It's the economy, stupid.

[O Really]

So it's not unusual for one President to try to blame a mess on the predecessor, in fact they usually run on those issues. But the interesting thing about Tru*p is that everybody lets him blame Biden for, for example, gas prices and housing costs yet nobody seems to expect him to have any solutions. If he's gonna say that it's Biden's fault gas prices went up right after he attacked Iran, shouldn't he also be expected to say "and I'm gonna fix it. I'm gonna..." But the closest he's come is just saying prices will "drop like a rock" after the election.

No, I don't expect Tru*p to be all of a sudden rational. It's just a continuing mystery why those who apparently think he can fix it never ask how.

[GoCubsGo]

Not being mentioned nearly enough is the price of heating oil for the upcoming winter.

Heating oil is basically diesel. It's gonna cost people a fortune to heat their homes.

GoElNinoGo!

[Vrede too]

Not being mentioned nearly enough is the price of heating oil for the upcoming winter.

Heating oil is basically diesel. It's gonna cost people a fortune to heat their homes.

GoElNinoGo!

It's being mentioned in northern battlegrounds ME, MI and NH. Voters are filling their tanks right now.

[neoplacebo]

Noticed this story about how the US economy performs under Democrats and under Republicans.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/art ... 08708.html

[Vrede too]

Noticed this story about how the US economy performs under Democrats and under Republicans.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/art ... 08708.html

... Since the Republican President Dwight Eisenhower, about 70% of all jobs have been created during Democratic administrations, and in recent decades, the percentage is more than 90%. Of the 11 recessions the country suffered between 1953 and 2020 — when the pandemic began — 10 began while a Republican was in the White House.

Although he had once headed the Screen Actors Guild, Reagan kicked off the GOP's modern union-busting zeal, treating union members as badly as he did university kids, our infrastructure of the future, as governor of California. This points to another factor that macroeconomic statistics do not tell us: Democrats are not only better stewards of the economy, but they also want the wealth created by American workers to be shared more equitably and for the social safety net to be made more robust, so Americans can better weather any financial vicissitudes.

Democrats also understand that the economy depends on healthy, educated, informed workers, and that the performance of parents in the workforce increases when they have access to affordable quality childcare.

... As Salon's Amanda Marcotte recently noted, the right's perversion of the message of Jesus knows no bounds; to justify their greed and avarice, they are taught that it is inconceivable to be Christian and vote other than Republican, which is yet another colossal lie by the GOP....

[Vrede too]

Not being mentioned nearly enough is the price of heating oil for the upcoming winter.

Heating oil is basically diesel. It's gonna cost people a fortune to heat their homes.

GoElNinoGo!

It's being mentioned in northern battlegrounds ME, MI and NH. Voters are filling their tanks right now.

AK and MT are apparently also now battlegrounds.

[neoplacebo]

And the Dakotas and Wyoming have winters that make rocks crack if they're dropped.

[Vrede too]

And the Dakotas and Wyoming have winters that make rocks crack if they're dropped.

Idk if the Diesel Disaster, the Fuel Oil Fool, is campaigning in them, too.

New Numbers Show Just How Badly Trump Wrecked the Economy

... Gas prices alone rose 9.1 percent in September, accounting for almost half of the overall price increase. Fuel oil, what most people use to heat their houses, also shot up 15.3 percent. That's the biggest increase since March, shortly after the beginning of the Iran war, which is still very much unresolved.

I didn't know that most people rely on it. FU, MAGA.

... The numbers we like go down, the numbers we don't like go up. So goes the economic world in Trump's second term, with no end to the trend in sight.