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[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

They're overrated anyways

 

[Eggs 5,000+ posts]

Posted before rob does

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/9JiAurKlM5

 

[spokey9 5,000+ posts]

Posted before rob does

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/9JiAurKlM5

Everyone knows reddit is the spot for the best news

 

[Old_Slapper]

I'm sure you know better than the Federal Reserve Board, the USEIA, etc, but this is what they have to say about it.

The average price of electricity per kilowatt-hour has increased since the same time last year. Residential electricity costs were 6.2% higher in August 2025 than they were a year earlier, the latest federal data shows, while natural gas is up 13.8%.

Overall, energy prices are expected to rise, largely due to increased demand from the rise of artificial intelligence, oil and gas drilling, electrified transportation and overall increased economic activity after the end of the pandemic. The U.S. Energy Information Administration expects residential electricity rates to increase steadily by as much as 18% in the next few years, far outstripping the annual inflation rate of about 2.7%.
"Grocery prices are obviously not down," said Michael Strain, director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

Grocery prices have continued to climb, despite the president's pledge on the campaign trail that grocery prices would come down. Prices for food at home increased by 0.6% in August, which was the fastest monthly rise in nearly three years, with increases across all major food groups. The cost of food at home increased 2.7% from August 2024 to August 2025, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's nowhere near the dramatic jump of nearly 11.4% during 2022, but it's also inaccurate to say grocery prices are down.
the overall consumer price index has increased by 1.3% since January and grocery prices have increased by 1.1%," Strain said. "So grocery prices are increasing at a slower rate than the overall CPI. But they're still increasing."

Tell me: How did all the experts get it wrong? Were they hiding in their basement while you were out doing all the grocery shopping?

A while back, I offered up an actual comparison of prices of goods I bought at one point during the Biden administration, and compared them with a later order for the same items. I did so regarding a claim by several that prices had not dropped over the course of 6 months or so.

Do me a favor: Do the same comparison of one of your grocery orders beetween Jan or Feb and today. Prove the experts wrong.

I'm interested in your claim that rising healthcare costs in 2025 are to be blamed on the Democrats.
Care to give some more info about that? Data? Statistics?
It seems the m ajority of complaints are from Medicaid and elderly Meidcare recipients, whose costs are spiking due to Trumps "Big Beautiful Bill".
How is that bill to be blamed on Democrats?

Let me tell you something that will blow away all these stats you shared. Go to the store and look at the prices. Go buy some gas. Even here, in Cali, prices have gone down. This was done even after minimum wage went up to $16.50 ph.

So, your stats are completely crap when I'm buying eggs for less than $6 a dozen when Biden had them $8.

As for healthcare, when you have immigrants costing tax payers over $4 billion, something as the give. Also, take a look at the democrats beloved ACA. That alone caused healthcare to go up.

 

[Old_Slapper]

A racist. Disingenuous. Trump fanatic and apologist. Grifter. *********. Sexist. Transphobe.

Proof please!!! There have been dozens of you guys trying saying this, but none of you can come up with anything. The only thing you got right is he likes Trump.

 

[Old_Slapper]

Posted before rob does

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/9JiAurKlM5

Rob will reference that article, but will ignore that mayor for wanting Trump to be un-alived.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Fact of business is, Trump is doing what he needs to do. Democrats are still being childish and in opposition which would make any person job harder. If you were an actual patriotic American you would be telling your elected officials to support the president until the next election and let the people decide who they want.

They don't even have to support Trump, just pass continuing resolutions until they figure out some sort of compromise. But the Dems would rather shut down the gov't.

Personally, I don't think we should be covering illegals and medicare & medicaid need to be cut and should have been cut some time ago. It's just like the border situation, DOGE, etc, everybody has been kicking this can down the road and now that Trump is willing to step up and do something Team Blue is going to fight him every step of the way because that's all the know. TDS is a real thing.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Proof please!!! There have been dozens of you guys trying saying this, but none of you can come up with anything. The only thing you got right is he likes Trump.

For ********* he gets along with Dave Rubin awfully well. And dozens??? Where the fudgesicles do you get dozens? It's millions - literally millions, maybe even 10s of millions.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Posted before rob does

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/s/9JiAurKlM5

Toss this *** wipe back behind bars along with all the other A-holes calling for shooting ICE, DHS, Trump, Steven Miller, etc.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Thanks for the Gender Identification games Team Blue. Now this kid has to suffer.

Birth certificate dispute keeps Arizona teen from boys' basketball team

An eighth-grader in Arizona was removed from boys' basketball tryouts this week after his school district questioned his eligibility based on the gender listed on his original birth certificate.

www.fox13now.com

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Let me tell you something that will blow away all these stats you shared. Go to the store and look at the prices. Go buy some gas. Even here, in Cali, prices have gone down. This was done even after minimum wage went up to $16.50 ph.

So, your stats are completely crap when I'm buying eggs for less than $6 a dozen when Biden had them $8.

As for healthcare, when you have immigrants costing tax payers over $4 billion, something as the give. Also, take a look at the democrats beloved ACA. That alone caused healthcare to go up.

Yes. ALL of the agencies that record and disseminate the data have gotten it wrong, but YOU are right. Do the mayor and the fire chief corroborate your data?
Cool.

Now, go ahead and provide proof that you are paying less overall for groceries now than in February.
Show me the prior purchase, and show me the prices of the same goods at the same store, today.

Your healthcare "proof" makes no sense. if $4B is flowing into the system becasue of "immigrants" (a totally farcial number that you are likely just repeating), then why would prices go UP? More "sales" means lower prices.

And HC costs actually decreased from the ACA. Because of it, Medicare costs rose 20% less than projected.
They saved a Billion dollars with the CMMI. Increased competition due to the marketpalce drove prices down.
Increased coverage for adults meant less providers having to foot the bill for the uninsured, which they normally counter by raising prices.

You really need to try some critical thinking and due diligence instead of just parroting some bullshit you heard Trump or some other right-winger say, and you think it sounds right.

You're making unnecessary errors that do little more than paint you as an uninformed rube.