Donald Trump would prefer that voters not worry about inflation. But it’s hard for them to ignore.

Filling up a basic Ford F-150 truck now costs about $100, up $30 from a year ago. Mortgage rates have jumped to levels that have depressed home sales. And for the past 12 months, consumer prices have risen faster than paychecks, making the average family poorer.

One week before midterm elections that will serve as a referendum on his second term, Trump is struggling to deliver on his campaign promise to bring down costs, even as he insists the country has entered an economic “golden age.” The same frustration that powered his comeback two years ago could now cost Republicans control of Congress.

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[–] 122 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

He didn't fail to stop it, he succeeded in worsening it.

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  • [–] 78 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    Whoever wrote the headline is—intentionally or not—diverting the blame for the inflation from Trump.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    I mean, inflation was effectively down to a bit over 2% in the weaning months of the Biden admin, which means it had been (for all intents and purposes) stopped.

    I think it’s fair to say that (thanks to tarriffs, deregulations, and wars) Trump created inflation.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Came here to say this. What should be made clear in the headline is that donnie fucked up an economy that was called the envy of the world.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Twice. He achieved that twice. He did it in the first term when he failed to address COVID properly, and then people put him back in office where he's already done more damage in half the time. I'm almost certain that our place on the world stage is irreversibly gone. And people continue to cheer as he yanks more and more jenga blocks without even the courtesy of a test poke. They'll continue cheering when the tower comes crashing down. They are too dumb to recognize how fucked they are.

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

    You should read the book Blockers. It's infuriating as fuck.

    And that's just one author and one book. Who knows how many stories there are out there yet to be told - or may be never told - about how much donnie and his brainless accomplices have done to fuck this country up.

    And as far as I know, not even one of them has paid the price for doing it. Yet.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Failed to stop?

    Is the writer fuckin stupid?

    He CAUSED most of the current US inflation that the previous admin had made progress on getting under control.

    Can we at least be accurate with the fucking news.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 weeks ago

    He didn't stop inflation because he didn't try to stop inflation. He continues to actively sabotage the economy so he and his minions can profit.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago

    Failed!? He fucking made it worse. ON PURPOSE!!!!

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago

    May. It’s sad that it’s a “May” and not a “Will” in the first place.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    So basically they will get fu*ked only because of gas price?

    Nothing about foreign policy, nothing about Trump sucking toes of bibi & pootin, nothing about US citizen getting shot & murdered by ICE? Nothing about massive corruption?

    And... Ah yeah I forgot, what about the Epstrump files?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago

    Failed to stop? He purposefully exacerbated it for the benefit of himself & the rest of Epstein class.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago

    He didn't fail to stop shit. He exacerbated the problem intentionally to enrich himself and his cronies.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago

    Failure implies that he tried.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Yes, I'm sure this time all the transphobic pedoloving christofascist racists straight outta 1865 will see the error in their ways and actually vote in the interests of non-billionaire grifters.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    It’s expected a lot of them are going to not vote this election. The frustration in that camp is pretty high right now.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Republicans deserve to be destroyed as a party to NEVER RETURN.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    Yup, and even if there is a MASSIVE blue wave, the orange pedo and all his propaganda outlets will spend the next 2 years blaming EVERYTHING on Dems...and 2028 will be 2024 all over agin

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    There will be a massive blue wave, but Republicans aren't simply letting themselves be Constitutionally and democratically removed from power. They're not leaving or losing, they know this is their last stand and will do anything to keep power. They've said they will cheat, not accept results, and essentially coup the government when they lose.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I just saw a bunch of YouTube vids about they've already filed motions to toss out ballots in seeing states, and now people in TXs are saying their votes were flipped on machines similar to TN.

    The next 2 weeks are gonna be vicious

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Yep, and they're already deploying ICE to polling places. I just saw an example in Florida, where they "had to pull someone over and it happened to be a few feet away from a polling place" and they "happened to stay there for a long time".

    Buckle up, stock up on necessary items for food, water, and safety, and VOTE.

    Also please do some phone banks to get others to vote too. Environmental Voter Project is a great organization that I've done for the last few weeks.

    It's not hard at all, each session is only an hour, and you make calls at your own pace. It feels great to actually get people out to vote, because instead of just having a 1x impact by casting your own vote, you could have a 100x impact if you encourage 100 people to vote (which isn't hard, you can hit 100 in like 3 one hour sessions). This legitimately makes a difference in elections, take a look at their results.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago*

    Biden already stopped inflation - Trump only needed to leave things alone long enough for the numbers to stabilize.

    This is new inflation directly caused by Trump

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    You don't understand he made billions, so everything is fine. Now vote for him again, he will make more billions.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    He isn't "struggling to deliver on his campaign promise to bring down costs." He has no intention of doing that. He never had any intention of doing that.

    And by "golden age" he means "gilded age." There's a big difference.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    The Republicans have been the party of inflation since the Nixon Shock. If the money in your pocket is dissolving, then you're encouraged to invest in businesses to save for retirement. Then once you're dependent on those investments, you'll defend them.

    They want every American drowning in debt. They want us living paycheck to paycheck. They want us to fail and then call us lazy, irresponsible, and financially illiterate. The purpose of a system is what it does.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    No the system can certainly behave in a way that was not its intended purpose.

    Ostensibly capitalism is about trade and labor and resource distribution.

    De facto it is a vehicle for wealth concentration and creating an advanced feudal state.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

    Trump failed to stop inflation.

    Trump actively fueled inflation.

    Despite his lies during the campaign, everything he did made inflation much worse than if he had done nothing at all.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago

    As long as we all vote them out…please don’t listen to what the media says. Yes I agree things look good but we seen this 2024 and 2016.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I keep seeing these articles and can't help but think that they said this about Republicans a lot right before they corrupted elections and won anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    No. They won't. I mean, I'd like to set aside the cynicism, but I find myself unable.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    I mean...he made everything worse. Everything. And I'm not exaggerating.

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  • Title makes it sound like the republicans aren't part of the problem from the start. Trump is the GOP and GOP is trump. He's just the latest republican mascot to sit on the throne.

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    [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago*

    Failed to stop inflation? That’s like claiming nestle failed to ensure the supply of and rights to water for local townships they’re actively stealing water from. It’s like claiming ai tech bros failed to reign in energy sector orgs and corps from raising prices and gouging customers in order to get payoffs and pass on costs to individuals rather than their buddies in big business.

    He purposefully increased inflation through intentional economic harm to play a play he has all his life - make shit drastically worse and harmful to large swaths of people and accept and force bribes in order to extort big and small players alike with promises of giving them exceptions to that harm.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 weeks ago

    "failed to fix" is the same thing as "caused"? weird language. I'm quite sure the tarrifs did nothing but punish citizens for not being strong enough to stand up to this or any other asshole.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago

    "Trump fueled inflation..." Fixed it for you.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago

    Oh yeah, because fucking INFLATION of all things is what I was worried about.

    The billionaires will not broadcast our dissent. Big fucking surprise.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

    What's interesting to me is that I'm absolutely sure Donald believes everything is a-okay. He is chronically online and consumes nothing but algorithmically-weighted content and Fox News, and someone who does that is living in a different reality than the one that actually exists around them.

    That said, let's all hope the two dozen or so DSA's get elected. That's the only shred of change we're going to get at the national level, because centrists' record demonstrates that they're a-okay with price gouging and inflation too.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    If you didn't already

    go vote

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    It was never his intention or desire to stop inflation. He's been the one deliberately causing it because he doesn't give af about anyone else paying the price.

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