Actually yeah it was. The whole grocery thing started while Biden was in office.
Yeah, I know I'm late to the reply, but considering it's now September, why not get an update?
To answer this, yes, the Grocery prices were inflated during Biden's term. I distinctly remembering cutting Coca Cola out of my diet when the price increased 50% within a three month period. The problem is that the reasons are different. Under Biden, the costs increased because of Supply Chain weakness. We were still in recovery from a global pandemic. Today under Trump, prices are high because of an unnecessary war with Iran that's closed TWO straits now that deliver fuel throughout the world. Everything is moved by fuel in one form or another. Human Civilization is highly dependent upon fossil fuels. Without it, agriculture collapses, and billions of people WILL starve.
Hopefully, Trump will be the end of the Republican/Conservative Party in this country, but seeing the Far-Right regimes taking hold of power throughout the rest of the world, I'm not feeling to good about it. I do know, however, that the world WILL face another Depression era, much worse than the one that happened in the 1930s, and most of the world's nations will be dragged down into it.
Fascism is the end result of Capitalism. It's the death of the economic model, when Capitalism can no longer sustain itself. The currency implodes because it's not moving. Sitting in a bank vault in the Cayman Islands just makes that paper rot away into nothingness. Meanwhile, the labor force that made Capitalism function will vanish as the majority of people starve.
And let's not forget to include our old buddy [
Super] El Nino, forcing rapid climate changes throughout the planet. Agriculture is in serious jeopardy, and the morons in Office are yacking about airline pilot furries and installing State-Controlled Media. Every book I read in high school declared that this form of media control is bad. Hey look. America, we're the BAD guys now. And I seriously doubt anybody is going to do anything. Why should we? It's probably too late anyway. Sure, we can bolt on a steel plate onto that hole, but the ship is already mostly underwater and sinking from the additional water weight.