People are watching their money disappear.

blah, blah, blah CT themdamlibruls!

Add that to the $5k Musk promised us from DOGE

Gee, where have I heard that before?

(Video in link below)

while at the same time, they fucking well know that their paychecks, Social Security payment, retirement pay, etc., doesn't buy nearly what it did just 11 months ago.

Maybe I'm not getting the picture here, but how does one vote against their best interests?

and how it affects their lives and pocket books, plus we have the "only watch FQX news" crowd who are
brainwashed into believing all Ds are evil and they hate us.

If a Democratic President raised taxes on the wealthiest people and doubled everyone's Social Security
monthly check, FQX would find a way to turn it into a big negative.



LOL, that was larger than it looked

and lap up his hateful diatribes like kittens at the milk dish

Very few of the MAGA cult will ever see the truth. The trump voters I know who turned away from him were never MAGA voters. THOSE are the people we concentrate on. Along with the non-voters & Dems who went stray. get them its a big victory over Vance/DeSantis et al

but this sadistic a-hole keeps spewing lies and mistruths daily (between his cabinet meeting naps). I get some satisfaction knowing those morons are sweating the boat issue, illegal persecutors, special election results and the 8 wars that trump has solved. Just sick of it all and will settle for the status quo any day.

Because as a small business owner I have to buy my own health insurance for my family, and today I found out that my monthly premium is going up by (no joke) 90% next year.

Fortunately all those Trump dividends from the tariffs are going to start kicking in any day now, right? ……..right?

get an Rx that trump claims he lowered the price by 700%. Big pharma will pay you to buy it.

This is the newest Republicans version of it................

Except with the version, it is like being pissed on, which is why Trump featured it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

where the partners do subsidize staff somewhat (higher premiums for partners, so staff isn't totally screwed) ... everything went up this year. I asked him about it, and he had a dollar amount in the thousands - which was overall and included both the health and life insurance policies.

The working class got hit first, and now it's both small and medium business owners/professionals.

The billionaire class wants it ALL.

I keep hoping the few small businesses I support are doing well. I do what I can to support any I can.

With the exception of what went to Yasha Levine alone I am furious about the amount of money that scammy Substack took from me.

Levine aside, that should have gone to DU or stayed in my pocket.

The time, money and resources lost to these parasitic and predatory forces is outrageous.

It’s not that the other writers I followed there weren’t good. They were all decent and left leaning, but I highly doubt I would have handed money to something that douchey were I my normal self. It’s hard to explain, but the predatory tech industry has a lot to answer for.

There really is a serious need for organization against all these forces. I am certainly always down with any serious organized pushback.

Not for me directly, but what I support. I have to separately find my own feet. That’s a separate hell. It’s not the bootstraps crap, but I have to help myself the same way. But I do need a civilized society not a predatory fascistic one analogous to PRC or Russia or Saudi Arabia etc.

But society has been conned by these technofascists. Flawed democracy has flaws these parasitic guys thoroughly exploited.

kiick and du rec.

I will speculate that a growing number of people who voted for the felon recognize it was a mistake, based upon the harsh economy.

I'm fortunate that I can still afford to run my business, but under this illegitimate regime, it's getting harder and harder.

Particularly the religiously insane. Their "reward" is in heaven and that's that. Useless to talk to them, they just roll their eyes, end of conversation.

They got a surprise coming. Take off your dumb-ass hat in St. Peter's presence.

It's "What did you do?"

But in this realm, they're a cult, so I always say: "Control what you can control ( namely yourself), influence and encourage those you can influence and encourage."

I don't stray from DU and Hacker News for that reason.

It is strictly business, altho I have introduced him (he's 31) to great art and he is now a big fan of Matisse's fauvist works. I believe that art can be a wonderful thing for one's soul and will privately hope he becomes more of a humanist as a result of our working on art projects.

Trump has also said we’re making so much money off of tariffs that he’s going to end income taxes.

Who believes this shit?

still waiting to see when that's going to happen.

He takes your money with one hand through tariffs and higher prices ...

then gives part of the money back to you like a rebate and toots his own horn at how generous he is to return your own money!

This is total sleight-of-hand. A con game.

Amazon Boy says we should be happy because we are going to Mars soon.

Elon says we won't need money in 10 years. we will have AI robots doing all our work.

For who Pedonald? Certainly not the 99%.

because I've been watching what has happened to my grocery bill. I also have a small appliance on its last legs and ppriced a replacement for after the holidays and almost had a stroke.

And that fat orange son of a bitch said affordability is some kind of scam.

I hope that bloated, ignorant, decaying SOB keeps saying such stupid and heartless stuff. While I'm lucky enough to be able to afford his bungling (so far), most of my friends and neighbors can't.

It will be a very long 3 years. I just hope people learn their lesson and keep the Republicans on the back benches (metaphoricallY) for at least the next couple of decades until this iteration of their stupidity is retired or dead. Their dumbass ideas will be with us as long as plutocrates endow economics chairs but at least we can get some political breathing room.

$2.79 at the local Kroger where I buy my gas. Today the price is $2.79.

But they can certainly influence other prices, through tariffs and other behavior, directly or through pressure on Congress.

Off topic, but those are the words that begin every sea story worthy of the name.

(Haven't thought of that since 1978)

And fake. And cruel. And they are either willfully ignorant or dumb as a bucket of rocks.

That said:

"Want lower prices? Vote for Trump!"

One year later, I'd like to ask the GOP outfit that paid for those billboards, how's that working out for ya, sucker?

Unless everything goes exactly right, then Voldemort will of course take the credit.

From food to parts to feed my gearhead addiction

at the least 25 cents higher.

and when I got home and unpacked the bags I couldn't believe how little there was. Yet much of what I bought had price reductions advertised. It was as though the store wanted me to think I was getting a great deal--saving so much--yet the reality was I had very little for the total cost.

I paid about the same as you: $215.00.

Where groceries are outrageous. Yesterday, I bought bananas, milk, sour cream, broccoli, egg nog and. Pre boiled eggs. It was $35! Blueberries here are anywhere from $6-$8. It’s insane. I looked at a menu at a local steak house here and the filet was $72. I kid you not. $72!

From 2018-2021 I lived on the 17th floor of a downtown Raleigh apartment building. Walked to everything. Loved it--until COVID. People here would ask me why and I'd tell them because I couldn't afford the 17th floor of a West Side apartment in Manhattan!

I suppose the upside of a $72. filet is you eat less beef?

It's crazy. Just crazy. I was in London right before Thanksgiving and a cocktail at the hotel bar was 18 GBP, or at the current exchange rate about $24. One cocktail!

... we may not win so much as how badly they're going to lose. The GOP forgot: piggies get fed and hogs all get slaughtered.

Mags are essentially cap in the dark and so they may never even know that

His promises disappear?

It's own Walmart.
Last time I was there, 30ish years ago, it was a tiny backwater with a brothel.
I was delivering office supplies from the state and federal food staples to a community center that served lunches for seniors. ( I still remember the little sign at the beginning of the food serving line. Today's choices: Take it or leave it!)

Now I guess it is housing for the test site and retirees.

I hated the ads so much I finally found alternative podcasts like Binnall of America. I found Art's guests interesting for the content but generally didn't care much for the callers.

Art Bell. I only caught him a few times. All the area 51 stuff.

They are still riding high over the fact that they have a fellow racist and asshole administration in the White House. He enables them to behave in ways that, in the past, would have probably gotten them arrested. Nowadays, they get to just be evil without restriction.

And, they love it. So, they will be voting for him every time, as long as he allows them to continue to be unabashed bigots.

(There is also the 'blame game' which allows these slugs to blame 'others' for their own stupid mistakes and misfortunes. After all, it is always someone else's fault.)