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When ABC News' Terry Moran asked Pres. Donald Trump to respond to voters who may be concerned that rising costs are not what they "signed up for," Trump responded: "Well, they did sign up for this actually."

https://xcancel.com/ABC/status/1917379788408312308

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (19 children)

That thread is creepy.

Trump not only promised to bring down prices, but promised to do so "on day one." In fact, in the final days of the campaign, that was likely the promise he repeated the most.

So not only is he somewhere between delusional and dishonest (which I already knew), but every single person who responded to insist rising prices is indeed what they signed up for is also somewhere between delusional and dishonest.

Why? What compels them? What do they expect to gain?

I'm beginning to suspect that there's some environmental factor or something in the US that makes people delusional, angry and stupid, because this has gone way beyond anything that can be explained by political partisanship alone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lead, shitty water, opioids, a combination of those and more.. who knows?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Everyone got those yet some people are still cognizant in spite of it, so maybe, but in combination with something else.

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