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Is The Daily Beast a good source? I haven’t read the article, of course.
It's literally a video of him saying in an interview that he hopes the economy crashes in the next 12 months.
Doesn't look like he'll get his wish, thankfully.
Just imagine how bad the economy would be right now if we had re-elected Trump.
I mean hopefully, but working in shipping and seeing the lack of volume in things outside of necessities, I'm concerned.
I'd say inflation is to blame, but it's really just greedy corporations who figured out that they can get more out of us and claim hardship due to inflation when we complain about it. Record profits year over year for corporations, but zero dollars of that value is passed to the consumer. Unemployment is at record lows, but people are still struggling to get by because wage growth has been stagnant for two decades.
I'm worried that things are so out of control that nobody will be able to right the ship anymore, but I certainly don't want the guy who hopes things will get worse in the next 12 months to be the one America trusts to handle it.
I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion from my post. Like, at all. The clear choice is to vote for the only party that is actively trying to do something, rather than the party that is banking on the problem getting worse.
Except our lives have gotten better over the past 50 years. Measurably. Usually under democratic leadership. The "lesser of two evils" strategy only works when it successfully keeps the greater evil out of office, and America has the memory of a goldfish when it comes to voting and keep putting the worst possible candidates into office at the most critical times.
Not sure why you are on the politics community advocating for non-voting, anyway.
This is the stupidest thing I've read all day. Are you trying to work a psyop?
Holy shit I work with helping underresourced people and shit is bad. It's hitting at least half the population. The homelessness is out of control and the cost of basic needs far exceeds wages. You need like five incomes per household or just be a rich asshole.
The daily beast is hard to read on the best of days but they do usually link to whatever they are opining on.
It's not the best source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-beast/
Metric ton of salt grains but I feel like they can help some stories the right may prefer to ignore that are important into their awareness at least.
Can't speak to the credibillity but if they link to stuff you should be able to decide for yourself