For the past two years, Donald Trump has spread fear about the state of the United States and championed himself as the only man capable of saving the country from itself. Only he could bring down the price of groceries and gas. Only he could fix the broken health care system. Only he could fix the broken immigration system. Only he could end the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East.
Now that the voters have drunk the Kool-Aid, the jig is up. The grift is over and the prize of the presidency is won. But will the buyers of the golden sneakers have buyer’s remorse? I suspect that for all but the most cult-following MAGA lemmings, the answer to that question is yes.
Despite two years of constant finger-pointing at the Biden administration for rising grocery prices that were actually decreasing during that time, since the election, Trump has gone dead silent on the issue of working class cost of living issues. His only comment on grocery prices was during his interview with Time magazine for his man of the year article in which he admitted that there isn’t much he can do to bring grocery prices back down to the levels of 2019. Economically, the only thing that will do that is a strong recession that no one wants. He has said virtually nothing about the cost of gasoline, in large part because the prices were already falling to four-year lows before the election and have continued to fall since.
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Too bad he can’t go silent permanently.
Another Mangione could help
We need to make Mangione’d a new verb.
TBH I don’t think Mangione did any good, but if Ryan Wesley Routh or Thomas Matthew Crooks had landed their shots then we’d be talking.
He can and he will. He will go away forever one day.
Not soon enough.
Agreed.
And how many people do you think are in line to be the face of the same idealogy? Our society is made by, made for and rewards sociopathy. There is no bright future until we start looking at these issues that start in childhood. Kids are being raised thinking if they bully everyone in their path then they can be the president. How about we start teaching kids that increasing quality of life for future generations so they can flourish and make more advancements is a much better idea than being a massive piece of orange colored shit.
I understand what you are saying, but that’s the way it has always been. This is not new.
Hey man, people used to sacrifice virgins to the sun god for a better harvest. It was once normal to consider women as less than men. We had separate water fountains, bathrooms, bus seats for different races. Progress is about progressing. It doesn’t matter how long people have been stupid, the point is to always improve, not stagnate or reverse.
I agree that stepping backwards is not ideal, but I do believe that there will never be a straight path to utopia. There is going to be some struggle from those who have to give up privilege along the way. Large ships don’t turn very quick, but as long as they are headed in the right direction, that’s all that matters. Although it may seem we aren’t headed in the right direction, in the grand scheme of things, I believe that we have the ability to bear in the correct direction.
There is no utopia because everyone’s biological soup is different. Best we can do is utilitarianism and voting in a literal criminal isn’t a small step back, that’s a taco bell beer shit on progression
There’s a bigger picture
There are ways to hurry that along.
They tried a few times already
I mean, no surprise. All of his policies last time were for the wealthy. But more importantly, all of the things Elan is planning to cut are going to hurt the poor and they didn’t say they were going to give any of that money to people, just that they were going to cut the deficit. If running the country like a business, you never cut income, even if you cut expenses. Businesses with monopolies keep the profits from reduced expenses, not pass them on to customers, that would be dumb.
“How could we predict he’d betray us like that?” says people who’ve spent literal decades watching person in question be incredibly dishonest and slef-serving
Of course he has. He has neither a plan nor a chance to deliver here. All he can do is keeping as quiet as possible about it in hope that his MAGA sponge brains forget this was a thing he promised.
His only comment on grocery prices was during his interview with Time magazine for his man of the year article in which he admitted that there isn’t much he can do to bring grocery prices back down to the levels of 2019. Economically, the only thing that will do that is a strong recession that no one wants.
This is what folks don’t seem to understand: prices only go back to where they were five or six years ago if there’s a recession, and a severe one at that. The Fed is trying to get inflation under control, but even if they’re successful, that doesn’t mean prices will come down, that only means prices won’t go up as quickly. Getting inflation under control means prices go up 2% per year instead of 2.5% or 3%. Trump can’t change any of this, and many of the policies he says he plans to implement would likely make it more difficult to get inflation down to the Fed’s 2% target.
TLDR, shit ain’t getting any less expensive unless there’s a pretty bad recession, and Trump can’t change that.
If he proceeds with his moronic tariffs, we might get not only a bad recession, but a depression.
And in 1… 2… 3… ‘he’s hurting the wrong people’
Cult is gonna cult.
I think his plan was deflation or something and I don’t think it made any sense
When government controls prices with direct intervention, that’s socialist policy. Isn’t that what the talibangelicals claim to hate?
Everyone’s a socialist when they’re waiting in line at a pharmacy. My point is, they have no idea what these words mean.
All governments in the past few generations have managed their economies. That’s not socialism.
Socialism is about ownership and control of the means of production. What Republicans call socialism is just anything that might conceivably benefit anyone but the rich.
“Democrats have tended, through regulation and other ways, to be more empowering of the federal government and in regulating the economy than the Republicans,” Schwartz says, “and this has been called socialism.”
I am well aware of what socialism is. My comment was sarcastic in reference to conservative propaganda that government intervention in anything is socialism while they expect trump to fix whatever economic problem like the price of eggs via government intervention. Y’know. Normal conservative hypocrisy.
MAGAt near me that always had multiple batshit crazy trump flags at his house, and still did, up until his house burned down a few days back. T&P’s homie. Karma can be like that.
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