Joe Biden stronger than ever, 101% strength and mental acuity

Matt Dillon said:
TL; DR

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If you practice reading, you'll get better at it. Good luck.
 
Geeko Sportivo said:
Biden still jogs, works out, and rides his bicycle at every chance.

Can you see Trump ever doing anything except sitting on his fat ass- unless he is standing up at one of his clown show/Shit Show Trump speeches running his BIG FAT MOUTH- OR DRIVING ACROSS THE GREENS IN HIS GOLF CART BECAUSE HE CAN'T EVEN WALK THE DISTANCE OF A GOLF GREEN!
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I gotta call the bullshit on that one.

Biden jogging from the podium at a rally with his huge crowd of supporters just before the election:




More people go to small High School pep rallies and there's more enthusiasm at them. :rolleyes:
 
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Mina said:
What you misperceive as deflection is what others recognize as a specific response. You asked about my particular situation, then when I answered, you insisted you don't care about my situation. Do you see how that might come across as, well, a bit unhinged?



It looks like it's up from 8.3% when I last checked, but not a whole lot:

https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

Click on "food" in the chart, then hover over "food at home." It's been 10.8% in the last 12 months. Click on that and you'll see components vary quite a bit. Fruits and vegetables are up 7.8% in that time, while meat is up 14.3%




Which indicator, specifically, are you referring to?



Some will get passed through to the consumer. Some could come out of executive pay, dividends, or capital gains. But this goes to the point I was making. How much that bargaining power is worth to you depends a lot on your position. When you work for a living, like I do, that's one of the most important considerations in your prosperity level. If, on the other hand, you're an elderly person living off Social Security, or anyone else who lives on welfare, then the bargaining power has no value to you, since you're not actually bargaining for your services, and all that matters is the price of what you buy with those government checks.



From when, exactly? See here:

https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

Using a pretty generic S&P 500 index fund as a proxy, if you bought in January 2021 (the month Biden took office), and dividends were reinvested (as they are in a 401k), then you'd be up 10.055% right now. Factoring in inflation, you'd still be positive right now, but not by a lot.



One of the great things about the Biden era has been the huge improvement in America's image under his leadership. Trump was seen around the world as a clown. Biden is respected. Now of course, the wingnut provincials out in the American sticks assume that foreigners laugh at Biden, since that's what they do, and that's what Fox News assures them others do. But there are actual polls that track this stuff. We know that the percentage of people abroad who have confidence in the US president doing the right thing regarding world affairs has soared from just 17%, under Trump, to 75%, under Biden, while those with no confidence fell from 83% to 22%:

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/...rebounds-with-transition-from-trump-to-biden/

Fox News won't tell you about those things, nor will you learn about them sitting around griping with other rubes at the local diner, which is why it's important to break out of the echo chamber to get some fresh air, from time to time.



What makes you think that? The NBER declares recessions and hasn't done so, yet. Possibly they will in the future and will back-date it, but with sub-4% unemployment, right now, it sure doesn't look like anything else they've ever called a recession in American history.




The old-fashioned definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of GDP shrinkage. It remains to be seen whether the economy will be down in second quarter, but the latest estimate is 2.4% up, by the Fed, and a little more bullish than that using the Blue Chip consensus:

https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow



As a reminder, our last president inherited a strong and growing economy and left a nation in absolute free-fall, despite being handed huge interest rate cuts by the Fed, to try to stimulate the economy, and despite Congress trying to stimulate growth with massive increases in the budget deficit. By comparison, since Biden took office the Fed has raised interest rates and the deficit is down, too, yet we had the strongest year of GDP growth in almost 40 years in 2021, and after a slightly weak first quarter in 2022, it looks like things are growing again. What kind of idiot WOULDN'T think the current president is doing a better job?
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One example food, we can continue with the increased price of literally everything we touch put I suspect you will deny that is happening.

World food prices are up 30% in a year

https://thekrazycouponlady.com/tips/money/rising-meat-prices

Explaining to someone who has lost touch with reality is very difficult so, let's stop and say look at the polls with respect to Brandon. With all the positive things you say he has accomplished, surely his popularity is hovering around 60%, right?
 
Mina said:
If you practice reading, you'll get better at it. Good luck.
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If you practice writing something worth a fuck, somebody might care.

I read in the top 1%

I do happen to have a good bullshit filter, as well. ;)

You strike me as being FOS or perpetually attending.

Your long-winded screeds are much ado about nothing.

"Oh! The job growth!"

There are less jobs and businesses now than before the Coronavirus shutdowns, and more expenses, with no end to the rising expenses in sight, and shortage of products and goods

happening everywhere.
 
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Lionfish said:
With all the positive things you say he has accomplished, surely his popularity is hovering around 60%, right?
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Of course not. Approval polls have very little to do with the quality of leadership. In fact, for Democrats, those things are often inverted. For example, in Bill Clinton's first two years, when he was actually accomplishing huge positive things for the American people, his poll numbers slid badly -- dipping as low as 37%. Later, during the impeachment, his approval ratings soared, even though he wasn't accomplishing much beyond just pissing off the Republicans, at that point. By the time he left office, he was the most popular outgoing president in the history of polling, even though his last major policy accomplishments were years behind him.

Obama followed a somewhat similar course. Early on, when he was doing great things like pushing through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, and getting the Affordable Care Act passed, his approval ratings were nose-diving to around 38%. That bounced back later.

Basically, what's happening with Democratic presidents is that early on, when they have the legislative help to get things done, the right hates them for doing so much and the left hates them for not doing even more. Later, though, when the Republicans have the power to fuck the country up again, people start to judge the Democrats not relative to some Platonic Ideal of the perfect president, but rather compared to the assholes in Congress, and so they look pretty good.
 
Matt Dillon said:
Highest gas and diesel prices ever and some people think everything is just fine. :palm:

Food and product shortages, this is going to be bad.
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In leftie land there are three camps,
The stubborn
The ignorant
The dreamers
None of those will admit they were better off with Trump in office. Earlier I listed nearly a dozen points that are worse now than during the Trump administration. His/her/alphabets response was "jobs are great". I will let you pick the category that particular individual falls into.
 
Lionfish said:
In leftie land there are three camps,
The stubborn
The ignorant
The dreamers
None of those will admit they were better off with Trump in office. Earlier I listed nearly a dozen points that are worse now than during the Trump administration. His/her/alphabets response was "jobs are great". I will let you pick the category that particular individual falls into.
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If I was trying to look at the bright side of things; Well, people are still driving around and going to work.
 
Lionfish said:
In leftie land there are three camps,
The stubborn
The ignorant
The dreamers
None of those will admit they were better off with Trump in office. Earlier I listed nearly a dozen points that are worse now than during the Trump administration. His/her/alphabets response was "jobs are great". I will let you pick the category that particular individual falls into.
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More like:

The dogmatic fanatics
The lunatics and the insane
The delusional
 
Micawber said:
Not that it matters for 1100 days. He's the big cheese no matter what.
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Based on global economic indicators, it is projected that the U.S economy will remain a leader in the world for decades to come at being a global economy that carries cultures of the entire world on its territory whom contribute to the tax revenue of the U.S. Federal government:

WORLD ECONOMY
The U.S. will remain richer than China for the next 50 years or more, says economist
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/26/us-...-china-for-the-next-50-years-or-more-eiu.html

Also, kudos to President Biden and Team for the following reasons:

Biden’s Jobs Boom: How Policies Boosted the Labor Market Recovery in 2021
President Biden’s signature legislation, the American Rescue Plan Act, accelerated the economic recovery when it lost momentum; further fiscal steps are necessary to maintain this momentum and reduce economic inequality."

https://www.americanprogress.org/ar...es-boosted-the-labor-market-recovery-in-2021/
 
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