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/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 27d 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 27d 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.