re: US officially enters recession - GDP contracted by 0.9% in Q2.

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I wish people would be more honest and admit they were willing to sacrifice more lives for a strong robust economy. Instead, they just regurgitate propaganda that the numbers are lies and half these people died from gout or something.

I was willing to sacrifice more lives for a strong robust economy. I have no shame.

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Or it's that there is much more to it than the mortality rate in a vacuum.

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The arrogance that ignorant Progs put on display really is a sight to behold.

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It is Thursday.

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Social engineering to be sure, but people were initially led to believe that the mortality rate was MUCH higher.

Why the “but”? You are just describing social engineering. AKA mass manipulation. It’s not an excuse or justification. The data was out there already from multiple cruise ships that were perfect case studies in learning how the virus spread and who was most vulnerable. But that was ignored because politics and ratings. Just because you and millions others failed to see it doesn’t mean you’re absolved from any blame.

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Blame? For what?

FYI I was a proponent of segregating the vulnerable and NOT shutting our country down.

And yes *initially*. There were initial reports of people dropping dead in the streets of China. It is human nature to want to protect your family, and yes it was exploited for political gain. People were terrified and just wanted to protect their loved ones, so they looked to the authorities in their government. It’s what people do. It’s too bad that not everyone is as wise as you, but I bet a lot of people learned some valuable lessons from this.

You’re blaming people for not seeing it? I mean if it makes you feel better. What you wanna do, hold blame trials and assign punishments for these millions of Americans?

Then again, speaking of social engineering: I also blame all the mindless lemmings who supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq where we ended up getting bled out for 2 trillion dollars, 4550 American soldiers, and 3800 military contractors lives with nothing to show for it in the end.

I blame congress who should have known(did know)better, but were either enticed by MIC profiteering kick-backs, or were afraid of receiving the contemporaneous scarlet letter of being “unpatriotic”, or whatever other bullshite ignorant reasoning was rolling around inside their skulls at the time.


I assign blame for mismanaging Covid to those in power who should have stood up to the narrative being pushed, and explained to the American People why that narrative was bullshite.

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Warfox

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That's it! You're my favorite poster. You nailed it.

Trump shut down the government and gave out stimulus checks. The recession would have still happened with him as president.

Definitely wouldn’t have been as bad though.

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Trump shut down the government

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The government collects money, it doesn’t generate it on its own. Shutting down the government would be a good thing. Let the free market go.

They wanted him out so bad that they released Covid on the world and the media lap dogs where in on it too.

Friendly reminder that this is the best recession ever. Got a raise and car shopping! Thank you Biden