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Joe Biden in office for four years: "I sleep"
Donald Trump in office for a week: "This is why your egg prices went up"
BlueMAGA is such a bleak turn for liberalism. We're abandoning any idea that federal policy might affect our material conditions. Presidents are just a panacea, an excuse to close our eyes and insist everything is actually great, right up until the election cycle breaks against us at which point its not our fault so we can acknowledge it again.
The only thing Democrats in leadership seem to have learned from movement conservatism is how to lie to their rank-and-file members. Now all we do is pass the buck from one failing administration to another, while asserting everything bad is caused by Wrong Party Backed By Evil Foreign Government.
No wonder the US is embracing genocidal fascism on a national scale.
You do realize the comments are tongue-in-cheek right? It's because he guaranteed an immediate drop in grocery prices and people are volleying after we had to hear a crapton of "Biden Did That" nonsense while gas prices rose back to previous levels alongside the economic recovery after the pandemic. No one here thinks either president is God.
I don't know whether you're just imperceptive or whether you're being willfully oblivious so you can force-feed us the same bLUemAgA talking points you get rightfully downvoted for in every post.
Did Biden or Harris mention bird flu even once on the campaign trail? It certainly didn't come up during the debate.
They just dug in their heels and insisted inflation was over
In any sane world, would something as specific as eggs drive politics? They also didn’t weigh in on how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie-pop. That’s fine, they should be concerned about bigger things
Hey, in a different egg thread I wrote a long comment about why eggs matter. You can read it here.
It’s hard to get people to grasp the meaning of inflation, and even if a person has partial understanding it’s easy to obfuscate it with other measures, but the meaning of expensive eggs is clear to everyone.
Mass media is one hell of a drug. I remember the Swift Boat Veterans making the 2004 election about whether or not John Kerry faked his war wound to win a purple heart. And then there was the 1988 race, where the national news collectively shat itself over Dukakis doing a photo op in a tank (OG Tankie).
Conservative news outlets hammering every outlet with "Eggs! Too expensive! INFLATION! INFLATION! INFLATION!" stories made this a touchstone for a low of traditional media consuming voters.
Whose tongue in whose cheek? Are you hitting on me? It's working.
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