How Can This Country Possibly Be Electing Trump Again? (www.reddit.com)

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[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 49 points 6 months ago

God what fucking world are these people living in? The economy is good??? Inflation is solved??? My grocery and gas bills are still nearly double what they were before Biden took office so I’m going with “That’s a fucking lie”

[-] ryepunk@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago

Don't you see they have statistics on their side though!

I'm so tired of hearing "real wage growth has rebounded faster than ever before!"

Really? In what fucking jobs that working class people are working? You telling me grocery store workers are getting paid more? Or delivery drivers? Looking into the data I'm sure the growth is entirely driven by the top 40% of earners who don't love in anything close to the precarity that average working class folks do.

The only reason there is any gains at all is because unions are striking and just vaguely point at rent increases and grocery food prices and even company negotiators are forced to grant giant raises because public perception would annihilate them otherwise.

Claiming Biden caused any of this is ludicrous. He made the rich get richer and we have to fight tooth and nail for every cent we claw back from them. Fuck Biden he deserves to lose, and it's a shame Trump is the alternative, because the path forward is bad or worse.

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

Yeah your grocery bill may have doubled, but now it won't double again (for a while) - we solved your problem!

[-] very_poggers_gay@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

libs pointing to a graph that shows the rate of inflation went down from 9% to 4% per year

See? Things are getting cheaper so you can't even complain anymore

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Meanwhile the average worker is looking at a 3% raise per year if they're lucky. Usually 0% or some fixed 25¢ amount.

Real wages went up because they went down slightly slower! Well, only if your inflation calculation ignored necessities like food, housing, and energy.