Anyone said “Maybe he ain’t the brightest” yet? Just asking for a friend. B/c they don’t want to get deported to a real crap hole. I’m curious about these new ICE recruits. I heard that if you waterboard them, they begin telling they mama’s life story.
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Nearly eight out of 10 Americans, including 70% of Republicans, fear that Trump’s tariffs will increase the price of everyday goods.
I fear how the the prices are going to go. It's why I've been trying to garden this year and will continue next year to try to cut down on food costs. Also doing everything I can.
But what I find hi-larious about the 70% of republicans is right now at my job I'm mostly surrounded by republicans and I'm doing way better than most of them. But part of that is I drive a shitbox car, eat cheap as possible, live in a house where my payments are cheap as fuck (that one I got lucky on timing on, but when asked if I'm going to move somewhere bigger I laugh my ass off.) I've lived within my means especially with it took me nearly 20 years to break $15 an hour, and that was a pandemic doing it, and when I broke out I've been working at keeping myself okay, not just going out and putting down money on a truck that payments cost more than my mortgage.
There's going to be a lot of people hurting on all sides, but I'll at least help the people that tried to stop it. Those temporarily embarrassed millionaires that voted for this shit won't get a handout from me for how much they whined about handouts.
There will be two years of hardship and the rest of the world will come up with a new trade infrastructure which will finally bring back some prosperity and Trump will say..."See? I told you I could do it.".
Guess about 40% of the country is just completely off the rails hopelessly stupid from these polls.
That percent gets their information from propaganda networks and those networks are subsidized by russia. Without that malignant influence they'd collapse very rapidly. Yet liberal democracies cant seem to find the political will to shut those networks down. It's weird how US oligarchs and Russia oligarchs have a lot of overlapping goals. I still dont understand why they hate lgbtq+2sp
Hatred is a strong emotion, and it keeps the rabble fixated and obsessed on non issues with easy “wins.” It’s not really that they even care about queer people, it’s that they know stupid people enjoy having a group they have permission to abuse.
I don't know why they hate anyone with a wallet, why discriminate, money is money, you'd think they'd be kind to people being so fortunate and having anything they want but that's not the case, so the clearly have deep mental issues. Why does it seem like the richer people get the more and more they want? It's a sickness, these people are sick in the head. I would go so far as to say they are barely human anymore. They should be exiled for the good of humanity.
It's so baffling to see that number.
You'd think it was majority percentage where I live.
Anytime there is a poll, results show about 25-35% are always either completely fucking brain dead or evil, depending on the poll.
Conservativism is a cancer that needs to be excised before it kills the host. First the US, then humanity.
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When he said "drain the swamp" he didn't specify that to him, the swamp is the American people.
The best part is Trump has been manipulating the market since this tariff debacle started.
It’s funny, because while he has absolutely contributed to it since January and all throughout his first term, the systemic conditions that yielded our current state have been decades in the making. This is, per usual, the American populace coming to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons.
Note that this is absolutely not orangeboi apologia - I’m simply pointing out that this entire sequence got kicked into high gear by Reagan, and pretty much our entire political establishment did nothing to stop it and everything to accelerate it since that point.
Yes.
The 1950s created the middle class and boomed with prosperity for working class because of government subsidies to the working class. Never before had this occurred in America. Always, prior, it was the industry/corporate class who were supported, and, drum roll, tariffs.
Then, Reagan flipped the script in the 80s, saying greater efficiency in that prosperity could only happen if we subsidized the corporate/industry class again. And this trickle down economics was born. And never rolled back by DEMs.
This legacy of corporate subsidy began to squeeze hard -2015, theb exponentially in 2020 and beyond.
This was not felt much in the 90s. It’s important to realize the lack of immediacy to any of this on the timeline. Including the Trump fallout. He’ll likely be dead of his medical issues and old age before his damage really hits.
To be fair, the Biden admin did start to roll back a bit of Reagan but 4yrs is never enough time.
All the good with the FCC, for example, including making internet a necessary utility, like electricity, was wiped, with Trump. Consumer protections roll up, rolled back, with Trump. Attempts to undo trumps education secretary damage in the first term, fouled by Congress, and rolled back entirely by trump. Oh. And tariffs are back. So taxes on everyone at the grocery store and beyond. We can’t even get free shipping on cheap items any more, he removed that too.
What’s great is full fruition of his damage will still move slowly such that it will only really be felt in full after 4-6yrs.
The fact that billionaires even exist now shows how absolutely wrong Reagan was with trickle down.
A middle class cannot exist organically in capitalism. Capitalism needs to be tempered by regulation and subsidies to working class or we end up here.
I mean with regards to this poll, yes and no. Look at the question framing. For some questions this is true but a lot don't really leave space for that mistake:
Did trump have a negative affect on grocery prices?
Did trump have a negative affect on your finances prices?
Will Trump's tarrifs increase the price of every day goods?
These don't ask if Trump or his administration is responsible for high grocery prices or CoL or the financial climate, just if he has helped or worsened it. Other questions are pretty clear in their separation from this specific administration:
Do you believe Corporations or billionaires have had an active role in making life more difficult for average people over the past 25 years?
Do you believe congressional Republicans or congressional Democrats have made life more difficult?
A lot of the other questions just have to do with how anxious people feel about finances or the concerns they have and doesn't really ask about any politicians at all.
Of course you are absolutely right that, in general, people have an astonishingly and consistently short memory resulting in attributing current problems to current politicians but I dunno if this poll is really indicative of that.
He got in to reduce grocery prices, and they are UP 2.7% from a year ago, when Biden was president. Good job, psychopath.
All of this mess is on HitlerPig, I don't want to hear anything about Biden, Obama, Hillary, etc.
Well no shit a kindergarten racist gets in and shit goes wrong what did you expect.
It’ll all be fixed in his third term.
Nah the 3rd term will be pretty mid
His 4th term will fix all of it though
Too bad his 6th term will undo all progress
No way the dude lives that long. Trump Jr on the other hand…
How dare you say that about great leader? Great leader won't die! He's an immort...
Oh, wait, sorry, not on r/Pyongyang
They will stay silent about his eventual passing. He won’t make any public appearances, but they will insist that he’s alive and well. Anything else is just democrat propaganda.
Occasionally he will show up in AI generated speeches.
You'll be able to tell it's AI generated because the AI will screw up and make the hands normal-sized.
Man are we living in weird, fucked up times
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By his 6th term he'll be blaming himself again for "bad deals" made by himself without realizing it
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If only we were so wise back in 2024.
If only we were so wise back in ~~2024~~2016.
If only we were so wise to stop Reconstruction.
If only you were so wise 45 years ago and kicked Reagan to the curb.
Well, that would have been difficult considering that I didn't exist yet
You bastard
No excuses.
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The most incredible is that there is still american people who, when they see the cost increase of something because of tariff, ask why the originated country like Canada/China/name it didn't pay the tariff? And someone explain to them that tariff are paid by the final customer, not the manufacturer in the country of origin, and they answer something like "isn't this illegal?"
I just wonder what the tariff money will be used for. I'd expect it to the tax cuts for the ultra rich
The recent budget bill massively increased the deficit.
But I thought the rest of the world would pay it? Because, of course, we've been treating USA unfairly for so many decades now so it's only fair we'd give more money to the biggest economy on the planet :(
Good thing there's literally a Venmo account to help pay it off....
When I read that news I literally laughed.
It makes an average of $5000/day while the deficit increases by $55000/second
Yes I think this is the plan, didn't trump gov said it already, that tariff are to finance tax cut? Tariffs basically collect billions of $ from millions of people to finance gov programs, this is a tax, and the 0.01% keep their billions $ for themselves.
And it is a tax eventually on purchases. People need purchases, but the tariffs don't bother those whose purchases cost a miniscule part of their income. It greatly bothers those for whom purchases cost a huge part of their income.
The tariffs have not even shown their effects yet. Wait till next year and you will see people burning down the White House.
Hahahahaha.... somehow the people I work with will be blaming Obama still.
Americans are in general stupid. I can say that because they elected Trump.
Wait till next year and you will see people burning down the White House.
Ooh, are we throwing an apology party for the Canadians?
Apology and invite accepted. ;)
Welp, you lot either voted for it or didn't bother to vote at all, so you'll excuse me whilst I play the world's tiniest violin.
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