rytualerror.bsky.social
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What the FUCK!!!!!???
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My opinion as a voter who votes for Democrats: if you try to push a bunch of bipartisan kumbaya horseshit on me I will vote for your primary challenger. This is a coup and you're either fighting it or you need to fuck off.
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She's there to deconstruct the agency not run it.
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Attack a scarecrow to justify austerity
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Sycophants instead of journalists
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Lying is what they do best
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Businesses have to be able to anticipate what the market's going to look like so they can make decisions that impact their bottom line.
Nobody can meaningfully predict what's going to happen right now. Everything is chaos.
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Thanks for the clarification on that. Sorry if it came across as me challenging it in any way but I legitimately didn't know who the guy was or why it was noteworthy that we posted about how it's stupid to gut the FDA
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He belongs in a grave
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I hate these people so goddamn much
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Thanks for the link I gave it a quick perusal. It didn't include much about his politics. Is his radicalization noteworthy because he was previously conservative?
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I don't know what's going on. And even if I did it is liable to change. And even if I had a reliable source that could help me predict the anticipated change, there's no way of knowing if that source is themselves operating in uncertainty.
This is just chaos
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A little embarrassing?
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Unfortunately until we get to that future point where we can look back and say beyond a reasonable doubt that said situation was what happened there will always be people insisting that it's just hyperbole.
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Which means that's exactly what they're going to do.
It's going to take the collapse and then consolidation of resources and power into the hands of oligarchs for us to look back and recognize that instigating a collapse for the purpose of consolidation is what they planned all along.
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We're going to go out and pick up somebody who we think...
You're going to go arrest a person without a warrant on the basis of what?
Somebody allegedly thinks a person might have committed a crime so where does going to send a cabinet level official to cosplay while we arrest them.
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Who is this person?
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Nobody has a clue what's going on, except whoever is in Trump's closest circle. Those people are enriching themselves. Everybody else is just swimming in chaos
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He answered the question in a telling way. The reason it was a problem when it happened under Biden is because he doesn't agree with Biden's policies. The objective impact is irrelevant it's just whether he likes the taste of the boots
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Flexible is not the same as erratic
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She'll pay Trump $5 mil for a gold card and become a Republican
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Women tend to vote for Democrats so they're trying to disenfranchise women
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How did we get here?
Trump and MAGA are morons
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Stupid and provocative will get more responses than smart and rational. People are emotional first and then rational.
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I think this analysis is overly simplified and misses the actual threat which is techno feudalism.
Of course white supremacy is a part of it, but this is about oligarchs desire for unlimited power not simple racism.
Racism is just one of the levers they use to manipulate white voters
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Republican voters did
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Trump is not a economic miracle worker. Not compared to Obama and not compared to Biden. He's riding on a fucking myth and that myth needs to be called out for the bullshit that it is.
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Yes, prices went up after COVID-19 and once they had gone up they didn't go back down because that would be deflation. But, to ignore the larger context is horseshit.
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The fact that the average GDP under Biden was higher than the pre-pandemic average under Trump AND the fact that unemployment was brought down to a 4% level by the end of Biden's term goes to show that the economic policies of the two presidents averaged out to about the same.
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The average GDP growth rate under Biden was 2.8% (0.1% higher than the average GDP from 2017-2019) and the average unemployment rate under Biden was ~4.9% (which includes the high unemployment coming out of the pandemic).
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I bring all this up because I think a lot of this gauzy "things were better under Trump" bullshit is based entirely on judging a post-pandemic economy against a pre-pandemic economy.
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If anything that shows that the IRA worked. Also, also US peak inflation was lower than countries like Germany (Europe's strongest economy) and it more or less consistently fell after peaking.
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By the way, the Inflation Reduction Act was passed in August of 2022 so, no, Biden's policies did not cause the inflation since the increased inflation occurred before the legislation was signed and fell afterwards.
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Biden inherited a post-pandemic economy and yes inflation spiked because of supply chains and opportunism but it stopped climbing in July of 2022 and, for the most part, it continued to fall until it reached the desired 2-3% range.
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I'm sick and tired of the myth that Trump performed economic miracles because he did not.
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That's not an economic miracle. ESPECIALLY when you consider that Trump (to the extent he can be credited with the 0.1% increase) did it by significantly increasing the national debt to give tax breaks that overwhelmingly favored the wealthy.
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But the average GDP from 2014 to 2016 (Last 2 years of Obama's term) was ~2.6% (compared to the pre-pandemic average under Trump of 2.7%) so the US economy under Trump added an additional 0.1% to the GDP growth rate.
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Also, some people act like Trump inherited a failing economy from Obama and turned the US into an economic powerhouse before COVID-19 ruined it.
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He didn't come close. The unemployment figure is solid, but the unemployment rate in 2024 was 4% so if we're comparing unemployment under Trump to unemployment under Biden there's no real difference. He did not perform an economic miracle. But he sure as fuck promised one.
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GDP and Unemployment figures from 2017-2019 were good but not amazing. It averaged out to 2.7% GDP growth and 4% unemployment. Remember that Trump promised 4% GDP growth (at least).
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"Let Donald Trump run the global economy"
This bootlicker is fucking disgusting
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Wilhoits Law over and over again
Narcissist's prayer over and over again
DARVO over and over again
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Reruns of their glory days
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oUr bEeF iS gReAt, tHeiRs iS wEak
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Pull Bullshit Barbie's string..."things are great! Ignore the dumpster fire, that's just mood lighting"
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They did very well under Biden/Harris and they will continue to do well under Trump/Vance. The rich don't suffer from recession, they benefit from it.