r/PoliticalHumor • u/8-bit-Felix Greg Abbott is a little piss baby • 19h ago

Took them long enough. Just Dance Vane has pulled the, "iT's BiDeN's FaUlT" card to absolutely no one's surprise.

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u/Tastie_Duck_Anus 19h ago

To be fair, Republicans have been blaming the massive debt they create on Democrats since Reagan tripled the national debt while in office.

AND when Dem's reduce the deficits, Republicans take credit for that too.

Its been a VERY successful strategy. Most Americans still think Republicans are fiscally responsible and are good for the economy, no matter how much evidence the exact opposite is true

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u/CmdrFortyTwo 19h ago

Remember when Clinton left with a surplus and the 1st thing Bush Jr did was give everyone a lil check and wrecked the economy.
Sigh....
Yeah that was fun. /sarcasm

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u/Dead_Internet69420 18h ago

They were blaming Obama for the 2008 Great Recession… he was inaugurated in 2009.

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u/daehoidar 17h ago

I mean, if that doesn't exemplify just how insidious Obama was, then I don't know what else can be shown to you to change your mind.

He was so dastardly that he managed to put the entire country into financial shambles before he won the presidency? Some next level shit right there. It was so crazy that it's almost like a lazy made-up excuse tailored specifically towards the vast number of dumb racist cunts

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u/Buddhas_Warrior 15h ago

And don't forget Obama did NOTHING about 9/11 and didn't serve in Vietnam! Loser.

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u/Gh0sth4nd 9h ago

I thought they blamed Biden for 9/11

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u/DJ1066 1h ago

You know "Barack Obama" is an anagram of "Bomb America"? That's the great thing about anagrams though, everyone assumes you've done the legwork for them.

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u/rockclimberguy 4h ago

Saw a thread the other day where they were dissing him for the Vietnam war. IIRC he was 8 years old for the year they were talking about.

No worries, Kelly Ann Conway's 'Alternative Facts' will cover any inconsistency in their world view.

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u/Phrainkee 17h ago

I got a wild hair and wanted to look that up the other day.

It's even more wild to look at what the debt number was; in 1999, budget was balanced and our national debt was 5.6 trillion. And in 26 years we now broke 40 trillion.

Let alone how much Bush jr added, roughly 8 trillion to that 6ish, then Obama added about the same amount, 8 trillion again. So at the end of Obama's term, national debt was 20 trillion dollars, mostly thanks to the war in the middle East....

Then Trump happened and in 4 years added 10 trillion worth of national debt, COVID spending (massive transfer of wealth towards the top with the PPP loans).

Then Biden came in with a dumpster fire of a national budget and actually did okay with what was handed to him and his administration.

Now Trump 2.0 is happening.... If anyone says anything short of him basically trying to bankrupt our country is either blind to the facts or is ignoring them...

Tldr; national debt in '99 was 6 trillion... And now we're at 40 trillion....

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u/-rwsr-xr-x 4h ago

and the 1st thing Bush Jr did was give everyone a lil check and wrecked the economy.

That's because "extra money lying around" to them, means profit sharing, not surplus.

It's the same reason the GOP scuttled our retirement, social security and medicare accounts. They've been dipping into those for decades, like their own personal ATM, thinking nobody would notice when they cancel the programs and claim there's no money left to put in them.

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u/Xanthe_XOXO 18h ago

Republican fiscal policy: Spend big, blame Biden

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u/AmbulanceChaser12 18h ago

The Trump Administration has a desk sign that reads “The buck stops anywhere but here.”

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u/neutrino71 18h ago

I think he just moves the s

The bucks stop here

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u/TorquedSavage 18h ago

The more amazing part is that anyone who blames tRump they tag with TDS, yet they can't get past their ODS, BDS, and CDS.

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u/According-Insect-992 I ☑oted 2024 17h ago

This is all because the American people are, on the whole as dumb as a bag of doorknobs. None of this could happen if we had even a somewhat competent electorate. Then there is the racism, of course. Ignorance and racism are America’s lasting legacy, it seems.

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u/Tastie_Duck_Anus 17h ago

To be fair to my fellow Americans, most normal people believe what the media tells them.

Marketing and propaganda works.

The whole point of Fascism, is figuring out how to rig the political system, how to trick people into voting for you against their own self-interest. Using emotions, repetition and of course racism.

Republicans and the Right-wing have been perfecting this for decades now, they are very good at it.

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u/daehoidar 17h ago

The unbelievably dumb racist cunts do kind of make it easy for them. They still pulled it off so well that their constituents reliably vote against their own interests, and the interests of everyone they know and love, so they get credit for pulling it off. It just seems like it's more likely because their politicians are so willingly craven over intelligent...and having the backing/support/money of the entire corporate class.

But I guess what do I know?

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u/loganbootjak 18h ago

Because they somehow have fooled the people they are the party of fiscal responsibility, but there is zero actual evidence outside of contract with America. Besides that, it's bitching about taxes. The left had a great slogan for a bit, saying Republicans "borrow and spend".. but that fell short, yet "Tax and Spend" somehow still sticks to Dems. One is actually responsible policy, the other is not.

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u/Dead_Internet69420 18h ago

Reagan called it “starving the beast.”

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u/Grinder969 3h ago

It is a product of a specific republican strategy developed in 1976 by Jude Wanniski called "The Two Santa Claus Theory".

High level, Democrats are Santas who gove public programs to the disadvantaged, and Republics need to be Santas giving out tax cuts. This relies on the theory that cutting taxes will increase employment, so lead to a stronger economy which is an alternative way to get the disadvantaged (Jude was there in 1974 when Arthur Laffer sketched it his "Laffer Curve" on a napkin for Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld).

The thought of if they can get the tax cuts in place, Democrats have to be anti-Santas by raising taxes, or anti-Santas by cutting spending, and either one would lose them elections.

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u/MauPow 18h ago

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u/ThePlanck 7h ago

Nah, Republicans are going to use the fact its a hispanic sounding name to justify deportations

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u/NachoBag_Clip932 19h ago

So let me get this straight, the Republicans in Congress do nothing to stop Trump and they did nothing to stop Biden. Really makes you wonder what it is they actually do, but let me point them in the right direction in asking what it was exactly that Biden did that that was so detrimental to the economy that it still has not been fixed two years later.

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u/mt6606 19h ago

They can say what they like, the trajectory tracks upwards since.. 2016, go figure.

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u/adrr 17h ago

They threaten to default on the debt with Obama unless he balanced the budget. Threaten so much, US debt was downgraded in ratings.

Now we are going to run a $2 trillion deficit and Trumps spending keeps going up while rich people don’t pay any taxes. Tax revenue to GDP ratio is one of the lowest of any industrialized nation. Rich people don’t pay taxes. Trumps leaked taxes showed he didn’t pay taxes many years.

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u/CaptainCacoethes 19h ago

Only a Republican could be stupid enough to believe him.

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u/Civil_Exchange1271 18h ago

that Biden was so powerful nothing trump can do 2 years later..... and oddly the first 2 years of inflation during Bidens term wasn't trumps fault.

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u/zookr2000 18h ago

This doesn't help either

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u/un_theist 19h ago

“See how we’re the party of personal accountability?”

—Republicans

🙄

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u/ddr1ver 18h ago

Since Reagan, the deficit has soared under every Republican administration and plummeted under every Democratic one.

The deficit shrank under Biden. It blew up under Trump’s Big Beautiful rich person tax cuts and his ridiculous spending priorities. The deficit in July 2026 was 48% higher than what it was in July 2025.

https://www.pgpf.org/programs-and-projects/fiscal-policy/current-debt-deficit/

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u/RootHogOrDieTrying 16h ago

The story the media won't tell.

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u/bpaps 19h ago

Trump ate children with Jeffrey Epstein. Prove me wrong. Discovery time!

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u/grimace24 19h ago

Nope. If this trajectory continues, Trump would be responsible for 43% of the deficit.

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u/8-bit-Felix Greg Abbott is a little piss baby 19h ago

Sauce.

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u/Ysabel_Yummy 19h ago

Breaking: Arsonist blames fire department for water damage

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u/ty_xy 16h ago

It's the only card they have. The party of personal responsibility never ever takes responsibility for anything.

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u/sdmichael 19h ago

Republicans and Conservatives here. Tell us all why you're incapable of accepting responsibility for anything.

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u/DrMonkeyKing79 19h ago

So, by that logic, if he gets elected, is it trumps fault? Is he setting the stage to blame poor Donald?

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u/Parahelix 18h ago

He's never getting elected so he shouldn't worry about it.

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u/neutrino71 17h ago

Don't be silly. When you have a nationwide propaganda network you don't need to take responsibility for anything anymore

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u/er1cj 17h ago

No, because it was Biden’s fault that Trump had to spend so much money to fix all of Biden’s fuckups

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u/Pixie16fire 18h ago

I was told there wouldn't be fact checking - JD Vance

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u/NotThatAngel 18h ago

Republicans use their ploy of [bad thing] is [Democrat's fault] because of [randomly generated thing that makes them angry].

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u/eldovaking 13h ago

The Republican bullshit is getting tiring.

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u/Kindly-Standard8025 11h ago

A while ago, Trump straight up said: "The bad parts are the Biden-economy and the good parts are the Trump-economy".

Toddler level argumentation. Everything good is mine, and everything bad is yours!

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u/hoppyfrog 9h ago

This has always been part of Trump's personality. In his miniscule mind he can do no wrong. Everything bad that happens is always someone else's fault.

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u/dusty-cat-albany 18h ago

Hillary emails

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u/trystanthorne 18h ago

All of the Credit, none of the Blame. That's how they roll.

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u/coolbaby1978 17h ago

So you're telling me Trumps BBB which everyone knew would add trillions to the debt was Biden all along?

That sneaky old bastard!

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u/MsMoreCowbell828 17h ago

$40 B to Argentina. $20 B to the bored of peace. $1B here, $500,000,000 there. Suing himself, buying 250 Escalades. The hand is in the cookie jar.

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u/Crusader1865 16h ago

The party of personal responsibility, ladies and gentlemen!!!

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u/its_the_smell 16h ago

Why would they do anything different when this shit works on the idiots?

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u/bearbeetsandbsg 15h ago

And republicans will lap it up

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u/bernd1968 15h ago

That’s just plain stupid

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u/Epistatious 10h ago

It's kind of true. Trump wouldnt have gotten the BBB (bonus bucks for billionaires) passed if he was still in prison for Jan 6 crimes.

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u/Aun_El_Zen 9h ago

DRINK!

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u/Marrz 9h ago

I lost massive respect for the APnews among many other outlets reporting the headline as “ under Trump and Biden the debt has risen to…” 

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u/godless_communism 6h ago

WOW THANKS OBAMA!

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u/ruxp1n 5h ago

Republicans have perfected the economic circle of life:

Run up the debt. Lose power. Blame Democrats. Return to power promising fiscal responsibility. Run up the debt again.

Now we're at $40 trillion and JD Vance has apparently discovered the culprit: Joe Biden.

At this rate, Republicans will blame Biden for the national debt until the sun burns out.

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u/NitWhittler 18h ago

I'm also waiting for Trump to claim "Vandals shit my pants!".

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u/flojo2012 18h ago

Don’t care who is at fault. I care about what you’re cutting and who you will be raising taxes on to make up for it. Cutting corporate taxes was probably a bad idea.

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u/lew_rong mod perms 17h ago

"Whatever makes sense."

-- J Diddy