Democratic President rebuilds economy, just in time to hand it off to Trump — again

We've been doing this seesaw for the last 30 years. Republicans are that guy we've all seen at work who gets nothing done but gets credit for everyone else's work, and fails up because of it.

Just do another round of stimulus check and let Donny deal with the bill. 😏

more like stabilize. without the second term to actually make some progress this is going to go in the shitter fast.

You thought inflation was bad. Get ready for Trumpflation.

I guess that's better then renaming the war economy "Bidenomics"

Grow food if you can now folks shit is about to get bad. Buy flour in mass if you can.

If the democrats are so sick of getting swapped out maybe they should field some decent candidates.

It basically happens every cycle, easy to go back all the way to George Bush Sr -> Clinton ( if not earlier).

But the problem is, the current economic boom is even more K-shaped than any other in recent history; half of the population are struggling worse than before, but their plight is masked by an incredible boom for the other half.

I can’t blame the working class for thinking back to ~2016, and remembering things fondly.

Trump will only make the current situation worse, but I can at least understand how the US ended up in its current predicament.

And we have several pandemic vectors on the rise - again. Well, with one major change, we now have a vaccine denialist in charge of core agencies. Prospects look good for the vulture industries.

I see it more as speed of descent.

I'm of the opinion this country is sold, and died about half a century ago as a democracy, and this is just leftover momentum. All but waned momemtum.

Our vote isn't on whether to reorient the economy to reflect the priorities of its citizens, merely how, and if at all, to manage some of the social issue symptoms of our crumbling commons, the ruins of public education, as the owners search for new vectors of exploitation.

I see voting blue as akin to requesting we leave the water pumps turned on for this sinking ship to buy time(D), and voting red a vote turn them off because some passengers have been deluded into hating other passengers and really, really want to watch them drown(R) despite being in the same boat with them.

The holes are our economic policy, but ask either party about patching them and you'll get something akin to "What holes? This ship is unsinkable! If you think there's holes, you're the problem."

Dont worry though, there are lifeboats, just enough for the politicians and their donors. Wealth means not having any national allegience.

Lmao, he rebuilt the stock market.

That is not the economy.

Why does he look like Kim Jong Un in this picture 😂

i'm holding a huge cash position, waiting for the inevitable downturn to buy up assets.

He looks horrible

https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm

This is a chart showing percentage difference over 12 months of CPI for the last 20 years. Biden's presidency came with less than 1% inflation which only rise to record levels in the first 2 years. It has come down to high 2% and settled at that level.

In the last 12 months everything other than energy prices have rise by 2.4%. A 2-2.4% in prices after having 2 years of near 10% inflation.

You can see how Democrats saying that they have done good for economy and common man seems hollow.

Womp womp. I'm convinced these idiots think maniacs like trump coming in to raid government coffers is advantageous to themselves some how. I know there might be a criminal network where this is true but not the entire fucking GOP.

It's insane how the right controls the narrative so hard that some people believe in earnest that they have good economic policy when it really just is, "gubberment don't work, now gibbme all that money, nom nom nom."

Nope

The problem with assertions like this is that they can never be conclusively proven or disproven. Literally every single president (at least during my lifetime) has blamed their predecessor for all of the problems plaguing the country and took credit for everything that improved, while their predecessor claimed credit for laying the groundwork and blamed their predecessor for all the challenges they faced.

The fundamental issue is that the same experiment can never be conducted twice under controlled conditions, because the world doesn't stop spinning and whatever the other guy did, he did, and we can't turn back time in order to find out how his opponent's choices would have played out. Sure, you can always pick and choose some factoids in order to spin a compelling "what if" scenario, but ultimately there's simply too many variables at play in order to reach a sufficiently solid conclusion.

He rebuilt the economy? What the fuck are they on about? Inflation is crazy high, there'e layoffs like every other day, and 60% of the country still lives paycheck to paycheck. Does huffpo think we all have our heads up our asses?

I've heard people on the Left say that the "president doesn't control the economy" but then people turn around and say these stupid things like "president rebuilds economy". Which is it? Either the Fed is an independent body not influenced by politics and the executive office and Obama wasn't to blame for 2008 or inflation and Biden isn't to blame for the housing crisis or food prices etc. and therefore Republicans aren't to blame for any latent economic issues imagine or otherwise; OR Biden has the power to rebuild the economy implying that everything leading up to this has in part been the fault of each respective person in office and therefore when the economy does well under the GOP it is because GOP policies are better. Idiots.

Imagine believing that genocide joe "rebuilt" the economy in any kind of just, sustainable, or meaningful way.