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Facts don't matter if half the population hangs on his every word.
Yeah it usually takes two terms to right the plane and we barely got to level and we are pushing full throttle toward the ground again. This time trump has no real elevation increase to take advantage of.
Did the gap between rich and poor grow, shrink, or stay the same under Biden? Definitely going to grow under Trump.
This is it. GDP alone tells a very small part of the picture. It shows the health of the economy as a whole.
A much better picture would be median net worth.
Something like this...
All we need to do to stop Republicans from winning is make that purple line go up...
But a neoliberal like Hillary, Biden, or Harris won't do it
So poor people vote for the liar that says he'll try to fix versus the liar who says everything is fine.
If you've voted in the last three presidential elections, you most likely weren't voting for anything, you were voting against the other party.
It's not a sustainable political system when voters are presented with two shitty outcomes and told they have a choice.
This is it. GDP alone tells a very small part of the picture. It shows the health of the economy as a whole.
lol
Something like this…
Yes... But it would be better with the Biden years. Let's see how genocide joe reversed this trend. \s
And it would be better still with both the Trump years and the Biden years.
That would demonstrate what anyone paying attention already knows:
The Dems are pretending to be Robin Hood while actually stealing from workers to give to their rich owner donors, but Trump's fascist kakistocracy still manages to be MUCH worse in almost every way measurable as well as most of the immeasurable ones.
This is the right question to be asking.
While Trump has no business claiming that he's better at handling thy economy than literally anyone, this constant defense from the centre-left that "Actually the economy was great under Biden" is asinine and stupid. The economy under Biden was only great for the wealthy. For a lot of people life got steadily more expensive. That's not a sign of a healthy economy.
I doubt it shrank. The wealth gap has likely only grown since Reagan at least.
Yeah, if I remember correctly it grows when there's a republican president and stays the same when there's a democrat in the white house. But I haven't seen the numbers for Biden. Basically there's a party of the status quo and one for making everything worse.
"The opposite is true" applies to most things Trump says.
Trump is lying for sure. Good for economists here.
Nothing ever is his fault /s
agreg thenks
The Narcissist’s Prayer: That didn't happen. And if it did, it wasn't that bad. And if it was, that's not a big deal. And if it is, that's not my fault. And if it was, I didn't mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.
Shocked I am.
“Trump said untrue thing! Hey! He can’t do that!” says everyone who’s allowed him to do that for 10 years.
Truth.