Summary
President Joe Biden highlighted his administration’s economic record, citing consistent job growth and a 2.7% inflation rate drop from its 2022 peak.
December’s jobs report showed 256,000 new jobs and declining unemployment, signaling steady economic growth.
However, inflation remains above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, and interest rates remain high, impacting homebuyers and businesses.
Public pessimism lingers on affordability as Biden passes a largely strong economy to his successor, Donald Trump.
Nah, miss me with that shit. I don’t want a communist revolution. I want to have options besides voting for Republican Party 1 or Republican Party 2. That’s the strategy that the DNC has settled on, and I hope that it fucking blows up in their face as long as they embrace it. It’s a bullshit strategy that isn’t supported by data (but is supported by big donors, so I guess it’s cool to lose as long as the ca$h keeps coming), and everyone loses in the long run. Democrats being yesteryear republicans isn’t better, it’s just the same bullshit on a longer fuse.
I mean that is fine but I still find I like some improvement over going backwards and I very much doubt any replacement is going to somehow be way better. I really feel people want a magic answer. Progress is not easy or sudden. It requires going for the best as often as possible. You and I disagree a lot though and see things differently. I still can’t believe what biden got done in one term in one of the worst conditions a democratic presidency has had as far as the rest of the government was. He still ranks as the best one I have experienced in my lifetime as far as what he had to deal with. For me basically biden then obama then clinton then carter then bush senior then reagan then bush junior then trump. I just do not believe the dems will blow up and be replaced by something we have never seen historically. Now I can believe that the republicans could blow up and revert back to the way they were back before the 80’s and in turn that would force the democrats to go more left to distance themselves from what the republicans do. The problem to me is your trying to blow up the wrong party. Get rid of the most rotted out pieces and replace and eventually the bridge will be decent. Don’t replace the least worn pieces first and work your way to the worst.
I don’t think we disagree as much as you think we do, tbh. I mean, sure, if I could wave a wand and make the GOP implode, I’d do it without a second thought, but I can’t. I don’t want to vote for the GOP or their policies, and I don’t want to see them succeed. That’s why it’s so frustrating to see the DNC deciding that instead of offering a meaningful alternative for people to go and vote for, they’re just going to, against all reason and evidence, consider their base locked in and try to court moderate Republicans instead. They’re both shuffling to the right AND giving away elections by doing that. This last election, Kamala flipped 1% of Republicans. Joe flipped 5%. They might as well be vying for the Sasquatch vote. It seems to me like it’d be much better to try and give the huge swaths of no-votes a reason to show up to the polls.
I don’t think they are vying for republicans at all. Its just they are a centerist party. A stability party. So they are gradual and more traditional in their methods. The problem that I see is that they end up having to spend half their time just repairing things which makes it hard to progress. The democratic party has primaries and we are deciding the canidate for our locality. People don’t have to wait for folks to come to their door for signature. They can find someone they like getting signatures or run themselves. Money is an issue with elections but that is something that will not go away if the democrats go away and its always going to be something we will have to contend with.