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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I'm really sick of that kind of writing. Report the facts; don't tell us how or what to think. Same thing with "What you need to know" or worse "X-Number of Fast Facts You Need to Know".
What the heck is a "Fast Fact", anyway?
Responding to the reality of a pandemic has nothing to do with his economic record. The meltdown that would have occurred from more people getting sick would have brought the economy down just as much with many more people dead.
Could things have been done differently in hindsight? Sure. We don’t get the luxury of future hindsight when decisions have to be made in the then-present. He was also dealt the blow of having the nation’s emergency pandemic supplies for health care providers completely depleted by Obama/Biden and never replenished - of course he took the blame for that and Obama/Biden got off scot free in the media.
Don’t perpetuate further false narratives.
You’re a Trump hater and you support the war in Ukraine. More proof that you’re a democrat.
Zeeper troll
The state governments shut down their states, president Trump didn’t shut down the country
I can’t find my can of troll begone
Why the long face, Em-manly?
Emily "I'm A Manly Tranny" Peck actually went there.
"She" actually quoted The Kruggie like he is an authority on anything.
Who believes COVID-19 was a naturally occurring virus? NOBODY. Who believes that it came from eating bats at a wet market in Wuhan? NOBODY. Who remembers all the (now proven) lies that everyone was fed from the “scientists” at the W.H.O. and N.I.H and US D.H.H.S. and the rest of the medical community that was used as a political weapon? EVERYONE. The time for reckoning is upon us.
Also, I would point out that when your sight returns, look not at her, but to the left where you can see that she has arranged her bookshelf according to the coloring of the spines. Not only is this wowman batshit OCD, but over something that is utterly irrelevant. And putting all the books with black spines together on the lower shelf is just profoundkty sick. Is she in mourning over those books or what? Ths is one disturbed chick.
Didn’t see that you caught it. See my post above.
She looks like John Kerry, only somehow more masculine.
She looks like John Kerry, only somehow more masculine.
She looks like John Kerry, only somehow more masculine.
Dude looks like a… dude.
How special she(?) rainbow color coordinates the books on shelves
Following the fine FR tradition of not reading the article, the posted excerpt certainly gives that impression.
Was it even a crash? It was an artificial shutdown. Pathetic.
Sometimes you can just tell the stupid from the sane, by their words alone. This author is truly stupid.
She also segregated all the books with white spines. Is she a racist as well as stupid?
Anyone who cites Paul Krugman as a reliable source is even stupider than he.
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