Another product on the Walmart site that spiked in price was a left-handed fishing reel. It rose from $57.37 to $83.26 from April to May, a jump of 45 percent, with a post on Reddit showing the two price stickers. Aisle Gopher’s price history says that the price of the reel was $51.12 on March 14.

Another Reddit post showed an increase in the price of cocoa powder from $3.44 in May 2024 to $6.18 in April 2025.

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    one has to credit Democrats’ outright stupidity and obstinance in the face of a base demanding real change.

    They’re beholden to the same forces of campaigning and capital in a first-past -the-post system. If they wanted change that matters, their financial backers pull out.

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      So how’s their strategy working out for them?

      There are two groups at fault here:

      1. The protest voters refusing to take the simplest action to prevent what is now happening.

      2. The people who said “we’re not going to try to change or improve anything because we’re running against a literal dictator so it’s not like we have to actually try to improve people’s lives. What are they going to do? Let Hitler win?”

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        So how’s their strategy working out for them?

        For the privileged classes, it’s working out splendidly. For now anyway.

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        The modern horseshoe of leftists and rightest being okay to burn the country down if it does swing far enough on the political pendulum. This shit right here folks. If I don’t get my way, I’m gonna burn the whole house down. The future is so bright for all of us get to burning it you little pussy.

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          That dipshit’s not “the left;” he’s a troll. Real leftists held their noses and voted for Democrats.