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I am often baffled by everything.

What goes down in the world, how media covers stories, weird issues or phrases that get repeated

over and over again by everybody in politics and the media.

And, you know, you can almost see the wheels of the propaganda machine working.

So I, I've noticed, and if you follow the news at all, you can't help but notice, that there's a word that was rarely used in recent years.

Affordability, which is being repeated over and over again.

Self-evident.

Affordability means do people have enough money to buy the stuff they need to live at a decent level?

And that nation has suddenly, maybe this happened a week ago Tuesday, become unaffordable.

And so it's become a big weapon to be used for the next election cycle against Trump.

And I was trying to figure out like why suddenly, you know, keep talking about people upset about prices.

Prices are high.

Prices are high.

But why are people upset when the inflation

rate is so much less than it was under Biden? Under Biden, it was over 9%. Now it's under 3%. And I think

what's happened is, is that Trump campaigned and people overpromise and distort when they campaigned that he was going to lower prices.

Now, I don't remember in my lifetime any president actually lowering prices.

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