Donald Trump and the Republicans are insisting the economy is great and unhappy Americans are deluded. Just like Democrats under Joe Biden, they’re lying to themselves and everyone else — and will eventually pay the price.
  • Jhex@lemmy.world
    432·
    2 months ago

    lucky for the republicans, the American people will just bow in silence and wait for the non existent democracy to save them

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
    41·
    2 months ago

    We live in a company town now. Every cent that comes in goes right back out. No savings. No retirement. Our paychecks are picked apart by fees, middlemen, subscriptions to things we used to own, corporations forcing us into choose to pay for everything or figuratively live in a cave disconnected from society. CoL and inflation increases that pay never keeps up with, working more hours, harder, with less people, for stagnant pay, and never getting a break or vacation.

    Broke doesn’t mean living in a box under a bridge. You can still have the trappings of modern life, but be a complete slave to the grind with no end in sight.

  • QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    2 months ago

    Donald Trump’s the kinda guy who considers World Hunger over because he just had a Big Mac. It’s not that he’s ignorant to other people’s suffering, he just doesn’t give a shit.

    • Decq@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 months ago

      Oh he’s also very ignorant of it. But that’s because he doesn’t considers those people to be people. So he doesn’t give it a thought

    • ManOMorphos@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      And sometimes the distress inflicted is absolutely intentional, so he does give a shit sometimes but only in the worst way.

  • Gates9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    They will be saying this until they all have to move to military bases like Stephen Miller because people are burning their fucking houses down

    • Zink@programming.dev
      3·
      2 months ago

      I think his internal answer is “it doesn’t matter” but the narcissism gives him just enough energy to continue to gaslight, obstruct, and project to keep the attention flowing.

    • orbitz@lemmy.ca
      3·
      2 months ago

      It’s worse than that, no one (well that he doesn’t hang with) are even people to Trump. They’re devices to toy with and to his delight and give him power over a soon to be known as an ex great natiion. We can quibble about the great part but no denying they were a respected entity, now they’re a laughing stock. Least they paid lip service to being better before.

    • ManOMorphos@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      Sometimes I feel like they’re fucking up the economy intentionally. I notice that it’s always enough to fuck over everyone who isn’t rich but never enough to screw up the stock market. Maybe they just want to get rid of the middle class while attempting to make themselves impossible to vote out.

      • Exatron@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        The billionaires, and a disturbing number of people who aren’t wealthy, long for feudalism.

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
    14·
    2 months ago

    I remember reading somewhere how part of why Yugoslavia collapsed was because the high ups in the communist party knew about a whole lot of problems but they chose to do nothing to not trouble the old man Tito, so things festered.

  • ViceroTempus@lemmy.world
    111·
    2 months ago

    We don’t have to be… We could just start taking out Billionaires and taking their wealth and assets through physical force. It certainly looks like a more attractive option by the day to me.

    • amniote@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      The US is a financial sovereign. It has the monopoly over its currency: You don’t need the rich ! Govments within a financial sovereign can decide/agree in congress to pay for things they want with the only limit being that the thing/service is available in that currency. It’s called MMT, as american as apple pie, and no MMT is not communist.

      Why do the rich hate MMT? Because they get paid risk free interest by offering the guvment their money.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 months ago

    Yet the truth exists on all Gas billboard signs throughout, and across, the country.

    • TransNeko@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      I actually met one of those “gas prices are lower now with trump than with biden, it’s only $3 a gallon” maga morons. best part to show how delusional this idiot was? we were both at a gas station filling up gas that cost $5 a gallon cash ($5.13 if card).