[b][big] This is an answer to 'who is the worst president and why' which was the question before the OP changed it [/big][/b]
Trump is the worst in my opinion. But I'd rather listen to the opinions of professional historians. In 2018, a survey of 170 presidential historians ranked Trump LAST. And that was BEFORE Covid-19 and BEFORE his insurrection. https://time.com/5165686/donald-trump-last-place-presidential-greatness/
Here are my reasons why. First, he did nothing to improve Obama's growing economy. If you disagree, I invite you to play
[b]!!! Spot the Trump Miracle !!![/b]
Here's ten years of job creation data. Ignore the drop of 22 million jobs when the pandemic started and concentrate on how job creation changed starting in Dec 2017 when Trump introduced his trillion dollar tax cut.
Do you see a "Trump miracle"? Do you see any change in jobs? Do you see any difference whatsoever between job creation rates under Obama and Trump? I surely don't.
Here's monthly rate of job growth in thousands; it's effectively the derivative of the above; it would show any changes in rate of job growth if changes had occurred. See any "Trump miracle"? Me neither!
Second, he badly botched our pandemic response. From lying about the risks of Covid in the first 5 weeks even though he knew better, to flogging ineffective treatments like ivermectin & hydroxychloroquine, to setting a bad example with masks, he botched many things. What really tells the tale though is the numbers:
All through Trump's term, our Covid per capita death rate was DOUBLE that of countries like Canada & Germany, resulting in about 550,000 Covid deaths under Trump.
If Trump had handled Covid as well as, say, Justin Trudeau, we'd have had 275,000 FEWER DEATHS! Put another way, Trump's mis-management of Covid cost more deaths than THREE Viet Nam wars!! Three Viet Nams in a SINGLE YEAR, not spread out over ten years like the actual war!!!
Sure, Covid came from outside. And different leaders in different countries managed it differently. Trump's piss-poor Covid management is made clear by the relative per capita death rates.
[quote]"I look at it this way," Birx told CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta. "The first time, we have an excuse. There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially."[/quote]
@BizSuitStacy I liked Carter, he was anti establishment as well, and even tried to rescue the hostages in Iran, but a sandstorm knocked out the Delta Team helos. However his Crisis in Confidence speech from the oval office was his downfall.
@Patriot96 [quote]indictments are not convictions there asswipe.[/quote] No, but the federal justice system has a pretty good conviction rate. They even got Al Capone in the end. They'll get your bloated orange boss.
[quote]Prez SCHITZENHIZPANTZ is the absolute worst[/quote] So, you agree that Diaper Donnie is the worst one.
@Patriot96 here are the stats for your consideration Please take the time..[b] read it all the American electorate is lled to all the time by BOTH parties[/b]
and do people really believe that correlation is causality? like a president Trump or Biden, has some Magic Control panel they can pull levers on to change fundamental economics/ ( they dont)
[b][center]graphs on request if this is too long to read [/center][/b] Growth was stronger than expected a year ago.
Defying pessimistic forecasts, US economic growth has progressed at a significant pace over the course of 2023. Last December[b], the private consensus for real economic growth as measured by the Blue Chip Economic Forecast was negative 0.1% for the year. The latest Blue Chip projection for 2023 growth, incorporating all available data to date, is positive 2.6%, [/b]driven by strength in consumer spending, a revival in manufacturing structures investment and increased state and local government purchases. T[i]he level of US real GDP in 2023 even exceeded some pre-pandemic forecasts, including that of the Congressional Budget Office and the International Monetary Fund[/i]. Sound household balance sheets and a strong labor market are the primary drivers of US consumer expenditures, which continue to grow at a pace close to the average among prior expansions. Manufacturing investment reached historic highs.
In 2023 Q3, real (inflation-adjusted) [b]private manufacturing construction investment reached its highest level on record since 1958[/b]. Likewise, manufacturing construction contributed the most to year-on-year real GDP growth on record. A major factor in this historic manufacturing boom has been the Inflation Reduction Act. Jobs growth cooled towards a steady & stable pace, while the unemployment rate stayed low despite falling inflation.
Job gains continued at a very strong pace in 2023, although down from the torrid rates seen in 2021 and 2022 immediately following the pandemic recession. Monthly nonfarm payrolls grew by 232,000 per month on average in 2023, 55,000 more jobs per month than the average pace in 2018 and 2019. As a result, total job gains achieved under the Biden administration reached 14.1 million through November 2023. Meanwhile, the [i]unemployment rate has, to date, stayed below 4% for 22 straight months, a run not seen in more than 50 years. This is especially remarkable given the fall in inflation.[/i] Inflation decelerated throughout the year
After peaking in summer 2022, inflation has been on a [b]downward trend for a year and a half thank[/b]s to a retreat of food, energy, and goods inflation. Inflation in the services sector—which heavily depends on wages as labor is the most important cost in the production of services— has decelerated more slowly and in lockstep with a gradual moderation of wage inflation. Meanwhile, market data on new leases suggest that housing price pressures should continue to ease. …in large part thanks to healing supply chains.
As CEA has highlighted, the rise and subsequent fall of inflation during the pandemic was o[i]verwhelmingly linked to supply-side forces[/i], including the unsnarling of global supply chains and the rise in prime-age labor force participation. Our analysis finds that the unsnarling of supply chains, either by themselves or in tandem with cooling demand, explain 80 percent of the disinflation that has occurred thus far. In fact, one of the most important economic developments of the year was the achievement of significantly lower inflation without a substantial rise in the unemployment rate. Real wages grew and wage inequality fell.
Real wages began to grow in 2023 as inflation fell from its 2022 peak and workers received robust nominal wage gains. In the year ending in November, real wages grew by about 0.8 percent for all workers and 1.1 percent for the 80% of workers who are production and non-supervisory workers. Further, wage inequality fell. The ratio of wages at the 90th percentile compared to the 10th percentile fell by nearly 6 percent over the year. One reason to continue to be optimistic about this trend in 2024 is the historic union activity and wins in 2023.[i] Strong unions help grow the economy by reducing inequality and raising incomes. Women and Black Americans made historic gains in the labor market.[/i]
The year 2023 saw the highest rate of prime-age women participating in the labor force on record since 1948. The previous high of 77.3 percent in April 2000 has been surpassed in each of the last eight months. The record labor force participation of this group has served to boost incomes of American households and keep consumer spending strong.
In 2023, the economy achieved the smallest gap on record between the employment rates for Black versus white American workers, averaging–0.7 percentage point. The strong economy fostered by President Biden’s economic policies reduced some long-running inequities in the labor market and squeezed this gap to its lowest level on record. Consumer sentiment improved in 2023.
With more work to do on lowering costs, consumer sentiment has further room to grow. However, 2023 saw momentum in the recovery of consumer attitudes. One way to see this is by tracking the same workers over time in the University of Michigan Survey of Consumer Sentiment. Figure 10 shows the difference between the share of respondents who report higher sentiment than they did six months prior and those who report lower sentiment over the same period. Values greater than zero indicate that more respondents are reporting improved sentiment over the period versus a decline in sentiment. Throughout 2023, the net share of respondents reporting higher sentiment than they had 6 months prior reached between 10-20 percentage points, a level of momentum historically associated with robust economic growth
Barack Obama, he destroyed common sense, logic, critical thinking and changed a society from a society based upon merit to a society based upon race and gender.
He destroyed the US by weaponizing the government, intelligence agencies and courts against conservatives. He taught young kids to hate their country, their heritage and white people in general.
Obama and George Bush have destroyed freedom, privacy and the middle class. They have ushered in the new world order technocratic police state, a dysfunctional and a freak world dystopia.
@BobbyMoeven My question was originally “Who’s the worst politician in your lifetime and why do you think so?” I changed it after getting some responses.
[sep][sep][sep][sep] 5. William Henry Harrison // 1841 6. John Tyler // 1841–1845 7. Millard Fillmore // 1850–1853 8. Warren G. Harding // 1921–1923 9. Herbert Hoover // 1929–1933 10. Zachary Taylor // 1849–1850 [/quote] [center] [big] [u]Why?[/u] [/big] [/center] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/648016/the-worst-american-presidents-according-to-historians#_wx9gnv718
[quote]One-term president Donald Trump challenged a multitude of long-established ethical laws, such the Emoluments clauses of the U.S. Constitution, [u][c=000000]which prohibit elected officials from receiving gifts from foreign entities without Congress’s approval.[/c][/u]
He appointed [u][c=000000]cabinet secretaries with no political experience [b][i][/c][c=A69800]and a national security advisor who was working as a foreign agent[/c][/i][/b][/u].
And that was before [u][c=000000]he pushed insidious lies about the integrity of the 2020 election[/c][/u], [c=A69800]which brought about the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. [/c] [/quote]
Anyone that argues about this should, as well as would, be arguing with [u][c=A69800][b]ALL the historians[/b][/c][/u].
No one, thanks. Most of celebs, not all but not a few of them are socially validated narcisist. I´ve learned this at my cost. Even so, not necessarily the artist, but I´ve found attractive some of their played characters and some of their perfomed music, songs, ballet dance.
After seeeing Jennifer Connelley in Once Upon A Time In America in 1984 when I was 14 she became my adolescent crush, she's only 7 1/2 months younger than me. I liked Elizabeth McGovern since that movie as well.
