For the past two years, Donald Trump has spread fear about the state of the United States and championed himself as the only man capable of saving the country from itself. Only he could bring down the price of groceries and gas. Only he could fix the broken health care system. Only he could fix the broken immigration system. Only he could end the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East.
Now that the voters have drunk the Kool-Aid, the jig is up. The grift is over and the prize of the presidency is won. But will the buyers of the golden sneakers have buyer’s remorse? I suspect that for all but the most cult-following MAGA lemmings, the answer to that question is yes.
Despite two years of constant finger-pointing at the Biden administration for rising grocery prices that were actually decreasing during that time, since the election, Trump has gone dead silent on the issue of working class cost of living issues. His only comment on grocery prices was during his interview with Time magazine for his man of the year article in which he admitted that there isn’t much he can do to bring grocery prices back down to the levels of 2019. Economically, the only thing that will do that is a strong recession that no one wants. He has said virtually nothing about the cost of gasoline, in large part because the prices were already falling to four-year lows before the election and have continued to fall since.
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People keep expecting Trump’s followers to suddenly wake up and realize they’ve been scammed when they see what he actually does in office. Most of their support for him is based on obvious lies and they have seen how he really behaved as president. Either they know he’s been lying and don’t care or they have deluded themselves into ignoring reality altogether. Watching him stab them repeatedly in the back in not going to change their opinions. And if he hurts people they don’t like badly enough, they will still consider that a win.
Of course he has. He has neither a plan nor a chance to deliver here. All he can do is keeping as quiet as possible about it in hope that his MAGA sponge brains forget this was a thing he promised.
Oh he does have a plan.
He has project 2025, and when that’s done, the ruins left that were once the USA will finally realize that trump (or just populist politics in general) maybe wasn’t sucks a good idea
Hopefully the Americans will actually notice who ruined them…
Yeah, he’ll just declare it “fixed” in two months.
MAGAt near me that always had multiple batshit crazy trump flags at his house, and still did, up until his house burned down a few days back. T&P’s homie. Karma can be like that.
I think his plan was deflation or something and I don’t think it made any sense
We haven’t had a major recession in a while… that could make things cheaper.
is that what would happen?
If things actually get cheaper via deflation, then a recession will definitely happen. The last time we had a major deflationary event in the US was the Great Depression. Disinflation can sometimes be good for the average Joe, but deflation is bad for everyone.
Demagogue: a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.
Cult is gonna cult.
No shit
It would be ironic if Trump actually “Made America Great Again” by being the direct cause of his base rising up against him, the billionaire class and the current status quo leading to systemic reform and a more equitable society.
The problem is that they would probably just put in another, stupider, dictator in his place. Worse, someone who actually knew what they were doing desiring to consolidate power.
JD Vance enacting Article 2, Section 4…
Despite two years of constant finger-pointing at the Biden administration for rising grocery prices that were actually decreasing during that time
The prices have not been decreasing, the rate of increase has been decreasing. But grocery prices were and are still going up. Source: the article you linked.
Too bad he can’t go silent permanently.
Another Mangione could help
We need to make Mangione’d a new verb.
I saw someone calling it “blue shelling” for when the little guy is able to strike a fatal blow to the guy in 1st place.
The guy in last place still isn’t going to get 1st but maybe it’ll give the 1st place guy something to think about.
TBH I don’t think Mangione did any good, but if Ryan Wesley Routh or Thomas Matthew Crooks had landed their shots then we’d be talking.
He can and he will. He will go away forever one day.
Not soon enough.
Agreed.
And how many people do you think are in line to be the face of the same idealogy? Our society is made by, made for and rewards sociopathy. There is no bright future until we start looking at these issues that start in childhood. Kids are being raised thinking if they bully everyone in their path then they can be the president. How about we start teaching kids that increasing quality of life for future generations so they can flourish and make more advancements is a much better idea than being a massive piece of orange colored shit.
The one saving grace is that Trump’s whole thing has been a cult of personality, and nobody else in the MAGA movement has been nearly on his level in that regard. There’s a good chance the whole thing falls apart without him.
Agreed. He unites the whackos.
I understand what you are saying, but that’s the way it has always been. This is not new.
Thing is, we are now seeing where that approach will always lead. The ideology of “you need to fight everyone else for your piece of the pie, and theirs too if you can get it” has created immense suffering in American society. It has only been like this for the relatively short time that the American ideology has been teaching people this. It can be changed, and in my more optimistic moments I’d see we’re seeing early signs of a change even now.
. It has only been like this for the relatively short time that the American ideology has been teaching people this
Dude, that’s a crazy take to say it’s only a recent thing when owning another human being used to be a thing. This country was founded on stealing shit from others who cannot defend themselves.
It’s not new. It’s something to address, yes. We need to change it, but it’s not new.
Sorry, I meant that in the course of human history it’s not new, though this attitude has always been present in the relatively young history of the USA. I was trying to be optimistic that it can be changed, even if it’s hard to see how right now.
Hey man, people used to sacrifice virgins to the sun god for a better harvest. It was once normal to consider women as less than men. We had separate water fountains, bathrooms, bus seats for different races. Progress is about progressing. It doesn’t matter how long people have been stupid, the point is to always improve, not stagnate or reverse.
I agree that stepping backwards is not ideal, but I do believe that there will never be a straight path to utopia. There is going to be some struggle from those who have to give up privilege along the way. Large ships don’t turn very quick, but as long as they are headed in the right direction, that’s all that matters. Although it may seem we aren’t headed in the right direction, in the grand scheme of things, I believe that we have the ability to bear in the correct direction.
There is no utopia because everyone’s biological soup is different. Best we can do is utilitarianism and voting in a literal criminal isn’t a small step back, that’s a taco bell beer shit on progression
There’s a bigger picture
There are ways to hurry that along.
They tried a few times already
Im still not certain they tried. I mean, how can you miss such a big target at such a distance?
He spent his entire campaign saying how expensive things were and his plan to fix is was to raise prices on everything. Not sure what they were expecting.
They’ll make it up when the vast majority get those sweet income tax raises.
nah nah, it’s ok, they’re not in that vast majority, they’re sure of it.
Here is my well reasoned and thoughtful response:
Duh.
NORM!!!
I downvote your downvoter with this comment
With peace and love: All the comments saying this should reconsider next time. Saying “duh” to oppression normalizes oppression.
The worst most bigoted most bootlicking red-voting person you know is happy chatting about the evil that is H1Bs and how we are annexing Greenland and Panama right now. They need to hear that the person they voted in has dropped his support for helping them through their struggles to feed themselves.
Generally, we are all saying “duh” to the wrong things. All the top comments here are “duh” while no one yada yada’d the Greenland annexation theatrics.
Again I am being blunt so no hate to you specifically, you are just the top comment representing a larger pattern.
At least he didn’t lie and claim Biden helped the economy in any way.
Like yeah trump lied about doing anything about anything, but he acknowledged issues. Something neither Biden or Harris did. This is a large part of why Dems lost.
I mean, no surprise. All of his policies last time were for the wealthy. But more importantly, all of the things Elan is planning to cut are going to hurt the poor and they didn’t say they were going to give any of that money to people, just that they were going to cut the deficit. If running the country like a business, you never cut income, even if you cut expenses. Businesses with monopolies keep the profits from reduced expenses, not pass them on to customers, that would be dumb.
