• AmidFuror@fedia.io
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    4 months ago

    Quoting Ben Shapiro:

    "You were better off in 2019 than you are in 2024.”

    Why not 2020? Trump was President for the whole of 2020.

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      4 months ago

      I mean, it’s fairly obvious that COVID changed many things even in countries that actually did something about it…

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        It also caused massive inflation and put the economy on shaky ground, which is really what they want to pin on Biden. So going back to 2019 makes sense but is dishonest.

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          “Makes sense but is dishonest,” is Ben Shapiro’s entire existence. (Except the parts that also don’t make sense.)