He’s just lying dude. There’s nothing to be that shocked about. I figure a Brookings economist would be familiar with these things. Maybe not since neoliberals seem to have some sort of massive aversion to ever contemplating material reasons for these things.
And he lies because it works. There’s an absolutely absurd percentage of Americans - a majority, if I’m not feeling generous - who believe the crap he spews, no matter how untethered from reality and easily disprovable it is.
Trump will do anything to get what he wants, and sometimes - rarely - that includes telling the truth. But he lies most often because his audience loves being lied to.
This dudes main contribution that I can see is some sort of attempt to peg happiness to income so we can figure out just how many bread and circuses the proles need for us to keep them content. Like yeah, Trump is operating well outside of the lines by talking about grocery prices going down, but these dudes have been going full ham about how income inequality is actually a healthy thing.
It’s not that - it’s that the corporate news sewers have been told they’re not to say that. At some point that strategy will break, and it will do so through comments like these.
It’s not that he can’t believe trump is lying, it’s that he can’t believe everyone isn’t saying that ALL THE TIME. And since it’s his turn to talk, that’s how he said it.
He’s just lying dude. There’s nothing to be that shocked about. I figure a Brookings economist would be familiar with these things. Maybe not since neoliberals seem to have some sort of massive aversion to ever contemplating material reasons for these things.
And he lies because it works. There’s an absolutely absurd percentage of Americans - a majority, if I’m not feeling generous - who believe the crap he spews, no matter how untethered from reality and easily disprovable it is.
Trump will do anything to get what he wants, and sometimes - rarely - that includes telling the truth. But he lies most often because his audience loves being lied to.
It’s far from a majority of like 35-40%
Terrifyingly and unacceptably high but not a majority
It is more that economics is almost entirely bullshitting and so this Brookings economist is just not capable of detecting the ocean they swim in.
This dudes main contribution that I can see is some sort of attempt to peg happiness to income so we can figure out just how many bread and circuses the proles need for us to keep them content. Like yeah, Trump is operating well outside of the lines by talking about grocery prices going down, but these dudes have been going full ham about how income inequality is actually a healthy thing.
It’s not that - it’s that the corporate news sewers have been told they’re not to say that. At some point that strategy will break, and it will do so through comments like these.
It’s not that he can’t believe trump is lying, it’s that he can’t believe everyone isn’t saying that ALL THE TIME. And since it’s his turn to talk, that’s how he said it.