r/Conservative • u/AGhostMostGrim Don't Tread on Me • 12d ago
Flaired Users Only Redditors are worried that prices are going down. This isn't satire.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2025/03/23/reddit-lefties-rage-at-costco-for-cutting-prices-to-help-trump-n24103091.2k
u/Emilia963 Moderate Conservative 12d ago
Egg prices plummet, the average American can now enjoy affordable eggs once again
Reddit:
“This is outrageous, the prices should go up to the point where everyone hates trump, let us live in poverty!”
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u/Imyourhuckl3berry Conservative 12d ago
So much for all those “but muh eggs” replies they were so smug with - like a snap of thanos fingers they are dust
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u/ancienteggfart MAGA 12d ago
It’s also funny because for the last four years, we heard about how great the economy was under Biden, but suddenly, on January 20 at 12:01 p.m., right after Trump was inaugurated, the economy was ass and the egg prices were out of control.
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u/ShavedNeckbeard Common Sense Conservative 12d ago
We also heard that the president doesn’t control grocery or gas prices. And now suddenly he does.
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u/Emilia963 Moderate Conservative 12d ago
The left prefers to live in poverty, the only thing they oppose is paid healthcare and capitalism
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u/xxneverdasamexx Trump Conservative 12d ago
They think there is a way to have everything and not have to work for it. They will keep trying and stealing until they are either stopped or the country ceasts to exist. I hope that after this administration, it's the former.
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u/mythic_dot_rar Anti-Communist 12d ago
They prefer everyone lives in squalor if it means they have all the power.
Remember that they are not honest people, they are bad faith actors, you can and SHOULD dehumanize them because they are not human, they are communists.
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u/Leftrighturn 1A+1A 12d ago
DAMNIT! Prices are supposed to go up... That's what Rachael Maddow said! That's what Bluesky said!
Can't they see we're trying to own the orange man!!?
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u/Magehunter_Skassi Paleoconservative 12d ago
Amazing new trend I'm seeing over the past week is the meme where Europeans post photos of huge egg breakfasts
Simultaneously uninformed about the price drop, and also unable to hide the attitude that is causing their welfare checks from America to finally be cut off
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u/Emilia963 Moderate Conservative 12d ago edited 12d ago
80% of European countries are poorer than Mississippi, it’s not worth debating with Europeans.
Moreover, without our military assistance, their economy would instantly collapse within 1–2 years because they simply can’t maintain large, reliable military forces
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u/Vag-etarian Libertarian Conservative 12d ago
It’s easy to give away free shit when the US pays your defense budget
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u/curlbaumann don’t give up the ship 12d ago
Somehow even easier to give away your entire country. Unless your Poland.
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u/Open-Chain-7137 Moderate Conservative 12d ago
my Poland???
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u/curlbaumann don’t give up the ship 12d ago
Well they tried our Poland and they didn’t like that much
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u/Emilia963 Moderate Conservative 12d ago
I think the Marshall plan was a mistake, they should have rebuilt their economy alone, but then again the Marshall plan was popular among Americans because we didn’t wanna see the rest of Europe become a communist puppet
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u/dummyfodder Conservative 12d ago
I'd just like for the US to get paid back. It's been long enough. We defeated the commies for them.
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u/kaytin911 Conservative 12d ago
George Washington warned the US long ago. Never make permanent allies with Europe because their hubris is unmatched.
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u/vampirepomeranian Conservative 12d ago
Leave it to the Europeans to lecture us on how we should be more of a welfare state like them.
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u/sowellpatrol Red Voting Redhead 12d ago
So silly because if I recall correctly, they were having the same problem with eggs as well, a year or so ago.
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u/Kern_system no step on snek 12d ago
Bill "Bring on the recession" Maher because he hates Trump.
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u/MaBonneVie Constitutionalist 12d ago
Maher is disgusting, so yes, the left loves him.
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u/sowellpatrol Red Voting Redhead 12d ago
They rather hate him now that he's speaking up on how deranged they are.
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u/Winstons33 Conservative 12d ago
Agreed. I have a love / hate with guys like Maher (as well as Jon Stewart). On one hand, neither of them are particularly fairminded. But Maher especially understands where the left is toxic and does try to reign that in a bit....
Compared to Maddow, Reid, everyone at The View, and other completely deranged voices on the left, I can actually watch their shows on occasion.
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u/jeepgrl50 Conservative 12d ago
I agree on Maher, Not on Stewart. He used to be ok, Be he has become insufferable. His anti-gun arguments are a joke yet they pretend he's awesome bc he debated some weak ass dude where he said absurd shit without being dismantled.....Its idiocy.
Maher had a fairly decent show with Matt Gaetz not long ago that I watched, And I do like the fact that he calls out the stupid shit on his side unlike the psychos. But his TDS clouds his judgement so much that its wild to see an otherwise somewhat rational guy make the arguments that he does anytime Trump's name is mentioned.
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u/sub2pewdiepieONyt Trump Conservative 12d ago
Low egg prices encourages people to consume more and create more global warming.
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u/D_Ethan_Bones Boycott Mainstream Media 12d ago edited 12d ago
Absolutely everything orbits around Trump to the left. The price of eggs has nothing to do with their wallet and everything to do with political football, just like absolutely any other issue of the present day.
This is also why they blame Trump for the situation in February but loudly and proudly deny credit for the ongoing situation as he governs. Just like the egg price spike that started and ended when Biden was president, we destroy birds when there's a bird flu.
Near future Bee headline: district judge orders egg prices to go back up.
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u/kinghawkeye8238 Conservative 12d ago
All I saw last year on reddit was how bad the bird flu has gotten. How terrible it has affected our egg prices. I was paying 8$ a dozen last year.
Now I don't see any bird flu complaints, but the egg prices are trumps fault. It's funny cause I can get eggs now for 4.50$, a dozen.
But we won't talk about that
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u/Terrible-Actuary-762 Constitutional Conservative 12d ago
Also interesting is that "bird flu" only seemed to affect American chickens.
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u/kinghawkeye8238 Conservative 12d ago
I have 10 chicken and never have they been sick. Every year for 100 years+ our family farm has had chickens and ducks. We also have a pond thay gets ducks and geese yearly and never have we had a sick chicken/duck.
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u/Bozzz1 Conservative 11d ago
I'm sure disease works a bit differently when you have 10,000 chickens all crammed inside the same building.
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u/-spartacus- Constitutionalist 12d ago
The president is often given credit for success and failure over an economy they don't have much control over. POTUS can have an impact on the economy but fundamental operation is complex. With that said the POTUS can lead in a way to make things better or worse, but not in the binary way politics makes it seem like.
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u/kinghawkeye8238 Conservative 12d ago
Yeah it's not as simple as people make it out to be.
I just thought it was funny that bird flu was the problem until trump took office. Then it's trumps fault.
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u/-spartacus- Constitutionalist 12d ago
Yeah, in the grand scheme of things Biden may have taken a heavy hand and I'm no expert on bird farms, but expensive eggs for a few months isn't the end of the world. People's complaints about eggs, milk, and butter during the election were about the whole of grocery costs, not just one item. The democrats were not interested in discussing market costs but just doing the classic "but my image meme explains everything" that low-information people (both on the left and the right) eat up.
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u/curlbaumann don’t give up the ship 12d ago
People say this all the time, but there’s a clear night and day difference between Obama, Trump, Biden, and Trump again.
Considering the executive branch is the only branch doing literally anything in Washington right now, it’s clear that the president has a ton of power in making the economy better. Outside of black swan events, presidents can have an effect on most externalities.
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u/xxneverdasamexx Trump Conservative 12d ago
Yes. It just depends if they care or not. Trump cares for us and not himself or how it looks politically. Why do we even have politics? Im dead serious. The country should just be run like a business, except elections like we have now, with term limits. Every decision congress or the president makes needs to be in the interest of the american people and american people only. Any overseas aid or interests needs to be a vote by the people. Baring emergency military decisions.
No more politics or political games. Its disgusting.
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u/D_Ethan_Bones Boycott Mainstream Media 12d ago
At first it might seem cute and funny that the left blames the right for things that start under the left's watch, but that's actually their entire system.
How do one party rule cities stay one party generation after generation? By pretending everything that goes wrong is the other party's fault - that's people's actual mentality and it can be seen all over Reddit.
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u/Pwarky Conservative 12d ago
There are entire countries who use this strategy to great success for the political elite. Not so good for the regular people though.
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u/D_Ethan_Bones Boycott Mainstream Media 12d ago
Herds vote for hay, without thinking of the shearing the milking or the leatherworking.
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u/UnusualOperation1283 Conservative 12d ago
The price of eggs has nothing to do with their wallet and everything to do with political football
It's laughable that they would even try act like it affects their wallet. Do we really believe that wealthy Boston, NYC, LA, Seattle suburbanites are even remotely affected by $8 eggs?
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u/D_Ethan_Bones Boycott Mainstream Media 12d ago
Step 1: they chuckle to themselves and say "sucks to be them, I don't even GO to the grocery store!"
Step 2: they file workplace complaints against the food server/deliverer because the price of their cooked breakfast went up.
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u/musicROCKS013 Conservative 12d ago
It’s all part of Project 2025!!!!1!!
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u/RareRandomRedditor Conservative 12d ago
We need an equivalent of the "China" meme with Trump but where he says "eggs" instead.
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u/Lepew1 Conservative 12d ago
When one is trained to echo the narrative or face cancellation, the critical thinking portion of the brain atrophies. No longer does one ask why. It is all about speedy compliance and virtue signaling. It is no longer about objective evaluation of how policy impacts one’s own life. It is about unquestioning obedience. Tyranny prefers people like this, those who support every stupid policy and never threaten the tyrant.
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u/nissan240sx Conservative 12d ago
Reddit would love to pay $10 a gallon for gas and become homeless just as attempt to prove us wrong. Pathetic lol
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u/Pinot_Greasio Conservative 12d ago
Egg prices skyrocketed in 2024 under Biden and these losers didn't say a word.
Now Trump has been in office two months and the prices have plummeted so now they need to figure out how that's a bad thing.
They'll discuss how to do that on their way to the next Tesla dealership they are planning on firebombing.
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u/superduperm1 Anti-Mainstream Narrative 12d ago
I honestly don’t even get why the left cares about Trump’s approval ratings so much anymore. Like, we’re literally never voting for him again. He’s on his last term and he’s gone in 2029 regardless of whether he’s the most amazing president in history or one of the worst. So his approval rating and how well-liked or disliked he is really doesn’t matter. Feel free to be critical of specific things he does but why do they care so much if some people like him? Like, to the point where they want our country to fail just so his approval rating can go down? It’s just bizarre at this point. Shouldn’t they want us to just do well as a country at this point?
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u/xxPOOTYxx MAGA 12d ago
Always inverse what reddit thinks, the opposite is always true. I'm loading up on tesla stock
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u/Hectoriu Conservative 12d ago
When Biden was in office the right got mad when America got worse. With Trump in office the left gets happy when things go bad. This is a very significant difference...
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u/CantSeeShit NJSopranoConservative 12d ago
"Why the middle class becoming prosperous is a bad thing"
Next NYT article probably
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u/GeneticsGuy E pluribus unum 12d ago
Ya, I got 2 dozen at Costco for $6 the other day. They still had a limited supply max of 2 packages, but prices are definitely going down.
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u/Trondkjo Conservative 12d ago
They are only worried because it benefits Trump. They are actively rooting against him to fail- even if he doesn’t have much control over prices.
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u/Winstons33 Conservative 12d ago
I still don't think I've seen analysis that appreciates the upside of....(get this)...reverse tariffs.
I'd love some correction on where I'm wrong here.
So Canada, EU, China, etc all heavily tariff US goods in retaliation. By design, that reduces demand for US goods in those countries. Case in point (perhaps), Tennessee Whiskey.
So with all their whiskey removed from Canadian shelves, what is Jack Daniel's going to do - accumulate warehouses full of extra inventory? No. They'll (theoretically) reduce prices to focus on keeping that inventory moving in their home market. The new strategy would be to outcompete Crown Royal (now 25% more expensive). They should win that battle easily. [Crown Royal is SO over-rated]
Obviously, this will be VERY product specific. Also, it may not necessarily be immediately good for Jack Daniel's bottom line. But it should be very good for consumers.
Expand that theory across the grocery store, and (aside from fluke factors such as bird flu), prices should fall.
The downside is likely to be seasonality. Can we depend on South American produce being affordable in the off season while Florida oranges are in a freeze? So there's certainly tradeoffs. But perhaps worth weathering the storm? Long term, it feels like America can do this much longer than...say...Canada.
Might need to supercharge aggriculture again in Hawaii though. What's the plan Dole?!!!
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u/Xander_hades_ MAGA 12d ago
I posted a screenshot of this but it didn’t get seen but they are actually so confused about it
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u/FartingTacos Conservative 12d ago
There are FOUR annoyed badges on this post. The irony here is so flippin' tangible that it almost hurts. Those that are complaining that prices are going down are also complaining the we noticed... and spending the money to SAY they are annoyed by it.
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u/slipperysnail Christian Conservative 11d ago
It's just spin. That's all it has ever been to them, and all it will ever be
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u/AGhostMostGrim Don't Tread on Me 11d ago
First time I've gotten angry messages for a post. Also got tagged in the actual post, in which I was asked for proof that OP was a liberal.
I feel honored.
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u/caceman Conservative 12d ago
You know what’s scary? I’m working on my mba, taking Economics right now. Take a look at the charts for M1, M2, and their corresponding velocity and multiplier charts. The economy that Biden built is like nothing we’ve seen since 1960. I don’t have charts prior to that, so I don’t know if this was done before
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u/AGhostMostGrim Don't Tread on Me 12d ago
70 comments, only about a third of that I can actually see. Anyone know what that's about?
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u/JustinCayce Constitutional Originalist 12d ago
Unflaired trying to post.
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u/Nerftuco Hindu Conservative 12d ago
wait a minute
3 weeks into trump's presidency, the lefties were saying shit like "egg prices are still up lol trump bad"
40 days into his presidency and egg prices started to drop as promised and now they're complaining about that?
This is actual proof that there exists a woke mind virus, this is not just opposing politcal views but an actual widespread disease
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u/UnusualOperation1283 Conservative 12d ago
This just in: Reddit Mods Firebomb Oil Refinery to Combat Lower Gasoline Prices