Narrator: The recession, in fact, was just getting started.

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War is peace and slavery is freedom, y'all!

Imagine going on national TV and making a claim like that.

Those empty shelves at the store? Those empty parking lots at the car dealerships? The "out-of-stock" notifications at Amazon? The 5.4% inflation we've had this year that's made food and clothes more expensive? The insane prices at the gas pumps? The rampant money printing and welfare handouts of the federal government? The rising unemployment, homelessness, and crime levels?

Heck, don't even trust the freaking CNN chyron:

Yeah, don't believe your lying eyes. Trust Mayor Pete!

He once was an unpopular mayor of an Indiana town who never fulfilled his campaign promise of fixing the roads, so he totally knows what he's talking about when it comes to the national logistics and transportation infrastructure of the most powerful nation in history!

I'll leave you with a few people's thoughts: