Trumps Presidency 2025

[romad1]

8 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

More stuff just made up. I know this is obvious, but the lack of any humanity or empathy is just something. 

Is not showing up an option? 

[CMRivdogs]

11 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

More stuff just made up. I know this is obvious, but the lack of any humanity or empathy is just something. 

Many of them are Republican Congress Critters and Cabinet Members

[1984Echoes]

6 hours ago, romad1 said:

Moral bankruptcy?

No, I was talking financial...

As for moral bankruptcy...

That's an AUTOMATIC INVITATION into Trump and his morally bankrupt MAGA followers' "NO Ethics Club".

[1984Echoes]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

... Trump and Muskrat are going to destroy our economy. We need another Democratic POTUS to come in in 2028 to repair the GOP damage... again.

AGAIN!!!

(Just wanted to emphasize that point...!)

😉

[The Ronz]

5 hours ago, romad1 said:

Let me offer the most likely explanation rattling around in the heads of MAGAs

"HAIL TRUMP, GIVER OF LIGHT! HE WHO IS IMPERVIOUS TO FAILURE! HE WHO SHEDS NO TEARS! DEATH IS HIS GIFT! THE SOONER HE GIVETH, THE GREATER THE JOY FOR HIS FOLLOWERS!"

Pretty close but it is actually:

ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!

 

[romad1]

3 minutes ago, The Ronz said:

Pretty close but it is actually:

ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!

 

Yeah but that doesn't cover ending funding for research on pancreatic cancer. 

[Sports_Freak]

Trump just said on CNN that egg prices are down "significantly." They're up 40 cents a dozen at Kroger since I just bought a dozen last Friday. Just more lies for his base to slurp up and repeat to each other. "Did you hear? Egg prices are down, thanks to President Trump" Donny just loves the uneducated.

[Tigermojo]

Just now, Sports_Freak said:

Trump just said on CNN that egg prices are down "significantly." They're up 40 cents a dozen at Kroger since I just bought a dozen last Friday. Just more lies for his base to slurp up and repeat to each other. "Did you hear? Egg prices are down, thanks to President Trump" Donny just loves the uneducated.

He's going to show up somewhere with one of those old price guns that puts the little sticker on everything. Trump lowering prices!

[LaceyLou]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to read In the Garden of Beasts....

[LaceyLou]

8 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Speaking of parasites...

 

Is this one of her five accomplishments?

[Hongbit]

 

[Tigerbomb13]

These people are completely off their rockers 

[Deleterious]

3 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

Trump just said on CNN that egg prices are down "significantly." They're up 40 cents a dozen at Kroger since I just bought a dozen last Friday. Just more lies for his base to slurp up and repeat to each other. "Did you hear? Egg prices are down, thanks to President Trump" Donny just loves the uneducated.

I would probably wait a bit to see if the drop is permanent or not.  But they are definitely going down.

Fun fact.  I see other restaurant owners in other areas of the country posting prices they pay.  They are paying more wholesale than we pay retail in Michigan.

[Sports_Freak]

15 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

I would probably wait a bit to see if the drop is permanent or not.  But they are definitely going down.

Fun fact.  I see other restaurant owners in other areas of the country posting prices they pay.  They are paying more wholesale than we pay retail in Michigan.

Eggs here went from $5.19 to $5.69 in a week. 50 cents increase in a week.

[Deleterious]

2 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Eggs here went from $5.19 to $5.69 in a week. 50 cents increase in a week.

I dont doubt you.  But you are using a singular location, while this index tracks national average prices. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Deleterious

[smr-nj]

Eggs are in the $8 - $11 a dozen range here.

[gehringer_2]

Hopefully there is some 'learning curve' effect of farmers learning how to keep their hens flu-free. Pretty simple, if bird losses Go down, egg prices will fall but they probably can't  fall to where they were if the cost of operations with containment measures in place is higher, which it almost certainly is.  On the other hand, if the virus take a mutational left turn that leaves the present control efforts in the dust, any respite we are seeing now will be short lived.

In a situation like this, it would be such a great thing if only there were some method by which such scientific needs could be worked on in the interests of the whole country.

Edited 3 hours ago by gehringer_2

[Deleterious]

2 minutes ago, smr-nj said:

Eggs are in the $8 - $11 a dozen range here.

Yep.  I see restaurants paying up to $8-$9 wholesale per dozen. 

Does Jersey have a cage free law?

Our people at work noticed sometime ago that cage free are now cheaper than normal eggs.  That is not normally the case.  We think eggs in Michigan are cheaper than most places because of the law the governor signed that made Michigan a cage free state at the 1st of the year.  The flu doesn't impact those flocks as much because of the better living conditions. 

[smr-nj]

2 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Yep.  I see restaurants paying up to $8-$9 wholesale per dozen. 

Does Jersey have a cage free law?

Our people at work noticed sometime ago that cage free are now cheaper than normal eggs.  That is not normally the case.  We think eggs in Michigan are cheaper than most places because of the law the governor signed that made Michigan a cage free state at the 1st of the year.  The flu doesn't impact those flocks as much because of the better living conditions. 

I actually go to a local farm that has their own hens and get my eggs from them. 
They’re gathered that day and are maybe a buck or so less expensive. (Their prices have been relatively the same as pre-bird flu.). I’m praying their flocks don’t ever become infected 

[Tiger337]

40 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Yep.  I see restaurants paying up to $8-$9 wholesale per dozen. 

Does Jersey have a cage free law?

Our people at work noticed sometime ago that cage free are now cheaper than normal eggs.  That is not normally the case.  We think eggs in Michigan are cheaper than most places because of the law the governor signed that made Michigan a cage free state at the 1st of the year.  The flu doesn't impact those flocks as much because of the better living conditions. 

I don't know of Massachusetts has better access to uninfected flocks, I got my eggs for $4.99 per dozen this week.  

[Deleterious]

1 minute ago, Tiger337 said:

I don't know of Massachusetts has better access to uninfected flocks, I got my eggs for $4.99 per dozen this week.  

Nice.  I looked it up and you guys passed a cage free law in 2016 and looks like it took effect in 2022.

 

[gehringer_2]

27 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

Nice.  I looked it up and you guys passed a cage free law in 2016 and looks like it took effect in 2022.

 

It would be ironic if the states with cage laws, which operators complained would cost them money, end up being the lowest total cost operators in the country in the bird flu setting. But of course, regulation bad, government bad.

Edited 2 hours ago by gehringer_2

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, smr-nj said:

Eggs are in the $8 - $11 a dozen range here.

Have they come down recently? Come down significantly, like Trump said today? A 10% increase in a week here.

[Sports_Freak]

1 hour ago, Deleterious said:

Nice.  I looked it up and you guys passed a cage free law in 2016 and looks like it took effect in 2022.

 

In Michigan, it took effect this past January.

 

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/12/18/michigan-cage-free-eggs-new-law-impact-prices/76966711007/

Edited 1 hour ago by Sports_Freak

[Sports_Freak]

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Hopefully there is some 'learning curve' effect of farmers learning how to keep their hens flu-free. Pretty simple, if bird losses Go down, egg prices will fall but they probably can't  fall to where they were if the cost of operations with containment measures in place is higher, which it almost certainly is.  On the other hand, if the virus take a mutational left turn that leaves the present control efforts in the dust, any respite we are seeing now will be short lived.

In a situation like this, it would be such a great thing if only there were some method by which such scientific needs could be worked on in the interests of the whole country.

I heard something about a vaccine for the egg laying hens? What I don't understand is chicken meat, it doesn't seem to have gone up much. It seems like it would go up the same % as eggs. Boneless skinless chicken breasts are on sale for around $2.69 a pound. About the same as last year.