Closing midterm messages. Democrats: Affordability….Trump: Ballroom.

[Harry Dresden]

Democrats are running on groceries, gas, rent, premiums, child care…you know, the stuff Americans actually feel every week. Trump’s closing argument? A gunman opened fire at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night, a Secret Service agent took a round to the vest, and within hours Trump was at the podium turning it into a sales pitch for his $400 million ballroom.

Not security reform. Not the wounded agent. The ballroom. By Sunday morning he was on Truth Social bragging the project was “ahead of schedule” and demanding the lawsuits be dropped.

That is the entire 2026 contrast in one weekend. One side is talking about your life. The other is run by a man who couldn’t get through a near-tragedy without making it about his construction project. The most powerful person on Earth, on the worst possible night to make it about himself, made it about himself. If you can’t see the difference, you’re not paying attention … or you don’t want to.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/gop-support-trump-ballroom-shooting-security

so whats your parties solutions to those problems?...talk is pretty cheap these days....

 

[Zincwarrior]

so whats your parties solutions to those problems?...talk is pretty cheap these days....

A good question they will have to address.

 

[Doc7505]

Whats the price of diesel? Whats the size of the deficit? How many wars are we in? Is the Middle Class growing or shrinking?

<~~~~~~~~~~>
Truthfully, it's better than the Biden years.
Yes, prices are still higher than they were before 2021 but America has yet to recover from Covid and the supply side shortages between 2021 and 2024.
As far as the "Middle Class Shrinking", that began when Obama and Biden opened the borders of America.
The flood of illegal aliens killed a lot of blue collar jobs along with the movement of manufacturing industry offshore to China, and other third world countries.
America became a service-related nation rather than a manufacturing nation in the late 1990's and have yet to recover.

 

[jacksonlamb]

And yet, everything they do increases those prices. Democrats lecturing anyone on affordability is fodder for low human capital.

Who increased all the prices in the last 16 months, since Biden left us with an annual 3.0%?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Who increased all the prices in the last 16 months, since Biden left us with an annual 3.0%?

Did I say Trump was any better?

 

[jacksonlamb]

Did I say Trump was any better?

I think the facts say he is worse.

 

[Nostra]

Democrats are running on groceries, gas, rent, premiums, child care…you know, the stuff Americans actually feel every week. Trump’s closing argument? A gunman opened fire at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night, a Secret Service agent took a round to the vest, and within hours Trump was at the podium turning it into a sales pitch for his $400 million ballroom.

Not security reform. Not the wounded agent. The ballroom. By Sunday morning he was on Truth Social bragging the project was “ahead of schedule” and demanding the lawsuits be dropped.

That is the entire 2026 contrast in one weekend. One side is talking about your life. The other is run by a man who couldn’t get through a near-tragedy without making it about his construction project. The most powerful person on Earth, on the worst possible night to make it about himself, made it about himself. If you can’t see the difference, you’re not paying attention … or you don’t want to.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/gop-support-trump-ballroom-shooting-security

Cool.

Islamocrat Cult Platform: The rampant inflation we had under Biden, Piglosi, and Schumer has made life unaffordable in the US. Elect us again and we will do the same.

Trump: We are getting a free ballroom so we don't have to host events in an unsafe hotel, or a redneck tent with porta potties.

 

[Nostra]

A good question they will have to address.

Good to see you admit your Islamocrat Cult has nothing to run on but ORANGE MAN BAD.

 

[ColonelAngus]

What a convoluted plot Trump created.

Faked his own assassination attempt just to get a ballroom built?

Will the black Kamala voter and donor who colluded with Trump to stage the attempt even get to see it?

 

[Mashmont]

Democrats are running on groceries, gas, rent, premiums, child care…you know, the stuff Americans actually feel every week. Trump’s closing argument? A gunman opened fire at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night, a Secret Service agent took a round to the vest, and within hours Trump was at the podium turning it into a sales pitch for his $400 million ballroom.

Not security reform. Not the wounded agent. The ballroom. By Sunday morning he was on Truth Social bragging the project was “ahead of schedule” and demanding the lawsuits be dropped.

That is the entire 2026 contrast in one weekend. One side is talking about your life. The other is run by a man who couldn’t get through a near-tragedy without making it about his construction project. The most powerful person on Earth, on the worst possible night to make it about himself, made it about himself. If you can’t see the difference, you’re not paying attention … or you don’t want to.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/gop-support-trump-ballroom-shooting-security

Democrats aren't talking about anything except trashing Trump. We saw their message at their THIRD assassination attempt of the president: violence, vitriol, diviseness. Absolutely nothing that helps people, Trump was talking about the ballroom because of the painfully obvious need for it. His overall message is a VERY strong economy and making the world safer.

 

[jacksonlamb]

Cool.

Islamocrat Cult Platform: The rampant inflation we had under Biden, Piglosi, and Schumer has made life unaffordable in the US. Elect us again and we will do the same.

Trump: We are getting a free ballroom so we don't have to host events in an unsafe hotel, or a redneck tent with porta potties.

Inflation was 3.00% in January 2025. The cost of gas, groceries, utilities, and on and on has gone steadily.

All on Trump's watch, along with a new war that he is mismanaging.

November is coming.

 

[marvin martian]

Democrats are running on groceries, gas, rent, premiums, child care…you know, the stuff Americans actually feel every week. Trump’s closing argument? A gunman opened fire at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night, a Secret Service agent took a round to the vest, and within hours Trump was at the podium turning it into a sales pitch for his $400 million ballroom.

Not security reform. Not the wounded agent. The ballroom. By Sunday morning he was on Truth Social bragging the project was “ahead of schedule” and demanding the lawsuits be dropped.

That is the entire 2026 contrast in one weekend. One side is talking about your life. The other is run by a man who couldn’t get through a near-tragedy without making it about his construction project. The most powerful person on Earth, on the worst possible night to make it about himself, made it about himself. If you can’t see the difference, you’re not paying attention … or you don’t want to.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/gop-support-trump-ballroom-shooting-security

In reality...

Republicans: Make America Great Again.

DemoKKKrats: If we don't agree with you, we're going to murder you.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

In reality...

Republicans: Make America Great Again.

DemoKKKrats: If we don't agree with you, we're going to murder you.

They're a violent bunch

 

[Mac1958]

Democrats are running on groceries, gas, rent, premiums, child care…you know, the stuff Americans actually feel every week.

Well, Trump says prices are way down. Presumably the flock believes it. Either that or they're too ashamed to admit he's lying.

 

[BackAgain]

The Dims are the Party of violence, irrational hatred and discord.

That is their entire “message.”

 

[Rawley]

Democrats are running on groceries, gas, rent, premiums, child care…you know, the stuff Americans actually feel every week. Trump’s closing argument? A gunman opened fire at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night, a Secret Service agent took a round to the vest, and within hours Trump was at the podium turning it into a sales pitch for his $400 million ballroom.

Not security reform. Not the wounded agent. The ballroom. By Sunday morning he was on Truth Social bragging the project was “ahead of schedule” and demanding the lawsuits be dropped.

That is the entire 2026 contrast in one weekend. One side is talking about your life. The other is run by a man who couldn’t get through a near-tragedy without making it about his construction project. The most powerful person on Earth, on the worst possible night to make it about himself, made it about himself. If you can’t see the difference, you’re not paying attention … or you don’t want to.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/gop-support-trump-ballroom-shooting-security

Nah. Seems like the Dem message is "F*ck, we missed him again."

 

[jacksonlamb]

In reality...

Republicans: Make America Great Again.

DemoKKKrats: If we don't agree with you, we're going to murder you.

Sure, Marv.

 

[Greenbeard]

Unfortunately Trump's economy is crushing American families.

 

[berg80]

A U.S. Senate official on May 16 removed security funding that could be used for President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom from a massive spending package, Democratic lawmakers said, imperiling Republican efforts to devote taxpayer money to the contentious project.

The decision by the Senate's parliamentarian, Elizabeth MacDonough, deals a blow to Trump and his administration, which has sought the money for security purposes related to the ballroom.

Trump has said the construction of the ballroom would be funded by $400 million in private donations. But Senate Republicans are seeking $1 billion in taxpayer funding to the Secret Service for security upgrades to the ballroom and other structures being built beneath it.

Federal funding for Trump's ballroom in jeopardy after Senate ruling

A Senate official removed security funding that could be used for President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom from a massive spending package.

www.usatoday.com

 

[Independent thinker]

Democrats are running on groceries, gas, rent, premiums, child care…you know, the stuff Americans actually feel every week. Trump’s closing argument? A gunman opened fire at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night, a Secret Service agent took a round to the vest, and within hours Trump was at the podium turning it into a sales pitch for his $400 million ballroom.

Not security reform. Not the wounded agent. The ballroom. By Sunday morning he was on Truth Social bragging the project was “ahead of schedule” and demanding the lawsuits be dropped.

That is the entire 2026 contrast in one weekend. One side is talking about your life. The other is run by a man who couldn’t get through a near-tragedy without making it about his construction project. The most powerful person on Earth, on the worst possible night to make it about himself, made it about himself. If you can’t see the difference, you’re not paying attention … or you don’t want to.

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/26/gop-support-trump-ballroom-shooting-security

I haven't seen what democrats actually want to do about affordability, other than just talk about "affordability", something they didn't want to talk about during the Biden years. So, we'd appreciate it if you could bullet point all of the policies Democrats want to do on affordability.