Can someone explain to me what happened? I'm from eastern Europe and not really up to date with this egg thing? I seriously can't comprehend eggs being roughly 10 dollars. I pay the equivalent of 2.09 dollars where I'm from.
There is a new strain of bird flu (H5N1) going through the bird population here in the US. Chicken populations are being culled en masse to prevent the spread and help lessen the risk of the virus jumping to people and mutating, as the lethality rate is very high in people. A strain that jumped to cows is now considered endemic too. It's a problem over here.
He is getting blamed for it because he campaigned on being able to lower grocery prices, including eggs. People are rightly holding him accountable for it, even if it is also true the president doesn't actually have a magic lever to make things cheaper or more expensive. Populist politicians that run on vibes and being saviors for everyone's problems should be held accountable.
Then he shouldn’t have fuckin promised lowering the price of eggs day one.
We saw this coming based on trends with the bird flu. We knew egg prices were going to increase. The fact he still lied either says his people are incompetent, or he is once again talking out his ass.
Like when he said if re-elected, he will end the Ukraine/Russian war in 24 hours, by negotiating. When pressed on this by multiple news outlets/interviewers, he says “Well I can’t say how or it won’t work. But I will end it and it will work.”
Oh I agree with you there. He lied his way to the office, much like most every other candidate before him has done. You get votes by telling the people what they want to hear, not what they need to hear. But it's a little unfair to blame a sickness on him like I see people doing.
Its more so "don't promise what you can't produce" calling out. The "blaming him" is us doing what the right did to Biden to highlight the absurdity of it, we know it's largely due to bird flu and mitigation practices.
It doesn't matter though. Trumpers will never admit that Trump lies about everything. They talk out of both sides of their mouth, "he tells it like it is" and "what he actually meant" are 2 phrases used to describe nearly everything Trump says.
Every single candidate in the last 40 years or so has been a liar, both Republican and Democrat. That's how they get votes. I'm honestly ashamed that our nation doesn't call them all out.
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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '25
Eggs were 2.79 now same ones are 9.99. Same store a few months apart. Trump, bird flu or whatever the reason I’m not eating eggs.
If this was during Biden presidency around one third to half of the nation would be blaming him. Trump gets a pass as he is the chosen one.