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  • sheckyshecky San Francisco Posts: 2,295
    Whaddaya say, wanna start our weekend with a little humor? We can't be serious every single second - it's exhausting. Thanks.

    "Real Time" host Bill Maher appeared to be stunned by his admission that President Donald Trump is now considered "cool."

    "Here's how bad the Democrats f---ed up: Trump is cool now," Maher said during a panel discussion Friday night. "He's not just the most powerful guy in the world and just made himself like the richest, he's actually kind of [cool] at 78!"

    "I mean, rappers like him, the athletes are doing-" Maher continued while gesturing Trump's iconic rally dance. "I was making fun of him, j---ing off two guys at one time, and now he owns it. And now they're doing it!" 
    "I mean, the Village People are gay for Trump now!" he added. 

    Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., responded by pointing out how Trump had "always been a celebrity," pointing to his stint as "The Apprentice" host and his countless film and TV cameos.

    "He was a joke!" Maher pushed back. 

    ESPN host Stephen A. Smith suggested Democrats are to blame for making Trump a celebrity, insisting liberal A-listers "all loved him until he ran for office."

    "You know what would be nice in this country?… Do we have to have the celebrity president?" Khanna complained. "I mean, is it all about coolness? How about being cool as president is actually about helping people?"

    "That horse has left the barn," Maher responded.

    Earlier in the conversation, Maher and Smith panned Democrats for drifting so far left, allowing Trump to be elected for a second term. 

    "The man was impeached twice. He was convicted on 34 felony counts, and the American people still said he's closer to normal than what we see on the left," Smith said.

    "Exactly," Maher agreed."

    "Why?" Smith continued. "Because something that pertains when you talk about the transgender community, for example, you talk about the issues that pertain to less than 1% of the population, the Democratic Party came across as if that was a priority more so than the other issues."


     


  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,551
    edited January 25
    I’m sure there’s folks with buyer’s remorse already 
    Post edited by josevolution on
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,042
    I’m sure there’s folks with buyer’s remorse already 
    Not at all
    Their too ignorant and blinded by their idol worship to realize they have veen grifted.
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,779
    edited January 26
    It's fascinating and nearly confounding (except there are reasons for it) that so many MAGA believe their dictator truly cares for his flock and his country, despite the glaring evidence to the contrary.  I guess chalk it up to lack of, or even suppression of the teaching of critical thinking,  lack of education that includes a good, basic understanding of and knowledge of history (one of the reasons MAGA hate Heather Cox Richardson is because they can't box their way out of the realities of history), indoctrination at an early age, and a propensity to have a fetish for being team oriented and following that teams leader without question. 
    Sadly, all of this will probably lead to things none of want to think about, and that cult followers of authoritarian dictatorship and oligarchical rule, simply won't think about or admit is even possible.  I would think, in the long run, that's gotta hurt the worst for those latter people.
    "Don't give in to the lies.  Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth.  And to hope."
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,207
    edited January 26
    I’ve always had a hard time reconciling the fact that usually leaders of a cult tend to be quite intelligent with the fact that Trump isn’t that smart at all. “Really powerful light” among others, for example. But then I read a synopsis of this book written by a cult expert, and it reads:

    ”…going on to examine the techniques of gaslighting and outright lying that Trump has employed from the very beginning, “influence techniques with a need for attention and control over others.” Even if one does not accept that Trump is a cult leader as such—all politicians, after all, have their core of true believers—Hassan makes it clear that he is a master of certain rhetorical devices that do not require much intelligence but speak to much practice: the repetition of words and phrases (e.g., “I’m a very stable genius, very smart”) that, through “a primarily unconscious and memory-based process,” lead the listener to think that they must be coming from more than one source and are therefore true, "crowding out analytical thinking and causing the mind to retreat into a kind of trance.” 

    Now that makes perfect sense. 

    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
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  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,207
    edited January 26
    Carl Sagan: fifty steps ahead of everyone else. 

    Post edited by HughFreakingDillon on
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,779
    I’ve always had a hard time reconciling the fact that usually leaders of a cult tend to be quite intelligent with the fact that Trump isn’t that smart at all. “Really powerful light” among others, for example. But then I read a synopsis of this book written by a cult expert, and it reads:

    ”…going on to examine the techniques of gaslighting and outright lying that Trump has employed from the very beginning, “influence techniques with a need for attention and control over others.” Even if one does not accept that Trump is a cult leader as such—all politicians, after all, have their core of true believers—Hassan makes it clear that he is a master of certain rhetorical devices that do not require much intelligence but speak to much practice: the repetition of words and phrases (e.g., “I’m a very stable genius, very smart”) that, through “a primarily unconscious and memory-based process,” lead the listener to think that they must be coming from more than one source and are therefore true, "crowding out analytical thinking and causing the mind to retreat into a kind of trance.” 

    Now that makes perfect sense. 

    Interesting!  Yes, that makes sense.
    Carl Sagan: fifty steps ahead of everyone else. 

    Sagan was amazing.  We need more like him today.
    Power and ignorance- a dangerous combination. 
    "Don't give in to the lies.  Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth.  And to hope."
    -Jim Acosta











  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 17,403
    Went out to breakfast today to one of our usual Sunday spots.
    Egg meals all went up in price.
    Bacon went way up in price (an increase of $1.50 for a side of bacon, 3 slices)
    I was promised by this administration that the prices of these exact things would be coming down. Yet just the opposite has happened. Are you saying I was lied to by Trump and Vance?
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,779
    Poncier said:
    Went out to breakfast today to one of our usual Sunday spots.
    Egg meals all went up in price.
    Bacon went way up in price (an increase of $1.50 for a side of bacon, 3 slices)
    I was promised by this administration that the prices of these exact things would be coming down. Yet just the opposite has happened. Are you saying I was lied to by Trump and Vance?

    Trump, Vance, lying?  I can't imagine!
    "Don't give in to the lies.  Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth.  And to hope."
    -Jim Acosta











  • HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 38,207
    edited January 26
    This is the crux of all of it. Trump supporters who have average or even above average income WILL NOT BENEFIT FROM HIS POLICIES. THEY WILL HURT YOU. THEY WILL HURT R’s AND D’s AND EVERYONE ON BETWEEN. YOU HAVE BEEN FOOLED. And everyone will pay the price. 

    Right vs left be damned. He played you all for fools. And no, we don’t take pleasure in I told you so’s. We don’t take pleasure in ANYONE hurting. But mutherfucker you let your bigotry and ignorance to facts fuck up your country, and this affects all of us, American or not. 

    Post edited by HughFreakingDillon on
    "Oh Canada...you're beautiful when you're drunk"
    -EV  8/14/93




  • BentleyspopBentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,042
    Poncier said:
    Went out to breakfast today to one of our usual Sunday spots.
    Egg meals all went up in price.
    Bacon went way up in price (an increase of $1.50 for a side of bacon, 3 slices)
    I was promised by this administration that the prices of these exact things would be coming down. Yet just the opposite has happened. Are you saying I was lied to by Trump and Vance?
    Prices are down for maga loyalists. You have to prove fealty to the grifter-n-chief before they can issue you your discount card.
  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,551
    https://apnews.com/article/colombia-immigration-deportation-flights-petro-trump-us-67870e41556c5d8791d22ec6767049fdTrump orders tariffs, visa restrictions on Colombia over rejection of deportation flights

    😂 both Mexican & Colombian presidents have saluted 💩 head 🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽🖕🏽you and your planes loaded with immigrants! I’m sure both of these countries won’t raise prices for the goods they export to America 🤣 
    jesus greets me looks just like me ....
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,779
    This is the crux of all of it. Trump supporters who have average or even above average income WILL NOT BENEFIT FROM HIS POLICIES. THEY WILL HURT YOU. THEY WILL HURT R’s AND D’s AND EVERYONE ON BETWEEN. YOU HAVE BEEN FOOLED. And everyone will pay the price. 

    Right vs left be damned. He played you all for fools. And no, we don’t take pleasure in I told you so’s. We don’t take pleasure in ANYONE hurting. But mutherfucker you let your bigotry and ignorance to facts fuck up your country, and this affects all of us, American or not. 


    That's the straight up truth.  For now, show me a MAGA who will acknowledge that this will hurt them and us all and I'll be very surprised.  But we're only in the 7th of 1461 days.  Things will change.  Most of us will lose out.  Only- what?- maybe 10%- will gain anything over the next four years.  Fools rushed into the flames.
    "Don't give in to the lies.  Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth.  And to hope."
    -Jim Acosta











  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,779
    Like many people, a good friend of mine has become hugely concerned about the dictator's and his co-agent of chaos's actions this last week, to the point of being freaked out and hugely stressed.  I will be getting together with her soon, and I have been thinking about what to say to encourage her.  My thoughts include gently reminding her that she is not amongst the most vulnerable (although being a woman, she is automatically targeted to a degree more than I am).  I also want to point out to her that the MAGA m.o. is to to frighten, intimidate, bully, and in whatever manner possible, render their opposition as powerless as possible.  I want to encourage her to be strong and resilient and do whatever she can to resist without putting herself in more harm's way, and to not fall for the bating.  These are the things we need to do.  Cowering and being frightened are what they want.  Those feelings are natural, of course, but this is a time to stand up and be strong, not to cave in and give up.
    "Don't give in to the lies.  Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth.  And to hope."
    -Jim Acosta











  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,023
    edited January 26
    brianlux said:
    Like many people, a good friend of mine has become hugely concerned about the dictator's and his co-agent of chaos's actions this last week, to the point of being freaked out and hugely stressed.  I will be getting together with her soon, and I have been thinking about what to say to encourage her.  My thoughts include gently reminding her that she is not amongst the most vulnerable (although being a woman, she is automatically targeted to a degree more than I am).  I also want to point out to her that the MAGA m.o. is to to frighten, intimidate, bully, and in whatever manner possible, render their opposition as powerless as possible.  I want to encourage her to be strong and resilient and do whatever she can to resist without putting herself in more harm's way, and to not fall for the bating.  These are the things we need to do.  Cowering and being frightened are what they want.  Those feelings are natural, of course, but this is a time to stand up and be strong, not to cave in and give up.

    two words for her to repeat as a mantra to all those that follow that fucking guy.

    FUCK YOU.

    say it as calm and gentle as she likes. or out loud and proud. whatever suits, but fuck you is the words of the days for the next 1475 days....
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,779
    mickeyrat said:
    brianlux said:
    Like many people, a good friend of mine has become hugely concerned about the dictator's and his co-agent of chaos's actions this last week, to the point of being freaked out and hugely stressed.  I will be getting together with her soon, and I have been thinking about what to say to encourage her.  My thoughts include gently reminding her that she is not amongst the most vulnerable (although being a woman, she is automatically targeted to a degree more than I am).  I also want to point out to her that the MAGA m.o. is to to frighten, intimidate, bully, and in whatever manner possible, render their opposition as powerless as possible.  I want to encourage her to be strong and resilient and do whatever she can to resist without putting herself in more harm's way, and to not fall for the bating.  These are the things we need to do.  Cowering and being frightened are what they want.  Those feelings are natural, of course, but this is a time to stand up and be strong, not to cave in and give up.

    two words for her to repeat as a mantra to all those that follow that fucking guy.

    FUCK YOU.

    say it as calm and gentle as she likes. or out loud and proud. whatever suits, but fuck you is the words of the days for the next 1475 days....

    Or as a Kurt Vonnegut once wrote in Slaughterhouse Five:
    "Go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut," murmured Paul Lazzaro in his azure nest.  "Go take a flying fuck at the moon."
    "Don't give in to the lies.  Don't give in to the fear. Hold on to the truth.  And to hope."
    -Jim Acosta











  • sheckyshecky San Francisco Posts: 2,295

    President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to reinstate service members booted from the military for declining to get COVID-19 vaccine jabs, according to the White House.

    "The Executive Order directs the Secretary of Defense to reinstate all members of the military (active and reserve) who were discharged for refusing the COVID vaccine and who request to be reinstated," according to the White House fact sheet.

    The service members who are reinstated will be restored to their prior rank, and will be provided back pay and benefits, according to the fact sheet.

    "From 2021 to 2023, the Biden Administration and former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin discharged over 8,000 troops solely due to their COVID-19 vaccination status," the fact sheet notes. "After the vaccine mandate was repealed in 2023, only 43 of the more than the 8,000 troops dismissed elected to return to service under the Biden Administration and Secretary Austin."

    During his inauguration speech, Trump pledged to make the move.

    "This week I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate, with full back pay," the president declared during remarks on Jan. 20.

    During a campaign speech last year, Trump promised to rehire service members who were dismissed over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, saying they would get back pay plus an apology from the government.

    The newly inaugurated president has been signing a bevy of orders since taking office last week. 

    Monday afternoon will mark the end of his first full week back in office since his inauguration.

    Peter Doocy currently serves as a Senior White House correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in 2009 as a general assignment reporter based in the New York bureau.

        Well, I certainly agree with this recent action taken by our president. 

        He promised to do this during his campaign and, just seven days into his presidency, he has followed through.

        What do you think about these service members being reinstated and given their back pay & their benefits back?

  • tbergstbergs Posts: 10,106
    shecky said:

    President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to reinstate service members booted from the military for declining to get COVID-19 vaccine jabs, according to the White House.

    "The Executive Order directs the Secretary of Defense to reinstate all members of the military (active and reserve) who were discharged for refusing the COVID vaccine and who request to be reinstated," according to the White House fact sheet.

    The service members who are reinstated will be restored to their prior rank, and will be provided back pay and benefits, according to the fact sheet.

    "From 2021 to 2023, the Biden Administration and former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin discharged over 8,000 troops solely due to their COVID-19 vaccination status," the fact sheet notes. "After the vaccine mandate was repealed in 2023, only 43 of the more than the 8,000 troops dismissed elected to return to service under the Biden Administration and Secretary Austin."

    During his inauguration speech, Trump pledged to make the move.

    "This week I will reinstate any service members who were unjustly expelled from our military for objecting to the COVID vaccine mandate, with full back pay," the president declared during remarks on Jan. 20.

    During a campaign speech last year, Trump promised to rehire service members who were dismissed over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, saying they would get back pay plus an apology from the government.

    The newly inaugurated president has been signing a bevy of orders since taking office last week. 

    Monday afternoon will mark the end of his first full week back in office since his inauguration.

    Peter Doocy currently serves as a Senior White House correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in 2009 as a general assignment reporter based in the New York bureau.

        Well, I certainly agree with this recent action taken by our president. 

        He promised to do this during his campaign and, just seven days into his presidency, he has followed through.

        What do you think about these service members being reinstated and given their back pay & their benefits back?

    I too agree with everything dear fellow Pearl Jam American fan. This is great. I hope they also allow anybody who doesn't want vaccinations to join our military and then deploy them oversees. We must not let the "woke radical left" take over. I love my president and country for this forever.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • mickeyratmickeyrat Posts: 42,023
    this order will directly impact force readiness and diminish our militaries capabilities.

    shameful.

    Goerge Washington innoculated soldiers with small pox in the HOPE they would become immune. Solely for force readiness.

    fucking draft dodging piece of shit.
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    Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
    you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • shadowcastshadowcast Posts: 2,298
    I'm so glad he won... can you imagine the Dems running the country right now? It would be a complete shit show. They get nothing done at all and slam wars down our throats, want us filled with Red dye #3 and injected with mRNA  just to feed their BIG Pharma wallets. The country would look like California in 4 years. Praise Jesus!!!
  • shadowcastshadowcast Posts: 2,298
    brianlux said:
    mickeyrat said:
    brianlux said:
    Like many people, a good friend of mine has become hugely concerned about the dictator's and his co-agent of chaos's actions this last week, to the point of being freaked out and hugely stressed.  I will be getting together with her soon, and I have been thinking about what to say to encourage her.  My thoughts include gently reminding her that she is not amongst the most vulnerable (although being a woman, she is automatically targeted to a degree more than I am).  I also want to point out to her that the MAGA m.o. is to to frighten, intimidate, bully, and in whatever manner possible, render their opposition as powerless as possible.  I want to encourage her to be strong and resilient and do whatever she can to resist without putting herself in more harm's way, and to not fall for the bating.  These are the things we need to do.  Cowering and being frightened are what they want.  Those feelings are natural, of course, but this is a time to stand up and be strong, not to cave in and give up.

    two words for her to repeat as a mantra to all those that follow that fucking guy.

    FUCK YOU.

    say it as calm and gentle as she likes. or out loud and proud. whatever suits, but fuck you is the words of the days for the next 1475 days....

    Or as a Kurt Vonnegut once wrote in Slaughterhouse Five:
    "Go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut," murmured Paul Lazzaro in his azure nest.  "Go take a flying fuck at the moon."
    Good one.....Oof. 
  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 21,357
    Aren't we all?
    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
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  • Go BeaversGo Beavers Posts: 9,319
    I'm so glad he won... can you imagine the Dems running the country right now? It would be a complete shit show. They get nothing done at all and slam wars down our throats, want us filled with Red dye #3 and injected with mRNA  just to feed their BIG Pharma wallets. The country would look like California in 4 years. Praise Jesus!!!
    And people say satire is dead. 
  • shadowcastshadowcast Posts: 2,298
    I’m sure there’s folks with buyer’s remorse already 
    This Independent is smiling ear to ear. 
  • shadowcastshadowcast Posts: 2,298
    Poncier said:
    Went out to breakfast today to one of our usual Sunday spots.
    Egg meals all went up in price.
    Bacon went way up in price (an increase of $1.50 for a side of bacon, 3 slices)
    I was promised by this administration that the prices of these exact things would be coming down. Yet just the opposite has happened. Are you saying I was lied to by Trump and Vance?


    Use GOOGLE...It's not that tough. 

    According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) price outlook, egg prices are predicted to increase about 20% in 2025, compared to about 2.2% for overall food prices. The USDA attributed the rise in egg costs to the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, outbreak,
    which has caused a strain in supply.

    The price hike is not sudden, as eggs cost 36.8% more in December 2024 than in December 2023, but were still below peak prices from January 2023, according to the USDA. The outlook says retail egg prices climbed 8.4% in December 2024 and continued to experience volatile month-to-month changes.

  • shadowcastshadowcast Posts: 2,298
    DE4173 said:

    Joe thinks he's on a choo choo train in this picture 
  • Gern BlanstenGern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 21,357
    I’m sure there’s folks with buyer’s remorse already 
    None
    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
    The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)

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    2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
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    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
    2020: Oakland, Oakland:  2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
    2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
  • PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,142
    edited January 27
    battle1 said:
    mickeyrat said:
    battle1 said:
    The similarities are undeniable, all specific differences aside. 



    she would be referring to the complete utter takeover of governement without the ovens.

    similarities  with specific differences aside.

    if you have not toured the Holocaust museum in DC, I suggest you do so. The speed with which that regime became what it was is mindboggling.
     Remember when George Bush was also supposed to be Hitler?  Isn’t all this no different than what we rail against in terms of spreading misinformation, false narratives etc?  Posting social media feeds in hopes the information is true, Ive seen this multiple times here just the last couple days.  Let practice what we preach. 

    I cant get a big enough laugh out of “undeniably similar… once we remove all the specific differences”.  Im literally shaking my head still. 

    No, i don't recall GWB ever supposedly being Hitler at all. There were no similarities there at all, and that wasn't a thing.
    The reason the comparison is made with Trump is because it's real. The undeniably similar things i am talking about are Trump's political methods and decision-making. For example, the way he couldn't care less about the morality or intelligence or even capability, really, of the people he surrounds himself with, as long as they are stupidly loyal and serve his purposes, until they don't, at which time he ruthlessly discards them. And the way he uses race and "the other" to fortify the support and fervor of his followers. And the way he uses propaganda (the Nazi party had its own newspaper in the early years and movies in the later ones - MAGA has Truth Social and Fox News and a bunch of insane filmmakers creating propaganda and evangelical films for Tubi). And the way he eliminates all oversight (i.e. firing all the inspectors generals, etc). And the way he openly places himself as the de facto decision-maker and leader, without any care for how government is actually supposed to work in order to prevent exactly that. And the way he is eying other nations as though he has a right to them and their resources. And the way he is cool with changing laws to allow terrifying raids in communities and schools and churches to round up people. And the way he villifies his "enemies" like political opponents (and traditional allies, internationally), to the point that he threatens their safety and freedom..... and so on.
    So yeah. Undeniably similar, despite the obvious differences, such as the fact that Hitler was actually a great orator, while Trump is barely coherent half the time. And the fact that Trump.probably can't get away with just having his opponents shot, or opening actual concentration camps. At least not yet. And then just all the obvious differences that simply come with our current times and the state of the global economy.
    But honestly, I feel like you were just being obtuse.
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
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  • PoncierPoncier Posts: 17,403
    Poncier said:
    Went out to breakfast today to one of our usual Sunday spots.
    Egg meals all went up in price.
    Bacon went way up in price (an increase of $1.50 for a side of bacon, 3 slices)
    I was promised by this administration that the prices of these exact things would be coming down. Yet just the opposite has happened. Are you saying I was lied to by Trump and Vance?


    Use GOOGLE...It's not that tough. 

    According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) price outlook, egg prices are predicted to increase about 20% in 2025, compared to about 2.2% for overall food prices. The USDA attributed the rise in egg costs to the highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, outbreak,which has caused a strain in supply.

    The price hike is not sudden, as eggs cost 36.8% more in December 2024 than in December 2023, but were still below peak prices from January 2023, according to the USDA. The outlook says retail egg prices climbed 8.4% in December 2024 and continued to experience volatile month-to-month changes.

    Explain the massive 37.5% bacon price increase this week. Bird flu for that as well?
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • shadowcastshadowcast Posts: 2,298

    Common sense has left the democrats as well as humor. The left used to be where most of the funny came from. But the left canceled them all. So now there is no funny left for the Democrats. My oh my things have changed. Great to see how the country rejected the Lefts propaganda. Love it and you will all thank the people that voted him in later. 
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