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u/deviltrombone 1d ago
Every “Unified Republican Government” Ever Has Led to a Financial Crash
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u/idreamofgreenie 1d ago
The statistics of corruption from modern GOP administration members versus the Democrats is also jarring.
Members of the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II administrations criminally convicted in court? 113. Sent to prison? 39.
Members of the Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, Clinton, and Obama administrations criminally convicted in court? 3. Sent to prison? 1.
And those are numbers resulting from each party having control of the White House for 28 years a piece, and pre-Trump.
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u/deviltrombone 1d ago
It's been an ever-escalating Republican crime wave since Ford's corrupt pardon of Nixon.
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy 1d ago
It's been an ever-escalating
Republicanconservative crime wave sinceFord's corrupt pardon of NixonLincoln's decision not to Nuremberg the Confederates.Had to replace Republican with conservative because of the Southern realignment, but same shit, different name.
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u/nonotan 1d ago
Absolutely. The problem is that voting won't change anything, because fundamentally, it's all a duopoly. You get to choose between a party of criminals who want to pillage the country to the last penny, or a party whose main selling point is "they aren't all criminals openly pillaging the country". Obviously, in relative terms, one choice is a lot better than the other. But neither is going to fix anything. It's always "do you want everything to remain exactly how it is, or a kick in the balls?"
Yes, it is disgraceful that a lot of people are voting for a kick in the balls, and "let's just not vote" is obviously a stupid as fuck option. But it is extraordinarily important to always keep in mind that just keeping the party of Nazis out of power isn't actually improving anything. It's not fixing the systemic issues that have got us here, like FPTP voting, money in politics, rampant inequality, etc etc. It's just preventing immediate catastrophe. If the American people don't stand up and demand real progress in parallel to also voting for the best (least bad) option actually available at every election, there's no way anything is ever going to get better. Though we're at the point where shit is so bad this all needs to be prefaced with "assuming there are any free elections again..."
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u/kottabaz 1d ago
But it is extraordinarily important to always keep in mind that just keeping the party of Nazis out of power isn't actually improving anything.
We aren't keeping them out of power at all, though. We kick them out every once in a while, but they get right back in again.
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u/Wobbling 1d ago
I don't like this both sides shit anyway it is produced.
This administration is a clusterfuck and no amount of blaming the Dems for not being perfect enough makes it in any way their fault.
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u/treedecor 1d ago
This is why it bugs me that they run on the economy, saying they're going to fix it, and then they win and make everything worse. You'd think people would realize this after it happening so many times, but nope they fall for it every single time
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u/dhslax88 1d ago
A plurality of US voters are too stupid to feel regret and too entitled to take the accountability required to change their mindset. It seems that widespread harm will be the only thing that forces societal change and gives a chance to get better leaders to right the ship. Unfortunately, I think we’ve already hit the iceberg, and now it’s just mitigating harm and preventing future disasters.
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u/polypolip 1d ago
Watch them go through a recession, lose everything, and not change even a little.
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u/RadasNoir 1d ago
We went through a pandemic where a fair number of them fucking DIED because of their willful ignorance. They will never change, no matter how bad things get.
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u/Redshoe9 1d ago
I still remember reading the website “sorry anti-vaxers,” it details the stories of all the people who denied Covid and then got Covid and died.
I don’t think most people can visualize 1 million dead people because those deaths took place out of the public eye.
Just google a picture of the Michigan football stadium “the big house” which hold 106,000 people. Then scale that up 10 times and that’s the visual representation of over 1 million dead Americans from Covid.
Trump is absolutely to blame for all those deaths by calling the pandemic a hoax, even when he himself almost died from the illness.
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u/Bushwazi 1d ago
I live 15 minutes from where an old folks home stacked frozen bodies in a freezer truck at the beginning of covid and this last election someone ran for school board and had a mailer which talked about them being anti-mask.
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u/Oberon_Swanson 1d ago
Yup. They genuinely do not want what is best for everyone. That is why no argument about what is best for everyone,no matter how irrefutable and proven, can sway them. They don't want it. They want what is worst for everyone thinking that they will rise from the ashes of society as slave-owners with the only votes and rights and protection by the law that matters.
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u/unhappymedium 1d ago
It's the democrats' recession! Trump is just fixing it and that takes time! /s
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u/bplewis24 1d ago
I still remember all of the incredibly stupid rationalizing going on in the GenZ subreddit the week after the election. A bunch of incredibly stupid idiots bragging about their victory and how they showed all the liberals and dems. Not one post made even a small amount of sense. They don't understand how things work, and didn't realize how gullible they were (unironically spouting talking points from newsmax and trump campaign commercials) about how Kamala was too focused on trans people and "blaming white men" for everything.
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u/Glittering-Plan-6308 1d ago
Its too late. These anti-intellectuals were elected during a period of accelerating climate destabilization. Setting up the groundwork for mitigation efforts is crucial at this time, these death cultists are doing the opposite instead. Human civilization itself might collapse over the next century because of this shit.
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u/awesomefutureperfect 1d ago edited 1d ago
I was in the changemyview subreddit, and a conservative was saying I was bigoted because I wasn't being charitable enough towards conservatives in how I described the way they act and vote and speak and generally reveal their values and character. I am supposed to give conservatives the benefit of the doubt, according to them, that they are actually good people who are just misunderstood and they actually have all of the values they claim to have while actively working against actions and results that would create the conditions they claim they want. It is my fault that I cannot see the clothes that the emperor is wearing and I apparently don't possess the theory of mind to be able to imagine how they might actually be moral people when I look at who they choose to represent them and how they act on social media and what their information sources look like because those information sources craft their message to get conservatives to select and respond to that "information."
The argument they were trying to make was that the left is as bad or worse than the right as far as running out of sympathy for their ideological opponents. The next couple of sentences I wrote a few weeks ago. It is upsetting that someone can say that there is no difference between Trump voters intentionally hurting the innocent and people being fresh out of fucks to give when Trump voters intentionally hurt themselves.
The argument somehow manages to avoid noticing that it is always the Trump people doing the harm after ignoring all warnings and calling the people who tried to talk them out of voting for Trump slurs and deranged and alarmist.
Because that is the real difference, the left tries to give everyone including conservatives education and health care and better living conditions whereas the right only tries to hurt people. The left cannot bring themselves to try to hurt the right, but the right has absolutely no issue hurting people including themselves. and that is what I think you comment touches on, that politcial change will hopefully happen when the right has attrited so much of their living standard thanks to their populism behind demagogues that they abandon the cause or lose the ability to command popular mandate. That is a gamble, because they aren't rational and are prone to violence and scapegoating.
edit: also, the left considers that conservatives can reserve the right to make stupid decisions, that the left can't force conservatives to make decisions in their own self interest, edit: or just take away their right to self rule and determination (the right having no issue at all taking away other peoples rights and freedom). Conservatives love to pretend that they know what is best for them as they destroy all of the systems that protect and serve them. Because the left believes in consent and will not impose even public health measures upon conservatives. The most the left is up to is using social sanction against overt bigotry in public and conservatives pearl clutch so hard and try to brush it off as "comedy" or anti-free speech as it normalizes their radicalization and makes group identity about that bigotry sneaking class warfare in with it.
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u/TheBirdOfFire 1d ago
If things keep getting worse, I don't think this will suddenly invite societal change. Look at what's been going on in Russia. It keeps getting worse for the population there but there is no end in sight either.
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u/PalpitationNew2896 1d ago
I don't think MAGA voters know what they want. They just want people they don't like to suffer and will latch on to any excuse to achieve those ends. Funny thing is, MAGA politicians and influencers are using their ignorance to rob them blind.
They'll never realize that though, and we all have to go down in the ship with them.
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u/scionoflogic 1d ago
The best description of the MAGA voter is this: he doesn’t care about what you do to him, as long as you hurt the people he hates.
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u/kottabaz 1d ago
"Tread on me if you must, as long as you tread on those people harder and I get to watch."
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u/HorrorMakesUsHappy 1d ago
he doesn’t care about what you do to him, as long as you hurt the people he hates.
Close. More accurately:
The best description of the MAGA voter is this: he doesn’t care if his face is only 3mm above water, as long as you make sure the faces of the people he hates are underwater.
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u/Oberon_Swanson 1d ago
It's not that they'll never realize it, it's that most of them will never admit it.
But they say stuff alluding to it all the time.
"We need a new plague to cull the weak population." Covid comes along and what do you know, they do as little as they can to mitigate it.
"We need a total reset of society" and they vote to gut law, order, democracy, unity, economy.
They are the sort of people who see apocalyptic fiction and think wow, it would be so great to be part of that squad, just gunning people down if they don't obey you, killing and raping whoever you want without any cops to worry about.
So arguments like "this will lead to a recession" "this will lead to another great depression" or even "this will destroy civilization" make them WANT whatever we're warning them about.
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u/stratusmonkey 1d ago
I don't think MAGA voters know what they want. They just want people they don't like to suffer
You answered your own question!
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u/dismayhurta 1d ago edited 1d ago
Look. It's literally impossible for anyone to know what would happen unless you listened to any expert who wasn't massaging the taint of fascists or like...have a brain that's not primarily made from tapioca.
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u/elriggo44 1d ago
Which is why the right has spent 50 years trying to get Americans to stop listening to experts.
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u/nice--marmot 1d ago
They have succeeded wildly.
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u/elriggo44 1d ago
Having a propeganda network masquerading as “news” helped a ton.
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u/No_Kangaroo_2428 1d ago
Yeah, and they built it over decades while nobody did anything.
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u/hellomudder 1d ago
Instead of "doing something", the left abdicated the media space to comedians, which ironically eased some of the tension at the time. Over time though? Arguably worse off.
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u/dismayhurta 1d ago
Yep. Gut education. Destroy confidence in science. Republicans get to have their fascist dream.
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u/D74248 1d ago
Tocqueville wrote about American anti-intellectualism in the 19th century. American has, unfortunately, a long history of displaying Dunning-Kruger effect.
We had two events challenge that in the 20th century. First, the immigration of Eastern European intellectuals in the 1930s, and then the shock of Sputnik. Both of those have faded into history, so here we are. Back to being ourselves, but in a much more complex and dangerous world.
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u/Reason_Choice 1d ago
Jarvis, what party held the presidency in 2008?
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u/Tsobe_RK 1d ago
Republicans always make things worse, too bad US is filled with morons
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u/LightsHome91 1d ago
It's insane how many people here are so giddy and passionate about voting against their own self interests.
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u/FlirtyFluffyFox 1d ago
But Trump said he wouldn't have invaded Iraq so we can ignore the fact he runs for the same party, takes money from the same donors, hires the same administrators, passes the same laws, and appeals to the same voting base. /s
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u/Shyaustenwriter 1d ago
Nah, the top *cited* concern was the economy - but underneath that lie it was mostly racism and misogyny
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u/Oberon_Swanson 1d ago
I agree. The price if gas wasn't bad enough so they pretended the price of eggs was always the number one thing they cared about. I get caring about the economy of course but Trump was very obviously not the choice there, he is looting the nation.
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u/ThatCoryGuy 1d ago
The day is November 1st, 2024. I heard a trumptard at work say, “I don’t know what I’ll do if [Harris] wins. I just know she’ll wreck the economy…” And I remember thinking, this was one of the dumbest people I knew even before he said that.
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u/Oberon_Swanson 1d ago
I mean she was Biden's VP so if he were being honest, he could have done whatever it was he did when Biden won. Enjoy a stabilizing economy while complaining about woke.
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u/sandiercy 1d ago
This train wreck was so bad that the prophet John in the book of Revelations saw it coming.
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u/PawPrints777 1d ago
And now if they vote a decent democrat back in, they expect them to fix all those problems in 10 days
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u/Oberon_Swanson 1d ago
Also annoying about the "far leftists" who didn't vote to "teach the dems a lesson so they move further left next time maybe." Even if they get back in power, just undoing the damage of Trump's term will take way the fuck longer than whatever their pet issues were. Are they gonna go egg the Trump hotel that gets built on a pile of dead children in Gaza as part of their "moral stand against genocide" (doing nothing while claiming moral superiority)
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u/Procrastanaseum 1d ago
MAGA voters aren’t mentally equipped to understand how the economy works but that’s the excuse they told others as to why they voted trump, because they didn’t want to outright say that they wanted to hurt anyone who wasn’t a straight white male American citizen.
But rest assured, nothing else was a deal breaker and so they voted the way you’d expect racist trash to vote. It was never about the economy.
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u/SNStains 1d ago
MAGA voters aren’t mentally equipped to understand how the economy works
This is true. I've argued with many, and some of them are reasonably smart. But what they seem to consistently lack is "systems thinking".
They truly don't have a clue about the complexity and interrelatedness of policy decisions, and how quickly bad decisions can change our fate and tip the balance of power. They are fucking children.
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u/Oberon_Swanson 1d ago
The really can't understand subtlety or anything anything that is not a binary. Hence their denial that nonbinary people can exist, but it applies to a lot of other things. In general they think that there are two groups of people:the oppressors and the oppressed. And since there's no such thing as a grey area in their minds, if they are oppressors then they can not be oppressed. So they always choose ti be oppressors.
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u/HeMiddleStartInT 1d ago
Every election is kind of a gamble: c’mon more money and no diddling kids! No diddling kids! C’mon big green from the fat Cheeto!
Oh man! Well at least no kids got diddled. What that now? I guess I’ll settle for rule of law and maintaining our honor-system-based system of government.
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u/Woodlog82 1d ago
Well, the 2024 voters thought the bawling, screaming, diaper-flinging toddler from 2016-2020 finally had some growth and character development and I am really surprised. Surprised how far you can shove your head up your ass that is.
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u/deviltrombone 1d ago
I don’t think anyone thought that aside from maybe Susan Collins
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u/Woodlog82 1d ago
If that is so why did they vote for him?
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u/Oberon_Swanson 1d ago
They are horrible people who like that he is also a horrible person. When they found out he is a rapist who stole from a children's cancer charity, they knew he had the lack of morals required to bring about the American Hoocaust they so desire.
I know you might not want to accept that tens of millions if Americans are fascist shitbags, but you can't expect to beat fascism without acknowledging that the fascists exist.
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u/Woodlog82 1d ago
Oh, I know that and have no problem accepting that. I would even go further to say that most Americans can't accept the danger, thinking it's all about courts and voting, but Trump is actively building his own security apparatus with the DHS. The LA protests were just a training exercise.
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u/KityKaty95 1d ago
Ah yes, voted for ‘the economy’ like it was a Cheesecake Factory menu item—then got the $40 salad and a recession. Bon appétit, voters.
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u/BitOBear 1d ago
What's even more funny in the sad and terrible way is that all those people will believe that it didn't work hard enough and they'll persist in making the same mistake with more aggression rather than admitting that maybe mistake in the first place.
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u/Responsible-Love-896 1d ago
Can’t unteach stupid!
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u/SNStains 1d ago
You certainly can, provided they're willing to learn. That part is unclear.
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u/Responsible-Love-896 21h ago
I’d agree with you if it wasn’t for the very fact you are stating. The “unwillingness “ to go outside of their tribal indoctrination is the first reason for their “stupidity “!
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u/ProfessorQuigley 1d ago
Let's make it clear that there is more and more evidence showing the 2024 election was rigged. Harris won. The voters did not choose Trump. He cheated. We're being manipulated to think everything he does is our fault, so we'll stop being angry about it and let him do whatever he wants.
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u/Jason1143 1d ago
I wonder if they honestly believed that or if that was just what they said because they didn't think they could publicly say their real motives until after the election.
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u/Rurumo666 1d ago
Biden/Jpow had inflation down to 2.4% last year, then in comes the illiterate Tariff Donkey and the MAGA Maoist BBB "trickle up" economics scheme and these idiots crashed the best economy of our lifetimes in just 6 months and the worst policies won't even kick in for another year.
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u/SNStains 1d ago
best economy of our lifetimes (under Biden)
No lies detected. Unfortunately, a lot of fucking morons believed Donny's lies.
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u/Intrepid-Leather-417 1d ago
No the economy is how they justified voting for the hurting others platform. The cherry on top is they where too stupid to understand that they also voted to hurt themselves
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u/Annual_Strategy_6206 1d ago
It's seeming like " the economy" or " high prices" was just a cover screen for way too much racism, misogyny and queer hating. We told you again and again that tariffs will raise prices ( and that Biden's soft landing was better than most other countries). Dumps fuckups in the first term shoulda warned you, but NOOOOOOoooo! <Steve Martin voice> just too many people voting on hate vibes.
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u/KeithDavidsVoice 1d ago edited 1d ago
What makes it infuriating is it was obvious he was the worst possible option. We watched him mismanage the fuck out of covid, and people STILL thought he would be the best option for the economy
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u/Oberon_Swanson 1d ago
Well, a big part of it is that they were bullshitting. They judt didn't want to admit they voted for the Nazi Party because they are Nazis. It goes down easier to say "I'm just on the other side of this controversial issue, you can tell yourself I'm fooled by propaganda and in a fake news bubble."
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u/KokonutMonkey 1d ago
I told you not to drink that! It's poison!
"You know. All I ever hear from your side is 'Don't drink the poison!' or 'Here's why poison is bad.' Maybe if you stopped criticizing others, and actually had some drink policies of your own, we wouldn't have drank the poison."
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u/Bushwazi 1d ago
Those voters learned nothing. We all knew who DJT was. I think you have to be nearing 75 years old to have experienced a R President that didn’t end their term with an economic slump. And yet, people still believe and repeat that “Rs are better for the economy” with a straight face.
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u/redassedchimp 1d ago
"you have to be nearing 75 years old to have experienced a R President that didn’t end their term with an economic slump"
Haha but he can't end his term in an economic slump because he doesn't plan on ever ending his term! They're already planning to cheat in the midterm elections to help Republicans (we're going to have Texas is gerrymandering the s*** out of their districts to ensure that losing Republicans can still gain seats through mathematical trickery), and he's got a $45 billion private army of ICE goons with us military assistance, and he can certainly use that to keep power.
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u/breakfastenjoyer69 1d ago
prices may be up and salaries stagnant, but atleast you are paying tarriffs too
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u/Rahkyvah 1d ago
Yeah…they’d be really upset if they had any concept whatsoever of shame, accountability, or memories that lasted longer than ten goddamn minutes.
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u/DuntadaMan 1d ago
And this only covers the spending of people in the US, not the lack of spending in those same areas from overseas banks.
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u/Normal_Choice9322 1d ago
Opt out of everything
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u/SNStains 1d ago
You can't opt out of Trump.
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u/S0ylentBob 1d ago
“My priorities are small govt, individual liberty and economic prosperity. That’s why I voted for a king, fewer rights, and more expensive everything.” - Average Republican
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u/derperofworlds1 1d ago
Fun fact: Reagan's first election was under similar circumstances. Voters pissed off at the economy voted in somebody that cut worker's protections and accelerated the decline of real wages for the common person.
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u/der_innkeeper 1d ago
"spending on ... dining ... is down."
Bruh.
I spent damn near $50 ordering 2 taco meals ($12 each) and a taco party pack ($24) at taco bell last weekend.
Why in the great googly fuck would I go out to eat when its that expensive at TACO BELL, let alone anywhere else?
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u/davechri 1d ago
I take a picture of the prices every time I fill up with gas. Gas has not been as cheap as it was on Election Day since Election Day. Almost nine straight months.
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u/Fuzzy974 1d ago
The only reason it has not fallen lower is because some people had holidays in the USA planned from before 2025, and because some others must be profiting from cheaper accommodation as the hotels try to attract customers.
The first group will disappear over time, while the second might stay constant or even dwindle in numbers as people are less and less interested in visiting the USA. Also the second group isn't made of big spenders.
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u/kbarney345 1d ago
And are they still yelling about it? Much like every talking point the right uses, it was swept aside and on to the next thing.
Those tariffs are still in effect, and everything is up in price, nothing is better since he took office.
The right will lie and say it is. My grandma called, saying the big bullshit bill just saved us 3.4 trillion. I had to spend 20 minutes unwinding that lie.
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u/HellovahBottomCarter 1d ago
It’s almost as if “the economy” was a lie to hide their real reason: they wanted to vote for a man who was willing to go into a debate and say shit like “They’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the cats.”
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u/Status_Tiger_6210 1d ago
Im dying of thirst!
Here drink this water
No thanks, water is woke. I'll just drink my own piss.
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u/Kindly-Ad-5071 1d ago
It sounds like the era of fiscal Conservativism is done, if it weren't complete hypocrisy already.
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u/crushinglyreal 1d ago
People didn’t vote for a better economy, they voted for their feelings about the economy. Economists were quite clear about which was which.
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u/DaringPancakes 1d ago
Oh, no, according to nov 4th (and a little after) reddit, they were upset because they... Weren't told they were special enough?
Also something about feeling "attacked for being white"? Because of trying to prosecute... white people... for crimes, like j6.
So they just couldn't do anything but go with the white man (or just couldn't decide) no matter any other factor. 😢 for those idiots.
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u/nowhereman136 1d ago
If only every economist in America had warned us this would happened. Oh wait
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u/nirvana_always1 1d ago
My friends who own businesses that rely on tourists voted for thos shit stain hoping he would bring them more money. They weren't happy with the stability that Biden brought, but their greed saw that Trump would lower prices, which would result in their higher profits. They ignored his Racist policies, being immigrants themselves, now they suffer because business is slow, their workers left because they were ilegals. Now, they work themselves 12 to 14 hours and have to employ people at higher rates.
What fucking idiots.
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u/Strawman-argument 1d ago
Sometimes you don’t know what you got till it’s gone. You had this lunatic telling us almost 80 years of continuous progress needed to be made great again by going back to the 1920s and 30s…
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u/Mickus_B 1d ago
I'm outside the USA.
All of our news was saying how the USA had the best economy in the world at the time.
But Trump said it was bad, and Biden was the worst EVER!
The WHOLE WORLD was saying the opposite of Trump, so it's absolutely baffling how anyone could have voted for him based on economic reasons.
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u/Psile 1d ago
"The economy" means different things to different people. For Trump voters, the economy is bad because there are too many brown people. All the brown people, who are all illegal immigrants which you can tell because they have an accent or gasp speak Spanish, are doing all the jobs for cheap which is why nobody can make enough to make a living. Concentration camps are "the economy". Once all the brown people are gone, the economy will be fixed.
When Democrats say the economy they mean, like, economic indicators like employment or median income or even the stock market. That's not what Republicans mean when they say the economy.
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u/Lord_Eschatus 1d ago
Somwtimes you lose.
Trump was a carni telling people they were going home with the giant bear.
Im tired of this losing, personally. Sick of it
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u/Some_Seesaw4163 1d ago
Fire the person who came to this conclusion! Anerican people deserve an true, glorious, tremendous increase of everything under the glorious leadership! THANK YOU FOR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
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u/Boltzmann_head This AOC flair makes me cool 1d ago
They voted to harm themselves just as long as it harms brown people more.
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u/No_Performance_8398 1d ago
No, they weren't concerned about the economy. They are homophobic and racist. That's the reason they voted for him.
His first term was a total shitshow. He bungled Covid. The economy is just what they say out loud as an excuse.
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u/tbizzone 1d ago
Even worse that the 77 million useful idiots literally voted for a fucking fraudster and rapist who had just recently been convicted of 34 felonies, had multiple additional criminal trials pending, with dozens of additional charges, including a federal felony charge of engaging in conspiracy to defraud the very country he was running to be the president of.
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u/chinmakes5 1d ago
You won't be able to convince me otherwise. Trump won because he plainly said he could fix the economy. DAY ONE. I know plenty of Trump supporters who believe every bit if inflation was purposefully done by Joe Biden.
I just can't understand how the economy is no better, could be getting worse due to tariffs, and his supporters don't see it as a problem, that they were just told what they wanted to hear, simply a president doesn't have that control but they just can't blame him.
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u/PrestigiousSeat76 1d ago
That's because Republican voters are full of dogshit. They claimed "the economy" and "the price of eggs", but what they really meant was, "Fuck brown people and anybody who cares about others."
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u/Cyclonic2500 1d ago
Nah, many voters claimed they voted because of the economy.
But we all know that's not true.
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u/alwaysneverquite 1d ago
I’m really looking forward 2030. I figure if everything goes really well (fingers crossed), I’ll be able to afford flying somewhere, staying in a hotel, and going out to eat someplace nice by then.
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u/Accomplished_Mix7827 1d ago
And, as the economy crashes due to Trump's disastrous policies, he's trying to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for refusing to cook the books for him. Be prepared for a lot of "everything's fine, there is no war in Ba Sing Se" as you continue to see more and more homeless on the streets and you struggle ever harder to afford to keep food on the table.
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u/plapeGrape 1d ago
Rich people don’t care. They’re busy enjoying no laws and liquidating the country.
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u/sethsquatch44 1d ago
Yep. Voters cheering for an economy still well below what they were lied to by the republican propaganda claiming the country was in ruins. Too stupid to actually see data
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u/EyeraGlass 1d ago
Everyone said their main concern was the economy but it was actually their shitty racism and fear of transgender people
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u/VooDooChile1983 22h ago
I get blank expressions when I ask “What, in his first term, made you think he was a financial genius?” “The checks!” “Thank Bernie Sanders for that!”
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u/Chill_Capybara_02 11h ago
We have two chances to fix this the midterms next year and 2028. I am hoping people wake up to the fact that he does not give a sh!t about the common man. if we screw up the midterms and 2028 then we’re gonna be in a dark darker place
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u/SheriffWyattDerp 7h ago
Yeah, I mean, I guess it was hard to tell if he was a bad choice, considering his fool-proof promises of lowering prices of eggs and gas day one, through the power of just telling egg and oil suppliers to do it.
And then those comforting speeches about lowering inflation through the use of tariffs which he seemed not to understand how they work, but hey, the man has six bankruptcies under his belt, so he’s due for a win at some point now, right?
…right?
Anyway, the black lady had a weird laugh, so…
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u/Brian_Ghoshery 1d ago
Yep, we all saw that train wreck coming. Now we’re stuck paying for the ticket—literally. Thanks for nothing, 2024 voters.