• celeste@kbin.earth
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    19 hours ago

    Nah, when people were saying “egg prices are high and he said he’d lower them” for why they voted for him on election night, and i knew he wasn’t going to be able to do much, even if he tried, i knew I’d be bitterly watching the egg prices until armageddon. it felt like people’s big reason for why, that wasn’t just hating immigrants.

    it’s bitterness on my part, but it’s also a tactic for better people to remind voters of a promise he made that they can immediately see he didn’t keep. it’s a way for people who voted for him to justify voting against him and his party in the midterms. that doesn’t mean they have to care about, like, democracy, or people who aren’t like them, and so on. they can save face.

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      18 hours ago

      I assumed it was just a bird flu outbreak, and prices would naturally settle back down with the next generation of hens. And of course he would take credit. But uhh CDC got their hands tied, so I guess we don’t even get to know what’s going on.

      Surely someone has actually reported on the issue in detail and I’ve just missed it in these chaotic news cycles, right?