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Democrats slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I mean, it's pretty hard for them to do much when they never seem to have both houses of Congress.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Democrats playing chess while republicans are shitting on the board

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Democrats taking a nap while republicans are shitting on the board.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Apparently that's a valid move, they won

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Google "En Poosant"

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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?"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

That's gotta be one of the most hilariously and depressingly accurate descriptions of the situation I've seen

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Trump flips the board, pieces go everywhere and exclaims, "I win! I'm the best at Checkers!"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And cutting energy costs will rid poultry farms of bid flu how exactly?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The con man who sells shoes, NFTs, launched a meme coin and bankrupted a casino was never going to lower prices on anything. Fools got played!

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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!)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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"

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Hard to do when conservatives have cornered the media market.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Does anyone else have "Slam" on their BINGO card? That's my free space.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Coming through big time on some other day one shit though.

And just to be clear I mean all the bad shit.

[–] [email protected] 189 points 1 month ago (5 children)

How much slamming will it take to stop the full-tilt fascism train? Are we almost there yet?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

slamming alone is not enough i’m afraid. they also need to “rip” and “jab” them