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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,568 posts) Tue Nov 25, 2025, 11:57 AM Nov 25

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 Nov 25 OP

Welcome to Trump's economy surfered Nov 25 #1

Why, that just can't be, MarineCombatEngineer Nov 25 #2

3...2...1...FAKE NEWS Norbert Nov 25 #3

Yet, most TV commercials have people prancing, dancing & twirling about without a care in the world. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist Nov 25 #4

News coverage is that Americans are shopping and traveling. Let's happy fun holiday time! betsuni Nov 25 #5

surfered

(10,615 posts)

1. Welcome to Trump's economy

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Nov 25, 2025, 12:22 PM

Nov 25

MarineCombatEngineer

(17,306 posts)

2. Why, that just can't be,

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Nov 25, 2025, 12:25 PM

Nov 25

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

(7,495 posts)

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

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Nov 25, 2025, 12:29 PM

Nov 25

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

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(1,603 posts)

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

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Tue Nov 25, 2025, 12:30 PM

Nov 25

betsuni

(28,579 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

Nov 25

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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