Let me get this straight: it wasn't about the price of eggs after all?

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Just today, I talked to someone who lives on the economic edge. Her parents were East German immigrants to the US. She makes a living cleaning houses. She's very bright but has limited education. From her parents, she has inherited quite a bit of antisemitic prejudice, and has attached anti-Black prejudice to that. Her take on the election:

"There's one good thing about it: my cryptocurrency has just skyrocketed."

She waxes poetic about Musk and DOGE.

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs
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[greycat@kitty.social]

@[email protected] I've been saying it for years but this election made it abundantly clear: narrative is all, facts are irrelevant

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Beachbum You're absolutely right.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@greycat Yes. Well-stated and well-summed up.

[mredgarbass@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy The greater the chaos, the more they can steal.

[katma@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
I recently got emails from various democrats saying they were going on “listening tours.”

I want to shake them and say, “No listening tour! Go on a shouting tour! Double down on key values. Start a FOX equivalent. Get your messaging aligned! Don’t pause, don’t worry about being nice, and don’t hedge and dodge every time some GOPer lobs an insult at you! Ffs!”

Or if they are going to do all this listening, don’t listen to white people. We are (generally speaking) a mess

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"We can confidently predict that within a month of Trump’s second inauguration, the economic stats won’t have changed significantly, but Republicans and probably idiots in the mainstream media will be kvelling about the bright new economy the Great Man has ushered in. Even if he follows through on those inflation-boosting tariffs."

~ Doktor Zoom

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs
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Many Republican Voters Decide Joe Biden's Economy Pretty Good Now, Thanks To Trump

When Walmart prices increase, they'll like that too.

(www.wonkette.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Jonathan V. Last points to a 2002 YouGov report about the gap between Americans' perceptions and reality:

"Here are some of the percentages that Americans (on average) think their fellow citizens are:

Transgender: 21 percent

Muslim: 27 percent

Jewish: 30 percent

Black: 41 percent

Live in New York City: 30 percent

Gay or lesbian: 30 percent"

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #misinformation #disinformation
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Americans Have One Very Strange Cognitive Bias

Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love The People.

(www.thebulwark.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"If you go down the list of characteristics YouGov asked people about, you see a persistent mistake in one direction: Americans vastly overestimate the numbers of people in minority groups. And by “minority groups” I’m talking not just about racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities. They wildly overestimate all kinds of minorities."

#Trump #economy #eggs #PriceofEggs #misinformation #disinformation
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Katma I'm with you. Totally agree.

[jstatepost@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy
🥥 May Eye pleez say it again, William?
Eye greatly appreciate what you are doing on the Fediverse by posting excellent non-corporate links and news comments Mastodon.
We might not see them, if left to our own devices.
Rawk on, sir! 🥥
#Media #News #Fediverse #Mastodon #TuckersBalls

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@MrEdgarBass Well-stated. Succinct and right to the point.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@jstatepost I'm very grateful to you. I'll keep trying!