"High prices are good for you, suckers." - G.O.P.

Here's how RepubliConners will play the con:

1. It won't cost you.

2. It's costing a tiny bit for a little time.

3. It's costing more but short time.

4. It costs a bunch and it will be a while but it's worth it. USA! USA! USA!

5. It's Obama's fault that the economy cratered.

Consumer Confidence (The Conference Board) and Consumer Sentiment (University of Michigan) both are in the toilet.

Disapproval was at 63%.

Tariffs was also at 31% approve, 63% disapprove.

On the release of the Epstein Files he was at 18% approve, 70% disapprove.

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No worries. Dump will announce that he will fix everything, Fux Noise will trumpet the bullshit and they'll all nod in agreement.

If he thinks raising prices is the way to lower prices, he's even dumber than he looks.

They lie to protect the bribes they are getting.

A failing economy is the fastest way to derail a president and his party. Cutting off consumer spending will help facilitate this!

... with those lying lips, Norman? Explain yourself; tell us in plain and simple terms how the bloody fuck this idiot president's tariffs are "for the good of the country". No. of course you can't, because they're not, and you're a filthy fucking liar. Innocent people are going to be severely impacted, and some will die, because you put Der Party before the people of this country. When I say, "innocent people", I do not include the simple-minded skidmarks that voted for you and that evil imbecile defiling the Oval Office; they deserve whatever fate befalls them. The rest of us do not.

The world market was just fine with how steel was made. US steel manufacturing was, I’m sure, at the highest capacity it could be at given demand. It’s not like they are just sitting around. Making new steel plants will take some time and…a lot of steel.

Housing especially new housing is another. So their chatter is that the Fed needs to lower the prime because people can’t afford to buy a house. At the same time Trump slaps a 35% tariff on Canadian goods. Unless there’s an exception for lumber that drives up the cost of construction. Again, US lumber doesn’t have equipment and crews just sitting around. Expanding production, Trump is opening up our land to be wiped out, will require a big investment in heavy equipment made with a lot of…steel.

I imagine the steel tariffs will get that number up to $55,000. It's why I continue to drive my 2012 Rav4.

My first house in Fox River Illinois, about 800 square feet, cost me $30,000.

I refuse to buy a car that costs more than my first house.

listings online and that same house sold about 6 months ago for $300,000. It's crazy.

There's a huge part of the idiocracy that would believe this.

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How is this for the good of the country? Demand details not just empty words. Even though a congress person represents a district his actions impact the entire country.

Cui bono?

Does no one ask?

“for the good of the country”?????

When you hear this you know it's about making the rich richer. How did our last austerity plans work out? Did they help you or any average person? Or did it just help out the filthy-rich elite oligarchs?

“for the good of the country” means expansive wealth for the filthy-rich. And NOTHING for the average American but hardship.

why do I feel like I'm being lied to.

And your first three guesses do not include Democrats or
ordinary people other than Trump and his inner circle
of billionaires.

Heil....

because the GOP is having to drink an awful lot of it.

Republican party will be thrilled with him.

They won’t even consider blaming him when he takes our Social Security Medicare, they will blame Biden like he tells them to. When they give us $.10 on the dollar or whatever it’s going to be, it will be Democrats fault don’t you know…

What's Ralph Norman care when Trump's tariffs make the cost of metal to spike? So do his prices.

Buuut I may piss down your neck and tell you it's raining!

And won’t have to worry about being fired by his angry constituents in the 2026 general elections.

This seems to really be the crux of their argument. But have they truly bothered to explain why we couldn't keep going "the way we were going"? Is this part of a new push to make dangerous, dirty, loud jobs great again? Are there millions of Americans clamoring to go to work in the steel mill? Modern mills are far more efficient, automated, and use a lot of recycled steel to produce the same amount of steel as in days past with only a fraction of the labor, so the idea that America is ever going to get "back" to a time when steel mills are a path to the middle class for millions of people is mere fantasy.

There are good national security reasons to maintain a robust steel manufacturing ecology within the borders of the U.S., but preparing in advance for some as-yet-unpredicted and unpredictable catastrophe isn't what a free market is equipped to do. We live in a just-in-time (JIT) economy where the means of production have been tuned to produce the products we need as close to the time we need them as is possible. We all saw the impact of this during the pandemic where it turned out that the world was not chock full of warehouses with years of stockpiled goods just waiting to be distributed to people suddenly needing them. With only a few exceptions like grain in the ancient world, that has never been the way commerce really worked.

So what was this "way we were going"? "From the end of 2019 to the end of 2023, U.S. GDP grew by 8.2 percent—nearly twice as fast as Canada’s, three times as fast as the European Union’s, and more than eight times as fast as the United Kingdom’s." ( https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/us-economy-excellent/678630/ ) Is that the way about which he was speaking?

The entire MAGA movement is rooted in nostalgia for an America that was benefitting greatly from worldwide demand for its products in the wake of the destruction of almost all of the means production in Europe and Asia following two brutal world wars. They do not understand at all that the way we are going is not back to that--thank goodness. And if they trigger a new round of world wars in order to try and replicate the post-WWII economy they clamor to get back to, jobs in steel manufacturing will be the least of all of our concerns.

It's really 95% as my director of AMERICAN GREATNESS will tell you, but you already know that you fraud. No one has ever had better numbers on the economy, NO ONE! EVER! Thank You For Your Attention to this Matter.

That was the motto of Liver Donors, the company in Monty Python that went around cutting out living people’s livers. “No one’s ever ‘ad their liver taken out by us and survived, ma’am!”

The steak I usually buy at a local market just went from $8.99 a pound to $10.99 a pound.