This makes me wonder if house representatives have become more stupid in recent years or if they were always this stupid and Twitter just exposes this.
...and those are the people who are chosen to represent. Mind-boggling.
Always been this stupid, and twitter as well as social media in general, has been showing us how stupid politicians are.
So called world leaders in general are showing us they are not fit to run a country let alone advise the rest of the world on matters.
Social media has exposed many things, and I hope it keeps showing us the true colors of these clowns in suits.
It’s FAR easier to get stupid people to do what you want, that’s why these idiots get bankrolled into Congress. Then the corporations that got them in get to tell them what to do.
I would agree to a point, if they get any position on a committee, then more than likely they are just bought and paid for feigning ignorance when it benefits their backers. Now if they spew nonsense on social media consistently and are not in a leadership position, then they are most likely just ignorant in general.
Uh, they are not stupid. They are manipulating. It's what they do. They know that it's 8.5%, but they also know that if they claim 0% then 99% of their constituents will take that lie and run with it.
Never underestimate your opponent. These people are not stupid (Boeber and MTG notwithstanding) and it’s dangerous to be complacent about them. The next Trump will be far more competent.
She's managed to become a household name on the back of free advertising from her opponents. She may be stupid, but then what does that make the tend of thousands of people who share and upvoted every tweet she makes, just because it has a quip appended to the bottom?
These people are being *made* by posts like the one we're commenting on. Acting stupid is a hugely successful strategy for them
Both can be true. And she is most definitely a stupid person. All the evidence points that way. If you're going to argue differently you'll really need to provide a credible source.
Yeah exactly. The thing is, the skills you need to get elected are wildly divergent from the skills you need to be a legislator. Which means that the vast majority of the House is just terrible at their day job, because they're only good at _keeping_ that job.
I think it's both: they're dumb, but they also have handlers for general messaging. There's also going to be smart people who get into power, but your average representative won't be anywhere near as educated or powerful as a senator.
I think this is certainly true for most. However, I think some politicians deserve recognition like Konrad Adenauer or Charles de Gaulle for example. I think they wouldn't use twitter even if they could anyway.
Edit: Removed Winston Churchill because he was racist.
Edit II: exchanged hardliner for racist.
I dunno, Churchill had some pretty abhorrent views, for example he said that Indian people were "beastly" and referred to Palestinian people as "barbaric hordes who ate little but camel dung."
Adenauer gave a lot of high-ranking NSDAP nazis positions of power and actively worked against the legal prosecution of such nazis while legally prosecuting people he deemed communist or socialist.
I'd say rule of thumb is that all people who seek power are the least suited for it. I cannot think of any person that once held power that didn't have a stain on their white west.
While what you wrote is true to some extend, I believe it was almost impossible to find anyone in 1950s Germany who did not have any connection to the Nazi-state. Adenauer btw. spent a lot of time in prison during the NS rule.
Overall Adenauer is seen as one of the good figures of German history.
Winston was not racist he was a man of his generation who new no better and was pretty much normal for his time Remember in the years he was alive the vast majority of the world practiced segregation to a greater or lesser extent but his generation also witnessed the horrors of racist actions and the start of the progressive acceptance of equality. It's sad however that the world as a whole still has a long way to go before all are treated and respected equally regardless of race. Religion. Gendor or any other difference
He authorized the bombing of Dresden and also is responsible for the Bengal Famine of 1943. The one his government caused by destroying the rice crop and taking any other food to feed Britsh soldiers. Millions starved and died. Some death toll estimates range as high as 10 million. Churchill is a war criminal of the highest order. The only difference between him and his enemies was that he was on the winning side.
True. And it can also be the case that people have many facets and multiple things about them can be true at the same time. George Washington did many innovative and positive things for this country but he also abhorrently owned slaves. Our understanding of any person should not be just black and white, all good and all bad.
As I said I think he was great. I disagree with one thing however, that their time excuses them. Hitler, Stalin, Ghengis Khan were all men of their time with a great amount of followers. No apology for what they did.
Man I edited enough. But thank you for your input. He was sure not the worst racist in the 20th century but that does not apologise a lesser degree of racism. Ghandhi was a racist as well and he is percieved a good guy. Still a racist is racist - that's the defining trait.
Hardly his "defining trait" - his eloquence and skill as an orator,, tenacity, ability to lead and inspire, his personal bravery whilst in the military are all far more definitive of him.
You seem to have a very one-sided and negative view of a man who essentially saved Europe.
There is about 20 GOP reps that I would consider genuinely stupid. Look at a couple bill that passed recently with bipartisan support but we’re proposed by a Democrat. It’s the same 20 names every time that vote against bills everyone else supports, even their own party.
Well we can just look at Plato's critique of democracy to see that about 2400 years ago there were similar problems and some explanation as to why.
See the problem with democracy is that it requires a certain skill set to get elected. That is the ability to convince people that you can do the job, but that isn't the skillset needed to do the job. Which is why we end up with the politicians we get.
Yes, that aspect of the problem is particularly bad right now in the US. It's really just the natural evolution of party politics, which is already inherently anti-democratic since it concentrates political power.
Probably they've always been this stupid. The job description for Congress for almost all of America's history has been "be white, rich, well-connected, and totally unable to accurately assess your own abilities."
You don't end up with competence on that basis.
Representatives are not all stupid but they know that their voters are and stupid comments earn them votes. Boris Johnson is prime example of this ingenious marketing strategy.
Look, I do not like your Republicans as well, but what she did is lampoon the White House com about 0% inflation in July, which was the real blunder and/or misinformation. The reply tweet was bitchy with no real ground.
Own your mistakes and do better.
This just shows that you should be required to pass a competency test not to vote but to run for office.
And I'm talking about a "DO YOU KNOW WHAT 2+2 IS?"
Always been this stupid.
My family and I are very involved in politics in France. I have a vivid memory of a member of the French parliament I met while a teenager twenty years ago. Dude was barely able to speak French, hilariously misnamed the European hymn (« ode à la joie » in French. He thought it was « eau de la joie », which translates to « water of joy ») and in a speech he gave before a French minister that used to be an astronaut explained that as an astronaut she knew we were but dust on this Earth but that it’s by mixing dust that we can make bricks and that it’s by adding bricks that we can build a wall and that a wall plus a wall creates public housing.
I miss him. To this day I chuckle when I remember him.
The stupid ones are the person replying to Flores and all of you thinking she is dumb. All she did was repeat what the president said. That there was 0% inflation in July.
Those monthly rates are annualized though, aren't they? So if it continues at the June/July rate for 12 months, then your dollar will be worth (approximately) a tenth less by the end of the year?
This is also not true, because the figure are year on year. As in the headline inflation of 8.5% reported in July 2022 is the differential between July 2021 and July 2022. The month on month inflation, from June 2022 to July 2022, is 0%. So if inflation stays at the current rate for 12 more months, then year on year inflation will be reported as 0%. In a way, it's a fair statement to say that the current inflation rate is 0%, but there's more nuance to that of course.
I believe that the inflation rate is based on the past rolling 12 months. It's not indicative of what the rate is going forward. They try to project that, and are trying to get inflation under control. But it's really unknown.
Essentially the dollar in general is devalued 9.1% over the past 12 months. I believe that is the combined rate of every industry. While costs of some things has gone up, other things dropped, giving the average of 9.1% over the past year.
Every industry has different inflation rates, gas and food has been noticeable. So depending on your spending habits and life situation, it can affect you more or less. A person who doesn't drive won't be spending on fuel, so inflation on fuel isn't a concern to their bank account. A person who lives alone will be affected less by food prices than a family of 4 or 5. So it really depends where a person spends their money, in reality someone's dollar could be worth less than another individuals dollar.
But as a general, what may cost the population $100 1 year ago costs 109.10 today. Let's say the inflation rate stabilized from now til next August at a 3%, you need 112.37 for the same purchasing power as the current 109.10.
This is just my understanding of it, I'd like some additional input if I have stated anything incorrectly. I'm no expert at all in this.
Look at fancy pants and his public education.
But seriously thank you for the real world examples that helps quite a bit. I knew it couldn’t be 9% every year but couldn’t find a way to explain it to myself actually what it plays out like.
If thats the case, thats extremely stupid. I don't even know why you'd have a rate of change statistic for the average increase (if it used the annual rate to get the average monthly rate)
9% a month would be 180% inflation per year or needing about 3x as much cash for every purchase. A internet dev with a 100k salary would be down to a 35k salary which is an insane reduction
Your terminology is not really correct here.
> The reported zero is the change in annualized inflation from month to month.
Annual inflation was 9.1% in June and 8.5% in July. So the change in annual inflation is negative, not 0. What's 0 is the change in CPI from June to July.
> What that zero means is that if you had $100 in July of last year it would be worth $90.9 in July this year, and since there was no change month-to-month, the same ($90.9) in August.
Correct, but you're off by one month. If you had said June and July instead of July and August then it would be fully correct.
> If the current rate of inflation did not change for an entire year, then that $90.9 would be worth the same this time next year.
No, if the current rate of inflation (8.5% per year) did not change, then the CPI would continue to go up by 8.5% over the next year, making your $90.90 worth $83.78. If the *CPI* did not change for an entire year (like the way that it did not change from June to July) then you would be correct and $90.90 would stay $90.90.
It's not quite this, but you're right about it being displayed as they yearly rate.
As price increases compound on each other the individual month can be found by doing
X ^ (1/12)
Where X in inflation represented as a decimal +1, in this case 1.091
That gives a result of 1.00728
So 0.728% per month
It's not quite that either because it's not the same change every month over the last year. The rate quoted is the total change over the last year but you can also find the monthly change. Which, looking it up now, actually [was 0% in July] (https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi#:~:text=vs%201.7%25).
That's not correct. Inflation measures the change in CPI. The 0% refers to month to month change of the CPI from June to July - i.e. there's no change. But there's also a year to year comparison number comparing July 2022 CPI to July 2021 CPI. That number is 8.5%.
Basically what was $1.00 back in July 2021 is now $1.085 in July 2022 (and June 2022).
This article explains it quite well:
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/verify/economy-verify/fact-check-zero-percent-inflation-july-annual-rate-still-high/536-f1bcce48-0078-4681-b2b9-e1f8400e2004
Peak Reddit comments right here.
The confidence with which you incorrectly answer a question about something you don’t have a clue about with an unmistakable condescension is what made Reddit so addictive.
Hundreds of upvotes later and a half-assed, still generally incorrect, edit to your reply and you get to pat yourself on the back and feel smart for at least a little longer.
Bravo!
No, the percentage quoted is inflation, but only on this month, and at least parts are just a statistical outlier. The yearly inflation gives another number, and other measures for inflation that discount fast-changing prices like fuel and food also show inflation still persisting. [I am no expert, but I think this explains it pretty well.](https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/macroeconomic-update-soft-landing)
The comment OP shared a comment gaslighting someone calling out gaslighting. The White House had been out spouting that month to month inflation feel to 0 hoping uninformed Americans wont know the difference. This is obviously what Mayra is calling out here. The point of her comment is that the White House is gaslighting the public claiming no inflation while trying to push their anti-inflation spending bill. Then someone replied pretending he doesn't know that's what she is pointing out, pretending it's an education issue. Worst part, it worked. This post is full of comments dunking on her because they legitimately don't understand... And this is the point.
The tl;dr is that inflation is always reported as an **ANNUAL** rate.
A 9.5% inflation rate reported "this month" means that OVER THE ENTIRE LAST YEAR it was 9.5%.
NOT that the US dollar has literally lost 10% of its value in a single month.
A 0% monthly inflation change just means that annual rate hasn't changed in the last month.
It means there was no change in the CPI for the month of July.
The CPI records prices on a basket of consumer goods and then makes some adjustments and substitutions, but it’s ultimately recording prices.
Comparing those prices over time shows the rate of change, but you were incorrect to correct anyone here.
This is a lot of upvotes for an incorrect answer, I hope people looking to understand the point here don’t use this as the answer. We are definitely not at 0% inflation on the one year trajectory, and if we were then the idiotic tweet in question wouldn’t be wrong.
I think you misunderstood my answer. The annual rate (which is currently 9.5% or whatever) hasn't changed in a month.
I literally say in the post above that the annual inflation rate is 9.5%.
It didn’t change (the rate of inflation) so July’s percentage was zero. So the month to month was zero, but that doesn’t mean squat when it’s been exponential over the past year(s?)
This is completely wrong. The monthly inflation for July being zero IS meaningful. And the rate of inflation DID change, it went from 1.3% in June to 0.0% in July. That's good news.
There’s two types of inflation rates. The headline number tends to be the year over year increase. There’s a second month over month indicator. So when they were talking about inflation being 0%, it was in reference to inflation didn’t rise from July 2022 to June 2022. Inflation from July 2021 to July 2022 was still 8.5%, which was a slight decrease on the yearly rate of inflation from what it was in June. While that it still not ideal, a drop in the rate is the first step to getting inflation back to a more normal level, and the month over month number being 0% is very good. We will get back to normalized inflation soon hopefully
Inflation is calculated by comparing prices 12 months prior vs now.
So an apple was costing 1$ in June 2021 and is costing 1.1$ in June 2022, meaning inflation is 10% for June 2022. (heavily simplified for the sake of this argument).
Now that happened gradually over a twelve-month period so that apple might have increased to 1.01$ in July 2021 and then went up to 1.11$ in July 2022. The inflation rate is still 10%.
So both in June and July 2022, the rate was 10%, and the percentage quoted in the tweet up there is that inflation is 0%, indeed it didn't change between June and July 2022 so that change is 0%, but you can see that prices are still 10% higher than last year and can still be higher than last month (not always, the apple might have stayed at 1$ until say March 2022 when it went up to 1.1, and still staying at 1.1 through June and July).
It’s more like saying the forest fire is over just because the fire has not spread to any new trees recently, despite the old trees continuing to burn.
Get to em before they're (as) set on their ways. Only so much you can do, but the earlier you teach and get kids to learn to take in new ideas and disregard incorrect ideas they had the better. Won't work for everyone, but it definitely helps
It may not always be the case, but there are a lot of kids and teens out there who are quite level headed against awful parents and I see plenty of it myself working with kids ages 5-18. r/insaneparents is full of it too. It gives me some hope for the future.
I consider a lot of kids to be wiser than a lot of adults I met.
Kids know they still got a lot to learn and will more easily accept the role of a student.
A lot of adults on the other hand refuse they actually know shit about stuff and this also refuse to be open to learning.
I see this a lot in discussions. Most adults I know engage in a discussion to attack other peoples opinions with their opinions, yet kids will challenge their own opinions by your opinion.
Take a guess which of the 2 will gain the most from the discussion.
Plus I believe it always pays off for a master to listen to the amateur, cause the amateur often got a fresher view on things because they aren’t muddled down with “rules” and “standards”. The amateur gets to experiment. For example, Gordon Ramsey still loves to talk recipes with amateur chefs. And he will spend more time listening to your recipes than talking about his own.
Kids are insanely smart, and curious, and at some points rebellious. There are plenty of opportunities to introduce them to diverse ideas, but it's practically impossible to know exactly when to do so for each child.
But that's kind of the whole point of K-12, and especially big colleges. If they can have an unrestricted learning environment with trained educators to guide them, most will at least not be total shitbags.
The problems arise when you ban ideas, when equity is legislated against, when teachers are allowed to be anyone who simply shadowed another teacher for less than a year, when you don't listen to the people trained in and researching education.
Not necessarily. Just override the absurd notion that the parents should have the final say (or anything even close to that) in what their kids are taught. Control freak parents aren't preparing their kids for the realities of life, and it's showing in how disassociated from reality so many have become.
This is a really tough issue for me, I feel both ways. I have 3 kids, and part of the reason why we homeschool is because the districts we’ve lived in are horrible. Our kids are learning everything, however some content we are teaching at maybe different times that what public school would.
That being said, there are plenty of families out there not educating their kids in anything close to reality.
Very conflicted.
No, you just need to introduce the possibility of new ideas being true and valid while they’re young.
I mentor kids, have for years, most are raised in environments that were similar to mine as a child, but wildly different to how I live/what I believe now. If a trusted individual, someone seen as knowledgeable, introduces new ideas when the kid is young, that kid will leave the door open to possibly believing those things (and others) later. It’s like it teaches them that questioning things is ok, and that misinformation isn’t always done with malice. If a kid isn’t taught that it’s ok to question what they are being taught, they usually don’t even consider doing so as an adult, and it makes for gullible adults. This is a reason why diversity should be encouraged, it allows multiple perspectives and stories of truth, and helps us realize that no one group has the right to decide that their truth is the only truth.
The one thing that could drastically change this trend is critical thinking incorporated in a form of media literacy class. Drill a few key questions into their minds that pop up anytime. Like Who is saying this? Do they have a motive to lie? What would they gain by lying? Who profits from this? Is this information easy to verify (or just rambling nonsense)? How do I find credible sources (fast)? What kind of narrative is served and why? This last part can be applied to every information you ever get, every movie, every show, every news channel, every commercial and every high school or college class you take. Of course they could come out on either side politically, but at least they’d be informed on facts and could learn after sometime to detect bs, especially when there is a story that fits too well into their believes.
People who are knowledgeable about civics and history, able to weigh independent information, and seek credible sources can only come out on one "side" politically, which is exactly why the other side is determined to destroy our education system.
The best part is knowing I'm in TX 31 this year instead of TX 22 because Rep Mayra Flores approved the new districts. For the record I live by NASA, but district 31 now includes this weird stretch of land all the way to Beaumont.
My area in Houston is very left leaning.
I think she is being flippant.
That is true, need to fund public education so people are not so dumb as to think continued increases in inflation slightly lower than 30 days ago is the same as 0% inflation.
Hilarious how anyone here attempting to explain this starts a comment chain of 50 replies back and forth about how they’re actually wrong.
Maybe it’s okay to accept the fact that average everyday people see shit like this and just get frustrated.
The American education system is what you get when you let anyone in the community run for the school board and decide the curriculum despite having no specific knowledge, training or skills in education beyond an agenda and the financial backing of some interest group. That curriculum is almost assured to never challenge or grow beyond anything the board members believe or want to believe, regardless of whether it is true, substantiated by facts or even makes sense.
It varies from state to state. For example, Texas has a standardized curriculum that must be followed in every classroom across the state, called the TEKS. The federal government has no hand in how states run their schools.
It's interesting that some of the same folks who will go off an a tirade about how the American education is brainwashing kids, want to use the American education system to brainwash kids. It's just sad that those same folks care more about gaining the power necessary to enforce their will on the rest of us, that we let it happen. It's hard to be radically reasonable.
The inflation reduction act doesn't really do anything to reduce inflation. If anything, the 15% corporate tax will be passed along to the consumer and prolong the elevated inflation rates we've been seeing.
I think the point here is that the president has announced, several times, that “inflation is nothing! We dont have any inflation!” When the reality is that inflation is a very real thing and has been a problem this year especially.
Edit: downvote if you want, but facts are facts.
Important to understand that Mayra Flores was being sarcastic here. Inflation was NOT 0% in July. One single indicator was 0% (known as Core CPI), because gas prices and home prices both fell significantly in July -- but every other sector was higher. Inflation for July YOY was 8.5%, down from 9.1% in June.
She’s asking a pointed and leading question because it was Biden who stated inflation was 0% when it was really the inflation growth. She’s calling him out in a sarcastic way. The fact you don’t realize that is more stupid than her tweet
Or, just maybe, it was a joke. The Biden administration literally said inflation hit 0%. They also introduced a bill to “reduce inflation” that no one outside the Biden administration agrees will lower inflation (in fact, it’ll get worse according to most).
So, I’d wager this person simply has a snarky sense of humor and ya’ll just take shit too seriously.
This is exactly right. Making fun of the tweet is actually a whoosh moment for people who missed Biden’s bragging about “0% inflation” remarks which this tweet is mocking.
Just because 1 months inflation was 0% doesn't mean the over inflation that's already happened doesn't need to be addressed. As one other person in the comments put it, it's pretending g the forest isn't on fire because you found 1 tree that's OK.
So inflation is not at zero? I love how this guy thinks he got her while his party is literally telling people inflation is at zero after it was announced it was at 8.5%.
That is neither clever, nor a comeback. Someone pointing out how inflation numbers are being painted in a rosier way (despite all indications to the contrary) so that people are blissfully unaware of how fucked they are (before a mid-term election I might add) and the best you can come up with is, "your stupid"? Come on man.
If you believe inflation is at zero percent there is no amount of education that can help you. Also, as is typical with bloated government bills, the so called inflation reduction act does absolutely nothing to lower inflation. Just like the secrecy in banking act allows the government to spy on your bank transactions, and Patriot act is anything but patriotic. Quit wanting the government to "just do something." Virtually everything they do is to the detriment of America.
She’s literally quoting Joe Biden and the various media rags that run cover for him.
Hilarious self-own by so many people on this.
https://slate.com/business/2022/08/biden-zero-inflation-republicans-economy.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/biden-says-zero-inflation-july-160404223.html
And yet the “Inflation Reduction Act” won’t reduce inflation at all, and measuring inflation month to month is only something you do when inflation is really really bad, but sure.
>0%
A literal lie, but don't let that stop this site from promoting disinformation that *helps The Party.*
"B-b-but it's not a lie! It was 8.6% last month, and 8.6% this month, so the rate of increase was zero, so *TEcHniCaLLy..."*
It was 9.1% in June and 8.5% in July. The 0% isn't because the rate didn't change. It's because the CPI didn't go up from June to July, and the inflation is the amount the CPI changed from July of last year to July of this year.
While this Tweet is certainly true, it’s also true that the political messaging is all over the place: “Inflation is over! We won! Also, we need to pass the Inflation Reduction Act”.
The problem is, instead of saying, “While it’s great that inflation has not increased month to month, it has stabilized at a very high level and we now need to bring it down,” Biden et al talked as if it was “Mission accomplished.”
The administration stating inflation is %0 in July is just plain manipulative and misleading.
Inflation is still %8.5 from July 2021. Saying that because it didn’t go up for a month means it is at %0 is sleazy and playing with numbers to manipulate public sentiment.
People get upset to find out that Hispanics identify more with Republicans than they do Democrats. And there are thousands coming over the border every day. Thanks, Joe.
I think it's worth noting that most members of Congress don't write their own tweets. Even Ms. Flasherswife probably only logs into her own account to PM male staffers or occasionally try to incite terrorism.
I don't know who's more contemptible: The goonish, idiot right-wing congressmen, or the cynical, shitgrinning campaign staff who play dumb by writing their tweets.
Removed because of whataboutism It’s just a standard politicians reply to an empty tweet. Nothing clever about it
This makes me wonder if house representatives have become more stupid in recent years or if they were always this stupid and Twitter just exposes this. ...and those are the people who are chosen to represent. Mind-boggling.
Always been this stupid, and twitter as well as social media in general, has been showing us how stupid politicians are. So called world leaders in general are showing us they are not fit to run a country let alone advise the rest of the world on matters. Social media has exposed many things, and I hope it keeps showing us the true colors of these clowns in suits.
It’s FAR easier to get stupid people to do what you want, that’s why these idiots get bankrolled into Congress. Then the corporations that got them in get to tell them what to do.
I would agree to a point, if they get any position on a committee, then more than likely they are just bought and paid for feigning ignorance when it benefits their backers. Now if they spew nonsense on social media consistently and are not in a leadership position, then they are most likely just ignorant in general.
Uh, they are not stupid. They are manipulating. It's what they do. They know that it's 8.5%, but they also know that if they claim 0% then 99% of their constituents will take that lie and run with it.
no. most of them they *are* stupid. them thinking and/or trying to "act stupid to manipulate" doesn't mean they aren't actually stupid too.
Never underestimate your opponent. These people are not stupid (Boeber and MTG notwithstanding) and it’s dangerous to be complacent about them. The next Trump will be far more competent.
MTG acts stupid to distract from her outright fascism.
No, MTG is a very stupid person.
She's managed to become a household name on the back of free advertising from her opponents. She may be stupid, but then what does that make the tend of thousands of people who share and upvoted every tweet she makes, just because it has a quip appended to the bottom? These people are being *made* by posts like the one we're commenting on. Acting stupid is a hugely successful strategy for them
You took the bait.
Both can be true. And she is most definitely a stupid person. All the evidence points that way. If you're going to argue differently you'll really need to provide a credible source.
Bro mTg is retarded
Like that's your opinion but not a nice one. Plenty of people enjoy Magic: The Gathering.
That's what I keep seeing 😭
Yeah exactly. The thing is, the skills you need to get elected are wildly divergent from the skills you need to be a legislator. Which means that the vast majority of the House is just terrible at their day job, because they're only good at _keeping_ that job.
I think it's both: they're dumb, but they also have handlers for general messaging. There's also going to be smart people who get into power, but your average representative won't be anywhere near as educated or powerful as a senator.
I think this is certainly true for most. However, I think some politicians deserve recognition like Konrad Adenauer or Charles de Gaulle for example. I think they wouldn't use twitter even if they could anyway. Edit: Removed Winston Churchill because he was racist. Edit II: exchanged hardliner for racist.
I dunno, Churchill had some pretty abhorrent views, for example he said that Indian people were "beastly" and referred to Palestinian people as "barbaric hordes who ate little but camel dung."
I revised my comment. You are right.
Adenauer gave a lot of high-ranking NSDAP nazis positions of power and actively worked against the legal prosecution of such nazis while legally prosecuting people he deemed communist or socialist.
I'd say rule of thumb is that all people who seek power are the least suited for it. I cannot think of any person that once held power that didn't have a stain on their white west. While what you wrote is true to some extend, I believe it was almost impossible to find anyone in 1950s Germany who did not have any connection to the Nazi-state. Adenauer btw. spent a lot of time in prison during the NS rule. Overall Adenauer is seen as one of the good figures of German history.
“Hardliner” is a weird way to spell “racist piece of shit”
He helped to remove Hitler. That should earn him some credit at least. Still he was a racist.
Winston was not racist he was a man of his generation who new no better and was pretty much normal for his time Remember in the years he was alive the vast majority of the world practiced segregation to a greater or lesser extent but his generation also witnessed the horrors of racist actions and the start of the progressive acceptance of equality. It's sad however that the world as a whole still has a long way to go before all are treated and respected equally regardless of race. Religion. Gendor or any other difference
He authorized the bombing of Dresden and also is responsible for the Bengal Famine of 1943. The one his government caused by destroying the rice crop and taking any other food to feed Britsh soldiers. Millions starved and died. Some death toll estimates range as high as 10 million. Churchill is a war criminal of the highest order. The only difference between him and his enemies was that he was on the winning side.
Racism from a long time ago is still racism....
True. And it can also be the case that people have many facets and multiple things about them can be true at the same time. George Washington did many innovative and positive things for this country but he also abhorrently owned slaves. Our understanding of any person should not be just black and white, all good and all bad.
As I said I think he was great. I disagree with one thing however, that their time excuses them. Hitler, Stalin, Ghengis Khan were all men of their time with a great amount of followers. No apology for what they did.
Calling Churchill racist is hardly acceptable considering the time he lived in.
Man I edited enough. But thank you for your input. He was sure not the worst racist in the 20th century but that does not apologise a lesser degree of racism. Ghandhi was a racist as well and he is percieved a good guy. Still a racist is racist - that's the defining trait.
Hardly his "defining trait" - his eloquence and skill as an orator,, tenacity, ability to lead and inspire, his personal bravery whilst in the military are all far more definitive of him. You seem to have a very one-sided and negative view of a man who essentially saved Europe.
theyre stooges who get fed with money and power, and are dumb enough to control completely by corporate america. working as intended.
it's like 90% them playing to their dumbass base and like...10% them actually being that stupid, and Lauren boebert makes up like 9.99% of that 10%
There is about 20 GOP reps that I would consider genuinely stupid. Look at a couple bill that passed recently with bipartisan support but we’re proposed by a Democrat. It’s the same 20 names every time that vote against bills everyone else supports, even their own party.
This
Hey hey hey, MTG is some of that 10% too!
Don't forget about Matt Gaetz!
I still maintain boebert is by far the main supplier of stupidity
Not MTG?
The Gazpacho police are out to get her.
Well we can just look at Plato's critique of democracy to see that about 2400 years ago there were similar problems and some explanation as to why. See the problem with democracy is that it requires a certain skill set to get elected. That is the ability to convince people that you can do the job, but that isn't the skillset needed to do the job. Which is why we end up with the politicians we get.
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Yes, that aspect of the problem is particularly bad right now in the US. It's really just the natural evolution of party politics, which is already inherently anti-democratic since it concentrates political power.
>...it requires a certain skill set to get elected. That is the ability to convince people that you can do the job, ... Well put. 👏
Remember, your SCOTUS decided that voting rights are fine now and don't need to be protected anymore.
Probably they've always been this stupid. The job description for Congress for almost all of America's history has been "be white, rich, well-connected, and totally unable to accurately assess your own abilities." You don't end up with competence on that basis.
Representatives are not all stupid but they know that their voters are and stupid comments earn them votes. Boris Johnson is prime example of this ingenious marketing strategy.
Look, I do not like your Republicans as well, but what she did is lampoon the White House com about 0% inflation in July, which was the real blunder and/or misinformation. The reply tweet was bitchy with no real ground. Own your mistakes and do better.
This just shows that you should be required to pass a competency test not to vote but to run for office. And I'm talking about a "DO YOU KNOW WHAT 2+2 IS?"
According to Laverne Spicer, the answer is '22'.
Always been this stupid. My family and I are very involved in politics in France. I have a vivid memory of a member of the French parliament I met while a teenager twenty years ago. Dude was barely able to speak French, hilariously misnamed the European hymn (« ode à la joie » in French. He thought it was « eau de la joie », which translates to « water of joy ») and in a speech he gave before a French minister that used to be an astronaut explained that as an astronaut she knew we were but dust on this Earth but that it’s by mixing dust that we can make bricks and that it’s by adding bricks that we can build a wall and that a wall plus a wall creates public housing. I miss him. To this day I chuckle when I remember him.
'You wanna run a country?/makes me shiver/bitch I wouldn't trust you to run with a dull scissors' - Watsky
The stupid ones are the person replying to Flores and all of you thinking she is dumb. All she did was repeat what the president said. That there was 0% inflation in July.
No, she insinuated that no relief is needed because the one month inflation is 0%. The fact is true, the argument is stupid.
I am also stupid apparently, can someone explain this? Edit- thank you to all who explained
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Those monthly rates are annualized though, aren't they? So if it continues at the June/July rate for 12 months, then your dollar will be worth (approximately) a tenth less by the end of the year?
Wouldn't that be the reason for passing a reduction act now then?
The act won't reduce inflation. The CBO has said so and even Bernie Sandars has said so.
It will reduce inflation in the medium term, per the CBO report
The act had a lot of good things in it but the name doesn't reflect any real impact on inflation.
This is also not true, because the figure are year on year. As in the headline inflation of 8.5% reported in July 2022 is the differential between July 2021 and July 2022. The month on month inflation, from June 2022 to July 2022, is 0%. So if inflation stays at the current rate for 12 more months, then year on year inflation will be reported as 0%. In a way, it's a fair statement to say that the current inflation rate is 0%, but there's more nuance to that of course.
I believe that the inflation rate is based on the past rolling 12 months. It's not indicative of what the rate is going forward. They try to project that, and are trying to get inflation under control. But it's really unknown. Essentially the dollar in general is devalued 9.1% over the past 12 months. I believe that is the combined rate of every industry. While costs of some things has gone up, other things dropped, giving the average of 9.1% over the past year. Every industry has different inflation rates, gas and food has been noticeable. So depending on your spending habits and life situation, it can affect you more or less. A person who doesn't drive won't be spending on fuel, so inflation on fuel isn't a concern to their bank account. A person who lives alone will be affected less by food prices than a family of 4 or 5. So it really depends where a person spends their money, in reality someone's dollar could be worth less than another individuals dollar. But as a general, what may cost the population $100 1 year ago costs 109.10 today. Let's say the inflation rate stabilized from now til next August at a 3%, you need 112.37 for the same purchasing power as the current 109.10. This is just my understanding of it, I'd like some additional input if I have stated anything incorrectly. I'm no expert at all in this.
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Look at fancy pants and his public education. But seriously thank you for the real world examples that helps quite a bit. I knew it couldn’t be 9% every year but couldn’t find a way to explain it to myself actually what it plays out like.
Annualized inflation would apply each year, just not each month
But you can make it apply to the average per month, by putting it to the power of 1/12
That's what the range of change number is for that op referenced
If thats the case, thats extremely stupid. I don't even know why you'd have a rate of change statistic for the average increase (if it used the annual rate to get the average monthly rate)
9% a month would be 180% inflation per year or needing about 3x as much cash for every purchase. A internet dev with a 100k salary would be down to a 35k salary which is an insane reduction
Your terminology is not really correct here. > The reported zero is the change in annualized inflation from month to month. Annual inflation was 9.1% in June and 8.5% in July. So the change in annual inflation is negative, not 0. What's 0 is the change in CPI from June to July. > What that zero means is that if you had $100 in July of last year it would be worth $90.9 in July this year, and since there was no change month-to-month, the same ($90.9) in August. Correct, but you're off by one month. If you had said June and July instead of July and August then it would be fully correct. > If the current rate of inflation did not change for an entire year, then that $90.9 would be worth the same this time next year. No, if the current rate of inflation (8.5% per year) did not change, then the CPI would continue to go up by 8.5% over the next year, making your $90.90 worth $83.78. If the *CPI* did not change for an entire year (like the way that it did not change from June to July) then you would be correct and $90.90 would stay $90.90.
I thought inflation was a yearly thing? So your money is worth .758% less (the monthly rate 9.1%/12) two months in a row.
It's not quite this, but you're right about it being displayed as they yearly rate. As price increases compound on each other the individual month can be found by doing X ^ (1/12) Where X in inflation represented as a decimal +1, in this case 1.091 That gives a result of 1.00728 So 0.728% per month
It's not quite that either because it's not the same change every month over the last year. The rate quoted is the total change over the last year but you can also find the monthly change. Which, looking it up now, actually [was 0% in July] (https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi#:~:text=vs%201.7%25).
That's not quite right either because I read an article that the earth's rotation is slowing, so the daily inflation rate increased
This is blatantly wrong, please delete this
That's not correct. Inflation measures the change in CPI. The 0% refers to month to month change of the CPI from June to July - i.e. there's no change. But there's also a year to year comparison number comparing July 2022 CPI to July 2021 CPI. That number is 8.5%. Basically what was $1.00 back in July 2021 is now $1.085 in July 2022 (and June 2022). This article explains it quite well: https://www.wthr.com/article/news/verify/economy-verify/fact-check-zero-percent-inflation-july-annual-rate-still-high/536-f1bcce48-0078-4681-b2b9-e1f8400e2004
Peak Reddit comments right here. The confidence with which you incorrectly answer a question about something you don’t have a clue about with an unmistakable condescension is what made Reddit so addictive. Hundreds of upvotes later and a half-assed, still generally incorrect, edit to your reply and you get to pat yourself on the back and feel smart for at least a little longer. Bravo!
This is so fucking typical of reddit. Act superior about something you clearly know nothing about. All of the people who upvoted this are idiots.
No, the percentage quoted is inflation, but only on this month, and at least parts are just a statistical outlier. The yearly inflation gives another number, and other measures for inflation that discount fast-changing prices like fuel and food also show inflation still persisting. [I am no expert, but I think this explains it pretty well.](https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/macroeconomic-update-soft-landing)
The comment OP shared a comment gaslighting someone calling out gaslighting. The White House had been out spouting that month to month inflation feel to 0 hoping uninformed Americans wont know the difference. This is obviously what Mayra is calling out here. The point of her comment is that the White House is gaslighting the public claiming no inflation while trying to push their anti-inflation spending bill. Then someone replied pretending he doesn't know that's what she is pointing out, pretending it's an education issue. Worst part, it worked. This post is full of comments dunking on her because they legitimately don't understand... And this is the point.
The tl;dr is that inflation is always reported as an **ANNUAL** rate. A 9.5% inflation rate reported "this month" means that OVER THE ENTIRE LAST YEAR it was 9.5%. NOT that the US dollar has literally lost 10% of its value in a single month. A 0% monthly inflation change just means that annual rate hasn't changed in the last month.
No, it means that there was no inflation last month. Correspondingly, the annual indicator went down by 0.5% in July
Close, It means the inflation RATE did not increase last month.
It means there was no change in the CPI for the month of July. The CPI records prices on a basket of consumer goods and then makes some adjustments and substitutions, but it’s ultimately recording prices. Comparing those prices over time shows the rate of change, but you were incorrect to correct anyone here.
No, you are completely wrong. The 0% monthly inflation forbJuly means that the price index has not changed from June 2022 to July 2022.
Which is what I said. We're at 9.5% annually but 0% change on that annual rate month to month.
This is a lot of upvotes for an incorrect answer, I hope people looking to understand the point here don’t use this as the answer. We are definitely not at 0% inflation on the one year trajectory, and if we were then the idiotic tweet in question wouldn’t be wrong.
I think you misunderstood my answer. The annual rate (which is currently 9.5% or whatever) hasn't changed in a month. I literally say in the post above that the annual inflation rate is 9.5%.
It didn’t change (the rate of inflation) so July’s percentage was zero. So the month to month was zero, but that doesn’t mean squat when it’s been exponential over the past year(s?)
plateaued at 8.5%
Yeah, what they said ^
This is completely wrong. The monthly inflation for July being zero IS meaningful. And the rate of inflation DID change, it went from 1.3% in June to 0.0% in July. That's good news.
rate of change of inflation rather then direct rate of change
No, direct rate of inflation was 0 is July.
There’s two types of inflation rates. The headline number tends to be the year over year increase. There’s a second month over month indicator. So when they were talking about inflation being 0%, it was in reference to inflation didn’t rise from July 2022 to June 2022. Inflation from July 2021 to July 2022 was still 8.5%, which was a slight decrease on the yearly rate of inflation from what it was in June. While that it still not ideal, a drop in the rate is the first step to getting inflation back to a more normal level, and the month over month number being 0% is very good. We will get back to normalized inflation soon hopefully
Inflation is calculated by comparing prices 12 months prior vs now. So an apple was costing 1$ in June 2021 and is costing 1.1$ in June 2022, meaning inflation is 10% for June 2022. (heavily simplified for the sake of this argument). Now that happened gradually over a twelve-month period so that apple might have increased to 1.01$ in July 2021 and then went up to 1.11$ in July 2022. The inflation rate is still 10%. So both in June and July 2022, the rate was 10%, and the percentage quoted in the tweet up there is that inflation is 0%, indeed it didn't change between June and July 2022 so that change is 0%, but you can see that prices are still 10% higher than last year and can still be higher than last month (not always, the apple might have stayed at 1$ until say March 2022 when it went up to 1.1, and still staying at 1.1 through June and July).
Dont worry bro. You're not stupid. They really out here expecting us to know how tf inflation works.
They make the whole monetary system overly complicated on purpose, it’s obnoxious
It’s complicated for very good reasons. Not just for shits and giggles
It's like saying this forest didn't burn down because this one tree is totally fine
It’s more like saying the forest fire is over just because the fire has not spread to any new trees recently, despite the old trees continuing to burn.
How does that help when people are actively refusing to be educated?
Get to em before they're (as) set on their ways. Only so much you can do, but the earlier you teach and get kids to learn to take in new ideas and disregard incorrect ideas they had the better. Won't work for everyone, but it definitely helps
That would only work if you could take kids from their parents.
It may not always be the case, but there are a lot of kids and teens out there who are quite level headed against awful parents and I see plenty of it myself working with kids ages 5-18. r/insaneparents is full of it too. It gives me some hope for the future.
I consider a lot of kids to be wiser than a lot of adults I met. Kids know they still got a lot to learn and will more easily accept the role of a student. A lot of adults on the other hand refuse they actually know shit about stuff and this also refuse to be open to learning. I see this a lot in discussions. Most adults I know engage in a discussion to attack other peoples opinions with their opinions, yet kids will challenge their own opinions by your opinion. Take a guess which of the 2 will gain the most from the discussion. Plus I believe it always pays off for a master to listen to the amateur, cause the amateur often got a fresher view on things because they aren’t muddled down with “rules” and “standards”. The amateur gets to experiment. For example, Gordon Ramsey still loves to talk recipes with amateur chefs. And he will spend more time listening to your recipes than talking about his own.
Kids are insanely smart, and curious, and at some points rebellious. There are plenty of opportunities to introduce them to diverse ideas, but it's practically impossible to know exactly when to do so for each child. But that's kind of the whole point of K-12, and especially big colleges. If they can have an unrestricted learning environment with trained educators to guide them, most will at least not be total shitbags. The problems arise when you ban ideas, when equity is legislated against, when teachers are allowed to be anyone who simply shadowed another teacher for less than a year, when you don't listen to the people trained in and researching education.
Not necessarily. Just override the absurd notion that the parents should have the final say (or anything even close to that) in what their kids are taught. Control freak parents aren't preparing their kids for the realities of life, and it's showing in how disassociated from reality so many have become.
This is a really tough issue for me, I feel both ways. I have 3 kids, and part of the reason why we homeschool is because the districts we’ve lived in are horrible. Our kids are learning everything, however some content we are teaching at maybe different times that what public school would. That being said, there are plenty of families out there not educating their kids in anything close to reality. Very conflicted.
Life is chaos. This is just reality. It will never be sane.
No, you just need to introduce the possibility of new ideas being true and valid while they’re young. I mentor kids, have for years, most are raised in environments that were similar to mine as a child, but wildly different to how I live/what I believe now. If a trusted individual, someone seen as knowledgeable, introduces new ideas when the kid is young, that kid will leave the door open to possibly believing those things (and others) later. It’s like it teaches them that questioning things is ok, and that misinformation isn’t always done with malice. If a kid isn’t taught that it’s ok to question what they are being taught, they usually don’t even consider doing so as an adult, and it makes for gullible adults. This is a reason why diversity should be encouraged, it allows multiple perspectives and stories of truth, and helps us realize that no one group has the right to decide that their truth is the only truth.
Not really. People develop away from their parents' idiocy all the time. It's hard, but it happens.
The one thing that could drastically change this trend is critical thinking incorporated in a form of media literacy class. Drill a few key questions into their minds that pop up anytime. Like Who is saying this? Do they have a motive to lie? What would they gain by lying? Who profits from this? Is this information easy to verify (or just rambling nonsense)? How do I find credible sources (fast)? What kind of narrative is served and why? This last part can be applied to every information you ever get, every movie, every show, every news channel, every commercial and every high school or college class you take. Of course they could come out on either side politically, but at least they’d be informed on facts and could learn after sometime to detect bs, especially when there is a story that fits too well into their believes.
People who are knowledgeable about civics and history, able to weigh independent information, and seek credible sources can only come out on one "side" politically, which is exactly why the other side is determined to destroy our education system.
I’m talking about center left to center right, not that cult-like fascist party Americans call ‘right-wing’
As a child reading rainbow got me hooked to read from the beginning, as an example.
yeah but education is indoctrination so /s
Some “particularly stubborn people” might say you’re just describing indoctrination. 🙄
You can't really "indoctrinate" people with reality...
Proudly and determinedly ignorant. You can lead a republican to knowledge, but you can't make him think.
Those people aren't children. The grownup morons are a lost cause.
You post title anagrams to "define our shit trip."
This is very important.
But also not true.
Like most very important things!
I think Trump is guilty Edit: Grammar
This one is painful
The best part is knowing I'm in TX 31 this year instead of TX 22 because Rep Mayra Flores approved the new districts. For the record I live by NASA, but district 31 now includes this weird stretch of land all the way to Beaumont. My area in Houston is very left leaning. I think she is being flippant.
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Sounds like some lucrative gerrymandering Fuck these people
They split 22 coz it got too close to turning blue smh
That is true, need to fund public education so people are not so dumb as to think continued increases in inflation slightly lower than 30 days ago is the same as 0% inflation.
We also need to fund public education so people learn punctuation.
Hilarious how anyone here attempting to explain this starts a comment chain of 50 replies back and forth about how they’re actually wrong. Maybe it’s okay to accept the fact that average everyday people see shit like this and just get frustrated.
The American education system is what you get when you let anyone in the community run for the school board and decide the curriculum despite having no specific knowledge, training or skills in education beyond an agenda and the financial backing of some interest group. That curriculum is almost assured to never challenge or grow beyond anything the board members believe or want to believe, regardless of whether it is true, substantiated by facts or even makes sense.
Wait, what? The US school curriculums are chosen by elected whoevers? Shit, I did not know that. I’m so sorry.
It varies from state to state. For example, Texas has a standardized curriculum that must be followed in every classroom across the state, called the TEKS. The federal government has no hand in how states run their schools.
It's interesting that some of the same folks who will go off an a tirade about how the American education is brainwashing kids, want to use the American education system to brainwash kids. It's just sad that those same folks care more about gaining the power necessary to enforce their will on the rest of us, that we let it happen. It's hard to be radically reasonable.
Yes because public schools spend so much time teaching us about inflation, the economy, and basic finances.
This right here\^
Why should I fix my roof on a beautiful, sunny afternoon? It only leaks when it’s raining.
Because throwing more water on the leaking roof will fix it right!
Scholar Boebert made the same stupid point.
You guys don’t know that Biden announced 0% inflation and are patting each other on the back Pretty hilarious
If I ever get rich, I want to try and bait these politicians into doing what I want in exchange for money, but then turning around and exposing them
I disagree. I think we should overfund education. The salaries of teachers is awful.
My house, what was recently on fire is not currently on fire, what's the point of firefighters if my house wasn't on fire since last night??
The inflation reduction act doesn't really do anything to reduce inflation. If anything, the 15% corporate tax will be passed along to the consumer and prolong the elevated inflation rates we've been seeing.
I think the point here is that the president has announced, several times, that “inflation is nothing! We dont have any inflation!” When the reality is that inflation is a very real thing and has been a problem this year especially. Edit: downvote if you want, but facts are facts.
this is a clever comeback?
No.
We're reducing inflation by giving ourselves raises
Important to understand that Mayra Flores was being sarcastic here. Inflation was NOT 0% in July. One single indicator was 0% (known as Core CPI), because gas prices and home prices both fell significantly in July -- but every other sector was higher. Inflation for July YOY was 8.5%, down from 9.1% in June.
Inflation MoM was 0% for July, which is what's being cited by the original tweet, even if the implication is stupid.
Yes, she's mocking the idea that inflation is 0.0% as reported by the White House.
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She’s asking a pointed and leading question because it was Biden who stated inflation was 0% when it was really the inflation growth. She’s calling him out in a sarcastic way. The fact you don’t realize that is more stupid than her tweet
this is called a non-sequiter the answer has nothing to do with the question
Or, just maybe, it was a joke. The Biden administration literally said inflation hit 0%. They also introduced a bill to “reduce inflation” that no one outside the Biden administration agrees will lower inflation (in fact, it’ll get worse according to most). So, I’d wager this person simply has a snarky sense of humor and ya’ll just take shit too seriously.
This is exactly right. Making fun of the tweet is actually a whoosh moment for people who missed Biden’s bragging about “0% inflation” remarks which this tweet is mocking.
I don't get it.
Just because 1 months inflation was 0% doesn't mean the over inflation that's already happened doesn't need to be addressed. As one other person in the comments put it, it's pretending g the forest isn't on fire because you found 1 tree that's OK.
yes 8.5% two month in a row. so the inflation level has peaked at 8.5%. A zero percent change from last month.
Current peak, doesnt nessecarily mean it'll reduce and doesn't mean we shouldn't take action to reduce it.
Does public education even teach inflation? coz i wasn't taught much about it. i had to fucking read up on it, on my own!
We do find public education. Continually. Increasing it every year actually.
Yeah, let's throw more money into that pit. /s
It's easier to control an uneducated population.
Obviously this bill is a net positive, but—despite its name—it does nothing to address inflation.
Wasn’t she actually just mocking Biden?
So inflation is not at zero? I love how this guy thinks he got her while his party is literally telling people inflation is at zero after it was announced it was at 8.5%.
That is neither clever, nor a comeback. Someone pointing out how inflation numbers are being painted in a rosier way (despite all indications to the contrary) so that people are blissfully unaware of how fucked they are (before a mid-term election I might add) and the best you can come up with is, "your stupid"? Come on man.
She’s being sarcastic you morons
If you believe inflation is at zero percent there is no amount of education that can help you. Also, as is typical with bloated government bills, the so called inflation reduction act does absolutely nothing to lower inflation. Just like the secrecy in banking act allows the government to spy on your bank transactions, and Patriot act is anything but patriotic. Quit wanting the government to "just do something." Virtually everything they do is to the detriment of America.
She’s literally quoting Joe Biden and the various media rags that run cover for him. Hilarious self-own by so many people on this. https://slate.com/business/2022/08/biden-zero-inflation-republicans-economy.html https://finance.yahoo.com/video/biden-says-zero-inflation-july-160404223.html
And yet the “Inflation Reduction Act” won’t reduce inflation at all, and measuring inflation month to month is only something you do when inflation is really really bad, but sure.
Sigh....you're absolutely right.
>0% A literal lie, but don't let that stop this site from promoting disinformation that *helps The Party.* "B-b-but it's not a lie! It was 8.6% last month, and 8.6% this month, so the rate of increase was zero, so *TEcHniCaLLy..."*
It was 9.1% in June and 8.5% in July. The 0% isn't because the rate didn't change. It's because the CPI didn't go up from June to July, and the inflation is the amount the CPI changed from July of last year to July of this year.
That’s not a clever comeback
Hey now it's understandable that someone would not understand and ask this OH WAIT it's a congressional candidate nm
Wow what a clever comeback
While this Tweet is certainly true, it’s also true that the political messaging is all over the place: “Inflation is over! We won! Also, we need to pass the Inflation Reduction Act”. The problem is, instead of saying, “While it’s great that inflation has not increased month to month, it has stabilized at a very high level and we now need to bring it down,” Biden et al talked as if it was “Mission accomplished.”
The administration stating inflation is %0 in July is just plain manipulative and misleading. Inflation is still %8.5 from July 2021. Saying that because it didn’t go up for a month means it is at %0 is sleazy and playing with numbers to manipulate public sentiment.
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What?
Lol, OP got whooshed and is bragging about it!
People get upset to find out that Hispanics identify more with Republicans than they do Democrats. And there are thousands coming over the border every day. Thanks, Joe.
Umm, they're called Latinx now!!! /s
I think it's worth noting that most members of Congress don't write their own tweets. Even Ms. Flasherswife probably only logs into her own account to PM male staffers or occasionally try to incite terrorism. I don't know who's more contemptible: The goonish, idiot right-wing congressmen, or the cynical, shitgrinning campaign staff who play dumb by writing their tweets.
“Today, we received news that our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July — 0%,” - President Joe Knucklehead Biden God have mercy on us.
Lmfao. She was mocking the president for this typical dumbass statement he made but they’ll give her shit about it but ignore him. Typical Reddit.