Whoopi Goldberg claims voters have 'memory issues,' slams 'stupid question' about being better off 4

So this is amazing to me. Why would she believe that “were you better off 4 years ago” is a stupid question? I think it’s stupid to not ask that question given the political rematch. If I were to ask myself this I would have to look at my home state economic numbers. I also ask myself if providing for my kids will be harder or easier. So this factors in cars for my kids who are about to drive so let’s look at car prices.

according to the following article this price has increased by 37% in used cars

https://perc.tamu.edu/blog/2024/02/...ta in the figure,used cars increased by 37.2%.


now let’s look at housing in Utah. According to this article housing has jumped 70% in Utah since 2020 and only Montana beats them. This article also claims the median house requires a six figure income of $133,000. (My kids are screwed being the middle class income in Utah is 45k to 111k)

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/31/success/home-affordability-median-price-income/index.html

now lets look at the overall cost of inflation in Utah. I can’t find a total inflation from 2020 to 2024 in my state so I used the national inflation from the following sight that claims roughly a 19% inflation rate in those short years.

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/calculator-cumulative/

all this coupled with higher taxes from higher costs of goods let’s see how I economically faired.
So has my income kept up? My hourly rate climbed 15% in those 4 years. So was I better off four years ago after looking at all these numbers? You’re damn right I was.

 

Whoopi Goldberg must be so rich she is disconnected from the real world.

 

Here is an interactive map that shows average income needed to buy a home in Biden’s economy. I found this interesting

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifesty...affordability-will-improve-buyers-near-future

 

Another article on the inflation in America and how it’s effecting our youth

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy...s-too-high-experts-break-down-struggling-most

I blame a lot of this on the blue state exodus. It’s destroying our communities.

 

No View fan, but that question about being better off is always dumb because there are a whole multitude of reasons why you may or may not be better off and just about all of them will have nothing to do with who is president.

I'm better off than I was in 2020 and so is my wife. Not because of Biden and not because of Trump, but because I got a better job in 2021 and she got a few annual raises. But since I am now "better off", does that mean I should thank Biden and vote for him? Of course not.

If anything, I'd thank COVID for getting my company to set up a work-from-home program that has allowed me to get this job despite living 1.5 hours away from the actual company.

It's a dumb question, and the responses are usually no better.

 

Am I wrong? But, wasn't America pretty well into a COVID national lockdown under the Trump Admin four years ago almost to the month?

Thought I'd give this thread a bump

 

Whoppie Goldberg is a die hard Democratic liberal or progressive. One should expect a tirade like this coming from her. Are you better off today than 4 years ago isn’t a stupid question? I agree, given we’re in a presidential election year, that question is certainly valid and should be asked. I suspect Whoppie knows the answer is most Americans aren’t. Financially that is. According to a CBS poll 65% of all Americans rated the economy as good under Trump, currently 38% say it’s good under Biden. That Biden’s policies are making prices go up, 55%, 17% prices go down whereas 34% think Trump’s policies will make prices go up vs. 44% who say his policies will make prices go down.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-trump-leads-biden-economy/


This question are you better off today than you were 4 years ago is a question that has been asked of sitting presidents running for reelection ever since Reagan if asked it in 1980. A sitting president running for reelection should expect this question to be asked and asked again and again especially when inflation is as high as it is and prices continue to ride. There’s nothing stupid about this question.

 

Yes it was. However I do believe Trump let others handle the COVID response. He did however give those dumb 10k checks. Unreal….

 

I’m surprised I am the only one so far that was better off four years ago.

 

What never ceases to amaze me is that an actress like Caryn Johnson (a.k.a., "Whoopie Goldberg") should be considered to be knowledgeable about anything, except... well... reciting lines from a script in a marketable way.

She dropped out of high school, and although having been awarded an "honorary" doctorate degree by Wilson College (?) in Pennsylvania, she doesn't appear to have had any real education at all.

But, if being Black, being very fortunate, and becoming very rich entitles a person to speak authoritatively, and publicly, about anything, then she qualifies... right?

."C'mon, Whoopi -- you're smart, so what's the cube root of 27?!"

 

She poses as smart, After all, she is an actress.

 

Whoopi is highly opinionated and has no formal education. That pretty much describes all Trump supporters.

I think the one difference is she did have talent as an actress and comedian in the past.

As for memory issues Maga Trumpets would have everyone believe they can not remember a damn thing Trump has done illegal, unethical, criminal or his constant farting.

Well Whoopi farted on t.v. once.

 

Whoopi is a Trump supporter? Fascinating.

 

Why couldn’t the smart people fix the economy in a way that benefited everyone? My economic boat is far smaller under this administration

 

trump supporters are fully capable of remembering his "crimes", but they simply don't care. most of them understand that the only difference between trump any any sitting congressman is that the congressman has a raft of political agents covering their every move. how many times have we watched as a congressman has been "investigated' for what would be considered serious crimes if you or i had committed them, only to be exonerated by their in house "ethics committees"? the most outstanding example is good ol' teddy, who actually killed a woman and was then punished for his crime with a lifetime seat in the senate.

 

who are these "smart people" we are supposed to be depending upon?

 

She's a bitter fat cow who encapsulates the meanness of your typical progressive very well.

Pretends to be something she's not while she's actually full of hate

 

I bet you actually believe that because your TV told you so. And if you want to complain about the source of the information there are other sources telling you the same thing.

https://archive.attn.com/stories/6291/trump-super-tuesday-voters-are-educated

Donald J. Trump may love uneducated voters, but educated voters love him.

Super Tuesday voting results on Tuesday night disproved the notion that Republican front-runner is anything less than a legitimate candidate in the presidential race. Exit polling data also dispelled the notion that the candidate's supporters are largely uneducated

 

We were coming out of, inflation in my state already under 4%, 3.4% in my county, inflation was low so my purchasing power was higher, energy was low, just had two huge GDP quarters. Yes I was better off and just recently begun to approach previous investment peaks so behind the projections at the time he took office. So yes I was better off the and had Trump policies remained would be much better off than I am now.

 

Nonsense. Do you ever stop with the gas lighting and the B/S rewriting of history? We are talking March/April 2020 "genius", just look at the graph instead of posting hyper partisan nonsense:
Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States (2020)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States_(2020)

 

I voted "Yes," but it has nothing to do with Biden. What he has done as hurt me at the gas station, the grocery store and the car dealership. I also don't have my life turned upside down by Covid.

I was able to sell a piece of land which had been tied up for years in a join ownership. That's why I am better offer.

"Uncle Joe" had nothing to do with it.

 

I do agree that "Uncle Joe" had little to do with it -- although his energy policies, specifically, have contributed heavily to the mess our overall economy has gotten into. The biggest problem that affects us today is the lingering aftermath of what the Federal Reserve central bank started in Q3, 2007, when it totally hijacked the economy!

"Whoopi Goldberg" had nothing to do with it, but she's part of a klatch of high-visibility influence peddlers who push the prevailing 'woke', America-hating propaganda. Apart from that and a few favorable reviews of her movie performances, what is she? Who is she? Just another "nothingness", like Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, and a host of others....

 

Whoopi Goldberg is an incredibly fortunate welfare mom who got lucky in show business. If she hadn't got her big break, she'd be one more aging Black woman with no teeth and probably a son in jail. She has no idea how the affluent society, which she dislikes so much, made her life a success. If it not been for the middle class, which she dislikes, spending their hard earned money on her performances, she's be nowhere. Now she's just one of a bunch of harpies on a stupid TV talk show that is cast with women who know little, who profess to know it all.

 

It's almost impossible to be worse off than April 2020. We lost 20.5 million jobs on April 2020 and the whole contry was shut down and Trump was burning money like there was no tomorrow. And then came the riots.

Yes, we are producing more oil that ever before in US history - 15% more than in 2020.

 

Nearly everything is 'up' compared to the period when COVID tanked everyone's economy. And yet, it's OPEC+ that exerts mastery over the world's oil prices -- not the U. S. And to compound our current situation, Biden decided to not to replenish our Strategic Petroleum Reserve after he bled it out to the lowest level since 1984 (to enhance Democrat political fortunes in the off-year elections in 2022)... so he waited, indefinitely. And now it's been announced that due to hugely rising petroleum prices (thanks, OPEC+), the Biden regime will not (NOT) be replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after all! Link: https://www.foxbusiness.com/politic...refill-emergency-oil-reserve-amid-high-prices

What else has Biden done to adversely affect the petrochemical industry? Well, just over two months ago, Biden's handlers decided to slap a ban on LNG exports, ostensibly to appease and 'play nice' with climate activists. Link: https://www.reuters.com/business/en...rt-projects-win-climate-activists-2024-01-26/ . For these and other reasons, like Biden cutting way back on drilling on public lands, it's no surprise that you see headlines like this recently: "Donald Trump is the oil and gas industry's top choice for president" https://www:furious:.tbsnews.net/bl...and-gas-industrys-top-choice-president-790110

And, no, I don't like Donald Trump a great deal better than Biden, but at least Trump never got us involved up to our necks in two different theaters of war around the world with our "tank" half-empty!

All of this is nowhere near the thread topic, and even though Biden's malfeasance in the overall implementation of an intelligent energy policy is far more interesting, I'll make any further contributions in this thread to be about Caryn Johnson and/or her "Whoopi" invention....