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It’s the cost of living, stupid: The MAGA agenda will only succeed if Americans feel material relief
Spectator World ^ | 11/17/2025 | Bridget Phetasy

Posted on 11/18/2025 9:12:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 11/18/2025 9:12:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Grocery prices are high. Healthcare costs just increased astronomically.

Both statements are true in my case.

2 posted on 11/18/2025 9:15:28 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: SeekAndFind

Keep removing illegal immigrants for lower rent and higher wages. Supply and demand.


3 posted on 11/18/2025 9:20:27 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: SeekAndFind
I can't disagree with a single word Phetasy (who I follow on X) wrote here.

She's even right about masked men zip-tying abuela and throwing her into an unmarked van while tazing her grandson for trying to interfere. As much as it warms my heart and puts a smile on my face to see these videos, I also understand that many Americans are repulsed by them.

And she was certainly right about what a monumental loss the murder of Charlie Kirk was.

And she was right in every other word she wrote. Great article. Thanks for posting.

4 posted on 11/18/2025 9:22:49 PM PST by Drew68
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To: ArcadeQuarters

Exactly.


5 posted on 11/18/2025 9:25:08 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: SeekAndFind
Obama deported more people than Trump has. But he did it the way Americans like: out of sight.

Of course Obama had the advantage of a media that ran interference for him. If something made him look bad, they kept a lid on it.

Case in point, the "kids in cages" scandal that started under Obama but was only broadcast to the nation once Trump continued the policy.

6 posted on 11/18/2025 9:25:33 PM PST by Drew68
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To: Drew68

I think she used to be a big-time lefty who turned MAGA, right?


7 posted on 11/18/2025 9:26:05 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Angelino97

Bkmk


8 posted on 11/18/2025 9:29:53 PM PST by sauropod
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To: Drew68
If you include self-deportations, Trump probably deported more people than Obama.

And Trump probably discouraged more illegals, than did Obama, from entering the U.S.

9 posted on 11/18/2025 9:33:22 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: SeekAndFind

Bla bla BLA bla bla.

Yawn. Yet another “I’m an idiot, but Trump SO gets under my skin so HERE GOES!!! LET ‘ER FLY!” article.

Well screw you Bridget, you narcissistic journo idiot, and the Spectator paywall you rode in on.

President Trump continues to do the Right Thing — HIS way.

I voted for this. I like it so far. Let’s see how it plays out.


10 posted on 11/18/2025 9:40:20 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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>> I think she used to be a big-time lefty who turned MAGA, right?

Huh? If she did she was faking it... she’s nowhere near MAGA.

More like MMGA! “Make ME Great Again”! Sorry, Bridg.


11 posted on 11/18/2025 9:42:14 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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>> I can’t disagree with a single word Phetasy (who I follow on X) wrote here.

Now THAT figures. ROFL! Thanks for the insight.


12 posted on 11/18/2025 9:46:42 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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If you include self-deportations, Trump probably deported more people than Obama.

Homeland Security claims approx 400k deported and 1.6 million returned home on their own since Trump took office.

I'm of the opinion that the official "30 million illegals" is wildly under-counted and between the illegals, the so-called refugees here "legally" on bogus claims of asylum, and the countless H-1B job thieves, there's probably closer to 100 million of people who do not belong in my country. And I want all of them gone.

Ridding my country of these people should be the Trump Administration's Number One priority.

Remove 100 million foreigners from America and the cures to many of our other social and financial problems will fall into place.

13 posted on 11/18/2025 9:48:16 PM PST by Drew68
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To: SeekAndFind

People are still poor (and getting poorer). AI is taking jobs. Grocery prices are high. Healthcare costs just increased astronomically. My groceries continue to go up in price. My electricity bill jumped 25 percent. Our healthcare premium went up a whopping 43 percent. All our insurances have increased in cost.

None of that is wrong, altho the health insurance claim sounds like she lost a subsidy. Heck, my water bill increased dramatically.

It is impossible to not notice the cost of groceries. That affects everyone.

While politicians can only do so much, they need to at least appear concerned. Pubbies and the rest of us are gonna take it on the chin in the midterms if they do not change their course on the economy.


14 posted on 11/19/2025 3:40:47 AM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: ArcadeQuarters

“Keep removing illegal immigrants for lower rent and higher wages. Supply and demand.”

Then the administration needs to increase the ICE raids by 10,000% and keep it going 7 days a week


15 posted on 11/19/2025 3:40:54 AM PST by mitchjackson1972
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To: SeekAndFind

“Free” stuff isn’t free.


16 posted on 11/19/2025 4:06:57 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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“It is impossible to not notice the cost of groceries. That affects everyone.”

What basic food item, except beef, do you think is overpriced, bearing in mind wage inflation and PPACA coverage inflation?

Health care is a major part of the US economy.


17 posted on 11/19/2025 4:15:09 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: SeekAndFind

Speak for yourself, Ms. Phetasy.

I have never been foolish enough to believe that Deep State would be delenda est in a day.


18 posted on 11/19/2025 4:20:39 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s create affordable houses:

2026 $420,000
2027 $400,000
2028 $380,000
2029 $360,000
2030 $340,000
2028 $320,000
2029 $300,000
2030 $280,000
2032 $260,000
2033 $250,000
2034 $245,000
....

Young people who bought in recent years would find themselves underwater big time.

If house prices gradually fall, first time buyers will avoid buying, so few new dwellings would get built. That would result in rents going up.

If house prices fall gradually or big time, mortgage downpayment requirements would probably soar.


19 posted on 11/19/2025 4:21:02 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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And if Americans in general were that foolish then Deep State wouldn’t have to steal our elections, would it...


20 posted on 11/19/2025 4:21:55 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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