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"We have declining inflation, except the president’s putting on inflationary tariffs.

We have incredibly low unemployment, except where it’s caused by the Trump administration.

We have a market that was doing extremely well last year, until the Trump Administration sowed the level of uncertainty that I can’t recall any time since — Are you ready, Ski Daddy? — Jimmy Carter."

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

[off topic?]

They hate on Jimmy Carter and love Ronald Reagan.

What they don't realize is that Reagan kept Carter's man Paul Volker in charge; it was Carter's plan that stopped inflation. Another fact the right likes to ignore is that the inflation started under Nixon. He was paying for the Vietnam War by printing money because he didn't want to raise taxes. The War was incredibly costly because we were dropping about three Hiroshimas a day on empty jungle. When the Arab Oil boycott hit, it almost crushed the system.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Reagan also negotiated with a foreign power to keep Americans hostage until after the election. He should have been charged with treason

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

I like to put it this way.

Before Reagan was elected, 'middle class' was still defined as one good Union job paying for a family of four. In those days, $1 million was still considered a vast personal fortune. By the time Bush Sr. left office, 'middle class' was two incomes to keep the family afloat and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Can we not have these click baity titles? Just tell me what he said

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He called him “Jimmy Carter” and thinks Trump is “one man standing in the way of a great economy.”

Then I assume he hit some buttons that play bear and fart sounds.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Then I assume he hit some buttons that play bear and fart sounds.

That Last Week Tonight episode is such a gem.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jim Cramer is fucking stupid and it really doesn't matter what he says, even when he randomly says a true thing

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It matters only insofar as Kramer is exactly the kind of person who MAGA thinks is really smart.

His opinion shouldn't matter to anyone with two braincells to rub together, but a lot of people don't meet that criteria and do care a lot about what he says.

It's an important temperature check for how things are going in MAGA land.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

It matters only insofar as Kramer is exactly the kind of person who MAGA thinks is really smart

They are not watching him on CNBC...

It's Karen esque suburban voters that watch him, the people who legitimately couldn't think of a "better" candidate than Hillary, Biden, or Harris.

They are not maga, they're Republicans who don't like the name and have spent 30 years trying to make Dems into Reagan era Republicans

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's in the body of the submission.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

A broken watch is right some time

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Grifter vs grifter. Can they both lose?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Good news, we all can lose!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago