“While inflation has cooled from its peak, grocery prices have not returned to where consumers remember them,” Martin told The Post.

“Food prices have effectively reset to a permanently higher level after years of supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, transportation costs, and broad inflationary pressures,” he added.

Meanwhile the minimum wage hasn’t been raised in almost 20 years. There’s nothing that leads to revolution faster than hunger:

Every society is three meals away from chaos

-Vladimir Lenin

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    Then how is it that I was seeing headlines today about how inflation has softened, been “tamed”, etc.? Is that just based on the Fed not raising rates (even though they probably should)?

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    If anyone ever thought he would help people in lowering their bills — you just bought another seat in his grifting class held at his defunct school.

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      He’s a con man and always has been.

      But the conservatives just love to punch themselves square in the balls to own the libs, because they rely on the fact that everyone else will suffer, too, and they hope that libs suffer more.

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      Trump voters are if you took an imbecile, gave him brain damage and then replaced his brain with straw.

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    They said if I voted for Kamala the prices would be high and we’d be in more wars. Well, they were right!

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    Trump has catastrophically failed in delivering every single promise he made to the working class MAGA cunts who voted for him. However, these dumb bastards still vehemently and passionately support him, with some even outright lying to convince themselves Trump has made their lives better.

    There is no greater evidence that Trump’s supporters support him entirely for his racism, corruption, pedophilia and atrocities. Its the only thing he’s delivered on, and they’re head over heels for it.

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    When you put the entire population of folks that used to work the fields and man the meat processing plants into concentration camps and then lose a war that spikes food transportation costs, why would you expect anything less?
    What did Trump say recently about his feelings about families struggling with higher costs of living?

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    If only those Republican voters who are not MAGA and don’t agree with Trump would vote for the Democratic candidate, but they won’t. The best they can do is not vote.