It’s amazing what tariffs and uncertainty can do to an economy.
Good luck getting Captain Accountability to acknowledge his fuck up.
He’s just gonna double down and incoherently yell “TARIFFS!” into the mic.
You know that famous saying “the buck stops… over there somewhere.”
Are we going to start polling on things like what the current temperature is outside, too?
I guess this is more about how delusional some wingers are going to be about the most basic of facts.
Are we going to start polling on things like what the current temperature is outside, too?
My stats prof in college actually used to do this, and the average guess was always within half a degree of the true temperature. Still not worth doing given that thermometers exist, but interesting nevertheless.
You can only deny reality for so long, that receipt don’t lie
It seems like 18% are making a go of it.
I just saw a clip on MeidasTouch of some Republicunt staring straight into the camera and denying a simple, verifiable fact like what the GDP was under Biden, though, so these people are very good at lying to others as well as themselves.
Inflation has always been fake, under both republicans and democrats. Hedonic adjustments mean that as your car gets worthless features, like not having door handles, the money supply grows, then food gets more expensive. As people substitute for cheaper food as prices rise the basket then changes, so inflation is hidden as people substitute steak for ground beef; grocery stores then shrinkflate goods so quality also goes down. Housing is almost entirely eradicated from the CPI, they instead ask a boomer who bought their house for a sack of potatoes what they think their rent would theoretically be.
If you measure prices in a commodity like gold, which doesnt grow in supply 8% a year, its far clearer what real inflation is. This is how the stock market can triple every decade while it doesnt seem like we are any more productive, going from iphone 7 to iphone 17 didnt triple the size of our economy.
And 18% can’t do math.
Yeah, which is like, a quarter of all Americans!
