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[–] nelly_man@lemmy.world 1 points 46 minutes ago* (last edited 44 minutes ago)

For anybody that's interested, it looks like the source of this visualization is sort of this Reddit post on r/dataisbeautiful.

At the very least, it's OC of the same numbers, but slightly different layout.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 22 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

If conservatives could comprehend numbers, they'd be real upset.

How mean, if they could read, they'd be pissed...

I think they would demand data from the first term.

Lucifer the fallen angel...

[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 26 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They should've added Trump 2016 too, dunno what would it look like but omitting stuff isn't great

[–] ralakus@lemmy.world 37 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

So even with less dementia in 2016 Trump still couldn't beat a Democrat.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

However the economic devastation is gonna last decades...

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I thought you had drawn it in with a sharpie. Lol

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I remember how a webstream of a lettuce was set up for Liz and she got kicked out faster than the lettuce on the webstream became rotten.

[–] RizzoTheSmall@lemm.ee 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We need to start a trump lettuce stream!

[–] Nfamwap@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Needs to be an orange, surely.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 24 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Obama 2013 doesn’t really make any sense. He was already president, so nothing changed. 2009 is probably much worse cause of Bush’s recession.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Obama 2009 looks about the same, maybe a bit stronger over 100 days. The market collapse happened in the final months of the Bush presidency, and it was just about at the bottom as Obama came into office.

To have a number as bad as Trump II, you have to go back to Bush's first term (in general the Bush graph is pretty bad, barely managing to make it back up to break-even for a few months before the 2008 collapse).

[–] Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 34 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

It's important to note that Trump is responsible for what's happening. While Obama was given the financial crisis on his lap because of things out of his immediate control.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, other presidents have ups and downs and usually it's nearly a coincidence, good luck or bad on their part.

Trump absolutely is responsible for current economic conditions, with no ambiguity.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago

100%. Neither is a good comparison, really. Trump 2017 vs Trump 2025 might be the best comparison. But that also implies he was responsible for 2017, which he wasn’t.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Data is ugly - you skipped the first term of Obama and trump and the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

The Lehman Brothers would have to also include Bush's term, and no where near any inaguration. The first term of obama would still have left Trump II looking pretty lonely down there, with a smidge of the fallout from the 2008 meltdown still going down for the first few weeks, but by March it had recovered enough to be above his inauguration numbers. Either Bush term would have kept Trump II company down there indexed from inauguration, which is consistent with the reality that republicans seem to be bad for the economy.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 136 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

You know, personally, I don't think the rumours of Trump being an active foreign agent instead of "just" a narcissist grifter are useful, because they can be used to argue that things weren't already pretty borked before in the status quo.... (and I think they are wrong, personally)

But I do have to admit - if I was a foreign agent wanting to destroy the US and its influence in the world, I would basically do exactly what he is doing.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I get the feeling such rumours are just the other face of the same kind of blind Nationalism as the MAGAts exhibit - the latter group is all about how America is a great country whilst the group spreading the "it's all due to Foreign interference" rumours are really just denying that the huge problems in America are mainly the fault of Americans.

Both are just spewing self-serving nationalism in the same direction: that Americans are good and it's foreigners who are bad.

It's generally a good idea to be skeptical of "explanations" which make the people giving them indirectly it look better, either by claiming than the group they're in is better than the rest or by exhonerating the group they're in as the cause of the problems that group is having.

[–] AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You put it better than I myself had formulated it in my head yet, why I am weary of those rumours. I find similar arguments here in Europe, where our fascist movements, which are without a doubt supported by Russia, are then sometimes reduced to being some sort of wholly foreign influence, instead of admitting that Russia is stoking flames in embers that had always been part of us and the problems we face.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The fields which are being harvested by both external adversaries and power hungry ethics-free insiders were plowed, fertilized and sowed by 4 decades of exposure to the style of disinformation favored by Neoliberalism whilst the consequences of its policies were getting more and more felt by the average person, IMHO.

When your belt keeps tightening, what you can buy with the income from working keeps being less and less and life feels more and more like swimming against the tide, all the while the authoritative figures of old (mainly the Press and mainstream party politicians) keep telling you that things are getting better ("the GDP is growing!"), eventually people lose trust in said authoritative figures and those with a similar style of discourse, which opens the door to non-mainstream political voices with a different style of discourse (including populists), and very wealthy people aren't going to be funding Leftwing parties whose ideas are not shaped by Neoliberalism, to fill the political gap opened by the general loss of trust on the mainstream, they're going to be funding Rightwing voices who blame the powerless for the ills of the nation rather than those very wealthy people who have been pillaging it for decades.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 115 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

My college degree focused on the collapse of the USSR and the US diplomatic response to it. I studied a lot of Soviet and Russian foreign policy. If Donald Trump is not a Russian asset he weirdly backs every single position you would expect a Russian asset to have.

[–] Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

He's in Putin's pocket for sure. You remember the closed door meeting with him and Putin his first time in office? Putin came out looking smug af and Trump looked like he'd just seen the ghost of his dead dad. Trump was best mates with Epstien and famously can't keep it his pants. My bet is that Putin has footage of him fucking a minor and is threatening to release it unless Trump toes the line.

[–] Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

Honestly, given the cult-like obsession of Trump followers, I can't even imagine a video like that making much of an impact on them. Sadly...

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 33 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

refusing to speak negatively of Putin in front of millions during the debate should've been a pretty clear wakeup call

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 22 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"He's a good man, strong man" and every red hat cheered. You dumb mother fuckers.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I love your pfp, rain frogs are PEAK fr
Also my mom's car is named figgy and we got her as a baby so we call her "little baby figs"

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

I think he's inept, stupid, and doesn't have a plan or idea about what he's doing. Tariffs, eg, are the polar opposite of what he claims.

His puppeteers, however? They're just letting him run wild, destroying everything he touches, because they have the wherewithall to withstand the damage.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 35 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

And they are all making $$$. Insiders make out like crazy when the economy crashes, buy the low and hold. Open a for-profit prison. Get shady government contracts. Get the President to do a commercial for your cars in front of the White House. And on and on.

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[–] lemmingthelemmers@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

Yes and now they all drink Mich Ultra as if they are making a statement.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 44 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I realize the title is rhetorical, but just a reminder that AB not only reversed their support for the Bud Light campaign after just a few weeks of fascist bigot whining, they also fired the advertising manager responsible.

All over a single can of beer.

You probably can't buy beer regularly without giving them some of your money, but let's not forget what spineless cowards they are. (Just like Target.)

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 10 points 8 hours ago

Drink local, fuck InBev

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[–] Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 3 points 5 hours ago

I'm freeeeeeee.. free falling

[–] El_Azulito@lemmy.world 59 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I’ve never seen a graph so metaphorically and literally apt.

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 40 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Story of his life. At no point ever has DJT not been a loser. Such a failure of a human being, and the world will be much better once he exits it.

[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 23 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Saw a great video of his approval numbers and he is underwater compared to every other president for this soon in. His only competition, and President he still comes in 2nd worst to depending on the topic, is himself from his first term. 🤣🤣

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[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

I'm tired of winning boss.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 36 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (9 children)

I've often heard people describe the stock market as a graph of rich people's feelings. Looking at this, if that was true? This is the most relatable the 1% have been in a century.

Edit: Yeah I know, folks. I did say if.

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