Joe Concha never really does get to his point in this column, but he does spread a lot of nincompoopery about like so much manure on a field.
This is the guy who masked himself and his kids while outdoors during COVID-19 because his wife is a doctor and told him he had to, which is very amusing given Joe's interest in Democrats' inability to "connect" with young men.
Joe Concha lives in an imaginary world of fanciful creation and takes his marching orders, repeating stupid.
Trump's mandate, for example, "the greatest verdict in history" he says, in 2024 was actually smaller than W's in 2004.
Even Jimmy Carter's was bigger in 1976 than Trump's was in 2024.
Core pce inflation released this past week came in at 2.52%, not 2.1% as Joe says. Joe wouldn't know core if he ate an apple.
Just 49.6% had full time jobs in April 2025 vs. 50.4% in April 2023, 0.8 points lower than two years ago.
Also two years ago, unemployment was 0.8 points lower at 3.4% than Joe Concha's current "historically low" level, again having touched a level under Joe Biden not seen since May 1969.
Joe stealing glory from Joe. Tut-tut.
Democrats may have had trouble connecting with young men in 2024, but the Biden administration really did drop the bigger ball of communicating its record of historically low unemployment. The Wall Street Journal trumpeted it for them in 2023, but you'd hardly remember the fact.
Meanwhile Joe Concha's "respected" GDPNow model got 1Q2025 GDP wrong by 2.4 points lol.
With an actual negative print now at -0.2% for the first quarter, the set-up for a dead cat bounce in 2Q would seem obvious.
But you never know with Trump in charge, and for my money you have to bet against Mr. Unpredictable.
If Jonathan Swift were here, he might say that it is the Republicans who are led by a changeable female mind, not the Democrats, which may be why Joe Concha likes him so:
