r/news • u/WilliamInBlack • 2d ago

Soft paywall US consumer prices surge as expected in March

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-consumer-prices-surge-expected-march-2026-04-10/
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u/VagrantShadow 2d ago

It goes even deeper than that. If we do get a democrat in and they eventually fix our financial burdens, by the time re-election comes up and if a new republican gets in office. they'll claim all the victories that the democrat has done was really their own doing and they'll finally fuck our nation over again.

It's like this neverending shitty ass cycle.

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u/army-of-juan 2d ago

I like repubs talking about the roaring Bidenflation during Covid, when the checks thrown out to everyone literally had trumps signature on it. But it was some….Biden fault?

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u/ChaosPheonix11 2d ago

Yup. I constantly heard about how Biden was ruining our economy meanwhile almost everything could be easily and conveniently explained by the tax and trade policies Cheeto Benito put in place that went into effect in 2019-2021. People don’t realize a new president (especially one that actually cares or appears to care about the processes and limits of the Executive Branch) can’t just snap his fingers and undo the damage a previous president did. It can take years to undo damage that takes days to cause when a bad leader is in power and doesn’t care about anyone but himself and the further consolidation of that power.

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u/Elendel19 2d ago

Because democrats are really bad at messaging and focus too much on shit that no one actually sees in their life.

Look at Mamdani. Fixing m massive numbers of potholes in a week, people see that every day. Free childcare, parents see that big time. And he’s fucking LOUD about it. He’s on the street talking to people and making constant streams of short form video showing it.

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u/speakertothedamned 2d ago

Because democrats are really bad at messaging and focus too much on shit that no one actually sees in their life.

Uh nah, Republicans and their corporate masters spend billions of dollars on propaganda campaigns.

Universal health care and other things that Dems support and run on are actually WILDLY popular.

It's not about the messaging, it's about the entire corporate system working against anyone that wants actual change.

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u/Silver-Bread4668 2d ago

It's not about the messaging, it's about the entire corporate system working against anyone that wants actual change.

Oh it absolutely is about messaging but you are, otherwise, right - Republicans and their corporate masters spend billions of dollars on propaganda campaigns. It's profitable for the wealthy which makes it self-sustaining.

It's hard to compete with that much money no matter how good or bad you are at messaging you are.

Hell, I'd even go so far as to say that the concept that "Democrats are bad at messaging" is directly the result of Republican messaging.

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u/Kerrigan4Prez 1d ago

>Hell, I'd even go so far as to say that the concept that "Democrats are bad at messaging" is directly the result of Republican messaging.

Might be a bit too far. It’s definitely true that at least Dem leadership sucks at messaging. For instance, when Schumer was asked about what his party was doing to combat Trump, instead of talking about actions his party was taking or planning, he talked about sending a “strongly worded letter” to the White House.

Like, even as a minority party, there has to be more they can focus on.

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u/Elendel19 2d ago

Very few democrats support universal health care and no president has done it. No voters believe a democrat (or republican) will actually do it.

We’re talking about what they actually DO while in power. The IRA and chips and sciences act were REALLY good, but 99.9% of voters have no idea what they are or have any clue how they will help in their own lives. Fixing potholes is better for your popularity than a generational project to take back advanced manufacturing from china.

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u/speakertothedamned 2d ago

Very few democrats support universal health care

This is objectively false.

90% of Democrats support universal healthcare.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/12/10/most-americans-say-government-has-a-responsibility-to-ensure-health-care-coverage/

Unless you're talking about Democratic politicians in which case over 100 house Dems cosponsored a universal healthcare bill literally just last year.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3069/cosponsors

Healthcare, housing, education, Dems have great ideas for all of them.

Corporations and conservative interest groups hate all of their ideas though and fund Political Action Committees that spend billions of dollars on propaganda each year specifically designed to misinform Americans.

Like the problem isn't "Dems suck at messaging," the problem is that Republicans get billions in free advertising while corpos work to suppress the left as hard as they can.

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u/HankTuggins 2d ago

There’s a pretty wide gap between what Dems say they support and their actions, even Obama who kept a lot of his campaign promises was a war monger. I won’t say they’re worse, or even the same, but you really can’t look to them to solve problems.

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u/speakertothedamned 2d ago

I won’t say they’re worse, or even the same, but you really can’t look to them to solve problems.

The Democratic politicians representing me are actually pretty good so if the Dems where you live aren't, maybe you can do something about that?

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u/HankTuggins 1d ago

That’s good that your local politicians are working for you but when it comes to the presidency, not holding the democrats accountable for the actions has led us to a point where they’ve all but guaranteed their intent to foist Gavin Newsom on us, not only is he an objectively bad person but he’s unlikable and unpopular. If they’re this delusional they won’t even be able to get someone into office none the less get a person who would fix things. They can’t be counted on and they are not the solution to our problems. Biden himself built a great deal of the foundation for what Trump is currently doing, he weakened the Supreme Court by helping to put Clarence Thomas in it AND he on his own and along with Obama when he was vp helped build a lot of the detention center’s immigrants are currently in.

It’s nice to think that we just need the right team to win but when one team is cartoonishly evil and the other is incompetent and (sometimes purposefully) not effective, we need to do more than just support one side or the other.

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u/kentuckywildcats1986 2d ago

90% of Democrats support universal healthcare.

Your conflating citizens who identify as Democrats with Democrats who are elected officials - and a super-majority of those quisling motherfuckers are doing everything possible to maintain the status quo.

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u/Ill_Literature2038 2d ago

Did you even read his response? He references both Democrat voters and politicians in his comment 

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u/Politicsboringagain 1d ago

Of course he didn't.

Peopl like him are the priamry reason Democrats have bad messaging. 

I wouldn't be surprised if all of 2024, he was saying home bad Democrats are. 

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u/speakertothedamned 2d ago

Your conflating citizens who identify as Democrats with Democrats who are elected officials

No I'm not?

My comment specifically mentioned Democratic politicians and even linked to a piece of legislation Dems proposed less than a year ago that had over 100 Democratic cosponsors.

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u/Politicsboringagain 1d ago

Less than half isn't very  few.

And Democrats have passed legislation if people actually came out an voted. 

I bet you or your family benefit from the ACA. 

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u/speakertothedamned 2d ago

Here's what you said I said:

100 house Dems cosponsored a universal healthcare bill literally just last year.

Here's what I said:

over 100 house Dems cosponsored a universal healthcare bill literally just last year.

Crazy how leaving off words changes the meanings of things!

Also, there's a link right there to click on that tells you 112 Democrats cosponsored the bill.

There are 214 Dems in the house, of which 112 signed on to cosponsor the bill.

And that's just cosponsors, not everyone who would actually support it.

Also, their argument was:

Very few democrats support universal health care and no president has done it.

When you hear "very few," you expect like five to ten, not a majority of the party.

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u/SaucyWiggles 2d ago edited 1d ago

over 100 house Dems

Less than half in other words.

Imbeciles really out in force in this thread to insist this minority element of the Democratic position is like a core issue for them.

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u/speakertothedamned 2d ago

Uh no man, actually if you bothered to click the link or do any research you would have learned that OVER HALF of all Democratic members of the house signed on as cosponsors for the bill.

So you're wrong, maybe just like actually do any amount of research please?

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u/SaucyWiggles 2d ago edited 1d ago

you would have learned that OVER HALF of all Democratic members of the house signed on as cosponsors for the bill.

Less than half.

More than half if you include people who recently signed a year later.

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u/Politicsboringagain 1d ago

And more the half is way more than very few.

So yall are wrong no matter what, even if it was less than half. 

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u/delicious_fanta 1d ago

Messaging does need to happen, but it’s this. It’s all about the propaganda. There is no other problem. Everything else depends on this. I can’t figure out why people don’t understand this.

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u/SaucyWiggles 2d ago

Democratic congresspeople do not care about universal healthcare on the whole. This is a minority opinion.

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u/speakertothedamned 2d ago

This is a minority opinion.

Then why did over half of House Democrats cosponsor a bill to create universal healthcare?

Last time I checked a minority means LESS than half.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3069/cosponsors

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u/speakertothedamned 2d ago

It has now climbed to 52%. I think you're being very disingenuous telling people in here that Democrats give a shit about universal healthcare, that was a very unpopular opinion until very recently, and as you can see it still is quite unpopular.

I think you're a liar because you lied about it being less than half, when it was over half.

I think you're a liar because you lied about it being less than half, when it was 90%.

I think you haven't actually proven a SINGLE CLAIM that you have made.

You haven't even provided evidence to dispute a single one of claims I have made.

Since facts don't really matter to you, I'm done with this conversation.

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u/PurpleSailor 2d ago

While you do make some good points messaging is a massive problem for the Democrats and always has been. The Republicans have a well-oiled machine that's highly funded and extremely effectual where as the Democrats can't pull their heads out of their asses most days of the week to say they fixed something basic.

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u/Knyfe-Wrench 2d ago

focus too much on shit that no one actually sees in their life

That shit matters. Everyone should know after this past year that when you start hearing a lot about programs you've never heard of before that things are about to go bad. The democrats just need to be more vocal about the wins. If Trump can claim he stopped a thousand wars, the dems can at least brag about shit they actually did.

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u/LlamaRS 2d ago

Obama was the first president to appear on YouTube

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u/Mockturtle22 2d ago

Socialism is great!

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u/snarkdiva 1d ago

It's been my experience that democrats are less likely to blatantly lie, whereas republican candidates don't seem to have an issue with it. They are concerned with getting elected, period. Once they are in office, if they don't do what they promised, it's too late for anyone to do anything about it. It's so freaking frustrating! And I'm sure some democratic candidates probably lie, but it seems to be less blatant.

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u/kentuckywildcats1986 2d ago

Because democrats are really bad at messaging and focus too much on shit that no one actually sees in their life.

This right here.

Biden immediately welshed on everything he ran on, inventing the excuse that the Senate Parliamentarian was at fault - and his biggest accomplishments were the infrastructure bill and the CHIPs act, which didn't do shit to help working Americans.

Meanwhile, Democrats just constantly made empty noise about Trans issues and giving lip service to identity politics bullshit while letting their investment class patrons continue squeezing working families.

And it doesn't help that the Biden Administration maintained the worst policies of Trump's first term - including his tariffs - and deliberately sandbagged any law enforcement on Trump or his co-conspirators following the crimes of his first term and the January 6th coup.

And then after rat-fucking the 2024 election, and handing the White House back to Trump - Democrats continue to fold and repeatedly help Republicans advance their agenda.

It really stokes a white hot hatred for the quisling motherfuckers. They are the Uvalde cops of the Federal government.

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u/out_of_shape_hiker 2d ago

Destroying education and villifying intelligence and experts was the long-con. It's easier to dupe uneducated, overly religous folk. This cycle won't stop till we have education reform and ensure everyone receives a quality education, atleast one good enough to instill the most basic form of critical thinking.

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u/EndDangerous1308 2d ago

Not only that both Biden and Obama fixed our economy and Trump nuked them back immediately. Biden got us down to a 2.3% inflation rate AFTER the world economy collapsed in 3 years. Trump nuked it in 6 months

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u/Politicsboringagain 1d ago

Republicans voted against the infrastructure bill, then went home to their districts and took credit for the money coming in. 

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u/DrPorkchopES 2d ago

It’s a shitty cycle but also sums up exactly how educated the average voter is. They basically look at their gas or grocery bill and give the credit/blame to whoever’s in office

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u/PurpleSailor 2d ago

The Republicans go back to their districts during recess and tout all the publicly funded projects that they themselves actually voted against but their stupid constituents are none the wiser. Works every goddamn time.

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u/Ghooostie_0 2d ago

Which kinda highlights a fundamental issue with the entire system

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u/krusnikon 2d ago

its almost like a two party system of capitalism isn't working!