it remains genuinely shocking how much Trump 2.0 is anti-treatler - making everyone’s hobbies and small pleasures worse and more expensive - and how little this has impeded his authoritarian consolidation because the elites don’t care
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He's stolen Christmas. I've ordered specific things for family for a decade+ from overseas that no one imports because there's no market for them.
aug 28, 2025, 7:52 pm • 2 0 • view
It's still negatively affecting us, but damn is it a nice time not to be American.
aug 28, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
The treatlers were the most useful and most idiotic of all useful idiots.
aug 28, 2025, 5:07 pm • 2 0 • view
The little treats is the last bit of civilization Millennials are clinging to. This is the final push into insanity and chaos.
aug 28, 2025, 5:14 pm • 9 0 • view
We can't afford to buy homes or save for retirement, and our government doesn't provide the basic services of every other industrialized nation, but we used to have the best treats and toys. That was the consolation prize for not getting a proper society, and now they want to kill that too.
aug 28, 2025, 7:39 pm • 8 0 • view
We should probably break some shit before we're too old, sick, and dead to fight back
aug 28, 2025, 7:41 pm • 4 0 • view
Anti-treats! Yes! The meanness of Trump’s tariffs is sneaking into everyday life. Even the poorest of us could splurge on AliExpress, until the tariffs on China doubled postage and stopped the packages.
aug 28, 2025, 5:47 pm • 8 1 • view
the fucked up thing is that this isn't even authoritarian consolidation! he's not gaining any power from this! he's just making things worse for everyone for absolutely no reason!
aug 28, 2025, 5:02 pm • 11 1 • view
Trump will not only destroy our economy. He’s gonna destroy the whole world economy in my opinion.🚨
aug 28, 2025, 10:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Bread and circuses, except there's no bread and no circuses either
aug 28, 2025, 4:53 pm • 4 0 • view
Probably because the Rich and Powerful have no hobbies that outside Money Waggling
aug 28, 2025, 4:51 pm • 3 0 • view
People were outraged about inflation from two years ago. A friend group is freaking out because they just remembered Legos are made in Denmark.
aug 28, 2025, 4:53 pm • 12 1 • view
They're just pretending that it isn't happening. It certainly hurts their hobby of international trade.
aug 28, 2025, 4:53 pm • 0 0 • view
theyre taking the toys! theyre taking the snacks! theyre taking the treats!
aug 28, 2025, 4:51 pm • 19 1 • view
Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimney!
aug 28, 2025, 5:51 pm • 5 0 • view
🎵We didn't start the fire🎵
aug 28, 2025, 8:05 pm • 1 0 • view
It's so shocking how everything is so much more expensive than it used to be.
aug 28, 2025, 6:09 pm • 1 0 • view
My wife tried to buy some bells from the UK on Etsy. The seller sheepishly told her that it is impossible for the order to be fulfilled. Craziness.
aug 28, 2025, 4:52 pm • 1 0 • view
kinda Vimes Boot Theory-ish: a little treat for an average person is a lot more expensive than a big treat for a superrich person
aug 28, 2025, 4:56 pm • 3 0 • view
Just reinforcing that elites have no private lives, just glass eyed homunculus puppeted by demonic urges
aug 28, 2025, 4:52 pm • 6 0 • view
you can see it in his polling numbers - his very worst marks are on the economy, and I expect those to get worse still the open question is how far he can push things before his party has to face voters again
aug 28, 2025, 4:51 pm • 177 11 • view
As long as he's alive, so is the cult. Which means he can push as far as he wants and nobody is gonna do shit about it except complain online.
aug 28, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone gets mad when you suggest federal elections are over but the people in charge of doing them certainly seem to think they're over.
aug 28, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Can’t imagine an angry marginalized group will stay pushed over forever, especially if they feel their vote no longer matters.
aug 28, 2025, 11:02 pm • 1 0 • view
My understanding is that we’re just now starting to get through the surplus that retailers ordered pre-tariffs. Once that is gone, some things are gonna get real scarce and real expensive.
aug 28, 2025, 4:57 pm • 2 0 • view
That's why he is pushing for redistricting now, he knows he will have to face the voters.
aug 28, 2025, 4:54 pm • 19 0 • view
Yeah they know they're screwed if they don't meddle with the midterms
aug 28, 2025, 5:09 pm • 7 0 • view
I guess that's why we need to keep reminding people that he's a Pedophile and a Rapist...
aug 28, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
When do town halls begin?
aug 28, 2025, 5:25 pm • 0 0 • view
The elites arent impeded in any way for their hobbies, either because their hobbies are being evil, or because they have the resources to offset the problems.
aug 28, 2025, 4:52 pm • 17 0 • view
Of course he doesn't care, because he already got all the Temu "gold" stuff to glue to the Oval Office walls before the exemptions ended.
aug 29, 2025, 4:21 am • 0 0 • view