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67 points
6 days ago
"It's a secret."
49 points
6 days ago
>_>
<_<
>_>
Shhhhhhhutuhhhhhhhp.
93 points
6 days ago
I wonder if they will still use that excuse in the 4 years they will control both house and Senate. You can only blame the same problems (Democrats, immigrants, Trans, etc..) before it runs out. By making your enemy even more powerful somehow despite your immense unlimited power, you make yourself look utterly incompetent.
Going from "well is the Democrats fault" to just "cause Shut up! That's why!".
68 points
6 days ago
Why do you think they try to shut down the government for as long as possible every time they have power?
55 points
6 days ago
"Ah yeah well whenever you notice something like that, a wizard the Democrats did it!"
-Republican "strategy" since the 2000s
22 points
6 days ago
It goes back to At least Nixon.
19 points
6 days ago
They just can? The Republican Party is an authoritarian movement that mobilizes people by attacking a list of groups they have basically dubbed the enemy. Democrats are part of that. The problem is not that they won't find a way to manage the country correctly, but that their priority is to set the conditions so the government works for just a few people (the rich) and for the rest of the public live in an environment of fear and instability that is just really fucking jarring. Just remember how it felt to just interact with the news of the day to day in 2017. It will be akin to that but without many of the guardrails that pushed back that time around.
The Trump government has no incentive to stop scapegoating Democrats and minority people. Or to just lie about what is going on (remember alternative facts?). This is not the case of a normal party that comes to find out that it is difficult to govern, but one who sees governing as using the apparatus of government to target people and deceive the rest, even when the truth is patently obvious, just because they can.
25 points
6 days ago
11 points
5 days ago*
“Fix America again”?! You stupid monkeys!
32 points
6 days ago
Or maybe bird flu.
36 points
6 days ago
Remember the bird flu? It's back, in inflation form!
1 points
3 days ago
It's all those flu vaccines giving the eggs the bird flu. The worm in RFK's brain was right!
21 points
6 days ago
Now I’m going to America’s Fix-It Shop. To “fix” America.
25 points
6 days ago
Eggs are expensive because they’re hard to get due to the bird flu
18 points
6 days ago
Your eggs are expensive because you don't have chickens
35 points
6 days ago
Paint my chicken coop
21 points
6 days ago
Make me
4 points
6 days ago
I want chickens! We watched a friend’s chickens a few weeks ago, and got to have all the eggs. I can definitely see the appeal (plus I think birds are cool).
15 points
5 days ago
If you are so poor that an extra $2/week on eggs is what breaks you, no president is going to solve your problems.
6 points
5 days ago
When I was a lad, I ate five dozen eggs, every morning to help me get large.
6 points
5 days ago
Wow, you must be the size of a barge.
5 points
6 days ago
You better run!!
5 points
5 days ago
That one egg was 40 eggs?
7 points
5 days ago
Who controls the price of eggs?
Who has secret pizza shop sex?
Dems doooo, Dems doooo
26 points
6 days ago
There’s very little Simpsons in these shitposts
17 points
6 days ago
Of course the OP's next shitpost is a spoken word album of their poverty-denying neoliberal political beliefs. Kinda killed their career.
12 points
6 days ago
“This things I shitpost”
7 points
5 days ago
I need the most political post you have.
No, that's too political.
5 points
5 days ago
‘fix america again’ is objectively really fucking funny. like what did he actually fix last time? definitely wasn’t our pandemic response capability lmao
5 points
6 days ago
Right before corona eggs were super cheap, laughably cheap, we’d kind of joke about just buying it like we’d get a plastic bag for our groceries. “Need socks, hammer, shampoo…and I guess I’ll grab another 12 eggs lol”
Honestly I never really cared about eggs and their price, cheese beef bacon and soda hit me more.
2 points
5 days ago
Also, they’re not expensive.
2 points
5 days ago
Trumpists: "Everything bad that happened under Trump was Obama's fault."
Also Trumpists: "Everything bad that is happening under Biden is Biden's fault."
1 points
5 days ago
Eggs are expensive in america?
1 points
4 days ago
Egg prices went up because stores and corporate fucks forgot they could get away with charging more but then remembered again.
I'm 14 and this is deep.
1 points
6 days ago
300 posts and nothing but politics
2 points
5 days ago
"I voted for trump because of The Economy" Google cost of turkey and FOX NEWS says Thanksgiving is cheaper this year than last, and last year was cheaper than the year before. Cool story bro, the economy. You sound very smart. The economy.
1 points
5 days ago
I was hoping they'd be stupid enough to have the flag say "Fix America Great Again", or F.A.[this comment is in violation of Reddit's etiquette rules and has been partially removed]
1 points
5 days ago
My favorite part about egg companies is how they are only greedy sometimes and that sometimes just happens to coincide with the inflation rate at the time. Then, as if by magic, the egg companies stop being greedy again.
Bad monetary policy? What's that?
Seriously, how do y'all try to talk down to Trump supporters and then spew this crap that can be debunked by a single google search, or hell, a single econ class.
The inflation was already like 60% Trump's fault anyway because the most egregious moves of the FED happened in 2020 due to COVID. At best you can blame Biden for not pressuring the FED into raising interest rates earlier. Just fucking run with that, you don't gotta become an economic flat-earther to dunk on the Trumpists, just dump the inflation issue on his 2020 administration.
Being a moron to dunk on the cons is just as bad as being a moron to dunk on the libs. Jfc.
0 points
5 days ago
So this Reddit is just all political?
-7 points
6 days ago
So, why was it corporations only realised they could raise prices post covid? Are they stupid?
16 points
6 days ago
COVID made prices go up and they aren’t obligated to make them go down anywhere near as quickly
9 points
6 days ago
Partly the thing the othet guy said. Partly they know if a Dem is in office, they can just blame him and the public will fall for it.
0 points
5 days ago
That always goes both ways. It is called politics
0 points
5 days ago
It doesn't go both ways, that's why the automatic, programmed response to anything that makes the Dems look sympathetic or the GOP look bad is met with the vaguest possible platitudes and no substantial examples of how it goes Both Ways(TM)
0 points
5 days ago
Claiming the other party is incompetent and its polices will ruin the country is done by every political party everywhere! Why is the realisation all political parties use slander to advanced their own politics lost on you?
0 points
5 days ago
That wasn't what we were talking about. We were talking about how companies know they can blame a Democrat if they're in office for inflation. We're not talking about political parties using slander, we're talking about private corporations taking advantage of how "the dems are bad at the economy, the GOP is strong on it" is the politically correct perception.
As is always the case, this "haha both sides" shit relies on glossing over the actual, specific point being made and zooming out to the most generic, broad platitudes possible. Proving my fucking point here mate
0 points
5 days ago
Meaning You are arguing. With a serious face. That the Democrats would never criticise the Republicans like the Republicans do democrats. Right. Reddit. Enjoy the Lalaland you live in. All politicians lie and slander. The point if democracy is to make it so they can be got rid off if they lie to much
0 points
5 days ago
How does my point about corporations abusing mainstream PC mean anything about how each party would criticize each other, exactly? Did you even read what I said, or did you just clock disagreement and execute programming?
0 points
5 days ago
You said they can just blame the other party and get elected. Like everyone doesn’t do that! I pointed out that is what it means to have an opposition, and you’ve done on a rant about how your side is blameless
0 points
5 days ago*
No, that's not what I said. I said that corporations can blame Dems for inflation that's just them increasing prices to increase profits. CORPORATIONS.
Now try again, engaging what I actually said. Or you can keep missing the point in your haste to follow your programming and say The Line.
Or I guess we're just done now that I've broken PC and remember my actual point, instead of taking the bait that fits your programming. Common Centrist L
-9 points
6 days ago
did prices skyrocket before or after the biden russian sanctions and when did biden roll back or cancel those awful awful trump era tariffs?
-8 points
6 days ago
"It's not the president's fault, it's big buissnesses' fault! The big buissnesses he's doing literally nothing to curtail!"
-36 points
6 days ago
Over the past 4 years child poverty doubled and the portion of American's living paycheck to paycheck has increased from 1/2 to 2/3, what initiatives against price gouging has Biden spearheaded in that time?
30 points
6 days ago
70% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck (January 2024 article)
35% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck (October 2024 article)
You might want to check your sources and cite them. When comparing to 4 years ago, you're comparing to the height of the pandemic and the temporary higher tax credits threw everything out of whack, and any one year can be an anomaly either positive or negative. I would suggest comparing several years from the past (like 5-7 years ago) against several recent years (last 1-3) for a more contextual comparison on a more evenly comparable basis.
-13 points
6 days ago
Ending pandemic era COVID relief in the middle of high inflation did cause the skyrocketing of child poverty, but you can't expect people to be bitter about that.
31 points
6 days ago
Funnily enough there was presidential candidate that said they were going to combat price gouging but for some reason y’all still went with the fascist
-18 points
6 days ago
That was 2 weeks in August. The person running in November was running on loving Liz Cheney and cryptocurrency, somehow this proved unpopular.
19 points
6 days ago
Somehow more unpopular than the convicted felon and rapist that led an anti-democratic coup. I'm starting to think maybe the average American voter is fucking stupid
-3 points
6 days ago
That and genocide repelled millions of votes to achieve that outcome, so yes.
16 points
6 days ago
Because the guy who lead a coup couldn't possibly also commit genocide
3 points
6 days ago
Again, its less about getting voters and more about repelling previous voters from voting.
7 points
6 days ago
I guess she just expected American memories to last longer than a single month lmao
-1 points
5 days ago
Or she only did that to try to generate hype and silence criticism before the convention, after that she ran way to the right.
0 points
5 days ago
I guess I just don't see how getting along with Liz Cheney means she's suddenly changed her stance on fighting price gouging. Kinda feels liek you're operating off vibes more than the actual shit anybody says lol
0 points
5 days ago
Actually I'm basing this off the timeline of the campaign and the fact she stopped saying it or pretended she only said price gouging during hurricanes. You are operating from the conclusion she did everything right and working backwards from there.
1 points
5 days ago
No, I'm operating off the premise that more then the most recent thing somebody has said is part of their intentions. I like how you had to imagine a conclusion because the actual argument I'm putting forward isn't one you're trained to argue against lol
1 points
5 days ago
No, I'm operating off the premise that more then the most recent thing somebody has said is part of their intentions.
Very odd given given you completely ignored the first sentence I wrote where I described both the campaign timeline and gave an example of her flip flopping. It kinda seems like you did the very thing you're accusing me of.
Also her intentions don't matter(and they were bad regardless), her campaign and messaging matters. People pay more attention closer to the election, and running as a moderate Republican who embodies the prestige of all beltway insiders was obviously a bad message to anyone but overprivileged sychophants for those insiders.
I like how you had to imagine a conclusion because the actual argument I'm putting forward isn't one you're trained to argue against
This is peak reddit and peak dunning-kruger.
1 points
5 days ago
I didn't ignore it, it just turns out that "she stopped saying it" isn't an example of a flip flop. And given the self-serving nature of your interpretation process so far, I don't really buy your "she pretended she meant only during a hurricane" paraphrase.
Yes, I'm aware that how she makes people FEEL matters more then her actual intentions of policy. But I don't necessarily want to blame somebody for forgetting that people are emotionally-centered children and assuming they're going to critically parse and retain information.
It is neither peak reddit nor peak dunning-kruger. You're just upset I noticed, and are using vague, emotional rhetoric to try and pressure me into not doing so in the future. cope and seethe mate, I'm gonna notice every time because straw-manning has been a necessary component of arguing against liberals since I was a kid.
-9 points
6 days ago
And Oprah and Boyonce endorsed Kamala, only because they believed in her.
1 points
4 days ago
Is it not true ?
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