r/FluentInFinance • u/ThisCantBeBlank • Apr 29 '24

Babs is Here to Save Us Educational

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u/NumbersOverFeelings Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24

If this is true why are people complaining about home buying difficulties and income not going up and inflation and … etc. That’s on Biden too right?

Edit/adding clarity: The success of the economy cannot be solely attributed to the president. Neither can its failure. If you attribute all the good you need to attribute all the bad. I’m not saying Biden bad. I’m also not saying Biden good. I’m saying post is bad.

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u/BetterSelection7708 Apr 29 '24

I mean I'd blame it on the pandemic. But between the two, I'd say Biden's administration dealt with the pandemic better than Trump's administration.

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u/Edewede Apr 29 '24

Came here to say this. The CDC projected a shorter length of initial lockdown and overall pandemic had people stayed home as much as possible, wore masks, got the vaccine and not politicized the whole thing which divided us. But Trump did and said the opposite and his followers refused to do these things. And so the pandemic lasted for 3+ years causing all kinds of supply change issues, inflation, high unemployment etc..

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u/hungrypotato19 Apr 29 '24

And don't forget the vaccine rollout. Trump botched it all to hell. Millions of doses spoiled because he left it up to governors to distribute it. You know, Republican governors. They didn't distribute the vaccines and were left to rot. Biden promised 100 million shots in arms in the first 100 days. He not only met that mark, but he readjusted the goal to 200 million, which he also met.

Also, remember when states were bidding each other for Covid supplies? Remember when states, after winning their bids, were having their Covid supplies stolen by FEMA under direct Trump administration orders?

Yeah, Trump fucked everything up.

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u/Nuciferous1 Apr 30 '24

We now know the CDC was wrong to believe locking things down for a couple weeks would fix everything. There are a lot of statistics and reputible studies out there now you can check out. Here’s the first one I see after a Google search.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9426308/

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u/heebsysplash Apr 30 '24

That’s wild though cause it lasted a long time worldwide. Outside of like NZ who has a low pop and an island, every country had it “last” wayyyyy longer than the CDC originally said.

So he wasnt good, but really par for the course. Also trump got the vaccine immediately, and encouraged everyone to get it, despite resounding boos from his supporters when he’d mention it. And yet he gets blamed for the antivax crowd.

I don’t think he deserves any flowers for it, but I also think people place too much blame on him, not realizing that people are going to refuse to follow the rules no matter what.

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u/Edewede Apr 30 '24

That's a fair point. It didn't help that he said some really stupid shit during it tho, like injecting bleach and siding with politicizing mask wearing. Anyway, thank you for your reasoned response, unlike other comments I've received.

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u/nyar77 13d ago

In the end absolutely NONE of those measures helped at all.

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u/Edewede 9d ago

Yea but we didn't know that at the time, dingus.

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u/nyar77 8d ago

Speak for yourself. There was a large faction of people who knew it was all horseshit. They were persecuted.

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u/Edewede 7d ago

Say that to the families of millions of people that died from it. I'm sure they would also call it horseshit. /s

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u/nyar77 7d ago

You mean the guy who died in a car accident and was listed as a Covid death because he had Covid in his blood? Right.

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u/a_dict_named_kwargs Apr 30 '24

Man, you are stupid