What a weak piece. Grocery prices are not down, they’re up. Health insurance, no plan from the Orangeman, prices up. Don’t even get America started on gas prices. Waaaaay up, this week. Art of the Deal? DJT ripped up a deal, “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear stock pile only to have to, I suppose “re-obliterate” it again, this time priced in American lives (“losers and suckers” though) and a new foreign entanglement that apparently is on a no-plan plan.
No Frank, everyone is saying you are a dope AND intellectually dishonest! Believe me, they know. It must be hard for you to keep chugging the Orange Kool-Aid, but like Trump you’ve got a big mouth that lets you take in by the gallon!!!
What were grocery prices, gas prices, rent, healthcare costs at the end of Biden's term? Comon little, small nuts and small brained Stevie. You can do it.
I'm in construction, when I did back of the envelope estimates I too knew import tariffs to be a small part of my costs. I did raise my prices a lot because I could. Our industry already reached a peak of illegal labor. I realized I was making more from equity investments and only work by myself to keep that revenue stream flowing.
Illegal labor still costs between $20 and $30 an hour, double that to figure taxes, insurance, profit. The industry has made vast improvements in labor saving devices since the 70s. Small things that add up. All roofing materials are delivered to the roof. Drywall is delivered through the windows on the first and second floor. Lumber packs also delivered to the second floor decking. Bobcats are everywhere, as well as little mini excavators. There is very little brute labor of carrying heavy things or pick and shovel work.
I think houses are much more involved than they used to be. Very tight, unskilled labor is planned in by engineers. Houses are no longer a simple box. 1,500 feet is now 3,000 with a 3 car garage too. Plumbers no longer solder pipes.
I keep increasing prices because the people I work for make a quarter to a half million a year per household. They want good work, no extra costs, no hassles. For their part they also don't sweat the small stuff or ask dumb questions and they pay when I'm done.
DiPlacido is correct, it is a naive error to blame tariffs and deportation directly for inflation. These are both microeconomic shocks that reduce real income, but alone cannot produce an increase in the average price of all goods and services (inflation) w/o validation by the Fed.
What these shocks do is raise the inflation rate that the Fed has to engineer to maintain full employment. By late 2024 the Fed had almost returned inflation to its target of 2% and was poised to succeed when the unfortunate change in tariff and deportation policies occurred. Attempting to reach its target in th face of the new tariffs and deportations would have risked recession.
With the Scotus decision overturning the IEEPA tariffs, this shock may be over. Deportations and the slowdown of legal immigration, however, are an ongoing series of shocks that will continue to prevent the Fed from achieving its long term target.
Alhough not within the scope of DePlacido's post, the spike in international petroleum prices are also a shock to relative prices that the Fed must acommodate (even though as a net energy exporter the US will receive a small terms of trade fillup to real GDP) and the same reasning applies. The additional shock and the Fed's response will be inflationry.
I love it when maga shows how beta they are. So much whining, so little time. Boys, (and maga is disproportionately boys, especially old, white boys like me), it's time to man up. Y'all have dominated the party for over a decade. You ARE the elites, you ARE the establishment. You control the entire federal government. Again.
The lame blame game is gettin kinda old. You need a new shtick. Workin folk are tired of bein gaslit by the Epstein Class while Don pockets billions. How bout a plan?
Or, are taco tariffs, the shredding of the rule of law, the disastrous BBB, and another Mideast war all ya got?
Factually correct but short on sharing the blame. Trump 1 administered the first two COVID stimulus checks in March 2020 and December 2020. Biden admisitered the third in March 2021. Yet not once in your essay did you mention Trump and Biden together adminstered those stimulus payments. You just blamed the payemnts, and correctly in my mind, as the foundation for high inflation. You didn't seem to have any problems blaming Biden for everything else.
Trump did his work before we knew that COVID was no more dangerous than the seasonal flu. It was after we knew that the Democrats used the fake claim of "relief" to push $6 additional trillion dollars into the economy with printed money and more national debt.
The inflation we are dealing with today is directly related to Democrat policies 2020 - 2024.
Frank, you do realize Don set the record for debt accumulation in term one? And the BBB, maga's revealed preference for fiscal and economic policy, puts him on track to break his record. All while screwing the workin stiffs he purports to care about...
Hang in there, and remember it's ok to have an identity that's different from aging, incoherent, angry politicians. I can't imagine lashing my identity to a mere pol.
Presidents don't spend what isn't approved by congress. Congress approved Trump's spending on the pandemic almost completely unanimous bipartisan. And this was when nobody knew what woukd happen. The your fucking cadaver boy Biden gets a complelety 100% Democrat partisan approval to dump another $6 trillion into an economy that proved already it did not need it. And they fucked everything up. You Democrats are fucking hazardous dopes.
Sorry Frank, I'm no Joepa fan, I'm a lifelong Republican who fled the party when Don appeared. I prefer conservatives, not con men. I'd vote for a canned ham before Don, at least the ham doesn't lie, nor would it pocket billions in crypto corruption. And unlike Don, a ham doesn't publicly brag about "acing" a test meant to detect dementia:) Do you read Don's daily bleats in their entirety, have you actually attended a rally? It's a damn close call on whether Don or Joepa is more incoherent, don't ya think?
In any event, ya gotta man up dude, you're way too beta. Whining about D's outsmarting Don, when Don is the self-proclaimed "very stable genius"? Don signed the bills, set the record, and he's on track to obliterate (like he supposedly "obliterated" Iran's nukes last year) his debt record thanks to his signature economic policy "achievement", the BBB.
Don, like every other president, will be judged by what happens on his watch. Maga/the Epstein Class/the "new" right, pick your name for Don's obedient flock. Regardless of your chosen moniker, you ARE the establishment, you ARE the elites, YOU control the entire federal government. No more whining, no more excuses.
Ah, so now it's the "we're in economic nirvana" argument:) Maga is so confusing, usually all we hear is grievance, whining, woe is America. Ya gotta get your story straight...
I fear you actually believe the above. And since one can't argue with a cultist, I won't try even though most of it is inane. But I picked out one that made me belly laugh. Tellingly, it was the first thing you listed-wokeism, DEI, cancel culture. This is what maga is actually about. It's all about who you hate, and owning the libs. Economic policy, and policy generally, matters not a whit. It's why you support his wild swings in policy regardless of how inconsistent they are. I suspect you once bought Don's lies on "dumb" Middle East wars, but have now flip flopped and are an eager supporter. Likewise, you bought the "drain the swamp" lie, yet now support his Chinese crypto corruption. You believed him when he said he'd balance the budget, yet now defend his fiscally reckless policies. I just love that. Maga isn't really about policy, is it?
But seriously Frank, Don "canceled cancel culture"? Don't tell Mike Pence, MTG, Don's first term cabinet, corporations, congressional R's who tell the truth, I could fill the page with Don's cancelations . Anyone who dares to question the dear leader is cast out. Thanks for the chuckle though:).
Back to Don's apparent economic nirvana we're enjoying. Joepa tried telling folks all was well too. Isn't it ironic that Don's approval on the economy is as low, or lower, than Joepa's? Maybe the good news hasn't yet trickled down from the Epstein Class billionaires to the workin stiffs?
Keep on believing my friend, it looks like Don's strategery is all coming together as we speak. After all, he "aced" that dementia test!
Yes. Both parties are to blame, and Trump has plenty of blame to shoulder himself. The worldwide chaos we are in right now with Iran is certainly no one's fault but Trump (and his entire campaign revolved around him not getting us in to war, remember?). He's pulling international and economic policy out of his a$$ and right now we are just hoping to survive what he has done. His presidency can't end soon enough.
Seasonal flu deaths 2016-2020 were 138,000. COVID 19 deaths in its first year, 2020, were 350,000. I’m having a hard time with your equivalency claim, Frank.
Great post! I'm already tired of the "affordability" issue, because it's just a way to tinker around with the price of this or that instead of demanding that employers pay US workers a decent wage. We'd rather discount a million grocery items and build a million houses with who knows what materials and God knows how far from where we work and have our friends and families. It always seems okay to trick prices into coming down (at least for a little while) - but to force wages up? Never!! (And when people have more lucrative things to do with their days, they piss away less time and money at the stores.) Thank you again!
You are not a Republican. But you are exhibit A for what happens when the algorithms control your news feed and completely wipe out all critical thinking capability to be replaced by irrational hate.
You are your fucking political heroes have made a dumpster fire out of the country and Trump was elected to fix problems that are decades and decades in the making, and in 13 months he has not fixed them all and you rant and rave about how terrible this is.
With people like you able to vote, no wonder the country grew to be such a mess. I am guessing you are from some liberal state where that place is also a dumpster fire.
You are just a parrot repeating TDS talking points without any ability to think or reflect. That list I put up are real accomplishments… many that Democrats only a decade ago would have supported.
As if on cue! Like Don, aka, the Canceler in Chief, you seem to have canceled me. Thanks for making my point. Correction though, I WAS a lifelong Republican but left because I did not want to be a maga/Epstein Class Republican. And I'm from a ruby red state.
I'm sorry to hear you hate your country and think it's a dumpster fire. I hear this a lot from maga/the Epstein Class. I don't remotely agree, I rather like my country. I often wonder why you stay here, and don't flee to one of the countries that supposedly ate our lunch? Since you hate it here so much, what country would you have preferred to inhabit during the last 40 years of global economic and technological revolution? Or, what period in American history would you have preferred to be born into? Please be specific.
As an aside, it's odd you assume blue jurisdictions are failed, this is a common Don trope. Do your own research and compare the blue counties (roughly 425 voted for Harris) and the red counties (roughly 2600 voted for Don) on various economic measures like GDP, personal income, wealth, etc. You'll see the small number of blue counties far outpace the red ones both in their respective shares of national economic output, and individual measures of well being. This largely explains Don's ability to gaslight his flock. They're more desperate, they're the ones in the country that are hurting the most, the ones that need hope and help the most. Don is similar to the demagogues of history, they often rise in periods of rapid economic and social transformation. They promise simple solutions, scapegoats-usually minority populations, and are marked by massive grift by the dear leader. Don fits the mold perfectly. He's a classic flimflam man, dime a dozen.
I don't hate it here at all. Still the best country on God's green earth. I am here to rid it of the political destruction that dope voters like you elect.
Yes I understand Don's "leadership" background, and the source of his wealth, is inheritance, game show hosting, and now crypto corruption. His tax returns were clear. His actual businesses were failing.
You've stated you support his crypto corruption. And that you'll support all presidents going forward doing the same. And you've flip flopped like Don, and are now a Middle East war champion. I'm sure you support Dons major economic achievement, the BBB, which shows you support his subsidies of plutocrats, record deficits, and his health care and other cuts for the working class slobs y'all purport to care about. You've indicated you're down with RFK's anti-science crusade-make sure your children and parents avoid those vaccines with the trackers!
Sounds to me like you'd believe anything Don instructed you to. Has there ever been another politician you've been such a disciple of? Slavish devotion can prove dangerous. Conspiracy theories can seem real.
Is there anything you disagree with him on? Or, if you managed to admit you still oppose Middle East wars, or disagree with dear leader on any other topic, are you afraid you'd be branded a rino, a marxist socialist communist left wing lunatic?
Good luck in your crusade to vanquish the evildoers, there are many fellow Americans for you to battle. It sounds like quite a fulfilling mission for one's life. I just have a slightly different world view. I think we have a massive, incredibly diverse country, and having a civil society means we have to be willing to share it. I prefer spending time bringing it together, not doing the easy thing and tearing it apart for partisan purposes. This is another play from the playbook of demagogues throughout history. They sell hate and grievance, coupled with a ridiculous "I alone can fix it" lie. Sadly, many fell for Don's version. This is reflected in the exodus of college educated voters from my former party. Education level is now the most predictive indicator of party as they have traded college vs non-college voters.
I have an MBA, but earned it attending night school and weekends while working. I now hire PHDs in my job. I don't find much correlation between academic credential attainment and demonstrated critical thinking capability. In fact, I find it to be more often reversed.
Having an MBA certainly confers little in the way of a credential, I couldn't agree more, look what they've done to corporate governance. This of course is irrelevant to the political realignment I mentioned. I gave you my theory on why Don's simplistic message of grievance gains purchase among the workin stiffs he purportedly cares about, who also accept his open corruption and somehow believe his preposterous promises. All in spite of daily evidence that we can hear, see, and read. What's your theory?
One of my three favorite Don quotes, which always happen when he accidentally blurts out the truth, was when he opined: "I love the poorly educated!".
I am the first in my generation and the one before it on both sides of my family to earn a college degree. They are all from the Midwest. Blue collar. I started working at age 12. Did food service, ag, manufacturing, home construction, cabinet making, plumbing, electrical... and the computers. Was a corporate executive at age 24 doing IT. I have been CEO for the last 18 years of a small business finance company and CEO of a family business doing manufacturing.
Fuck the highly educated... something I consider myself to be.
Fuck the elite liberals... something I would never be.
Fuck the 1%... I am there.
Fuck the ruling class... I probably fit the socioeconomic model for it, but not the working side.
Fuck the rent-seekers, looters and gamblers that have supplanted private sector producers. I work in the productive private economy.
Trump agrees with me. I agree with Trump.
The working class and low-income citizens have been screwed by globalism and other fucked up social and economic policies of the administrative and Wall Street ruling class. It is way past time to screw the ruling class and return more of the rewards of economic growth to the bottom 80%.
I am not in politics for my greedy ass self. I have earned my own good life. I am in it for my kids and their kids and all the generations that come next. Fuck the greedy ass Baby Boomers... the most embarrassing generation that followed the Greatest Generation. I am one of those people by age. Born in 1960, but I reject membership. They suck.
This is well done and accurate and will be hated by those with Orange Man Bad mass psychosis.
They are the dopes that blame daddy Trump for not giving them enough hugs while he also does not bail them out with only 14 months in office for the years of economic destruction that their woke voting record caused.
Isn't it just so common with them. They don't believe they are accountable for any of their bad, wrong and stupid behavior. They f*ck things up and then scream a tantrum at the people having to clean up their diaper mess for not doing it fast enough.
Both parties are running up debts and spending like there's no tomorrow. The Republican party has abandoned fiscal responsibility as well. Blaming it on one party is so 20th Century. Trump included on running up debt. He's worse than any of them. Don't be so naive!
What a weak piece. Grocery prices are not down, they’re up. Health insurance, no plan from the Orangeman, prices up. Don’t even get America started on gas prices. Waaaaay up, this week. Art of the Deal? DJT ripped up a deal, “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear stock pile only to have to, I suppose “re-obliterate” it again, this time priced in American lives (“losers and suckers” though) and a new foreign entanglement that apparently is on a no-plan plan.
Either you are a dope or being intellectually dishonest un purpose to satiate your orange man bad psychological disorder.
Please follow along.
GROCERY, GAS, RENTS... ALL OF WAS PUT AT RECORD INFLATION UNDER THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION.
Sorry Trump has not corrected for your idiotic voting record in 14 months.
No Frank, everyone is saying you are a dope AND intellectually dishonest! Believe me, they know. It must be hard for you to keep chugging the Orange Kool-Aid, but like Trump you’ve got a big mouth that lets you take in by the gallon!!!
What were grocery prices, gas prices, rent, healthcare costs at the end of Biden's term? Comon little, small nuts and small brained Stevie. You can do it.
Poor Frank. Nobody likes him.
LOL. Big circle of friends Stevie. And they all think people like you are near braindead.
Poor Frank. Nobody likes him.
I'm in construction, when I did back of the envelope estimates I too knew import tariffs to be a small part of my costs. I did raise my prices a lot because I could. Our industry already reached a peak of illegal labor. I realized I was making more from equity investments and only work by myself to keep that revenue stream flowing.
Illegal labor still costs between $20 and $30 an hour, double that to figure taxes, insurance, profit. The industry has made vast improvements in labor saving devices since the 70s. Small things that add up. All roofing materials are delivered to the roof. Drywall is delivered through the windows on the first and second floor. Lumber packs also delivered to the second floor decking. Bobcats are everywhere, as well as little mini excavators. There is very little brute labor of carrying heavy things or pick and shovel work.
I think houses are much more involved than they used to be. Very tight, unskilled labor is planned in by engineers. Houses are no longer a simple box. 1,500 feet is now 3,000 with a 3 car garage too. Plumbers no longer solder pipes.
I keep increasing prices because the people I work for make a quarter to a half million a year per household. They want good work, no extra costs, no hassles. For their part they also don't sweat the small stuff or ask dumb questions and they pay when I'm done.
DiPlacido is correct, it is a naive error to blame tariffs and deportation directly for inflation. These are both microeconomic shocks that reduce real income, but alone cannot produce an increase in the average price of all goods and services (inflation) w/o validation by the Fed.
What these shocks do is raise the inflation rate that the Fed has to engineer to maintain full employment. By late 2024 the Fed had almost returned inflation to its target of 2% and was poised to succeed when the unfortunate change in tariff and deportation policies occurred. Attempting to reach its target in th face of the new tariffs and deportations would have risked recession.
With the Scotus decision overturning the IEEPA tariffs, this shock may be over. Deportations and the slowdown of legal immigration, however, are an ongoing series of shocks that will continue to prevent the Fed from achieving its long term target.
Alhough not within the scope of DePlacido's post, the spike in international petroleum prices are also a shock to relative prices that the Fed must acommodate (even though as a net energy exporter the US will receive a small terms of trade fillup to real GDP) and the same reasning applies. The additional shock and the Fed's response will be inflationry.
actual economics!
I love it when maga shows how beta they are. So much whining, so little time. Boys, (and maga is disproportionately boys, especially old, white boys like me), it's time to man up. Y'all have dominated the party for over a decade. You ARE the elites, you ARE the establishment. You control the entire federal government. Again.
The lame blame game is gettin kinda old. You need a new shtick. Workin folk are tired of bein gaslit by the Epstein Class while Don pockets billions. How bout a plan?
Or, are taco tariffs, the shredding of the rule of law, the disastrous BBB, and another Mideast war all ya got?
Factually correct but short on sharing the blame. Trump 1 administered the first two COVID stimulus checks in March 2020 and December 2020. Biden admisitered the third in March 2021. Yet not once in your essay did you mention Trump and Biden together adminstered those stimulus payments. You just blamed the payemnts, and correctly in my mind, as the foundation for high inflation. You didn't seem to have any problems blaming Biden for everything else.
Trump did his work before we knew that COVID was no more dangerous than the seasonal flu. It was after we knew that the Democrats used the fake claim of "relief" to push $6 additional trillion dollars into the economy with printed money and more national debt.
The inflation we are dealing with today is directly related to Democrat policies 2020 - 2024.
Frank, you do realize Don set the record for debt accumulation in term one? And the BBB, maga's revealed preference for fiscal and economic policy, puts him on track to break his record. All while screwing the workin stiffs he purports to care about...
Hang in there, and remember it's ok to have an identity that's different from aging, incoherent, angry politicians. I can't imagine lashing my identity to a mere pol.
Presidents don't spend what isn't approved by congress. Congress approved Trump's spending on the pandemic almost completely unanimous bipartisan. And this was when nobody knew what woukd happen. The your fucking cadaver boy Biden gets a complelety 100% Democrat partisan approval to dump another $6 trillion into an economy that proved already it did not need it. And they fucked everything up. You Democrats are fucking hazardous dopes.
Sorry Frank, I'm no Joepa fan, I'm a lifelong Republican who fled the party when Don appeared. I prefer conservatives, not con men. I'd vote for a canned ham before Don, at least the ham doesn't lie, nor would it pocket billions in crypto corruption. And unlike Don, a ham doesn't publicly brag about "acing" a test meant to detect dementia:) Do you read Don's daily bleats in their entirety, have you actually attended a rally? It's a damn close call on whether Don or Joepa is more incoherent, don't ya think?
In any event, ya gotta man up dude, you're way too beta. Whining about D's outsmarting Don, when Don is the self-proclaimed "very stable genius"? Don signed the bills, set the record, and he's on track to obliterate (like he supposedly "obliterated" Iran's nukes last year) his debt record thanks to his signature economic policy "achievement", the BBB.
Don, like every other president, will be judged by what happens on his watch. Maga/the Epstein Class/the "new" right, pick your name for Don's obedient flock. Regardless of your chosen moniker, you ARE the establishment, you ARE the elites, YOU control the entire federal government. No more whining, no more excuses.
Canceled cancel culture, deleted DEI and is eliminating destructive wokeism
The 10 year treasury is flirting with sub 4%
Mortgage rates fell below 6% for 1st time in 3 years
Rents are declining
Inflation per truflation is below 1%
Unemployment is less than expected and around 4.3%
The budget deficit is lower than expected
Income tax returns are 15% higher than last year
The stock market is flirting with record highs
Business-killing regulations are being eliminated
Company profits are at records
Record investment is flowing into reshoring industry and manufacturing
Net migration is negative
Opioid addiction and death are down significantly
Life expectancy is increasing
Big pharma power to push harmful drugs is being reduced
Big food power to use harmful ingredients is being reduced
US is on track to become an energy exporter again, with falling energy costs
Nuclear power is being promoted and fast-tracked
The southern border is secure
Dangerous illegal immigrants are being deported
Foreign investment at record highs due to tariffs
Prescription drug prices are falling thanks to Trump's MFN
State farm is reducing auto insurance premiums by 10%
Home prices are falling
Consumer spending is stead
Ah, so now it's the "we're in economic nirvana" argument:) Maga is so confusing, usually all we hear is grievance, whining, woe is America. Ya gotta get your story straight...
I fear you actually believe the above. And since one can't argue with a cultist, I won't try even though most of it is inane. But I picked out one that made me belly laugh. Tellingly, it was the first thing you listed-wokeism, DEI, cancel culture. This is what maga is actually about. It's all about who you hate, and owning the libs. Economic policy, and policy generally, matters not a whit. It's why you support his wild swings in policy regardless of how inconsistent they are. I suspect you once bought Don's lies on "dumb" Middle East wars, but have now flip flopped and are an eager supporter. Likewise, you bought the "drain the swamp" lie, yet now support his Chinese crypto corruption. You believed him when he said he'd balance the budget, yet now defend his fiscally reckless policies. I just love that. Maga isn't really about policy, is it?
But seriously Frank, Don "canceled cancel culture"? Don't tell Mike Pence, MTG, Don's first term cabinet, corporations, congressional R's who tell the truth, I could fill the page with Don's cancelations . Anyone who dares to question the dear leader is cast out. Thanks for the chuckle though:).
Back to Don's apparent economic nirvana we're enjoying. Joepa tried telling folks all was well too. Isn't it ironic that Don's approval on the economy is as low, or lower, than Joepa's? Maybe the good news hasn't yet trickled down from the Epstein Class billionaires to the workin stiffs?
Keep on believing my friend, it looks like Don's strategery is all coming together as we speak. After all, he "aced" that dementia test!
Yes. Both parties are to blame, and Trump has plenty of blame to shoulder himself. The worldwide chaos we are in right now with Iran is certainly no one's fault but Trump (and his entire campaign revolved around him not getting us in to war, remember?). He's pulling international and economic policy out of his a$$ and right now we are just hoping to survive what he has done. His presidency can't end soon enough.
You are so naive about the economic agenda.
Seasonal flu deaths 2016-2020 were 138,000. COVID 19 deaths in its first year, 2020, were 350,000. I’m having a hard time with your equivalency claim, Frank.
Great post! I'm already tired of the "affordability" issue, because it's just a way to tinker around with the price of this or that instead of demanding that employers pay US workers a decent wage. We'd rather discount a million grocery items and build a million houses with who knows what materials and God knows how far from where we work and have our friends and families. It always seems okay to trick prices into coming down (at least for a little while) - but to force wages up? Never!! (And when people have more lucrative things to do with their days, they piss away less time and money at the stores.) Thank you again!
Linked in comments at my post about the 'affordability' legislation now before the Senate:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/76256.html
You are not a Republican. But you are exhibit A for what happens when the algorithms control your news feed and completely wipe out all critical thinking capability to be replaced by irrational hate.
You are your fucking political heroes have made a dumpster fire out of the country and Trump was elected to fix problems that are decades and decades in the making, and in 13 months he has not fixed them all and you rant and rave about how terrible this is.
With people like you able to vote, no wonder the country grew to be such a mess. I am guessing you are from some liberal state where that place is also a dumpster fire.
You are just a parrot repeating TDS talking points without any ability to think or reflect. That list I put up are real accomplishments… many that Democrats only a decade ago would have supported.
You are not worth my time to dialog with.
As if on cue! Like Don, aka, the Canceler in Chief, you seem to have canceled me. Thanks for making my point. Correction though, I WAS a lifelong Republican but left because I did not want to be a maga/Epstein Class Republican. And I'm from a ruby red state.
I'm sorry to hear you hate your country and think it's a dumpster fire. I hear this a lot from maga/the Epstein Class. I don't remotely agree, I rather like my country. I often wonder why you stay here, and don't flee to one of the countries that supposedly ate our lunch? Since you hate it here so much, what country would you have preferred to inhabit during the last 40 years of global economic and technological revolution? Or, what period in American history would you have preferred to be born into? Please be specific.
As an aside, it's odd you assume blue jurisdictions are failed, this is a common Don trope. Do your own research and compare the blue counties (roughly 425 voted for Harris) and the red counties (roughly 2600 voted for Don) on various economic measures like GDP, personal income, wealth, etc. You'll see the small number of blue counties far outpace the red ones both in their respective shares of national economic output, and individual measures of well being. This largely explains Don's ability to gaslight his flock. They're more desperate, they're the ones in the country that are hurting the most, the ones that need hope and help the most. Don is similar to the demagogues of history, they often rise in periods of rapid economic and social transformation. They promise simple solutions, scapegoats-usually minority populations, and are marked by massive grift by the dear leader. Don fits the mold perfectly. He's a classic flimflam man, dime a dozen.
I don't hate it here at all. Still the best country on God's green earth. I am here to rid it of the political destruction that dope voters like you elect.
Yes I understand Don's "leadership" background, and the source of his wealth, is inheritance, game show hosting, and now crypto corruption. His tax returns were clear. His actual businesses were failing.
You've stated you support his crypto corruption. And that you'll support all presidents going forward doing the same. And you've flip flopped like Don, and are now a Middle East war champion. I'm sure you support Dons major economic achievement, the BBB, which shows you support his subsidies of plutocrats, record deficits, and his health care and other cuts for the working class slobs y'all purport to care about. You've indicated you're down with RFK's anti-science crusade-make sure your children and parents avoid those vaccines with the trackers!
Sounds to me like you'd believe anything Don instructed you to. Has there ever been another politician you've been such a disciple of? Slavish devotion can prove dangerous. Conspiracy theories can seem real.
Is there anything you disagree with him on? Or, if you managed to admit you still oppose Middle East wars, or disagree with dear leader on any other topic, are you afraid you'd be branded a rino, a marxist socialist communist left wing lunatic?
Hook. Line. Sinker.
Good luck in your crusade to vanquish the evildoers, there are many fellow Americans for you to battle. It sounds like quite a fulfilling mission for one's life. I just have a slightly different world view. I think we have a massive, incredibly diverse country, and having a civil society means we have to be willing to share it. I prefer spending time bringing it together, not doing the easy thing and tearing it apart for partisan purposes. This is another play from the playbook of demagogues throughout history. They sell hate and grievance, coupled with a ridiculous "I alone can fix it" lie. Sadly, many fell for Don's version. This is reflected in the exodus of college educated voters from my former party. Education level is now the most predictive indicator of party as they have traded college vs non-college voters.
Be well my friend.
I have an MBA, but earned it attending night school and weekends while working. I now hire PHDs in my job. I don't find much correlation between academic credential attainment and demonstrated critical thinking capability. In fact, I find it to be more often reversed.
Having an MBA certainly confers little in the way of a credential, I couldn't agree more, look what they've done to corporate governance. This of course is irrelevant to the political realignment I mentioned. I gave you my theory on why Don's simplistic message of grievance gains purchase among the workin stiffs he purportedly cares about, who also accept his open corruption and somehow believe his preposterous promises. All in spite of daily evidence that we can hear, see, and read. What's your theory?
One of my three favorite Don quotes, which always happen when he accidentally blurts out the truth, was when he opined: "I love the poorly educated!".
I am the first in my generation and the one before it on both sides of my family to earn a college degree. They are all from the Midwest. Blue collar. I started working at age 12. Did food service, ag, manufacturing, home construction, cabinet making, plumbing, electrical... and the computers. Was a corporate executive at age 24 doing IT. I have been CEO for the last 18 years of a small business finance company and CEO of a family business doing manufacturing.
Fuck the highly educated... something I consider myself to be.
Fuck the elite liberals... something I would never be.
Fuck the 1%... I am there.
Fuck the ruling class... I probably fit the socioeconomic model for it, but not the working side.
Fuck the rent-seekers, looters and gamblers that have supplanted private sector producers. I work in the productive private economy.
Trump agrees with me. I agree with Trump.
The working class and low-income citizens have been screwed by globalism and other fucked up social and economic policies of the administrative and Wall Street ruling class. It is way past time to screw the ruling class and return more of the rewards of economic growth to the bottom 80%.
I am not in politics for my greedy ass self. I have earned my own good life. I am in it for my kids and their kids and all the generations that come next. Fuck the greedy ass Baby Boomers... the most embarrassing generation that followed the Greatest Generation. I am one of those people by age. Born in 1960, but I reject membership. They suck.
This is well done and accurate and will be hated by those with Orange Man Bad mass psychosis.
They are the dopes that blame daddy Trump for not giving them enough hugs while he also does not bail them out with only 14 months in office for the years of economic destruction that their woke voting record caused.
Isn't it just so common with them. They don't believe they are accountable for any of their bad, wrong and stupid behavior. They f*ck things up and then scream a tantrum at the people having to clean up their diaper mess for not doing it fast enough.
Uh, Frank, maga is actually in charge. Still. Man up dude.
Soon the bots and AI Agents will be coming... lol
All true but does it matter
Well, it does matter because otherwise idiots will vote for the Democrats again who are responsible for all the inflation we are dealing with.
Both parties are running up debts and spending like there's no tomorrow. The Republican party has abandoned fiscal responsibility as well. Blaming it on one party is so 20th Century. Trump included on running up debt. He's worse than any of them. Don't be so naive!