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    1 year ago

    This is how I’ve felt for every president we’ve had since (and including) Clinton… Which really is only because he’s the first president I was old enough in which to be aware. I’m sure further back was just as bad in their own ways.

    Things off the top of my head:

    Clinton - sex stuff.

    Bush - Oh so many things. His bumbling… His weapons of mass destruction stuff…I mean, if they are so bad, why can we have them, but they can’t? I digress.

    Obama - Authorizing terrorist attacks on Pakistan, also the failed health care reform.

    Trump - Well… well… I honestly couldn’t much pay attention to what he was on about through the non-stop assalt he had from our media (also life stuff kept me pretty distracted those four years). But he was certainly one to rock the system.

    Biden - Wow. The Ukraine/Biden(and family) stuff, the China/Biden(and family) stuff all the stuff happening while he was a VP… His bumbling is even worse than Bush’s was.

    Yea, we’ve had a pretty embarrasing run of presidents in my lifetime. I know there are a few things Trump and Obama did in which I approve… But it’s few… Oh so few. The rest though… Nope.

    Oh, and, I’m not so sure about Clinton’s races, I was too young, but all the folks that came in second to all these presidents? Not exactly great alternatives to what we got.

    EDIT: Fix Spacing.









  • On the low end I haven’t seen wages increase, if anything they’ve fallen, but they may be more to do with the whole of 2020 craziness that resulted in even greater worker shortages amongst the laborers, and the system comming back to equilibrium.

    Foreign policy blunders? Pretty sure that’s the first thing Biden did. Jump out of Afghanistan so fast we abandoned Europe and trampled some of our own.

    Then there’s the whole, cripple the European economy thing. I know there’s more to it than that, but with the Ukraine thing, America really pressured Europe into crippling itself.

    But I digress. I’m not trying to defend trump, nor attack Biden. Just note my casual observinces of my local economy.








  • Doesn’t that go both ways though?

    On one end you are programmed to accept gays,

    On the other you are programmed to reject.

    And before all that, you are programmed to understand the concept of gay.

    It’s all programming. Now that social programming happens so quickly and such large scale… Humans weren’t meant to handle that much programming.

    Now, some people, at some point, start to question all programming. Those are the most resilient to direct programming from others, and the most able to program themselves based on judgement of all the programming going on.

    But for the rest it’s just a frustrating mess of self inconsistencies.


  • Policies of Trump… I don’t know. About year two into his presidency, wages went up quite a bit in areas I lived in. Jobs became more available. General craziness was down, except for all those spouting hate at Trump the entire time.

    I’m not saying I particularly paid much attention or attribute community growth due to his presidency, but things were getting better while he was president and dramatically tanked a year or two after Biden took over.

    Just the general feel of places I’ve lived over the past 8 years or so.

    For reference, I lived in low density suburban/rural areas during this time. May be way different in proper cities.