"Are you going to do better than 4% unemployment, inflation below 3%, and the economy growing 2.8%?"

[Miles Archer]

James Surowiecki
@JamesSurowiecki
Are you going to do better than 4% unemployment with inflation below 3% and the economy growing 2.8% in real terms? Because that's the economy Trump was given.

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The Intellectualist
@highbrow_nobrow
Mike Johnson on the economy: “The adults are back in the room and we are going to turn this economy around…”
@Acyn

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[SWBTATTReg]

1. The adults are back in the room...this guy is so full of BS. When you mock the opposition like this, how in the world

do you ever think you're going to come up w/ a comprehensive bill w/o the other side? Especially as close as the votes are?

[ZDU]

2. Condescend much?

Anyone? Anyone?

[markie]

3. ugh

whiney little Christian boy....
I don't know what world he (and others) live in, but it's not my world

[crazylikafox]

4. They did turn the economy around

Just in the wrong direction

[Midnight Writer]

5. I'll give him credit. They are turning the economy around. From golden to shite.

[Tarzanrock]

6. Well, Small Johnson ...

there's that little problem of the increase of $4,500,000,000,000 ($4.5 Trillion dollars) [the Turd Billionaire Tax Cuts -- which you Republican Nazis own] multiplied times whatever the ascending interest rate on the US Treasuries happens to be (currently 5.05%): 5.05% of (4.5 trillion U.S. dollars) = $227.25 billion U.S. dollars. Good thing, Small Johnson, that we have adult "loudmouth liars" like you who are "adults" who are in charge and who are "going to turn" this same economic fucking fiasco "around." So, lying Small Johnson -- where are you going to "get the monies" to turn this economic fucking fiasco around?

[cachukis]

7. You pose a great question.

Did we not have a fairly well managed economy once Covid abated somewhat?
The 2% inflation goal may be forever in the mirror.
Lot of changes happening with an incoherent captain helming.
How many are assessing the ins and outs as our new routine?
Russia's economy is running on war. The Chinese have a lot of unfinished and unsold property.

We have a guy within a support network numbering millions, living his dream; his world vision.
I don't know that enough of us really understand numbers.
But people do equate from what they observe.
Don't think many voters understood those numbers under Biden. How well they appreciate those numbers in a year will be telling.

[yellow dahlia]

8. I wish Dems in Congress were sharing those numbers - every day!

Every day - in front of multiple microphones.

[Miles Archer]

9. The path to success comes in 2 parts

1). What you said (daily)

2). Coupling that with a SIMPLE, easy to understand message. Not a "slogan." They need to say "Here's what we propose to do about it," keep it simple, just keep reinforcing it and make it something that will matter to voters. No "conceptual" thinking here, just basic and straightforward and action-oriented.

[yellow dahlia]

10. Agreed.

IMHO they can use big words and civics references. I thought it was silly when Bernie was criticized for using the word oligarchy.

I also think they should give themselves permission to call out the destruction and call out the lies. The RWmedia is spewing nonsense like they inherited a bad economy from Biden.

I think people want to feel like they are part of the conversation.

Personally, I like the way Chris Murphy delivers the message.

[onethatcares]

11. he really was saying

"We're going to burn this economy to the ground". Not "turn this ..........."

[Miles Archer]

12. In ALL OF THOSE MOVIES, when the bad guys would blow a hole in the wall shared with the bank vault...

...they only did it for one reason, to rob the bank. And that's what they're seeing. When there is an explosion and smoke and people running around...even metaphorically...no one notices the guy running away with wheelbarrows full of cash. And the guys running away are Trump, Musk, and the "Broligarchs."

[D_Master81]

13. Republicans create their own reality

I know people who actually say that Biden took “the best economy in the history of the country and turned it into the worst.” People would actually post memes about how gas was $1.50 under Trump and $3+ under Biden, leaving out it was that low because of Covid shutdowns. Surprisingly I don’t see memes about gas being $3 anymore