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I’d say it’s because during Biden’s term he was running a fairly basic administration and during the run-up to the election, inflation was something they (repubs) could use to rile up the base, but now not only is the election long over, there’s so much new horrible stuff every day (both real and made-up) in the spotlight that inflation pales in comparison.
Also, Biden was actively tackling the problem by having investigations into large grocer chains and brandnames who reported record profits and increased prices, and we talked about that whether we were on his “side” or not. He also prevented a couple of mergers/acquisitions such as the Krogers Alberstsons merger. And that was boring in most cases and in some cases ineffective.
Now that nothing is being done about any of it, theres less to talk about except “experts say this is really bad and it’s going to get much much worse. Now for the weather forecast, take it away Carl.”
“Actually, Bob, with the loss of weather monitoring funding we’re back to relying on Almanacs and to avoid liability I’ve been asked to not call it a forecast but a weather prediction.”
I mean, because the left and center are concerned more with the collapse of democracy and the rule of law and the right wants all brown people to die.
Killing all the brown people was how we were supposed to get cheap eggs. The brown people were making our eggs expensive so we had to spend $600M on an Everglades concentration camp
I mean, the eggs are cheap again so I guess it worked?
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Correlation ≠ causation
Because it’s* worth it seems the likely answer.
*racism, genocide, anti-science, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-health, trickle-up billionaires, misogyny, state religion, and more.
A bargain (for shitheads) at twice the price!
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I find it interesting you put the asterisk on the first it whereas i would have put it on the second. I wonder why that is!
The asterisk is for the footnote from “it’s**”. In other words, the asterisk is for the entire line.
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Sorry, I’m a moron. I think the asterisk is right, but not for my dumb ass thinking there. More like “Because [supporting] racism, etc. is worth it.”
Ohhh okay, i get what you mean now. I was a little confused. lol
Because the pro-Trump media now tells people it’s because of the long-lasting effects of the Biden admin. Here in Hungary, we’re still being told the awful state of the healthcare system is due to the Gyurcsány-era, that was in 2010(!), although they started to mix it up with a little “the EU isn’t sending us money because we made a law that labels gay people pedophiles”.
Fucking EU always screwing us over. We’re still waiting for our £300,000,000 a day for the NHS that the EU is feeding to brown people… or whatever it was that we were promised
It’s definitely not governments lying constantly, right?
Last year, there was not a single conservative person in my “circle” that wasn’t constantly griping about the cost of eggs and “Bidenflation”. Poor souls could not afford to eat anymore, the only protein they supposedly lived on was eggs, but the price of those was so high they were just going without.
The moment that Trump took office, egg prices spiked again and suddenly these people understood that the president doesn’t control the price of eggs and besides eggs cost so much due to the effects of bird flu. Suddenly these people who couldn’t previously afford anything but eggs to eat are telling me that they’re having roast beef for dinner, then pork chops, and so on. Literally nothing has changed in their lives except there’s a different president and nearly everything is far more expensive, and yet all the financial woes they were complaining about this time last year no longer seem to exist.
I even mentioned the price of coffee, milk, and beef in a recent conversation. Supposedly these things were higher when Biden was president (not true), and when I refused to budge on that, suddenly it’s back to “well the prices are determined by complex market conditions” and “the president has brought down the price of many other things like eggs”.
It’s literally impossible to have a logical and factual conversation with these types of people.
The eggs thing wasn’t complex market conditions, companies saw an excuse to raise prices in unison, they tripled their profits, and are slowly lowering them as sales decrease due to people buying fewer eggs. They’re still up 200%.
If you want to know what lowering food prices looks like, ask the chinese. Each city I went to had arrays of different policies, none of which started and ended with “give money to giant ag companies and the means to exploit migrant workers.” Lot of policies helping retirees start micro farms.
30 eggs for 2USD related.
I know you know this, but I have to jump on the train here.
This is what Fox told them to say, and now they’re not. The whole thing is so obvious to anybody not in their clutches. I have a friend who, after the Jan 6 insurrection, was “done with Trump”. Guess who voted for him again and is convinced he’s doing a great job.
Beef prices should go up, along with all meat prices, to reflect their ecosystemic toll. The problem is basic staples are also expensive.
yeah stop the corn and soybean subsidies and actually charge ranchers for letting their cattle graze on federal land and then the price will reflect what the real price of meat is.
Why is meat so much cheaper here in east asia anyway? I can get tenderloin for ~6USD/lb.
and actually charge ranchers for letting their cattle graze on federal land
That’s how we got the shit with Cliven Bundy a while back. Fucking right wingers whine when they don’t get free money for nothing and have to pay for the externalities their actions create.
Absolutely this. Essential food should not be expensive. Meat, especially red meat, should be quite expensive and something you only eat rarely
Won’t this threaten your livelihood?
We should all ask for things that benefit the whole even if they would be detrimental to our individual selves.
I applaud my comrade
Yeah it was a joke because of their screen name.
We still are.
True, but the news is freaking out about it a lot less, and spending a lot less time interviewing people about what percent of them might feel like it’s personally the president’s fault and he should definitely lose the next election because of it because people are hurting right now and he doesn’t care.
It is, as the man said, notable. In fact it seems like they’ve totally moved on from feeling like inflation is an important issue to pay close attention to and freak out about.
We are also exhausted by all the other things we’re supposed to be apoplectic about.
What’s crazy is that ground beef is practically a waste product. You can get it for under $4/lb in Houston. Hell, come by certain grocery stores at the end of the day and they’re trashing buckets of it.
$6.12 for something that’s filling up garbage cans and landfills to the tune of 429.2 million lbs in 2022 alone? Seems like Americans are getting price gouged.
536,000 cows, forced to sit in their own shit for 18 months just to be unceremoniously slaughtered and thrown right in the trash, like some fucked up torture treadmill
It really is incredible how much land is used, pollution created, and environmental devastation caused to create more waste for landfills, furthering the aforementioned problems. Meanwhile, folks starve next door and around the globe. Coming down from the trees was a terrible decision.
That’s capitalism for ya
Steak mince vs ground beef are different things.
One is basically offal, the other could have been a steak. Unless they’re using the term incorrectly, the price should be different.
only the news stopped talking about prices
Or to put that another way, the Trump fans are not being told to freak out about this. They only freak out when their masters instruct them to.
ap•o•plec•tic | ,apa’plektik|
adjective informal
overcome with anger; extremely indignant: Last year, tons of people were apoplectic about food prices.
Same reason the clown is elected twice in the first place, the media in this country is completely irresponsible and run by profit driven assholes with zero ethics, a major problem in everywhere.
Saying this in response to a news story about rising food prices? The high food prices are still being talked about and are still a problem.
The “The Resistance” logo in the top-right makes sense as only democrats could come up with a dumb line of attack as “food prices were never actually a problem and people were just being told to be angry about this non-problem”. This is the same party that boasted about saving consumers 16 cents for the 4th of July: https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-boasts-cookouts-are-16-cents-cheaper-this-year-internet-isnt-impressed-1606210
Almost as if they knew of how fucked the inflation would be and tried to run in front of it. That clearly didn’t work, so they tried gaslighting everyone by claiming rising prices are a non-issue. If this is the resistance then we’re fucked.
The problem is that before we all spoke of the issue. Now a large chunk of us speak nothing of it.
The problem is that before we all spoke of the issue.
The problem is that the biden administration pretended they solved the problem while it was still getting worse, after an administration whose first two years were spent breaking every promise to the left of joe manchin.
The extreme rise in food prices are due mostly to agribusinesses sharing trade data through algorithmic platforms. It’s collusion and price fixing with extra steps. The ones in charge of stopping these kind of practices are currently not interested in helping.
Because media focus shifted. People will be mad with what the media tells them to be mad at.
Is it because they are talking about Epstein? No? That’s weird.
