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Vance mocked for saying eggs cost $4 — while standing in front of a dozen for $2.99
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2024
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How did you get to that part while ignoring the preceding sentence?
Every store has eggs tagged at different prices depending on what kind they are. If you look quickly and see more signs that start with $4 than $2, would you say eggs are $2.99 or "around $4"?
I'm really amazed at the ignorance, be it willful or not, all Americans are capable of.
I mean... all you had to do was look.
Which has nothing to do with the fact that he didn't bother checking the prices around him in his own photo op, showing a complete lack of attention to his surroundings.
If you want to talk about high gas prices, don't do it standing in front of a gas station sign with significantly lower-than-average prices unless you're going to bring that fact up.
I edited my comment with an image of the source since you didn't care to look for yourself.
The answer to your question is $2.99.
When you say "cars are costing three million dollars this year" and you're standing by both a Lamborghini and a Kia, you look like a fool.
Evidence has been presented to you which you are ignoring for the sake of your own narrative. You are so obsessed with your political agenda that you can not admit that your "opponent" might be right for once. The average price of the eggs he is standing in front of is $4.10. Vances' statement about the price of eggs is 100% accurate.
Regardless, the story is not about the price of eggs. The story is about a political candidate making remarks about policy which may or may not have impacted the price of eggs and other consumer goods. These specific remarks are a mixed bag as the price of eggs are impacted more by disease and the price of other goods were not impacted by the Inflation Reduction Act.
I don't understand how people are so blinded by their politics that they twist reality to turn the truth into fiction. You are disseminating "fake news" and deepening the divide between us.
This is exactly what's wrong with us. When one side makes a claim that the other side sees very clearly to be false then we attack each other over something (a meme) that's whole irrelevant to our lives. We should be discussing inflation. Because clearly, not enough people have a clue about how it works. We should be discussing this candidates claim that an Act of Congress caused the price of consumer goods to increase. Is that true or is it not? What is it that this administration has actually done?
This is what should guide us at the polls and in our political discourse, not if a quick glance at the price of eggs in one store in one part of one state is accurate to the dollar or not.
Where did he talk about averages? This is what he said:
If he wanted to talk about averages, as the article says:
So either way he was being dishonest. Sorry you don't care for that, but he still was.
Right there.
So, now you want to ignore the signs behind him and use statistics for the country?
Just stop. You are not contributing to any valuable discourse.
I don't see anything about averages in that sentence.
He's literally talking about the whole country, not just the store he's in. Do you really think he's saying Kamala Harris made the price of eggs an average of $4 a dozen in that specific store only?
You're twisting the reality you've already twisted to continue to fit your narrative. I will not follow you down that rabbit hole.
If you'd like to discuss the real story, the "inflation explosion act" and even the lack of policy proposals by the Trump campaign (to my knowledge) to reduce the costs of goods, I'd be happy to do so.
I'm not twisting anything. The average is simply not $4. In fact the average isn't even $4 in that store. Not when there are cheaper options. That's not how averages work.
I get that you don't like that Vance is a liar, but he still lied.