1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

what next? beef from Albania? do they even have cows?

19 minutes ago, Okie State said:

Also, as usual, the FUCKING CAUSE of the price increases FUCKING MATTERS. So sick of this shit.

You know that’s a step too far with these people. As long as they can point to dear leader in a positive light on first glance, that’s all they need.

Zero critical thinking and zero nuance to anything. Just a bunch of cavemen reposting garbage and misinformation that gets routed to the next caveman's algorithm so they can also post it.

29 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

My old shop teacher posted this version. So… prices kept going up? Is this a psyop to get them posting anti-Trump material?

Ok so they are both failures. Congrats on failing.

One of them won an election by saying he’d bring down prices on everything on day one.

1 minute ago, 4th&Five said:

One of them won an election by saying he’d bring down prices on everything on day one.

And one was a worldwide phenomenon to be managed and the other was a crisis entirely of his own making and design.

But the point still stands. Congrats on demonstrating your guy is also a failure.

3 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

And one was a worldwide phenomenon to be managed and the other was a crisis entirely of his own making and design.

But the point still stands. Congrats on demonstrating your guy is also a failure.

and really isn't capable of fixing what the other guy did, either.

1 hour ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

lol, 4 years of data against 1.5 is certainly a look. also, the only thing that went down was eggs. thank jeebus

Well the price of eggs was talked about so much in 2024, it was clearly issue #1

That's true. I've saved like $5/month on eggs. So that's good.

Also, Biden took office during Covid and was President for the years after. He took the hit for all of it, including the inflation that everyone knew would happen. Trump ran on the economy and lowering prices on day one, and then promptly destroyed the economy and did multiple things that made everything more expensive. Like, just his doing. One person. The one person who promised to fix everything on day one, because of course he did because he's a fucking conman.

16 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

lol, 4 years of data against 1.5 is certainly a look. also, the only thing that went down was eggs. thank jeebus

That graphic would be a decent test to determine who to sterilize. If you buy into that graphic please kill yourself.

15 hours ago, Red Five said:

Also, Biden took office during Covid and was President for the years after. He took the hit for all of it, including the inflation that everyone knew would happen. Trump ran on the economy and lowering prices on day one, and then promptly destroyed the economy and did multiple things that made everything more expensive. Like, just his doing. One person. The one person who promised to fix everything on day one, because of course he did because he's a fucking conman.

Yeah, he failed to deliver on making everything cheaper, but at least he ended the war between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office, right?

1 hour ago, gernblansten said:

Yeah, he failed to deliver on making everything cheaper, but at least he ended the war between Russia and Ukraine within 24 hours of taking office, right?

Not only did he fail to make everything cheaper, he basically immediately started calling it a hoax. The thing he ran on. A hoax. He also said that he likes the high inflation, and yet somehow his approval numbers didn't drop to 0% the next day.

Just now, Red Five said:

Not only did he fail to make everything cheaper, he basically immediately started calling it a hoax. The thing he ran on. A hoax. He also said that he likes the high inflation, and yet somehow his approval numbers didn't drop to 0% the next day.

because 100% of the people that needed to hear it either didn't or don't care. that's the whole problem. we might not be able to do much about the latter, but we start fixing the former

• 
• Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

(Politico ) - The Trump administration is preparing a plan to ban exports of diesel for 90 days, despite splits inside the administration and with the oil industry, in a bid to bring down energy prices ..

@politico.com #ExportBan ⛽️

www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

• 5:01 PM · Sep 23, 2026

everything but the right thing. that should be the tagline for this regime for eons

Edited September 23Sep 23 by Longhorn_Fan68

You can always count on this admin to fuck it up. Doesn't matter what 'it' is.

On 9/21/2026 at 8:28 PM, Red Five said:

Also, Biden took office during Covid and was President for the years after. He took the hit for all of it, including the inflation that everyone knew would happen. Trump ran on the economy and lowering prices on day one, and then promptly destroyed the economy and did multiple things that made everything more expensive. Like, just his doing. One person. The one person who promised to fix everything on day one, because of course he did because he's a fucking conman.

Look, Trump is the worst, but Trump didn't dump close to $4 trillion dollars into an inflationary economy with the American Jobs Plan and Build Back Better. That's entirely on Biden.

It's okay to acknowledge that Biden was, at best, a meh president without taking away from the historic awful ness of Trump.

Edited September 24Sep 24 by Bateshorn

6 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

It's okay to acknowledge that Biden was, at best, a meh president without taking away from the historic awful ness of Trump.

I think history will see his overall handling of the country’s business during the Covid-19 crisis in a much more positive way than your opinion. Time will tell. He was too old to be an effective communicator in a modern political Arena, and that is absolutely true. But I think the nuts and bolts of his administrations policy decisions we’re basically sound. It’s not like any administration has a template for dealing with something like COVID-19 when the administration proceeding you turned basic disease prevention into a divisive political litmus test.

His biggest sin was running again when it appears in retrospect that our only 2024 hope was a white male democratic presidential candidate not named Joe Biden. The handoff to Harris without a traditional nomination process and vetting of the best candidate was certainly problematic.

Edited September 24Sep 24 by Gatorubet

6 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

I think history will see his overall handling of the country’s business during the Covid-19 crisis in a much more positive way than your opinion. Time will tell. He was too old to be an effective communicator in a modern political Arena, and that is absolutely true. But I think the nuts and bolts of his administrations policy decisions we’re basically sound. It’s not like any administration has a template for dealing with something like COVID-19 in the administration proceeding you turned basic disease prevention into a divisive political litmus test.

His biggest sin was running again when it appears in retrospect thatour only 2024 hope was a white male democratic presidential candidate not named Joe Biden. The handoff to Harris without a traditional nomination process and vetting of the best candidate was certainly problematic.

I don't want to derail calling out Trump's bullshit with a Biden retrospective, but I think that they largely handled Covid well (although the probably should have read the room a bit more closley on mask mandates and shutdowns post vaccine), and we desperately needed an infrastructure investment bill.

Having said that, beyond the fact that the first stimulus bill was mostly driven by their desire to hang their nuts in the first 100 days despite what economists where telling them, in general, the Biden administration often got to the right policy decision, but tended to get there with the maximum amount of buffoonary and incompetence along the way.

Afghanistan withdrawal was the perfect encapsulation: It was the right thing to do, and it was always going to end badly, but once you decided to leave the overriding tactical driver had to be "It absolutely, under no circumstances, can look like Saigon in 1975. IDGAF what you need to do to make it as optically smooth as possible, but it can't be a violent clusterfuck." But they turned over planning to State and the NSC, they totally bungled it, then had to call the Pentagon in to bail them out after the optics went in the toilet.

Large and small, that's how almost everything went during his presidency.

Edited September 24Sep 24 by Bateshorn

27 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

Look, Trump is the worst, but Trump didn't dump close to $4 trillion dollars into an inflationary economy with the American Jobs Plan and Build Back Better. That's entirely on Biden.

It's okay to acknowledge that Biden was, at best, a meh president without taking away from the historic awful ness of Trump.

Inflation only went down after those bills passed. What we experienced had a lot more to do with supply chains being unable to meet demand and a whole lot of the workforce deciding to retire than government spending.

1 minute ago, Bateshorn said:

the Biden administration often got to the right policy decision, but tended to get there with the maximum amount of buffoonary and incompetence along the way.

I think that is an excellent summation. And as we know, in politics, it is all optics over substance.

1 minute ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

Inflation only went down after those bills passed. What we experienced had a lot more to do with supply chains being unable to meet demand and a whole lot of the workforce deciding to retire than government spending.

The loose definition of inflation is too much money chasing too few goods. So stimulative fiscal policy in the face of supply side shortages is....not going to help. Granted, the Fed should have started hiking by summer of 2021, but that would have put the Fed and the Presidency at cross policy.

30 minutes ago, Bateshorn said:

l, the Biden administration often got to the right policy decision, but tended to get there with the maximum amount of buffoonary and incompetence along the way.

i’m going to correct my comment. The former and current Trump administrations having negated the use of “maximum buffoonery” when applied to Biden - or any other president. I’m not saying that buffoonery was not present in the Biden administration, but in no way did it reach maximum level when compared with TFG. But the price of eggs…

The best thing that came out of the Biden admin for me is I now have chickens. I have eggs coming out of my ears and they are true free range. I cant eat any other eggs now. Thanks Biden.

17 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

Biden covid talk not going away. Someone explain this to me like I'm 5.

32 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

i’m going to correct my comment. The former and current Trump administrations having negated the use of “maximum buffoonery” when applied to Biden - or any other president. I’m not saying that buffoonery was not present in the Biden administration, but in no way did it reach maximum level when compared with TFG. But the price of eggs…

That's right. Biden's incompetence was of the tradtional, non-trump variety: leaked reports, mixed messaging, infighting, crossed red lines, bad optics, groupthink, that tend to bedevil most president's, although Obama minimized it to a large degree.

Edited September 24Sep 24 by Bateshorn

On 9/24/2026 at 9:15 AM, Gatorubet said:

I think history will see his overall handling of the country’s business during the Covid-19 crisis in a much more positive way than your opinion. Time will tell. He was too old to be an effective communicator in a modern political Arena, and that is absolutely true. But I think the nuts and bolts of his administrations policy decisions we’re basically sound. It’s not like any administration has a template for dealing with something like COVID-19 when the administration proceeding you turned basic disease prevention into a divisive political litmus test.

His biggest sin was running again when it appears in retrospect that our only 2024 hope was a white male democratic presidential candidate not named Joe Biden. The handoff to Harris without a traditional nomination process and vetting of the best candidate was certainly problematic.

That 2nd stimulus was a big mistake that exacerbated inflation. His attempt to run for a 2nd term was a huge mistake; there’s a reasonable take that everything bad Trump has done this term is only happening because Biden fucked up the transition.

Aside from those 2 things, he was a good president. Solid foreign policy, solid domestic economic policy. Especially in the context of the political environment.

On 9/23/2026 at 4:26 PM, 4th&Five said:

On 9/23/2026 at 4:32 PM, Okie State said:

You can always count on this admin to fuck it up. Doesn't matter what 'it' is.

The fucker bankrupted. A fucking. CASINO.

What the fucking fuck else did anyone sane expect from this regime?

The damage to our civil society, human decency, our democratic institutions, our economy, the global economy, our global standing, our ability to project power....fucking EVERYTHING....is incalculable. The regime is nothing but a whirling dervish of total destruction, and it shows no signs of abating, much less stopping.

IT ONLY GETS WORSE. THERE IS NO BOTTOM.

2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

The fucker bankrupted. A fucking. CASINO.

Casino

Steaks

Vodka

FOOTBALL

And now his new brand of failure, the Presidency

• 
• Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."

• 12:37 PM · Oct 2, 2026

1 hour ago, 4th&Five said:

• 
• Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."

• 12:37 PM · Oct 2, 2026

They also revised July and August down 60,000

16 minutes ago, Js1 said:

They also revised July and August down 60,000

I imagine the 29,000 will be revised to 715.

6 hours ago, Js1 said:

They also revised July and August down 60,000

Obviously this is because of those goddamned teachers getting laid off for the summer.

Oh. OK.

https://archive.is/KR07i

• 
• Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com

The US economic expansion is in its seventh year, and there is no recession in sight. Yet many Americans feel they're falling behind. Here's what to know.

• 2:00 PM · Oct 6, 2026

Why Americans Are Unhappy With an Economy That Looks Strong

The US economic expansion is in its seventh year, and there is no recession in sight.

bloom.bg

This might help explain it to bloomberg...

3 minutes ago, pacman said:

This might help explain it to bloomberg...

But the surly chamber of commerce assured me that nobody would be profit gouging

On 10/2/2026 at 10:03 AM, Gatorubet said:

2 hours ago, pacman said:

This might help explain it to bloomberg...

The peasants should be grateful that their overlords allow them 41%.

2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

The peasants should be grateful that their overlords allow them 41%.

2 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Literally in the case of DoorDash.

Two magazine covers, six months apart. I wonder what happened in the interim?

• 
• Headquarters @HQNewsNow

New analysis reveals that Trump's tariffs raised prices on consumers and increased price inflation significantly.

Without the tariffs, it's estimated prices would've fallen.

• 2:27 PM · Oct 7, 2026

I might have ripped a vocal chord just now screaming "yeah, no fucking shit!" at my monitor after reading that last one.

39 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

• 
• Headquarters @HQNewsNow

New analysis reveals that Trump's tariffs raised prices on consumers and increased price inflation significantly.

Without the tariffs, it's estimated prices would've fallen.

• 2:27 PM · Oct 7, 2026

But I was assured that tariffs would make us a ton of money.

https://senatebankingdemocrats.substack.com/p/new-warren-launches-new-trumpflation?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=2asr4d