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. 🙄
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True, if very healthy means that the rate of decline for working class Americans was going down. Until that gets aggressively reversed, get ready for more and worse fascists every other election cycle. (For as long as free elections exist.)
You are confusing the issue by bringing another issue into it.
That working class is doing worse is another matter, and something that clearly already is getting worse under Trump.
Harris would have been better for working class in every way. And would have been a better platform for promoting more left wing politicians than letting Republicans win.
You are arguing a very strange point, to a degree it's basically nonsensical.
I'm not comparing Biden to Trump. That is just too easy and kind of masturbatory. Yes, I agree Biden was better than Trump, and Harris would be too. The world is more complicated than "red bad, blue good". The important question is, when Trump is worse, why is he president?
Democrats can continue to be better than Republicans in every way, and it won't matter. Republicans have a narrative and Democrats don't. That is the point that matters.
I knew with absolute certainty that Biden would be a one term president and be replaced by a far worse fascist. I didn't know it would be Trump v2, and I didn't know Biden would far exceed expectations, but I knew he wasn't what we needed to turn off that path.
Democrats can't keep repeating the same mistakes and getting surprised by the results.
I don't see how that is relevant to the fact that Trump inherited a sound economy?
It's relevant to why it didn't matter.
You claim the economy has nothing to do with the standard of living, inflation, or wages yet keep harping on about "how good the economy" was as if that means anything to anyone outside the top 1%. Why?
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. 🤣🤣🤣
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It is not incorrect to say the economy was doing well, nor is it wrong to say individual purchasing power was not following. “The economy” is not, nor has it ever been, tied to wages. This is a problem, Trump is the opposite of a solution. It’s the equivalent of seeing a bank robbery and nuking the bank.
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.
It was. It is worse under Trump but it was already terrible.
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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"
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'.
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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.
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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.
Illustrators.
OnlyFans models
Oh god. Do I want to know…?
So much for "capitalism better because material wealth communism one toothbrush" etc etc..
Funny how things turned out
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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,” 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.
Apparently the toilet thing isn't true, came from a picture of some jeweler's bathroom.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trumps-golden-toilet/
Snopes does say that he has "gold-plated sink fixtures in one bathroom on his private jet", though.
EDIT: And that jet, ignoring the furnishings, is something like 30 times the price of the jeweler's bathroom with the gold toilet.
You're actually right. The only gold toilet I've ever actually seen was some oil-sheik's or something years ago, and I conflated it with his tendency to otherwise put gold plating on everything - that image in the New York(?) apartment sprung to mind - and a random comment I saw saying the same thing. Still, whether I used 'literally' correctly or not, the irony of a man used to excess preaching the virtues of austerity still stands. Fuck him.
"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”
nottheonion aah headline
When these fakes say anything it's never the truth. I guess the point is they want us to get tired of them so we just don't even listen anymore.
This is the MAGAt playbook.
"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)
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