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I hope they stop this cultural war and focus on the real problems that actually affects the population,for example, high prices.
by Xunjin 2y ago
I hope they stop this cultural war and focus on the real problems that actually affects the population,for example, high prices.
- llamaimperative 2y ago[flagged]
- UncleMeat 2y agoMusk and Trump have both publicly said that people will need to accept higher prices.
- llamaimperative 2y ago(After getting elected on promises to lower prices on day one)
- Xunjin 2y agoI'm not doubtful that happened, but could you provide a source?
- asveikau 2y agoThe recording I saw was Trump saying we need to accept pain. He's asked frequently why his actions make very little sense and he typically responds incoherently.
- tzs 2y agoI don't have a specific cite but I saw it in quotes from when he was announcing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico. He said they could cause price increases and pain in the US but that they would cause more pain in Canada and Mexico.
- verdverm 2y agoIts in one of his screeds on Truth or Musk Social Colbert has a good bit and quip about it
- dekhn 2y agoTrump said it directly in a news conference. https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-trade-surplus-3010e6368545e2976feb5ac6b41e528e https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china... "We may have short-term, a little pain, and people understand that,"
- butlike 2y agoPlease stop the precedent of saying both their names in the same breath
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoThey seem to be joined at the hip now, what with Elon being granted carte blanche. If it helps, I prefer "fat man and little boy".
- rsynnott 2y agoPoor ol' JD Vance is presumably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Man_(nuclear_bomb) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_Man_(nuclear_bomb) (The _third_ WW2-era bomb design, an impractically long plutonium gun-type. Much like Vance, it was rather pointless and impractical, and was never really heard from again.)
- jayd16 2y agoPrepare to keep hoping.
- lawn 2y agoThe cultural with tariffs you mean?
- rcpt 2y agoPrices aren't high on anything except for housing. No politician, either past present or future, will ever run on a platform of reducing housing prices.
- llamaimperative 2y agoHere are several specific proposals to do just that: https://nlihc.org/resource/harris-campaign-releases-plans-lower-housing-costs https://nlihc.org/resource/harris-campaign-releases-plans-lo... Not a fan of credits to buyers (just inflates prices further) but I'm a big fan of credits to developers, streamlining permitting, and making some federal land available for development. Regardless of whether you think these are good policies or an effective platform, it is patently false to say no one would run on such a promise.
- rcpt 2y agoThose are all great policies. And yes credits to buyers is pretty stupid. But this is still a far cry from "vote for me and your home value will go down".
- llamaimperative 2y agoBecause why would you say that? You would say "we're going to build more housing."
- rcpt 2y agoPeople say that about eggs.
- llamaimperative 2y agoWell no, one person (a moron and a liar) said that about eggs
- wholinator2 2y agoEggs are not treated as the most important investment of your life, the value of which you hedge the entire rest of your life against, and which is expected to increase in value to support an growing rather than shrinking lifestyle. Eggs are nothing like houses economically
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- rsynnott 2y agoThing is, that would be difficult, whereas randomly breaking government agencies is quite easy. If you happen to be Donald Trump, and you're looking for ways to please your supporters, culture war nonsense is the easy approach, provided you don't care at all about the consequences.
- Nasrudith 2y agoThose who would give up essential liberties for cheap eggs deserve neither and will lose both.