Are you stressed out over food? 
Major Stress
An AP NORC poll shows Food, housing, and health care costs are a source of major stress for many people
About half of the public consider the cost of groceries to be a major source of stress in their life right now, and 19% of those concerned have used deferred payment services to fund groceries at some point.
Overall, 29% of the public have ever used deferred payment services, sometimes called Buy Now Pay Later, for health care, entertainment, groceries, or restaurant meals. Use of these services is higher among adults under age 45 compared with older adults.
People experiencing economic stress are much more likely to use these services.
Fifty-three percent of adults report that grocery expenses are a major source of stress, and another 33% say they are a minor stress. About half also identify housing costs as a major concern. Additionally, 43% express stress related to their personal income and savings. Health care costs are also a major source of stress for 4 in 10 adults .Fewer report major stress from debt or the cost of child care.
Overall, 75% say one or more of these financial factors cause them major stress. These individuals with significant stressors in their life are more likely to use Buy Now Pay Later services than those who report minor or no stress. For example, 21% of people who experience any major stress have used Buy Now Pay Later services for medical or dental expenses, whereas 8% of those with minor or no stress.
86 percent of people stressed over food was somewhat of a surprise to me. 74 percent stressed over housing was not a surprise.
There will be cutbacks elsewhere.
Stressed Out Young Adults
For adults under the age of 45, 56 percent have major stress over the cost of housing, 55 percent over the cost of groceries, and 51 percent over how much they get paid.
World Food Prices Two Year High
Reuters reports World food prices at 2-year high on rising meat and edible oils.
World food commodity prices rose in July to their highest in over two years, as a jump for vegetable oils and record levels for meat outweighed falling cereal, dairy and sugar prices, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization said.
The FAO Food Price Index, which serves as a global benchmark for food commodity prices, averaged 130.1 points in July, a 1.6% increase from June, FAO said.That was the highest reading since February 2023, though the index was 18.8% below its peak of March 2022, which followed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
FAO’s meat price index hit a new all-time high of 127.3 points, up 1.2% from its previous peak in June, as strong import demand from China and the United States boosted beef and sheep meat prices, the agency said.
Brace for Higher Food Prices
The Council on Foreign Relations says Consumers Should Brace Themselves for Higher Food Prices
Despite a rebound in gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter, U.S. growth in the first half of the year has clearly slowed. Meanwhile, the consumer price index (CPI) report in June registered a four-month high of 2.7 percent over the previous year. CFR Senior Fellow Rebecca Patterson foresees an increased likelihood of stagflation.
A particularly sensitive part of the CPI is the food index, which increased 0.3 percent in June 2025 and is up 3 percent year over year. Although this is not a staggering increase, rising food prices are a long-term trend that slowly tightens families’ weekly budgets. Many consumers are feeling anxious about prices at grocery stores and are already shifting their spending habits.
Looming tariffs present a potential threat to this system and American produce distributors. Under current USCMA trade rules, about 63 percent of agricultural imports from Canada and Mexico into the United States are exempt from tariffs. Food imports not covered by USMCA could be subject to increased tariffs threatened by the Trump administration, depending on the outcome of continuing negotiations and court cases. When asked about the future of the USMCA, which is up for renegotiation in July 2026, President Donald Trump explained that the agreement was a “transitional deal,” creating even greater uncertainty for American importers.
CPI Report on Tuesday
The BLS CPI report for July is Tuesday morning.
From a year-over-year perspective, the number to beat is 0.14 percent. A monthly increase above 0.14 percent will cause the year-over-year numbers to rise.
The Bloomberg Econoday consensus is 0.2 percent month-over-month and the consensus year-over-year estimate is for the CPI to rise from 2.7 percent to 2.8 percent.
I expect energy to be nearly flat. If so, food and shelter will determine the outcome.
Shelter is 35.47 percent of the CPI. Food is 13.64 percent. If food is up as much as the FAO Food Price Index, the CPI rates to be hot unless shelter is very cooperative.
Recall that Trump promised Lower Prices ‘On Day One.’
How’s that set of promises working out.
Is Homeowners Insurance Understated in the CPI? Shop Around!
On August 11, asked Is Homeowners Insurance Understated in the CPI? Shop Around!
If you own a home, what percent of your income is spent on your homeowners’ insurance? Under 1/2 of 1 percent?
Not Counted
The BLS does not include insurance in the CPI as the average person understands insurance.
Nor does the BLS include property taxes or home prices directly.
The CPI as a measure of inflation is very understated.
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Month-over-month and year-over-year the CPI rose 0.3 percent.
July 31, 2025: No Improvement in the Fed’s Preferred Measure of Inflation for 8 Months
Core PCE is up 2.8 percent from a year ago, no change in 8 months.
Q: Does the PCE count property taxes or insurance?
A: Of course not , silly, for the same ridiculous reasons as the CPI.
Supposedly, only consumer expenses matter and neither property taxes nor insurance are consumer expenses.
Regarding the CPI: The reaction on Tuesday is more important than the headline number.
This is especially true if the CPI is hot and the long bond yield drops (or vice versa).
My concern is with so-called sustainable farming, which is a misnomer. A third of Dutch farmers were told to stop farming. How much food production does that eliminate? What is Bill Gates ulterior motive interest in owning so much farm land? Was just watching a podcast discussing a new manufactured fake butter, using carbon dioxide, hydrogen and some other ingredients, because climate change. However fake butter won’t have what real butter has, as produced by a living cow. Lab manufactured meat product is not the same either, as it is the result of a process. And apparently, the makers claims of food safety have been accepted at face value, by the government agencies.
Not surprising seeing how a unexpected medical of 500 bucks would sink a good number of american house holds.
Everyone is lucky gas prices are low or food would be more expensive.
Gas prices are low because slowing world economy. Tumps tariffs are a part and i would not be surprised if trump did some back room deal to sink the climate change movement
I think about 50% of these people are stressed about the price of food as they don’t spend their money wisely. They buy junk food, packaged, processed food instead of cooking from scratch. Others go out to eat, spend money on liquor, cigarettes/vaping, expensive clothes, have expensive smart phones, cable packages, or get their nails and hair done.
You have finally posted something I agree with, albeit in a different country. Don’t forget the TV screen the size of Montana
I feel stress about food costs on behalf of other people. My husband and I are nearly vegan and live mostly on oatmeal and pasta and salads by preference, but one month a year my church cooks for a homeless shelter and then I get a sense of where things are; I don’t know how “regular” incomes can cover “regular” food costs.
Excellent, and healthy.
From the source (apnorc website):
“Adults under age 45 report higher levels of stress related to their earnings, the cost of housing, student debt, and childcare compared with older adults. In other areas, stress levels are generally comparable across age groups such as the cost of groceries and the amount of money saved, and the cost of health care.”
So younger adults have more stress about the cost of housing, student debt, and child care compared to older adults? Golly, who would have ever suspected that?
https://apnorc.org/projects/food-housing-and-health-care-costs-are-a-source-of-major-stress-for-many-people/
General Thierry Burkhard : after three years of supporting Ukraine the French army is depleted, weak, stressed and starved.
Food at home inflation is down thanks to Walmart. After cannibalizing AMZN online,
Walmart transfer of gov money to its coffer, via SNAP shoppers, is growing. That’s the money flow. Walmart sells more Junk and Packaged food to the poor than Kroger, Costco, AMZN…If SNAP will be cut and red meat will cost cont to rise ==> more people will be healthier. If NIH budget will be cut, if the pharma, healthcare and food industry mafia will be stopped ==> cancer rates will fall.
The Walmart Form 10-K Risk Factors mentions potential reduction specifically regarding pharma reimbursements by government at least a dozen times.
Thanks to your report I was able to produce a different angle: Walmart foist more junk food on the poor than anybody else. Personally I buy 80%/90% from the produce section + mackerel, sardines and tiramisu… I use Walmart online for better stuff.
I disagree. Walmart has no more junk food than other major grocers.
70% of adults overweight, 40% obese. And all the faux libertarian / actual Marxist stooges in the thread rejoice. Mr. Creosote for President!
Now get healthy so you can put on your combat boots. Screw this crap.
I voted for this!
Okay thread we have the army illegally taking over and we’ve got bread lines forming. Here’s a fun interactive question: What’s next on the road to the USSA’s 4 year golden age leap forward?
Donald Trump making himself eligible to be President of the USA for life. Now give us a question that doesn’t answer itself.
We keep creating 401k millionaires at record pace?
I read the spike in the VIX during liberation day was not from orbiting puts but buying calls on the dip. lol
Restaurants are under threat as costs skyrocket and consumers cut back
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/10/business/restaurants-food-costs-consumer-spending
“according to verified purchase data for SNAP users, Walmart leads in SNAP shopper spend (24%), followed by Kroger (8%), Costco (6%), Amazon (5%), and Sam’s Club (4%)”
Data shows food stamp spending shifts, with Walmart having the most share – Talk Business & Politics
“Numerator also reports top consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers such as Tyson Foods, Post and ConAgra are the most exposed to changes in SNAP benefits. Among SNAP sales for top brands, 10.6% of Post Consumer brands utilized SNAP dollars, followed by 8.4% with Tyson, 7.7% with Conagra, 7.5% with Kraft Heinz, 7.3% with General Mills, 7.2% with Frito-Lay, 6.8% with J.M. Smucker, 6.8% with Bimbo Bakeries USA, and 6.5% with Nestle.”
Likely shows up on these company’s Form 10-K, Section 1 – Risk Factors, for when the government restricts their gravy train.
interesting info, thank you for sharing
I don’t agree there is problem. Orange leader fired person fudging employment numbers so I guess next head will roll in CPI department, all part of hoax to make Trump look bad.
It is simple , what leader say is ultimate truth and he clearly mentioned it is golden era in USA. Just move on, nothing to see here
You must be pretty dumb to so easily believe Trump’s false claim that the BLS was faking numbers. You must not know how many people of both parties would be in on such a con. You are not worth my wasting more words on you.
Just listened to an independent pod cast that the BLS was manipulated to look good under Biden. Both parties try to put their people in that office to help them look good. Then the readjust the number when nobody is looking.
Given the tariff war and falling US wheat, corn and soybean prices because our exports are being boycotted, I shifted to higher margin and more specialized food products.
All of my neighboring farms are heavy into corn and soy. They are likely to lose money on their production in 2025.
Most/all of them are Trump voters and we often meet after chores for our coffee break and a bit of social banter.
I raised a lot of eyebrows then I decided to plant or establish alternative crops (blueberries, raspberries, rhubarb, cucumbers/pickles & tomatoes) or plant land in native shrubs, grasses and wildflowers as a source of seed and bushes to sell. My honey production exploded and margins are huge. The benefits of having bees on the farm are absolutely synergistic.
Seed, pesticide, fertilizer, irrigation and herbicide costs are <10% of what they were.
Enthusiastic interns from a few community colleges that have agricultural programs are supplying needed labor (at a moderate cost).
Recognizing that Trumps policies would repeat the collapse of exports (soy/corn prices) and going against the trend has been an absolute success.
Sure, I’m taking a bit of flack in public for it ~ but privately, a few other farmers have come by with big eyes and a “holy shit this is amazing attitude”.
The flower/honey stand an intern asked to set up in a local tourist farm market by the lake is grossing over 200k in its first year!
I expect that a few neighbors will be going under this year or next because of their misplaced belief in Trump and my acquisition costs will be rather low for some wounded and depleted farmland. This is why I have over a mile of huge windrows of composted leaves that a few cities and golf courses have been happy to pay to dump in a field I acquired a few years ago. I’ll distribute those organics over the depleted land and plant dense cover crops of clover and buckwheat to rebuild the soils.
Working smarter and harder in America still works!
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This is friggin awesome. Great job. Great lesson.
Push all tv junk food commercials that kill children and adults and eat Frosty food. More people, more Frosty farm. Going against the Trend ==> absolute success !
Are you having a stroke? Should we call someone?
more than one stroke is monkey spanking which is probably illegal in some Southern states.
Michael may not be popular, but he got this one right. Even though his command of the language is weak.
Thank you!
How do you know the golf course leaves are not contaminated with chemicals applied to keep the fairways and greens emerald green?
That is a great question. I know the greenskeepers and their schedule for pesticide and nutrient applications. The leaves are picked up late in fall about three weeks past the final application of winterizing products. It is fairly moist here and the rains put the nutrients into solution in the soil. It does not sit on top of the leaves as an important component of cost management.
One thing I learned in discussing this topic with the greenskeepers is that far less product is used these days because of the accuracy and timing of applications.
I am a member of one of the two courses and the other borders a working forest that I own. Both are buying native plant seeds from me to crowd out invasive plants and beautify their courses. We have a strong relationship and good communication.
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How can leaves from cities and golf courses be organic (for purposes of being labeled organic)? Weren’t they sprayed with herbicides and pesticides? Where I live, municipal compost is horrible stuff; no-one wants to use it on food crops.
Another good comment! This is not an organic farm. Because of its history with forestry, grazing, row crop production and now ~ a variety of well prepared growing areas, none of it will not become certified “Organic” for many years.
When I speak about building the soils, I am speaking about adding organic content in the form of decaying leaves or fast growing cover crops like buckwheat, canola or clover. They are used to rebuild organic content in the soils that are producing wildflower seeds, little bluestem grass or possibly corn or soy if/when that becomes viable.
The food product soils are mulched with double ground red pine mulch ~ for weed control, and PH balanced afterwards specifically to the crop being produced. I use decayed pine needles on the blueberries and raspberries…
On volume cropland where I will again grow corn and soy, the additional organic leaf content has huge benefits in the soils mineral content and its ability to retain moisture and not require large inputs of irrigation, herbicides or pesticides.
The towns paying to dispose of their leaves are small, conscientious and the leaf pickup is quite specific and surprisingly well sorted. No branches and almost no litter. I turn it many times before using it, I even add worms from a small worm breeding area. I do find the occasional bit of litter, plastic bag, pet toy or ball. Not perfect ~ but I’m not trying to be perfect.
This is bulk land restoration and fixing harshly treated farmland is both art and science. A variety of techniques, materials and quite frankly experiments are ongoing.
The overall improvement in the variety of birds and beneficial insects has been profound. I restored some windrows separating fields with serviceberry, mulberry, current bushes and other native shrubs. When I had a slug problem starting, I put out hundreds of small cups with cheap beer and controlled them easily.
The big trick is paying attention to threats and treating early ~ before there is a large infestation. I walk about ten miles per day on the lands to keep things in perspective and integrate various dynamic status and datapoints.
Farming can be more dynamic than meets the eye!
Enjoy!
wow – well done and best wishes
Hi Mish.
What’s the definition of “food” in this context?
What’s the definition of “stress”?
What is the definition of American? Someone walking on American soil according to todays democratic party
Well then, if you imported poverty every mother F-ing day for the almost last 4 years what should we expect a pole to indicate?
I can’t wait for the NY Times to do anotehr pole about American Poverty when they championed importing poverty for the last 4 years
What is the definition of a definition? Turtles all the way down
Food has not become worth more. As a matter of fact many foods are inferior compared to times past. What is true is that money is worth less, and may one day be worthless.
What is the Economics impact of people afraid of food prices?
Will they hoard food? Will they try to avoid it?
Will they share it more (unlikely, I know)?
If people eat less, will that drive prices down?
If people buy more will that put further pressure on the prices?
Will people change what they eat (e.g. more protein less carbs)?
I’m truly curious about what this means>
“Will people change what they eat (e.g. more protein less carbs)?”
Other way around. One would hope more oatmeal and less Captain Crunch but I’m not holding my breath. Granola prices are ludicrous so it’s not just the sugar plus coal tar cereals.
Beef prices are up and fixing that is a slow process even if the weather cooperates.
Locally the apple harvest is about to start so I’ll keep an eye on that.
For some reason high beef prices have not hurt Shake Shak profits. Go figure?
Hmmm…Who here was warning about food a while back? 😉
It’s so bad that McDonalds and Wendy’s can’t sell breakfast items. Of course, I saw a reddit post of people complaining a hash brown costing $4.25 so that may have something to do with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jauqe8M7fw8
I bought enough food supplies for a year and after that I’m bailing and moving on so I’m good. But the one thing I can’t stock up on much is beef and those prices are astronomical. Where are all those “Trump did that” stickers? Where is all the 24×7 media coverage about sky rocketing food prices?
Next up utilities (electricity) shocks, more insurance shocks, and fresh water wars. Oh and wait till the Fed cuts rates and borrowing becomes cheap again, everyone will rush out and charge more on those credit cards.
“It’s Trump turtles all the way down, and inflation all the way up”
If the Dreadful Boomers are avoiding McDonalds and Wendy’s won’t they collect social security longer?
They can still scarf fudge rounds at home.
$4.25 Hash Browns are a direct result of $15 (20 in Cali) minimum wage.
On the other hand McDonalds does currently have a 5 meal deal where you get a McDouble + 4 Chicken Nuggets & Sauce + a small fries + a small drink. So there are deals there.
Beef prices are indeed very high. Due to herd size being so small so its not going to fix itself anytime soon unfortunately.
If $4.25 has browns are worth it to anyone, then pay up. If not, then don’t. Seems so simple. Why would anyone pay almost five bucks for a potato that someone else molested?
Potatoes are possibly the easiest veggie to grow. And they grow prolifically.
Yet prices for anything with potatoes have skyrocketed since Covid.
I refuse to pay $3.99 for a 12oz bag of chips, $1.99 to $2.99 for a 6-7oz bag. Whew.
The resiliency of the American economy is somewhat amazing. I suppose it is in part due to the diversity but while some predict a downtrend, what I see is that the down turn does impact pockets of the country. It is also possible grocery prices do not impact as hard in the summer when local produce is abundant in our gardens but friends as well. But so far we are surviving Trump’ policies so expect more.
What we need is to elect a President who will create lower prices on day one of his administration. A truly great man, maybe a billionaire. Everyone knows that the only way to true prosperity is through the government!
revenue sharing with nividia and all private companies. that’s the statist ticket all maga cult members love. reminds me of charlie manson and the acid head family cult.
P*T = M*Vt. That’s a truism in American Yale Professor Irving Fisher’s equation of exchange. The rate-of-change in monetary flows, the volume and velocity of money, has been rising since August last year. The distributed lag effect is more or less constant. The trajectory is still up until September which is reported in October. There doesn’t look like much relief until the 2nd quarter of 2026.
“Inflation rises by most in six months, stoking tariff-driven price concerns”
Tariffs do not increase the supply of money or credit, so by the definition of inflation Mish used to use they can’t cause inflation.
On the other hand the budget deficit does cause inflation. Under MMT when inflation gets too high then the government is supposed to raise taxes to suck the excess cash and credit out of the economy.
Raising taxes when half the population is feeling broke from rising prices is not conducive to reelection, so that won’t happen.
ANATOL B. BALBACH and DAVID H. RESLER: “Eurodollars and the U.S. Money Supply”
“http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/80/06/Eurodollars_Jun_Jul1980.pdf”research.stlouisfed.org/…
Fed: “Based on estimates over the period for 1973-79 — a period of rapid growth in the Eurodollar market— Eurodollar flows were shown to have only minor effects on the U.S. money stock. This evidence warrants the conclusion that the Eurodollar market does not pose a serious threat to the ability of the Federal Reserve to control the money supply.”
The price level is still controlled by the domestic policies.
ALDI has been cutting grocery prices over the last 12 months. Walmart not so much, and in fact, a few of the items I purchase regularly have increased in price.
And the BLS doesn’t do a good job calculating true inflation., and we’ve got this constant printing of money that erodes our middle class with true inflation that’s higher than the bogus BLS figures.
Walmart cut Basmati rice 20LB by almost a dollar to the lowest price ever. Other
food produce cost about the same.
Woohoo! The only thing they’ve cut that I buy is my deli turkey.
Everything else is either flat or up 5-10%.
But we can afford to spend trillions for the sole benefit of the Military Industrial Complex? We can give away billions of arms and materiel to Israel who creates billions of human beings in the world who hate us? We can waste a hundred billion in California for a fast railway system not one inch of which now exist?
While homeless zombies roam our city streets?
The main parking lot under Pershing Square which is in the CENTER of Downtown Los Angeles is devoid of working escalators anywhere. And the stairs one is thus obligated to use reek of urine and worse.
Americans have a problem for putting up with this, because they only VOTE for the Democrats and the Republicans who are responsible for said policies: we have seen the enemy and it’s us.
amerikan exceptionalism at work. a democracy/republic that keeps voting for never ending world wide warfare and navy and army bases all over the globe. you expect the homefront not to be destroyed? read some history. this is nothing new.
To be fair, LA and California have not had Republican government in 2 decades. A lot of rot has set in since the early 2000s and maybe a change of government would help.
I can afford all the food I need, so not a stress factor for me.
BUT food is up everywhere I shop and many items by percentage wise large amounts.
For example, Costco raised farmed trout from $3.99/lb to $4/49/lb a few months back after years of holding the $3.99 price. This is whole and untrimmed. I like a venison burger once or twice a week. For me, this comes from NZ fresh in the local store where I buy this product. Last year it was $6.99/lb. Around Jan it jumped to $7.99/lb. A few weeks ago, it jumped again to $8.99/lb. I may have to take up hunting!
Costco walnuts have jumped from a low of $7.99/3 lbs late last year to close to $15 for the same bag now. All Costco nut prices seem to be a lot higher, even though walnuts, almonds and many other nuts are locally grown in CA.
The Resnicks raised prices bc CA cost of labor and land is rising. CA farm land suffer from a severe drought. The groundwater is depleted. Pacific nut producer: 2025 walnut season is good.
And someone deported all their laborers.
If the laborers had come in on the H2a program they would still be here.
Unless they looked Mexican.
Nobody wanted them legal… makes them difficult to exploit.
Befriend someone who hunts to get your venison which will save you the time of doing it.
Costs definitely are up. Last night stopped at Walmart on way home to get stuff to make tacos. 2 Lbs of 90/10 ground beef, 2 cans of Rotel, 1 can of Ranch Style beans and 1 head of lettuce came to over $20 for 1 1/2 meals (3 people dinner, me having lunch next day) and that’s without factoring in shells/cheese/salsa/sour cream cost which we already had.
I certainly hope that C.J. Antoni will put some order in the BLS. They have to change a lot on how they collect data and interpret that data once collected. I have no idea as to his competence or experience besides what’s in his resumé but he could hard do worse that the former occupant of the job. Does anybody here have an idea about how he is? Only serious replies please.
Why are you worried, you don’t even live in the US. Hopefully the French equivalent provides statistics to you liking.
Doug78 is much more sophisticated than most of u. He has better view
from a distance. He can see the long term trend. All u can see is noise.
He doesn’t need your permission to express his opinion. We are lucky to
have him.
Get a room
That’s what I said to your wife yesterday.
They aren’t good either. I am worried because bad statistics in the US impact the bond and stock markets worldwide. Is that a good enough reason for you? And way is your call sign “Limey”? Are you an English sailor or something?
And the Fed concluded their July meeting on Wednesday. Then two days later the horrible job report was released. Now, I would expect that Powell is given some advance notice about monthly BLS numbers.
2 DAYS prior & he still keeps rate the same? WTH? Now, I’m not saying that he should have lowered rates based on this one bad monthly report.
But either the data is really bad & he knows it, making it easier to ignore, or he’s just ignoring it to piss off Trump.
Or he thinks this is just going to be one bad report, and then the jobs numbers are going to start to recover as we move throughout the rest of the year. And he may be concerned about a fairly solid economy creating more & more inflation as we roll into 2026.
But like everyone who’s paying attention is saying, the BLS has to get better at their jobs with the first data release. Otherwise, Powell can’t make good, informed decisions, nor can anyone else.
The Fed has 1 day advance notice.
It did NOT have the jobs report.
However it did have QCEW and the BED report. On that basis it F’d up.
I had been talking about QCEW for a month and the BED report came out Wednesday morning so Powell had that by Wednesday afternoon.
Why is yours Doug78, is that your age or IQ?
The best the guy can do is to communicate that the data is a best guess, not the absolute truth. The labor market is different from the housing market, which feeds to CPI.
The labor market is shifting, smaller companies make up the larger slice, and they fail to report.
The housing market should be a much bigger slice of CPI, as everybody already knows.
The spread between green (18-44) and black (45+) is the highest in the cost of
housing. First time buyers age is about the same, but transactions are way down.
Very few are buying. The smallest spreads are in the cost of grocery and healthcare. The relationship between these two is clear.
America is my friend…
I struggle with the fact that it’s wonderful, uplifting spirit, its leadership and position in the world as a beacon of freedom ~ is being trampled.
Led by a narcissistic tyrant that rapes and traffics young girls. A man so abusive and void of compassion that he spits in the faces of our poor and unwashed, driving them from his sight.
A man that states “I could shoot someone in the face on 5th avenue and nothing would happen to me”.
And, as we should recall ~ Trump stated “I will be dictator on day one”.
The Dark Ages of Trump and his henchmen are upon us. Starting with the militarization of our police and now troops in our cities. Soon the “Slums” will be purged and the working poor ~ dragged from their homes… Taken to prison or work camps.
We have a President that is above the law ~ being protected by a Congress complicit is the coverup of the rape and trafficking of children. A congress seated defiantly in our nations capitol ~ without the will to enforce the laws of our nation. They think of themselves, their place in the pecking order, and their immense privilege. Is it fear of Trump and his sycophants? Is it money for their campaigns? Or, are they truly complicit? Compromised, but on the side that is “Winning”… Insiders trading their constituents trust for wealth and privilege.
Few, if any, have the strength of character or guiding principals to stand up to Trump and hold him accountable. Our news spokesmodels remain silent to the glaring falsehoods like good little propaganda spreaders.
I hear drums in the forest, I know I should be silent and bend with the wind.
Perhaps America was simply a dream and the dream is over.
We wake to a war against freedom, knowledge, peace and prosperity.
I love America, but it hates me…
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keep your idiotic rants to yourself.
You are the last one on this forum who should label the musings of others as idiotic rants. You live in a glass haus, quit throwing rocks. Most of your postings are incoherent tripe.
skip. u aren’t the target of my comments.
… But you certainly are a moron.
Democrats attacked freedom of speech and religion and gun rights, etc. They claimed knowledge was misinformation. The Democrats racist DEI was not freedom. Nor was forcing biological males into women’s sports and private locker rooms.
Watch the Dark Money documentary on Netflix. Most candidates are chosen by PACs before they ever get elected. It is hard to get elected if you’re not already in someone’s back pocket.
Interesting that most Americans are stressed about food but are also so fat!
Just another perplexing fact of life…
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Those fat people don’t eat real food, just processed, fast food and sugary drinks which much of the time is more expensive than the real stuff.
Food price stress is a world wide situation and not confined to the U.S.
But we can all rest easy now, crime is solved, and…
after being reassigned, Ghislaine Maxwell is now entitled to leave her minimum security campus for work assignments, but not train the dogs
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-i-have-ghislaine-maxwells
Yeah she got transferred to Club Fed for her ‘testimony’ saying there is nothing in the files about Trump.
She’s expecting a pardon at the end of his term but this is also a place where its far easier for her to be Arkancided so I wouldn’t bet a nickle on her living to see that pardon.
She’s in a low security environment with a good many women that have been abused by people like her. Not unlikely that one of them will opt to make the history books.
And absolutely if she refuses to sing Trumps new song!
And they just figured this out? Food banks have been overwhelmed for what five years now.
People have been skipping meals just as long.
This isn’t even farcical anymore just disgusting.
In my country there are food banks for foreign students who pay a lot of money for the privilege of studying here.
Food banks are overwhelmed and people are skipping meals and yet the population as a whole is getting fatter and fatter.
Something doesn’t add up.
More poor people that Trump can prosecute and force out of his city, world and planet?
Who will be the first person in Trumps gas chamber? He already is building concentration camps… Gas chambers can’t be far behind!
Trump reminds me of an artist that couldn’t sell any paintings in pre WW II Germany?
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Here is the question, where will all the homeless and working poor go?
Is there a works program planned or simply detention camps?
I’ve seen four or five outlier bits of information but just can’t conceive of the whole picture yet.
The police state moves are fairly blatant.
But with the low end of US citizens I’m baffled. Will they use those Biden body bags?
Something much bigger hides behind all of this but simply not enough clues fit together yet.
To the organ farms of course. A kidney or liver should net enough to get you off the streets for a couple of years. Then back to sell the next organ…
If you have good looking kids, there are people that will give you good money for them.
Organs wrecked by drug abuse are worth nothing.
Ask the person who is going to die shortly without a transplant whether or not they want to die or take an organ from someone who has used drugs. What do you think the answer will be?
“works program planned or simply detention camps”
I think if (when) we get to the point of massive demonstrations against Trump, there will be an actual detention camp used. But it will be temporary and mainly used to set an example.
When they kidnapped (‘arrested’) those foreign students who spoke out about Gaza, it served a similar purpose. To set an example and quiet anyone else who had the same idea. Same with the university protests about Gaza. People were basically scared into submission, and it worked.
They know social unrest/protests are coming and they’re getting ready for them.
Are you talking aboutthe columbia students ? CUAD? The group that idolize Lenin and Mao and want a revolution to wipe out western civilization ( US and Europe) and replace it with a more communistic government ? CUAD has a substack and you can read all about their beliefs. Such as a revolution supporting violence if needed to end and overthrow both U.S. political parties.
Well he is of German ancestry.
The English are also German. There culture, language etc is Germanic.
I would respectfully suggest, The Man in the High Castle.
Begin by undermining the judiciary…………………………
we start with the vermin of course.
I am not stressed about food prices because I have faith that Trump will soon lower food prices; and not by just 40% or 50%. But by 1500%, just like he did with pharmaceuticals.
I heard someone complaining about beef prices yesterday so I asked AI:
🥩 Why U.S. Beef Prices Are So High Right Now?
Beef prices in the U.S. have surged to record levels, and it’s not just your imagination—ground beef is up over 10% from last year, and steak prices have jumped even more. Here’s a breakdown of the key reasons behind the spike:
📉 Shrinking Cattle Herds
• The U.S. cattle population is at its lowest since the 1960s, with just 27.8 million beef cattle in 2025.
• Farmers are selling more cattle for meat rather than breeding due to high feed costs and slim profit margins.
🌵 Drought and Climate Impact
• Severe droughts across major cattle-producing regions have reduced available feed and water.
• Ranchers have been forced to liquidate herds, further tightening supply.
💸 Rising Production Costs
• Feed prices have soared, driven by grain inflation and climate-related disruptions.
• High interest rates and tariffs have added pressure to the cost of cattle farming.
🔥 Strong Consumer Demand
• Despite higher prices, Americans’ appetite for beef remains strong.
• Alternatives like pork and poultry are cheaper, but beef continues to be a staple for many.
🛒 Supply Chain Pressures
• Meat processors and restaurants are facing higher costs, which are passed down to consumers.
• Even budget-friendly items like burgers are seeing price hikes, with some restaurants struggling to keep prices low.
Now where is my 10% CC interest cap?
It’s coming. Along with zero income taxes. Because the tariffs collected by the External Revenue Service will eliminate all taxes AND the national debt.
Similar to the Bowie song Golden Years:
Golden Age; Golden Age; whop, whop, whop.
A Taco 🌮 in every garage….🤣
Don’t let me hear you say life’s taking you nowhere
I didn’t think that many people watched CNN.