TheBig3

The president does not control gas prices. Inflation is the responsibility of the Fed.

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Concept-V

You're all a bunch of liberal wokesters. If Trump was in office, you would all blame Trump for the inflation, and high gas prices, the war in Ukraine, and the gun shootings. All of you would blame him. But because your boy Biden is in office, none of these things are his fault????

The Batlord

I didn't blame Bush for the 2008 crash just cause he was in office. And I am not a liberal. If you support private property rights then you're the liberal.

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rubber soul

Of course that's the point. Whoever is the President at the time gets the blame when something goes wrong. People were ripping Obama when gas prices were around $3.50 a gallon while conveniently forgetting they were over $4.00 under Bush. Was it either of their faults? Well, that's debatable but the prices eventually went down in both scenarios.

Just like they are now under Biden. Wanna give him credit for that or is that only reserved for the people you like?

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Trollheart

I still don't understand what he has against wokesters. I think they're cute, and they're very tidy and public spirited.


Oh no wait: that's a Womble. Oh well.

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Exo

1. Concept-V is just a troll.

2. If they aren't a troll...they're easily one of those dimmest and devoid of critical thought users I have seen since Nord. All they do is regurgitate Fox News talking points. It's strawman arguments all f*cking day with this person. They're not even trying. I don't think I've seen one decently constructed thought out post from them. It's nothing but "Yeah, well, you guys are just WOKE, so, that's all you are. Just WOKE. I mean...WAR...IN UKRAINE...AND AND GAS PRICES....and uhhhhh........OH YEAH INFLATION. Uhhhhh what else? Have I told you guys that you're WOKE?"

It's pathetic. I have thought about banning them out of pity but everyone seems to be having some fun with how deranged and pathetic they are so I decided to keep it going.

Still, they're an obvious troll. Nobody is this dumb.

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SGR

Come on Exo, his name is Norg. Put some respect on the man's name.

But yeah, please don't ban, MusicBanter is more fun when we have some trolls.

Unrelated to that, this whole FBI raid on Trump - I don't really have a fully fleshed out opinion because I don't know all the details yet. But what are the chances this helps Trump in the long run? Perhaps it's close enough to November and it will drag on long enough that it helps the Dems in the midterms, but if any charges come out of this and they don't stick, I've got a sneaking suspicion that this whole thing will just end up as rage bait for Trump's base and if they actually can't make charges stick, it could endear Trump to independent voters.

I think Hillary had some inside info on all this though, because she wasted no time at all in capitalizing on Trump's apparent misfortune. Funny stuff though.



edit: What I'd like to know, and what no one seems to be asking is: Who packed the boxes of these documents?

rubber soul

Don't ban him, Exo, he'll just wear it like a badge of honor.

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I'd like to know what Concept-V thinks about the CHIPS act that Biden pushed through - subsidizing domestic microchip manufacturing in the US.

I understand that he doesn't like Biden, hell, a lot of Americans don't - but if you can't give credit to a president/administration of a party that you don't vote for when they get something right, then you belong at the kids table. Even party-line conservatives should be in favor of the CHIPS act.