JD Vance admits groceries and housing are too expensive but bizarrely blames Biden

Its rent free n their heads.

BDS

He's still finding his hair between the couch cushions

The housing market problems go back to the housing market crash in the 2000s. It allowed the rich to completely lock up existing supply while at the same time freezing new construction. So now there is no path to home ownership for the vast majority of North Americans. This is unfortunately not a US only problem, it’s a capitalism problem.

Right. It is bizarre, but certainly not surprising or unusual. Just the same deranged playbook where everything bad is the previous administration’s fault.

We'll see this exact headline presented unironically as news every few months for the full duration of the Turd Reich.

How do you mean? You don't think tarrifs are helping Americans? You don't think hiring idiots and incompetent assholes will ruin us all?

Apshh. Okay.

Because their playbook is literally "blame the outgroup".

The guy was literally standing in front of eggs clearly priced at $2.99 and blamed Harris for being priced $4.

When caught on camera for lying, the guy says "I was told there wouldn't be fact checking", which was in it of itself a lie.

That's what shattered the illusion of Christianity for me as a younger person. Horrible individuals hiding behind an institutional veil of morals.

The past ten years have been even more illuminating. As all of these sorts of issues have been brought to the forefront. One of the common themes I've noticed is that the Venn diagram of these types of Christians / conservatives is the overlap is nearly a perfect circle with abusers.

It is a defining characteristic of the ideology at this point.

If you think the economy of 2021-2024 was 'goldilocks' I think you're conflating massive AI investment with a "good economy"

Unless your job was developing and implementing AI solutions, you were probably getting fucked. The majority of big companies implemented RTO for softlayoffs, and then warn notices were a record outside of the pandemic year for 2023 reaching nearly 350k roles.

Signs right now point to AI literally holding the company up as greedy CEOs and Boards shoot for infinite money machines that will never materialize with current AI/ML techniques and methodologies. When that slumps the stupid valuation of companies like nvidia are going to bomb so hard the great depression of the 21st century will be underway.

same as the last time - hence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Rescue_Plan_Act_of_2021 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_Reduction_Act

"No, you are wrong, it was a knock on from bidens economy...ok, you are not wrong but slightly incorrect. And by that I mean yes you are completely correct that it wasn't biden at all, and completely the tangerine imbeciles fault but I was also say that I'm waffling on and being distracting. However by this point tRUMPs base of complete idiots will have totally tuned out and will only remember the first words about it being bidens fault.

Also, don't mention the Epstein list, or how the orange fucktard raped children. We are distracting people from all that as well"

"The [economy] is both strong and weak"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

It’s good to know my opinions terrify those in power.

Here's hoping this orange clown doesn't get past 2025.

What 2028 election? Let’s see how 2026 goes.

Trickle down!!

Now you can't blame it all on their trade policies. They also snatch people off the streets that we rely on for food and construction work.

pretty easy to make it not worse though, which they are distinctly not doing. you reeeeaaaalllly wanna defend this administration in like anyway?

That counter argument only works if you plugged your ears every time they said they would have it fixed in the first week or that the tariffs would make it better quickly.

This mimics religion for me; what I've heard and/or interpreted. (Not my personal belief.) Everything good is god's doing, while everything bad is a person's failing. It's such a load of crock to live by, yet it seemingly thrives in people's minds.

That's only the most recent reason making things worse.

The worst part is, as soon as the other side is in charge, it's suddenly on them now and not the previous administration like it was before.

And people fucking buy it

It is also infuriating because Biden spent his term dealing with the fallout of Covid.

Americans got totally fucked during the pandemic. The government handed out a one time payment to some of the population that wouldn’t be enough to cover a months rent on a single bedroom apartment.

They then did the paycheck protection program where they handed out gobs of money to business owners. These “loans” were forgiven and plenty of wealthy business owners just ended up pocketing piles of money.

So you have an incompetent trump government failing to do public health policy, then only helping the owner class, causing massive inflation.

The republicans always do this. They take over a healthy economy, pass policies that supercharge it in the short term but are completely unsustainable in the long term.

The economy crashes, the voters put a democrat in office, the democrat spends their term cleaning up the mess, and then gets shit for having a crappy economy.

They're journalists, they don't even know they are the porblem.

Saving this in case my employer wants to send me to the US

Basically, the Biden administration economy was just along for the wild ride of post pandemic and Russian war nonsense, both the ups and downs.

Generally speaking I don't believe in the usual "the economy is whatever the president makes if it", though Trump's policies are unusually terrible economically, so I guess he's convinced me that presidents can be mostly responsible for economy, at least a bad one.

The most important part is that his voters knows diddly squat about economics so will swallow this hook and line