I was about to say…. I think those might be related.

next you’re gonna tell me the dollar is down ~10% year to date

Can’t believe Wharton hasn’t revoked his degree yet.

Losing ten pounds is likely a good idea for people like this.

As someone who lives in Canada:

We’ll fucking do it again too.

Project 2025 was a success, good job MAGAts the future is a lot clearer… Cleansed of intelligent life

You’re a genocide voter. You deserve the dictatute you wished for foreigners coward

Who enforces these laws he breaks? I think the wealthy having no laws has been the main problem in the United States for my entire lifetime. That and popular vote not meaning anything

Who’s to say this is a lie? The ministry of truth? /s

I understand your frustration, but he was an inveterate liar before he was elected the first time. So, at least a plurality of the voting public don’t see that as much of a negative.

When you own the news, or what morons think is news, so no one calls you out

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The US rule of law is gone. The trump regime violates the constitution daily, breaks laws daily, and has violated court rulings and judges’ orders. The supreme court is corrupt and has allowed him get away with anything. Nazis Republicans in congress are corrupt and refuse to check or limit the president’s power.

Masked men in plain clothes are kidnapping innocent people off the streets daily and denying them a lawyer or due process. They are literally terrorists.

Where tf do I collect my chocolate ration!?

I recognise that reference just so you know

Fucking coffee in canada is becoming exorbitant

North Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Pyongyang

The bombing of Pyongyang was conducted as part of a gradual and sustained United Nations Command aerial bombing of North Korea during the Korean War. The first bombing raid targeting Pyongyang occurred on June 29 1950, four days after North Korea’s invasion of South Korea. By the time of the armistice in July 1953, 75 percent of Pyongyang’s area had been destroyed.

Gotta remind me which major US city endured this kind of bombardment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s_North_Korean_famine

The famine stemmed from a variety of factors. Economic mismanagement and the loss of Soviet support caused food production and imports to decline rapidly. A series of floods and droughts exacerbated the crisis. The North Korean government and its centrally planned system proved too inflexible to effectively curtail the disaster. North Korea attempted to obtain aid and commercial opportunities, but failed to receive initial attention

Or which US states suffered from a combination of regional depression, natural disaster, and global embargo to justify the skyrocketing cost of food.

Yes, all of the nation is well fed. Uh huh. Sure

The difference between the US and NK is that in North Korea in the late 90s, there was quite literally not enough food to support the population.

The US doesn’t have that problem. We are in full on Grapes Of Wrath territory.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

It didn’t occur to me that they would be controlling him through AI videos but holy shit does that check out.

Coffee prices have also doubled or nearly doubled in most of Europe. So has cocoa. If climate change keeps hitting those crops they’re going to be unattainable luxuries soon enough.

Good luck to you all in the US, soon enough you’ll be back on pioneer diets.

I disagree that Americans don’t pay attention to prices. Americans paying attention to prices was one of the biggest reasons why Biden lost. Biden and Harris were claiming that they’d beat inflation, that the economy was great, that America was on the right track and Harris just needed to continue Biden’s policies - and Americans looked at their grocery bills and didn’t buy it.

And that’s what gives me a certain amount of hope in 2026. Because if people are going to bed hungry - and they will be - no amount of shitposting by Donnie and his cronies is going to convince them they’re full.

Are they sad and cult followers, or sad people who are following a cult?

I just want to be clear about this stuff.

Those were the days, when you could get a whole banana for ten bucks!