I see Biden completing a lot more coherent sentences than I see from you fools here on OPP. LOL

Dude... that is not even CLOSE to answering my question. This is how much you boneheads understand the inflation you keep blaming Biden for... I break it down to the most fundamental elements for you and ask how we can reverse inflation and you come back with suggestions on how to balance the budget.

Just curious...

Since printing too much much money is a primary cause of inflation and fractional reserve banking insures that we only print (or add) money that is being loaned, how do you suppose we reverse it?

There is only one way. By cancelling debt. For every dollar of cancelled debt, there is one less dollar in the economy.

Biden may have bragged about decreasing inflation but he was talking about the rate of inflation, not the amount of inflation. We could go to an inflation rate of 0% and we would not feel any better because the dollar is still devalued compared to a year ago... because there is still THAT many dollars in the economy. The ONLY way to bring the number of dollars back down and actually deflate, is to cancel debt.

Have the Republicans thought of this? I'm sure some of them have but they never bring it up. Has Biden? Oh. Apparently he has. He's targeting student debt. Sure, let's see how it goes. And boy, did we hear Republicans shrieking!

Well? WTF do you want to then?

All we EVER hear from Republicans is how the Democrats keep failing at this or that... Well, why don't YOU try? For once... Let's see if ANY Republican can provide a plan for deflation. Get us back to where we can buy a week of groceries for less than a week of pay.

All ears.

Barky: You've alluded to before that Biden is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

StraightUp: Show me. Prove it. Be a man. The fact is, I have some serious issues with Biden. For instance, I strongly oppose his support for the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people.

Barky: You just proved it yourself dumbass. And don't give me the BS that you just meant Trump.

LOL - You're so lost in your anger. I almost feel sorry for you.

Thanks.

Not according to the NBC News poll, but I won't disagree with you. I think i*****l i*********n *is* a major concern for a lot of people.


That is ONE of many causes and the president has very little control over it. Here's why I say that... First of all, the Federal Reserve is the ONLY entity that CAN print money and they do that in response to people borrowing money. The president CAN borrow money through the treasury and we can track that with our national debt. But our national debt is actually much smaller than the sum of our corporate debts, which is itself smaller than the sum of our personal debts. So, even if a president stops borrowing money, there is still billions of dollars being printed so banks can loan money to the American people and their businesses.

The other thing I want to point out is that our treasury actually borrowed more money from the Federal Reserve under Trump than it did under Biden and while Biden's efforts to enforce taxes on the wealthy helped cover the bills without printing more money, Trump's massive tax cut on the wealthy left us with no choice but to borrow.

When you look at the whole picture it becomes more evident that if anything, Trump is more responsible for inflation than Biden is, but for those who don't have the depth of understanding, all they know is that effects coincide with Biden's term. It's like blaming the person you just sneezed on for getting you sick.


Yeah, I've debunked this one a million times. Biden didn't kneecap f****l f**l. In fact production has increased under Biden to record-breaking levels. Here's what Biden did...

1. He promised that he would work toward a future without f****l f**l. (IMO, a good thing)
2. He took federal land off the market for future leases. (IMO, a good thing)

That's it. That's the extent of his so-called "inflation-causing attack on f****l f**l". Here's why it didn't have ANY impact on our current supply... NONE of the potential leases that were obstructed by taking federal land off the market would have reached production for another 10 years at least. It typically takes at least that long to develop a site between leasing a tract of land and turning on the spigot.

Gas prices went up because oil companies saw an opportunity to price gouge. It's that simple. Oil executives have even admitted this.


Only because of the p******c that he had no control over. If you remove 2020 which was submerged in the economic shutdown, the average rate under Trump is 2.1% which is higher than the average for Obama's second term which was only 1.1%.


One of the things I've noticed about you dweebs is that you never consider the fact that economic conditions don't change on a dime. In 2021 the average rate of inflation was 4.1%, the second highest rate so far this century and even though Biden took office in 2021, the budget for 2021 was signed by Trump not Biden. Clearly, inflation was already rampant before Biden had ANY influence. Biden's economic policies were implemented for the first time in 2022 and that's when inflation peaked and started to decline.

Even so, I still think the market's self-adjusting properties has more to do with the decline than Biden's policies. Unlike you, I'm not so loyal to a personality to where I have to cherry-pick the facts to support an immaculate image of my idol.


I haven't seen this claim before but it sounds like another red herring. First of all, about 90% of the dollars in circulation are digital (not printed). So all of a sudden we're talking about 8 out of every 100 dollars. Secondly, the average lifespan of a dollar bill is 6.6 years, with other denominations being pretty close to the same. So now your point has pretty lost all it potency, as all the printed money in circulation typically gets swapped out within the span of one president (serving two terms) anyway.

Right-wing media is a treasure chest of these little zingers designed to fool people like you.

It sounds like you're getting all agitated by flim-flam conspiracy theories.

Trump was such a departure from the norm that ANY successor will appear to be a return to what was before. This is why Hillary once stated that Democrats are effectively the conservatives in today's political picture. I tend to agree.

It doesn't matter if I agree with their assessment or not, I wasn't grading the assessment, I was simply stating that Biden supporters *seem* to be convinced that Biden's decision-making is competent. Are you going to disagree or are you going to keep pussy-footing around looking for ways to stab me?


Show me. Prove it. Be a man.

The fact is, I have some serious issues with Biden. For instance, I strongly oppose his support for the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people.

Don't assume that the support for Biden is a cult of personality like it is for Trump because it's not. We don't run around with Biden hats and Biden f**gs. We don't by tickets to Biden rallies. We will support him in the 2024 e******n because, all things considered, we think he's a better choice than Trump.

I don't remember any such insults or comments being incorporated into a political strategy. And while you're obsessing over isolated comments that can easily be ignored, I am referring to the fact that Trump never made any attempt to reach across the aisle in matters of legislation. One of Biden's biggest scores was the infrastructure bill in which he worked with Republicans to gain bipartisan support. Name one significant bill in which Trump worked with Democrats. There isn't any. Trump *IS* the first and only president to turn his back entirely on the loyal opposition.


Any division that occurred under Obama was the result of r****ts reactions to the first black president. It would have been the same for ANY black president.

I'm not so blind that I can't see how you lopped off the first part of my sentence that said "For them, Biden seems to have proven himself over the last three years to be fully competent with his decisions..."

That changes the context. So, I'm not sure if you're trying to be crafty or if you're just too r****ded to even notice.

Just to enforce the point I made earlier about the MAGA folks and their inability to offer much more than short irrational quips... At the time of this writing, there are 20 responses to the OP.

9 of the 20 responses are the intellectual equivalent of a middle finger.

1. Three memes containing one-line stabs that have nothing to do with the OP.
2. The pukes are your i***ts who are about to lose 2024 e******n!!!..
3. Now give us one more of your r****t rants and disappear.
4. Wow I fell left out. You didn't mention r****t southerners. You're slipping airfarce.
5. You being the ugly r****t that you are is the puke!! You are a d********g freak!!
6. R****t, r****t, r****t, r****t!! We all know you're nothing but a little low life r****t!!
7. Have you had enough yet? U asked for it! Anybody that v**es for FJB is Unamerican.
Sorass gotta go, oops I mean Soros
8. Gosh; why you so down on evangelicals, did the good padre refuse to hear your confession as a fraudulent purveyor of wishful dreaming
9. HEY BIDEN!!! QUIT LOOKING AT YOUR WATCH WHEN SERVICEMENS CASKETS ROLL BY!

3 of the 20 responses offer a little more of an argument (but still amounts to a glass of unsubstantiated claims being tossed in the face).

1. All this e******n i**********e is giving Trump extra support. Is there any way to get thru to you Biden ling woke l*****ts??
2. Nice!!........ you switched from Gin and took up the meth pipe. Do you still have to register as a sex offender because of that " helping the neighbors goat back over the fence situation " ? Tell the judges it was a Hamas goat, you'll get a pass on natural se******n theory.
3. Did you wake up when you learned about your leftie buds altering a document to gain illegal FISA warrants to spy on an American citizen and his family? Did it bother you at all that the left "knowingly" propagated a Collusion h**x for over 2 years at the exspense of 32 million taxpayer dollars? Does it bother you that the Biden admin went to Social media to suppress info they didn't want you to have, how about the 51 intel officials that signed off on the laptop lie, did that bother you at all? I could go on but it wouldn't make a difference because you and your's are no more then a bunch of hypocrites.

5 of the 20 responses make a valid point about the nature of the OP, but have no answer to the message.

1. I stopped looking at your posts years ago. Waste of time. This title was intriguing, and I thought you might have something to actually "say".Instead, you begin by literally howling at the moon. Typical. I'll stay off your lawn…
2. Not when your approach is arrogant and aggressive and full of h**e.
3. I am not sure that snarking is the way to get anyone to listen or learn about anything...
4. Troll
5. Yes and you've shown seven ways that will guarantee you not to beginning with being judgmental and put downs. Think for a second, how would YOU respond? BTW, it's funny how you liberals ALWAYS not missing a beat use that r****t card. It doesn't work with me. I'm a native American, so is my wife, my daughter is Vietnamese. You?

1 response is a resort to humor that nicely sidesteps the nastiness

2. Today I identify as MAGA, send $100 and I'll listen to your rant. I'll identify as Woke for $299.99 and Progressive for $999.99. Hurry, offer expires soon.

Only 3 of the 20 responses weigh in on the side of the OP

1. BRAVO! Well said.
2. A MAGA v**er no. But there are Lincoln Republicans who put millions into ads aimed at peeling off just 4% of Republican v**ers to either v**e for Biden or not v**e. Just 4% will sink Trump. That can be achieved...
3. A little angry there bro? LOL ...

Granted, the OP was insulting, as many expressions of frustration are. But it did bring up a point about MAGA folks ignoring facts and playing with conspiracy theories. Not one response made any attempt to answer that.

Case by case, what you are calling "e******n i**********e" keeps turning out to be another failed attempt at e******n denial and that's giving Biden the advantage. You would do better if you just stop making fools of yourselves.

A little angry there bro? LOL

Your frustration is entirely understandable because the answer to your question is, no. You can get through to the conservatives that haven't lost their minds but you cannot get through to the more fanatical MAGA people.

These are the same people that have been rearing their ugly heads long before Trump was elected. They were the infamous failures of the Tea Party during the Obama years, a movement that simply didn't have the substance to stay alive for very long. But what the Tea Party did do during its short stint, was encourage uneducated people to get involved in our democracy and as nice as it sounds to say ALL Americans get a voice, the fact remains that without an understanding of how the government works a person's involvement in our democracy stands a better chance of screwing it up.

For a while, I tried my best to avoid insulting these people, but when I came to the same realization that any attempt to reason with them will be met with closed ears and a mouthful of insults, it became a lesser concern for me. I still try to avoid direct insults but if someone is insulted by my analysis then that's on them.

I think it's very obvious that there is a high concentration of bigots among them, from r****ts to self-righteous theocrats. But I also think many of them are well-meaning people who simply lack the education to realize they are being played. This is abundantly obvious in their grammatically abysmal posts and the gaping absence of rational assessment. It seems they are only capable of one-line insults and the parroting of wh**ever arguments they're leaders provide them with.

We have no answers for this. In the past the uneducated simply didn't v**e. On the left, this is still largely the case, but on the right it seems that the uneducated has become a democratic resource to be exploited.

A recent NBC News Poll lists the top two concerns for Biden supporters and the top two concerns for Trump supporters. The poll indicates that among strong Biden supporters, the top two issues are... A******n and Uniting the Country.

Regardless of how you feel about a******n, the fact remains that this is a big concern for many. The second thing to note is that there is a very clear and feasible path for overriding the Supreme Court by passing a law through Congress that guarantees a woman's right to choose. Efforts are already underway to make this happen and Biden has resolved to support the effort.

Again... not arguing whether it's right or wrong, just pointing out that this change is within political reach. The plan already underway *IS* feasible, which is giving the Biden supporters a good reason to v**e for him.

The second one, uniting the country, is something I would say is NOT within political reach. This may be a top concern for Biden supporters but whether or not Biden can actually do something about it, is in my opinion, doubtful. The divide is cultural and runs too deep. It may have metastasized into politics under Trump but he certainly didn't create it... Trump was leveraging the divide that was already there, which is something we've never seen a president do before. Trump was the first president to openly favor one half of the American people over the other half and I think avoiding another one-sided presidency is what drives this concern.

Moving over to the other side, the poll indicates that among Trump supporters, the top two issues are... Inflation and Competency.

Personally, I agree with the Trump supporters that inflation is the most pressing issue for most of us, but much like the cultural divide, I think inflation is something that no president can do much about. There are of course lot's of politically motivated theories and baseless accusations that push the narrative that Biden caused inflation, but an honest assessment of our post-p******c economy, the free market and the banking system will tell us that inflation is being driven by forces that are almost entirely outside p**********l control.

Finally, there is competency... a top concern for the first time ever. Perhaps this is because our choice in 2024 is between the two oldest p**********l candidates in our history. But it's only a top concern for Trump supporters. Well, Biden *is* four years older, but for his supporters it's not a top concern. For them, Biden seems to have proven himself over the last three years to be fully competent with his decisions, despite his age, his geriatric walk and his stammering at the podium. Some of his supporters also know that he has assembled the youngest administration in history and that he actually listens to them.

On the Trump side, where the concern is elevated to the top notches, it's hard not to see it as a vindictive stab for the constant questioning of Trump's competency during his term. But there is also the fact that right-wing media obscures the very things that assures Biden supporters of their candidates competency, while honing in on his stammering and anything else that emphasizes his age.

I also want to point out that political moves rarely satisfy everyone. Any move a president makes will be strongly opposed by some and regardless of how competent the move might actually be, it's become normal for those in opposition to call it an incompetent move.

So what these four concerns tell us is that Biden supporters are more tuned into reality, with the only concern out of the four that can actually be affected by their supported candidate and the other concern being the only one out of the four that can be avoided by NOT v****g for opposing candidate. The Trump supporters seem to be entirely driven by their dislike toward the opponent with one concern that neither of the candidates can fix (so why would it even be an e******n issue?) and one concern about the opposing candidates (competency) that strongly suggests the concern *should* be about the supporters themselves.