Official LRC President Joseph R Biden Thread

agip wrote:

Oh? wrote:

or W Bush for the housing market crash, or Trump for COVID.

Both sides do it, making excuses for 'their' presidents and blaming presidents of the other party.

As for Biden and inflation, though... I feel like that's the most defensible of all the assertions of guilt or credit, because our inflation shot up far higher and faster than any other country in the G20 (at one point, when inflation first neared 8%, the rest of the G20 was still only around 2-3%). That margin has nearly disappeared in the time since (mostly when the Russia-Ukraine crisis started to rear it's head), but that difference tells you it's not as simple as "COVID is entirely to blame! COVID made this happen!" without any consideration for the policies that were put in place and the individual situations within each country.

If you give blame to biden for the inflation then you also must give him credit for the much stronger economic growth and job recovery than other G7 nations. They are two sides of the same coin.

Fat hurts wrote:

agip wrote:

the bad news is that it looks like twitter will be owned by elon musk, who will probably aid the m/ga destruction of the United States.

The good news is that partly because of this, trump's media company stock (DWAC) is down 80% from its highs. Just one more way Republicans are taking money from the rubes.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Mainly, Elon has just been talking about getting more transparency when it comes to labeling/prioritizing tweets and kicking people off the platform. He wants the public to have more insight into how those decisions are made.

He has said that he's a "free speech absolutist" and that he favors "time out" over permanent bans. But he also acknowledges that content moderation is still needed. Twitter won't become a free-for-all.

I do think Musk will eventually let Trump back on Twitter, but Trump has said he won't ever go back to Twitter. (I think Trump was lying, and he will go back)

As for the DWAC stock, I reiterate that it was all a con from the beginning. But its execution has gone so poorly that the SPAC merger might not happen. So that might keep Trump from cashing in.

Fat hurts wrote:

agip wrote:

the bad news is that it looks like twitter will be owned by elon musk, who will probably aid the m/ga destruction of the United States.

The good news is that partly because of this, trump's media company stock (DWAC) is down 80% from its highs. Just one more way Republicans are taking money from the rubes.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Mainly, Elon has just been talking about getting more transparency when it comes to labeling/prioritizing tweets and kicking people off the platform. He wants the public to have more insight into how those decisions are made.

He has said that he's a "free speech absolutist" and that he favors "time out" over permanent bans. But he also acknowledges that content moderation is still needed. Twitter won't become a free-for-all.

I do think Musk will eventually let Trump back on Twitter, but Trump has said he won't ever go back to Twitter. (I think Trump was lying, and he will go back)

As for the DWAC stock, I reiterate that it was all a con from the beginning. But its execution has gone so poorly that the SPAC merger might not happen. So that might keep Trump from cashing in.

nonequals wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Mainly, Elon has just been talking about getting more transparency when it comes to labeling/prioritizing tweets and kicking people off the platform. He wants the public to have more insight into how those decisions are made.

He has said that he's a "free speech absolutist" and that he favors "time out" over permanent bans. But he also acknowledges that content moderation is still needed. Twitter won't become a free-for-all.

I do think Musk will eventually let Trump back on Twitter, but Trump has said he won't ever go back to Twitter. (I think Trump was lying, and he will go back)

As for the DWAC stock, I reiterate that it was all a con from the beginning. But its execution has gone so poorly that the SPAC merger might not happen. So that might keep Trump from cashing in.

It's interesting, because for many of us, it was a bit surprising when Trump taught us that extremely wealthy people could be SO dumb.

And then we learn something very similar - at least regarding understanding of human nature - about THE richest person in the world. "Time outs" for adults who have demonstrated extremely bad behavior on Twitter. Yes, THAT will get them to change. The naivete is astounding.

Newsflash, Elon: Horrible adults don't change. And even for the tiny percentage who might, a permanent punishment (not involving death or imprisonment) in reward for their bad behavior is still perfectly fine. In fact, it's better than fine, it's just.

nonequals wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

I wouldn't be so sure about that. Mainly, Elon has just been talking about getting more transparency when it comes to labeling/prioritizing tweets and kicking people off the platform. He wants the public to have more insight into how those decisions are made.

He has said that he's a "free speech absolutist" and that he favors "time out" over permanent bans. But he also acknowledges that content moderation is still needed. Twitter won't become a free-for-all.

I do think Musk will eventually let Trump back on Twitter, but Trump has said he won't ever go back to Twitter. (I think Trump was lying, and he will go back)

As for the DWAC stock, I reiterate that it was all a con from the beginning. But its execution has gone so poorly that the SPAC merger might not happen. So that might keep Trump from cashing in.

It's interesting, because for many of us, it was a bit surprising when Trump taught us that extremely wealthy people could be SO dumb.

And then we learn something very similar - at least regarding understanding of human nature - about THE richest person in the world. "Time outs" for adults who have demonstrated extremely bad behavior on Twitter. Yes, THAT will get them to change. The naivete is astounding.

Newsflash, Elon: Horrible adults don't change. And even for the tiny percentage who might, a permanent punishment (not involving death or imprisonment) in reward for their bad behavior is still perfectly fine. In fact, it's better than fine, it's just.