Trump Boosts Message Telling Americans to ‘Shut Up’ About Egg Prices
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Yeah, you hear that, PEASANTS? Shut the fuck up about the prices of things, and TAKE IT. Show some goddamn respect for your BETTERS.
Billionaires need some peace and quiet while they divvy up the country's spoils amongst each other. Spoils from YOUR hard labor, by the way.
I believe the traditional response to "the peasants have no eggs" would be, "let them eat cake!"
You need eggs to make cake
Have they tried substituting smaller cakes for the eggs?
Yes, but it turns out those smaller cakes need smaller eggs.
Pheasant eggs aren't any cheaper.
Go through the cycle a few times and maybe they can use insect eggs? Peasants have plenty of insects, right?
Gilead decrees all women of breeding age surrender their ova immediately.
Peasants do have each other, yes. They keep to themselves, as God intended.
It's eggs all the way down.
That was the "joke" from the first time around. The French version uses brioche which is just even more fancy bread.
Maybe a parallel would be "the peasants have no eggs!" -> "let them eat omelettes!"
Let them eat quiche
Ew, gluten free cake
Why aren’t you wearing a suit to go grocery shopping? Show some respect!
Have you instructed your servant to search more thoroughly?
Someone needs to update this for eggs....
Also,
Whoa, whoa, whoa! There's still plenty of albumen on those eggshells! You take 'em home, throw 'em in a pot, add some broth, a potato...
Hopefully that ↑.
But I suspect most will be like ↓
HAHAHAA. Perfect reference. 🤣
Have you said thank you once?
Somehow, democrats' messaging from September made it into this thread.
Uh-huh. 🙄
Fucking LOL. He ran on egg prices. “Shut the fuck up about eggs.”
High egg prices are doubleplusgood.
Friendship with eggs is no more.
Now he's a friend with a spiraling hyperinflation.
Elon is triggered... so talk more about eggs. Publish and share more egg recipes and recommend more dishes with eggs in them.
Just go eat a cat or possibly dog.
I think you’re only allowed to do that if you’re an immigrant. If you’re an American, you’re legally obliged to uncritically consume absolute nonsense propaganda and be super racist towards said immigrants.
saved you a click:
Despite the factual accuracy of when this began, it does not mean he can go unblamed.
I mean, the price increase of eggs is largely because of the bird flu. I criticize him at every opportunity, but he doesn't have a ton of control over that.
Well, he made the cost of eggs one of his main campaign topics. He had absolute control over that.
They did fire a bunch of people working on bird flu...
We were paying people to create the bird flu?! Good thing DOGE got rid of that inefficiency.
There are people who will argue about bird flu influencing the price. However, when it comes to the Trump Administration, they will only blame the previous administration. They won’t try to take any responsibility for failing to meet the expectations of lowering the price that they promised.
I think bird flu is a convenient excuse for price gouging, just like we saw during pandemic. He could easily address that if he wanted to. He just doesn't care.
When he ran on that specific thing he better figure it out. And why is America seeing increases when other places are not?
I’ve been wondering that, especially for Canada- how have they kept avian flu from jumping the border? Someone said they tend to have more smaller farms with more room per chicken, rather than relatively few giant factory farms
Egg supplies in the US are down like 5%. The price bullshit isn't just from that.
EDIT: Because I know some people will want some hard numbers, I looked some up quickly.
Now, the article does mention the recent bird infections being higher at 25%, however look at the specific wording used. "representing 25 percent of all birds affected since the outbreak began in 2022". So it's saying the recent infections and kills represent that amount from the last 2+ years of avian flu infections, not a sudden spike of 25% of the current supply.
The down votes are because people are mad that you're right.
However they made it a campaign issue so it's fair game
Exactly, you run on the claim that you'll plummet egg prices immediately, you better plummet egg prices immediately. And more importantly you better not pull out the exact same line the previous administration gave for why they're high, even if it's true
So, you want him to lie about why they're high? I agree with the campaign promise, though.
Ideally I want him to have not made something out of his control into a campaign promise that his supporters believed, but since he did, he should own it.
Or do we give him a pass because a reasonable adult wouldn't believe anything he says is true?
Yes, we know. All 735 of the billionaire families will receive savings at the very least. Thank you for your generosity.
Lol, absolutely not. Our eggs were sub $4 up until a 4-6 weeks or so ago. Now they’re $8-9.
“Almost all the increase took place during Biden’s final months in office.“
I’m insulted on the behalf of the idiots who routinely believe his blatant lies
I voted for Trump because he Promised to LOWER Egg Prices and I STILL support Trump after he told me to SHUT UP and ACCEPT these Super High Egg Prices! I think for MYSELF!
I really could not stop laughing from earlier today (I think it was the Young Turks podcast I was listening to) when I heard them play some crazy bullshit from the State Media Television and someone was talking, in the context of little d destroying our economy with tariffs, about how this will be just more of "Biden's economy" if things get painful due to what little d is doing to us.
I mean, seriously. I guess Biden made little d play his tariff game? But I'm sure there are a non-zero amount of redcaps that watch that shit and nod their heads to it.
The only reason the redcaps nod their head in response to information is to make sure the air doesn’t escape through the ears
Why are they complaining about eggs, can’t they just eat cake?
/s
I really hope most people got this reference :)
Our education system is bad, but it's not "don't teach about the French revolution" bad. Hell my high school even made a point to point out that Antoinette was a teenager who likely didn't actually say that
If it was truly her that said it, she would have been even younger than that. The book in which it's written (which is known to not be fully factual and in which the quote is attributed to "a great princess") was written when Antoinette was 9 years old. But it wasn't published until she was 26, eight years after she became queen.
"If they have no bread, let them eat cake." sounds like something I would expect a 6-7yo who had never gone without luxury food to say.
You mean like Elon's toddler son?
Ah, but online high schools/credit recovery. The French Revolution is often covered in a fifteen minute video with four multiple choice questions and a short response (which is almost always turned in with an obviously AI generated answer, and marked with 100% because there’s no longer an expectation that a teacher be qualified to teach their subject - a high school diploma is enough in Oklahoma)
I’d met with a high schooler over zoom (thirty minutes once a week was the requirement) - “hey, tell me what you thought about that American Civil War unit you just completed?” - and they wouldn’t be able to name the century the war happened, had no idea who Abraham Lincoln was, couldn’t name the Confederacy - hell, didn’t recognize that the American Civil War happened in the United States.
My current role as a tutor (because most high schools would rather have an unqualified high school grad that a transsexual union member with a masters degree - and tbh, getting a school bomb threats on the off chance that LibsOfTikTok targets me is not a risk I feel I can expose others too) shocks me. You have long term subs that don’t understand the pre algebra concepts teaching Algebra 2 and Pre Calc. (Every time I hear the term “cross multiply” I cringe in preparation for the horror I’m about to see)
But yes - education is 100% that bad in southern states.
She had a fake rural village built so she could cosplay as a peasant, though, so it's not far off.
I can't imagine anything she could've reasonably done in the environment she lived in that wouldn't've been deeply offensive to the peasantry. Versailles was at its core a tool to insulate the nobility and separate them from reality. Her life and death were tragic, not because of some condemnation of the poor who killed her, but because they weren't even wrong to do so and yet this teenager who was probably one of the least evil people at Versailles had to be the one to pay the price for the systems crafted by people like Louis XIV and Maria Theresa Hapsburg.
The republic was necessary. The fall of bourbon was necessary. The people were right to be mad. But there is a tragedy in how some people are corrupted and broken by power they wouldn't have asked for and have to pay the price for it
Eggs are an ingredient for most types of cake
Very nice! I got that one!
Imagine campaigning on ‘immediate relief’ and then reposting an article that screams ‘suck it up.’ Iconic failure. Missed opportunities to explore potential solutions or broader economic implications.
🐱🐱
The Americans need to learn from the French where one egg is un oeuf.
Ooof…
Great pun, love.
Trump prends oeuf. ou est ouef?
I see what you did there.
This is what Murca needs. More lies and long cons. Murca was lied to, and Krasnov only needed 1/3 of them to fall for it.
MAGA supporter: “iT wAs NeVeR aBoUt tHe PriCe of EgGs. yOu’Re MiSsiNG tHe PoInT.”
They are the egg men.
"Hey, I need you all to calm down. I'm laying these as fast as I can."
Did you even say thank you as you’re wearing a suit?
I mean, to be fair.... stock prices are rapidly being driven down, so he was kinda right.
Nice! That would make a great cartoon!
Krasnov pledges to bring prices down in panel 1. He has a bunch of MAGA voting for him in panel 2. In panel 3, he slaps tariffs on and off. In panel 4 we see him self-congratulatory while stonks go down brrrrrr.
I mean, price of eggs is way down …. Humor can’t match reality
This is funny af. Thanks.
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
It was suppose to be a cautionary tale, not a fucking guide book.
Well and Idiocracy was supposed to be a comedy, too.
The real reason trumps wants Canada to be US
Also for American audiences its even worse than you think. That $3.93 is in CAD. Paying USD would put it at $2.75 because of the exchange rate.
For now lol
eggschange rate
Lmao why do eggs need a tiktok
No I mean the box that the cartons come in.
Because they only lip sync. (You didn't think they could really sing, did you?)
We handed the country over to a dictator because of eggs. The least he could do to say thank you is lower their prices.
just goes to show you that he doesn’t give two shot about anyone but himself, and SOMETIMES his family…. 1/3rd of america voted for this, because they wanted to be able to discriminate again.
All we needed was that one shot...
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo You better lose yourself in the music The moment, you own it, you better never let it go.
Make American Grocery Affordable
No pre-shredded cheese. Make America grate again
No USDA. Make America grade again.
No Department of Education. Make America First Grade Again
Fox News was pushing that Americans should get chickens so they can get their own eggs.
All of the Facebook groups I’m in for keeping backyard chickens are infested with conspiracy loons. They think the bird flu isn’t real, and that the culls are a ploy to get us to eat fake meat.
So we probably are going to have an outbreak - the same fuckers who refused to wear masks sure as hell aren’t going to safely handle sick chickens. Time to invest in ivermectin stock I guess.
*Fox State Media.
How is that gonna work when so many properties are under the thumb of HOAs.
Or apartments?
Why would do you want to get your apartments involved? The chickens are for you, not for your tenants. Just build the coop at your mansion's backyard.
My neighbors regularly lose chickens to coyotes…
Have they considered building a wall?
It sounds like we have to deport those coyotes back to where they came from.
raccoons eat more of them.
Raccoons will brutalize them. Lost both of my chickens to a raccoon the size of a damn dog.
My dog doesn't mess with raccoons. And he's a lab. I'm glad he keeps his distance, cause ya know, rabies.
Sounds like a good way to spread avian flu, though I guess Fox News probably doesn't care about that.
Also there was an article I saw that ran the numbers, and it would take way too many chickens plus selling some of the eggs for that to break even for most families.
Fox wants people to have chickens. Nothing suspicious about this surely
Fox is in our henhouse?
Also, Fox supports coops.
Note: the "p" is silent.
How long until they have Americans smelting iron in their back yards?
Good. Americans deserve this.
It's almost like they can't do anything about a war half a world away, if the government doesn't function and the oligarchs are making bank off an incompetent felon-in-chief. Who knew?
I can tell you're a good, empathetic person from how you blame victims for their own suffering. Keep up the good fight, comrade! /S
Please tell me how you're a good person as you vainly paint Americans as the "victims" in this LOL
Well, most of us don't actually get to vote. Technically we can, but if you don't live in one of 7 swing states your votes straight up doesn't matter. That's why we tend to have such low election. Turnouts, voter suppression is built into the system. Something none of us chose, because the system has been in place longer than any of us have been alive.
To make it worse or educational system has been slowly getting dismantled for generations. That makes huge swaths of our population a lot easier to manipulate. Again, something that has been going on for longer than any of us have been alive.
" Why don't you just protest, or riot?" You might ask. And we do, unfortunately America is fucking huge. This isn't like trying to organize a protest in most European countries. It's an enormous organizational challenge. And if you start succeeding at that organizational challenge, there's a decent chance you'll get disappeared by the CIA. It doesn't help that we have an incredibly militarized police force. It's just salivating at the idea of arresting or beating the shit out of protesters. Go back and look at videos of the George Floyd protests if you'd like some examples. Again, This is a ball that's been rolling longer than any of us have been alive.
Not to mention, I don't know if you remember this, but ever since elect Trump's first presidency there have been dozens upon dozens of Republicans who got caught attempting to rig elections. If you think that all just suddenly stopped the 2024 election, you're being willfully stupid.
And yeah, there are definitely Trump supporters here. And I agree: that minority of Americans absolutely deserve what's coming to them. But what about the rest of us? What about all the people who did vote against the fascist? All of the people risking life and limb to protest? All the children who unlucky enough to get born here? All the queer people, AFAB people, and POC getting our rights stripped from us? Do we deserve this collective punishment just because a bunch of hateful dipshits want us to suffer?
You're using the same line of reasoning that ends in Palestinian toddlers labeled as "Hamas terrorists"
Yep we all suck
It's so incredible that everything was bidens fault day one of his presidency, but with Trump it's the fault of the previous administration, and no body brings up this double standard at all. What a double standard.
Also, we all know that Trump can't lower the price of eggs himself, just like biden couldn't lower gas prices by himself. The fact that Trump and his ilk RAN on lowering grocery prices, especially eggs, is why we're still talking about it and why a lot of Americans are upset. Now the right are calling us idiots and whiners for still talking about eggs while they are still going up, while the last 4 years nobody on that side could shut up about gas prices.
They put those 'biden did this' stickers on pumps until the final moments of his administration, I say we do the same to eggs.
We need some trump did this stickers to match the biden ones.
"The prices need to be this high!" /insert picture of sieg heil/
Petah says, "Unlike a carnival ride, 'this high' is literally over one's head. As in, we're in over our heads."
I'm gonna need some of these and the trump ones when I get laid off in a couple weeks...
I think the businesses should start putting them up. In the cases of things affected by his stupid tariffs, it will actually be true in this case.
I agree completely. But no one with a business seems to want their wrath.
Gladly, I would love to post those all over my stores.
What’s funny is I was just thinking about how all the news sites are itching to drop their Easter egg story so we’re about to hear a lot more about eggs
Holy shit I didn't see that on the horizon. That'll be great....
Jokes about the eggs made of gold etc etc
Eggs
Eggs
Eggs
If I keep posting this every time there are egg related political news stories, maybe it'll come true?
I put together a little short story about how I would like to see Donald Trump meet his demise. Drowning in eggs:
The Eggsecution.
The once-proud leader, now stripped of title and dignity, stands in the center of the barren, concrete abyss. The abandoned Olympic swimming pool—thirty feet deep, dry as bone—has become their final stage. Above, the gathered masses stretch in every direction, a writhing sea of anticipation.
They do not jeer. They do not boo.
They simply chant.
"Eggs. Eggs. Eggs."
It starts as a murmur, a low thrum of human voices vibrating in unison. Then it grows, swelling into a deafening roar that rattles windows, that shudders in the bones of every person present. A chant as ancient as it is absurd, a single-minded invocation of punishment.
The first egg arcs high overhead, tracing a lazy curve before splattering against the fallen leader’s shoulder. The yolk bursts, oozing down his baggy, ugly, now-useless suit. A streak of yellow, the first of many.
Another egg. Then another.
Then dozens.
The first impacts make them flinch, stagger—hands raised in a futile shield. But soon there are too many to dodge, too many to deflect. They curl inward as the sky rains viscous judgment. The chant never stops.
"Eggs. Eggs. Eggs."
Shells crack. Yolk drips. The scent of sulfur and shame thickens in the stagnant air. It coats their skin, their hair, their pride, turning them into something less than human. Something… egg-like.
At the top of the pit, a child—no older than seven—steps forward. They hold their egg with both hands, cradling it like something precious. Reverent. With a deliberate motion, they lob it downward. It strikes the leader square on the forehead, exploding with an almost musical plap. The crowd erupts into a fresh crescendo of cheers, but the chant never falters.
"Eggs. Eggs. Eggs."
No escape. No reprieve. The pit is smooth concrete, slick now with raw egg and humiliation. They can do nothing but stand there, endure, become part of the ritual.
Somewhere in the throng, a vendor hawks boiled eggs. Another sells cartons to the unprepared. A man in a chicken suit waves encouragingly at the crowd.
The night wears on, but the spectacle does not end.
It cannot end.
Not until the last egg is thrown. Not until the last voice is hoarse.
Not until the world is rid of this one, failed leader, broken not by swords or exile, but by the inescapable weight of public yolk and scorn.
"Eggs. Eggs. Eggs."
Do you have a blog? I would subscribe and actively donate to your cause.
Tell him to go fuck off back to putinland and leave us to ourselves
To be fair - that is true. It's not like he infected all the birds.
However, if you're the president that just slapped a bunch of tariffs on neighboring countries ... optics looking kinda bad ngl.
He did fire a bunch of the people in public health who were trying to make policies to prevent the birds being infected.
Just like how we have routine food recalls because he shuttered lots of food regulation during his first term. Wonder how much Boar’s Head has donated to the Republican Party….
Not entirely true, as H5N1 isnt working to do this on its own. He's made nondocumented workes feel unsafe so it's hard for them to work. Specifically in the low wage work one finds on a farm, especially if the work is in a red state. Look at Kentucky, for example.
Ah, ye that makes sense. Kinda forgot about that aswell. Thanks for pointing it out!
I'm actually smart enough to understand this. But they blamed Biden for shit that he had no control over so I'm going to be spiteful and blame everything bad on Trump.
This blame game goes two ways Republicans. See you at the midterms.
"Gas is too high! Why doesn't the President just pull the lever to make them not high?!"
Biden releases strategic reserves to lower prices.
"Ye-- Ye-- Well, the price of eggs is too fucking high. Pull that lever! I dare you!"
Hm, we don't have a strategic egg supply to make simple people happy. This will be a challenge...
Trump claims he'll lower it by getting elected. How? Who the fuck knows and no one cares.
"Why aren't the prices lower yet?!"
Well, gosh, it couldn't have to do with a complex system where there aren't magic levers one just pulls to make things happen... Guess it's Trump's fault. What's good for the goose (Biden) is good for the gander (Trump), after all.
Eggs are 4x regular price. Chicken (meat) has barely moved. There's no lack of stock, on a perishable product and the prices are incredibly high.
Greed made that price.
A dozen eggs cost almost $13 at the grocery store today. We didn’t get eggs.
We have to be getting close to the point where its cheaper to just buy a hen.
Fox news was unironically using that as a defense of Trump a few days ago.
The way they were painting the situation, too. Christ, State Media in Russia and North Korea would blush watching those assholes trying to claim that people would be delighted to resort to backyard farming for their eggs.
The only way it'd be any worse is if little d was sitting right there at the desk with Brooke, and you could see her hand pumping up and down giving him a handy.
Awesome, you GUYS! 🙄
Until the hen(s) get(s) bird flu... 🤷♂️
Hm. Maybe I should buy Trump and Musk "We did that." stickers, and add them to price tags while shopping? After all, they shut down the agencies meant to control bird flu, meat inspection, and so many other things...
Eggs.
Eggs.
Eggs.
I want deviled eggs! And I might have to sell my soul
When the Democrats said "What are you talking about? The economy is doing great!" the rightoids correctly called this shit out. Now that it's Trump doing it, I wonder what the response will be?
"How could Biden do this?"
Is the response I've seen so far.
Just saw the Keebler Elf Mike Johnson say almost exactly that a short time ago. I mean, really, WTAF.
Little d messes around with tariffs, the market reacts, and Mike Johnson the weird Keebler porn elf, is out there saying "we are seeing the effect of the last administration's horrible economy" or some such nonsense....as if we cannot all see with our fucking eyes, the games that little d is playing and the effect it is having. I'm horrified that people actually fall for such obvious bullshit, especially after such a great economy was handed off to little d.
People are falling for the lie because, the average Joe is being squeezed dry. The economy is only doing well for the already wealthy.
Of course, the current economy was the result of the Biden Administration attempting to fix Trump's first term. Along with the Trump administration's complete mismanagement of COVID-19.
The Democrats were not exactly wrong. But a lot of people twist it and act like they said it's perfect, and perfect for everyone, which they did not say.
We are about to find out how much worse it can actually get, and I guess the people that were saying "Bidenomics" was the worst thing ever and total tyranny, etc., are likely going to have to eat their words....
Republicans are dipshits who will now happily buy a carton of eggs for $10 because it's "owning da libs".
I don't often go to Fox News, but man under Fox Business and the stock market going down, people are actually upvoting very negative reactions to all of this. It was surprising to read. I thought somehow they were going to sugarcoat it, but they aren't, and in most cases upvotes are far outnumbering the downvotes.
The democrats, "we better stop. we might lose our brand as a gop sub."
I think Americans should stop buying eggs
At minimum, knowing how to substitute eggs in baking is a basic life skill if you like feeding yourself.
In baked goods, each = 1 egg:
1/4 cup applesauce
1/4 cup mashed banana
3 tbsp nut butter
1/4 cup yogurt
1 tbsp ground flax seed + 3 tbsp water
Even when bird flu isn’t going on, sometimes you just don’t have an egg. Know your options!
I use a shelf-stable egg replacer in my baking, mostly because I hardly ever have eggs on hand. (Bob's Red Mill is the brand I see, but I'm sure there's other brands out there)
I guess I'm big on shelf-stable substitutes for stuff that goes bad fast: I also have powdered milk for baking/sauces, and textured vegetable protein to add protein and texture to things I'd usually use ground meat for, where the meat's flavor would be overpowered by the sauce anyway.
You underestimate the power of laziness. That's a lot of steps to approximate an egg.
It's far easier to bake less and eat fewer eggs. Trust a lazy person. Either that or I'll wait until eggplants can grow real eggs.
Adding 1/4 cup applesauce isn’t that much of a bother, I promise! (Each item equals an egg, not mix all together to equal an egg)
Ohhhhh that makes much more sense. I was going to complain about the volume of those things too, but I figured I had already complained about enough. Turns out my complaint was crazy.
TIL
hee hee hee.
I did. Months ago. I like eggs, but these people are fucking silly. I don't know how anybody could care so much about egg prices that they helped this criminal idiot be a dictator, and they're still whining instead of just refusing to buy eggs. How do these losers care this much about eggs but they don't breathe a word about the cost of healthcare and prescription drugs?
I might be close to this upset if it were cheese that this were happening to. But eggs? Get a life.
I've never liked eggs. Never bought an egg in my life. Though I admit I do eat things with eggs in them. If they disappeared completely, I'd miss cake, cookies, ranch dressing, and breaded chicken. Still, I'd rather do without those things than vote for Donald Trump. Having never used eggs for cooking and eaten many delicious meals without them, I'm baffled that so many people find it so hard to just do without them.
None of those things need eggs.
Biden is the worst it will be fixed as soon as I get in there... Gets in there: this isn't my fault stop whining.
We have always been at war withEggs have always been expensive.$2/ dozen in Asia, mates! Laughing at america rn.
I love the way Trump says it's going to hurt a lot before it gets better.
Why?
What's even stupider is that he still has the support he has. I'd love to start seeing more man on the street interviews asking the redcaps if they voted FOR tariffs. If they stupidly say yes, because, hey, they are a fucking cult, I want the follow-up question to be WHY? What do they think it will really do, in the short term? Also ask them why the CHIPS program was killed, if they are so interested in American jobs....
Yeah. I guess I always knew at some level, not that I gave it much thought in the past, that there was a chance fascism could take hold in America. But what surprises me is how friggin stupid they are. How can anyone listen to Trump talk for more than 5 minutes without their bullshit alarm going off.
250% increase in price.
I love Qalc
Weak Trump trembles before daddy big egg
The frustrating thing here is that it was possible to know that the President doesn't really have a lot of power over the price of things before the election, and not vote based on something that Trump can't fix. "All Presidents must answer for the price of $ITEM" is a terrible way to vote.
This Saturday there were no eggs at Costco again for the 3rd week on a row.
Goddamn this Biden economy! Poor little d was handed such a TERRIBLE economy.
Every Republican says so and they would never lie. So do the maximalist leftists and the enlightened centrists, so it must be true. I'm sure the economy would have been even worse under Kamala. Thank Athena that little d and fElon are working to fix the terrible economy that Biden left them...
Don't pay any attention to egg prices. The economy is great actually.
Now where have I heard that in the past few months?
The qons are saying it's a bad economy, even though they inherited a very strong economy. They are of course blaming the downturn which is thanks to little d's games with tariffs, on Biden.
Of course they also act like it was Biden out there strangling millions of chickens himself to mess with the egg supply.
Why the hell did you have to put that image in my head?!?!
Nobody google biden-choking-chicken.jpg!
🤣
Well, TBF, I said strangling, it's you that made it into choking!
Sounds like centrists gaslighting people who couldn't afford groceries and telling them that the economy was the most perfectest thing ever.
Currently in Australia eggs range from US$3.40 for a dozen cage eggs, to US$5.50 for a dozen free range organic.
In a German Aldi it ranges from 2,60€ for a dozen eggs from indoor chickens to 3,80€ for organic free range. Cages are forbidden here.
I'm eating even less eggs than usual, and it was already very, very low.
Probably the only reason our family eats them at all at this point is because a neighbor gives us the eggs from their hens. There is nothing to say their hens won't get bird flu, so I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to eat eggs.
IIRC Costco's supplier had a salmonella outbreak back in December: https://abcnews.go.com/US/fda-escalates-recall-costco-eggs-include-risks-severe/story?id=117092796
Reddit is already fully onboard pushing this dumb fuck narrative, if you were doubting whether they were fully captured or not.
Oh, I totally believe there are plenty of qon bootlickers aching to try to change the subject after little d showed himself to be a complete failure on yet another of his stupid promises.
"You have served your purpose peons, now go away while my buddies dismantle your country"
A broken clock is right twice per day you fucking omnivors
A broken clock may be forever wrong, whereas a stopped clock may be right twice per day.
I'm as against trump as anyone else, but let's say your candidate of choice was just put in power a month ago, would you expect new economic policies to have lowered the price of something nationwide? What's the historical precedent for something like that? Biden releasing strategic reserve of oil comes to mind, and IIRC that didn't put a dent in prices.
I worry that folks making a big deal out of this at this point in time are effectively being the same as the "I did this" Biden sticker folks, and idk about you but I sure thought they were asshats. Six months down the line, sure, hold him accountable for what he ran for. But idk how much economic impact a president has in two months time.
Why are egg prices high? A Bird flu epidemic that has run since 2022.
Trump’s DOGE fired several key USDA officials working on containing the bird flu outbreak. So that’s directly going to increase egg prices. It’s also going to reduce the efficiency of the only process that’s going to reduce egg prices - getting the bird flu epidemic under control.
To fill the shortfall, eggs would usually be imported from Canada. Trump started a trade war with Canada. Again that’s going to directly increase prices.
The price of eggs can’t be reduced by economic policy, only by agricultural policies. But we also know from his choice of Health Secretary how much Trump values vaccines.
On the other hand, Trump’s economic policies will increase the price of eggs and prolong the effects.
So Trump wandered into a house fire that was already burning, shot himself in the foot, then opened fire on firemen and paramedics attempting to rescue him. And the American consumer is meanwhile trapped upstairs.
These are all great reasons why egg prices are high, and will continue to be high.
All I'm asking for is precedent for a president to impact nationwide prices in 2 months time. What do you think is a reasonable window after which to assess a presidents impact on pricing of a national commodity?
If Trump had not campaigned on bringing down egg/grocery prices, I would agree with you.
In this case though, he promised to lower prices and that makes him a valid target for criticism since he promised he could do something about it and now obviously can't.
I never said he wasn't a valid target though. I'm asking what you think what a reasonable time frame a sitting president is expected to be given to fulfill a campaign promise of lowering the nationwide price of a commodity, and if that's based on precedent.
Then he shouldn’t have made egg (and grocery) prices immediately going down a central theme of his campaign.
He's already screwed the country in countless ways in a month. Why can't he sign one of those executive orders for egg prices? Subsidize egg prices with all the money he's supposedly saving? He's already ignoring laws and courts, I have difficulty believing he is helpless.
My understanding is that he's giving $400 million in direct subsidies to egg farmers, as part of a $1 billion package to USDA to lower the cost of eggs.
I think my edit is probably closer to the mark
Good to know.
I understand your point generally, and would agree with you under most circumstances. However, you're talking about the guy who came out swinging from Tariff Town before he was even inaugurated, which has already made for negative economic movement. Under his watch (if you would even be so generous to say he's "watching" at all), there's already been all kinds of administrative chaos for the USA by wanton firings and other cuts and more EOs than you've ever seen in your lifetime.
So, yes, absolutely the country can blame Trump, at the very least for putting all his attention to causing chaos and not on the things he campaigned on. (Not that I ever believed he had any intention to ever pay attention to them.)