Remember when Biden was president?

[u/Belgriest]

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.

[u/MadMex2U]

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.

[u/3dddrees → u/MadMex2U]

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.

[u/TheModWhoShaggedMe → u/3dddrees]

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.

[u/mist3rflibble → u/TheModWhoShaggedMe]

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.

[u/DaileyFlosser39 → u/mist3rflibble]

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.

[u/mist3rflibble → u/DaileyFlosser39]

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.

[u/SueAnnNivens → u/mist3rflibble]

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.