I call bullshit on this narrative when the other side of the equation is the guy screaming about tariffs on our largest trade partners.
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2024
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The other guy is fucking insane and his voters like it. Those people were never going to vote anything other than Republican and it makes no sense to bring them up in a conversation about Democrat failures.
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Biden called out supermarkets for price gouuging and got literally thousands of grocery prices lowered immediately afterward.
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gas is a commodity, it's price is based on opec oil production, whether we get oil from them or not, along with global demand, the seasons and severity of winters around the world, political bullshit on the other side of the world, and corporate greed.
if you want to lay blame on high prices in the u.s., blame yourselves first for your addiction to large, gas-guzzling vehicles (among other things)... then blame the oil companies, who produce more now than ever before and choose to export at higher prices than they can sell domestically (the u.s. actually exports more than we import).
egg prices have been affected by infected farms and loss of production, and compounded by corporate greed eyeballing opportunities to artificially inflate, and hold high, prices; and they'd rather write-off a culling than spend a dime on preventive measures such as lower density farms or vaccinations (you know how well that would play out with our far-right dominated media these days).
neither can really be controlled by congress or the president. neither is the democrat's fault. neither is biden or harris' fault.
I had this exact conversation several times with Americans while travelling for work in the USA.
Oil prices are up around the world and USA gas prices are actually really cheap compared to everywhere else.
In fact everything is pretty cheap compared to Europe and Australia.
But all they do is whinge and moan and blame Biden.
They have no friggen idea there's a whole wide world out there.
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neither can really be controlled by congress or the president. neither is the democrat’s fault. neither is biden or harris’ fault.
False. just straight up false. you literally straight up mentioned things to address some of the problems in your post. But besides that congress absolutely can pass laws that penalize companies for profiteering and then enforce them.
Pass a law making CEO/board members personally liable w/ jail time for a company's profiteering on food prices and watch what happens at even the wiff of a federal investigation.
Now tell me how many democrats supported bernie's windfall bill?
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Americans aren't educated enough to know the difference, so without more clever messaging, all these facts are written off as "educated people trying to show they are more superior than us".
Politics is a show of messagimg and failed promises and Dem's consultants and marketeers failed miserably at this.
Doesn't matter. You're right, but being right doesn't win elections.
The GOP claims they can fix it and that's all people hear and care about.
It's fucked up and sad, but true.
blame yourselves first for your addiction to large, gas-guzzling vehicles
nah blame the lobbying and abuse of regulations that maintains the status quo of car-reliant infrastructure
People want their bread and circuses
I mean that's kind of expected when you can't afford bread.
They'll definitely get a circus now.
Total clownocracy
In comparator say that because they don’t want to admit that democratic party is extremely shitty and not serving the people it was designed too.
It’s no surprise that these useless Talking Heads are lying out their ass just to try to save their jobs.
In comparator say that because they don’t want to admit that democratic party is extremely shitty and not serving the people it was designed too.
It's serving the people it was designed to. But not the ones it claims to.
I'm left leaning and can't stand the current democratic party. I'm never voting republican, but after the bernie bullshit to ram clinton in i'm under no illusion that the democrat party is for the people by any stretch. In another timeline where he was elected instead of trump we might have had some amazing outcomes from the pandemic. A real populist that seems to be anything but the corrupt status quo might have put politics on a more enlighened, less sensational smoke and mirrors path.
Hey look, another person getting the turnout question completely fucking wrong.
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Relative to 2020, turnout was UP in swing states.
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Trump led irregular/independant/politically disinterested voters by double digits.
A 100% turnout would not only not have changed the result, but probably would have produced an even larger Trump victory.
And also avoiding the fact they were rolling support behind the literal walking corpse of the status quo while people were demanding the status quo change.
The Democrats have become the party of complicity (good cop) while the Republicans move the agenda to where the government/those in power want it to be (bad cop).
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BUT THEY HAD TAYLOR SWIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And more importantly, Dick Cheney! Republicans voted for them in droves and Democrats didn't stay home in disgust!