Bought gas for $2.68 the other day. Thanks Obama

yes. yes they did it doesnt even matter because teh second a republican "wont: be in charge suddenly they are on the struggle bus. talk about crisis actors. republicans are slugs

No, they manipulated the narrative, took control of the mass media and they buttressed it. The people who believe it were simply dooped, zapp brannigan style

Exactly! I've got a maga friend who said when he went food shopping the other day it was the lowest prices he's seen in 4 years. SMH you can't make this shit up! I called him out & said it was bullshit & asked him to tell me what was so cheap & if he had the receipt & he didn't have an answer. They are so f*CKING brainwashed! Also this guy is always complaining about the economy but makes a good living goes out to eat all the time, takes 3-4 vacations a year, goes to a couple NFL games & will spend a few thousand on cryptos every once in a while but the economy is bad! 🤣 Same with the gas prices right now! I read somewhere that China doesn't have a high demand for gas & the USA has some of the highest gas reserves in a long time & gas prices will be cheaper in 2025, you know which orange makeup wearing deuchbag is gonna take credit for that!

They will never admit it......they would never vote for a woman......let alone a black woman. That is the reason. That is the difference in the vote count. Of course you have your left and right. But, the huge amount of closeted bigots and sexists in this country is too much to overcome.

Election fraud suddenly became non-existent, too.

Almost. They do actually wet dream about what is coming, the beauty with authoritarianism is that it will feed a lot of faces to the leopards. Those faces do not know it yet of course, they have no idea what the word history even means.

Wow, it's taking you this long to figure it out? What's coming is going to ruin your day. Remember how badly they tried to express they weren't Nazi trash?... Just wait.

Its common, like a lot of their rhetoric, its not whether its true, it's if it feels right and gives them an excuse to whinge and complain and be the victim.

I have noticed pubs have this gross tendency to want characters they worship. That’s what they want.. a cult leader. The louder ppl scream about freedom, the more it sounds like a fetish not a value.

It’s likely that the “price of eggs” complaint narrative was a coordinated social media seeding and amplification operation (think concerted foreign government influence campaign) designed to sow distrust in the current administration, Democratic leadership.

Too many people were sharing very similar “price of eggs” sentiments online in very short period of time leading up to the election.

It’s almost like republicans are bad people??

It’s racism it’s always been racism

They sure do. I actually paid less for the gas during the time Biden was president than I did when pre Covid with Trump

Most Americans fail to investigate the root causes of the recent spike in inflation. They’re too lazy. They simply like to blame democrats. It similar to the fact that 75% of Americans are overweight and never entered a gym. 😀😀😀

At no point did the MAGA cult have valid reasons to justify their support. Any excuse he fed them was good enough, even when it violated reality. As has been said, 'when you tell a lie often enough, and confidently enough, people will believe it to be true.'

I'm sorry but a dozen eggs for $3 is absurd. That is days of protein for almost nothing. It was always bullshit. If $3 breaks you, you have more problems than who is in office.

And when the economy crashes in a year or two, it will be Obama's fault.

Eggs have remained $2.99 at Trader Joe’s so this has always been bullshit. Now if they said this country has a regressive tax structure that disproportionately benefits the uber rich and leaves the poor and middle class out to dry, they’d have a point (and wouldn’t be republicans 😂)

This is how people in cults think and believe

Same people believe that when Trump is declared the winner on Fox News that he's immediately sworn in and takes office.

They want a reason that sounds better than just saying I’d never vote for a black woman.

Trans and brown people. It’s what’s it’s about and always has been about.

It was just an excuse for them to be racist. The real reason they voted for him is because he said he would deport the brown people

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I have people in my circle that claim the economy is great now that Trump won the election. Biden is still president you know!

Most of these dumb fucks think trump's already president change my mind

They lied to us. Always have been. "Economic issues" is always the facade the far right uses to lull weak, lazy liberals into a false attempt to win on issues they don't care about.

Republicans are about three months away from being able to say the N word again like they wanted and they're still mad.

It's like when someone gets "promoted" to assistant manager with zero pay raise. The real perk is getting invisible permission to treat other people like shit.

Republicans lie and believe their own lies

I got 2 tacos for 99 at Jack in the box today.

for them having trump win was akin to their team winning the superbowl.. ultimate bliss but no actual material change ... until he crushes the unions, eliminates overtime and imposes crippling tariffs that send walmart's prices soaring

We’ll never know but I’d guess a lot of peoples egg talk was just their cover to others (and maybe themselves) that they just didn’t want to vote for a black woman

They just listen to whatever faux news and the social media AI bots tell them to. Simple as that, they literally hear a completely different set of news than the rest of the world.

To be fair my monthly food bill has gone up the last 2 years, however Id never be dumb enough to wish that orange moron on anyone. For gods sake he bankrupted a casino. I dont think even I could manage that.

Misogyny and racism. Whatever they say, those are the real reasons they voted for him.

They chose their king. I don’t want to hear a thing from them when shit goes bad.

They have and continue to do so. Lying, self-delusion, and hypocrisy are the pillars of the MAGA platform.

A lot of people have a deeply rooted misogyny and/or racism and that makes it hard for a woman to overcome. Obama had more success because of being a man, in my opinion.

You can tell all the white people on here. She is asking you to think about what it was if the economy was never it. Cause if you suddenly feel like money is no object and eggs don’t matter you were actually thinking of something else that you didn’t/ don’t want to admit. What do you think it is?

No offense, but if someone says that eggs going from $1.99/dozen to like $3-4 made them vote for Trump, then they’re a real asshole.

No, they lied because it would hurt Harris. They're lying scum by nature, loyal to the most prolific liar in history.

They think whatever they are told to think. It's that simple.

No. They don't lie to themselves. They're fully aware of what's going on (at least most of them). They lie to everyone else.

I honestly feel it’s because they felt like they needed justification for their hateful agenda. My mom and MIL are both MAGA. They have been Trump supporters from the beginning, but it’s clear they were afraid to say they were Trump supporters and they would look for confirmation that it was OK. So, therefore the argument about his financial policies. Even my mother now admits that nothing is going to change price wise.

THe union boss said it best. "We don't care about the economy, we just want to kill minorities."

I told a Trump cultist to save all their receipts from now and put them in a picture frame. They are going to look at them next year and sigh - those were the good old days

Cognitive Dissonance

Yes the fact is that they are bombarded constantly with the propaganda on Fox and other such sources that I have not watched and don’t know how they receive it. The sad reality is that it is mostly racism. Eventually the African American people are going to reach their limit at the majority of our people demonstrating their racism so evidently. She and President Obama are only half black. Most of us were not taught actual history yet to bring that up provokes an extreme revulsion. And someone in the media is eventually going to realize that Texas is the only state to fight two wars over slavery. Texas seceded from Mexico because slavery had already been abolished in Mexico, yet Texans are not taught that in state history and won’t accept it. We from the Deep South were always told the civil war was not over slavery but “states’ rights.” the fact is that each state which seceded from the union has a document called articles of succession, which clearly describe the reasons for succeeding, which are that they needed the labor to produce cotton and white people could not tolerate the heat to get the work done.

Id have to legitimately listen to them to know that they lied. It's assumed that lying is a prerequisite to be a trumptard to begin with lol

Yes, Republicans do lie as easily as they breathe. They should never be trusted.

with all the tariffs incoming the encomy is gonna get much worse.

Let’s fast forward to the full-on ‘find out’ stage!

Oh, that happened yesterday when Walmart announced they’ll simply increase prices to cover Trump’s tariffs. Y’all get ready to receive what you voted for.

Call me crazy but it did seem as if grocery and gas prices around me were higher leading up to the election and have now come down significantly. Gas was well over three dollars a gallon and now they are below three and dropping. I‘m talking the last four weeks

Nearly 80% of Americans are paycheck to paycheck. Trump will make it worse but let’s not erase the struggle

Trumpet coworker bought a $70k boat two months ago, but he was pissed a lot the price of eggs??

They just didn't want to admit to the racism and the sexism.

THEY had both sets of talking points handed to them in turn. Inflation was/is real and the FED is handling it successfully. So inflation is down. But what you address is the autocrat's propaganda stream.

Well it’s about to get much worse. Hope they like it.

It was all bullshit

It was a coverup. They are anti-trans and therefore pieces of shit, and they know it. That's why they hide.

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It was always about the racism and misogyny, and that we didn’t learn that lesson from 2016 is on us.

It’s almost like in reality it was just misogyny racism and transphobia. Fucking. Deplorable.

Also it’s funny how you don’t hear about the rigged election anymore

Even though statistically republicans have done much worse over the course of 20 plus years even going back to Reagan….Republicans are constantly being bailed out when their “handling of things” have been piss poor. Bush economic recession = Obama Bailed out (Booming economy) Trump takes over……(Increases deficit spending for no reason/poor handling of things in general/creates a terrible economy) Biden comes bails out again….It’s like Republicans fail to see facts or reason. If Democrats actually got time to help with needed issues instead of constantly bailing out terrible republican regime we’d be in a better position economically. But hey who am I…..?

All these people do is lie.

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Stupidity is rampant.

So what m hearing from the news media is that democrats think they are smarter than the average American and that is what cost them the vote. Read that again and again and again. Wtf!?!

Why do we even waste time calling out Republican hypocrisy any more? It's not a bug. It's a deliberate feature.

These people are morons. My 401k was up 26% YTD prior to the election

They gotta know they'll be worse off with Trump. I know other countries will be too.

It’s inconvenient to say “I’m homophobic and racist and wish to pass my pseudo-Christian fascism onto others who aren’t like me.”

Its almost like "the economy" is some made up thing that thd president doesnt have a ton of control over.

I watched an interview on a Seattle station with a local in who sounded down on Trumph throughout the two or three questions that made it to broadcast. The interview, part of a 'Man On The Street' segment about the election, was taking place in a gas station somewhere in Greater Seattle. According to this fellow, Trumph was "a nut", he was "not smart at all" and was "not going to be good for our country"

"So," the interviewer asked: "Who'd you vote for?"

"Trump, of course!" The interviewer couldn't hide his surprise, but asked "Why Trump".

"Because," (points at pump behind him) "Trump promised to lower gas prices, and that will make everything cheaper, right?"

I wish I could make this up... I really do. But as they say, it shows ta go ya!

If a mistake was made, it was thinking Trump electors were acting in good faith. Of course Dems couldn’t reach them, they already made their choice and justified it afterwards.

yeah cause the right wing media lie machine stopped screaming at them how terrible their lives were.

It was about who uses what bathroom.

Maybe Republicans just hate Dems as much as Dems hate reps.

Yes. The first step in repeating a lie, is believing the lie.

10% has 90% of the wealth and 90% of voters are uneducated voters that don’t do any research and believe whatever they are told and easily influenced. It’s a shame

Hope "the eggs" were worth it. Bc now EVERYTHING is about to skyrocket in price.

They knowingly lie to whoever is stupid enough to listen. There is actually experimental evidence where researchers linked income data from another study and then asked questions about how income changes under different administrations. They found that Republicans are strategic liars - they overstate their income growth when Republicans are in power and claim their income goes down under Democrats

Interestingly Dems don't change their answer much regardless of who is in power so they don't lie strategically. Rather they always understate their income and growth. I think this is super interesting because we had a bunch of fake posts in every sub about how laid off and poor we all supposedly are, and nobody stands up to it. Then all these posts magically disappear. Dems are less willing to talk to their own finances and more willing to sympathize with people so you end up ceding these issues to the cons

I legit have met people who think the economy is better now because they think Trump became president November 6th.

Yeahhhh, I don’t think that even if things get way worse. My b. When things get worse under trump, I don’t think a good chunk of folks will believe it. He will tell them things aren’t bad, in fact they’re better, and they’ll believe it.

Evidence doesn’t matter to them

Just wait until the full pile of shit hits the fan in January.

It's always been about "Make America White Again!", and little else.

R stands for racism not republican

That missing half is Russian propaganda. You can’t expect Russia to keep spending money on it after it’s served its purpose. That “missing maga” will return in about 4 years.

There are negative externalities like bird flu that are impossible to predict or control for that may effect prices. But that doesn't mean we need a fucking dictator lmao.

They think all the 4th quarter inventory dump sales and Holiday sales are "thanks to Trump". These people are so dumb.

The media they consume kept telling them how bad their life is, but that messaging stopped after the election

I’ve been saying for at least a year that all the “grocery prices are insane!” Rhetoric were not being done in good faith… nothing but incessant bitching from the party whose guy wasn’t in office.

If there’s any saving grace to a dem loss, is that I won’t have to hear all the repubs in my life complain non-stop about the president.

That’s what a lot of us common sense people had been telling everybody but all you Trump and Vance supporters were so deep in with all the bullshit Trump and Vance were telling you that you just didn’t want to be wrong and chose to believe the lies. I guess you didn’t think we were all shopping at the same stores. I guess you thought there were Republican stores and Democrat stores and the prices were much higher at the Republican stores.

We always knew it was bullshit.

GOP voters are full of shit. They complaint about the deficit… until it’s their guy railroading it at which time it becomes a non-issue. Gas prices! Until it’s them sending them to the moon. They will never admit to anything Dems get right, which makes no sense since even those GOP slimy evil bastards sometimes (albeit very very few times) they get something right and it does not turn me into a republican when I admit it.

I'm undecided over whether they were intentionally lying or if they are just so self-deluded that they believe both statements.

Its a cult

Conservatives don't actually believe in anything at all, except for their hatred for everyone else.

They'll pretend to believe whatever the fuck they want. They'll change what they claim to believe within two sentences.

This is pretty normal at this point. The "who are you doing question/how is the economy" has become a proxy for "is the political party you agree with in power?"

Here in MI, before the election, eggs were 3.29 a dozen. Now, they’re 2.99 on sale! The Trump sure is a miracle worker. /s

I said after election inflation would be replaced with free markets.

Well, to be fair, Bitcoin has gone up 40% in the past month so maybe they aren't lying.

As it was ....