The primary thing I got wrong was the belief that the public perceptions of the U.S. economy would eventually catch up to the reality of the U.S. economy.
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Quinta Jurecic
since we're doing "things we got wrong this year," I will say this: I think of myself as a pretty pessimistic person, but boy howdy did I underestimate the sheer partisan hackery of the supreme court
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After the switcheroo, I figured the goodwill might be just enough to take Harris over the top. In reality, it was a facade. It turns out the cumulative inflation became insurmountable.
Although I constantly lost count of how many temporary tags I saw on newly purchased vehicles, so who knows what people really thought.
Try this chart instead.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060
I refuse to believe this is the best the richest economy that ever was *can* do for regular people.
School shootings, fentanyl deaths, homeless deaths etc. Much more than any other advanced society, the response is indifference.
Why? I dunno.
I expected like a little bit of push back from med staff but they mostly just folded like card tables and hospital staff couldn't kick women to the curb fast enough.
I did not expect men to care. I got that right at least.
In particular, I assumed that women would refuse to vote for someone who did this, but I was mistaken
Instead, I and you and everyone else should have been screaming drop out NOW
While we still had secure all the long fought rights & built from there with an SC, instead along comes the Burn it All down party from the faux-left flank screeching that what this country really really needed was a god damned Revoluushun
Wtfk were they when it was all on the line?
These fkers can step up now & own the demise, of all they failed to protect when there was ONE chance remaining to do so.
2016 was the ballgame & they were all here for the revoluushun!!
You did this.
https://www.laresistance47.com/
Republican policies on this issue (and others) are so bad, so harmful that voters, when told what they are, dismiss the description as biased hyperbole (see focus group reactions to Romney/Ryan economic plans)
But then I remembered that these are the same people that didn’t care at all that 21 six year olds were killed by a weapon of war in their school classroom 😥🤦🏼♂️
Mean, too.
I guess it hasn't happened to them yet.
Also thought Americans would be horrified by women bleeding out in parking lots after having their rights to bodily autonomy taken away and becoming second class citizens, wrong again.
Deflation isn't impossible. It may not be a *good* economic signal, but it's not like, a perpetual motion machine proposal in terms of absurdity.
So they can stay alive, if that’s not clear
SOME people's wages went up. Many many millions were left behind.