and now he's backpedaling.
Trump's already preparing the country for his failure to control grocery prices.
What a surprise.
His gullibles believed he'd bring down the price of eggs. But he lied! LOL!
Trump tells Time he's not sure he can get the price of groceries down:
"It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard."
Trump says his presidency won't be a failure if he can't lower grocery prices
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When You Know Who speaks it's time to start whistling Dixie cause whenever his mouth moves you kow he's lying.
Deflation isn't considered a "good thing" when it comes to Economics. It's a symptom of a "Depression".
It is always difficult to bring down prices but stabilizing them would be a win. During the current abomination everything possible was done to cause price increases from the insane push against petroleum, shutting down production by keeping people out of the workplace and throwing money at people to buy their votes and make him look like he is doing something.
I have noticed that people are more upbeat and smile, maybe not in Boston or Ohio but in mainstream America. There is even some hope in California which newsom is trying his best to destroy. Anything has to be better that what we have gone through the last four years. The good thing is biden kept harris from the chair because she made him look capable which was a hard task.
The magats will give Trump his usual pass on this. The male ones still believe their naughty bits will start getting bigger any day now cause they think Trump said so. Off topic here but the real menace of the day is Trump and his henchmen's plan to do away with bank regulations. Reagan had his savings and loan debacle which cost taxpayers billions in bail outs. Bush had his bank debacle as well, Not to be outdone, Trump has to have his only bigger.
He may have to put Matt Gaetz in charge of cabbage.
VP Harris had a plan, a well thought out economist backed plan (not a concept of a plan) that would have addressed the cost of groceries. She had a plan to address the habit of corporations taking advantage of pandemics and other natural disasters. And despite our resident troll's assertions that no one knew what she stood for, she talked about her plans a lot - in interviews and rallies.
But here's the thing. The traditional press is all up in arms about 'the economy (repeat until tired)' but that wasn't what drove the voters.
Hatred drove We The People. Hatred of the other. Hatred of minorities. Hatred of anything their preacher told them to hate, standing at their pulpits, blaspheming their Lord and Savior who ONLY spoke of love to the 'other'.
Of course #45 lied, that's what he does. Anyone who believed in what he said buried that small voice (it's your conscience) screaming he lies he lies in order to focus on punishing those they hate.
At least, that's the way I see it. Your milage may vary.
So Shaw... his statements during the campaign saying prices will come down quick, inflation will be gone, etc., etc. are all over the place.
He's also saying he now can't guarantee that his tariffs won't cause prices to rise in the United States, despite his and his minion's statements to the contrary.
Now, here's the deal... his statements were not simply one offs. He repeated them frequently, in different venues and interviews despite push back from Dems, the Harris campaign. It's hard to say he just got would up and was exaggerating his views or stretching the truth "in the moment."
So I have a straight up question for our conservatives... Was Trump wrong when he stated prices would come down, inflation would end, gas prices would drop and more?
Was he lying?
Or more likely was the guy you supported and voted for, Donald Trump, uninformed?
I think Trump's people were duped, pure and simple. And we're all going to be worse off because of it. The billionaires among us, like Musk who has seen his fortune rise from 200B to over 400B since the election, will be fine.
But us everyday folks? People living on the margins? The paycheck to paycheck ppl?
Not so much.
We'll see if -FJ, Joe Con or even Skud will answer my questions directly.
I'm not holding my breath.
More Americans voted AGAINST Trump than FOR him. He won less than 50% of the popular vote. You're looking ONLY at what agrees with your outlook. There are millions and millions and millions of Americans who despise the convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter/rapist and do not think we are entering a Golden Age of American Glory with that pile of garbage leading us.
"It is always difficult to bring down prices but stabilizing them would be a win." --skud
Oh, how generous of you to pre-empt Trump's failure to deliver on his biggest promise by saying it's hard work to do what he said he'd do.
There's no evidence of your EVER giving any grace to Joe Biden and the price of eggs when that was happening a year ago. But here you are, gladly giving excuses to a Liar, a Cheat, and a Fraud before he even tries to do what he PROMISED he'd do.
Nice work, skud. You are so transparent!
Only underage cabbage.
Skud... as for lockdowns to which you allude, Biden simply continued the policy of the Trump Admin. Why do you persist in solely placing blame on Biden when the Trump Admin, correctly IMO, ordered the lockdowns? Which for the most part were ended early in the Biden Admin.
As for inflation, if you believe government handouts caused inflation to spike in the US, are you aware that the Trump Admin authorized the first two stimulus payments, one in March 2020 and the other in December 2020?
Biden put in place one plan, a 1.2 trillion plan that included much of the Trump promised infrastructure, more direct payments to US citizens and additional health spending.
Other countries authorized no stimulus spending for their citizens like the US did. Yet they too saw inflation spike. The US spike was lower, despite the stimulus actions by both the Trump and Biden Admins.
Skud, how do you explain why our spike was lower and we've seen a faster recovery from inflation than any other country in the world? And how do you explain inflation in other countries, despite them offering no economic stimulus, which seems in your view to be the cause of our inflation?
I'll await your non answers, snark and deflection.
This is how authoritarian regimes gain power. Give promises to the gullibles, then don't deliver. What are Trump's cultists going to do? Unvote him?
I wonder if skudrunner believes Trump's many, many promises to lower grocery and gas prices while campaigning and then walking it back counts as unforgiveable as the "lie" skud continues to remind us about Obama and "you can keep your doctor" on the ACA?
IMO, skud looks only at misspeaks and errors and lies that Dems produce, but I've never read his take on what Trump or any other Conservative/Trumper liar says.
This is why it is difficult to take his criticisms of the Dems seriously.
Classic hypocrisy runs deep with skud and MAGA sheeple like -FJ and Joe Conservative and et all.
I guess Trump didn't have a concept of a plan to lower grocery prices. He just has concepts of lies.
Anon... they're not concepts of lies, they're actual lies!
Is Skud so willfully ignorant, gullible, and duped that he has NO idea that "the insane push against petroleum, shutting down production by keeping people out of the workplace and throwing money at people to buy their votes and make him look like he is doing something" was ALL DONE BY TRUMP?
OR, is he just another goddamn LIAR?
I suspect it is all of the above.
Ms. The operative word is Won. The other candidate spent over one billion dollars and lost can you imagine what she would do to the US economy. Trump was not a good choice for president it is just the alternative was worse. Biden was a seat sitter, even he said that early on, and the decisions he made were all about identity politics and special interest groups. IMHO his decision to give rich kids free tuition and not extend that to trade students was a big failure and shows he only cares about his rich supporters. I don't believe anything any politician says because they only look after their own self interests and that doesn't matter what party the belong to.
Now that he gave a pardon to a felon I guess the stage is set for trump to pardon felons at will. Classic hypocrisy runs deep and Les says.
I had a list of #45's coconspirators but why? I was comparing apples to apples but again, why? You don't argue in good faith so yeah, you say what you say but it just sounds like the wind whistling through your brain so nope, I won't engage.
For the record, EVERY act passed by the Biden admin, every plan to spend dollars on the American people was not driven by partisan politics. If that were so We The People would be seeing those monies spent only on areas that voted Biden. And that's not what happened. Factories with good paying jobs broke ground in states where #45 won. Biden didn't put his name on the projects because A. That's not who Biden is - disagree with his policies all you want but the man served the American people. Period. Full stop. and B. Infrastructure aka highways and bridges belong to the American people not a specific demographic. While you 'know' both of my points your brain refuses to acknowledge them because then you'd have to address the huge elephant in the room, and you can't do that. You just blame the Democratic party for all the poop.
The Reification of changing and expired beliefs is often the cons natural tendency. Has been the tendency, and will likely continue to be the tendency for many years to come.
Skud: "the decisions he made were all about identity politics and special interest groups."
Pure bullshit, as Grey One makes abundantly clear. What is WRONG with him?
And: "Now that he gave a pardon to a felon I guess the stage is set for trump to pardon felons at will. Classic hypocrisy runs deep and Les says. and Les says."
JFC! Is Skud so stupid he doesn't know that only felons get pardoned, like all the cronies Trump pardoned and plans to pardon?
Indeed, we know part of what is WRONG with Skud. Classic hypocrisy runs deep. Or he needs a brain MRI. Something is missing or short circuiting between his ears.
Grey stated... "...you 'know' both of my points your brain refuses to acknowledge them because then you'd have to address the huge elephant in the room..."
Isn't this the real deep down hard to get at issue?
The MAGA folks who felt Obama was unqualified because he used the words "me, mine and I" too frequently and that showed his narcissism, now have no problem with Trump and his thin skin. The folks like Skud who live on one specific lie from Obama about health care, for some reason never see any lie from Trump as disqualifying or as damningly worthy of his snark. The folks who argue that Biden was a special interest guy refuse to acknowledge that his stimulus plan put so much money and development in GOP controlled areas that MAGA candidates are running on how good those projects are and taking credit for them.
Honesty and intellectual rigor brings too much butt hurt to a lot of those folks.
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