Its messed up how in the US, the real economy (IE jobs, goods produced, production facilities, wage rates, costs of food, cost of housing, eviction rates, homelessness numbers), is so completely divorced from the “imaginary economy” of the finance sector and the stock market. The WSJ can choose financial metrics and fabricate almost any story they want to, because “success” is never demonstrated not by domestic production, but adjusting the time-span width of plots of the stock market to show booms, or GDP which incorrectly shows value actually produced by global south workers, or labor rates that don’t include those who have dropped out, or who are in the gig economy and without stable employment.
The transition from an industrial economy to one based on finance capital and real estate is pretty much complete. Most countries don’t import much from the US, because it produces nothing of value. The only thing I hear all the older boomers in my home town talk about, the only game left in town, is real estate speculation, not actual production.
Im weeks away from one year unemployment. Maybe my situation is special but have never had issues getting work like this before.
Same. Pretty decent resume as software engineer, 100s of applications, and like 3 interviews total, none of which hired me.
But TRUMP said it so it’s TRUE!
-Republicans who Do Their Own Research TM!
That’s been the case for years. We get our struggles acknowledged now that it’s under Trump. We were gaslit under Biden’s recession.
If Harris wins, the Democratic base will continue to sleep. You can do anything when the Dems are in the WH. It was under Trump that protesters shut down airport terminals, but under Biden the base sleeps regarding immigration & asylum. That’s what Glenn Greenwald and I learned from the GWB to Obama transition: the Dems sleep when their team is in office. Greenwald “changed” from hero to villain without changing the least bit; the only difference was who was in office. Unlike the Dem-aligned media, he didn’t go to sleep.
You can war as much as you want. You can run a fucking star chamber. You can stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody.
This is exactly how I’ve tried to explain to people that the Dems are the greater evil, and the GOP the lesser. The Dems work in the cover provided by the media & their base, and end up doing far more damage under far less scrutiny and transparency.
Not that it’s a worthwhile distinction at this point. They both need to be stopped, for the survival of the species.
recently stumbled across an article from 2018 that said pretty much the same thing. the more things change the more they stay the same.
Fucking hell, Trump is just as bad as Biden, if not even worse!
I’d argue Biden is worse. Trump is honest about being a terrible person, Biden pretends to be good.
He’s lying in this one
Trump lying about being a terrible person? He doesn’t try to hide it all which makes opposing him easy. Biden, Harris, and other Democrats though pretend to be good people when they are not.
Yes, of course
Do you remember the Biden concentration camps? No? BECAUSE THERE WERE NONE you fucking imbecile
Yes
Biden extended contracts to private immigration jails despite reports of ‘horrific’ conditions
This on top of bombing Iraq and Syria within his first 50 days. I don’t even have to mention the genocide in Gaza which he has enabled through arming Israel as well as the vetoing ceasefire at the UN multiple times and voting against Palestinian right to self determination at the UN.
It is not like Democrats ever had a problem with concentration camps. Remember what FDR did to Japanese Americans? Democrats are just better at messaging and optics.
