"SHUT UP ABOUT THE THING I SWORE TO YOU THAT I'D FIX DAY 1! STOP HOLDING ME ACCOUNTABLE! "
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eat shit you fat old Nazi.
Saving millions?? Goodness! That could be upwards of a dollar per person!
You know what is amusing - I bet the redcaps still drinking the little d kool-aid will do ANYTHING to stop talking about egg prices at this point.
I bet they start accusing State Media, oops, I mean, Faux "News", of being too "liberal" for talking about the cost of eggs - or really, the price of anything else. Same goes for talking about the Dow, the S&P 500, NASDAQ, TSLA after a bad day...
Imagine how many suckers there must be, if a serial liar gets voted into office twice. Then imagine all the people who didn't register to vote, or registered and didn't vote.
Anyone know if the rest of the groceries actually went down aside from the eggs?
"I will fix everything by being a dictator on day one."
Dems can beat this man if they choose to stand for something and stop letting these Nazi's move their own goalpost 24/7. Use these 4 years to build and get serious about systematic change. There isn't going to be some sweeping redemption for Trump voters where they realize the errors of their ways.
Dems could have beaten him every time. They didn't.
Dems are not a reliable solution to this problem, and nor is the broken federal electoral system in general. You cannot vote your way out of this mess. Republicans will continue to suppress the vote of people they don't like. The owning class have purchased the newspapers, television stations and social media platforms. It's a rigged game.
Organize in your communities if you want any real power.
We need both, and community organizing turns into party primaries really quick.
Realistically, US can't wait 4 years if want survive.
This shit is just getting too surreal. Democrats were literally not allowed to quote actual economic progress without being called "out of touch" but Trump can literally say "fuck you shut up."
A relevant quote from Jean-Paul Sartre:
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Reactionaries continue this. If you are a liberal, they will take advantage of your values, pretending they deserve that universal respect.
See also: free speech
eg1: https://lemmy.today/comment/14715103
edit: above was in response to this comment from "another" user.
The left would rather see Trump fail than to have America succeed.
The left are out destroying Tesla's and their dealerships and bombing Trump hotels, but use Jan 6th as a scapegoat when challenged.
If the Left can't have it their way, they would rather have everyone fail. A bunch of spoiled brats throwing a tantrum when they can't have drag queen story hour and transwomen in women's restrooms.
The problem with the economic message from Biden and Harris was they celebrated like they had solved the economy. But the average family was still struggling. If they had said something like, "We are happy to see the economy land without a recession; That is a victory we have all achieved, and now we can do the same thing for the working class, etc etc" it wouldn't have been such a bloodbath every time they took a victory lap on the stock market line and current year inflation.
Victims are always held to higher standards.
Wasn't he going to lower the egg prices? Weren't they supposed to get tired of winning? Maybe he used the wrong sign in his addition.
He was supposed too but then like a million other things came up that he had to fix so don't worry about the stupid food right now ok . Cmon people, bootstraps, recession starts soon. Let's goooo🦾🦾🦾
On day one
He's making egg prices great again, I guess.
Conservatives always love censorship.
Never let them tell you otherwise.
Well, the Premier of Ontario just put a 25 % surcharge on the electricity that powers millions of homes in three states. I guess they won’t have to worry about the price of eggs if they can’t afford to cook them.
FAFO
We're all going to spend the next four years finding out how expensive maintaining the Republican ego-driven sense of superiority will be. I vote blue not because I need to, but because I think it's best for my peers and because I love my friends. At the end of the day though, I'm laughing at every price increase because if it gets to the point that I can't afford food, there's going to be about 250 million starving Americans in front of me pushing for change.
Damn, imagine the party of fiscal responsibility bankrupting the entire working class and that registering in the consciousness of the conservatwats. One can dream.
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"Shut up about the issue that I could actually be solving, but instead I'm too busy bullying our allies and making things even more expensive"
Yeah, no. Fuck off Mango Mussolini
“I will immediately bring prices down starting on Day 1,” he said on Aug. 15, for example. “Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down,” he promised later that same month.
He backed away from that last month.
Everything's normal. This is what you voted for, Murca!
ETA For those following these comments:
Hanlon's razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Given the track record of those in the current ruling class of Murca, I agree with those comments which suggest we can exchange the placement of "malice" and "stupidity".
Krasnov just DGAF about the plebs who voted for him, at best. At worst, he's actively destroying the economy, democracy, and the plebs he lied to.
America, the only country dumb enough to fall for a rapist felon's promises...twice.
2020: "I can't believe they fell for that. Oh, well, they chose better next time. Let's give them a chance."
2024: "...Yeah, they're just fucking dumb. Countless countries would have loved a chance to get rid of a shitstain like that without needing a violent revolt and the United States just... invited him back into office. Just... so fucking dumb."
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Hey didn't this rapist felon say he was going to immediately lower the cost of groceries and now we're losing trade wars and American goods are being taken off of foreign shelves and we're about to have a Trumpcession?
That just makes me want to talk more about egg prices. Also fuck Charlie Kirk, I hope his face keeps shrinking until it disappears.
If his mouth keeps shrinking at the current rate in just five months it should form a singularity and I'll never need to hear from the fucker again. If that singularity happens to swallow earth so be it - it'll be worth it.
Normally I would agree that the president had little effect on prices since that is largely the job of the Fed. But Trump being wishy washy on tariffs is really fucking things up. It is extremely hard for businesses to plan for shit when massive tariffs are planned, then delayed, then implemented for three fucking days before being held off again for a month. How the fuck are businesses suppose to do any sort of inventory planning when they don't know how much something is going to cost them if they hold off for a day to buy things. Or they bought in bulk under the assumption that they would have to pay significantly more later are now stuck with a ton of inventory they may not have room for.
So yes, in this case Trump is having a large effect on prices. If it was just tariffs, inflation would temporarily go up and the Fed would increase interest rates and the recession it causes would slow inflation. But the Fed can't plan for the dipshit president going back and forth in tariffs.
Broadly speaking it's nearly impossible for a US president to directly fix the economy, but they can easily break it.
rando firings that effect government entities that stabilize farm prices and respond to things like bird flu can have somewhat of an effect to.
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What I find interesting about this is that we had a similar situation in the UK with Liz Truss. We had a PM who announced a surprise budget of tax cuts, which ok, were a little bit stronger than ones the Tories had done previously. This caused a shock to the bond markets, cost quite a lot of money and she was immediately removed from office by her own party and her budget cancelled.
Trump has caused chaos and cost the US billions with his tariff talk, alienated most western allies, damaged the US MIC enormously and caused deaths in Ukraine by cutting support. The damage done is incalculable, it is not in the same universe as the damage caused by Liz Truss. The only thing that makes sense is that Republican party want America ruined and they aren't going to stop unless they are forced to. I think what Trump has already done should qualify as treason on the basis of undermining the USA and supporting its enemies.
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One of their biggest campaign promises just broken. All those grocery stores that had to host this sack of shit for nothing.
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