re: How is inflation impacting you? Radio host gets some pretty serious answers

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The hypocrisy that your smooth brain can create is honestly impressive... Still, you're a loser who's an absolute nobody who supported a loser in 2020. The world surely will be a better place when people like you are 6ft in the ground or burned into ash.

Someone's upset they're still a handyman making $18/hour at age 50.... sorry you're an uneducated nobody just like the people who created you. Get a grip, inbred.

Wipe your chin bub.... still dripping in agent orange's c**. Also, wipe your tears from 2020.

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Strange meltdown. You sound like a bigot. The working class are the backbone to America.

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And not just federal. State and local governments that ad prolonged shutdowns are just as at fault.

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The past two years have exposed a shocking number of petty tyrants at all levels of government.

People are their own worst enemy. Granted, this inflation is terrible and is undoubtedly going to ruin many families. But maybe many families wouldn't be living check to check to begin with if they knew how to shop. Namely, quit shopping online. Stop at the store on your way home!

$28 for 20lb of rice is ludicrous. $18 for 20lb is still insane. You can buy 20lb of Cajun Country rice for $11. If you're on a real budget, 20lb of Great Value rice is under $9. That woman was already paying double for her rice than what she should have been.

You sound like a bitch who lives in a double wide!

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You sound like you’re from Baton Rouge.

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Don't you think you're being a bit harsh on Baton Rouge there?

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What sets the coastal progressives apart here is that they struggle to empathize with people who have a different world view than them. They don't even really try. Most of them would rather that the flyover state people not even exist. Hard to ignore that reality especially after the last 10 years. The proponents of radical green energy legislation do tend to live deep in a progressive bubble and seem to enjoy dismissing any criticism of their agenda as overtly political

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I'm labeled a progressive around here, presumably because I despised Trump, but everything you said here is absolutely true. The people you're describing represent the progressivism that has become a bad word in much of the country. They're definitely in a bubble, fighting battles over LGBTQ+, Green New Deal, and preposterous ideas like "defund the police", and then shake their heads in disbelief wondering why the Dems are losing white, blue collar workers and Latinos.

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Yeah, we should try to conserve fuel and reduce our own dependence on oil. But this is a huge country, and this kind of change doesn't happen overnight - consumers are slowly adopting things like EV's or supplemental solar power for their homes

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Again, we wholly agree.

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But expediting it or forcing it through legislation is just going to make things extremely expensive and penalize citizens. This at a tumultuous time when inflation is already extremely painful and energy independence is far more important than the source of said energy.

For the life of me I don't understand why The White House and other high ranking Democrats can't put down their green agenda for a while and be pragmatic for just one fricking second. We need to figure out how to supply energy to ourselves and our allies in Europe as fast as possible. Excluding oil and gas from that discussion because of an ongoing progressive war on everything that's been good to this country is nonsense. And it just points to them being completely unglued from reality.

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I think we disagree a bit here. Biden is catching absolute hell from the hardcore environmentalists for not doing nearly enough. He's abandoned the Green New Deal and can't even get voting rights through the Senate (with a majority), much less any meaningful environmental reforms.

I think this is one of those issues where the right is using a crisis to their advantage, essentially blaming increasing energy prices on policy rather than the reality of the situation, which is that we're coming out of a global pandemic leading to ridiculous demand which the producers can't meet. Now you throw in this Russia nonsense and it's only been exacerbated. OPEC isn't cooperating, either.

Exactly.

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So his horrible policy has zero to do with it? Absolutely nothing? Hint, gas prices were going up well before Russia, Russia, Russia, and well before the Dems arbitrarily decided Covid was over because their poll numbers were shite.

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Which policy? Point me to the law or executive order he has signed that is, in your opinion, solely responsible for what's going on at the pumps.

BTW, oil was under $100 a barrel for much of the last week and our prices at the pump continued to increase. That a matter of his policy, too? Or was that just capitalism doing capitalist things?

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Texas had an election earlier this week, first one under their new election security bill. 13% of mail-in ballots, 23,000 raw votes, were disqualified that wouldn't have been previously disqualified.

23,000 Americans disenfranchised.

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Sounds like 23,000 legal voters votes actually counted and were not diluted by the 23,000 illegal votes. This bill actually saved 23,000 legal voters from being disenfranchised. Why do you hate vote integrity???

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13% of mail-in ballots, 23,000 raw votes, were disqualified that wouldn't have been previously disqualified.

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First, there shouldn't even be mail in ballots in the first place.

Second, why were they disqualified? What specific reason?