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Inflation under Trump is half that of when Biden was in. https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/article/inflation-u...


Actual or stated? The article lists a lot of things whose prices went up more under Trump 2 than Biden - regardless of what CPI data from the Trump government says.

Uh, wouldn't that be the same? Let's say factually and statistically. In any case, I posted that to balance what the other guy said which was misleading at best

No. Actual numbers and numbers stated by an unreliable biased entity are not the same.

> what the other guy said which was misleading at best

Current inflation is a fuckup [1]. Pretending it doesn’t exist is a fuckup. They aren’t unprecedented fuckups. But they are consistently punished.

Inflation is exceptionally high right now for a developed country. It’s feeding into cost-of-living issues that are animating voters.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ 7.2 annualized in September


> Inflation under Trump is half that of when Biden was in

And how did that work out for Biden?

Voters don’t like inflation. Blowing up energy prices by launching a war of choice while shutting down domestic production because windmills isn’t smart policy.


Yep. For a lot of voters, it is literally as simple as high gas prices => vote for the other guy.



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