Wondering how much more of my life I’m going to have to live watching our society become less stable every single time Republicans gain control before Americans put 2 and 2 together.
Based on the last 10 years, I’m assuming it just isn’t going to happen.
based on 45 years you are likely correct.
They also jack up their local prices based on need.
When the flood hit Texas, a 5gal water cost 17$.
Two weeks later, back to the normal price of 7.99$
$7.99 for water is ridiculous. Humans literally need it to survive. It should be free.
Like healthcare too, perhaps?
Or, say, housing?
Yeah but then the liberal freeloaders won’t have incentive to work /s
I just can’t accept that employee owned grocery stores like WinCo are somehow keeping prices down but big grocery stores like Kroger are just skyrocketing.
Prices on many items are literally 200% the cost of the same exact item at WinCo.
They don’t pay their employees more so where is that extra 100% profit going?
Employee owned stores have a massive competitive advantage over corporate owned stores.
They have no shareholders.
Corporate stores need to show consistent growth in profits, not simply consistent profits.
Employee owned stores can at least get by without making more profits year after year, as long as they make enough to pay themselves and keep up with maintenance.
Employee owned stores can even get by with exact 0 profits, since the employees would’ve already gotten their fair share in the form of their salary.
Cool I’ll just shop literally anywhere the fuck else.
Yeah because all the other stores don’t have the same problems… 👌
Lol😂 like I’m gonna shop at anything other than a family owned, mom and pop shop.
If I could I’d stop buying anything at all but that’s a bit unrealistic.
There is a local organic grocery store a block away that I’ve stopped at for basics here and there and nothing else really due to it being more expensive, but their prices haven’t changed so now it has become the cheaper option for most things. Check out your local organic grocery stores.
Yeah it’s also like this is an entirely manufactured thing.
M&Ms used to be pretty expensive but their prices haven’t risen as much as the grocery stores have and now they are comparable. Sill a bit more expensive, but the quality is way better.
Oh they want to price gouge now that everyone is excited for the radioactive shrimp
fascists will blame it on biden and mexicans, and stained-wifebeater-wearing bumpkin yokel walmart shoppers will be parroting it before the fox news ticker even scrolls to the end of the sentence
AND they’ll continue to shop there
Maybe. But not everyone who voted for Trump is a fascist. There are enough voters on the edge who really did vote for lowered cost of living, after four years of everything getting more and more expensive under Biden. Those voters can be won over, and this is really going to slap them in the face.
There are enough voters on the edge who really did vote for lowered cost of living. . . and this is really going to slap them in the face.
Honestly, I hope it rips their fucking faces off. Trump showed who he was during his first term, and it took a “fuck everyone else, gimme what I want” mentality to vote in favor of his second term. As a consequence, U.S. democracy is effectively over and everyone is much worse off for it. The leopards have been feasting, and it’s about to get much, much worse.
Trump showed who he was during his first term
And his entire life has shown his complete and utter fucking ineptitude when it comes to handling money. The only reason he has a cent is because he’s been propped up his entire life… and now he’s been given unfettered access to empty the US Treasury into his own pockets.
Maybe. But not everyone who voted for Trump is a fascist
Maybe in 2016. But there’s no excuse for 2024.
If you see a table with 9 Nazis, and you go sit with them, then you’ve got a table with 10 Nazis.
The problem is that a lot of people really are ignorant and gullible enough to not realize that the other nine people are Nazis.
This doesn’t make the effect of their actions any less bad. Not knowing that you’re helping fascists doesn’t make what you’re doing any less fascist. But it does matter when it comes to assessing who those people are, and how reachable they are.
Reaching out to fascists is pointless. They know what they’re doing and they’re going to keep on doing it. But a lot of people make the mistake of thinking this means it’s also pointless to reach out to anyone who has ever been duped by fascists. And that’s an attitude that very quickly leaves you on a shrinking island with fewer and fewer friends.
This is the trolley problem all over again. Do you want to do the most good, or do you want to avoid anything that makes you feel icky?
Progressives in America need every ally they can get. Whether that’s to win the next election, or to win the civil war, numbers still matter. You’re not going to get those allies without reaching out to some groups of people that you don’t personally like or respect, and one of those groups is the gullible idiots in the middle who have been swayed by false promises.
Telling yourself that every person who’s ever voted for Trump is a lost cause just leaves you with fewer people you can call on. It’s not a winning strategy. This isn’t about being nice, it’s not about forgiveness and kindness; it’s about doing what it takes to get your country back, before its too late. Even if that makes you feel icky, or forces you to swallow your pride and make nice with people you don’t respect or like.
I’ll keep from getting shit all over myself by not swimming with the assholes who keep shitting in the pool even after being shown where the toilet is. If you want to forgive and befriend the people who want nothing more than to punch you in the balls go right ahead.
No, the people you’re talking about aren’t the people I’m talking about, and the fact that you can’t figure out the difference perfectly illustrates my point.
There are people who hate us, and there are people are genuinely just misguided. If you can’t figure out the difference you’re going to throw away potential allies at a time when you could not possibly need them more.
There are lines of morality that can’t be crossed.
There’s nothing moral about allowing your country to fall into fascism because you couldn’t swallow your pride.
voters on the edge who really did vote for lowered cost of living, after four years of everything getting more and more expensive under Biden
I love how, with no ability figure out things like “inflation”, or “pandemic killing supply chains means even more inflation”, they’re left with “Brandon took mah terlet papar”.
I lump the “it’s Joe’s fault because we weren’t told by Trump any other ideas” people in with the rest of 'em. They test-drove the circus once already so they knew better.
Then those people were fucking idiots. Things were shit under Trump 1.0 with the inflation starting under him, it continued with Biden who was trying to keep an economy from collapsing after the Trump idiocy with a pandemic, so brought back in Trump 2.0 to finish the job of wrecking the economy.
Yes, we all agree they’re idiots. That’s old news.
Yet we have people that seems to defend these people like they’re not.
I don’t have a lot of hope of “winning people over”, it might come from living in a red state where people keep voting for the party that fucks them over, they get mad when they get fucked over, then they vote for the party that promises to take away the lube.
Saying they’re idiots instead of fascists really isn’t defending them. They’re stupid people who keep getting duped by conmen, largely because those conmen have captured the media and education systems in their states to keep them stupid and gullible.
It’s about recognizing that things aren’t as black and white as they’re portrayed, and having some compassion for people who are literally brainwashed by a cult.
Attacking them by calling them fascists will only serve to dig their heels in deeper by establishing yourself as the enemy, like their brainwashing tells them.
Oh I’ve done the compassion front right up until the last election. I talked just like this on “No, we need to meet halfway.”
After enough “I did it to own the libs” I’ve learned my lesson.
They are useful idiots, an important aspect of a fascist regime.
They are fascists.
Yes. They were ignorant, and stupid, and poorly informed.
Where does that get you? Does writing them off instead of reaching out to them make the world better?
If elections still matter, you need them to win the next election. If elections don’t matter, you need them to overthrow the tyrants. Either way, you need them. You need every single person you can win to your cause. Even the idiots.
You don’t get to work with only people who meet your standards for intelligence, capability, and moral purity. You’re not going to fix the world hanging out in your little “Smarts only” club with the ten other people you deign to associate with.
Where does that get you? Does writing them off instead of reaching out to them make the world better?
I’ll tell you where working with them, trying to understand them, trying to help them see how the different parties have direct affect on their lives has gotten me. I’ve got to have the ability to talk republican because I work in blue collar jobs, yet I’ve tried so very hard to show how it directly affects their lives and being compassionate.
It’s gotten me them proudly coming in and crowing they voted Republican, keeping to their sports teams, and the people who hate the republicans telling me “I just really don’t care about politics.”
So where does me writing them off get me? Finally understanding I CANNOT get to them, and my life has been a process of teaching a pig to sing. It wastes my time and annoys the pig.
It’s not my job nor my responsibility to seek out these people fix others stupid.
They are free to reach out but they need to extend the olive branch.
There are too many cultists to weed through to find the one person who is genuinely confused but is somehow unable to navigate their own way out.
It’s not my job nor my responsibility
Then why do you care?
If they want to fix this, they should put a “Trump did that!” sticker by the new prices.
In case anyone was interested in where to find such stickers … (Scroll about halfway down if you don’t wanna enjoy the ride to find this one specifically) https://www.equalityink.com/product-page/trump-i-did-that-big-sticker-pack-100-pcs
Nice! Is MAGA happening yet?
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I don’t advocate stealing in general but if it’s Walmart and you’re not using violence against the employees I ain’t mad atcha
“Eat the tariffs” - As if companies like Walmart would love to make less profits just to please politics. Heck, they usually pay politicians to help them make more profits!
Are we getting close enough yet to the hyperinflation stage of Nazi Germany for experts to consider this an issue?
That was the Weimar Republic.
Not quite yet, but as Trump increases his grip on the Federal Reserve, which should reach a tipping point when he appoints a new Chairman in May of 2026, you can bet 100% that monetary policy will hyperinflation on a level never before seen in the U.S… Expect >50% annual inflation level.
I know this is Counter intuitive but how can I make money off of this?
Buy real assets like gold and silver. There is a reason why they are near their all-time highs, and the general public hasn’t piled in yet. The current bull run has been largely driven by central bank purchases. When the shit hits the fan there will be exponential growth.
Yippee!!! 50% increase! So you’re saying I should buy all the bread and eggs right now, store them until May of next year, and then I’ll be a billionaire, too???
Me in December: this place smells like shit…
Bread and eggs, no.
Beans and rice… probably.
Everyone’s gonna have beans and rice. I’m gonna be the only one with bread and eggs. And unlike beans and rice, when I need some more, I can plant them and grow more eggs and bread.
And flour. And a bread-maker.
A better strategy is to buy real assets like gold and silver, which not only hold their value with inflation, but generally tend to explode in price as people wake up and pile in.
Gold and silver are expensive compared to bread and eggs. You’re just jealous because I came up with the plan first!
In much the same way iron is heavier than feathers!
yes the bread and eggs plan is far superior that’s for sure
When people “wake up” and trade their paper for shiny metals with no real inherent value beyond maybe industrial uses.
Shiny metals have had value to men for the entirety of recorded history and across societies, perhaps originating in their desirability for jewelry, for which they are still in significant demand today. They have been used as money more or less since the advent of money.
You people have been saying this for 100 years. It’s gonna be true aaaaaany day now…
It was true during the Great Depression and the Weimer Republic. I think Trump’s profile would neatly slot into both of their shapes, if we are to predict the future.
There never was a hyperinflation in Nazi Germany. You are thinking about early 1920s Germany.
I worded my comment poorly. I’m including the rise of the Nazi party as a stage of Nazi Germany. I find the reaction to hyperinflation just as integral as the Beer Hall Putsch (which I often compare to J6) to the existence of Nazi Germany.
I think Trumpler is trying to check all the same boxes and isn’t particular about the order.
One of the only things he has seriously studied in life is Nazism. He has always had an unquestionable fascination with Hitler. I wish I was making this up.
So yeah, it would not surprise me if he and his cabinet are ticking off an all too familiar checklist.
The Walmart in my town is weird as fuck because it barely has any food in it. Like MAYBE 10% of their floorspace is foodstuffs. And it used to be okay because there was an employee-owned grocery store in town. Well, that grocery store chain apparently got bought out recently, and not only are they raising their prices faster than Walmart, they also can’t keep the shelves stocked because the people doing the ordering don’t work in the stores. I’m actually thinking I might have to start driving an hour to the nearest WinCo if prices keep skyrocketing like this.
Walmart used not sell food. That’s fairly new.
Yeah, I get that. This one store has remained in its early-2000s renovation layout while all the other nearby locations of its size went the opposite direction and became Neighborhood Markets and only sell food. That’s what has me baffled by it.
Interesting.
What do they mean “on a week to week basis”? We’ve been shown, based on their television adverts in the last decade, that the little yellow price ball does that all the time. Were those commercials fake news?! /s
Hey! wanna play a fun game? find a few items in walmart and take note of their price, then take note of the new tariff price, now the fun part, after the tariffs are over see if the price goes back to the pre tariff price (be fair adjust for inflation) .
Spoiler if the items still sell at the tariff price they will only go down a fraction of the tariff increase.
