So Much Wrong in So Little Space

I saw this a couple weeks ago and pulled it out for a good debunking. There’s just so much wrong with it, it’s like a laundry list of fallacies and willful ignorance. I’m sure it only exists as an intended distraction from the massively damning January 6^th hearings. Here’s the Meme:

Let’s take this bit by bit, shall we?

“You know when that trash-talking loud mouth was running the country.” I love it when they pretend our biggest concern was TFG’s manners and personal habits. It lets me know right off the bat that they don’t know anything about what matters to liberals or Democrats.

“And you could afford bacon and gas, and feel good about splurging sometimes…” And why was gas affordable? Because COVID was ravaging the nation, people weren’t driving, and demand was way down so prices fell. It’s the simple economics of supply and demand. And COVID was ravaging the nation because TFG so thoroughly botched the national response to the pandemic. His actions, more than any other factor, turned virus prevention measures into a political issue rather than the health crisis it should have been and was in other countries. If not for him, there wouldn’t be nearly as many people who refused vaccines and face masks. Yes, the virus would still spread but it wouldn’t have been so pervasive. Over a million dead from it in two years? THAT’s his legacy. This is just another way to try to pin current high prices on Joe Biden.

“…Your 401k was actually growing…” The stock market is only a small part of the overall economy… the part that works for big business. Corporations were flush, especially after the massive tax cut for the 1%, that was supposed to trickle down to the rest of us in the form of more jobs and higher wages, but totally didn’t. They used the savings for executive bonuses and stock buybacks. So naturally, stock prices went up. That was very good for people loaded with stock.

But for the rest of us? Stagnant wages and people needing to work multiple jobs to make ends meet, and oftentimes putting their health and life in danger to do it.

“…and you didn’t have to worry about your 3 yr old being indoctrinated…” Totally doesn’t happen, this is just a “controversy” made up by Fox News and the like, to create a new “crisis” to hype people up about. And 3-year-olds? Seriously? What kind of pre-pre-K is this idiot talking about?

“…or your baby starving because there is no formula.” So it’s the Democrats'/Biden's fault that one of the largest formula distributors had to shut down due to contaminated product? That’s actually a benefit. If not for regulations that control food quality, that formula would have shipped and killed actual babies (not embryos). But then Republicans would have blamed Democrats for that too.

Also note that Republican congressmen voted en masse against legislation that would have brought in supplies of uncontaminated formula. So they really don’t have a leg to stand on with this point.

“Yeah I remember those days and I miss that loud mouth, Twitter trash-talking orange man that was running our country pretty good…” Seriously, with this primitive grammar, I can see why they love TFG’s sing-song baby talk and 4th-grade vocabulary.

“and making our country great again.” Great at what, dying of disease and gun violence? We’re definitely the champs there. Notice how no one ever defines what it takes to make the country great. I think that’s by design so that anyone that hears can fill in the blanks themselves.

“If you can say we are in a better place because you voted for the dementia-ridden man in office now, something is wrong with you.” The truth is that our country is teetering on the edge of collapse, due, specifically, to the actions of TFG and his Republican enablers. It may be Biden’s era now, but the table was set by the last regime, who is responsible for:

·        Further enriching the richest among us at the expense of everyone else

·        Allowing a deadly virus to run rampant thought the population and the world

·        Weakening our role in NATO and bolstering NATO’s primary adversary.

·        Shutting off all efficient means of immigration from the south, while imprisoning tens of thousands, ripping children from their mother’s arms (and then neglecting any system left to return them to their families)

·        Appointing SCOTUS judges who have:

o   Stripped the rights to self-determination from half of the population.

o   Prevented the federal government from effectively addressing the most serious threat to humankind we’ve seen since a big-ass asteroid.

o   Ensured that more and more people will die from gun violence

o   Gutted laws made to guarantee equitable voting access

o   Made sure Republican legislatures can continue to gerrymander themselves into permanent power, yet allow suits against Democratic states who do the same.

·        (and just to put the cherry on top,) Trying to overturn a lawful election by force and seize power like a tin-pot dictator.

This country is not, by any measure, a reliable standard of greatness. We are a mere shell of our former selves, crippled by the actions of a minority of religious zealots and crooks in high places.

Democrats have no chance to undo any of these grave injustices unless they are given the manpower to do so. We need more Democratic Senators Representatives, Governors, Mayors, Councilmen, School Board Members, and so on. We need to be there in numbers that can’t be obstructed on arcane parliamentary traditions.

Republicans consider us the enemy; sub-humans who need to be squashed. We need to treat them like political enemies and become as ruthless and efficient as they are in turning out and voting their interests.

Until that happens, going to be fighting it out with Iran for the title of Greatest Nutjob Theocracy. And there’s definitely something wrong with THAT.

And Furthermore

Just to end on a less depressing note, something about this silly meme made me laugh all afternoon.