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

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        He can’t even use the “we tried nothing and we’re out of ideas” because his actions torpedoed the economy. And that… NO ONE could have foreseen from the Great Businessman.

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        Weird how often things become a sort of mystical force of nature when Republicans are involved. Even when their policies can be tied directly to higher inflation.

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      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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        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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          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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            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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              How quaint to think he’s capable of reading an actual book in the first place…

              …and that he’d read anything other than Mein Kampf or Turner Diaries

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      in order to ‘fail’, one must at least ‘try’. there was not even an attempt to. just some smoke and mirrors such as whining to europe about their own fuel reserves.

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      At the start of his the year it wasn’t so bad but it hasn’t been below 3% since the massive bombing campaign started. Recent inflation has been overwhelmingly driven by oil prices.

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        Agreed. The longer he has been in power and making decisions, the worse things have gotten. Trump chose to do wage this illegal war, and Rs in Congress chose to not only waive their congressional war power but actively defend their daddy in his quest to consolidate power to the executive. If it were 1776, they’d be begging British soldiers to quarter in their homes and drink their booze and fuck their wives and suck every drop of cum from their British soldier dicks. Rs today are a bunch of snowflake beta cuck losers, and I’m tired of pretending that they deserve any amount of respect. After six years of trump in power, nobody respectable could possibly still be falling for this shit.

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    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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    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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    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.