Nope. Slate gets it wrong.
“ When faced with the options of chaos, greed, and anger or relative common sense—the kind wielded by a competent, qualified Black woman—voters overwhelmingly chose the former. It wasn’t the fascism-loving guy who spurred an insurrection whom they couldn’t trust. It was the Black woman.”
It was the Fourth Estate. When you have “news” corporations sane-washing a candidate? That’s not news, that’s propaganda.
They are still lying.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/election-results-2024-trump-harris-race-black-women.html
People were pissed their grocery bills went up.
It's not deep. That's happening all over regardless of the political leanings of the party in power.
Everything else is marginal.
That’s what MSM says, but it’s not close to the truth. They went up under Obama and Dubya (who put us onto two long wars). They got re-elected.
The MSM publishes opinion pieces as news. I just skipped several articles about “How to Survive the Trump Presidency”—if that is news, I’ll paint my body blue and run through traffic. MSM is not Cassandra and cannot predict the future.
This is an opinion.
MSM is no longer talking about news. They are spreading propaganda.
The corporate business model has seen it is FAR MORE PROFITABLE to be conservative and lie (see Fox News) than be liberal and tell the truth.
How many news services repeated verbatim the racist lie about immigrants eating pets and did ZERO RESEARCH to prove it wasn’t true. Then went on to repeat every time it was said. Over and over.
Because a lie repeated gains strength even with repeated denials.
How do you stop a lie. Don’t fucking repeat it.
MSM didnt stop it.
There is ample proof that it was not the economy. It was businesses jacking prices. But it was easier for the media to say it was the economy. This helped Trump and hurt Harris.
Again, it was a lie. The economy is actually almost back to normal—grocery prices are just business stealing from us.
But they called it the “economy.”
This is how a lie hurts we the people. When it is amplified by the press.
Meh, people were saving to the point personal savings skyrocketed to levels I had not seen in my lifetime during the lockdowns.
When the lockdowns ended, all that pent-up demand was chasing fewer goods while supply chains were still crippled.
Look at what prices dropped and which did not because a lot of prices did reset somewhat. Were retail grocers, producers and suppliers hesitant to cut prices on many items? Yes, because people were still buying.
So it wasn’t the economy. We agree.
It was implicit price fixing (which is legal) vs overt price fixing (which is illegal).
Inflation cooled and everything is kosher except the press which was still yelling about inflation (they tried to correct that as misinformation but stopped and just went with the flow—again assisting Trump).
I agree, businesses were fucking us over. But the media went along with Trump’s view (same with unemployment which they stopped correcting).
@feloneouscat Some supply is still broken for other reasons.
Take Beef, for example. Droughts in cattle producing states have lead to reduced herd sizes. Beef isn't coming down. Same with lamb. Not happening. Chicken prices are reverting toward normal though.
Part of what we are seeing in the grocery store is climate related. Part of it is demand driven. Why would I lower prices if people are still buying the crap out of things?