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Last year, there was not a single conservative person in my "circle" that wasn't constantly griping about the cost of eggs and "Bidenflation". Poor souls could not afford to eat anymore, the only protein they supposedly lived on was eggs, but the price of those was so high they were just going without.

The moment that Trump took office, egg prices spiked again and suddenly these people understood that the president doesn't control the price of eggs and besides eggs cost so much due to the effects of bird flu. Suddenly these people who couldn't previously afford anything but eggs to eat are telling me that they're having roast beef for dinner, then pork chops, and so on. Literally nothing has changed in their lives except there's a different president and nearly everything is far more expensive, and yet all the financial woes they were complaining about this time last year no longer seem to exist.

I even mentioned the price of coffee, milk, and beef in a recent conversation. Supposedly these things were higher when Biden was president (not true), and when I refused to budge on that, suddenly it's back to "well the prices are determined by complex market conditions" and "the president has brought down the price of many other things like eggs".

It's literally impossible to have a logical and factual conversation with these types of people.

I think the main difference is that people were "apoplectic" when food prices had doubled or tripled in a year or two, and now they're only going up like 10%. But also because people get used to anything, and apparently one of the things they're used to right now is food being ridiculously expensive. Thirdly, most people get sick of a subject after a while so they engage less on it. Don't want another article, don't want another comment, they just turn it off and look at memes.

Go vegan 💚

Because the pro-Trump media now tells people it's because of the long-lasting effects of the Biden admin. Here in Hungary, we're still being told the awful state of the healthcare system is due to the Gyurcsány-era, that was in 2010(!), although they started to mix it up with a little "the EU isn't sending us money because we made a law that labels gay people pedophiles".

Same reason the clown is elected twice in the first place, the media in this country is completely irresponsible and run by profit driven assholes with zero ethics, a major problem in everywhere.

Beef prices should go up, along with all meat prices, to reflect their ecosystemic toll. The problem is basic staples are also expensive.

People need to just stop buying what is not absolutely necessary. They will suffer a curious side effect: Weight loss, lower sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol. Maybe that will force producers to call on their orange god to quit his grifting. Who oversees the tariff tax in the External Revenue Service?

I'd say it's because during Biden's term he was running a fairly basic administration and during the run-up to the election, inflation was something they (repubs) could use to rile up the base, but now not only is the election long over, there's so much new horrible stuff every day (both real and made-up) in the spotlight that inflation pales in comparison.

I mean, because the left and center are concerned more with the collapse of democracy and the rule of law and the right wants all brown people to die.

Because media focus shifted. People will be mad with what the media tells them to be mad at.

Is it because they are talking about Epstein? No? That's weird.

They are just too busy winning all the time.

I hear about high food prices all the time, it's like 50% of what people complain about

Do anyone still remember the drama with egg prices? Or is it just me?

What's crazy is that ground beef is practically a waste product. You can get it for under $4/lb in Houston. Hell, come by certain grocery stores at the end of the day and they're trashing buckets of it.

$6.12 for something that's filling up garbage cans and landfills to the tune of 429.2 million lbs in 2022 alone? Seems like Americans are getting price gouged.

Because it’s* worth it seems the likely answer.

*racism, genocide, anti-science, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-health, trickle-up billionaires, misogyny, state religion, and more.

the absolutely wild thing about this is that australia is/was also complaining about a cost of living crisis, and our food is $ for $ roughly the same… as in our numeric value for food is the same - despite our currency being worth about 2/3 as much

this doesn’t mean that australia has our cost of living crisis easy… it means that americas food prices are ultra fucked

https://links.coles.com.au/hRXTKkT7aVb

Coles No Added Hormone Beef 3 Star Regular Mince: $7/500g (1lb ~= 450g)

(at time of writing, that beef in the photo costs about $10AUD/500g, or our beef mince costs $4.50USD)

gov controller media strikes again

because everyone knows and feels the slowly rising over-inflation, but there are far more pressing problems that need to be addressed

We still are.

only the news stopped talking about prices

ap•o•plec•tic | ,apa'plektik|

adjective informal

overcome with anger; extremely indignant: Last year, tons of people were apoplectic about food prices.