Sorry, George Takei, this is the tone deaf approach that killed our chances against Trump. None of your numbers helped people afford ridiculous prices. That’s how Trump got in. Don’t try to rewrite reality because that doesn’t work.
There was a global pandemic, and economic recovery takes time (longer than four years. So, of course, they elected the guy who oversaw the original economic downturn because he was totally going to do it better this time.
People were so mad at prices, they forgot why the prices were high.
I truly believe that when Americans start dying en masse due to starvation, homelessness, reproductive rights loss, ACA cuts, Medicare/caid cuts, research cuts, RFK's BS, etc., that Trump will go down as the most prolific MASS MURDERER in history.
I heard that Stephani Mickelson, idaho republican, whose republican colleague sent ICE to her potato farm, said, “Of course i voted to let ICE trample the constitution - BUT it’s not supposed to happen to me!”
George, I depend on your posts! And listening to that orange turd dismiss the achievements of his predecessor make me violently ill. That there is still a significant portion of this nation that believes they made the right choice in electing him says more about them than it does about him!!
Yes, And this is to be expected under a dictatorship- we are no longer living in a democracy. Wake up, before we reach the point of no return. No one is safe. The rule of law is dying. Trump and the republicans support an authoritarian regime. Do not despair- organize and resist!
Like UK having the best deal when members if the EU until the Putin and Trump loving populist Nigel Farage convinced the nation to vote against their best interests and impose economic sanctions on itself. Brexit - we have never recovered from shooting ourselves in the foot. Be warned.
Well honestly in the last 25 years I've watched nobody stopped school shootings. Nobody stopped gun laws. Nobody stop racism. Nobody stop water poisoning. Nobody stop ramping corruption. Honestly I've seen changes of faces but literally no changes in policy.
George, many days I awoke very thankful Biden was at the helm. And I knew if Kamala did not win, all of Biden's efforts would be dashed. Didn't take a crystal ball to see this
So people voted in an incompetent, corrupt, racist, stupid narcissist who wants to be king. Who is now rocking the whole world, retirees are bleeding all their investments in the stock market and the f’ing wannabe king is entertaining Saudi Arabia.
Just because the stock market was “good” doesn’t mean the economy - the cost of living, the chances of your kid doing better than you - were good. I’m not saying that what Trump just did isn’t batshit crazy and won’t hurt more people but my god, this post misses the point.
We, as progressives, can not tell working Americans what their lived reality is. The fact that democrats did that during the election was disgraceful and just plain stupid. Please refrain from conflating people’s lived experiences with the stock market and macro indicators.
Our system doesn’t work for the vast majority of people and while Biden did take baby steps forward, the time for baby steps is gone. It didn’t make a difference, not enough of a difference and not fast enough.
Politics on social media is all about sharing half-truths and worse to gain advantage. By the usual standards, especially of MAGA, the post was pristine.
Can we stop acting like anybody was thriving during biden's economy? Like yes, we need to stop trump, but the status quo was choking almost everybody before he even got here so let's stop glorifying corporate success
Monday March 31, the DJIA closed at 42,001.76.
Tuesday, April 1 closing: 41,989.96
Wednesday, April 2 closing: 42,225.32
Thursday, April 3 closing: 40,545.93
Friday, April 4 closing: 38,314.86.
That's a 3,686.90 drop in a week. That 2,231.07 drop in one day is extra impressive. Helluva job, Donnie.
... it took Biden four years to stamp out the fires started by the raging idiot in the office before him. And then America told Joe he did a shit job and put the raging idiot back in office. America will burn for that decision. #FUSA!
Let’s be honest, Biden wasn’t perfect, approving oil field drilling and blindly supporting genocidal Israel, but a darn sight better than the Orange Buffoon.
All so the racists could vote for the white guy (under all that crap on his face), and the misogynists could avoid voting for the female (not that Trump is very masculine, he wears make up after all) and so the #MAGACultMorons could "own the libs"!
The one negative of Biden's legacy was to give Trump a long economic runway with which to begin his crazy before the effects are fully felt. Which sounds a very harsh assessment, but ultimately the Dems failed to bring the election home.
The problem with MAGA is, they don’t believe anything that we try to tell them. They’re so brainwashed on propaganda & gaslighting that they’re unwilling to even consider facts because the facts make them uncomfortable…
We need a progressive party that actually works for the people and the betterment of the USA. Stop proping up Kamala or Biden. You look as moronic as maga.
Unregulated capitalism is a death sentence and we are seeing it happen right now. We deserve it, frankly, and it must be fully addressed and we must hold ourselves accountable upon rebuild. We, as a species, can not be trusted and I need no more human history to be convinced otherwise.
Fastest post-covid recovery. Lowest inflation, anywhere. Lowest unemployment in 50 years. Biggest bull market since Obama. Magas and non-involved electorate wanted to believe it was all in the tank. Now they'll see what a tank really is. Thanksalot fox, magas and non-voters.
White people, I understand that you have to racism. Men, I understand that you have to misogyny. However, was all that really worth your 401k, though? It ain’t just the 401k’s of the “woke libs.” It’s your 401k’s, too. 🤦♂️
Trump won twice (2016 against Clinton and 2024 against Harris) in which his opponent was a highly experienced, extremely qualified, very well-educated, patriotic woman who had spent her life in dedicated public service.
Please share! The rich have declared class war and we must respond in kind! Our greatest power has ALWAYS been that we're the caretakers of the machines. Waste their money! One giant day of insurance claims! Please share! Make this happen!
Stability and calm waters to hurricanes on the high seas in a boat they drilled holes in the hull themselves because they were told "it'll come back bigger!"...
Too many people believe right-wing media lies, and the rest of the media is too afraid to stand up and tell truth to power, couching things in both-sides-isms.
This is what happens people.. republican presidents = economy goes down… democrat presidents= economy recovers … of course this economic down turn seems personal and on purpose.
Don't worry people. Sure, we will see a major 5-year depression. You might lose everything. But after that, you will have a chance to work in a coal factory or metal recycling plant. And you won't have any of those pesky union fees either. That's true freedom right there brother!
People were going homeless all around me in my town. There was mass shootings several times a week. The cops were still useless and wanted to kill me. Refusing to acknowledge the suffering of the poors is why Dems lost.
The economy was like a Y. People who had good paying jobs, already owned their home, and had investments had it good. Those who weren't home owners, etc had it increasingly difficult. Let's not pretend we haven't been an oligarchy for a long time. It's time for the people to take our country back!
Donald Trump is living proof that one doesn’t need to be intelligent to be a problem. And I’ll never forget that 49.8 % of my countrymen voted for him. This, (along with the requisite electoral votes in 2024) proves the “dumbing down” of America is real.
He was heading in the right direction, but the system has been rigged to favor the 1% for a long time. There is nothing he could have done to overcome this force. My optimistic hope is by the time all is said and done, we have true "for the people, by the people" country.
If we have a fair election come 2026 and 2028 what is more likely to happen is Dems will come in, work to clean up the mess, people will complain they aren't cleaning fast enough and stay home for 2030 and 2032.
What you have today is some steps - far to many steps - to facism. To the end of democracy in the u.s. Trump is openly talking about a third turn. And if he gets that he will be in that office until he dies. He and musk will destroy your country and take as much of the world with them as they can.
So rich fuck got richer, see stock market, and more people got employed. But are those people employed really all earning wages that you can life a live with? That buys them homes? That brings their children through school? Or is it mostly just a case of working poor, or in other words slavery?
Republicans in Congress
will let him ruin everything.
They’ll torpedo our alliances
to please the orange King.
They’ll ravage the economy
to court the Putinista wing.
They’ll make us ill and dumb and cruel –
that’s how they kiss the ring.
They’ve chosen to enable
the Bizarre-a-Lago ding-a-ling.
And yet nobody is calling for the only solution because they make people fight.
For the richest to pay their fair share of taxes and neither party has ever done so.
This can only be fixed by joining togheter against them, they couldnt care less if everyone else starves.
When your life is stable, you got a mortgage you can afford, the stock market is boring, the GDP is growing at 3% to 5% each year and unemployment is less than 5%, you start to tell yourself, "I'll bet things could be better than this." NO! THEY FUCKING CAN'T. THAT'S HOW THE FUCKING ECONOMY WORKS.
Fox News was first saying there would be immediate improvement in the economy after the election. How is that working out for you. After tariffs they said the same. How is that working out for you. Wait long enough for that positive change and you won’t have an economy left to worry about.
The idiots who voted for the orange baboon deserve everything that is coming to them. I feel sorry for the sensible Americans who will suffer in the process
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People were so mad at prices, they forgot why the prices were high.
And elon's vote-hacking crimes - Because they rigged / cheated the election - just as they said it would be
Imagine our surprise when you let Putin replace him with trump and you weren't even suspitious, as a country, of the "election" results.
And he'll be fucking proud of it.
#TrumpsLegacy
However? Like Captain, and eventual, Admiral James T. Kirk?
I refuse to believe that the American people will lose this specific scenario…
Because? I myself refuse.
And? I myself am a member of “We the People.”
https://youtu.be/uGO-SldLrNA
So people voted in an incompetent, corrupt, racist, stupid narcissist who wants to be king. Who is now rocking the whole world, retirees are bleeding all their investments in the stock market and the f’ing wannabe king is entertaining Saudi Arabia.
This only furthers the divide.
Our system doesn’t work for the vast majority of people and while Biden did take baby steps forward, the time for baby steps is gone. It didn’t make a difference, not enough of a difference and not fast enough.
USA: Hold my beer...
*had to make sure I picked a domestic product as we won't be able to afford the imported booze.
Tuesday, April 1 closing: 41,989.96
Wednesday, April 2 closing: 42,225.32
Thursday, April 3 closing: 40,545.93
Friday, April 4 closing: 38,314.86.
That's a 3,686.90 drop in a week. That 2,231.07 drop in one day is extra impressive. Helluva job, Donnie.
You drank the Kool-Aid
And now the intensely obtuse impostor is back to wreck it...
AGAIN. 🤦♂️
https://youtu.be/0qbPcG2A5ic?si=87I8y00qhwldnFSs
No
No it was not
Yikes, you guys've been robbed.
... well let you know when we do
I just posted it in the local paper's Facebook page where over 200 commenters are on all sides of the issue.
If only we had some way of knowing what he would be like as president
If only experts everywhere had sounded the alarms
If only they had explicitly told us what would happen if reelected
Fuck
@kyledcheney.bsky.social
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/04/january-6-obstruction-charges-ed-martin-00272275
Forever grateful. 💙🙏🏼
will let him ruin everything.
They’ll torpedo our alliances
to please the orange King.
They’ll ravage the economy
to court the Putinista wing.
They’ll make us ill and dumb and cruel –
that’s how they kiss the ring.
They’ve chosen to enable
the Bizarre-a-Lago ding-a-ling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJbZCbBLqkk
NOW
For the richest to pay their fair share of taxes and neither party has ever done so.
This can only be fixed by joining togheter against them, they couldnt care less if everyone else starves.
common sense when it comes to voting is certainly missing
FFS.....45% still voted for the party of Treason and Incompetence in Wisconsin
while 57% voted for shameless douche in Florida
say stop, say resist
Economics? Excellent.
Strengthening US democracy? Yeah, about that...