You definitely have TDS.

I am literally a registered Republican. I'm simply saying that financial issues in the US can become a problem in years not decades. Saying "it's our children's problem" suggests that it can't affect us soon. I'm saying it's possible it can affect us soon. Trump appointing a bad fed chair is just one possibility. Another possibility is that democrats ruin American credibility, or a million other things.

If you actually stop getting triggered and read my posts, I've said this since the first message

Do you think he a multi of ?

Similar shtick

We had high inflation for ~2 years as fall out from Covid. The world just stopped producing goods for 3-months on a global scale. Hindsight being 20/20 it’s quite clear the covid shutdowns weren’t effective and were harmful. It was an unprecedented event though and virtually every US state and every country worldwide implemented many of the same policies and restrictions. It baffles me this revisionist history that now happens where people try and pin the global inflation on a political party or a few select politicians.

Covid didn't cause the inflation the response caused the inflation.

Let's take a trip down memory lane since you want to bring up revisionism. Back then, do you recall how it was framed? Do you recall one camp saying we will screw the economy and other saying we need to shut down otherwise we're killing old people? Which party called for the shutdowns? Which party was bringing up the economy?

And no, it was not all the same. We spent much much more, we continued to spend much more even after the fact, when inflation was starting to run hot. We continued to keep rates low (a political move by the fed) despite inflation obviously creeping higher.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Aug 8 2025 12:39pm

So the world simply stopping the production of damn near everything for months didn’t have any affect on the cost of things? Thats a pretty wild assertion.

It’s true that the parties framed things differently. It’s also true that it was a worldwide event and that the majority of states (controlled by different parties) largely responded in similar ways.

So yeah. There is some pretty intense revisionist history going on to simplify it to dems and fed are bad and the sole reason for global inflation.

Multiple news outlets and DC political leaders are now coming out with numbers that DOGE actually wasted more money than it saved



/e At least the organizations that were investigating Musk for multiple abuses got shut down

This post was edited by Bruv on Aug 8 2025 01:16pm

That was part of it, then came the trillions in stimulus while simultaneously holding rates at near zero. Again 'largely responded in similar ways' is not true and a cop out. "Yeah man everyone was going balls deep into spending so it's okay that we did it." It's not only on the Dems and not only on the fed, Republicans also played a part but to pretend what we've just went through isn't the biggest inflationary shock and negative to the dollar probably during the last 40-50 years is nonsense. And some will gloss over it and hyperventilate about the next fed chair

I would say anyone overly concerned about the future wouldn't exactly be pleased with anyone of the last ballot to be honest. Not like Trumps first term showed he has any amount of spending control.

In most of our lifetimes, GW Bush has been one of the greatest offenders and really ramp up with the War on Terror. Obama went to town on spending after that carrying on but had to introduce a massive stim package due to 2008, he inherited an absolute fucking disaster. Trump continued the trend into his first term and he just further shit the bed leaving the US in another horrible position to inherit. Then you had Covid stim under biden.

Honestly, the last 25 years, republican, democrat alike, I have no idea how you guys down there sit arguing. Its all been just uncontrolled spending. To think anything would have gone different if it was flopped is actually retarded at this point.

This post was edited by SBD on Aug 8 2025 01:31pm

I mean it’s true. Both sides balloon the deficit and add to the debt. They go about it differently. But we’re putting on blinders if we pretend it’s a one-sided issue.

Exactly, issues come up, pump money at it. That's the action plan and has been. Its been little different up here in Canada.