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I mean, it's a day that ends in Y so of course the Democrats have a messaging problem.
Democrats: BUT THE ECONOMY IS BETTER!! Shut up with your ignorant "bad economy" THE STOCK MARKET IS UP!! Yeah yeah a single person spends almost $100/week on groceries not even enough to last the week and wages haven't moved much for low earners unless I aggregate as many sectors as possible and show a compiled list of averages, BUT THE STOCK MARKET!! So what if your wage didn't increase much, the chart says it did!!!
Also Democrats: how are we tone deaf?
Seriously though, it would be funny if it wasn’t handing the greatest military power the world has ever seen over to fascism.
If someone's spending $100/wk. in groceries, they're not even trying. My wife and I spend about $130 every 2-weeks.
$132 last trip and that included steaks and shrimp.
... I have limited options. I buy a family pack of chicken (the cheapest they have, no organic anything) a can of beans, a can of mixed vegetables and a can of mushrooms for a weeks worth of lunch. I get a pack of romaine lettuce, a tomato and an onion for a "weeks worth" of dinner. I also get a weeks worth of cat food. The only "extras" is milk. No snacks, no dessert, nothing extra. Where I live that's $80-100 depending on if I need things like garbage bags or dressing.
Are you in a rich area?! Food's quite cheap if we shop around, hit the crappy grocery stores, but mostly we do Aldi.
Where I am it's "rural" enough that I only have 2 options within 30-40 mins of my house and they're both similarly priced. I'd have to go about an hour to somewhere that might have better prices, but I rent a garage "apartment" so I can't buy bulk as I don't have a freezer and my refrigerator was apparently pulled from a camper or something. It's like a playschool "babys first refrigerator" lol
The messaging being that the top of the Democratic Party needs to start listening to everyone instead of just their Wall St donor friends.
Does the DNC use a PR agency or is it just their internal PR people?