Shiftless2
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Good morning! If you thought the shutdown was the story, think again. The government may have reopened, but the rot remains in session. Forty-two days of bureaucratic starvation ended not in triumph but in surrender: a stopgap bill with the moral nutrition of a vending-machine sandwich. Trump signed it, smirked, and declared victory,“we’re sending a clear message that we will never give in to extortion… the Democrats tried to extort our country”, while insisting “Republicans never wanted a shutdown and voted 15 times for a clean continuation.” He slapped a fantasy price tag on the standoff,“This cost the country $1.5 trillion dollars”, and even tried to sell hardship as a bargain, thanking Walmart for a “fantastic study” and claiming “the cost of Thanksgiving… [is] 25% lower this year than we were a year ago under Sleepy Joe Biden.” Then came the encore economics: “Costs are way down. Energy is way down. Gasoline is at $2.50 a gallon… we think we’re going to hit pretty close to $2,” plus the campaign unicorns of “no tax on tips… no tax on Social Security… no tax on overtime.” And for dessert, a power grab masquerading as reform: “Terminate the filibuster… it’ll never happen again.”
Economist Justin Wolfers didn’t mince words. After Trump proclaimed the U.S. economy was “doing phenomenally well” under his leadership and claimed “prices are down…,” Wolfers responded that “every word the President just said is a lie.” He added, “It’s such a lie that I worry there’s literally a break with reality inside the man’s mind.” Wolfers pointed to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing prices are still rising across nearly every category of goods and services, grocery items included. The takeaway: the storyline Trump is selling doesn’t just misrepresent reality, it rejects it.
And that “Walmart study” was nothing more than an ad for a holiday meal and that 25% reduction now comes with 50% less food than under "Sleepy" Joe Biden.
Moments later, he told Fox’s cameras that “millions of Americans went hungry because Democrats wanted to protect Obamacare handouts”, an impressive inversion of reality, given that it was ....
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