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J.D. Vance 'caught lying' on video about egg costs — with price tag right behind him (www.rawstory.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Who cares how much eggs cost? If I put eggs on a pie chart with the rest of my monthly expenses, I would need a microscope to see it. Focus on real problems like price gouging rent.

You might as well buy the free range eggs for $8/dozen. If that's too much money, it's not like the purchase will make you more financially doomed than before.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

For staple food items, especially things like eggs or bananas that were very cheap in the past, pointing to increasing prices is one way to make the cost of living figure easy to see and feel.

Using examples to illustrate a point is perfectly normal, both in politics and real life, and I expect people will continue to do so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Diabetic people probably care about egg prices. Low-carb diets were a bit pricier already. But I'm going to go out supposing you are really asking why every article about inflation for the past two years focuses on eggs. I just assumed it was a manifestation of that meme about United Statesians desperately grasping for any metric other than the metric system to quantify the world around them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Liarrhoea - a continuous stream of shit that puiurs out of the mouths of Trumpist politicians. Lying is a form of breathing to these assholes.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago (5 children)

From the video:

“Let’s talk about eggs, Because these guys actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning.”

There's just so much that's weird about that. "These guys" are his 2 sons Ewan (6) and Vivek (4). You're saying these kids each eat 7 eggs every morning? That's a lot of eggs. Think about it. 7 fried eggs? Or 7 hard-boiled eggs? If you're scrambling them, you lose track of the individual eggs, but what, he's cracking 14 eggs into a huge bowl, then scrambling them? Do you know how much scrambled eggs that's going to make?

If his boys were teenagers, maybe I could see it, though eating that many eggs every single day would still seem weird. But, at least teenage boys are known to have big appetites.

Even if you include him, his wife and their 2-year-old, roughly 100 eggs a week every week seems odd.

Then there's just the weirdness of saying "about 14". We're talking eggs. Why not "about a dozen"? Slightly more believable, and a more common number to use when talking about eggs. I mean, surely if your kids really loved eggs you'd try to reduce it to a dozen eggs per day just so you're using one full carton every morning. Then again, if you're buying hundreds of eggs per month, maybe they come on a pallet, not by the carton, so "a dozen" doesn't mean much to you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

i think more than 2 as an adult isn't a great idea unless you're tossing out the yolks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Pssssh, when I was a lad, I ate 4 dozen eggs every morning to help me get large.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Vivec? Like, of the Tribunal?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's funny how he keeps finding new ways to live up to the “weird” label without even trying

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Did he talk about 88 of something after he said 14 eggs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Dunno if anyone here would know about the moment on TV where the PMLN witch was complaining about egg prices in eggs per kilo

Because regular people definitely buy eggs in kilos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jesus you cannot make this shit up lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I cannot. But he can, and somehow he's really really bad at doing so!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This fucking guy...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Fascists tell more and more egregious lies and dare you to call them liars.

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