• $8 bag of chips

    From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to All on Fri Aug 16 11:19:14 2024
    $7.99 for an 11oz bag of chips seems strange.

    Do leftists hate potato chips? They were delicious but now there's 2 reasons to feel guilty about eating them thanks to Vice President Harris & the oatmeal cookie.

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Aaron Thomas on Fri Aug 16 19:46:32 2024
    Aaron Thomas -> All skrev 2024-08-16 19:19:
    $7.99 for an 11oz bag of chips seems strange.

    What seems strange is that you even buy that junk food then, while going on about food prices going up (while they actually are going down).

    Is Harris forcing you to buy it? How much nutritious groceries would that buy you?



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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Björn Felten on Fri Aug 16 14:15:58 2024
    $7.99 for an 11oz bag of chips seems strange.

    What seems strange is that you even buy that junk food then, while going on about food prices going up (while they actually are going down).

    Is Harris forcing you to buy it? How much nutritious groceries would that buy you?

    Which foods are going down in price? I buy bread, milk, eggs, bacon, cereal, chicken, and fish. The bread that I buy has gone up 50% from $1 to $1.49. There's no good reason for it either. Bread was $1 when Obama was president
    and it was $1 when Trump was president. Why does Kamala Harris make us pay
    50% more for our bread after she spent $891 billion dollars on her "Inflation Reduction Act?"

    Ask any American is $7.99 for a bag of Lays chips is a reasonable price! Americans used to eat chips because we used to be able to afford them.

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  • From Ken Nischan@1:275/89 to Aaron Thomas on Fri Aug 16 17:39:44 2024
    Re: $8 bag of chips
    By: Aaron Thomas to Bj”rn Felten on Fri Aug 16 2024 02:15 pm

    Which foods are going down in price? I buy bread, milk, eggs, bacon, cereal, chicken, and fish. The bread that I buy has gone up 50% from $1 to $1.49. There's no good reason for it either. Bread was $1 when Obama was president and it was $1 when Trump was president. Why does Kamala Harris make us pay 50% more for our bread after she spent $891 billion dollars on her "Inflatio

    Ask any American is $7.99 for a bag of Lays chips is a reasonable price! Americans used to eat chips because we used to be able to afford them.

    I can't say as I agree with your politics, but I certainly agree with this. I definitely don't see groceries going down in price. I go to the store and come home with $200 some bucks of groceries and it's only like three bags. It's pathetic.

    Interesting that chips are the topic, because I was at a supermarket and a bag of Dorito's was around $7. I refused to buy it, that was nuts. Sam's thankfully has them for four something, so I got them there. Of all the things that got me, seeing Dorito's at $7 was it, lol.

    Oh, and God forbid I want lunchmeat. I like Boar's Head; the maple glazed honey coat ham and turkey and the buffalo BBQ chicken breast... very yummy.
    But it's like $15 and change per pound now! (sob)
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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Aaron Thomas on Sat Aug 17 01:02:42 2024
    Aaron Thomas -> Bj”rn Felten skrev 2024-08-16 22:15:
    Why does Kamala Harris make us pay
    50% more for our bread after she spent $891 billion dollars on her "Inflation Reduction Act?"

    The factual errors (borderline lies) are so grave and many, especially in this one sentence, I'll not even try to correct you.

    You really need to take your Harris-Walz vaccine against the MAGA virus soon, or your brain damage will become beyond repair.


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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Ken Nischan on Sat Aug 17 01:10:58 2024
    Ken Nischan -> Aaron Thomas skrev 2024-08-16 23:39:
    I definitely don't see groceries going down in price.

    I hope that not you, too, are blaming Kamala for this.

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ken Nischan on Fri Aug 16 19:48:02 2024
    Ask any American is $7.99 for a bag of Lays chips is a reasonable price Americans used to eat chips because we used to be able to afford them.

    I can't say as I agree with your politics, but I certainly agree with this. I definitely don't see groceries going down in price. I go to
    the store and come home with $200 some bucks of groceries and it's only like three bags. It's pathetic.

    Thank you! And I'll admit, I can't intelligently blame it on the Kamala Harris regime, but the prices on certain foods have very obviously gone up dramatically during their administrarion (it might not be their fault.) Thanks for not being an insane leftist who ignores reality in favor of defending your political party (like Bjorn.)

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Björn Felten on Fri Aug 16 19:51:38 2024
    Why does Kamala Harris make us pay
    50% more for our bread after she spent $891 billion dollars on her "Inflation Reduction Act?"

    The factual errors (borderline lies) are so grave and many,
    especially in this one sentence, I'll not even try to correct you.

    You really need to take your Harris-Walz vaccine against the MAGA
    virus soon, or your brain damage will become beyond repair.

    Correction: I meant to say: 49%

    (Sorry I was such a big liar by calling it a 50% increase!)

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Aaron Thomas on Sat Aug 17 10:48:00 2024
    Aaron Thomas -> Bj”rn Felten skrev 2024-08-17 03:51:
    (Sorry I was such a big liar by calling it a 50% increase!)

    So that's the only lie you could spot? That explains a lot.

    Anyhow, do you really think sky-rocketing food prices are a US-only problem in a world with global inflation? And that your president or even vice president is causing it?

    Whatever. But would you, consequently, vote for someone who can impose a federal ban on price-gauging for groceries (which is the leading cause)?


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Björn Felten on Sat Aug 17 06:09:52 2024
    Anyhow, do you really think sky-rocketing food prices are a US-only problem in a world with global inflation? And that your president or
    even vice president is causing it?

    Deficit spending causes inflation, and Kamala Harris spent $891 billion dollars under the guise of "reducing inflation." So she HAS contributed to the problem, although she is not the root cause.

    Whatever. But would you, consequently, vote for someone who can
    impose a federal ban on price-gauging for groceries (which is the
    leading cause)?

    Price-fixing is akin to socialism and we are a capitalist state. The farmers have to pay more for oil, gas, bovine veterinarian care, property tax, so they have to charge more for their products. Price fixing isn't going to help farmers achieve their dream of owning an underground mansion in Hawaii.

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Aaron Thomas on Sat Aug 17 15:10:18 2024
    Aaron Thomas -> Bj”rn Felten skrev 2024-08-17 14:09:
    Whatever. But would you, consequently, vote for someone who can
    impose a federal ban on price-gauging for groceries (which is the
    leading cause)?

    Price-fixing is akin to socialism and we are a capitalist state. The farmers have to pay more for oil, gas, bovine veterinarian care,
    property tax, so they have to charge more for their products. Price
    fixing isn't going to help farmers achieve their dream of owning an underground mansion in Hawaii.

    A massive pile of word salad, including about half a dozen crazy conspiracy theories, meaning 'NO', right?


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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Sat Aug 17 09:40:06 2024
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Bj”rn Felten <=-

    Deficit spending causes inflation, and Kamala Harris spent $891 billion dollars under the guise of "reducing inflation." So she HAS contributed
    to the problem, although she is not the root cause.

    Of course not. She's a puppet just like Joe was.

    She doesn't have enough brain cells to formulate a policy (unless it was what knee pads to wear with that skirt).

    Price-fixing is akin to socialism and we are a capitalist state. The farmers have to pay more for oil, gas, bovine veterinarian care,
    property tax, so they have to charge more for their products. Price
    fixing isn't going to help farmers achieve their dream of owning an underground mansion in Hawaii.

    Price fixing always has the same result: scarcity of the product.

    Whether it be housing or food, the outcome is always the same.

    So are these people total morons or are they doing it on purpose?


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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Björn Felten on Sat Aug 17 22:27:42 2024
    Whatever. But would you, consequently, vote for someone who can
    impose a federal ban on price-gauging for groceries (which is the
    leading cause)?

    Price-fixing is akin to socialism and we are a capitalist state. The farmers have to pay more for oil, gas, bovine veterinarian care, property tax, so they have to charge more for their products. Price fixing isn't going to help farmers achieve their dream of owning an underground mansion in Hawaii.

    A massive pile of word salad, including about half a dozen crazy conspiracy theories, meaning 'NO', right?

    Pour some Smurf cocktail sauce on it and try again. This entire explanation is built on facts. Which part are you having trouble with? I'll explain it differently.

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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Sat Aug 17 22:48:16 2024
    Deficit spending causes inflation, and Kamala Harris spent $891 billi dollars under the guise of "reducing inflation." So she HAS contribut to the problem, although she is not the root cause.

    Of course not. She's a puppet just like Joe was.

    She doesn't have enough brain cells to formulate a policy (unless it was

    Yea, there's no way that anyone from the Democrat party is allowed to make their own decisions. Not their presidential nominees anyway. Not anymore.

    Do you think Bill Clinton made his own decisions? There was always speculation about it, but he wasn't as obvious of a puppet as the latter pee-ons.

    Price fixing always has the same result: scarcity of the product.

    Whether it be housing or food, the outcome is always the same.

    So are these people total morons or are they doing it on purpose?

    The response I got from the leftist who asked me about it, that answers this question.

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Sun Aug 18 10:03:32 2024
    Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-

    Yea, there's no way that anyone from the Democrat party is allowed to
    make their own decisions. Not their presidential nominees anyway. Not anymore.

    Well seeing as how the average Democrat voter can't think for themselves anyway, I don't see where that would make much of a difference.

    They can just prop up their puppet, or go through the work of telling their voters who to vote for and having an election. Either way, their puppet is installed.

    Do you think Bill Clinton made his own decisions? There was always speculation about it, but he wasn't as obvious of a puppet as the
    latter pee-ons.

    Policy-wise - he did what he was told. The guy was an idiot, so he certainly couldn't do that himself.

    Skirt-chasing-wise - he probably made those decisions (with warnings from Hillary, of course).


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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to AARON THOMAS on Sun Aug 18 09:18:00 2024
    Do you think Bill Clinton made his own decisions? There was always speculation >about it, but he wasn't as obvious of a puppet as the latter pee-ons.

    The only person I suspected that Bill was a puppet of was Hillary, which
    may explain why he acted out the way he did.


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  • From Ken Nischan@1:275/89 to Björn Felten on Mon Aug 19 14:16:22 2024
    Re: $8 bag of chips
    By: Bj”rn Felten to Ken Nischan on Sat Aug 17 2024 01:10 am

    I definitely don't see groceries going down in price.

    I hope that not you, too, are blaming Kamala for this.

    Oh no, I didn't mean it that way. Economics is a huge thing with tons of moving parts. I think people give presidents way too much credit/blame for fluctuations.
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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to KEN NISCHAN on Tue Aug 20 08:32:00 2024
    I definitely don't see groceries going down in price.

    I hope that not you, too, are blaming Kamala for this.

    Oh no, I didn't mean it that way. Economics is a huge thing with tons of moving parts. I think people give presidents way too much credit/blame for fluctuations.

    Well, the problem here is that, when things are good, politicians take that credit. They try to deflect it when things are not good.

    Another way to look at it... if you read here long enough, you will see
    that most of the people who don't want Kamala, Biden, or Democrats blamed
    for inflation or the economy are very quick to want to blame Trump or the Republicans for same. They will also be very quick to claim the economy
    really isn't as bad and that it is Biden who should be thanked for it.

    I learned at a young age from a Democrat parent that whoever the highest ranking Republican was, they were going to get blamed for whatever. So,
    when Reagan was President, it was his fault. When Clinton was President,
    it was probably Mitch McConnell's fault (or Newt or whoever).

    At the time, the state we lived in was near fully Democrat controlled, as
    was the city we lived in (that city still is). It was really funny to watch them try to place fault when it came to state and local issues as there were
    no "high ranking Republicans" to blame it on. So they'd usually shift the discussion over to a national issue so they could blame their usual
    suspects.


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