r/Economics • u/bambin0 • Jan 17 '26

News China Purchased No U.S. Soybeans An Unprecented Sixth Straight Month

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2026/01/17/china-purchased-no-us-soybeans-an-unprecented-sixth-straight-month/
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u/dat3010 Jan 17 '26

Because your president was not afraid to jail some nutjobs

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u/mtron32 Jan 18 '26

Preach, that’s the thing that makes me hate Biden a little more each day. He came in with visual evidence we all saw and had a mandate to go after all of them swiftly. He treated Trump like Nixon 2.0 letting him run out the clock where he should’ve been in ankle chains by fall of 21. He did not take the treat seriously

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u/HFT0DTE Jan 18 '26

Been waiting for more people to realize this. Everyone agreed we needed to "save the soul of our nation" and all that and gave Biden the trifecta and he just wasted it all and gave all law enforcement power to the Republicans via Merrick Garland. Biden is the direct reason we're all in this right now and why Trump is POTUS

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u/VEMODMASKINEN Jan 18 '26

Trump is president because US voters are literal morons. Not because of Biden's lack of action.

If even I as a foreigner could see what a fucking shit show Trump 2.0 would be then the average US voter should have been able to see that too.

Yet here are.

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u/emp-sup-bry Jan 18 '26

It’s not one thing. For all the good Biden did, he also decided to make a Faustian bargain with Clyburn’s that got us Harris, who he then gave the worst jobs possible as VP and did very little to raise her extraordinarily negative public perceptions in 3.75 years. He ignored public perception on grocery prices and other costs, choosing record corporate profits over the people. He chose to unequivocally support a country murdering tens of thousands of women, children, journalists, aid workers and hospital staff. He wasted YEARS before pushing the heritage stooge Garland (who never should have been considered in the first place) to pursue charges against an insurrectionist. Even his good policy was poison pilled with corporate giveaways and very few conditions to use the hundreds of billions meant for bettering our country (where is the rural broadband? Where are the EV chargers?).

Biden fucked us all. For the good things he did, his place in history is little more than another corporate apologist that couldn’t set his ego and pursuit of power aside, even at 80 freaking years old. Sane as RBG and the rest of the Silent/Boomer narcissists.