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> few terms have been more challenging than the last 4 years. I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not

by dkrich 3y ago

Izikiel43 3y ago
Well, it’s the first time since the 70s Americans have had to deal with high inflation (for developed world standards)
- dkrich 3y ago
  Early 80’s also had a relapse of inflation. But to say the last four years which have been some of the calmest in history in the US has been the most challenging is hilarious. Not the civil war, Great Depression, Cuban missile crisis, world war 2, COVID, GFC, etc. It had to be sarcasm.
  - blitzar 3y ago
    COVID (which you yourself define as a "challenge") is in the last 4 years.
    - dkrich 3y ago
      Wow I was under the impression it began in 2020 while Trump was still president. I could’ve sworn much was made about his policies about it and I thought I remembered that he actually contracted it while in office. Must’ve been dreaming. Thanks for the clarification.
      - deleted 3y ago
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      - ceejayoz 3y ago
        > Wow I was under the impression it began in 2020 while Trump was still president. That's in the last four years, yes.
        dkrich 3y ago
        OP clearly was using four years to describe Biden’s term to support the idea that he will go down as the greatest President in history. But even if you want to just look at the full covid period it doesn’t belong in the same sentence as the rest of those events. The past decade has been likely the most calm period in American history. But let’s pretend it was the darkest period of the past 400 years lol
    - swed420 3y ago
      True, and the Biden administration failed miserably from a public health perspective. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... Very disappointing.
  - bryanlarsen 3y ago
    > civil war, Great Depression, Cuban missile crisis, world war 2 Modern American history means last ~50 years. So that rules these out. Biden is great, but he's not going to ever come close to displacing Lincoln at the top of the heap. COVID alone would have been one of the greatest crises of the last 50 years, but Biden's administration also had several others to deal with on top of COVID. (remember that 2022 was COVID's worst year). The only comparable challenges in the last ~50 years would have been the Great Inflation and GFC. Carter did a smash up job appointing Volcker to fix the Great Inflation, but the fact the crisis festered for 15 years prior is a particularly bad smell. The GFC is a great comparison. A stronger quicker response would have ameliorated it greatly. The last 4 years was handled well because Biden was part of the GFC response and learned from their mistakes.

> few terms have been more challenging than the last 4 years. I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not

by dkrich 3y ago

> few terms have been more challenging than the last 4 years. I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not

Izikiel43 3y ago

Well, it’s the first time since the 70s Americans have had to deal with high inflation (for developed world standards)

dkrich 3y ago
Early 80’s also had a relapse of inflation. But to say the last four years which have been some of the calmest in history in the US has been the most challenging is hilarious. Not the civil war, Great Depression, Cuban missile crisis, world war 2, COVID, GFC, etc. It had to be sarcasm.
- blitzar 3y ago
  COVID (which you yourself define as a "challenge") is in the last 4 years.
  - dkrich 3y ago
    Wow I was under the impression it began in 2020 while Trump was still president. I could’ve sworn much was made about his policies about it and I thought I remembered that he actually contracted it while in office. Must’ve been dreaming. Thanks for the clarification.
    - deleted 3y ago
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    - ceejayoz 3y ago
      > Wow I was under the impression it began in 2020 while Trump was still president. That's in the last four years, yes.
      - dkrich 3y ago
        OP clearly was using four years to describe Biden’s term to support the idea that he will go down as the greatest President in history. But even if you want to just look at the full covid period it doesn’t belong in the same sentence as the rest of those events. The past decade has been likely the most calm period in American history. But let’s pretend it was the darkest period of the past 400 years lol
  - swed420 3y ago
    True, and the Biden administration failed miserably from a public health perspective. https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-co... Very disappointing.
- bryanlarsen 3y ago
  > civil war, Great Depression, Cuban missile crisis, world war 2 Modern American history means last ~50 years. So that rules these out. Biden is great, but he's not going to ever come close to displacing Lincoln at the top of the heap. COVID alone would have been one of the greatest crises of the last 50 years, but Biden's administration also had several others to deal with on top of COVID. (remember that 2022 was COVID's worst year). The only comparable challenges in the last ~50 years would have been the Great Inflation and GFC. Carter did a smash up job appointing Volcker to fix the Great Inflation, but the fact the crisis festered for 15 years prior is a particularly bad smell. The GFC is a great comparison. A stronger quicker response would have ameliorated it greatly. The last 4 years was handled well because Biden was part of the GFC response and learned from their mistakes.