The economy, stupid.
- brawlersmith
- Mar 15, 2020
- 3 min read
"It's the economy stupid!" (line from unhinged James Carville rant)From Wikipedia: 'The German economy, like those of many other western nations, suffered the effects of the Great Depression with unemployment soaring around the Wall Street Crash of 1929. When Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, he introduced policies aimed at improving the economy. The changes included privatization of state industries, autarky (national economic self-sufficiency), and tariffs on imports. ...earnings increased by 19% in real terms in the period between 1932 and 1938.'🤔Trump and Republicans created a propaganda depression. It was in fact an Obama era recovery, but the truth doesn't matter, does it stupid? "It's the economy stupid," right? ...The fake economy—reality is whatever Republicans make it, stupid. And if you keep pointing at the economy, what's to point at when voters perceive it as moving in the right direction? Greed is good, according to James and the rest of MSM, so when do you a-holes ever do the right thing that might hurt Wallstreet? Never. So in what way are you morally superior to Republicans that wouldn't get tossed out the window the moment Wall Street panics? If world peace broke out today, the stock market would crash tomorrow, so maybe the only thing standing in the way of world peace is "the economy, stupid."From Wikipedia (I already know it, but who trusts my "big ah-brain"?): 'The Nazis believed in war as the primary engine of human progress [just like neo-cons do] and argued that the purpose of a country’s economy should be to enable that country to fight and win wars of expansion. As such, almost immediately after coming to power, they embarked on a vast program of military rearmament [sound familiar?], which quickly dwarfed civilian investment. During the 1930s, Nazi Germany increased its military spending faster than any other state in peacetime, and the military eventually came to represent the majority of the German economy in the 1940s. This was funded mainly through deficit financing [sound familiar?] before the war, and the Nazis expected to cover their debt by plundering the wealth of conquered nations during and after the war.'..."Why don’t We take the oil?!" (POTUS 45*)Why do Republicans care at all about regime change in Venezuela, which has the largest proven oil reserves in the world.🤔 ...It's the economy, stupid.From Slate (2/13/20): 'President Donald Trump’s $740.5 billion military budget, which he submitted to Congress on Monday, is only a hair larger than the current year’s budget, but it is still the largest since World War II (even adjusting for inflation), and it’s even more notable for what it emphasizes: building more nuclear weapons, preparing for exotic flavors of warfare, and expanding America’s global military presence. This last feature seems contrary to Trump’s repeated promises to pull back from the world’s war-torn areas, and it thus raises the question—not for the first time—of how much the commander-in-chief reviews, much less directs, the slice of the federal budget that outspends all the other slices combined.' [sound familiar?]...Maybe instead of comparing just Trump and his Deplorables to Nazis, include the rest of this country that thinks every election is about their personal finances only—I’m talking about the economy, stupid.This country was before Trump, and will be after Trump, a real threat to the future of the human species itself if We don't start valuing human life more than money—it’s humanity stupid! If We don’t value the planet over profits this Goldilocks home that we have inherited will become too hot to live on—it’s basic survival stupid!If Republicans believe the economy is doing well (reality does not matter to fascist followers), and if Democrats want to win, screaming in panic and pointing at the economy only is fucking stupid.
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