Comments by "" (@badluck5647) on "Trump’s a Bulls**tter—and Voters Loved It (With Marc Caputo) | The Focus Group Podcast" video.

You are assuming that people will learn the right lessons. I assumed the consequences (inflation) of the public's greed for the second and third round of covid stimulus would teach them a lesson on the importance of fiscal responsibility. Instead, they have nostalgia for the time of populist spending sprees, and then they voted for a guy with more unhinged, populist economic policies.
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Trump supporters: "Eggs cost $.60 more!" Also, Trump supporters: "I just bought $200 Trump sneakers."
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@max_out_your_cc Yet, the people who kept complaining about prices the most weren't living paycheck to paycheck. It was the people struggling to pay the monthly payments for their BWM that they shouldn't have bought just because Trump sent them a covid stimulus check.
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@AB-hn6gb Your view of Idiotcracy is people who reject misinformation, criminality, and authoritarianism?
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@AB-hn6gb You seem like the guy who gets mad when people fact check you that immigrants aren't eating pets. MAGA keeps getting angry when their falsehoods aren't treated like valid opinions.
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@AnonAmbientLight Every country, who could afford to, also used debt fueled stimulus during covid. Unlike other economies, America had the advantage of being the world's reserve currency, so the burden of the devaluation of the dollar was shared among the world, while other countries put the burden of inflation solely on their own citizens. You need to go back to school if you don't understand that adding 40% to the money supply in 3 years is going to cause inflation.
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I hate how people think Idiotcracy is bad. The two presidents in the movie are the smartest people in the world, and they are willing to work against the special interests to solve problems. We clearly aren't picking the smartest people.
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I hate how people think Idiotcracy is bad. The two presidents in the movie are the smartest people in the world, and they are willing to work against the special interests to solve problems. We clearly aren't picking the smartest people.
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@ronaldking1054 They weren't smart, sure. However, Gatorade was the largest employer in the country, but they still ignored corporate interests to improve people's lives. As far as political culture goes, that sounds utopian instead of dystopian.
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From what I learned from ignorant friends and family that they only get snapshots of information from a few select sources. For example, they heard Trump say he won't lock up his opposition once, and then ignore or don't hear the sum total of all rhetoric saying the opposite.
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