This is the shit that scares me.

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The price of Big Macs is too damn high!


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The automaker you were formerly employed by shitcans the entire town by closing the factory.
No other opportunities in that area where you can make what you did on the line, and now you're facing a bleak future.
The union steps up and goes on strike, with one of their major demands being that your plant is re-opened.
The President not only applauds the strike, but actually goes out on the picket line with the rank and file (BTW, were you on the line, cause I see no mention of you stepping up here).
The union wins and not only will you get your job back, but the company is going to pay your unemployment benefits until things are back!  O Happy Day!

But you're still going to vote for Trump, because the price of food at McDonalds has gotten too high, and no one should have to pay more than three bucks for a rotisserie chicken.

I. Can't. Even.


(Maybe someone should point out that part of the reason prices are going up is because companies can't get cheap Mexican labor the way they could before Trump and it seems like True Blue Americans don't want to pick fruit or work in the slaughterhouse.  Perhaps we should make automakers pay moving expenses to states with those industries so the price of food can go back down again, eh?)

[Dave's Not Here Man]

Before I comment on your OP, I was literally just about to start my own in this particular forum. I think that the two are close enough to include in this conversation.

www.npr.org/2023/12/05/1216859366/supreme-court-tax-code

One line that caught my eye:

But, they maintain that because they have not yet received any actual money, they are being unconstitutionally taxed on unrealized income.

[minx]

Yeah, and SCOTUS will probably agree with them. Scary as hell.

[Dave's Not Here Man]

WRT to your OP I think there's just a bit of serph mentality there. "I'm happy to have my job back so I should just be happy to still be barely able to get by because of inflation, lost wages, missed or late payments, penalties, fees, hey, at least I can afford to get one of my utilities turned back! I'm totally voting democrat next year viva Israel!"

Side note- We went to MCDs the other night. I ordered a Big Mac meal and a McDouble. $18 and some change. Then on top of that they're running a promo that if you buy a BM, McR, or FOF, you get one for a dollar. Oh by the way, that doesn't count if you buy the fucking combo. Only applies If you order one sandwich and get the same sandwich for a buck. Fuck off Ronnie. As for the chickens, we get a few meals for the two of us so even at $8 for a rotisserie chicken, it's not as bad as getting straight robbed at the golden arches.

[minx]

I've pretty much stopped eating most fast food. Pricey and the places are so short-staffed that half the time you don't get what you ordered.

I was more of the attitude of 'I'm sitting on unemployment and can't afford shit. Biden got me my job back, so now I can afford shit. But because he didn't lower the price of shit at the same time he got my job back, I'm not voting for him.'

Shit's still expensive, but I'd rather have shit being expensive and my FT full-paying job, then having shit being expensive, no hope of that full-paying job returning and looking at those unemployment checks ending too.

[Dave's Not Here Man]

We should probably get one thing straight right now- There's never been and there never will be a good reason to vote for the Dollar Menu President. Gas could be $40 a gallon and I'd still rather have a president who isn't a criminal, fraud, conman, and sociopath that is hell bent on destroying the government as it was formed and established per the Constitution.

At the same time I'm not saying she or anyone that benefited from the plant re-opening owes Biden a goddamn thing, because they don't. Well, a "thanks for showing up and supporting us" would be nice but at the same time, I doubt Joe cares anything about the soft caress of fealty. He did what he did because it was the right thing to do for those people and to show the country that Democrats have not forgotten the middle class.

[minx]

I don't think they owe him their vote, but an acknowledgement that he did do what he could to get their job back may be nice. But I don't think they can make a connection between that - like many others all they see is high prices which Biden should fix. Fix I say!

It's also pretty fucking sad how many folks lack a basic knowledge of how government works and have no clue whatsoever that the president (regardless of party) does not control the price of gas or the cost of your rotisserie chicken.

But then again, we also have the 'College Students for Trump' many of who look like young nazis (although some of them do look like normal 18-20yr olds). Many of whom say "My parents say things were better under Trump".
Normal behavior I know, but sigh.