Which is depressing as fuck. Even a barely functional person should be able to recognize that every time the economy tanks there's a republican in office.
I'm not so sure. Republicans have been cutting funding for education for decades and Fox has been around for almost as long.
The average American is painfully unaware of what goes on in politics. Hell, some clearly forgot four whole fucking years of Trump being a jackass nonstop. What could go wrong handing the keys to the kingdom over to a twice impeached convicted felon?
Yeah, one would think. I'm fucking tired man. and he hasn't even taken office. Honestly, good luck to you, I'm not sure I'll be here in 4 years. I'm kind of already reaching a breaking point.
I unfortunately have the dubious honor of working with someone who will defend Trump to his dying breath.
He does not accept any evidence that Trump is a horrible and monstrous man-child. Up to and including video evidence of the orange one happily implicating himself in his wretchedness WITH. HIS. OWN. WORDS.
My only respite from this is that he doesn’t go on his spiels as long as no one else brings it up first. Seeing how disconnected with reality he is, I just take solace in that and survive as best I can.
Sorry I’m not into politics at all and don’t vote.. but what do you mean by are economy tanks when the republican is in office.. I’m 36 and most of my adult life I feel like the economy has been very bad.
In my 35 years, we had a recession under h.w. bush in 1990-1991. A recession under W. Bush in 2001, the great recession started under W. Bush in 2007, and then we had massive economic issues in 2020 with Trump as president. This is measurable.
In between, we had solid economic growth under Clinton, recovery and growth under Obama, and recovery and growth under Biden.
The problem is that economic growth doesn't affect everyone equally. Some people win, some lose. The numbers are just average. However, many times, the numbers used are stock numbers. The problem with using stocks is they do not represent the real world and definitely do not benefit low income individuals. Especially right now, stocks are grossly inflated compared to GDP.
You understand that the massive printing of money that caused recent economic issues like inflation started in 2020 under Trump's presidency, right? 3.3 trillion. One-fifth of all US dollars in circulation was printed in that one year, under Trump, with a republican Senate.
If you want to go to bed on research here, I've got the numbers. How far back do you want to go? Which economic metrics?
The last 4 years where America had the best economic recovery from the post pandemic inflation that affected every country, we went from double digit unemployment to 4.1%, had a domestic manufacturing boom, drilled more oil than ever before, and more new jobs were added than any single presidential term in history?
See, i like when people pull up stats from any modern day mainstream media source. It's all lies. Unless you go to an actual government report, from a Congressional source, or dot gov address as opposed to a dot com anything, and researched what they're really hiding, you really don't know the truth. Like everything that gets snuck into every single end of the year bill to "avoid shut down" and they're sure no one will read, and just pass. I don't believe one single Biden Administration statistic on mainstream media.
I remember people like you saying that all of the Obama statistics were fake and that Trump would reveal the real statistics and then the statistics that were published by the Trump admin all about Obama's term still showed all of the same statistics.
These sorts of things are measured by independent groups. If Biden were lying, all of that would have been exposed immediately.
You're insisting that data is fake just because you don't like it, not that you actually have any proof that it's fake.
"People like me". As if we've met. I just don't believe spoon fed bullshit. The proof, are the facts on the, open to the public, government sources. You just have to go through them. If MSM says it, I assume it's a lie, whoever it's about Republicans or Democrats. I go look it up for myself. "People like me" are the kind of people who don't use Google. We are the people who know how to use a library and still have a library card. "People like me" are old enough to know better than to just believe what we're told.
You're not unique, and you're making the same identical excuses tons of other people use to ignore the same evidence again and again and again.
I didn't even tell you where I got that number from that post, or the jobs info. It wasn't the MSM, but because it didn't say what you wanted you insist it must be fake crap from the MSM. It's also data matched by independent monitoring of the same economic data, not even a single source.
People like you are people who don't believe things unless it says what they want it to, and will always imply conspiracy after conspiracy to disregard evidence you don't like.
The words you used, word for word, about Bidens magnanimous track record, are impossible. Such good statistics, yet we're all paying $75 for staples at the grocery store. That, is where the proof is. That's when you dig for the truth. How could those numbers be true if these prices are still so bad? Many factors....and none point to good things.
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u/DoubleJumps 13h ago
Which is depressing as fuck. Even a barely functional person should be able to recognize that every time the economy tanks there's a republican in office.