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Summary
Trump recently shared a provocative column on Truth Social titled “Shut Up About Egg Prices — Trump Is Saving Consumers Millions,” written by conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
This comes despite Trump’s campaign promises to reduce grocery costs “immediately” and “on Day 1.” Egg prices have soared to record highs, averaging $4.95/dozen in January and exceeding $10/dozen in some regions, leading to purchase limits and shortages.
While bird flu has significantly impacted prices by killing millions of chickens since 2022, Trump has shifted from his campaign stance, recently telling Fox News “Inflation is back” but claiming “I had nothing to do with it” after just weeks in office.
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“Shut up about the issue that I could actually be solving, but instead I’m too busy bullying our allies and making things even more expensive”
Yeah, no. Fuck off Mango Mussolini
That just makes me want to talk more about egg prices. Also fuck Charlie Kirk, I hope his face keeps shrinking until it disappears.
Well, the Premier of Ontario just put a 25 % surcharge on the electricity that powers millions of homes in three states. I guess they won’t have to worry about the price of eggs if they can’t afford to cook them.
FAFO
We’re all going to spend the next four years finding out how expensive maintaining the Republican ego-driven sense of superiority will be. I vote blue not because I need to, but because I think it’s best for my peers and because I love my friends. At the end of the day though, I’m laughing at every price increase because if it gets to the point that I can’t afford food, there’s going to be about 250 million starving Americans in front of me pushing for change.
Ehh… A lot of those states were blue.
Still doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s justified.
Michigan helped doom us. F them.
As somebody in Western NY state, I’m all for Ontario striking back.
As someone in Southern Ontario I want you guys to know that if there’s anything we can do to help you get rid of the vicious cheeto-in-chief we’ve got your back. Feel free to “blame Canada!” if it helps that cause, but we’re going to stand up to him, and you guys should too. We’ll help any way we can. This is unacceptable.
That means a lot!
I’m in Buffalo specifically, so I’m basically right next to the border myself. I feel like we’ve always kinda felt a close sense of community with Canada here.
Our city hall flies both the American and Canadian flags. At the KeyBank Center we both the Star Spangled Banner and O Canada. We even have the Peace Bridge ffs.
These people who are in power right now are trying to drive us apart. We can’t let them. Americans and Canadians are stronger than that.
Do exactly what you are doing.
More Americans need to be taking to the streets to protest. They are not showing up and they won’t show up until it really starts hurting.
Normally I would agree that the president had little effect on prices since that is largely the job of the Fed. But Trump being wishy washy on tariffs is really fucking things up. It is extremely hard for businesses to plan for shit when massive tariffs are planned, then delayed, then implemented for three fucking days before being held off again for a month. How the fuck are businesses suppose to do any sort of inventory planning when they don’t know how much something is going to cost them if they hold off for a day to buy things. Or they bought in bulk under the assumption that they would have to pay significantly more later are now stuck with a ton of inventory they may not have room for.
So yes, in this case Trump is having a large effect on prices. If it was just tariffs, inflation would temporarily go up and the Fed would increase interest rates and the recession it causes would slow inflation. But the Fed can’t plan for the dipshit president going back and forth in tariffs.
Broadly speaking it’s nearly impossible for a US president to directly fix the economy, but they can easily break it.
All this tariff talk is just deliberate manipulation of the markets. Trump talks tariffs, the stock market tanks, creating buying opportunities for Sociopathic Oligarchs. Then he backs off the tariff talks, and the stock market rises again, and he brings up tariffs again in 4-6 weeks, and starts the cycle over again.
What I find interesting about this is that we had a similar situation in the UK with Liz Truss. We had a PM who announced a surprise budget of tax cuts, which ok, were a little bit stronger than ones the Tories had done previously. This caused a shock to the bond markets, cost quite a lot of money and she was immediately removed from office by her own party and her budget cancelled.
Trump has caused chaos and cost the US billions with his tariff talk, alienated most western allies, damaged the US MIC enormously and caused deaths in Ukraine by cutting support. The damage done is incalculable, it is not in the same universe as the damage caused by Liz Truss. The only thing that makes sense is that Republican party want America ruined and they aren’t going to stop unless they are forced to. I think what Trump has already done should qualify as treason on the basis of undermining the USA and supporting its enemies.
rando firings that effect government entities that stabilize farm prices and respond to things like bird flu can have somewhat of an effect to.
Conservatives always love censorship.
Never let them tell you otherwise.
“I will immediately bring prices down starting on Day 1,” he said on Aug. 15, for example. “Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down,” he promised later that same month.
He backed away from that last month.
Everything’s normal. This is what you voted for, Murca!
blind men following the one-eyed dumbass.
I think it’s far more sinister than that. In this case, I attribute to malice what could be explained by incompetence.
Trump is a dangerous combination of incompetence and malice
America, the only country dumb enough to fall for a rapist felon’s promises…twice.
Saving millions?? Goodness! That could be upwards of a dollar per person!
Kirk also argued that Trump and the effort of his administration’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency will lead to savings for all Americans, and said egg prices will come down soon.
Everyone knows that illegally firing career federal employees results in lower prices on eggs…
/s
Yeah, firing the people responsible for dealing with a disease that kills chickens will surely make the price go down.
soon
He just needs 4 years, and he promises he’ll get to it next term. /s
His reality distortion field is collapsing.
Can’t Trump just declare the bird flu as nonsense like COVID? That’ll surely fix the prices.
The ostrich method appears to be popular lately. We’ve banned all discussion of climate change for example in at least one state. We’ve even passed the law saying it isn’t real.
I don’t get it. If the method is so effective, just say it’s gone.
Actually, what I fully expect from this administration is to have the USDA stop inspections and declare the bird flu over. If they are really brazen, they’ll tell farmers to not cull the birds and to stop all testing of bird flu.
This is how our country dies.
I’m not happy about it or anything, but at least in this scenario it becomes entirely feasible for all of these fascist clowns to (technically anyway) choke to death on cock, so I’m understandably conflicted
He is trigged so talk more about egg, wear t-shirt about eggs and talk about egg recipes, everything about eggs.
Egg him on, so to speak? Ensure everyone is aware of the egg on his face? Can’t make an omelette without cracking a few eggs, by the way.
I swore I’d post this everytime Charlie Kirk gets mentioned, so here I am:
Charlie Kirk dropped out of an Evangelical junior college that is widely recognized as a degree mill.
I looked at the code for this a couple nights ago, the whole Navy seal copypasta is in there, lol.
We as a species need to learn that there are things a president doesn’t, can’t, and often shouldn’t be able to control. It’s so much easier to point out that shit is bad than it is to fix it given the opportunity.
Egg prices being high was the stupidest thing to base a vote on.
Overall, groceries have gone up significantly in price over the last few years. I don’t really get why eggs are what everyone is talking about, though. It seems like the public discourse right now is all about “Eggs cost too much!” and not “It costs too much to eat.” Why eggs? If eggs are too expensive, maybe eat something else?
If all trumped and vance talked about is eggs. Then eggs are what we’re going to talk about
Eggs are in a whole lot of the food we eat, plus they were a cheap staple people can use to get protein. Go shopping this week and just don’t buy any food that has eggs in it. See how it goes.
The main sticking point here is that egg production is only down like 4% due to bird flu but they’re up from a couple dollars a dozen to a dozen dollars per dozen. Something stinks, and it ain’t the eggs.
Have been eggfree for about 7 years. There are viable substitutes. Tofu can be prepared as a good egg substitute. It’ll never be exactly the same, but you get used to it. I like it because no chickens were treated like shit during its manufacture.
There’s always one in every thread about this…you cannot expect 300-something million people to suddenly be able to adopt your special snowflake diet. It’s cool that you have. And some may be able to switch. But this is not a viable solution at this time for the majority of the population.
