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.
Wasn’t he going to lower the egg prices? Weren’t they supposed to get tired of winning? Maybe he used the wrong sign in his addition.
He’s making egg prices great again, I guess.
This shit is just getting too surreal. Democrats were literally not allowed to quote actual economic progress without being called “out of touch” but Trump can literally say “fuck you shut up.”
Conservatives always love censorship.
Never let them tell you otherwise.
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.
The areas that get power from Canada are rural. And pretty red.
Yes and no. Plenty of blue areas will be affected, but that’s not the point here.
The point is to send a message that it’s not ok to threaten Canada and its sovereignty.
Plenty of conservatives in those states to suffer along with their liberal counterparts. I’ll be here with my popcorn.
It’s needed. The only way to get the message across is to fight back.
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?
“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
“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!
ETA For those following these comments:
Hanlon’s razor is an adage or rule of thumb that states: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Given the track record of those in the current ruling class of Murca, I agree with those comments which suggest we can exchange the placement of “malice” and “stupidity”.
Krasnov just DGAF about the plebs who voted for him, at best. At worst, he’s actively destroying the economy, democracy, and the plebs he lied to.
America, the only country dumb enough to fall for a rapist felon’s promises…twice.
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
There is a heavy element of malice here, but lest we forget there’s also more incompetence than any other administration in history, even the first Trump admin.
That just makes me want to talk more about egg prices. Also fuck Charlie Kirk, I hope his face keeps shrinking until it disappears.
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.
The lack of response to the bird flu is clearly the speculation driver here.
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.
rando firings that effect government entities that stabilize farm prices and respond to things like bird flu can have somewhat of an effect to.
Yes to the first one, not as much immediately to the second one. The second one would likely have more medium term effects.
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.
Precisely, it IS treason. At the very least he should be removed from any position of power over others.
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.
Normally I would agree with you if it was a one time thing. But the market stops listening to the boy who cried wolf. All the markets are down despite Trump rebonding the tariff and delaying it. There has to be something else at play. The guy is certainly not an economic genius but he generally at least pushes through with his idiotic shit.
Ok let’s talk about the recession instead
One of their biggest campaign promises just broken. All those grocery stores that had to host this sack of shit for nothing.
Everything about this dude is so off-putting. He just looks condescending in every picture
He’d look so much more normal without the eyeliner.
…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.
We cannot let Trump get away with claiming that he campaigned on lowering inflation. Trump campaigned on reducing prices, not slowing the rate at which they increase.
Everyone with two brain cells knew he wouldn’t be able to do that. Now he can’t even seem to keep inflation low, which it already was the last year of the Biden administration.
Oh but we are going to let him get away with it, just like we’ve allowed him to get away with everything in his first term. This piece of shit is going to die like a wet fart and we’re going to allow it. Because we’re mostly sayers, not doers. We’ll say we’ll do this, but won’t do it. We keep hoping for karma or some invisible deity to come in and save us, but it won’t ever happen.
The reason Trump is ever in office both times, was because he is the poster-boy for hate, bigotry, ignorance and all things that incels, racists, xenophobes and bigots all look up to. They feel if he’s office, they get to get away with everything because there’ll be nobody or nothing to slow them down and this administration will enable it.
God fucking bless america. /s
Inflation was always going to go back up, and they all damn well knew it. Expect interest rates to stay high for the foreseeable future.
Because of monetary policy?
His project 2025 he’s clearly following does have a section on the Federal reserve, and its far tighter than it is now. I can see prices fall as shelter prices collapse.
Without an increase in supply, how much could housing prices actually decline? My bet? Not much.
You think people can afford to pay cash?
I think people sign up for 30 year mortgages because interest rates are below real inflation and they can make an arbitrage, as they benefit from the cantillon effect because ‘housing always goes up’.
I also think cheap debt drives shortages in housing, its a symptom of currency debasement and does not reflect a support for prices.
You think people can afford to pay cash?
You’re right, of course. People can’t. But there are gazillions of dollars in private equity sloshing around, particularly now because those dollars have fled the market that Trump’s tariffs are cratering. Private equity is happily ready to soak up all the distressed pricing housing available and turn more people into unwilling, permanent renters.
Yeah it’s how so many wealthy people are able to double their fortunes during recessions like in 2007/2008. They’re buying everything at a discount.
