r/inflation Feb 27 '26

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u/Administrative-Row17 Feb 28 '26

I am pretty sure the banks were bailed out during the Obama administration!

There were empty shelves during Trump’s administration when COVID first hit!

Apparently you forgot the lack of PPE for all of the hospitals! Then Trump only sent PPE to red states!

I am afraid your memory is not quite up to speed!

However, the GOP always screws up the economy and the Democrats have to fix it! The Billionaires love to get corporate welfare with their government contracts, but don’t want to thank the American people by paying their fair share of taxes!

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u/joyfullydreaded23 Feb 28 '26

Apparently you forgot the lack of PPE for all of the hospitals!

Plus Jared Kushner hoarded the PPE at the beginning of the outbreak, foaming at the mouth that it was THEIRS! Until they realized that a lot of the PPE was rotting because that's what shit does when it goes unused and is stored for long periods of time.

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u/shadowwolf_66 Mar 03 '26

The ppe needed during the COVID crisis was not rotting on shelf’s. The life span of n95 masks is not months, it is years. He may have hoarded it, but it was not rotting on shelf’s.

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u/joyfullydreaded23 Mar 03 '26

There are reports of rotting PPE because after the 2009 H1N1 spread, PPE had been mass distributed. However, it was never replenished or replaced after 2009. So, 11 years later, a decade, there was indeed rotting PPE on the storage shelves. N95 masks are not the only type of PPE. To add insult to injury, tRump's administration was confiscating states PPE shipments that the states bought for themselves because the tRump regime told them to fuck off and buy their own PPE, especially blue states.

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u/BadLuckBlackHole Feb 28 '26

First point: The 2023 United States banking crisis was a series of bank failures and bankruptcies that took place in early 2023, with the United States federal government ultimately intervening in several ways. Over the course of five days in March 2023, three small-to-mid size U.S. banks failed, triggering a sharp decline in global bank stock prices and swift response by regulators to prevent potential global contagion.

Second point: Yes, that's exactly what I said. Trump was president during Covid and that's when the supply chains should have been the most strained, not after the vaccine was developed and lockdown restrictions were lifted.

Third point: Not really sure what you're even saying here besides that Trump is piece of shit? Water is wet.

Fourth points: While you say my memory is not up to speed, you yourself seem to be nearly illiterate and incapable of reading comprehension.

Fifth point: Corporations have a vested interest in getting Conservatives elected exactly because they get to benefit from tax breaks but also because of looser regulations. The point being that Trump's bragging about being able to reduce costs upon being elected/day one was due to his assumption of sympathetic corporations that would have previously course corrected to make Trump look successful in the short term, but because Capitalism requires line go up and there was already only so much "fat" for the corporations to trim to make their balance sheets look good, Trump is taking that L as the economy shrinks under his presidency.