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Last year, there was not a single conservative person in my “circle” that wasn’t constantly griping about the cost of eggs and “Bidenflation”. Poor souls could not afford to eat anymore, the only protein they supposedly lived on was eggs, but the price of those was so high they were just going without.
The moment that Trump took office, egg prices spiked again and suddenly these people understood that the president doesn’t control the price of eggs and besides eggs cost so much due to the effects of bird flu. Suddenly these people who couldn’t previously afford anything but eggs to eat are telling me that they’re having roast beef for dinner, then pork chops, and so on. Literally nothing has changed in their lives except there’s a different president and nearly everything is far more expensive, and yet all the financial woes they were complaining about this time last year no longer seem to exist.
I even mentioned the price of coffee, milk, and beef in a recent conversation. Supposedly these things were higher when Biden was president (not true), and when I refused to budge on that, suddenly it’s back to “well the prices are determined by complex market conditions” and “the president has brought down the price of many other things like eggs”.
It’s literally impossible to have a logical and factual conversation with these types of people.
The eggs thing wasn’t complex market conditions, companies saw an excuse to raise prices in unison, they tripled their profits, and are slowly lowering them as sales decrease due to people buying fewer eggs. They’re still up 200%.
If you want to know what lowering food prices looks like, ask the chinese. Each city I went to had arrays of different policies, none of which started and ended with “give money to giant ag companies and the means to exploit migrant workers.” Lot of policies helping retirees start micro farms.
30 eggs for 2USD related.
I know you know this, but I have to jump on the train here.
This is what Fox told them to say, and now they’re not. The whole thing is so obvious to anybody not in their clutches. I have a friend who, after the Jan 6 insurrection, was “done with Trump”. Guess who voted for him again and is convinced he’s doing a great job.
The extreme rise in food prices are due mostly to agribusinesses sharing trade data through algorithmic platforms. It’s collusion and price fixing with extra steps. The ones in charge of stopping these kind of practices are currently not interested in helping.
Because the pro-Trump media now tells people it’s because of the long-lasting effects of the Biden admin. Here in Hungary, we’re still being told the awful state of the healthcare system is due to the Gyurcsány-era, that was in 2010(!), although they started to mix it up with a little “the EU isn’t sending us money because we made a law that labels gay people pedophiles”.
Fucking EU always screwing us over. We’re still waiting for our £300,000,000 a day for the NHS that the EU is feeding to brown people… or whatever it was that we were promised
It’s definitely not governments lying constantly, right?
Beef prices should go up, along with all meat prices, to reflect their ecosystemic toll. The problem is basic staples are also expensive.
yeah stop the corn and soybean subsidies and actually charge ranchers for letting their cattle graze on federal land and then the price will reflect what the real price of meat is.
Why is meat so much cheaper here in east asia anyway? I can get tenderloin for ~6USD/lb.
and actually charge ranchers for letting their cattle graze on federal land
That’s how we got the shit with Cliven Bundy a while back. Fucking right wingers whine when they don’t get free money for nothing and have to pay for the externalities their actions create.
Absolutely this. Essential food should not be expensive. Meat, especially red meat, should be quite expensive and something you only eat rarely
Won’t this threaten your livelihood?
We should all ask for things that benefit the whole even if they would be detrimental to our individual selves.
I applaud my comrade
Yeah it was a joke because of their screen name.
Saying this in response to a news story about rising food prices? The high food prices are still being talked about and are still a problem.
The “The Resistance” logo in the top-right makes sense as only democrats could come up with a dumb line of attack as “food prices were never actually a problem and people were just being told to be angry about this non-problem”. This is the same party that boasted about saving consumers 16 cents for the 4th of July: https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-boasts-cookouts-are-16-cents-cheaper-this-year-internet-isnt-impressed-1606210
Almost as if they knew of how fucked the inflation would be and tried to run in front of it. That clearly didn’t work, so they tried gaslighting everyone by claiming rising prices are a non-issue. If this is the resistance then we’re fucked.
Food prices are obviously always a problem. Basic needs are always a problem if not accessible properly.
Though even as a non American I do notice that there is clearly less loud bitching, fingerpointing and blame getting tossed around. At least not in a jerk agressive way.
My guess is that it really is because those loud annoying people are trump supporters who now keep their mouths shut.
Perhaps, but we may also see it brought up again around midterms. Elections are usually when issues that people most care about are brought to the forefront.
The problem is that before we all spoke of the issue. Now a large chunk of us speak nothing of it.
The problem is that before we all spoke of the issue.
The problem is that the biden administration pretended they solved the problem while it was still getting worse, after an administration whose first two years were spent breaking every promise to the left of joe manchin.
Same reason the clown is elected twice in the first place, the media in this country is completely irresponsible and run by profit driven assholes with zero ethics, a major problem in everywhere.
They are just too busy winning all the time.
I think the main difference is that people were “apoplectic” when food prices had doubled or tripled in a year or two, and now they’re only going up like 10%. But also because people get used to anything, and apparently one of the things they’re used to right now is food being ridiculously expensive. Thirdly, most people get sick of a subject after a while so they engage less on it. Don’t want another article, don’t want another comment, they just turn it off and look at memes.
Because the conservative outrage machine stopped focusing on it. You can be 100% assured if Harris had one they’d be threatening impeachment over beef being up 11%.
Because media focus shifted. People will be mad with what the media tells them to be mad at.
gov controlled media strikes again
Is it because they are talking about Epstein? No? That’s weird.
People need to just stop buying what is not absolutely necessary. They will suffer a curious side effect: Weight loss, lower sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol. Maybe that will force producers to call on their orange god to quit his grifting. Who oversees the tariff tax in the External Revenue Service?
I’m down 25 lbs not drinking or eating processed food
The carnie mind does not comprehend eating anything but meat
I hear about high food prices all the time, it’s like 50% of what people complain about
Do anyone still remember the drama with egg prices? Or is it just me?
the absolutely wild thing about this is that australia is/was also complaining about a cost of living crisis, and our food is $ for $ roughly the same… as in our numeric value for food is the same - despite our currency being worth about 2/3 as much
this doesn’t mean that australia has our cost of living crisis easy… it means that americas food prices are ultra fucked
https://links.coles.com.au/hRXTKkT7aVb
Coles No Added Hormone Beef 3 Star Regular Mince: $7/500g (1lb ~= 450g)
(at time of writing, that beef in the photo costs about $10AUD/500g, or our beef mince costs $4.50USD)
Noticed a similar thing going between Canadian and US grocery stores. Roughly the same numerical cost, but with the difference in price exchange rates it is far cheaper on the Canadian side. Also, high fructose corn syrup isn’t at the top of every single ingredient list.
