The Facts: In policy terms, Joe Biden’s presidency has been a resounding success.

[Toddsterpatriot]

As for Biden, the debt was about $27.8 trillion when he came in, and it’s currently around $32–33 trillion, which is a $4 to $5 trillion increase, not $8.5 trillion.

$36.2 trillion current debt, moron.

 

[TruthNotBS]

$36.2 trillion current debt, moron.

And Republican conservatives have contributed to that more than Dems. You're worse spenders, as I clearly laid out in that post. Look at Trump's last term, where the deficit grew over 7 trillion, in just four years. You're saying Obama spent 10 trillion, when it was actually 9 trillion and that's in two terms, whereas Trump in just one term saw it grow over 7 trillion, in just one term. If we go back to the 1980s, Reagan blew up the deficit, tripling it. Nough said.

 

[scruffy]

What illegal aliens?

The ones who work, while native born Americans fill the streets making encampments and doing drugs, drink themselves to death?

That's what happens when you can't get a job. In case you haven't noticed, corporate America hasn't been hiring any old white men these last few years. Because illegal aliens are cheaper. And on top of that you have the boneheaded DEI stuff.

Go on down to 7th and San Pedro and ask people how they got there.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

And Republican conservatives have contributed to that more than Dems. You're worse spenders, as I clearly laid out in that post. Look at Trump's last term, where the deficit grew over 7 trillion, in just four years. You're saying Obama spent 10 trillion, when it was actually 9 trillion and that's in two terms, whereas Trump in just one term saw it grow over 7 trillion, in just one term. If we go back to the 1980s, Reagan blew up the deficit, tripling it. Nough said.

Clearly Biden and Obama's $18 trillion plus is much less than all the debt
that conservatives have added.

DURR

Look at Trump's last term, where the deficit grew over 7 trillion, in just four years.

Or Biden's $8.5 trillion in 4 years.

 

[Nostra]

Objectively going by the data, It's undeniable. President Joe Biden's policies have been a success. For all Americans. Republican districts did as well or better under Biden, than Democratic districts have.

The Facts: In policy terms, Joe Biden’s presidency has been a resounding success.

Biden failed to win the working class. Democrats might want to stop trying.​

Fareed Zakaria

In policy terms, Joe Biden’s presidency has been a resounding success. Entering office as the pandemic still raged, he presided over the creation of almost 17 million jobs with inflation nearing the Fed’s 2 percent target. Productivity is up, wage inequality is down, small business formation is at record levels and wage growth is outpacing inflation.​

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And yet, in political terms, Biden has failed. He leaves office with among the lowest presidential approval ratings in history and his party having lost the presidency, the House and the Senate in the 2024 elections.​

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Biden’s presidency has been an important test of a powerful theory that has animated Democratic Party elites for almost two decade...​

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...Take the Inflation Reduction Act, which is the largest climate-related investment program in American history. Of the $346-billion-worth of clean energy investment that had been announced between the law’s passage and last March, almost 78 percent had gone to Republican congressional districts, according to a CNN study of data from the nonpartisan Rhodium Group and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The infrastructure bill has been less lopsided, but much of that spending funds jobs in fields typically seen as working class, such as construction. And the Chips and Science Act has resulted in a huge spike in manufacturing investment in the country.​

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Ever since Bill Clinton’s presidency, Democrats have moved left on economic policy. As Ezra Klein has noted, Barack Obama was to the left of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton campaigned to the left of Obama, and Biden was to the left of Hillary Clinton. And yet, during that period, Democrats’ working class support has cratered.​

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This is not simply a Trump phenomenon. In the 2022 midterm elections, when MAGA candidates did badly and Democrats did surprisingly well overall, Democrats lost White noncollege educated voters by 34 points nationally in House elections — 10 points worse than in 2018...​

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Democrats have many electoral advantages. They have a solid base of college-educated professionals, women and minorities. Many of the swing voters who have helped them win the popular vote in seven of the past nine presidential elections are registered independents and suburbanites. Perhaps they should lean into their new base and shape a policy agenda around them, rather than pining for the working class Whites whom they lost decades ago.​

A few snippets tell the story.

Must be why he has almost the worst approvals in history.

 

[Orangecat]

can't refute a single fact.
Facts vs your imbecilic posts

Here's a single fact for you:
Biden dropped out because his mind is putty.
Here's another:
Trump won both the EC and popular vote.


Suck it, troll.

 

[TruthNotBS]

Clearly Biden and Obama's $18 trillion plus is much less than all the debt
that conservatives have added.

DURR

Look at Trump's last term, where the deficit grew over 7 trillion, in just four years.

Or Biden's $8.5 trillion in 4 years.

Dude, you keep throwing around this “Biden and Obama added $18 trillion” line, along with the made-up figure of Biden supposedly adding $8.5 trillion in four years. Let’s do some quick math. Obama took office in 2009 with a debt at about $10.6 trillion and left in 2017 with around $19.9 trillion. That’s a $9.3 trillion jump, not $10 trillion. Biden came in when the debt was roughly $27.8 trillion, and as of now, it’s in the ballpark of $32–33 trillion. That’s up by $4 to $5 trillion, not $8.5 trillion. Combine those two and you’re looking at around $13–14 trillion total for Obama and Biden, not the $18 trillion you keep insisting on.

On top of that, it’s hilarious that you’re totally ignoring Reagan and the two Bushes, plus you’re glossing over Trump, who oversaw a $7.8 trillion spike in just one term (especially stark before the pandemic even hit!). Reagan almost tripled the debt, and George W. Bush doubled it. So if you want to talk about “blowing up the deficit,” , it's you "conservatives" that are the worst when it comes to our national debt. You're the worst spenders, even spending more federal money than blue states, that often contribute more to the federal government than they receive. That's because blue states impose income taxes, whereas red states often don't. It's that simple, you're bigger spenders than Dems.

 

[Dante]

No they didn't! Of course democrats didn't support Biden. At the end of the kamala day, Biden had absolutely no support outside of Dr. Jill.

wrong

 

[Dante]

The Real Fact remains.
- Leftists and Democrats and their ilk { Legacy Media }
Do Not Value Truth
A hallmark of Americanism.

what rock did you crawl out from under?

 

[TruthNotBS]

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[Orangecat]

Of course, Democrats lower the national debt,

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Really? When was the last time our debt went down?
Are you one of those simpletons who think the deficit and the debt are the same thing?

 

[airplanemechanic]

Of course, Democrats lower the national debt

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Can you show me one democrat president in the last 100 years that REDUCED national debt?

 

[whitehall]

Is WAPO still acting as Old Joe's legacy cheerleader? How freaking pathetic. The world was at relative peace before Biden's "policies" and gas was around $2.00 per gallon. Today gas is over $3 and the world is on fire.

 

[ColonelAngus]

In 2028, you lefties can run Joe.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

wrong

You just embarrassed yourself.

 

[justoffal]

The Empty Claim: In policy terms, Joe Biden’s presidency has been a resounding success.​

Yep that's why the Grocerycrats kicked his ass in November.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Dude, you keep throwing around this “Biden and Obama added $18 trillion” line, along with the made-up figure of Biden supposedly adding $8.5 trillion in four years. Let’s do some quick math. Obama took office in 2009 with a debt at about $10.6 trillion and left in 2017 with around $19.9 trillion. That’s a $9.3 trillion jump, not $10 trillion. Biden came in when the debt was roughly $27.8 trillion, and as of now, it’s in the ballpark of $32–33 trillion. That’s up by $4 to $5 trillion, not $8.5 trillion. Combine those two and you’re looking at around $13–14 trillion total for Obama and Biden, not the $18 trillion you keep insisting on.

On top of that, it’s hilarious that you’re totally ignoring Reagan and the two Bushes, plus you’re glossing over Trump, who oversaw a $7.8 trillion spike in just one term (especially stark before the pandemic even hit!). Reagan almost tripled the debt, and George W. Bush doubled it. So if you want to talk about “blowing up the deficit,” , it's you "conservatives" that are the worst when it comes to our national debt. You're the worst spenders, even spending more federal money than blue states, that often contribute more to the federal government than they receive. That's because blue states impose income taxes, whereas red states often don't. It's that simple, you're bigger spenders than Dems.

Dude, you keep throwing around this “Biden and Obama added $18 trillion”

Debt to the Penny | U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data

Debt to the Penny is the total debt of the U.S. government and is reported daily. It is made up of intragovernmental holdings and debt held by the public.

fiscaldata.treasury.gov

^You can look it up yourself, instead of continuing to whine ignorantly.


That’s a $9.3 trillion jump, not $10 trillion.

I could show you why his jump was closer to $10 trillion than to $9.3 trillion, but it'd be wasted on you.

it’s in the ballpark of $32–33 trillion.

You're such a moron. It's over $36 trillion.

 

[airplanemechanic]

In 2028, you lefties can run Joe.

Not sure about that. He might start to show signs of dementia by then.

 

[airplanemechanic]

The numbers you’re throwing around about Obama adding $10 trillion and Biden adding $8.5 trillion aren’t lining up with the facts. When Obama took office in January 2009, the national debt was about $10.6 trillion, and it was around $19.9 trillion when he left in January 2017, so that’s roughly $9.3 trillion in added debt, not $10 trillion.
Remember, a lot of that was thanks to the 2008 financial crisis he inherited from Bush, a conservative Republican.

As for Biden, the debt was about $27.8 trillion when he came in, and it’s currently around $32–33 trillion, which is a $4 to $5 trillion increase, not $8.5 trillion. Part of that bump is leftover COVID relief from Trump’s administration, those were some of the biggest spending bills in American history, and both parties signed off on them. If you want to talk about who’s responsible for most of the debt since Reagan, Republican presidents have generally overseen larger jumps. Reagan nearly tripled it, George W. Bush doubled it, and Trump racked up about $7.8 trillion (at that rate, it's more than 15 trillion in two presidential terms vs Obama's 9.3 trillion in his two terms in office), in just four years. Conservative Republicans spend more, mostly on warmongering. They love to spend on bombs, bullets, the military-industrial complex, DOD..etc.

On top of all that, blue states typically pay more in federal taxes than they get back, while red states receive more than they contribute. States like California and New York send a ton of money to the federal government, while places like Mississippi and West Virginia rely heavily on that money. So saying that “over half the national debt in our history” came from Obama and Biden misses huge pieces of the picture. It ignores the numbers from Reagan, both Bushes, and particularly Trump, and it forgets the economic disasters, like the Great Recession and the global pandemic, that Obama and Biden had to deal with right out of the gate.

You call yourself truth not BS, why not start telling the truth?

As of January 15, 2025, the U.S. national debt was approximately $36 trillion. Subtract 36 minus 27 YOU GET 9 TRILLION DOLLARS IN 4 YEARS.

OH yea, democrats are GREAT with the national debt.

 

[justoffal]

You call yourself truth not BS, why not start telling the truth?

As of January 15, 2025, the U.S. national debt was approximately $36 trillion. Subtract 36 minus 27 YOU GET 9 TRILLION DOLLARS IN 4 YEARS.

OH yea, democrats are GREAT with the national debt.

Part of that is dollar erosion. Trump's plan to set up a national Bitcoin reserve is freaking brilliant!