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People are still super angry about government audits. A refreshed war is always a good distraction.
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Trump (when someone else is president and the market goes down 1%): FIRE BIDEN!
Trump (when he is president and markets drop 5%): We're not looking at Wall Street. We're looking at Main Street!
(Despite inflation increasing, GDP decreasing, and the economy going to shit based on his actions)

Trump's economic dude: Wealth is not being able to buy cheap goods. We're going for prosperity.

If prosperity isn't having wealth to buy things, what is it?
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We're two months in. No one is going to not blame Biden yet, and wont take seriously those who do, no matter what all the mathy stats say. Doing so is how the idiot got elected again.
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TheCatt wrote: Tue Mar 04, 2025 2:43 pm Image
You got faked.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2 ... ould-be-i/
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Aw man. Felt pretty believable. I do remember a Monday in Biden's term (early 2024, maybe? since the campaign was going) when Republicans went apoplectic about the stocks going down about 1.5%, then they rebounded that same week. But, I do not recall Trump being one of them.

They sure don't care now.
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I think we're past the point where it's going to be either all fake, or all wildly out of context, because it isn't about educating people, it's about pissing them off and getting ad impressions. They keep the firehose on blasting in our faces like a porn shoot at Leisher's house, and by the time the thing 3 days ago gets revealed as fake, 8000 new things have been blasted down your throat like a porn shoot at Leisher's house.

I have a feeling all the fakeness slowly alters your perception of reality.

The other side, while identical in all ways, starts to look like monsters.

Nah it would never come to that, americans are too smart.
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GORDON wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:56 am Nah it would never come to that, americans are too smart.
And nevermind that there's basically 5 places people get information from, and the top 2 are twitter + tiktok.
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TheCatt wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:57 am
GORDON wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:56 am Nah it would never come to that, americans are too smart.
And nevermind that there's basically 5 places people get information from, and the top 2 are twitter + tiktok.
like a porn shoot at leisher's house
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..... thanks Biden?
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GORDON wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:56 am I think we're past the point where it's going to be either all fake, or all wildly out of context, because it isn't about educating people, it's about pissing them off and getting ad impressions.
Why spend any money at all "researching" current events, when you can just read what someone else paid for, spin it to be more sensational, then firehose it out for your advertising impressions? You don't even need to print a retraction 3 days later if you get called out. That was 3 news cycles ago and the firehose is still covering everything like Leisher in the middle of all those black guys at the porn shoot.

It's almost bad business to be careful and get the story right. That costs money and no one cares, they just want to hear "Damn those guys over there are fucking nazis, just like how you suspected!"
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GORDON wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 7:56 am They keep the firehose on blasting in our faces like a porn shoot at Leisher's house, and by the time the thing 3 days ago gets revealed as fake, 8000 new things have been blasted down your throat like a porn shoot at Leisher's house.
I bolded the important wording used.
GORDON wrote: Fri Mar 07, 2025 5:02 pm It's almost bad business to be careful and get the story right.
This is correct and why traditional outlets are losing to new outlets and also reporting bullshit more often. Information now moves far too fast for fact checking. Profit > Getting a story right.
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S&P down 2.5%
NASDAQ down 4%

But hey, at least oil's down 1%.
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Everything's topsy turvey. Now the economy is bad the peeps with big stock portfolios, and good for peeps for whom their energy bill is a decent chunk of their monthly budget.
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GORDON wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 3:04 pm Everything's topsy turvey. Now the economy is bad the peeps with big stock portfolios, and good for peeps for whom their energy bill is a decent chunk of their monthly budget.
Clearly you haven't been paying attention to natural gas prices under Trump. Up 50%.

Recession isn't good for many people, stock or no stock.
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My last gas bill did not go up.
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GORDON wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 4:06 pm My last gas bill did not go up.
Most regulated utilities are only allowed to adjust prices once a year.
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Well you are correct, aside from the natural gas price that affects me directly, I have not paid attention to it. And it has also not affected me yet.

Topsy turvey. Bad for stocks, good for poors, economy is now terrible.
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GORDON wrote: Mon Mar 10, 2025 5:57 pm . Bad for stocks, good for poors, economy is now terrible.
I need to understand what's good for poors in a recession.
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