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More reason to believe that Trump will raise prices instead of lowering them.


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President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the Federal Trade Commission vowed in his job pitch to end current chair Lina Khan's "war on mergers," a signal to an eager corporate America that the incoming administration intends to be far more lax on antitrust enforcement.

The more of our food production and sales that is crowded in the hands of the few, the less likely prices will ever go down.

Trump back pedaled on his promise to lower food prices recently. Now he is going to make sure they never go down again.

This will affect the MAGA the most as they are the ones that are the most poorly educated and under-employed.

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Keep reaching, salt-bitch 🤣🍻

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So you don't believe that Trump is going to pick Ferguson for that position? You actually believe that concentrating control of our food supply into the hands of a few is going to lower prices? Even Trump does not believe he can lower prices. But he only reversed course after he became president-elect. He has a habit of doing that.

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I don’t believe anything you salty Leftoids desperately shit out to cope with Trump’s epic victory 🍻

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Do you believe Trump? https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113631003888738065

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I absolutely believe he will demolish your evil cult, repair America, and bring about world peace again 🍻

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You're being evasive, do you believe what Trump says or not? Trump is the kind of leader who would give Alaska back to the Russians after they invade to stop a war.

I'm not the one in a cult. I'm not the one who despairs anytime someone mocks my cult leader. That would be you.

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Of course they believe Trump

If he said "I'm going to double crop production by drinking Brawndo taking a big piss on the crop fields", they would lick it up and then scream "Copium!!" at anyone who points out that obvious impossibility and idiocy of whatever he's said.

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"most poorly educated and under-employed"

leftie speak for "works in a trade and stay-at-home moms".

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No. I dropped out of college, served/retired from the military and worked a trade for the next 20 years prior to retiring. I'm not a leftist and am more conservative than gun grabber, rapey Trump.

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Of course, everyone definitely believes you and you certainly don't come off as mentally ill at all, no way.

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Of course some people do not believe me. Duh. But why would you not believe a boring claim like mine above? It is completely rational and not unusual at all. Are you telling me that people who oppose gun grabs are mentally ill?

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But I said everyone believes you and you don't come off as mentally ill at all.

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If you actually believe that, perhaps you need help? :)

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Are you saying that I shouldn't believe you and that you are in fact mentally ill?

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I think you are mentally ill. Get help.

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You're sending some very mixed messages here you know.

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Sane people would understand my messages without any problems. :) Your latest posts have completely validated my opinion of you. Thank you.

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Luckily for you my opinion of you couldn't sink any lower so we're all good!

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I understood you perfectly. I guess RNB really did drop out of college.

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I would prefer small, family-owned farms and co-ops. So are you hunting them out and supporting them?

I'm always amazed at the elites' dismissal of the little people who just make this country run. But keep doing it. It's that attitude, the one that had Obama dressing down those black men for being "sexist" for not voting for Kamala, that put Trump back in office. It's the one that's probably going to put Poilievre in as PM of Canada. It's what's going to have Starmer kicked out of Number 10. It's what's caused something of a global revolution against the elites who think all their education makes them somehow more equipped to understand the needs of the "little people."

Meanwhile, Dems are leaking their constituencies because, as many have said, "I voted Democrat all my life. Nothing has ever changed. I've stopped voting the same way and expecting different results. Besides, they've been telling us not to believe our lying eyes. I can't believe them anymore." And that, apparently, goes double for the MSM. CNN is leaking viewers like a sieve. Fox and the alternative media are getting their viewers.

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I buy local when I can. Trump is one of those "elites" who routinely dismisses anyone that is not Trump.

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If you weren't so blind with Trump hatred, you'd realize he has the common touch. You might think it's phony, but that's your opinion.

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Tell me more about how the common touch led to Trump's anti-gun agenda, his refusal to follow through on promises like putting Clinton in prison or building the wall. There is nothing common about 34 felony convictions or being held responsible for a sexual assault. Trump again reversed himself on a campaign promise that he would lower food prices; he says he can't now.

Do you really see these things as the common touch that you admire? Yuck.

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I don't like Trump's approach to guns. We hope wiser voices will prevail on that one. His constituency will slap him down hard, and he'll back down.

As for the lame law fare, I'd vote for Trump again rather than another four years of Obama-influenced politics. If Obama wasn't pulling the strings, he surely was the inspiration for the policies.

I do like E. Jean Carroll. She decided to pose in the very dress in which she was assaulted, not that she craves media attention. Problem was, they didn't even make the dress until a year after she claimed she was assaulted.

It's stuff like that which got the "I'll vote for the felon!" tee shirts very popular.

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Then why did you vote for a proud gun grabber? You really think Trump is not done grabbing our guns? Trump supporters for the most part supported Trump's gun grab. Where have you been since 2018?

Do you support trump's propose gun grab without due process?

What do you know about that dress that no one else knows? You think the dress was not available only because Trump says so? What else you got?

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Because he'll never take the guns. It's like Rehoboam sending the tax collector to the rest of the kingdom. It won't end well. But fixate on it since you think you're getting so much mileage out of it.

Apparently you didn't see the other options. We live in a two-party system. I'm a realist. Apparently you aren't. Or maybe you actually liked Harris/Walz. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Trump already has as many as 520,000 gun grabbed, according to the Trump administration. Where have you been since 2018? https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-12-26/pdf/2018-27763.pdf

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Clink on the link, and you find out it's about bumpstocks. Princess, here, can't tell the difference between something you ATTACH TO a gun and the gun itself. Maybe he thinks "bumpstocks" is a brand name, like Lugar.

Shut up.

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Of course it is about bump stocks. Trump did not want Americans to own them, so he had the ATF classify them as contraband machine guns so he could confiscate them without compensation from law abiding Americans.

Why would you ever claim it is okay to confiscate property without compensation? Did you grow up in North Korea?

Why do you claim to be the one who defines what a firearm is, and not the federal government? Convince me that your word is law, and not the president's?

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Thank you for saying it's about bumpstocks. I didn't read the rest because you'd been saying Trump was grabbing GUNS. Bumpstocks are not GUNS.

No, he shouldn't do it. I have a whole long list of things Trump shouldn't do but might. And stuff he might do, but shouldn't.

Sickeningly enough, Trump is still better than Biden or Harris/Walz.

Oh, and now we're hearing that what we Republicans had been saying all along was true -- that Biden wasn't fit to serve from the start, but that they'd kept the info from us. I wonder which unelected person/s is/are really running the government?

Meanwhile, we'll be able to defend ourselves against governmental tyranny even if we don't have bumpstocks. But by all means, do stay hysterical over it. And keep calling bumpstocks guns, then don't admit you were "exaggerating" just a tad. You can take the bumpstock off the gun, you know.

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I still want to know more about why you think that you're the one who defines what a gun is and not the state and federal governments. You must have a very low opinion of everyone reading your posts if you think they're foolish enough to believe you.

I included that link so you could educate yourself; why pass up the opportunity to do so?

Did you read the part where the Trump administration ruled that;

The Department of Justice is amending the regulations of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) to clarify that bump-stock-type devices—meaning ‘‘bump fire’’ stocks, slide-fire devices, and devices with certain similar characteristics—are ‘‘machineguns’’


Yes I know the bump stock can be removed. But it is the bump stock itself, that stupid piece of plastic, that the Trump administration defined as a machine gun, all by itself. Why are you so overly casual about a president like trump, Biden or Bush infringing upon our civil rights?

Perhaps you can link to the rule, regulation or law that says your opinion supersedes the CFR? Just because something does not go bang or does not shoot a projectile, does not mean it is not a gun in the USA. Your knowledge of gun control law in the US is very much lacking to say the least. Your ignorance is not a asset to this conversation.

Here is a link to the ATF firearm reference guide. https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/guide/federal-firearms-regulations-reference-guide-2014-edition-atf-p-53004

In it you will see that federal law defines various items as firearms even though they do not shoot a projectile. This would include silencers, silencer parts, certain machine gun parts and DD parts.

Are you also going to claim that Biden is not a gun grabber because forced reset triggers are not machine guns as defined by the ATF? Will you also say the same about Bush's 2006 gun grab?

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Going to enlighten us on why your word is law, and not the federal government's? Was Trump lying when he classified bump stocks as firearms?

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Trump grabbing guns is the absolute last thing to worry about with Trump.
I'm guessing you only say it to wind them up , as its a punchier soundbite than trying to explain why a moron cant run an economy , but its just water off a ducks back to them.

That "I could execute someone on the street and they would like it" thing he said was more portentous than anyone thought .

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Why is a gun grab the last thing to worry about when Trump has grabbed more guns than any other president and plans to grab more?

Would you excuse any Biden or Harris plan to grab guns? Biden had his own gun grab in 2022 and Harris wanted one if she was elected. But know you're just going to have to be satisfied with whatever Trump wants to grab next.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-12-26/pdf/2018-27763.pdf
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4717030/user-clip-donald-trump-take-guns-first-due-process-second

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No you’ve got it all wrong. The Harris / Walz campaign determined higher prices are from corporate price gouging, not presidential policy

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So creating monopolies prevent price gouging? I think you got it backwards. Candidate Trump says his policies will lower prices. President-elect trump says the prices will not go down. Understand it now?

Trump says he is gong to keep prices high. That is the best way to ensure big profits for his oligarch buddies and to keep the likes of you under his thumb.

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I think Trump’s trade tariffs will absolutely raise consumer prices. However, I see his tariff threat as designed for leverage to resolve foreign trade imbalances that lead to America’s biggest export: our best paying jobs. I would think as a liberal, you’d support temporary higher prices that benefit American labor long term. I was teasing you a little bit about how liberals dismissed inflated prices as the result of evil businesses engaging in price gouging (I have no recollection of her blaming antitrust issues as you appear to claim) rather than Biden Admin policies and vast money printing. I don’t know if you supported her position on that but it is funny to hear a liberal suddenly getting annoyed at how a president’s policies result in price inflation.

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I'm not a liberal, I'm actually far more conservative than gun grabber Trump.

Trump is very much willing to export American jobs and hire foreign workers. I was blaming no one but Trump for trust and monopoly problems.

I never support any position that results in increased prices when there is no benefit for doing so. Why do you think I ever posted anything that indicated otherwise?

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Okay, you’re a conservative not a liberal… (whose posting history just happens to read like a years’ long recapitulation of the Mother Jones comment section).

I was rebutting your OP by painting you with the contradictory conclusions of the 2024 Harris / Democrat platform on the cause of higher prices because your posting history (with the exclusion of 2A rights) is universally sympathetic to liberal orthodoxy and hostile to that of conservatives.

Now that I stand corrected, it’s good to know that you too, as a fellow conservative, agree Harris / Walz were plainly in error on the cause and remedy for inflation over the last four years.

You might want to go back and take a look at the Biden Administration’s tariffs on a wide array of foreign consumer and industry products however. Your bona fides as an old school conservative are in doubt when you selectively criticize Trump’s tariff threats but stand silent on the actual tariffs imposed by the Biden / Harris administration designed to protect American labor.

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Can you quote a single post of mine that is sympathetic to liberals? There is nothing wrong with being hostile to any conservative viewpoint or policy that infringes upon our civil rights. Why are you so naive when it comes to the likes of Trump infringing upon our civil rights?

Yeah, Biden was in error. Duh.

Yes everyone has tariffs. Why does that make Trump's tariffs a good idea? Just because other politicians suck does not mean trump is doing the right thing.

I have not stood silent on Biden.

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I haven’t taken any position on any Trump infringement of civil rights so you’re putting words into my mouth there.

I’ve already said why I think Trump’s tariff threats have favorable objectives.

I obviously raised Biden’s tariffs to highlight your dubious claim to being a conservative considering I saw nothing in your MC history criticizing actual Biden tariffs yet here you are getting animated about Trump threats that are not even in effect.

If I’m wrong and you’ve been hammering Biden on tariffs or you’ve been favorable to conservative figures, it would be easier for you to quote those examples back to me. As author of those entries, you’d be the expert on that history.

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If you're not taking a position on trump's civil rights violations of the American public, then you are passively supporting his role in depriving us of our rights.

Trump says he has a favorable objective, but that is what all the politicians say when they want to do something that will hurt our country. Did you really expect Trump to come out and say he was going to ruin our lives so he can increase his wealth.

If you're going to make a claim, support it. Do not expect me to prove your claims right or wrong.

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I never support any position that results in violating civil rights when there is no exigent emergency for doing so. Why do you think I ever posted anything that indicated otherwise?

Yeah, unjustified violation of civil rights is in error. Duh.

I agree with your suspicions re the motive of all politicians including Trump so at least we have common ground there.

However, my thoughts on the tariff threat are my own and I support the targeted use of tariffs and tariff threats by both Biden and Trump, because I believe it the only effective way to prevent China and other trade violators from destroying U.S. industry, stealing American jobs, and driving American wages and hard earned working standards into third world conditions that can only be tolerated by desperate migrants and illegal aliens

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No American jobs are stolen. American employers fire American workers and replace them with easy to exploit aliens.

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The growth of the U.S. trade deficit with China between 2001 and 2018 was responsible for the loss of 3.7 million U.S. jobs.

Three-fourths (75.4%) of the jobs lost between 2001 and 2018 were in manufacturing (2.8 million manufacturing jobs lost due to the growth in the trade deficit with China).

Between 2001 and 2011 alone, growing trade deficits with China reduced the incomes of directly impacted workers by $37 billion per year

China’s entry into the WTO in 2001 was supposed to bring it into compliance with an enforceable, rules-based regime that would require China to open its markets to imports from the United States and other nations by reducing Chinese tariffs and addressing nontariff barriers to trade.

However, China’s trade-distorting practices, aided by China’s currency manipulation and misalignment and its suppression of wages and labor rights, resulted in a flood of dumped and subsidized imports that greatly exceeded the growth of U.S. exports to China.

These trade-distorting practices included extending large subsidies to industries such as steel, glass, paper, concrete, and renewable energy industries and rapidly growing its state-owned enterprises, both of which generated a massive buildup of excess capacity far exceeding Chinese consumer demand. China dealt with the oversupply by dumping the exports elsewhere, primarily in the United States

https://www.epi.org/publication/growing-china-trade-deficits-costs-us-jobs/

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The Right isn't "poorly educated". They're less-indoctrinated. The average conservative is far more informed on issues than most Democrats.

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Trump says they (many of the right) are poorly educated and he loves them for it. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-love-poorly-educated/

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Unlike you, Trump supporters don't expect a quick, simple and miraculous fix for all the disasters caused by the swamp during the past five years (yes, that includes their 400+ insurrections and the plandemic).

Oh, that's right, you were clowning and trolling as usual; never mind.

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Would be nice if Trump did not just expect anyone to believe him every time he changes his mind. It does not have to be quick, it just needs to be real.

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Prices will necessarily go down when 50 million illegals are no longer in the country competing for the same food supply, and this goes for the housing market as well.

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And what makes you think 50 million illegals are going to go anywhere? Because Trump said so?

Trump is counting on you to be a complete idiot. It really is optional; you don't have to be one.

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Ok, 60 million!

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Because Tom Homan said so.

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