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MAGAs constantly claim that "America is Being Destroyed" but that is frankly bull$#it [1]
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Date: 2023-11-22
MAGAs keep saying that Joe Biden is "Destroying" America. Just "look around" they say. It's everywhere!
But that isn’t even remotely true.
Other than higher interest rates (which is under the control of Jerome Powell who was appointed by Trump) and high prices - 54% of which is directly caused by price-gouging corporations (who are protected and coddled by the GOP) that now have sky-high profits - every other economic detector is literally the best it's ever been.
Inflation which had risen to 9% has dropped literally to 0% in the last few months, averaging 3.2% for this year.
US inflation is lower than any other nation in the G7 and ranks at #15 Worldwide.
The Federal Deficit which was increased by $600 Billion by Trump before the Pandemic, then by another $2.5 Trillion *during* the Pandemic has been reduced by a record $1.7 Trillion during Biden's first term. [It has increased again slightly last year, but that was largely because of lower revenues due to Trump’s Tax cuts]
The GDP has jumped as high as 6.9% under Biden while Trump averaged only 1.7% and peaked at 2.9% while losing 2 Million jobs. Biden has (re)created 13 Million jobs so far and counting. Trump had - including Covid - the worst economy since Herbert Hoover while Biden has had unemployment below 4% for the longest in history.
And there’s much more.
About 500,000 more Americans died of Covid - mostly in the Red States - than should have compared to other nations because Trump wouldn't implement a national testing plan, downplayed the danger of the virus saying it would "just go away", promoted Ivermectin and injecting bleach as a solution, didn't support masking, separation or minimizing crowds to prevent super spreading.
The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from Covid-19, had the country’s death rates corresponded with the rates in other high-income G7 countries, according to a Lancet commission tasked with assessing Donald Trump’s health policy record. Almost 470,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus so far, with the number widely expected to go above half a million in the next few weeks. At the same time some 27 million people in the US have been infected. Both figures are by far the highest in the world. In seeking to respond to the pandemic, Trump has been widely condemned for not taking the pandemic seriously enough soon enough, spreading conspiracy theories, not encouraging mask wearing and undermining scientists and others seeking to combat the virus’s spread.
He repeatedly ignored CDC protocols and gave Covid to 8 people in the Rose Garden, including Chris Christie.
A week ago, more than 100 people gathered in the White House Rose Garden to celebrate President Trump's third nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Amy Coney Barrett. Guests mingled, hugged and kissed on the cheek, most without wearing masks. An indoor reception followed the outdoor ceremony. Seven days later, at least eight people who were at the ceremony have tested positive for the coronavirus, including a journalist who was covering the event. Several more of the president's closest aides and advisers have also tested positive.
The first company to develop a vaccine - Pfizer - wasn't even part of "Operation: Warp Speed" and then he left office without a plan to have the vaccine distributed.
"HUGE NEWS: Thanks to the public-private partnership forged by President @realDonaldTrump, @pfizer announced its Coronavirus Vaccine trial is EFFECTIVE, preventing infection in 90% of its volunteers," Vice President Mike Pence tweeted. Others, however, pointed to the fact that Pfizer's senior vice president and head of vaccine research and development, Kathrin Jansen, publicly distanced the company from the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed vaccine initiative. Jansen was quoted Monday by The New York Times as saying, "We were never part of the Warp Speed. We have never taken any money from the U.S. government, or from anyone."
The rate of Violent Crime has come down by 1.7% in 2022 (although some of that is because the FBI recently changed their reporting system for local police), while in truth most violent crime and gun homicides actually take place 40% more often in Red States and counties that voted for Trump, not "Democrat Cities."
The murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump has exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in every year from 2000 to 2020.
Over this 21-year span, this Red State murder gap has steadily widened from a low of 9% more per capita red state murders in 2003 and 2004 to 44% more per capita red state murders in 2019, before settling back to 43% in 2020.
Altogether, the per capita Red State murder rate was 23% higher than the Blue State murder rate when all 21 years were combined.
If Blue State murder rates were as high as Red State murder rates, Biden-voting states would have suffered over 45,000 more murders between 2000 and 2020.
The claim that the Border is "Open" is completely bogus as Biden has blocked and expelled close to 4 Million migrants using Title 42 in the last 3 years. Single Adults or anyone with a criminal record or on the Terrorist watch list are not allowed in or arrested, only family units with kids or single kids on their own are let in.
Domestic Oil Production and Exports are at an ALL TIME HIGH under Joe Biden, and the US is *still* "Energy independent".
Last December I covered the nuances of U.S. energy independence. A common belief that I encounter is that President Trump made us energy independent, but we lost that energy independence under President Biden. That’s not strictly true, but it requires a bit of understanding about what energy independence actually is. I covered these issues in Is The U.S. Energy Independent? [...] In 2021, we oscillated between net imports and net exports on a month-to-month basis. In certain months, we were net importers (and hence, lost our “energy independence” per that definition). In other months, we were a significant net exporter. What wasn’t clear was whether the U.S. would be a net exporter for the entire year of 2021. But the Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently posted the numbers for December, and we now have an answer. Net exports grew each month from September through December to push the final average for the year to a net export number of 162,000 BPD. That is significantly down from 2020, but it is still energy independent according to the net export definition.
There is no evidence indicating that Joe Biden took any bribes from China or anywhere -- his brother paying a loan back while he *wasn't* VP or President doesn't count -- but Trump earned $160 Million from foreign sources while in the White House, including $7.5 Million and 114 Trademarks from China, $Millions more from the Saudi Liv Tournaments, $640 Million that Ivanka and Jared made plus the $2 Billion investment he received from the Saudis overriding the recommendation of the panel.
Donald Trump made up to $160 million from international business dealings while he was serving as president of the United States, according to an analysis of his tax returns by CREW. Throughout his time in office, President Trump, his family and his Republican allies repeatedly assured the public that his refusal to divest from his businesses wouldn’t lead to any conflicts of interest. Americans were promised that Trump would donate his salary, which he did, until maybe he didn’t—all while siphoning millions from taxpayers that more than offset his presidential pay. When it came to foreign conflicts of interest, Trump and his company pledged to pause foreign business. They did not. Trump pulled in the most money from the United Kingdom, where his Aberdeen and Turnberry golf courses in Scotland helped him gross $58 million. Trump’s now-defunct hotel and tower in Vancouver helped him pull in $36.5 million from Canada. Trump brought in more than $24.4 million from Ireland, home to his often-visited Doonbeg golf course, as well as $9.6 million from India, and nearly $9.7 million from Indonesia.
Trump has wrongly accused Democrats of horrible crimes against our nation and the election without a shred of evidence, he tried to overthrow the election using a violent mob to attack the Capitol and intimidate Mike Pence, he's recruiting 50,000 followers to help him dismantle the governmental checks and balances as a "Unitary Executive".
Powerful, well-funded allies of Donald Trump are testing followers on the depths of their far right ideology in order to determine their loyalty to the former president — and build an ideological army to help carry out Trump and his team’s authoritarian agenda, new reporting finds. Officials familiar with the plan told Axios that Trump allies are screening ideologies of thousands of people in hopes of recruiting a legion of up to 54,000 followers who could work in a future Trump administration and potentially serve the cause in other ways. This includes 20,000 people to serve in the administration, and replacing as many as 50,000 federal workers in “policy-adjacent” roles. These followers would be instrumental in Trump and his allies’ conspiracy to orchestrate a complete takeover of the federal government, concentrating more power in the executive branch than ever before seen, as part of the far right’s Heritage Foundation-backed Project 2025. The power concentrated under the president — and his administration of ideological sycophants — would be unprecedented
Then he's threatened us all as "Vermin" that he will destroy and "crush" as if he's going to implement a massive genocide using concentration camps and military kangaroo courts against his fellow American Citizens.
And you people say Biden has "Destroyed" things? How exactly?
It's the GOP who wants to censor and ban books, take away reproductive freedom, implement Christian Nationalism, anti-LGBTQ indoctrination and Hate into our Schools and erase American History with lies about Slavery, Native Genocide, the 2nd Amendment and what really happened after 1776 when the Founders cut a dirty deal with the Slave States so they could escape British control. The GOP Destroys everything it touches.
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