FDR is the most overrated president in American history and it is not close.
People treat him like a saint. The reality is he inherited a recession and turned it into the longest depression in the history of the developed world. Every other major economy on earth recovered faster than the United States did under FDR. Sit with that. We had the most resources, the most industry, the most capacity, and we recovered slower than countries that got bombed.
Unemployment was still 19% in 1938. Six years into the New Deal. Six years of "bold experimentation" and one in five Americans still could not find work.
Why? Because his policies were economically illiterate. The NIRA cartelized entire industries and made it illegal to lower prices during a deflationary collapse. He paid farmers to slaughter livestock and plow under crops while people stood in bread lines. He launched a war on business so aggressive that investment dried up because nobody knew what insane rule was coming next. Even his own Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, admitted in 1939 that they had spent enormous sums and "it does not work" and that unemployment was as high as when they started.
Then in 1937 his policies triggered a second brutal crash so embarrassing the textbooks gave it its own polite little nickname, the "Roosevelt Recession," so they would not have to attach his name to the failure in the obvious way.
A UCLA study in 2004 concluded the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression by roughly seven years. Seven years of extra suffering sold to you as heroism.
So what actually saved the economy? Not the alphabet agencies. Not the fireside chats. A world war. Twelve million men shipped overseas and the entire planet's industrial competition reduced to rubble. That is the "recovery." That is the legacy.
Strip away Pearl Harbor and FDR is a guy who took a bad recession and stretched it into a decade of misery with bad economics and a cult of personality. He is not ranked on results. He is ranked on the luck of being in the chair when Hitler invaded Poland.
Greatest marketing job in the history of the presidency. Nothing more.
Clemson DE T.J. Parker says he and QB Cade Klubnik were talking about perspective recently, and how any win in your life can be viewed as a national championship. Parker: "We may not win a national championship, but God gives us all sorts of national championships"
JUST IN: Kamala Harris gets caught flat-footed when a reporter asks her about Trump's policies.
*THIS* is exactly why Harris refuses to do sit-down interviews. She is so hard to watch.
Dr. Phil does a Trump/Biden price check:
Gas — Trump $2.57/gal vs. Biden $3.61/gal
Avg. Home — Trump $320K vs. Biden $420K
Interest rates — Trump 3.8% vs. Biden 5.3%
Border crossings — Trump 1.7M vs. Biden 13M
This isn’t rocket science. Vote for Trump.
Biden’s accomplishments after nearly five decades in politics:
1973 - Biden enters politics.
1974
1975
1976
1977 - Biden fights to keep schools segregated because “allowing blacks to integrate would create a racial jungle”.
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1980
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1984
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1987
1988 - Ended presidential campaign after getting caught plagiarizing.
1989
1990
1991
1992
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1994 - Writes the “Crime Bill” (we all know how that worked out)
1995
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1999
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2001
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2008
2009
2010 - Eulogizes Robert C. Byrd. former KKK recruiter.
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016 - Called service members “stupid bastards”.
2017 - 2020 - illegally retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.
2020 - 2023:
• Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal
• Left $80+ billion in military equipment behind for the Taliban
• Record High Spending Bills
• Energy Dependent
• Re-entered Paris Agreement
• Open borders
• Breaking record # of illegals crossing the border
• Record High Inflation
• Record High Gas Prices
• Depleted Petroleum Reserves
• $200B to Ukraine
• Classified Documents
• Cocaine in WH
• Normalizing Pedophilia
• $6B to Iran
• Most Vacations Taken
• DOJ Weaponization
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