Another thing is, I believe, that it wasn’t dems showing up to vote, the shift in margin was Republicans voting for democrats. If that’s really the case that’s huge, cause it doesn’t mean Republicans are disengaged, they’re starting to work against the current admin.

The way they’re gutting these agencies they aren’t able to fufill their congressional appointed duties, so they’re already breaking the law, but the courts are slow and seem non-plussed and congress has been coopted.

Some are doing republican only town halls ಠ_ಠ

Yeah that’s why I called out it costs money.

Its also kinda similar to taxes, the US pretty much already knows all this info already, yet somehow we can’t manage to make elections easy and free.

Have you tried getting a realID? It’s just as bad as getting a passport and costs a chunk of change. I’m pissed off states weren’t able to shut it down. Now you need a passport effectively to fly domestically.

Yeah, I know why the guy came clean, but it would have been so much more useful if we stayed on the chat. Really a big missed opportunity.

I posted elsewhere, but I think the real issue is that it really didn’t look like a recession. While technically it was a recession by the two negative quarters definition, if you look at real GDP it’s barely a blip.

I suspect at the time the concern was that calling it a recession would have impacted the recovery. Not that I think that’s a good excuse, but they werent hiding the data. With Trump, he’s trying to hide the downturn rather than trying to rally the recovery.

Calling out Biden here is a very “both sides” centrist kinda mindset.

Not really, maybe a blip of something in 2021-2022, but generally the US economy as a whole has been doing alright - Real GDP. Individual people though have been getting beaten up recently, but boy is that about to get worse.

Always thought that was Mark Twain, but snipes does give Darrow the credit - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-obituary-pleasure/

They should rescind his degree.

I think the real issue is that quality of life in the US has been being chipped away at for decades. So while yes the economy was doing well, especially compared to most of the world, regular people don’t see it.

The issue in the US isn’t the economys health, but how it’s distributed.

What a terribly worded article. It’s not “running out of steam”, this was completely avoidable. The Trump/Elon administration’s policies and actions are literally knee-capping the economy.

Who could have seen this coming? /s

I mean, yeah. Putin wants the US to do nothing and give them Ukraine, Ukraine wants the US to stay committed to past agreements and do something.

This has nothing to do with the federal budget. Congress already appropriated the money, this is just straight up evil.

This is just sad

And the last check, which is “we the people”.

If he really thinks they won’t come for his Medicaid, Social Security, and federal pension, he hasn’t been paying attention.

Not to mention economic uncertainty can eat into that money in other ways (like increased prices from tarrifs).

I didn’t play it when it came out, but playing it years later it fits the classic B game of the 2000s. Some alien or high tech gone wrong, with some attempts at an edgy meaningful plot and a twist villian trying to take over the world.

I mean I could save the US trillions by just shutting everything down, not sure if that results in “savings” though. Suspect there is a reason that money was allocated by congress.