WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumer confidence declined slightly this month as gas prices stayed high and inflation remained elevated, a sharp contrast to soaring stock prices hover near record levels.
The Conference Board’s consumer confidence index slipped 0.7 points to 93.1 in May, the first decline after three months of gains. The measure hasn’t fallen as much this year as other gauges of consumer attitudes, but it has been stuck at a low level since the pandemic. Before COVID-19, it regularly reached 130.
A separate gauge of consumer sentiment released last week by the University of Michigan fell to a record low this month. Soaring gas and food costs have worsened inflation that is outpacing the average growth in paychecks, reducing most Americans’ purchasing power. Americans have soured on President Trump’s economic policies, polls show, potentially creating problems for Republicans heading into the midterm elections.
This, more than anything, is why I hate both parties. Harris tried to gaslight us into thinking the economy was okay. Now, Donald’s doing it.
But these limpdick, rich motherfuckers don’t understand that the poor do their own grocery shopping, their own child care, actually open their own medical bills, and actually notice how much worse their schools have gotten and how many fewer opportunities there are to build a better life. The economy doing great for the rich has zero meaningful connection to the circumstances of the poor and middle class now.
Yeah but only one side has active concentration camps
That’s a lie. Dems loved putting people in cages too, and in fact, Obama built many of them.
Go look up who originally appointed Tom Homan if you don’t believe me.
If you can’t admit the difference between Trump and previous administrations, you aren’t being honest.
Oh, I can.
The difference is presentation. That’s it. Donald is doing everything in the light that was previously hidden behind rhetoric.
And before you try and tell me just how powerless Biden was to keep all of these awful things from occurring or stopping Dems from participating in them, I’ll just direct you to the first two years of Donald’s second term, wherein he’s proven definitively that the Democrats had the power they needed to do anything they promised multiple times over the last three decades.
You’re fucking delusional, oy.
Both parties use the same consultants, I don’t see why people don’t see that as the real issue. The consultancy class is making a killing off of both parties while actively ignoring the populace. The more they ignore us, the more they get paid to understand us, which they will continue to actively fail at because they don’t want to understand us: they just want to get paid, doesn’t matter the party. They really make their money by telling politicians what they want to hear about their constituents, rather than constituent reality. That’s why Chuck Schumer literally makes up his constituents, I’m not kidding, he talks to imaginary constituents he thinks represents people.
Also, yes, Obama appointed Tom Homan, and people need to stop pretending the Democrats haven’t had any hand in this.
They really love defending the guy who ramped up the drone war, because it wasn’t our soldiers dying, it was just kids who were “terrorists.” He codified and legalized the worst excesses of the Bush admin and that’s why Trump has his hands on mass surveillance via Palantir and more. People like us warned the Democrats not to do it, in case someone like Trump arose. Someone you couldn’t trust with those powers.
You have to be fucking delusional to compare everything Trump is doing with ICE, the National Guard, the USMC and the mass creation of concentration camps, along with reclassifying antifa as “terrorists” to justify bypassing civil rights to kill or lock up dissidents, to anything the Dems have ever done.
But by saying “both sides” I can refuse to educate myself or get involved all while maintaining a smug sense of superiority. Sounds like a win-win to me.
Electing Harris would have meant Lina Khan would have stayed at the FTC and we wouldn’t have the jackass Trump just appointed to the Fed. Both parties are not the same.
Trump also appointed the Fed guy who has kept shit from completely hitting the fan, too. The new guy is just one vote on the board, he’s outvoted by default.
Lina Khan was an overrated silicon-valley corporate sellout as well, which is exactly why you’re repeating MSM talking points. Hence your data was still being sold by everyone and she lost so many cases with dumb arguments, appearing to be the point. Just controlled opposition for people like you to feel good about Biden carrying out a genocide. When corporate MSM repeats that someone is great, you should not parrot them.
Seems like you don’t actually have anything to directly refute anything people challenging your narrative are saying, and are spam-fucking whataboutisms to dance around the topic.
Please keep your terminally online leftist bullshit to yourself. Enough damage has already been done by stupid mother fuckers who think neoliberals are just as bad as literal fascists.
You’re a genocide supporter, and no I won’t keep it to myself what you did to those kids. It makes sense that you supported it cause like a Zionist, you’re always claiming to be the victim. When you help Nazis carrying out a modern day Holocaust, you are the literal fascists.
Oh god he’s halting! He’s doing the same stupid bullshit of copy & pastting brainless and lazy accusations that all terminally online leftists do!
Time to take the psychosis meds the nurse passed you earlier.
What about voting for the only viable candidate that would have prevented Trump, a child rapist, is bad for kids?
Fact: Israel wanted Trump to win, not Kamala. We knew this in 2024
Fact: Israel has Epstein child rape blackmail on Trump. We knew this in 2024
Fact: Trump is the only president to have launched a war against Iran for Israel. Not Biden, not Obama, and there is zero reason to believe Kamala would have.
Fact: ICE wasn’t made to become a US gestapo force, training under the IDF and using Israeli spyware on US citizens and undocumented persons under ANY DEM.
Seems if the accusation of supporting Zionism is applied accurately, its to limp docked, short sighted, overly privileged, faux advocates like you. You enabled Trump to win, which is objectively what the Zionists wanted, and why they’re trying to keep the GOP in power now.
Screaming at the mirror again?
Hey dipshit, due to your complete and total lack of willingness to vote for the ONLY VIABLE CANDIDATE TO BEAT TRUMP IN 2024, you get to have blood on your hands with
The only people in this thread who helped with carrying out the modern holocaust ARE DIPSHITS LIKE YOU, DIVORCED FROM REALITY AMD WHO REFUSED TO VOTE FOR THE ONLY VIABLE CANDIDATE TO PREVENT VIRTUALLY ALL OF THIS FROM HAPPENING.
The blood IS ON YOUR HANDS
There we go! That’s the non-sequiter meltdown I was waiting for to tell whether you were serious or just in it for the vapid self-fellatio.
Biden’s hands are drenched in blood, and so was Kamala Cheney’s, and anyone who supported them.
https://jacobin.com/2025/01/gaza-biden-genocide-israel-iraq
Sure, Jan.
The difference is the Dems actually have a track record of making the economy at least less worse than Republicans BY FAR.
Not to mention the Build Back Better bill was originally going to be the single most progressive infrastructure upgrade bill in US history, but it was gutted because of the GOP.
I’ve just replaced “the economy” and “stock market” with “rich people’s yacht money.”
Neat cause that’s basically what they did, too!
Whether or not the economy can be called “OK” is extremely dependent on who says it and when. At the time of the election campaign, it was fair to say that the economy was OK. It wasn’t great, but inflation was getting under control, employment numbers were rising, it was generally trending in the right direction and could be called “OK”.
Then trump comes in and from his (more specifically his ownership group’s) perspective, this is currently beyond OK. Profits for the ultra-rich are skyrocketing. They clamp down on immigration to get rid of the sources of cheapest labour, then make sure the cost of living keeps rising to push people into taking whatever job they can get, for wages they previously would never have accepted. All while cashing in on planned market swings.
But yeah, tell me again how both parties are the same.
https://www.equifax.com/newsroom/all-news/-/story/faq-what-is-a-k-shaped-economy-/
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/04/worries-grow-over-a-k-shaped-economic-recovery-that-favors-the-wealthy.html
https://www.investopedia.com/long-term-impacts-of-the-covid-19-k-shaped-recovery-5200711
The economy went K-shaped before Biden even got into office. The economy was far from “OK.” It’s just gotten a lot worse since then is all.
Even during Obama’s term the growth in jobs was mostly part-time McDonald’s type gigs, not real quality jobs. Then Trump fucked everything over during COVID and made things even worse with the PPP loans, which further kicked things into a K-shape.
People forget that the TSA was always a stealth jobs program for Bush’s shitty economy. It’s still in operation as security theater and an outright dismissal of the 4th amendment as mattering.
There hasn’t been a time in my adult fucking life where working full time even in the state with the highest minimum wage can an adult afford to rent an apartment on their own. It’s been fucking bad for a long time. Minimum wage should be at least $25/hour if not more.
But sure, $7.25/hr and gig work is great. /s
Absolute absurdity. Their argument on inflation was that it was slower, as if that helps people who’ve already been price-gouged for years at that point.
Give me a break. The parties are absolutely the same on how little they give a shit about our poverty. (But they’ll vote in bipartisan fashion when the crash comes and their stock portfolios need a bailout, guaranteed.)
One day they’ll notice our peaceful protests, general strikes, and sign-waving, right?
…right?
Probably will take less time if we go full Marsha P. Johnson.