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Summary

The Trump administration faces a dilemma as skyrocketing egg prices due to bird flu have forced Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to consider emergency imports.

With eggs now averaging $8 per dozen (up from $2.25 last fall), Trump may need to request imports from countries he's recently antagonized—particularly Canada, the largest U.S. egg importer, which Trump has threatened with tariffs and annexation.

Other potential egg suppliers (Netherlands, UK, China) have also faced Trump's recent hostility through tariffs or threats.

Meanwhile, Turkey plans to export 420 million eggs to the U.S., but this represents less than 5% of monthly U.S. production.

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[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wish Trump what he deserves.

[–] WeeSheep@lemmy.world 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wish his supporters everything they voted for

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 16 points 1 day ago

$50 eggs. I recognize so many citizens actually support these moves. This is a relatively harmless way to draw attention to more of these bad decisions.

By all means, let the price of eggs skyrocket. It’s the least harmless of what we collectively voted for.

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[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i hope they all tell america to fuck right off. start selling that shit to countries that deserve it

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why? Sell that shit at a premium. Like sell every dozen at exactly 99 cents below the average price. If the capitalist oligarchy doesn't exploit this moment for all it's worth what are they even good for?

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

the united states needs to suffer lest this festering fascism fall into complete dictatorship.

the average people must suffer in order to wrest the reigns of democracy from the oligarchs hands.

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[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 34 points 1 day ago

the best thing for the world right now would be for america to suffer the consequences of its poor decisions. the beatings must continue until we start making better decisions.

[–] Dimmer@leminal.space 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I can vaguely remember what eggs used to cost

If trump keep “creating history” for another 50 days like he has been doing for the first 50 days so far, I surely wont remember what an egg look like.

Even some of my friends from China and Russia are taken aback by the level of vulnerability and obedience Americans seem to have towards brainwashing techniques.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Even some of my friends from China and Russia are taken aback by the level of vulnerability and obedience Americans seem to have towards brainwashing techniques.

Years ago, when Donald Trump was still just a reality TV star, I went to a conference in the US and talked for quite a bit of time with someone from Germany, who had grown up in East Germany before the Berlin Wall fell. He said that in his childhood, all the TV news and print media were filled with State propaganda. Nobody believed it. But everyone said they did, to avoid unwanted government scrutiny.

He remarked that the media in the US sounded very similar to the media that used to be in East Germany. And not just Fox News (the Conservative darling at the time). All the US media resembled the media in East Germany back in the day, to some extent. But he was very surprised to realize that Americans believed the media, as long as it agreed to their pre-conceived political beliefs. (And, worse yet, didn't believe the media that offered opposing viewpoints out of hand). Here we had the freedom to believe whatever we wanted, and we let ourselves get brainwashed.

Things have only gotten worse since Americans started getting their news online, from self-selected social media influencers.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago

Here we had the freedom to believe whatever we wanted, and we let ourselves get brainwashed.

This is true, but I have to nitpick this a little bit. Here in America everyone is constantly bombarded from all sides, every minute of every day, with constant propaganda of all types. People have to choose what to believe now because any story will have at least three conflicting accounts of it being told. There is no reliable source of truth. There are no reliable fact checkers. There are no laws enforced about truth in reporting.

I think this more than anything led to the problems that we have now.

[–] Dimmer@leminal.space 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing this experience.

One mistake of East Germany (and Russia and China) was that their basic education is not that bad so people are able to figure out things don’t add up. America might be immune to this issue as it’s advancing to authoritarian.

Plus there are ultra rich class to assist and fine tune the brainwash technology to micro targeting each individual ( the “self selected“ influencers are not selected by yourself after all)

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[–] mtchristo@lemm.ee 5 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Does anyone know what's happening to the tariffs ?

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Nah, fuck that. Let’s see eggs go to $20/dozen.

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

What a fucking Jackass

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Out of chicks at the local farm stores too.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Let me interject a little hope into all the eggpocalypse doom and gloom ……. This morning I went to an excellent diner I’d never been to. The menu advertised $1.39/each to add additional eggs to a breakfast but that was the cooked and served price!!!!

This was one of those situations where even new tipping rules are insufficient. I had great food and fantastic service at excellent prices! What put me over the top is they only suggested 15% tip, like the old days. I’d never left 30% before but this was well deserved

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