Normally, I’d say something like “isn’t this basically what Trump promised to save everybody from, and why voters voted Biden out of office?”
But I can’t do that here. Because Trump actively campaigned on making economic matters worse. Elon Musk said years of “hardship” on poor people was the plan. And the voters said “Yes, I would like more of that because the solution to the economic hardship I’m already going through is even more economic hardship!”. Because I guess the economic hardship that Trump was promising was only supposed to affect “them”.
And we all know what I mean when I say “them”.
And now reality is hitting. Something something leopards, something something faces…
But I’m sure as far as they’re concerned, it’s all Biden’s fault.
They have been uniquely open about their plans to make economic experience worst for most people, but even so, I still suspect it will end up badly for them. We might say “hey the voters were informed” but a.) they almost certainly assumed that it would not be them who felt pain and b.) the voting public as a mass consciousness tends to operate on fairly simple stimulus-response dynamics, and the most important of those dynamics is the “feel bad about economy> vote out incumbent” pathway. So basically just, you can be honest about nuking the economy and promise some promised land on the other side, but if said promise land does not materialize well before elections, you’re probably cooked.
Normally, I’d say something like “isn’t this basically what Trump promised to save everybody from, and why voters voted Biden out of office?”
But I can’t do that here. Because Trump actively campaigned on making economic matters worse. Elon Musk said years of “hardship” on poor people was the plan. And the voters said “Yes, I would like more of that because the solution to the economic hardship I’m already going through is even more economic hardship!”. Because I guess the economic hardship that Trump was promising was only supposed to affect “them”.
And we all know what I mean when I say “them”.
And now reality is hitting. Something something leopards, something something faces…
But I’m sure as far as they’re concerned, it’s all Biden’s fault.
‘But Gaza… ?’
Dumbfucks gotta dumbfuck I guess.
They have been uniquely open about their plans to make economic experience worst for most people, but even so, I still suspect it will end up badly for them. We might say “hey the voters were informed” but a.) they almost certainly assumed that it would not be them who felt pain and b.) the voting public as a mass consciousness tends to operate on fairly simple stimulus-response dynamics, and the most important of those dynamics is the “feel bad about economy> vote out incumbent” pathway. So basically just, you can be honest about nuking the economy and promise some promised land on the other side, but if said promise land does not materialize well before elections, you’re probably cooked.