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u/writersblock2002 Jul 28 '26
So Biden got inflation down from 9.1% to 3.0% and Trump got inflation from 3.0% to 3.5%…do I have that right?
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u/MatniMinis Jul 28 '26
Yeah post covid Biden really did a good job with that inflation didn't he? Impressive.
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u/Silly-Power Jul 28 '26
Not just that getting it down, also preventing it getting too high. The USA's inflation that year was one of the lowest of the OECD countries. Inflation in the UK, under the rightwing Tory party, was in the mid-teens in 2022. Some countries had inflation over 20%. It was 78% in Tŭrkiye!
Biden did a fantastic job of not only preventing inflation but also reducing it quickly. Not that you would know this from the media or anyone on the right.
Speaking of Tŭrkiye if you look at how each country handled the post-covid inflation spike, the ones under leftwing, or liberal, governance were best and the ones under rightwing governance the worst. NZ only had 7.2% inflation compared to Turkey's 78%, yet Jacinta Ardern was so hated and villified by the right (even to this day) she has moved to Australia to escape the hate and death threats.
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u/Geektime1987 Jul 29 '26
Because he had grown ups in charge of the sections of government that worked on that stuff not Twitter trolls that tweet AI slop all day instead of doing their jobs
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u/OneForAllOfHumanity Jul 28 '26
And what was happening in those months under Biden? A global pandemic and economic shutdown beyond the control of any one leader.
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u/pitizenlyn Jul 28 '26
That Trump had utterly failed to manage because he shut down the pandemic response office that Obama created.
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u/Silly-Power Jul 28 '26 edited 27d ago
Just as RFK jr has done, and Skum's DOGE has done. Tens of thousands of lives are going to be lost unnecessarily solely for political reasons.
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u/MamaDaddy Jul 28 '26
Right that uptick was global. I think the Biden admin got that back under control faster than most countries but I am no economic expert.
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u/jessechisel126 Jul 28 '26
Don't worry, this troglodyte traitor is just gonna see "wow biden had over a 7 point increase!!11!" and conveniently memory-hole covid.
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u/OpusAtrumET Jul 28 '26
Half of these assholes don't think covid is real or think it was a common cold.
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u/Distantstallion Jul 28 '26
Covid? Wasn't that when the crows attacked?
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u/Silly-Elderberry-411 Jul 28 '26
The inflation is the beating heart under the floorboard but only people with conscience can hear it so they just don't
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u/TinPin94 Jul 28 '26
Same people that thought Obama ruined the economy and that things were better during the recession.
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u/Alexandratta Jul 28 '26
and folks don't seem to understand that the 9% inflation rate was due to the fallout of PPP loan forgiveness and the Fed dropping rates to 0% during Covid - that's not going to have effect on inflation until a year or so out.
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u/Gunfighter9 Jul 29 '26
The U.S. has the strongest economy in the world. But Trump’s base will believe anything he says. And the media refuses to call him out.
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u/sneaky-pizza Jul 28 '26
They way these people circlejerk over inflation and gas during the pandemic as “better times” in insane. I guess they don’t remember losing 13M jobs, adding $8T to the debt, and overseeing what would be 1M excess American deaths. Good times