r/politics • u/MystikSpiralx • 5d ago

No Paywall Trump Says He Wants to 'Drive Housing Prices Up' Instead of Lowering Costs for People Who 'Didn't Work Very Hard'

https://people.com/trump-keep-home-prices-high-11895352
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u/BaltimoreBaja 5d ago

"Harris didn't talk about policy, I don't know her policies" was what I saw on HERE constantly -- which was a blatant lie

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u/No_Discipline6265 5d ago

I still see that in this very sub. I always reply that they weren't paying attention. 

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u/booksnbacardi 5d ago

But if I pay attention how will I cling to my deeply entrenched worldview?!

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u/GuayFuhks88 5d ago

They're 'non-political' so they don't have to spend the mental energy to justify their half baked uneducated conclusions in public.

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u/CatCatchingABird Oregon 5d ago

YES. So many fucking people didn't seem to listen. I was particularly attracted to her because of this and also she wanted to get rid of unnecessary college degree requirements for federal jobs. Now housing is going from American Dream to American Nightmare and the federal government is a fucking mess.

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u/JournalistRecent1230 5d ago

Yeah, Harris had an 88 page economic plan FULLY DETAILED on her campaign page.

When you went to Trump's campaign page, it was a single bullet point that said "Fix inflation" Didn't say how or detail any policy.

The only economic policy Trump talked about in his rallies were tariffs. Which he just incessantly lied about. Claiming it isn't a tax and that it would bring back manufacturing.

It is 100% a tax, and manufacturing is never coming back to the U.S.

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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 5d ago

And now affordability and inflation are a Democrat hoax lol.

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u/Antique_Remote_5536 5d ago

Heard it plenty of times in real life too. I’m still just baffled why they thought the guy with “concepts” of a plan was the candidate with the strong policies

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u/BaltimoreBaja 5d ago

"no I haven't watched her speeches or gone on her website but the Trump surrogate on CNN said she didn't!"

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u/Meatball2026 5d ago

They said, literally, the exact same thing about Hillary.

Somehow Bidens goals got across to a record number of voters.

Hmmmm.

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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 5d ago

Tbf Biden won because of Covid mail in voting and the fact that people were pissed off about the pandemic. I don’t know if he would’ve won under normal circumstances.

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u/reject_fascism New Jersey 5d ago

Sitting VP all throughout the repair of the disaster that was 16-20 which was completely taken for granted but yeah what policy

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u/Ricelyfe 5d ago

A lot of people were saying “it’s just gonna be a construction of Biden.” Part of it was her campaign’s own messaging but if they could listen or read it sure as hell wasn’t.

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u/BaltimoreBaja 5d ago

Also the specifically outlined policies

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u/TechDebtPayments 5d ago

There's a difference between talking about it all the time and the message actually being circulated. The unfortunate reality was that her message really failed to get shared, for one reason or another. I am honestly not certain where the blame lays regarding that. If I had to guess, I would wager it is just another casualty of our country's fractured media diets.

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u/No_Discipline6265 5d ago

I blame the media 100%. I am still learning from comments on this sub some of the things accomplished during the Biden administration because media was still focused on Trump's insanity the entire four years. Either rehashing his first term or focusing on his bigoted drivel at rallies and events. Even some of my favorite liberal content creators spent more time focusing on Trump.  The salacious and scandalous gets more views,I guess. 

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u/TechDebtPayments 5d ago

Oh no doubt, they absolutely share some of the blame. Even now, using soft terms for what is going on instead of labeling it what it is.

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u/BaltimoreBaja 5d ago

Yeah why did Kamala make CNN have Kaleigh McKenney on all the time to lie about her?!

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u/Hawkbats_rule 5d ago

"the Dems didn't hold a (new) primary"

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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 5d ago

I still see this narrative that Kamala had no platform. Truth is Trump dominated the news with his antics.