This is where we are in America:
A pack of two ribeye steaks at Walmart is $36 … the Federal minimum wage is $7.25.
A minimum wage worker would have to work 4.96 hours to afford two steaks in our current economy … they would have to work one hour to afford an $8.00 fast food hamburger meal.
If you think politicians give a shit about John Q. Taxpayer OR that midterms are going to make a difference, think again.
Fuck the Machine!!
Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms says, if elected, she would suspend the state gas tax and give localities the option to provide relief from grocery taxes as voters grapple with high costs.
“People need gas every month. People need groceries every month. So, every little bit counts,” Bottoms tells CBS News’ Major Garrett.
We should not underestimate the damage Pete Hegseth is doing to our military. Now he’s going after civilian professors at our service academies.
This isn’t strengthening our military. It’s hollowing out the institutions that make it strong.
I want to watch Donald Trump go to a grocery store with a $20 bill I will give to him so he can buy 3 full square meals and a snack for about $15.64 as claimed by his Agriculture Secretary Rollins.
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My name is Seth Taylor, and I’m a born, bred, and cornbread-fed Georgian who plans to vote for Jon Ossoff, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Josh McLaurin, and other Democrats up and down the ballot this November! Who’s with me??? 💙🍑 #gapol#bluewave
“I’m pissed off about gas & food prices.”
“Are you regretting your vote for Trump?”
“Yeah. A lot of people are.”
“America’s not Great Again?”
“No. They’ve run it into the ground.”
(H/T @cwebbonline)
WSJ Exclusive:
The Trump admin used federal funds from the Department of Homeland Security to finance those controversial pro-Trump ads that started airing on TV.
The taxpayer money used to fund the ads came from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. https://t.co/77aZN8whX7
As Americans can't afford gas or groceries, this is what Marco Rubio was doing today....
Unveiling new GOLD packaging that the government will use to mail new Passports to us in, instead of USPS envelopes.
nvidia raising prices 15% for 2027 chips while that study shows 90% of execs see zero productivity gains from AI yet. feels like watching my company buy figma enterprise licenses we never actually use but at infrastructure scale