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Under Biden, We’ve Gone From ‘Make
America Great’ To ‘Lower Your Expectations’

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Posted By: RockyTCB, 10/21/2021 6:01:55 AM

As the economy falters in the wake of rising inflation, chronic worker shortages, and a deepening supply chain crisis, the rhetoric from the Biden administration and its defenders has shifted from “we’ve got this” to “stop your whining.” Is this what Americans bargained for when they ditched Mr. Mean Tweets for Joe “Nexnelsrent” Biden? A perfect example of this shift is an op-ed by a contributing columnist to the Washington Post – Micheline Maynard – who says that the real problem we face today isn’t skyrocketing prices, bottlenecks at the ports, and empty shelves. It is us spoiled brats. “American consumers, their  CORRECTION*

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Reply 1 - Posted by: F15 Gork 10/21/2021 6:47:07 AM (No. 952654)
Impossible....my expectations of this crowd couldn’t get any lower.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: lakerman1 10/21/2021 6:53:55 AM (No. 952659)
Remember Jimmy Carter? I do. We are facing the same mess as was created by Jimmy and the Congress.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Otis Gill 10/21/2021 7:06:11 AM (No. 952666)
Another treasonous Marxist president and another "new normal."
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Reply 4 - Posted by: downnout 10/21/2021 7:16:21 AM (No. 952671)
The scribblers at the WaPo and NYT will begin screaming when the shortages affect them. Until then, crickets. Chirp, chirp….
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Bur Oak 10/21/2021 7:53:00 AM (No. 952690)
Biden/Obama Administration can't even get to the level of "doing no harm." They mean to "fundamentally transform" the country. The situation will get quite worse in the next 3 years and 4 months.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: homefry 10/21/2021 8:11:30 AM (No. 952704)
Shades of Jimmy Carter wearing a sweater and telling America to just turn down their thermostats and wear more clothes.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Come And Take It 10/21/2021 8:16:28 AM (No. 952706)
Creeping Malaise, Part 2.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: udanja99 10/21/2021 8:24:32 AM (No. 952714)
Just following in his boss’ footsteps. Remember during the 0bama reign of error, every awful thing he did to us was called “the new normal” and we were told to accept it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: udanja99 10/21/2021 8:26:38 AM (No. 952716)
Hit submit too soon. We’ll know when things will begin to turn around - when Jen Psucki can no longer get her odious shade of hair dye.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: janjan 10/21/2021 8:59:41 AM (No. 952751)
Settle in for another 3 years of this clown show. These lightweights can’t even explain the supply chain let alone fix it. The former mayor of Podunk in Indiana thinks we have 100 cargo ships off the coast of California filled with ‘stuff’ people ordered from Amazon. I hope this isn’t delaying his baby shower.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Samsquanch 10/21/2021 9:17:01 AM (No. 952773)
Lower expectations for FJB? How, he already started in the basement.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: MickTurn 10/21/2021 9:56:53 AM (No. 952826)
NO, expectations are transitive, what Xiden has created is a SCHIFFT HOLE!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: bigfatslob 10/21/2021 10:00:03 AM (No. 952831)
There are people of voting age now who never knew living in the post WWII 1950s or around raising a young family with Jimmy Carter as sitting president. If you grow up with high prices, with inflation you might believe it's the norm when it doesn't have to be that way. President Trump gave us a taste of 'the good old days' again but it was surprising he was rejected by so many. There are some my age that should have embraced four good years and upward projection swing that could have followed but they chose to dispose of the brutish mean tweeter. There could be good times but the Biden's clueless nitwits in Washington have a strangle hold on us now will we survive? Ever since I witnessed Joe Biden in the late '70s, heard him speak and watched his actions I had low expectations of that low life human and here we are. Clueless Joe Biden acting like a president who wasn't elected at all. At least President Trump didn't concede he just moved out and got out of the way.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Tallgrass Palms 10/21/2021 10:43:25 AM (No. 952885)
Sounds like a motto they stole from obama.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Luckychosenfew 10/21/2021 11:58:21 AM (No. 952943)
Washington Post, of course you want expectations lowered. Didn't you do everything to make sure President Trump wasn't re-elected? You are a major contributor to the current debacle that is the Biden Administration! Of course you need expectations lowered, you fools!
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Reply 16 - Posted by: BillW. 10/21/2021 12:13:10 PM (No. 952955)
There's more than a distinction without a difference adding "Intentionally" to headlines like this—as if with these people it wasn't from Day One!
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Starboard_side 10/21/2021 1:24:57 PM (No. 953034)
Don't let the democrats off the hook, by only blaming Biden. After all, they are all supporting his agenda with enthusiasm.
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