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Show of hands !!! Who thinks Biden is currently making the nation's decisions?
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Feb 15, 2024, 4:19 PM
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Re: Show of hands !!! Who thinks Biden is currently making the nation's decisions?
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Feb 15, 2024, 4:23 PM
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Both hands staying in pockets
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Re: Show of hands !!! Who thinks Biden is currently making the nation's decisions?
Feb 15, 2024, 5:09 PM
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Well things are so effed up so maybe he is making the nation's decisions.
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Re: Show of hands !!! Who thinks Biden is currently making the nation's decisions?
Feb 15, 2024, 6:35 PM
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What are some ways that your life specifically is worse now than it was in Jan 2021? Have Biden’s policies and legislative agenda affected you negatively?
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Re: Show of hands !!! Who thinks Biden is currently making the nation's decisions?
Feb 15, 2024, 6:57 PM
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Here are a few current ones:
Higher energy costs
Higher food costs
Lost purchasing power for goods/services
Added gun control measures
There are other things that will kick in over time. Things like impacts on appliances and the type of energy available. I'm minorly impacted by the border situation and influx of migrants. It's driving up the cost to the County/State which means more money out of citizens pockets. Keep in mind, his policies are necessarily instantaneous; they take time to have a direct impact on your life.
What are some of the ways your life specifically is better now than it was in January 2021?
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Re: Show of hands !!! Who thinks Biden is currently making the nation's decisions?
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Feb 15, 2024, 7:18 PM
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Well, mostly things that have nothing to do with any politician. I make 8x as much money per year now as I did in 2021. The pandemic affected my life a good deal in my life of work, and other than optional masks at entrances, there are really quite few daily reminders of all of that, so I’d say the COVID pandemic ending and restrictions/mandates easing is better. I have pretty much my dream job, have another kid on the way, I live close to my family now when I was 3 states away in 2021. I have a much nicer and newer car, so does my wife, car prices have come way back down. Me personally, I’m far far better off now than 3 years ago. But again, that would be the case regardless of who the president is. I still have a ton of student loan debt, but nobody is talking about cancelling debt for people like me, and I have never planned on anything other than paying it off. That’s $2700/mo for 13 more years, and I refinanced at a great time back in Nov 2021 before rates started climbing.
How much of the inflation and cost of living crisis do you attribute to Biden and/or liberals? How does the inflation and economic situation in the rest of the world relate to this? That’s another thing I’m not really sure belongs, blame or credit, to whoever happens to be president.
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They blame all of the inflation globally on Biden and
Feb 15, 2024, 7:33 PM
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liberals.
My life is also way better than 2021, because who is president has a minimal effect on my life, and I worked hard to hit some great milestones in my work and personal life. For all of the gnashing of teeth about presidents they really don’t affect too much when it comes to my life.
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Re: Show of hands !!! Who thinks Biden is currently making the nation's decisions?
Feb 16, 2024, 8:00 AM
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Higher interest rates, skyrocketing rent rates, skyrocketing housing costs. 401k making much smaller gains. Higher gas prices and higher food costs. It has affected me greatly. If I would’ve bought a house when Trump was in office my mortgage would be 500$ cheaper a month. Unfortunately, I had to buy one when this bumbling fool was in office.
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Hi, yes, please direct us to the specific Biden policy or action that caused
Feb 16, 2024, 9:57 AM
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global inflation (for which, incidentally, the US has the lowest of the developed nations on the planet), and please explain what Trump would have done differently were he in office that would have curbed global inflation. Since you majored in drums and not economics, you may not understand that that interest rates are directly tied to inflation, so the Fed under Trump would have been forced to do the same thing. I also suppose that in the world as you imagine it, Trump controls housing supply, demand, and costs. The US is also finally pulling oil from the ground and refining at 100% of pre-pandemic levels, but can you imagine if Trump was President? We'd be at 150%.
The fact that you believe that all of these things currently making your life miserable hinge on whether an R or a D is in the White House represents, I believe, a failure of our educational system. But hey, there's tens of millions of people who firmly believe the same things you do. You guys can all be misguided together.
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Re: Show of hands !!! Who thinks Biden is currently making the nation's decisions?
Feb 15, 2024, 6:05 PM
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Nobody thinks this but the left is perfectly content with their manchurian candidate and not having a clue who is actually running the country as long as an evil R doesn't get control. They hate your guts that much.
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Hands in lap, whistling quietly.***
Feb 15, 2024, 6:06 PM
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Re: Hands in lap, whistling quietly.***
Feb 15, 2024, 6:26 PM
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Obed, who do you think is really in charge?
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I may be wrong, but I think he knows. That's why he's staying away from the keys***
Feb 15, 2024, 7:09 PM
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Re: I may be wrong, but I think he knows. That's why he's staying away from the keys***
Feb 15, 2024, 7:21 PM
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Obed, is he right? Do you really know?
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Re: Show of hands !!! Who thinks Biden is currently making the nation's decisions?
Feb 15, 2024, 6:13 PM
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To even a five year old, the answer is obviously Obama, Susan Rice, dashes of Pelosi and Dr. Jill and, of course, Jean 'Rabbit Hole' Pierre the Dumb One. Likely minor commies: Schumer, Mickey Mouse, Putin and so on!!
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Re: Show of hands !!! Who thinks Biden is currently making the nation's decisions?
Feb 15, 2024, 6:25 PM
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Are these the agreed upon puppet masters? Barack Obama, Susan Rice, & Nancy Pelosi? I thought SOLOS has hinted that it’s Blinken or whoever is creating the daily presidential brief.
Can someone explain to me how this works, like are they in the Situation Room and all the cabinet meetings & such?
How does the WEF factor into all of this?
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Re: Show of hands !!! Who thinks Biden is currently making the nation's decisions?
Feb 15, 2024, 6:30 PM
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Welp, we can only hope someone is.
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As I've responded to this question before - no way in hayull.
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Feb 15, 2024, 8:30 PM
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Biden may technically have final say-so, but no way he comes up with or formulates any strategies or responses. I'm certain he is steered and managed in a way that produces specific results. I don't know exactly who they are, I'm just sure Joe ain't the decider or the brain behind it all.
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Re: As I've responded to this question before - no way in hayull.
Feb 15, 2024, 8:46 PM
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How different do you think this is from Trump, Obama, or W?
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How similar do you think they are?***
Feb 15, 2024, 8:48 PM
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Re: How similar do you think they are?***
Feb 15, 2024, 8:57 PM
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I don’t really know. I assume every administration has people who have strengths in different policy areas, each of them with staff, and these people will contribute when a question in their area arises and the president says yay or nay. Cabinet members as technocrats to whom tasks are delegated. At least that’s what I’d do if I was the president.
I don’t know why this administration would be any different. Yeah Biden is a demented liver spotted geezer, but I mean I doubt W came up with Afghanistan invasion plans, or Obama was crafting the ACA language, or Trump was telling his generals how to hunt ISIS (ok maybe I could believe this one.)
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They all have advisors and such that they consult with and staff that
Feb 15, 2024, 11:14 PM
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they lean on, but it's my impression that they have much more input and influence with Biden than has been the case with any president in my lifetime.
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