Any economist who doesn’t say that should be stripped of their economist regalia and drummed out for being a liar and a shill.

Honestly, it’s some of my family I’m most disappointed in.

In prior years they started vegetable gardens because they supposedly couldn’t afford to buy fresh produce from the store due to “Bidenflation”, but suddenly this year, they didn’t bother even though prices on produce and so many other essentials are higher than ever.

I had written a long comment, honestly way too long, and then realized that one anecdote perfectly demonstrates how ridiculous it is. These are folks that spent years blaming Biden for post-covid, worldwide inflation and every single time some random thing got expensive like when eggs spiked last year. Then, late January 2025 rolls around and suddenly not a peep since. Any attempt to discuss the topic, or draw attention to the fact that this time around the spike in food prices and general inflation are largely and directly a result of Trump and his administration, the story changes to “the president doesn’t control grocery prices.”

And I know they’re feeling it, that the reality of the situation is affecting them. But I guess I had held out hope that they were better than this.

Sorry Americans, I was kinda hoping it would be a lot worse than this.

Back in April I was saying that the only thing that could unseat Trump was republicans starting to lose lots of money.

Sadly it seems that Trump has managed to make everyone just fucked enough to harvest everyone’s wealth, but not fucked enough to do anything about it.

I already can’t afford a lot of things. I’m not ready for this.