Trump is taking credit for former President Biden's Infrastructure Act, because Trump is a dishonorable scoundrel who has no problem lying to the American people about everything. MAGA admires this shameless lying cheat.
Trump literally put up a sign, taking credit for Biden’s Infrastructure Act.
— Jawbreaker (@jawbreaker0834.bsky.social) March 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Once a malignant pathological liar always a malignant pathological liar. And once an a*s always an a*s.
ReplyDeleteTrump has never been truthful or trustworthy and he never will be.
If he gets the blame for what is happening now but was under started under biden, transportation messes including the ATC mess, he should get the credit for what was put forth by biden but started by trump.
ReplyDelete"Since assuming office, President Trump has signed several executive orders related to various policy topics, including energy, climate, and infrastructure. Among those actions is an executive order temporarily halting disbursement of remaining funds appropriated under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act."
ReplyDeleteWhy should Trump give himself credit for infrastructure when he halted the disbursement of funds to finance what former President Biden initiated?
Dang facts Shaw... c'mon now.
ReplyDeleteDidn't fit the narrative, did it?
ReplyDeleteThe "narrative" is that Trump is a lying liar. He told the world, for example, that Qatar gave him the luxury jet as a gift to the Pentagon and then it would go to his "presidential library" when Trump is out of office.
DeleteQatar, in fact, was ASKED by Trump to have Qatar GIVE him the luxury jet. And now we find out that it will take billions of dollars to refit it to be up to code for AF-1 jet, and it will cost more than it is worth.
Trump is a lying liar, and people like you and your fellow cultists on the Mother Ship obviously never learned at your parents' knees that one should NEVER, NEVER trust a habitual lying liar.
And yet you all trust and admire the lying liar, Trump. That alone tells me and others of good will all we need to know about your judgement of Trump's character. You trust a lying liar, cheat, fraud, convicted felon and sexual assaulter.
Good luck with that.
That's just whataboutism. The greatest threat to any democracy is kitsch ethics (aka - Grand narratives used to justify sins of omission in the narrative).
DeleteSo you are saying you don't trust the democrats in congress and especially biden and kamala because the entire DNC lied. Are you sure it is going to take billions as in many billions or is that just fake news.
ReplyDeleteHave you read that employment is solid and business spending is up, must be because of biden and the democrats because they have such great plans.
Come-on Ms. Shaw, trump and the republicans are bad but they are on equal ground with the democrats. Remember all a politician wants is to spend your money and find a way to get more of it while increasing their wealth. I heard chuckie say the democrats are going to fight, fightbut the problem is he has no plans except we hate trump.
Here's another fact based take down of Skud's Whataboutism. This from Mona Charon, a conservative, no friend of the Dems, writing in the Bulwark... this is where she demolishes the idea that Dem presidents have been just as corrupt as Republican President Donald Trump.
Delete"A certain amount of skepticism about politicians is healthy. But cynicism is corrosive because it invites the very thing it scorns. Once you elect a sociopath and agree with his jaundiced view that everyone is corrupt, you’ve lost any chance of upholding basic values. If you treasure honesty, integrity, the rule of law, and decency, you must be prepared to reject whataboutism and to risk mockery by insisting that no, not everybody does it, and we don’t want to accept the kind of society in which that is assumed."
Then, speaking of the corruption of President Trump, undeniable unless you choose to not be honest, here's David Frum in the Atlantic...
"Nothing like [Trump's corruption] this has been attempted or even imagined in the history of the American presidency. Throw away the history books; discard feeble comparisons to scandals of the past. There is no analogy with any previous action by any past president. The brazenness of the self-enrichment resembles nothing seen in any earlier White House. This is American corruption on the scale of a post-Soviet republic or a postcolonial African dictatorship."
Skud... does fact based evidence ever penetrate your skull? Ever?
ReplyDeleteEmployment is solid? Yes it is. And there has been no marked change on that front since Trump took office. That means employment is solid, as you've admitted because Biden left it that way.
Business spending is up? Well yes, of course it is. Because everything business needs to be successful cost more today than it did in January 2025. Why? One word... tariffs.
Republicans are bad but on equal ground with the Democrats? Please provide some documentation of that. And bring lots of it. Because those of us in the fact based world remember and see things differently... here's how Michael Tomasky puts it in The New Republic... read it slowly to let the facts sink in.
"...it’s been Republican presidents who’ve piled up the debt. And it’s not very close. Reagan’s percentage was 160.8; Dubya’s was 72.6. Obama’s was 64.4, Bush Sr.’s 42.3, and Trump’s 39.2 (those last two, remember, in just four years, not eight). I’d put an asterisk next to Obama’s name. He took office during the heat of the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression, which happened under George W. Bush’s watch, and with the private-sector economy in free fall and credit drying up, he had little choice at the time but to pump money into the economy. (And one of the biggest knocks on Barack is that he didn’t go bigger. He took a lot of stick for the slowness of the recovery for the sake of not adding more to the debt.)
In the 34 years after 1946 (that is, after World War II), the national debt went from 106 percent of gross domestic product to just 25 percent. The government was spending like crazy in those years: constructing a vast national security state, building interstate highways, creating Medicare and Medicaid, expanding the welfare state in myriad other ways. And yet, the debt remained under control.
What changed after 1980? Massive tax cutting is what changed. In the 1970s, the right cooked up the lie that cutting taxes would actually increase revenues. Since this is what rich people in the donor class were aching to hear, it was really, really popular.
But guess what? It didn’t pan out that way. The 1981 tax cuts cost the Treasury $445 billion over the next four years. The tax cuts blew a huge hole in the deficit, and that’s when the government started borrowing to beat the band. The same thing happened under Dubya."
Are the Dems perfect? NOT. AT. ALL.
But there are no facts anywhere that will prove your argument. None at least that I am aware of. So if you return, and if you want to present alternative facts, please do so, with attribution and/or links to the articles and numbers.
skuds latest comments brought me out of a deep sleep. Well, the cat did that but they pointed to the disturbance in the force so here I am.
ReplyDeleteBoth siderism? check
Now now little lady vibe? check (I believe they were trying for comradery but due to their language skills they just sound condescending)
Dunning-Kruger effect over their inability to differentiate between a politician hack and a dedicated public servant? check, check, check
Repeat propaganda as spewed by the FOTUS admin? check to the power of check
That Big Beautiful Bill which no one had time to read before voting on guts Judicial power, destroys the social net based on outlandish unproven claims, and jeopardizes the lives of millions, and most insultingly comforts the already very comfortable.
By the by, where is skud's outrage over the tactic MAGA used to pass the Big Beautiful Bill? In plain site the GOP scheduled not only the hearings but the necessary committee votes in the middle of the night (vids were dropping at 2 and 3 in the morning) and then were making hundred page changes (oops updates) right up until the final vote was held. But from skud? crickets. To be expected I guess.
I have two points, for the record:
First, the BBB (Big Beautiful Bill) doesn't take effect until after the midterms, meaning all those MAGA candidates can campaign on the propaganda of passing the FOTUS's agenda but once elected, the cuts to Social Services will happen - the bill is pretty specific about that - and millions will loose their health care, financial support, food, housing.... Joining the millions of former government employees released by DOGE, they will have no where to go but the streets, hungry and angry, which is exactly as Project 2025 intended. Hungry angry people are susceptible to their message of join us and get fed. Obey us and get housing. It's Fascism 101.
Second: the study of Economics is not some superstition filled discipline. It's mathematics, actuarial tables, and data. It's tracking how our economy performed in the past, what made it work and what brought it down. Those who've spent an awful lot of time studying such things have looked at this Big Beautiful Bill and, well, they haven't openly panicked but in the most strongly worded posts they warn of the coming effects.
In my strongest opinion, we ignore them at our own peril.
I cannot actually recall the last time a republican (rRumpublican now) conservative actually talked about A) reducing the national debt, or B) deficits that balloon the national debt.
ReplyDeleteAll they actually do is give tax breaks to business and the wealthy, increase defense spending, and attempt to find as many ways they can to enrich themselves at the expense of good government and everyone else.
It's actually become a joke in a certain sort of way.