No need, it is currently dieing from autoerotic asphyxiation.

It's about people's opinions, not reality. Maybe it took that long for people to start feeling good again after the bad times.

A lot of the fallout from 08 found its way to otherwise successful businesses offering luxury services, like hotels and restaurants.

I was visiting my American in-laws a few weeks ago and this type of thing infuriated me. They are basically hardcore Republicans who voted for Trump 3 times but don't want to openly say it or, in the case of my mother and father in law, they keep acting like they don't vote because "it doesn't matter anyway".

They then proceed to keep complaining about gas prices, grocery prices and general cost of living. My mother in law looked at the gas price and said "jeez, I wonder why gas is so expensive". They are straight up the most ignorant people I've ever seen and they fit every single stereotype I have in my mind about rural voters.

And whenever I try to explain to them what the cause of all this is they just tell me that it has always been bad and that they won't vote.

It's one thing if you fuck yourself and your own country over (we have those voters here too in the Netherlands) but when you choose to elect someone (either by voting for them or not voting for the alternative) who has proven to be a disaster for both your country and the world as a whole it's honestly on you and you deserve everything that comes your way, including the hate you get from people in other countries.

Edit: I forgot to add that they live in Michigan so they are even part of a crucial swing state, to make things more annoying. I tried talking to them about Abdul Al-Sayed and they didn't even know who I was talking about.

Biden would be considered clearly right wing here (Denmark), but at least he was a "normal" person, and not a malignant narcissist.
As a rule of thumb, never vote for the psychopath no matter what he/she promises. The Psychopath doesn't give a shit about people. And a psychopath simply can't understand the social mechanisms that are necessary for a country to function well.

Trump as a malignant narcissist is the worst kind of psychopath and sociopath there is.
The fact that Trump was ever elected is a symptom of something seriously wrong in American society.

The economy is one of the only areas he did well

I keep eyeing certain computer components and thinking I should have bought last fall. Some drives are up more than 2x what they were, and memory is nearly 5x in some cases. I have a few low-end boxes that are going to have to try to "get by" until prices become reasonable again. I'm not buying at what is probably the height of this insanity...and that's without even getting into GPUs. $7000 for a RTX 5090???

One day I will have yacht.. right guys.. right?

I wonder how many Republicans are completely delusional about 2008.

They may believe that everything turned awful the day he took office in 2009 and was absolutely terrible until the day donnie failed his way into office in 2017 and started to be a "golden age" at that point.

How the fuck did you get your text to be so far to the left? It's further to the left than your timestamp shoved up against the edge of the page. Is this an incompatiblity issue between an app and the website? Like I'm using the website in browser on my phone but what would cause the elements to do that.

A recession is when your neighbor loses their job.

A depression is when you lose yours.

Yeah. It is so much easier for me to believe that Americans are racist than to believe that 79 million people thought "The Apprentice" was a documentary. This born-rich imbecile is the opposite of a tycoon - he literally bankrupted a casino.