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- conservative@lemmy.world
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.
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"SHUT UP ABOUT THE THING I SWORE TO YOU THAT I’D FIX DAY 1! STOP HOLDING ME ACCOUNTABLE! "
People in my old selecting job the day after the election litterly said they voted from him so “groceries wouldn’t be $300 dollars”
It’s so many people couldn’t tell it was an obviously lie that Trump was going to make groceries cheaper
He really is like a child.
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Saving millions?? Goodness! That could be upwards of a dollar per person!
2 million is technically also millions, so could be less than a penny per person
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.
Dems could have beaten him every time. They didn’t.
Dems are not a reliable solution to this problem, and nor is the broken federal electoral system in general. You cannot vote your way out of this mess. Republicans will continue to suppress the vote of people they don’t like. The owning class have purchased the newspapers, television stations and social media platforms. It’s a rigged game.
Organize in your communities if you want any real power.
We need both, and community organizing turns into party primaries really quick.
Realistically, US can’t wait 4 years if want survive.
Can’t even wait 2
They will blame it on the democrats even if the problem persists for the next 2 years, and no matter what bullshit deregulation on price gouging AND sanitation/health inspection being gutted that accellerates the spread of disease, it is ALWAYS the democrat’s fault.
We know what the problem is, but I have no idea what the solution would be.
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…
Anyone know if the rest of the groceries actually went down aside from the eggs?
Overall, prices for food-at-home rose by 0.8 percent between December 2024 and January 2025. This was partially an effect of seasonal trends, since prices typically increase in January following the holiday season. From December 2024 to January 2025, prices increased for 11 food-at-home categories and declined for 4 categories. In 2025, prices are predicted to grow at above-average rates for eggs, sugar and sweets, nonalcoholic beverages, and fresh fruits, while dairy products are expected to grow at near-average rates. Prices for 10 other food-at-home categories are predicted to change at a rate below their 20-year historical average.
Source: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-price-outlook/summary-findings
So he didn’t lower prices but also the eggs are mostly a one off.
Multiple economists overwhelmingly stated that his policy proposals were inflationary. MAGA accused them of being “liberals” and disregarded their warnings as fake. Working people aren’t going to be saving anything unless it’s by a sheer cut back in their spending as they try to save money. And of course saving won’t matter if Trump axes FDIC.
But Biden caused it all during his term… Fuck this guy, I wish he would shut up just in general
“I will fix everything by being a dictator on day one.”
Imagine how many suckers there must be, if a serial liar gets voted into office twice. Then imagine all the people who didn’t register to vote, or registered and didn’t vote.
And there you have it, you stupid fucking 71 million americans, who ever believed this fuckface promised you about lowering egg prices. When it’s never been about that, it has mainly been about fulfilling the crooked policies he wanted to do and is currently doing. Keep eating them high costs, you stupid fucks. And you’ll still justify your reasoning for having voted for this guy because it’s voter’s remorse at this point.
It was never about egg prices for them, either. They just used that as their excuse so they didn’t have to publicly admit they just really like bigotry and hate.
sexism and bigotry was thier only motive. they cant even give a straight answer why they dint vote for Kamala, most of it was “i dont like her”
Most never want to recognize that they’re racist. Most reject the idea that living in a racist society means you will internalize racism.
I was watching some jubilee youtube content (do not recommend) but the number one thing i have to say about conservatives is they suffer from some crazy form of indignation. Like, these were recorded pre-election and one guy was outright furious that kamala was campaigning as if project 2025 was trumps plan. Never mind it’s plain to see that would be their plan. Never mind that is exactly what we are seeing today. This same guy, if I stopped him on the street today would be mad about something entirely different and never even take a second to recognize how massively wrong he was. Jus’ out there being indignant about some other meaningless gop grievance.
You’re off by about 6 million on the voting number, but I mostly agree with the rest of your point. Only other thing I’d push back on is that statement that this is only Trump’s doing. I believe the Conservative Party has been moving toward this moment for decades, with or without Trump. He’s just a great tool for them.
…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
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.
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.
Can’t Trump just declare the bird flu as nonsense like COVID? That’ll surely fix the prices.
RFK JR has measles covered.
Actually, what I fully expect from this administration is to have the USDA stop inspections and declare the bird flu over. If they are really brazen, they’ll tell farmers to not cull the birds and to stop all testing of bird flu.
This is how our country dies.
I’m not happy about it or anything, but at least in this scenario it becomes entirely feasible for all of these fascist clowns to (technically anyway) choke to death on cock, so I’m understandably conflicted
Nah they’ll just blame the “deep state” government for not stopping it while still defending Trump just like they did during COVID.
The ostrich method appears to be popular lately. We’ve banned all discussion of climate change for example in at least one state. We’ve even passed the law saying it isn’t real.
I don’t get it. If the method is so effective, just say it’s gone.
Birds… Migrations… Immigrants! There … blame deflection complete in two steps only.
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“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
