@TomiLahren Trump saying “affordability is a hoax” while wasting billions of our tax dollars on a Qatari jet redo, arch, ballroom, golden statues, botched reflecting pool and country club golf seems worse than iced coffees..
@TBerlaga@corinnec No, there’s a “Why can’t I afford things I used to be able to afford?” Crisis. The answer to that is not how to budget. How to budget is the answer to “How do I get by now that I can’t afford things I used to be able to afford?”
Yes, we generally are much more prosperous and comfortable than our great grandparents. We are much more prosperous and comfortable than people in third world countries. That’s true. It’s also an incredibly unpersuasive and irrelevant answer to the affordability crisis.
You would not be satisfied with ineffective and counterproductive medical treatments just because it’s still better than the treatments your ancestors received. You would not be satisfied with a car that only goes 20 miles an hour just because it’s still faster than the horse and buggy your great great grandpa drove around. You would not be satisfied with a house with a leaky roof just because it at least shields you from the elements better than the mud hut African tribesmen live in.
We are an advanced modern first world country. We are supposed to be the greatest country in the world. That’s the standard we should hold ourselves to. And in that country — not an African country, not a country in 1887 — a working man should be able to afford a house and groceries. That’s not entitlement. It’s not expecting the government to solve everything for us. It doesn’t mean that those things should be provided via government program. It’s just simply the most basic imaginable standard. If we’re falling short of it — and we are — then we need to figure out why, and how to fix it. It’s that simple. This really shouldn’t be controversial.
@BasedInCAUS@MattWalshBlog Elections hinge on feelings, mate. Your Excel sheet magic is meaningless if voters are sacrificing to fill their gas tanks and grocery carts.
This is precisely the point. Groceries overall aren’t cheaper today than they were in 2024. So if you considered grocery affordability a problem in 2024, but not a problem in 2026, the only reason is politics. And everyone knows it. Were you pretending back then or are you pretending now? It’s one or the other.
House prices are almost double what they were 6 years ago but you can still eat homemade burritos for cheap so the affordability crisis doesn’t exist.
They’re calling it the most spiritually boomer post of all time.
Ok the Perez Hilton thing.
Some of you are horrified and traumatized from watching it. Grow up.
This is the real world and shit like that is happening in it and far worse.
Far worse is happening out there to people who aren’t doing it to themselves. Stop being blind and naive.
How much shit do our soldiers have to endure and see but ya’ll having breakdowns over some guy self inflicting injuries.
This isn’t some kind of fairytale world we are living in. Grow up.
I don’t want to hear how traumatized you are watching a video. Truly.
Like to end with praying for the guy. It’s sad. It can be anything from side effects from meds or surviving sepsis or a mental health disorder or truly the devil messing with him. That’s his trauma and I pray for him and his family.
It’s not your trauma because you watched a video.
One of the problems with this claim is that virtually no Republican was making "the affordability crisis is fake" arguments during the Biden years. It's extremely transparent to everyone that the unwillingness to acknowledge these obvious economic challenges is at least partially politically motivated.
The second problem is that, no matter how thrifty your family might be, and no matter how cheap your homemade burritos, the significant rise in grocery prices over the past 6 years -- and the fact that the rise is continuing, not stopping, and certainly not reversing -- is just a mathematical reality. It can't be denied. It is a fact.
Grocery prices have gone up by 30 percent or more this decade. I'm happy for you if your family isn't significantly impacted by this problem. But it is real. And it is a problem. And conservatives better come up with an answer that isn't just "learn how to make cheap burritos" or we will get absolutely crushed. That's another reality.