Yeah, both sides amiright?

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Most likely what happened was inflation and a whole lotta price gouging, and people think Biden was to blame. The same people seem to think that donvict has a magic wand.

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      3 hours ago

      Biden’s response to the price gouging was a super bowl ad in which he asked those who were engaging in shrinkflation to cut it out.

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      6 hours ago

      It’s exactly this.

      Trump promised easy solutions to the problems caused by the right, and by corporate oligarchs. They went along with it, and voted for him. They’re now in for a wild ride.

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        2 hours ago

        Yep. This is truly going to be the finding out stage for them, except, unfortunately, all of us are going to pay the price for their stupidity.

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          2 hours ago

          My wishful hope is that because some of the effects (i.e. prices after blanket tariffs) will be so demonstrably bad for their wellbeing, and will appear much quicker, rather than being delayed (i.e. inflation) that they will actually notice that their own side did something bad, and maybe the more moderate, single-issue voters (primarily those on the economy) will wise up and vote against them in 2028.

          If we even have an election in 2028, that is.

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        2 hours ago

        Yeah, like hearing corporate oligarchs bragging on earnings calls about being able to get away with price-gouging the American people because “Bidenflation”? Didn’t require any mental gymnastics, actually.