Hawkeye wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:28 am
Ben Shapiro is blaming Republican leadership and I think he's wrong. He blamed Trump for losing the two Georgia senate seats in the last runoff and I still think he's wrong about that.
So you finally disagree with Shapiro, but only when he's right. That's classic.
Hawkeye wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:28 am
I'm really not sure why I believed the polls about this midterm election.
The polls were right, but you were never good at comprehension or research. You probably just drank the koolaid Brietbart and company had been feeding you for the past six months.
Hawkeye wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:28 am
The only people who are to blame for this are the American voters and we're all going to suffer for the choices we've made as a country.
We already suffered by electing a reality TV star back in 2006 on the pretense that his opponent had been mishandling emails. Meanwhile, four years later we suffered a pandemic in which he mishandled incompetently and the economy was driven into the ground as a result. Oh, and then we find out Trump is actually guilty of doing everything he alleged HC had done with respect to mishandling classified docs.
The fact is brain dead mouth-breathing Republicans don't care about the economy, and never have. They only care about keeping Republicans in power because they're ignorant and kept in a perpetual state of anxiety and fear by the fake news outlets. The fact is 10 of the last 11 recessions all happened with Republicans in the White House. When we damn near had a depression under W's watch, no one dared blame him. When gas prices were at record highs during his watch, no one dared blame him. When the economy boomed under Obama and Clinton, no one on the right gave credit. All they did was make excuses and spun it in ways that would give credit to Republicans in Congress.
I really do think it is kinda hilarious all these people claiming the economy is on the edge of doom while they're clearly not suffering. The only people who think like this are those who are told to think like this. Just last week at my son's baseball game, a couple of parents were wearing idiotic "Let's Go Brandon" shirts and you could hear them ranting and raving among other parents about how they're sick and tired of gas prices. They'll fill up on gas at one of the more expensive places when they could have driven another mile and got it for only $2.93. Point? They don;t really care about gas prices. They care about playing their part as members of Trump's cult. One guy works at Costco and was just telling everyone the week before that he got a pay raise and is making more than he ever did working anywhere else. Now he has enough to buy his three kids fast-food and also afford his weekly supply of beer and cigarettes.
A few other folks on Facebook that I've known for many years now are saying the same stupid crap when I can easily draw their attention to the fact that they are better off financially than they were just four years ago. One of them bought a house for the first time in his life just last year and the other got married after impregnating his girlfriend. I worked with a couple of them during the Obama administration, they both got fired for being too lazy and calling in sick too many times. I ran across them a few years ago and they were unemployed, yet today during this "historic recession" or whatever the hell you want to call it, they're both working good jobs and posting Facebook pics of their brand new trucks. I don't think either of them finished high school, but they'll swear they know more than you do about economics, finance and politics. Listening to Brietbart and Daily Caller instills that kind of blissful ignorance in people.
Hawkeye wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 1:28 am
And yet I don't think even a great depression will change the minds of Gunnar, Veritas, or Bernie Sanders and darn near a 1/3 of the host of heaven.
Feel free to draw our attention to all the evidence that Republicans even blinked or tried to blame Bush for the Great Recession of 2007. Or his daddy for the recession in 1991. Or Trump for the 2020 recession. Or Reagan for the 16 month recession that began in 1981. You can't because everything you're saying is just a hypothetical about Democrats because the fact is we haven't had a recession that began under a Democrat since Carter, and even that was just an aftershock of the one created by Nixon. Meanwhile, you're just projecting what you think Democrats would do, because we already see Republicans doing this precise thing. Ignoring economic calamity when it suits their politics!
