Steve Kelley for April 01, 2024

March 2020, world shutting down due to Covid and Don Poorleone was pushing UV and horsepaste.

Yes, FAR better off – what a remarkably stupid question.

The progressive got what they wanted, now they are scared to lose that power.

Bidenflation

Four years ago, refrigerated trucks were serving as temporary morgues because of all the Americans who were dying of covid. About a milion.

Meanwhile, the Stable Genius: “I don’t take responsibility for ANY of it!”

4 years ago Americans were standing in line for a CHANCE that the next store delivery would have toilet paper. Now you can wipe all you want. Much better.

Oh no!

Poor you

So, Drumpf’s going to lower prices? How? a Great Depression, so the corporations can hoard the money? Aren’t wages keeping ahead of inflation, so we can finally get some of that increased productivity that the rich have been taking since 1970?

I’ll take today over 4 years ago with lockdowns, shortages, unemployment, tanking stock market, and people dying from Covid everyday thanks to the incompetent handling by the Fraudfather.

This has the smell of a previous, and now repeated, cartoon. SOP for the likes of Kelley, who’s “works” are devoid of imagination as well truth.

(Incidentally, Clay Jones remarked that political cartoons are by their nature bases on “negativity.” While some political cartoonists on GC’s website thrive and wallow in their cesspools of vicious negativity, there is the device of using humor to make a political point; think of Mark Twain’s comment on the ability of laughter to destroy tyrants. Kelley here does, at least, TRY to use wit to criticize Biden. As regards “Bidenflation,” it’s good to remember that Trump increased the inflation aggravating national debt by 43% during his administration* — due to his bungled COVID policies and the GOP tax cuts for the greedy rich basturds — while the increase under Biden’s, despite the worst and most prolonged inflation since the GOP administrations of the ’70’s , is 17%.

Simple idiocy.

Once you understand that they are not journalists or media professionals, but rather actors and operatives, things will start to make sense.

WEL, THERE’S OVER A MILLION DEAD COVID AMERICANS THAT MIGHT ARGUE ABOUT THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY.

Four years ago, we couldn’t even buy toilet paper.

That’s a lie. Groceries are cheaper, now.

If you are one of Biden’s 10 million illegals you’re definitely better off than four years ago.

She forgot about fighting other shoppers for toilet paper

4 years ago you couldn’t go to the movies and you were wiping your rear end with coffee filters, but tell me about how you were better off.

Are we better off now than we were 4 years ago?

4 years ago, my gas tank only held $17 worth of gas. Now it holds almost $40!

The one thing that is never discussed is the current official $1 USD to Ruble is 0.011 USD. But The real exchange rate is the blackmarket, called the “spot” market this value is hard to pin down but it is above 100 rubles for $1 US Dollar.

Numbers don’t lie. I am waaaaaay better off than I was the day Trump left office. If Trump supporters invested their money in stead of donating their hard earned money to Trump’s terrible lawyers, E. Jeane Carroll, and the state of New York, they would be better of too.

4 years ago you couldn’t get toilet paper and now you’re complaining about the price

Inflation and the border problems are as much or more the fault of Republican policies on Covid, dictatorships and drugs. They even turned down a bipartisan solution to the border issue just to please Mango Mussolini. Meanwhile most terrorists are domestic or flying into the USA from Russia, China and the Middle East.

4 years ago COVID had disrupted distribution and manufacturing.

Does Kelley remember how many died of COVID during the Trump ‘administration’?

So Kelley can’t tell the difference between inflation and price gouging?

“But it’s Biden’s fault! WAAAAAAAAAAH!” says the clueless people, including Steve Kelley.

Indeed, the strength of the U.S. economy following the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has been a marvel to many economists and world economic experts.

They credit a robust labor market and the dynamic nature of the U.S. in creating new businesses and technologies, as well as massive fiscal and monetary stimulus during the pandemic for an impressive outcome in 2023. The U.S. economy grew by 2.5% last year.

. . .

Since the end of 2019, just before COVID-19 arrived in America, the U.S. economy has expanded by 8.2%, Darmet says, while the Eurozone has grown by 3.5% and Japan by 2.8%.

From US News and World Report.

thanks to corporate profit-taking et al.

Hey, Kelley, tell it to the families of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who died needlessly premature deaths from COVID!

Yeah; 4 years ago I was afraid to go out and get groceries because I might get sick and die. Or did you forget about that little matter, Kelley???

Exactly! I live in France and grocery prices are through the roof. Fuel for my car is around the equivalent of $8 per gallon.

Yes inflation is just horrible. Good thing wages for the average lower and middle class workers has way surpassed the inflation percentage during the last 38 months, along with their 401K savings

Stories for steve kelley from “four years ago”:

“Panicked Shoppers Empty Shelves as Coronavirus Anxiety Rises”

“The scene inside one crowded store: There was no chicken available.

Another had no flu or cold medicines."

“High Prices, Empty Shelves”

“Gone From Grocery Shelves, Now There’s a Mad Dash.”

“Here’s why some everyday staples have disappeared from shelves as the crisis changes how people shop and eat.”

And here’s a headline we all remember, form April 1, 2020, exactly four years ago:

“*TRUMP SAID CORONAVIRUS WOULD ‘MIRACULOUSLY’ BE GONE BY APRIL.* WELL, TRUMP, IT’S APRIL."

Nicely done!

Headlines from The New York Times for Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Top News

Coronavirus May Kill 100,000 to 240,000 in U.S. Despite Actions, Officials Say

Infected but Feeling Fine: The Unwitting Coronavirus Spreaders

Why Asia’s New Wave of Virus Cases Should Worry the World

It’s also a great diet!

Well, four years ago I was figuring out how to do my job remotely because of a global pandemic. So there’s that.

Bring out yer dead!"

Thanks Joe!

Sarcasm….go figure!

Free market not working out for you guys?

YES. YES YES YES YES YES. We have a real president instead of a 7 year old trapped in an old man’s body that only wants to hit on young girls and play golf. If you do a little research, it’s easy to see that the further excuse for a president made some deals that we are paying for now.

4 years ago?? That can’t be the strategy for the right. They can’t think that asking people to remember how awful things were in 2020 is the way to go.

My grocery bill is about the same, and my investments are skyrocketing.

It is so true and yet I cannot stop laughing at people who try to convince me that we are betteroff now than were when Trump was President. Back then I could a lot more groceries with 100 bucks than I can now.

MAGA-GOP article of faith: Biden’s $1200 checks to middle and lower class families in April 2021 caused GLOBAL inflation.