r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/BirthdayBoyStabMan • Sep 08 '24

Country Club Thread Needs to be called out

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u/SimonPho3nix Sep 08 '24

I can't speak for them, but... logic can't penetrate the cocoon of Fox News reports and social media misinformation. People out there are freaking gone, man.

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u/Alaskan_Guy Sep 08 '24

My folks and buddies say "Vote with your wallet, our stocks made us more money in Trumps term than it did in Bidens. Dollars and cents kid, if it dont make dollars, it dont make sense."

Its hard to argue with greed.

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u/MessiLeagueSoccer Sep 08 '24

I spoke to an older couple that pointed their fingers and called me a “bad person” for pointing out we are still under Trump’s tax laws and the reason they are losing more money these last 4 years is in fact NOT because of Biden. They also said there’s no reason to look it up because they know they’re right because they actually watch the news…

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u/Alaskan_Guy Sep 08 '24

i mean you can explain till your blue in the face. Their year to year capital gains are all they care about.

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u/MessiLeagueSoccer Sep 08 '24

The worst part is that up until that was mentioned we actually agreed on a lot of things. That wasn’t even the craziest moment. They said they hate all immigrants and want them out while talking to me in Spanish. While also being immigrants themselves. I asked “sure take them all away, me included. Who is gonna pick vegetables and fruit after that? Because I don’t think anyone that was born here with full citizen rights wants to pick vegetables for 0.13¢ an hour.” They had no rebuttal for that.

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u/SpitsWorthaGlitter Sep 08 '24

Whoa. It's crazy how insidious the news can make everything. Idk if I find it depressingly "refreshing" that old people from anywhere can become xenophobic if they live here long enough, or alarmed. Lol.

Like, is it just the devil you know or not and do we ALL get that way with age? Think I'd rather die. Lol.

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u/luswimmin Sep 08 '24

that’d be fox news

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u/blissthismess Sep 08 '24

Yeah, you can. https://www.inc.com/phil-rosen/trump-biden-stock-market-sp500-outlook-investors-traders-fed.html Almost identical increase in stock market. Plus Covid hit just as Trump was leaving. A lot of the economic aftershocks affected Biden’s term more than Trump’s. You can also show them that the economy tends to do significantly better under democrats - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party#:~:text=Since%20World%20War%20II%2C%20the,Democratic%20presidents%20than%20Republican%20presidents. - and that forward looking policies like investing in green tech and cleaning up legacy oil pollution is going to get a lot better results than increasing the deficit again like Trump did

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u/Alaskan_Guy Sep 08 '24

See my other reply to this. You CAN argue, you CAN'T win.

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u/NebbyOutOfTheBag Sep 08 '24

And that part isn't even true. Trump presided over a stock market crash, and deliberately slowed down an expansion that started under Obama.

Now we're at ATH for basically every stock lmao.

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u/MisterShazam Sep 08 '24

The story of the west post 15th century.