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I'm going to make another sticker that instead says "You voted for this."

A really stunning amount of people, when confronted with evidence during the campaign (i.e. project 2025 or tariffs or what have you) simply chose to swallow whatever one sentence dismissal Trump issued; "Oh, he said he's never heard of P2025", "oh, no, we don't pay tariffs, the company does", etc. I know a fair amount of them now that are quietly eating crow and upset with the way things are going. The hot new thing I've noticed with the more normal half of MAGA right now is trying to come up with reasons why Trump is "acting so weird".

And brown people!

Bidets are good, decreases your TP expenses long term. Just a bit to pat dry.

Still have my emergency supplies from covid. During the really scarce time, I ended up buying some of those massive rolls that go in public toilets, totalled 2.4km of tissue paper in the box.

It's kind of a sad superpower, isn't it? Especially when you see people who have always been coddled living in luxury, start complaining.

Have slowly cultivated my family's love of potatoes, carrots, and pasta for just such occasions

As an American I agree, though I have to point out something those of us living this shit nightmare know...

This won't hurt him. At all. His supporters by and large are what you'd expect from full on Stockholm syndrome victims.

They excuse, Sanewash, and pretend it's part of some plan to make them great.

His supporters? They can soak in their own bloodbaths and say it was Obama's fault or some Hillary conspiracy.

The one issue voters who sat out last time, the middle of the ground twats who thought their vote didn't matter, the Palestinians who thought Kamala's stance on Israel wasn't strong enough... Those are the people who have to suffer enough to motivate them to not be so fucking indifferent to things they don't fully understand.

It's unclear if it's going to save america, considering it's 1:1 out of hitler's playbook. He crashed the economy with tarrifs before going all in.

Lmao hurt Trump? His cultists will be eating rat soup to survive and insist that the economy is great and America is on its way to being Great Again™, and that rat soup is just a necessary sacrifice on that path.

It's hysterical how he compares the US to a department store, a kind of store that is all but dead in 2025.

And then he makes the surprized picachu face when people shop elsewhere.

Jesus, Mary and Joseph and all his carpenter friends what the fuck did you spend 700 dollars on? Is that US?

Like I know you said groceries and various toiletries but the curiosity is tickling me.

Yup. Your new best friends are rice, beans, white sugar, molasses, (did you know that brown sugar is just white sugar plus molasses?), salt, all purpose flour, oatmeal, and lentils. Bought in bulk. And use your local ethnic markets for spices and bouillons; They’re often 3-5 times cheaper than your local grocery store.

You can just buy one or two things per paycheck, if you can’t afford all of them at the same time. Or hell, get some friends together and split a bulk bag. I have a 10 pound bucket of rice (split from a larger 25 pound bag) that I have been working on for literal months. A 20 pound bag of rice can keep you full for so fucking long, as long as you store it properly.

Then you just add extra things when you can. Maybe you have potatoes, an onion, a clove of garlic, and some pork this week. So you make a loaded baked potato soup. Also, learn to dress up instant ramen. A scoop out of a giant bag of diced frozen veggies will do a lot. If you can afford it, add a soft boiled egg too.

“Nobody has time for flour, cuz you need to wait for it to rise!” Use baking powder recipes, or flatbreads instead. Learn to make biscuits and scones, if you want to bake. Tortillas are stupid easy to make; They’re literally just flour and water, pressed flat (fucking use an empty wine or beer bottle if you don’t have a rolling pin) and cooked on a flat hot surface like a skillet. I could literally fit the entire tortilla cooking process, from raw flour to finished tortillas, into an uncut 5 minute TikTok tutorial if I wanted to. Congrats, now you have tortillas for 2¢ each, instead of a 10 pack for $5. And they’ll fucking taste better than the store-bought ones, because they’re fresh and hot.

“I don’t have a rice cooker so I can’t make rice!” Do you think people have been using electric rice cookers for thousands of years? My brother in Christ, people have been cooking rice using the “just put a fucking vessel over fire” method for over nine millennia now. Will you likely fuck it up the first time, and accidentally make porridge? Yeah. But that’s a learning opportunity, and you only spent like 5¢ making that mistake because the rice is so fucking cheap.

“I can’t afford fancy cookware!” Go hit your local thrift store. I guarantee they have an entire shelf full of cast iron cookware and baking sheets for like $1 each, that you’ll be able to hand down to your grandchildren.

This probably won't be a starvation situation. This will be a supply crunch for all the cheap shit at Walmart and Target that Americans love.

You think things will be better in Trump's 3rd term? 🤔