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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,561 posts) Tue Nov 25, 2025, 11:57 AM Tuesday

Just released : Inflation is up. Consumer Confidence is down. Spending is flat.

And gas now cost more than it did under Biden.

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Just released : Inflation is up. Consumer Confidence is down. Spending is flat. (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Tuesday OP

Welcome to Trump's economy surfered Tuesday #1

Why, that just can't be, MarineCombatEngineer Tuesday #2

3...2...1...FAKE NEWS Norbert Tuesday #3

Yet, most TV commercials have people prancing, dancing & twirling about without a care in the world. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Tuesday #4

News coverage is that Americans are shopping and traveling. Let's happy fun holiday time! betsuni Tuesday #5

surfered

(10,560 posts)

1. Welcome to Trump's economy

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Nov 25, 2025, 12:22 PM

Tuesday

MarineCombatEngineer

(17,218 posts)

2. Why, that just can't be,

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Nov 25, 2025, 12:25 PM

Tuesday

just last week we were assured by Pedonald himself that everything is hunky dory and every bad piece of news was fake.
Just in case this is needed:

Norbert

(7,492 posts)

3. 3...2...1...FAKE NEWS

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Nov 25, 2025, 12:29 PM

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Whoever is responsible for this report should be arrested for sedition and hanged.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(1,597 posts)

4. Yet, most TV commercials have people prancing, dancing & twirling about without a care in the world.

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Tue Nov 25, 2025, 12:30 PM

Tuesday

betsuni

(28,576 posts)

5. News coverage is that Americans are shopping and traveling. Let's happy fun holiday time!

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Nov 25, 2025, 12:57 PM

Tuesday

It goes without saying that if there were a President Harris the news would be about cancelled Christmases, weeping hungry barefoot children selling pencils on snowy dark streets, the unemployed gathered around trash fires roasting rats for dinner and reminiscing about how Trump made America Great Again.

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