Cheap eggs are important because they are a stable source of nutrients for Americans. The egg price issue keeps getting mentioned also because it's a prime example of double standards from conservative voters who claimed they voted for Trump to lower prices and that Biden was responsible for the price hike.
However, egg price is so crazy right now mainly because of bird flu and the rule of supply and demand is at play, in addition to corporate greed. There was very little Biden could've done and there is little Trump can do now. However, under Trump, conservative voters are either ignoring this completely or bringing out all sorts of economic theories to justify why Trump cannot bring down prices while they couldn't do the same things while Biden was president.
Instead of focusing on the reason they claimed they voted Trump for, they're now talking the dismantling of the Department of Education and banning trans woman from women sport, which affects roughly ~10 athletes and maybe 5 kids in highschool sports.
Edit: I just remembered an interaction I had with a conservative voter before the election. They vowed to vote for Trump because of egg prices, I explained the same thing to them as I just did in this comment, they called me a sheep for believing in the bird flu conspiracy made up by the CDC. But now, suddenly, bird flu is real and should be taken seriously. Fuck you all. That's all.
Bird flu. Prices of chicken meat have spiked as well.
Edit: Doing some research on the topic, bird flu does affect egg prices much more directly than meat, due to egg laying chickens tending to live longer. So they are more likely vectors for the disease simply because they live long enough for it to proliferate, whereas that’s less of a problem with meat chickens which are slaughtered earlier in life. That’s not to say bird flu hasn’t affected meat chickens at all, it’s inevitably going to impact the industry to some extent.
Yeah, I'm Canadian and thought it was some weird American over sensitivity, then saw an article showing like USD$7-$USD$9.50 for a dozen eggs at basic places like Wal-Mart and was thinking 'What in the FUCK???'
Where I live it’s about 13$ a dozen IF you can find them in stores. The shelves have been pretty empty a little after Trump got in. Certainly hasn’t helped.
Tldr: post pandemic, thanks to a combination of Inflation and corporate greed, everything has gotten stupid expensive in the US particulary basic necessities like in this case Eggs. For the 2024 elections Republicans use these prices as an argument on why they should be voted and Trump particulary campaigned on the behalf of reducing prices using tarrifs, so that's why you see a bunch of leftiest repeating the "Muh eggs" because instead of adressing the problems that everyday people face, The neo-Trump administration has focused on either targeting minorities, Immigrants (which ironically are some of the most important work force for farm jobs) and tariffs wars with Other nations
It’s kinda a mock towards conservatives/maga, when they were using the price of eggs as a measurement of how bad the economy is and that it’s all Biden’s fault. Now Trump is in office and he didn’t lower the price, but it went up during his presidency, well, Left leaning people are throwing it back at them
Trump specifically claimed that he would bring the prices of eggs down so people are going to continue to throw it in his face until he actually does it
During the election in the US, Donald Trump's (current president) talking points were that eggs cost a lot. He blamed former President Joe Biden for this. Now, people are talking about the price of eggs going up to mock the current president and his supporters.
The increased price of eggs was not Biden's fault, and the current increase in egg prices is not fully Trump's fault.
There was an outbreak of bird flu across a swath of producers, and they have yet to catch up so the price of eggs are up if you buy the shitty quality eggs from the factory farms. The eggs I have been buying for the past 5 years have always been $10 and are now $9.
The news also sprouted panic buying like with toilet paper during covid.
That's part of it, prices are going up. A lot of conservites ignored literally everything wrong with Trump and voted for him because he'd be the one to lower the price of groceries(or so they claimed at the time), eggs used as a popular example. And Trump did swear that he'd have grocery prices down "day one".
He backtracked on that very shortly after winning the election. We're weeks into his new administration and nothing.
My store sells a 60 count of eggs. After the pandemic, it dropped to about $8 from a high of $20. The other day, I looked at it and laughed aloud because they were $27.
I know it's funny but that's one of the few things Alex Jones was right about, tbf. The frogs and other aquatic animals were, in fact, developing issues with their sex organs due to chemicals in the water.
People talking about trans people are missing the point and again, we're focused on the wrong 1%. The food manufacturer's in this country just received RECORD PROFITS. Yes, we are entering a new "gilded age" when just a few people owned over half of a nation's wealth. This is not sustainable see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age We need more unions to protect workers rights.
Unions are undeniably necessary, but simply trying to shackle the rich does not go far enough. There should be no rich to shackle, no rich to oppress their workers, no rich to corrupt the government. The only way to truly accomplish this is to have the workers own the companies they work in. The workers who actually keep the company running should decide how it runs! Instead of having shareholders vote on policy, it should be the workers whose lives are actually affected by that policy who vote for it.
That's nice, but instead you've got a government where the three richest people in the Trump administration have more wealth than 50% of Americans combined.
I saw some post from a gay subreddit talking about how he was happy that the "T" was being decoupled from LGBTQ, because he couldn't see how it affected him.
I'm not in those categories, so I can't tell anyone how to feel, but man, you can't throw transgender people under the bus and expect to come out ahead. It's not even that gay people are next, a state is already attempting to build a case to kill federal protections on gay marriage.
Attacking transgender rights is just a trojan horse to dismantle them for other minorities. The conservative movement will always find another "other" to hurt. They've just had to shift wedge issues to a more acceptable target. And if it's not you now, that's no guarantee it won't be in the near future.
Yeah, you can't "other" your way to human rights. You'll never be "one of the good ones" for long with a crowd willing to erase another minority.
It's why the Log Cabin Republicans are so baffling. Unless you're Peter Thiel, you're probably not so rich you can ignore that your party hates you on a fundamental level.
I had someone on a non-gay subreddit tell me the same thing. Little do they know, Idaho just introduced a bill to bring back a gay marriage ban. Also, an elected official in a county near me (VERY rural area) is trying to be Trump Junior and get trans athletes banned from playing sports on "girls" teams county wide K-12. One of the local LGBT organizers that deals with youth very often criticized this since they couldn't even think of one trans student in the school system who is out. They are making laws just to show their phobias. Now image if they tried for a law banning gay boys from the football team. Wouldn't surprise me at this point.
I'm sure they exist, but 9/10 when you see a LGB against the T memes it's some sad little right wing incel/ terf, probably made by some pathetic witch like J. k. Rowling but the community is strong we love our Trans family and they'll always have a home with us ❤️❤️
I just don't get these people. They are opening up a wave of discrimination close to times of the Trans-Alantic slave trade. To say we as a society should allow a group to be discriminated against because they're born different is dangerous. One day, it's how you identify, next is your skin, then your alligance to the country. The mechanism behind these ideals truly don't discriminate. It's you're it, or you're not, and everyone cracks at some point. The leaders at the top can't keep up and use it to maintain power over an ignorant populace. Scary times living among the blind.
There's a lot of weight being put on the idea of (white) male exceptionalism too. It's one of the core foundations of the modern conservative movement, and very integral to why it's so popular among younger (predominately white) men in particular.
And the constant fixation on DEI is just a way of labeling anyone who doesn't fit their ideal as inherently less qualified. The tortured logic Trump used to blame DEI for the recent helicopter collision, where even the idea of having to work with a non-white minority or disabled person apparently ruined things for their white co-workers really spoke to that.
A lot of white women are in for a rude awakening when they find out that they're probably the biggest recipients of DEI.
In Norway there was a poem, written ~1936, called "Du må ikke sove!" by Arnulf Øverland (Translates to "Dare not sleep") warning against indifference and letting injustice and dehumanization happen just because you're not affected.
There is one line in it that's very often quoted, and most norwegians know it by heart: "Du må ikke tåle så inderlig vel den urett som ikke rammer dig selv!"
Translated it means
"You must not so willingly endure the injustice that does not affect you personally!"
I wish more people knew that quote, and took it to heart.
I’m starting to think that the people who say “class reductionism” when people try to bring attention to the rich are actually paid off by the same rich people
I love this talking point but it misunderstands the issue. Conservatives don’t hate trans people because of the affordability crisis. They hate trans people because conservatives don’t want trans kids.
I don't think conservatives blaming trans people for grocery prices is the implication. It's about how, instead of tackling greedflation and the bird flu, the Trump admin is obsessed with making the lives of trans people hell on earth. All while being cheered on by the dipshits that voted for them.
I just want to access healthcare and documents :’| wtf is my president focusing on me and my 0.5% of the U.S. population instead of the economy for, i do not know :I
I have to wonder, who finds this as an argument with substance. I'd blame government for this 100% before I'd blame a minority. That would be like cursing black people after stubbing my toe. Its not even remotely related. Do people actually make arguments like this? This is incredibly reductive.
Correct but Trump gutting the people who help deal with that right after his term started is his fault and he should be blamed for that. We shouldn’t judge presidents for natural things but we should 100% judge them for their response.
Which is EXACTLY the same thing that happened during covid. We can ABSOLUTELY blame politicians for poorly handling things. (See: how badly Trump managed COVID compared to the rest of the world)
Absolutely true, and also the reason Kamala Harris lost the election. DNC's a mess and its leaders are part of the cleptocracy. Drop the rainbow bullshit and focus on the working class.
NOBODY has ever said trans people are the reason eggs are expensive. Get over yourself.
As far as other things goes, however, USAID has (had) some interesting spending habits regarding our tax money.
Not saying it’s trans people’s faults, but it’s probably the reason why all we hear about in the news, in movies, on tv, on reddit, etc etc is trans people this and trans people that. Meanwhile they’re less than a percentage of the population. It has to be because of the propaganda imposed by someone. For some reason. And that is something I hope we find out real soon.
It’s less to do with trans people and more to do with corruption.
Correct, that is liberals. We do not hate trans people. I have had friends who were trans. But some of them are serious posers trying to get at children and people are too dumb to see it. If someone is trans, fine. Good for them. Why do they need to be celebrated in schools? Should I be given a prep rally at the local high school to talk about my wife's legs and my obsession with them?
“Behind rising egg prices and shortages is a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), known as H5N1, that killed 13.2 million commercial egg-laying hens in the month of December alone and continues to depopulate flocks into 2025, according to the USDA. Outbreaks of H5N1 were first detected in the U.S. in 2022 and are considered to be the main driver behind the years-long volatility in egg prices. ”
No, they sure aren’t, but I think the dems downfall was focusing too much on things like gender politics and catering to fringe minority groups, and not things like healthcare and affordability. It alienated a lot of the public. And when a good chunk of your voting base is religious, that was a bad strategy.
Yeah, the Harris campaign was famous for talking a ton about gender politics. Her rallies were just her saying "trans trans trans pronouns pronouns" without ever mentioning economic issues. That's a real thing that absolutely 100% happened.
The thing is, dems did not focus on gender politics, they largely ignored it. Republicans however brought up gender politics, said what Dems supposedly think about it and argued against it. I'm not sure what Dems could have done better because whether or not they talk about it, Republicans will just drag the discussion there.
Dems this cycle avoided trans issues like the plague. It was Republicans constantly talking about them. Unfortunately only safe seat Dems can be outspoken about trans rights without risking losing their elections.
the democrats supporting trans people and LGBTQ didn't lose them the election the fact most people didn't think Trump was going to win and stayed home is what lost them the election.
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden barely brought up gender at all while running for president in 2024. Bigots were just so butthurt that the dems showed even a smidgen of compassion for transgender people that they had to vote for Trump again.
this is such a disingenuous lie. the heritage foundation literally decided to focus on trans people specifically to drum up culture war BS. conservatives are the ones running ads on TV about trans people, drafting state laws about trans people, writing discriminatory lines into federal budget bills about trans people and centering their entire platform about “biological reality” of sex (don’t ask them about intersex people or clownfish or asexual reproduction). basically none of kamala’s campaign had platforms relating to trans people, it’s not something the dems campaigned on directly. keep telling yourself it’s the dems though, room temperature IQ braindead maga moron
The Trump campaign and the GOP spent millions of dollars on ads targeting trans women specifically. And the Harris campaign spent $0 on trans related ads nor did she speak about it at all.
Trump is the ones saying they're doing sex changes in schools and that trans women are all sex predators. The GOP are the ones pushing all the rhetoric right now.
If anything the Dems should have pushed back, and pushed back harder.
If anything the Dems should have pushed back, and pushed back harder.
If you mean they should've doubled down and spoken out on the issue I'm not sure how that would've helped.
If you mean they should've publicly distanced themselves from gender politics, that also would've lost them votes since these issues used to be part of their platform. It’s debatable whether it would have gained them more votes than it would've lost.
Either way they were between a rock and a hard place.
I saw that before trump won, peeps on the right blamed Biden for the eggs. Then I. Saw after trump won peeps on the left were blaming trump for the eggs. The smart peeps from left or right and center were saying it was a chicken disease the whole time.
I saw that before trump won, peeps on the right blamed Biden for the eggs. Then I. Saw after trump won peeps on the left were blaming trump for the eggs.
The left isn't blaming Trump, they're pointing out right-wing hypocrisy.
True but Trump did cause the first round of inflation
Trump made a deal with opec to collapse oil production by a record 9.7 million barrels a day for 2 years, which caused oil prices to skyrocket and heavily affected global inflation. Gas prices and inflation started falling after the 2 year deal ended in 2022.
Trump fired the Congressionally appointed PPP oversight chair to allow himself and his oligarch buddies to rob taxpayers blind and skyrocket deficits and money printing well beyond necessary.
Though covid could've been avoided completely if Trump didn't dismantle the pandemic response team in 2018, including the team in Wuhan.
It's fucking insane that Trump gets zero blame for covid and inflation when he took multiple steps that caused global supply shocks.
Nobody’s blaming Trump for raising egg prices. We are mocking the clowns who thought he would magically reduce prices when he came back simply because things were cheaper in his last term.
Trump gutted the people who help with that I understand they rose because of bird flu but removing the people who help only makes the issue worse he deserves partial blame for his mishandling of the issue.
You guys are literally missing the point. Yes, nobody's blaming trans people for increased prices, but the right is focusing on trans people, and not the 1% who are raising prices.
Yeah but that was never my problem with trans people so what's your point? I don't think that's anybodys problem with trans people so again what's your point? Are we not allowed to have problems that aren't connected? Oh I hate rich people so I should let that dude shove his boner in my daughters face in the bathroom.
No... But stuff the Gov. did for them is pure waste...
3rd Gender bathrooms everywhere... Tampons in male restrooms.
Plus that they demolish female competitive sports. And brainwashing kids and adults into thinking they are something that they are not.
A 6 year old can't decide his bedtime but can decide that he wants to be a girl? What Ludacris is this? For example, the son of our neighbor was "different" when he was little. Played with Barbies....did Ballet... Dressed pink.
Now he is married (to a woman) and has 3 kids. It was a phase (3 years i think). How would his life be if he did meds to "transition"?
This stuff is what it is about. Be yourself in your own place as much as you please but don't demand the world to evolve around you and be like you.
Yeah sadly people blamed inflation and corporate greed on the last administration including higher taxes but that was all implemented during Orange mans administration but unfortunately the uneducated in this country don't know anything and they just get made at minorities to scapegoat their problems just like how the people in Germany blamed the Jews and other minorities for the same economic problems and they always end up electing the mega wealthy and fascists that they are causing the problems in the first place.
You know what we could do with all that extra money we dont spend on foreign countries. Oh i dont know help the farmers in our country with some tax reductions as well as send some of that usaid cash to the usa farmers and then we wont have to export or spend so high on eggs.
But hey lets not look at the fact that in some cities still have stagnant pay and employment. While the rent, cost of living, groceries, go up… cut money some where we dont need so we cant spend it on the things we do.
Farming. Infrastructure. Security. Education. You know the things that keep civilization alive.
Not saying they are but they've spiked 400% in like 10 years. It's definitely an unnatural growth in society and is therefore problematic. Even by normal standards. I'm all for you doing whatever you want but it still doesn't change the fact that something is going on here.
While what is stated in the first panel is true, in the second it seems that being trans is wrong. In your defense, even those who think that being trans is wrong are not to blame for what was said in the first panel.
The real definition of right wing / Conservative politics is "convincing the majority to vote against their own good and for the good of the rich elite"
Remember when Occupy Wall Street was happening, then all the media simultaneously started going on about how the real enemies were the Reds killing minorities or the blues castrating children.
That's the second time they distracted from some important major event by exaggerating and diverting to any social issue besides class. First time was to protect themselves, this time to protect rich people.
You're so right. Biden didn't move fast enough (no surprise) to handle the Avian flu epidemic in '22. So he directed the mass killing of 100 million chickens, no chickens = no eggs. I though eggheads would figure this out.
I've never even met a trans person before, they make up a lot less than 1% of the country. To pretend that they are the downfall of the entire country or are affecting you in any way more than non-trans americans is ridiculous, and I refuse to believe people make those statements in good faith.
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