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Trump inherited a very healthy economy from Biden. The giant shitstorm that he has created is to blame for everything negative.
It's so extremely moronic that people voted for Trump because they thought he would fix inflation. 🙄
Thank you! I was saying this back in 2022 when we had "record inflation" but also "record profits." That became too obvious to consumers so we had shrinkflation instead. But still the record profits.
Corps knew the average voter is dumb and used those prices to tank Harris' campaign all because she had the gall to suggest a wealth tax, something they had snuffed out Biden's chances with. Even if the president has no control over prices, people believe they do. It was over for this country the moment we got the Citizen United ruling. Things were being setup to make it easier to get, but that ruling allowed unmitigated greed to influence politics. Been a growing pool of unfathomable wealth and the leverage of that wealth since.
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Trump inherited a very healthy economy from Biden
:-/ He inherited a big stock number from Biden.
But the US economy has been losing steam since the turn of the century. First Enron/Worldcomm, then the Great Recession, then COVID... critical components of the industrial and service sector in the US have been falling apart for decades. Energy, housing, health care, manufacturing, education, agriculture, technology, news media... we've been watching them consolidate ownership and corrode in quality well before Trump or Biden.
It’s so extremely moronic that people voted for Trump
They've been brain blasted with stupid by mass media that's screamed fascist ideology every year of their lives. Trump is a symptom of a public that's been told to venerate wealth and celebrity. Democrats nominating an invalid who dropped out after the first debate certainly didn't help, either.
It's extremely moronic that the election system has been fully captured by crooks and frauds. But the only response ever seems to be "You should have voted for the other guy."
Goddammit I'm tired of people equating the stock market, or even gdp with 'the economy'.
joe rogan/shapiro/j peterson/tate/etc all had ahand in turning men/incels into rabid trump supporters. i know someone that was turned just this election as a trump supporters because he binges on UFC/ by extension alot of joe roegan podcasts.
Everything was going awesome under Biden. The economy was so great. Executives were making more than ever!
That's a completely different matter, the economy was doing fine, but there was inflation in the aftermath of Covid, which was steadily improving.
Choosing a moron narcissist like Trump will only make it worse for average people, so what exactly is your point?
That you are better off with Trump. 🤣🤣🤣
The economy wasn't "doing fine" for more than half the population. Wages are still stagnant, and no one is proposing a solution to that, from either party.
Meanwhile the cost of living just keeps getting higher, which shows up on paper in the form of higher profits for the same companies that are no longer paying their employees enough to live.
We are accelerating towards a cliff. And all anyone is doing, is trying to take credit for how great everything is, while simultaneously blaming the other guy for everything that's wrong.
The economy wasn't "doing fine" for more than half the population.
You and them are about to find out how good it was... it's about to fall off a cliff for most
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The economy wasn’t “doing fine” for more than half the population.
Actually yes it was, there was inflation after covid, but that was steadily getting better.
Criticizing the ones that do better is not constructive, that just makes you sound like a fanatic MAGA Trump supporter.
Obviously things are way worse under Trump, and you have to buy only 2 dolls now! If you can't see how that moron is malignant IDK what to tell.
If you want more left wing politicians to succeed, the only option at elections right now is to support democrats, and push for more left wing candidates.
It's extremely tiresome to hear the constant whining about how Biden wasn't good enough, when he obviously was the better option at the time. Don't blame Biden, blame the ignorant people who voted against their own interests to hurt others, like immigrants, lgbt, colored people and pregnant women. What they forget is that they become victims too, because Trump is also going after the poor and working class.
You are either working for Putin, or you are working against your own interests with posts like the response you made to the fact that Biden delivered a very healthy economy to Trump.
You don't seem to understand that inflation didn't reverse...it just slowed back down to normal levels. Anything new who didn't get raises equivalent to that inflation, now effectively earns less than they did three years ago. And inflation is still rising, just not as fast.
You have to catch up with those excessive rates in order to have the same level of purchasing power as you did before they went up.
The fact that you're accusing me of "working for Putin" just for pointing out basic economics, is really bizarre. I'm curious to know why you think those things are related.
The economy wasn't "doing fine" for more than half the population.
People who think like that are the reason Trump got elected.
the economy ≠ standard of living
The problem was purchasing power, wages, and inflation. People's standard of living was suffering, but the "economy" wasn't. Conflating the two is why Trump's stupid rhetoric resonated so much with the uneducated Magats that voted him in: they thought he was promising to fix their standard of living, while the reality was that he was promising to "fix" something that wasn't broken.
Actually YOUR way of thinking is why Trump won the election.
The stock market =/= the economy
The reason why Dems lost on the economy, is because they don't understand this basic fact of reality. Telling people that everything is fine, when they can plainly see that it isn't, is a losing strategy.
The real economy of paychecks, groceries and rent payments IS broken. And until it gets fixed, we will have people like Trump winning elections. Even if it's all a lie...they are the only ones acknowledging that anything is wrong.
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Wages are still stagnant,
Wages were increasing more-quickly than inflation when Biden left office. We had a high rate of inflation, at which point inflation grew more quickly than wages, during the COVID-19 pandemic. That produces a decline in real wages. However, that relationship had reversed by the time Biden left office.
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The economy was indeed going great by most measures. And donvict monkeywrenched almost on day one.
I know it's fashionable among a certain set of people to proclaim everything is awful no matter who is running the country but....it is just not factual.
Poverty is through the roof and the working class is struggling to meet ends.
One of the main reasons Democrats lost was pretending the economy is fine. At least Trump put in the effort to lie about fixing it.
No one was pretending; we can all see the same data. Saying the economy was terrible under Biden is just not being realistic.
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Yep, inequality was up, cost of living was down. The economy was doing fine. What the democrats failed to see is that generally when the economy is doing well, the rising tide lifts all boats. In this instance, with post Covid inflation, the economy was not lifting all boats. It was making the asset rich wealthier while making day to day living harder for all that work for a living.
People act based on emotions, specifically feeling like they're part of the in-group. You know the old saying "Would you jump off a bridge if your friends all were jumping, too?" Well, the answer is clearly yes. Most people are stupid like that.
I mean, we all are sometimes. It's impossible to know and verify everything so we trust our friends. But for some people it's reached a toxic level of "vaccines are bad" and "banning books is good"
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"Take all credit. Deny all responsibility"
Privatize the good news. Socialize the bad news.
~ Carl Markets, 1984
Pretty sure Uncle Ben said “with great power comes no responsibility, blame the democrats”
We always knew this was his 'thought' process. It's been interesting seeing how his now apparently unfettered power has him just saying all of the abhorrent shit he really thinks out loud more than ever, though.
This is elder abuse.
Yes.
This elder is fucking abusing us...
i felt like he has no train of thoughts, he just have one thought and forget wha tit was, moves on to the next, and then reconnect in a non-sensible way.
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"A good leader must be willing to take the credit when things go good and the blame when they go bad"- Grandma Longneck, The Land Before Time 7 (yes there are more than 7 Land Before Time movies)
Aren't there like 12 of those things?
The 14 films were released as a Complete Collection DVD set later on June 14, 2016.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_Before_Time
There was also a season of a TV show, 5 albums and 14 video games.
Just in case anybody has an hour to spare, this is a YouTube video summarising all 14 parts. I have no idea why I watched this, tbh. I never even heared of the damn movies. I guess sometime it's three a clock and these things just happen.
Never apologize.
The Barbie cinematic universe is good also.
Yes but Trump is not a good leader.
A good leader...
Wait, there's a good part to the economy? 🤔
Well, if you bought the dip when he literally tweeted it, you'd be rolling in money by now! Its so simple, why aren't you on board???
/s...
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I’m just saying [children] don’t need to have 30 dolls, they can have three, they don’t need to have 250 pencils, they can have five,” he added
This guy is so out of touch
The only people I can think of that buy 250 pencils at once are teachers.
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Because that's how that works. /s
“I’m just saying [children] don’t need to have 30 dolls, they can have three, they don’t need to have 250 pencils, they can have five,” Trump said.
Before it was 2 dolls instead of 30, or a 93% reduction.
Now it's 5 pencils instead of 250, or a 98% reduction.
But more broadly, if I were Trump, I don't think that I'd be focusing public attention on standard-of-living reductions among American children.
A man that literally shits on a golden toilet lecturing people about austerity is peak irony, though.
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This whole blame your predecessor for everything is just a privilege of the office. The problem is that you can't keep it up for long and the real pain from his policies are weeks and months away.
"Prepare three envelopes..."
His bullshitting is getting so lazy.
The fascinating part is not that his argument is
me good, he bad
... that was always his thing. Complain, play victim, accept zero responsibility. "I stand for nothing" or whatever he said.
What really flabbergasts me is that 50% of voters hear that and somehow think this a guy fit for president.
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