Regarding your price gouging statement that "A few company’s may do that but that’s NOT why everything we buy is 20 to 60% higher now compared to the Trump years." It would only take a few companies since it is only a few that control everything.

Four giant companies – that's right, FOUR – Tyson, Cargill, and Brazil-based National Beef and JBS, now control 85% of the U.S. beef market. WH Group (Chinese), JBS, Hormel, and Tyson control about 67% of the pork market. Tyson and Pilgrims Pride control about 45% of the chicken market.





In 2023, PepsiCo’s chief financial officer said that even though inflation was dropping, its prices would not be. Pepsi hiked its prices by double digits and announced plans to keep them high in 2024.

If Pepsi were challenged by tougher competition, consumers would just buy something cheaper. But PepsiCo’s only major soda competitor is Coca-Cola, which – surprise, surprise – announced similar price hikes at about the same time as Pepsi and has also kept its prices high.

The CEO of Coca-Cola claimed that the company had “earned the right” to push price hikes because its sodas are popular. Popular? The only thing that’s popular these days seems to be corporate price gouging.

We’re seeing this pattern across much of the economy – especially with groceries. At the end of 2023, Americans were paying at least 30% more for beef, pork and poultry products than they were in 2020.

Why? Near-monopoly power. Just four companies now control processing of 80% of beef, nearly 70% of pork, and almost 60% of poultry. So of course it’s easy for them to coordinate price increases.


The problem goes well beyond the grocery store. In 75% of US industries, fewer companies now control more of their markets than they did 20 years ago.

https://crier.co/breaking-doj-to-declassify-confidential-report-on-entire-russian-disinformation-network-next-week-publicly/

CEO's have admitted to the gouging. Republicans have admitted that Trump killed a bi-partisan border bill that the Border Guard Union approved and endorsed. The amount of disinformation, much coming from Russia, that is being spread by Trump, Vance and MAGA supporers defies the truths that are verified.

Corporations not the government are responsible for high prices. Much of what people buy regularly is controlled by a handful of companies. These have been caught price gouging the American people with Krogers admitting it.
CEO's looking to keep their cushy jobs and especially their bonus's are responsible.

https://accountable.us/american-families-continue-to-bear-the-brunt-of-corporate-price-gouging/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/27/inflation-corporate-america-increased-prices-profits
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/11/companies-inflation-price-gouging
https://www.newsweek.com/kroger-executive-admits-company-gouged-prices-above-inflation-1945742

Regarding the 'failed immigration policies' of the Biden administration. There was a border bill but it was shot down by Republicans obeying Trump. Why take care of a problem when you can scream about it. Passing the bill would have made the Biden administration look good and that would have removed the only talking point the Republicans and Trump have. Fear and hate of those that different are the mainstay of Trump's rallys and speeches/intervies.

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/unraveling-misinformation-about-bipartisan-immigration-bill/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-kill-border-bill-sign-trumps-strength-mcconnells-waning-in-rcna137477
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/gop-senators-angry-trump-immigration-deal/index.html

Putin is a war criminal and the sooner he faces the ICC the better

Concealed carry laws boost gun crime by a third, study finds

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/concealed-carry-laws-boost-gun-crime-by-a-third-study-finds/ar-AAYUdCG?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=63e8cb3468904889cde9a5d525698ef5

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“The answer is not to defund the police, the answer is to fund the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities,” Biden said at the start of a Rose Garden event on Friday afternoon.

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-brags-about-funding-the-police_n_627eab8fe4b010453ae564ea

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Last I saw the ONLY guns that would be removed are AR-15s and AR-15 variants and similar weapons. These weapons have no place in the hands of civilians and this has been stated by military personnel. They were designed for one sole purpose .......... inflicting maximum damage on the battlefield.

As far as the Second Amendment goes it should be taken with full Constitutional context. The Second Amendment speaks of a "well-regulated militia". The Second Amendment is NOT the only place to mention this. The Constitution mentions that the militia shall be called by the Federal government with members of the militia provided by the states and officers selected by the States to oversee the militia. The Federal government would regulate, train, arm the militia when called. At the time the Second Amendment was written there was no permanent standing army, it was a citizens militia called upon by the Federal government. To cherry pick portions of the Second Amendment without the full context renders any argument for free access to firearms void. You cannot go out and purchase a .50 machinegun just because you want one to kill varmits / home defense. They are regulated.

Concealed carry laws boost gun crime by a third, study finds

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/concealed-carry-laws-boost-gun-crime-by-a-third-study-finds/ar-AAYUdCG?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=63e8cb3468904889cde9a5d525698ef5

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“The answer is not to defund the police, the answer is to fund the police with the resources and training they need to protect our communities,” Biden said at the start of a Rose Garden event on Friday afternoon.

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-brags-about-funding-the-police_n_627eab8fe4b010453ae564ea

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Last I saw the ONLY guns that would be removed are AR-15s and AR-15 variants and similar weapons. These weapons have no place in the hands of civilians and this has been stated by military personnel. They were designed for one sole purpose .......... inflicting maximum damage on the battlefield.

As far as the Second Amendment goes it should be taken with full Constitutional context. The Second Amendment speaks of a "well-regulated militia". The Second Amendment is NOT the only place to mention this. The Constitution mentions that the militia shall be called by the Federal government with members of the militia provided by the states and officers selected by the States to oversee the militia. The Federal government would regulate, train, arm the militia when called. At the time the Second Amendment was written there was no permanent standing army, it was a citizens militia called upon by the Federal government. To cherry pick portions of the Second Amendment without the full context renders any argument for free access to firearms void. You cannot go out and purchase a .50 machinegun just because you want one to kill varmits / home defense. They are regulated.

http://www.npr.org/2020/11/01/930140373/fact-check-trump-falsely-claims-that-votes-shouldnt-be-counted-after-election-da

THAT would be suppressing the votes of military personnel, and their families, overseas. Also any Americans serving in embassies, consulates and their families. Business people and their families at overseas offices. Contractors working overseas. Need I go on? This from Trump himself. So he would in effect be suppressing ALL their LEGAL votes.

"I wasn't aware that the military is claiming voter suppression."...... the military as a rule doesn't comment etc regarding politics.

So then the military members, and in many cases their families, who are overseas should not have their vote counted? These are counted after the polls close like other absentee / mail in votes. It's not a new thing either been going on since the civil war. Cannot claim to be supportive of the military and deny them one of the basic rights.

Federal law also allows up to five weeks for the counting of ballots to ensure that ALL ballots are counted.

At least according to Ben Ginsberg, the single most prominent Republican election lawyer in the country,

"Trump has enlisted a compliant Republican Party in this shameful effort. The Trump campaign and Republican entities engaged in more than 40 voting and ballot court cases around the country this year. In exactly none — zero — are they trying to make it easier for citizens to vote. In many, they are seeking to erect barriers.

All of the suits include the mythical fraud claim. Many are efforts to disqualify absentee ballots, which have surged in the pandemic. The grounds range from supposedly inadequate signature matches to burdensome witness requirements. Others concern excluding absentee ballots postmarked on Election Day but received later, as permitted under state deadlines. Voter-convenience devices such as drop boxes and curbside voting have been attacked...."

"...This attempted disenfranchisement of voters cannot be justified by the unproven Republican dogma about widespread fraud. Challenging voters at the polls or disputing the legitimacy of mail-in ballots isn't about fraud. Rather than producing conservative policies that appeal to suburban women, young voters or racial minorities, Republicans are trying to exclude their votes."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/this-republican-lawyer-just-totally-exposed-the-trump-campaign-s-voter-suppression-efforts/ar-BB1aCUGv?ocid=msedgdhp

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-racist-examples_n_56d47177e4b03260bf777e83
http://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2019/08/14/trump-and-racism-what-do-the-data-say/

As to the Covid pandemic ...... seems just about everyone else in the world has done a better job. Most notably New Zealand. Note that South Korea had it's first case at same time as the US and yet has nowhere near the deaths.