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Eggs are back at $7-10/dz in the Boston metro area :D
What’s your eggscuse this time, orangeboi
His excuse is he couldn’t give less of a fuck about you or any of the other poors. Somehow a billionaire supposedly cares about the same things we do
Oh I know. I am just curious how the cult is going to somehow spin this into being the fault of the “communist democrat an-tee-fuh Nazis”, because I’m sure they will try to.
Almost literally, the moment Trump was sworn in as president, the same exact folks who spent the prior 8 months of their lives blaming Biden for the high cost of eggs suddenly had an epiphany that the president does not directly control the price of eggs. And then when the president DID specifically and directly affect the price of groceries as a result of tariffs, those same people suddenly insist that grocery prices are based on complex and rapidly changing global socioeconomic phenomenon that cannot be predicted nor controlled and besides this is still Biden's economy because it was so broken that Trump hasn't been able to fix it yet (even though he promised to have it all sorted out in a timeline of days).
They live in a separate reality, void of fact and logic, and I honestly have not figured out a way to reason with that. As wiser folks have said much more eloquently than I could, you cannot reason people out of something they did not reason themselves into.
Its a death cult.
Just, full stop, MAGA is a death cult, same as Jim Jones or Heaven's Gate.
Big death cult? Popular death cult, takes over the government?
Fascism.
For all the sociological, political, economic complexities and nuance...
It really does basically just boil down to those being pretty much the same thing, at different scales.
Good luck reasoning with or expecting reason from death cult members.
They are the zombie apocalpyse, fucking broken brains, really only fully functional at the limbic level, the rest of the brain is a confused mush of near infinite levels of reality denial, motivated reasoning, and cognitive dissonance.
"Liberal California is making egg prices higher."
I wish I were kidding.
https://apnews.com/article/egg-prices-california-animal-welfare-trump-48296b0149580e5620d6bcdcdcce89d7