Rampell: If you voted for Trump because you thought he was going to bring grocery prices down, I have some very bad news for you. A lot of our produce comes from Mexico. Two thirds of the tomatoes that Americans purchase are from Mexico…
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She has a good point, but I honestly cannot stand that little snarky, smirk. I guarantee most of the people watching didn't vote for it so why she's needs the condescending tone idk.
We all need to grow our own vegetables. I grow what I can but I may turn my garage into a greenhouse. I can’t drive due to disability so might as well!
The last 9 years have been a mass delusion phenomenon for half the population.The rest of us must have been immune. My bs meter is fine-tuned after 35 years as a social worker listening to many hundreds of bs con artists. Most of my clients were not. GOP plan took 45+years & they finally succeeded.
I'm not going to debate the MAGA GOP now. I'll just wait a year or so -- after grocery prices, and prices for everything else we import -- have skyrocketed, and see what they say then.
My wife is a GM-R for Chipotle and they’re already raising their prices. She said it’s the 3rd price hike this year but this was the most significant at .25¢ for her region.
Why do legit people still go on these toxic CNN panels? What is the point of participating in a Real Housewives-style “news” panel? Jon Stewart was right two decades (!!) ago: you’re hurting America.
We will know this is the reason but Trump/Elon don’t care about truth in the selling of their narrative. They will blanket the airwaves with this BS and it will become the accepted reality. Just like they did with the economy of the past 4 years. Turned a success into a mess believed by the masses.
America is about to get a lot more unhealthy because the only thing they'll be able to afford is food made in America which I believe is just high fructose corn syrup
NO Canada will add an exit tariff which the US will have to pay and considering the avian flu is taking hold you can expect egg prices under Trump to quadruple
It doesn’t matter because those maga terrorists will blame anyone else: democrats, immigrants, the sun, dirt, etc before they ever blame their dear leader! Those people are too ignorant and stubborn and are proud of it
have been listening for 10 years to this media “expert”. You were all wrong. It’s over. He won. He and his companions screwed us all. Quit telling us about your “expert” opinion. You are full of yourselves and the only thing you care about is how many “followers” you have, not the price of tomatoes.
Wait until the tariffs impact the auto imports from Mexico and Canada. Probably add $7-8k per auto. Used car prices are going to jump significantly as well.
Probably lose 1-4M jobs in the US if this starts a trade war.
Some agricultural analysts are sweating the loss of immigrant farm workers from deportation purges. They say it could have severe consequences for the country’s food supply chain and food prices
Yeah! To all the MAGA bro-health podcasters who are banking on RFK Jr to make our food “healthier” and depending on him to get more fresh veggies on our tables…good luck with that!!
So, we won't eat tomatoes. We'll eat avocados instead. What? Oh, I mean we will eat Pineapples. Oh? Everything tastes better with a little lemon on it. No, way? That too? I am just going to drown my sorrows in Tequila. No way, that too? I wish I was a Democrat.
It’s not going to happen. He will pivot because he won’t like the negative sentiment on Twitter, TS, Fox, etc. If he was President this would be one of many horrible mistakes. He will abandon this.. not bc it is bad policy but bc it is driving negative social media impressions
It’s somehow insulting as a Harris voter that one of the primary reasons that ass hat won (inflation) is actually going to get worse. Also not a big fan of paying more to live under a dictator.
Not likely. US housing relies of Cdn softwood which will have a tariff and illegal immigrants which will be in concentration camps.
Housing will skyrocket
Wow, the number of people who can’t tell (bad” humor without a Reddit style /s has skyrocketed in the last two weeks. The long standing thing is millennials can’t afford houses because they are “eating avocado toast and drinking Starbucks coffee”.
Oh I knew it was humour. But that thing that kicked off the last round of inflation was Trump bumping up the tariff on Cdn softwood.
This time no houses or coffee because of tariffs and no avocado toast because of deportations
why was there was no LOUD discussion about the food supply chain disruptions ahead? and I mean from forced relocation of folks who do the work of getting food from farm to tables Who the eff do people think care for vineyards, harvest grapes and do the labor of winemaking? Too bad 🤷🏻♀️ $100 box wine
Our agricultural and meat industry labor forces (not to mention that of construction) are being used yet again as a political football which comes at great and undue physical and psychological cost to them and at what will be great financial cost to food consumers
I’m afraid they are planning to make their migrant concentration camps a source of totally exploitable and captive free labor, so that greedy racists who own land in Texas and florida will be exploiting prison labor (a form of slavery) to enrich themselves. Also for construction, meat packing…
And they’ll raise prices claiming “worker shortage” as the reason so it’s a win-win for them. Meanwhile, taxpayers will be paying for the whole “labor camp” (construction, food, heat, bedding, etc.) What a scam!! I am so ashamed of this country for allowing psychopaths to steal our government.
Although ushering in economic chaos and an ultra under-educated population living in poverty and primed for rage and division isn’t even great for corrupt billionaires. Their greed is destructive for everyone in the end. Putin stokes these divisions and props up the lunatics for his self interest.
True. And the emotional burden belong to people who certainly do not share their avarice and disregard for people deemed wholly undeserving for just simply existing.
I had an aunt who didn't believe raisins are dried grapes. I asked why the Sun-Maid raisins woman had a basket of grapes in her arms. She said, "I don't know about all that, raisins aren't dried-up grapes."
I told my cousin, and she said nobody's that stupid. Well, this one aunt was. 😅😅
MAGA, please send your thank you notes to Trump for Trump Tariffs and higher prices for squash, strawberries, leafy greens, automobile parts, manufacturing parts, etc.
I placed an order for 20 pounds of green coffee beans last week. Contemplating another 20 pounds. And a spare air bed popcorn popper to roast it in just in case the current one gives out. (Not kidding at all)
The visceral feeling of nausea every time I see the split-screen a smart woman speaking and Scott f*ing Jennings looking like he just got the gold medal in a s*it-eating contest
Their Modelo, Dos Equis, Pacifico, Corona, and Tecate (Mexican) beers will go up in price, too! They will have to go back to Bud Light and mess up their boycott!! 🤣
If only some news source had addressed these concerns and alerted the public and explained the likely outcome *before* the election. But that didn’t serve their purposes.
I have been going through lists. Not just produce which my husband works in but Fish, Steel, Wood, Spices, Tea so much. Some businesses will close down because they can only push so much of that on to a consumer before they can't buy anything.
They're all afraid of strong women in charge... Mexico's President is a woman. Canada's military leadership is a woman. This is going to be fun to watch.
Yes! That’s going to be me on my FB page. I’m just going to sit back, eat my popcorn and watch the MAGA complaining begin for the next 4 years even though it will suck for us too!!
Your Nissans are imported from Mexico. Also, who TF is going to go out in the fields and pick that shit? Not Americans. They'd rather try to make money on TikTok. CA will keep her produce in CA. Y'all are screwed. Oh and COFFEE and TEA not grown in the US.
If people voted for trump for lower grocery prices we’ve got bigger problems than grocery prices. We’ve got a portion of the population that is misinformed, under educated, and not paying attention when it counts.
Scott jennings doesn't deserve to be on the same set with Catherine Rampell. Catherine does her research based on economic data. Jennings is a disingenuous GOP shill.
They'll move the goalposts. What they meant was, 30 years from now prices will go down YoY, in the third week of June, on the full moon where the clouds break in a "v" shape...
Anybody who thought grocery prices would come down for any reason is delusional. That's not how inflation works. Maybe the rate of increase could be slowed, and prices might come down for a while because they bounce around an average. They're expecting deflation, which could trigger a depression.
I grow my own tomatoes and can a bunch too, but in the winter, I have to buy them because fresh only lasts so long. I'm testing out growing them indoors with grow lights this winter.
I use to live in CA and drove thru farm country many times. The Mexican laborers would be out in the fields working hard picking produce. They have temp VISAs but many are afraid of ICE. When food is not on the shelves; you will know why. No one from San Jose is driving down to pick your food.
If Trump's brain hasn't completely turned to swiss cheese, someone will convince him tariffs are bad idea. Not because it will hurt Americans, because it will hurt the stock market.
MAGA morons will soon find out. The only people that will benefit are people that own stock. Most Americans, most MAGATS, do not. Their purchasing power will drop and they’ll wonder how and why. Sadly they’re so dense they won’t take responsibility for it. They’ll blame Pelosi or Harris.
To everyone thinking this is gonna stick it to MAGA peeps; no one is gonna learn anything, they're just gonna blame the previous administration like they always do.
Let’s blame “The Apprentice” producer who took a moronic bankrupt narcissistic sexual predator & made him look like some pure hearted genius businessman to millions of gullible viewer: They believe in him like kids believe in 🎅🏼 .
One day, 🇺🇸 will see what’s truly in front of them & they’ll be angry.
See this format?This is not news, this is a talk show segment filled with opinions and facts.
Our national news must go back to reporting the news without opinions.
Had they been reporting straight facts all along,we would not be seeing the death of our democracy.
Bring back the fairness doctrine
Mexican president announces she is stopping the migrant caravans from arriving at the U.S. southern border after Trump's tariff threat.
The announcement came only 12 hours later.
Mexican president announces she is stopping the migrant caravans from arriving at the U.S. southern border after Trump's tariff threat.
The announcement came only 12 hours later.
Yes but you are ignoring the increased domestic production we are going to see. My sister has a coffee bean plantation in Idaho and is over the moon right now.
His sister will have to pay off local drifters who are elevated by Trump. The undocumented workforce she depends on will be smaller, so her production costs will increase, and inflation will be out of control. She'll get a government subsidy like farmers got last time the idiot was in office.
What a shame that people did not understand this simple fact before. If all our immigrants that works so hard for each of us, to supply the groceries are deported, who is going to go out and pick? Old white men? Supply and demand, prices are going to go sky high. Ignorance runs amuck in the US.💯
It will be a good year for everyone to start their gardens again. We’re putting in a 20x40 greenhouse on our retirement property but I’ve grown plenty of fresh vegetables hydroponically at the condo hubs works at.
Trump wants the America People to suffer ever since he lost to Biden in 2010. Tariffs and astronomical prices are his retribution and vengeance for his previous loss! If he could kill all the Dems legally he would do it! Trust me, he is that evil!
You're absolutely right. I have a green thumb and about 1000 plants in my house anyway. I've successfully grown potted citrus and avocado trees that bear fruit. I can easily grow potatoes, carrots, and lettuce. Any others that I should begin growing for my fam & blue neighbors?
I still have a box of green ones in my basement. We pick them every year before the first frost. I eat them as they ripen. Some years, I have them into January.
I’m planning a winter menu without fresh produce when prices skyrocket and then giving container gardening a try in the spring. If humans did that for thousands of years and survived, I think I’ll make it a few months.
I grew tomatoes too, but my cucumber production was awesome. Shared with neighbors and friends. Definitely plan on doing lots more food gardening. Plan on adding citrus trees, plus a papaya, root vegetables, lettuce and cabbages, beans and peas, and lots of tomatoes and cucumbers again.
I know! But I also have lots of squirrels, raccoons, and possums. I live close to a large park. They do garden raids every night. I’ll figure it out 🤷🏼♀️
So lucky. It’s a small 4plex and only one other of us wants to grow in the backyard. Oh yeah, we have a little fig tree looking pretty good and my neighbor is responsible for the beautiful zinnias in my banner photo. Must grow clipping flowers too. 🌻
No. I’m in New Orleans. Urban gardener. I’m even a renter, with a large sunny yard. New lawn svc so terrible they’ve killed the grass in the backyard by leaving the clippings to rot the grass underneath. I’m going to put in raised beds. It’s quite a nice sized yard!
Papier de Toilette, french for Toilet Paper, whose main component is - follow me here - paper, comes from lumber, which comes from (say it with me now) CANADA 🇨🇦 🚽 🧻 🪵 🌳 💩 🇺🇸 #trump
I don’t know the actual statistics on that, but I am in Georgia and Florida are major George Pacific plants with local trees that are brought in. The US produces a huge amount of paper pulp trees.
Most all the produce and organic produce at HEB comes from Mexico!!! Texans!! Remember when Abbott seized all the trucks at the border and found NOTHING. Cost us Billions in wasted produce for weeks!!
It would have been nice to discuss these realities before the election. I think the democrats missed the mark on common sense approaches to economic issues like this.
We constantly told people. People didn't believe us. Of course, many of the people who say that Trump "tells it like it is" also say that Trump just says a lot of stuff he doesn't actually mean.
I think the dems tried, I know I tried, but do you know how frustrating it is to explain to Maga what a tariff is and be told "No it isn't" every single time...
No. They were discussed. No one cared. They’re too horned up over banning trans people to face the sad reality they brought on everyone in their malice. Not our fault they’re dumbasses.
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You'd be surprised what our country imports👇🏻
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports/mexico
If you voted for Trump because you thought he was going to bring down the cost of.....of anything, you were deluding yourself.
Eggaggerating!
Trump is a menace.
Probably lose 1-4M jobs in the US if this starts a trade war.
So ... if Trump gets his tariffs, our imported fruits & veggies will cost MORE (25%) - salads, burgers w/ L+T, ketchup, tomato sauce, salsa, strawberries ... ?
Did't he promise tariffs will help the farmers? Wait, didn't they just say that Trump's plan to deport their workers will ruin them?
Inflation Nation <> The Great Guac Gouge 🥑
Just asking questions 🤷🏼♂️
If he bans anything not grown in US, we’re in for a mess. Bet he can’t do that. Coffee drinkers would revolt!
Housing will skyrocket
But thanks for the lecture I guess?
This time no houses or coffee because of tariffs and no avocado toast because of deportations
Or, more to the point, WE all knew that.
I have no clue what Trump voters knew. I suspect they knew almost nothing.
Like the egg prices. Under Trump it will be the bird flu to cause it..but with Pres Biden, it’s his fault
You Voted for this Shit Show! 😂
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I told my cousin, and she said nobody's that stupid. Well, this one aunt was. 😅😅
Stock up on coffee now!
Please explain...
Is amazing. As always.
The market takes a 100 point hit and he isn't even in office yet to implement them.
To every Trump and Republican voter who likes tomato sauce and guacamole - 🖕 and buckle up princesses.
One day, 🇺🇸 will see what’s truly in front of them & they’ll be angry.
Our national news must go back to reporting the news without opinions.
Had they been reporting straight facts all along,we would not be seeing the death of our democracy.
Bring back the fairness doctrine
The announcement came only 12 hours later.
The announcement came only 12 hours later.
What's going to change for her?
#writer
Are you in CA too?
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Can't live without them.