The POTUS is now raging against affordability, which is a new word he discovered less than a month ago. Here is Chris Hayes a couple of days after the November 7 elections.
The stuff about affordability is in the first three minutes or so, but the whole segment is worth watching.
On November 12 the White House released this video proclaiming that Trump is making America affordable again.
Sure he is. That same day Trump signed the bill that ended the shutdown. During the televised signing he accused the Democrats of wanting to give trillions of dollars to illegal aliens and promised affordability. So he’s all on board with this new affordability craze, I guess.
But no more. Now he’s big mad at affordability. Yesterday he called the word a “hoax” and a “Democrat con job.”
If you listen, you can pick up that he thinks inflation was last year’s problem that he has already solved and nobody is giving him credit for it. Because he won the election last year by a lot! So everything is fine now! See also Rachel Cohen at NJ.com, Trump just trashed his most major issue: ‘Worst messaging from a politician in history’.
In other news, the Republican won the special election in Tennessee but the margin looks uncomfortably slim to Republicans. “Tonight is a sign that 2026 is going to be a bitch of an election cycle,” said one House Republican.
The White House is also threatening to withhold SNAP money from states that refuse to share personal information about the people receiving the money — mostly blue states, obviously.
There’s more, as always, but that’s all I can deal with at the moment.
"Affordability" was a fun word – for a week. Trump lifted the tariff on coffee. Now, other members of his administration are trying to address the perception of higher prices, only to find that inflation is complex. As soon as Trump hears 'complex', he has a one-size-fits-all response. "Democratic Hoax."
Boom. Problem neutralized. Not only is the issue off-limits to future inquiry, the press is also expected to not report anything that suggests inflation continues or question the figures proposed by the administration that "prove" inflation does not exist. And where it does exist, people love it. "Now what was the next question about my magnificence?"
People will get squeezed HARD in the next month. There's a gap, I think, people feel between what they want to buy, and what they can afford. We're gonna see a spike in credit card debt for many and the firm belief that we are in hard times for those without credit who simply won't be able to afford gifts for their children. (This produces a special kind of anguish, I know.)
Next year, there will be a steeper-than-projected slowdown in spending. People who made merry with plastic in their wallets will see the credit card bills jump in January, which will be reflected in less spending elsewhere. By midyear, if prices continue to rise, we will see a spike in personal bankruptcies. Trump knows it all, so he will fix the problem late next year by taking control of the fed and slashing the prime – not a quarter-point decrease but several percent at a whack. This will bring on hyperinflation like we haven't seen since Nixon.
Enjoy the good times now – the downturn is just starting. Voters will still have a distrust of the Democratic Party, which I share. Can the proper messaging campaign thru the Trump Depression offer FDR-style Democratic Socialism as the trustworthy brand to prosperity? NY said yes. The rest of the country is more cautious but the you-know-what is being pumped thru the fan.
Affordable is a tough concept. Some are so sure they will win the lottery or find a rich person to wed they never even try to understand it. Others understand it to an extent and worry their inheritance will run out before their lifetime does. Those who understand the word better can find flaws in both ways of thinking.
A wise landlord once told me status was way more expensive that people thought it was. Even at my age I have a hard time thinking of a single time that statement turned out to be false. A close second was the more common adage, if it is free, you probably can't afford it. That one seems a bit self-contradictory but has much truth to it. So also, the statement that if a deal seems too good to be true it probably is not.
These make sense to me now in my understanding of affordability. It seems some older than me have not reached the same level of understanding.
Grocery is another tough one for some. I lived with some people who I fear would have starved to death with a full pantry and a well-stocked refrigerator. It was just way too much of a problem to get it made into food.
It's an alien concept to Trump, like "groceries." Cooked meals have always just appeared in front of him. I bet he's never so much as fried an egg in his life. Even back in the day that he owed more money than he had, he still had access to enough cash to live comfortably.
Diaper don has a new nickname "The Nodfather", I love it!
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It looks like they arrested someone in the J6 pipe bombings? I'm guessing he must not be black, mooslim, anifa or a radical leftist trans because Keystone Kash and Bondo haven't been hate posting about it?
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Yeah, the strange silence kind of speaks for itself.
Earlier today, watching the coverage of this… I couldn't help but ask myself: "Why is this happening now? It's been so long since this occurred."
Pardon me for being suspicious, but this is the FBI under Cash Poodle who reports to Spam Blondie. To my knowledge they don't have a track record of performing legitimate investigations and apprehensions. Instead they have a record of performing investigations and prosecutions of what are seemingly fictional or drummed up actions by anyone who opposes deer liter.
Do y'all think I'm crazy to wonder? Since the pipe-bombing thing was intended to draw law enforcement away from the area of the frontal attack on congress inside the capital by the Jan 6 mob, I'd expect the current crew to avoid wasting any FBI time and cost on it.
"Affordability" is really not all that complicated; its just a label for the cost of living. And the cost of living — food, rent, healthcare, education, transportation, etc., is high relative to what the average working person takes home, in many cases even when working multiple jobs. Given the instability in the job market, relative low wages that have people working paycheck to paycheck, and the stress of knowing you're just one emergency — an accident, illness away from utter disaster. Its no a way to live, and people are tired of the grind of it. The choice shouldn't have to be death and/or bankruptcy if you have a catastrophic illness because you can't afford health insurance. Increasingly, people see no way out, and struggle just becomes a way of life. For young and not so young people, used to be a college education offered a ray of hope and something to strive for, but now even companies that used to insist on it say its worthless. Addressing affordability is beyond the cost of things, so tinkering around the edges won't do it. It will call for wholesale, even "radical" change, vis a vis how we operate as a society, and who controls it (its certainly not "the voters") and that has to change. Its a tall order for any political party that is beholden to the wealthy, and right now, to be honest, its both parties.
We are just now starting to learn we bought quite the wrong government. Now we need to find an affordable way to fix the problem.