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[–] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Prices in Canada and Mexico didn't increase anywhere near this much even at the height of the pandemic.

Maybe Bird Flu is refusing to cross international borders. Or maybe U.S. monopolies no longer need to even pretend to compete and the producers are raking in record profits.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whenever a Republican pretends to care about the national debt, they're lying.

[–] Gloomy@mander.xyz 3 points 21 hours ago

Trumps is paying out of his pocket and an ~~donation~~ bribe from an unknown source.

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago

What isn't?

This country never recovered from the 2008 crash. Each new "correction" as econ nerds put it has just compounded the damage done back then and added more. It isn't going to get any better.

[–] Beryl@jlai.lu 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

200 millions dollars for a fucking ballroom??? Is it made of gold? Ok, it's Trump so with his shitty tastes, yeah it probably is at least plated...

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

It's made of scam. Hire some discount jank company to do the job for 1/5 of that and pocket the rest.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago

Choppy chop!

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago

I seem to recall that the White House is considered a historic building, and renovations need to be approved by Congress. It's actually been a problem, because there's a lot of wiring and plumbing issues that need to be addressed. Was this somewhere in the Big Murder Bill?

Oh, right, I forgot about what Administration we're dealing with. Of course he's going ahead with it.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 28 points 1 day ago
[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 74 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Sixty percent of Americans living paycheck to paycheck and this twat is building a gaudy af stupid ballroom

[–] callouscomic@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 day ago

You know they passed a law dramatically reducing social services and driving up the national debt with tax breaks for the rich.

Par for the course. Thank a right-wing neighbor.

He is turning the Whitehouse into Versailles

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Called the White House State Ballroom, the addition will be approximately 90,000 total square feet, which is significantly larger than the 55,000-square-foot White House as it stands now.

The ballroom will be bigger than the entire White House by ~35,000 square feet.

Room for infinite number of Big Macs and large fries.

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 109 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"No no -- the egg thing was for getting rid of Biden, we're done talking about that now" -- The Trump Admin, probably.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you mean "probably"? I can look up the exact quote if you need but what you said was pretty damn close to precisely what he said!?!

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh wow, I didn't know they actually said it! Lol, I tried to satire but didn't go far enough 😆

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When they go low... we bust through the floor to go even lower! (My bastardization of a quote from Michelle Obama.)

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When they go low, start digging

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

When they go low, start waffle stomping.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When does the leopard get full from eating so many faces?

[–] MummifiedClient5000 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's the neat thing. It doesn't.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 1 day ago

That's why it looks like it's for diabetus.

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My grocery bill is much higher than pre-pandemic. I don’t even notice the egg prices.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah. While eggs have gone up a lot as a percentage, they're still pretty cheap as an overall portion I n of the grocery bill.

Egg prices doubling isn't as bad as all the items that cost 5x as much as eggs going up 30%.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (4 children)

me neither. because i don't buy 'em anymore. i don't even go past 'em in the store.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 day ago

Release the Epstein files!

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 53 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Now that's the kind of sensible spending that people voted for

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] tylerkdurdan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Doge here, looks like we are cutting USAID now we have money for a ballroom and a Qatari jet

[–] Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 day ago

When you squint you’ll see that phrase is actually “fascist consolidation”

[–] Zectivi@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago

Oh look. Epstein distractions.

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The supplier that supplies eggs for Aldi was found price manipulating and abusing chickens. Meanwhile local farmers were selling much better tasting eggs where you could see the chickens out in the fields happily foraging and unafraid of humans AND for lower prices.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The local farmer can't supply eggs in the quantities Aldi needs, so Aldi prefers a simple supply chain with a couple of contracts with large-scale producers. Same as the other national/regional chains. Government stopped enforcing anti-monopoly laws, all the retailers consolidated to drive out the independents; the six remaining grocery chains forced all their suppliers to consolidate to national-scale production; the food packagers prefer to deal with factory-scale farms... We could really use a little competition in our 'free' markets.

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Always support your local production! It's better than feeding the mega-corporations that have an oligopoly in basically every single industry and market.

The biggest issue is that these "too big to fail" conglomerates are willing to take a loss to kill off local businesses, and then raise prices when they're the only option you have left.

[–] RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm leaving in half an hour to go to the Saturday market to get me some fresh free range (although not completely organic - near impossible if you want healthy birds) eggs. Cheaper than in the States and cheaper than Aldi, AH, Jumbo, all the big chains. I can see the farm on the map, with chickens outside, at least when google took that photo.

0.5c off if you reuse your old container. It's possible, just difficult to overcome the big chains. And yes I'm dripping in privilege but I moved continents to get it it.

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[–] DonPalomo@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

650 people... adults or childs?

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 day ago

Teenage girls I assume

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The childs are for eating.

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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 14 points 1 day ago

This is the right meme for the class war.

[–] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 day ago

Adjudicated rapist, inmate #P01135809, formerly known as the former presidential placeholder but who is now currently known as the current presidential placeholder says: "Shut up about egg prices."

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

I know the federal reserve renovations were more expensive but it just feels like more hypocracy from this administration. No money to renovate a building that needs it, but gosh darn, we really need to spend hundreds of millions on a ballroom to be able to host better parties. And I have no doubt it's going to cost more than budgeted.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw the title of the post and said, "oh bullshit" but then went to walmart dot com and yeah, actually they are twice the price they were in 2019.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 day ago

The plebs will dine on the happiness of the elite and have full bellies.

[–] _core@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

You think prices will go down once they go up?

Congrats Americans!

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