Y'all Need a New Message

Dear Readers,

This is not to all of you. This is to a handful of you. You know who you are.

You guys need a new message, or 2026 is not going to be good for us, particularly for your boss. Compare Stephen Miller of the Trump White House to Jared Bernstein of the Biden White House. You guys sound just like them.

On Sunday, at my local Publix grocery store, the 12-oz bag of Community Coffee I bought was $14.99. At Kroger, it was $11.99, but I wasn’t going to Kroger. There was another shooting in the Kroger parking lot. You didn’t get rid of Colombian and Brazilian tariffs, so the coffee prices are high.

The chuck roast was the most expensive thing I bought. It was more expensive than the Flonase, topping out just shy of $43.00 for an average chuck roast. I do not necessarily fault you guys for the beef prices, as there is more going on, but yes, tariffs have something to do with that, too, just not as much as with coffee.

Here, watch this.

You guys keep saying groceries are coming down. Some are. But the average monthly grocery bill for a family of four is now $1,030, which is higher than last year. Side note — when you have to make your economic case like this on …checks notes… Newsmax, you have a serious issue.

You guys keep having the President talk up the Walmart data that the price of a Thanksgiving meal is down 25% this year, but I suspect none of you told him Walmart deleted six items from its list from last year in order to bring the cost down.

Look, you need a pivot because you sound like the Biden team, and denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

So do these five things:

1. Push for another reconciliation package that you can use to reduce tax burdens further and focus on businesses with hiring incentives in the tax package.

2. Tell the public that you have now established fair trade with our trading partners and will pivot to free trade with zero for zero tariffs. If they go to zero, we go to zero. Exclude China to force American companies to seek new supply lines outside the commies.

3. Get rid of every single tariff that applies to any sort of grocery ASAP.

4. Expand oil drilling offshore, screw the coastal concerns.

5. Work with Republican states to draft state-level legislation to curtail the regulatory burden on homebuilding in those states. This is from a homebuilder friend:

Insurance is through the roof. Municipal fees have climbed in every city and county. The impact fees are the secret cost no one talks about. Sewer capacity fees per lot, tree assessments, and tree recompense charges are hitting every project. What used to be a simple single family permit that took one to three weeks now takes about four months in places like Atlanta if a tree is involved, and we are paying interest on our land the entire time while waiting.

A few years ago a permit might cost four to six thousand. Today with all the extra requirements like site plans, engineered plans, structural plans, civil plans, impact fees, and capacity assessments, we are closer to twenty thousand on average. I even had one recently cost thirty eight thousand. That cost goes straight into the final home price. It is no wonder housing affordability is getting crushed.

Coordinate with state-level Republicans on this issue for the upcoming legislative session, headed into the midterms.

Stop telling people groceries are cheaper and tell them you are going to make them cheaper. Remind them how much Biden screwed up the economy and tell them you’re fighting to undo the damage; it takes time, but you’re working day and night.

Get someone on television who sounds like they are from Main Street and who can talk Main Street, instead of having Stephen Miller out there, who may play well to the base, but creeps out normies. Good guy, but wrong messenger for this stuff. You need someone who shows sympathy for people’s concerns.

And you need to do all this yesterday.

The midterms are now less than a year away. If you don’t salvage this stuff, you’ll spend the last two years tied up in investigations and impeachments.