NBC News exit polls from Tuesday’s elections showed voters are deeply worried about pocketbook issues and the direction of the country.
Ahead of Tuesday’s elections, Donald Trump assured Americans that prices are coming down, the economy is picking up and the nation is flourishing in ways that make it the world’s envy.
Voters don’t seem to be buying it.
Democrats swept key races, as exit polls depicted an electorate gripped by fears that the U.S. is careening in the wrong direction, far from Trump’s glowing portrait of a nation ascendant.
Im going to go out on a limb and say that if 42 million people are on SNAP, maybe the economy isn’t so great…
Most of the people I talked to about it when I visited my in-laws in Michigan a week ago were saying that they thought people on SNAP were people that couldn’t be bothered to work… So not everyone has gotten the message yet. Tbf their county is definitely a very red one but it still amazed me how sheltered they were from things. I somehow know more about US politics as a Dutchie then they do. They had no idea that most SNAP recipients are people working minimum wage jobs that can’t get by otherwise due to minimum wage being so little.
Hell, they didn’t even know what the no kings protest was about…
That’s 42 million (roughly 10% of the population) on it right now. The percentage of Americans who will use it at some point in their life is closer to 50%.
It’s just a simple matter of concepts.
HIS economy is not the same as the economy of his voters.
“Why is everyone so upset? I just got so much more money…”
It doesn’t match what anyone is seeing. That’s the definition of gaslighting.
If the average American voter’s days were filled with lavish dinner parties, golfing trips and vacations where famous people gave them golden trinkets, then I could imagine they would think their country is on a good path.
I went to McDonald’s for the first time in several months the other day. I was craving pickles. I got a spicy McChicken with extra pickles and a mcdouble with extra pickles. It was almost $10. They forgot the pickles.
You got 2 sandwiches for $10 or just one?
Two for $10.
But the billionaires have been making record profits!
I wonder how much longer it will take to the masses to finally understand that all that money the billionaires made was stolen from them in the form of underpaid wages, overpriced products, tax credits, subventions, and externalities.
Isn’t there some kind of protocol for when the president is out of touch with reality?
Some kind of summer Olympic sport…
Javalin throwing?
But de-luge is a winter event!
Gold medal for: hold your breath for the longest under water?
Trump’s view of the economy:
10 Richest U.S. Billionaires Have Expanded Wealth by $700 Billion Since Trump’s Return
That “Golden Age” line was for him and his billionaire friends openly robbing America in board daylight. It doesn’t help even when the media pushes back at home in the most baby soft tone, he is still delusional believing his own narratives.
So more of the same? The economy hasn’t been good in YEARS, this didn’t just start
The post-covid economic recovery was relatively strong under Biden. Biden had double the job growth Trump did in his first turn. What metrics are you using to back that claim?
You know what did just start? Trump’s ruinous economic policies, the ones you’re currently excusing.
You heard a critique of the economy under Biden, which was shit, and assumed it was excusing Trump? Despite them telling us everyday that we are not struggling and everything is good we knew it wasn’t. Good economies don’t have 2 record back to back levels of homelessness, people living paycheck to paycheck skyrocketed, Biden tried to take credit for those returning to work after closedowns as job recovery. Liberals only see that it’s shit now because it’s not their team doing it
Better give my billionaire buddies more money.
-Republicans, every time
I would recommend going to your local community forum and read what your dumbass MAGA neighbors are talking about. They’re all buying it despite all of the proof right in front of their faces at the local grocery store and gas station.
Who are you gonna believe, Dear Leader or your own lying eyes?
That’s the same problem Biden and the majority of politicians have. The “magnificent 7” are driving the markets up, while the rest are not doing so well. The economy is being fueled by AI hype right now.
Literally everything is more expensive. I understand that if you’ve never had to worry about money that’s not a problem, but for the other 99% of us it’s a daily issue.
Just a year ago, we had an economy that was the envy of the world. Gee, what changed?
