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The stock market isn’t the economy, at least as most Americans experience it, though it is the same metric that Trump and his followers used to show how “strong” the economy was during his term.

If I had a nickel for every time some Trump apologist said “sure, Trump’s a jerk, but how’s your 401(k)?” during 2017-2021, I’d have… a lot of nickels.

Reality truly doesn't matter anymore. They just want to scream whatever they want to.

Says the "businessman" who bankrupted his own casinos and achieved his company wealth through fraud.

ETA: that is a very unflattering photo, holy shit.

The stock market is not a 1:1 representation of the spending power of your dollar. The stock market is how well your overlords are doing, not you, the average american.

trump lies about everything but the stock market has ever-decreasing relevance to the average american because it reflects the value of property and the average american is being shut out of owning anything.

I said it during the Trump admin and I say it still. The stock market is not the economy and I don't really care how much money the top 1% owning the majority of stocks are ~~making~~ skimming.

Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every word.

By every metric they ridiculed Obama over, and praised Trump for (forget delayed-onset of policy effects from Obama), they suddenly ignore for Biden lmao.

Gas coming down, inflation rate down, stock markers up, unemployment good, et.

Republicans have no need for facts and truth, truthiness and alternative facts are all they need and Trump's word is all of that wrapped up in a nice racist package.

It's all president drink bleach can do - constantly forecast doom and gloom to the people who aren't happy without something to spend every waking moment worrying about.

It's a drug to them worse than heroin.

I guess Trump is currently in the one in a depression phase.

He's always saying some bullshit, can we move on?

Okay but it isn't for normal people. Your made up numbers have nothing to do with the average person.

I seem to recall the stock market doing extremely well right up to 1929...

That's donnie, really tuned into the reality of things, at least as Faux "News" portrays them.

I was gonna say.... things were looking pretty great today.

Even though my burger today was not $3.60, but was in fact $2.35. ok Trump.. you fucking idiot

So here's the thing: remember facts don't care about your feelings? That is, and has always been, bullshit projection. Conservatives react by emotion just as often as, or even more than, liberals. So we're all pissed off most of the time.

On a surface level, liberals and conservatives are mostly in agreement on one thing: things are kind of bad. Rent is skyrocketing, and groceries are taking more and more of what little is left. The homeownership that was promised to our grandparents, an assumption of our parents, is for us a distant dream, at best. We're also waking up to the reality that retirement will no longer be a thing by the time we get to that age. These realizations are not giving a pleasant view of our future.

So economists can point to very real facts that demonstrate that Bidenomics is working, inflation is slowing, and the market is recovering. Well, fuck all that. I still end up scraping by every month on pocket change and prayers. The facts out of the White House feel like lies. I don't feel any better just because someone I don't trust tells me that things are getting better. I am more likely to feel that things are only getting worse, because that's been the trend for the past eight years.

In short, my feelings don't care about your facts.