GV pie crusts: $2.08
GV pumpkin: $1.16
GV evap milk: $1.16
JP marshmallows: $1.54
Jiffy muffins (2): $1.08
GV poultry seasoning: $2.08
Swanson's chix broth: $2.18
5 lb potatoes: $2.47
3 sweet potatoes: $2.88
Onion: $0.59
Celery: $0.97

2025 Total: $58.74 (+ $6.74) = 11.5% increase = #TrumpLIES

If you tried to buy Walmart's 2024 pkg today at Walmart:
Turkey: $18
Hawaiian rolls: $2.50
GV corn (2): 1.50
OS cranberry sauce: $2.58
GV green beans (2): $1
French's fried onions: $4.14
Campbell's mushroom soup (2): $2
GV gravy mix (2): $0.64
MC pecan pie: $5.92
GV whip topping: $2.27
(cont)

Walmart's 2024 pkg: 21 items (30 units)
2025 pkg: 15 items (23 units)
2024: 7 brand-named products; 4 fresh vegetables (potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, celery); 1 name-brand pecan pie + all ingredients for 2nd pie
2025: 3 brand-named products; 3 fresh vegetables; no whipped cream for pumpkin pie!

Anyone/everyone has *ideas* about healthcare plans. The hard part is converting those into laws that address the problem for the broadest number of people at reasonable cost and can garner enough support to pass. It’s insane that they get away with saying empty things like this.

#FireSchumer

#FireSchumer today. It’s the only way Dems can even conceivably survive this self-inflicted death wound.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social would be a great—and, I expect, a universally satisfactory alternative.

In case some may, like me, have initially confused CHD with the Children’s Defense Fund, CHD is just RFKjr’s front org. No mystery about her whack views.

bsky.app/profile/whit...

#FireSchumer

And yet on the brink of that MAGA coalition rupturing, in the wake of a tsunami election repudiating Trump/MAGA policies, Schumer-led Dems give the GOP a huge win while gaining absolutely nothing. If we’re not being driven mad by the right’s hypocrisy/corruption, we’re driven there by our own party.

Hmmmm. And who would that be?

#FireSchumer

Same…but without the respect. (This has got to be the stupidest vote an opposition party has taken in US history. Waited 6 wks to cave after negotiating for NOTHING. Meaning Dems now ARE responsible for the suffering the shut down caused. JFC.)

Signed,
Former proud Democrat, activist, and donor

So Dems get to:
- go through all this again in 2.5 months
- hold an empty vote on ACA that won't pass (but will, tbf, put GOP on the record, I guess)
- ensure people who are legally obliged to be paid do indeed get paid
- ensure SNAP benefits are paid as all courts have ordered

Or to say: