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It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.
Bold faced, obvious lie.
He might believe it; it's not like he's ever set foot in a grocery store.
Literally yes.
FYI, it's "bald" not "bold".
Bold-faced has been used at least since the late 1900s https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/is-that-lie-bald-faced-or-bold-faced-or-barefaced
I work in a grocery store, I can tell you straight up that the orange bitch is lying.
I shop in grocery stores and have the same knowledge.
I love that this easily quantifiable metric is so split along partisan lines.
Literally everything is. It's insanity. Politically conscious People's opinions in this country now have their entire reality dictated to them by their party of choice.
19% of respondents think groceries are now easier to afford.
These are the people who love the emperor's new clothes.
It's amazing when prices go up, wages go down, and unemployment goes up, just how many people can't understand basic things like their grocery bill when politics are somehow involved, lol.
He’s never stepped foot in a grocery store in his life. Facist old pig.
Americans can't afford to buy shit, not even the literal kind. That's rather the point.
Domestic Economic Terrorism
"Radical left agitators!", claims Claire's
Radical left
On their closing sign: Claire's blaming the "radical left" for shutting down
Literally, my sewage bill North of Seattle went from $76 a month to $189 a month in less than 10 years. That's not even including water usage. Looks like my only option to save money in the long run is to go septic because at this rate my literal shit is going to make me bankrupt when I retire.
...And that's when you start manufacturing gunpowder the old fashioned way. To defray costs, obviously. I can't imagine why else you'd do it, under the circumstances.
Ahem.
Not just Americans. I just spent $145 CAD on at best 5 days worth of food. Granted I'm doing my best not to eat shitty food so it was fresh veg among other non/less processed stuff. Barely any meat too. Food costs are insane in Canada too.
So they polled people on subjective opinions instead of looking at the data? Wtf kind of reporting is this?
It's useful in the sense that people vote on what they feel the facts are, not the actual facts. Crime statistics might be trending down, but if there's a ton of crime stories in the news people feel like crime is up. There's similar dynamics at play when it comes to inflation and other economic indicators.
Bully pulpit power is real. This guy can fart and make his followers thank they did it. There are some serious flaws in human psychology and if you are enough of a dick to want to hack them, you can go far at the exeof others.
war is peace, austerity is properity, up is down.
do Americans buy it?
Well, they're not buying groceries.
Weird, the child rapist in chief says it's cheaper. Are you calling the orange unregistered paedophile a liar?
I always believe what someone who has never even been inside of a grocery store their entire life has to say about grocery prices!
Before Trump and COVID, soda was maybe $5.99 for a 12-pack. It's $9.99 now. That's a simple gauge
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. - George Orwell, 1984
I operate on a beans and rice budget; shit like an 6 ounce can of tomato past went from $0.60 to $1.00. Same sorts of price increases go for rice, beans, garbonzos and other canned/dry non perishables. Flour has gone up. Sugar has gone up. Don't even get me started on the price of meat. Produce has gone up, A bulb of garlic cost $1.00 now, and where it used to be 30-50 cents. Green onions $1.50 when they used to be $1.00. Seeing similar price rises in cilantro, fresh corn, cucumbers, potatos, onions. I started making stuff from scratch to save money . . . aaaannnnd it's gone.
Our grocery budget is up at least 50% in the last few months. Food is becoming stupid expensive.
Republicans remained more split in their responses — with 28% arguing that [groceries] are easier to afford
In what currency, Trump coin?
Thank goodness we have a 25 gram increase in our chocolate ration!
Americans probably can't even afford his lies.
He’s a moron who has likely never set foot in a grocery store in his life. He didn’t even think people actually use that word.
But it’s irrelevant. The president has very little control for making prices go down. Too many market forces to contend with. He has quite a bit of control on making them go up with his stupid ideas of tariffs however.
When was the last time the Orange Fucknut went grocery shopping? He's a clueless racist bastard.
This dipshit believes anything anyone tells him. And the only people telling him things, are the sycophants he surrounds himself with. Of course he thinks everything he's doing is making everything better. They're all afraid to tell him anything else.
We've always been at was with Eastasia.
1 in 3 respondents maintain that tariffs have been beneficial for the economy
So pretty much the entire Republican base that always believe the bullshit Faux "News" spreads.
19% of respondents think groceries are now easier to afford.
I guess it's nice that reality has finally penetrated their base? At least until they come up with some spin that makes them even more deranged, like during the pandemic :/
"Don't believe your lying eyes"
Why would anyone ever believe the man who has never been grocery shopping in his life? Does anyone really think that Donny 2 Inches actually knows the price of a bottle of milk or a loaf of bread?
