Old enough to remember how #Biden’s #food drops in #Gaza literally crushed some starving people to death. Old enough to remember how aid workers with the #US-handpicked World Central Kitchen were bombed to death likely by US weapons. Young enough to witness the latest failure of phoney US philanthropy.
"Americans are woefully ill-informed. That’s the only conclusion one can reach from a bunch of new polls that are chronicled in the links section below.
According to a new Harris poll for the Guardian, 55% of respondents think the economy is shrinking, 56% think the U.S. is in a recession, 49% believe the S&P 500 stock market index is down for the year, and 49% believe that unemployment is at a 50 year high."
"A whopping 72% also say they think inflation is increasing.
There is only one problem. NONE of those things is true. The market went up roughly 24% in 2023 and is up another 12% this year. The unemployment rate is under 4%, a near 50 year low. GDP is growing and there hasn’t been a recession since early in the pandemic year of 2020. And the inflation rate is dropping — down to 3.4% in April."
"This data indicates that it’s very possible Biden could lose in November because people’s perceptions about the economy are flat out incorrect and many voters have little grasp of what is happening in our politics.
The media is almost certainly at fault for the misperceptions about the economy."
The legacy media continues to undermine democracy by giving voice to random #terrorists who promote #trump with cute slogans voiced on CNN this morning.
He not only wants #Cannon to gag Trump for falsely accusing #Biden of #LockedAndLoaded#assassination plot, he does it reminding her of her own sanctimonious words about “Court’s independent obligation to protect the integrity … and to promote transparency in the Court’s oversight”
Today @emptywheel explained to @nicolesandler how lies are spread & why threats work for the RWers.
Marcy called out the liar Julie Kelly, who pushed the idea that Biden was trying to assassinate #Trump when the FBI went to Mar-a-Lago with a search warrant.