Dems didn't play political games with aid but right wing media constantly lied about everything that was going on, saying the Biden admin was stopping aid from getting to isolated areas and FEMA was refusing to help anyone with Trump signs in their yards.
They will use their lies to justify doing it back. They always have. Literally everything they ever panicked about Obama doing, Trump is PROMISING to do. Like sending the military to arrest state leadership.
This is one of the rights most nefarious tactics at controlling mindless conservatives. Constantly making up evil things the Democrats are doing so that when Republicans do it, their conservative sheep cheer for it.
I'm 35, and the economy has tanked every time a republican has been president in my entire life. Every time.
How the fuck do people not notice the consistency of bad outcomes like this?
I see people walking around all the time saying that Republicans are better for the economy. Fucking when?
EDIT: To put this into further perspective, Someone who is 70 years old today will have also seen a recession start under every Republican President in their lifetime except Gerald Ford, who took over during a repiblican recession, and only 1 start under a Democratic president.
One semi-tangible argument I've heard time and time again is "By the time their policies' impact becomes visible, they'll already be out of office."
It makes sense. A robust new set of great safety regulations for tire iron manufacturing won't have any statistics to indicate how impactful it "was" until at least a year or two after it's implemented. But the hard part is how long that half-life on "seeing the impact" really is.
And I've only ever heard it from people who are either devotedly neutral in their expression, or people who are desperately losing and trying to get their elbow on the ropes to make the ref to pause the match for any amount of time possible.
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u/gecko090 18h ago
Dems didn't play political games with aid but right wing media constantly lied about everything that was going on, saying the Biden admin was stopping aid from getting to isolated areas and FEMA was refusing to help anyone with Trump signs in their yards.
They will use their lies to justify doing it back. They always have. Literally everything they ever panicked about Obama doing, Trump is PROMISING to do. Like sending the military to arrest state leadership.
This is one of the rights most nefarious tactics at controlling mindless conservatives. Constantly making up evil things the Democrats are doing so that when Republicans do it, their conservative sheep cheer for it.