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[-] mrbaby@lemmy.world 67 points 9 months ago

I suspect it's booming because the cost of living situation is worse

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago

Biden has called out the greed of businesses, but we've seen no action from the government to rein them in.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago

How is Biden supposed to have done anything to rein in corporate greed when he's stuck with a Republican controlled house that refuses to even entertain the faintest notion of the slightest hint of the merest idea of reining it in?

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

Come on, it's not like Republicans are against their own bipartisan immigration deal because it would be good for Biden. I'm sure they'll work with him on the economy...

Oh.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The president needn't do a damn thing. The People need to protest outside of Citizens United office. Its what we need to do. Tear the structure from the Earth and the occupants along with it. Cast them to Tatarus where they belong.

Citizens United
1006 Pennsylvania Ave SE
Washington, DC 20003
Office: (202) 547-5420
Fax: (202) 547-5421
info@citizensunited.org

[-] ultranaut@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

How is protesting in front of the office of a random right wing political group in DC going to accomplish anything? They won their court case a long time ago so they seem kind of irrelevant now.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Oh, you mean the people who got Money = free speech codified into law? You dont see how that would help? It shows we know. We know who you are and what you did. And we dont accept it.

[-] ultranaut@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

No, I don't see how that helps anything. They already know we know. They have been protested before and it didn't change anything, how is it going to have any impact on anything to do it again? You could burn their office down and nothing will change, it's just a random office belonging to a random political group. They aren't even really relevant beyond the case they won back in the day so what's so special about their office now?

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

But, has anyone done it? Has anyone actually done it? These people are more fearful than anyone else on the planet. The only way this ends is if the boot gets turned on them. Anything else is just kicking the can down the road like those did before us. All their blood and tears are being undone as we speak.

[-] Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

The issue with that logic is that Dems will say they can’t get anything done but fear the substantial change that Trump can bring. Like the party’s own stance is more of the same with Biden or certainty of drastic change by voting against Biden. That does not come off like the party elites think it does. I can see how that messaging can work with say the UAW or the already rich who can claim wins during the last four, but many of us really only expected him to not be Trump after the Biden win and somehow even that bar feels missed, the man has lower approval ratings than Trump ever had.

[-] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 5 points 9 months ago

Well thats just not true. His approval rating is very low for sure, but Trump has got him beat in that metric, he had substantially worse ratings. Still Biden might end with worse approval average if he continues downward in approval ratings, and that's kinda impressive since Biden hasn't been doing egregiously corrupt and stupid shit basically daily like Trump did. Golfing at his own resort. Putting his kids into government positions. Firing staff on grounds of "loyalty" like some mob boss. Etc etc. Biden hasn't even been impeached, let alone twice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_approval_rating

[-] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I don't know why you're being downloaded, you're right here. They fear that Trump is going to be a dictator rightfully, yet Biden's not allowed to use any power to help the people. That, for some reason, is where the line in the sand is.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Does that mean that bidenomics is actually the work of the republican controlled house? I don't see how biden can get credit for a supposedly amazing economy but at the same time be powerless to do anything because of congress.

[-] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Threaten to nationalize any business that extorts with the defense production act. Cant have good conscriptees if they are malnourished and mentally ill.

Lets get creative.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The rate of increase is slowing rapidly: In December, prices for food consumed at home were up by just over 1 percent, according to the Labor Department. But administration officials say Mr. Biden is keenly aware that prices remain too elevated for many families, even as key items, like gasoline and household furnishings, are now cheaper than they were at their postpandemic peak.

And yet there is a general belief across administration officials and their allies that there is little else Mr. Biden could do unilaterally to force grocery prices down quickly.

“It’s hard to figure out what the short-term policy response is in this situation,” said Bharat Ramamurti, a former economic aide to Mr. Biden and an author of a report on grocery-price inflation that the progressive Groundwork Collaborative in Washington published on Friday.

I think we can expect Biden to be loud about grocery prices and grocery store profit margins, because the price of almost everything else has stabilized or gone down. He can issue executive orders that do little to directly influence prices, but any more would require legislation, and, well, the party that controls the House wants higher prices.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/us/politics/biden-food-prices.html

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