By November, Trump will have taken credit for every Biden accomplishment and millions of voters will believe it because they have the memories of goldfish.
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That's what happens when you have two brain cells fighting for third place and get your information from fox "news".
Hey don't insult goldfish by comparing them to conservatives; goldfish actually have good memories
I knew that from reading it somewhere years ago. (Maybe a Straight Dope book?) But I couldn't think of a better metaphor people would understand.
May flies. Those fuckers only live 6 days, I cannot imagine that evolution would select for memory retention with that short of a life span.
Not memories of goldfish, it's just malice.
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This is Republicanism at its core.
Fight everything.
Democrats pass it anyway, somehow.
Take all the credit for the nothing you did.
Even this core philosophy is stolen. 5 year old children have long held ownership and mastery of this technique.
"5 year old children"... Yeah, that sounds about right for the republican party.
Personally I'd say younger ... like the terrible 2 age of "NO!" or 3-4 yr old "Why?".
It always makes me laugh when Dems pass something and some Republican says something like "Americnas will benefit from this great thing we did" and that Republican is called out for voting against it.
From what I've read, and I'm happy to be corrected, what Trump tried to dictate through executive orders (that would get thrown out in courts), Biden lead Congress to actually write laws about.
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That’s the beauty of faith-based political identity. If you believe that Trump gave you cheap insulin in 2024, or that Biden caused the Covid crisis a year before his inauguration, the causal impossibility can be explained away as one of the ineffable mysteries of faith.
This is getting pretty fucking ridiculous. Either Donald Trump is a complete liar (ok, that’s a given) or he’s absolutely demented (ok, I guess both are given).
This is one tactic Trump often uses where he takes credit for things he didn't even support and then receives no real pushback for it.
Nothing is too low for pond scum
uhh...
the insulin price cap was instituted at the end of trumps term via executive order. I remember because a family member was overjoyed by it.
when biden took office, the incoming regime stopped all the previous regime's executive orders for three months. it happened a couple of days before the insulin price cap was supposed to take effect.
it's not exactly weird to try to take credit for something you did and someone else rebranded as their own thing.
the article linked in the OP says as much, way down at the bottom after talking up how good the insulin price cap is and how polling on healthcare supports biden.
i don't usually end up in a thread saying "hey wait a second, trump actually did do that!" but dang.
Ok so I looked it up cause I'll give credit where credit is due.
Trump did start the lower cost of insulin train, but when he started it was only for "1,750 standalone Medicare Part D prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage plans." ^(1)
So yeah I guess he started it, but Biden actually did it with his Inflation Reduction Act, which Democratic lawmakers pushed through Congress in 2022. ^(2) (3)
(2) https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/01/01/politics/insulin-price-cap
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