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    “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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    “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.

    This is what Murca needs. More lies and long cons. Murca was lied to, and Krasnov only needed 1/3 of them to fall for it.

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        Nice! That would make a great cartoon!

        Krasnov pledges to bring prices down in panel 1. He has a bunch of MAGA voting for him in panel 2. In panel 3, he slaps tariffs on and off. In panel 4 we see him self-congratulatory while stonks go down brrrrrr.

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    It’s so incredible that everything was bidens fault day one of his presidency, but with Trump it’s the fault of the previous administration, and no body brings up this double standard at all. What a double standard.

    Also, we all know that Trump can’t lower the price of eggs himself, just like biden couldn’t lower gas prices by himself. The fact that Trump and his ilk RAN on lowering grocery prices, especially eggs, is why we’re still talking about it and why a lot of Americans are upset. Now the right are calling us idiots and whiners for still talking about eggs while they are still going up, while the last 4 years nobody on that side could shut up about gas prices.

    They put those ‘biden did this’ stickers on pumps until the final moments of his administration, I say we do the same to eggs.

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    We handed the country over to a dictator because of eggs. The least he could do to say thank you is lower their prices.

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      just goes to show you that he doesn’t give two shot about anyone but himself, and SOMETIMES his family…. 1/3rd of america voted for this, because they wanted to be able to discriminate again.

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    The high price of eggs is in no way President Trump’s fault

    To be fair - that is true. It’s not like he infected all the birds.

    However, if you’re the president that just slapped a bunch of tariffs on neighboring countries … optics looking kinda bad ngl.

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      He did fire a bunch of the people in public health who were trying to make policies to prevent the birds being infected.

      Just like how we have routine food recalls because he shuttered lots of food regulation during his first term. Wonder how much Boar’s Head has donated to the Republican Party….

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      Not entirely true, as H5N1 isnt working to do this on its own. He’s made nondocumented workes feel unsafe so it’s hard for them to work. Specifically in the low wage work one finds on a farm, especially if the work is in a red state. Look at Kentucky, for example.

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      I’m actually smart enough to understand this. But they blamed Biden for shit that he had no control over so I’m going to be spiteful and blame everything bad on Trump.

      This blame game goes two ways Republicans. See you at the midterms.

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        “Gas is too high! Why doesn’t the President just pull the lever to make them not high?!”

        Biden releases strategic reserves to lower prices.

        “Ye-- Ye-- Well, the price of eggs is too fucking high. Pull that lever! I dare you!”

        Hm, we don’t have a strategic egg supply to make simple people happy. This will be a challenge…

        Trump claims he’ll lower it by getting elected. How? Who the fuck knows and no one cares.

        “Why aren’t the prices lower yet?!”

        Well, gosh, it couldn’t have to do with a complex system where there aren’t magic levers one just pulls to make things happen… Guess it’s Trump’s fault. What’s good for the goose (Biden) is good for the gander (Trump), after all.

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      Eggs are 4x regular price. Chicken (meat) has barely moved. There’s no lack of stock, on a perishable product and the prices are incredibly high.

      Greed made that price.

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      This is also going to start some knees to jerking, but he’s also technically correct that inflation specifically hasn’t been that bad, if you actually look at inflation rates it’s not particularly worse than what we’ve had in other decades, the 90’s which we associate with a bountiful economy had higher inflation rates for a longer period of time.

      What’s making all of this untenable is companies doing everything they can to avoid paying livable wages and most of all price gouging. Which they’re doing with eggs for good reason, but we also have to understand that anything that uses poultry is also going to take a hit, and then, like magic, a variety of other companies and services use these specific gouges as a justification to raise their own prices beyond inflation levels, even if they sell things that have never touched a chicken, like fucking mortgages and medical care.

      We used to have bureaus and departments to keep this kind of thing in check. You can argue their effectiveness but at least we had them.

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    When the Democrats said “What are you talking about? The economy is doing great!” the rightoids correctly called this shit out. Now that it’s Trump doing it, I wonder what the response will be?

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      Now that it’s Trump doing it, I wonder what the response will be?

      “How could Biden do this?”

      Is the response I’ve seen so far.

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        Just saw the Keebler Elf Mike Johnson say almost exactly that a short time ago. I mean, really, WTAF.

        Little d messes around with tariffs, the market reacts, and Mike Johnson the weird Keebler porn elf, is out there saying “we are seeing the effect of the last administration’s horrible economy” or some such nonsense…as if we cannot all see with our fucking eyes, the games that little d is playing and the effect it is having. I’m horrified that people actually fall for such obvious bullshit, especially after such a great economy was handed off to little d.

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          I’m horrified that people actually fall for such obvious bullshit, especially after such a great economy was handed off to little d.

          People are falling for the lie because, the average Joe is being squeezed dry. The economy is only doing well for the already wealthy.

          Of course, the current economy was the result of the Biden Administration attempting to fix Trump’s first term. Along with the Trump administration’s complete mismanagement of COVID-19.

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      The Democrats were not exactly wrong. But a lot of people twist it and act like they said it’s perfect, and perfect for everyone, which they did not say.

      We are about to find out how much worse it can actually get, and I guess the people that were saying “Bidenomics” was the worst thing ever and total tyranny, etc., are likely going to have to eat their words…

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      I don’t often go to Fox News, but man under Fox Business and the stock market going down, people are actually upvoting very negative reactions to all of this. It was surprising to read. I thought somehow they were going to sugarcoat it, but they aren’t, and in most cases upvotes are far outnumbering the downvotes.

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    Yeah, you hear that, PEASANTS? Shut the fuck up about the prices of things, and TAKE IT. Show some goddamn respect for your BETTERS.

    Billionaires need some peace and quiet while they divvy up the country’s spoils amongst each other. Spoils from YOUR hard labor, by the way.

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    Imagine campaigning on ‘immediate relief’ and then reposting an article that screams ‘suck it up.’ Iconic failure. Missed opportunities to explore potential solutions or broader economic implications.

    🐱🐱

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      High egg prices are doubleplusgood.

      In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.

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        Eggs have always cost this much. Under Biden, they cost more. All hail Big trumper for lowering egg prices! /s

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      Elon is triggered… so talk more about eggs. Publish and share more egg recipes and recommend more dishes with eggs in them.

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        I think you’re only allowed to do that if you’re an immigrant. If you’re an American, you’re legally obliged to uncritically consume absolute nonsense propaganda and be super racist towards said immigrants.

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      I really hope most people got this reference :)

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        Our education system is bad, but it’s not “don’t teach about the French revolution” bad. Hell my high school even made a point to point out that Antoinette was a teenager who likely didn’t actually say that

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          If it was truly her that said it, she would have been even younger than that. The book in which it’s written (which is known to not be fully factual and in which the quote is attributed to “a great princess”) was written when Antoinette was 9 years old. But it wasn’t published until she was 26, eight years after she became queen.

          “If they have no bread, let them eat cake.” sounds like something I would expect a 6-7yo who had never gone without luxury food to say.

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            sounds like something I would expect a 6-7yo who had never gone without luxury food to say

            You mean like Elon’s toddler son?

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          Ah, but online high schools/credit recovery. The French Revolution is often covered in a fifteen minute video with four multiple choice questions and a short response (which is almost always turned in with an obviously AI generated answer, and marked with 100% because there’s no longer an expectation that a teacher be qualified to teach their subject - a high school diploma is enough in Oklahoma)

          I’d met with a high schooler over zoom (thirty minutes once a week was the requirement) - “hey, tell me what you thought about that American Civil War unit you just completed?” - and they wouldn’t be able to name the century the war happened, had no idea who Abraham Lincoln was, couldn’t name the Confederacy - hell, didn’t recognize that the American Civil War happened in the United States.

          My current role as a tutor (because most high schools would rather have an unqualified high school grad that a transsexual union member with a masters degree - and tbh, getting a school bomb threats on the off chance that LibsOfTikTok targets me is not a risk I feel I can expose others too) shocks me. You have long term subs that don’t understand the pre algebra concepts teaching Algebra 2 and Pre Calc. (Every time I hear the term “cross multiply” I cringe in preparation for the horror I’m about to see)

          But yes - education is 100% that bad in southern states.

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            I can’t imagine anything she could’ve reasonably done in the environment she lived in that wouldn’t’ve been deeply offensive to the peasantry. Versailles was at its core a tool to insulate the nobility and separate them from reality. Her life and death were tragic, not because of some condemnation of the poor who killed her, but because they weren’t even wrong to do so and yet this teenager who was probably one of the least evil people at Versailles had to be the one to pay the price for the systems crafted by people like Louis XIV and Maria Theresa Hapsburg.

            The republic was necessary. The fall of bourbon was necessary. The people were right to be mad. But there is a tragedy in how some people are corrupted and broken by power they wouldn’t have asked for and have to pay the price for it

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    I voted for Trump because he Promised to LOWER Egg Prices and I STILL support Trump after he told me to SHUT UP and ACCEPT these Super High Egg Prices! I think for MYSELF!

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      MYSELF

      I really could not stop laughing from earlier today (I think it was the Young Turks podcast I was listening to) when I heard them play some crazy bullshit from the State Media Television and someone was talking, in the context of little d destroying our economy with tariffs, about how this will be just more of “Biden’s economy” if things get painful due to what little d is doing to us.

      I mean, seriously. I guess Biden made little d play his tariff game? But I’m sure there are a non-zero amount of redcaps that watch that shit and nod their heads to it.

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        The only reason the redcaps nod their head in response to information is to make sure the air doesn’t escape through the ears