This man he never bought groceries in his life. Remember that. He has never gown to the local Walmart or aldi or anywhere and actually shopped for food. He has no fucking idea what anyone is talking about.
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What's a banana cost? $40,000?
here's $7,000. Go see a Star War.
With Trump tariffs and related inflation, it might.
What – you don’t need to show your grocery id to buy groceries?
RealBananas™ ID
You just need an appealing photo
It's because he's only ever seen groceries bought with a check so think like early 90s at latest. Probably actually with a nanny when he was a kid.
So in the 40s?
Not terribly unlikely no.
That's also why it's such an "old-fashioned word" - and wow look at him, how he knows words
“I do say to [Foley], first of all, I love her, because she voted for me three times, and I think she’d vote for me again if I had that opportunity,” Trump said.
He completely dismisses her concerns, then says she would vote for him again if given the chance. He's probably right, and that's exactly the problem.
He doesn't have to do anything to keep his sycophants and qultists, so why would he put any effort into doing something differently?
He also thinks "affordability" is a new word. Again, because he's never had to use that word his entire life.
Then there's this, about energy prices:
While the national average cost for a gallon of regular gasoline has remained lower than last year, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found the average retail price of electricity has risen faster than inflation in 26 states in the past six months, according to The New York Times.
Data centers. I'm telling you, this is a sleeper issue. They're going up like wildfire for AI. If Democrats came out hard against these local sweetheart deals that tech companies are extracting from city councils in exchange for bribes, it would be a winning issue for them.
These companies get tax breaks to build them, the electricity to power them is paid for by the community, they consume water, they create no jobs besides temporary out-of-state construction jobs, and they privatize all the profits.
Often the terms of these deals are secret because of NDAs, but either way they try to keep these deals secret. Even if it's discovered, the city councils just ram approval through over the objections of the community.
This is a progressive issue that I think red voters would cross the line to vote for, because the Confederates have gone all in on wealth extraction by these companies, and the residents hate them.
I'm in the energy tech world, and lemme tell ya holy shit it is hard to get through a conversation these days without saying the word datacenter.
This gets a lot of attention in my world. Load growth from AI data centers causing upward rate pressure because utilities fund new grid capacity by wrapping the capex into the rate base.
We need a simple regulation that mandates that all data centers must power themselves with renewable energy.
It'll fix sooo many issues. Not the water thing but that's a region-specific problem. Not everywhere has water shortages and not all data center designs use shittons of water (even AI data centers).
I am really uneducated on this, and my source is fairly unreliable (my Trump voting father and city councilor), but I’ve heard that the central Oregon data centers for Apple and Facebook are cooled with wastewater intake from the nearby municipalities. The angle on that was that it’s not wasteful to clean water sources. If it’s true, that seems like a decent solution?
No way they use untreated water, and no way they invest in their own water treatment.
If they're using wastewater, that's some shitty cooling.
I mean... It's nice to know the executives give a crap I guess?
I like that idea a lot
Plus with water, we can just say fuck you, you don't get to run the tap constantly for cooling, it's a total waste of clean drinking water. Build more solar panels and figure out a less insane way
We're going to have the best Affordability. I have some of the best Affordability experts on my side, which by the way the Democrats hate, because they're still mad that I won the election fair and square, which would actually be my THIRD term by the way, if they hadn't stolen it for Sleepy Joe Biden last time, and I hrrrhjhbbbbb. hhh
His reply:
“I do say this. Beef we have to get down. I think of groceries. It’s an old-fashioned word, but it’s a beautiful word. Beef we have to get down, but we’ve got prices way down,” Trump said, further claiming that energy costs are also already down and “all-encompassing.”
My eyes figuratively popped when he started insulting the autocrat leading North Korea who just announced that he has nukes now, way back in 2017 I guess. Maybe a few more times after that, until a pattern emerged. The above quote is just par for the course, not even mildly interesting.
Can we have just one fucking person follow up some time and ask him why he thinks a word (in his case, fucking "groceries") is a "beautiful word"?
I just can't...
Or like…why is it old fashioned? People still shop for them and eat.
The idea that "groceries" is an old-fashioned word is fixated in his brain. He rambled on about it multiple times on the campaign trail.
He's never had to think about groceries, so to him it's basically an unused word in the English language. Food has always just appeared before him like magic his entire life. I'm sure he can't understand why people keep using this strange word he's never had to say before the last couple of years.
Most ultra wealthy people have really well stocked fridges even if their chef or nutritionist or whoever shops for them. They open their fridge and see groceries
Trump grabs McDonald's or goes to restaurants. I honestly think he doesn't understand the concept of groceries, it's so neat to him because he just learned where hamburgers come from
Terrible headline.
I expect nothing less from huffpo
what he said next will SHOCK you!!
Trump presidency GONE WRONG!!
Cult leaders don't give a shit about their idiotic followers 😂
Is it the leopard time already?
It shudda be a Mario-time!!!
Can we get a article I can actually read? Fucking blocked off website.
What a fucking trash article
Clearly exists just to put ads and subscriptions on the page
The last time I filled up my car was the first and only time that I’ve seen gas prices budge since last year. I’m not sure why they keep saying they’re down this year other than that. I don’t think you should be able to claim that it’s cheaper to drive now until they stay down for at least two months.
Because whatever they say, a large portion of the voter base just listens and believes and doesn’t think. Like at all. The lack of thinking, in any capacity by voters, has been a winning strategy for the party for a long time.
When the economy goes to shit, oil consumption drops and gas prices along with it.
It's not a perfect 1-to-1 thing but it's real
oh to be able to get back to covid prices...
"hello yes i would like two groceries please"