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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Thank you.
Rat governors and Deep State caused it.
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?
...because we were locked down?
I don’t think princess Emily is very bright.
This isn’t an argument, it’s a troll. Ignore it. Even liberals aren’t this stupid. Unless it’s deliberate.
LOL - anybody with half a brain knows the Democrats are responsible for that crap.
That’s a dude.
Gena, for heaven’s sake warn people before we scroll down to that kind of image.
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..
I always wondered what Alice Cooper looked like without makeup.
It was the demo crack mayors and governors who shut down the economy
That was the plan all along.
She kind of cute?
It’s a dude .
>>”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.
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.
Emily Peek was the young woman (who very much looks like a woman) that Simpson96 posted in Post #8
The article list Emily Peck, a horse-faced Huffpost alum.
The governors had the power...and shut everything down...based on sheer stupidity.
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