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[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 hours ago

But it sure as hell is easy increasing those prices!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Watch how Trumpets will move the goal post and claim it never was about grocery prices anyway.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago

They already act like they don't understand why people are asking them that.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That was just a silly lie so he could win the election. Nobody really thought he was going to do what he said he was going to do. I only voted for him so he would fix the government (what ever that means) and hurt brown people. /s

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

What I like about Trump is that he always speaks the truth /s

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago

"He TeLlS iT lIkE iT iS." AKA "He let's me feel like it's ok to blame all of my problems on poor brown people."

[–] [email protected] 57 points 13 hours ago

Well Donnie, you know what would help in not raising grocery prices any further?... Not starting pointless trade wars with our allies and neighbors by needlessly imposing trade tariffs on them. How about you try that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 13 hours ago

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Also, obligatory

sound (and quick loop)(A scene from the original Shrek movie, voiced by John Lithgow) A man at a podium in front of a castle speaking to the out-of-frame crowd, saying "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

The photographer: “Okay, everybody sneer— got it”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Is that thing why he keeps leaning forward like an intentional Quasimodo wannabe or normal vector that doesn't know which direction is up?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Possibly, but more probably the forward lean is due to the lifts in his little shoes 👞

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I think it’s mostly so it hides his gut to the camera in front of him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

And dementia

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

To be fair he rarely every talked about the subject. Certainly didn’t mention it on his inauguration. I’m an outsider but from what I’ve seen lowering grocery prices isn’t what America voted for.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

As another outsider, grocery prices seemed to be the main excuse from all of the supposed fence sitters and centrists that cast their votes for him after their supposed careful consideration. I remember a few clips doing the rounds on Reddit of people being interviewed about who they voted for and why. Which seems like a flimsy excuse to me from people that claim to be impartial.

But yeah, honestly to me it looks like culture war bullshit mainly won this for Trump. There were certain portions of the population that outright said they would never vote for a woman. And from what I gathered, large amounts of gen z, particularly ~~men~~ boys, are so lost to this culture war shit and treat the words of people like Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson and even Andrew Tate like gospel. That for the first time in history the younger generation swung further right than the next generation up.

These people can all act shocked and surprised at what they're getting now but when he wasn't blabbering about Hannibal Lecter and OJ Simpson, and shuffling around on stage to YMCA, the only coherent message he ever had was bigot nazi shit. So anyone claiming it was about grocery prices or who is acting shocked now, is a fucking liar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I certainly remember a few big moments he brought up inflation like the absurdist spectable he put on with the Tic Tac containers for instance. But I think he largely didn't need to say much because the meme machine had been churning for four years already positioning Biden as some all-powerful (but also senile) evil Marxist who was driving up your gas prices (and then later all the other prices) because reasons.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Struggling economically, which includes grocery prices, is absolutely what a lot of people voted for.

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/politics/2020-2016-exit-polls-2024-dg/

People are struggling with constantly increased cost of living here, and that is part of why ignorant moderate voters switched sides even though Trump is the worst answer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

More people voted against lowering grocery prices and for fascism. Sorry for those who voted for democrats or are ineligible to vote, but I have no pity for the masses. Those who refuse to listen have to feel it first hand.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Finally someone else is saying it, same washing is smol beanification