Things that made you Facepalm today (Political Version)

[Parkbandit]

I paid $2.49 for my eggs a few days ago at Aldi.

I called it.

Good boy.

[Suppressed Poet]

The costs of eggs (and groceries in general) is too damn high. This isn’t a partisan issue. Americans are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of food.

[Seran]

The House Ways and Means Committee is holding a hearing right now at which they are asking Brett Favre for his insights on how states mismanage and waste welfare funds. Favre was invited by Republicans, who control the committee..

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/event...milies-behind/

Looking forward to Brett testifying he was a recipient of illegally directed TANF funds in the amount of $1.1 million dollars by a red state that decided to embezzle funds in lieu of helping the needy. Would be even funnier if they testimony were used in a criminal trial.

[Seran]

The costs of eggs (and groceries in general) is too damn high. This isn’t a partisan issue. Americans are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of food.

Your party is making it a partisan issue by claiming (in a recorded lie) that their opponent is to blame for corporate greed.

[Neveragain]

I called it.

Good boy.

What Solkern fails to mention is that same sale would have been .99 cents in the middle of the Trump economy.

How much were eggs in 2018?
The price of one dozen eggs was less than $1.00 in 11 states. The price per dozen was between $1.00 and $1.99 in 34 states and Washington, D.C. In five states, the price of one dozen eggs equaled or exceeded $2.00: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Louisiana, and Vermont.

"The Ministry of Plenty announces that the chocolate ration has been increased to 20 grams per week. However, Winston remembers the previous day's announcement that the ration was being reduced from 30 grams to 20 grams."

:: Solkern packs his pipe and gives a nod of satisfaction as the ministry of plenty announces their annual overfulfilments ::

[Suppressed Poet]

You show a random ad, from a random city, so that must be the price EVERYWHERE?
I paid $2.49 for my eggs a few days ago at Aldi.

Hold up, you shop at Aldi?

I hate that place. The last and only time I went, you have to deposit money to get a shopping cart. They don’t have any brand name food. The lanes are too narrow. They don’t bag your shit when you checkout.

You have a yacht and yet you choose to shop at a German owned shit hole of a store marketed to the poors? Does it give you that nostalgia of the grocery store experience from the USSR? WHAT KIND OF AMERICAN ARE YOU?!?

[Suppressed Poet]

Your party is making it a partisan issue by claiming (in a recorded lie) that their opponent is to blame for corporate greed.

Bro…do you have any idea what the profit margins are on grocery items like eggs? It’s in the single digits. This has been debunked. Grocery store prices went up due to inflation. The stores have stock the items, market, employee cost, transport the items, etc. All of these things went WAY up in the last 4 years. Don’t listen to that dumb bitch Elizabeth Warren.

[Methais]

You show a random ad, from a random city, so that must be the price EVERYWHERE?
I paid $2.49 for my eggs a few days ago at Aldi.

And what exactly is your point? Do you not see the sign that clearly says eggs are $2.99? How can Vance sit there and say they are $4, when you can buy a dozen for $2.99?
Do you need me to circle it for you? Or are you going to continue to try and avoid that sign that says $2.99 and focus on the other eggs that cost more?

It’s your choice to either spend $4+ or to spend $2.99 at this store. The other eggs could be priced at $200 and it would change the fact that you can buy eggs for $2.99, Vance said they cost $4, when they actually can cost $2.99.


And also, A large grocery company admitted that they purposely raised the price of eggs, way past the price of inflation. Even though corporate greed is to blame and not politics, I’m sure that you’ll blame Biden and Harris for that too, right?

https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us

Average price of eggs is $2.29 in the U.S.
Other sites range from what I said above to $3.20
That’s far from $4.

It doesn't count if you only buy half a dozen.

[Solkern]

Hold up, you shop at Aldi?

I hate that place. The last and only time I went, you have to deposit money to get a shopping cart. They don’t have any brand name food. The lanes are too narrow. They don’t bag your shit when you checkout.

You have a yacht and yet you choose to shop at a German owned shit hole of a store marketed to the poors? Does it give you that nostalgia of the grocery store experience from the USSR? WHAT KIND OF AMERICAN ARE YOU?!?

My wife loves Aldi, has some Russian food there for her.
I shop wherever, Safeway, krogers, whatever I see on the way home.

[Solkern]

The costs of eggs (and groceries in general) is too damn high. This isn’t a partisan issue. Americans are struggling to keep up with the rising cost of food.

It’s corporate greed, not politics. The CEO of Kroger admitted that is raised prices of eggs, far past the inflation price.