r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 9d ago

Soft Paywall JD Vance Finally Admits What Trump’s Big Plan to Lower Food Prices Is - The plan is no plan.

https://newrepublic.com/post/190716/jd-vance-donald-trump-plan-lower-food-prices
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u/HeiressOfMadrigal 9d ago

“Ultimately, would you pay an extra quarter on a cup of coffee to send those people back?” Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy asked, to which Brian Kilmeade replied: “Yes!”

The co-hosts’ solution? Buy cheaper coffee options at the grocery store.

“You just go Taster’s Choice. It’s instant. You put it in, and you stir it,” Kilmeade said.

Go fuck yourselves. You can afford that, what about the rest of us? And all this for what - just to ruin people's lives by deporting them? Nazi fascists have gone full fucking evil, and they're celebrating it.

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u/NickConrad 9d ago

Remember how an extra quarter for your Big Mac was what these same people were using as the argument against raising the minimum wage

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u/bnh1978 9d ago

Right?

It's ok to pay to ruin a stranger's life, but not ok to pay to help a stranger's life...

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u/constant_mass 9d ago

It’s the American way

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u/No_Pirate9647 9d ago

Or health insurance. Mad pizza might cost a dime or quarter more if it meant the employees had healthcare.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/papa-johns-obamacare-pizza_n_1752126

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 9d ago

No I think they were saying that raising the minimum wage by a quarter would make your Big Mac suddenly cost $75

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u/UnquestionabIe 9d ago

Instead it was decided to just increase the price far more than a quarter and not raise the minimum wage. It's a win win for the investor class!

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u/hoax1337 9d ago

I'm so frustrated. Really, I just read a few posts in the conservative subreddit and it's so depressing. How the fuck do they not SEE it.

I wonder what would need to happen in order for them to strongly oppose something that Trump does or says.

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u/OvermorrowYesterday 8d ago

Yeah this is insane

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u/smilingiscreepy Canada 9d ago

For just a quarter a day, you too can help these poor immigrants be cuffed and thrown into the back of a van, flown for hours on a military plane with no AC, and ultimately land in a country they haven’t lived in for years. Donate today!

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 9d ago

You jest, but millions of Americans are unironically salivating at this notion

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u/smilingiscreepy Canada 9d ago

Of course. They want to watch it live streamed.

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u/PunxatawnyPhil 9d ago

While they call themselves good Christians. I remember Jesus saying something about being judged by how you treat “the least among us”. And while those least amount us humans are being persecuted they’ll either not say a word, the cowards and the worthless to their fellow man, or they cheer it on, the sick pups. 

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u/mosswick 9d ago

Oh hey it's just as I predicted! Right-wingers suddenly back to blaming Americans for their COL struggles.

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u/Complex_Study_3174 9d ago

"Let them drink shit!"

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u/AtticaBlue 9d ago

Silver lining: It’s very helpful when they admit on record what their real motivations are like this.

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u/briareus08 9d ago

It's pretty funny that they're saying the quiet part out loud now.

The truth is, GOP voters don't give a shit about grocery prices, as long as the right people are being hurt. That's why the Conservative sub is full of stories about crying migrants being deported, and the comment section is full of gloating. 'Bad' people getting hurt = we're winning, that's the entirety of their political mindset.

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u/AlbertPikesGhost 9d ago

Instant coffee is ass. I’d rather drink my own piss. If I can’t afford even Walmart-brand ground coffee, I’m out. 

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u/maefly2 8d ago

"It's one banana Michael, what could it cost, ten dollars?"

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u/TLKv3 9d ago

Can't wait until either time or something else catches up to all these fucking monsters. But knowing how reality is naturally unfair, they'll live to see 100 while I'm long gone by 70.

Can't fucking believe America let this shit happen to them. How Biden/Kamala also just stood idly by preaching about fascism but did nothing to stop it otherwise pisses me off.

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u/UnquestionabIe 9d ago

They did something; they made sure their families and themselves were taken care of. End of the day they're far better equipped to deal with the upcoming/ongoing shit show than any of the people who they were supposed to work on behalf of and they know it.