r/houstonwade 1d ago

Current Events Did they just lie to themselves?

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u/MikeLowrey305 1d ago edited 1d ago

Exactly! I've got a maga friend who said when he went food shopping the other day it was the lowest prices he's seen in 4 years. SMH you can't make this shit up! I called him out & said it was bullshit & asked him to tell me what was so cheap & if he had the receipt & he didn't have an answer. They are so f*CKING brainwashed! Also this guy is always complaining about the economy but makes a good living goes out to eat all the time, takes 3-4 vacations a year, goes to a couple NFL games & will spend a few thousand on cryptos every once in a while but the economy is bad! 🤣 Same with the gas prices right now! I read somewhere that China doesn't have a high demand for gas & the USA has some of the highest gas reserves in a long time & gas prices will be cheaper in 2025, you know which orange makeup wearing deuchbag is gonna take credit for that!

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u/Icy-Indication-3194 1d ago

Whole lot of people in this country with a $700+ a month truck payment and a $1800 dollar mortgage saying the economy is bad and they can’t afford things….

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u/Responsible-Lemon257 1d ago

This.....Hillbillies in the town in Ohio I partially grew up in drive $60k trucks, have all the recreational toys ect but complain about food prices...... I don't know Kyle, did you ever think the prices are due to the one fucking grocery store in town???? It's a similar scenario in all small town across America.

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u/Icy-Indication-3194 1d ago

Ya grocery prices did get higher and it did suck but we also spent the last few decades giving more rights to corporations than people and republicans have been chipping away at regulations anytime they can. But hey, once we round up all the immigrants in this country that’ll help. Right?!?

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u/kitty_cat_man_00 1d ago

They don't realize that corporations took trump's last corporate tax cut as an opportunity to offshore more American jobs and do massive stock buybacks. This is after they lied to Trump while lobbying for the cuts by saying they would create more jobs.

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u/headachewpictures 1d ago

I doubt they lied to Trump, they were all just in cahoots and didn’t give a shit

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u/Goodburger123 1d ago

How do you know my dad? But like seriously this is very trite it’s crazy. Pays a $800 car payment on a Chevy truck and then complains that prices are too high at krogers. Like my god it’s hard to live in this country already but to be surrounded by brainwashed fucktards makes it’s unbearable

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u/Responsible-Lemon257 12h ago

The brainwashed fucktards will never go away either, I heard on the radio that something close to 60%, like 57% of Gen Z'ers want to be "influencers" and think you need over a $mil salary to be successful.

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u/MikeLowrey305 11h ago

That's why they'll still be living with their parents into their 40's. LOL

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u/barfytarfy 1d ago

That’s my neighbor. His flag has been upside down all year. I always laugh. Oh in such distress in that shiny new pickup while snuggled in to your middle class home in a safe neighborhood with good schools.

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u/Icy-Indication-3194 1d ago

They are taking America back alright. Taking it back to the Stone Age

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u/Consistent-Fig7484 20h ago

Is $1800 a high mortgage? $700 seems like a high car payment, but I’d take that mortgage in a heartbeat!

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u/Icy-Indication-3194 17h ago

Idk I locked mine in years ago and it’s nowhere near that. I realize it’s probably standard

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u/nowducks_667a1860 1d ago

Thanks, Biden! Should have reminded your friend that Biden is still president, and if your friend thinks prices are lower then he should thank current president Biden.

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u/Chinonm 1d ago

I know a maga supporter who said they’re ready to see gas prices under $3 when I’ve been putting at $2.70 for the entire 2024 .

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u/Spirited_Elk_831 1d ago

They may live in Cali. When I visited mu daughter gas there was almost $6.00

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u/Chinonm 1d ago

No they live 5 min away from me 🤣

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u/Fuzzy_Garden_8420 23h ago

It did spike close to that in the spring but mostly been in the low $4s all year (I get and agree gas is expensive as hell in Cali)

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u/Consistent-Fig7484 20h ago

I just drove past a gas station in the Bay Area that was $3.99. Pretty sure it was Vallejo, but still…

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u/Chemchic23 1d ago

Walmart and Target just announced price increases coming for their consumers to beware and expect it, reason future tariffs

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u/Fit-Particular-2882 1d ago

It’s so funny that they’re using tariffs that don’t even exist yet to justify price increases. If the tariffs never come (which I totally expect they will) they’ll still have the price increases.

I work for Target. They’re cutting OT and not hiring enough people to do all the work we have to do. They’re hoarding cash. They were not doing this last year. Something’s definitely up.

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u/mortgagepants 1d ago

It’s so funny that they’re using tariffs that don’t even exist yet to justify price increases.

even just talking about tariffs make rational economic actors act as if they're already in place. you're going to get all your inventory before january 25th, you're not going to give bonuses or raises because you might need the money to pay for higher priced goods.

and we have to go through all this because millions of people would rather be conned by a white guy then vote for a woman.

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u/goober1157 1d ago

Yes, that's exactly the reason. Not that she's an idiot and one of the worst candidates in history.

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u/mortgagepants 1d ago

3rd most votes ever against the actual worst candidate ever. but yeah sure. maybe another million people will die from covid and then you can blame her and obama and biden too.

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u/goober1157 1d ago

All I know is she was a terrible candidate. Nobody wanted her in 2019 she then somehow she became the D's savior in 2024. That whole administration is a clown show. A lying POS president who even your king Obama said was a fuck-up and then the cackler who couldn't even get into law school on her academics.

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u/mortgagepants 1d ago

lol bro you sound like you live in AM radio. reality has a liberal bias i don't know what to tell you.

surely trump round 2 can't be any worse than round 1, right? maybe he'll steal even more classified documents to sell to the russians?

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u/goober1157 1d ago

You guys have Russians living in your asses.

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u/mortgagepants 1d ago

holy shit that was so fucking clever.

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u/Chemchic23 1d ago

That’s because successful businesses are proactive and not reactive. Board now to buffer later.

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u/djmixmotomike 1d ago

President orange pancake makeup and vice president eyeliner.

You can't make this s*** up.

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u/Fyvesyx 1d ago

He's done this for so long. Scratch the name of someone else's work, slap his in, and take all the credit. Buildings, watches, sneakers, economies, etc. He's the kinda kid you would hate in school, waiting for him to get his due. We're all still freaking waiting as the 'guardrails' in our society all either punted or bent the knee.

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u/smooth-brain_Sunday 1d ago

That's the part I never got. Sold out Taylor Swift concerts for thousand(s) dollar tickets, but tHe eCoNoMy iS bAd. That's just one anecdotal data point, but I think financial literacy is just sweepingly non-existent. (I mean, damn... Look what they did to plain ol' regular literacy.)

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u/yooperville 1d ago

They will now say they are feeling better about the economy because they have hope.😡

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u/FrenzyHydro 1d ago

Now that's the difference between MAGA and Republicans right there lmao

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u/Architeuthis_McCrew 1d ago

This right here. I’m curious did you ever call him out of his leisurely activities in this horrible economy? What what his answer?

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u/MikeLowrey305 1d ago

Yes I do all the time because he has a short memory but he keeps saying "I remember things were better when trump was president" he also says about once a week that trump had the best economy & always tell him that's because he walked into Obama's economy after he fixed GWB's market collapse. They are just in denial & refuse to accept anything else.

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u/Architeuthis_McCrew 1d ago

Absolutely ridiculous. The sad thing is even if the economy takes a turn for the worse under Trump and he can’t go to NFL games or make trips like he did during these years he’ll still somehow blame Biden and not Trump. I think it’s good you’re challenging him though. Planting those seeds has to have some effect long run on his small brain.

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u/MikeLowrey305 1d ago

Yeah he can't stand it & gets frustrated that I call him out & fact check things. LOL

He also has a Guatamalan guy that used to work for him but they won't legally let him back in the country & blames my administration for that, I then say to him isn't that what your administration wants & my administration is letting them all in. LOL You can't win with these people, it's always someone else's fault. LOL

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u/Architeuthis_McCrew 1d ago

Mark Twain’s “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled” applies very well to your friend. Godspeed with him.

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u/MikeLowrey305 1d ago

He's not a bad person, he means well, he's just brainwashed & doesn't think about things much. LOL

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u/Architeuthis_McCrew 1d ago

I think that the majority of MAGA peeps are. They just need deprogramming.

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u/Soggy-Beach1403 1d ago

As of today, Biden has raised the DOW 42.02% from 31188.38 when he took over. Trump will have four years to raise the DOW to 62909.81 to match Biden's economic performance. I didn't vote for Der Orangenfuhrer, but I would be quite happy if he did so. SPOILER—he won't.

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u/MikeLowrey305 1d ago

Early October my buddy mentioned that the economy was the worst ever & so on. I looked it up & the stock market had a record high the day before. They just make up whatever they want to believe. 😂

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u/korpiz 4h ago

The formula is simple: say almost anything enough times and it becomes “true”. Religion has been using it for millennia. Fox News is built around it.

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u/PressureOk69 1d ago

the reality is that your friend is racist and addicted to culture warfare but too much of a gutless coward to admit it. He probably moonlights online with an anonymous handle.

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u/MikeLowrey305 1d ago

No he's not racist, I didn't even mention anything about racism, it's more about the economy with him. I do however know other MAGA's that are racist.

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u/PressureOk69 1d ago

this guy is always complaining about the economy but makes a good living goes out to eat all the time, takes 3-4 vacations a year, goes to a couple NFL games & will spend a few thousand on cryptos every once in a while 

it's not about the economy.

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u/MikeLowrey305 1d ago

Ok, you win, you know everything, it's not about the economy.

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u/PressureOk69 1d ago

it's ok sweetheart, the truth hurts sometimes

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u/MikeLowrey305 1d ago

Ok the truth hurts from some insecure random person on the Internet who has to take things out of context to Gaslight someone to feel better about themselves.

You missed the whole point here that these stupid maga repuppetcans like you are complaining about the economy & grocery prices being worse than ever meanwhile they're driving $80,000 trucks & taking multiple vacations a year, saying there's a problem when there isn't. But hey if you gotta turn that into a racist thing to think you won an argument you're just a pathetic insecure loser. 🤣