After The Ball Drops Tonight, It'll Be Back To Reality

[JGalt]

America was great before your god took office, and was worse off when he left office.

Unlike you, I am not swayed by a campaign slogan.

Is America "great" now? You seem to defend this guy at every opportunity while at the same time, invariably attacking Trump. Now why would that be?

These are a verifiable list of things which have occurred or are taking place during the presidency of Joe Biden.


• Promised on several occasions that he would "end fossil fuels"

• Gasoline that rose over two times the price it was in 2018

• Ended Keystone XL pipeline while waiving sanctions on Russia's Nord Stream 2

• The price of oil jumped up to $130 per barrel

• Drained US Strategic Oil Reserve to the lowest level since 1984

• Begged Saudi Arabia and Venezuela for oil

• Inflation rate rose as high as 9.1%, which was almost 5 times higher than it was in 2019

• A recession

• U.S. household wealth down $13.5 trillion in 2022 - Second fastest decline on record

• Average middle-class family came up about $6,000 short of purchasing power

• The DOW dropped 6,700 points in only a year

• Stock market lost $9 trillion dollars worth of value in only two years

• Retirement accounts lost $3 trillion dollars

• 30 year fixed mortgages rose by 4.43% in only two years, to 7.75%

• Home prices soared 43% in only two years and housing sales slumped

• Median asking rent prices rose 79.7% in only two years

• Grocery prices increased by 13.5% in only two years

• The price of electricity rose by 15.8% in only two years

• Hefty tax increases on the lower and middle class

• 84,000 new IRS agents arming and training to be home invaders

• Use of DOJ and FBI to harass political opponents

• A broken election system corrupt with fraud, sometimes taking months to count

• Wholesale mailing of ballots, ballot drop boxes, and illegal ballot harvesting

• Used a complicit media to lie, distort facts, and disseminate disinformation

• Conducting covert raids on American citizens and confiscating personal property

• Supply line disruptions, backorders, items out of stock or unavailable

• Sporadic shortages on grocery store shelves

• Food-processing plants mysteriously burned down

• Thousands of small businesses destroyed in order to benefit mega-corporations

• Continuing monumental trade deficit with China

• Allowed Communist China to operate "Police Stations" in American cities

• More COVID deaths than in 2020

• Vaccine mandates which caused deaths and debilitating health conditions

• Vaccine mandates which caused massive job losses for those who refused compliance

• A whole generation of kids physically and psychologically damaged by prison-style lockdowns

• Subjecting young girls to creepy boys posing as "transgenders" in girl's locker rooms

• Stealing women's ability to fairly compete by allowing transgender males in women's sports

• Subjecting children to pornographic "Drag shows" and grooming them to be sex objects

• The promotion of transgenserism in schools, resulting in the genital and fertility mutilation
of children and adolescents by unethical medical practices and Big Pharma.

• Mass shootings occurring sometimes three times a week

• An exponentially-spiraling epidemic of violent crime and drugs

• Fentanyl seizures up 745 percent

• 100,000 fentanyl deaths during Biden's first year of presidency

• 120% increase in opioid deaths in just two years

• Encouraged illegals to "surge" across the border without reason for amnesty

• 4.9 million illegals crossing US border within only two years

• 900,000 "gotaways" who eluded apprehension and disappeared into American communities

• Record numbers of illegals dying while crossing the border

• Border Patrol arresting 98 who were on the terror watch list in 2022, 3X the last 5 years combined

• A President who wouldn't visit the border and said he had "More important things going on."

• A dishonorable withdrawal from Afghanistan that cost 13 American soldiers their lives

• $7.12 billion worth of US military equipment and weaponry left to the Taliban

• Hundreds of US citizens and Afghans left behind in Afghanistan after the withdrawal

• People falling out of the wheel wells of aircraft leaving Afghanistan

• A weakened US military more concerned with "political correctness" than creating soldiers

• A weakened US military via destructive anti-white racism and transgender-promoting policies

• Record low enlistment numbers

• A revitalized Russian oil industry, despite US sanctions

• A war in Ukraine that has cost the US billions of dollars and killed thousands

• Increased possibility of nuclear war with Russia

• Traded an America-hating doper lesbian basketball player for a Russian terrorist arms dealer

• Iran and North Korea expanded their nuclear enrichment program

• China became more energy and militarily dominant

• A senile, angry, and incompetent president who fell off of a bicycle, fell up stairs, insulted
half the people in America, labeled people as "terrorists", divided the country, and tried to incite
a civil war.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Now swayed by campaign slogans but need to lie to try and make your point.

I did not lie about a thing

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Is America "great" now? You seem to defend this guy at every opportunity while at the same time, invariably attacking Trump. Now why would that be?

These are a verifiable list of things which have occurred or are taking place during the presidency of Joe Biden.

We are worse now than when Trump left office. Tis the trend this century.

I never defend Biden, he is a fucking moron that is trying to his best to go down as the worst POTUS ever

 

[Dogmaphobe]

Why are you always so stupee?

Luck of the draw.

As far as having been rewarded for bad behavior is considered, however, there are countless poster children for such right here at USMB.

 

[Lisa558]

Luck of the draw.

As far as having been rewarded for bad behavior is considered, however, there are countless poster children for such right here at USMB.

Some are even mods!

 

[JGalt]

What was the price of gas in Mendicino Ca in 2018?

A 2018 report shows the average price was $3.26 for Northern California and $3.03 in Ukiah. So it was about 2X - 3X as high in 2022, depending on location.

Gasoline prices drop in California; average price in Ukiah $3.03 a gallon

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

So far inflation has not caused us to change a single thing in our lives. I suspect we will be fine since the Fed is going to drive us into a recession until inflation is under control. The only product I have had trouble finding is the favor of Bai my wife likes the most.

We have a lot of money in the market, none of I need for at least 10 years. The market being down just means the money I am adding to it buys more shares than it would have, making us better off in the long run.

You should not assume just because your life sucks that everyone's does

When did I say my life sucks? Oh, that's right, you're a leftist, so you need to make up things people never said. Lying is inherent with your kind.

I'm glad you're not paying all that extra money every other American is paying in groceries and other products. I'm glad you're paying the same for utilities that all other Americans are paying much more for. I would sure like to know where these magical stores and utility companies are at because they're certainly nowhere around here.

To my knowledge, the only people that are not really affected by all this are government dependents since government pays for all their food and utility programs. You're such a lucky guy.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

I did not lie about a thing

Sure you do. That's all you do is lie, like saying Trump is responsible for the end results of covid that came from China. Flat out lie and even you have to know it.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

I'm glad you're not paying all that extra money every other American is paying in groceries and other products. I'm glad you're paying the same for utilities that all other Americans are paying much more for. I would sure like to know where these magical stores and utility companies are at because they're certainly nowhere around here.

Speaking of lying about a person. If you are going to whine about lying, then turning around and lying even more is not really the way to go.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

like saying Trump is responsible for the end results of covid that came from China.

Can you point to where I said this?

I will be happy to wait while you look.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Speaking of lying about a person. If you are going to whine about lying, then turning around and lying even more is not really the way to go.

What am I lying about? It's you that said your life is not impacted by what goes on in Washington. That's what started this conversation in the first place.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Can you point to where I said this?

I will be happy to wait while you look.

I'd hate to keep you waiting. Post #117

America was great before your god took office, and was worse off when he left office.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

What am I lying about? It's you that said your life is not impacted by what goes on in Washington. That's what started this conversation in the first place.

Yes, I did say that. I did not say that I was not paying the higher prices, in fact I said the higher prices has not caused me to change a thing in my life...thus they there is no real impact,

 

[Harpy Eagle]

I'd hate to keep you waiting. Post #117

Where in Post 117 did I blame Trump for COVID?

Are you still drunk from last night?

 

[Lisa558]

When did I say my life sucks? Oh, that's right, you're a leftist, so you need to make up things people never said. Lying is inherent with your kind.

I'm glad you're not paying all that extra money every other American is paying in groceries and other products. I'm glad you're paying the same for utilities that all other Americans are paying much more for. I would sure like to know where these magical stores and utility companies are at because they're certainly nowhere around here.

To my knowledge, the only people that are not really affected by all this are government dependents since government pays for all their food and utility programs. You're such a lucky guy.

I actually read an article about this. Pointed out that the only people who are not being damaged by Biden and the Democrats are those who are part of the “government class,” which the article divided into two groups:

1) The generously paid government workers, and retirees, whose income is tied to inflation, so inflation doesn’t matter at all.

2) Those on the government dole, with food stamps, TANF, Medicaid, subsidized rent, etc., etc., since other people are supporting them.

Both these groups overwhelming vote for Dems.

Everyone else - the hard-working and tax-paying and self-supporting American middle, lower-middle, and even upper-middle class - is suffering under Biden’s inflation-promoting policies.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Where in Post 117 did I blame Trump for COVID?

Are you still drunk from last night?

You said things were worse off when he left office than when he got in, and the only reason for that was covid, therefore you are blaming Trump for the results of the worst pandemic any American alive has ever seen. That's lying.

 

[j-mac]

Yes, I did say that. I did not say that I was not paying the higher prices, in fact I said the higher prices has not caused me to change a thing in my life...thus they there is no real impact,

Ofcourse there’s an impact…You’re just refusing to acknowledge it.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

You said things were worse off when he left office than when he got in

Which is a fact.

, therefore you are blaming Trump for the results of the worst pandemic any American alive has ever seen. That's lying.

No, this is just your stupidity coming through. For somethings there is no blame to be assigned. I think Trump did a shit job of responding to the pandemic, but I do not blame him for it.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Yes, I did say that. I did not say that I was not paying the higher prices, in fact I said the higher prices has not caused me to change a thing in my life...thus they there is no real impact,

Hmmm, maybe you're one of those guys that lets their wife handle the money. I can afford the increase in prices as well, but it still impacts my life. It's that way for most all Americans unless they are pretty well off financially. You said you're still working so that's not the situation for you.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Ofcourse there’s an impact…You’re just refusing to acknowledge it.

Lay it out for me....tell me how my life has changed due to it.

I will be happy to listen to your logic.