• aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    The stock market isn’t the economy, at least as most Americans experience it, though it is the same metric that Trump and his followers used to show how “strong” the economy was during his term.

    If I had a nickel for every time some Trump apologist said “sure, Trump’s a jerk, but how’s your 401(k)?” during 2017-2021, I’d have… a lot of nickels.

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      11 months ago

      “sure, Trump’s a jerk, but how’s your 401(k)?”

      Or as I like to paraphrase, “My morality is for sale”

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      11 months ago

      What I love is how they ALL seem to have done SO much better during Trump. Like they got paid more at work, they got more in taxes, people on the streets just threw money at them, the sky rained money…