Nobody who voted for Trump actually cared about lower grocery prices. There are racist, bigoted, xenophobes, who only want to hurt people they don’t like. And they love Trump because that’s exactly what he is doing.
And that’s why this sort of attack won’t work. Because, even for those who voted for Trump, who don’t explicitly hate anyone not like themselves, they are delusional enough to never be able to admit they were wrong and to blame anyone who points it out to them for their troubles.
For MAGA types, sure but there are a small yet significant subset of Trump voters who were that dumb and those are the ones that will actually care about this shit. For crying out loud when you have states that Trump won by less than 30K votes, yeah those idiots matter.
This is just a straight up bad faith argument that ignores how colossally the DNC failed in November. There absolutely were millions of Americans who were fooled into thinking that Donald Trump was going to care more about their economic pains than Kamala Harris was. Now, I don’t think any of these people would identify themselves as a Trump supporter, they probably called themselves “Undecided” before the election, and I don’t think these people want fascism. I think those are the people this ad is trying to reach, the ones who voted for him purely out of economic anxiety who didn’t seriously believe the warnings they received of what Trump would really be about. To these people, we call Trump a Nazi the same way he calls Harris a Communist, so they didn’t listen. Maybe they’ll listen now, and we still need their help if we’re to have any chance of getting out of this mess now.
Maybe they’ll listen now
Lol you had me going there
I agree with this. Every now and then I think I meet someone who really is worried about grocery prices but then I thought well no cause that just means they’re more worried about grocery store prices and they are about race bigotry in xenophobia.
they’re more worried about grocery store prices than they are about race bigotry
So… wouldn’t appealing to their grocery store prices mean something, then?
Christ, if you stopped trying to judge the moral rightness of voters for half a minute you might figure out how to actually win an election.
This is completely false. They cared about grocery prices. Trump blamed it on immigrants. Biden said the economy was great.
They were both wrong but that does not mean the concern did not exist.
Biden said the economy was great.
Virtually every indicator that we typically use shows that it was indeed quite good.
Now that donvict and fElon are here, I’m sure we all get to find out the Republicans can always turn things into a shitshow.
Virtually every indicator except reality.
Billionaire stock portfolios do not count.
They care about grocery prices, but they care about winning more.
Louder for the sleepers in the back.
Somehow I think that leaving the WHO, and gutting the CDC, and NIH won’t help egg prices… We’ll just have another pandemic as some super resistant bird flu strain rips through the nation
I’m sure that fElon’s teenagers posting classified info won’t, either.
Why is it all about eggs? What about everything else?
It was never about eggs.
The peope who voted for this don’t care.
Prices/inflation are a convenient excuse for voting for Trump. It’s the reason polite people use to justify their vote knowing everything they do so they can continue going through polite society.
In reality, they’re just bigots, christofascists, etc. (source: my family)
Exactly. It was a convenient excuse. Just like how they hate unelected bureaucrats but Musk is somehow fine as an unelected bureaucrat.
Hypocrisy is an expression of power over others. I get to do this, you don’t.
I don’t think that’s actually true. Sure, the people who voted for him are largely also racist, but I think inflation did push many otherwise apathetic voters to oppose Biden (or Harris, if they realized Biden wasn’t running). Those people are probably mildly racist too, but it wasn’t the reason they voted.
Valid take but I’ve literally heard some saying “it’s patriotic to pay more because Trump is trying to save us” in response to this kind of shit. They’re literally in a cult and their cult leader can do no wrong in their eyes.
Maybe some are figuring out, but not enough.
It’s like that old saying that a conservative would gladly eat a pile of shit if they knew a liberal had to smell their breath. As long as others are hurting more than them, they don’t care. The cruelty is the point.
He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting
From his previous stint in the Presidency.
I agree about those idiots. But Trump got 77.3M votes in 2024 compared to 62.9M in 2016. At least some of the new dummies were influenced by high inflation under Biden and believed - even were counting on - Trump’s promise to not only stop inflation but miraculously reverse the price increases on Day 1.
Gas has gone up nearly a dollar in my area since the inauguration. I still see bumper stickers saying “if you voted for Biden you owe me gas money” on the monster trucks people drive here.
Democrats are fucking idiots and every time they lose an election they pick exactly one thing to learn from it and they wildly overlearn it
Eggs are both especially expensive due to bird flu and a cheap staple that many people relied on. Everything has gotten more expensive due to inflation but they made an extreme and relatable example.
Because thousands of years of human civilisation have taught us that symbols matter.
Related note: There are some good vegan eggs out there to give a try!
If you want something that cooks and bakes like eggs there’s stuff you can by like Just Egg
For baking there’s a million things you can use that are pretty cheap. For instance, Aquafaba is the leftover water from cooking chickpeas or the water in the can if you buy it canned. Acts like egg whites and can be used as a binder for baking
The problem with the usual egg substitutes is that the corporations have jumped on the price increase there, too. By me, at least, it is still cost prohibitive to get ready-made egg substitutes.
The garbanzo water trick is useful, though.
There’s way more stuff out there than aquafaba and Just Egg - I should note
Everything from flaxseeds to applesauce to silken tofu (as a binder) or firm tofu (as a scramble) to chia seeds and more
If you can get some Mung Bean you can even get something extremely similar to Just Egg for a lot cheaper
As a for instance (the ground one doesn’t seem to be on their site):
https://www.bobsredmill.com/product/golden-flaxseed
Flaxseed is very healthy, as well.
Try ground flax seed. It can be pretty cheap.
As a kid, my mom replaced as much of our food with flax as possible.
Please. Don’t.
? Not sure I follow?
Everything was gray and grainy. My shit was literally cinder blocks.
As long as the aquafaba is salt-free, it makes an awesome substitute for egg whites in mixed drinks. Whiskey sours are absolutely elevated with this substitution.
And this comes from a guy who isn’t a vegan. Try it out, folks. You won’t regret it.
Just Egg is pretty expensive.
Just egg is $8 for a small box. It’s ridiculous
Are my eggs in the fridge appreciating? Where’s the break-even on sell vs spoil?
I think the egg pricing is one of the biggest moronic things that Trump fooled his dumb voters into buying.
Because the egg prices weren’t inflated by corporate greed (least mostly). If anyone cared, the bird flu thing is happening, which is the cause. So, Trump’s entire pitch was that he’ll find someway to lower prices of something that was affected by something else that can’t be fixed and is currently spreading. Since Trump is both a denier of anything so much as a pandemic and a poor economist, he pushed through the promise of lowering egg prices anyways.
And guess what? It’s been closing in a month since he’s been in and what’s that? Egg prices got higher? Whaaaa?? The Bird Flu is spreading? Whaaaaa?
Stupid fucking Americans.
Everything was highly inflated due to multiple years of >7% inflation. Egg prices are exceptionally for the additional reasons you gave but everything is exceptionally expensive still, not just eggs. They’re not stupid for thinking things are inflated (because they are) which sounds like the point you’re trying to make. They are stupid for not understanding the nuances of why everything is inflated. But give me a voting population that does. 2024 was a devastating year for all incumbent parties globally because everyone is feeling the pain of COVID and corporate greed
Well, TBF, not all of us…
What I find interesting is none of the local people selling eggs have increased their prices. They are all $5 a dozen (mostly for ease of payment in a lockbox). They have been that price for almost a decade and are still that price.
I paid 2$ for a dozen ORGANIC BROWN eggs last night on GoPuff ;-)
We have some people in the area offering us some eggs they don’t need ( they have chickens ). I told the wife they could probably sell them for $2 each if we don’t want them…
Good, but why put it in Times Square?
To remind everyone that works at Fox News headquarters
That’ll matter.
Tourists?
Is that really more cost-effective than billboards in swing states?
No, they fucking aren’t. But people like fElon and donvict don’t shop for groceries, so who GAF? Being concerned about grocery prices is something for the peasants to worry about.
Now that they have the vote of idiot leftist contrarians, horrible racists, clueless low-info voters, etc…they don’t give a fuck. They’ll do just whatever the fuck they want now and the people that sat out or voted for donvict will have to suffer not only his agenda on breaking America, but also very expensive groceries. Unfortunately, the rest of us have to suffer along with them…
Eggs being high is a good thing. Thankfully we dont need them.
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Ah, classic UniversalMonk shittake
So how ya been monk? Have you established an alt on all 500 active Lemmy servers or not yet?
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Lol no.
If by “eggs” you mean “Nazi skulls“, then you might be onto something.
Otherwise, no. Fascism is never the answer.
By “grow” you mean shrink? I mean literally. People are being deported, Federal employees getting fired, less disposable income as a result of inflation (unexpectedly high in Jan), fewer imports, less action from Congress, less worldwide respect for the country, less consumer spending (in January), fewer consumer and worker protections.
The only thing that’s been growing is the wealth of the 1%.
I don’t know why everyone thinks America is in such deep trouble. Our medium family income, still way higher than rest of world. The number of people who starve to death in America is rock-bottom compared to basically everywhere in Asia and Africa. And since the 1970s crime has been on a steady downward trajectory.
Our country was doing just fine people just think that it was going to the shitter so that they could sell your snake oil 
Europe still exists you know. Just because we’re not the worst country doesn’t mean everything is golden.
But we don’t have the excuse that Germany did in the 1920s when they let Hitler take over. Our situation isn’t anywhere near bad enough to turn our trust over to such a mad man.
Well, donvict, fElon, and Putin hope to change that situation regarding Europe.
Your President has attacked its best friends and neighbours. It is attempting to dismantle all the things that kept the country just fine, as a country you’ve missed every opportunity to stop it, now may be the last chance to slow it or mitigate it. You don’t know what you’ve got til’ it’s gone, so all I can say is, good luck.
I’m not sure why you are getting downvoted. The general outline you point out about the trajectory of things (crime in particular) is very true. One thing that runs counter is quality of life and income inequality have not been on good paths.
Of course, we shouldn’t be comparing ourselves to the worst examples we can find, but the best and striving for that. As others have pointed out, there are examples in Europe.
Lastly, donvict and fElon and Putin hope to break/reverse the trends that are good and accelerate the bad ones.
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