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After Promising To Lower The Price Of Groceries, Trump Now Admits He’s Powerless To Do So

Donald Trump just got caught in yet another lie.

You probably recall that during the recent presidential campaign, Trump repeatedly harped on the price of groceries in U.S. stores, vowing to do something about costs if he was elected.

Now, however, after winning the election by one of the narrowest margins in history, the prevaricating president-elect is admitting that there’s really nothing he can do to alleviate any financial pain Americans are experiencing due to inflation.

Speaking with Time as part of being named the magazine’s “Man of the Year,” Trump noted, “I’d like to bring them down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard. But I think that they will.”

Keep in mind that in August, Trump said exactly the opposite, remarking, “Prices will come down. You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast, not only with insurance, with everything.”

He repeated the lie a month later.

“We will end inflation and make America affordable again, and we’re going to get the prices down, we have to get them down. It’s too much. Groceries, cars, everything. We’re going to get the prices down.”

And then there was this during an October rally in Georgia: “We will cut your taxes and inflation, slash your prices, raise your wages, and bring thousands of factories back to America.”

Trump’s weasely vice president, JD Vance, also joined the lower prices chorus, telling voters in November:

“Kamala Harris broke the private-sector economy, and Donald J. Trump is going to fix it, and of course, whether it’s housing prices, whether it’s mortgage interest rates, whether it’s grocery prices, everything has gotten more expensive under Kamala Harris’ leadership. So again, we have to ask ourselves, do we want a president who broke the economy, broke the border, broke your wallets or do we want a president who has already fixed it and will fix it again.”

Another day, another lie exposed. And the lies are just starting. The next four years will be full of them. When something good happens, Trump will claim credit when he had nothing to do with it. When something bad takes place, it’ll be Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, or the fault of “the left.”

Donald Trump is a human bullshit machine. And he never runs out of fecal matter.

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Lauren Boebert Tried To Zing Joe Biden On Inflation – It Did Not Go Well For Her

Colorado Republican Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has been a member of the House of Representatives for almost a year now, and yet she hasn’t accomplished a damn thing other than a few snarky tweets, a lot of posturing, and the occasional attempt at pretending she should be taken seriously.

Such is the case with a tweet Boebert (a.k.a. Bobo) sent out on the topic of inflation, which is indeed on the rise, due in large part to the pent up demand of consumers who stayed home for over a year during the worst of the COVID pandemic and are now on a spending spree. Increased demand leads to a rise in prices. It’s the basics of economics: Supply and demand.

But rather than provide any solutions, Boebert fired off this brainless post:

So Bobo is worried about the troops? Then why doesn’t she propose legislation that would raise their salaries? Because that would require her to do some work, and all she really wants to do is whine and try to score political points.

Boebert also neglected to mention that the Biden administration has done something to help every American family with children in the form of the expanded child tax credit, which is providing $250 to $300 per child for working parents across the country. Would Boebert be in favor of extending that tax break? Hardly! Her party has been the one fighting to do away with the child tax credit since it went into place.

The congresswoman was quickly swatted down on social media:

https://twitter.com/NorrinR06303580/status/1476930348088901640?s=20