LOL

Told you so: Inflation accelerates in June as investors eye tariff-related price increases

Another proven lie by our demented president that you swallowed hook, line, and sinker. Multinational corporations aren’t just going to be commanded to swallow a new tax on Donald’s orders when they have shareholders to answer to.

I don’t care what every other country does.

I get that, but it’s a stupid notion, especially when we can observe that every other major country pays less for health care and gets better health outcomes. It costs less to fly to Europe and get an MRI than it does to drive to the doctor up the street and get one here in the US. In most countries medical bankruptcy doesn’t even exist.

It’s absolutely silly that you think it’s a good thing that we do health care differently than the rest of the world. Taking pride in doing things differently than the rest of the world, and also in a way that’s observably stupid, is unreasonable.

Tax their rich less. Tax their middle class more.

LOLOLOLOLOL, now you’re just being absurd. Every other major country provides far more to the middle class for the taxes they pay, whereas here in the US, we don’t adequately tax the wealthy AND do not provide value to taxpayers for the taxes they pay. In return for our generosity we get a few hundred billionaires and war in seven countries at once.

I guess you have GoFundMe when you can’t afford your insulin, so there’s that.

I realize you’re being sarcastic, but I’m going to answer you anyway. Biden didn’t do anything meaningful to change things because he and his family were profiting handsomely off the status quo.

You’re right, inflation hasn’t increased yet, but it will. Trump knows this, which is why he’s demanding that companies simply eat the increased cost. (Link and Link)

This is the other problem with how you’re trying to argue this. You’re simply denying the inevitable long-term effects because they haven’t yet fully materialized, but one can look at the trade deals happening outside the US to see the writing on the wall. (Link)

This is also the same reason that the negative effects of the BBB aren’t scheduled to kick in until after the mid-term elections.

To take advantage of misinformed people like yourself.

As for health care, again, you’re wrong. Every other major country on earth pays less and has better outcomes than we do, so monetarily and in terms of public health, what we can’t afford is the disastrous public-private partnership that currently exists, because all it’s accomplishing is killing people and fattening up CEO’s.

I’m not convinced that “showing empathy” is the way to court Republicans.

I feel like I’m being very clear here, but let me clarify.

I’m not referring to the sadistic people that you’re referencing. There is, I think, a distinct difference between the cultists and the voters that Democrats can scrape off with a little effort.

I’m referring to the ones who are showing regret for their vote, because most Democrats seem content to push away all those votes without any regard for the fact that you absolutely need to flip the people you can in order to change the party alignment of the Federal Government.

Your comment is a tad hysterical.

The critique here is how disorganized he is, changing tariff policy by the day, which is a notoriously stupid thing to do. The effects of this are felt in the market, the supply chain, and harm our international economic prospects as the rest of the world reconfigures the supply chain around the fact that the US is no longer a reliable trading partner. Tariffs also have a negative effect on inflation, as it constitutes a tax that is passed on to consumers.

Also, you’re wrong on health care. We should be spending more, not less. We’re the only major country in the world that doesn’t use people’s own tax dollars to provide for their health care, and it’s self-evident what a bad policy that is. We 100% shouldn’t be cutting health care spending just to hand tax breaks to billionaires, as billionaires are not stimulative to the economy. All they’re going to do is park it in a tax haven and do nothing with it.

I saw this yesterday and had to re-read it a couple of times to make my brain grasp that, yes, the plague is still a thing.

Wild.

The problem wasn’t that Harris courted Cheney.

It was that she stared down a whole population of Americans who got poorer under Biden and said publicly: “I wouldn’t do anything differently.” It also didn’t help that she told all of these increasingly impoverished people to just be joyful for three months of her campaign before even addressing anything policy-wise.

But, at the end of the day, if you want people’s votes, you’re going to have to figure out how to display some level of empathy, because openly hating everyone who votes differently hasn’t worked to win them over to your side.

That’s some down-home terminology right there. :)

They should feel shame and actually learn from it.

This point-of-view is shortsighted and silly. Those votes are needed, and you just saw it nine short months ago. At some point you are going to have to grow up a little.

Theses people can be brought into the fold if you don’t spend your time doing victory laps for being right.

I actually agree with you, but I don’t think these people in particular are the ones coming into the fold. It’s the ones who are realizing they’ve been lied to and changing their minds, and yes, people really, really need to stop throwing it back in those people’s faces.

To me, we’ve hit 1941, and folks need to understand that you’re going to have to ally with a few Russians with whom you have a mutual disdain if you want to take down the fascists.

I’m over here in a corner wondering just how hard our ruling parties have to fail before the cultish devotion goes away.

This reminds me of a friend of mine in New York City who had a bedbug infestation that got into a rare book collection. He ended up sealing up and bagging the books up for two years in order to suffocate them all to death.

I also referenced a shutting down of the government, which to me, seems pretty clear.

Yeah.

His dementia’s gotten worse. Just look at his tariff policy, which literally changes by the day and is being written by ChatGPT.

And now he’s kicking millions off of their health care in order to give billions more to a few hundred people who will never actually live to spend it.

This man is a miserable excuse for a president.

Carney is an international banker.

I will be shocked if there’s any significant change in housing while he’s in charge.

Agreed.

Our own government isn’t doing anything to stop him. Let Europe do something to stand in his way.

I once broke and dislocated my shoulder, and having a broken arm jammed back into a dislocated shoulder was bad enough to induce a blackout.

But other than that, getting kicked in the nuts.

100%

Pay attention.

Can’t pass a regressive tax bill if the government shuts down.

Democrats aren’t powerless. They’re complicit. The BBB was only possible because they made it possible.