I was gonna title this “And here I sit so patiently waiting to find out what price you have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice” and then write “Stuck inside of America with the fascism blues again” here, but I’m not sure if that comes off like gloating and that’s honestly the last thing I want to do this morning.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
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    15 days ago

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1351276/wage-growth-vs-inflation-us/

    Trump fucked it, Biden unfucked it better than any other country in the world after Covid, and Biden got the blame.

    As is tradition. Universally. It’s one of the few things in American politics that always happens in exactly the same way, with no real wiggle room depending on how you want to measure things or who you ask for the explanation.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party

    Both rich people and working people do better under Democrats, and both rich people and working people do worse under Republicans. Always.

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      15 days ago

      Exact same happened to Obama and the 2008 recession. Getting blamed for shit that happened before the election even took place. But Democrats refuse to play the blame game, people got to spout the lies about things being cheaper when Trump was in office unchallenged, and the Dems refused to promote solid solutions to even the most basic of core issues like antitrust, price controls, higher minimum wage, or even fucking climate change.

      And now, with so many fewer people turning out to vote for Dems, even Trump’s lies about voter fraud will have been validated in the minds of the morons, who will attribute those low numbers to harsher rules stopping the fraud.