“Americans must learn to adjust to a lower standard of living,” he told the crowd before suggesting a specific solution to prices hiked by his tariffs, which he continues to insist are a success. “You can give up certain products. You can give up pencils…You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter. Two or three is nice.”

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[–] 42 points 11 months ago (7 children)

He's talking about dolls again?! I had to check the date... Yup.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Oh, so that wasn't them quoting him from earlier in the year, he's literally rehashing the weird number of dolls thing?

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    He said the stupid pencil thing again, too.

    I mean, FFS. Does he have any idea what pencils even cost? And has he been told people are just using a crazy amount of them in school?

    This is like the "boomer math" thing with large screen TVs, avocado toast, lattes, and Netflix dialed up to eleven. I just looked on Amazon, and you can buy a box of 576 of them for $35.99. That's about 6 cents a pencil. Enough pencils for one child to use 37 of them per year for ten years and still have some left over.

    Does he think people are coming up short on things like health care because they chose to buy more pencils (and dolls) for their kids?

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