were you better off four years ago?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're better off than you were four years ago, you're probably an illegal alien.

I'm better off, financially and personally. I was born in the US 57 years ago.

Now prove who you are and not an anonymous bot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you're better off than you were four years ago, you're probably an illegal alien.

I'm better off, financially and personally. I was born in the US 57 years ago.

Now prove who you are and not an anonymous bot.

You prove you're not some russian troll. You do realize there are more than half of who voted for Biden, right?

[Anonymous]

Four years ago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Four years ago

So clearly out of his depth.
And now he probably has dementia also.

[Anonymous]

NP. Tough question. Four years ago exactly, my family were on the Covid frontlines and we weren’t able to see elderly family for what turned out to be the last years of their lives. Parenting through lockdown was terrible. The whole time was awful.

But four years later, I personally know more people, including teens, dead from fentanyl. I’ve been assaulted by drugged-out homeless people in my formerly safe neighborhood. I always loved my neighborhood but I’ve realized that the home I assumed I would retire in is probably not going to be safe for two elderly people alone.

So I don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Yep. So was the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. Tough question. Four years ago exactly, my family were on the Covid frontlines and we weren’t able to see elderly family for what turned out to be the last years of their lives. Parenting through lockdown was terrible. The whole time was awful.

But four years later, I personally know more people, including teens, dead from fentanyl. I’ve been assaulted by drugged-out homeless people in my formerly safe neighborhood. I always loved my neighborhood but I’ve realized that the home I assumed I would retire in is probably not going to be safe for two elderly people alone.

So I don’t know.

Jeez. Where do you live?
I live in the Midwest and don’t know one person who has died of a drug overdose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're better off than you were four years ago, you're probably an illegal alien.

Or most people who aren’t living in RWNJ fantasyland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Four years ago

Yes, four years, Trump was bailing out NY Governor Andrew Cuomo because he spent the money for stockpiling ventilators on other things.

The same Andrew Cuomo who insisted nursing home facilities in New York were required to take patients and ended up killing close to 10,000 seniors by exposing them to Covid.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. Tough question. Four years ago exactly, my family were on the Covid frontlines and we weren’t able to see elderly family for what turned out to be the last years of their lives. Parenting through lockdown was terrible. The whole time was awful.

But four years later, I personally know more people, including teens, dead from fentanyl. I’ve been assaulted by drugged-out homeless people in my formerly safe neighborhood. I always loved my neighborhood but I’ve realized that the home I assumed I would retire in is probably not going to be safe for two elderly people alone.

So I don’t know.

Yes. The fentanyl epidemic has taken too many lives, especially among the young. However, the isolation of social media has likely contributed more than any presidential administration.

But Trump’s constant ugly and exclusionary speech contributed mightily to feelings of hopelessness among many. He really jacked up the feeling that it’s ok to be mean and uncivilized. It’s had negative repercussions on our daily lives.

[Anonymous]

America has some tough issues to deal with, and both parties are to blame...for different reasons.

Isn't that obvious?

I'm baffled as to how anyone can think one party is perfect at this point. The reality is what was the fringe of both parties has become too powerful, and the end result is wacky nonsense coming from both ends of the spectrum.

We need educated, reasonable people to drag both parties back to the middle.

If you are looking for someone/something to blame, I suggest the mainstream media (on both sides) for commercializing the news by running "just the unbiased facts" through an infotainment lens of hysterical rhetoric aimed at firing up the fringe. Plus: social media and platforms like TikTok which hyperfixate, distort, and manipulate through disinformation campaigns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. Tough question. Four years ago exactly, my family were on the Covid frontlines and we weren’t able to see elderly family for what turned out to be the last years of their lives. Parenting through lockdown was terrible. The whole time was awful.

But four years later, I personally know more people, including teens, dead from fentanyl. I’ve been assaulted by drugged-out homeless people in my formerly safe neighborhood. I always loved my neighborhood but I’ve realized that the home I assumed I would retire in is probably not going to be safe for two elderly people alone.

So I don’t know.

You were on the covid frontlines and you can’t figure out how rampant drug addiction might have stemmed from the collective and individual traumas of a global pandemic that Trump actively encouraged?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Four years ago

So clearly out of his depth.
And now he probably has dementia also.

The president*** referring to a reporter as a “cutie pie” for a totally normal question should have been a clue, but the media was tripping on their own junk every day to say Trump was “becoming presidential.”

Let’s see, I had two special needs children doing school at home and my husband lost his job. So yeah, we’re doing thousands of times better than we were four years ago. Now I can go to the grocery store whenever I want and the shelves have food on them, and my husband doesn’t have to wait in line outside Target for toilet paper before it sells out the first hour. I can see my extended family whenever I want. I can pick up the phone in the morning and not have to wonder what moronic tweet someone sent out overnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. Tough question. Four years ago exactly, my family were on the Covid frontlines and we weren’t able to see elderly family for what turned out to be the last years of their lives. Parenting through lockdown was terrible. The whole time was awful.

But four years later, I personally know more people, including teens, dead from fentanyl. I’ve been assaulted by drugged-out homeless people in my formerly safe neighborhood. I always loved my neighborhood but I’ve realized that the home I assumed I would retire in is probably not going to be safe for two elderly people alone.

So I don’t know.

How is Trump going to fix that?

Income inequality worsened significantly during his tenure.

"The distance separating America’s highest and lowest income brackets grew by almost 9 percent annually under Trump. That growth is faster than in previous periods. From 1990 to 2015 growth was about 7 percent — a period that included three recessions."
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/535239-how-trump-fueled-economic-inequality-in-america/#:~:text=The%20numbers%20are%20revealing.,period%20that%20included%20three%20recessions.

On opioid addiction, Trump had some early success but then wanted to gut the Office of National Drug Control Policy by over 90%. When he was told that was politically a death wish, he then refused to have the agency create a strategy for over two years. Also, cutting the ACA affects drug overdoses.

Trumps record: "But in 2019, the number of overdoses surged again to a new record with more than 50,000 opioid-related fatalities. The CDC's preliminary data shows another big increase in deaths during the first four months of 2020."
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/29/927859091/opioid-crisis-critics-say-trump-fumbled-response-to-another-deadly-epidemic

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Tough question. Four years ago exactly, my family were on the Covid frontlines and we weren’t able to see elderly family for what turned out to be the last years of their lives. Parenting through lockdown was terrible. The whole time was awful.

But four years later, I personally know more people, including teens, dead from fentanyl. I’ve been assaulted by drugged-out homeless people in my formerly safe neighborhood. I always loved my neighborhood but I’ve realized that the home I assumed I would retire in is probably not going to be safe for two elderly people alone.

So I don’t know.

Jeez. Where do you live?
I live in the Midwest and don’t know one person who has died of a drug overdose.

I’m in California. And unfortunately I know multiple people now dead. Four years ago I didn’t know anyone dead of an overdose.