How screwed are we?

[Hightop77]

It depends. On a micro level, presidential change has small impact on your day to day life. Your ability to have a great life changes not one whit today.

On a macro level......we will see. Yeah, all the dire comments to this point, some of which I agree are dangers. I agree, they will be tested. China.....Iran......Russia.......NK.........Islamist extremism, all will want to know how they react. And will likely push buttons.

On a "micro level" we'll see what impact having gasoline go up $1.00+/gallon, how defunding police, how caravans of illegals flooding our hospitals and welfare roles, how new strangling regulations on business, $15/hr minimum wages, etc., will have on us.

you realize that many have already backed up on the whole 'defund' nonsense right?

They reacted to the public negative reaction to defunding.  That doesn't mean they have changed their policies or their views.  I live in a city that is run by one of these Leftist idiots.  Defunding is reality and worse, the police are now completely demoralized because they know no one has their back.  To them it makes more sense to now just go through the motions instead of aggressively doing their job.

[Gordo8471]

"How screwed are we?"

Nobody will be surprised by my position, but I think you'll all be very disappointed in how little your lives change and how few terrible things Biden & Co. actually do.

I am mostly concerned with foreign spending as America is hurting the worst it has in ages.   We can get into schematics about Trump running up the debt due to Covid but you cant say the vast majority of that wasnt for United States citizens.

Biden announced the first 13 things he will do in office and most have to deal with increase spending over seas.   Also I worry about more foreign intervention as last time he was in the whitehouse he did little to withdraw or create more peace in the middle east.

[Alabuckeye]

It depends. On a micro level, presidential change has small impact on your day to day life. Your ability to have a great life changes not one whit today.

On a macro level......we will see. Yeah, all the dire comments to this point, some of which I agree are dangers. I agree, they will be tested. China.....Iran......Russia.......NK.........Islamist extremism, all will want to know how they react. And will likely push buttons.

On a "micro level" we'll see what impact having gasoline go up $1.00+/gallon, how defunding police, how caravans of illegals flooding our hospitals and welfare roles, how new strangling regulations on business, $15/hr minimum wages, etc., will have on us.

you realize that many have already backed up on the whole 'defund' nonsense right?

They reacted to the public negative reaction to defunding.  That doesn't mean they have changed their policies or their views.  I live in a city that is run by one of these Leftist idiots.  Defunding is reality and worse, the police are now completely demoralized because they know no one has their back.  To them it makes more sense to now just go through the motions instead of aggressively doing their job.

Of course.  That was the point.  I didn't expect that the leopard changed its spots.

[3rdgensooner]

Small Business Owners have been bearing the brunt of the Pandemic mandates since March.  Add a few policies (tax increases and new Pandemic rules) from the Biden Crime Family and it wont take much more to take them down.

15 dollar an hour minimum wage will kill quite a few of them too. Not as easy for them to automate or find people who can do 15 dollars an hour worth of work. Increased regulation and rules. Increased taxes. A lot of headwinds for the small business owner. 
Black America will see a definite regression. The liberal/progressive/BLM playbook looks to be designed by the Klan to destroy black communities. Just when black unemployment had hit historic lows too. I predict their health will deteriorate, jobs will be scarcer, and crime will be up. Black lives will be lost at a higher rate.

[ScarletHayes]

Marxist, street agitator, [b]ORGANIZER. 

Call it whatever you'd like, but there is an argument to be made that he was far more effective from 2017-2021 than he was from 2008-2016.

I absolutely hate the guy, but the work he did behind the scenes was pretty masterful.  It certainly helped that he stacked the deck in every agency and most courts before he left office...

Agree.  I just think his experience as an organizer/agitator made him far more effective than one would expect.  Terrible leader, but he knew how to push buttons

[jmesser1982]

Marxist, street agitator, [b]ORGANIZER. 

Call it whatever you'd like, but there is an argument to be made that he was far more effective from 2017-2021 than he was from 2008-2016.

I absolutely hate the guy, but the work he did behind the scenes was pretty masterful.  It certainly helped that he stacked the deck in every agency and most courts before he left office...

Agree.  I just think his experience as an organizer/agitator made him far more effective than one would expect.  Terrible leader, but he knew how to push buttons

Heard on one of the tv channels that Biden has 17 close former obama advisors with him. This is the third obama term on steroids.