[throwaway8754aw]

It's sad that those outside America think negatively of us (while in Iceland I met Europeans who felt the same) because of horrid media that a lot of it is made up crap and lies especially in politics (on all sides). I am sure to get downvoted and by other Americans for saying this as I've said many times here for years and it gets downvoted. Yet one argument that other Americans are feeling the same is via who the 47th US president will be. A president who I never voted for but has been strung up left/right/sideways by his opposition yet all that mattered zero and was ignored. Their political games got tiresome and didn't work yet more importantly though is inflation and no doubt people were paying less for things when the idiot was in office. Wages skyrocketed during covid to get ppl back to work causing things to get more expensive to pay for higher wages is one reason things are more expensive.