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?

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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%?