Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

Reminder of how the Republicans manage to wreck supertanker America time and again. Over and over. But the rubes still think the Rs should be more trusted than the Dems on the economy. Rubes. Why would we do this again, with record economic growth and jobs for everyone? So stupid. 

NYT (opinion piece): 

A president has only limited control over the economy. And yet there has been a stark pattern in the United States for nearly a century. The economy has grown significantly faster under Democratic presidents than Republican ones.It’s true about almost any major indicator: gross domestic product, employment, incomes, productivity, even stock prices. It’s true if you examine only the precise period when a president is in office, or instead assume that a president’s policies affect the economy only after a lag and don’t start his economic clock until months after he takes office. The gap “holds almost regardless of how you define success,” two economics professors at Princeton, Alan Blinder and Mark Watson, write. They describe it as “startlingly large.”

Since 1933, the economy has grown at an annual average rate of 4.6 percent under Democratic presidents and 2.4 percent under Republicans, according to a Times analysis. In more concrete terms: The average income of Americans would be more than double its current level if the economy had somehow grown at the Democratic rate for all of the past nine decades. If anything, that period (which is based on data availability) is too kind to Republicans, because it excludes the portion of the Great Depression that happened on Herbert Hoover’s watch.

Congressional control is not the answer. The pattern holds regardless of which party is running Congress. Deficit spending also doesn’t explain the gap: It is not the case that Democrats juice the economy by spending money and then leave Republicans to clean up the mess. Over the last four decades, in fact, Republican presidents have run up larger deficits than Democrats.

nytimes.com

Why Are Republican Presidents So Bad for the Economy? (Published 2021)

By David Leonhardt and Yaryna Serkez

G.D.P., jobs and other indicators have all risen faster under Democrats for nearly the past century.

Link:www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opinion/sun...

Just more wholehearted agreement. When a party supports and defends and bows down to a person this bad, it simply has to be taken down. And that is done be voting against Rs - from dogcatcher to POTUS.

It is phenomenally disappointing to me that people are still parsing the R party. As in, "Well, I'd vote for THIS R, but not THAT R" (a la VA and NJ). My god, wake up America. The R party needs a HUGE wake up, and they're not going to get it if people think that Trump simply not winning in 2024 is enough. It's not.

NO ONE'S life is going to be destroyed if we get a surplus of more liberal - and thoroughly changeable - policies in coming years. But NOT taking down the current R party very well MIGHT destroy fundamental aspects of our country.

Put another way, if a D POTUS said, unapolagetically, "Jesus sucks," lots of Rs would understandably vote against Ds. And if a R POTUS unapologetically said something CLEARLY racist or sexist, lots of Ds would understandably vote against Rs.

And yet, Trump has done ALL that he has done, and millions of Americans STILL aren't sure that they need to send HIS PARTY a message. JUST PLAIN DUMB.

agip wrote:

Pence, McConnell, Cheneys, Bush2, various Fox people, Romney, Sasse all telling trumpists to stop trumping. Bad for the Republicans but good for the nation. If just one person sticks out his neck, Trump will cut it off. If two dozen high-up Republicans tell Trump to stop Trumping, he can't kill them all, and it gives cover for another. And another. And another. And another. It's a bloody 'I'm Spartacus' moment' for movie people. 

....that SHOULD have happened NLT about 2017......

Ghost of Disco Gary wrote:

ihatejoe wrote:

The Cheney race will be very interesting as she has such a large campaign war chest. The state Republican establishment overwhelmingly turned out against her, but it is still to be determined if the electorate is of the same mindset. I am inclined to believe that she will lose in the primary and then the general election will be a free for all when she takes those donations into a run as an independent in November.

Cheney is behind in the GOP primary, the winner will be the prohibitive favorite to take her seat. Cheney is losing the primary and her seat too. She's done.

https://crowdwisdom.live/politics/2022-wyoming-house-race-polls/

You are forgetting that enough Ds may cross the isle to vote for her, especially considering the state is going to remain red anyway. Also, some Rs are coming to the rescue publicly so she may be at her lowest polling point right now and it could easily improve dramatically. TFG talking about Pence overriding the election and all that nonsense won't help Cheney's opponent.

Tzees would rather be ruled by a dictator than lose ground to "libs" - nothing is more important to them, not even their freedumb

"Covid deaths highest in a year as omicron targets the unvaccinated and elderly." Thanks Joe Biden! You were miraculously gifted 3 vaccines and you still managed to f*ck things up. Isn't that what Obama used to say about you?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-deaths-highest-in-a-year-as-omicron-targets-the-unvaccinated-and-elderly/ar-AATCF2s

Fat hurts wrote:

Trollminator wrote:

Romney would make a good president, but no way he gets through a primary alive. He barely got through in 2012, and he had to deviate significantly from his own politics to get there. He wouldn't stand a chance against trump.

I disagree with this. I think someone like Romney or Cheney has a chance. But it all depends on who runs and how quickly they get out.

Let's say the candidates are Romney, Trump, and DeSantis. If all three stay in the race for a long time, Romney could win the primary. If it's Romney, Cheney, Trump, then Trump wins easily.

It would all come down to how the vote is split.

There is no contest with trump around. You forget that the tzees are into pro wrestling, and the undisputed wrestling champ is trump. He will obliterate anyone else, because he lives in the mud and they have only one leg in the mud - they can't compete. An anti-trumper can't win because most of the party is obsessed with TFG. As for the others, how can they go into a debate against TFG while their whole platform IS TFG? haha, they will just get slapped down. TFG treats other Rs even worse than Ds.

Fat hurts wrote:

Ghost of Disco Gary wrote:

Stacey Abrams destroyed her campaign. That pic with school kids wearing masks and her maskless. There is no coming back. Stick a fork in her campaign. She's done

Kemp and Perdue are going to use that pic from here unto eternity in 24/7 around-the-clock ads.

Georgia 2022 is gonna be redder than Virginia 2021.

Stacey's explanation makes her that much more likeable. She immediately said she was wrong. Her explanation boils down to, "I forgot to put my mask back on". We can all relate to that.

If Perdue wins the primary, Stacy wins the general. That's all you need to know.

Keep dreaming, Abrams is done.

Sally Vixxxxxxxxens wrote:

"Covid deaths highest in a year as omicron targets the unvaccinated and elderly." Thanks Joe Biden! You were miraculously gifted 3 vaccines and you still managed to f*ck things up. Isn't that what Obama used to say about you?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-deaths-highest-in-a-year-as-omicron-targets-the-unvaccinated-and-elderly/ar-AATCF2s

Wake us up when Biden pretends COVID isn't real and talks about injecting bleach. Until then, he'll continue to be light years better than your hero.

Ghost of Disco Gary wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

Stacey's explanation makes her that much more likeable. She immediately said she was wrong. Her explanation boils down to, "I forgot to put my mask back on". We can all relate to that.

If Perdue wins the primary, Stacy wins the general. That's all you need to know.

Keep dreaming, Abrams is done.

LOLz, this is going to age well like your other genius predictions

What about Trump, what about Trump.....He lives rent free in your empty head.

Your dictator has been denied his unConstitutional mandates by the courts.

"My colleagues and I are again asking President Biden to immediately undergo a formal cognitive screening exam, such as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)," Jackson told Fox News Digital in an email.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-urge-biden-cognitive-test-assume-worst

Politico/Morning Consult poll:

49% of voters disagree with the statement that the president is "mentally fit."

Let's go Brandon!

#FJB

Ghost of Disco Gary wrote:

"My colleagues and I are again asking President Biden to immediately undergo a formal cognitive screening exam, such as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)," Jackson told Fox News Digital in an email.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-urge-biden-cognitive-test-assume-worst

Politico/Morning Consult poll:

49% of voters disagree with the statement that the president is "mentally fit."

Let's go Brandon!

#FJB

Trollminator wrote:

Sally Vixxxxxxxxens wrote:

"Covid deaths highest in a year as omicron targets the unvaccinated and elderly." Thanks Joe Biden! You were miraculously gifted 3 vaccines and you still managed to f*ck things up. Isn't that what Obama used to say about you?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/covid-deaths-highest-in-a-year-as-omicron-targets-the-unvaccinated-and-elderly/ar-AATCF2s

Wake us up when Biden pretends COVID isn't real and talks about injecting bleach. Until then, he'll continue to be light years better than your hero.

And gotta love them pretending not to know (the large orange) WHY behind huge numbers of people still being unvaccinated....

But yes, I know, they all HATE Trump.

nonequals wrote:

Trollminator wrote:

Wake us up when Biden pretends COVID isn't real and talks about injecting bleach. Until then, he'll continue to be light years better than your hero.

And gotta love them pretending not to know (the large orange) WHY behind huge numbers of people still being unvaccinated....

But yes, I know, they all HATE Trump.

And it really is positively stupefying when one stands back and reflects: A large number of Americans are willing to give the amoral carnival barker THEIR VOTES. And THEIR MONEY. And last but not least, their very health and LIVES.

Ghost of Disco Gary wrote:

"My colleagues and I are again asking President Biden to immediately undergo a formal cognitive screening exam, such as the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MOCA)," Jackson told Fox News Digital in an email.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-urge-biden-cognitive-test-assume-worst

Politico/Morning Consult poll:

49% of voters disagree with the statement that the president is "mentally fit."

Let's go Brandon!

#FJB

meanwhile, biden holds two-hour long, free-flowing press conferences.

But you be you, gary. A good trumper never lets facts get in the way of a good story. You are a good trumper.

nonequals wrote:

nonequals wrote:

And gotta love them pretending not to know (the large orange) WHY behind huge numbers of people still being unvaccinated....

But yes, I know, they all HATE Trump.

And it really is positively stupefying when one stands back and reflects: A large number of Americans are willing to give the amoral carnival barker THEIR VOTES. And THEIR MONEY. And last but not least, their very health and LIVES.

human nature leads us into dark places. Humanity is easily led to evil. Just the way we think.

Apparently voters are smart enough to remember that Biden inherited an already-recovering economy and already-underway vaccine drive. Thus he's getting credit for neither, sorry.

Ghost of Disco Gary wrote:

Trollminator wrote:

Tzees would rather be ruled by a dictator than lose ground to "libs" - nothing is more important to them, not even their freedumb

What about Trump, what about Trump.....He lives rent free in your empty head.

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I think he lives rent free in the empty heads of members of his cult. If he isn't the most dominate Republican in his party than tell me who is. When he no longer leads the Republican party he will no longer be relevant. To ignore Trump is to be foolish. He is still a danger to democracy.