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bucolic_frolic

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1. Congress, particularly (R) side, made it all worse with STIM Bills

Reply to genxlib (Original post)

Sun Nov 10, 2024, 01:15 PM

Nov 2024

They focus on spending and not the effects of spending. Rethugs structured it so they could raid the plan and plunder from it. They injected whatever it was - $800 Billion? $1.2 Trillion? - into a shrinking economy that was panicked. No one thought about inflation? Food flew off the shelves, no matter the price because people, some of them, had the cash. They send STIM to people with good paying jobs. STIM for every child. Some benefits were doubled.

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One phrase I have barely seen mentioned this week is COVID 19 [View all] genxlib Nov 2024 OP

Congress, particularly (R) side, made it all worse with STIM Bills bucolic_frolic Nov 2024 #1

On the contrary, those were GOOD things. alarimer Nov 2024 #8

Totally disagree. Inflation was too much money chasing too few goods. bucolic_frolic Nov 2024 #9

Oh, I saw Covid mentioned, in the context of how fucked we are now that RockRaven Nov 2024 #2

Hard to disagree. intrepidity Nov 2024 #3

You don't see/hear, "nobody is above the law" any more. nt Hotler Nov 2024 #4

Because it's true in theory EnergizedLib Nov 2024 #7

Trump would likely have won in 2020 without covid EdmondDantes_ Nov 2024 #5

I don't disagree. genxlib Nov 2024 #11

I think Biden won because of COVID alarimer Nov 2024 #6

I don't disagree with you genxlib Nov 2024 #10

The Trump regime was also completely unrealistic about the pandemic. keep_left Nov 2024 #12

I think Fauci would be best served by just retiring quietly genxlib Nov 2024 #15

Yeah, you're right--someone else should shoulder that responsibility. keep_left Nov 2024 #16

This hurts EnergizedLib Nov 2024 #13

I can't say I know for sure that MAGA was waning at that time genxlib Nov 2024 #14

So, if we lose in 2020 EnergizedLib Nov 2024 #17