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On Monday (24 November), the US Bureau of Economic Analysis cancelled the release of its growth estimate report for the third-quarter GDP. ... The GDP report joins a list of other economic reports that have failed to be released, including the October jobs report and the October inflation report.

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[–] KittyJynx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Those are the three metrics the government reports on that Trump likes to brag about the most. The fourth is stock market gains but those are primarily reported by the markets themselves. If there was any way to spin the numbers in a positive way they would have shit something out, even if they could somehow only show even a lessening of a negative trend they can say started (rightly or wrongly) under Biden.

I moved from California to the midwest a few years ago and I barely see any MAGA or Trump flags anymore where they used to be quite common. At least in my area the cult is getting much less visible as the economic situation worsens. I went to the last "No Kings" protest to check it out and see if my rayhunter could detect anything. There were several hundred people there in my small town and a lot of them were former Trump voters who were fucking pissed. I think you are underestimating the damage official confirmation of how fucked the economy is would be to his narcissistic ego and the elect-ability of Republicans in general.