• snooggums@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Thank you!

        I think including his first term actually sells the point of how bad this term is even more effectively than leaving it out.

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        Thanks, I don’t know why they left out his first term.

        Id actually like to see the last 10 terms

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          To be fair COVID had a great deal to do with that

          Obviously he handled COVID extremely poorly and it didn’t need to be as dramatic of a crash, but I think that factor alone was the leading reason of why that happened

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            Handled Covid poorly as it spread, and was instrumental in undoing the tools to help stop such outbreaks developed initially by GWB and then by Obama. Oh, right, that’s why he undid a lot of it. Out of spite, not out of sense. Mirrors more or less everything he’s doing now.

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            I agree, and that’s one of the reasons that I’m interested in how they compare now, as those graphs were made before Biden’s term and it would be insightful to see the comparison between Biden post COVID, Trump, and the others listed.

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          Here’s an interactive one where you can select where you want to compare. Obama’s first term was a slide indeed, but it’s important to note that his term started after the slide had already started. I agree it should be included here in fairness, but then you’d see both the plummet as well as the recovery, and maybe some don’t want to give him credit for that and only focus on the first days.

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            Wasn’t his first term in 2008? Like, the year the world housing hubble burst and banks had to be bailed out and all that? You can’t blame that on him, as little as you can blame the Corona dip on Trump. Both happend on a global scale.

            What’s different around now is that the rest the world is doing just fine while the American stock market crashed. I can’t remember any other time this happend to this extend.

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      I want to post it to ND so bad, but I know it’ll just get removed under the no national politics rule lol

      (Which isnt the worst rule TBH lmao)

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        He didn’t do it any good either. Also even though his first term was a disastrous dumpster fire, it was still relatively tame compared to what is going on now. Back then he could still be intimidated somewhat by the system, this time he knows he can do anything he wants.

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          I assume they are implying that it will be similar to the first rerm, which requires ignoring all the differences between the two.

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              So what? Liars lie and that has zero relevance when discussing something that is factually accurate.

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                Yeah, I’ll just delete my comments here and block this community from my feed. The way people communicate over here is not for me. Have a great day everyone, and good luck sticking it to the GOP’s.

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        You mean when he had an administration that kept guard rails in place to stop him from doing the things he really wanted to do unlike this time? Yes, it was better when he wasn’t given kingly powers.