Ooh that's a good one

Excellent. Nazi garbage is shooting your representatives dead in their homes, burning down the houses of judges who rule against them, and gaining ground every single day, and the US “left”‘s response is to snark online about how dumb they are.

You’ll be congratulating yourself for being more intelligent and informed all the way to the camps.

I was about to say…. I think those might be related.

Can't believe Wharton hasn't revoked his degree yet.

next you're gonna tell me the dollar is down ~10% year to date

Losing ten pounds is likely a good idea for people like this.

As someone who lives in Canada:

We'll fucking do it again too.

Project 2025 was a success, good job MAGAts the future is a lot clearer... Cleansed of intelligent life

Bubble do tend to make the stock market look great.

If anything, it's a sign it's popping soon.

Another sign is the dollar is down 2 more cents to the Euro, now trading at about 83.5¢ per Euro, when last month it was at an average of 85.5.

They're gonna try and juice the economy all the way up to the midterm elections, but I'm unsure if the economy even has that much to squeeze.

Either way it's gonna do a nosedive next year.

Stocks are up because the dollar is losing value. Lol inflation even affects stocks!

The 10 year cyclically adjusted price/earnings ratio is well past 1929 levels. The only other time to be higher was the dotcom burst.

Except now banks have built in protection from bank runs. There's a reason you have a daily withdrawal limit on your accounts.

"No longer" lmao

Who enforces these laws he breaks? I think the wealthy having no laws has been the main problem in the United States for my entire lifetime. That and popular vote not meaning anything

Who's to say this is a lie? The ministry of truth? /s

I understand your frustration, but he was an inveterate liar before he was elected the first time. So, at least a plurality of the voting public don't see that as much of a negative.

When you own the news, or what morons think is news, so no one calls you out

The US rule of law is gone. The trump regime violates the constitution daily, breaks laws daily, and has violated court rulings and judges' orders. The supreme court is corrupt and has allowed him get away with anything. Nazis Republicans in congress are corrupt and refuse to check or limit the president's power.

Masked men in plain clothes are kidnapping innocent people off the streets daily and denying them a lawyer or due process. They are literally terrorists.

Where tf do I collect my chocolate ration!?

I recognise that reference just so you know

Fucking coffee in canada is becoming exorbitant

You're a genocide voter. You deserve the dictatute you wished for foreigners coward

North Korea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Pyongyang

The bombing of Pyongyang was conducted as part of a gradual and sustained United Nations Command aerial bombing of North Korea during the Korean War. The first bombing raid targeting Pyongyang occurred on June 29 1950, four days after North Korea's invasion of South Korea. By the time of the armistice in July 1953, 75 percent of Pyongyang's area had been destroyed.

Gotta remind me which major US city endured this kind of bombardment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

The famine stemmed from a variety of factors. Economic mismanagement and the loss of Soviet support caused food production and imports to decline rapidly. A series of floods and droughts exacerbated the crisis. The North Korean government and its centrally planned system proved too inflexible to effectively curtail the disaster. North Korea attempted to obtain aid and commercial opportunities, but failed to receive initial attention

Or which US states suffered from a combination of regional depression, natural disaster, and global embargo to justify the skyrocketing cost of food.

Yes, all of the nation is well fed. Uh huh. Sure

The difference between the US and NK is that in North Korea in the late 90s, there was quite literally not enough food to support the population.

The US doesn't have that problem. We are in full on Grapes Of Wrath territory.

The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.

There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

It didn't occur to me that they would be controlling him through AI videos but holy shit does that check out.

that book is very good. read it when it came out in 2005.

Coffee prices have also doubled or nearly doubled in most of Europe. So has cocoa. If climate change keeps hitting those crops they're going to be unattainable luxuries soon enough.

Good luck to you all in the US, soon enough you'll be back on pioneer diets.

I disagree that Americans don't pay attention to prices. Americans paying attention to prices was one of the biggest reasons why Biden lost. Biden and Harris were claiming that they'd beat inflation, that the economy was great, that America was on the right track and Harris just needed to continue Biden's policies - and Americans looked at their grocery bills and didn't buy it.

And that's what gives me a certain amount of hope in 2026. Because if people are going to bed hungry - and they will be - no amount of shitposting by Donnie and his cronies is going to convince them they're full.

Plus Stephen Miller showing him AI videos of the dystopian reality he imagined.

Are they sad and cult followers, or sad people who are following a cult?

I just want to be clear about this stuff.

Those were the days, when you could get a whole banana for ten bucks!

It's true that the iPhones of today are much faster than the iPhones of fifty years ago.

and the AI bubble which, once popped, will bring down the US economy twice as hard as the 2008 housing crisis did

I took economics, two whole years of it in college. By no means am I an economist, and I wouldn't assume I know enough about anything economically to make any value statements on a lot of what's going on.

But I will say that "early prices" is a term I've never heard before.

Yeah my eggs are definitely cheaper than when he took office, but I don't vote for a president for the price of one commodity.

A lot of hurrdurring going on there.

He can't fucking open doors on his own.

inflation also increased wages substantailly. if you didn't get an increase you should have changed jobs to get one. 5 years ago things were cheaper sure, but mc donlands wasn't paying 15-25/hr 5 years ago either, it was more like 10.

It's unironically worked for him his entire life.

I heard Ivanka had to get artificially inseminated because her body naturally rejected his sad and withered manhood.

That makes you a terrorist now.

EDIT: I think it does.

I’m getting my 3 year old nephew two things now but nobody else is getting shit cause I ain’t buying anything else but food and seasonings for said food

Double plus good!

It doesn't feel much like it's hitting new highs. It feels like the dollar is hitting new lows.

He doesn't even know what groceries are. He's as dumb as a doorstopper.

Don't say that, they'll believe you.

Choco ration has been increased from 70 grams to 50 grams, double plus good!

Eggs and milk go bad, that pancake mix does not. (Within reason)

When you complain about gas prices at 3 or 4 dollar, come visit us in Europe where the same amount costs about 8 dollars.

That is one of the main reasons why Europeans don't buy American cars.

Yeah, eggs are a terrible example. The sky high price last year wasn't because of inflation, it was because farms had to kill giant numbers of chickens due to the bird flu. If you take something like milk, it's more representative.

Cool, zoom out to what the price was before September

To add to the other reply, at one point we culled 52 million egg laying hens.

Coffee specifically is through the roof. Just 6 months ago a bag of New England Coffee was $5.99. Today that same bag of coffee is $11.69.

Bacon is $9 a pound. I'm straight up priced out of beef (not necessarily a bad thing).

Even my cat litter, Cedarific (wood based), this time last year was $6.99 a bag, and is now $8.99. I don't know how folks manage with the popular clay litters, they're almost $20 for a box. Fancy feast has gone from 69¢ a can to ¢98.

Why is store brand Pinesole $9 a bottle? It was on sale for $2.99 the other week and I bought 8 of them. Its now back up to $8.59. A Can of soup is $4 not on sale.

Olive oil is out of control, but a believe some of that is because of climate change.

I don't buy it often, but sometimes I'd pay the $5 for a Tony's chocolate bar for cookies. The price went up sometime in the last few months, and is now $6.99 and I just can't do it.

We just had to replace out car battery. The cheapest one was $180 at Walmart.

These are just the things I've noticed lately.

I really don’t know what anyone is smoking about these prices

Lots of regional variation. Lots of prices are sticky (once a grocery store can clear it's shelves at $X*2 they aren't going to lower the prices). Lots of the comments are straight up rumor, impression, word of mouth, or deliberate propaganda.

Things seem entirely reasonable/cheap to me

The supply chain shake up continues to rattle the automotive industry. Chip shortages plague electronics stores and make newer phones, computers, and consoles either unaffordable or unavailable. Trump tariffs on imports like pasta and coffee are showing up on store shelves over time - you can get cheaper domestic products, but if you're buying Brand X, you won't miss the price spike.

Meanwhile, rent is still extravogant. College debt is still an albatross. Health care isn't getting any cheaper. And wages are still skating in the danger zone for cost of living.

I wouldn't call anything "cheap" right now, either. Especially not if you're financing a bunch of credit card debt.

My price barometer is flavored seltzer water. It's reliably been $4-5 for years. What has changed is the quantity. Pre-Covid that was the price for a 12 pack. After, it was the price for an 8 pack. Some brands have even gone down to 6 packs at that price point. That type of shrinkflation has happened to a lot of products.

Where is this mythical gas price drop? I’d like to buy there.

While it hasn't gone up a lot, it's been pretty flat this year, to suggest it went down a lot is a lie.

Ah not in the us? Fair