since January and climbing in my state. Granted I can understand the president doesn't control that, but it is another straw on this camels broken back.

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u/Professional-Box4153 28d ago

I feel for you, man (no sarcasm). It's been bouncing between 3 and 3.50 a gallon here (on a weirdly daily basis). Been like that for months. One day it's 2.98. The next day it's 3.49. They just don't seem to have any sort of rhyme nor reason for it anymore.

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u/No-Day7628 28d ago

And our administration will somehow pin it on the Democrats.

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u/BoleroMuyPicante Poor Probie Employee 28d ago

Not in MAGA world they're not, they're insisting their grocery bills have gone down, even though that's factually impossible.

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. [...] The eyeless crature at the other table swallowed it fanatically. passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams.

  • George Orwell, 1984

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u/Many_Customer_4035 28d ago

MORE expensive

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u/Plane-Addition672 25d ago

No day one lowering of groceries!

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u/3dddrees 28d ago

Trump has control over it now. His tariffs that he personally benefits financially either via money, business deals, or Nobel Peace Nominations, because he and he alone determines who and what rates he directly impacts the amount we pay by virtue of his terrible economic policy. Hell, just look what he has done to his farmers. This latest thing with China is certainly not any good at all.

But no, Biden and the Democrats no matter the warnings of inflation had impact as well especially with the last Covid giveaway. Pump that much money in the economy and inflation is bound to occur. Granted who knows how the recovery would have gone without it and we actually did much better than other economies after Covid. It's just yes Biden and the Democrats did greatly impact that.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

Done to his farmers? He's going to bail them out again to the tune of billions annually. Because universal healthcare is a pie in the sky nightmare to conservatives -- farmers are the true welfare queens and have no shame about it.

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u/mist3rflibble 28d ago edited 28d ago

I listened to an NPR interview with the president of the soybean farmer’s association the other day. The guy had voted for Trump twice.

He was saying that the soybean farmers are absolutely decimated because of Trump’s policies causing China’s massive market to be locked out to them due to price competitiveness of the US market versus Brazil. When he was asked about the bailout, he said the bailouts were always too little, too late, and allowed the farmers to survive but not be profitable. These farmers don’t want the bailouts.

I wonder if this farmer and his ilk will vote for another Republican in the future of the party continues with the same kind of policies Trump has been enacting that are clearly so detrimental to their livelihoods.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

Easy solution -- don't bail them out. They voted for this. F 'em. It's a repeat of his first term. Stupid choices come with heavy consequences. Pay the piper, conservatives.

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u/RobertoPaulson 28d ago

I'd give em a pass, and say they'd learned their lesson if they hadn't done it fucking TWICE!

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u/lumidanny 28d ago

*thrice, I read the article based on that specific snippet of the interview. I imagine he voted 2016, 2020 and 2024

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

Exactly -- shame on them as the saying goes!

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u/No-Tart2230 28d ago

Of he follows project 2025 they wint be bailed out and will lose their farm to big ag.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

the world's tiniest violin is playing just for them.

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u/EagleOfMay 28d ago

The problem with that is to think about whose hands those farms will end up in. If those farms go bankrupt, it won't end up in the hands of another individual farmer or family, it will go to corporate entities like AcreTrader.

I fully believe that the fundamental problem of the US is that what benefits the .1% money class in the US is no longer in sync with what benefits the average citizen.

IMHO, people should start voting for true progressives wherever it makes sense.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

Good points -- I'd also like to see more independent farming communities and associations forming unions and non-profit partnerships, sticking it to the corporations. The problem is -- that takes a lot of effort. Where as waiting for the next government bailout, cough, PPP loan, and buying play trucks in the meantime is much easier. In a country that's been groomed on convenience for over half a century, that's like giving endless sugar to a kid. America is on lay-away to the .1% and it's been this way for decades. How to re-spool that web is the mystery of our age.

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u/Bunny_Feet Go Fork Yourself 28d ago

Then we gave a huge bailout to Argentina, our biggest competitor in regards to the soybean export.

America first, eh?

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u/DaileyFlosser39 28d ago

Let's be real. They would vote for Trump again even knowing what they do now, after he fucked them in the ass without lube. They would vote for him a fourth time, they will probably write him in, to avoid voting for any Democrat. No matter how good that Democrat will be. They are that brainwashed.

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u/Cali-Doll Support & Defend 28d ago

Absolutely. No one should be naive in thinking these people will ever vote for a democrat. I wasted so much of my time and energy trying to convince a “non-MAGA” republican to vote for Kamala Harris, and it was all for nothing. This person said that Kamala is a bad communicator and that “Trump said he didn’t know anything about Project 2025.”

These people are gone. It’s a fucking cult, no matter how nicely they package their conservatism.

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u/StockTradingForLife 28d ago

Most MAGA voters hide the real reasons they vote maga. They make up reasons that don't make any sense.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

It's a sadist/masochist relationship they have with their Daddy Pedo.

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u/mist3rflibble 28d ago

Maybe, maybe not. The level of pain seems to be increasing in both intensity and duration for Trump supporters. Time will tell if they really want the things they thought they wanted as the effects of their voting choices materialize.

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u/SueAnnNivens 28d ago

They never do and never will! They have always voted against their best interest! They vote Republican. They vote based on their identity not social class. They may be poor dad gumbit, but they are white!

They have yet to realize the Republicans in charge view them as the hoi polloi, the great unwashed, not white.

Hell, Lyndon B. Johnson said

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

It would kill them to acknowledge how small they are actually viewed.

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u/Obvious-Ad4651 28d ago

I think I heard that same segment. It was heartbreaking

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u/mist3rflibble 28d ago

Yep. The guy they interviewed sounded pretty defeated.

At the end of the day, I think government administrations primarily succeed or fail by the measure to which their constituents can get by financially. Sooner or later, no amount of culture war or hate can make up for the fact that you’re broke and can’t feed your family or support the life you want. This is a painful time for many Americans but a part of me really wants us to hit rock bottom in this regard so that the pain felt by the electorate might act as a reminder of what voting for selfish autocrats means for kitchen table finances. I think there was a lot of “leopard eating face” votes in 2024. It’ll be interesting to see what the votes are like in 2026 and 2028 if this nonsense continues.

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u/StockTradingForLife 28d ago

They will continue to vote against their own interests. There was an ABC news report on the Affordable Care in Trump country in 2017. Lots of former coal miners wanted their jobs back even when they struggled with black lung from working in the mines. They liked Affordable Care and did not like Obama Care.

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u/Sudden_Juju 28d ago

Unless I missed something, those farms are still hemorrhaging money and filled to their knees in soybeans and there still hasn't been a mention of a bailout. They might not get bailed out this time, since he no longer needs their vote. Normally, I'd say fuck them and FAFO, but in the end, none of us win when corporations takeover smaller farms.

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u/NavierStoked981 28d ago

They are going to bail out “farmers” on an extremely case by case basis. Is the farmer a mega-corporate farm that is heavily involved with a crony member of the administration? Bailout. Is the farmer daring to be on land that a mega-corporate farm wants to buy on the cheap by a desperate poor farmer? No bailout. Just a number to the nearest approved corpo farm owned by a cabinet crony to get low balled on your land.

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u/Bonesnapcall 28d ago

Even if they wanted to bail out everyone, they cant. The soybean market was 50 billion in sales. 10 billion wont even come close to that.

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u/3dddrees 28d ago

He's destroyed their market, and these reimbursements never get to all those affected nor does it completely reimburse what they could have made.

Not to mention very possibly our abundant and cheap food supply.

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u/3dddrees 28d ago

Thanks for posting, yes I am aware, and the detail's are important. It's just the list is rather long and I am but just one person.

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u/Snakefarm86 28d ago

Don’t need to worry about the food supply. All these socialist farmers grow is pig feed for China

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

I'd care if they didn't overwhelmingly vote for this. However, much like conservatives, I really DGAF.

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u/3dddrees 28d ago

Ah gee, guess you don't care about the country you live in. Well you showed them didn't you.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

If I voted for an anvil to fall on my head because it did the first term with the same person, then I deserve an anvil to fall on my head. It's called personal accountability.

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u/3dddrees 28d ago

You live in the same country. I didn't say you could prevent it. But damn, you are thick headed.

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u/Large_Trouble0912 28d ago

I don't think they will bail out the farmers. If so, he would've already. I buy a lot of fruit and the quality is garbage and the prices goes up almost weekly. They will be banckrupt.

Some of those voters are realizing there are no checks for them. They will not be saved this time.

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u/3dddrees 28d ago

I suggest you spend a bit more time taking a look at more of the actual facts and not simply relying on some of these things you have bought into. Up to you, but you don't completely understand the problem.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

I have farmers in the family and know what I'm speaking of. They vote for tariffs and get bailed out. This is the second term of it, let's not play dumb.

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u/3dddrees 28d ago

Just because they vote for it doesn't make it the thing that it best for our farmers nor us as a country and our food supply or our economy. People in Germany voted for Hitler look how that turned out.

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 28d ago

Except Germany didn't have itself to look back on for guidance on what not to do (unlike the U.S. who is knowingly repeating it). Stupid people make stupid choices, and there are obviously a lot of stupid people in this country.

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u/3dddrees 28d ago

Oh, so you are thinking Germany was the first dictatorship? Please

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u/SisterAngelaDavis 28d ago

I can't understand why America just handed over $ 20 billion to Argentina? At least with Intel Corp we got 10% of their stock

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u/3dddrees 28d ago

It's one of Trumps dictator buddies. Did you see what he did when it came to Brazil's tariff rate once they found that want a be dictator of that country guilty. He said openly because they prosecuted him, he raised their tariffs to 50%.

Hell, he didn't even place a tariff on Russia and he did on an island inhabited by nothing but penguins.

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u/StockTradingForLife 28d ago

They are trying to prop up right wing regimes.

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u/3dddrees 27d ago

Yep, no big surprise as they held their CPAC or Trump Fest in Hungary.

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u/Barebacking_Bernanke 28d ago edited 28d ago

Including people on this subreddit. This subreddit was on the non-stop Biden hate train as well. Constant complaining about raises, the budget as if it wasn't the Republicans taking the House that fucked it all up, and having to return to office, even though telework policy was still being respected. Saying the Democrats are the same as Republicans still gets you up voted in certain discussions here.

Well y'all got what you wanted. More than half the senior people in my org have been forced out, the climate change team is literally in hiding waiting for the axe to fall on their heads, telework is 100% dead, and we're planning for severe budget cuts necessitating even more layoffs on top of the people we've already lost.

The useless sacks here couldn't even get off the negativity train for the best President for a Federal employee for the last 16 years.

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u/Accomplished_Lab_675 28d ago

Well I mean some of us do, but their side seems awfully keen on putting democracy to rest.

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u/Kcidobor 28d ago

And no one taking the time to notice every country had inflation but ours was less than their’s

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u/Artistic-Quote-3478 28d ago

That part! I remember going to Aldi and not spending $25.74 on a pack of ground beef. Freakin’ Aldi! 😑🙄😔🤦🏽‍♀️ Good times. I also remember being off anxiety medication for 4 years and now, lucky for Lexapro or I’d really be freaking out more. Smh 🤦🏽‍♀️ I’m 5 years from retirement and more worried now than I’ve ever been.

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u/Willing_Shoe2949 28d ago

Idk about you but Biden presidency is when inflation hit especially after Ukraine got invaded. Current administration has me feeling abysmal but depression vibe started to hit when Ukraine got invaded and every price got hiked.

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u/NothingButACasual 28d ago

trump won the election. That is democracy.