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Summary

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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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (18 children)

What's with the fucking eggs, why does everyone focus on fucking eggs. There's more food than God damn eggs for fucks sake

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

Just guessing, but eggs are a major staple in the average American diet that don't have a whole lot of comparable alternatives like grain or milk. So when there's a shortage or prices go up, people don't have something to replace it with so it's more apparent that they're missing out on something and that gets attention.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Eggs used to be people’s go-to for cheap animal protein

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They are particularly high right now due to non economic reasons (disease).

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 188 points 3 days ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Journalists have ruined the word slam over the last couple of years

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Let's never forget when the undertaker slammed mankind on the floor from the top of hell in a cell

[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 days ago (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (8 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago

A rapist who lies to the courts has its base of voters shocked when he doesn’t cum through on his promises.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (9 children)

He knows. He doesn’t care.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Democrats playing chess while republicans are shitting on the board

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Republicans are using quantum computers while Democrats are using Packard Bells with a 386 CPU.

[–] Banana 28 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 days ago (16 children)

Democrats taking a nap while republicans are shitting on the board.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days ago (5 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Meanwhile all lawmakers had gains in stocks larger than the average Joe. The fuck they care about prices

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

despite campaign promises to lower prices “immediately.”

It's was obvious that he's like any dictator will not fix anything.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sure, but you still want to call it out. Repeatedly.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (4 children)

When I read talking points like this, I think about: Who would they convince? I don't think many people honestly believe Democrats had a capable plan to fix these grocery prices in the first month of a Kamala presidency. Yes, Trump over-promised, and unfortunately, that was probably the right tactic.

I'm still not absolving voters for falling for such snake oil though. Sometimes when grandma clicks the "You have a virus" prompt for the 400th time you have to start blaming her.

Actually, the last important bit to me is who exactly is saying this. Recalling from memory, Elizabeth Warren once put forward a suggestion to require that 40% of a company's board be voted in by employees. It's very possible that with a less corrupt, profit-seeking corporate landscape we wouldn't be in this situation. So even more than Kamala she may have credit to blame others for such things.

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