From the video:
“Let’s talk about eggs, Because these guys actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning.”
There’s just so much that’s weird about that. “These guys” are his 2 sons Ewan (6) and Vivek (4). You’re saying these kids each eat 7 eggs every morning? That’s a lot of eggs. Think about it. 7 fried eggs? Or 7 hard-boiled eggs? If you’re scrambling them, you lose track of the individual eggs, but what, he’s cracking 14 eggs into a huge bowl, then scrambling them? Do you know how much scrambled eggs that’s going to make?
If his boys were teenagers, maybe I could see it, though eating that many eggs every single day would still seem weird. But, at least teenage boys are known to have big appetites.
Even if you include him, his wife and their 2-year-old, roughly 100 eggs a week every week seems odd.
Then there’s just the weirdness of saying “about 14”. We’re talking eggs. Why not “about a dozen”? Slightly more believable, and a more common number to use when talking about eggs. I mean, surely if your kids really loved eggs you’d try to reduce it to a dozen eggs per day just so you’re using one full carton every morning. Then again, if you’re buying hundreds of eggs per month, maybe they come on a pallet, not by the carton, so “a dozen” doesn’t mean much to you.
It’s funny how he keeps finding new ways to live up to the “weird” label without even trying
Pssssh, when I was a lad, I ate 4 dozen eggs every morning to help me get large.
Vivec? Like, of the Tribunal?
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.
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.
Because these guys actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning
Motherfucker trying to raise an army of Gastons over there.
“So tell us JD, how will you help lower the price of eggs if elected?”
Ok, good.
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…
“eggs, butter, some bread… whatever makes sense”
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.
Well. At least they used the word lying in the title. The scare quotes don’t help anyone but whatever.
I know this is one of the dumbest things to latch onto, but why do they keep talking about “Kamala Harris’s policies” like she’s the current president? If that were true, then Vance is a dementia addled lying sack of…
Huh, I guess I answered my own question.
Weird thing is, he didn’t have to lie. He said that the price went from $1.5 a dozen to $4 a dozen, but it’s not like his argument would have been that much weaker had he used the real price $3…
Weird thing is this would still be a lie.
No need to point out how he could have lied better while ignoring the fact that he’s blaming Kamala for the price of eggs while ignoring avian flu and corporate forced inflation.
He said eggs were $4.
Eggs are $4 at my store.
y’all are really reaching on this shit
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
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.
You’re really reaching to defend fascist theil’s robot lapdog.
You people are fucking pathetic.
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.
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 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.
Elizabeth Warren, btw.
She’s the one who recommended Khan? Well done, Warren!
