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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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

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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.

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So you’re supporting the fact that the price of eggs has gotten significantly better under the current administration.

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Um yes? I voted for Biden/Harris fyi and will be voting for harris/walz… eggs WERE 7$ here under Biden, Vance is claiming they were only 4 while they are 3 under his VP. If he wasn’t an idiot he would have said a higher number than 4 while standing in front of 3$ eggs. How are you guys not understanding this or you morons just assume everyone from .ml is against democracy. I swear some of you are no better than the nomies on reddit, hell sometimes some of you are worse.

Fuckin’ idiots.

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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.

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snorts and pushes up thick rimmed glasses 🤓 “ummm aksshuuullllallyy”

You know exactly which events im referencing though right? You do? Good got it, so you get my basic point.

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