Free market. The companies are responsible for setting the price. Let’s put blame where it belongs: corporate greed. Remember when “They were stealing our jobs,” and not realizing the company was outsourcing their jobs? And how the fuck does someone steal the job you were hired for? Always bothered me as a kid.
He said eggs were $4.
Eggs are $4 at my store.
y’all are really reaching on this shit
But that’s your store. Vance was saying Eggs were $4 while standing in front of a sign saying “Eggs $2.99” and complaining about egg prices in the area, while blaming Harris for making eggs $4.
He could’ve stood in front of the $2.99 sign to only show the more expensive eggs. He could’ve gone to a “higher end” store to find those $7 eggs. He could’ve just stood in a different part of the store. But his crew looked at the backdrop and said “eh, go for it.” and did.
Harris isn’t responsible for the price of eggs anyway. There’s no “Vice Presidential Office of Egg Prices” she presides over.
He said eggs are $4. Eggs are $4.
Like I said, reaching.
It sucks (in your eyes; I don’t care) that he didn’t have the PR smarts to ensure he wasn’t in front of a $3 price tag, but that’s only a reflection of how carefully he manages his image. Careful management of image is not really something I care about.
To be clear those are cage free eggs per the label and box art. I personally approve but lets be clear those are not your standard eggs that is insinuated.
They are the cheapest eggs at my store.
There are three more photos I took but the server won’t let me upload them
“The WOKE made the eggs prices skyrocket!!”
Liarrhoea - a continuous stream of shit that puiurs out of the mouths of Trumpist politicians. Lying is a form of breathing to these assholes.
the price behind him was fake news
Price increases in eggs have largely been due to the outbreaks of avian flu and producers having to cull their stock, anyway. Not something Harris or Biden caused or could wave away with a wand.
Republicans don’t want to hear facts. They just want “alpha males” to cater to their feelings.
That’s the justification, and maybe the catalyst, but prices have stayed higher than they were due to price gouging. It’s not Biden/Harris fault, but rather capitalism. They saw they could still make more profit while selling less at a higher price, so they kept doing so.
On top of that, the FTC under Biden/Harris has been investigating price gouging at the grocery store level and Kroger just came right out and admitted it. While vying for a merger with another conglomerate chain grocery.
Yeah. Was quite surprised when I first read that. Brazen.
Yeah and a bunch of other shit the FTC has done under Biden to protect consumers. But Biden will never get credit for any of that.
shit the FTC has done
Biden will never get credit for any of that.
Good. Just because he appointed the excellent Lina Khan doesn’t mean that he deserves credit for the work of her and the agency.
Especially since it’s a reasonably safe bet that her appointment wasn’t his idea to begin with, but rather that of a more progressive member of whichever committee suggests cabinet picks.
Foes he, and his administration, deserve credit, even if it’s just for listening to other people? If it were a particular other president it wouldn’t happen, so his administration deserves to be praised for it. Criticize where it needs to be done, but also praise where it’s deserved. If you only criticize then you’re unable to be won and aren’t worth trying to win.
No, Biden doesn’t deserve credit for not being Trump. That’s putting the bar so low that you’d need specialized drilling or diving equipment to reach it.
Likewise, Biden does not deserve credit for not stopping people within his administration from doing good things that he himself would likely not have done.
If you only criticize then you’re unable to be won and aren’t worth trying to win.
Conversely, if you set the bar too low, demanding nothing except “don’t be ridiculously awful” from the people who have the power to enact positive change, that positive change will never happen.
I didn’t say for not being Trump. I said he deserves credit for what his administration has chosen to do. Regardless of who’s idea it is, his administration chose to listen to them, if it wasn’t from them. They deserve credit for that.
You aren’t even setting the bar too high. You’re not even setting it, and then saying they came in short. You’re saying they don’t deserve credit for something they literally did. How dumb is that?
Elizabeth Warren, btw.
She’s the one who recommended Khan? Well done, Warren!
She only recommended her! Everything she does after she doesn’t get credit for, right! /s
You can’t stay consistent, can you? “Biden bad” is the only difference between Warren getting credit for recommending her and Biden getting credit for choosing that recommendation because it was the best choice for what he wanted to accomplish.
The FTC is part of the executive branch. Biden absolutely deserves credit for putting an actual trust buster in charge instead of a corporate lackey.
He deserves a little bit of credit for listening to the recommendations of people more progressive than himself with regards to the appointment itself, sure.
That doesn’t mean that he gets to take credit for everything she does, though, much of which he most likely wouldn’t have done in her place.
Because the donor class is pissed about it and most of them own the media.
They want the dems to fail so trump will give them more tax breaks.
We desperately need to break up Kroger, it’s not helping anyone anymore.
We desperately need to break up
Krogerevery large corporation, it’s not helping anyone anymoreFixed it for you.
well.
yes.
though, I’m pretty sure the FDA isn’t entirely powerless to create regulations about vaccinating livestock… oh fuck. Republicans shat on that, too.
That would account for about 6 weeks of price increase. Chickens don’t live that long.
It’s greed. It’s always greed.
That would account for about 6 weeks of price increase. Chickens don’t live that long.
Dude what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken
A chicken may live for 5–10 years, depending on the breed.[24]
Yeah, if you let them live until they die of old age. But they are killed for their meat, and that usually happens around 6 weeks.
You are finding out about the disparity between commercial farm chickens and wild chickens (or rescued chickens).
Reference: (can find a bunch more about this if you want) Meat chickens: https://meatcheftools.com/how-long-do-commercial-meat-chickens-live/
Quick Summary Commercial meat chickens typically live for about 5 to 7 weeks before they are processed for meat production. These chickens are raised in a controlled environment with optimal conditions for fast growth, resulting in a short lifespan compared to chickens raised for egg production or as pets. The rapid growth rate and early processing are designed to maximize meat production efficiency in the commercial poultry industry.
Egg laying chickens:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/egg-laying-hens_n_59c3c93fe4b0c90504fc04a1
Chickens live eight years on average, but hens only productively lay eggs in the first two, maybe three years of their lives. And on the commercial level, it’s closer to two years, and sometimes less.
Egg birds take 6 months from hatching to laying
“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,”
- Jack Dick Vance, a U.S. Senator representing Ohio.
JD Vance, a US senator who barely won Ohio despite being a republican
If he has to create stories so that the American media makes the ambitions of the most vile, ruthless and reactionary sections ruling class look like the suffering of the american people, then that’s what he’s going to do
the onion would have said this was too on the nose.
The onion knew it was out gunned by reality, they were wise to pack it in.
They just started printing again, actually
I’ve actually been pleasantly surprised.
Who cares how much eggs cost? If I put eggs on a pie chart with the rest of my monthly expenses, I would need a microscope to see it. Focus on real problems like price gouging rent.
You might as well buy the free range eggs for $8/dozen. If that’s too much money, it’s not like the purchase will make you more financially doomed than before.
Diabetic people probably care about egg prices. Low-carb diets were a bit pricier already. But I’m going to go out supposing you are really asking why every article about inflation for the past two years focuses on eggs. I just assumed it was a manifestation of that meme about United Statesians desperately grasping for any metric other than the metric system to quantify the world around them.
For staple food items, especially things like eggs or bananas that were very cheap in the past, pointing to increasing prices is one way to make the cost of living figure easy to see and feel.
Using examples to illustrate a point is perfectly normal, both in politics and real life, and I expect people will continue to do so.
Looks like JD Vance got a firmware update at least. A grocery store encounter with a prior revision might have looked like this:
Ok. Good. Whatever makes sense. How long have you worked here for?
“Eggs, yeah can I get 20? And make them chicken eggs.”
There’s some irony of this being in Reading, PA…
“So tell us JD, how will you help lower the price of eggs if elected?”
Ok, good.
The egg shortage has enabled record quarterly profits and sales at Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), the largest producer and distributor of eggs in the United States. The company produces brands such as Farmhouse Eggs, Sunups, Sunny Meadow, Egg-Land’s Best and Land O’ Lakes eggs.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/business/egg-prices-cal-maine-foods/index.html
The problem, once again, is monopolies. Not enough competition means one company can jack up prices.
It’s not clear if Harris will continue Biden’s policies, but one of the best things Biden’s admin has done is to actually go after monopolies for the first time in decades. Under a Trump / Vance presidency, I don’t think that’s very likely.
“eggs, butter, some bread… whatever makes sense”
As a reporter, I’d ask him why, as a current sitting Senator, Vance himself hasn’t done anything to help lower the price of eggs even while his colleagues in the Senate and the House are.
Kroger exec admits to artificially increasing the price of eggs: link
27 Representitives and Senators calling for a block of the merger between Kroger and Albertsons: link
…Vance was not among those calling for a block of the merger of the price fixing grocery store…
So unshocking.
this is why I’m voting for the party of Any Competent Adult ™️
if I had ranked choice I’d be voting for Giant Meteor first. Just saying.
If we had ranked choice, I would be voting for Kodos then Kang then Giant Meteor.
Giant Meteor DOES solve the global climate change issue really easily.
it’ll also end partisan politics for a while,
“Alternative facts” strikes again.
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