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    Greatest economy? Isn’t this one of the cornerstones of the argument used to vote for trump? How the evil democrats said the economy was great (while simultaneously somehow acknowledging it wasn’t and trying to push policy through to boost it for middle class) and forgot about the little guy?

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    The greatest economy is when billionaires are bribing you specifically by donating to whatever dumb idea you stole from TV in exchange for regulatory capture

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    If you are a predatory Sociopathic Oligarch, than America is the greatest place to be plying your exploitation strategies, and indulging your OCD financial hoarding mental illness.

    It sucks for everyone else, but empathy is not something Trump understands. He probably doesn’t even know that world, just like he’d never heard the word GROCERIES before the last campaign.

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    If you substitute *rich people’s yacht money" for economy, then his statement becomes correct

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    It seems obvious to Trump the economy is great because of how many rubes and influence-seekers have bought his crypto.

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    Alternative title:

    Demented orange rapist sees things that aren’t there, yet he’s still not been removed from power.

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    The USA is fucking trash. These billionaires are literally cancer on our society.

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    A lot of people also don’t see that the Netherlands have been lifted from the Eurasian continent and landed on the Moon.

    In both cases, people don’t see it because it’s not true.

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      This is exactly the mistake that the Dems made going into 2024. They shouted from the rooftops about how great Biden’s economy was, while completely ignoring how cost of living was destroying the average person.

      Trump has managed to make those problems even worse, fritter away the few good things Biden’s economy did have going for it (low unemployment, significant investment in certain manufacturing sectors) and now they’re doing exactly the same play. But it’s going to take the Dems waking the fuck up and actually offering real solutions on cost of living to capitalise on this. That’s how they won on the 4th; every candidate that won, from progressives like Mamdami to moderate centrists, talked about affordability, the one thing Biden and Harris refused to acknowledge.

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      Presumably that’s all from stocks, so when the bubble pops they may be back to where they started.

      I mean, we can dream.