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SCOTUS decision is huge for the midterms Republicans do what they should with it.
Are you wondering why the entire Left Wing of America is melting down over this Supreme Court decision right now?
Constitutional
lawyer here — Allow me.
Today, SCOTUS dropped a 6-3 reality check in Louisiana v. Callais that has the usual race-hustler brigade frothing at the mouth. Justice Alito’s majority opinion just ruled that Louisiana’s congressional map — with its extra majority-Black district snaking across the state like Michelle Obama on Cialis — was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Why? Because Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act didn’t require the state to play racial bean-counter and subordinate every traditional districting principle (compactness, communities of interest, you know, actual geography) to skin color. No compelling interest under strict scrutiny = GAME OVER. Boom. Equal Protection Clause wins again.
This isn’t “gutting” the VRA, you professional outrage farmers. It’s interpreting it correctly for the first time in decades. Alito laid it out crystal clear: The VRA is a SHIELD
against actual discrimination, not a sword
for engineering racial spoils systems or proportional representation by melanin quota.
You see, Louisiana’s map prioritized race above everything else without the required justification. That’s textbook reverse discrimination — treating non-Black voters as second-class citizens whose votes get diluted so Democrats can lock in “safe seats.” The 14th Amendment doesn’t do “equity” carve-outs; it demands equal protection for everyone. No more “but it’s for the minorities!” loopholes that just flip the racism script.
And yet, here come the usual suspects — the Congressional Black Caucus, their media megaphone, and every blue-check race baiter on X — screaming that this “dismantles Black voting power,” “revives Jim Crow,” and “ends democracy.”
Spare us the crocodile tears. These are the same folks who cheered on the race-based admissions, hiring quotas, and DEI hiring that screwed over Asians and whites… but suddenly “racism” is back on the menu when the Court says voters aren’t interchangeable racial pawns. Hypocrites. Your entire grift depends on keeping Americans sorted into victim blocs so you can harvest votes and donor cash.
NEWSFLASH: Treating people as individuals instead of skin-color commodities isn’t “suppressing” anyone — it’s the literal definition of civil rights.
This opinion is chef’s kiss well-reasoned constitutionalism. It flows straight from Shaw v. Reno-era precedents and the Framers’ vision: Race is the most suspect classification, not a magic wand for map-drawers. The VRA was born to crush poll taxes and literacy tests that kept Black Americans from the ballot box. It was never meant to mandate racial gerrymandering as a permanent feature of American elections. SCOTUS just slammed the door on that perversion, forcing states to draw maps based on people, not pigmentation. Result? More competitive districts, less racial polarization, and an actual shot at post-racial politics. The left can’t handle it because their power model collapses without the division.
Fun fact for the woke warriors clutching their pearls in the replies: The Constitution is colorblind by design. It doesn’t care about your feelings, your “disparate impact” spreadsheets, or your need for perpetual victim status to stay relevant. Real equality means one set of rules for all — no reverse-racism exceptions, no matter how loudly you cry “systemic!”
Cry harder, identity-politics vampires. The adults in the robe just reminded everyone why we have a Constitution: to protect US from YOU.🫵
America moves forward when we judge ballots by content of character, not color of district. Deal with it.
Are you wondering why the entire Left Wing of America is melting down over this Supreme Court decision right now?
Constitutional
lawyer here — Allow me.Today, SCOTUS dropped a 6-3 reality check in Louisiana v. Callais that has the usual race-hustler brigade frothing at the mouth. Justice Alito’s majority opinion just ruled that Louisiana’s congressional map — with its extra majority-Black district snaking across the state like Michelle Obama on Cialis — was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. Why? Because Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act didn’t require the state to play racial bean-counter and subordinate every traditional districting principle (compactness, communities of interest, you know, actual geography) to skin color. No compelling interest under strict scrutiny = GAME OVER. Boom. Equal Protection Clause wins again.
This isn’t “gutting” the VRA, you professional outrage farmers. It’s interpreting it correctly for the first time in decades. Alito laid it out crystal clear: The VRA is a SHIELD
against actual discrimination, not a swordfor engineering racial spoils systems or proportional representation by melanin quota.You see, Louisiana’s map prioritized race above everything else without the required justification. That’s textbook reverse discrimination — treating non-Black voters as second-class citizens whose votes get diluted so Democrats can lock in “safe seats.” The 14th Amendment doesn’t do “equity” carve-outs; it demands equal protection for everyone. No more “but it’s for the minorities!” loopholes that just flip the racism script.
And yet, here come the usual suspects — the Congressional Black Caucus, their media megaphone, and every blue-check race baiter on X — screaming that this “dismantles Black voting power,” “revives Jim Crow,” and “ends democracy.”
Spare us the crocodile tears. These are the same folks who cheered on the race-based admissions, hiring quotas, and DEI hiring that screwed over Asians and whites… but suddenly “racism” is back on the menu when the Court says voters aren’t interchangeable racial pawns. Hypocrites. Your entire grift depends on keeping Americans sorted into victim blocs so you can harvest votes and donor cash.
NEWSFLASH: Treating people as individuals instead of skin-color commodities isn’t “suppressing” anyone — it’s the literal definition of civil rights.
This opinion is chef’s kiss well-reasoned constitutionalism. It flows straight from Shaw v. Reno-era precedents and the Framers’ vision: Race is the most suspect classification, not a magic wand for map-drawers. The VRA was born to crush poll taxes and literacy tests that kept Black Americans from the ballot box. It was never meant to mandate racial gerrymandering as a permanent feature of American elections. SCOTUS just slammed the door on that perversion, forcing states to draw maps based on people, not pigmentation. Result? More competitive districts, less racial polarization, and an actual shot at post-racial politics. The left can’t handle it because their power model collapses without the division.
Fun fact for the woke warriors clutching their pearls in the replies: The Constitution is colorblind by design. It doesn’t care about your feelings, your “disparate impact” spreadsheets, or your need for perpetual victim status to stay relevant. Real equality means one set of rules for all — no reverse-racism exceptions, no matter how loudly you cry “systemic!”
Cry harder, identity-politics vampires. The adults in the robe just reminded everyone why we have a Constitution: to protect US from YOU.🫵
America moves forward when we judge ballots by content of character, not color of district. Deal with it.
The midterms were just decided??? Very possibly yes.
NOBODY IS TELLING YOU THE REAL STORY OF THE SCOTUS VOTING RIGHTS RULING
Yes, the Court ruled 6-3.
Yes, race-based districting is now unconstitutional.
Yes, Louisiana's map got thrown out.
But here's the part everyone is missing:
Democrats don't have a House majority without those court-ordered maps.
→ A dozen of their current seats sit in districts that only exist because federal courts FORCED states to draw them
→ Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina — every one has at least one Democrat seat in a court-created black-majority district
→ Their House margin is FOUR seats
→ SCOTUS just made 12 of their 213 seats legally redrawable
→ Republican-led legislatures don't need new voters — they need a redistricting committee and a Tuesday afternoon
If race-based districts are unconstitutional, then Louisiana redraws.
If Louisiana redraws, then Alabama redraws.
If Alabama redraws, then every Southern state redraws.
If every Southern state redraws, the Democrat House majority was a 60-year courtroom artifact — not an election result.
That's what nobody is saying out loud.
The 2026 midterms were just decided 6-3 — six months before Election Day.
if you're not following me you're finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..
NOBODY IS TELLING YOU THE REAL STORY OF THE SCOTUS VOTING RIGHTS RULING
Yes, the Court ruled 6-3.
Yes, race-based districting is now unconstitutional.
Yes, Louisiana's map got thrown out.
But here's the part everyone is missing:
Democrats don't have a House majority without those court-ordered maps.
→ A dozen of their current seats sit in districts that only exist because federal courts FORCED states to draw them
→ Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina — every one has at least one Democrat seat in a court-created black-majority district
→ Their House margin is FOUR seats
→ SCOTUS just made 12 of their 213 seats legally redrawable
→ Republican-led legislatures don't need new voters — they need a redistricting committee and a Tuesday afternoon
If race-based districts are unconstitutional, then Louisiana redraws.
If Louisiana redraws, then Alabama redraws.
If Alabama redraws, then every Southern state redraws.
If every Southern state redraws, the Democrat House majority was a 60-year courtroom artifact — not an election result.
That's what nobody is saying out loud.
The 2026 midterms were just decided 6-3 — six months before Election Day.
if you're not following me you're finding out about this 48 hours late from someone who read my post..
This message and similar from Talarico and others should be the messaging from Dems.
Distance from the culture wars stuff, calm and clear messaging without insults and meaness.
I've been hopping around listening to different podcasts when I'm at the gym and even though the podcasts aren't about him, they all detour and rave about his messaging and how presidential he sounds.
While I'm sure that sen ossoff is a wonderful human being, I'd dig a little deeper into the facts of his work in passing/sponsoring legislation that allowed the government to negotiate Medicare prescription drug prices. He may have played a role, as all Democrat senators/representatives did, but this was just one part of the broader IRA in 2022.
Not implying that the whole thing didn't happen just as described, but one senator - Townsend - doesn't get to vote in a provision and another doesn't just get to vote it out.
I also thought it was slick how we went from citizens not being able to afford bread, groceries, rent, gas to a provision in a much larger bill that affects none of the young people pictured in the ad.
This is a campaign ad...maybe someone should ask him why, if he's a member of the corrupt organization, 47 of whose members are in his party, he doesn't take steps to end the corruption. And, if as he might have you to believe, one person can end the restriction on Medicare drugs, the same person can't do something to end the corruption.
And finally, what is he doing to lower the prices of bread. groceries, gas and rent?
All valid comments and suggestions. I am sure that you held members of the Republican party to the same standards with their campaign pledges as well.
Yes Ned, it's a campaign ad that doesn't obligate me to sort through his five-year legislative history to see if I can find flaws but he's spent his entire career fighting corruption, including before he became a Senator. > Ossoff History
But I'm going to be upfront and tell you that I'm very biased as I met him in person at a private fundraiser a few weeks ago and I think he's an outstanding person and politician. Keep your eye on him because there's been a tremendous amount of buzz about his presidential chances if he decides to run.
Here's his own 5 year legislative report
Five-Year Report – U.S. Senator for Georgia Jon Ossoff
www.ossoff.senate.gov
He's been calling out corruption regularly and has stated in one of his stump speeches that if the SEC doesn't investigate the market manipulation that's been going on, then the new Congress will.
Yes Ned, it's a campaign ad that doesn't obligate me to sort through his five-year legislative history to see if I can find flaws but he's spent his entire career fighting corruption, including before he became a Senator. > Ossoff History
But I'm going to be upfront and tell you that I'm very biased as I met him in person at a private fundraiser a few weeks ago and I think he's an outstanding person and politician. Keep your eye on him because there's been a tremendous amount of buzz about his presidential chances if he decides to run.
Here's his own 5 year legislative report
Five-Year Report – U.S. Senator for Georgia Jon Ossoff
He's been calling out corruption regularly and has stated in one of his stump speeches that if the SEC doesn't investigate the market manipulation that's been going on, then the new Congress will.
I imagine you may be right, that he's a great candidate. For myself, I'd like to see the next presidential candidates get away from J6, the 2020 election, the corruption of the trump family, transgenderism, gays and all those things which right now, IMO, are just distractions from the real issues. So, we all know that people are struggling...what is the candidate going to do to ease that struggle? Don't just tell me "I'm going to lower food prices on day 1"...great, can't wait! Now how exactly are you going to do that? Same with healthcare, same with immigration. Prosecuting trump, Biden, Comey and anybody else isn't going to solve the American's problems
All valid comments and suggestions. I am sure that you held members of the Republican party to the same standards with their campaign pledges as well.
Also, the trans,gays etc isn't coming from the left, that's RW talking points to create fear and division. The Left is defending rights that are trying to be taken away.
Trump corruptly does a lot of things at the same time that don't solve American's problems but they do make him filthy rich. The next president cannot turn a blind eye to the mountain of corruption happening right under everyone's noses while republicans look the other way, because we can't allow it to become precedent. If a democrat wins the presidency, that will be the DOJ's job, not the president's, so he will have plenty of time to address all the other issues. .
we can only hope. I have great confidence that the Democrat elected president in 2028 is going to solve all the problems that we are complaining about today. No rationalizations, no what about Trump's..I can't wait for my grocery prices to get back to pre pandemic levels, my healthcare costs to decrease, mortgage rates back to under 4% yielding a housing boom, with housing available for all, no crime, immigration totally under control, gas prices back to under $3/ gal.
it's going to be semi utopia.
One day you'll be calling him Your President. Mark it.
Well Ned, you can want in one hand, and **** in the other, and you'll have just what you have right now. It's never going to happen.
of course it's not going to happen....that's what's so funny about all the criticisms of trump for not accomplishing these things today. People complain that Trump has not solved the grocery prices problem (that was created in the last administration). What do they want him to do? I'm relatively sure that if Hakeem Jeffries had a good idea, trump would be all over it. Has the war in Iran exacerbated the problem, sure. But by most estimates by about 1%. But what about the rest of the increase?
Historically when prices increase during periods of high inflation, they don't come back down to pre inflation levels. This time is no different. If there was a simple solution, Biden would have used during the last two years of his term
JUST IN: Pressure is SURGING nationwide on the states of Georgia and South Carolina to STOP PLAYING GAMES, call a special session and REDRAW out their racially gerrymandered Democrat seats for the 2026 electionsNO WAITING for 2028!
Fight in the courts, and FIX YOUR UNFAIR MAPS
MULTIPLE more seats up for grabs in the South.
We need to go all in. Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito nailed it in their ruling!
I don't know how anyone has a handle on how this upcoming midterm will go. On the one hand, it's relatively clear to me that it's democrats to lose. There are just too many unhappy Americans for republicans to win on issues. On the other hand, all this redistricting is making it harder to figure out if thats going to be the determining variable as districts shift from blue to red and vice versa.
News cycle will change 10 times between now and midterms. Way too early to tell imo.
I do think republicans surge into mid terms
Trump will “wrap up” the war. Gas prices will be falling. The market will be at record highs. Arrests will be made and the base will be rabid.
It will be close though, but republicans just need to be in striking distance come oct 1st.
The Republican platform is much better and I do think they hold both houses. I’ve been wrong before though
Get ready for the anal probe democrats.
Trump is reportedly putting together a special election fraud task force inside the DOJ to investigate and prosecute voter fraud in the upcoming midterms. It’s going to act as both a deterrent and real accountability for any Democrats planning to cheat again. The team is rumored to include big names like Sidney Powell, Matt Gaetz, Ken Paxton, Rudy Giuliani, Alina Habba, and lawyers who fought for the January 6 defendants. There will even be a 24/7 tip line and undercover feds posing as election workers. Democrat secretaries of state are already panicking.
This is what real election integrity looks like. Trump is making sure 2020 doesn’t happen again.
Trump is reportedly putting together a special election fraud task force inside the DOJ to investigate and prosecute voter fraud in the upcoming midterms. It’s going to act as both a deterrent and real accountability for any Democrats planning to cheat again. The team is rumored to include big names like Sidney Powell, Matt Gaetz, Ken Paxton, Rudy Giuliani, Alina Habba, and lawyers who fought for the January 6 defendants. There will even be a 24/7 tip line and undercover feds posing as election workers. Democrat secretaries of state are already panicking.
This is what real election integrity looks like. Trump is making sure 2020 doesn’t happen again.
Interesting.
REPUBLICANS WILL WIN THE MIDTERMS.
In fact, it's looking more and more like a disaster for Dems.
NEGATIVES FOR GOP: Gas prices have temporarily gone up because of the military operation. This is temporary. Trump approval rating is low, around 40.8% (RCP average of polls). This is not far off from where Trump usually is in terms of public approval.
Many people don't much like Trump -- think he's gruff, rude, don't like his posts, and don't get the joke. But they vote for him anyway because he's much better than the alternative: open borders, rampant crime, transgender surgeries on children, schools are leftist indoctrination camps, insufferable wokeness. History shows that the party that controls the White House loses seats in Midterm Elections.
POSITIVES FOR GOP: Gas prices will come down. The Iran military operation will be in the rear-view mirror and an obvious success. Voters reward success. We can contrast the Venezuela and Iran military operations, plus probably the liberation of Cuba, with Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal (which gave Putin the green light to invade Ukraine) - COMPETENCE vs TOTAL INCOMPETENCE.
In the wake of the Iran success, Trump and the GOP will play endless clips of Democrats openly rooting for the Iran Regime and the defeat of our military . . . because Democrats now link America's success to Trump's success. If America succeeds, then Trump succeeds. Democrats don't want that, so they root for America's failure at every point. Voters can see this.
Whatever you think of Trump, it's clear he loves America. It's not at all clear Democrats even like America. In fact, Democrats are constantly telling us America is racist and was built on a foundation of racism.
THE GENERIC BALLOT polls actually show a close national race with Dems now leading on the generic ballot by 3-5%. But these generic polls showing party preference are just snapshots. Historically, Dems lead in generic polls. If Republicans are within 3% of Dems in generic ballot polls at the end, the GOP usually gains seats in the House.
And the Midterm Elections are not a national election. These are many different elections in districts and states, where often local issues are a key factor and the quality of candidates.
The GOP right now has an enormous fundraising advantage. The Democrat National Committee is broke.
Currently, incumbent Republican Senators appear to be in solid shape. We will probably lose the North Carolina seat. Susan Collins will probably hold on in Maine, as the Governor just dropped out of the race. So now she's running against a crazy guy with a Nazi tattoo. We have opportunities for pick-ups in Michigan, NH, and GA.
Because of the recent Supreme Court ruling banning Congressional districts based on race, The GOP appears to be positioned to pick up a net of 15 seats based on that alone. And the Virginia Supreme Court appears set to cancel to new Congressional map Dems want because the referendum held on this was illegally conducted. This new Congressional map in Virginia would have netted Dems 4 seats, but that's probably gone.
President Trump's MAGA base is solid. A recent CNN poll shows Trump with 100% support among those who identify as MAGA. So there is no fracture whatsoever among Trump's base of voters on the Iran war, or anything else.
Elections are a binary choice. Democrats are running on "Abolish ICE" -- which voters will hear as open borders. This is the same as the Democrat demand that we "defund the police." Americans don't want open borders or the police defunded.
Democrats continue to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security . . . because they want to "Defund Ice" . . . because they Democrats don't want to lose their illegal migrant voter base.
Democrats are also openly rooting for America's defeat and failure in Iran. We can play video clips on a continuous loop that show this.
Democrat donors tried to kill President Trump three times and a radical leftist murdered Charlie Kirk.
Democrats have shown over and over again that they are the party of political violence.
Democrats have promised endless "warfare" and "lawfare" against those who disagree with them if Dems win back power. They have promised to expand the Supreme Court to 13 Justices so they can pack the court with a radical Left majority.
They have promised to award themselves 4 new Senators by turning Puerto Rico and DC into states.
They have promised to launch IMPEACHMENT proceedings against President Trump on DAY ONE if they take control of the House -- instead of focusing on making the lives of the American people better and more affordable.
Democrats are getting more radical in their rhetoric, not less. Americans don't want radical woke politics. Americans want the country to work.
The more voters focus on what Democrats are actually saying, the more they will trend back toward the GOP. They might not be thrilled with the GOP. But the GOP is far better than the alternative.
Very few people liked Richard Nixon. Most people actively disliked Nixon. But he won 49 states in 1972 because of the radicalism of the Left. The phrase often repeated back then was: "Hold Your Nose and Vote for Nixon."
This is what's happening now . . . because Democrats can't help themselves. They are incapable of NOT sound insane to the average person.
REPUBLICANS WILL WIN THE MIDTERMS.
In fact, it's looking more and more like a disaster for Dems.
NEGATIVES FOR GOP: Gas prices have temporarily gone up because of the military operation. This is temporary. Trump approval rating is low, around 40.8% (RCP average of polls). This is not far off from where Trump usually is in terms of public approval.
Many people don't much like Trump -- think he's gruff, rude, don't like his posts, and don't get the joke. But they vote for him anyway because he's much better than the alternative: open borders, rampant crime, transgender surgeries on children, schools are leftist indoctrination camps, insufferable wokeness. History shows that the party that controls the White House loses seats in Midterm Elections.
POSITIVES FOR GOP: Gas prices will come down. The Iran military operation will be in the rear-view mirror and an obvious success. Voters reward success. We can contrast the Venezuela and Iran military operations, plus probably the liberation of Cuba, with Biden's disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal (which gave Putin the green light to invade Ukraine) - COMPETENCE vs TOTAL INCOMPETENCE.
In the wake of the Iran success, Trump and the GOP will play endless clips of Democrats openly rooting for the Iran Regime and the defeat of our military . . . because Democrats now link America's success to Trump's success. If America succeeds, then Trump succeeds. Democrats don't want that, so they root for America's failure at every point. Voters can see this.
Whatever you think of Trump, it's clear he loves America. It's not at all clear Democrats even like America. In fact, Democrats are constantly telling us America is racist and was built on a foundation of racism.
THE GENERIC BALLOT polls actually show a close national race with Dems now leading on the generic ballot by 3-5%. But these generic polls showing party preference are just snapshots. Historically, Dems lead in generic polls. If Republicans are within 3% of Dems in generic ballot polls at the end, the GOP usually gains seats in the House.
And the Midterm Elections are not a national election. These are many different elections in districts and states, where often local issues are a key factor and the quality of candidates.
The GOP right now has an enormous fundraising advantage. The Democrat National Committee is broke.
Currently, incumbent Republican Senators appear to be in solid shape. We will probably lose the North Carolina seat. Susan Collins will probably hold on in Maine, as the Governor just dropped out of the race. So now she's running against a crazy guy with a Nazi tattoo. We have opportunities for pick-ups in Michigan, NH, and GA.
Because of the recent Supreme Court ruling banning Congressional districts based on race, The GOP appears to be positioned to pick up a net of 15 seats based on that alone. And the Virginia Supreme Court appears set to cancel to new Congressional map Dems want because the referendum held on this was illegally conducted. This new Congressional map in Virginia would have netted Dems 4 seats, but that's probably gone.
President Trump's MAGA base is solid. A recent CNN poll shows Trump with 100% support among those who identify as MAGA. So there is no fracture whatsoever among Trump's base of voters on the Iran war, or anything else.
Elections are a binary choice. Democrats are running on "Abolish ICE" -- which voters will hear as open borders. This is the same as the Democrat demand that we "defund the police." Americans don't want open borders or the police defunded.
Democrats continue to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security . . . because they want to "Defund Ice" . . . because they Democrats don't want to lose their illegal migrant voter base.
Democrats are also openly rooting for America's defeat and failure in Iran. We can play video clips on a continuous loop that show this.
Democrat donors tried to kill President Trump three times and a radical leftist murdered Charlie Kirk.
Democrats have shown over and over again that they are the party of political violence.
Democrats have promised endless "warfare" and "lawfare" against those who disagree with them if Dems win back power. They have promised to expand the Supreme Court to 13 Justices so they can pack the court with a radical Left majority.
They have promised to award themselves 4 new Senators by turning Puerto Rico and DC into states.
They have promised to launch IMPEACHMENT proceedings against President Trump on DAY ONE if they take control of the House -- instead of focusing on making the lives of the American people better and more affordable.
Democrats are getting more radical in their rhetoric, not less. Americans don't want radical woke politics. Americans want the country to work.
The more voters focus on what Democrats are actually saying, the more they will trend back toward the GOP. They might not be thrilled with the GOP. But the GOP is far better than the alternative.
Very few people liked Richard Nixon. Most people actively disliked Nixon. But he won 49 states in 1972 because of the radicalism of the Left. The phrase often repeated back then was: "Hold Your Nose and Vote for Nixon."
This is what's happening now . . . because Democrats can't help themselves. They are incapable of NOT sound insane to the average person.
Some of this gerrymandering by the GOP will be "dummymanders" especially in Texas and Florida
what specifically did Biden do to "create the grocery prices problem"?
I mean it relies on the GOP repeating their overperformance with hispanics from 2024 and not losing any white voters at all. The polling data and special election performances show that isn't the case so far. So rather than creating a couple vote sink districts you have now created multiple competitive districts heading into a midterm election with a president who has historic unfavorables
well, what were the prices pre Biden administration? We hold trump accountable for high gas prices today, but we don't hold Biden accountable for high food prices at the end of his administration?
what specifically did Biden do to "create the grocery prices problem"?
well, how did we get from pre covid prices to the higher prices when Biden left office. You might recall that one of the main issues in the 2024 election was high prices. What did Biden do to reduce those high prices?
not to be snarky, but Google it. There are plenty of articles on why prices were higher in 2024 than pre covid....the period of Biden's presidency
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Easy. He approved roughly $3.5 trillion of above and beyond stimulus spending that ignited the economy. As they say too much money chasing too few goods. As demand skyrocketed so did the demand for labor and labor took full advantage. Port workers, UAW, UPS drivers, Teamsters, Nurses, Teachers, etc all got huge wage increases and that's permanently reflected in the prices consumers pay. When the big unions get pay increases there's a big trickle down. Even fast food workers saw their pay grow from roughly $11/hr to over $17/hr. Now those costs are baked in and nobody is going to reverse them.
COVID resulted in many companies shutting down temporarily, and some permanently, which led to a supply shortage made worse by the Russia-Ukraine war, extreme weather affecting crops and the bird flu outbreak. At most you can say he contributed to it but he did not cause it. It's really not fair to compare the COVID years to the current spike in prices directly caused by Trump's tariffs and his war of choice.
You made the statement that the previous administration "created" high grocery prices. Not to be snarky, but you should be able to defend that statement.
Biden did not approve $3.5 trillion in stimulus spending. Trump did. So by your own logic trump was more responsible for "creating high grocery prices".
Donald Trump Administration ($3+ Trillion) [1]
- CARES Act (March 2020): A massive $2.2 trillion package that included $1,200 direct payments, enhanced unemployment benefits, and the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
- Consolidated Appropriations Act (Dec 2020): A $900 billion package featuring $600 direct payments and additional PPP funding. [1, 2, 3]
- American Rescue Plan (March 2021): A $1.9 trillion package, which provided $1,400 direct payments (bringing total direct aid to $2,000 for many), extended unemployment benefits, and provided extensive aid to state/local governments, as analyzed by the Julian Samora Research Institute and Investopedia. [1, 2, 3, 4]