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[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 101 points 3 weeks ago

“The high price of eggs is in no way President Trump’s fault,” Kirk writes. “Almost all the increase took place during Biden’s final months in office.”

This attempt at misdirection is so artfully sleazy I have to appreciate it. It should be taught in classes.

It’s still misdirection, though. It doesn’t matter WHO was in office, or WHAT the price of eggs was. Trump campaigned on the promise to lower those prices.

He’s not annoyed because the public doesn’t understand. He’s annoyed at the public for having the audacity to call him out on his bullshit.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago

I'm just over here wishing we could get both 49%'s that always vote partisan to give a shit about the working class and poor at the same time.

For four years, one side's angry and the other makes excuses. Then, when the other team's guy is in charge, one 49% decides it's their turn to make excuses and the other side pretends to give a shit.

It would be exhausting if we weren't all already exhausted from trying to live in this impoverished hellscape.

[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 weeks ago

Someone will have to figure out how to get one of the sides to stop believing that the country would be a paradise if only their opponents could be completely eradicated, first.

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's true.

But, I think when the Boomers are gone history will show that their loss will be a boost to overall social progress.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

it's not the president's fault!

it's the president's fault!

[-] cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago

Wonder why people blame him for eggs?

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 weeks ago

This just in: Elon Musk being investigated for fixing the price of eggs.

[-] houstoneulers@lemmy.world 35 points 3 weeks ago

Classic GOP. Campaign on fixing something that they blame another admin for and then turn around and say they can’t control that thing to fulfill on their promise.

[-] reversedposterior@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I mean this is politics in general

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

his supporters miss trumps saying he cant lower the prices when he was finally elected.

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 weeks ago

“shutupshutupshutupeggpricesshutupshutupshutUP!”

[-] Zorque@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Free Waterfall IV?

[-] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

Where are the "I did this!" stickers?

[-] painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

Should I put them at the egg aisle?

[-] sundrei@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 3 weeks ago

"Why are you talking about that? You can't talk about that! Biden isn't in charge anymore, we're all done talking about that!"

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

He knows he looks bad there.

[-] Shirasho@lemmings.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Doesn't matter if it isn't your fault. Your admin needs to fix it.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's also what he said he would do and the most convincing reason people flipped from Biden to vote for him

[-] celeste@kbin.earth 11 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, when people were saying "egg prices are high and he said he'd lower them" for why they voted for him on election night, and i knew he wasn't going to be able to do much, even if he tried, i knew I'd be bitterly watching the egg prices until armageddon. it felt like people's big reason for why, that wasn't just hating immigrants.

it's bitterness on my part, but it's also a tactic for better people to remind voters of a promise he made that they can immediately see he didn't keep. it's a way for people who voted for him to justify voting against him and his party in the midterms. that doesn't mean they have to care about, like, democracy, or people who aren't like them, and so on. they can save face.

[-] tehmics@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I assumed it was just a bird flu outbreak, and prices would naturally settle back down with the next generation of hens. And of course he would take credit. But uhh CDC got their hands tied, so I guess we don't even get to know what's going on.

Surely someone has actually reported on the issue in detail and I've just missed it in these chaotic news cycles, right?

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

shut up about the ~~sun~~ eggs

[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 7 points 3 weeks ago

Imagine if this had been under Biden. They'd have been banging on about how he caused it constantly. A fickle unthinking bunch.

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Being unthinking is one thing. But the degree that they actively avoid thinking is remarkable to me.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

i haven't, but know you mention it....

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Alright, I gotta ask. How much is a dozen eggs costing you guys right now?

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I saw them going for $10 yesterday in CA. People have reported them going as high as $18. Chicken is also quite expensive and in short supply due to the bird flu disruptions

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 weeks ago

Meanwhile, a dozen eggs are like $5 in CAD in CA (aka. Canada)

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

30 for $10 at Costco

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

$6 yesterday in the southeast.

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Mkssouri: $8 for free range organic, double the usual price.

[-] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

That "article", though. I thought I had just read the intro, but it was the whole thing. It's this what passes for online journalism now?

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