politics

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.

Diabetic people probably care about egg prices. Low-carb diets were a bit pricier already. But I'm going to go out supposing you are really asking why every article about inflation for the past two years focuses on eggs. I just assumed it was a manifestation of that meme about United Statesians desperately grasping for any metric other than the metric system to quantify the world around them.

It's funny how he keeps finding new ways to live up to the “weird” label without even trying

Did he talk about 88 of something after he said 14 eggs?

i think more than 2 as an adult isn't a great idea unless you're tossing out the yolks

Pssssh, when I was a lad, I ate 4 dozen eggs every morning to help me get large.

Vivec? Like, of the Tribunal?

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"

The egg shortage has enabled record quarterly profits and sales at Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), the largest producer and distributor of eggs in the United States. The company produces brands such as Farmhouse Eggs, Sunups, Sunny Meadow, Egg-Land’s Best and Land O’ Lakes eggs.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/business/egg-prices-cal-maine-foods/index.html

The problem, once again, is monopolies. Not enough competition means one company can jack up prices.

It's not clear if Harris will continue Biden's policies, but one of the best things Biden's admin has done is to actually go after monopolies for the first time in decades. Under a Trump / Vance presidency, I don't think that's very likely.

JD Vance, a US senator who barely won Ohio despite being a republican

VC.

Reality is what you say it is.

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.

Thank you! I think it's sad how they are so desperate to paint their election opponent in a negative light to score political points that they are pretending she's the president and is responsible for everything going on. Even in normal circumstances, the president can't push a magic button and control the price of eggs or gasoline or whatever, but the hypocrisy of blaming Harris for it now is just doubling down on the lie. It was all "Biden did this, Biden did that" right up until he bowed out of the race and suddenly Harris is actually responsible for all that shit and it's infuriating to see them trying it and even more infuriating to see it somehow actually working on people.

Desperation, they really, REALLY wanted to run against Biden, where the age issue worked more for than against him.

They know they are fucked, their only option left is to bang on the table.

I cannot. But he can, and somehow he's really really bad at doing so!