Might be time to buy Tesla stock. Trump is going to pump it full of subsidies and/or further tariffs on ev imports. Trump is officially Elon’s b*tch. I hate that campaigns are so transactional. Campaigns should be publicly funded (same amount of money for each candidate)

What exactly is Trump going to do to “fix” the economy. Housing is the most glaring issue and frankly he has no plan probably because he personally benefits from over inflated real estate.

I'm fortunate in that I am still on disability but I can work up to 20 hours a week. Not sure if I can claim unemployment. My wife and I along with the kiddo's social security also apparently make too much for me to be on SNAP even tho we can't afford food so that's why I don't really have much to eat. Looks like it's 44F out there and partly cloudy.

At minimum our relative economic standing to the rest of the world has improved dramatically over the past 4 years. That’s the real way to measure “are you better off than 4 years ago?” because it takes into account the base state.

I agree the stock market doesn’t indicate the people’s personal finances. But there are many other stats that say the economy is humming and people are doing well. This is going to sound tone deaf and out of touch but it’s the truth: What people perceive about their situation and what the reality of their situation is are different things. Where are the stats that say people are so much worse off than 4 years ago? Trump and conservative media have succeeded in convincing people they are worse off when they really aren’t. People think they are doing worse because they get sticker shock when they go to the grocery store but forget that they are also making more money! The real issues to tackle are housing and runaway corporate profits causing wealth inequality which are issues that have been building for years.