Summary

Vice President JD Vance claimed that Donald Trump’s policies will lower grocery prices, but he failed to provide details.

Instead, Vance emphasized vague goals like increasing capital investment and job creation.

Meanwhile, Trump’s recent tariff threats, including a 25% increase on Colombian coffee imports, have driven coffee prices higher, exacerbating grocery costs.

Critics note Trump’s shifting narrative, as he now admits it is “hard to bring things down once they’re up.”

Supporters, however, downplayed price hikes, suggesting cheaper alternatives like instant coffee.

  • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    The plan is to let prices go up (predictably, given tariffs) while forever promising people that prices will come down soon. I’m sure it will happen right after the wealth Reagan promised finally trickles down.

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      The actual Trickle Down economy: Getting drenched in a golden shower while waiting for your millions

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        Fun fact: “trickle down economics” is just rebranded horse and sparrow economics. The idea being that if you overfeed your horse, it won’t digest it all and the sparrow will be able to sift through the horse shit to find bits of food to eat.

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    “The way that you lower prices is that you encourage more capital investment into our country,” Vance added.

    This clown hasn’t a clue how the economy works.

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      He knows a lot better than the clowns that voted him in. Lowering prices would mean deflation and that’s pretty much universally seen as a bad thing. The best you can do is increase wages. Of which the GOP will do nothing about.

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    It seems like it’s kept in the same binder Trump keeps his healthcare plan and his plan to end the war in Ukraine

    Trump just wants to be president, he doesn’t want to do president

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      It’s because those gays run bed and breakfasts, up next on the docket for conservatives are beds.

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        Yeah, these zellenials spending all their time eating avocado taquitos on their memory foam mattresses are destroying the economy. In my day, we slept on asbestos and mouse poop mats and we liked it.

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      Columbia’s biggest export to the U.S. is crude oil. So oil prices higher from Canada, this would have been higher oil prices from Columbia… But I believe he didn’t do the tarrifs. Guys a dumbass

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    increasing capital investment and job creation.

    So giving rich people money, same plan as the last forty years.

    Brilliant.

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      Listen, I’ve heard from a very reliable source that there is a concept for a plan.

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    Supporters, however, downplayed price hikes, suggesting cheaper alternatives like instant coffee.

    Translation:

    Let them eat cake

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    “Supporters, however, downplayed price hikes, suggesting cheaper alternatives like instant coffee.”

    Almost like it was never about egg prices at all for alot of them

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    Most of these clowns have no idea of how basic economics work. They don’t even understand basic US history. We tried the tariffs and isolationism route, guess what happened? Great Depression.

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    Oh hey, that’s his plan for healthcare costs too.

    Funny enough, not his plan for how to resolve issues with minorities wanting rights

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      Executive orders don’t work for things like reigning in corporate greed. They work for everything else. But helping a large portion of the nations backbone? Can’t do it. Won’t even try.

      -DJT (probably)

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    suggesting cheaper alternatives (to coffee) like instant coffee.

    I… I… I can’t even. What do these people think instant coffee is? It’s still fucking coffee. Freeze dryed concentrated coffee. You still need coffee beans to make it. The price hike will still make instant coffee more expensive too. You’re. So. Fucking. Stupid. MAGA.