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That price tag is missing its Trump “I did this!” sticker.
Thanks for reminding me about him looking straight at the sun like a 2 year old.
He needs to see the target he want to nuke
I need a high resolution version so I can print some stickers.
I prefer the first one the other person posted. It shows off his stupidity when he looked at the sun, and also it looks like he's kinda happy about it.
6.19 in Oklahoma.
I moved to California from Tulsa last year and that blows my mind. They're $12 here one per customer but Cali had made me numb to outrageous prices but that price in Oklahoma brings it all back.
I know it's crude but I still can't kick my love for the idea of a "I raped that too!" Sticker
Not really Trump. That's avian flu driving that.
There are certainly voters who credit or blame everything in the economy on whoever happens to be President and voted for Trump because they saw a lot of inflation under Biden and hoped that voting for Trump would result in less inflation. Those guys are probably operating on a flawed understanding, though the "if things are going well economically at the moment, credit the President, and if they're going badly, blame the President, because it must be the current President's doing" is not a new phenomenon in American politics.
But this particular effect is really driven by nature.
EDIT:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eggs-prices-shortages-bird-flu-2025/
If you try to get elected by blaming something on the currently elected official and say that you will fix that, be 100% prepared to take the blame if that thing gets worse even if it was something you had no control in whatsoever, because you stood up and took responsibility for it.
If you don't want to be blamed for saying stupid things, stop saying stupid things.
Next thing you know you’ll be telling me Biden had no control over the price of gas! 😉
No one putting up an 'I did this' sticker actually gives a shit about the reasons for the price. And no one ever has.
If only there was some sort of center for disease control that could assist the American public in combating illness. Surely, if such a center did exist, the president wouldn't hamstring them in some way in which may prevent farmers from taking action against infectious diseases destroying their livestock.
Oh, would you look at that, the president did hamstring the CDC by halting regular release of their scientific reports, and so it is, in fact, on him that bird flu is causing egg prices to soar.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/health/bird-flu-mmwr-pause-trump-kff-partner/index.html
Don't worry, RFK Jr is going to fix it when he's heading the HHS!
And the CDC being ordered to not report any data on the avian flu via an executive order is also not the current administrations fault I guess?
That order has a long-term effect though. In a few months it will probably be significantly worse than it would've been without that order but no decision made in the last couple of weeks could affect egg prices today.
I'm calling it Trump Flu, because why not.
In case you missed it from a few years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Did_That!
Say, is that the same CBS News who's parent company, Paramount, is currently in talks to settle a legal dispute with Heir Trump because he didn't like their accurate reporting about him so he sued?
Why yes, yes it is!
The primary problem is most people don’t understand inflation. Inflation is the speed at which things get more expensive. There is always creep up.
That’s what the 3% “cost of living” yearly raise is supposed to cover. It’s not really a “good job” raise, it just keeps your wage exactly the same as the prior year alongside inflation. Another thing a lot of people don’t understand, but that’s a bit of a digression.
So. Inflation speeds or slows but never reverses. Prices never go back down unless there’s recession. When the DC people talked about the economy being good they meant, in part, that inflation was fixed. We were back to 3%. The problem with that is it doesn’t bring down the price of anything. It only means that prices stopped jumping up so high compared to 2019.
So this idea that 2016 prices would return with Trump is based in a misunderstanding of economics. Prices don’t go back down.
In fact, like the COVID jump, I wouldn’t be surprised if the egg industry left prices up once the avian flu passes.
Joe Biden in office for four years: "I sleep"
Donald Trump in office for a week: "This is why your egg prices went up"
BlueMAGA is such a bleak turn for liberalism. We're abandoning any idea that federal policy might affect our material conditions. Presidents are just a panacea, an excuse to close our eyes and insist everything is actually great, right up until the election cycle breaks against us at which point its not our fault so we can acknowledge it again.
The only thing Democrats in leadership seem to have learned from movement conservatism is how to lie to their rank-and-file members. Now all we do is pass the buck from one failing administration to another, while asserting everything bad is caused by Wrong Party Backed By Evil Foreign Government.
No wonder the US is embracing genocidal fascism on a national scale.
You do realize the comments are tongue-in-cheek right? It's because he guaranteed an immediate drop in grocery prices and people are volleying after we had to hear a crapton of "Biden Did That" nonsense while gas prices rose back to previous levels alongside the economic recovery after the pandemic. No one here thinks either president is God.
I don't know whether you're just imperceptive or whether you're being willfully oblivious so you can force-feed us the same bLUemAgA talking points you get rightfully downvoted for in every post.
Did Biden or Harris mention bird flu even once on the campaign trail? It certainly didn't come up during the debate.
They just dug in their heels and insisted inflation was over
In any sane world, would something as specific as eggs drive politics? They also didn’t weigh in on how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie-pop. That’s fine, they should be concerned about bigger things
Hey, in a different egg thread I wrote a long comment about why eggs matter. You can read it here.
It’s hard to get people to grasp the meaning of inflation, and even if a person has partial understanding it’s easy to obfuscate it with other measures, but the meaning of expensive eggs is clear to everyone.
Mass media is one hell of a drug. I remember the Swift Boat Veterans making the 2004 election about whether or not John Kerry faked his war wound to win a purple heart. And then there was the 1988 race, where the national news collectively shat itself over Dukakis doing a photo op in a tank (OG Tankie).
Conservative news outlets hammering every outlet with "Eggs! Too expensive! INFLATION! INFLATION! INFLATION!" stories made this a touchstone for a low of traditional media consuming voters.
Whose tongue in whose cheek? Are you hitting on me? It's working.
😉😉