Television advertising. It might be hard to believe, but there are way more low information voters than you might imagine. TV advertising is expensive too. Jeff Jackson (NC congressman, running for NC State AG after he was gerrymandered out of Congress) has done a great job addressing this in his short videos.

I want the senate

Bernie’s emails are worth subscribing to imo. He’s sending out stuff railing on citizens united with the tone of “yeah yeah, crazy ol Bernie on it again. Well guess what, it’s still a big fuckin problem”

Nah, no need for a conspiracy theory. Also NYT photographer got a picture of a flying bullet.

Trump definitely did not fuck a couch.

Some people speculated on this from day 1 when he wasn’t posing for photos with his “bullet wound.”

Name literally one.

Tell me the plan that gets more unified support than the current president.

Replace him and we’ll get Trump

National healthcare with one weird trick

You’re being weirdly pedantic about everything here. I’m trying to figure out why.

That’d be insane

My guy that’s the point of this whole post. He’s insane.

Ok? I’m not defending this shit bag, just trying to explain the weird headline phrasing.

… 1?

If it’s a rental property, you would own it but maybe not consider it “your house” colloquially

He probably has multiple houses

Which is completely irrelevant for why people were feeling bad about the economy for the last many months.

Not sure how to break this to you, but Biden was not elected in March 2020. He wasn’t even president in 2020. The last 3 years isn’t the last 4 years, which isn’t the last 5 years.

My point is if Powell wants to compare dates in good faith, he would make them consistent and reflect on that. “Groceries are up X% in the last 2 years but gas is down Y% during that same time. Maybe people find groceries more compelling than gas.” These are the types of things that legitimate economists and journalists do. Powell is not. He instead cherry picks smatterings of years to make the big numbers and incredulously claim that “smug liberals can’t look at the data.” But they are, and that’s why they’re baffled. He is just looking to dunk on “liberal elites”.

Really shitty discourse to accuse someone of not reading the article when I’m literally quoting it, but do you.

Gas prices are down 30% since June 2022. Dead even since March 2014. Why did he pick March 2020? Because it was the absolute lowest prices of the entire decade due to a global pandemic. Every date he picks to compare is arbitrary. It’s not a comparison of “people felt good in 202X, and now they don’t feel good. Let’s compare the data.” It’s cherry picking.

A true marker of the economy.