A new survey has found that Americans are being squeezed by higher prices as they head into the holiday season, forcing them to cut back on gifts and delay purchases because of Donald Trump’s faltering economy.
The Associated Press–NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found that a vast majority of U.S. adults have noticed increased prices for groceries, electricity, and holiday gifts in recent months. Roughly half say it is harder to afford presents, and similar numbers say they’re postponing big purchases or trimming nonessential spending more than usual.
Those bleak findings come as Trump has been downplaying concerns about the state of the economy, while simultaneously urging families to scale back on Christmas presents for their children. At a Pennsylvania event on Tuesday, he told supporters, “You can give up certain products,” citing “pencils” as an example before turning to children’s toys: “You don’t need 37 dolls for your daughter.
When will Americans realize that trump is a cunt?
Over half of them have always known this.
Blame voter apathy.
He’s not a cunt - he lacks the warmth and depth
The evidence has been laid bare for quite some time.
The networks are going to have to blur that at some point here. Unless he gets a merkin or grows a neckbeard to make it more 70s style.
When he dies …and folks start saying… Oh I never liked or supported him .
You know while the maga flag burns in their fire pit
They are going to be building lifeboats just like they did after W.
Remember the sudden appearance of people saying they were in this non-existent party called the “tea party” (well, originally, they called themselves the teabaggers until they got sick of liberals like Maddow pointing and laughing at them until their sides hurt. The people that came up with that name thought they’d be pulling a fast one on the libs and find another way to own them, but when it made them look GAY they pulled the ripcord on that) and a huge influx of all these “independents” that never even heard of this W guy and gosh, they don’t want to talk politics or nothing, because both sides, ya’ll.
My first-two-weeks-of-January paycheck hits next week, early because the university shuts down totally during the break. So technically I can afford some meager gifts, and to be current on my mortgage and utilities, but next month half my income will be gone already.
And I know a garnishment judgment for a bill I just cannot pay will hit soon, so that’s 25% of my pay gone.
Basically I’m OK now but 2026 is already shaping up to be a flaming financial disaster.
*self-proclaimed billionaire Trump
Oh, he’s grifted enough from his marks in the last decade that I easily believe he’s a billionaire now. Crypto and stuff especially.
That, and Russians helped him dig out of the 8 billion debt he had in the 90s.
I don’t think there’s really any chance, but I’ve reached the point where I want things to get so bad that we actually elect enough progressive politicians to actually fix what’s wrong.
I truly believe in democracy, even though it has been fucking up lately. I think having a bloodless revolution every 2-4 years via elections is infinitely superior to having to actually build guillotines. At the same time I also think there’s a point where interfering with the process for bloodless revolutions makes bloody revolutions inevitable.
The current administration is both homicidally incompetent, and completely out of touch, so there’s a chance that the pressure will keep increasing until a fault forms and the ensuing catastrophe shakes the electorate out of their current stupidity enough to elect progressive people who will actually run the country for the people.
The alternative is the slow sleepwalk into slavery that we’ve been doing for decades.
The effort to gerrymander the shit out of everything is actually a positive sign: it shows that even the sociopaths running things understand that elections still matter. If elections still matter, the people are still in control.
Unfortunately, most of the people are mouth-breathing morons.
Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose
We are close to the point where trump has no chance to win another election, but pretty far from the point where people start dragging politicians out of their homes and hanging them.
Trump can’t run again. If he’s still in charge after Jan 20, 2029 the US is dead.
Soon there will be a critical mass of people who have nothing left to lose
I hope they realize that, while Trump is the figurehead, he isn’t the only one who has intentionally put them in that position.
“You can’t build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.”
Despite all the “news” articles and clickbaits telling me how great everyone’s doing surprisingly this year, yeah, this is what I am going to believe. The bought-and-paid for media is shoving flowers at us to try and mask the scent of shit.
No one can buy shit this year. Thankfully I’m doing okay enough that I can send what little family I have left a gift cert for two hundred each. It’s not great but it’s better than so so many can do. 🙁
I thought affordability was a democrat hoax!?
Calm down people, just buy less pencils and we’ll all be fine
No need to be sarcastic about it. Nobody thinks buying fewer pencils is going to have a significant impact on your household budget. You also need to stop buying all those dolls, mocha-matcha holiday spice non-dairy iced triple espresso coffees, avocados including avocado-based food items, college educations, health care, iphones, child care, refrigerators, computer memory, and beef. Also, the point of Christmas isn’t gifts, so you should also be buying fewer of those. The right to Christmas gifts isn’t in the constitution anyway.
Hey also could you please have more kids, we need you to be having more kids
As a gay couple, my partner and I are doing our best to make that happen. Fingers crossed!
…all this has a lot more respectability if you say it between drafting up and bragging about plans for a ridiculously gaudy ballroom, scheming over some crypto grift, and throwing a little Gatsby-style party for the upper crust.
A+++++++
Please stick to facts. It is only A+++++
All adults in our family agreed to not buy gifts. Just for kids. I’d rather save and not contribute to this already-shitty economy.
Same here with my family
Yeah my adult siblings and I decided to skip gifts this year. Inflation and tariffs are kicking all of our asses.
Good.
We live in a scam society and the only winning move is not to play.
But still wont group up and do anything to improve the situation.
Ever tried to rally a group of individualistic cowards? I’d rather herd kittens off curtains. The cold war never ended, and I’m exhausted by watching literally everyone around me take the bait.
I swear these comments are ruzzian troll bot farm propaganda. The system worked for hundreds of years and once we hit max pain, it’ll work again. We just have an adultescence problem to sort through first.
Hey maybe try and save your country?
Ruzzian trolls not farm propaganda!
This is why America is fucked.
Where’s my $2k check? Why aren’t egg prices down? Clearly, this administration doesn’t give a fuck about the people! They only care about themselves and how to line their pockets! Time to CLEAN FUCKING HOUSE! Worst 4 years of our lives!!!
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I just hope he keeps gaslighting everyone and telling them how great everything is while he literally loots and destroys the country. Atleast we have some economic prosperity to look forward to once he is gone, and his policies reversed.
Unless you’re in East America.
But did they stick to only 1 or 2 pencils? What about the dolls? Did people stop buying 37 dolls?
Hey, I just had a thought. Do you think people buying only one or two dolls instead of 37 might be bad for an economy designed to grow forever?
There are a whole lot of thoughts that are bad for something that requires delusional thinking like infinite growth. This is why the conservatives work to dismantle (real) education in this country.
You MAGAs got what you voted for, puh-raise JEE-zuz-ah!
Dems got what they voted for, too.
They’d rather have a fascist than a progressive.
