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Friday, May 15, 2026

The Republican-led Congress, faced with deepening economic discontent exacerbated by President Donald Trump's Iran war, is struggling to find consensus on any plan to address the cost of living with less than six months before midterm elections.

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Last time I looked, the GOP would not admit that "affordability" was even a word.

#1 | Posted by Zed at 2026-05-15 12:18 PM | Reply

Because they haven't bothered trying to come up with something.

They're there to go along with whatever Trump says or does. Talking about this or offering solutions would make Trump look bad so they stay quiet and, instead, avoid their constituents like the plague.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-15 12:52 PM | Reply

........ as if the dems have anything to offer.

#3 | Posted by MSgt at 2026-05-15 01:12 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Why bother with good policies that help Americans when you can gerrymander your way to victory? -Republicans

#4 | Posted by qcp at 2026-05-15 01:13 PM | Reply

as if the dems have anything to offer.
#3 | Posted by MSgt

You had $3 gas under Democrats.
You're never getting that again.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-15 01:14 PM | Reply

The GOPers are rolling out their new campaign slogan: "Shut up and get in line, or you're next..." I wonder how that will play with voters? Asking for a nation at risk...

#6 | Posted by catdog at 2026-05-15 01:24 PM | Reply

........ as if the dems have anything to offer.

#3 | Posted by MSgt

The status quo would have been far, far preferable to our current mess.

You're a stupid pile of s*&^ who gets their views from social media memes, so I don't really expect you to understand that.

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-15 01:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

........ as if the dems have anything to offer.
#3 | Posted by MSgt at 2026-05-15 01:12 PM

"Universal healthcare, free college, a living wage, ending the wars, ending the corruption, taxing the rich, green new deal, jobs guarantee, UBI"

#8 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2026-05-15 05:09 PM | Reply

"Universal healthcare, free college, a living wage, ending the wars, ending the corruption, taxing the rich, green new deal, jobs guarantee, UBI"

#8 | Posted by redlightrobot

All well and good but none of those have plausible routes to get there.

I don't want to hear a dream, pie in the sky end, I want to hear how it's going to supposedly actually happen.

#9 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-15 05:23 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Ending the wars" had a plausible route to get there: Don't vote Republican.
Living wage kinda has a path, as Democrats are certainly more open to raising Federal minimum wage than anyone else.
Same with Green New Deal.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-15 05:35 PM | Reply

Just raising the minimum wage would jack inflation and jolt the economy, unless it was done over time. That's not something that the Dems are capable of IMO.

Green New Deal doesn't have a viable path forward as far as I can currently tell. Sure you can restart subsidies for alternative energy projects/companies, but at what point does "throw money we don't have at the problem" stop being the preferred approach?

#11 | Posted by jpw at 2026-05-15 05:42 PM | Reply

"Just raising the minimum wage would jack inflation and jolt the economy"

Yes but we would get something good for it.

Inflation also eventually rises wages, so it makes its own gravy. Structurally, inflation has eroded the purchasing power of the minimum wage by like 50% since it last changed, and that's out of whack.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-15 08:54 PM | Reply

"Green New Deal doesn't have a viable path forward as far as I can currently tell."

Why not? Have you seen how power and infrastructure related company stocks are doing this year? Government stimulus would yield similar results as the huge capital inflows to services AI depends on.

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-15 08:58 PM | Reply

but at what point does "throw money we don't have at the problem" stop being the preferred approach?
#11 | Posted by jpw

Never, with Republicans in office.

Energy bills are going up up up. The problem that Uncle Sam doesn't have money is a better problem than We The People don't have money to pay their electric bill.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-15 09:00 PM | Reply

Republicants have nothing to offer but despair, inequality, and death.

#15 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-05-15 09:12 PM | Reply

#3

Fuck off Imbecile

#16 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-05-15 09:14 PM | Reply


but at what point does "throw money we don't have at the problem" stop being the preferred approach?
#11 | Posted by jpw

Never, with Republicans in office.

Gavin newsom: Hold my beer.

CA test scores haven't changed but Newsom is bragging about $10K per student increase.
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Snoofy just a hottip for your pussy, if you think you're on to some "spending thingy" and it relates to only republicans .. pull you head out of your ass and look at CA.

#17 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-05-15 09:36 PM | Reply

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