Rich Paul Krugman Reminds Us That the Economy Is Great, We're Just Too Lowly to Realize It
http://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2024/04/10/paul-krugman-the-economy-is-great-americans-are-just-too-stupid-to-realize-it-n2394914
Yessiree ... Paulie Krugman IS rich. Rich in unbounded supply of methane with which to pollute the environment around him.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's net worth is estimated to be in the neighborhood of $5 million. Hey, good for him. We're not sure how someone can amass multi-millions while consistently being wrong about everything, but we suppose it's good work if you can get it.
The problem is not that Krugman is rich. The problem is that he consistently likes to remind America that we are all stupid and that everything would be great if we were just rich like him.
Yesterday, the man whom Elon Musk has called 'a disgrace to economics' was at it again, penning a column for the Times in which he claimed that we're all doing fine. The so-called bad economy is just a 'negative vibe.'
Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) ~ I’m OK, people I know are OK, but somewhere out there it’s terrible.
http://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/opinion/economy-vibes.html
Well, fortunately for President Pudding Pop, we're around to respond to Paulie's self-imposed ignorance.
Ugh. We don't always advocate for punching people in the face, but there are some times ...
And, as always, we can tell he is super confident in his opinion because he immediately turned off replies to his tweet.
Hmmm ... so Paulie doesn't know ANYONE who has a different experience from himself, so instead of entering into discussions with people outside of his methane bubble, he turns off replies to his X/Twitter account. How terribly right-on-cue for Paulie.
Michelle Ray (@GaltsGirl) ~ Krugman is ok. He locked replies, so you cannot tell him if your fiscal experience is otherwise.
Paulie Krugman ... the Ray Charles of Economics ...
Here is more of Krugman's condescension:
When it comes to economic news, we’ve had so much winning that we’ve gotten tired of winning, or at any rate blasé about it. Last week, we got another terrific employment report — job growth for 39 straight months — and it feels as if hardly anyone noticed. In particular, it’s not clear whether the good news will dent the still widespread but false narrative that President Biden is presiding over a bad economy.
Well, Paulie ... you should've looked a little closer at that employment report. It actually sucks 'cuz it's pretty much nothin' but increased government employment ... and overall a decrease in full-time employment with a huge increase in part-time employment. Lots of people having to take second and third jobs just to make ends meet in this wonderful economy that no one sees other than you and Brandon.
Yes, the one thing we feel when we fill up our cars with gas, pay our rent, mortgage, or utility bills, or buy groceries is 'winning.'
Yes, so much "winning" as the U.S. economy swirls down the crapper.
Inflation did surge in 2021-22, although this surge has mostly subsided. But most workers’ earnings are up in real terms. Over the past four years, wages of nonsupervisory workers, who account for more than 80 percent of private employment, are up by about 24 percent, while consumer prices are up less, around 20 percent.
Why, then, are so many Americans still telling pollsters that the economy is in bad shape?
Wow, Paulie ... you really have been out of the field of economics for a long, LONG time, now, eh?! Real wages under Brandon's term in office have not kept pace with inflation, and while inflation has lessened lately from the huge spike during his first two years in office, inflation is still going on and even accelerating in March of 2024.
Why? Gosh, we don't know. Maybe it's because everything Krugman wrote in that paragraph -- links or no links -- is a complete lie?
Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) ~
http://moodysanalytics.com/-/media/article/2022/weekly-market-outlook-another-ugly-inflation-report.pdf
Come on, man. That extra $500 per month is just a bad vibe. Or something.
Basically, Americans are saying, 'I’m doing OK, people I know are doing OK, but bad things are happening somewhere out there.' As The Journal’s Greg Ip wrote, 'When it comes to the economy, the vibes are at war with the facts.'
If Krugman ever talked to a middle-class American, it would be the first time in his life. NO ONE is saying that.
Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) ~ Paul Krugman doesn't know any regular Americans, so he and the rest of the corporate press mock and gaslight you while you struggle with your rent or mortgage, food, and other living costs. Absolutely zero compassion or connection to reality.
Don't forget the smugness. It wouldn't be a Krugman piece without the nauseating smugness with which he writes everything.
Tom Knighton (@TheTomKnighton) ~ Krugman still pushing the narrative that inflation isn't really that bad.
Meanwhile, the Consumer Price Index rose more than expected in March, putting the inflation rate for the last 12 months at 3.5%.
http://redstate.com/joesquire/2024/04/10/breaking-inflation-higher-than-expected-as-consumer-price-index-rose-35-percent-in-march-n2172549
Krugman's next Nobel Prize should be in the category of 'Gaslighting' or 'Being Insanely Out of Touch.'
Actually, that's why he won his first Nobel Prize - being a libtard.
DonPerdo89 (@DPerdo89) ~ Paul is ok, and so are his two friends. You should be ok too, if you could just get past the feeling of not being ok.
Silly Americans. If you just looked on the bright side of everything costing you thousands more per year, you'd be happy like Krugman and the other elites.
Cryptologic Thinker (@ChuckChump) ~ @paulkrugman is an elitist who could not care less about your groceries and utilities being unaffordable. Your rent and car payments are sky high. He’ll try to blow smoke up your ass and turn off the replies as he rubs your face in it.
Keith Maniac, from Guatemala (@from_maniac) ~ My household costs have gone up dramatically in the past two years. That's not ok. Unfortunately, you can't communicate this to Krugman because he prevents responses from people he doesn't follow.
Don't you get it? If Krugman screws his eyes shut, jams his fingers in his ears, and shouts, 'LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA,' then nothing he writes can ever be wrong.
Inez Stepman (@InezFeltscher) ~ He just went directly for the old "I don't know anyone who voted for Nixon" line, didn't he?
It is pretty sad for leftists that this line is still accurate after 50 years.
Thuglas MacArthur (@ThuglasMac) ~ “If the people have no bread, then let them eat cake.”
Or ...
The Rare Normie Libertarian (@colorblindk1d) ~ This man spent the first three years of Trump's Presidency trying to explain why the economy was actually terrible.
We kind of miss those 'terrible' $2 per gallon gas prices. Can we get some of that back?
Uppity Seattlite aka Dr. Feelgood (@USeattlite) - {Replying to @paulkrugman}
LOL. We were going to let that tweet sum up our opinion of Krugman, but the next one captures it even better:
IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) ~ Recent quote from former NYT editor James Bennet:
“The reality is that the Times is becoming the publication through which America’s progressive elite talks to itself about an America that does not really exist.”
Whoa boy does this ever apply to the likes of Krugman.
This actually explains EVERYTHING about Krugman and leftist elites like him.
He speaks smugly and condescendingly (and wrongly) to America about America because he is not actually speaking to us. We are beneath him. He is only speaking to his bubble.
This is also why he turns off replies. He is not interested in a conversation with Americans. He only wants to talk to those who agree with him.
It's an indictment of Krugman to be sure, but it's an even stronger indictment of the 'newspaper' that continues to employ him.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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