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.

  • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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    27 days ago

    One of their biggest campaign promises just broken. All those grocery stores that had to host this sack of shit for nothing.

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    27 days ago

    “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

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    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

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      27 days ago

      Yeah, firing the people responsible for dealing with a disease that kills chickens will surely make the price go down.

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        27 days ago

        I’m almost certain Trump’s solution will be to stop culling chickens and telling people to buy cod liver oil to deal with the bird flu that results.

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        27 days ago

        As if reducing the cost for suppliers reduces the cost for consumers anymore instead of just increasing the margins.

        The problem with our capitalist system (other than the obvious part) is that there is no longer meaningful local competition to push prices down. Reducing the cost to produce just increases the profit. Everything today is made at least as cheap and as efficiently as it was 10 years ago, yet here we are paying more for it, while the top 1% is getting records profits.

    • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works
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      27 days ago

      why is everyone so focused on egg prices and ignoring all the positive things? How many of you are now able to walk their pets outside without fear of some immigrants bouncing on it and eating it?

      :/

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      My brother asked me if I was better off 4 years ago right before the election. I pointed out the USA had one of the best recoveries after the pandemic lock downs and asked what he think Trump would have done different. He didn’t answer. Ignoring that 4 years ago we were filling the impacts of Trumps government, not Bidens, I have to ask if he’s better off now than he was almost 4 months ago. I’m betting the honest answer would be no.

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      He did it the first time. He’s a proven liar. And racist. And rapist. And insurrectionist. And convicted felon. And people still chose to vote for him, or let him saunter into office. Jeez. People are stupid.

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      27 days ago

      I mean, welcome to pretty much every Presidential campaign ever. Running on a platform of “I will rubber stamp any legislation by my party that comes across my desk, and veto everything else” just isn’t good messaging, even if that is what everyone wants anyway.

      • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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        For the uninitiated:

        What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

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      If his mouth keeps shrinking at the current rate in just five months it should form a singularity and I’ll never need to hear from the fucker again. If that singularity happens to swallow earth so be it - it’ll be worth it.

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    26 days ago

    Dems can beat this man if they choose to stand for something and stop letting these Nazi’s move their own goalpost 24/7. Use these 4 years to build and get serious about systematic change. There isn’t going to be some sweeping redemption for Trump voters where they realize the errors of their ways.

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    Hey didn’t this rapist felon say he was going to immediately lower the cost of groceries and now we’re losing trade wars and American goods are being taken off of foreign shelves and we’re about to have a Trumpcession?

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    You know what is amusing - I bet the redcaps still drinking the little d kool-aid will do ANYTHING to stop talking about egg prices at this point.

    I bet they start accusing State Media, oops, I mean, Faux “News”, of being too “liberal” for talking about the cost of eggs - or really, the price of anything else. Same goes for talking about the Dow, the S&P 500, NASDAQ, TSLA after a bad day…

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    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.