How "groceries" define djt's detachment from working Americans

[allegorical oracle]

Story by Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone

"The cost of groceries, a word that I used a lot on the campaign," Trump said at a women's event last Wednesday. "It's like an old-fashioned word, but it's a beautiful word, a very descriptive word. The groceries are coming down."

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Trump almost seemed to take credit for the word during an interview with Meet the Press in December, after he'd won the election. "I won on groceries," he said. "It's a very simple word. Who uses the word? I started using the word. The groceries."

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Trump believes there are winners and losers, and that just as the United States has "won" the game of geopolitics over the past 100 years, he and his billionaire friends have defeated the type of people who have to think about groceries in the game of life. In his view, the U.S. not only doesn't owe Canada anything, it would be stupid not to use its hard-won leverage to exploit and humiliate the lesser nation. Trump sees the federal government he now controls as the ultimate tool to similarly exploit and humiliate the millions of Americans he's bested, and he's spent the first two months of his second administration pulling every lever he and his advisers can find to enrich himself and his cronies at the expense of all of the undeserving losers.

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The message from the Trump administration is essentially that people should stop whining. The president and his Cabinet of billionaires aren't merely indifferent to the economic struggles of working Americans. They resent these working Americans for wanting to live a modest life - for wanting health care, for wanting Social Security, for wanting the richest nation in the history of the world to use some of its wealth to take care of its citizens.

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Corruption" may not be as "beautiful" of a word as "groceries" - but unfortunately for the millions of Americans Trump and his administration are doing everything they can to punish, it's never been more in fashion.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-groceries-explains-trump-s-detachment-from-working-americans/ar-AA1Ca5HR

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-groceries-economic-pain-tariffs-1235308969/

[Wingus Dingus]

1. Behold the Orange Antichrist, fascinated by the fact that the peasants buy and eat things.

[BoRaGard]

2. The GOP leader is lying: My grocery prices are going up

How dare the republicons lie to my face.

Shameful.

[Maru Kitteh]

3. People who have to worry about food prices are losers. He couldn't care less.

Makes sense and explains A LOT.

[allegorical oracle]

9. Would be shocked to learn he's ever been inside a grocery store. He never

spent an hour shopping -- or cooking anything except his company books.

[birdographer]

4. Defining trump and the republican party

Sadist (noun): a person who gets pleasure from hurting another person

I believe this is the most sadistic regime this country has ever had.

[Diamond_Dog]

5. Good grief, he sounds like Jackie Chiles.....

“It's a very simple word. Who uses the word? I started using the word. The groceries."

[ScratchCat]

6. When you make above a certain amount of money

The price of food and consumer goods doesn't really affect you. A $20/week increase in grocery cost does not affect someone who makes $150k or higher, but it certainly is a burden for someone at $50k or under.

This is like when I witnessed a FB friend of mine complaining about gas prices a few years ago. He easily makes $300k or higher a year. And he meant for his expensive boat, not driving to and from work. There is a complete disconnect for people in the top 10%. They just don't comprehend "real life" for working people who aren't fortunate enough to have a way to make that kind of jack(he sells high-end homes to multi-millionaires in S. Florida).

[allegorical oracle]

10. The full story makes the point that Musk similarly dismisses the "little"

people. Only the rich deserve the best because they're smarter, work harder, and are just generally superior. So, if the "little" people suffer, they deserve to.

Indiana Senator Jim Banks made that same point yesterday to a former HHS employee who complained to Banks about being fired. Banks looked at him and told him he deserved to be fired. When a bystander asked why Banks said made that "rude" comment, Banks replied that the HHS employee "looked like a clown" to him.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. He's an idiot.

[GoodRaisin]

8. Democrats should run a national ad during the NCAA basketball

Final Four to remind stupid voters that he promised them he would lower the price of groceries and lied to them. It should also be run at every major sporting event between now and the mid terms.

[Irish_Dem]

11. "People want the richest nation in the history of the world to use some of its wealth to take care of its citizens."

This is what the people want.
The billionaires want it all.