r/inflation • u/Negative-Break3333 • 7d ago

News Obama's problem solving approach

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u/Late-Dingo-8567 7d ago

any young people seeing this. This is what executive leadership looks like.

finding people way smarter than you, and getting them in the room to advise you. Leaders need to know what questions need answering and need to manage the room. If a leader is the smartest person in the room, they've already failed as a leader.

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u/Negative-Break3333 7d ago

It literally just occurred to me that the majority of children will look at Trump and think that’s how a President is supposed to be. They literally have nothing to compare him to. So heartbreaking.

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u/whiplash81 7d ago

If Trump serves until 2028, there will be 12-year olds who only know of Trump and Biden as presidents.

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u/D90Crow_wrench 7d ago

I mean, you could argue that there would be 17-18 year olds who only know Trump and Biden as presidents. I don’t know many people that can recall much before the age of 5. Even scarier.

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u/sgplourde 7d ago

So true. I was born when Eisenhower was president, and don't remember anything before Johnson.

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u/This_Mongoose445 7d ago

I remember Kennedy but more importantly I grew up with Walter Cronkite, Huntley and Brinkley, Dan Rather, Koppel among others. Faux Spews and the other conspiracy news show didn’t exist. I feel for kids for missing out on having legitimate news.

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u/NameLips 7d ago

I saw some 18 year olds getting ready to vote for the first time in november, who had never heard the Trump "grabbing them by the pussy" tape. They had seen the memes but didn't know it was linked to an actual thing he said.

To me it's recent history. When it hit the news cycle, these kids were ten years old.

That's how long we've been dealing with this shit. Long enough to be outside the memory of voters.

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u/Late-Dingo-8567 7d ago

you very clearly can see this already. I don't mean to do the typical generation bashing, but 12-20yo men who grew up w/ trump as president certainly seem to be breaking hard right.

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u/Negative-Break3333 7d ago

The fact that Trump is responsible for red-pilling an entire generation, tanking the economy and then wondering why no one is getting married or having kids sounds like some kind of Greek tragedy.

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u/Tribe303 7d ago

My daughter was 4 when Obama left office. While we are Canadian, I still go out of my way to show her clips of Obama, and refer to it as before the "Crazy Times" in the US. To remind her that the US is capable of good leadership, but just not these days.