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FightFight

(224 posts)
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 10:42 AM 6 hrs ago

Donald Trump has gone silent on working class cost of living issues

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.

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MORE JOBS GAINED UNDER BIDEN'S 4 YEARS THAN UNDER THE 8 YEARS OF FORMER PRESIDENTS TRUMP, OBAMA, OR GEORGE W. BUSH
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/10/iden-job-gains-obama-trump?utm_campaign=feed&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=later-linkinbio


Bidenomics Was Wildly Successful-----The president’s domestic record wasn’t just extraordinary. It might put Democrats back in power in four years.
https://newrepublic.com/article/189232/bidenomics-success-biden-legacy

Give Biden his due, he has been one of the best presidents of our time https://thehill.com/opinion/5068539-joe-biden-effective-president/

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Donald Trump has gone silent on working class cost of living issues (Original Post) FightFight 6 hrs ago OP
We are going to get "it's really hard to bring down grocery prices" Klarkashton 6 hrs ago #1
. dalton99a 6 hrs ago #2
MSM will continue with great & rosy headlines for him KS Toronado 3 hrs ago #11
Time will tell Tickle 5 hrs ago #3
We lost to a complete fraud, a demagogue of epic proportions. Passages 5 hrs ago #4
He is working on his concept of a plan to lower the cost of living issues. republianmushroom 4 hrs ago #5
That's why he is bringing up Greenland, Canada etc . JI7 4 hrs ago #6
Remember when the media and voters could easily discern Blue_Tires 4 hrs ago #7
Of course... 2naSalit 4 hrs ago #8
It's the Trump formula. mn9driver 3 hrs ago #9
I wonder how's long it will take them Demobrat 3 hrs ago #10
I give it three weeks. n/t rasputin1952 2 hrs ago #13
The box of 60 eggs is now $36.03 at the Walmart NameAlreadyTaken 2 hrs ago #12

Klarkashton

(2,392 posts)
1. We are going to get "it's really hard to bring down grocery prices"
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:01 AM
6 hrs ago

If anything is said about it at all. Instead it will be all about Greenland.

KS Toronado

(19,906 posts)
11. MSM will continue with great & rosy headlines for him
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:21 PM
3 hrs ago

until next election when his idiot followers will forget that none of the great & rosy stuff never came
true. If the stock market crashes and unemployment hits 30% with around the corner soup lines, it
will not be TSF's fault because MSM will then be telling you it's all Democrats fault somehow.

Tickle

(3,230 posts)
3. Time will tell
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:27 AM
5 hrs ago

He hasn't stepped into the oval office yet, except when president Biden invited him after he won the election. Let's see how all of this plays out.

Passages

(1,524 posts)
4. We lost to a complete fraud, a demagogue of epic proportions.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 11:29 AM
5 hrs ago

That is what we have to fix.

Blue_Tires

(57,208 posts)
7. Remember when the media and voters could easily discern
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:02 PM
4 hrs ago

Whenever a candidate was just telling them whatever they wanted to hear regardless of his or her intention of actually following through?

Donnie's first term was literally nothing but bait-and-switch, over promising and under delivering. And assholes voted for another season of it?!

mn9driver

(4,618 posts)
9. It's the Trump formula.
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:33 PM
3 hrs ago

Lie like crazy to get the sucker votes, then say crazy stuff so people don’t notice he isn’t doing anything he promised.

There are a lot of slow learners out there.

Demobrat

(9,977 posts)
10. I wonder how's long it will take them
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 01:53 PM
3 hrs ago

to realize they have been used like toilet paper and flushed. I give it six months.
So far only the ones in high tech fields have felt the sting of betrayal, thanks to Musk mouth. The pain will trickle down to the poorly educated this summer when construction work dries up because of tariffs on raw materials and benefits are cut. And food prices skyrocket. And Trump says nothing except to blame someone else because he doesn’t give a flying fuck.

NameAlreadyTaken

(1,680 posts)
12. The box of 60 eggs is now $36.03 at the Walmart
Sun Jan 12, 2025, 02:26 PM
2 hrs ago

in Pahrump, Nevada, at least when we were there last Wednesday that was the price. That's $7.20 a dozen. A pack of 18 eggs was $12.97. Thanks, First Lady Donald Trump! You fixed it all right!

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