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Democratic lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, criticized Trump for failing to address rising food costs despite campaign promises to lower prices “immediately.”

In a letter, they accused Trump of focusing on mass deportations and January 6 pardons instead of tackling grocery inflation, which rose 1.8% in 2024, with egg prices up 36.8%.

Trump’s administration defended its actions, citing efforts to reduce inflation by cutting energy costs.

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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.

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      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.

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        What do I expect? I expect them to do a better job than they did last time around the electoral bush where they just sort of shoved Kamala forward at the last minute and the base reacted with indifference. If the democrats want some love, show us some love. DO SOMETHING. Just because the Republican party is a cesspit of infighting and unproductivity doesn’t mean every party has to be.

        I don’t expect this to be easy, but if they want to stay relevant they MUST take on this work.

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    Dude that top ring frog splash from Bernie took me by surprise, then the tombstone SLAM from warren

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    Yeah cuz dems really did a good job of holding down grocery prices and stopping price gouging

    Fucking stop grandstanding and actually do something useful.

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      You see, when Democrats hold both chambers and the presidency they are powerless against their centrists, but when Republicans do the Democrats are also powerless to stop Democratic centrists from defecting and cancelling out the last 3 Republicans with a vague sense of ethics.

      Weird how that works.

      (The point is the government is thoroughly controlled by conservatives either way)

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        Yeah i want them to actually put up a fight not just roll over and let trump tickle their bellies.

        But nah we will just get 4 more years of them saying “see we aren’t as bad as that” even though they did fuck all when they had power except launch a genocide

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    How much slamming will it take to stop the full-tilt fascism train? Are we almost there yet?

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    I’m so tired of Democrats taking “the high road.” The high road doesn’t fucking exist anymore and y’all are just fucking everyone over. Trump is literally on the road to destroying this country and Democrats are trying to do things “the right way.”

    Fuck that shit. It doesn’t work anymore. They’re just accepting the premise of assholes. I hate to say it, but unless they fight back with the same kind of energy than they’re fucked. If you try and do shit the right way Trump will just undo everything with a wave of his tiny hands.

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      Mitch McConnall was able to block damn near everything Obama tried to do, and he was one senator.

      Democrats are weak on purpose, though, since they are paid by wealthy elites specifically to not be left wing. Until they all stop taking all corporate money, we will be stuck in the same “ratchet effect” situation that we’ve been in until something finally breaks and the government is dissolved one way or the other for some reason (military coup, violent revolution, etc.)

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      I’ll go a step further. Motherfucker cancelled all federal grants and aid, AMONG OTHER acutely awful executive orders.

      How about Democrats “slam” Trump for dismantling our government and actively harming our nation from the first moment he was inaugurated? The time to fight about egg prices ended Nov 07.

      Let me see some of this energy Dems! (and from someone other than AOC and Bernie. WTH is wrong with the rest of you!)

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        Because the people who voted for him think it’s a good thing that he’s cancelling those things. They want him to dismantle “big government” because they’ve been mislead into believing that the reason they’re struggling financially is somehow because of wasteful government spending.

        You can’t attack Trump by criticising him for things people want him to do.

        But the reason most of those people voted for him is because they are struggling financially, regardless of what the actual reasons are. They want him to come in and take a wrecking ball to the government in the belief that it will somehow make their lives better. I don’t see how it’s a bad thing to drive home, repeatedly, that they are wrong. That all of Trump’s promises will amount to nothing, and that their financial struggles are only going to get worse under him. Because if you want his supporters to abandon him, you have to appeal to their sense of self-preservation. You have to remind them, over and over, that he’s not making life better for them.

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          I blame Reagan, his "The scariest phrase in the english language is “I’m from the Government and I’m here to help” nonsense

          It was a scam to encourage rugged individualism on a cartoonishly high level.

          I keep hearing from people that they’re GLAD Gender Affirming Care is being banned, not because they’re transphobic (they are, but that’s not the main reason they’re glad about it), but because they think now that Medicare isn’t going to cover that, that more people will be able to get on it and get cancer treatments.

          That is not how that works.

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            They think literally everything is zero-sum. If someone else is getting help, that could have been help for them. I have no idea how to undo this programming.

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          You can’t attack Trump by criticising him for things people want him to do.

          Here’s the thing; most people actually don’t like what he’s doing. Or they like the aesthetics and don’t actually understand the execution and effects.

          Democrats fail spectacularly in aesthetics (elite, preachy, corpo suits) and at explaining the effects these policies actually have on regular people.

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            Sure, but that’s exactly why this is the right play. Reminding people that their groceries haven’t gotten cheaper doesn’t take any explaining. It’s simple, clear, and self evident.

            Trump got in on a promise to make ordinary people’s lives easier, and it’s a promise he has neither the desire nor the ability to keep. Driving that point home, for every single day of his presidency, isn’t a bad plan.

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          Because the people who voted for him think it’s a good thing that he’s cancelling those things. They want him to dismantle “big government” because they’ve been mislead into believing that the reason they’re struggling financially is somehow because of wasteful government spending.

          You can’t attack Trump by criticising him for things people want him to do.

          The people who voted for him aren’t going to change their minds regardless, or they’ll decide we just need someone even worse. I want to see some fucking fighting (not physical fighting - some fire from these democrats!), not finger wagging. We had four years of fucking finger wagging when we should have been locking him up.

          That all of Trump’s promises will amount to nothing, and that their financial struggles are only going to get worse under him.

          I’m thinking they are going to get that message pretty quick now with all federal aid and grants cut. It will still be Biden’s fault to them, like the folks who went to their death from covid swearing it was a hoax.

          Sorry, at this point I could give a shit about what Trump’s voters think or whether they turn on him. Sure, it will be satisfying when it happens, but they aleady absolutely fucked us all, and I no longer even think I have an idea where the bottom is going to be. Fuck them. Whatever embers of empathy I may have tried to preserve for them all these years is gone. They have fucked themselves, they have fucked the rest of us, and barring a literal miracle I doubt anyone over 40 has much chance of seeing things righted within their lifetime.

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            The reason you give a shit about his voters turning on him is because you need them on your side, not his.

            This is simple pragmatism. If you want your country back, you have to rebalance the scales. And that means convincing a lot of those people to start acting in their own self interest; regular people vs billionaires instead of red vs blue. Some of them are too lost to hate to be worth talking to, but not all. And you need all the help you can get.

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      As Jon Stewart put it on an episode of The Daily Show following the election, “The Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are playing checkers”

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        I’d say the Democrats are trying to play Chess while the Republicans are playing Dodgeball.

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          I’d say at this point that the Democrats are bringing a chessboard to a gunfight. They decided that knives were too uncouth.

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            “Well, you see, according to parliamentary procedure bearing weapons is HIGHLY frowned upon, as it turns out. Quite beastly, indeed.”

            “What about the assault rifles they all came equipped with?”

            “Oh, yes,” attempts to look around room through glasses with 12 foot thick lenses; fails, but pretends to know what’s going on anyway, “Well, we’ll certainly be doing something about THAT! You mark my words.”

            “Fucking finally! Are we gonna charge them with sedition? Treason? Ooohhh, terrorism? There’s so many choices I-”

            “My aides have already begun drafting a semi-official non-binding statement condemning the disgraceful rapscallions and urging them to seek greater bipartisan cooperation and unity.”

            “Rapsc- ? Unity? Da fuq? CALL THE COPS, MAGOO, WHILE WE STILL HAVE-”

            “I assure you, it’s quite strongly worded. Oh, he’ll definitely be feeling the sting of our retribution soon… ish. Tomorrow maybe.”

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        It’s more like the Democrats are playing Checkers, and the Republicans brought the glock and aren’t playing games.

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          Oh, no, they’re definitely playing games… Weird, oppressive, shitty ones, but definitely games. I mean, jeez, they just kinda collectively jumped the shark as an entity AWHILE back, I think we can all agree on that… (Not that the Dems are much better, obviously, but at least in general they aren’t ‘fuck feeding kids at school for free, they can work nights,’ comic book villain evil)

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      I’m not saying the Democrats are losing fights on purpose and pretending that they’re making an honorable sacrifice when really they’re just taking their take-a-dive money on the way out, but if they were, what would they do differently?

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        Hell, you don’t even need to get that conspiratorial.

        There are two possible options. The Democrats are either corrupt, or stupid. Both are a disqualifier for giving them power.

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      It’d be like going into modern warfare, standing in a straight line out in an open field, firing a single round of shots, then shouldering your weapons and waiting patiently for them to return fire. Platoon after platoon of soldiers are massacred by the other side, who are fighting dirty. The general keeps saying, ‘No fair, we’re getting slaughtered out there! But, once we’re all dead, people will realize that those other guys were being real assholes…then, who’s the real winner! Ha! Ok, boys, line up the next platoon and remember, don’t fire until you’ve reached the center of the field and for the love of God, only one shot each! …I mean, if any of the platoons ever eventually survive long enough to fire a shot. But, I’m feeling good about this next one! Charge! …I’ll just wait back here where it’s safe.”

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            This doesn’t change the fact that Republicans control all three branches of government right now.

            Voters could have changed that, but they didn’t.

            They were probably all protesting the sleepy Dems right? So they all got what they wanted right?

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                You know, he actually passed some of the most monumental legislation in decades, a lot of it with bipartisan support. But because we are not living on the starship enterprise here you are as usual shitting on everything and everyone.

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                  You know, he actually passed some of the most monumental legislation in decades

                  He passed the IRA, which was a consolation prize for Democrats killing BBB. You might be satisfied with the same legislation that manchin was willing to vote for. I saw what Democrats killed. BBB never came to the floor for a vote. I’m sure you’re satisfied that minimum wage stayed low like you want it.

                  As for the “bipartisan support,” yeah, democrats voted for some republican legislation like the anti-trans defense bill.

                  But because we are not living on the starship enterprise here you are as usual shitting on everything and everyone.

                  “Don’t support genocide.” “Fucking progressives expect perfection.”

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        I mean of course, because the game that’s actually going on is real life and not chess. If you saw a guy playing chess by himself in the park and a dude runs up and let loose on the board, who won? The guy who just lost twelve and a half pounds or the guy sitting in it saying “hmmm, the Dennis Prager gambit?”

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          That’s gotta be one of the most hilariously and depressingly accurate descriptions of the situation I’ve seen

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        Since it’s not expressly forbidden in the rules, and the referee is friends with the republicans, (and also someone who has money riding on the outcome has promised to pay them), the democrats have no choice but to shrug and say the next game is going to be the most important one yet, while seating a player that has no clue how to play

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    Honestly, it’s almost embarrassing. Democrats continue to fight using Queensberry whilst Trump et al are, again, acting with impunity. They’ve got to smell the coffee and take the gloves off.

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      Take the gloves off right now and do what?

      Use harsh language? Encourage Democrats to engage in acts of violence?

      I understand your frustration of feeling helpless while the tangerine terror fucks everything and everyone up, but without control of the house and/or senate, there isn’t that much they can do right now.

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        I think they need to be aggressive, publicly, with their highlighting of Trump’s “shortcomings”. Like billboards. Or interviews on TV. Or (ab)using privilege in the House. Etc. Just say stuff that’s true that they wouldn’t normally want to say. “Trump finger raped a woman”, “Putin’s lapdog”, “Pornstar fucker”, “Friend to pedophiles”.

        In your face shit that’s inappropriate. Or was inappropriate until Trump changed the rules.

        Just keep repeating it day after day, and like Trump, it’ll become part of the narrative through repetition.

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          They first need to admit that running as corporatists, ignoring people who are suffering in this economy, and funding a far right genocide were wrong, and the genocide was a war crime that people should go to jail for. They will never admit to that stuff though, theyd sooner disolve the party.

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          This is the same playbook they’ve been using since Trump first appeared and it doesn’t work. People don’t care that much about Trump’s scandals, they need to focus on economic messaging. Besides, he’s ineligible to run again so they need to have a strategy aimed at countering the right more broadly, not just one specific person.

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            Saying he’s a “sexual predator” and that he “finger-raped a woman” are far from the same thing. One is dry and intellectual, the other conjures up memorable mental imagery. It’s the same way that “damp” and “moist” can be synonyms, but only one of them squicks a lot of people.

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              That’s ridiculous. You’re thinking way too small, you can’t just use the same line of attack over and over again with slightly different phrasing and expect it to suddenly start working.

              Trump repeatedly crossed lines that were supposed to tank his campaign. You can’t just chalk that up to some people using slightly less visceral language than you think they should have. The reason nothing sticks to him is because people have decided, “We don’t care how much of a dirtbag he is, because he’s our dirtbag.” The only thing that can challenge that is to attack him on economics and demonstrate how he isn’t actually working towards people’s interests, and in order to do that convincingly, it’s necessary to adopt a platform that does benefit people in a direct, material way.

              For all the words that have been spilled about things like finger-raping a woman or January 6th or any of the other shitty things he’s done, how much of it directly impacts the average voter? The best way to reach people is by appealing to their own material interests. Instead of, “Donald Trump fucked a pornstar” how about, “Donald Trump is fucking you, right now.”

              The only time Trump lost an election was when his botched handling of COVID directly impacted people’s lives. I’m not sure what would have to happen for liberals to understand that the electorate does not give a shit about Trump’s character. And even if they did, as I pointed out, he’s not eligible to run again, so the whole thing’s moot. Maybe next time they’ll run someone clean as a whistle with the exact same policies, although, I suppose if they’re smart, they’ll run another dirtbag so liberals get distracted focusing on that.

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                It’s not just slightly different phrasing, it’s phrasing that packs an emotional/visceral punch. The economic angle has been tried to death, and a constant refrain I hear is, “how can people vote against their own self-interests?!” It’s because the other side speaks to the animal brain, not the frontal lobes. The murder of a pretty, young nursing student activates strong emotions and has a lot more cognitive stickiness than economic arguments about who gets paid how much to pick our strawberries. Guarantee that if voters picture his grubby, little fingers sliding into a vagina in a department store dressing room, they’ll remember it.

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                  The economic angle has been tried to death

                  It really, really hasn’t lol.

                  and a constant refrain I hear is, “how can people vote against their own self-interests?!” It’s because the other side speaks to the animal brain, not the frontal lobes.

                  Yeah, and the animal brain wants stuff. And so do the frontal lobes, so it doesn’t really matter what part of their brain they’re using. Of course, you can’t just maintain the status quo and talk about how the other guy would be worse. The status quo sucks and is getting worse and even if it didn’t our brains aren’t wired to be satisfied with it. That messaging, sure, it’s been tried and failed, because it’s basically just lecturing people on how they’re not smart enough to understand economics and should be satisfied with what they’ve got. When I say economic messaging, I mean promising people new stuff beyond maintenance of the status quo.

                  The murder of a pretty, young nursing student activates strong emotions and has a lot more cognitive stickiness than economic arguments about who gets paid how much to pick our strawberries. Guarantee that if voters picture his grubby, little fingers sliding into a vagina in a department store dressing room, they’ll remember it.

                  Ok, I would like to collect on that guarantee, right now. Because you tried it already, over and over again, and it didn’t fucking work. I guarantee you that it won’t work if you keep trying it. If your position was at all true, Trump would’ve lost in 2016 when it first came out, when they could hear it straight from the horse’s mouth! No matter how you phrase it, it’ll never be more compelling than that moment when it first came out.

                  I repeat this for the third time since you seem to have missed it the first two times I said it: even if you were right, which you’re absolutely not, Trump isn’t even eligible to run again. Even if you’ve finally hit on the exact right phrasing that’ll definitely get through to people, this time I swear (you didn’t), you’re too late.

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            The media gets high on sensationalism. If a Democratic politician came out and said that the President was “deep-throating Putin’s cock,” oh believe me, that’d get coverage right quick!

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                I dunno man, your stance comes across as defeated, like nothing is worth doing. I disagree with that take.

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                  Wounded but not defeated.

                  There certainly is lots that can be done. Just aware that there is an uphill battle to be fought, and the number of allies is limited.

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        Same thing I’ve wished Democrats would do for years and years: Learn from psychology and neuroscience that language and how you use it matters, then learn how to use language to improve their messaging.

        And then do it.

        Politics in a big country like this is like an arena show, and Democrats treat it like a university lecture hall. Play to the cheap seats! For example, compare how I read that Harris would “address health care disparities which disproportionately affect Black men” versus “death tax.” Which one is more likely to reach Joe Six-Pack? Which one has more visceral impact? Which one is more, as they say, cognitively sticky?

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            It would, but it’d be a poor political tactic, because the idea is to make your issue/position cognitively sticky, that is, make people remember it involuntarily. All of the engagement around flashing would be “huhuhuhuhuh boobs,” and nobody would talk about or remember the actual issue.

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        This is often my point. There’s a major problem with the statement “Democrats need to do something in the house”. And that problem is not with the second half of the sentence, but the first. “VOTERS needed to do something in the election.” America is not just the DNC no matter how much we love finding scapegoats.

        Very very very tired of the circular logic used to blame them for losing an election to an imbecile, against promises two brain cells could have realized would never ever be delivered.

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    Democratic National Committee, don’t just stick to your old tired playbook of telling everyone that Trump is bad and doing the things he said he’d do. It didn’t work last time.

    DNC, start immediately telling all Americans why this is wrong, what you will do different with the executive power, and keep up that messaging in a media blitz to win back all the working class voters who didn’t show up last time. Get a plan now for who you want to run on your ticket, and push them into the spotlight to advocate for us with progressive policies that help the working class. I’m a dreamer, but for the love of all things good, please let them be an actual progressive.

    “We are the Democratic Party. Democrats are fighting for a better, fairer, and brighter future for every American: rolling up our sleeves, empowering grassroots voters, and organizing everywhere to build a better America.”

    Really? Fucking prove it, then! Be the party of brawlers and stop maintaining “decorum”. MAGA is playing dirty because you’re weak and they know you won’t do shit. Fight for the working class like your mission statement alleges.

    So tired of backsliding to the right on this tilted table.

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        Inflation rose globally and the US was able to do the biggest inflation reduction within the G7. I’m sorry we’re not living on the starship enterprise in some comunal utopia and there are still imperfections in the world

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      How do I filter out those stupid meaning ngless words? Under fire, roasted destroyed… I just can’t anymore according to headlines Trump should be molecular paste by now.

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      Donald Trump PILED DRIVE’D HEAD FIRST INTO A FOLDING TABLE by Democrats pointing out his policy promises are a 50 ton diesel trunk full of horse shit. . On the one had it’s a good criticism because this is what he cult thought he wasn’t lying about it. On the other hand, he fully admitted his polices would cause run away inflation and fuck the economy to death in his ‘‘When I said I’d ruin your life last, I lied’’ secret sex metaphor dungeon 30 feet below Mar-y-lago.

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    Everytime I ask a republican what it is that Trump is doing that will help with prices they say ‘wait and see!’ like he is going to pull some sort of magic trick.

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      For some reason the Republicans voters I know seem to think that their party is going to pass all the regulatory legislation that that Democrats were suggesting.

      I just don’t understand them. How did they get this brainwashed? It’s not just frustrating. It’s depressing.

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      The very second prices come down on their own, with nothing Trump did affecting it, he and his cult will point and say “SEE?!”

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      Same “Oh there’s a plan, it’s just a long term one.”

      I guess that makes sense, afterall, if he de-humanizes enough transpeople all our groceries will become free, that’s just logic! /sarcasm

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    Call him a liar. To his face. To his subordinates. To his mother. To his cousins. Keep calling him a liar until he understands he is the Dishonest Don.

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        And neither will his supporters.

        “ITS PATRIOTIC TO PAY $12 FOR AN EGG, IT HELPS AMERICA 🇺🇸”

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        He actually does seem to care, a lot. It’s why he always says fake news, if he didn’t care about being called a liar, he’d ignroe it entirely. Losing control of the narrative drives him absolutely insane, it’s why the whole “weird” thing got him so unhinged.

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            Hillary’s campaign advisors who Harris was more than happy enough to bring on. These are people like:

            • Her brother-in-law West, the CLO of Uber who told Harris to stop attacking big business.
            • Plouffe the senior vice president of Uber and advisor to Zuckerberg and Clinton
            • O’Malley Dillon, who was, (oh hey look at that) an advisor for, Gates, Zuckerberg, Lyft, & GE, and was the first non family member of Biden to serve in his campaign as well as Clinton’s
            • Richmond who had to resign from his position in 2021 after it was found out he was the top receiver of bribes from the oil industry in the DNC
            • Jeffrey Katzenberg, who apparently is known as the kingmaker of of the DNC for how much money he throws in which… What the fuck are you doing Katz, go back to making Quibi a thing.

            It’s all of them and it’s purposeful. They apparently wrote 129 page documentals weekly about how Harris had already won while these advisors take pay in fractions of millions of dollars.
            They pay themselves to talk to themselves to pat themselves on the back for having done nothing to change anything.

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        I think he’s such a narcissist that he doesn’t know. Or convinces himself this is righteous attention. We need to take a play out of their playbook and not care. Keep repeating. Make it ruthless.

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          What? Saying mean things about Trump to his face is not even close to how ruthless we ought to be. Its not even on the same planet. I promise you, he’s had people call him out to his face for the past 10 years. That wont help.

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    Reminder: Kamala’s plan was to pass anti-price fixing legislation that we’re not getting now

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      Then they can say that now, then.
      Say what plans they would take and push for them instead of waiting it out.
      Let us know what they would do with power to make things better and hammer it that with power they would be fixing things and show they are being stopped.

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          The DNC instead of just commenting about how Trump has failed to reach his goals (which should be pushed on as often as reasonable) should be united in making plans of action and stating what they would do with the power of the government when/if its given back to them by the people.

          We are seeing that we have given an insane amount of power to certain offices and that by avoiding “decorum” it can be wielded to change things or at least start a very public conversation on them.

          We will be worn out by everything being a slam and call-out but this is a great time to start announcing their plans as a party to what they would be doing same as project 2025 was. The power shown by Trump is out of the box. It can not be put back in.

          The DNC exists outside of just criticizing Trump. They need to show why they deserve this power too.