vtsnowedin wrote:And again I point to the results versus the promised.
Well, that doesn't work for either gang. Trump promised to make America great again. You see any greatness in kowtowing to Putin? Pretending that it was CHINA paying the tariffs, rather than American businesses and consumers?
$2.00 gas was a result of economics and American oil and gas industry exceptionalism (ho-raw!), it wasn't wasn't from production on Federal lands, about the only thing that any administration can affect. You telling me that Germany paid more for it's defense when Trump happened to be in office then its recent committment, when Biden is? And that either Trump or Biden had anything to do with that improvement in their NATO committment?
Inflation isn't an instanteous effect, Biden becoming President didn't instantly cause it to happen, but Covid sure was involved, and screwing that up certainly had nothing to do with Biden either.
vtsnowedin wrote:If you think today's conditions are better then what we had at the end of the Trump presidency compared to today's reality feel free to explain why we are better off now.
I didn't say they were. Any more than the first 2 years of Reagans term made America feel better off. Cause and effect can be tricky, and "results" as compared to "whatever happened to be going on at the time" are two completely different things.
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