… the donors want the Democrats in office just long enough to fix the economy, but out of office before they can shift their focus to fixing the tax system.

@@TRE45ON.is.Bat5hit.Crazy.U.S.G absolutely true !! But they’ll neve own up to it they lie and say the economy was falling when they took over , pathetic liars that they are , they give tax breaks to the rich and make the poor snd middle class pick up the tab for it just like trump did , and with a repub. house Joe hasn’t been able to raise the riches taxes back ti where they actually pay taxes !! 🤬

Every single time there's a Republican in the White House, the economy tanks and there's a recession. This has been true across my entire life. It's so damned reliable that I can't even tell where the myth that Republicans were ever any good for the economy came from. They make the owner class wealthier, no doubt. Everyone else always does worse. Every. Single. Time.

You are absolutely correct. I'm 65 so that 40 years.....that's pretty much my adult life. Every time a Democrat is in the W.H. I make money BUT then the genius American public votes in a republiscum and the economy TANKS and I lose a bunch. A Democrat replaces the moron and I start making money again. Happens every time. The worst part of this undeniable trend? *I'M CANADIAN!!!!* I don't get a vote but I sure get to pay for those who do!

Truth! And, if you point out facts like these, the cognitive dissonance is so thick it can be cut with a knife. I believe it has to do with the way he makes his followers feel, not to mention some heavy Ruzzian style propaganda techniques. We have to do our best to break through, so we don't have a return to that level of cravenness in government.

Thank you for the truth.

Agreed.. and MSM should be stating that..but they are complicit with tRump.

• *Flatlined a strong economy even before the pandemic* • *Lost around 300,000 manufacturing jobs as almost 2,000 US manufacturing plants closed because of Trump trade war* • Managed to increase the trade deficit by *$218 BILLION DOLLARS* in just four years • Wasted MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars on golf with much of it lining his own pockets • Wasted MILLIONS on rebranding part of the Air Force to the likings of Star Trek • Wasted MILLIONS on a 50-mile Mexican/US border wall that Mexico NEVER agreed to pay for (the border is 2,000 miles long)

Most of that was before COVID except the total jobs losses.

All of that is true. But you have to include context: covid. He didn't cause that. He did mismanage it like a MF. BUT we don't know what would have happened had he not. Beau is correct here. It was good at first: because he inherited Obamas economy. I am not a Democrat, or a Republican, for the record. I vote my conscience on individual candidates and what I believe their character is and what policies I think they will support.

And Project 2025 will kill American freedoms.

Ya wanna know what's rly fuked about that. I'll tell ya anyways, SCOTUS overturned Chevron, when CFPB, FTC all have several massive cases worth well over a few trillion in stolen wealth over price fixing(animal feed, food costs, energy cost, pharmacuticals, list keeps going), rent fixing, stock market manipulation, Bitcoin release and so much fuking more. EPA had a few serious things on it as well, legit town killers and a single country killer on their docket for the next several years. Check out 'perfect union' if you wanna know more, several of their videos are directly linked to this. The supreme court has got to fuking go, they have no credibility, they RN are public enemy #1. SCOTUS stopping those cases by overturning the Chevron act will be literally the biggest fuk over that has ever been done to Americans, CFPB alone was eyeing 8 trillion that was wrongfully taken from consumers and the FTC was going after some of the stock makers. Even had their eyes on Musk and Tesla

Before Covid, wages were starting to go up slightly. If Trump were smart he would've taken credit for it by saying his tough on immigration policies were working and shrinking the labor pool, which is an distasteful thing to say out loud but true. But he's such a mind boggling idiot that he is taking credit for the covid emergency measures, which he enacted far too late. Saying the border was perfect when he left office is just stupid to say and you'd have to be an abject moron to buy it. The whole world shut down immigration. The one good thing he did was Warp Speed and he backed away from it and now seems to always imprecisely blame vaccines on Biden. Biden's administration mandated vaccines on 'Federal workers" and nobody else. Corporations, businesses, states, and municipalities mandated them at their discretion. Now that I'm thinking about it, I wasn't exactly struggling before the pandemic but I was working two jobs. Now I am also not struggling but I am working one job and making more money.

"Before the pandemic wages were repressed" wages did go up under trump. they went up more under Biden. "Trump is not going to help the economy- " i've been asking folks who complain about prices if they think that somehow magically prices will go down if trump gets in office.

Dude: this is NOT the take. I'm not struggling, either, my housing costs are stable (so far), but rents have been SKYROCKETING. A lot of people are in the "3 jobs and barely making ends meet" category. Don't flaunt your privilege by saying "it's fine for me so there isn't really any problem."

Exactly. I could barely notice the economy because I was in a constant state of anxiety.

My thoughts turning on the news every day during the tRump admin: "What fresh hell is this?"

Truth!🍀

He had pros make the playbook and have the agency to deal with outbreaks after Ebola. A smoke detector so the WHO could get ahead of things. Trump took the batteries out of the smoke detector, to save money. "We can get these people back here very quickly"

Someone on twitter called him a slick Willy con. I thought it was fitting.

Who else remembers George C Scott ?

Lol. Nice

Sarcasm at it's best😅

Yeah, those $40 will get anybody a long way. Lol

Oil and hedge fund execs got new yachts and that's what matters at the end of the day

😂

Demand is high the price is HIGH... While demand is lOw the price goes dOWn... When the country was shut dOWn less people drove.

Dont forget the culterCONS voted AGAINST the gas price gouging bill after all their hypocritical whining about it!! 🙄

@@jerrykinyon111the average American citizen acts like they have DOWNs syndrome too… anyone who votes Red is brain dead.

Just remind them that claiming credit for cheap gas also claims responsibility for the shutdowns. Make Breadlines Great Again?

@@Combatwhombat Amnesia - explains when one forgets... what one says. Calling for violence... Then saying there is violence. Questions their intelligence.

Showed you speak your mind without sensor. Straight to the point👍

There are a lot of stupid people in this Country that believe republi”con” bullshit. That is why we have the problems we have

That’s the GOP way

He’s been a failure almost his entire life but just pretended he was a success.

"never take responsibility" was a lesson he learned from dear old daddy.

"I don't take responsibility at all"--Donald J. Trump, March 13, 2020

True, and will also take credit for things that others have suceeded to produce and totally make things up that sound good to him.

From the administration that brought us "alternative facts."

They drank the Kool-Aid. I mean, he was such a financial genius that he bankrupted a *casino*.

​@@heidim7732 45-34 tried to sue a Tribal Casino....and lost.

Most people weren't paying attention. All they remember is that they were struggling less.

If a lie is repeated frequently enough …

They think FOX is fair, balanced, and honest

This 👆🏻💯

@bikebudha01, all the CEO's of those stations have donated to Trump's campaign. It's as if they want Trump to win.

@@johndigiacomo1674 yeah...

@bikebudha1, it's as if they pretended to be fair and liberal to spring a trap. Their call for Biden to step down is just suicide. Biden is the only one who can beat Trump (except maybe Bernie) and if he goes his campaign war chest also goes, any Democrat would have to start from scratch. Every one of his subsequent speeches and interviews have been completely cogent and intelligent. These people are just trying to sensationalize b------t.

It is a function of memory and intelligence. Stupid people don't remember anything. That is why they never learn from their mistakes.

But it was Obama’s economy according to your guy!

And the millions of people he killed by ignorance also let’s not forget the children and babies in diapers trump ripped out if the arms of crying parents , whiie trump sent the parents back but either shipped off kids and babies off across the country to be adopted and made no attempt to keep records so that any of those families could be reunited ! His goal was to cause pain and suffering just as he always does as often as he can ! Trumps game is control over others while collecting their money ! So project 2025 works very well in his plans ! People need to wake up before we are living under a.dictator !! Vote 💙💙💙💙💙💙

@@MrBreeze66 It was until Trump touched it. Just like everything Trump touches...

They trust him more than their memory. A handful remember and think "owning the libs" is more important than reality.

He isn't smart enough to know how protective tariffs work. He just goes crashing and bashing like a moron with everything he does. Hope you're doing better now.

It sounds like you made it through, no thanks to the former president. The whole thing was a disaster. Small businesses were already struggling before Covid hit. I watched building vacancies open up, one after the other. Those spots had held stores and restaurants.

Also Russia and (i think) the Saudis were having some "price war" nonsense. But one of the things the "But-the-gas-prices!" people aren't mentioning is that TFG & The Cronies tucked _huge_ "bail out" money for oil companies in the Relief Bills -- _on top of all the subsidies the Oil folk get _*_anyway_* -- and they didn't *need* "bailing out" -- they were making a profit, just not as big as they wanted, so this became part of the $8Tn that TFG added to *_our_* debt. In the end, our children's great grandchildren will be psying for those fuel prices -- in more ways than one... And _if_ we last that long.....

So even though COVID wasn't rump's fault, it was rump's COVID *policies* (of ignoring it and letting it run wild) that caused everyone to stay home, which DID result in lower gas prices. But I don't think he should get _credit_ for that; I think he should get the _blame_

If you try to explain it, the red hats want 'receipts.' So I quoted them prices off of my gas receipts from various times from 2017-2019. Since they cannot see those receipts, they screech that I lied or am a troll....or just vanish. Just exhausting....

Not true- gas prices were consistently low under his Admin.- quit using the covid excuse.

Gas was already low when the convicted felon became president. He had very little if anything to lower it. It stayed low during Covid because they couldn't give away a gallon of gas when people were home and the country was shut down. Very few planes were in the air. There was talk that the airlines were going to go bankrupt. That being said, once Biden opened up the economy, Big Oil saw its opportunity to make up for lost revenue. And boy did they take advantage of it. They overcharge everyone for gas, jet fuel, and all petroleum products, and they've made HUGE profits in the process. The price of gas being high had nothing to do with Biden shutting down that stupid tar sand pipeline which was years away from being completed anyway. No, the price of gas was high because of the greed of big oil companies taking advantage of a once-a-century pandemic.

And most of that bail out was not _equitable._ Most of it went to _corporate_ farmers, not family farms -- meaning an increase in the number of _families_ losing their farms and an increase in suicides in that group.

And he was praised for the bailout that HE CAUSED! Incredible!

And all of those Midwestern Red-voting farmers will deposit their farm subsidy check then go to the bar or diner and complain about those [bleeping] democrats and their evil socialism.

When you spend 3 billion a day on illegals it adds up.

If you spend 7.8T and create no new jobs, no new infrastructure, where's the money go?

It expands for a while, but that structural deficit causes, yep, inflation.

@@Combatwhombat That money mostly went to illegals and other nations.

@@imperialmotoring3789 no, it didn't. It went into PPP grants and corporate handouts. International aid (both military and humanitarian) is less than 1% of the budget. Let me guess, the reason you're fat is the gum you chew. 🙄

Not sure what you mean by "the media". I'm pretty sure msnbc and anything that passes for left-wing media in our Overton window has been ripping into him since before he got into office. Some folks just made the mistake of trusting their media outlets to the point of not even trying to fact-check anything.

@@beeamendola I just watched a Pondering Politics video (about a Representatives reply to a Faux Noise Reporter). It was a reminder that people have forgotten-> over 700 Health professionals had signed a document, during #45's impeachment processes->that HE was in cognitive decline & should be removed. So much crap from that 'person' that it is hard to remember it all....

All nyc knows he never changed

I still make sure I have plenty of toilet paper on stock. I help out a friend who can't always afford it.

I have to confess, I hoarded toilet paper since COVID started. I stopped when tRump left office.

Lie all you want. Only 14% of Americans think they are better off now than under Trump.

@@Gretabpooh That's because you're a good guy. I knew there was one left👍

STILL no facts or evidence?? Democrats’ American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) spent an estimated $34 billion to temporarily increase the amount of the premium tax credit subsidies for plans purchased through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), while also removing the 400 percent of federal poverty level (FPL) income limit on eligibility. Subsequently, Democrats’ so-called “Inflation Reduction Act” (P.L. 117-169) spent an estimated $64 billion to extend the expanded ACA subsidies through Calendar Year 2025. President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request included a policy proposal to permanently extend the expanded Obamacare premium tax credit subsidies, at an estimated net cost of $383 billion over the budget window, according to CBO and JCT’s response. Particularly concerning to both patients and taxpayers, the expanded ACA premium tax credits have had an inflationary effect on health insurance premiums by providing insurers increased pricing power, as the cost of tax credits grow dollar for dollar with benchmark premiums. SOURCE, HOUSE BUDGET COMMITTEE 7/27/2024

So that is what 45-34 meant by "new healthcare package"?! What a 🤬 💙🩵🍀🐦‍⬛🦋

Our health insurance got cancelled 2 months before we had our second kid. That was awesome…

@@jeffdroz5294that’s cruel. Really puts into perspective all their claims of being “pro life” 😖

They only care about life, until birth.

@@jamesowensii2562 *unless one of them “accidentally” impregnates the woman they’re cheating on their wife with. The GOP has a particularly cruel brand of hypocrisy 🙄

The oil companies are headed down the same path the GOP are on. Their irresponsibility and greed has bought their own irrelevancy and the ever increasing need to abandon

Yep, lockdown and people were DYING, people seem to gloss over this.

And that price was from a "price war" Russia & the (i think) Saudis were playing with oil at the time. TRG & The Cronies "bailed" the oil companies out -- even though *they* were _still_ making a profit, just not as big a profit as they *wanted* -- and *_that_* was part of the $8Tn increase in our debt courtesy of TFG.

I never had that low of gas prices since 2015, he inherited the Obama's economy. His economy wasn't great where I live at all .an dthe highest gas prices were in 2019 and 2020. Don the Con-victed is just awful, he doesn't know how any of this works.

During the pandemic oil was trading negative. So $1.79, is too much considering supply and demand. Thats not a deal, especially considering how many people had no job. When I started driving in 2000, gas was less than a dollar. People would hold off or just get enough to get where they were going if it got close or over $1. Then Bush part duex - whose family was besties with the Saudis. You know who else is besties and whose son-in-law got a ton of money from the Saudis? Either way, energy independence with oil will never be achieved. Gas is created with heavy (Middle East gas) and light (American gas). It’s a matter of geography. They need us too but do we leverage it? No. Why? Idk but seems like a lack of political truth telling to create public desire.

I had a maga friend who was blaming Obama for the high gas prices back in 2008. I pointed out he took office in 09 and it just *would not* click with him. Still Obama's fault.

@@TheHonestPeanutthat would have been George W. Bush, a republican.

@@juliemissick4206 correct

@@juliemissick4206I personally believe that was a “test” to see what happens to the economy when stressed by fuel prices. The price spiked suddenly for no big reason. Stayed there and then suddenly returned to normal. It was Bush’s last year in office so no repercussions to himself.

Oh yes the moment Bush was down to his last minutes in office, gas dropped below $2, when it was $4.15 previously. That's oil companies signaling they want another Republican.

Red hats calling it a Chinese virus because they're racist simultaneously refusing to protect against it because "The government can't tell ME what to do!"

We pretty much knew he was a total imbecile from day one. A pandemic is a situation where you really need someone who isn't a con man in constant denial at the helm.

Throwing paper towels to hurricane victims was the “I told you so” moment for me. His inability to deal with a crisis, his total lack of empathy for others, and his showmanship trying to make himself the center of attention lying to those people about how much was going to be done for them and how fast it would happen then as soon as he was out of sight not wanting to do anything for them and making them wait and suffer for the most basic help.

And then the supply chain choked. Biden fixed that too. Pretty quickly.

Some will remember...and blame store employees. Top-down class warfare 101: keep the peasants bickering with each other so they don't see who's ripping them off.

I remember when Trump made imported steel go up 25%, domestic steel went up 25% and a project my University was building was put on hold till they found more $ for the steel!! But MAGA won't remember that!

And they’d blame it on Covid. Interest rates were skyrocketing too

It's kind of like believing a bad car salesman's con who's playing you, as a gullible mark.

Trust your animals! I'm still wondering WHY President Biden's dogs only bit SOME Secret Service people. Wouldn't a truly "out of control" dog bite EVERYONE?

Slats for VP!

The only reason to have a tariff is so manufacturing of essential goods is done here for national security reasons. Like the PPE we needed during Covid!

It's unfortunate that Biden kept so many of Trump's tariffs. No idea why he keeps them.

@@MetricMouseHe kept them in China because of China practices. He was hoping over time they would become more of a free trade market. Instead they appear to want to flood the world and achieve dominance in all markets. The tariffs are about the only way to slow them down although ultimately it’s we the consumer that ends up paying more for the goods.

​@@bizygirl1yes, that is why Trump kept his tariffs. The question was why did Biden keep them?

I am sorry, but I can’t not stand Trump people. They make me sick

nearly a third of republicans blame obama for 9/11

You literally couldn't support him any other way.

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Agreed

Which the president doesn't control.

@@shawnfahy2420 And during a time few people were driving.

​@@ariaflame-au💯

@@shawnfahy2420 he controlled closing down the country and lying to us about covid

Oh and that COVID rebate check.

Corporate Layoffs for 2018 Sears 39 stores KMart 64 stores Verizon 3000 Pepsi 1000 JC Penny 5000 Ford 2000 Macys 5000 AT&T 4000 Walmart 3500 Kimberly Clark 5000-5500 IBM 20,000 Toys R Us 33,000 2019 had the worst job cuts in 4 years Corporate layoffs 2019 Ford 7000 Disney 4000 Canadian Railway 1600 Deutsche Bank 4000 Lowe’s 20 stores 99 Orchard Hardware Stores Amgen 350 Oracle 650 Bed Bath & Beyond 4550 Tesla 3000 Activision Blizzard 800 HSBC 4000 Hewlett Packard 9000 General Motors 14,000 Vodafone 1260 Sibayne-Stillwater 3450 Uber 1500 Kroger 900 Wells Fargo 265,000 MGM Intl 1000 Caterpillar 120 Verizon Media 950 Nissan 6400 Commerz Bank 4300 Humana 800

What do you expect from a fraudster who bankrupted a casino .....

Every single Republican in the White House has tanked the national economy and caused aa recession. Every single god damned one of them since Reagan. It might as well be a universal constant at this point. It's so damned reliable that I genuinely have no clue where the myth that Republicans are good for the economy even comes from. It certainly hasn't been true at any point in 4+ decades.

He didn't even write that book

Your problem is that you *think* and the ones that remember him fondly *don't*

Some people think for themselves,Maga are great at following an idol.

Trump tells them what to think and what to remember.

@@cassfonnesbeck8057Yep. Those types were looking for a savior. Someone to tell them what to think and someone like themselves. Bitter, angry, dissatisfied, unwilling to look at themselves. Always blaming others for their plight in life

Yeah I’m in that upper bracket and started my carrier in the lower one. I pay a higher percentage now then I did when I made less. It’s not until like 250k plus taxes start to fall as a percentage of income, due to the cap on employment taxes for Medicare and social security or because people start making more from investments then their jobs. I work for my income so I pay like 35% plus once state taxes are included.

A certain demographic is so nostalgic that it idolized the 1950s & wishes to return to that era. What they need to bring back isn't the laws or social norms but the tax rates: incomes above $100K were taxed @ 90%. I'll leave it to you to Google what that 1950s $100K would be in 2024.

And they own none of what you've listed. THEY'RE PAYING ON IT. If the economy tanks... they're done too.

I remember reading Trump did some convincing of the fed to keep the interest rates lower. That also had a part in it. Companies were picking up houses left and right because of low rates. Consumers wanted the low rates. Low supply higher prices

He got lucky when Covid came. It took the attention away from his failures

He screws up everything

Wow! Why hasn't Biden removed these tarriffs? Does he hate cheese?

This is why nobody in media was talking about project 2025 until just now. If they tore it apart and focused hard against it right away, people would have disregarded it when the time came to vote. People get all mad when you poi t this out but it's true and if people had a better grasp on reality it wouldn't happen, but it's entirely predictable and if ignored, will have consequences.

And especially the “news” media. If something didn’t happen this cycle, it didn’t happen at all. “We are the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing.” -Gore Vidal

The 24/7 barrage of misinformation also muddles facts and bends reality. That doesn't help memory when there are 20+ conflicting opinions, instead of one set of facts, on every issue.

Although it would be nice to ALSO have the links or a date from the original post.

I agree!!! These "on the Time line" videos are great!!! Thanks Beau and Crew!!!

Yes, provide both!

I’m 65 and yup! 😂 Evolve with the time! I saw a question asking what was your favorite decade of music. I said whatever decade I’m in atm. 🤷‍♀️

Nostalgia is okay if you can take off the rose colored glasses every once in a while.

I mostly agree, but it is nice to air out the ol' memory palace every once in a while, go back with what you know now and reprocess old things with it. Less rose-colored glasses, more scanning the photos with a magnifying glass for clues.

@@thomasdjonesnFinding trends is really important for seeing your way forward

Incredible levels of access to every new piece of information available

This isn’t new. It’s human nature.

I think it’s because people seem to be single issue voters and not bothering to look at the rest of the picture.

Let's start with the way they've dumbed down education since the 1940's.

@@CanyonALynn legal cannabis?

Not "literally", not "nobody". *_i_* talked about it when i was working and saw people. Beau talks about it, Farron Cousins, Seth Myers, Steve Colbert, Bruan Tyler Cohen, Trae Crowder, Meidas Touch and _all_ their associates... What we *need* to do is get Beau's subscriber numbers up, so more folk hear him talk about it.

chinas economy is dying so hard right now and their buildings are falling down because they build them with cheap stuff and pocket the rest of the money.

Yeah not likely. With current growth rates and falling population it’s pretty unlikely to catch up with the US anymore.

​@@davidradtke160 Not necessarily soon. Eventually.

Hahahaha hahahaha I know, right? I prefer lead ! 👍

Ever tried to use a old piece of jewelry as legal tender? It doesn't work well...

Grocery stores won’t make change for one ounce gold bars

The "Cash for Gold" scam has been around since the 1980s. Buy gold/silver for pennies on the dollar until acquiring a big enough lot to play with the big boys and cash out for market value.

Superstition, plain and simple.

*IF* they didn't drink the Kool-Aid. My brother who _is_ a business man - a fscking CPA no less - remembers all the economic grief under Trump, and yet blindly supports yet another rump fiasco. Drives me bonkers.

@@WBS001 I am so sorry.

But alas, they do! I see it in my feeds constantly....on bumper stickers... Signs...... "could really go for a mean tweet and $1.79 gas right about now" .... And try to explain to these people WHY we had $1.79 gas and they just go off about Biden's inflation. They are absolutely fkn tone deaf to how shit actually functions.... How the economy actually works. It really is a true indictment of the US education system..... Which these idiots are happy with the thought of that being dismantled apparently 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ We are doomed.

Good morning!

Thanks. Have a great day!

Kudlow was found on Amazon by Kushner because he'd written a book that matched what President Mob Boss already believed.

What a troll… A drunk troll

@bizygirl1 🤣 Small brain peeps always troll people who post facts!

Keep sharing his videos and inc his name and links in comments on other channels. That's how I learnt about him 💜

Me too , like maybe 200 million Americans?!

*YES!* I was so excited (?)last week he hit _870K_ subscribers because "we" had sat at 868K for _dog years._ Then yesterday, i noticed "we'd" gained over *2,000* subscribers in a week!! I am ecstatic, hoping "we've" hit our "Hundredth Monkey." When i was working, i steered folk towards him -- especially during the TFG years. I've started back "sharing" some of his videos on Twitter. [Funny to me that i actually started paying attention to Twitter because Beau mentioned something about posts he made there and i didn't want to "miss out" but Beau dropped that after Musk fu©ked it up. I stick in my 2¢ now-&-then waiting for the abscess to burst and then hopefully "common sense" types will be a big part of the healing process.] I send videos to my ex, among others, & he sometimes posts them on Facebook (which i'm not on).

@@bunyipdragon9499 I do ! Especially on MTN :)

There was a post on Threads after the media fiasco after the debate about people to go to for news now. I as well as quite a few others shared his name. So hopefully that helped. The calming part of our pitch seemed to resonate with people because its just nuts out here in viral click land. 😂

I keep telling people this. They don't actually believe me 🤷‍♀️

The GOP was proclaiming Trump had "revived the economy" less than 6 months after his inauguration. Just like Trump "declared victory" on COVID in his first press conference on the issue and said it was practically over before it even started.

All I can say is that you are not alone by any means.

Not at all

my groceries are up but its not double though my wage has almost doubled as well since then many of my friends are feeling the same.

"Doubled"? 😂 where in the heck do u live? I live in Los Angeles & they're no where near that. Troll on..,

The media has done a great job of blaming deliberate price gouging on “Bidenomics.”

It helped too that you had his minions constantly constantly preaching best economy for black workers, best economy in blah blah... the messaging sucks now!

The cult refuses to understand rational thoughts

"Trickle down" was a stupid idea from a moron that didn't know that the U.S. consumer-based economy is a "bubble up" model. The rich still end up with the money, it just takes a little longer and does more good, for more people, on the way.

or Purell or *any* cleaning products

Seriously though. It's like so many of these people have " selective amnesia".

Obamacare, just sayin

@@jodycarter7308Wut?

I think you are confusing and mixing up eras. Gas hasn't been below 99 cents a gallon since the mid '70s. In 1988, it was closer to $1.99. Rent for a low-cost apartment or house was at least $200. We were paying $275 for an ancient two bedroom in a low rent neighborhood. $30 would only buy a week's worth of groceries in '88 if you were a single person who barely ate. As a frugal spender, I was feeding a family of four for about $250 per week that year. If you were making $24 per hour in 1988, you were making very good money! Most of us were earning closer to $5-10 per hour. However, in 2022, $28 per hour was low middle income wages. It was that way in 2019 too. That's the main reason why your money is not going as far as it did. The problem with nostalgia is that it tends to have a serious effect on one's memory...

@@alindasue That's my recollection of the 1980s. Back when things were easy enough that we assumed we could all be as well off as our parents. Economic theory is complicated. Picking out several decades at random and saying we had presidents with different policies during that period and since overall things went badly therefore presidents have no influence on the economy is an interesting contrast with those who think the president is wholly responsible for every price change. Can we get these opposing teams talking with each other? I'd watch that.

Back in the "glory" days of the 80s, In Arizona $12.00 an hour was really good money. A older home was about 35 to 45k. Interest rates where about 12% on some mortgages. The nation was being de-unionized. The evangelicals flexed there political muscles, the news entertainment industry was born from deregulation. And there was more lead in our bodies. As leaded gasoline was just removed from the gas pumps. The 80s where good and bad. Just like another time. People need to stop waxing poetically about the past. It sucked for me in the 80s. But others did well, that is how it is in every time. At the end of the day who has the most soind policy. That is what is important to me. In this era it is mostly the Democrats, not the Republicans. They are lost in the sauce.

He was hands down one of the worst thing to happen to this country in the last 60+ years. If anyone could give him a run for his money it'd be 45, but it'll take many years to figure that one out for sure. 4+ decades on, there hasn't been a single day where someone in this country isn't confronted with direct fallout from decisions Reagan made. 45 was genuinely awful, but it takes a whole lot to top 4+ decades of completely uninterrupted awful. Only time will tell which one was wore.

@@RevShifty Maybe that's the "trickle down" Reagan was aiming for. A legacy of destruction.

Check out his "tale of two neighborhoods"! - - completely unpolished BEAU!

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@@GrumpyOldFart2- Me too! I said Hi Grumpy OldFart and everyone was asking who I was talking to as your comment was ghosted. 😊

@@Erin-Thor 👋🏼😊 I don’t see the grumpyolfart either. Lol.

I didn't know nostalgia could go forward

@@mick8888V Why not? We sure live in the future sometimes!

@@RhondaHawkes just think of nostalgia as a beckoning to the past, a reminiscing of sorts. Our future is not certain although we can fantasize about good things we'd like to have occur. But that would be more like yearning opposed to being nostalgic or appreciative of a certain passed time or event.

@@mick8888V I agree! that is not my quote, but Don Draper from Ad Men. Well worth the watch if you have not seen it!

@@RhondaHawkes I suppose you mean Mad Men the show about an Ad agency. I've only seen clips and it would certainly be up my alley.