XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.trump   
   From: katt@gmail.com   
      
   On Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:54:19 +0000,  Lee says...   
      
   > The CPI for all food   
   > increased 0.4 percent   
      
   Oh no! I need to find the nearest food bank... 0.4% is going to bankrupt us   
   all!   
      
   LOL   
      
   You are funny.   
      
   > Food prices in August 2025 were 3.2 percent higher than in August 2024.   
      
   Annnnd they came back down, thank you very much.   
      
   > Food Price Outlook, 2025 and 2026   
      
   Outlook? Zat the best you got?   
      
   > Consumer Price Index for Food (not seasonally adjusted)   
      
   Well... SEASONALLY adjust it!  LOL   
      
   > The food-away-from-home (restaurant and other foodservice purchases)   
      
   Irrelevant.   
      
   > Economic Research Service (ERS) September 2025 Forecast   
      
   Forecast.   
      
   Well, we all know how forecasts and predictions go. (climate?)   
      
   WHERE are these prices that have gone up? My groceries are cheaper now, than   
   they've been in the last 5 years.   
      
   Prove it to me that prices have gone up, other than looking up bullshit   
   forecast and CPI and whatever bullshit you're flinging.   
      
   Show us GROCERY PRICING, like I did.   
      
   This bullshit doesn't count, because it never happened.   
      
   How do I know?   
      
   Because these were PREDICTIONS made LAST YEAR. The article you cite has been   
   "updated" so the date of the article is more current, but NONE the predictions   
   are listed as coming to fruition.   
      
   > In 2025, overall food prices ARE ANTICIPATED to rise faster than the   
   > historical average rate of growth. In 2025, prices for all food are   
   > PREDICTED to increase 3.0 percent, with a PREDICTION interval of 2.6 to 3.4   
   > percent. Food-at-home prices are PREDICTED to increase 2.4 percent, with a   
   > PREDICTION interval of 1.8 to 2.9 percent. Food-away-from-home prices are   
   > PREDICTED to increase 3.9 percent, with a PREDICTION interval of 3.6 to 4.1   
   > percent.   
      
   LOL.   
      
   "Are anticipated".   
      
   Sad.   
      
   Find us grocery prices for RIGHT now. I did.   
      
   > In 2026, overall FOOD PRICES ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE MORE SLOWLY than the   
   > historical average rate of growth.   
      
   Stupid fuck... that happens no matter WHO the President is. It's called   
   inflation and NO President can stop tenths of a percentage rise. Unlike Biden,   
   though. HE let it go up to near a WHOLE number double-digit rate.   
      
   No decimals there, boy.   
      
   Trump has had NO such problem. The VERY little inflation that has happened   
   under him, hasn't hurt shit. Also, the inflation rate went up, because people   
   panicked, but it seems to have leveled off... NOW.   
      
   The ONLY people whining, is the media. And since you liberals won't research   
   shit, you believe them... blindly.   
      
   An inflation rate of rise of a few decimal points is going to happen   
   regardless, mainly because of labor and transportation and the myriad other   
   things that cause pricing to go up no matter what.   
      
   Whatever rate it is or has risen under Trump, PALES in comparison.   
      
   We have LOWER grocery prices, period, so... if you have any REAL pricing   
   instead of CPI predictions and anticipatory pricing... list them here:   
      
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   "Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition   
      
   All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.   
      
   "Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has   
   been driven effectively insane due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the   
   point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."   
      
   Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the   
   Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into three distinct phases or   
   stages:   
      
   "In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The   
   president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were   
   all it took to change the world."   
      
   "The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's   
   vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting solely of   
   hyperbole."   
      
   "As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from   
   reality."   
      
   The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk   
   opposition from liberals to anything and everything Trump does. If Trump   
   announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would   
   suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS.   
   There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be   
   received positively by TDSers.   
      
   The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early   
   2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a punch line for late-   
   night comics and nothing more.   
      
   Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first   
   coined by the late conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003.   
   The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in   
   otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay -   
   the very existence of George W. Bush."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)