Oh, well as long as the economy is growing/metastasizing for the private shareholder owner class, the society that perversely lives in subsistent servitude to it can continue to get fucked.
This is why the neoliberals lost (yes I voted blue out of harm reduction).
The laborers needed a party that protected the needs of the laborers from the greed of the capitalists.
Instead we got, and even continue to get in defeat, “the economy is doing great! It’s you fucking peasants complaining about having enough to make rent and still eat that are wrong!”
Economies are supposed to be lowly tools to benefit society through equitable distribution of goods and services, the tail has been wagging the dog for half a century, and it’s destroyed us.
If the people that make up your society can’t afford to live well despite working full time, the economy is a dogshit economy. It’s only so fucking wonderful to these sick fucks of both parties because it’s benefiting their wealthy bribers exclusively as it’s been bastardized to do since the Reagan Revolution.
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Time to watch it be funneled into billionaire crony pockets.
Biden should honestly just forgive all big debts for countries, healthcare education etc etc… the hell would trumpy do when there’s just…no money to steal since it was just given away.
He needs Congress to ok those things. That’s why he’s been dismissing student loans for four years. Republicans keep shooting it down.
That’s the only place it’s gone for a half-century.
I did very well on my self-assessment too
America will now lose any further investment. It was going to red states so now they get what they deserve.
that’s great, and means absolutely nothing to the people making minimum wage, who are now paying 30%-50% more for bread, milk, eggs, and rent than they were when joe took office. macroeconimic numbers mean nothing when after the pandemic americans got hit in the nose with what felt like the greatest sustained bout of ruinous inflation in peacetime memory. i voted for joe, and kamala, i know they’re better for america than the fascist, by ordinates, but they never enumerated a plan to reel in the gouging occuring from landlords, grocery conglomerates, and just about everyone else squeezing the average american for every penny they have. and that’s why they lost. everything.
You can thank Republicans for the minimum wage and the killing of a inflation laws. Also, I’m going to point and laugh when you’re paying even more in the new administration.
I was paying less than ever for eggs only a month ago and gas is like $2.60 in my area. It’s you’re own fault for parroting and believing this garbage.
There are countless comments trying to keep in people’s minds that Democrats didn’t do anything to help people. The end goal is obvious, I don’t think I need to spell out to anyone unless it’s their first election that the classic cycle is that Republicans fuck things up and Democrats clean it up, but get no credit for it. Same reason users want to focus on “the economy” in a very specific way, despite Biden’s clear accomplishments.
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/the-critics-of-bidenomics-are-being-proven-wrong
Consider some of the headline economic statistics released the last few days, on top of the GDP release. At 3%, inflation is now at its lowest since the pandemic, down from its peak of nearly 10% of last year. Commodity prices have plummeted by at least 50% across the board, ranging from energy, food, agriculture, and metals. Some such as lumber are down a stunning 95% in a year. Even gasoline prices, which have ticked up slightly in the last few weeks, are now lower than pre-Ukraine conflict levels.
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate of 3.7% is at a 54-year low, and the unemployment rate has stayed below 4% for the longest stretch in the last 50 years despite the Fed raising interest rates from 0 to 5.5% in a year. The last time this nation saw such good employment news, LBJ was the president and Bonanza was the top show on TV. In almost every major sector, real wages are now growing faster than pre-pandemic, with record workforce participation, amidst millions of new and returning workers—partially thanks to the workforce training, education, and childcare policies that are core pillars of Bidenomics.
The strength of our economic recovery is not just reflected in the headline statistics. In the private sector, corporate earnings calls this last month have resulted in many major companies across sectors beating their expectations by a healthy margin, and many CEOs are raising financial guidance for the rest of the year due to the stronger-than-expected economy.
Biden turned things around, and no one here will give him any credit because it didn’t happen fast enough.
I just disregard anyone acting like Democrats can’t get anything done like I have every election, because Republicans don’t help whatsoever and Democrats do, and it seems people need to learn this lesson again. Buying into the idea that Democrats are inept got us here instead of a continuation of the above.
Fucking thank you!
You can thank Republicans for the minimum wage
thumbs down, curtsy
Show us when Republicans voted to increase the minimum wage. We’ll wait.
Don’t worry. It’ll all be undone now. Thanks for the incompetence, Dems. Really snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
…what jaws of victory? The Dems were literally never projected to win by a majority of polls at any point during the election cycle.
…what jaws of victory? The Dems were literally never projected to win by a majority of polls at any point during the election cycle.
I don’t suppose being up against a senile rapist who fellates his microphone in front of a crowd and peddles deeply unpopular policies at all counts as a victory that should be, by all rights, a layup, except for the fact that Dem messaging is and has always been pure dogshit?
Those jaws.
Oh, you’re one of the people that think the average American doesn’t support those things.
I hope you maintain your sense of innocence. I gave up.
Half of America loves him. None of those things seem to bother them. They were never going to vote dem.
They definitely fucked up but let’s not pretend Trump isn’t loved by way to many Americans.
You’ve maybe spent too long in the echo chamber.
GOP voters were never going to vote anything other than Trump. Abstainers (and, for the record, FUCK them for not caring about literal fascism) largely saw no point in turning out for the Dems for a lack of inspiring message.
Democrats moved to the right to try to get Republican votes. It failed. They will learn nothing and do it again.
Voters didn’t turn out for Dems because of people like yourself constantly shitting on Dems with FUD
Bruh, I was full-throated in my support of the Dems because I understood the importance of maintaining enthusiasm for turnout. You can check my comment history if you like. Arguing against people shitting on the Dems when the alternative was literal fascism made up a great deal of my activity these past few months.
But the election’s over now. We can bitch now without worrying about depressing turnout amongst those with the memories of goldfish who only remember the last comment they read. It’s safe, at least until the next election cycle revs up again. And, in fact, if we do not bitch now, we risk not knowing how to correct our mistakes next time.
So you shit on dems for years until right before the election and expect voters to forget about all that shitting you’ve done at the last second…
It doesn’t work like that.
If only it had been 2 trillion…
As if it would make a difference. Success doesn’t matter if your PR arm can’t meaningfully capitalize on it. The Dems could bring up fully automated luxury gay space communism to the US with total success, and their obsession with being an inclusive, big-tent party, like it’s the mid-2000s, would make them unable to campaign on it.
Weird, I’ve heard of the IRA, chips, and infrastructure act from the Dems.
We’re the politically involved, man. It’s not us that need the messaging. It’s the mass of American voters who don’t remember anything if the drum isn’t being beaten 24/7.
Maybe they should have put it on the news.
fellates his microphone in front of a crowd
You know that was a heavily edited gif right? He didn’t stand there and pretend he was blowing the mic.
It’s sad to see the left buying into the same kind of idiocy the MAGAts do but it’s pretty much exactly what I expected.
What part of that video clip is a heavily edited gif?
Wow yeah he’s just up there suckin’ away this will surely be the thing that gets him and definitely isn’t him playing the media and the crowd like a fiddle!
Voters didn’t turn out for dems because of people like yourself constantly spreading [FUD](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt#%3A~%3Atext=Fear%2C+uncertainty%2C+and+doubt+(%2Cof+the+appeal+to+fear.)
And Dems were particularly vulnerable to FUD due to their rightward shift on policy, poor messaging, and support for an ongoing genocide. Maybe the party should take some responsibility for once.
