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    Have they tried not taxing all imports for literally no reason at all?

    I don’t know for some reason I feel like that might help.

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    Democrats: Good Economy

    Republicans: Bad Economy

    Democrats: Good Economy

    Republicans: Bad Economy

    How many more times do we need to see this pattern before American’s hamster brains start putting two and two together?

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      So many can’t tell the difference. As a matter of fact they applaud actions that overheat the economy that leads to inevitable crashes like combining deregulation with reducing taxes and interest rates. Then when it all comes to roost their solution is austerity.

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    We aren’t even in the mass layoff stages yet. Those are coming around summer next year.

    The administration and GOP is going to do whatever they can to silence job fears until right after the 2026 elections are rigged and they stay in power, then they will still blame Biden.

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        Exactly what happened to Biden. But this time the mess is going to be WAY bigger. So the Republicunts will be able to put up a candidate as bad, if not worse than Trump, and they’ll win because Americans are fucking stupid and they’ll blame whoever the sitting president is, even if things are recovering well, like they were under Biden.

        Stupid country will get stupid results.

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          Exactly what happened to Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden. This literally keeps happening over and over again and it makes me feel insane that nobody seems to remember

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            Not clinton. Bush senior did not have much of a choice after reaganomics and had to do some things right which is why he lost election (lesson for all future republican presidents) and why the late 90’s had a pretty good economy and we even had year over year surplus. Im still agog on how well biden did in just one term but it comes no where near enough of a recovery to handle trump2.

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      I imagine an infusion of cash to the market and a reprieve on tariffs that year.

      They may have decided that the easiest way to make people feel like the economy is doing well during an election year is to first screw it up the year prior.

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          I absolutely hate that some of my biggest recognized complishments were only possible because I screwed up the first time around. It’s not too bad when at least I’m fixing someone else’s screw ups, but averting a screw up no one even knew could happen is worthless for reputation building…

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    Who would be hiring when things are so unstable right now? I think the proof of Trump’s inadequacy has finally surpassed his claims of greatness…

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        While I agree with you I was speaking of wage slaves, working humans selling their time. Investing seems like a toy that the rich can manipulate and the value makes no sense to me. The stock market is a very old scheme that needs to be tightened up or radically changed.

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      Oh wow, I had to go up and re-read the headline, because I thought it was like 75% of what it was last year. As in a reduction of 25%.

      Goddamn, we are so fucked.

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    Weird. We had a Goldilocks economy last year. The envy of the world, even.

    Wonder what happened in the intervening months? Hmmmm…

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    It’s almost as if rampant corruption, greed, and cowboy economics have consequences.

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      “But when he said he was going to kick out all foreigners, remove all subsidies, kill expensive medical programs or change import/export, and I’m still in favor of that, I didn’t think he was going to change anything about my cheap workers or my Medicaid that I need to live. And the stuff that I order for my business is so expensive now. Oh yes, I would vote for him again in a heartbeat.”

      They’re seem to be a lot of those.

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        The biggest one.

        Kamala: I stand with Israel!

        Trump: I stand with Israel, and I’m a fascist!

        Leftist: it’s the same picture

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          Exactly. And even better - that bunch is/was so busy telling everyone what morally superior creatures they all are…

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        All the “genocide” shit. As if Taco and pals were going to be any better. But we had a lot of single-issue idiocy on this anyway.

        FFS. Now we might just get blood in the streets in Gaza, AND here at home AND in random countries that Taco decides to go to war with.

        Way to go. This is some real 9-dimensional chess.

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        i dont like her, she dint say anything about her plans,

        she cackles like a hyena she was a cop that was hardlined against african americans, she wasnt a good AG.

        -we know you all sexist/racist conservative are saying.

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          It’s almost like things might have been better if we had some kind of primary process to choose a candidate that suited us instead of having one thrust into the candidacy without any vetting whatsoever.

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            Sorry but do either of you folks believe we’d be four months from societal collapse if Trump hadn’t won?

            I didn’t much care for her, either but she would’ve bought all of us another four years of boredom before we had to deal with Trump again, and by that time he’d be four years closer to death and a voterbase four years over him and onto another obsession.

            The long-game is the only one that matters. Gaza could’ve likely not been prevented, but eased? I’m willing to bet what Palestinians are left would be better off of she were president. Gaza itself likely not, but we can’t have everything unless you’re all willing to throw some bricks and start some fires.

            A fellonious pedophile sits in the white house and you’re still on your ass, so… guess not

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              I think gaza would have been much better off. I don’t think israel would have moved forward with annexation and more aid would have been pressured in which would result in more pressure on thier safety.

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              I was told by many stupid fucks that Trump winning would do a thing to activate leftists or that these uber sexy single leftists were already hot and available in my area and doing all of the activisms and organizings that could ever be done, so it wasn’t actually a problem if Trump won.

              Then he wins and shocked Pikachu face, these marvelous leftists that own the streets were nowhere at all to be found.

              Democrats are pathetic, sure. But so is this supposed mass movement of online leftists, that just needs a bit more accelerationism to activate bro, I promise bro, just a little more fascism and we’ll revolution, bro! I’m definitely not a concern troll, bro! No way bro!

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                this is how I feel. that there is some sort of civil/revolutionary war romance idea when people really need to look at history and how often civil/revolutionary wars actually resulted in a better situation and of those how many had some sort of external assistance to get them to a better situation.

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                It’s because these spaces are just infested with fascists pretending to be leftists, telling the actual leftists not to vote, and they fall for it as reliably as Trump falls for teenagers.

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                Well said! No notes.

                Bang on about the concern troll thing. I’m so very sick and tired of that. I’m sure all their sanctimony is a great comfort to them as they watch shit get worse nearly every day. That’s if some of the trolls even have to live in this country, that is…

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      This but unironically. Fascists just want everyone to suffer because you already have to be miserable to become a fascist.

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      COVID 19 cases are surging right now, the nimbus variant and razor blade throat pain. Seems its on the rise, im dealing with it right now, it was pretty intense experience of throat pain.

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        I also have covid with awful throat pain right now. I feel miserable. The last time I had covid I had throat pain so bad I couldn’t speak and could barely eat. I’m so excited that I may be experiencing it again…

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          thats exactly it, have requested paxlovid from your physician? i heard it can help. cpc mouthwash works on covid in the mouth, or you can try getting numbing spray.

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            Unfortunately, I don’t have insurance so I don’t currently have a GP. But oh numbing spray! I forgot all about that! I’ll have to get some of that. Thank you for the recommendations!

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              you can also take throat lozenges, like cepacol and mucinex, they have a numbing agent(not just menthol) that would numb your throat too.(benzocaine and hexlysorcionol.)

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      Covid-19 hasn’t gone anywhere. And Frik n’ Frak are aiming to get rid of the one weapon we have against it.

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        Yeah, but Frak says he isn’t really doing that at all. I mean, he sat there and told Warren and others that everyone can get the vaccine, and he wasn’t saying that just to gaslight the 92% of the country that are not antivaxxer sister-fuckers, honest!

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      But Taco is already prepping his conservative reprogrammable meat bags to believe that 2026 is going to not be so great, and that it will (somehow) be Biden’s fault.

      Because these assholes are that fucking stupid to believe that we had a “terrible” economy in 2024 under Biden. And Taco knows enough of his dumbass conservatives will believe him that if 2026 is worse (because of him) that it’s because the prior administration had us “on a bad path”.

      So in the economic head-canon of the Confederate Cinematic Universe:

      1. Biden’s economy in 2024 was one of the worst we’ve ever had, and of course, if anyone was actually doing well, they were probably liberals anyway.
      2. The economy is the best you’ve ever had now that Taco is in office. Especially if you are a confederate.
      3. But if it’s still bad in 2026, that’s because of what Biden did to us (confederates - again, if you weren’t suffering under the supposed worst economy ever, you were probably an undeserving liberal or POC or trans).
      4. Tariffs are NOT taxes, and other countries pay them.
      5. Ignore the fact that all of this nonsense sounds an awful lot like North Korean level propaganda or the way the Chinese Communists talked about a “Great Leap Forward”, etc…even if you are starving and have no health care, this is all absolutely the golden age. Any pain you might feel, though, is the fault of Biden and the Democrat (sic) Party.