TrailGuy

I guess you haven’t gotten a raise in 5 years

They also have Trump telling them lies that they now believe. He's constantly telling his base that we are a failing nation, grocery prices have quadrupled, our nation will be gone if he loses. All lies.

I agree with you that you can't tell a person that they are actually better off now than they were 4 years ago. But as far as an exercise of agreeing on truthful facts, you and I can agree that they are, right?

Your point is that we can ignore facts and data and just go by what people feel? Wasn't there a time where you exclaimed "Fock your feelings"

The source is the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. You can look it up yourself. Of course it is on the internet.

Years from now those of you that made excuses for and supported Donald Trump are going to look in the mirror and have a reconciliation with what you've done. Hopefully for some of you this comes before Nov 5.

Wages are up to the point were groceries are cheaper now compared to wage than in 2019. Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/groceries-are-more-affordable-now-than-in-2019-so-why-are-people-still-so-mad-about-prices-74b5a6db

Yes we're talking about groceries.

Not the argument...but... 1) show your work. 2) buying power now is greater than during the greatest economy in the world final year. Fact. I shared my work. You can't deny.

You simply don't understand. I didn't have to back to 2019. I chose to go back to 2019 to compare buying power now vs then. 2024 is better. Facts not feels.

It's not arbitrary. See people say that under Biden you can't afford anything anymore. But the truth is you can afford more now than under trump.

You don't understand. You have more buying power now than before COVID. More buying power now than during the so called greatest economy in the history of the world. Does that make sense to you?

For more than two years now, higher prices have been pinching consumers’ wallets and testing their patience — but there’s at least one part of their monthly budget that has more breathing room these days: For the average U.S. worker, it now takes fewer hours of work to afford a week’s worth of groceries than it did five years ago, in August 2019. That’s according to a MarketWatch analysis of wage and inflation data that shows how the price of food relative to wages has fluctuated in recent years. In other words: Despite substantial postpandemic increases in food costs, wages have now more than caught up with prices in this crucial spending category. And it’s easier for the average American worker to put food on the table than it was a couple of years ago. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/groceries-are-more-affordable-now-than-in-2019-so-why-are-people-still-so-mad-about-prices-74b5a6db

But why spending on illegals? Why not spending on defense? Or corporate welfare? Or aid to Israel? Or any other spending that you approve of? If money is money and spending is spending all from one bucket, then don't you see you're cherry picking?

This whole argument about we can't provide disaster relief because we spent money on illegals is pure nonsense. First we have provided disaster relief, that's your first lie. What Mayorkas said was we have another hurricane coming and need more money. That's the way the govt works. Second we spend lots of money on lots of things, but the right wing will single out spending on illegals because they have been trained to spread hatred of illegals. Everything Trump pushes is hatred of illegals. This is no different. Everything is an excuse to blame something you don't support. We saw this Ukraine as well. Facts not feels.

You think this administration spends more on illegals than citizens?

The right keeps spreading lies about FEMA funding and response and how Biden created these storms. I feel like we're living in an alternate reality. Half of America is literally insane.

JD Vance has never heard of the Logan act. Trump had thousands of top secret documents in his bathroom and made calls to Putin several times from his home. He's praised Putin and done his bidding to get the US to stop funding his opposition. You're f'ing blind if you can't see how trump is in Putins back pocket. And you cucks vote for him.

Texas in play

Trump refused the 60 minutes interview because he didn't want to get fact checked. Sad.

Ah no. Lindell has been an avid and open trump supporter since 2016. He only lost retailers between 2021 and 2023 due to low demand. The reason he's bankrupt is because he was named in a $1.3B lawsuit by dominion voting systems after he spread lies about the voting being rigged. He was also ordered to pay a software engineer $5m after lindell claimed he had proof that the election was stolen and offered anyone $5m to prove him wrong. He was proven wrong.

This is a complete lie. The x algorithm pushes his content to everyone's feeds and his content is right wing maga rhetoric, often falsehoods. I have an x account I use for sports, gambling, etc. I don't follow musk. I see musk tweets about how migrants are eating pets or fema ignoring flood victims. I tell x I want to see less musk, I don't. I block musk, still see them. Anytime I accidentally click on a musk post, I see more right wing propaganda. So you can't say that his opinion is different from the platform. The platform has allowed and pushed his opinion on its users. Facts not feels.

Amazing to me that Trump and his surrogates continue to tell blatant lies about FEMA providing no aid or support over the weekend. Despite Republican governors saying the opposite is true. Who are these people that believe Trump any longer? Amazing.

What do illegals have to do with a natural disaster?

The Great Replacement Theory is a far right wing racist conspiracy theory that resulted in the mass murder of dozens of people of color from Buffalo to El Paso by Maga Trump Supporters. Elon Musk pushing this rhetoric is extremely dangerous for Kamala Harris. It's a shame to hear this vitriol repeated here.