01 Mar 22
@mott-the-hoople saidNot quite
but still ahead of biden
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/02/28/nolte-polls-show-hobbled-biden-limping-sotu-trailing-trump-rematch/
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 34% in a Gallup poll released Monday, the low point of a presidency that already had the weakest average approval rating of any of his predecessors since the survey began in the 1940s.
https://fortune.com/2021/01/18/trump-approval-rating-average-popularity/
@jimm619 saidso the game is to keep reporting polls to keep biden on top? LOL
Not quite
President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 34% in a Gallup poll released Monday, the low point of a presidency that already had the weakest average approval rating of any of his predecessors since the survey began in the 1940s.
https://fortune.com/2021/01/18/trump-approval-rating-average-popularity/
he is sinking by the day
01 Mar 22
@mott-the-hoople saidOne thread,
so the game is to keep reporting polls to keep biden on top? LOL
he is sinking by the day
one moron.....
Coincidence??
@sonhouse saidNot sure about Mott, but I'd have started by NOT pumping trillions of dollars in deficit spending into an economy that was doing fine as is, NOT taken public steps to undermine public confidence in our ability to remain energy independent and NOT making fatuous and absurd promises to "shut down" the virus.
@Mott-The-Hoople
Ok Mr (I think) smart guy, tell us what in your wise decision making mastery, what would you have done different, not if your god king was back but if YOU were in Biden's place.
Let's here YOUR plan.
Edit: I also wouldn't have cut and run from Afghanistan, though my view on that wasn't particularly popular on this board, as I recall.
@sh76 saidThe economy that Biden inherited was far from "doing fine"; it had contracted 3.5% in 2020 the worst decline in 74 years. https://apnews.com/article/us-economy-shrink-in-2020-b59f9be06dcf1da924f64afde2ce094c
Not sure about Mott, but I'd have started by NOT pumping trillions of dollars in deficit spending into an economy that was doing fine as is, NOT taken public steps to undermine public confidence in our ability to remain energy independent and NOT making fatuous and absurd promises to "shut down" the virus.
Edit: I also wouldn't have cut and run from Afghanistan, though my view on that wasn't particularly popular on this board, as I recall.
Biden also deserves enormous credit for having the courage to end the US fiasco in Afghanistan even though it cost him politically (something three prior Presidents had decided to kick the can down the road rather than face).
01 Mar 22
@no1marauder saidIt had declined over-all in 2020 because it had totally tanked in Q2 due to COVID. It rebounded quite nicely in Q3 and Q4 and there was no reason to believe there was any recession danger by January 20, 2021.
The economy that Biden inherited was far from "doing fine"; it had contracted 3.5% in 2020 the worst decline in 74 years. https://apnews.com/article/us-economy-shrink-in-2020-b59f9be06dcf1da924f64afde2ce094c
Biden also deserves enormous credit for having the courage to end the US fiasco in Afghanistan even though it cost him politically (something three prior Presidents had decided to kick the can down the road rather than face).
02 Mar 22
@sh76 saidThe "nice rebound" left real GDP almost a half trillion dollars less than at the end of 2019 (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1) and there were 4.9 million more unemployed. https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2021/article/unemployment-rises-in-2020-as-the-country-battles-the-covid-19-pandemic.htm#:~:text=The%20unemployment%20rate%20fell%20to,at%20the%20end%20of%202019.
It had declined over-all in 2020 because it had totally tanked in Q2 due to COVID. It rebounded quite nicely in Q3 and Q4 and there was no reason to believe there was any recession danger by January 20, 2021.
Your "laissez faire" prescription would have increased economic misery for millions for no good reason.
02 Mar 22
@no1marauder saidit cost biden politically?
The economy that Biden inherited was far from "doing fine"; it had contracted 3.5% in 2020 the worst decline in 74 years. https://apnews.com/article/us-economy-shrink-in-2020-b59f9be06dcf1da924f64afde2ce094c
Biden also deserves enormous credit for having the courage to end the US fiasco in Afghanistan even though it cost him politically (something three prior Presidents had decided to kick the can down the road rather than face).
it cost 13 young men their lives dumbass!
02 Mar 22
@no1marauder saidpeople are experiencing economic misery right now to the tune of $276 less per month
The "nice rebound" left real GDP almost a half trillion dollars less than at the end of 2019 (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1) and there were 4.9 million more unemployed. https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2021/article/unemployment-rises-in-2020-as-the-country-battles-the-covid-19-pandemic.htm#:~:text=The%20unemployment%20rate%20fell%20to,at%20the%20end%20of%202019.
...[text shortened]... r "laissez faire" prescription would have increased economic misery for millions for no good reason.
02 Mar 22
@mott-the-hoople saidDragging the occupation out was costing many more lives every day.
it cost biden politically?
it cost 13 young men their lives dumbass!
Gee, remember when all you right wing clowns were insisting the Taliban would hold Americans hostage? Whatever happened to that?
02 Mar 22
@mott-the-hoople saidReal GDP went up over 5.7% last year. https://www.bea.gov/news/2022/gross-domestic-product-fourth-quarter-and-year-2021-advance-estimate#:~:text=GDP%20for%202021,in%202020%20(table%201).
people are experiencing economic misery right now to the tune of $276 less per month
For those economically illiterate, "real" means "after inflation".
02 Mar 22
@no1marauder saidGee, remember when we were talking about you being concerned with biden being hurt politically, when there were 13 young men that lost their lives.
Dragging the occupation out was costing many more lives every day.
Gee, remember when all you right wing clowns were insisting the Taliban would hold Americans hostage? Whatever happened to that?
02 Mar 22
@no1marauder saidyou are bad at trying to change the subject arent you?
Real GDP went up over 5.7% last year. https://www.bea.gov/news/2022/gross-domestic-product-fourth-quarter-and-year-2021-advance-estimate#:~:text=GDP%20for%202021,in%202020%20(table%201).
For those economically illiterate, "real" means "after inflation".
are you saying people are not being out $276 more dollars per month?