cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/107526
Democrats on the congressional Joint Economic Committee released a report Thursday detailing how much more the average American family in every US state is having to spend monthly to cover the rising costs of food, shelter, energy, and other necessities under the leadership of President Donald Trump. The panel released its report on the same day the Trump administration was supposed to…
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Deploying the same methodology that Republicans used to track cost increases under former President Joe Biden, JEC Democrats found that the average US family is spending roughly $700 more per month on basic items since Trump took office in January, pledging to bring prices “way down.”
That way they can’t call it flawed.
So cute that you think this!
Well they can but they’ll sound stupid
I wish this mattered to them. It hasn’t stopped them so far lol.
Making America(n cost of living) greater again!
Hey, LLM bros, explain this joke according to your LLM of choice. I need some entertainment.
…it’s a maga joke.
I got you. You see, Trump ran on the slogan “make America great again”. And what the person above you commented was that same slogan, except they added parentheses and additional words to ammend the slogan to “makeing American cost of living greater again”. Which implies trump is actually increasing the cost of living in America as opposed to actually making it great.
Hope that clears it up for you.
So.
Much.
Winning.
$700 more PER MONTH? Where do people take the money from?
Credit card bankruptcies are climbing.
Mostly people accumulate debt in the US.
No kidding.
I’ve noticed
Someone is wining, but it ain’t you.
I wonder what my distant uncle who said Trump made him richer would think about this. I think he was referring to the three tiny stimulus checks he got during the pandemic. Oh well, he voted for this.
But I need two Rivians! I’m not sharing with Caitlin!
sure but they’re paying it to the big corps who need profits, so like, it’s all good, right?
Yah, but Biden had the worst economy ever, and Pedonald is just trying to dig out from all the terribleness.
🙄
…and people wonder why no one has hobbies anymore
That feels about right.
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An entire family? Damn, the US is cheap.
$700 per month MORE than before.
About half of the states listed in the info graphic are below a total of $700 though.
Did we just learn how averages work?! Classroom cheers
It’s an average, calculated as the cumulative increase in monthly costs compared to January 2025 from February 2025 through September 2025. So people in West Virginia are paying $425 more per month on average than they did in January, while people in Utah are paying $1,030 more per month on average than they did in January. The average increase across all states is about $700.
Inflation is lower than it’s ever been. Gas Is nearing 1.80 per gallon. Thanks giving will be 25% cheaper. Fake news media
Guys im quite confident this is sarcasm
It doesn’t really read like sarcasm when it’s making the same points maga is making tho.
We are in a new age of disinformation and crazy people, where the president of the US literally responds to protests against him with AI videos of him shitting on all of them, and where every sarcasm post needs an /s.
