They can just tell their kids that Santa wasn't allowed to enter the Untied States

All adults in our family agreed to not buy gifts. Just for kids. I'd rather save and not contribute to this already-shitty economy.

Sixty-eight percent of adults described the U.S. economy as “poor” in the latest poll

It's a shame that 68 didn't vote accordingly. FAFO

Trump has a lot to do with it, but it's not just him.

This is the result of the working class not getting a fair return on its labor for decades. It's only going to get worse until they fight back.

Trying not to think about the fact that Christmas is somehow 10 days away, my bare minimum student loan payment is 5 days away, but I don't get paid again for another 15 days. Then rent is due the day after that, and it's most of my paycheck, which pretty much immediately puts me back to where I am now, and groceries are somehow more and more expensive every time, and I get to ring in 2026 knowing best case scenario for the new year is that this neverending cycle continues once I get paid again at the end of January and repeat the same thing until 2027.

But I also know how privileged we are just to have a few small things under the tree for my kid, not to mention having a roof over our heads, and not having to worry about Nazis trying to kidnap my family members and split us apart every time we risk stepping outside, or being murdered in drone strikes that suddenly rain down from above from out of nowhere for absolutely no fucking reason.

Merry Christmas and Happy Birthday, Jesus! Are we great again?

I don't think there's really any chance, but I've reached the point where I want things to get so bad that we actually elect enough progressive politicians to actually fix what's wrong.

I truly believe in democracy, even though it has been fucking up lately. I think having a bloodless revolution every 2-4 years via elections is infinitely superior to having to actually build guillotines. At the same time I also think there's a point where interfering with the process for bloodless revolutions makes bloody revolutions inevitable.

The current administration is both homicidally incompetent, and completely out of touch, so there's a chance that the pressure will keep increasing until a fault forms and the ensuing catastrophe shakes the electorate out of their current stupidity enough to elect progressive people who will actually run the country for the people.

The alternative is the slow sleepwalk into slavery that we've been doing for decades.

The effort to gerrymander the shit out of everything is actually a positive sign: it shows that even the sociopaths running things understand that elections still matter. If elections still matter, the people are still in control.

Unfortunately, most of the people are mouth-breathing morons.

But did they stick to only 1 or 2 pencils? What about the dolls? Did people stop buying 37 dolls?

Calm down people, just buy less pencils and we'll all be fine

Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose

I thought affordability was a democrat hoax!?

I just hope he keeps gaslighting everyone and telling them how great everything is while he literally loots and destroys the country. Atleast we have some economic prosperity to look forward to once he is gone, and his policies reversed.

I work seasonal in retail and it’s a pretty mixed bag this Christmas. The haves and have nots are easy to spot. I agree about half my customers are hurting.

*self-proclaimed billionaire Trump

When will Americans realize that trump is a cunt?

But still wont group up and do anything to improve the situation.

Where’s my $2k check? Why aren’t egg prices down? Clearly, this administration doesn’t give a fuck about the people! They only care about themselves and how to line their pockets! Time to CLEAN FUCKING HOUSE! Worst 4 years of our lives!!!!

You MAGAs got what you voted for, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!

My first-two-weeks-of-January paycheck hits next week, early because the university shuts down totally during the break. So technically I can afford some meager gifts, and to be current on my mortgage and utilities, but next month half my income will be gone already.

And I know a garnishment judgment for a bill I just cannot pay will hit soon, so that's 25% of my pay gone.

Basically I'm OK now but 2026 is already shaping up to be a flaming financial disaster.

Despite all the "news" articles and clickbaits telling me how great everyone's doing surprisingly this year, yeah, this is what I am going to believe. The bought-and-paid for media is shoving flowers at us to try and mask the scent of shit.

No one can buy shit this year. Thankfully I'm doing okay enough that I can send what little family I have left a gift cert for two hundred each. It's not great but it's better than so so many can do. 🙁

Family made a deal this year. Socks only.

It would be funny to give MAGA people affected by Trumps policies some new bootstraps, so they can pull themselves up.