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Everyone you say...
As soon as the election ended, Republicans stopped pretending we were in the new great  depression. 
Aka it was just a gop talking point >

It was this election's "Migrant Caravans"! >

I thought it was “Crime Wave!!” >

We almost eclipsed the 50 year low, it's out of control! >

Facts? Sounds like liberal propaganda to me >

Something something something Chicago something something >

Cities burned to the ground. >

Sitting here at my office, with 30-some colleagues, gazing in wild wonder at the scene outside, sheltering ourselves from the torrent of ash and smoke swirling about outside, I realize... oh wait, that's just snow. >

That got a chortle out of me. Thank you. >

Back in the heads of wealthy business owners that were pushing it since the day Democrats won a trifecta. 
Their buddies are leading the circus in Congress now, can't have them look bad! >

Fox says it’s still coming >

By gosh they'll push that narrative until it causes it to happen. >

Bankers say it'll maybe possibly happen sometime in the next months.
I feel certain they know because they look nice and wear suits. Authority figures ya know. All-knowing all-powerful gods. /s >

Plus they kinda have their hands on the levers, right? So they start tightening the credit market, start denying mortgages and playing games with other peoples money, and as people start losing their jobs and have to sell their assets the corporations who are sitting on large piles of cash are there to buy up all the assets at discount prices, then when the economy comes back, they now have an even bigger pile of money... >

Into rich people’s bank accounts >

Republican pollsters realized "border crisis" trended better than "recession". >

Yeah, the border crisis where Biden has stopped more illegal crossings in a year than Trump did in his whole term. Then when you point that out to Republicans, somehow Biden is just benefiting from Trump's "strong border security." Which is it?! Is it a disaster or all thanks to Trump? >

Just like the Afghanistan withdrawal 
GOP: BIDEN SHOULDN'T HAVE WITHDRAWN
Everyone: It started under Trump
GOP: THE WITHDRAWL IS PERFECT. >

My FIL was convinced we would have a massive crash at the start of the year. He also predicted Ukraine would surrender after 3 weeks and all the leader would run away...
Nostrodomus he is not >

Did he also prep for the nuclear winter that was supposed to be Y2K? >

I assume based on how many guns and cans of food they have.
Made my SIL get a bunch of money out last week because the banks are gonna collapse too. >

But let me guess: he doesn't think Covid is a big deal. >

Bioengineered.
Oh and Monsantohas created super weeds that no pesticides can kill except their new one (ignoring the years of people saying this would happen).
Listing it out makes him seem even more unstable >

I dunno, if you still listen to one party in this country, we're in the depths of a communist hellscape and the sun will never shine again. >

And that party's solution to getting out of it is to ban abortion, gay marriage and critical race theory ideally nation wide, and stop this renewal energy nonsense, all the country needs is more oil guys >

the recession is in a bit of a recession right now >

There was technically 2 consecutive quarters of decreasing GDP, but there weren't any other recession indicators other than those. And 2 quarters of growth followed which completely offset those 2 quarters of shrinking.
It really doesn't make sense to say the 2022 recession when the economy grew in 2022. >

2 consecutive quarters of decreasing gdp isn’t an indicator of recession, it is the literal definition of recession. >

No, it’s a common indicator and rule of thumb. The whole idea of a rule of thumb is that it’s an estimation, not necessarily the right or “literal” answer precisely. 
The NBER decides what is and isn’t a recession, and they have done so for decades. >

It’s in the dictionary definition of recession man, yeah the nber has the final say on what’s reported by the AP, but an economic term has to have a definition other than ‘whenever the nber decides the economy is really bad’ >

Record low unemployment enters the chat. >

Recession? My dear low caste Americans, this is a robbery. Recessions are when everyone suffers more.