Fox hosts forced to grudgingly admit economy booming under Biden

Fuck the economy. Make my goddamn grocery bill go down. Make the fucking rent go down. I'm so sick of the rich dictating every aspect of my life while I barely get by all so they can tell me "everything's great!"

Voters don't care about the economy as long as their cost of living situation is worse.

“Economy” is such a bullshit term here. What they really mean is stock market. The real economy is shit. Pay is shit. Healthcare is shit. Real estate is a fat hog that needs to get slaughtered already. When will the people be treated as Too Big To Fail?

*jobs exist that don't pay a living wage, sending workers ever deeper into poverty and despair*

media and politicians: "LoOk At AlL tHe JoBs! BoOmInG eCoNoMy!"

The economy is only booming for the rich, anyone trying to tell us otherwise doesn't care about our well-being. If it were doing well they wouldn't have to keep telling us, we could see it in our everyday lives.

Biden’s administration has done pretty well considering all the grenades the GOP had thrown into the road.

Imagine how well people could be doing if the GOP actually cared about anyone other than themselves, rich people, or the Russians.

TIL grudgingly is a word. I've only ever heard begrudgingly before.

Apparently grudgingly is done with lack of interest

Begrudgingly is done with envy

Hey let me know if you guys find any extra money floating around. This economy is so good I can barely afford gas and groceries.

This is such horseshit.

There have been a quarter million layoffs at tech companies at every level for the last year or so.

My own 10+ year stint as a contract worker for one of these companies ended in December.

I got another position before January but the pay is significantly less and it’s only for the next half year probably.

I am 10 years closer to retirement but haven’t had a full time position anywhere since 2012 because companies get to abuse laws to pretend I’m not an employee so I have to pay more of the share in federal taxes and they can fire me without paying unemployment, retirement, or give severance.

I still have student debt that I’ve paid on since then, and the cost of living is higher than ever.

Paying for medical bills is worse every year, and insurance finds new ways to avoid paying anything while taking THOUSANDS out of our family finances every month.

I am tired of having no real choice but to either support a fucking fascist, or a 1980s Republican.

I fucking hate everyone across the internet who told me Sanders was “uNeLeCtAbLe.”

The neoliberal wing of the only somewhat sane party have paved the way yet again for a demagogue to screw the entire world over by allowing them to disingenuously assign blame related to inaction at addressing material and tangible issues that are solvable by the Democratic Party on marginalized people as scapegoats.

All we had to do was elect the guy who said “maybe let’s tax the billionaires a bit more and we can then have healthcare, maybe some better consumer protections, and I don’t know - a couple of bullet trains between our biggest cities.”

But no. We had to get the guy who plagiarized his speeches in his las run, and whom Obama selected as his VP to appease racist moderates in the late 2000s.

This has got to be an Onion headline. I mean, of course it is, but they would never in a million years admit it.

Brace for a lot of the magats claiming that faux is "too woke"/"too liberal" and claim they'll have to watch ONAN even harder.

Ask not for whom the economy booms -

For only the bell tolls for thee.

Booming for who exactly?

Probably because Fox only makes good revenues when their buffoons aren't in charge to undermine their narratives with utter incompetence and pure greed.

Fox needs its viewers to want to start winning, not to be winning. That's why Tucker publicly put a stop to the Biden "crime family" claims right before the 2020 election, and resumed right after it.

Their viewership does best when their claims are not falsifiable.

A lot of the Fox Business stuff is not crazy politically biased in the way the Opinion primetime stuff is. There's a lot of old rich white guy conservatism, like Mitt Romney conservative. They'll spin storylines as explanations, but not basic facts.

Just seems like people are talking past each other sometimes with Fox stuff. Same as the polling "even FOX is saying X Democrat is winning!" well yeah Fox's polling infrastructure is pretty good, it's probably because that candidate is leading.

Lemmy: China is spreading propaganda about their failing economy booming in their news!

Lemmy: The American economy is booming! I read it in our news!

Great for who? Not me. Not anyone I know. Two of my close friends lost their jobs in the last few months. And tech layoffs out of control due to interest rates. Fuck off with this propaganda

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There's still a full on America+China+EU sized market crash boiling under that "booming" surface. I don't know quite how they staved it off with just Credit Suisse and two other banks imploding so far. But it's not done, it's not finished, it hasn't even started.

No idea what backroom deals were done in the financial sector to stop it all for now, but it's still coming. Otherwise corporations wouldn't still be bleeding the plebs dry with cost of living and trying to offset their shitty investments on the CBMS as well as fighting tooth and nail to keep students indebted forever, so the party can keep on rolling.

It's an utter clusterfuck. We'll see what happens in the next few years.

the economy isnt booming, what a crock of shit, the people are poor and therefore it is not booming

Got to love the constant partisan distraction machine.

Congrats on the booming economy while we're helping with genocide overseas and we have record homelessness here.

https://www.ktvq.com/homelessness-reached-a-record-in-2023-and-it-could-get-worse