Fox News definitely on the level of that one North Korean TV presenter lady, singing Dear Leader's praises
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Ironically this is usually true in the first month because a president usually doesn't act in such a brazen and illegal manner. Biden inherited a terrible economy thanks to COVID and Trump's stupid policies, but of course this isn't factual reporting. It's propaganda for people too busy with confirmation bias to question how hypocritical this all is. I just hate how fucking effective propaganda is, ugh.
Ingraham said the economy is “weighed down with $36 trillion and counting in debt,” calling it “weakness.” ...
Where do you think that giant fucking debt came from? Hint: republican tax breaks for the mega rich and military spending
Also a fair amount comes from the first Trump administration and their terrible handling of Covid.
If only we had a strong internal revenue service or something.
the entire national debt is due to tax cuts given to the wealthy over the last many decades. much, much more has been given to them over the years, transferred from lower and middle class to the wealthy, than what the debt is.
had those tax cuts and other policies that benefit only the very wealthy not happened, we could literally be living in a utopia seen only in movies.
Well, maybe. With globalization it's hard to keep them from putting things off shore or even just leaving entirely. I'm sure there's an involved solution that requires global cooperation, but there's always that threat so long as there's mega rich people out there.
The megahoarders are leeches on society anyway. Them leaving isn't a real threat. Putting things offshore is always an option but there are ways to reduce that loophole.
They cut spending on actually useful things but their tax cuts for the rich always overpower the cut in spending meaning that they only add to the debt.
Debt always goes up under Republicans.
The talking heads really need to be the first things to go.
We should sick The Talking Heads on the talking heads, and let them purge the propaganda machine. Issue Byrne, Frantz, Weymouth, and Harrison licenses to kill. On second thought, maybe not Byrne; who knows what he'd actually do. David Byrne is how I describe Chaotic Neutral to non-gamers.
Don't Worry! Republicans are KNOWN to Do Their Own Research so they'll be QUICK to Fact Check these OBVIOUS and HILARIOUSLY Wrong Claims!
One guy said the tariffs on Canada were needed bc Canada tariffed some of the US product at 100%. I asked for a source and to his credit he sent me a legitimate document from the government. Problem was he did not understand it was a court document because the US had a trade dispute between the United States and Canada regarding dairy tariff rate quotas (TRQs) of reserving 85-100% of 14 separate dairy tariff rate quotas. It wasn't a 100% tariff.
"fact" check
Fuck fox news and fuck Republicans. And fuck Nazis. You blame Biden for a shitty economy that Trump left him and then blame Biden for the shit economy Trump is currently creating. I understand that everyone is vulnerable to propaganda and I can even forgive some people that fell for it and regret their choice. But if you are falling for this shit at this point you are either willfully ignorant, extremely stupid, or just plain evil and I have no sympathy for you.
reset the simulation and enter a new RNG seed before hitting start
Big fucking surprise...
See it's funny because it wasn't that long ago that they were praising Trump's positive impact on the economy.
This is nothing new, just happening a nit earlier this time around.