I have seen interviews with voters from Indiana and Alabama...

[kentuck]

...and they are super pissed with their electrical bills. They were complaining of $800 dollar utility bills. All the while, their jobs are disappearing and they blame a lot of it on AI data processing centers.

If these two red states are indicators, others will soon follow. The tariffs have driven up the price of everything, if you can find it on the shelf at all? People are not happy with the economy.

In my opinion, this high inflation may creep into a few more states before November. This does not bode well for Trump and the MAGA Republicans. If his war continues, the price of gas will probably increase again very soon?

All of us are experiencing high inflation but a few states are seeing hyper inflation and they simply cannot afford it. We will see if there is a political price to pay?

[democratsruletheday]

1. Indiana and Alabama eh?

Couple of shit hole states....top ten IMO.

[wolfie001]

24. Yep! And those fucking idiots will still vote republiCON nt

[Captain Zero]

27. Indiana was flooded for decades byy Kentuckians

Looking for a paycheck, and now they don't have jobs or enough money to get back to Kentucky.

[Wednesdays]

2. "...the price of gas will probably increase again very soon?"

It's already up 30 cents per gallon around here since Tuesday, with no end in sight.

[70sEraVet]

11. Same here, in Middle Tennessee.

[MLWR]

18. In Albuquerque it's $4.19/gal. today

[boston bean]

3. Mr Global has been warning for two years that electricity will be as much as a house payment soon enough.

[mahina]

16. I listen to him too. One of his clips today said what I didn't want to accept

Which was that this crew is going to extract every nickel they can out of us for the richest among us until there’s nothing left.

[essaynnc]

4. I'm in Cincinnati for the week for a visit...

The price of gasoline went up $0.45 last night! Thanks for manipulating the market. Donnie

[popsdenver]

28. Every time he makes some major move

his accountants and his spawn's accountants, along with Jared make an absolute Fortune using insider trading each and every DAY, along with other Republican Politicians and the top 1%.....they have mastered the "selling short" Trump and Republicans have complete control of the SEC, FBI so they get away with flagrantly using Insider Trading........

[warmfeet]

5. The fact that these things are even being discussed in terms of electibility

is completely insane. What have humans become?

[slightlv]

6. I went to Walmart yesterday...

yes, I know.. but in this little town its the only place to shop!... I went in for a bucket a Tidy Cats cat litter. No big deal, right? Wrong! Not only was there NO Tidy Cats, there was only the cheapest of the cheap non-clumping cat litter, period. I asked an "associate" if they had more and just hadn't stocked it yet; she checked and said, "no... everything we've got is just what you see. We've had trouble getting inventory in.

When we start getting down to where cat litter is hard to find on shelves, we're scraping the bottom of barrel, people!

[homegirl]

12. This is

what happens when Walmart drives every other local business into bankruptcy!

[popsdenver]

29. And every employee into poverty........

The Waltons need those profits for other investments like owning the Colorado Avalanche, The Denver Nuggets, The Denver Broncos and several other professional sports teams.......they are smart and didn't buy the Colorado Rockies........
Oh and they also bought the professional Denver Soccer or LaCross Team............
They want a new covered stadium for some of the teams, and are gonna pay to build it, but what the public doesn't understand is that it will probably cost the taxpayers a hundred million or two to build up the infrastructure around it......Electrical, Natural Gas, Water, sewer, roads, bridges, etc...

[CanonRay]

7. I've been saying this a winning issue for Dems

It could unite rural and urban voters.

[AverageOldGuy]

8. Will make no difference in Alabama

I'm a Mississippi native, wife is Alabama native. We both left at age 18 and never looked back. Go back from time to time for funerals.

Our Mississippi and Alabama siblings and cousins, their children and grandchildren will bitch and moan about the cost of gas, groceries, health care -- then they blame it on the socialists, and vote Republican.

[70sEraVet]

14. I live in a rural county of Tennessee, and it's like that here, too.

People will complain about prices all week and how their food stamps are getting cut, then they go to church on Sunday where the preacher tells them that Democrats are trying to turn their kids gay and trans, and are giving all of their tax money to dark-skinned people.

[rpannier]

17. The 3 F voters: Faith, Freedom, Family

The Guardian did a piece on this group of voters in Michigan, Wyoming, and one or two other states, and found these people were willing to ditch Democracy to get their 18th century vision of the world. High prices, that they will see as a temporary evil for the benefit of long term good (their perceived long term good) are irrelevant.

[popsdenver]

30. Or

Gays Guns and God
they roll them out a few months before every election to rally their crowd, so they get out and vote....

[hamsterjill]

23. Texas is the same, of course.

The MAGA's will never admit that Trump did something wrong. They'll be at church on Sunday and vote for Paxton on Tuesday.

[Wednesdays]

33. Yeah, they'll never vote for a Democrat.

However, a few of them will stay home on Election Day.

And "a few" can be enough to flip some seats!

[flashman13]

9. The price of gas is going spike very soon as private and government oil reserves are very nearly exhausted.

[Boo1]

10. AI

Is going to make for a much better boggyman for left wing populist than AIPAC.

[aggiesal]

13. A couple of articles worth reading ...

Use of AI by companies is exploding & the soaring co$t has some of them pumping the brakes in a way that could complicate AI’s triumphal march across the economy.

Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Co$t Skyrockets
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/corporate-america-is-starting-to-ration-ai-as-cost-skyrockets-1eb99d7a

The good news is that this future of an AI takeover is looking increasingly unlikely, at least at the industry's current pace, a fact which is now dawning on some of the biggest rubes and dupes in the corporate world.

Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/execs-confused-horrified-huge-ai-135718505.html

[Glaisne]

21. It's always about cheap labor with these guys.

Anything to get cheap labor.

[aggiesal]

32. Not so cheap this time. Ai turned out to be way more expensive than humans. n/t

[dalton99a]

15. Democrats support Big Tech at their peril.

The tech zillionaires are not friends of Democrats or humans

[Joinfortmill]

19. This is good news for hopefully saving our democracy.

but I hate every f*cker who voted for this Russian Asset.

[catbyte]

20. Wow. I'm really glad I live in Michigan.

My most recent electric bill (including water) was $142 and I have an older, 2-story, 3 br house with central air. And my gas bill was $32. What the hell, Indiana?

[wolfie001]

26. I'm in a ground floor 2-bedroom condo and.....

.....I keep my thermostat set at 77 degrees during the spring, summer (Maryland). It hasn't turned on once so far (I have it set on auto). We've had 2 heat waves so far and nada from the A/C. I'm still comfy. I keep a small fan on. Good luck to you.

[Beartracks]

22. But, but... we're just supposed to be patient as Trump works his amazing magic!!1!

[moniss]

25. Yes and the electric bills in Kansas are

off the charts as well.

[Bobstandard]

31. Talk to strangers about it

Trump is rigging the midterms right out there in the open. Today he fired what’s left of the Federal Election Commission. His DOJ is threatening election workers with prosecution for simply doing their jobs. His ICE masked terrorists are planning to ‘secure’ the polls. The list goes on and on.

We comfort ourselves with observations like the OP. In the same way hyperbolic headlines claiming the White House in disarray, Trump terrified of this or that, blue tsunami, etc. But it’s all bs. The fix is going down. If we’re relying on an exemplary GOTV we may be whistling past the graveyard

Get out on that freeway overpass, canvas that neighborhood, postcard, phone bank, something. Coming here isn’t enough.

Here’s a link to phone bank for Talarico https://jamestalarico.com/phone-bank-training-guide/]. Pick a candidate. They’re all doing it.

The final word is that we need to be ready to hit the streets should the steal come down. Do you think Americans are up for it? I worry.