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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on November 17, 2025, 09:57:33 AM
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malaise (291,151 posts)
Months ago DUers made it pellucidly clear
That when the cost of all things Christmas hit home the shit will hit the fan.
The cost of the fake trees and Christmas lights will brighten up the coming anger. 😠 Remember now MAGA Christmas has nothing to do with anything but their prosperity gospel , white nationalism, eating, drinking and shopping.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220811087
Put the rum down for once you drunk hag
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The cost of the fake trees and Christmas lights will brighten up the coming anger. ...
From her home in Jamaica, mal believes she knows US prices for Christmas decorations? :rotf: ::) :rotf: :tongue: :tongue: :tongue:
Going to that great American retailer, Walmart, I see that I can buy:
* Artificial 6-7 foot artificial trees, with lights, some flocked, for $50-$100 (we cut live trees, and have in recent years paid somewhere around $70 or $80, depending on tree type and height);
* Long (20'-33') strings of LED or incandescent indoor or indoor/outdoor lights for $7-$15 (this is lower than was common for LED lights).
Reality, unsurprisingly, differs vastly from the specters in mal's crystal rum bottle.
Remember now MAGA Christmas has nothing to do with anything but their prosperity gospel , white nationalism, eating, drinking and shopping.
* In the real world, few Trump voters among Evangelical Christians embrace any form of the "prosperity gospel"; much more common is teaching about gifts of "presence", i.e. gifts that involve personal effort/action and time spent with the receiver;
* In the real world, many Evangelical Christian churches' membership and leadership are of very mixed ethnic background. E.G., the "small" mega-church I attend has a Korean lead pastor, and, currently, Korean, Hispanic, Taiwanese, Indian, Assyrian, and Iranian staff pastors and leaders. The "white nationalism" is also in mal's crystal rum bottle;
* Maybe things are different in Jamaica, but Americans, generally, celebrate various holidays with festive meals, including Christians. Many Americans, especially Christians, also give food assistance - in kind and $$ - to less prosperous people around the US and around the world, e.g. various food banks in local communities that are operated by churches (Evangelical as well as some lib/prog) and World Vision;
* As mentioned above, teaching about "gifts of presence" instead of or along with gifts of things is common among Evangelical churches, which complicates mal's rum-bottle stereotype.
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Where were all these economic DUmbass professors (BIRM) when JoePedo Biden was clocking in at a real 15-22% inflation?
Those were the people denying any inflation at all.
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* In the real world, few Trump voters among Evangelical Christians embrace any form of the "prosperity gospel"; much more common is teaching about gifts of "presence", i.e. gifts that involve personal effort/action and time spent with the receiver;
I can't speak for the rest of the country, but in my part of Georgia, it seems that most that buy into the "prosperity gospel" stuff votes Dim. Of course, I suppose that kind of falls into the DU category of essentially wanting something but not working for it.
I'm curious about malaise and her 291,000+ DU posts. Can she not make friends in her own country? Is she so full of hate and stupidity that the only place that she fits in is DU?
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I'm curious about malaise and her 291,000+ DU posts. Can she not make friends in her own country? Is she so full of hate and stupidity that the only place that she fits in is DU?
Economic envy makes ugly. It's also easier than working to improve her own country.
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Fake Xmas trees from China are this week's hit piece/outrage on Trump tariffs so all of the usual outlets are writing articles about it. Mal and The DUmp are sopping it up like the sheep they are.
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Fake Xmas trees from China are this week's hit piece/outrage on Trump tariffs so all of the usual outlets are writing articles about it. Mal and The DUmp are sopping it up like the sheep they are.
I don't know whether the Walmart's prices are net of tariffs or Walmart purchased their stock before the tariffs were imposed, but the prices I cited I found this AM on Walmart's website. mal could have checked prices before shooting off her rum-soaked keyboard, but DUmmies don't let facts shake what they want to be true.
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Of course. So much pellucid clarity. So much so that the pellucidity of the clarity simply cannot be doubted.
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More from the real world:
US Thanksgiving Dinner Cost Drops for 3rd Year
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/thanksgiving-dinner-cost/2025/11/19/id/1235139/ (https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/thanksgiving-dinner-cost/2025/11/19/id/1235139/)
The cost of a Thanksgiving dinner for 10 will be lower for a third straight year thanks to steep discounting in turkey prices, but about half the items that grace a typical U.S. holiday table are pricier than last year, a survey out on Wednesday shows.
The American Farm Bureau Federation's annual supermarket survey of a Thanksgiving dinner estimated the cost of a holiday meal for 10 this year would be $55.18, down 5% from 2024 and the lowest since 2021.
That is still 13% higher than what the bureau's "classic meal" - featuring a 16-pound turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, sweet peas, dinner rolls, pumpkin pie and other items - cost in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic and the relief efforts arising from it helped to stoke a surge in inflation.
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More from the real world:
US Thanksgiving Dinner Cost Drops for 3rd Year
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/thanksgiving-dinner-cost/2025/11/19/id/1235139/ (https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/thanksgiving-dinner-cost/2025/11/19/id/1235139/)
Now you're just piling on the poor DUmp'Rats. You know none of them are invited to family Thanksgiving celebrations. :-)
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Now you're just piling on the poor DUmp'Rats. You know none of them are invited to family Thanksgiving celebrations. :-)
As they richly deserve. Maybe for a follow-up I should rave about the delicious candied yams, fresh apple sauce, and apple & raisin salad I make and the ~20 lb. turkey I'll be roasting (with salt and butter placed under the turkey's skin). :-) :-) :-)
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Imagine how much less expensive groceries would be with out the $10 billion spent by SNAP-food stamp parasites of forced taxes from the productive.
We, the productive, lose twice. Once in having our hard earned money taken at the point of a gun and secondly paying the higher prices of that extorted tax money increasing demand and prices.
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And how much has MAl donated to someone in need? Or has she ever given any amount to help a person in need?
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Where were all these economic DUmbass professors (BIRM) when JoePedo Biden was clocking in at a real 15-22% inflation?
Those were the people denying any inflation at all.
It is typical that important issues to everyday life which are negative for the country are shoved under the rug as long as the President has a "D" after their name. Economics isn't sexy, but I guess this new buzzword "affordability" is at the moment. The business networks and some conservative media were talking about the high inflation during that four year misery under Sharter Joe. But the legacy media simply said "nothing to see here...".
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Yeah, they'll be begging to have bidens economy back.
:sarcasm:
:rotf:
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Target slashes prices on thousands of items in bid to revive slipping sales
https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/target-slashes-prices-thousands-items-bid-revive-slipping-sales (https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/target-slashes-prices-thousands-items-bid-revive-slipping-sales)
Target is cutting prices on thousands of food and household items as it works to reverse its sales slump under its new chief executive.
The retail giant specifically will slash the cost of 3,000 items across those categories to help families stretch their budget during the holiday season, Target's commercial officer, Rick Gomez, said.
Gomez said it's one key element of its strategy to boost its value proposition during the holiday season. Target more than doubled its holiday assortment this year, adding 20,000 new gifts, but Gomez said its offering thousands of toys priced under $20. In particular, he noted that there will be affordable holiday home décor such as ornaments starting at $1, candles at $5 and throws at $10.
[Greta] How dare they! [/Greta]