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.
Dude that top ring frog splash from Bernie took me by surprise, then the tombstone SLAM from warren
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 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)
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
There should be billboards by now.
COME ON
AND SLAM
AND WELCOME
TO THE
JAM!
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.
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.
Add Breaking to that list.
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
Does anyone else have “Slam” on their BINGO card? That’s my free space.
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.
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.
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
Same “Oh there’s a plan, it’s just a long term one.”
I guess that makes sense, afterall, if he de-humanizes enough transpeople all our groceries will become free, that’s just logic! /sarcasm
Yeah imagine a plan to fix hyperinflation taking more than eight days to implement.
We did, that’s why we voted for the adult instead of the orange turd that claimed he could fix it in one day. So since we were obviously wrong, and it’s been what, weeks of one days, it seems fair to mention.
He has concepts of a long-term plan.
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?
They can’t really do anything to a filibuster.
And did the democrats had plenty of time under biden to introduce bills regarding grocery prices. All I remember were strongly worded 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.
Harris had disgusting behavior on the campaign trail? She didn’t piss me off until she said “Fuck confirming judges or demanding recounts or investigations, I’m going to Hawaii!”
Yes. Her campaign shit all over Muslim americans. She refused to condem or even admit to the genocide. She repeatedly tried to gaslight americans over bidens mental fitness. And completely ignored the economic hardships many are experiencing. Wouldn’t commit to keeping ms khan because her family member was under investigation by the ftc.
Absolutely disgusting. Never mind the fact she had no real policies positions that would have improved anything.
And then on top of all that nonsense, palling around with Cheney. And rank and file members immediately throwing lgbt+ under the bus post election in an attempt to deflect responsibility for the loss because of their shit policies.
Dont get me started about actions she took over the last 4 years as VP.
But she and the dnc lost because they refuse to acknowledge how absolutely pissed americans workers are atm. And keep trying to gaslight us.
Yeah a bunch of people were pissed off. They should have voted for her anyway. The choice was shit, or radioactive shit. Personally, I’m kind of fucking furious over everyone with the privilege of washing their hands of participation because they knew they wouldn’t feel the consequences.
The sad truth is that everything you posted is right, and it still wasn’t the reason she lost. A third of the country just didn’t fucking vote. And it wasn’t even in protest.
It’s telling how much they downvote your sensible take
Keep on it guys! If downvotes were real votes, you’d surely win the election!
“Nothing fundamentally will change.”
Let’s never forget when the undertaker slammed mankind on the floor from the top of hell in a cell
The con man who sells shoes, NFTs, launched a meme coin and bankrupted a casino was never going to lower prices on anything. Fools got played!
And cutting energy costs will rid poultry farms of bid flu how exactly?
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New COVID (bird flu being ignored and all)
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Lots more dead people
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Less demand, lower prices!
wait, what were we talking about again? Ah yes, killing more minorities.
And that’s where the model fails. Whatever new pandemic (or maybe USdemic only, as other countries still do vaccines) hits, there is a good chance it will hit those producing food the hardest - they are at the bottom of the chain, they have to work every day to pick and process food or it may go bad, and they cannot do this from the safety of the home office. Besides, the last pandemic has already shown that some employers consider protective measures as a waste of money. And if the new USdemic really is a bird flu variant (apart from the H5N1 there is now another strain H5N9), it is quite likely that it starts its foothold in the farming communities as a bonus.
So food production is not unlikely to get hit hardest, which might actually completely wreck the “less demand” part.
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Coming through big time on some other day one shit though.
And just to be clear I mean all the bad shit.
Democrats playing chess while republicans are shitting on the board
Republicans are using quantum computers while Democrats are using Packard Bells with a 386 CPU.
Apparently that’s a valid move, they won
Since it’s not expressly forbidden in the rules, and the referee is friends with the republicans, (and also someone who has money riding on the outcome has promised to pay them), the democrats have no choice but to shrug and say the next game is going to be the most important one yet, while seating a player that has no clue how to play
I mean of course, because the game that’s actually going on is real life and not chess. If you saw a guy playing chess by himself in the park and a dude runs up and let loose on the board, who won? The guy who just lost twelve and a half pounds or the guy sitting in it saying “hmmm, the Dennis Prager gambit?”
That’s gotta be one of the most hilariously and depressingly accurate descriptions of the situation I’ve seen
Google “En Poosant”
Holy shit!
Trump flips the board, pieces go everywhere and exclaims, “I win! I’m the best at Checkers!”
Democrats taking a nap while republicans are shitting on the board.
The Republicans control all three branches of government.
The nap has been going on for decades.
This doesn’t change the fact that Republicans control all three branches of government right now.
Voters could have changed that, but they didn’t.
They were probably all protesting the sleepy Dems right? So they all got what they wanted right?
Spoken like someone who was satisfied with the Biden administration.
You know, he actually passed some of the most monumental legislation in decades, a lot of it with bipartisan support. But because we are not living on the starship enterprise here you are as usual shitting on everything and everyone.
You know, he actually passed some of the most monumental legislation in decades
He passed the IRA, which was a consolation prize for Democrats killing BBB. You might be satisfied with the same legislation that manchin was willing to vote for. I saw what Democrats killed. BBB never came to the floor for a vote. I’m sure you’re satisfied that minimum wage stayed low like you want it.
As for the “bipartisan support,” yeah, democrats voted for some republican legislation like the anti-trans defense bill.
But because we are not living on the starship enterprise here you are as usual shitting on everything and everyone.
“Don’t support genocide.” “Fucking progressives expect perfection.”
How much slamming will it take to stop the full-tilt fascism train? Are we almost there yet?
Depends, is Luigi involved?
Tyfys for slamming Trump.
Don’t forget finger wagging and strongly worded letters
Journalists have ruined the word slam over the last couple of years
slamming alone is not enough i’m afraid. they also need to “rip” and “jab” them
We need more forceful language like annihilates or obliterates or I dunno excoriate. I find any headline that uses this style of headline is generally crap though generally.
i’m partial to “eviscerate”. but i agree, i feel like these headlines are just a more clickbaity way of communicating “X says Y” and typically that’s not super interesting. especially when lots of other people are already saying Y.
