JD Vance was roundly mocked online over a trip to the supermarket where he bemoaned the steep price of eggs — and botched the photo opp.
The Republican vice presidential nominee stopped by a supermarket in Reading, Pennsylvania, with his sons over the weekend to illustrate how grocery prices have been impacted by “Kamala Harris’s policies” when he claimed a dozen eggs cost $4.
The problem? When footage of the visit emerged, Vance was quickly called out by viewers who spotted the price tag of a dozen eggs behind him was actually $2.99.
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Eggs were like 7-8$ a dozen here, he really fucked up by only saying 4$
Edit: you guys are fucking idiots :D
If you’re buying the premium small family farm eggs, sure. There’s also the basic bottom shelf eggs. Those eggs aren’t $7-8 a dozen anywhere. The US average is $3
I said were, you know back when eggs were really expensive last year when inflation was going wild, which is exactly what vance is referencing.
They are like 2.69 here now.
Inflation describes the decrease of the value of your money. When a currency is affected by inflation, all prices go up as you require more of that money to equal the same worth of goods.
If eggs shot up to a price of 8 or so bucks and then went down to 2.69, you weren’t being affected by inflation as it is unheard of for a currency to suffer such insane inflation and then immediately recover from it.
What happened in your case would have been a large shift in supply and demand, possibly brought on by the mentioned problems in the egg production, or price gouging by whoever was selling these. Possibly also just a mix of those.
So you’re supporting the fact that the price of eggs has gotten significantly better under the current administration.
