Because it was lower under Biden. We have numbers.
I’m so tired of living in a timeline where we pretend facts don’t exist to avoid upsetting the MAGAs.
Kudlow can piss off. The only success for MAGA is creating more expensive shit thanks to food prices.
Who gives a shit about opinion? It’s just an objective fact. What that dipshits supporters have deluded themselves into believing doesn’t change that.
Remember facts over feelings? Pepperidge Farm does. These guys never miss a chance to make themselves look like complete idiots.
Tribalism is helluva drug.
What do you mean “believe”? It’s not an opinion
It is at this moment I would like to remind everyone that 100 is the average IQ, which necessarily means that half of the people that walk among us are rocking double digit IQs.
No, 100 is the median IQ, but that doesn’t preclude there being a lot of people with exactly 100 IQ. Thus there would be less than half of the population below 100 (and also less than half above 100).
It’s not necessarily half. There could be a group that is a fair bit less than half, but are so dumb they throw the averages off.
It’s a normal distribution so it’s pretty damn close to half
what does IQ have to do with the price of groceries?
Sure, but the poll itself is already dumb. Why poll opinions on a fact? It implies there’s any actual value or some truth to this.
Something can be a fact and a belief at the same time. E.G. some people believe the moon landing was faked or that the Earth is flat. It’s a fact that the cost of living was lower under Biden yet some people believe that it’s lower under Trump. Those people are just as crazy as the flat Earthers, and yet they still exist. The real concerning thing is how many of them there are though. The fact that it’s not something like 1% or fewer that believes Trump is better is really concerning but sadly not surprising. Your average Trump supporter is really dumb and ignorant.
Yes, but why even poll for that?
Because for some people it can be cheaper, especially if they moved. So, the poll sheds light on for how many people are their lives more or less expensive even if on average we know most prices went up for most products.
It does, but that doesn’t seem to have been the intend of the poll
Actually the average is like 103 nowadays im assuming from better nutrition than when IQ tests were invented about 100 years ago
Americans are obsessed with polling for opinions on measurable metrics for some reason
According to my survey, 37% of Americans are annoyed you said this
That is really insane. It’s a fact that gas has become more expensive after Trump attacked Iran. The media is full of articles about expensive gas. That is something you can see just by driving to a gas station. You can experience that in your daily life, see the prices with your own eyes. And 35% of Americans believe that gas was more expensive under Biden, just a little of over one year ago?
I kind of can understand that you are getting a wrong impression of things outside of your personal sphere when watching the wrong media. If you’re living somewhere rural and if you’ve never been in Los Angeles, you can get a wrong impression of Los Angeles if your media reporting is wrong. But for something that everyone can experience everywhere?
35% of Americans can’t recall what they had for breakfast today.
I think people (correctly) assume that the poll will be used as evidence to criticize Trump, and if they support him they don’t want to give his opponents that evidence. So they’ll say whatever doesn’t imply criticism of him.
I think I remember reading that the act of remembering something is neurologically indistinguishable from just straight up imagining something, but I might be making that up
For real tho, everyone’s memory is crap and most people won’t/can’t take the time to research things they think they remember
There was a period (the start of the Russia/Ukrainian war) where gas prices were higher than now. So it’s not that crazy I don’t think. The best way to compare two periods would be to average the prices over time but people can’t do that on their own really.
We can compare those periods, sure, but one immediately followed less than a year of Covid and the other was caused by an illegal, immoral and unnecessary war.
Biden had been in office for not very long when the war in Ukraine started. Inflation steadily improved under his presidency.
Trump’s insane slash-and-burn administration has raised inflation a lot, and that’s not slowing down, it’s increasing.
If all you do is take a mathematical average, you’ve lost too much data to understand the important reasons why we’re seeing what we’re seeing.
Sure but that’s not what the poll was asking. It just asked whether COL was higher or lower between them.
But maybe you’re right that there are better questions to ask.
Yeah I wasn’t trying to argue, although I think my comment unintentionally sounded that way. My bad. I guess my point is that, yes, there are better questions to ask about our current state of affairs than when did we have lower prices. Questions such as:
“Which president did more to address the affordability crisis: Biden or Trump (47)?”
Biden went after this pretty hard while Trump denies there’s even a problem.
Yeah but maybe somebody doesn’t drive and they eat corn flakes every day and somehow the corn flakes are cheaper than last year. Or somebody moved from LA to Albuquerque and their living cost is just a lot cheaper now than last year.
Yeah, we know, Trump still has about a 30-40% approval rating. We know! It’s in every damn poll.
Also, since they’re just asking AI now, instead of surveying actual people, what’s the damn point of these polls?
A few polls do that and you assume it’s all polls? Curious.
Replace “believe” with “have the receipts to prove”
Is it as terrifying for others as it is for me? Being confronted by the fact that a third of the nation is absolutely unhinged? That’s a lot of people.
Those that believe that it’s cheaper under under Trump in survey either don’t know how much things cost or willfully voted for Trump in the survey knowing that things are more expensive
Or they’re twisting themselves in mental knots, while living deep in denial.
Biden was the best president in my lifetime but the far right thought he was a commie and the far left thought he was far right.
I read a comment today how only liberals think AOC is a leftist and I realized the average person is politically illiterate and that makes democracy fundamentally flawed.
Biden was the best president in my lifetime
This is impossible unless you’re under 18, which is against the TOS of most/all Lemmy instances.
I think Obama was the second best president but Biden was by far more progressive and got more done in his one term.
Can you name some examples?
At the start of his term we were hiding in houses and fighting for toilet paper and by the end of it things were much better.
The Inflation Reduction Act was probably the most progressive bill since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1930s New Deal programs.
But still voting RED
voting against their own best interests. it’s what they do.
They are still waiting for their DOGE checks to even things out.
Yup. Very soon the magical flying pigs that fart rainbows will swoop down and deliver them to the true believers! Any day now!
You don’t need belief to measure prices, or wages.
That is because it was
It was.
