Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices
Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices
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Trump Backtracks On Campaign Pledge To Bring Down Grocery Prices
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Donald Trump breaking a promise? Whatever will happen next?
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As a matter of fact, grocery store prices will likely become far worse because of his tariffs and deportation policies.
It’s always the opposite with this cotton-headed ninny-muggins.
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If only everyone had some warning that he lies a lot!
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Even if he weren't evil and a liar, it's proven he's an imbecile of the lowest order only a tier above his supporters.
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Right. Dingus probably has zero idea of not only how inflation works, but how the price gouging was being done by elites and being blamed on "inflation".
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I guarantee that the only promises Trump is going to keep are the ones that will reduce consumer projections, increase profits for corporations, and make the rich richer.
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Also, race-based oppression leading to mass slaughter with governmental backing.
Which is what Americans voted for. Because eggs are a bit expensive.
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And bring polio back to the US, because eggs are expensive.
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So, he's not even in office and already squirming out of his promise...
Did not even wait for his throne to be able to uphold he tried something.
Perhaps he'll say he had a concept of a plan but it was bad.
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where are those shifty italians when you need them?
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Yeah, no kidding.
Gonna have to get a soundboard app where I can load up that Samuel Jackson clip....anyone have good recommendations?
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You counteract inflation by making sure people’s wages also change to reflect the new value of the dollar. Which they haven’t.
Prices don’t come down unless you enter a period of deflation. And if you thought inflation sucked, deflation sucks even more. Especially for a nation of people who hold a lot of debt. As the value of current grows, so does the value of your debt. If you have debt, your debt burden increases.
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Oh look, the well-known con artist that you voted for in hopes that he would not con you has conned you! What a surprise!
Now we're all stuck with this scumbag. I hope you're all happy.
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so he's not president yet and already backing out of his election pledges... we can only hope it'll piss off his electorate, but it won't, they'll just get angrier at opponents
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I for one never saw this coming.
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but what will happen to that stupid old lady he keeps yapping about ... will she buy just two apples instead of three?? someone think of the imaginary old lady !!
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Now if Democrats were politically savvy, which they aren't, and could actually understand the average American, they'd be hammering this point about Republicans not bringing down prices until the next century.
That would require the help of the media, and we all know that's not going to happen.
Doesn’t really matter. Republican voters won’t hear it from any of their info sources.
The sad fact that we let a propoganda outlet fester for 3 decades without so much as even calling it out.
Yup. They are coddled in a media system that won't let them know any real facts.
So you're telling me the Democrats have a messaging problem?
Further propagating the misinformation that the President has any reasonably effective way to lower grocery prices? Nixon’s grocery price fixing was an unmitigated disaster. An Executive Order is the only tool in the President’s toolbox for controlling grocery prices without congressional legislation. Biden couldn’t lower prices in 2020, just as Trump can’t lower them in 2024.
POTUS is responsible for many important things. The price of a bottle of Coke is not one of them.
Presidents and administrations might not be able to dictate specific prices, but they can and do enact laws and regulations that influence or even define the economy. Trump's proposed tariffs are expected –not just by economists, but by markets, as seen after the election– to raise prices and, if they are enacted and result in the predicted outcome, fingers should be pointed at his Orangeness.
The Republicans have the House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and the Presidency. Trump can either lead his party to deliver for the American people, or he can't. If executive orders are all he can do, then he really is a failure.
As for the powers of the executive, he may not have any direct ability to dictate prices, but tariffs and antitrust are pretty significant tools. If Trump's FTC allows the Albertsons Kroger merger that Biden's FTC blocked, then we'll know he never intended to do anything about grocery prices.
Apart from the fact that he literally said he would, sure. Completely ignore all the claims made, and there’s no expectation that they would bring down grocery prices.
Of course that’s only if you ignore the things they said, with their mouths, while being recorded.
Yup, not politically savvy at all.
I kept asking all the ding-a-lings that were going on about the price of eggs and blaming Biden what exact mechanism Biden used to cause inflation, etc...
The problem is that Dems are beholden to the truth. They probably couldn't *bring down grocery prices either because it doesn't work like that, so they can't hold the other party to it either.
Iono.. after the NYT op-ed, does it matter? There's no bullhorn. I guess social media?