Politics Thread

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Originally Posted by xuwillie

Yeah I mean people/media also said Obama left Trump with a big mess.

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Who said that? OAN?

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Originally Posted by xuwillie

Yeah I mean people/media also said Obama left Trump with a big mess.

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Exactly. It's what every incoming President does. It's a way of trying to lower expectations. Democrats said that Bush left Obama a complete mess (remember the financial crisis?). Republicans said that Obama left Trump a mess (Trump himself said it repeatedly for like 2 years). Now the Biden administration is going blame the Trump administration.

It's standard operating procedure.

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

Who said that? OAN?

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Trump did. Repeatedly. Not sure if any news outlets did, though. Unless they were just quoting him.

I certainly don't think CNN et al. gave that story much airtime.

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Originally Posted by Masterofreality

Your Boogie Man Trump can't hurt you anymore, little boy.
Performative

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MOR, what's with the name calling? Certainly we can have discussions about issues without that.
Reserve the name calling for the politicians we don't like.

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Originally Posted by paulxu

Reserve the name calling for the politicians

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And, of course, former Xavier coaches who are demonstrably assholes.

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Originally Posted by Smails

Every time sleepy Joe steps on his dick or fails to deliver on his promises, this is what we'll get.

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69% of Americans support his covid response after 5 days. Good start. trump had his head in the sand for 11 months. "Hoax".
Guess you ain't one of them.

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Originally Posted by GoMuskies

And, of course, former Xavier coaches who are demonstrably assholes.

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Hah!

Regarding the great divide in our country, this is a lengthy article with a lot of research citing into where we find ourselves today.
Would recommend it if you have a few extra minutes. Especially with the emphasis on how difficult it will be to bridge the divide and the history driving our problems.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...epublic/#part1

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Originally Posted by bobbiemcgee

69% of Americans support his covid response after 5 days. Good start. trump had his head in the sand for 11 months. "Hoax".
Guess you ain't one of them.

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#Nice

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Originally Posted by bobbiemcgee

69% of Americans support his covid response after 5 days. Good start. trump had his head in the sand for 11 months. "Hoax".
Guess you ain't one of them.

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This is completely asinine but not surprising considering the source. What exactly has he done in 5 days that would illicit such a positive response, besides not being Donald Trump? I can't believe you actually think that a favorability score after a whopping 5 days in office has any real validity. I am no fan of our early response to the pandemic, so I'm not sure where you got that from but keep being you Bobbie.

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Originally Posted by Smails

This is completely asinine but not surprising considering the source. What exactly has he done in 5 days that would illicit such a positive response, besides not being Donald Trump? I can't believe you actually think that a favorability score after a whopping 5 days in office has any real validity. I am no fan of our early response to the pandemic, so I'm not sure where you got that from but keep being you Bobbie.

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Not being Donald Trump was pretty much the entire platform that he ran on.