Damn, we missed out on covering Black Friday 2023 retail sales estimates. Could’ve picked it up on Saturday after Adobe Analytics first put out the initial numbers… if the hundreds of right wing influencers and news outlets we follow on Twitter had posted anything about it. Of course the MSM and lefty ones we follow probably did, but the MAGA stuff is usually much more attention-grabbing, especially when it comes to otherwise dry economic metrics that don’t always quite break through.
Like inflation reports. They loved those back in 2021 and 2022. These days not so much. Lately there’s been a lot of hype over this one $16 McDonald’s order that went “viral” on TikTok and that Americans have been racking up credit card debt. So they can always find something to highlight.
It’s just that on this one thing – the kickoff to the 2023 Christmas shopping season – that the MAGA media industrial complex in unison decided wouldn’t interest their fanbase, subsequently causing us to drop the ball. Better late than never, so here goes: Bloomberg reports this Black Friday was the best ever as Americans spent $9.8 billion online, up 7.5 percent over last year.
Well “reports” in the present tense implies that the financial news giant published that article this morning. They reported it on Saturday. We probably would’ve seen it and picked it up for our readers if MAGAmerica’s top propagandists had at least tried to spin the numbers by calling them a harbinger of increased inflation or something to make themselves feel better. Lazy fucking assholes.