Summary

President Joe Bidenā€™s economic achievementsā€”lowering inflation, reducing gas prices, creating jobs, and boosting manufacturingā€”are largely unrecognized by the public, despite his successes.

His tenure saw landmark legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act, CHIPS Act, and major infrastructure investments.

However, Bidenā€™s approval ratings remain low, attributed to inflation backlash, weak communication, and a media landscape prone to misinformation.

Democrats face a ā€œpropaganda problemā€ rather than a policy failure, with many voters likely to credit incoming President Trump for Bidenā€™s accomplishments due to partisan messaging and social media dynamics.

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    3 days ago

    As the link i posted points out, there is already a law on the books to stop exactly what Walmart and Target are doing in the US.

    It has just never been enforced against them and the Biden administration joins the list that did nothing to stop them using laws they already had

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      3 days ago

      The FTC over the last two years has been going after corporations. But, anti-trust lawsuits take time. And I agree that they could have been more aggressive.

      So, the issue wasnā€™t that the democrats werenā€™t doing anything and had no plans to do anything. It was that their messaging was shit. They should have directed more outrage at corporations and used fewer appeals to reason.

      The rhetoric that works in a courtroom isnā€™t what wins elections, in other words.

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        3 days ago

        I for one am tired of the smoke and mirrors.

        Queue up meaningful change but then ā€œoops, new term, <insert insane reason or just GOP>ā€ Obama didnā€™t investigate Dubyaā€™s fucking Torture Camps, nor into the subprime mortgage.

        They did the same shit with Net Neutrality under Obama. Left it with a massive and meaningless ā€œramp upā€ time that coincidentally meant it would be a year into the next presidentā€™s term. Oops Ajit Pall is parachuted in and cancels the whole thing before the ā€œramp upā€ is done.