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To be fair - that is true. It's not like he infected all the birds.
However, if you're the president that just slapped a bunch of tariffs on neighboring countries ... optics looking kinda bad ngl.
Eggs are 4x regular price. Chicken (meat) has barely moved. There's no lack of stock, on a perishable product and the prices are incredibly high.
Greed made that price.
He did fire a bunch of the people in public health who were trying to make policies to prevent the birds being infected.
Just like how we have routine food recalls because he shuttered lots of food regulation during his first term. Wonder how much Boar’s Head has donated to the Republican Party….
This is also going to start some knees to jerking, but he's also technically correct that inflation specifically hasn't been that bad, if you actually look at inflation rates it's not particularly worse than what we've had in other decades, the 90's which we associate with a bountiful economy had higher inflation rates for a longer period of time.
What's making all of this untenable is companies doing everything they can to avoid paying livable wages and most of all price gouging. Which they're doing with eggs for good reason, but we also have to understand that anything that uses poultry is also going to take a hit, and then, like magic, a variety of other companies and services use these specific gouges as a justification to raise their own prices beyond inflation levels, even if they sell things that have never touched a chicken, like fucking mortgages and medical care.
We used to have bureaus and departments to keep this kind of thing in check. You can argue their effectiveness but at least we had them.
I'm actually smart enough to understand this. But they blamed Biden for shit that he had no control over so I'm going to be spiteful and blame everything bad on Trump.
This blame game goes two ways Republicans. See you at the midterms.
"Gas is too high! Why doesn't the President just pull the lever to make them not high?!"
Biden releases strategic reserves to lower prices.
"Ye-- Ye-- Well, the price of eggs is too fucking high. Pull that lever! I dare you!"
Hm, we don't have a strategic egg supply to make simple people happy. This will be a challenge...
Trump claims he'll lower it by getting elected. How? Who the fuck knows and no one cares.
"Why aren't the prices lower yet?!"
Well, gosh, it couldn't have to do with a complex system where there aren't magic levers one just pulls to make things happen... Guess it's Trump's fault. What's good for the goose (Biden) is good for the gander (Trump), after all.
Not entirely true, as H5N1 isnt working to do this on its own. He's made nondocumented workes feel unsafe so it's hard for them to work. Specifically in the low wage work one finds on a farm, especially if the work is in a red state. Look at Kentucky, for example.
Ah, ye that makes sense. Kinda forgot about that aswell. Thanks for pointing it out!