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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 44 points 5 days ago (5 children)

From the video:

“Let’s talk about eggs, Because these guys actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning.”

There's just so much that's weird about that. "These guys" are his 2 sons Ewan (6) and Vivek (4). You're saying these kids each eat 7 eggs every morning? That's a lot of eggs. Think about it. 7 fried eggs? Or 7 hard-boiled eggs? If you're scrambling them, you lose track of the individual eggs, but what, he's cracking 14 eggs into a huge bowl, then scrambling them? Do you know how much scrambled eggs that's going to make?

If his boys were teenagers, maybe I could see it, though eating that many eggs every single day would still seem weird. But, at least teenage boys are known to have big appetites.

Even if you include him, his wife and their 2-year-old, roughly 100 eggs a week every week seems odd.

Then there's just the weirdness of saying "about 14". We're talking eggs. Why not "about a dozen"? Slightly more believable, and a more common number to use when talking about eggs. I mean, surely if your kids really loved eggs you'd try to reduce it to a dozen eggs per day just so you're using one full carton every morning. Then again, if you're buying hundreds of eggs per month, maybe they come on a pallet, not by the carton, so "a dozen" doesn't mean much to you.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 12 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Naz@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

Vivec? Like, of the Tribunal?

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 66 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Because these guys actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning

Motherfucker trying to raise an army of Gastons over there.

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[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago (3 children)

"So tell us JD, how will you help lower the price of eggs if elected?"

Ok, good.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago

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..

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

"eggs, butter, some bread... whatever makes sense"

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Well. At least they used the word lying in the title. The scare quotes don't help anyone but whatever.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Who cares how much eggs cost? If I put eggs on a pie chart with the rest of my monthly expenses, I would need a microscope to see it. Focus on real problems like price gouging rent.

You might as well buy the free range eggs for $8/dozen. If that's too much money, it's not like the purchase will make you more financially doomed than before.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

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.

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 34 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I'm a Republican who does their Own Research and saw the Video and this is FAKE NEWS! Whatever Trump and Vance tell me is True is TRUE! Those Price Tags are FALSE just to make Vance look like a LIAR even though he said on TV he lied which was also FAKE NEWS! I'm not WEIRD!

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 17 points 5 days ago

That was a really weird response. Where can I buy a flag with your name on it to put in my yard?

[–] Zier@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

a Republican who does their Own Research

LOL, that was the best part of your joke!

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

I love how their own research is whatever Jordan Peterson or Matt Walsh says.

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[–] ravhall@discuss.online 22 points 5 days ago (5 children)

What does an egg cost, $10?

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 15 points 5 days ago

There's always money in the egg stand

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 5 days ago

I was just at a Wegman's yesterday for the first time in a couple years just for shits and giggles, because my broke ass usually never shops there. Those kinda grocery prices are not far off. I laughed, turned around, left the store, and went back into the Aldi where I belong.

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Vance is quite probably the worst VP pic in modern history. Palin riled up the base as intended. Mondale added gravitas as intended. What has Vance added to the Trump campaign?

And with Trump's age and obvious cognitive decline, he's not the future of MAGA. Trump won't be the Fuhrer of Project 2025. Vance will be.

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Silicon valley money. Hundreds of millions of dollars in dark money basically, and a lot of power brokers in tech working behind the scenes for the campaign.

He brings nothing from a "fill the gap" stance because he's exactly like Trump, but less addled by age. The pick was stupid from that perspective but if you're money hungry, he brought it.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Fascists tell more and more egregious lies and dare you to call them liars.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Looks like JD Vance got a firmware update at least. A grocery store encounter with a prior revision might have looked like this:

Ok. Good. Whatever makes sense. How long have you worked here for?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

“Eggs, yeah can I get 20? And make them chicken eggs.”

[–] Reality_Suit@lemmy.one 11 points 5 days ago

Free market. The companies are responsible for setting the price. Let's put blame where it belongs: corporate greed. Remember when "They were stealing our jobs," and not realizing the company was outsourcing their jobs? And how the fuck does someone steal the job you were hired for? Always bothered me as a kid.

[–] Old_Yharnam@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

“The WOKE made the eggs prices skyrocket!!”

[–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

There's some irony of this being in Reading, PA..

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