Even minus COVID, more jobs were added under Obama and Biden than Trump, bigly

I've previously broken down, via the Bureau of Labor statistics, how much better the economies were and are under Presidents Obama and Biden than it was under Donald Trump.

At this, the only response I've received from Trumpers is:

"COVID! Trump had the best economy in history until COVID and all the jobs under Biden are just the ones which were lost during it! COVID! COVID! COVID!"

Never mind the fact Trump ignored the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu for roughly a month and millions more lives would be significantly/permanently impacted as a result, but I digress. I'll play their game.

Donald Trump was in office for 3 years before COVID struck the U.S.

Here were the jobs numbers by year:
2/17-1/18: 2.031M
2/18-1/19: 2.395M
2/19-1/20: 1.983M
Total: 6.409M

Let's contrast that with Obama's final 3 years in the Oval Office:

2/14-1/15: 3.011M
2/15-1/16: 2.634M
2/16-1/17: 2.440M
Total: 8.085M

In other words, nearly 1.7M more jobs were created in Obama's final 3 years than in Trump's first 3. Obama's worst year (2.440M) was still better than Trump's best year (2.395M).

So, to say the economy under Trump was the best in U.S. history, even before COVID, is comical.

Moving onto President Biden. The jobs lost during COVID were fully recovered as of the May, 2022 jobs report. In the 23 months since then, 6.358M jobs have been added to the economy. Let me repeat that. In Trump's first 36 months as "president," 6.409M jobs were added. In Biden's last 23 months as President, 6.358M have been added.

So, here's the monthly jobs breakdown:

Obama's final 3 years: 224,583 per month
Trump's first 3 years: 178,028 per month
Biden's last 23 months: 276,435 per month

Even if we were to remove COVID from the equation (which we shouldn't do, considering how badly Trump handled the situation), the economies under Presidents Obama and Biden have been much stronger than the economy ever was under Trump.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/ces0000000001?output_view=net_1mth

https://statista.com/chart/24363/number-of-jobs-lost-since-february-2020/
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Boycotting jukeboxes because of TouchTunes

I love music and enjoy hitting the bar(s) over the weekend, so naturally, when the mood strikes me, I've never been coy about playing some songs on the jukebox. This past Thursday, a friend of mine turned 50, so several friends of her's, including myself, all met up to celebrate the occasion. At around 9:30, a friend of mine and I both chipped in $5 to play some songs on the jukebox. Four hours and 231 skips later, we gave up on hearing the songs we had selected, and went home knowing we had just wasted $5. This wasn't the first time such a thing had happened to me (and many others), and due to that, I'll be boycotting jukeboxes. Why? The scam known as TouchTunes. You see, here's how the plot typically breaks down. A person (or group of people) downloads the TouchTunes app on his/her phone, consumes one too many adult beverages, and due to this, has less care for spending extra money to hear the songs of their choosing right NOW. That's the thing with TouchTun...

Trump's Lie Tally at the CNN Debate

1) "We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. We had never done so well. Every – everybody was amazed by it. Other countries were copying us." 2) "But the thing we never got the credit for, and we should have, is getting us out of that COVID mess." 3) "The only jobs he created are for illegal immigrants and bounceback jobs; they’re bounced back from the COVID." 4) "Not going to drive them higher. It’s just going to cause countries that have been ripping us off for years, like China and many others, in all fairness to China – it’s going to just force them to pay us a lot of money, reduce our deficit tremendously, and give us a lot of power for other things." (tariffs) 5) "He also said he inherited 9 percent inflation." 6) "No, he inherited almost no inflation and it stayed that way for 14 months. And then it blew up under his leadership, because they spent money like a bunch of people that didn’t know what t...

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