Based on what I am hearing on the financial networks, Bloomberg and CNBC, one analyst after another

[JohnSJ]

predicting their doom and gloom for us, along with the Wall Street echo chamber, they could care less if Democracy in the U.S. was lost.

It is just about high gas prices and inflation, and it is all the Democrats' fault. greg valliere was on Bloomberg this morning spewing that people are concerned why "all that money is going to Ukraine, and nothing to the U.S."

Ignoring the legislation that the Democrats managed to get through.

They are the most selfish assholes in the world.

[Shermann]

1. When all the financial headlines are negative...

...it's time to buy, buy, buy!

[spanone]

2. They want trmps tax breaks

[onecaliberal]

3. Gas is plummeting and even food prices are dropping some and stabilizing.

[True Blue American]

13. Gas is $3.38 this morning and most of us get extra off from that.

"

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

24. Still $3.59 for 87 octane here...

... just south of Sioux Falls, SD. 89 octane is $4.19 and premium 92 is $4.54 at the local BP station and store.

I have a Gas Buddy card, so I got 20 cents off per gallon. It has been at this price around here for a week.

[onecaliberal]

53. It's over 5 dollars in most places in California. We have to get off oil.

The average price at one point was 5 dollars across the country. So yeah, it’s down.

[Meowmee]

52. Gas is 3.19 last time I think

Food prices are not dropping for me, they are going up. It is all price gouging imo.

[GoCubsGo]

4. They're talking down the economy.

They did it under Clinton and Obama, as well, all while accusing the Dems of doing so as their policies were actually driving the economy into the shitter under both Bushes and Fat Bastard.

[True Blue American]

14. The DOW as up around 3000 points.

That makes a huge difference fot most. CD’s interest, big jump, wages are up. Jobs slowing but still more jobs than workers.

[Crowman2009]

29. Makes you wonder if the wall street pricks are spreading panic because CD's and savings bonds have..

...better earnings than most stocks right now. Hence why people not in the 1% are buying those instead. I got an 18-month credit union CD at 3.95% recently.

[True Blue American]

31. They live on gloom and doom.

Also favor Republicans.

[SergeStorms]

35. That, and.....

corporations are going to start paying taxes now. The Trump tax breaks for the 1% are going to go bye-bye. America's freeloaders are going to pay taxes! How unfair is that?

So they're going to do everything in their power to alarm everyone in hopes of getting the GQP back in the saddle again.

Screw 'em! Pay up, you wealthy bastards 😤.

[True Blue American]

45. 100%

Squealing like stuck pigs. The Corporate media are losing their grasp.

I read yesterday that NPR is the only honest news. I also like PBS.

CNN is being turned into a Republican leaning wasteland. This week I noticed they cut off both the President and ex President Obama in the middle of their speeches, went back to senseless blathering. MSNBC carrupied Obamas full speech. And it was a barn burner on Hershel. Football player wanting to be Politician.

[former9thward]

40. What?

Up 3000 points from when?

[True Blue American]

46. The last 2 weeks

A couple of over 800 point days.

[betsuni]

48. +1

[Mad_Machine76]

5. Even if Biden/Democrats were proposing giving Americans the same amounts of money as Ukraine

Republicans and Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema would be against it and blocking it and yelling "SOCIALISM!". These same "analysts" would also probably be accusing them of wanting to tank the economy and making everybody deadbeats who don't want to work.

[gab13by13]

6. Everything is going according to plan.

The experts have decided to fix inflation by making people poorer, by creating more unemployment.

When people can't afford to buy things then the supply side will catch up. It is a cruel way to operate for the poor.

[Lovie777]

7. Inflation is going down .....

new GQP talking point, fuck Ukraine, give money to Americans preferably rich Americans.

[Justice matters.]

16. They gaslight the ignorants to make them think the money goes to Ukraine...

... while in reality, it goes to the military-industrial-complex that employs 'skilled' American workers to 'make the stuff' sent to Ukraine.

The money doesn't go to Ukraine directly, it ends up in Wall Street and in US workers' bank accounts.

[True Blue American]

47. Right!

[2naSalit]

8. Oh, they care...

What they want is the collapse of Democracy because it inhibits their greedy pursuits.

[TheBlackAdder]

49. Yet, I don't think there is or ever was one successful fascist capitalistic state.

.

If fascism was such a great driver of capitalism, there would be at lest one.

.

[2naSalit]

51. True.

[CousinIT]

9. SO. The US Billionaires who own the Republican Party are having a jealous about Ukraine.

Alrighty then.

[gab13by13]

10. Giving money to the poor and middle class

is not a cure for inflation. The Rescue Act really did add a bit to inflation. The price of gasoline and diesel is a big reason for inflation.

Greed is another big reason.

[DeeDeeNY]

30. Corporate greed is the main reason.

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/10/28/exxon-and-chevron-made-record-profits-as-gas-price-gouging-hit-californians/

[SoBlueInFL]

32. ITA

[Beastly Boy]

11. I always wondered why representative democracy is routinely conflated with capitalism

I can't even see much of a connection between free markets and capitalism.

[ananda]

12. The Republicans need to foster the idea that they are winning...

in the polls, so they can claim fraud if they lose and refuse
to concede.

[gab13by13]

15. I guarantee they are doing that in Pa.

[rubbersole]

19. My first thought.

The blue tsunami has to be minimalized at all costs. They can have a "peoples" movement gain traction...not when they're so close to ending democracy.

[DownriverDem]

17. Michael Moore

predicted that trump would win in 2016. Now he is saying there will be a huge Blue Wave. He also said the other day to stop reading or watching TV with all the negative news.

[JohnSJ]

20. More also said that Romney would win. His predictions are as accurate as a flip of a coin

That being said, I hope he is right this time

[Peacetrain]

18. Yes they are

[ffr]

21. Those republican apologist sites can eat this!

[NullTuples]

22. Free rein capitalism & democracy are mutually exclusive. The former is more profitable.

One might wonder therefore, if they are Republicans.

[irisblue]

23. 1920s Weimar Republic response, yes I know very different causes.

edited Of the inflation & the relentless bleating about it on RW based media, both here & in Europe.

[iluvtennis]

25. They wan the rethungs in control for their tax cuts and to overturn environmental policies. uggh

[llashram]

26. all this doom

and gloom becomes moot the minute the voting booths are filled. These constant attempts by MSM and the polls to 'project' the outcomes sicken me. I suspect the followers of TPOSFG will follow their leader over the cliff's edge. I think we are much smarter than that and have the votes to WIN.

[LymphocyteLover]

27. when these assholes are whining-- it means the workers are winning

[SoBlueInFL]

28. Corporate price gouging is keeping food prices high. r/o

No one is going to convince me that a bag of bread flour that cost me $7.48 six months ago should cost $12.53 now.

[FakeNoose]

33. If they really believed the doom & gloom message, they'd be terrified

... BUT they all know it's bullshit. They have to do their job and spout the rightwing talking points, otherwise no paycheck. The sun will rise on November 9th, and they'll all be talking about the next "horse race."

I'm so sick of the American media, and mostly they've been whores since Ronald Reagan.

[Warpy]

34. Wall Street reporters suck because they've all got tunnel vision

and don't realize there are two major ways to make money in the market: share price and dividends.

Share prices are likely to seesaw back and forth with the overall trend downward until the next Republican decides to increase the debt by another few tens of trillions by giving people who don't need them massive tax cuts. The age of fast money and the sky's the limit are coming to a close, and that's a very good thing.

Dividends, on the other hand, go up when business increases and business increases when more money gets into the hands of the people who actually do the work. And no, that 15% tax rate isn't going to cut into them appreciably. The tech companies that hid their profits overseas so they wouldn't have to pay taxes also don't pay dividends since no US profit is on the books.

What's got these guys seeing nothing but thunderclouds is the fact that the fast money years are over, the hot stock tips from now on are going to be for stodgy companies that pay their stockholders a share of the net profit. That depresses carnival barkers like Klayman and Cramer. Doom and gloom for those assholes means the market is going to go back to its normal self, one that's more sustainable.

[ancianita]

36. Polls, economy "issues" are all cover for the corporate onslaught of both democracy & the Democratic

Party.

They use any pretext and any means necessary to create confusion, lower human safety and GOTV.

Big Corps want a US corporate campus whose government they have captured. They are the road to unfreedom.

If it were only their selfish asshole bag men who were the problem. But this is much, much bigger.

[Kid Berwyn]

37. The mass media are owned by profiteers.

Given the choice: money or democracy?

Democracy won’t get so much as a peep in before it’s time for a commercial break.

[hadEnuf]

38. Corporations want to run everything and they can do it through their bought and paid for GOP

politicians. Although Covid can be blamed for some of it, this inflation is just unnatural. It's mostly greed and the GOP seems to be right in place to blame Biden and the Democrats for it. Its artificially induced inflation.

[TexasBushwhacker]

39. Ukraine? Are they fucking kidding?

If Ukraine falls, who will Putin occupy next?

While I do not think that the war in Afghanistan accomplished much, as a response to 9/11, our allies from all over the world joined us in the fight. They had our back, and we are supposed to have theirs.

[Efilroft Sul]

41. We are experiencing the biggest gaslighting/voter suppression operation in history.

The financial networks, for their part, serve the 1% and don't give a flying F about democracy.

[moondust]

42. Putinflation.

It is what it is.

[Skittles]

43. these same fuckers didn't care when trillions of dollars were wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan

but now they are beefing about Ukraine? Un-fucking-believable

[iemanja]

44. Wall Street hates Democrats

That's nothing new. This despite the fact the market has historically done better under Democrats.

[betsuni]

50. But we were told that Democrats are corrupt and completely beholden to Wall Street since the '90s.

Wall Street Wall Street Wall Street was the big don't-vote-for-Democrats propaganda in 2016 and it worked well enough. Hope all those who did that are happy.