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Because the Biden presidency has been so good for grocery prices? If grocery prices are my biggest concern I’m voting Trump, my grocery bill nearly fucking doubled since Biden took office, that’s a fucking terrible issue for her to campaign on since her administration caused the fucking problem.
Do you actually think the Biden admin caused inflation (and the non-inflation increases as well) and that voting for trump will reduce inflation or is this a bit pretending to be the average US voter?
Biden admin pushed for war in Ukraine, probably the biggest shock to global grain prices
voting for trump doesn't mean that'd be fixed, but
You honestly think the US wouldn’t have involved itself in the war under a Trump administration? We literally saw evidence of the miliatry complex’s autonomy during his administration.
But I agree with OP that campaigning on improving grocery prices is a brainmelt level move for Kamala
you see all the financial ties specifically between the democrats and ukraine and think the republicans, who have repeatedly signaled an intent to buddy up with Russia to team up against China, would literally have done the exact same thing
Yeah that also, the war in Ukraine is much more a Democrat project compared to Israel which is fully supported by both sides
The Biden admin certainly contributed to inflation in a massive degree. It's always a nigh-constant thing under the system, sure, but alongside the Ukraine war (which as someone else mentioned effected grain prices- but more than that has led to the crumbling of the western levers of finance, etc) and his continuation and even intensification of the Trumpian trade wars and antagonizing China, he's been running off that money printer in what I feel may as well be considered some of the largest wealth transfers to big tech/the MIC... (I'd call it tossing "bad money* after bad" maybe lololol- toilet paper money down the drain to endless corruption because the neoliberal disease is honestly hilarious in how ineffective it is)
Mind you, Trump was also abysmal. And the contradictions of the system are really closing in on them all so whoever's next will probably be worse, and so on.
It doesn't matter what I think or what they did. It's very very very stupid to say that they're going to fix a problem that happened under their own administration.
The Biden admin’s decisions certainly contributed to inflation, even if they weren’t the primary cause.
But the main point is that it’s stupid to campaign on fixing the problem that happened on your watch. If you were gonna fix it, why haven’t you already?