cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/107526
Democrats on the congressional Joint Economic Committee released a report Thursday detailing how much more the average American family in every US state is having to spend monthly to cover the rising costs of food, shelter, energy, and other necessities under the leadership of President Donald Trump. The panel released its report on the same day the Trump administration was supposed to…
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Deploying the same methodology that Republicans used to track cost increases under former President Joe Biden, JEC Democrats found that the average US family is spending roughly $700 more per month on basic items since Trump took office in January, pledging to bring prices “way down.”
Smart to use their methodology. That way they can’t call it flawed. Well they can but they’ll sound stupid
That way they can’t call it flawed.
So cute that you think this!
Well they can but they’ll sound stupid
I wish this mattered to them. It hasn’t stopped them so far lol.
So.
Much.
Winning.
You forgot that half of these families are libs. Owned them!
$700 more PER MONTH? Where do people take the money from?
Credit card bankruptcies are climbing.
Mostly people accumulate debt in the US.
The same place Uber drivers get it from: their existing assets by way of unreturned value, resulting in ever decreasing net worth and increased debt.
…and people wonder why no one has hobbies anymore
That feels about right.
I voted Trump because I trust him with the economy over that woman.
Average Trump voter would be cold, hungry, and sleeping in a gutter and still not admit they made a mistake.
This quote has stayed with me for years now:
“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”
Your face is delicious.
- leopard
I’m not understanding you Toile Tob Server.
People in this thread are not picking up on the sarcasm here…
Kind of a trend on lemmy, I’m noticing…
Which is weird, because with Lemmy’s small community, all it took was a glance at the username for me to go, “Oh, I know SatansMaggotyCumFart, they’re cool. Which means that comment was definitely sarcasm.”
I have a box of /s’s, going cheap…
I downvoted you because your blatant sarcasm wasn’t punctuated with a “/s”, so there was a 0.007% chance you were being sincere.
How is it blatant sarcasm when it’s literally what magas say?
Context maybe, and a bit of critical thinking?
Look at the subject of the thread, and look at what they said. It’s clearly not something a MAGA on Lemmy would post in response to a news article critical of Trump, but a parody of what a MAGA would have said that led to the situation being described by the article.
But shit, for whatever reason people on Lemmy see a few downvotes, immediately take that as evidence that it’s a serious comment, and don’t give it a second thought. It’s all over the place here.
/s is cheap and avoids any confusion.
It’s clearly not something a MAGA on Lemmy would post in response to a news article critical of Trump
I see you’ve not met my uncle.
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Someone is wining, but it ain’t you.
That’s a lot of money.
I mean that’s about 12k pre tax to afford the 8.4k increase in costs. 18% of the median income in just increases, not total costs!
How are most people able to swing that if the median income is 66k ?
So you know how there’s the story of the underage girl prostituting herself to a congressperson for money for braces?
Exploitation. That’s how people are intended, nay, expected, to ‘swing it.’
Invading Venezuela, giving cash to Argentina and golfing are the top priorities. I hope the Red Oblasts get hit the hardest.
Like Iraq, like Libya, like Syria, invading Venezuela has bipartisan support. The most you see from the dems are technical nitpicks about the way Trump is pursuing hostilities. Not one said “we should end the blockade and resume trade with Venezuela”.
No kidding.
The important thing is Israel still gets billions of dollars every year.
But I need two Rivians! I’m not sharing with Caitlin!
Yeah but how much are eggs?
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Can I wait till after Q3 earnings are in? Ubisoft gave me a chub.
I’ve noticed
Inflation is lower than it’s ever been. Gas Is nearing 1.80 per gallon. Thanks giving will be 25% cheaper. Fake news media
Guys im quite confident this is sarcasm
We are in a new age of disinformation and crazy people, where the president of the US literally responds to protests against him with AI videos of him shitting on all of them, and where every sarcasm post needs an /s.
this really must be terrible for the collective american psyche
what a weird timeline we’re in, apparently harambe really did tie it all together?
It doesn’t really read like sarcasm when it’s making the same points maga is making tho.
If it isn’t sarcasm, the poster hasn’t been in a grocery or clothing store in months. Or gas station. But I actually heard Trump say something like “what inflation, there IS NO inflation” in an interview.
Yeah I just literally typed what trump said, paraphrasing
