politics

No shit! Say it with me:

Conservatives control the media. Conservatives control the narrative. Reality does not reflect what people see.

When overnight the Joe Rogan interview with Trump had over 40 million views, the issue becomes clear.

Opinion: I Lost Because I Didn't Do Anything Wrong and Have no Lessons to Learn

biden getting flak over inflation is fucking hilarious.

The fed is literally irrelevant to the president, the president does not control inflation. Sure maybe his spending increased inflation. But the entire global economy was at a practical stand still. If you think getting a seized ICE working again is hard, try it with a global economy.

You can bitch all you want about inflation, but at the end of the day, nobody really knows what the right solution here was. We could've gone through another great depression event if not for global stimulus. And a few years of bad inflation and high costs will beat literally starving.

Consider this.

A few weeks before the election Donald Trump and Elon Musk had a little circle jerk podcast interview with each other. They spent time talking about how anti-union they are and how much they hate worker’s rights. Then working class Americans went out in droves and voted for those two rich assholes who openly talked about wishing workers had less rights.

We made a guy who was the first president in U.S. history to stand on a picket line with striking workers step down because he was old. Then we hired another equally old rich guy who openly talks about wishing workers had less rights.

Americans. Are. Stupid.

Our situation isn’t going to get better any time soon. For those of us who aren't boomers, we're basically locked into a lifetime of economic hardship.

Average american seems to be easily manipulated, especially if its about politics. No fact checking, just going with "gut" feeling.

It's not even a propaganda problem, per se, because most people aren't obsessively following the news and economic reports.

It's how they feel about money.

That was the biggest single issue.

People looked at grocery store prices and said, this is nuts, I was paying half this just four years ago.

It doesn't matter to them that global inflation skyrocketed along with inflation in the US, or that we're doing better than the rest of the world right now. They want to see prices go down, even though that would be deflation, which is incredibly bad for an economy.

His adminstration may have not created them. But the neoliberal Democrats that he represents did going all the way back to Clinton.

He also only deployed half measures or dragged his feet all the way until the last minute.

Same shit as always, the (relative) left actually does make an attempt to keep its promises but no on hears about it because the right wing own 90% of the media.

Because Americans are some of the stupidest people in the world.

Basically every American I personally know lives paycheque-to-paycheque as megacorps move in to bleed them dry on every front.

Remember when he first got elected and people blamed covid on him as a joke (it happened before he was in office)
...then now people actually believe it

Edit: point proven.

No, voters punished Biden for his inability to effectively communicate what he’s done to help them. This has been a consistent problem with the democrats, and with corporate media. Democrats need better spokespeople and better messaging.

They also need to stop catering to the ultra rich and moderate republicans because that shit turns off the base faster than crap messaging. There is no “liz cheney, nikki hayley” constituency as we saw last Tuesday.