The replace at convention would have been an absolutely terrible idea, and would just have been a complete shit show. And then you'd also have the whole public fallout of "unelected party elites making decisions"...
Eggs are definitely nominally more expensive, but inflation adjusted, the real increase is small, around 50 cents a dozen. Even if you go through a dozen eggs a week, you're looking at a $26 increase in direct egg expenditures per year. The amount of time and energy people freaked out over eggs was disproportionate, given the relatively low increase in costs (which have also fallen from peaks) and the fact that food is substitutable. If something is too expensive one week (eg, berries), buy something else.
All Trump would have ever had to do is just pretend he even gave a shit for the cameras, let Fauci handle the pandemic, and he would have gotten a rally around the chief effect like the rest of the first world did and just like Bush did from 9/11. But instead a bunch of fucking lies about 15 cases going down to zero and making federal agencies ignore it while the state of Washington was sounding defcon 1 alarm sirens.
The problem, I see, is all these sore toes. Improvements are never enough which I see fskimospy agreeing to, but the nature of sore toes is their origin in the bitterness of self hate. We feel cheated and that can never be fixed by the economy. It is a mental state that needs treatment. Just look at how angry some of you are at fskimo and why, because he is saying it as it is. You guys need to know it's perfectly natural to feel all of your anger but don't buy into the notion you can find a solution out there. We are and have been fucked. The way out is to realize that nothing could have been any other way than it was because we are sleep walking machines. Freedom from past grievance is what real woke is all about.
The cure for narcissism, a painful mental illness, is failure. Therefore, failure is what every narcissist seeks unconsciously because we create what we fear. What keeps Trump alive is the desperate need he has to play chicken, to ride a wave of chaos. He is as high as a kite on his madness and profoundly addicted to stress.
Nonsense, eggs were up enormously at their worst and were one of the chief low cost proteins you could buy. I used to get 18 packs of jumbos for around $1.89 to $2.39 circa 2019 at HEB but those packs ended up going to $7 to $8 at the height of the price gouging while TV news was running interference nonstop for the producers claiming it was just a bird flu responsible for it. Also inflation adjusted? Inflation is largely from corporations just jacking prices up to rake in fatter profits. Those eggs are still $4.60 today. That's some real limousine liberal talk that oh people can just substitute what was a once cheap source of calories and protein when it starts approaching the cost of other proteins that the eggs were being used as a substitute for in the first place.
My favorite part was when people started calculating the point at which it was cheaper to raise your own chickens rather than buy eggs.
LOL that's what my neighbor did. Though my favorite part was when the eggs were way more expensive than the chorizo when I wanted to make chorizo and egg tacos despite the fact I buy the nice chorizo (Peyton's) and not the cheap shit (Cacique, El Mexicano, store brand, etc). They're still almost 3/4 of the price of the nice chorizo WTF.
LOL it was like 5% less egg-laying hens than the year before at the peak of egg prices, bootlick.
It all depends on how much slack there is in the system. If the system is running at capacity small changes in supply can have outsized impact in price.
Seemed fishy then to believe the same egg producers whose profits shot to the moon and who have been found guilty of price fixing in the past were on the up and up this time, honest.
Bringing non-economic topics into a discussion about economic disparity is pretty disingenuous. Do you really want to weigh the loss of life to COVID and egg prices against the war in Ukraine and now the whole Israel 'thing'?
Calls someone "bootlick", then asks that person to control their emotions when they respond unkindly. If you want civility, maybe you should start by looking in a mirror.
Dude was being a bootlick like egg producers weren't seeing profits blow up from their record prices
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