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Stock market goes up: Trump economy! Stock market goes down: Biden left us a shitty economy!

Same will happen here.



Of course they'll say it. I just doubt that many people will believe it.


The last decade doesn't give me much doubt about that.

We're talking about folks who non-ironically walk around with signs saying "keep government out of my medicare". https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/0...

> 44 percent of Social Security recipients, and 40 percent of Medicare recipients, believe that they don’t benefit from any government social program.


That's sad, but check recent polls in Trump's approval rating for various issues. He's underwater and trending down, pretty much across the board.

https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker


He's deeply underwater on the Epstein issue too, really botched that one


Why not? They're already primed to hate Obamacare. All you have to do is say that prices went up because of the law, not these changes, and they'll believe it.


Spend a bit of time talking with tradesmen and you'll change your mind on that.

These people aren't stupid - far from it! I work with electricians all day and they're sharp as tacks. But most of 'em have been lied to so long they buy it all, hook, line, and sinker. Quite a few of them get drawn in by the social conservative outlook and then just go along with the rest of it.


Yes, but only about a third of voters are hard-core MAGA. There's a big group in the middle that pays less attention to politics, and swung for Trump mostly for economic reasons.


You don't have to be hardcore MAGA to buy the bullshit. You just have to have the right assumptions beforehand, a limited and biased source of information, and enough lack of interest to not question what you're told. When you're surrounded by similar people with one or two true believers in the mix, you have to make a conscious effort to hear the other side. A lot of people don't do that. "Economy sucks, oh it's Biden's fault? Figures."



Well their supporters are, quite frankly, unrepentant morons that have believed literally anything broadcast on their absolutely enormous propaganda machine for two decades.

I'm not exactly holding my breath that they'll suddenly grow a brain to connect cause and effect against the word of Dear Supreme God King.


Biden. Lol. Trump is still blaming Obama for stuff for some reason.

(Yes, we all know the reason)




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