President Donald Trump’s launch of a nationwide “affordability tour” this week may look to some like an admission that Americans are struggling under the weight of the administration’s tariffs and rising utility and grocery costs—but Trump assured one reporter on Tuesday that he would acknowledge no such thing.
At what point does this insanity end America? Are you not embarrassed enough yet as a country
We’re not even in Bush-Era levels of economic crisis. Obama couldn’t win a Senate seat on these terms.
If anything, we’re still riding the lingering high of post-COVID revival of ZIRP and the Fed Free Money Machine. The dominoes Trump started knocking over at the start of the year are still tumbling. Quite a few of us are fully removed from the consequences to date.
FFS, we haven’t even been hit with a hurricane yet. Talk to me after another Harvey or Katrina, when we’re looking at some real acute social crisis. Talk to me when unemployment gets north of 5%. The BLM / Occupy levels of public dissidence doesn’t pop off until we’re in the 6-10% range.
No. We won’t properly be embarrassed until its a personal problem we can blame on the President. Right now its all someone else’s problem. The college kid’s problem. The migrant’s problem. The guy on Medicaid’s problem. Right now we can do the funny memes on LeopardsEatingFaces sub where we joke about how Trumpies are getting what they deserve.
Talk to me when I’m out on my ass with an eviction notice because my industry just fired half its workforce. Talk to me when the local grocery store is emptied out by a hedge fund that’s bankrupted the agricultural supply chain. Talk to me when its my turn to get a knock at the door from ICE.
Then I’ll be embarrassed. Now I’m content to be smugly dismissive of everyone else.
You’re an idiot
Dude’s not wrong though… the level of cognitive dissonance in the American public is breathtaking. Once the fox starts to gnaw, as they say… It’ll be a different story.
Jesusfuckinsaurus, I can hear the whoosh from here.
Maybe, I dunno. It was a weird postsn. And early
Well just add a /s to the post you replied to, and, while it is more bitter and critical than sarcastic, it will make more sense.
I’m embarrassed af. I’m being as vocal as possible and preparing for any eventuality