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BumRushDaShow

(165,175 posts) Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:26 PM Dec 6

'People aren't dumb': Republicans worry they're not doing enough on affordability

Source: NBC News

Dec. 6, 2025, 5:00 AM EST

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are starting to publicly and privately sound the alarm about their party’s disjointed strategy to address Americans’ affordability concerns, with some growing increasingly frustrated with President Donald Trump’s sometimes cavalier attitude toward the subject.

While Republicans say the high cost of living is a problem they inherited from President Joe Biden, many GOP lawmakers still think their party needs to sharpen its own message and platform ahead of the midterms — or else it could cost them their tenuous majorities in Congress.

“If we don’t do that, we would be morons, because the economy is very much on people’s minds,” Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, told NBC News. Democrats “failed to really hammer the economy, and it cost them the election,” he added. “If we as Republicans fail to do the same, it wouldn’t surprise me if we had a similar turnout.”

Nearly two dozen Republican senators, House members, strategists and congressional aides shared their concerns about their party’s handling of affordability in interviews with NBC News. Another six acknowledged the issue but said the party will settle on the right strategy to address it.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-worry-not-enough-affordability-strategy-trump-hoax-rcna247578

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'People aren't dumb': Republicans worry they're not doing enough on affordability (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 6 OP

We already know their "strategy to address it" because it will be the same as their strategy on everything AZJonnie Dec 6 #1

When Republicans say "reform" they mean they're gonna cut your benefits Walleye Dec 6 #4

"Enough," forsooth? WTF are they actually doing in the first place? n/t malthaussen Dec 6 #2

They think they can get elected just by soothing all the Imaginary butt-hurts Walleye Dec 6 #3

Point 1. A lot of people are dumb BaronChocula Dec 6 #5

Republicans worry they're not doing enough on affordability? LilElf70 Dec 6 #6

Its not that generally "people aren't dumb". Many are. They are the R base. LiberalLovinLug Dec 6 #7

Exactamundo. 60% of adults do not understand material for 6th graders. GreenWave Dec 6 #9

That's the first thing that popped into my mind, too Klondike Kat Dec 6 #10

not doing enough?...well, only if you consider generational farmers agingdem Dec 6 #8

"People aren't dumb" Ray Bruns Dec 6 #11

Worries They Aren't Doing ENOUGH??? GB_RN Dec 6 #12

Billboard message: BidenRocks Dec 6 #13

*YOUR Skittles Dec 6 #15

I try so hard. BidenRocks Dec 6 #16

try this: say the sentence to yourself first Skittles Dec 6 #17

it's such a quandary for repukes Skittles Dec 6 #14

AZJonnie

(2,698 posts)

1. We already know their "strategy to address it" because it will be the same as their strategy on everything

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 12:56 PM

Dec 6

Which is "let's bullshit and gaslight the fuck out of everyone about it".

Point of fact: The GQP "solution" to any problem is never the actual "right thing", it's *always* to lie about it. It's in their DNA. And Mango Mussolini is the living embodiment of this strategy, because he LIVES to lie, about EVERYTHING he possibly can.

Walleye

(43,710 posts)

4. When Republicans say "reform" they mean they're gonna cut your benefits

Reply to AZJonnie (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:26 PM

Dec 6

malthaussen

(18,375 posts)

2. "Enough," forsooth? WTF are they actually doing in the first place? n/t

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:08 PM

Dec 6

Walleye

(43,710 posts)

3. They think they can get elected just by soothing all the Imaginary butt-hurts

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:25 PM

Dec 6

BaronChocula

(3,967 posts)

5. Point 1. A lot of people are dumb

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:52 PM

Dec 6

That's evidenced in the fact that they can be continually conned by a conman and felon reputed for his voluminous lies.

Point 2. Republicans know this because their success is based on scads of lies that smart people can debunk with little effort.

Point 3. Noticing that you can't afford basic necessities is not a sign of intellect.

LilElf70

(1,347 posts)

6. Republicans worry they're not doing enough on affordability?

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 01:54 PM

Dec 6

They aren't doing shit about affordability. As a matter of fact, real fact, they're actually making it worse for everyone. Their only interest is to kiss that f***ing ring. I'm willing to bet they don't know the meaning of the word, or how to spell it. And now they're worried about it? Give me a friggin break.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,566 posts)

7. Its not that generally "people aren't dumb". Many are. They are the R base.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:15 PM

Dec 6

Its just that some Republicans are realizing that they can't count on "the uneducated" to blindly go along with them, as they usually do, when it involves their own survival and cost of living.

GreenWave

(12,211 posts)

9. Exactamundo. 60% of adults do not understand material for 6th graders.

Reply to LiberalLovinLug (Reply #7)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:39 PM

Dec 6

Klondike Kat

(918 posts)

10. That's the first thing that popped into my mind, too

Reply to LiberalLovinLug (Reply #7)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:59 PM

Dec 6

If there weren't any dumb people Republicans would only get the votes of the wealthy.

agingdem

(8,759 posts)

8. not doing enough?...well, only if you consider generational farmers

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 02:19 PM

Dec 6

and ranchers going bust because of Trump's tariffs an affordability issue...or buying beef from Argentina and soybeans from China an affordability issue...or how about fruits/vegetables rotting in fields because Trump is deporting seasonal workers who glean those fields resulting in soaring grocery prices an affordability issue...

It's obvious those "alarmed" Republicans are unable to read the room...their constituents have turned against them...town halls have morphed into name-calling shouting forums...crying Trump voting Republicans are taking to media platforms to trash Trump and his revenge-fueled "economic" agenda..

and then there's Dementia Don referring to affordability as a "Democrat hoax"...

the so-called alarmed Republicans should be more terrified of their constituents back home rather than Trump's threat to primary them...

Ray Bruns

(5,932 posts)

11. "People aren't dumb"

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 03:02 PM

Dec 6

I beg to differ.

GB_RN

(3,501 posts)

12. Worries They Aren't Doing ENOUGH???

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 03:22 PM

Dec 6

First, they aren’t doing anything. Second, didn’t Cantaloupe Caligula the Corpulent say that affordability was a con job?

Assholes can’t even get on the same page of lies.

BidenRocks

(2,697 posts)

13. Billboard message:

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 05:43 PM

Dec 6

To MAGA/GOP

Your Two Weeks Are Up!

Vote Democrat

Skittles

(169,244 posts)

15. *YOUR

Reply to BidenRocks (Reply #13)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 06:06 PM

Dec 6

otherwise, yes indeed

BidenRocks

(2,697 posts)

16. I try so hard.

Reply to Skittles (Reply #15)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 06:13 PM

Dec 6

Thanks!

Skittles

(169,244 posts)

17. try this: say the sentence to yourself first

Reply to BidenRocks (Reply #16)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 07:08 PM

Dec 6

"YOU'RE" always means YOU ARE

so "YOU'RE TWO WEEKS ARE UP" becomes YOU ARE TWO WEEKS ARE UP - that is not correct so you would use YOUR

do that and you're sure to get it right (which translates into DO THAT AND YOU ARE SURE TO GET IT RIGHT - which is correct)

Skittles

(169,244 posts)

14. it's such a quandary for repukes

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sat Dec 6, 2025, 06:05 PM

Dec 6

they are so used to bullshitting their ignorant base they don't know what to do when their BS becomes so blatant even the cult can see it

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