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 Yeah so stupid to think printing money and paying people not to work causes inflation, my bad  
 stop suggesting having 2 trillion more of something suddenly makes it less valuable. the U.S. dollar isn’t subject to math, and i already told you math is racist. 
 Nobody is saying that. I'm saying that blaming it on trump is disingenuous. 

To believe that, you'd have to ignore all that was happening globally. China was welding doors shut to keep people in their apartments...

Democrats were talking about taking people's children away and putting people into Internment camps. The world went completely hysterical and yes, we printed money... But let's not pretend that trump is ignorant to how money works and was out there running up the nations credit cards. That simply not the case.  
 Trump is a Keynesian like the rest of them. He likes big government. Running up the nation's credit cards is exactly what he did. 

Because the rest of the world went commie doesn't mean you have to join in. you don't fight communism by becoming one yourself.  
 Principles don't save you in business. Whether we agree with it or not, we live in a debt based system. Leveraging debt is what billionaires do. It's what Michael saylor is doing currently. 

And what exactly is the alternative to printing money when you have half of the world effectively unemployed due to govern action? 

They were putting business owners in jail for opening their doors. What do you do as president?  
 Allow blue states to bankrupt themselves and have people flock to Texas and Florida And other freer states. Basically just allow people to be free. It's not that hard.

Would those commie policies have lasted so long if they weren't backed up by federal communism? 
 If someone's house burns down and they borrow to eat out and stay in a hotel until they have a new home, you wouldn't call them a spendthrift.