• Coreidan@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Don’t know why you’re getting down voted. This is EXACTLY what Biden did.

    Just shows people cannot handle the truth so they down vote instead. Smh.

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      2 days ago

      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.

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        2 days ago

        The circled area is the blip that your source is referring to. The giant drop before it is from during Trump’s first term. Everyone thought we were going to hit a recessesion that would be a big issue. As you can see it was fixed extremely quickly. The wall street journal leans right and was using it as propaganda to promote Republican efforts.

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          2 days ago

          Thanks for adding the additional context!

          What’s funny is the covid drop isn’t even that bad either compared to some other recession. So the 2022 blip is really inconsequential.

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            2 days ago

            Yeah really our productivity in those terms just dropped to 2016 levels.

            Now if you compare to Argentina’s struggles. People can see why there were so many people trying to get out of there. They weren’t criminals being sent out of their prisons, they were people fleeing a giant recession that left them starving.

    • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 hours ago

      It’s Blue MAGA who will ignore anything critical of Dear Leader. Calling out their hypocrisy gets you downvoted and banned.

      EDIT: Thanks for proving my point!