An article the president reposted on Truth Social contends that inflation isn’t as severe as critics suggest.
  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
    56·
    4 hours ago

    “The high price of eggs is in no way President Trump’s fault,” Kirk writes. “Almost all the increase took place during Biden’s final months in office.”

    This attempt at misdirection is so artfully sleazy I have to appreciate it. It should be taught in classes.

    It’s still misdirection, though. It doesn’t matter WHO was in office, or WHAT the price of eggs was. Trump campaigned on the promise to lower those prices.

    He’s not annoyed because the public doesn’t understand. He’s annoyed at the public for having the audacity to call him out on his bullshit.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
      153·
      3 hours ago

      I’m just over here wishing we could get both 49%'s that always vote partisan to give a shit about the working class and poor at the same time.

      For four years, one side’s angry and the other makes excuses. Then, when the other team’s guy is in charge, one 49% decides it’s their turn to make excuses and the other side pretends to give a shit.

      It would be exhausting if we weren’t all already exhausted from trying to live in this impoverished hellscape.

      • Sundray@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        2 hours ago

        Someone will have to figure out how to get one of the sides to stop believing that the country would be a paradise if only their opponents could be completely eradicated, first.

        • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          That’s true.

          But, I think when the Boomers are gone history will show that their loss will be a boost to overall social progress.

  • houstoneulers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    4 hours ago

    Classic GOP. Campaign on fixing something that they blame another admin for and then turn around and say they can’t control that thing to fulfill on their promise.

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    Imagine if this had been under Biden. They’d have been banging on about how he caused it constantly. A fickle unthinking bunch.

  • Sundray@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    13·
    4 hours ago

    “Why are you talking about that? You can’t talk about that! Biden isn’t in charge anymore, we’re all done talking about that!”

  • celeste@kbin.earth
    8·
    4 hours ago

    Nah, when people were saying “egg prices are high and he said he’d lower them” for why they voted for him on election night, and i knew he wasn’t going to be able to do much, even if he tried, i knew I’d be bitterly watching the egg prices until armageddon. it felt like people’s big reason for why, that wasn’t just hating immigrants.

    it’s bitterness on my part, but it’s also a tactic for better people to remind voters of a promise he made that they can immediately see he didn’t keep. it’s a way for people who voted for him to justify voting against him and his party in the midterms. that doesn’t mean they have to care about, like, democracy, or people who aren’t like them, and so on. they can save face.

    • tehmics@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      I assumed it was just a bird flu outbreak, and prices would naturally settle back down with the next generation of hens. And of course he would take credit. But uhh CDC got their hands tied, so I guess we don’t even get to know what’s going on.

      Surely someone has actually reported on the issue in detail and I’ve just missed it in these chaotic news cycles, right?

  • cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    That “article”, though. I thought I had just read the intro, but it was the whole thing. It’s this what passes for online journalism now?