American Politics

[EihTooms]

Of course, the great challenge as always is for any MAGAs to understand what the words and terms "rose", "higher", "up", "highest annual rate since" and "increased" mean.

Doubtful any will now.

Core inflation rose to 2. 9% in July, highest since February.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/pce-...ndroidappshare

Inflation edged higher in July, according to the Federal Reserves preferred inflation measure, indicating that President Donald Trumps tariffs are working their way through the U.S. economy.

The personal consumption expenditures price index showed that core inflation, which excludes food and energy costs, ran at a 2.9% seasonally adjusted annual rate, according to a Commerce Department report Friday. That was up 0.1 percentage point from the June level and the highest annual rate since February, though in line with the Dow Jones consensus forecast.

On a monthly basis, the core PCE index increased 0.3%, also in line with expectations. The all-items index showed the annual rate at 2.6% and the monthly gain at 0.2%, also hitting the consensus outlook.

However, help might be on the way for America!

Most Trump tariffs ruled illegal by appeals court in huge blow to trade policy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/29/trum...ndroidappshare

A federal appeals court ruled that most of President Donald Trumps global tariffs are illegal, striking a massive blow to the core of his aggressive trade policy.

Fridays ruling is the Trump administrations second straight loss in the make-or-break case known as V.O.S. Selections v. Trump.

Trump attacked the appeals court as Highly Partisan and asserted that the Supreme Court will rule in his favor.

Then again, he is probably right. 5-6 of the MAGA Repub so-called Justices on the SCOTUS very likely will rule in favor of whatever this current MAGA Repub so-called president wants to do in order to wreak havoc on the American Working Men and Women, make themselves and the other top 1% of the wealthiest Americans even wealthier at the great expense of everyone else and give him his best shot at reversing the Envy of the World Economy he inherited from Biden-Harris to turn it into the historic shit-storm of economic disaster and massive jobs destruction all Repub so-called presidents are contractually obligated to deliver sometime during their so-called presidential terms.

[EihTooms]

Gas prices have been stable since 2022. Beef prices are up $2 per pound in the last five years. If you eat 2 pounds of beef per week, that is $8 a month. Big fucking deal. What does this show? You have no fucking clue where inflation is hitting the American consumer.

But the one thing we know about you is wherever those prices are higher, it is Trump's fault.

For 2026, health insurers have proposed a median premium increase of 18% across the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces, the largest requested increase since 2018.

This marks a notable rise compared to the previous year and reflects growing pressures from rising health care costs, increased utilization of high-priced drugs like GLP-1 agonists (e. G, Ozempic and Wegovy), labor shortages, and inflation.

Ozempic is crazy popular right now, and Americans are paying a $1000 a month for this versus people in the UK and Colombia which is paying $80. The bullshit you Dems have been pulling is you rally against high drug prices, then take money from drug company lobbyists, and then do nothing about high prices. The biggest bullshit excuse is Ozempic is made by a European company but American companies and local governments are prohibited by our federal government and the FDA from buying the drug in Europe and giving it to the people who need it here. The bullshit excuse is "safety".

Thing is Republicans are just as worthless as the Dems on this issue. They are just less hypocritical because they do not scream against drug companies with one exception in the Republican party and that is Trump. Trump does not do jack shit about either but he screams against them and is not dependent on them money wise so maybe, maybe drug companies may be more cautious raising future prices. Is that markedly better than Biden? Hell no, but it is a little better.

So for all your belly aching on Dems being so much better, they suck ass and so do Republicans. We do not have a choice between candidates who are going to bring drug prices down.

This is the biggest rising expense in our system and Obama made health care his #1 issue and he did not do jack shit about this. In fact, he made it worse!

But what about Trump? Like I said, he sucked on the issue too. The best he did was get rid of the ridiculously unconstitutional health care mandate.

So quit with your bullshit that the Dems are so much better than the Republicans when the reality is they both suck ass.

Gas prices have been stable since 2022? Then what was all that belly-aching about gas prices being done by MAGAs and their Cult Leader Trump every day of 2022 and since until the day Trump was elected?

Please site and date the Great Depressions, Great Recessions, Massive Jobs Destruction and / or skyrocketing Unemployment Rates into double digits and while you're at it the Bear Market Crashes that started under Dem Presidents instead of Repub presidents over the past 100 years. All of which there have been several over the past 100 years, BTW.

Let's see if actual irrefutable and inarguable data, historical records and facts support your claim that "they both suck" in any meaningful way on any important issue.

[MarquisdeSade1]

Since his first term and right up to today, no so-called potus has worked harder to defund the police than that most beloved Repub Party Icon of All Icons, Donald Trump.

Trump decries crime rates, but his administration has slashed prevention efforts.
Aug. 13, 2025

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/tr...ention-efforts

Donald Trump is defunding the police.
He's proposed cuts in budget after budget, and is holding up needed fiscal aid.
June 16, 2020

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/16/212866...ing-the-police

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...nest-on-crime/

[SubCmdr]

Can someone compare the price of NVDA and Gold with US Government 30 year bonds? After they do that can they tell me which one they would rather own?

Let's not even mention the rate of return of Bitcoin since I first mentioned it. Peaked at 124,000 now hovering around 113,000.

21 million verses unlimited printing power that the Dis-United States Government has over issuing debt and printing the dollar. Now the FED is going to lower interest rates and dramatically increase the price of assets.

Tax Wealth not Work!

[SubCmdr]

How can the markets be at all time highs and in a cavernous decline?

Is our MEGA MAGA really going to show his financially illiteracy by asking this question?

There is a distinct difference between main street and Wall Street. Between sentiment and execution. Gold continues to sky rocket. The DXY is at one of the lowest of the lows in the last 10 years. Making the dollar weaker is some fucked up thinking by a man who does not understand the power and responsibility of having the world's reserve currency. BRICS going to catch mother fuckers slippin in the end. Before they know it they will wonder how dey got got. Think Sears verses Amazon. Didn't happen instantly.

[Elvis 2008]

Interesting to hear MAGAs suddenly don't care about the rate of inflation or the price of gas now that both have been and are continuing to going up under Trump. And why would that be, exactly?
How about the price of beef?

Gas prices have been stable since 2022. Beef prices are up $2 per pound in the last five years. If you eat 2 pounds of beef per week, that is $8 a month. Big fucking deal. What does this show? You have no fucking clue where inflation is hitting the American consumer.

But the one thing we know about you is wherever those prices are higher, it is Trump's fault.

For 2026, health insurers have proposed a median premium increase of 18% across the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Marketplaces, the largest requested increase since 2018.

This marks a notable rise compared to the previous year and reflects growing pressures from rising health care costs, increased utilization of high-priced drugs like GLP-1 agonists (e. G, Ozempic and Wegovy), labor shortages, and inflation.

Ozempic is crazy popular right now, and Americans are paying a $1000 a month for this versus people in the UK and Colombia which is paying $80. The bullshit you Dems have been pulling is you rally against high drug prices, then take money from drug company lobbyists, and then do nothing about high prices. The biggest bullshit excuse is Ozempic is made by a European company but American companies and local governments are prohibited by our federal government and the FDA from buying the drug in Europe and giving it to the people who need it here. The bullshit excuse is "safety".

Thing is Republicans are just as worthless as the Dems on this issue. They are just less hypocritical because they do not scream against drug companies with one exception in the Republican party and that is Trump. Trump does not do jack shit about either but he screams against them and is not dependent on them money wise so maybe, maybe drug companies may be more cautious raising future prices. Is that markedly better than Biden? Hell no, but it is a little better.

So for all your belly aching on Dems being so much better, they suck ass and so do Republicans. We do not have a choice between candidates who are going to bring drug prices down.

This is the biggest rising expense in our system and Obama made health care his #1 issue and he did not do jack shit about this. In fact, he made it worse!

But what about Trump? Like I said, he sucked on the issue too. The best he did was get rid of the ridiculously unconstitutional health care mandate.

So quit with your bullshit that the Dems are so much better than the Republicans when the reality is they both suck ass.

[FFlintstone69]

She and others at the CDC just aren't into mass murdering American kids and adults as much as Donald Trump is:

White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/cdc-...ndroidappshare

As Trump proved in 2018, 2019 and 2020, it is so much easier to mass murder at least a million Americans by defunding and removing the conduits of scientific facts and communication so deadly, virulent viruses and disease can spread unnoticed, unreported and unabated until it inevitably develops into a massively economically destructive worldwide Pandemic of "killing fields" in virtually every country on Earth but especially in the USA than it is to kill that many Americans with bullets from guns made blissfully easy for any and every loon to access, load, lock and fire at school children, church-goers, mall shoppers, etc.

Therefore, it is very important for Trump's CDC appointees to be as devoted to mass murdering as many Americans as he and his Cabinet Appointees are as well as to wiping out millions upon millions of jobs, skyrocketing inflation, the national debt and the deficit.

Promises made, promises kept.

This appears to be another DEI purge.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Dr.+Demetre+Daskalakis&rlz=1 CAKPLI_enUS1143 US1143&oq=Dr. +Demetre+Daskalakis&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCjI0 MjYxOWowajSoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...v-rate-n938596

[EihTooms]

No one cares.

How can the markets be at all time highs and in a cavernous decline?

Well, that is certainly the way a demented Democratic douche would look at it.

So in 2016, it was Putin. In 2024, it is Netanyahu and Muslims. OMG.

How about you douches literally ran an administration with a demented president, did not listen to Democratic voters, selected the worst candidate I have seen in my lifetime who did not articulate any position outside of Fuck Trump and would not sit down for a prolonged interview, passed a massive spending bill leading to runaway inflation, flung open the border screwing over the lower and middle classes of America, and engaged in banana republic lawfare techniques that would make Venezuela blush?

Nah, that could not be it. You won an Iowa Senate Seat.

How about if the Dems had done that Trump might not have needed Putin's help again to eke out at least a 1 full percentage point swing win in the only three swing states that mattered instead of a razor-thin 0. 75 percentage point one thanks to a single voter demo over a single issue?

Uh. The gains in the market over the past year thanks by far mostly to Bidenomics would have been much higher today were it not for this year's cavernous decline clearly shown in the chart thanks to Trumpanomics.

Interesting to hear MAGAs suddenly don't care about the rate of inflation or the price of gas now that both have been and are continuing to going up under Trump. And why would that be, exactly?

How about the price of beef? Has there been a "Bovine Flu" causing beef prices to skyrocket the way Avian Flu truly did have everything to do with the skyrocketing increase of the price of eggs and nothing to do with Biden?

If so, please tell us all about it so we can share your lame excuses for Trump's horrible economic policy and stewardship results in just the first 7 months after Biden-Harris handed him The Envy of the World Economy.

BTW, that was the 2nd Ruby Red Iowa Senate Seat that went for Trump by 20 points the Dems flipped this year. And that isn't all. Why do you think Trump and the Repubs are panicking into pulling all the stops to create all new House districts mid-decade to prevent the slaughter they know is coming if they don't?

Democrat flips Iowa state senate seat and breaks Republican supermajority.
Catelin Drey beats extremist Christopher Prosch, flipping district so Democrats can block governors appointments.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...enate-election

Despite Democrats struggles in Washington, this is the second Iowa state senate district they have flipped this year, after a January victory in a district Trump won by more than 20 percentage points.

Democrats have consistently overperformed in special legislative elections across the country, including winning another Trump-friendly seat in the state senate in Pennsylvania in March.

See, there are no Muslim Community Leaders in Iowa leading the charge to punish the Biden Administration and America by swooping in to swing juuuust enough votes to help Putin and Netanyahu station their best Russian Russian Russian Assets from their favorite Russian Russian Russian Political Party in the White House and Congress.

[Elvis 2008]

The average price of a gallon of regular gas is higher today than yesterday. It is higher both days than it was last week. Those prices are all higher than it was a month ago. It is higher today than it was the day Trump took office. It is higher today than it was on election day.

You would have to go all the way back to October 2024, almost a year ago, to see it was higher under Biden than it has been more often than not under Trump.

No one cares.

No mention of the USA Stock Market lately even though it has hit new all time highs lately? Maybe that's because the VAST majority of the gains in the USA Stock Market over the past year happened under Biden.

However, the graph below shows a nice big deep cavernous decline in the USA Stock Market under Trump in just the first 6 months of his 2nd term.

How can the markets be at all time highs and in a cavernous decline?

The rate of inflation that had been declining steadily under Biden all through 2024 has gone right back up under Trump.

Well, that is certainly the way a demented Democratic douche would look at it.

None of those 2024 demographic voter declines flipped a Blue state to Trump in 2024 except the Muslim demo shift. Not a conspiracy. Just the only voter demographic shift that won Trump the White House and it was on a single issue over which only Netanyahu had control.

So in 2016, it was Putin. In 2024, it is Netanyahu and Muslims. OMG.

How about you douches literally ran an administration with a demented president, did not listen to Democratic voters, selected the worst candidate I have seen in my lifetime who did not articulate any position outside of Fuck Trump and would not sit down for a prolonged interview, passed a massive spending bill leading to runaway inflation, flung open the border screwing over the lower and middle classes of America, and engaged in banana republic lawfare techniques that would make Venezuela blush?

Nah, that could not be it. You won an Iowa Senate Seat.

[EihTooms]

She and others at the CDC just aren't into mass murdering American kids and adults as much as Donald Trump is:

White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/cdc-...ndroidappshare

The White House on Wednesday said it has fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez after she refused to resign.

At least four other officials also submitted their resignations in a massive shakeup at the health agency.

The departures come at a tumultuous time for the agency, which is reeling from a gunmans attack on its Atlanta headquarters on Aug. 8.
..........
"When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda, Zaid said in a statement. For that, she has been targeted.
.............

At least four other officials also submitted their resignations on Wednesday in a massive shakeup at the agency: Dr. Debra Houry, the CDCs chief medical officer; Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Dr. Daniel Jernigan, the director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; and Dr. Jennifer Layden, director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance and Technology.

Houry, in a resignation letter obtained by NBC News, wrote about the dangers of the spread of vaccine misinformation and said proposed budget cuts and reorganization plans would negatively impact the CDCs ability to address conditions like hypertension, diabetes, cancer, overdoses and mental health issues.

As Trump proved in 2018, 2019 and 2020, it is so much easier to mass murder at least a million Americans by defunding and removing the conduits of scientific facts and communication so deadly, virulent viruses and disease can spread unnoticed, unreported and unabated until it inevitably develops into a massively economically destructive worldwide Pandemic of "killing fields" in virtually every country on Earth but especially in the USA than it is to kill that many Americans with bullets from guns made blissfully easy for any and every loon to access, load, lock and fire at school children, church-goers, mall shoppers, etc.

Therefore, it is very important for Trump's CDC appointees to be as devoted to mass murdering as many Americans as he and his Cabinet Appointees are as well as to wiping out millions upon millions of jobs, skyrocketing inflation, the national debt and the deficit.

Promises made, promises kept.

[FFlintstone69]

Trans are Evil.

[EihTooms]

The graph just shows what happened.

The average age of first-time homebuyers has steadily increased, rising from 33 in 2021 to 36 in 2022, and reaching 38 in 2024.

Kawashima-Ginsberg said young voters are issues-driven voters, and that bore out in the data with 40% saying the economy was their top issue.

CIRCLE, shows 46% of young people voted for Trump, up from 36% in 2020. Harris took 52% of the youth vote.

Trump won the youth vote in 17 states this election, compared to just seven states in 2020.

That you think these facts make Dems look good shows how demented you are. Maybe if you gave a shit about your fellow American versus just your social security handout, things might be a little clearer.

"The way I look at it", tell me Oatmeal for Brains, when has the way you looked at things ever found the Democrats wrong about anything?

Oh yeah, I forgot. Harris lost due to a Muslim conspiracy.

The average price of a gallon of regular gas is higher today than yesterday. It is higher both days than it was last week. Those prices are all higher than it was a month ago. It is higher today than it was the day Trump took office. It is higher today than it was on election day.

You would have to go all the way back to October 2024, almost a year ago, to see it was higher under Biden than it has been more often than not under Trump.

No mention of the USA Stock Market lately even though it has hit new all time highs lately? Maybe that's because the VAST majority of the gains in the USA Stock Market over the past year happened under Biden.

However, the graph below shows a nice big deep cavernous decline in the USA Stock Market under Trump in just the first 6 months of his 2nd term.

The rate of inflation that had been declining steadily under Biden all through 2024 has gone right back up under Trump.

All good for Americans, right?

Oh, then how about the latest jobs report that was so bad Trump fired the BLS Official for simply reporting them?

Do Americans love deficits and skyrocketing debt? Then they must be delighted with Trump for delivering way, way above and beyond on that count.

GDP Growth? It is running at 1.2% for the year so far.

This first year of Trump's 2nd term is the worst time for America since the last year of Trump's 1st term!

Uh. None of those 2024 demographic voter declines flipped a Blue state to Trump in 2024 except the Muslim demo shift from Dem to Trump in the only three swing states that mattered and the only three states where Muslim Community Leaders mobilized to do just that. None.

And the maximum shift required to do that in those 3 states was less than a razor-thin 0.75 of a single percentage point.

Not a conspiracy. Just the only voter demographic shift that won Trump the White House and it was on a single issue over which only Netanyahu had control.

The farmers in Iowa that just flipped a Ruby Red State Senate Seat to solid Bue were not Muslims voting in some goofy way to punish the Biden Administration. Don't count on them to swoop in to save the day for America-hating Repub candidates any time soon.

[Elvis 2008]

Well, I look at that graph and see prices surged under Trump starting in 2020 due to Trump's Pandemic then stopped surging, stabilized and began to decline starting in 2022 under Biden and continued to decline in 2023,2024 and until today.

That's the graph you thought was going to make Trump look good and Biden look bad, right?

Just checking.

BTW, when are going to thank Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for that and so many other things?

The graph just shows what happened.

The average age of first-time homebuyers has steadily increased, rising from 33 in 2021 to 36 in 2022, and reaching 38 in 2024.

Kawashima-Ginsberg said young voters are issues-driven voters, and that bore out in the data with 40% saying the economy was their top issue.

CIRCLE, shows 46% of young people voted for Trump, up from 36% in 2020. Harris took 52% of the youth vote.

Trump won the youth vote in 17 states this election, compared to just seven states in 2020.

That you think these facts make Dems look good shows how demented you are. Maybe if you gave a shit about your fellow American versus just your social security handout, things might be a little clearer.

"The way I look at it", tell me Oatmeal for Brains, when has the way you looked at things ever found the Democrats wrong about anything?

Oh yeah, I forgot. Harris lost due to a Muslim conspiracy.

[SubCmdr]

Trump cuts home prices again

This is the very definition of socialism. The government controlling the markets. Always knew the MAGAs didn't understand democracy or capitalism.

At to that the executive order about burning the flag that violates the 1st Amendment rights of my fellow citizens.

The Defense Rests!

[EihTooms]

The government's report showed the median sales price of a new home decreased nearly 6% in July from a year earlier to $403,800, the lowest for July since 2021. Prices have fallen on an annual basis every month this year except one.

This is to counter the Loony Toomsian vision where all economic news is due to who is president.

While Trump's actions are up for debate, Biden's never were.

How do you look at this graph and not conclude that Biden completely fucked over the poor?

https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/i...?itok=pAEVAHQT

He printed up all this money after Covid and it went to wealthy homeowners while those who rented and were in debt got it up the ass.

And the illegals did not come in and start working as doctors, lawyers, and pilots. They were brought in to screw the blue collar worker.

Of all the things the Democratic douches have said, saying that those who support Trump support the billionaire class is the most stupid. The reason Trump won was not a bunch of Muslim turncoats. It was because Kamala was a shit candidate and Biden totally fucked over the lower and middle classes.

Well, I look at that graph and see prices surged under Trump starting in 2020 due to Trump's Pandemic then stopped surging, stabilized and began to decline starting in 2022 under Biden and continued to decline in 2023,2024 and until today.

That's the graph you thought was going to make Trump look good and Biden look bad, right?

Just checking.

BTW, when are going to thank Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for that and so many other things?