I glad they finally got where I’ve been since his first go at destroying the country.

LOL, “handle on economy”.

That guy even said he doesn’t think about anyone’s finances. He obviously thinks about his own crime family’s finances, though.

“The economy” is doing just fantastic if you look at the wealth he’s accumulating for his family and friends. They’ve made billions, so far, in his second failed term.

Only nearly half? Some motherfuckers are in for a rude awakening.

Lol there’s no way it’s only half. We’re upper middle class and we’re feeling the pinch, I can’t imagine how hard it must be for the vast majority of Americans. Complicit media trying to sane wash this craziness again.

Nearly half is less than half.

Truthfully though, there are just some statistics that sound absurd and counterintuitive at first glance, but start to make more sense once you spend a moment thinking it through.

For one, the USA is in the midst of a K-shaped economy / K-shaped recovery. People above a certain level of wealth and income are literally doing just fine. In fact, many of those solidly higher middle class individuals are doing better than ever. Those folks are largely, not terribly anxious about finances. Now, I’m not claiming that group is literally half the population, nowhere near it, just that it represents a solid chunk. Then there are the unrepentant MAGA folks. You know, the ones saying “the current economic situation is entirely Obama’s/Biden’s/Democrat’s fault” and/or “I don’t mind this economic hardship because I trust the president” and the majority of voters back in 2024. Hate to break it to you Lemmy Communist Socialist Liberal Leftist Demon-warshiping Atheists, those MAGA voters are the salt of the Earth type people. And there are a lot of them. And they aren’t worried, or at least won’t admit to it. Because Trump is their god and that would be a sin. Then there’s a whole contingency of people out there who have lived paycheck to paycheck for the past several decades. Doesn’t matter if they’re rich or poor, they spend whatever they get the minute they get it, so they aren’t any more worried about it than they were back when Obama was president. Plus, let’s not forget the huge contingency of people who are virtually 100% politically disengaged. You can pretend like it doesn’t exist, but all you have to do is look at the voter participation rate for your local elections or even for the average mid-term federal election. Obviously that doesn’t directly translate 1-to-1 with people being anxious about finances in relation to Trump’s handling of the economy, but once you start highlighting the political angle, people turn off.

I could keep going with listing all the different segments of people who aren’t or would say they aren’t anxious, but I won’t. The point really is that there are a lot of such segments, some of them large, so by the time you stop to add it all up, it starts to seem more understandable that only “nearly half” said they were anxious.