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speak easy

(12,590 posts)
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:18 AM Dec 6

We will make America affordable again

Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down, and we will make America affordable again.
-MotherFucker

or not

If you look at every affordability crisis that’s confronting the American people today, it is traceable to a problem caused by Joe Biden and congressional Democrats, … It would be preposterous to fix every problem caused over the last four years in just 10 months.
-CouchFucker

“I think affordability is the greatest con job,” Trump said at the White House recently — prompting Democratic strategist Dan Pfeiffer to post, “Expect to see this clip in approximately 1 million ads over the next the next 11 months.”


Trump struggles to persuade Americans to ignore affordability issues
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We will make America affordable again (Original Post) speak easy Dec 6 OP
We all know that trump is the greatest con job ever, not affordability. brer cat Dec 6 #1
yes, but speak easy Dec 6 #2
Imagine being so fucking stupid that you voted for this guy. n/t flvegan Dec 6 #3
LBJ speak easy Dec 6 #4

brer cat

(27,322 posts)
1. We all know that trump is the greatest con job ever, not affordability.
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:27 AM
Dec 6

I think everyone in this administration tells lies out of one side of their mouth while they tell a different one out of the other side.

speak easy

(12,590 posts)
2. yes, but
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:32 AM
Dec 6
“He often exists in an alternative reality that many of his followers are happy to follow him into, but the affordability issue is kryptonite for him, because even his most devoted followers know which way is up when it comes to prices,” said Jared Bernstein, who chaired Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers. “He may be able to convince people of his alternative vision in lots of different areas, but not this one.”

-same article.

speak easy

(12,590 posts)
4. LBJ
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 11:45 AM
Dec 6

- it's hate

f you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

Lyndon Baines Johnson
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