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Democrats slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices
(www.nbcnews.com)
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Too bad "slam" just means some grandstanding in Congress with absolutely 0 changes to the situation. For the amount of money we spend paying various congress-critters to sit in a room kvetching at each other all day, it'd be nice if some of that turned into actionable changes.
If the Democrats want to get some credit fucking do something. As if the election results didn't display this, the average American is not entirely pleased with the Democrats. If they ever want to fill the White House ever again, we better see more than "slamming" happening.
What the fuck do you expect them to do with a minority at every level? All they can do is try to get the message out.
Trump has repeatedly made empty campaign promises, yet voters take the bait every fucking time.
Pointing this out in real time is an important step.
Can we please fucking stop using slam in headlines already? It got old 2 decades ago.
... and don't put "IMPORTANT" in your email subject.
I'm really tired of the phrase "make no mistake" too.
Yeah, time to slam that word out of existence!
Slam the door on slamming
Add Breaking to that list.
There should be billboards by now.
Just do the same thing they did. Print stickers of Trump saying 'I did this' pointing to high prices of things like eggs.
It's crazy to see "price of eggs!" as a talking point appear on every major broadcaster a month before the election as the defacto rubric for economic strength. Then trillions invested in Western based AI gets obliterated within a week of the new administration taking office.
Well since 50% of Americans don't own stocks and 93% is owned by the top 10%, eggs definitely affect the average person more.
A factory worker may not own a single share of stock and still rationally express concerned when the firm's stock price plummets.
The enormous upfront investment of capital in a rapidly outdated administration model should be extremely alarming to individuals whose employment is predicated on the output of that model.
Are you trying to say that people being fired from Nvidia is more important than egg prices? Maybe let me check how many employees they have. Seems to be about 30k. Idk man comparing human experiences at this scale gets pretty sticky. Maybe it's just confirmation bias, but egg prices and by extension grocery prices are probably more important to the average person. Infact they even affect Nvidia employees that are fired.
Are you trying to say that people being fired from Nvidia is more important than egg prices?
People from Nvidia, from Facebook, from Microsoft, from all the attendant businesses surrounding those firms.
Compound this with the consequences of money invested into AI at both the private and public levels that was supposed to supplement neglected spending in basic science R&D on the ground that AI could do R&D better (because it's God? Idk)
So there's a knock on effect to egg prices, given that the egg shortage is driven by Bird Flu and we're neglecting Bird Flu to build AI God.
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If anyone actually thought that piece of shit trump was going to do anything about grocery prices, they are fucking fools.
And I fully understand that this letter is just theater. Stupid, shitty, ineffective theater.
Fuck this whole fucking piece of shit grift called a government.
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Dude that top ring frog splash from Bernie took me by surprise, then the tombstone SLAM from warren
JFC "Well we sent a letter! what else do you want from us?"
"Why don't people like democrats anymore??"
Reminder: Kamala's plan was to pass anti-price fixing legislation that we're not getting now
But but but I was told kamala was exactly the same!
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Republicans don't care when there's a Republican in the White House. Then it's just God's will.
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