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.
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.
Mitch McConnall was able to block damn near everything Obama tried to do, and he was one senator.
Democrats are weak on purpose, though, since they are paid by wealthy elites specifically to not be left wing. Until they all stop taking all corporate money, we will be stuck in the same “ratchet effect” situation that we’ve been in until something finally breaks and the government is dissolved one way or the other for some reason (military coup, violent revolution, etc.)
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?
Hell, you don’t even need to get that conspiratorial.
There are two possible options. The Democrats are either corrupt, or stupid. Both are a disqualifier for giving them power.
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.
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.
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.
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’d say the Democrats are trying to play Chess while the Republicans are playing Dodgeball.
I’d say at this point that the Democrats are bringing a chessboard to a gunfight. They decided that knives were too uncouth.
“Well, you see, according to parliamentary procedure bearing weapons is HIGHLY frowned upon, as it turns out. Quite beastly, indeed.”
“What about the assault rifles they all came equipped with?”
“Oh, yes,” attempts to look around room through glasses with 12 foot thick lenses; fails, but pretends to know what’s going on anyway, “Well, we’ll certainly be doing something about THAT! You mark my words.”
“Fucking finally! Are we gonna charge them with sedition? Treason? Ooohhh, terrorism? There’s so many choices I-”
“My aides have already begun drafting a semi-official non-binding statement condemning the disgraceful rapscallions and urging them to seek greater bipartisan cooperation and unity.”
“Rapsc- ? Unity? Da fuq? CALL THE COPS, MAGOO, WHILE WE STILL HAVE-”
“I assure you, it’s quite strongly worded. Oh, he’ll definitely be feeling the sting of our retribution soon… ish. Tomorrow maybe.”
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.”