You mean market manipulation and insider trading is a net harm on society? With the sentencing disparities you’d think it was harmless.

Grocers almost never backtrack on pricing.

Of course it won’t.

Just like how restoring the various production pipelines after the initial COVID lockdown shocks did nothing to grocery prices - because the prices didn’t go up due to actual hardship, it was all down to corporate greed. As it is right now.

Any reduction in the tariffs will be seen by corporates as a freebie, all the while they get to blame Trump (or even more likely, Biden) for it.

I mean ffs did any of y’all look at the various grocery corpo earnings in 2020-2023? Did y’all not see the massive bonuses handed out to the big bosses, while people were being laid off “due to economic hardships”? Did everyone just fucking forget that part? Or the part where prices could’ve come down, but they didn’t?

Base necessity foods - and thanks to the past 30-50 years of general improvements in living conditions, that category has been expanded quite a lot - simply won’t correlate with the “supply and demand” myth of the “free market”. People will need to buy bread regardless if a loaf is 80c or $5, regardless if that loaf went from 1kg to 500g, or if the quality dropped sharply. People will need to buy eggs even if it costs ten times as much as it did just a year or so ago. Grocery prices never ever go down because people NEED to buy them, corporate knows this, and will milk the pricing of these items as much as they can.

So all y’all can do, short of what most of your country would falsely call “communism” (things like price control on staple foods), is elect a fucking leader who’ll do preventative measures against price raises. And if you’re too big a dumbass to understand how tariffs work, maybe the right to vote is something you shouldn’t have.

Holy shit CNN is just flat out saying it. Multiple times and in the headline. HA!

Lawsuit incoming I guess. Don Lemon will get cancelled again. Whatever.

Isn’t one of the items beef? The thing that’s hurting so many farmers who are already pissed about buying Argentinian beef? He sure likes to rub it in his supporters faces how little he cares about them.

What was the taco thing about? I’ve seen memes pup up about it, but missed the original context.

Breaking: duh