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!desantisthreatensusa@lemmy.world
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 !
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
It may well be, but when has the law ever applied to dumpy?
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
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.
When you own the news, or what morons think is news, so no one calls you out
You know what this shit reminds me of? North Korea.
Yes, all of the nation is well fed. Uh huh. Sure
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.
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.
trump immediately dropped talking about grocery/eggs after he won.
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.
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.
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!!
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.
If markets are high, it's because of inflation. You know, where the numeric price in [moneys] for items goes up across the board because each unit of [money] has less real value? That's literally what inflation is.
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".
I can't Afford CHRISTMAS presents for my Kids and have lost 10 Pounds because I can't BUY enough food but TRUMP said this so it's RIGHT!
-People who Do Their Own Research TM!
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.
Well, the stock market is doing great, set new records last Tuesday, which scares the shit out of me. There doesn't seem to be real economic backing for this activity. So what happens when we collectively wake up and realize stock prices no longer reflect company value? Seems we had a similar problem in October 1929.
Bubble do tend to make the stock market look great.
If anything, it's a sign it's popping soon.
Another sign is the dollar is down 2 more cents to the Euro, now trading at about 83.5¢ per Euro, when last month it was at an average of 85.5.
Well, wait a minute; am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different.
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.
So much easier when you can just cut out the middle man and make up the facts as you go
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 might be dumb, can someone tell me what "early prices" means?
I took economics, two whole years of it in college. By no means am I an economist, and I wouldn't assume I know enough about anything economically to make any value statements on a lot of what's going on.
But I will say that "early prices" is a term I've never heard before.
This man is delusional. He needs to be removed from office.
Remember when they made Bush Sr a one term loser for lying? The Republicans are just sad cult followers at this point.
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?
Miller sure is filling that orange head with all sorts of AI slop videos!
"Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations—that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago."
I paid ten bucks on sale for a couple turkey boobs. That's not a good price for that.
Clearly he's never done a normal person thing like grocery shop. Costco beef stew meat went from $5.40/lb to now $8.45/lb in a year looking at an old receipt in the app. Steaks are pretty much out of budget for most people nowadays, doubled in price.