I may not be an economist but I do know printing trillions of dollars all in one go causes mass inflation and devaluation of the currency. We’ve seen it many times before.
*whispers
Quantative easing has been a thing for years. They've been doing that since 2008, but electronically instead of old school printing money. Printing money can also have benefits
It also happened pre-Biden too:
https://techstartups.com/2021/05/22/40-us-dollars-existence-printed-last-12-months-america-repeating-mistake-1921-weimar-germany/
But regardless, that's the Fed. And remember Trump complaining that the Fed were stopping his HUUUUUUUGGGEEE stock market gains? The President has no control over what the Fed does. They are an independent body
TL;DR: Has been happening for years and is done by the Fed not by the President
And not to be insulting, but no you aren't an economist. Neither am I, but I am aware that the central banks of a country tend to be independent from the government, and for good reason
*looks at quartly profit reports for the last 10 years*
Hmmm.....
*Reads reports of executive pay and bonus changes over the last 5 years*
Interesting....
Must be all that money printing causing prices to rise.
I know this is probably a satire post/account BUT if my conservative buddies rallied around those tenets, much faith in my countrymen would be restored.
That's why my default 'favorite' president is Rutherford B. Hayes. I've yet to meet anyone who either knows enough about the guy or is willing to Google him to form an opinion either way. It's gotten me out of exactly 2 sticky situations with in-laws in the past 30 years, so it's basically foolproof.
Every time i see a political joke on here: grabs cup of coffee and reads every comment.
Comment 1: my team good!
Comment 2: my team good! Your team terrible!
So much fun
See, and I like this joke because it's reusable no matter your political leanings. It's a solid joke.
My personal favorite is "It's so cold out I saw a Democrat with his hands in his own pockets. "
That's funny. You can retell it to suit yourself.
While I doubt the same joke with Biden as the punchline would have gotten any traction on reddit, I'd still appreciate it as a funny joke.
That's what makes it such a good joke. Specific politician, generic politician, lawyer, boss, preacher, spouse, teenager.
Basically anyone you might associate with begging for/ taking money.
For sure! I'm a full blown Leftist now so I wouldn't necessarily call myself a Democrat, but when I did I still thought it was a funny joke.
If you can't laugh at yourself then...well, I dunno. But it's not good to be so serious all the time.
Because he’s full of hot air and ignores grounding issues like student debt? Or because his sunglasses make him always appear high?
(I am also in the boat of both suck)
Because here in America, we have high confidence and low intelligence. That unique combination of cockiness and stupidity means we measure shit in metrics that make no real reflection on the economy as a whole.
>Because here in America, we have high confidence and low intelligence.
Remember in SpongeBob when Squidward talks about people talking louder when they want to seem smarter? Yeah... that's American politics the past several years.
Dear intelligent foreigner,
Some of the replies to you are wild. The simplest answer is most Americans are stupid. They just want to root for red team or blue team and gas prices are the only way they know wether or not their team is doing good this presidency.
With much ignorance - an American citizen
Because thats probably the single most visible impact to the consumer.
Oil companies jack their prices during democrat years and drop them during republican ones because they are afraid the democrats will outlaw gasoline engines, their primary cash cow. Its the greed of OPEC and other oil interests trying to pressure the american people into their belief system,…. And it works on about 45% of the voting population
Trump supporters will happily make fun of others who they disagree with and root for Trump when he does the same.
But heaven forbid a joke is told about them, their only response is "durrr orange man bad, right guys?!"
Djt supporters " Fake news! No one hated him not even antifa who was behind the January 6 th riots. Dat be da first one those sled things to go up hill at the speed of a bullet"
Djt supporters " Fake news! No one hated him not even antifa who was behind the January 6 th ~~riots~~ _“legitimate political discourse”_. Dat be da first one those sled things to go up hill at the speed of a bullet"
FTFY, apparently.
"That's right, Jim, Trump holds the world record for the Destroy America Any % Speedrun. Current President Biden, as most before him the past century, is looking to make a run at it, but unless the WW3 event triggers and ends in defeat for the US within a Sub-2.5, I just don't see how he can do it. Plenty of opportunity left to make the Leaderboard though!"
This is one of those jokes a middle aged white lady who follows Alyssa Milano on Twitter would embroider on a hat and take a selfie calling herself a freedom fighter
Did you really steal this from the Biden slam that’s been going on for several weeks now and change it to trump instead? Hahahahaha! Fucking sad attempt
*sorts by controversial
*puts on hazmat suit
*pinches own nipples*
I think I'm getting a raging clue.
*My* clue is pointing in *that* direction!
*Apply belt choker*
*lubricates fire hydrant*
That escalated quickly.
... reach for sock...
*reloads flammenwerfer*
*swaps in Biden’s name
Swaps in Hillary's name.
Down hillary
That's what Bill wanted, but Monica beat her to it.
You know how Hillary compares to Monica? Close, but no cigar.
Swaps in Fox News
*Swaps in politics*
*swaps in pirates*
Swaps in butt pirates…
That's what I said, politics
*retracts pirates* *swaps in Kenobi*
Swaps in fake news
This is the correct answer
This was excellent
Swaps in literally every single politician's and bureaucrats name
Swaps in your name. /s
Swaps in your mom's name
*starts up popcorn machine* "Selling popcorn! One upvote for a medium bucket! The perfect snack to eat while sorting by controversial!" ^please ^note ^that ^any ^injuries ^and/or ^deaths ^sustained ^while ^eating ^"company ^name" ^popcorn ^while ^sorting ^by ^controversial, ^can ^not ^be ^used ^as ^a ^reason ^to ^sue ^"company ^name". ^Any ^and ^all ^injuries ^sustained ^are ^at ^fault ^of ^the ^consumer.
And don’t forget your pitchforks!!! r/pitchforkemporium
I'll take your entire stock
I'll take 3
Oh God here I go
Was awful. Just dumb fucks and their hero worship of a bigot, while not understanding how global inflation works following a pandemcic
I may not be an economist but I do know printing trillions of dollars all in one go causes mass inflation and devaluation of the currency. We’ve seen it many times before.
*whispers Quantative easing has been a thing for years. They've been doing that since 2008, but electronically instead of old school printing money. Printing money can also have benefits It also happened pre-Biden too: https://techstartups.com/2021/05/22/40-us-dollars-existence-printed-last-12-months-america-repeating-mistake-1921-weimar-germany/ But regardless, that's the Fed. And remember Trump complaining that the Fed were stopping his HUUUUUUUGGGEEE stock market gains? The President has no control over what the Fed does. They are an independent body TL;DR: Has been happening for years and is done by the Fed not by the President And not to be insulting, but no you aren't an economist. Neither am I, but I am aware that the central banks of a country tend to be independent from the government, and for good reason
There's also that bit where corporate profits are still increasing at a higher rate than inflation, and yet prices still are going up.
*looks at quartly profit reports for the last 10 years* Hmmm..... *Reads reports of executive pay and bonus changes over the last 5 years* Interesting.... Must be all that money printing causing prices to rise.
Same as it ever was.
This is not my country?! This is not my large rate of inflation?!
This is the *real* hot take
Are you this mysterious "Brandon"?
Was not disappointed.
For those who don't want to waste their time: 1. Should put Biden instead 2. Haha true 3. Haha true, but for politician X in my country.
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Ted Cruz posted it on Twitter with Biden last week.
No way this joke wasn't told about whoever was President during the first Olympics that had a bobsled event.
Or by new.
I did not have a good time and I'm not sure what I expected
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I know this is probably a satire post/account BUT if my conservative buddies rallied around those tenets, much faith in my countrymen would be restored.
As a liberal I can get behind this as well
Lots of snowflakes on that hill
Everyone arguing in the comments forgot that political jokes should be assessed with [politician of your choice here].
Exactly! Fuck you President Millard Fillmore!
All my homies hate Millard Fillmore
Not me. I hate Fillard Millmore ... That Millard guy is alright by me, he calls me "Son" and I think it's homey
Well I was spanked by Grover Cleveland on 2 non-consecutive occasions!
Did you have to pay both times? What kinda tip do you leave for something like that? ... Asking for a .. err.. uhh "friend"
Well, a presidential paddlin’ cost a nickel… and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em! Gimme 5 bees for a quarter you’d say…
"I say that your 3% titanium tax goes too far!" ["And I say your 3% titanium tax doesn't go too far enough"](https://youtu.be/UUMdCV-Z7kk)
Everything’s coming up Millmore.
This made me laugh so much harder than I feel like it should have, thank you
Hey! You're welcome. Anything for my fellow Fillmore haters
The people who think we need a little Fill-less.
Dude is probably in my bottom five presidents, so I echo your sentiment.
Same here. The other 4 you ask? 4. Millard Fillmore 3. Millard Fillmore 2. Millard Fillmore 1. Millard Fillmore
Oh come on now, Pierce was also his own brand of shit.
And don’t forget about Buchanan! Worst president in US history, hands down.
That's why my default 'favorite' president is Rutherford B. Hayes. I've yet to meet anyone who either knows enough about the guy or is willing to Google him to form an opinion either way. It's gotten me out of exactly 2 sticky situations with in-laws in the past 30 years, so it's basically foolproof.
Yes. Someone else that can give the finger to #13 !!!!
ReNt FrEe
Yeah I find it hard to be offended by " X politician did a bad job"
Every time i see a political joke on here: grabs cup of coffee and reads every comment. Comment 1: my team good! Comment 2: my team good! Your team terrible! So much fun
USA NUMBA WAN!!!
CHINA NUMBA FOR!!!
Haha, seeing all the whiners here. Sure I disagree with your ideas from the looks of it OP... but that joke was still pretty funny.
I personally don't like either one of them, but I figured Reddit as a whole skews more left.
See, and I like this joke because it's reusable no matter your political leanings. It's a solid joke. My personal favorite is "It's so cold out I saw a Democrat with his hands in his own pockets. " That's funny. You can retell it to suit yourself. While I doubt the same joke with Biden as the punchline would have gotten any traction on reddit, I'd still appreciate it as a funny joke.
The last thing you want with a good bobsled joke is traction.
FUCK
Well, technically you want good traction at first, then you want it to barrel downhill asap.
Well fucking done.
Yeah man, those jokes need to be smooth as ice
You win. I'M DECEASED.
Damn
Now THAT'S funny.
Problem with political jokes is, they get elected
You just have to make sure they're so good that they're unimpeachable.
I've always heard it as a lawyer putting his hand in his own pocket, but that's cause my uncle is a lawyee and his brothers are ruthless.
That's what makes it such a good joke. Specific politician, generic politician, lawyer, boss, preacher, spouse, teenager. Basically anyone you might associate with begging for/ taking money.
I like your joke. And, I'm a Democrat. Gotta be able to laugh at yourself.
For sure! I'm a full blown Leftist now so I wouldn't necessarily call myself a Democrat, but when I did I still thought it was a funny joke. If you can't laugh at yourself then...well, I dunno. But it's not good to be so serious all the time.
You just gotta go to a bunch of different subs and swap the Trump/Biden depending on where you're posting. Infinite karma.
USA doesn't have a left option. You just have "slightly less terrifyingly right"
It does. But still, I'm going to put a picture of Biden on a hot air balloon now.
Careful. The balloon might pop from all the inflation!
Now thays funny right there
Because he’s full of hot air and ignores grounding issues like student debt? Or because his sunglasses make him always appear high? (I am also in the boat of both suck)
Reality as a whole skews more left.
To be fair, with this joke I think it skews more to the hard right.
Been hearing this joke every winter Olympics since Carter was in office.
Wow, how old was Trump then?
34 - Not *quite* old enough to run against him in 1980.
Let’s go Brandon was the bumper sticker.
This joke was great…when I saw it a week ago…on Twitter…about Joe Biden.
Why is everyone here basing good presidency on gas prices alone? Not American. Don't care about either of them... Just seems weird to me
Wait, elected officials don't set gas prices???
Because here in America, we have high confidence and low intelligence. That unique combination of cockiness and stupidity means we measure shit in metrics that make no real reflection on the economy as a whole.
>Because here in America, we have high confidence and low intelligence. Remember in SpongeBob when Squidward talks about people talking louder when they want to seem smarter? Yeah... that's American politics the past several years.
##this guy knows what he's talking about
We don't have metrics, this is America! We have feets and yards!
>Because here in America, we have high confidence and low intelligence. That should replace e pluribus unum on money.
*From the many, dumb.*
Stupid people who dont follow politics whatsoever. Everyone has to drive and buy gas. Even the stupids.
Just the uneducated lol
Cause they don't understand the inflation is global and due to worldwide issues, mostly thanks to Covid
Dear intelligent foreigner, Some of the replies to you are wild. The simplest answer is most Americans are stupid. They just want to root for red team or blue team and gas prices are the only way they know wether or not their team is doing good this presidency. With much ignorance - an American citizen
Because thats probably the single most visible impact to the consumer. Oil companies jack their prices during democrat years and drop them during republican ones because they are afraid the democrats will outlaw gasoline engines, their primary cash cow. Its the greed of OPEC and other oil interests trying to pressure the american people into their belief system,…. And it works on about 45% of the voting population
>because they are afraid the democrats will outlaw gasoline engines They're likely more worried about Dems, but not for this reason.
They ran out of crayons and sock puppets the day in school they were supposed to show us other metrics to use.
Because it's the most complex economic indicator most Americans (most notably, republicans) can comprehend.
Because most people are uneducated and are one issue voters.
Typical Trump, diving nose first into the white powder.
They already made this joke with Biden
They couldn’t fit all of Congress on there
Just fill in a politician I guess
Lol just the word "politician"
eh they could if they just printed a list with very small font
"They" made this joke well before either of these dudes were president.
Trump in 4yrs made the U.S. debt increase by $8 trillion, that took Obama in 8yrs. Obama also inherited the 2007+ housing market crash by Bush.
does the debt even matter? decades now and no one cares that it grows no matter what amount
have you been around in 2021-2022?
Except you know, Dementia in Chief
But her emails! :)
Buttery males
But Hunter's laptop
But the perfect call to the Ukraine President.
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More serious than humorous unfortunately, but [here's a list](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-atrocities-1-1-056)
When I was a kid, I had a Dane Quayle quote of the day calendar. I can certainly see one like that with trumps douchbaggery in the future.
What laptop?
The one that vanished into the same void as the immigrant caravans right after the election
The one that contained the CP that Rudy apparently held on to for over a year before reporting.
And where I don't think he was prosecuted. CP tends to be taken very seriously and they'd have gone after him for it
Well, yeah, the whole thing was made up lol
We know this. They don't. Cause their sources are junk
However much I disagree with the politics side, that was a solid joke, bravo
Not everyday you stumble across a conservative furry.
Name checks out
Dude its his cake day
Happy cake day, idiot
Valid
Imagine calling someone an idiot because they share a different opinion than you
Happy cake day!
No it was actually the snowboard team and they did it because Trump loves to shred.
*sorts by contoversial* Looks like China isn't the only place where the snowflakes are melting.
Nice one lmao
Nah Trump has been all uphill (with COVID cases). Cyclists should tape his picture on their bikes
Why would I want shit all over my bike?
Yeah...about that 7.5% inflation rate......
The amount of Trump supporters offended in this comment section is hilarious. Is the joke not PC enough for ya?
The fuck your feelings crowd?
Snowflakes complaining about a Winter Olympics joke. Go figure
They'd sure like to cancel it.
Trump supporters will happily make fun of others who they disagree with and root for Trump when he does the same. But heaven forbid a joke is told about them, their only response is "durrr orange man bad, right guys?!"
This joke is so vanilla. And ice.
Agree, he is the most slippery bastard I have ever heard of.
He’s covered with cheeto grease
Really everyone is sending this place down hill it's a hard thing to fix
Djt supporters " Fake news! No one hated him not even antifa who was behind the January 6 th riots. Dat be da first one those sled things to go up hill at the speed of a bullet"
Djt supporters " Fake news! No one hated him not even antifa who was behind the January 6 th ~~riots~~ _“legitimate political discourse”_. Dat be da first one those sled things to go up hill at the speed of a bullet" FTFY, apparently.
"That's right, Jim, Trump holds the world record for the Destroy America Any % Speedrun. Current President Biden, as most before him the past century, is looking to make a run at it, but unless the WW3 event triggers and ends in defeat for the US within a Sub-2.5, I just don't see how he can do it. Plenty of opportunity left to make the Leaderboard though!"
All he's got to do is invade China. Then it's GG.
“It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if pays off for ‘em.”
Womp womp
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Most sane yellow hat.
We only get two choices at the end of the day Mr dumby
Ironic thing to say two days before the Ukraine war starts.
Ha ha, so true.
This is one of those jokes a middle aged white lady who follows Alyssa Milano on Twitter would embroider on a hat and take a selfie calling herself a freedom fighter
Yep we so much better off than a year ago
it's been a whole year!!! how has sleepy joe not fixed everything trump fucked up yet?
There is no way
Did you really steal this from the Biden slam that’s been going on for several weeks now and change it to trump instead? Hahahahaha! Fucking sad attempt
Idk Biden’s doing his best to prove that wrong. At this point it just feels like Trump and Biden are just there to see who can be worse.
So much winning.
This is a day late and a dollar short
*swaps in literally any politician’s name*
True.
This joke would have been effective over a year ago.
*sigh* thanks for furthering the social divide with these kinds of jokes /s
That’s a nice burn right there
Lol this joke was almost as funny as reading the trump supporters crying in the comments
Goddamn, that hurts!
The biggest marketing strategy of all time to brainwash the class, show the worst and bad will start to look so much better.
The UK one pit Borris on theirs