Summary
Democratic lawmakers, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, criticized Trump for failing to address rising food costs despite campaign promises to lower prices “immediately.”
In a letter, they accused Trump of focusing on mass deportations and January 6 pardons instead of tackling grocery inflation, which rose 1.8% in 2024, with egg prices up 36.8%.
Trump’s administration defended its actions, citing efforts to reduce inflation by cutting energy costs.
Can we please fucking stop using slam in headlines already? It got old 2 decades ago.
… and don’t put “IMPORTANT” in your email subject.
I’m really tired of the phrase “make no mistake” too.
Yeah, time to slam that word out of existence!
Slam the door on slamming
Add Breaking to that list.
Too bad “slam” just means some grandstanding in Congress with absolutely 0 changes to the situation. For the amount of money we spend paying various congress-critters to sit in a room kvetching at each other all day, it’d be nice if some of that turned into actionable changes.
If the Democrats want to get some credit fucking do something. As if the election results didn’t display this, the average American is not entirely pleased with the Democrats. If they ever want to fill the White House ever again, we better see more than “slamming” happening.
What the fuck do you expect them to do with a minority at every level? All they can do is try to get the message out.
Trump has repeatedly made empty campaign promises, yet voters take the bait every fucking time.
Pointing this out in real time is an important step.
What do I expect? I expect them to do a better job than they did last time around the electoral bush where they just sort of shoved Kamala forward at the last minute and the base reacted with indifference. If the democrats want some love, show us some love. DO SOMETHING. Just because the Republican party is a cesspit of infighting and unproductivity doesn’t mean every party has to be.
I don’t expect this to be easy, but if they want to stay relevant they MUST take on this work.
COME ON
AND SLAM
AND WELCOME
TO THE
JAM!
Just do the same thing they did. Print stickers of Trump saying ‘I did this’ pointing to high prices of things like eggs.
It’s crazy to see “price of eggs!” as a talking point appear on every major broadcaster a month before the election as the defacto rubric for economic strength. Then trillions invested in Western based AI gets obliterated within a week of the new administration taking office.
Well since 50% of Americans don’t own stocks and 93% is owned by the top 10%, eggs definitely affect the average person more.
A factory worker may not own a single share of stock and still rationally express concerned when the firm’s stock price plummets.
The enormous upfront investment of capital in a rapidly outdated administration model should be extremely alarming to individuals whose employment is predicated on the output of that model.
Are you trying to say that people being fired from Nvidia is more important than egg prices? Maybe let me check how many employees they have. Seems to be about 30k. Idk man comparing human experiences at this scale gets pretty sticky. Maybe it’s just confirmation bias, but egg prices and by extension grocery prices are probably more important to the average person. Infact they even affect Nvidia employees that are fired.
Are you trying to say that people being fired from Nvidia is more important than egg prices?
People from Nvidia, from Facebook, from Microsoft, from all the attendant businesses surrounding those firms.
Compound this with the consequences of money invested into AI at both the private and public levels that was supposed to supplement neglected spending in basic science R&D on the ground that AI could do R&D better (because it’s God? Idk)
So there’s a knock on effect to egg prices, given that the egg shortage is driven by Bird Flu and we’re neglecting Bird Flu to build AI God.
I wanted to do this but I gotta figure out how to print my own because the prices I’ve been seeing on those are ludicrous for stickers.
If anyone actually thought that piece of shit trump was going to do anything about grocery prices, they are fucking fools.
And I fully understand that this letter is just theater. Stupid, shitty, ineffective theater.
Fuck this whole fucking piece of shit grift called a government.
Looks like Trump is way ahead of you since he asked everyone to resign or be fired later.
JFC “Well we sent a letter! what else do you want from us?”
“Why don’t people like democrats anymore??”
There should be billboards by now.
Yeah cuz dems really did a good job of holding down grocery prices and stopping price gouging
Fucking stop grandstanding and actually do something useful.
You want the people who lost power to do something?
Yeah i want them to actually put up a fight not just roll over and let trump tickle their bellies.
But nah we will just get 4 more years of them saying “see we aren’t as bad as that” even though they did fuck all when they had power except launch a genocide
You see, when Democrats hold both chambers and the presidency they are powerless against their centrists, but when Republicans do the Democrats are also powerless to stop Democratic centrists from defecting and cancelling out the last 3 Republicans with a vague sense of ethics.
Weird how that works.
(The point is the government is thoroughly controlled by conservatives either way)
Republicans don’t care when there’s a Republican in the White House. Then it’s just God’s will.
Everytime I ask a republican what it is that Trump is doing that will help with prices they say ‘wait and see!’ like he is going to pull some sort of magic trick.
Sounds a lot like “prayers and thoughts”. They are a faith based people after all.
“Now is not the time to talk about
gun violencehigh prices.”/s
For some reason the Republicans voters I know seem to think that their party is going to pass all the regulatory legislation that that Democrats were suggesting.
I just don’t understand them. How did they get this brainwashed? It’s not just frustrating. It’s depressing.
The very second prices come down on their own, with nothing Trump did affecting it, he and his cult will point and say “SEE?!”
S L A M
So fucking do something about it, Democrat dipshits
Did you forget that the Republicans have control of all three branches of government?
the democrats had plenty of time under biden to introduce bills regarding grocery prices. All I remember were finger wagging press releases and corporate give aways in funding.
The past is gone, the now is republicans. I know it’s hard to remember, but they’re in control of everything. The voters could have also not voted trump in, why not get mad at them?
The voters could have also not voted trump in, why not get mad at them?
This is so completely upside down it hurts. “Why punch up when you could punch down?”
Even if voters were the ones at fault, it’s completely pointless and unproductive to blame the public at large because changing their behavior is a hell of a lot harder than changing the behavior of the handful of people running the campaign. They should be the ones to change based on what the voters want, it shouldn’t be the voters who have to change based on what politicians want to do!
Yeah, but that point is in the past. And back then, a whole shitload of people decided it wasn’t worth their time/energy/feelings to vote for the not-a-nazi.
The reality of now is that no one can do shit. Feel free to post more theory about how shit should work. It won’t amount to shit, we’re in fascist oligarchy times. You’re not going to change their behavior.
dude that was a few months ago. =) they literally wasted 4 years. again. I’m pissed because my entire adult life the democrats have been worse than ineffectual at improving the american baseline. The republicans managed to take all 3 branches because of how piss poor democrats have been at representing their base. after harris’ disgusting behavior on the campaign trail and biden absolute disgusting policies w/ respect to israel im basically done with the DNC at the national level, they can rot.
They can’t really do anything to a filibuster.
What’s with the fucking eggs, why does everyone focus on fucking eggs. There’s more food than God damn eggs for fucks sake
It’s a staple used in a fuckton of recipes in addition to being a go-to breakfast item. Many Americans stupidly ignore politics, but still pay a lot of attention to the prices of common goods like milk, eggs, bread, gasoline, etc. Folks are living hand to mouth because the billionaires hoard all the money.
Speak for yourself heathen.
I eat eggs.
I would rather starve than eat something other then eggs.
Meat? Gross. Vegetables? Ick. Sugar? Fuck off.
Eggs. Just eggs.
I hope they lock your egg loving ass up!
Don’t egg me on man
Eggcellent
I find puns to be eggregious
eggscuse me?
I have an eggumenical attachment.
Never figured my rage induced post would spurr such eggceptional responses
You’ll just have to learn to eggcept that people love eggs
Just guessing, but eggs are a major staple in the average American diet that don’t have a whole lot of comparable alternatives like grain or milk. So when there’s a shortage or prices go up, people don’t have something to replace it with so it’s more apparent that they’re missing out on something and that gets attention.
Eggs used to be people’s go-to for cheap animal protein
They are particularly high right now due to non economic reasons (disease).
Everything is particularly high right now due to non-economic reason: oligopoly and greed.
Authoritarian reasons: thousands of businesses forcibly shut down a few years ago, leading to massive market consolidation, leading to less competition, leading to the greed being unchecked.
Greed didn’t recently appear on the scene. Attributing the inflation to greed is like attributing Ukraine war deaths to gunpowder.
Reminds me of the Republicans with the “raw milk”.
I wish they’d drink all the raw milk they can get their hands on.
Never mind, on the next election we’ll vote for someone else, to lower the price of vegetables at that time
Next election?
Yes, we’ll still have them. Red states will just throw out any votes they don’t like.
He should be physically slammed to the concrete floor multiple times
SLAMMED
How do I filter out those stupid meaning ngless words? Under fire, roasted destroyed… I just can’t anymore according to headlines Trump should be molecular paste by now.
THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON TRUMP!
Don’t forget the “nevers” (“Never been the same again”, “changed forever”) and the infernal “question headline” (“Are aliens controlling our egg prices?”). AKA every YouTube title.
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER! ULTRA COMBO!
THAT AINT BERNIE
Bernidito sandoras
Donald Trump PILED DRIVE’D HEAD FIRST INTO A FOLDING TABLE by Democrats pointing out his policy promises are a 50 ton diesel trunk full of horse shit. . On the one had it’s a good criticism because this is what he cult thought he wasn’t lying about it. On the other hand, he fully admitted his polices would cause run away inflation and fuck the economy to death in his ‘‘When I said I’d ruin your life last, I lied’’ secret sex metaphor dungeon 30 feet below Mar-y-lago.
Dude that top ring frog splash from Bernie took me by surprise, then the tombstone SLAM from warren
