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In reply to the discussion: From Substack: Why does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won? [View all]
EdmondDantes_
(46 posts)95. Inflation in 2020 was low. It was 1.4% In 2021 it was 7.0%
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2021/consumer-price-index-2020-in-review.htm
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/consumer-price-index-2021-in-review.htm
While the inflation was caused by the pandemic, it didn't show up until 2021 when people were starting to leave the house after being vaccinated.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2022/consumer-price-index-2021-in-review.htm
While the inflation was caused by the pandemic, it didn't show up until 2021 when people were starting to leave the house after being vaccinated.
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From Substack: Why does No One Understand the Real Reason Trump Won? [View all]
kerry-is-my-prez
17 hrs ago
OP
Flooding the news zones with bullshit until even the NYT and WaPo start repeating it.
erronis
17 hrs ago
#2
It's bad enough, but the mainstream media we try to rely on pick up what they say and repeats it verbatim
Walleye
17 hrs ago
#3
Trump lost in 2020 because he was a dumpster fire, but COVID was still affecting the US through 2022
haele
14 hrs ago
#63
I suspect many people WANT a rude, loud, blathering, large man for President.
raging moderate
10 hrs ago
#83
Of course there are multiple reasons, but right wing media does what it does, and it works well.
Trust_Reality
16 hrs ago
#30
Yup....and their racist sexist crap of not voting for a woman...regardless of the pain it will cause
PortTack
16 hrs ago
#23
The post-birth abortion bullshit and gender reassignment surgery at schools sealed my agreement with you.
Pacifist Patriot
16 hrs ago
#24
I've been saying this since the day after the election. The right wing media's lies, disinformation, and misinformation
Martin68
16 hrs ago
#20
Agreed, and the MSM, Cable, press etc. are/were complicit as they didn't clearly...
brush
16 hrs ago
#29
MAGA has a better amplification network and they spent 20 years developing it, it doesn't matter if Trump wears a narrow
uponit7771
15 hrs ago
#52
I'm old enough to remember when Karl Rove said. "We create our own reality." But I'm not sure our path should include,,
surfered
14 hrs ago
#61
We need our own media ecosystem, and we need to *support* it. Until then...
keep_left
14 hrs ago
#65
Left talk radio / alternative media won't work because Democrats don't believe there is a grand conspiracy to hide the..
Fish700
11 hrs ago
#77
It has worked, and continues to work at MSNBC, Mike Malloy, Democracy Now, KTNF in MN, etc.
keep_left
11 hrs ago
#79
To get people to fucking listen, will need to be entertaining FIRST. Few will tune in to hear someone read the newspaper
SoFlaBro
7 hrs ago
#98
The working class is not the same as the working poor. One of those is never talked about.
Autumn
12 hrs ago
#71
Yes, conservative control of news and successful voter suppression. Voter suppression isn't mentioned in the, why
ShazamIam
9 hrs ago
#86