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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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[–] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 210 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 79 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Most never want to recognize that they're racist. Most reject the idea that living in a racist society means you will internalize racism.

[–] beezzeeb@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago (15 children)

Those of us that have had to listen to their bullshit at holidays and other family gatherings for 50 years have been kindly letting them know.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It's one of the reasons I'm glad my grandma is dead.

She was a devout catholic for her whole life, even winning awards for her service to the church.

When the pope condemned Trump's border policies in his first term, she had the audacity to say, "The pope needs to mind his own business."

I would have hated to be around her in 2020 onwards. She would have been a Nazi even though my grandfather was Jewish.

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[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 9 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] Robotsandstuff@lemmy.world 22 points 9 hours ago

Ok let's talk about the recession instead

[–] Balthazar@lemmy.world 64 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

It's almost like he lied just to get into office and then do whatever he wanted.

[–] venotic@kbin.melroy.org 15 points 9 hours ago

He lied openly and his voterbase ate it the fuck up. Ate everything, unquestioned. Standing there with their stupid thick skulls nodding unashamedly "UH HUH! YUP! U DU U TRUMP, U HAVE MUH VOTE!".

[–] techclothes@lemmy.world 19 points 9 hours ago

My brother asked me if I was better off 4 years ago right before the election. I pointed out the USA had one of the best recoveries after the pandemic lock downs and asked what he think Trump would have done different. He didn't answer. Ignoring that 4 years ago we were filling the impacts of Trumps government, not Bidens, I have to ask if he's better off now than he was almost 4 months ago. I'm betting the honest answer would be no.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 18 points 10 hours ago

Criminals do tend to lie in an attempt to avoid prison.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

The lack of response to the bird flu is clearly the speculation driver here.

[–] Lemmist@lemm.ee 102 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Can't Trump just declare the bird flu as nonsense like COVID? That'll surely fix the prices.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] alaphic@lemmy.world 32 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Birds... Migrations.... Immigrants! There ... blame deflection complete in two steps only.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 22 points 12 hours ago

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.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 64 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Kirk also argued that Trump and the effort of his administration’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency will lead to savings for all Americans, and said egg prices will come down soon.

Everyone knows that illegally firing career federal employees results in lower prices on eggs...

/s

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, firing the people responsible for dealing with a disease that kills chickens will surely make the price go down.

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 33 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

I swore I'd post this everytime Charlie Kirk gets mentioned, so here I am:

https://blovish.github.io/kirkslider/

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I looked at the code for this a couple nights ago, the whole Navy seal copypasta is in there, lol.

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[–] Zier@fedia.io 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

He will never lower the price of eggs. And soon he will crash the economy. No one will have money for eggs, which will cost $20/dozen. He is crashing our Democracy & economy. I can't wait until he tries to remove all the gold bars from Treasury and flee the country.

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[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 25 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

His reality distortion field is collapsing.

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[–] gamer@lemm.ee 10 points 11 hours ago

I can see why so many news sites are trying to replace their writers with AI. This article is just a little bit of context followed by a dump of social media posts.

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