Well, as they like to say, The chickens are finally coming home to roost, and I just happen to know a fat orange poltroon who’s about to get covered in guano.
When Biden was still on the ticket, Traitor Tot had three signature issues to run on, Immigration, the economy, and inflation. And while Biden was running, His Lowness was cleaning up on all three. He had double digit leads in all three, and in two of them, the economy and inflation he was nearing a 20% bulge.
What a difference seven weeks and a fresh face at the top of the ticket makes. Since Kamala Harris took over as the candidate, she has cut every one of those deficits in half, they’re now in the mid single digits.
And she did it the old fashioned way, by talking about them. When Biden was running, he seemed unsure of himself, especially with the economy and inflation. When he did address them publicly, he seemed to get bogged down in the numbers, highlighting the positive aspects of dropping inflation and higher wages and job growth, promising that Things would get better. That’s not what people wanted to hear. We Americans don’t care much for patience, we want results now.
Harris had a different approach. For instance, you’ve never heard her utter the phrase Bidenomics. And when she spoke to the economy and inflation, she started with, Look, I know that prices are still too high. We’ve made progress, but there’s still a long way to go. Then she followed that up with concrete, easy to understand policies. One of her favorites was a DOJ that was going to be more proactive and aggressive on price gouging. Beautiful. Everybody knows what it is, and it gives them corporate greed to get pissed off about. Especially when the DOJ almost immediately followed up with a price gouging complaint against Kroger. That’s action people can see and react to.
And now she’s reaping the benefits. As I previously wrote, gas prices are down almost 90 cents from a year ago, and likely to drop under $2.50 a gallon for a national average next week. That’s due to increased US oil production, dropping the value of a barrel of oil, as well as reduced Chinese oil consumption. That’s something people can see and feel quickly. Gas is already cheaper, and getting cheaper. This means lower airfares due to less expensive jet fuel, as well as reduced costs in supermarkets, since it’s now cheaper for the chains to truck their goods from the dock to the warehouse, and then from the warehouse to the stores. Economists have already noticed a drop in energy costs, as well as supermarket bills, and expect the drops to continue through the rest of the year.
And now today, the Federal Reserve Board just dropped a giant blivet on El Pendejo ex Presidente’s head, while dropping a political Kohinoor diamond into Kamala Harris’s lap. Analysts had expected The Fed to drop their benchmark rate by a quarter point. But The Fed decided to go bold. In a 10-1 vote, they decided to drop the benchmark by a full half a point.
Now look, I have no idea of what the Federal Reserve board actually does, and neither do you. It’s like trying to have my daughter explain how the programming for a new app for your phone is built. But here’s the thing. We poor yokels don’t have to comprehend how The Fed works in order to understand what the outcome means.
And what it means in plain and simple English is, over the next couple of months, your mortgage rate, car loans and credit card and consumer debt payments are all going to go down by about a half a point. And even if you don’t see it immediately, you know that it’s coming, that’s a given. Which makes you more confident, and you start to feel better about the economy.
As I wrote earlier, Trump’s manic obsession of continuing to push The Big Steal by ordering MAGA maniacs to refuse to use early voting and only show up on election day was going to bite him in the ass. The whole object, as the Democrats well know is to bank those votes as early as possible, before anything like an October Surprise makes them change their minds. The RNC knows it too, and fought bitterly to promote early mail-in or in person voting, but Traitor Tot cut them off at the knees.
And now we’re actually starting to see some empirical proof. When Biden topped the ticket, when the polling question of Who do you trust more to run the economy better?, the answer was Traitor Tot by 18 points. In a poll released today, the answer to that question was Harris +2. And while that’s within the margin of error, what’s not within the margin of error is the 20 point swing in seven weeks. And before you start bellowing outlier!, I’ll tell you that this is the second consecutive week that the same poll has had an identical result.
Here’s the October Surprise, only it came about two weeks early, which is even better since early voting still hasn’t started in most states. What better way to bank some early fence sitters votes than to hammer home the positive economic news, and take credit for it while people are enjoying the rush? And the news is only going to get better as gas and food prices continue to drop. Nice petard Il Douche. Here, let Kamala Harris give your old ass a hand in getting up there.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
This is for all those hooligans who were screaming how bad the Democratic Party was in messaging:
The Democratic party is extremely good at DOING GOOD THINGS. For ALL of the American people. In spite of the republicon House of Representatives. Gee, what’s Moses Mike up to this week?!?
We’re not at the level (for messaging) the GOP was before their top talent became Never Trumpers and signed on with The Lincoln Project but we’re a damned sight better than we used to be. Let’s hope it’s enough.