JD Vance was roundly mocked online over a trip to the supermarket where he bemoaned the steep price of eggs — and botched the photo opp.

The Republican vice presidential nominee stopped by a supermarket in Reading, Pennsylvania, with his sons over the weekend to illustrate how grocery prices have been impacted by “Kamala Harris’s policies” when he claimed a dozen eggs cost $4.

The problem? When footage of the visit emerged, Vance was quickly called out by viewers who spotted the price tag of a dozen eggs behind him was actually $2.99.


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  • oxjox@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Ok. Simple observation of the image would inform you that you’re wrong. I’m not sure how one person can say the sky is blue and the other look at the same sky and claim it’s “obviously red”.

    I wasn’t insulting you. I was speaking generally about the internet’s strange insistence to focus on pointless semantics for the sake of pride. Although, this conversation informs me that maybe there is some elementary education left to discuss among grown adults. I’m going to do us both the favor and assume you’re trolling me.

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      I bet the $4 ones are 18 count instead of 12 count. I always buy mine in 18s and you can’t really tell unless you look from above.

      You are being a shit, I’m not sure if it’s on purpose but you’re so shit sure of yourself you won’t even take a beat to see if you could understand where someone else is coming from. Grow the fuck up.

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        2 months ago

        You’re tripling down on this? This is the hill you want to die on?

        Do you think a grocer would stock 18 eggs next to 12 eggs without any clear indication until you took it off the top shelf? Or do you think they’d stack it differently, on a lower shelf, so you could easy discern the difference?

        What the fuck does this have to do with the fucking point of this story? You want to argue over a fucking dollar? That’s important to you?

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          2 months ago

          I’m not the same person I just recognized you were a jackass and decided to call you out on it, turns out you’re not even an observant jackass.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I was going to point this out as well. He said “a dozen” eggs. Has anyone with eagle eyes verified that some of the more expensive tags on there are not in front of 18 or 24 pack cartons? I sure as hell can’t tell from the potato quality of the image, plus the shelves being out of the camera’s depth of field a bit.

        Anyway, regardless of all other tomfoolery either real or imagined, the average price of a dozen eggs nationwide is roughly $3.20 at present,. This is demonstrably down from its peak last year, which was $4.82.