Why does this have to be framed like an opinion piece though? 82% say? Look at the data. The costs are up for everything, the shrinkflation is also accelerated, and everything is moving to a subscription model where nobody owns anything. ITS NOT AN OPINION IT IS THE REALITY OF LATE STAGE CAPITALISM. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
It is really weird people are talking about the state of the economy as if it’s subjective
There’s no way inflation is 2% when my groceries increased 50% last year.
Yes, well, but the Cybertruck is like $15-20,000 cheaper so it all averages out to 2%.
/s
They stopped factoring food and fuel into the inflation rate calculations.
When? That explains a lot actually.
There are Consumer Price Index (CPI), Producer Price Index (PPI), and Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index.
There’s headline CPI (everything) vs core CPI (food and fuel excluded) and they had changed which one they were reporting to the media at the start of this admin. They’re not technically lying in this case, more like moving the goalposts.
This sounds correct. Red states being the biggest welfare queens, I’d say being aligned with people who hate poor people is getting you exactly what you voted for. Sure, dems dislike poor people but at least they’re better at hiding the fact that they want them all dead and instead use the people as institutionalized slave labor.
Fuck, that hurt to type out.
It’s amazing what tariffs and uncertainty can do to an economy.
wait wait wait, are you telling me that the 6 time bankrupt convict can’t manage a national economy? COLOUR ME SHOCKED!
Are we going to start polling on things like what the current temperature is outside, too?
I guess this is more about how delusional some wingers are going to be about the most basic of facts.
Are we going to start polling on things like what the current temperature is outside, too?
My stats prof in college actually used to do this, and the average guess was always within half a degree of the true temperature. Still not worth doing given that thermometers exist, but interesting nevertheless.
I would have been an outlier in the data set because I have absolutely no idea what temperature it feels like without checking
inflation persists
Well yeah, that’s how it works. The percentages spoke of are the rate of increase and inflation is cumulative.
Nah, we can undo inflation by implementing deflation. That worked almost a century ago, didn’t it? /j
Good luck getting Captain Accountability to acknowledge his fuck up.
He’s just gonna double down and incoherently yell “TARIFFS!” into the mic.
