Bless their hearts

[jon-nyc]

Look at that lovely trajectory Bill and Newt handed your boy W.

[Copper]

Pro
Ike
JFK

Con
WW II
Oil embargo
Obama
9/11
covid

[Jolly]

Let's not leave out the small, insignificant fact that the United States was the only major economy left unscathed by WW2.

[LuFins Dad]

Oh no. They cut out 1700 healthy cells when removing this giant bloated tumor from my prostate…

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Bless their hearts:

Look at that lovely trajectory Bill and Newt handed your boy W.

Really? And look at what happened 2009-2017…

[jon-nyc]

When Bill and Newt put the country on a debt reduction glide path in the 90s, the debt totalled ~5.5T.

The GOP, likely without a single democratic vote, will add ~4T in the coming 24-30 months.

DOGE is part side show, part ideological purge.

Watch what they do not what they say.

[Axtremus]

@Horace said in Bless their hearts:

Well, I knowingly support the tribe that seems dead set against remote work.

You’re not a federal government employee; the tribe you support does not directly influence your work arrangement.

[Horace]

@Axtremus If the culture shifts, it could easily affect the decisions of private companies. As we saw with the anti-profitable DEI employees that sprung up everywhere.

[taiwan_girl]

I will give President Trump credit IF he continues this path, even when public "sentiment" turns against him on this.

Rare for a president to take a long term view on a subject.

[Axtremus]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/16/mass-deportation-ice-detains-non-criminals/82304354007/

He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.

In this case, the wife overstayed her original visa.

[jon-nyc]

Who’s the soy boy now, Cletus?

[taiwan_girl]

No surprise that farmers are hurting. I posted this pic previously, but maybe worth repeating.

When you are soybean farmer, and pretty much 50% of your market dries up, that is a problem.