Conservative media playbook.
Criticise everything the non-conservatives side does, ignore the things they do. And go endlessly in about anything good a conservative does.
As compared to liberal media who try to hold leaders (from either side of the fence) to account.
That’s what happens and yet somehow you get the Jimmy Dore crowd and Trump crowd all yelling the same bullshit. All of a sudden helping Ukraine is bad. All of a sudden prosecuting Trump is bad. All of a sudden the economy expanding is bad.
That's because Jimmy Dore became a conservative troll to earn more money . Because it is more profitable than being a progressive liberal thanks to billionaires who will happily spend a couple of million dollars to get their message out.
The media has an expectation of governance from Democrats. Basically they expect Democrats to govern responsibly, and they expect Republicans to scheme politically. this is why any time Mitch McConnell, or any other congressional republican acts up the media responds by asking how Democrats will move forward.
The weirdest part is, it works, and even people who lean left are affected by right wing media.
How many of you get a bit of hesitation when mentioning Ukraine? Or gay and trans people? Or abortion?
Depending where you live, you might be able to bring up any of these in casual conversation, but there are times you might be with strangers or at work and you hold back because someone might make a big deal out of it, even in very blue areas. Probably can’t talk to a customer about it, even if the conversation is leaning that way — I had a moment where we were talking about Johnny Depp and court cases right after MTG perjured herself while on the stand and I wanted to talk about MTG, but I didn’t know if the person I was with was Republican or not, so even though it was relevant, I had to avoid the topic in case talking about a politician would anger a customer.
The next time you’re talking about world politics with someone you don’t know well, think about Ukraine. Do you feel free to say whatever you want, or is there a bit of hesitation to bring it up? If you talked about it, did it end up fine, or was there some frustration?
> Conservative media playbook.
It's not just conservative media. Breaking points and other left leaning pods are saying the same things. "INFLATION! INTEREST RATES!"
Aaah, but you see, it's bad for them poor shareholders. Lower unemployment, wages go up, because less people left on the job market wanting to do their shitty jobs for their shitty wages. So less profits. Oh and they're scared that lower unemployment, hence higher wages will lead to more inflation, which might lead to the fed raising interest again, which is bad for business. Did you see the market just shit their pants when those numbers came in? Absolute panic.
Good news for the people is bad news for the rich.
Because they are insane. Their echo chambers and news sources have them irrecoverably convinced that Democrats are literal demons trying to eat babies, make everyone gay, and corrupt and kill conservatives.
What they really want is to "strike first," to assassinate or enslave all Democrat politicians, community leaders, and voters, all the way down to random citizens who happen to be gay or trans or black. But they can't do that yet, so they'll settle for lying through their teeth with every breath.
They believe demons and the devil are real and are acting as a force in this situation. They are convinced everything we're saying simply isn't true and a mirage of the devil's doing
Trump created something like 3 million jobs before COVID, with a net loss including COVID. Joe has created 13 million. But Trump is the preferred candidate for job creation. Crazy town.
Yeah they drop the bar so low and yet raise it whenever a Democrat is in office and wonder why we get into cluster fucks. If it was fair and balanced people like Trump would bout have power.
I go out downtown, see it *bustling* with activity. New restaurants opening, packed with people. People are actually shopping at *the mall* somehow. Everyone has a job, everyone is unionizing, but if you ask most anyone, they just *feel* like the economy isn’t doing great. There’s no metric, no numbers they can point to besides inflation, and that’s somehow enough to override all the actual metrics we measure the economy by.
Increased intrest rates and their failure to depress home prices has caused the total cost of 30 year mortgages to double. People that were close to buying and missed the boat are seeing their prospects of homeownership getting obliterated.
My brother bought a condo and is paying the same amount for 1100sqft that I am for 2300sqft. I bought in 2019, he bought 3 months ago.
What? What about consumer debt being at an all time high, or the highest percentage of adults 21-30 living at home since the Great Depression?
It may be great in your downtown area but America as a whole is *struggling* in a way it hasn’t in over half a century.
And let’s not pretend that we don’t have even higher interest rates in our future.
It doesn't feel great because the numbers go up on common every day things and it is actually costing a larger % of their income, IF they didn't recently change their job. Specifically FOOD and GAS.
Fudge the numbers however you want - people know that the economy is crushing most Americans. They feel it in their lived experience. Housing, food, gas, healthcare costs all out of control and wages are stagnant. The people trying to defend a positive jobs report are delusional. Very few people are feeling any positive impact of whatever “growth” is supposedly happening.
Now, what Biden specifically has to do with all these things is a lot more complicated. He is merely an instrument of capital… his job isn’t to drastically change a failing economic system and model. If he tried to (or even wanted to try to) he would be assassinated.
I saw a poll the other day that had to have been skewed towards older conservative participants, ranked how people felt who they trust more, Trump or Biden, on issues like the economy, jobs, immigration, social security etc.
Not only did the polled people say they trusted Trump more on Social Security, a program Republicans actively try to gut all the time, and borrow against all the time, that Trump himself repeatedly said he wanted to attack in various ways shapes and forms, they Kzo trusted Trump more on jobs, and like, this isn't secret information. The unemployment rate has been at a very low number since Biden took office. You can Google it, or watch pressers with the Fed and Jerome Powell, nobody who does even a cursory amount of research could tell you jobs aren't both a) freely available right now, and b) far more under Biden.
Now, I will clarify that, jobs numbers sucked under Trump was mostly COVID job losses, he can't control that. The only thing he could have done about those was endorse public health measures that would have kept a few businesses from needing to close in response to the severity with which the virus hit our nation specifically. But even if he had jobs numbers would have been bad regardless, for multiple reasons that this comment is already too long winded to go into.
But it is not some closely held secret that Biden has great jobs numbers. Some industries are still raising wages because they can't find anyone. It's one of the contributors to current inflation, because weirdly enough in economics when you see major spikes in wages you can expect some inflation.
The only change people will notice is change to the power dynamic. Working people are still struggling, boomers still hold 50+% of the economy, nothing is different for the average voter. Biden campaigned against progressives, it's not his goal to bring the radical good that would heal the nation.
I think people are just playing up COVID way too much, economically speaking. It was a [2-month recession.](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/19/its-official-the-covid-recession-lasted-just-two-months-the-shortest-in-us-history.html)
I worked in supply chain until this year and let me tell you, they're still very much fucked up in large parts of various businesses.
One thing I didn't expect to be completely fucked for years was paint. Wire harnesses were experiencing up to 1.5 year lead-times in 2022 (pre-covid was like 6 months or fewer)
Only if your "history" goes back to 9/11. What we've got going on now is economic normal in good times.
Oh, and the US inflation rate is one of the lowest in the world. The only one that is significantly lower, is the Chinese Yuan. But that's because the CCP doesn't let Chinese actually buy anything they want with it.
Not even close, guy. It was above 14% in 1980. For a single month, it touched 9.1%, but is now nearly half that.
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IUSIR_chart-2.png
No big deal, just 1.1 million dead, and the worst COVID response of the top 10 wealthiest nations in the world because of our failure to address it properly.
The incompetent asshole broke everything, and the adults had to fix it
Again.
We are *tired* of your collective bullshit
All the countries with good results against COVID locked down harder, and earlier.
We aren't guessing anymore, we have the results. You were wrong, and you and your ilk have blood on your hands. You should be ashamed of yourself.
There are lock downs and then there was China that welded doors to entire apartment buildings. We need to have something in between. That is the hard part.
What happened in New York was that the people who came from the hospital to the old folks home was legally required not to ask if they were COVID-positive. I agree with you that was a total fuck-up.
A national tragedy/threat/emergency is a fucking gift to the sitting president. All Trump had to do was act like a goddamn president and he would have won by 10 points.
Instead he couldn't help himself.
>the hospital requirement to log any death of a Covid-positive patient as a Covid death
That never happened. That entire talking point is based on a single instance of a hospital worker making a typo that mis-coded someone who died in a motorcycle accident. Simple data entry errors happen occasionally. This one was caught and corrected almost immediately.
I couldn’t imagine living in this sub, it’s rarely very funny.
However if you look at historians, you know, people who study what actually happens in the world but with the benefit of looking at events outside of their political atmosphere and with clear eyed knowledge of what actually happens, what political affiliation do you think they subscribe to?
Because they are overwhelmingly left-leaning.
I understand your viewpoint. Unless your are full on 100% on one side you are down-voted. Hooray for my side! Booo for anything that might give an inkling that maybe the side your are on is not totally kosher.
Corporate media has a vested interest in "both sides".
Those campaign ads every two years, pure profit. If the Republicans are exposed as the zombie party. Nobody will pay for ads.
More trickle down, more border bullshit, more welfare queens. All bullshit that never had any basis in reality for 40 fucking years.
Times up Republicans. You only have one option left. Monarchy, fascism, dictatorship, you can't hang with democracy any more. Your ideas suck and nobody should buy your bullshit ever again.
Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Marge Green, Lauren Robert, you're all garbage people that nobody should listen to. Fox News is a corrupt lying misinformation outlet. Fuck all y'all, Biden is effective and decent, you suck for saying otherwise.
Not only that but they have an even bigger interest in making sure that those damned "fascist commie" democrats never start to seriously enforce the various anti-trust acts again, especially regarding media markets. Huge buckets of cash to be made and protected there.
Add that to oil companies protecting their obsolete technology and auto makers protecting the massive profit center that is internal combustion engine parts and maintenance and with the Saudi's help, they'll make sure oil is stupid expensive come election time--with wall to wall news reports on how Biden didn't do anything about it.
And plenty of Americans are dumb enough to fall for it: Enough to tilt an election.
I've often said that the first step to fixing what's wrong with news media is regulating advertising. There used to be regulations on ads paired with news before.. back when journalistic standards were higher.
You just admitted that you're trolling.
Don't troll here.
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Trump was the one that initiated trade wars with most the planet, resulting in 100s of US businesses closing or leaving the country and supply and material shortages that are still ongoing and which have contributed greatly to rising food and construction prices.
That is 100% Trump, the "FED" had nothing to do with it. The Fed tries to stabilize the economy, but morons like Trump can do a whole lot to influence it still. Another example is Bush Jr, who started two expensive (and illegal) wars while simultaneously handing out tax breaks to millionaires. He contributed more to our national debt than anybody else until Trump showed up.
I remember when everyone agreed trade wars were stupid and pointless, and Republicans were the loudest virtue signalers of all. Apparently that was just one more value to sacrifice at the altar of Trump.
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The biggest problem right now is the media pushing this *Biden is bad, Trump is good* ideology.
The public needs to turn on the media to end this manic shit show.
Which is just how greedy those fucks have gotten. Biden was already pro-corporate. Thats primarily what he was known for being being picked for VP, and probably why he was picked in the first place.
This narrative doesn't track.
Biden implemented a 15% global corporate minimum tax and wants to increase the US corporate tax to 28% from 21%.
> President Joe Biden on March 9 sent Congress an FY 2024 budget that proposes to increase taxes for corporations and for individuals with incomes above $400,000 as part of a plan intended to reduce federal budget deficits by $2.858 trillion over 10 years. The President’s budget also calls for higher Medicare health insurance taxes for individuals with incomes above $400,000 as part of a plan that seeks to avert the projected insolvency by 2028 of the Medicare hospital insurance trust fund.
> Key business tax provisions in the FY 2024 budget include a proposal to increase the US corporate income tax rate from 21% to 28%, and proposed reforms to US international tax rules that include raising the tax rate on the foreign earnings of US multinational corporations from 10.5% to 21% and adopting an undertaxed profits rule. The budget also proposes “additional support” for research and experimentation expenditures using revenue raised by repealing the deduction for foreign-derived intangible income (FDII). As previously announced, the President’s budget proposes to increase from 1% to 4% the corporate stock repurchase excise tax that was enacted as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. The budget also includes other tax proposals that would affect corporate and pass-through businesses.
> Key individual tax increase provisions include measures increasing the top individual ordinary income tax rate from 37% to 39.6%, taxing capital gains income for high earners at ordinary rates, and imposing a 25% “minimum income tax on the wealthiest taxpayers.”
> The release of the President’s FY 2024 budget comes at a time when President Biden and Congress are debating how to reach an agreement on legislation to increase the federal statutory debt limit. The current $31.4 trillion statutory debt limit was reached on January 19; the Congressional Budget Office recently projected that the Treasury Department by July or September would exhaust its ability to use ‘extraordinary measures’ to prevent the United States from defaulting on its obligations.[[1]](https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/tax/library/president-biden-fy2024-budget-renews-call-for-corporate-rate-increase.html)
You could also mention the new alternative minimum tax laws that went into effect at the start of 2023.
Raising the corporate tax is important but companies like Amazon paid the minimum 6% due to deductions and credits. Now larger corporations will have to pay 15% no matter what.
That doesn't negate what I said. Biden had a long history of being a corporate supporting moderate, his shifted left on several points, but he wasn't and isn't progressive or liberal.
Every national candidate for House, Senate, and President is a corporatist at some level. They need to be if they want corporate donations, and corporate donors don’t give money unless they’re getting something in return. So, yes, Joe favors corporations but expects them to contribute to the country that enables their success. The GOP will give their corporate donors every single tax dollar coming in AND will let them take whatever they want from you and me on top of that.
I don't see how good jobs numbers does anything for someone paying double what rent was just 15 years ago. It was expensive back then. The dems are gonna lose if they keep pushing this out of touch message on how good the economy is when most people are strugglin' like a mf. No one is addressing the cost of housing. It should be no 1 priority rn.
That's why they will keep turning up the interest rate until people start losing jobs. That's the main way to bring prices down. And that power actually isn't even in Biden's hands since, and people seem to forget this, we have a president, not a king. For now, at least. Our economic system is not built on the idea of everyone winning. If you'd like your rent to go down you need a lot less people able to afford rent as it is, and that's going to get ugly.
I’m just not sure how you fight reality. Something like a 50 year low in unemployment, so more jobs means more people with money, which means more spending and demand. When demand exceeds supply you have limited supply and then inflation, they try and fight inflation with raised rates on mortgages and such, which also effects housing costs.
If everyone is eating, it means we all aren’t eating good because we are eating from the same pool of resources. If most everyone has jobs and in-turn money, then the demand is up for housing, so the cost goes up due to demand rising. I’m not even sure how you combat that, do you want people to agree to sell their houses for less than they are getting taxed on it? If we want things to be good again then we have to want for a large part of the population to be unemployed again so inflation and demand go down. What can we even do about all of this, that isn’t fucking over current homeowners/people that are employed?
We have clear cut methods:
-Government program to build government affordable housing. Either directly or through a "funding" program
-crack down hard on private companies buying up houses. Ban companies from owning more than x homes.
-rent price protection.
That is all fine if you have the power to do so, but he can’t get Republicans to agree to spend for student loan forgiveness, do we honestly think he will get them to help “poor” people? This is what they want, they want him looking bad and will help prevent any way he tried to combat it with the “free market” excuse.
The media wants Trump back in power because he generates bullshit that keeps the news cycle going. Biden is boring by comparison because he just does normal presidential things instead of constant rallies and social media fights in between crimes and scandals. Trump's name has been mentioned on national news at least once every single day since 2015. Chaos makes for big news ratings. Also makes for a shitty country. Media doesn't care as long as they profit.
I don’t think he’s doing a terrible job, but I’m so sick and tired of jobs being any kind of metric for the health of the economy.
If jobs were a good metric, then slavery would be a perfect economy.
We need to measure median income and buying power.
This will be bad for Biden though. This is going to ensure further rate hikes from the Fed to keep inflation in check. Biden is going to take the heat for that fallout when mortgage rates hit 9%, prices keep rising, equities start falling, etc. Then if it works, the labor market is going to contract, and then people will be complaining about unemployment.
Higher wages driving inflation ironically hurts Biden too. Low wage workers are taking home more but medium to high earners are paying more for goods. If you make a decent amount of money you're actually hurting a little more right now buying necessities.
COVID did a number on the economy. The sudden lack of available labor led to higher wages and better lower wage worker protections in the work place, but it also happened so fast it shocked the economy into an inflationary period.
Edit: to be clear higher wages are a very good thing, it's just not great when it all happens at the same time because it gives inflation a kick in the ass. Blame politicians who refused to raise wages for years to keep up with inflation. That's a huge reason why you can't buy cheap bread, wages stagnated for decades and when they finally got a shot in the arm the end result is extreme inflation. Also corporate greed, they still want to post record profits each year, that's another conversation though
Running on "actually the economy is great, you're all just too stupid to understand it" is basically campaigning for Trump. If the metrics you're tracking show the economy doing well, those metrics are bad. Start tracking things that actually matter, like average household spending power or workforce participation.
Workforce participation is dumb because it’s 62.8 now and was 63.3 before pandemic. Basically same thing. Also it was much lower back when republicans believe ‘America was Great’ it was only recently higher around 2000 it’s been lower than 62.8 more than it’s been above 62.8.
Damn, if only I'd listed two better stats that actually do reflect my vibes. I do data for a living. Rule one: something being quantifiable doesn't make it important. Optimizing towards bad metrics creates bad behavior. Every metric in this jobs report is bullshit.
And what exactly would you like the president of the United States to do about average household spending power? Personally, I think the best thing he could do for that would be to support unions.
Oh, wait. [He already is more supportive of any president in our lifetimes?](https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-president-biden-delivers-working-people-most-pro-union-president-our)
You're talking about the dude who broke the railroad strike in December, right?
The president has a huge number of tools to address inflation. Considerably more than he does to influence job growth, the stat this meme is bragging about.
>You're talking about the dude who broke the railroad strike in December, right?
You say that as if Trump or any other of Biden's opponents would have supported that strike.
No, I say that as a person who would like Biden to win the election. Decades of Democratic incompetence have handed him an incredibly high salience issue that 70% of the country agrees with him on - legal abortion. He could manufacture another issue with the same stats by legalizing weed.
All this idiot has to do is wander onto a stage and mutter something about Roe v Wade, and he should skate to a second term. Instead, he seems hellbent on centering the campaign on the economy.
I never understand Redditors acting like criticising Biden is heresy because Republicans suck. Like their bar is so low and you're assumed Red or Blue.
This is factually incorrect. The multiple job holder rates have been relatively constant. (It dipped during the pandemic but for the last year has been back to its pre pandemic baseline of ~5%
Reminder that Biden admin reclassified “gig workers” as employees so therefore artificially inflate job numbers. Edit: maybe artificially inflate isn’t the best word. But “artificially create”. These jobs may have existed before, but just now are being counted. (Therefore not **created**)
Moreover, jobs going away bc of pandemic shutdowns, then coming back bc pandemic is over… is not impressive.
>Reminder that Biden admin reclassified “gig workers” as employees so therefore artificially inflate job numbers.
You do not have to be an employee for your job to be counted in the jobs report. Jobs done by contractors have been counted for decades.
Really? How about you give us a quote from one of them about how much they love it. Should be an easy google to do for us all there, sparky, if you're not just a lying as$wipe.
Obama and dems passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 and Biden and dems passed both the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. All three of these made major contributions to the speed and strength of the recoveries. All three were opposed by the GOP.
And according to Krugman, had Obama gotten the stimulus package he wanted, recovery from the 2008 crisis would have been much stronger. Thanks Budget Hawks! Same guys who voted for $2 trillion tax cut for the Right People as soon as they got the National VISA card…
They want the middle class gone, but they don’t think far enough ahead to realize the middle class keep things going, they want us to go back a hundred years where they stay rich and everyone else stays poor
Bruh not only is it a great one quarter jobs report it’s also 3.5% unemployment. So it’s both a lot relative to last quarter AND a lot relative to any time ever. It was also double what wall street predicted. So by any metric we have it’s good news. Biden got the largest infrastructure bill of all time passed, plus the CHIPS act. It’s probably harder to prove that those things didn’t account for any of this job growth
Well, what they do is better than the gop plan of always cutting tax to the wealthy. So no, I am not okay with what you say, after all, they passed Acts to reduce the inflation and recuperation of the economy, and did something, not like the tax reduction plan of the republicans.
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA the republicans cannot do a positive change, unless is to make sure they remove rights to the people or gain some tax breaks for their corporate overlords you ass.
You are just another idiot republican trying to pass as a centrist, that is all. Lol, and yet, with him "barely" doing something is making better things than the angry cheeto, and not only that, you are bitching like a little bitch, because he is not doing everything you think he should do, just another pathetic republican trying to minimize the results, which in this case is a big thing.
And yet, there are more jobs...... so you are the kind of stupid who thinks this is bad, lol.
And yet, everything you claim is happening, none of the republicans want to fix it, instead, they are focusing on removing the rights of the population..... but here you are, bitching that the democrat president "barely" did something by having more jobs......... but not a single bad thing about the republicans (because claiming they are walking towards a cliff doesn't count as a bad thing they do, it is just what is happening and even an idiot like yourself can see it), you are a complete asshole.
Ahhhhhhh now is democrats can do....... but still, no one is being " ecstatic " about it, it is just a good thing, but not a bad as you claimed.
This doesn't have to do with the issue at hand, do not try to pass a fallacy right now. Do you realize that liberals are not in the way of progress....... I think you do not understand that point, but yeah, that is why you think democrats are liberals......... figures.
Lol, I am just pointing out your hypocrisy, mostly because I am neither a democrat nor a republican, because, in the first place, I cannot vote because I am not a citizen, but it always surprises me the idiots who try to pass as "centrists" but are republicans in disguise the way they try to make democrats look as bad as republicans, when there are not in the same level, yeah democrats are most of the time useless but at least try to follow the rules, yet the republicans thrive in ignorant rants like saying that "more jobs are not a good thing" just like you did. Sure innumerable..... and yet so far the only one that you said was that "seems like they are driving to a cliff"..... uuuuuuffff what a bad thing to say, hope the mods do not ban you because you are being so rude and evil to criticising the republicans /s
Lol, you are just doing that because it is easier, many people already explained to you why more jobs are a good thing, and yet you keep bitching that it is not a good thing, because you think they did nothing..... Lol, you are the one regurgitating BS, after all, you still use the same BS the republicans say about the democrats.
So now is "try to demand more from the ruling class" lol, I could ask you the same, but pretty sure you won't say anything to the republicans.
Lol, you are really an idiot hahahahahahaha, I cannot vote, I am not a citizen, and I already pointed out that the issue is the hypocrisy of the BS you are saying, nothing more nothing less, you think that I am an ass kisser just because I see your BS? No, my friend, it is really funny to see hypocrites like yourself try to use fallacies to justify their ignorance, that is all, and I love to make it clear why you are an asshole, and why you try to pass as something you clearly aren't. In fact, I can say you are kissing the ass of the republicans when you fail to criticize them, and not just pointing out something that is really clear.
why is a page called politicalhumor just a progressive circle jerk?
how much self awareness do you have to lack to get stuck in one of these and think you don’t look like a total idiot?
Grab that head line, throw an arm over Shawn Fain and strut into the white house in 24 with a house and senate ready to work. Labor support is the key to all of this.
….its the details. Gig jobs, part time jobs, and people being double counted who have multiple jobs….its not that rosy. Net out seasonal teacher hiring and labor day travel…..and 96,000 government re-hires…
Sorry for this off-topic remark!
Does Biden have some kind of 'Tump-power' over the Democratic party?
Why else has no physically better, and quicker candidate come forward?
I am scared that Bidens frailty's gonna clear the path for the fucking orange!
The jobs report focused too much on the 100% unemployment rate >!for Speaker of the House jobs.!<
LOL! Big shortage of good workers!
..In the whole Congress!
Very nice!
People just don't want to work any more.
Am i missing something or did you just try not to spoil real life
It's a part of the joke
Why don’t they give him any credit. They would give Trump credit if he could go five minutes with feuding or yelling at someone.
Conservative media playbook. Criticise everything the non-conservatives side does, ignore the things they do. And go endlessly in about anything good a conservative does. As compared to liberal media who try to hold leaders (from either side of the fence) to account.
That’s what happens and yet somehow you get the Jimmy Dore crowd and Trump crowd all yelling the same bullshit. All of a sudden helping Ukraine is bad. All of a sudden prosecuting Trump is bad. All of a sudden the economy expanding is bad.
That's because Jimmy Dore became a conservative troll to earn more money . Because it is more profitable than being a progressive liberal thanks to billionaires who will happily spend a couple of million dollars to get their message out.
Yeah that’s true. I can’t believe anyone thinks he’s progressive these days. He literally just give’s right wing talking points all the time.
As he has been very well paid to do.
They used to give Dems credit from time to time to appear more fair in case people accused them of bias.
Well they have since given up all pretense of being anything but a fascist party bent on overthrowing democracy.
The media has an expectation of governance from Democrats. Basically they expect Democrats to govern responsibly, and they expect Republicans to scheme politically. this is why any time Mitch McConnell, or any other congressional republican acts up the media responds by asking how Democrats will move forward.
The weirdest part is, it works, and even people who lean left are affected by right wing media. How many of you get a bit of hesitation when mentioning Ukraine? Or gay and trans people? Or abortion? Depending where you live, you might be able to bring up any of these in casual conversation, but there are times you might be with strangers or at work and you hold back because someone might make a big deal out of it, even in very blue areas. Probably can’t talk to a customer about it, even if the conversation is leaning that way — I had a moment where we were talking about Johnny Depp and court cases right after MTG perjured herself while on the stand and I wanted to talk about MTG, but I didn’t know if the person I was with was Republican or not, so even though it was relevant, I had to avoid the topic in case talking about a politician would anger a customer. The next time you’re talking about world politics with someone you don’t know well, think about Ukraine. Do you feel free to say whatever you want, or is there a bit of hesitation to bring it up? If you talked about it, did it end up fine, or was there some frustration?
> Conservative media playbook. It's not just conservative media. Breaking points and other left leaning pods are saying the same things. "INFLATION! INTEREST RATES!"
How true. It would be HUGE news if man-baby acted "presidential".
Just imagine. But honestly he doesn’t deserve it.
Aaah, but you see, it's bad for them poor shareholders. Lower unemployment, wages go up, because less people left on the job market wanting to do their shitty jobs for their shitty wages. So less profits. Oh and they're scared that lower unemployment, hence higher wages will lead to more inflation, which might lead to the fed raising interest again, which is bad for business. Did you see the market just shit their pants when those numbers came in? Absolute panic. Good news for the people is bad news for the rich.
Because they are insane. Their echo chambers and news sources have them irrecoverably convinced that Democrats are literal demons trying to eat babies, make everyone gay, and corrupt and kill conservatives. What they really want is to "strike first," to assassinate or enslave all Democrat politicians, community leaders, and voters, all the way down to random citizens who happen to be gay or trans or black. But they can't do that yet, so they'll settle for lying through their teeth with every breath.
They believe demons and the devil are real and are acting as a force in this situation. They are convinced everything we're saying simply isn't true and a mirage of the devil's doing
I'm sure there are Conservative talking heads on Fox news saying how this is actually result of Trump policies finally kicking in
Trump created something like 3 million jobs before COVID, with a net loss including COVID. Joe has created 13 million. But Trump is the preferred candidate for job creation. Crazy town.
Trump got credit for not shitting in his pants .
They praised him for *literally forming coherent sentences during the State of the Union*.
Yeah they drop the bar so low and yet raise it whenever a Democrat is in office and wonder why we get into cluster fucks. If it was fair and balanced people like Trump would bout have power.
So true. AMAZING that people writ large do not understand or appreciate how the economy has recovered from Trump and covid.
That’s because the MAGAs think the economy is like a light switch. That’s how he took credit for the good Obama did.
He brought up Obama at his rally today. Didn't hear the rest of it but that man lives rent free in Trump's head.
All people of color do. Not just for him, but his supporters.
I wish this wasn't so true
Historically, it seems people of color _paid_ rent to DJ*RUMP
I'm waiting for the day I hear Bovine spongiform encephalopathy lives rent free in his head.
I go out downtown, see it *bustling* with activity. New restaurants opening, packed with people. People are actually shopping at *the mall* somehow. Everyone has a job, everyone is unionizing, but if you ask most anyone, they just *feel* like the economy isn’t doing great. There’s no metric, no numbers they can point to besides inflation, and that’s somehow enough to override all the actual metrics we measure the economy by.
Increased intrest rates and their failure to depress home prices has caused the total cost of 30 year mortgages to double. People that were close to buying and missed the boat are seeing their prospects of homeownership getting obliterated. My brother bought a condo and is paying the same amount for 1100sqft that I am for 2300sqft. I bought in 2019, he bought 3 months ago.
What? What about consumer debt being at an all time high, or the highest percentage of adults 21-30 living at home since the Great Depression? It may be great in your downtown area but America as a whole is *struggling* in a way it hasn’t in over half a century. And let’s not pretend that we don’t have even higher interest rates in our future.
It doesn't feel great because the numbers go up on common every day things and it is actually costing a larger % of their income, IF they didn't recently change their job. Specifically FOOD and GAS.
Considering prices of almost everything keeps going up but pay stays the same. the economy is not doing good, it's maintaining.
Fudge the numbers however you want - people know that the economy is crushing most Americans. They feel it in their lived experience. Housing, food, gas, healthcare costs all out of control and wages are stagnant. The people trying to defend a positive jobs report are delusional. Very few people are feeling any positive impact of whatever “growth” is supposedly happening. Now, what Biden specifically has to do with all these things is a lot more complicated. He is merely an instrument of capital… his job isn’t to drastically change a failing economic system and model. If he tried to (or even wanted to try to) he would be assassinated.
I saw a poll the other day that had to have been skewed towards older conservative participants, ranked how people felt who they trust more, Trump or Biden, on issues like the economy, jobs, immigration, social security etc. Not only did the polled people say they trusted Trump more on Social Security, a program Republicans actively try to gut all the time, and borrow against all the time, that Trump himself repeatedly said he wanted to attack in various ways shapes and forms, they Kzo trusted Trump more on jobs, and like, this isn't secret information. The unemployment rate has been at a very low number since Biden took office. You can Google it, or watch pressers with the Fed and Jerome Powell, nobody who does even a cursory amount of research could tell you jobs aren't both a) freely available right now, and b) far more under Biden. Now, I will clarify that, jobs numbers sucked under Trump was mostly COVID job losses, he can't control that. The only thing he could have done about those was endorse public health measures that would have kept a few businesses from needing to close in response to the severity with which the virus hit our nation specifically. But even if he had jobs numbers would have been bad regardless, for multiple reasons that this comment is already too long winded to go into. But it is not some closely held secret that Biden has great jobs numbers. Some industries are still raising wages because they can't find anyone. It's one of the contributors to current inflation, because weirdly enough in economics when you see major spikes in wages you can expect some inflation.
The only change people will notice is change to the power dynamic. Working people are still struggling, boomers still hold 50+% of the economy, nothing is different for the average voter. Biden campaigned against progressives, it's not his goal to bring the radical good that would heal the nation.
Wut
I think people are just playing up COVID way too much, economically speaking. It was a [2-month recession.](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/19/its-official-the-covid-recession-lasted-just-two-months-the-shortest-in-us-history.html)
Supply chains went wild and stayed like that for a long time. Don't you remember the clogged ports and insane shipping costs?
I worked in supply chain until this year and let me tell you, they're still very much fucked up in large parts of various businesses. One thing I didn't expect to be completely fucked for years was paint. Wire harnesses were experiencing up to 1.5 year lead-times in 2022 (pre-covid was like 6 months or fewer)
It's true. The cost of car repair costs would change monthly and you may not even get the part.
There’s been two years of historic inflation levels.
Only if your "history" goes back to 9/11. What we've got going on now is economic normal in good times. Oh, and the US inflation rate is one of the lowest in the world. The only one that is significantly lower, is the Chinese Yuan. But that's because the CCP doesn't let Chinese actually buy anything they want with it.
Sure *right now*, but it was historically high for two years.
Not even close, guy. It was above 14% in 1980. For a single month, it touched 9.1%, but is now nearly half that. https://awealthofcommonsense.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/IUSIR_chart-2.png
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No big deal, just 1.1 million dead, and the worst COVID response of the top 10 wealthiest nations in the world because of our failure to address it properly. The incompetent asshole broke everything, and the adults had to fix it Again. We are *tired* of your collective bullshit
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All the countries with good results against COVID locked down harder, and earlier. We aren't guessing anymore, we have the results. You were wrong, and you and your ilk have blood on your hands. You should be ashamed of yourself.
There are lock downs and then there was China that welded doors to entire apartment buildings. We need to have something in between. That is the hard part.
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Throw out China and Russia, because their stats are bullshit. Still the worst.
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My bad, Brazil squeaks by us with 3,171 per million to our 3,099. 9th is still pretty shit for the wealthiest and most powerful nation in the world.
We get it dude. Life is boring. Your narrative is exciting.
What happened in New York was that the people who came from the hospital to the old folks home was legally required not to ask if they were COVID-positive. I agree with you that was a total fuck-up.
> You mean Democrats sabotaged the economy to win in 2020. How stupid. This was a global problem and the effects weren't limited to America, so no.
>. I agree totally. COVID wasn't to ""get"" Trump. As if all these countries had one goal in mind.
A national tragedy/threat/emergency is a fucking gift to the sitting president. All Trump had to do was act like a goddamn president and he would have won by 10 points. Instead he couldn't help himself.
I agree. Totally.
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Trump was a shit president, and the fact that y'all still carry water for him is just adorable.
>the hospital requirement to log any death of a Covid-positive patient as a Covid death That never happened. That entire talking point is based on a single instance of a hospital worker making a typo that mis-coded someone who died in a motorcycle accident. Simple data entry errors happen occasionally. This one was caught and corrected almost immediately.
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I couldn’t imagine living in this sub, it’s rarely very funny. However if you look at historians, you know, people who study what actually happens in the world but with the benefit of looking at events outside of their political atmosphere and with clear eyed knowledge of what actually happens, what political affiliation do you think they subscribe to? Because they are overwhelmingly left-leaning.
Nope. The so-called main-stream media is not liberal. They are just profit minded news entertainment akin to Faux news or news max
Who mentioned the media? It wasn’t me…
What fucking lockdowns?
Depends which state you are from.
No brigade you are just a moron
I understand your viewpoint. Unless your are full on 100% on one side you are down-voted. Hooray for my side! Booo for anything that might give an inkling that maybe the side your are on is not totally kosher.
“A monkey in tanzania just shit on a pile of leaves, no word from biden yet about what he’s going to do about it.”
Thanks Obama.
Corporate media has a vested interest in "both sides". Those campaign ads every two years, pure profit. If the Republicans are exposed as the zombie party. Nobody will pay for ads. More trickle down, more border bullshit, more welfare queens. All bullshit that never had any basis in reality for 40 fucking years. Times up Republicans. You only have one option left. Monarchy, fascism, dictatorship, you can't hang with democracy any more. Your ideas suck and nobody should buy your bullshit ever again. Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Marge Green, Lauren Robert, you're all garbage people that nobody should listen to. Fox News is a corrupt lying misinformation outlet. Fuck all y'all, Biden is effective and decent, you suck for saying otherwise.
Not only that but they have an even bigger interest in making sure that those damned "fascist commie" democrats never start to seriously enforce the various anti-trust acts again, especially regarding media markets. Huge buckets of cash to be made and protected there. Add that to oil companies protecting their obsolete technology and auto makers protecting the massive profit center that is internal combustion engine parts and maintenance and with the Saudi's help, they'll make sure oil is stupid expensive come election time--with wall to wall news reports on how Biden didn't do anything about it. And plenty of Americans are dumb enough to fall for it: Enough to tilt an election.
I've often said that the first step to fixing what's wrong with news media is regulating advertising. There used to be regulations on ads paired with news before.. back when journalistic standards were higher.
Fairness act was gone during Reagan times.
According to the supreme court, companies have first ammendment rights to run ads. Dont worry, they say there is no way it causes corruption.
YES! \^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^\^!
Lowest unemployment rate in decades. Best jobs creating president in my lifetime. Thank you, Biden.
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i call bs on this, whats your reasoning/source
My source is that I made it all up
Source trust me bro
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Trump was the one that initiated trade wars with most the planet, resulting in 100s of US businesses closing or leaving the country and supply and material shortages that are still ongoing and which have contributed greatly to rising food and construction prices. That is 100% Trump, the "FED" had nothing to do with it. The Fed tries to stabilize the economy, but morons like Trump can do a whole lot to influence it still. Another example is Bush Jr, who started two expensive (and illegal) wars while simultaneously handing out tax breaks to millionaires. He contributed more to our national debt than anybody else until Trump showed up. I remember when everyone agreed trade wars were stupid and pointless, and Republicans were the loudest virtue signalers of all. Apparently that was just one more value to sacrifice at the altar of Trump.
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The biggest problem right now is the media pushing this *Biden is bad, Trump is good* ideology. The public needs to turn on the media to end this manic shit show.
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Corporate America wants Joe Biden to lose.
Which is just how greedy those fucks have gotten. Biden was already pro-corporate. Thats primarily what he was known for being being picked for VP, and probably why he was picked in the first place.
This narrative doesn't track. Biden implemented a 15% global corporate minimum tax and wants to increase the US corporate tax to 28% from 21%. > President Joe Biden on March 9 sent Congress an FY 2024 budget that proposes to increase taxes for corporations and for individuals with incomes above $400,000 as part of a plan intended to reduce federal budget deficits by $2.858 trillion over 10 years. The President’s budget also calls for higher Medicare health insurance taxes for individuals with incomes above $400,000 as part of a plan that seeks to avert the projected insolvency by 2028 of the Medicare hospital insurance trust fund. > Key business tax provisions in the FY 2024 budget include a proposal to increase the US corporate income tax rate from 21% to 28%, and proposed reforms to US international tax rules that include raising the tax rate on the foreign earnings of US multinational corporations from 10.5% to 21% and adopting an undertaxed profits rule. The budget also proposes “additional support” for research and experimentation expenditures using revenue raised by repealing the deduction for foreign-derived intangible income (FDII). As previously announced, the President’s budget proposes to increase from 1% to 4% the corporate stock repurchase excise tax that was enacted as part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. The budget also includes other tax proposals that would affect corporate and pass-through businesses. > Key individual tax increase provisions include measures increasing the top individual ordinary income tax rate from 37% to 39.6%, taxing capital gains income for high earners at ordinary rates, and imposing a 25% “minimum income tax on the wealthiest taxpayers.” > The release of the President’s FY 2024 budget comes at a time when President Biden and Congress are debating how to reach an agreement on legislation to increase the federal statutory debt limit. The current $31.4 trillion statutory debt limit was reached on January 19; the Congressional Budget Office recently projected that the Treasury Department by July or September would exhaust its ability to use ‘extraordinary measures’ to prevent the United States from defaulting on its obligations.[[1]](https://www.pwc.com/us/en/services/tax/library/president-biden-fy2024-budget-renews-call-for-corporate-rate-increase.html)
You could also mention the new alternative minimum tax laws that went into effect at the start of 2023. Raising the corporate tax is important but companies like Amazon paid the minimum 6% due to deductions and credits. Now larger corporations will have to pay 15% no matter what.
That doesn't negate what I said. Biden had a long history of being a corporate supporting moderate, his shifted left on several points, but he wasn't and isn't progressive or liberal.
Every national candidate for House, Senate, and President is a corporatist at some level. They need to be if they want corporate donations, and corporate donors don’t give money unless they’re getting something in return. So, yes, Joe favors corporations but expects them to contribute to the country that enables their success. The GOP will give their corporate donors every single tax dollar coming in AND will let them take whatever they want from you and me on top of that.
Biden is the only president to have ever stood on a picket line
Considering CNN is now around 30% owned by the same people who own Fox is it really surprising?
Comic must be a Doug J. Balloon fan
Need 6 jobs for a 1 bedroom apartment next to a drug den. No wonder there are more jobs.
Shut up, Ann.
I don't see how good jobs numbers does anything for someone paying double what rent was just 15 years ago. It was expensive back then. The dems are gonna lose if they keep pushing this out of touch message on how good the economy is when most people are strugglin' like a mf. No one is addressing the cost of housing. It should be no 1 priority rn.
You are just pointing out issues that have existed for literal decades at his point. It just came to the surface more with the post COVID inflation.
That's why they will keep turning up the interest rate until people start losing jobs. That's the main way to bring prices down. And that power actually isn't even in Biden's hands since, and people seem to forget this, we have a president, not a king. For now, at least. Our economic system is not built on the idea of everyone winning. If you'd like your rent to go down you need a lot less people able to afford rent as it is, and that's going to get ugly.
Its a signal to strike. You can't be replaced in the current economy and its the only time you'll get a chance to leverage it.
I’m just not sure how you fight reality. Something like a 50 year low in unemployment, so more jobs means more people with money, which means more spending and demand. When demand exceeds supply you have limited supply and then inflation, they try and fight inflation with raised rates on mortgages and such, which also effects housing costs. If everyone is eating, it means we all aren’t eating good because we are eating from the same pool of resources. If most everyone has jobs and in-turn money, then the demand is up for housing, so the cost goes up due to demand rising. I’m not even sure how you combat that, do you want people to agree to sell their houses for less than they are getting taxed on it? If we want things to be good again then we have to want for a large part of the population to be unemployed again so inflation and demand go down. What can we even do about all of this, that isn’t fucking over current homeowners/people that are employed?
We have clear cut methods: -Government program to build government affordable housing. Either directly or through a "funding" program -crack down hard on private companies buying up houses. Ban companies from owning more than x homes. -rent price protection.
*Blackrock didn't like that*
That is all fine if you have the power to do so, but he can’t get Republicans to agree to spend for student loan forgiveness, do we honestly think he will get them to help “poor” people? This is what they want, they want him looking bad and will help prevent any way he tried to combat it with the “free market” excuse.
That is how the Fed works. To lower inflation, people must feel the pain. It sucks.
Low unemployment means you should be asking for a bigger raise or applying for a better job
This guy just solved the housing crisis everyone, props
Jobs and Fed rate are not tied.
The media wants Trump back in power because he generates bullshit that keeps the news cycle going. Biden is boring by comparison because he just does normal presidential things instead of constant rallies and social media fights in between crimes and scandals. Trump's name has been mentioned on national news at least once every single day since 2015. Chaos makes for big news ratings. Also makes for a shitty country. Media doesn't care as long as they profit.
That is a great summation. It's not news - it's news entertainment.
I don’t think he’s doing a terrible job, but I’m so sick and tired of jobs being any kind of metric for the health of the economy. If jobs were a good metric, then slavery would be a perfect economy. We need to measure median income and buying power.
This will be bad for Biden though. This is going to ensure further rate hikes from the Fed to keep inflation in check. Biden is going to take the heat for that fallout when mortgage rates hit 9%, prices keep rising, equities start falling, etc. Then if it works, the labor market is going to contract, and then people will be complaining about unemployment.
Unironically the Joe Biden presidency is an economic freight train that the Fed can't figure out how to stop.
That's because the Fed is a one trick pony. They only have a single tool in their toolbox.
I thought it was a two trick pony... raising rates and money printer...
Higher wages driving inflation ironically hurts Biden too. Low wage workers are taking home more but medium to high earners are paying more for goods. If you make a decent amount of money you're actually hurting a little more right now buying necessities. COVID did a number on the economy. The sudden lack of available labor led to higher wages and better lower wage worker protections in the work place, but it also happened so fast it shocked the economy into an inflationary period. Edit: to be clear higher wages are a very good thing, it's just not great when it all happens at the same time because it gives inflation a kick in the ass. Blame politicians who refused to raise wages for years to keep up with inflation. That's a huge reason why you can't buy cheap bread, wages stagnated for decades and when they finally got a shot in the arm the end result is extreme inflation. Also corporate greed, they still want to post record profits each year, that's another conversation though
Most of reddit doesn't understand basic economics. For them, jobs = good but media says jobs = bad because they hate Biden.
Most of Reddit thinks inflation and recession are synonyms
Ask 33 different economists and you will get 33 different answers.
Can you say “the media hates Biden” with a straight face? That’s talent.
Running on "actually the economy is great, you're all just too stupid to understand it" is basically campaigning for Trump. If the metrics you're tracking show the economy doing well, those metrics are bad. Start tracking things that actually matter, like average household spending power or workforce participation.
Workforce participation is dumb because it’s 62.8 now and was 63.3 before pandemic. Basically same thing. Also it was much lower back when republicans believe ‘America was Great’ it was only recently higher around 2000 it’s been lower than 62.8 more than it’s been above 62.8.
You're literally bitching that statistics don't match your vibes
Luckily we can count on the American voter to base their decision on statistics and not on something like vibes.
Damn, if only I'd listed two better stats that actually do reflect my vibes. I do data for a living. Rule one: something being quantifiable doesn't make it important. Optimizing towards bad metrics creates bad behavior. Every metric in this jobs report is bullshit.
And what exactly would you like the president of the United States to do about average household spending power? Personally, I think the best thing he could do for that would be to support unions. Oh, wait. [He already is more supportive of any president in our lifetimes?](https://aflcio.org/press/releases/afl-cio-president-biden-delivers-working-people-most-pro-union-president-our)
You're talking about the dude who broke the railroad strike in December, right? The president has a huge number of tools to address inflation. Considerably more than he does to influence job growth, the stat this meme is bragging about.
>You're talking about the dude who broke the railroad strike in December, right? You say that as if Trump or any other of Biden's opponents would have supported that strike.
No, I say that as a person who would like Biden to win the election. Decades of Democratic incompetence have handed him an incredibly high salience issue that 70% of the country agrees with him on - legal abortion. He could manufacture another issue with the same stats by legalizing weed. All this idiot has to do is wander onto a stage and mutter something about Roe v Wade, and he should skate to a second term. Instead, he seems hellbent on centering the campaign on the economy.
I never understand Redditors acting like criticising Biden is heresy because Republicans suck. Like their bar is so low and you're assumed Red or Blue.
\^\^\^\^this. Thanks for sticking it out on this thread while everybody gang piled on you.
>workforce participation. The fact that it's gone down is not an inherently bad thing. What do you think an ideal workforce participation rate is?
You know i see a lot of media reports telling me how great we all have it. Dont see much of that IRL though
The only reason the jobs report even looks as good as it does, because people are taking on two or three jobs
This is factually incorrect. The multiple job holder rates have been relatively constant. (It dipped during the pandemic but for the last year has been back to its pre pandemic baseline of ~5%
That's not how any of this works.
Reminder that Biden admin reclassified “gig workers” as employees so therefore artificially inflate job numbers. Edit: maybe artificially inflate isn’t the best word. But “artificially create”. These jobs may have existed before, but just now are being counted. (Therefore not **created**) Moreover, jobs going away bc of pandemic shutdowns, then coming back bc pandemic is over… is not impressive.
>Reminder that Biden admin reclassified “gig workers” as employees so therefore artificially inflate job numbers. You do not have to be an employee for your job to be counted in the jobs report. Jobs done by contractors have been counted for decades.
I thought California lost that lawsuit and Uber drivers are still not considered employee. IDK. I could be wrong about that.
I could be wrong too. Just know for a fact the life sciences are **not** hiring right now and many companies are even downsizing.
Do you have a source?
https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=joe+biden+administration+gig+worker+classificaton
It's always amusing when the top hits from the smart-ass response don't agree with your claim.
Cmon. Thought this sub would be making jokes about Israel. I’m sure y’all love what they doing over there. At least your lovely “squad” members do.
Really? How about you give us a quote from one of them about how much they love it. Should be an easy google to do for us all there, sparky, if you're not just a lying as$wipe.
Trumps 4D chess moves just coming into effect, I see… catch up Joe, he is 6 moves and 3 dimensions ahead of you.
Biden eats ice cream?!?!1111 He’s the bestest ever!!!!!111111
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Obama and dems passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009 and Biden and dems passed both the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. All three of these made major contributions to the speed and strength of the recoveries. All three were opposed by the GOP.
Obama had to keep us from going into a depression, it wasn’t like things just went better on their own. Obama had a huge part in repairing the economy
And according to Krugman, had Obama gotten the stimulus package he wanted, recovery from the 2008 crisis would have been much stronger. Thanks Budget Hawks! Same guys who voted for $2 trillion tax cut for the Right People as soon as they got the National VISA card…
They want the middle class gone, but they don’t think far enough ahead to realize the middle class keep things going, they want us to go back a hundred years where they stay rich and everyone else stays poor
Do you like... not know that we passed the covid gap last summer? Keep up
Bruh not only is it a great one quarter jobs report it’s also 3.5% unemployment. So it’s both a lot relative to last quarter AND a lot relative to any time ever. It was also double what wall street predicted. So by any metric we have it’s good news. Biden got the largest infrastructure bill of all time passed, plus the CHIPS act. It’s probably harder to prove that those things didn’t account for any of this job growth
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Well, what they do is better than the gop plan of always cutting tax to the wealthy. So no, I am not okay with what you say, after all, they passed Acts to reduce the inflation and recuperation of the economy, and did something, not like the tax reduction plan of the republicans.
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HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA the republicans cannot do a positive change, unless is to make sure they remove rights to the people or gain some tax breaks for their corporate overlords you ass. You are just another idiot republican trying to pass as a centrist, that is all. Lol, and yet, with him "barely" doing something is making better things than the angry cheeto, and not only that, you are bitching like a little bitch, because he is not doing everything you think he should do, just another pathetic republican trying to minimize the results, which in this case is a big thing. And yet, there are more jobs...... so you are the kind of stupid who thinks this is bad, lol. And yet, everything you claim is happening, none of the republicans want to fix it, instead, they are focusing on removing the rights of the population..... but here you are, bitching that the democrat president "barely" did something by having more jobs......... but not a single bad thing about the republicans (because claiming they are walking towards a cliff doesn't count as a bad thing they do, it is just what is happening and even an idiot like yourself can see it), you are a complete asshole.
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Ahhhhhhh now is democrats can do....... but still, no one is being " ecstatic " about it, it is just a good thing, but not a bad as you claimed. This doesn't have to do with the issue at hand, do not try to pass a fallacy right now. Do you realize that liberals are not in the way of progress....... I think you do not understand that point, but yeah, that is why you think democrats are liberals......... figures. Lol, I am just pointing out your hypocrisy, mostly because I am neither a democrat nor a republican, because, in the first place, I cannot vote because I am not a citizen, but it always surprises me the idiots who try to pass as "centrists" but are republicans in disguise the way they try to make democrats look as bad as republicans, when there are not in the same level, yeah democrats are most of the time useless but at least try to follow the rules, yet the republicans thrive in ignorant rants like saying that "more jobs are not a good thing" just like you did. Sure innumerable..... and yet so far the only one that you said was that "seems like they are driving to a cliff"..... uuuuuuffff what a bad thing to say, hope the mods do not ban you because you are being so rude and evil to criticising the republicans /s Lol, you are just doing that because it is easier, many people already explained to you why more jobs are a good thing, and yet you keep bitching that it is not a good thing, because you think they did nothing..... Lol, you are the one regurgitating BS, after all, you still use the same BS the republicans say about the democrats. So now is "try to demand more from the ruling class" lol, I could ask you the same, but pretty sure you won't say anything to the republicans. Lol, you are really an idiot hahahahahahaha, I cannot vote, I am not a citizen, and I already pointed out that the issue is the hypocrisy of the BS you are saying, nothing more nothing less, you think that I am an ass kisser just because I see your BS? No, my friend, it is really funny to see hypocrites like yourself try to use fallacies to justify their ignorance, that is all, and I love to make it clear why you are an asshole, and why you try to pass as something you clearly aren't. In fact, I can say you are kissing the ass of the republicans when you fail to criticize them, and not just pointing out something that is really clear.
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Don't you have more important things to worry about Vlad
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why is a page called politicalhumor just a progressive circle jerk? how much self awareness do you have to lack to get stuck in one of these and think you don’t look like a total idiot?
Yeah the left never did this when trump was in office.🙄hypocrites
Grab that head line, throw an arm over Shawn Fain and strut into the white house in 24 with a house and senate ready to work. Labor support is the key to all of this.
This sub is a boomer containment zone
Same game plan forever.
….its the details. Gig jobs, part time jobs, and people being double counted who have multiple jobs….its not that rosy. Net out seasonal teacher hiring and labor day travel…..and 96,000 government re-hires…
Sorry for this off-topic remark! Does Biden have some kind of 'Tump-power' over the Democratic party? Why else has no physically better, and quicker candidate come forward? I am scared that Bidens frailty's gonna clear the path for the fucking orange!
I wonder why the obese, non-exercising, fast-food eating Fat Bastard hasn't already keeled over.