With the advent of dictator Donald Trump and his dangerously unstable, violent, egomaniacal personality, the resistance from civic society has not risen to the deadly challenge either quantitatively or qualitatively.
Realistically, Trump hasn’t done much that negatively impacts my life. Due to a reduction of overtime tax and his executive order on marijuana, my life has marginally improved.
The only thing the Democrats have done to improve my life in the last decade was to give me a bunch of money during the pandemic, but it’s hard to say if that helped me in the long run. The resulting inflation was a pretty big catch.
This should be an indictment of the Biden administration.
Continuously embarrassing that Republicans have (functionally) become the party of Giving People Money, while Democrats continue to obsess over a National Debt that clearly doesn’t matter
I don’t know, man. I-a single adult -recieved over $700 in food stamps for well over a year. I ran out of my saved food stamps in 2025. I was also diagnosed with COVID over the phone and received over $5000 in unemployment per month. Since this income wasn’t reflected in Medicaid’s income requirements, I got free insurance as well.
Giving this much money to low-income workers has a disproportionate impact on inflation. The skyrocketing prices of frozen meals and gourmet animal products, for example, was a direct result of the food stamps.
It helped both me and the shareholders, but it came with a long-term cost. Everyone who had a job during the pandemic paid the price.
Giving this much money to low-income workers has a disproportionate impact on inflation
That’s not what the data seemed to say - every actual study showed that inflation came from supply shocks, and then companies using that excuse to raise prices.
What DID pose a problem was you saw people not scared to starve if they lost a job. And that was causing big worries for employers, and that’s what couldn’t continue.
What data? I have a hard time believing that people didn’t increase their spending in response to increased disposable income. Food especially since food stamps could only be spent on food. If you post your source, I’ll objectively review it.
When demand outstrips supply, people began bidding. A 1% difference between supply and demand leads to a more than 1% change in prices.
Any conclusions would also need to account for the impact of high unemployment benefits on domestic production. I sure as hell quit my job because of these benefits. It was a no-brainer; I more than quadrupled my disposable income overnight.
If your material conditions were your primary concern the president passing an illegal regressive tax should’ve been a red flag. In my life Bush and Trump started wars while cutting taxes.
To me the dead giveaway is the new deal era coalition. The economy failed so it created an ideology antithetical to conservatism and the results speak for themselves.
I’ll admit this is a useful observation in terms of pure facts.
Like, I read up on the news; so I’m constantly horrified and want immediate change. But being a white male with a job, in terms of personally observed situation, I’m hardly affected (and hardly received Democratic benefit either, in part because I don’t need it) - it’s my societal awareness that makes me want to take action, and that’s not often guaranteed of so many people.
Realistically, Trump hasn’t done much that negatively impacts my life. Due to a reduction of overtime tax and his executive order on marijuana, my life has marginally improved.
The only thing the Democrats have done to improve my life in the last decade was to give me a bunch of money during the pandemic, but it’s hard to say if that helped me in the long run. The resulting inflation was a pretty big catch.
More stimulus went out under Trump than Biden.
This should be an indictment of the Biden administration.
Continuously embarrassing that Republicans have (functionally) become the party of Giving People Money, while Democrats continue to obsess over a National Debt that clearly doesn’t matter
I don’t know, man. I-a single adult -recieved over $700 in food stamps for well over a year. I ran out of my saved food stamps in 2025. I was also diagnosed with COVID over the phone and received over $5000 in unemployment per month. Since this income wasn’t reflected in Medicaid’s income requirements, I got free insurance as well.
Giving this much money to low-income workers has a disproportionate impact on inflation. The skyrocketing prices of frozen meals and gourmet animal products, for example, was a direct result of the food stamps.
It helped both me and the shareholders, but it came with a long-term cost. Everyone who had a job during the pandemic paid the price.
That’s not what the data seemed to say - every actual study showed that inflation came from supply shocks, and then companies using that excuse to raise prices.
What DID pose a problem was you saw people not scared to starve if they lost a job. And that was causing big worries for employers, and that’s what couldn’t continue.
What data? I have a hard time believing that people didn’t increase their spending in response to increased disposable income. Food especially since food stamps could only be spent on food. If you post your source, I’ll objectively review it.
When demand outstrips supply, people began bidding. A 1% difference between supply and demand leads to a more than 1% change in prices.
Any conclusions would also need to account for the impact of high unemployment benefits on domestic production. I sure as hell quit my job because of these benefits. It was a no-brainer; I more than quadrupled my disposable income overnight.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/transitory-us-inflation-reflected-supply-disruptions-and-sectoral-shifts-not-aggregate-demand-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2023-11
If your material conditions were your primary concern the president passing an illegal regressive tax should’ve been a red flag. In my life Bush and Trump started wars while cutting taxes.
To me the dead giveaway is the new deal era coalition. The economy failed so it created an ideology antithetical to conservatism and the results speak for themselves.
What’s it like to see the world through such a narrow lens?
Oh my G-d. Lumpenprole Illustrated, right here.
I’ll admit this is a useful observation in terms of pure facts.
Like, I read up on the news; so I’m constantly horrified and want immediate change. But being a white male with a job, in terms of personally observed situation, I’m hardly affected (and hardly received Democratic benefit either, in part because I don’t need it) - it’s my societal awareness that makes me want to take action, and that’s not often guaranteed of so many people.
lol, I guess you don’t buy anything that that’s imported and carried on a vehicle that runs on oil products.