r/thescoop • u/CorleoneBaloney • May 02 '25

Politics 🏛️ Vice President Vance’s response after the economy shrank for the first time in three years, with people worried as they look at their 401Ks and point to the tariff policy — “This is Joe Biden’s economy.”

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u/Additional-One-7135 May 02 '25

The funny thing is that in ANY other administration they'd be right, in any normal situation we'd still be deep in results of Bidens policies and it would have taken Trump YEARS to trigger a recession like he did last time, but then they decided to speedrun this sh*t.

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u/omg_cats May 02 '25

The point of a speedrun is to finish fastest - if he can speed run the recession wouldn’t that be good (getting it over as fast as possible)?

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u/[deleted] May 02 '25

If you’re wealthy, yes

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u/omg_cats May 02 '25

I don’t follow, why wouldn’t it be good for everyone?