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?
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.
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.
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.