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I realize there's no singular answer for this, but many of the MAGA crowd attribute many of our current woes to the prior administration, like cost of living, inflation, unemployment rates, etc.

I'd imagine that every day that passes and we get more and more distant from Biden's presidency, it gets a bit harder to blame him for every problem.

e.g. It'd be hard to blame many of the increased prices on electronics on him, since much of this has been driven by Trump's tariffs (but I bet someone will attempt to refute this!)

This is a long-winded way of me asking the community, have you seen any Trump fans start to come around at all? When do we start living in the conditions (good or bad) of Trump's America and stop laying blame on the last administration?

I'm interested to see what people of all persuasions feel about this.

For myself, I have seen some minor loss of enthusiasm among Trump followers, but I haven't seen anyone register as a Democrat yet :)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Start walking west, when you reach the edge of the horizon, trump will take accountability.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

many of the MAGA crowd attribute many of our current woes to the prior administration, like cost of living, inflation, unemployment rates, etc.

Funny, I always attributed it to the Reagan administration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Trump and accountability mix together as well as oil and water.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

pic somewhat related

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Ten bucks he can’t even spell the word.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

He'll die having gotten away with it. Death is a mercy for him at this point.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

He's a narcissist. He never accepts responsibility, and everyone around him is too well paid/scared/enthralled to hold him responsible. He inspires totally devotion in his followers. He's dodged multiple bullets. I can't see him coming unstuck now

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The dude could literally have the hangman’s noose of judgement around his neck and still be ranting and blaming everyone but himself. He cannot operate any other way. It’s pathological.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, but it is a question of whether his base will believe him or not.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

T was never held accountable for anything, why would he change? T’s followers see themselves in him and will continue to reject reality because their identity is closely tied to T. Continuing to live in denial is the brains way of protecting itself. For some people the flipside to this is psychosis.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Trump will never take accountability. He has to be held to account by his betters.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I don't think that poor excuse of a man knows what accountability is

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hahahahahahahahahaha, MAGA taking accountability. That's a good one

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Hah.

That man has never been accountable for anything in his life. Hell, he's made it to 80 eating solely McDonalds fast food. Fucking colon cancer and heart disease can't hold this man accountable, what makes you think the spineless ass kissing money grubbers in Congress are going to do it?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It took around 15 years in the UK for blaming the previous government to finally stop working.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Yup. Wasn't even their fault. They somehow managed to blame the fallout from the US subprime mortgage crisis on them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

There will never be real accountability in a two party system

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Never. He's not capable. Even if it's forced on him, like it ought to be, he'd learn nothing and it would still be everyone but his fault. He's a geriatric toddler with brain damage.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

The most likely answer is it'll happen when he finally pisses off his own minions enough. He's more likely to die, before he'll see any kind of real punishment for anything.

Now that he's about to rob several millions of people of basic needs being met, maybe things will start moving

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The blame needs to be placed squarely on capitalism and not a specific person. It's capitalism that's fucking us, government is the legislative arm of capitalism. Edit sp

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Never. That's the very obvious answer. Why are you even asking?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Oh, there are two simple answers to this:

  1. He will NEVER accept accountability for his actions. If he feels like it, he'll eat a live baby on TV and walk away untroubled.
  2. He will be held accountable when (and ONLY when) the people hold him accountable.

He will never stop until he is in jail or dead. And the same is true for most of his sycophant followers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

He literally said "I think the good parts are the Trump economy, and the bad parts are the Biden economy." Even the interviewer said nothing about it. If he ever sees accountability, it'll be after a lot more suffering on our part.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

When Americans force him to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

There won't be any. You saw that lack in his last administration, everything wrong was "sabotage by the Deep State". Now it's that he's doing the right things, they're just "being implemented wrong".

I keep thinking back to something I heard during the election: Republicans get to be lawless, Democrats have to be flawless.

Not that I'm bitter ....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

have you seen any Trump fans start to come around at all?

I have, but it's not exactly common. And it doesn't always change their minds entirely.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It sounds like you just want to know at what arbitrary amount of time trump gets the blame for Biden’s failings, even though they are Biden’s failings.

There are some things that will always be the Biden admin’s fault, like the rampant inflation and price increases that lead to the current cost of living crisis. That inflation and those increases of prices across the board haven’t gone away, and likely never will. The only way they do is by absolutely massive deflation, or a depression in other words.

Something that cost $5 in 2021 should only cost $5.50 or so now if inflation didn’t go crazy, but instead it costs $8 because of the Biden admin. Trump can’t “fix” that. The only ways are a depression, which would be seen as a failure even though it’s what’s needed, or for real wages for every person in the country to skyrocket 30% more than inflation, without causing extreme inflation, which isn’t possible.

The tariffs are a risk, for sure - but the goal of them is to make things cheaper after a bit of short term pain as countries reduce their tariffs on US products to below where they were before to make the USA reduce their tariffs back to what they were, because the countries can’t survive without US exports. It’s a negotiating tactic, and it’s already worked with a lot of countries. The big one still in the air is China, but it’s showing good signs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He seems to disagree that it can't be fixed:

“Starting on Day 1, we will end inflation and make America affordable again,” he said at a campaign event in August.

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-inflation-economy-biden-rcna192015

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Inflation is currently at the lowest it has been since the first 2-3 months of Biden’s term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In America and prettyuch worldwide. Inflation was a result of both Trump and Biden policies during covid and similar government policies worldwide. Not to mention, the pandemic itself. Trump didn't get inflation under control. He's risking a recurrence.woth tariffs.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I didn’t say that trump got it under control, just that it is under control now while it was out of control at almost all time highs during Biden’s term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, so lies by omission. If you're playing semantics rather than good faith discussion at this point, it's clear you don't have a point to make.

I wish you the economy you voted for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

You came at me saying I said something I didn’t. You’re the one not having a good faith discussion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I hear there's a new conservative community in town: [email protected]

The mod there doesn't seem to cut Trump any slack. Still, not sure we needed another comm though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

He'll never take accountability. He has to be held accountable, which will also never happen.

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