dwp66

Excellent piece with accurate facts. Unfortunately, most folks here at OPP will simply stop reading after a short while, because empirical data is something they a) know nothing about and, b) don't want to know anything about.

Most here thrive on cognitive dissonance and Dunning Kruger.

Most of them can't provide accurate facts on Trump's accomplishments because there were so few of them, and the ones they list are mostly bullshit - like how Trump "closed" the border.

And now those same individuals will mock you, and call you names of every sort. At least there a few of us here that try to offer a different perspective, but we are most assuredly in the minority. Anyway - Kudos!

microphor Loc: Home is TN

You're watching way too much propaganda.

LostAggie66 Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)

Pres Obama was NOT in office the Summer of 2020, Mr Trump was POTUS

slatten49 Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas

Emily, Obama wasn't president before or during the summer of 2020.....and, dwp66 asked for riots by democrats AFTER losing an election.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

You’re not too bright are you. The CPI, which measures price inflation, does not measure as a trend as your bogus graph shows and you erroneously interpret. Price inflation is cumulative as in how much it goes up/down in total over a period of time. In this case, from Jan-2017 to Jan-2021 Trump’s CPI went up 7.7 percent for an average of 1.9 percent per year while from Jan-2021 to March-2024 Biden’s CPI went up 19.4 percent for an average of 6.1 percent per year.

So, the FACT is... Under Trump's policies inflation went up 7.7 percent while under Biden's policies inflation more than doubled at 19.4 percent. Therefore, your “method” illustrates how dummies like you and Biden leverage the ignorance of Biden’s base while stirring up emotions about the hated Trump.

Bottom line… you ain’t too bright.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

You wouldn't know accurate facts if they hit you in the ass.

The CPI, which measures price inflation, does not measure as a trend as fu**edUp's bogus graph shows and is erroneously misinterpreted. Price inflation is cumulative as in how much it goes up/down in total over a period of time. In this case, from Jan-2017 to Jan-2021 Trump’s CPI went up 7.7 percent for an average of 1.9 percent per year while from Jan-2021 to March-2024 Biden’s CPI went up 19.4 percent for an average of 6.1 percent per year.

So, the FACT is... Under Trump's policies inflation went up 7.7 percent while under Biden's policies inflation more than doubled at 19.4 percent. Therefore, your “method” illustrates how dummies like you and Biden leverage the ignorance of Biden’s base while stirring up emotions about the hated Trump.

Bottom line… you ain’t too bright either.

straightUp Loc: California

Just do a search on straightUp ;) ('kidding) Most browsers support an AI "co-pilot" these days. You could use that to read the result page and ask the AI to grade the style. That's what I would try short of coding something.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

You may be articulate but that doesn't equate to wise.

straightUp Loc: California

Thank you '66... Of course I do realize that most people on the alt-right will tune-out pretty quick and depending on who is online, there could be a rash of insults. But I never take any of that personally and I don't write for them anyway so it really doesn't matter what they come back with. On occasion a few of them will make the attempt to actually have a decent discussion. In any case, its nice to get a compliment here and there, so much appreciated.

Dunning Kruger... that's funny. Very applicable though... I've always said democracy requires a certain level of competence... watching Trump supporters vote is a bit like watching monkeys operate a nuclear submarine.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back liar.

Can't refute facts so you ignore them.

EmilyD

Oops, you’re right…I got my riots mixed up…was thinking of the Ferguson riots…thanks.

straightUp Loc: California

Brighter than you Perky. You just used up all those fancy words to tell me what I already know. All you have to do is read the chart - it actually says "annual change in inflation". If you look at the chart you will notice that the point at each year matches the year end figures that add up to your totals. But you're averaging those totals over each term which flattens out the spikes that you see in the chart due to the higher frequency of data points. It's like I'm looking at a high resolution monitor and you're on a low-resolution gameboy screen and you're telling me that MY view is inaccurate.

I will admit to one mistake... I said after 2022 the CPI went down. I meant to say the rate of change in the CPI went down, which means that for that the last two years inflation has been slowing down. And that's Biden grabbing the reins and saying whoa!

The other thing that seems to have flown right over your head is the point I made about the first year of any presidency. You're giving Biden credit for the inflation in 2021 when the budget for 2021 was signed by Trump. The year end figure for 2021 (rate of change) is 4.7% so add that to your 7.7% figure and that comes to 12.4%, but to be fair we should take the figure for 2017 out since that was under Obama's influence, that year end figure is 2.1% so now we're at 10.3% not 7.7%. Then we minus that 4.7% from Biden's total leaving us with 14.7%, not 19.4% All of a sudden, the difference doesn't seem so drastic.

BTW, the budget doesn't actually have THAT much impact on inflation but I'm using it symbolically to make a point... NO economic policy is enacted the minute a president takes office. Almost anything involving money has to go through Congress. Typically, it takes a year at least for a president's economic policies to be implemented.

This leads to my final point. Presidents (in fact, the government as a whole) has VERY little control over inflation anyway. The current inflation is the result of an economy normalizing itself after a near complete shut down. This is when demand suddenly comes back and in this case, it came back faster than the goods could be delivered which prompted players in the private sector to gouge prices. My guess is that this price gouging accounts for at least 80% of the inflation we've experienced.

So it's a bit ridiculous to keep blaming Biden for the inflation. The economic shut down that made inflation inevitable happened under Trump and it was mostly driven by greed in the private sector.

AND... blaming Biden for the inflation STILL isn't an example of something Trump did to help the American middle-class which is STILL something no one here has been able to provide.

straightUp Loc: California

Aw... what's the matter Karen? Are the bad people agreeing with each other?


Looks like you ejaculated prematurely. I just addressed your misinterpreted "facts"

straightUp Loc: California

"wise" is an adjective, dumbass. If you didn't drop out of school, you would know to use the word "wisdom".

Funny as hell that you're so eager to tell people that they aren't too bright and yet you can't even get the one sentence in your post right.

TJKMO Loc: Bicycle Heaven

Amen