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.
Democrats playing chess while republicans are shitting on the board
Democrats taking a nap while republicans are shitting on the board.
The Republicans control all three branches of government.
The nap has been going on for decades.
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?
Spoken like someone who was satisfied with the Biden administration.
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.
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.”
Republicans are using quantum computers while Democrats are using Packard Bells with a 386 CPU.
Trump flips the board, pieces go everywhere and exclaims, “I win! I’m the best at Checkers!”
Apparently that’s a valid move, they won
Google “En Poosant”
Holy shit!
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
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?”
That’s gotta be one of the most hilariously and depressingly accurate descriptions of the situation I’ve seen
Coming through big time on some other day one shit though.
And just to be clear I mean all the bad shit.
COME ON
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AND WELCOME
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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.
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.
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
Yeah imagine a plan to fix hyperinflation taking more than eight days to implement.
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We did, that’s why we voted for the adult instead of the orange turd that claimed he could fix it in one day. So since we were obviously wrong, and it’s been what, weeks of one days, it seems fair to mention.
He has concepts of a long-term plan.
The very second prices come down on their own, with nothing Trump did affecting it, he and his cult will point and say “SEE?!”
Sounds a lot like “prayers and thoughts”. They are a faith based people after all.
“Now is not the time to talk about
gun violencehigh prices.”/s
Just do the same thing they did. Print stickers of Trump saying ‘I did this’ pointing to high prices of things like eggs.
I wanted to do this but I gotta figure out how to print my own because the prices I’ve been seeing on those are ludicrous for stickers.
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.
Meanwhile all lawmakers had gains in stocks larger than the average Joe. The fuck they care about prices
I dunno. Anyone investing in tech or energy took a pretty big hit in the last couple days…
You went to everyone lawmaker’s house?
Nah. I stay up to date with lemmy news posts 😄
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/members-congress-outperformed-p-500-182024981.html
Jan 3 report. I know i seen another this past summer
Oh hey look the Democrats are crying about something but not actually doing anything
Hard to do anything in an elected government if you weren’t elected.
And they didn’t get elected because they spent the last four years crying and (mostly) not actually doing anything.
Roe v. Wade fell on Biden’s watch btw
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The block button is a useful tool. You only have to see the troll once and they are gone forever!
Then they get to claim shit uncontested, which comes off like you have no rebuttal so they must be right. Intelligent, educated, mindful, and honest people will know better, but that combo seems to be shrinking in supply virtually each and every day.
This, he had the chance to codify abortion into law, he didn’t take it.
Shockingly idiotic reply.
The fact you’re being downvoted for simple facts makes me weep for America.
This would hold a lot more weight if they had bothered to do jack shit when they were in office.
Also hard to do anything when the people only give you 50 senators and 2 of them are Manchin and Sinema.
Manchin’s still a thing?
He’s been replaced by our former governor, a Trump loving Republican. What people don’t understand is that Manchin was the only Democrat capable of being elected to national office in West Virginia. Yeah he sucked hard, but you’ll never see another Democrat get elected in West Virginia outside of local office in the cities.
That sadly might be a good thing, a true enemy is better than a false friend.
He at least voted majority with the party. Jim Justice will vote with Trump 100%
We gave them the seats. As fucking always, they found the no votes. If we gave them all 100 seats, there would be 51 manchins.
What exactly do you want them to do? What legislation can they pass when they don’t control the House or Senate?
How do you expect a political party to solve a crisis caused by private industry? Should they pass legislation against bird flu? More regulations for the poultry industry?
Since you are so smart, what should they do? And how can they fight the majority party that is antagonistic towards everything the democrats try to do?
The Democrats can use Democracy. Require that corporate boards in America vote in their members through employee elections. It’s a slim minority of power grubbers that would want to keep raising prices against the poor.
By the way, the senator making this shouting proposed exactly that bill. It didn’t make it anywhere, because people don’t vote in senate majorities letting them pass such things.
This reads like an AI hallucinated it. I’m amazed the link works.
Nah, I’m on your side. The Republicans are blatantly ruining this country and breaking the law and the best we can do is just say “hey stop” and then “slam” them in a nothing of consequence article.
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.
You want the people who lost power to do something?
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
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)
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.
Did Kamala/Democrats promise to fix the food prices? Followed your election and don’t recall them saying that, it is possible I could have missed it
So this is the absolute batshit insane part of the Kamala/Harris campaign. If you looked through their published policy platform, yes they had plans to try and regulate corporate price gouging. However, they did not campaign on these plans, did not elaborate on those plans whenever the economy was brought up, and largely tried to deflect when asked about their plans by claiming the American economy is strong and had no issues.
Kamala had plans. Somebody told her to keep her mouth shut, probably because it would scare off the donors they were trying to court.
The reason Kamala lost is because nobody in the Democratic National Committee thought to say “We will raise your wages and break up the monopolies raising prices at the grocery store and the pump”
Because the main DNC campaign donors are Billionaires and Lobbies, and well, see, that would eat into corporate profits. The Republican Billionaires however are very very happy to lie to get exactly what they want. So Trump won. Because, and I don’t say this lightly, 30% of Americans are greedy gullible morons. And our political system is so broken due to vote suppression and the ignorant fact that population center votes count for less than rural ones.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7wC42HgLA4k
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/14/politics/restrictive-voting-laws-brennan-report/index.html
https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-voter-suppression-in-2020
I’m still not absolving voters for falling for such snake oil though
I don’t like it when people blame those who voted for Trump, like “if you voted for Trump, you should die”. In working democracy though, it would be possible to cancel election, re-count votes anyway, to right away impeach Trump, etc. like in Romania:
- “Romania’s presidential election canceled over TikTok disinformation investigation” - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/12/07/romania-s-presidential-election-canceled-over-tiktok-disinformation-investigation_6735508_4.html
- “EU investigates TikTok over alleged Russian meddling in Romanian vote” - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2v13nz202o
- “TikTok influencers flee Romania amid tax probe into their election role” - https://www.politico.eu/article/romania-tiktok-election-calin-georgescu-elena-lasconi/
Also some news articles, just in case:
- “The Russian Disinformation Campaign During the Romanian Presidential Elections: The Perfect Example of a Violation of International Law?” - https://opiniojuris.org/2025/01/27/the-russian-disinformation-campaign-during-the-romanian-presidential-elections-the-perfect-example-of-a-violation-of-international-law/
- “TikTok pushes far right candidate content in Romanian election, Global Witness investigation shows” - https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/tiktok-pushes-far-right-candidate-content-romanian-election-global-witness-investigation-shows/
TikTok and election disinformation:
- “TikTok still approving election disinformation ads in Ireland” - https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/tiktok-still-approving-election-disinformation-ads-ireland/
Can we please fucking stop using slam in headlines already? It got old 2 decades ago.
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.
… and don’t put “IMPORTANT” in your email subject.
The con man who sells shoes, NFTs, launched a meme coin and bankrupted a casino was never going to lower prices on anything. Fools got played!
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So fucking do something about it, Democrat dipshits
Did you forget that the Republicans have control of all three branches of government?
They can’t really do anything to a filibuster.
the democrats had plenty of time under biden to introduce bills regarding grocery prices. All I remember were finger wagging press releases and corporate give aways in funding.
The past is gone, the now is republicans. I know it’s hard to remember, but they’re in control of everything. The voters could have also not voted trump in, why not get mad at them?
The voters could have also not voted trump in, why not get mad at them?
This is so completely upside down it hurts. “Why punch up when you could punch down?”
Even if voters were the ones at fault, it’s completely pointless and unproductive to blame the public at large because changing their behavior is a hell of a lot harder than changing the behavior of the handful of people running the campaign. They should be the ones to change based on what the voters want, it shouldn’t be the voters who have to change based on what politicians want to do!
Yeah, but that point is in the past. And back then, a whole shitload of people decided it wasn’t worth their time/energy/feelings to vote for the not-a-nazi.
The reality of now is that no one can do shit. Feel free to post more theory about how shit should work. It won’t amount to shit, we’re in fascist oligarchy times. You’re not going to change their behavior.
dude that was a few months ago. =) they literally wasted 4 years. again. I’m pissed because my entire adult life the democrats have been worse than ineffectual at improving the american baseline. The republicans managed to take all 3 branches because of how piss poor democrats have been at representing their base. after harris’ disgusting behavior on the campaign trail and biden absolute disgusting policies w/ respect to israel im basically done with the DNC at the national level, they can rot.
Harris had disgusting behavior on the campaign trail? She didn’t piss me off until she said “Fuck confirming judges or demanding recounts or investigations, I’m going to Hawaii!”
Yes. Her campaign shit all over Muslim americans. She refused to condem or even admit to the genocide. She repeatedly tried to gaslight americans over bidens mental fitness. And completely ignored the economic hardships many are experiencing. Wouldn’t commit to keeping ms khan because her family member was under investigation by the ftc.
Absolutely disgusting. Never mind the fact she had no real policies positions that would have improved anything.
And then on top of all that nonsense, palling around with Cheney. And rank and file members immediately throwing lgbt+ under the bus post election in an attempt to deflect responsibility for the loss because of their shit policies.
Dont get me started about actions she took over the last 4 years as VP.
But she and the dnc lost because they refuse to acknowledge how absolutely pissed americans workers are atm. And keep trying to gaslight us.
“Nothing fundamentally will change.”
It’s telling how much they downvote your sensible take
Keep on it guys! If downvotes were real votes, you’d surely win the election!
Yeah a bunch of people were pissed off. They should have voted for her anyway. The choice was shit, or radioactive shit. Personally, I’m kind of fucking furious over everyone with the privilege of washing their hands of participation because they knew they wouldn’t feel the consequences.
The sad truth is that everything you posted is right, and it still wasn’t the reason she lost. A third of the country just didn’t fucking vote. And it wasn’t even in protest.
Dude that top ring frog splash from Bernie took me by surprise, then the tombstone SLAM from warren
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.
If only they were listening…
“Decorum”, the most dangeorus word in American Paulaticks
Dems serve the same capital as Trump. Never going to control inflation. It’s a feature not a bug.
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
I mean, it’s pretty hard for them to do much when they never seem to have both houses of Congress.
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.
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.
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.
Hard to do when conservatives have cornered the media market.
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!
Wrong type of coverage though. Sinclaire group would spin that so hard it would cost bigtime.
I dunno man, your stance comes across as defeated, like nothing is worth doing. I disagree with that take.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
The one that showed tits while making the announcement would get engagement.
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.
