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How pathetic is it that we are forced into a situation where both candidates suck ass. Let me vote harder for shit to get worse either way.🙄
Yay, more "both sides" bullshit!
Yup, Biden is absolutely the same as Trump. Nothing progressive has come out of his administration at all.
Cool bro, my grocery bill is fucking outrageous the cost of living is going up with no raises for the regular guy. They do everything but actually help the middle class.
I'm not giving Biden a full pass, but inflation has struck across the globe. Why do you think we would be special?
There's a land war on in Europe, and another more recently in the middle east, tech is still confused about how to deal with a post COVID world, and just laid off hundreds of thousands of employees, refugees from climate crisis and political unrest are fleeing across the Americas, Asian and Europe, nationalism has been on the rise for nearly a decade, and here at home the GOP is in a true state of crisis, as their old guard evil white guys are dealing with the insane fascists new guys.
The world is crazy right now, but eggs are expensive, so fuck voting I guess.
There might be yet another land war in Africa soon,
Ethiopia has been developing some very strange definitions of colonialism, specifically that water rights and sovereignty over your own coastlines are colonialism apparently.
Also those egg prices spiking headlines have been around times of deadly avian flu outbreaks over the past couple years (we just had another one too). Kind of the the cost of cheap eggs. If you want your eggs dirt cheap, well they get that cheap because they come from giant factory farms with them all crammed together in horrible conditions ripe for diseases to spread. So everytime there's an avian flu outbreak, they have to kill of millions of chickens to prevent it from spreading further, and egg prices will spike again. In the outbreak in 2022 egg wholesale prices doubled in less than a month after an outbreak, and 20% of all egg laying chickens in Iowa (nation's biggest egg producer) alone were culled. Eggs are often loss leaders for grocery stores too who may sell them for even less than wholesale, so the price is quite manipulated and retailer dependent. Often why you find them way in the back corner of the store so you have to walk by all the higher margin products. Point is, eggs are a terrible gauge of who to vote for, unless you're trying to reduce animal cruelty but that would make eggs more expensive anyways so, /shrug
Corporations are gouging for more profits and Bidens response is to tell them not knock it off? It’s greedflation and our representatives refuse to do anything to help the regular person. I don’t see the c suite sacrificing.
Mine too!
I'm Canadian so how did Biden do that?
Wow our governments are both ram my neo-libs wonder what we have in common🤔
Can you try this part one more time?
Oh boy we have a grammar correction!
I'm just trying to figure out what you're saying, I can usually figure out typos.
If you can’t use context clues to figure out an m instead of an n typo. Well yikes.
It's taken you longer to be a dick then just clarify what you're saying and I still don't understand you.
Don’t be so butt hurt when people criticize Biden and trump and we wouldn’t be having this conversation. You people think trump is the fucking Antichrist. Get a grip.
Oh, I definitely would have never gotten that from your previous comment.
Maybe you should work on your communication skills a bit?
Ok typo warrior. Keep talking typos instead of trying to make points on policy. Make sure to have a lot of cope ready when dementia Joe loses and we get the unapologetic kleptocrat.
Doesn't matter much to me, Trudeau will still be the leader of Canada.
Ouch, sorry about that.
Why?
Because he's a little young at 51 years old or because he isn't a reality TV star?
Still a neolib. The policies are the same and shitty.
Maybe you don't know much about Canada, but even our Conservative leader who's 44 is left of Biden so there's definite differences if you care enough to pay attention.
Proud of you bud. Keep it up.
That's a shame, I was expecting you to add something intelligent to this conversation.
Anyways, have a good day or night where ever you are!
Yes, the president is single person that can change all of that for you at the snap of their fingers.
Yup. It's definitely all about you.
Bye.
Good luck winning the average middle class American and young people lmao.
Have you considered quitting and getting the same job at a different company for more money?
Biden doesn't suck ass. That's meme-tier shit.
I’ll agree when he doesn’t put out an economic plan that isn’t means tested garbage. Didn’t do shit about student loans either. So yea for the average middle class person they both suck ass.
Are you in favor of a flat tax too?
All student loan forgiveness has been by executive order, thus Biden is literally the only person who has ever done anything about student loans
Studies have shown that the benefit Means Testing earns by excluding would be users of that program is vastly outweighed by the expense required to actually means test every applicant for that program.
Weren't these studies specifically about drug testing welfare?
Like, I'm all for means testing Social Security, because it becomes immediately solvent if you do, and it's very easy to do.
No it was about any means testing, the cost outweighs the benefits, what makes Social Security solvent is removing the income cap on your contribution
Porque no los dos?
Do you have a link to the study? Very interested in challenging my priors on this one as I currently very strongly favor means testing as a concept.