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It seems to me I've seen comments here complaining about "the government printing tons of additional money" for at least the last decade.

I don't think the best climbers in the world can scale that cliff.

This is somewhat misleading - the definition of M1 was changed in May 2020, so numbers before and after are not directly comparable. See https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2021/05/savings-are-now-more.... It’s best to link directly to the page which is interactive and describes the actual components of M1 instead of just the image https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

Also that is the fed and M1 doesnt really have anything to do with money printing anyway - fed balance sheet is where it is at https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/central-bank-bala...

This is the government - https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S - and for anyone wondering, your party is as bad as the other party