Another product on the Walmart site that spiked in price was a left-handed fishing reel. It rose from $57.37 to $83.26 from April to May, a jump of 45 percent, with a post on Reddit showing the two price stickers. Aisle Gopher’s price history says that the price of the reel was $51.12 on March 14.
Another Reddit post showed an increase in the price of cocoa powder from $3.44 in May 2024 to $6.18 in April 2025.
Important to note here that Donald lied repeatedly and vociferously that tariffs would not lead to price increases. (Getting this in before people come here to blame the voters.)
He has lied repeatedly and vociferously his whole life, and anyone with critical thinking capacity knows/has known that. There is a lot to blame for this situation, Trump voters and all non-voters should not be immune from accepting their share of it.
I’d love to see this same perspective voiced with equal indignation when Joe Biden campaigns with black people and pledges support for BLM, but then doubles down on militarizing the police once elected. (Among other outright lies.)
Absolutely not. If you want people to vote for you, you have to give them something to vote for. Despite knowing the deep unpopularity of Biden’s presidency and campaign, the Democrats crowned a weak candidate (wait no, two weak candidates really) who promised to change nothing about it. If we’re being reasonable here, one has to credit Democrats’ outright stupidity and obstinance in the face of a base demanding real change.
Some day, maybe, they’ll take responsibility for their own actions. Today is not that day.
Much like the Democrats who told poor people that they should, you know, just be joyful about it.
Then again, to take responsibility would require some introspection.
If you don’t understand the concept of harm reduction, that’s your defect, not anybody else’s!
You voted for something much worse. You can try to explain it however you want, the facts are, you collectively over the years made it so your choices are meh and sometimes much much worse, and then voted for the latter.
You of course can blame whoever you want, deep state, establishment, democratic party (never republicans though, for some reason), but that would be the deflection. Up until recently, US had a shitty but semi-functioning democracy, and whatever is happening is a result of your collective chosing.
Joe Biden’s left testicle could be removed from his body, and it would run a better presidential term than trump
And this doesn’t mean Biden is a nice guy or represents something good, it’s just the less terrible option
Joe Biden was a genocide monster. The problem is that the entire Overton window of politicians the system will actually let get elected in America is composed entirely of genocidal monsters
It would be the first leftist in the Oval Office since FDR.
They’re beholden to the same forces of campaigning and capital in a first-past -the-post system. If they wanted change that matters, their financial backers pull out.
So how’s their strategy working out for them?
There are two groups at fault here:
The protest voters refusing to take the simplest action to prevent what is now happening.
The people who said “we’re not going to try to change or improve anything because we’re running against a literal dictator so it’s not like we have to actually try to improve people’s lives. What are they going to do? Let Hitler win?”
For the privileged classes, it’s working out splendidly. For now anyway.
That, as they say, is a choice.
The modern horseshoe of leftists and rightest being okay to burn the country down if it does swing far enough on the political pendulum. This shit right here folks. If I don’t get my way, I’m gonna burn the whole house down. The future is so bright for all of us get to burning it you little pussy.
You say that is if the status quo isn’t actively burning the country down
That dipshit’s not “the left;” he’s a troll. Real leftists held their noses and voted for Democrats.
While it was a lie. I don’t think he thought he was lying because he literally doesn’t understand 5th grade math.
I think a narcissist like Donald honestly never thinks he’s lying, but you make a solid point.
Is it not the voters fault though?
No, it’s not.
It’s the fault of the Democrats, who had an abundance of information about the unpopularity of Biden and his presidency, and then made a series of awful decisions about the presidential campaign, not the least of which being nominating a weak candidate who prioritized Biden’s ego over appealing to voters.
You also cannot tell voters who’ve been getting poorer while you’ve ruled that you won’t change anything, and definitely shouldn’t tell them to be joyful about it.
Wow. You’re in the same Olympics as the Republicans with these mental gymnastics.
Respectfully, you can try to gaslight me or cast aspersions, but my eyes actually function. Thank you.
Do they though?
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They’re booing you for telling the truth
It’s the voters fault and the democratic party’s
…and…
The opponent promised all kinds of things to voters who had been getting poorer, most of those promises were straight up fantasy, while others were distorted mistruths.
In your mind, do you think voters are free from have any responsibility for critical thinking? If a known liar is lying to you and you take action supporting those lies, should you be responsible when the lies are indeed shown to be lies?
This is the second time you’ve used this exact same language. Can you cite the source where you’re saying Democrats told people they should be joyful?
If I’m starving to death, and the most trustworthy man in the world says “I will do nothing to help you” while the most dishonest man in the world (Donald Trump) says “I will shower you with more food than you have ever seen in your life” I’m going to take my chances with the dishonest man. Maybe the lie is how much but there will still be something. Better than a guaranteed nothing.
Except its not a “better than a guaranteed nothing”. The liar didn’t just not shower you with food, he stripped you of what little clothing you had left, and threw you out in the desert to die faster, and he even has a history of that, so its not like you didn’t know the liar was capable of it.
Best case scenario with the honest man: he does nothing and I starve to death. Worst case scenario with the lying man: I starve to death anyway. May as well try changing things.
Sure, maybe I starve to death faster, but you give most people a choice between “100% chance you starve to death” and “99% chance you starve to death and 1% chance you don’t” and they will take the 1% chance.
At least the lying man admits there’s a fucking problem. “Everything is fine and nothing needs to change” was not a good strategy.
With the lying man, as in my example, you won’t starve to death, you’ll die from exposure long before you die of starvation. If you’re seeing dying much sooner as direct result of his actions as an equal outcome, I’m not sure what to tell you.
He’s not admitting there’s a problem, he saying whatever he thinks you want to hear to give him your vote. This man stiffed his own employees and contractors on a regular basis. On what evidence in his entire life, did you arrive at the conclusion that rich donald trump wanted to do anything at all to improve the life of people like us? Not words. Actions.
We don’t have to speak in theoreticals though. trump won. Are you glad he got voted in? Is your life better now? Or is this now worse than under Biden?
There’s dying, or a 1% chance of not dying. These are in fact not equal.
Which to someone starving to death is a lot better than someone saying “everything is fine, keep the status quo”.
Nope. I was spending time trying to argue with people to do the bare fucking minimum to stop this, and the Democrats did not help with their campaign of “lets change nothing because everything is fine.”
Not an American. I’ll be fine. I can just understand why someone who is desperate (which according to polls is over 50% of your population) could decide to vote for someone who says they want to fucking change things, instead of the people saying everything is fine and they will change nothing.
Por que no dos?
I’m just wishing the voters all the “winning” that they voted for.
That’s what I love about my fellow Americans: the willingness to unironically cheer poverty, authoritarianism, and fascism as long as the machinery of government appears to be directed at your perceived enemies.
Thank fuck I’m not American. You guys made your bed. You can rot in it.
Always love it when people double-down on a myopic, uninformed, and ignorant point of view. Thank you for sharing.
yawn You’re just an agitator
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WarTariff Will Destabilize The EntireMideast RegionDomestic Economy And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’tNah fam, blaming the voters.
Trump wasn’t some “We never knew what he was like”, we had him as president for four years, and yet somehow in four years we went through a fugue state and reelected him as a country. So… yea… blaming the voters on this one. ANYONE surprised is a mouth breathing idiot.
Why would we not blame the voters?
Ignorance is not an excuse. We should not normalize that.
They were told, repeatedly, by everyone, including every economist in existence, that tariff’s would be a tax on consumers. They didn’t listen, because they’re fucking assholes.
This guy has already lied to them many, many, many times over. They didn’t learn either because they’re unbelievably stupid, or committed to hurting others so much that they chose to turn a blind eye to the lies.
Of course I’m blaming the voters.
I mean, that’s like claiming that he lied repeatedly and vociferously that jumping in the pool will not lead to getting wet. There is no way to believe that lie aside from deep, deep ignorance.
capitalism leads to price increases. tariffs taxes fees … all a part of capitalism