Trumpflation

[batmagadanleadoff]

Where are all those jackasses that I used to hear in the supermarket blaming Biden for the higher costs of foods?

A 30 oz. jar of Hellmann's Mayonnaise. I could swear that this could be had for less than three bucks before Covid. It's been going for 7.99 or 8.99 when not on sale and lately .... 9.99!

Pepsi and Coke products used to be on sale every week at my supermarket -- one week it'd be Pepsi products, the next week, Coke products. You used to be able to buy two liter bottles for about a buck each, or 1.25. Not any more. Two liter bottles sell for over three bucks when not on sale.

My favorite chocolates, that I used to buy loose for $6.99/lb., $5.99/lb. a year ago, yesterday jumped to $10.99/lb.

There's a part of me that hopes that these fucking ignoramus jackasses that put this monster in the White House, dragging the whole country down with them, with their racism and hate and fucking ignorance, starve to death as prices go up and their benefits get slashed. Imagine that! Poor people voting for Republicans. It's a country full of retards.

[rchurch314]

prices have skyrocketed the last 4 years too, while Biden told us over and over again how good the economy was.

It's going to get worse now too. he just told everyone they can charge 25% more and blame it on tarriffs.

[batmagadanleadoff]

prices have skyrocketed the last 4 years too,

But reasonable people weren't blaming it on the madman currently in the White House.

while Biden told us over and over again how good the economy was.

He was telling the truth. Inflation had stabilized and GDP was way up. Where he failed was in the messaging. He's a bad public speaker, a mushmouth. Who got perceptibly worse deeper and deeper into his term. And the public has no fucking idea what GDP is and in any event, you can't "feel" or "see" GDP the way you can see that the price of eggs and mayonnaise has more than doubled.

It's going to get worse now too. he just told everyone they can charge 25% more and blame it on tarriffs.

Correct. Especially gas and stuff you put in your salad, like tomatoes and bell peppers and avocadoes.

[kcmets]

I scored two pounds of cocktail tomatoes yesterday
for a mere three dollars.

I asked, '­­­por que tan barato?

He said Trump hahaha...

[MFS62]

Waffle House is putting a 50 cent surcharge on every egg they sell.
That's hittin' 'em in the heart(land).
Later

[MFS62]

My wife just bought eggs for $6.99 a dozen.
I told her we should sell them on e-Bay.

Later

[kcmets]

KB scored 18 eggs at SRite this afternoon for $11.89. Not bad for
what was on the news the last couple of days. And no shortage yet.

I'm kinda surprised Donny Douchebag hasn't yet blamed the price
and shortage of eggs on inheriting the Bubonic Biden Bird Flu.

There's still time, stealing lollipops from everyone's mouths and
shoving them up their ass for applause, accolades and generally
abhorrent appreciation is time consuming. I'm sure it will come...

[The Hot Corner]

I filled my wife's tank on Sunday afternoon at the Shell station near my house for $2.55/gallon. Drove by the station yesterday, the price was $2.99/gallon. I thought their must be screwed up or they have lost their minds. On the way home, I passed 3 other stations and they were all now $2.99/gallon. That is a jump of 44 cents/gallon (for regular unleaded) in 48 hours. It is a seriously messed up country we are living in.

[kcmets]

We got some Boar's Head pastrami this morning.

$21.99/lb... fucking Biden...

[MFS62]

They just dropped the American Movie Classics, WE and Sundance channels from my cable system.
I haven't had local sports for several years and now I don't have what I was watching instead.
Of course they aren't lowering my bill.
Bastages.
Later

[Lefty Specialist]

Trump's new tariff's are an unmitigated disaster. You worry about inflation? That TV made in China just got 54% more expensive.

Your Nike shoes made in Vietnam just got 46% more expensive.

That Volkswagen you had your eye on just got 45% more expensive.

All those clothes in Wal-Mart from Bangladesh just got 37% more expensive.

This will not bring manufacturing back to the US, but what it will do is send us into a recession. He advertised that this was coming, but the sheer idiocy of these rates is breathtaking. It's just one more instance of America isolating itself from the world, and it's going to end very, very badly.

[whippoorwill]

Yeah I don’t get why he thinks factories are going to suddenly open up to make these goods. Is that what he thinks?

I worked for a manufacturer that got a good deal of small parts from China that probably cannot be found in USA. Our owner is Chinese and very loyal to his country. I just wonder what will happen to their expenses and prices.
Still in touch with some employees so I’m sure I’ll find out.

[whippoorwill]

Even if Nike, etc, did suddenly decide to open up USA manufacturing they couldn’t bring down prices because of much higher wages

[MFS62]

He imposed tariffs on an island that is only inhabited by penguins.
I can't wait for a reporter to ask him what that was a retaliation for.
Later

[batmagadanleadoff]

He imposed tariffs on an island that is only inhabited by penguins.
I can't wait for a reporter to ask him what that was a retaliation for.
Later

Because he's a madman. A madman. And tarrifs are just the tip of the iceberg. Wait until there's a resurgence of the Black Plague what with RFK, Jr. In charge of public health and the FDA no more.

[Lefty Specialist]

Yeah I don’t get why he thinks factories are going to suddenly open up to make these goods. Is that what he thinks?

In a word, yes. And he keeps saying that other countries will pay these tariffs, and we're suddenly going to get a whole bunch of money that we can apply to tax cuts for rich people. When prices inevitably increase, he'll blame anything but the tariffs for it.

This is an own goal of monumental proportions. Corporations won't invest any money in this environment. Why spend billions on setting up a factory in the US when a rational government being elected after Trump could wipe the tariffs away overnight? Better to ride it out and hunker down. Of course corporations hunkering down means less choice, less jobs, less everything. Say you're Hyundai. You have manufacturing facilities in the US making certain models. Other models you import from South Korea, and they just got 25% more expensive. What will happen is that only the models built in the US will get sold. And the price of those US-made models will go up because parts are still being imported, and there are steel and aluminum tariffs to deal with.

Consumer confidence is cratering. When people don't spend, the economy craters. Just like corporations, the uncertainty is the killer. The question is how will Trump deal with the fallout. It'll be pretty obvious in a few months. Given his past history, he'll just double down. Watch for violent crackdowns on protests.

And also watch for distractions. This is where the Greenland nonsense and the talk of a third term come in. Anything to change the subject. The tariffs changed the subject from his incompetent defense team group-chatting war plans, which distracted from illegally firing thousands of government employees, which distracted from nominating an anti-vaxxer to the highest healthcare job in the land, which distracted from.......

[whippoorwill]

Oh yes, I've thought right from the start that Vance's job is to provide the distractions (ie Greenland, Gaza, wherever and whatever seems ridiculous) so they can do their other silliness right out loud and it'll be less numbing.

We're getting jaded. That's their plan I think.

[batmagadanleadoff]

China to impose 34% retaliatory tariffs on all US goods.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/04/chi ... he-us.html

If it really wanted to screw President Hitler, it'd also unleash a deadly lab created virus into the US. I think it's gonna take at least both a pandemic and a depression, simultaneously, for the stupid jackasses to vote Democrat. At least. Ya think China gives a flying fuck whether its own citizens also die of the virus? It's a dictatorship.