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So much easier when you can just cut out the middle man and make up the facts as you go
trump immediately dropped talking about grocery/eggs after he won.
I don't understand how it's legal; for the country's elected leader, to just outright lie and gas light, ALL of the time !
The US rule of law is gone. The trump regime violates the constitution daily, breaks laws daily, and has violated court rulings and judges' orders. The supreme court is corrupt and has allowed him get away with anything. ~~Nazis~~ Republicans in congress are corrupt and refuse to check or limit the president's power.
Masked men in plain clothes are kidnapping innocent people off the streets daily and denying them a lawyer or due process. They are literally terrorists.
It may well be, but when has the law ever applied to dumpy?
Who enforces these laws he breaks? I think the wealthy having no laws has been the main problem in the United States for my entire lifetime. That and popular vote not meaning anything
Who's to say this is a lie? The ministry of truth? /s
I understand your frustration, but he was an inveterate liar before he was elected the first time. So, at least a plurality of the voting public don't see that as much of a negative.
Inveterate... I had to look up a new word today. Thank you
When you own the news, or what morons think is news, so no one calls you out
Half of the record high stock market is because the dollar value has gone to all time lows, so it looks good only for usd.
The other half is because the stock market is based on vibes and doesn't actually follow any pattern
and the AI bubble which, once popped, will bring down the US economy twice as hard as the 2008 housing crisis did
In USD amounts, it's 4 times the size of the mortgage bubble and 15 times the size of the dot-bomb. Or, so I've heard.
Let’s start with the boldest claim first — it’s that AI is not just in a bubble, but one 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble, and even four times bigger than the 2008 global real-estate bubble.
The health of the stock market is not an indicator of inflation in any way. In fact, corporate profit gouging would exacerbate inflation, while creating higher profits that would increase the stock price.
The president doesn't have to be an economic genius, he can hire people for that, but they should at least understand the basics of how the economy works. Of course, if you have operated on the wrong side of the law for your entire life, you have no actual experience in real world business.
It's very clear that the majority of Americans don't pay close attention to prices when they shop. I was raised to save as much money as possible and ONLY buy store brand or food on sale, so i've been closely checking prices for over 20 years.
The last year has been DRASTIC. Red meat has gone up 40-60% where i live, pork has gone up 10%, chips have gone up 20%, chicken has only gone up 5% luckily. Egg prices don't matter cause most of those fluctuations were caused by avian flu, not inflation.
I don't drink coffee, but most american's do, Prices on coffee have gone up 100%.
Also those who track sales, beer went up about 5% to counteract the aluminum tariffs as we only supply 6% of the global aluminum supply. So i'd imagine all canned items will go up once aluminum reserves are gone at manufacturers and they have to restock. They also don't put these on sale as often and if they do, it's only $1 off, not the usual $3 or $4 off.
This is all on top of the fact the majority of americans are seeing 10-40% increases on insurance premiums for their cars and homes, energy bills are skyrocketing, water bills have gone up at least 10% in my area, Health insurance is about to double or TRIPLE for millions with the Big Bill Act the GOP passed.
2026 is going to be record prices across the board, so i hope everyone's been saving since 2024 when they saw Donald was going into office.
Coffee prices have also doubled or nearly doubled in most of Europe. So has cocoa. If climate change keeps hitting those crops they're going to be unattainable luxuries soon enough.
Good luck to you all in the US, soon enough you'll be back on pioneer diets.
You know what this shit reminds me of? North Korea.
Yes, all of the nation is well fed. Uh huh. Sure
I paid ten bucks on sale for a couple turkey boobs. That's not a good price for that.
US egg production is now at record levels. So much for supply-demand economics they taught you in grade 8. All that assumes a free market, which is the biggest lie in economics.
Yeah my eggs are definitely cheaper than when he took office, but I don't vote for a president for the price of one commodity.
Eggs are cheaper because the flock had been restored from the influenza cull. Nothing to do with any politician.
I understand that. But the post title says eggs are double and gas is still rising. That hasn't been my experience.
Let's talk about tariffs. I bought a $6 hair clip on Amazon a couple days ago. Imagine my astonishment when the total came to $25. 🤯
Then why the fuck is a single pack of shitty instant ramen a whole fucking dollar, Donny? They were literally ten cents literally only four god damned years ago. That should be our only barometer of market success, how much it costs to buy a single pack of shitty instant ramen.
Meanwhile the dollar is crashing worldwide, our allies are now isolating us, and federal troops are shooting citizens!
So much winning it's hard to keep up!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump#Bullshit
According to Harry Frankfurt's influential 2005 book On Bullshit, the liar cares about the truth and attempts to hide it, while the bullshitter does not care whether what they say is true or false. Eduardo Porter writes in The Washington Post that Frankfurt's bullshitter definition fits Trump: "To subvert the truth, you must first know it, or at least think you do. That’s not Trump’s game."
For example, Trump does not, in Porter's argument, have to check US unemployment or inflation statistics to assert that "we inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare", because for bullshit, the facts do not matter. On the contrary, by ignoring the facts, bullshit has the power to guide group beliefs in a politically desirable direction and thereby to shape group identities. As early as 2015, Jeet Heer wrote that Trump’s propensity to bullshit is not an aberration in his party: "Over the last two decades, the GOP as a party has increasingly adopted positions that are not just politically extreme but also in defiance of facts and science".
His followers can't read or understand any actual financial literacy sources. So they just choose to believe what he says. Trump says Stocks are up...okay. Trump says prices are down...great. Why bother looking at the financial section of literally any newspaper when it's just going to lie to you and make your brain hurt because they hate dear leader?
And the GOPs will eat it up right while they are paying higher prices.
How many GOP's does it take to change a lightbulb? ZERO
Trump says he changed it and they all clap in the dark.
No inflation and price still the same would be true. But no more inflation doesn't cancel out previous inflation, it just means its not getting any worse. Your quality of life has fallen, it will now remain this bad for a little while before dropping again shortly.
I can't eat stock markets so that is useless.
I drive every day past a house that still has one of those "TRUMP LOW PRICES KAMALA HIGH PRICES" fucking signs in their front yard. To add to it, the family that lives there is black and the house is part of a government housing project provided by Delaware Country. Sometimes I think about what it would be like to be inside that house and listening to the people there talking, and I shudder.