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[–] 66 points 2 months ago (9 children)

What's the alternative, tell the truth and admit they're fucked up? Preposterous.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Part of the problem is that this shit is being driven - in no small part - by decades of accumulated damage from climate change.

    You can reasonably argue that the price inflation isn't (entirely) Trump's fault.

    But because the administration is full of blowhards who insist they've got the magic bullet to fix everything, they can't even acknowledge they're in over their heads.

    Their positions are predicated by insisting "liberals suck, economics is easy, this One Neat Trick will fix everything instantly".

    So all they're left with now is Joe Biden this and Transgender that

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Many argue it's Reagan's fault. That's where the selling out began to the corporations.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I mean, our nation was founded on Selling Out. But, at a minimum, you can trace this back to Truman and the (entirely unnecessary) start of the Cold War.

    Reagan merely adopted the Selling Out. Guys like J. Edgar Hoover and Paul Volcker and Allen Dulles were born to it. Molded by it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    How is it not Trump's fault his last administration printed four trillion dollars and his current admin is interfering with the free movement of money and foods and has cut the world's oil supply by 20%

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The US dollar hasn't weakened on the global market, so "printing" (not really how that works, but let's pretend) a bigger national debt isn't what's driving inflation at home.

    The Trump plan for national insourcing has kinda worked, at least in so far as businesses have become much better at moving low price commodities over the border and assembling (or, in many cases, just reboxing) them behind the tariff wall.

    Meanwhile, China is cutting fossil fuel exports enormously, which has kept global energy prices unexpectedly low. We're not seeing a fossil fuel crunch. We're just seeing American energy exporters profit at Europe, Africa, and India's expense.

    We're also seeing a cresting wave of corporate profits. Shit is expensive because of consolidation, enshittification, and price gouging.

    But moreso, specifically in agricultural markets, we're seeing a surge in crop failures, livestock diseases, droughts, and fires that are fully independent of administration.

    Biden and Obama and Bush and Clinton (and the hundreds of legislators and and governors underneath them) fiddled around the edges of these problems for decades prior to Trump. These are American policies broadly speaking.

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