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Price increases in eggs have largely been due to the outbreaks of avian flu and producers having to cull their stock, anyway. Not something Harris or Biden caused or could wave away with a wand.
That's the justification, and maybe the catalyst, but prices have stayed higher than they were due to price gouging. It's not Biden/Harris fault, but rather capitalism. They saw they could still make more profit while selling less at a higher price, so they kept doing so.
On top of that, the FTC under Biden/Harris has been investigating price gouging at the grocery store level and Kroger just came right out and admitted it. While vying for a merger with another conglomerate chain grocery.
We desperately need to break up Kroger, it's not helping anyone anymore.
We desperately need to break up ~~Kroger~~ every large corporation, it’s not helping anyone anymore
Fixed it for you.
Yeah and a bunch of other shit the FTC has done under Biden to protect consumers. But Biden will never get credit for any of that.
well.
yes.
though, I'm pretty sure the FDA isn't entirely powerless to create regulations about vaccinating livestock.... oh fuck. Republicans shat on that, too.
From the video:
“Let’s talk about eggs, Because these guys actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning.”
There's just so much that's weird about that. "These guys" are his 2 sons Ewan (6) and Vivek (4). You're saying these kids each eat 7 eggs every morning? That's a lot of eggs. Think about it. 7 fried eggs? Or 7 hard-boiled eggs? If you're scrambling them, you lose track of the individual eggs, but what, he's cracking 14 eggs into a huge bowl, then scrambling them? Do you know how much scrambled eggs that's going to make?
If his boys were teenagers, maybe I could see it, though eating that many eggs every single day would still seem weird. But, at least teenage boys are known to have big appetites.
Even if you include him, his wife and their 2-year-old, roughly 100 eggs a week every week seems odd.
Then there's just the weirdness of saying "about 14". We're talking eggs. Why not "about a dozen"? Slightly more believable, and a more common number to use when talking about eggs. I mean, surely if your kids really loved eggs you'd try to reduce it to a dozen eggs per day just so you're using one full carton every morning. Then again, if you're buying hundreds of eggs per month, maybe they come on a pallet, not by the carton, so "a dozen" doesn't mean much to you.
It's funny how he keeps finding new ways to live up to the “weird” label without even trying
Did he talk about 88 of something after he said 14 eggs?
Vivec? Like, of the Tribunal?
“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,”
JD Vance, a US senator who barely won Ohio despite being a republican
he's so incompetent. Its amazing how often he just walks into the rakes.
VC.
Reality is what you say it is.
(In case any readers are actually wondering; Venture Capitalism - JD Vance is the puppet of Paypal co-founder and Palantir spyware owner Peter Thiel. A far-right billionaire who promised trump millions of dollars if he put his plant, JD Vance, on the ticket so in the event trump wins and keels over (odds are good, yeah?) Peter Theil becomes de facto dictator and . . . does whatever evil a billionaire tech bro can't get away with on that alone.)
Because these guys actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning
Motherfucker trying to raise an army of Gastons over there.
Who cares how much eggs cost? If I put eggs on a pie chart with the rest of my monthly expenses, I would need a microscope to see it. Focus on real problems like price gouging rent.
You might as well buy the free range eggs for $8/dozen. If that's too much money, it's not like the purchase will make you more financially doomed than before.
For staple food items, especially things like eggs or bananas that were very cheap in the past, pointing to increasing prices is one way to make the cost of living figure easy to see and feel.
Using examples to illustrate a point is perfectly normal, both in politics and real life, and I expect people will continue to do so.
"So tell us JD, how will you help lower the price of eggs if elected?"
Ok, good.
As a reporter, I'd ask him why, as a current sitting Senator, Vance himself hasn't done anything to help lower the price of eggs even while his colleagues in the Senate and the House are.
Kroger exec admits to artificially increasing the price of eggs: link
27 Representitives and Senators calling for a block of the merger between Kroger and Albertsons: link
...Vance was not among those calling for a block of the merger of the price fixing grocery store..
"eggs, butter, some bread... whatever makes sense"
The egg shortage has enabled record quarterly profits and sales at Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), the largest producer and distributor of eggs in the United States. The company produces brands such as Farmhouse Eggs, Sunups, Sunny Meadow, Egg-Land’s Best and Land O’ Lakes eggs.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/business/egg-prices-cal-maine-foods/index.html
The problem, once again, is monopolies. Not enough competition means one company can jack up prices.
It's not clear if Harris will continue Biden's policies, but one of the best things Biden's admin has done is to actually go after monopolies for the first time in decades. Under a Trump / Vance presidency, I don't think that's very likely.
Well. At least they used the word lying in the title. The scare quotes don't help anyone but whatever.
I know this is one of the dumbest things to latch onto, but why do they keep talking about "Kamala Harris's policies" like she's the current president? If that were true, then Vance is a dementia addled lying sack of....
Huh, I guess I answered my own question.
Desperation, they really, REALLY wanted to run against Biden, where the age issue worked more for than against him.
They know they are fucked, their only option left is to bang on the table.
They want to try and pin some things that currently go on on her, because they assume, as the vice president, she could have some say in what the president does. The Orange Menace brought it up in the debate as well btw. 🙄
However, there is not much to pin on. Everything the republicans care for is going relatively well, given the circumstances. So they're making things up.
He's an admitted, unashamed liar. Don't even give him the time of day.
This is probably why his boss hired him in the first place. Good god, Americans. Get out and vote!
So unshocking.
this is why I'm voting for the party of Any Competent Adult ™️
if I had ranked choice I'd be voting for Giant Meteor first. Just saying.
I'm a Republican who does their Own Research and saw the Video and this is FAKE NEWS! Whatever Trump and Vance tell me is True is TRUE! Those Price Tags are FALSE just to make Vance look like a LIAR even though he said on TV he lied which was also FAKE NEWS! I'm not WEIRD!
That was a really weird response. Where can I buy a flag with your name on it to put in my yard?
Liarrhoea - a continuous stream of shit that puiurs out of the mouths of Trumpist politicians. Lying is a form of breathing to these assholes.
Fascists tell more and more egregious lies and dare you to call them liars.
Vance is quite probably the worst VP pic in modern history. Palin riled up the base as intended. Mondale added gravitas as intended. What has Vance added to the Trump campaign?
And with Trump's age and obvious cognitive decline, he's not the future of MAGA. Trump won't be the Fuhrer of Project 2025. Vance will be.
Silicon valley money. Hundreds of millions of dollars in dark money basically, and a lot of power brokers in tech working behind the scenes for the campaign.
He brings nothing from a "fill the gap" stance because he's exactly like Trump, but less addled by age. The pick was stupid from that perspective but if you're money hungry, he brought it.
“Alternative facts” strikes again.
Looks like JD Vance got a firmware update at least. A grocery store encounter with a prior revision might have looked like this:
Ok. Good. Whatever makes sense. How long have you worked here for?