economy
idiotic tax cuts for the rich. here is an accountant (knows more than I do) bitching about plans (before it was passed), here is the wikipedia, here is a summary about why it sucks. Note that it expires in 2025, at which point taxes will shoot back up. the US eroded its tax base with the law, and making the cuts indefinite would mean the us loses even more money. its not sustainable. the law was designed with the assumption that it would frick over the 2025 administration (which in 2017 republicans assumed would be Dems) because taxes will shoot up (and thus be their fault). the net result from all of this? +$500 to net household income, considered statistically insignificant. but the 1% got a nice cut.
under trump, the federal reserve overplayed its hand. they had QE running even though the markets were good (bad idea), then when markets went to shit (covid) they had no recourse (because they hand was already played) except inflating the shit out of everything. Biden became president during the midst of this, but it's a well-known economic fact that there is Nothing You Can Do during an inflationary recession. I will repeat it for those of you in the back: economists don't have cowtools to deal with inflationary recessions. the outcome we got was the best we could have, inflation was a lot worse in other countries.
trump wants to put a blanket tariff over ALL imports (terrible idea), wants a weaker dollar (say hi to inflation)
absolute disaster for the national debt (source)
military and global affairs
abused the state dept to fabricate and push anti-vaccine propaganda in the Phillipines (reuters) in an effort to combat the Phillipines buying vaccines from China (the US's were too expensive). Biden shut it down after he found out about it (was kept on the dl)
a long, long list of ways that trump has fricked over us troops
the whole first indictment
always lets putin get what he wants
social issues
i will reference project 2025 in this section
trump set up concentration camps for immigrant children, then "lost" 1488 of them... where i have i seen that number before? (ap news)
make abortion flat-out illegal
rollback trans ppl in the military
roll back s*x discrimination protections on gay and transgender people (page 584)
define trans people as child s*x pests: "Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women." (page 5)
"It should also pursue the death penalty for applicable crimesβparticularly heinous crimes involving violence and sexual abuse of children" (page 554)
taken together, it seems as though they are paving the way to outlaw existing as a transgender person (possibly through the death penalty)
redefine public transit as to include ride sharing: "A better definition for public transit (which also would require congressional legislation) would be transit provided for the public rather than transit provided by a public municipality." (page 635)
reduce funding for public transit (more for personal automobiles) and remove federal funding for city transit -- instead, funding would have to go thru state govts who then do what they want rather than straight to the cities
get rid of the dept of education, fda
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Tbh posts like these are a waste of time. It's clear that you started from the conclusion that the Trump term was a failure and looked for data to support the conclusion. Anyone can come up with some data that supports their conclusion for either outcome. Changing minds would require someone to read your analysis and do their own research to make sure the statistics you posted don't miss the point which they aren't going to do. Then they would need to decide that that actually matters enough for them to change their vote. No one is going to just take your word for it that isn't already convinced.
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Then make a post about why you're voting for Trump with well-researched opinions.
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Trump is
Epic
Cool
Has very large, manly hands
!trump2024
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I'm not voting for Trump but that would equally be a waste of time. Well researched opinion is a funny term since you obviously took the opinion that's in your self interest and went to find research to support it or found someone else's post on it that you took as gospel because it's convenient to believe. Trumptards do the same thing. !grillers can spot wingcuck cope from a mile away.
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I'm voting for Trump because he loves me!
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