Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Endus]

Victim blaming is the only excuse they ever have with cases like this.

But the "barely legal" thing is just insane. That quite literally means the opposite of what she said it to mean...but she said it anyway. It gives me a minuscule glimmer of hope to think that these are the lengths they have to go to to defend Trump, because they know he's indefensible.

They mean "barely illegal". "Is it really assault and battery if I just slapped them around a bit?" "C'mon, I only stole a few thousand bucks from that gas station, you can just give me a pass, right?" And so on.

[fwc577]

A comedian that popped upon Facebook for me today:

"Technically speaking... technically speaking... Donald Trump is not a pedophile. Hear me out! Hear me out for a moment! Technically, pedophilia is attraction to those who are prebubescent. Then there's something called hebophilia, where you're attracted to those at the early stages of puberty, 11, 12, 13, 14. And then there's ephebophilia, which is attraction to the later stages, 15, 16, 17, 18. But the reason we don't usually make that distinction is that it's really hard to explain the difference without sounding like a pedophile."

LOL. I've seen this tiktok clip too.

[Moralgy]

His base will just start defending having sex with underaged girls in due time, if they havent already. Shits a fucking cult

[Dontrike]

Guys! Inflation has been solved! Biden could never do this. He could never ask DoorDash to solve shit for that dementia riddled- wait what? Say that again?

President Donald J. Trump’s bold economic agenda is delivering real results for American families — with new data from DoorDash’s State of Local Commerce report confirming that inflation has been tamed, everyday prices are beginning to drop, and wages are growing.

From breakfast tables to store shelves, President Trump’s agenda is lowering costs when families need it the most — fueling an economic comeback that is only just beginning as President Trump works to Make America Affordable Again.

Here are the main takeaways:
President Trump has tamed inflation.

The Breakfast Basics Index — which measures the price of three eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel, and an avocado — decreased 14% between March and September and 1.7% over the past year.
The Everyday Essentials Index — which measures the price of toothpaste, shampoo, toilet paper, laundry detergent, pain medicine, and diapers — fell over the past year.

Americans are beginning to see price declines.

Over the past year, prices actually declined for cheese, cereals & bars, fresh fruits, frozen meals, packaged meals, condiments, batteries, computers & accessories, phones & accessories, medicines, oral care, vitamins & supplements, outdoor products, and toys & games.

President Trump’s policies are fueling wage growth.

Nationally, wage growth is outpacing restaurant price increases — including at the city level in half of the cities studied.

Local economies are resilient.

56% of consumers say they’ve seen fewer businesses close in their communities over the past year.
Overall food spend has increased by nearly 5% over last year — faster than prices have risen, suggesting “consumers are buying more from businesses in their communities.”

That's some of the dumbest propaganda Trump has tried to put out since he declared ocean water is the wettest water.

[Mayhem]

Guys! Inflation has been solved! Biden could never do this. He could never ask DoorDash to solve shit for that dementia riddled- wait what? Say that again?




That's some of the dumbest propaganda Trump has tried to put out since he declared ocean water is the wettest water.

Forgive me for asking but is the State of Local Commerce report sponsored by doordash or is it a doordash report that sounds weirdly official?

[Dontrike]

Forgive me for asking but is the State of Local Commerce report sponsored by doordash or is it a doordash report that sounds weirdly official?

Based on the apostrophe it sounds like it's Doordash that has the State of Local Commerce.

[Rasulis]

Based on the apostrophe it sounds like it's Doordash that has the State of Local Commerce.

Context is important.

The Breakfast Basics Index from DoorDash tracks the average price of three essential breakfast items: three eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel, and an avocado. As of September 2025, this index has decreased by 14% since March, primarily due to lower egg prices. The index's price range nationwide is from $3.21 to $6.66, with a national average of $4.35.

Heh. Seriously.

[Dontrike]

Context is important.



Heh. Seriously.

I do like how it said "three items" and then lists 3 of one item and then 4 different items. They can't even propaganda right.

I was sure the reduction in eggs pulled most of the weight for this as well.

[DarkTZeratul]

The Breakfast Basics Index from DoorDash tracks the average price of three essential breakfast items: three eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel, and an avocado.

...Isn't that four items?

[PhaelixWW]

I do like how it said "three items" and then lists 3 of one item and then 4 different items. They can't even propaganda right.

I was sure the reduction in eggs pulled most of the weight for this as well.

My guess is that it used to be just the latter three items, but they were forced to add eggs to the list in order to actually get the price to go down between March and September, since eggs are one of the only things that got cheaper, and only because they were sky-high early this year.


Edit: Well, well, well...

[Darththeo]

I swear any time I think I am in the dumbest timeline ... it gets dumber. We are using numbers from Doordash to determine if prices dropped? Are you kidding me?

This is just insanity on a level I never expected to see. Like Doordash ... flipping Doordash?

[Gabriel]

I swear any time I think I am in the dumbest timeline ... it gets dumber. We are using numbers from Doordash to determine if prices dropped? Are you kidding me?

This is just insanity on a level I never expected to see. Like Doordash ... flipping Doordash?

Did you hear the rumors that the Epstein emails reveal that Trump sucked Bill Clinton's dick?

[Breccia]

Funny how nobody, including Trump's own WH, mentioned this until recently. Literally everyone, including Trump's own WH, was posting "inflation is rising" since March.

Incidentally the attempt to say "wage growth is higher than inflation" is false. Maybe it's higher than restaurant price increases, I didn't bother to check because it's irrelevant. Wages are not increasing faster than inflation.

The drubbing that Republicans took at the ballot box last week highlighted Trump’s weakness on the issue of affordability. But if voters are frustrated over high prices, the GOP’s challenges are unlikely to be resolved until consumers see a pickup in their paychecks.

Inflation-adjusted wage growth has been falling, government and private-sector data show, with inflation climbing faster than after-tax pay for lower- and middle-income households since the start of the year, the Bank of America Institute says. The rate of real income growth has slowed to levels last seen in the early 2010s, when the economy was still recovering from the financial crisis and the unemployment rate was roughly double what it is today.

The drubbing that Republicans took at the ballot box last week highlighted President Donald Trump’s weakness on the issue of affordability. But if voters are frustrated over high prices, the GOP’s challenges are unlikely to be resolved until consumers see a pickup in their paychecks.

Inflation-adjusted wage growth has been falling, government and private-sector data show, with inflation climbing faster than after-tax pay for lower- and middle-income households since the start of the year, the Bank of America Institute says. The rate of real income growth has slowed to levels last seen in the early 2010s, when the economy was still recovering from the financial crisis and the unemployment rate was roughly double what it is today.

All of this has coincided with declines in Americans’ perceptions of their own financial health and mounting pessimism over how they’ll fare in the next year. While few economists expect to see mass layoffs or surging unemployment, a dropoff in job postings and employers’ reluctance to hire new workers don’t bode well for anyone looking to get a raise.

That article is 3 days old. This is the BLS data cited. And this is the BofA data cited, it is four days old. And they also cited this JPMorgan article with the headline "Real income growth shifts down, especially for the young" dated Oct 29.

Imagine being so desperate for good news, you go with DoorDash over Bank of America, JPMorgan, and your own Department of Analyzing This Shit, when trying to find economic data.

DoorDash.

Sad. Pathetic. IMPOTUS.

That's some of the dumbest propaganda Trump has tried to put out since he declared ocean water is the wettest water.

I like how he's betting everything on "egg prices dropped since bird flu".

...Isn't that four items?

Avocado isn't essential. Avocado is punishment.

[Belize]

I don't want to be pedantic, but who the fuck doordashes a glass of milk

[Darththeo]

Did you hear the rumors that the Epstein emails reveal that Trump sucked Bill Clinton's dick?

I can't tell if you are joking or not at this point and I am too tired to care.

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I don't want to be pedantic, but who the fuck doordashes a glass of milk

People with kids.

[Breccia]

I don't want to be pedantic, but who the fuck doordashes a glass of milk

Someone who's afraid to talk about the price of coffee increasing.

The average U.S. price of a pound of ground coffee hit $9.14 in September, a 3% increase from the August average of $8.87 and 41% higher than in September 2024, according to U.S. government figures. Coffee prices have been increasing sharply since the start of this year.

Consumer prices for food purchased for home use and away from home were 3% in September compared to the same month a year earlier, the U.S. Labor Department reported Friday. The consumer price index, which measures a broader sample of all coffee products, including instant coffee, showed U.S. coffee prices up 19% from September 2024 and flat compared to August.

Notice that's CPI data from last month. You know, WH data.

And to further your point, let's get even more pedantic: if the DoorDash report is so great the WH wants to use it, where the hell was it last month?

Even FOX News *ding* is skeptical.

DoorDash’s Cheeseburger Index, which tracks the cost of a classic meal of a burger, fries and a soda, found prices up just 3.8% over the past year, rising from $17.90 to $18.58 nationally. But the picture looks very different from city to city. In Lincoln, Nebraska, the meal averages $10.75, while in Anchorage, Alaska, it jumps to $25.55.

It's the same report. Trump just "forgot" this part. Both CBS News and NBC News have their own food price trackers, and they both say prices are up. So does the WSJ. So does everyone else.

Trump is putting everything he has on "bird flu has gotten better". He's lying. He's lying, and he's desperate.

[Gabriel]

I can't tell if you are joking or not at this point and I am too tired to care.

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People with kids.

I never joke about blowjobs.



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Guys imagine. We might live in a timeline where two presidencies were ended by Ol' Bill getting his dick sucked.

[En Sabah Nur]

Trump isn't going anywhere. Its just going to be a lot of right wing spin and everyone that needs to will sell the spin as hard as they can. We live in too shit a timeline for anything real to actually happen.

[Valdhammer]

Someone who's afraid to talk about the price of coffee increasing.



Notice that's CPI data from last month. You know, WH data.

And to further your point, let's get even more pedantic: if the DoorDash report is so great the WH wants to use it, where the hell was it last month?

Even FOX News *ding* is skeptical.



It's the same report. Trump just "forgot" this part. Both CBS News and NBC News have their own food price trackers, and they both say prices are up. So does the WSJ. So does everyone else.

Trump is putting everything he has on "bird flu has gotten better". He's lying. He's lying, and he's desperate.

Trump has been deemed desperate since he rode down that escalator. His “desperation” usually results in further denigration of the rights and freedoms of the American people.

[alach]

Looks like Georgia's RICO case against trump is back on the menu, boys.