• zippy@piefed.zip
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    1 day ago

    When did they say “the economy is good?”

    During his State of the Union Address:

    “Folks, I inherited an economy that was on the brink. Now our economy is literally the envy of the world…America is rising. We have the best economy in the world…”

    You can try to reform the Democrats all you want, and I legitimately wish you luck, but I’m pretty pessimistic that swaping them out will do anything. They have already shown that they would rather lose, than let anyone with any principles have power in their party.

    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      Honestly, I hadn’t even processed that because it’s such boilerplate fluff, but you’re right. Biden did indeed inherit an economy on the brink, and he deserves some amount of credit for the “soft landing,” but he definitely didn’t do enough to materially help low and middle income folks as he implies in that speech.

      Still, he wasn’t telling voters that the problems were over. He was telling other rich people (Congress), and for them the economy was (and still is) pretty good. If you were to ask him, I wonder if he wouldn’t say that that’s the difference.

      I still think the worst failure of Biden’s presidency was not prosecuting Trump, though.