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Why Trump supporters give him a pass on record-high unemployment
Axios ^ | 01 18 2024 | Emily Peck

Posted on 01/18/2024 5:05:54 PM PST by yesthatjallen

Supporters of former President Donald Trump cite his economic record as a reason to vote for him, but that's a bit puzzling.

Why it matters: Trump's economic record is only good if you leave off what happened from March 2020 to the end of his administration.

Zoom in: When the pandemic hit, the jobless rate soared to a record 14.8% — a level not seen since the Great Depression.

The rate did come down a bit after that, but when Trump left office there were fewer jobs in the country than when he got there — the first time that's happened since Herbert Hoover was president.

There were long lines at food pantries. Gas prices fell a lot — to $1.77 a gallon in April 2020 — something both the former president and his supporters note. But that was because the country was on lockdown and demand for gas plummeted.

The big picture: Trump supporters may be just giving him a pass on the pandemic economy, as the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes.

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Timber Rattler

Thank you.


21 posted on 01/18/2024 5:21:16 PM PST by nwrep
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To: yesthatjallen
Not a pandemic. A LOCKDOWN.

Rat governors and Deep State caused it.

22 posted on 01/18/2024 5:21:37 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: yesthatjallen

Zoom in: When the pandemic hit, the jobless rate soared to a record 14.8% — a level not seen since the Great Depression.

The rate did come down a bit after that, but when Trump left office there were fewer jobs in the country than when he got there — the first time that’s happened since Herbert Hoover was president.


What complete doofus this guy, Peck, is. He explained his own ‘gotcha’.

They aren’t graduating the smartest, from indoctrination stations, are they?


23 posted on 01/18/2024 5:21:45 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: yesthatjallen

...because we were locked down?


24 posted on 01/18/2024 5:22:00 PM PST by struggle
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To: yesthatjallen

I don’t think princess Emily is very bright.


25 posted on 01/18/2024 5:22:41 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Democrats never backstab each other the way the sorry Republicans do. There is no GOP.)
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To: yesthatjallen

This isn’t an argument, it’s a troll. Ignore it. Even liberals aren’t this stupid. Unless it’s deliberate.


26 posted on 01/18/2024 5:22:47 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: yesthatjallen

LOL - anybody with half a brain knows the Democrats are responsible for that crap.


27 posted on 01/18/2024 5:23:16 PM PST by Allegra (Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
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To: Gena Bukin

That’s a dude.


28 posted on 01/18/2024 5:23:20 PM PST by Yogafist
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To: Gena Bukin

Gena, for heaven’s sake warn people before we scroll down to that kind of image.


29 posted on 01/18/2024 5:25:00 PM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Timber Rattler

The ‘gods’ of science caused it.. President Trump followed the ‘science’.. he would have been impeached and convicted if he had ignored the ‘gods’!

But the small minded will be the last to literally describe what took place..


30 posted on 01/18/2024 5:27:03 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: Gena Bukin

I always wondered what Alice Cooper looked like without makeup.


31 posted on 01/18/2024 5:27:47 PM PST by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: yesthatjallen

It was the demo crack mayors and governors who shut down the economy


32 posted on 01/18/2024 5:27:54 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: yesthatjallen

That was the plan all along.


33 posted on 01/18/2024 5:29:27 PM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: Gena Bukin

She kind of cute?
It’s a dude .


34 posted on 01/18/2024 5:33:20 PM PST by cp124 (The Democrats hate America.)
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To: yesthatjallen

>>”Supporters of former President Donald Trump cite his economic record as a reason to vote for him, but that’s a bit puzzling.”

Wow, Emily!. You have granite level stupidity (dumb as a rock) if you find it puzzling.


35 posted on 01/18/2024 5:33:48 PM PST by mbrfl
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To: yesthatjallen

Well, in a way, she has a point. If he had ordered Fraudulent Fauci and scarf woman arrested and waterboarded, the WuFlu “pandemic” would have fizzled and the economy would not have tanked.

So the Axios lesson for Trump in the event of a “Disease X Pandemic” is to immediately arrest the top staff of the CDC and the FDA? Seems a bit harsh, but an Axios recommendation should be given some consideration.


36 posted on 01/18/2024 5:34:42 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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To: cp124; simpson96
She kind of cute? It’s a dude .

Emily Peek was the young woman (who very much looks like a woman) that Simpson96 posted in Post #8

37 posted on 01/18/2024 5:36:01 PM PST by Gena Bukin
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To: simpson96

The article list Emily Peck, a horse-faced Huffpost alum.


38 posted on 01/18/2024 5:37:17 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI)
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To: yesthatjallen

The governors had the power...and shut everything down...based on sheer stupidity.


40 posted on 01/18/2024 5:47:36 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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