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Biden will win BUT there will be a wicked inheritance (Original Post) kpete Sep 2020 OP
This is how it goes Delarage Sep 2020 #1
no new incoming president and his admin will ever face a worse situation than the mess GOP and beachbumbob Sep 2020 #2
An awful lot can be changed overnight. marble falls Sep 2020 #3
for the worse, yep beachbumbob Sep 2020 #4
Obama inherited a massive mess Polybius Sep 2020 #5

Delarage

(2,186 posts)
1. This is how it goes
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 09:24 AM
Sep 2020

A Democrat gets us in good shape after inheriting disasters --> We start dreaming about making actual progress and moving forward --> they steal an election --> they plunder the Treasury, create discord and dishearten the nation --> we make a Herculean effort to get back in office --> we start fixing their disasters --> once stabilized, we start dreaming about making actual progress and moving forward --> repeat.

see Bush v. Gore, Trump v. Clinton for the full story

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
2. no new incoming president and his admin will ever face a worse situation than the mess GOP and
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 09:24 AM
Sep 2020

trump has created and left behind. Will take decades to correct, if its even possible and why the we need the gOP to be completely destroyed as a political party

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
4. for the worse, yep
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 12:47 PM
Sep 2020

China announcement of dumping US Treasuries is a first round salvo in eliminating the US Dollar as the reserve currency

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