Summary
Democratic lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, criticized Trump for failing to address rising food costs despite campaign promises to lower prices “immediately.”
In a letter, they accused Trump of focusing on mass deportations and January 6 pardons instead of tackling grocery inflation, which rose 1.8% in 2024, with egg prices up 36.8%.
Trump’s administration defended its actions, citing efforts to reduce inflation by cutting energy costs.
How much slamming will it take to stop the full-tilt fascism train? Are we almost there yet?
slamming alone is not enough i’m afraid. they also need to “rip” and “jab” them
Journalists have ruined the word slam over the last couple of years
Depends, is Luigi involved?
I’m so tired of Democrats taking “the high road.” The high road doesn’t fucking exist anymore and y’all are just fucking everyone over. Trump is literally on the road to destroying this country and Democrats are trying to do things “the right way.”
Fuck that shit. It doesn’t work anymore. They’re just accepting the premise of assholes. I hate to say it, but unless they fight back with the same kind of energy than they’re fucked. If you try and do shit the right way Trump will just undo everything with a wave of his tiny hands.
I’ll go a step further. Motherfucker cancelled all federal grants and aid, AMONG OTHER acutely awful executive orders.
How about Democrats “slam” Trump for dismantling our government and actively harming our nation from the first moment he was inaugurated? The time to fight about egg prices ended Nov 07.
Let me see some of this energy Dems! (and from someone other than AOC and Bernie. WTH is wrong with the rest of you!)
Because the people who voted for him think it’s a good thing that he’s cancelling those things. They want him to dismantle “big government” because they’ve been mislead into believing that the reason they’re struggling financially is somehow because of wasteful government spending.
You can’t attack Trump by criticising him for things people want him to do.
But the reason most of those people voted for him is because they are struggling financially, regardless of what the actual reasons are. They want him to come in and take a wrecking ball to the government in the belief that it will somehow make their lives better. I don’t see how it’s a bad thing to drive home, repeatedly, that they are wrong. That all of Trump’s promises will amount to nothing, and that their financial struggles are only going to get worse under him. Because if you want his supporters to abandon him, you have to appeal to their sense of self-preservation. You have to remind them, over and over, that he’s not making life better for them.
I blame Reagan, his "The scariest phrase in the english language is “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help” nonsense
It was a scam to encourage rugged individualism on a cartoonishly high level.
I keep hearing from people that they’re GLAD Gender Affirming Care is being banned, not because they’re transphobic (they are, but that’s not the main reason they’re glad about it), but because they think now that Medicare isn’t going to cover that, that more people will be able to get on it and get cancer treatments.
That is not how that works.
They think literally everything is zero-sum. If someone else is getting help, that could have been help for them. I have no idea how to undo this programming.
You can’t attack Trump by criticising him for things people want him to do.
Here’s the thing; most people actually don’t like what he’s doing. Or they like the aesthetics and don’t actually understand the execution and effects.
Democrats fail spectacularly in aesthetics (elite, preachy, corpo suits) and at explaining the effects these policies actually have on regular people.
Sure, but that’s exactly why this is the right play. Reminding people that their groceries haven’t gotten cheaper doesn’t take any explaining. It’s simple, clear, and self evident.
Trump got in on a promise to make ordinary people’s lives easier, and it’s a promise he has neither the desire nor the ability to keep. Driving that point home, for every single day of his presidency, isn’t a bad plan.
Because the people who voted for him think it’s a good thing that he’s cancelling those things. They want him to dismantle “big government” because they’ve been mislead into believing that the reason they’re struggling financially is somehow because of wasteful government spending.
You can’t attack Trump by criticising him for things people want him to do.
The people who voted for him aren’t going to change their minds regardless, or they’ll decide we just need someone even worse. I want to see some fucking fighting (not physical fighting - some fire from these democrats!), not finger wagging. We had four years of fucking finger wagging when we should have been locking him up.
That all of Trump’s promises will amount to nothing, and that their financial struggles are only going to get worse under him.
I’m thinking they are going to get that message pretty quick now with all federal aid and grants cut. It will still be Biden’s fault to them, like the folks who went to their death from covid swearing it was a hoax.
Sorry, at this point I could give a shit about what Trump’s voters think or whether they turn on him. Sure, it will be satisfying when it happens, but they aleady absolutely fucked us all, and I no longer even think I have an idea where the bottom is going to be. Fuck them. Whatever embers of empathy I may have tried to preserve for them all these years is gone. They have fucked themselves, they have fucked the rest of us, and barring a literal miracle I doubt anyone over 40 has much chance of seeing things righted within their lifetime.
The reason you give a shit about his voters turning on him is because you need them on your side, not his.
This is simple pragmatism. If you want your country back, you have to rebalance the scales. And that means convincing a lot of those people to start acting in their own self interest; regular people vs billionaires instead of red vs blue. Some of them are too lost to hate to be worth talking to, but not all. And you need all the help you can get.
So… you want to “own the cons”?
As Jon Stewart put it on an episode of The Daily Show following the election, “The Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are playing checkers”
It’s more like the Democrats are playing Checkers, and the Republicans brought the glock and aren’t playing games.
Oh, no, they’re definitely playing games… Weird, oppressive, shitty ones, but definitely games. I mean, jeez, they just kinda collectively jumped the shark as an entity AWHILE back, I think we can all agree on that… (Not that the Dems are much better, obviously, but at least in general they aren’t ‘fuck feeding kids at school for free, they can work nights,’ comic book villain evil)
I’m not saying the Democrats are losing fights on purpose and pretending that they’re making an honorable sacrifice when really they’re just taking their take-a-dive money on the way out, but if they were, what would they do differently?
It’d be like going into modern warfare, standing in a straight line out in an open field, firing a single round of shots, then shouldering your weapons and waiting patiently for them to return fire. Platoon after platoon of soldiers are massacred by the other side, who are fighting dirty. The general keeps saying, ‘No fair, we’re getting slaughtered out there! But, once we’re all dead, people will realize that those other guys were being real assholes…then, who’s the real winner! Ha! Ok, boys, line up the next platoon and remember, don’t fire until you’ve reached the center of the field and for the love of God, only one shot each! …I mean, if any of the platoons ever eventually survive long enough to fire a shot. But, I’m feeling good about this next one! Charge! …I’ll just wait back here where it’s safe.”
Democrats playing chess while republicans are shitting on the board
Democrats taking a nap while republicans are shitting on the board.
The Republicans control all three branches of government.
The nap has been going on for decades.
This doesn’t change the fact that Republicans control all three branches of government right now.
Voters could have changed that, but they didn’t.
They were probably all protesting the sleepy Dems right? So they all got what they wanted right?
Spoken like someone who was satisfied with the Biden administration.
You know, he actually passed some of the most monumental legislation in decades, a lot of it with bipartisan support. But because we are not living on the starship enterprise here you are as usual shitting on everything and everyone.
You know, he actually passed some of the most monumental legislation in decades
He passed the IRA, which was a consolation prize for Democrats killing BBB. You might be satisfied with the same legislation that manchin was willing to vote for. I saw what Democrats killed. BBB never came to the floor for a vote. I’m sure you’re satisfied that minimum wage stayed low like you want it.
As for the “bipartisan support,” yeah, democrats voted for some republican legislation like the anti-trans defense bill.
But because we are not living on the starship enterprise here you are as usual shitting on everything and everyone.
“Don’t support genocide.” “Fucking progressives expect perfection.”
Apparently that’s a valid move, they won
I mean of course, because the game that’s actually going on is real life and not chess. If you saw a guy playing chess by himself in the park and a dude runs up and let loose on the board, who won? The guy who just lost twelve and a half pounds or the guy sitting in it saying “hmmm, the Dennis Prager gambit?”
Google “En Poosant”
Trump flips the board, pieces go everywhere and exclaims, “I win! I’m the best at Checkers!”
Honestly, it’s almost embarrassing. Democrats continue to fight using Queensberry whilst Trump et al are, again, acting with impunity. They’ve got to smell the coffee and take the gloves off.
Take the gloves off right now and do what?
Use harsh language? Encourage Democrats to engage in acts of violence?
I understand your frustration of feeling helpless while the tangerine terror fucks everything and everyone up, but without control of the house and/or senate, there isn’t that much they can do right now.
I think they need to be aggressive, publicly, with their highlighting of Trump’s “shortcomings”. Like billboards. Or interviews on TV. Or (ab)using privilege in the House. Etc. Just say stuff that’s true that they wouldn’t normally want to say. “Trump finger raped a woman”, “Putin’s lapdog”, “Pornstar fucker”, “Friend to pedophiles”.
In your face shit that’s inappropriate. Or was inappropriate until Trump changed the rules.
Just keep repeating it day after day, and like Trump, it’ll become part of the narrative through repetition.
This is the same playbook they’ve been using since Trump first appeared and it doesn’t work. People don’t care that much about Trump’s scandals, they need to focus on economic messaging. Besides, he’s ineligible to run again so they need to have a strategy aimed at countering the right more broadly, not just one specific person.
They first need to admit that running as corporatists, ignoring people who are suffering in this economy, and funding a far right genocide were wrong, and the genocide was a war crime that people should go to jail for. They will never admit to that stuff though, theyd sooner disolve the party.
Hard to do when conservatives have cornered the media market.
This is often my point. There’s a major problem with the statement “Democrats need to do something in the house”. And that problem is not with the second half of the sentence, but the first. “VOTERS needed to do something in the election.” America is not just the DNC no matter how much we love finding scapegoats.
Very very very tired of the circular logic used to blame them for losing an election to an imbecile, against promises two brain cells could have realized would never ever be delivered.
Everytime I ask a republican what it is that Trump is doing that will help with prices they say ‘wait and see!’ like he is going to pull some sort of magic trick.
Same “Oh there’s a plan, it’s just a long term one.”
I guess that makes sense, afterall, if he de-humanizes enough transpeople all our groceries will become free, that’s just logic! /sarcasm
He has concepts of a long-term plan.
Yeah imagine a plan to fix hyperinflation taking more than eight days to implement.
We did, that’s why we voted for the adult instead of the orange turd that claimed he could fix it in one day. So since we were obviously wrong, and it’s been what, weeks of one days, it seems fair to mention.
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Sounds a lot like “prayers and thoughts”. They are a faith based people after all.
“Now is not the time to talk about
gun violencehigh prices.”/s
For some reason the Republicans voters I know seem to think that their party is going to pass all the regulatory legislation that that Democrats were suggesting.
I just don’t understand them. How did they get this brainwashed? It’s not just frustrating. It’s depressing.
Democratic National Committee, don’t just stick to your old tired playbook of telling everyone that Trump is bad and doing the things he said he’d do. It didn’t work last time.
DNC, start immediately telling all Americans why this is wrong, what you will do different with the executive power, and keep up that messaging in a media blitz to win back all the working class voters who didn’t show up last time. Get a plan now for who you want to run on your ticket, and push them into the spotlight to advocate for us with progressive policies that help the working class. I’m a dreamer, but for the love of all things good, please let them be an actual progressive.
“We are the Democratic Party. Democrats are fighting for a better, fairer, and brighter future for every American: rolling up our sleeves, empowering grassroots voters, and organizing everywhere to build a better America.”
Really? Fucking prove it, then! Be the party of brawlers and stop maintaining “decorum”. MAGA is playing dirty because you’re weak and they know you won’t do shit. Fight for the working class like your mission statement alleges.
So tired of backsliding to the right on this tilted table.
If only they were listening…
I mean, it’s pretty hard for them to do much when they never seem to have both houses of Congress.
“Decorum”, the most dangeorus word in American Paulaticks
Call him a liar. To his face. To his subordinates. To his mother. To his cousins. Keep calling him a liar until he understands he is the Dishonest Don.
Reminder: Kamala’s plan was to pass anti-price fixing legislation that we’re not getting now
But but but I was told kamala was exactly the same!
What’s with the fucking eggs, why does everyone focus on fucking eggs. There’s more food than God damn eggs for fucks sake
Speak for yourself heathen.
I eat eggs.
I would rather starve than eat something other then eggs.
Meat? Gross. Vegetables? Ick. Sugar? Fuck off.
Eggs. Just eggs.
I hope they lock your egg loving ass up!
Don’t egg me on man
Eggcellent
I find puns to be eggregious
eggscuse me?
I have an eggumenical attachment.
Never figured my rage induced post would spurr such eggceptional responses
You’ll just have to learn to eggcept that people love eggs
Just guessing, but eggs are a major staple in the average American diet that don’t have a whole lot of comparable alternatives like grain or milk. So when there’s a shortage or prices go up, people don’t have something to replace it with so it’s more apparent that they’re missing out on something and that gets attention.
They are particularly high right now due to non economic reasons (disease).
Everything is particularly high right now due to non-economic reason: oligopoly and greed.
Authoritarian reasons: thousands of businesses forcibly shut down a few years ago, leading to massive market consolidation, leading to less competition, leading to the greed being unchecked.
Greed didn’t recently appear on the scene. Attributing the inflation to greed is like attributing Ukraine war deaths to gunpowder.
It’s a staple used in a fuckton of recipes in addition to being a go-to breakfast item. Many Americans stupidly ignore politics, but still pay a lot of attention to the prices of common goods like milk, eggs, bread, gasoline, etc. Folks are living hand to mouth because the billionaires hoard all the money.
Reminds me of the Republicans with the “raw milk”.
I wish they’d drink all the raw milk they can get their hands on.
Eggs used to be people’s go-to for cheap animal protein
If anyone actually thought that piece of shit trump was going to do anything about grocery prices, they are fucking fools.
And I fully understand that this letter is just theater. Stupid, shitty, ineffective theater.
Fuck this whole fucking piece of shit grift called a government.
Looks like Trump is way ahead of you since he asked everyone to resign or be fired later.
He should be physically slammed to the concrete floor multiple times
When I read talking points like this, I think about: Who would they convince? I don’t think many people honestly believe Democrats had a capable plan to fix these grocery prices in the first month of a Kamala presidency. Yes, Trump over-promised, and unfortunately, that was probably the right tactic.
I’m still not absolving voters for falling for such snake oil though. Sometimes when grandma clicks the “You have a virus” prompt for the 400th time you have to start blaming her.
Actually, the last important bit to me is who exactly is saying this. Recalling from memory, Elizabeth Warren once put forward a suggestion to require that 40% of a company’s board be voted in by employees. It’s very possible that with a less corrupt, profit-seeking corporate landscape we wouldn’t be in this situation. So even more than Kamala she may have credit to blame others for such things.
Did Kamala/Democrats promise to fix the food prices? Followed your election and don’t recall them saying that, it is possible I could have missed it
The reason Kamala lost is because nobody in the Democratic National Committee thought to say “We will raise your wages and break up the monopolies raising prices at the grocery store and the pump”
Because the main DNC campaign donors are Billionaires and Lobbies, and well, see, that would eat into corporate profits. The Republican Billionaires however are very very happy to lie to get exactly what they want. So Trump won. Because, and I don’t say this lightly, 30% of Americans are greedy gullible morons. And our political system is so broken due to vote suppression and the ignorant fact that population center votes count for less than rural ones.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/politics/restrictive-voting-laws-brennan-report/index.html
https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-voter-suppression-in-2020
Just do the same thing they did. Print stickers of Trump saying ‘I did this’ pointing to high prices of things like eggs.
It’s crazy to see “price of eggs!” as a talking point appear on every major broadcaster a month before the election as the defacto rubric for economic strength. Then trillions invested in Western based AI gets obliterated within a week of the new administration taking office.
Well since 50% of Americans don’t own stocks and 93% is owned by the top 10%, eggs definitely affect the average person more.
A factory worker may not own a single share of stock and still rationally express concerned when the firm’s stock price plummets.
The enormous upfront investment of capital in a rapidly outdated administration model should be extremely alarming to individuals whose employment is predicated on the output of that model.
Are you trying to say that people being fired from Nvidia is more important than egg prices? Maybe let me check how many employees they have. Seems to be about 30k. Idk man comparing human experiences at this scale gets pretty sticky. Maybe it’s just confirmation bias, but egg prices and by extension grocery prices are probably more important to the average person. Infact they even affect Nvidia employees that are fired.
Are you trying to say that people being fired from Nvidia is more important than egg prices?
People from Nvidia, from Facebook, from Microsoft, from all the attendant businesses surrounding those firms.
Compound this with the consequences of money invested into AI at both the private and public levels that was supposed to supplement neglected spending in basic science R&D on the ground that AI could do R&D better (because it’s God? Idk)
So there’s a knock on effect to egg prices, given that the egg shortage is driven by Bird Flu and we’re neglecting Bird Flu to build AI God.
I wanted to do this but I gotta figure out how to print my own because the prices I’ve been seeing on those are ludicrous for stickers.
S L A M
So fucking do something about it, Democrat dipshits
Did you forget that the Republicans have control of all three branches of government?
They can’t really do anything to a filibuster.
Coming through big time on some other day one shit though.
And just to be clear I mean all the bad shit.
