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J.D. Vance 'caught lying' on video about egg costs — with price tag right behind him

www.rawstory.com J.D. Vance 'caught lying' on video about egg costs — with price tag right behind him

J.D. Vance recently blamed Vice President Kamala Harris for an increase in prices for eggs, but observers noted that his point was undermined by a contradictory price tag behind him. CNN's Kit Maher reported than Donald Trump's pick for Vice President "swung by supermarket in Reading, Pennsylvan.....

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Price increases in eggs have largely been due to the outbreaks of avian flu and producers having to cull their stock, anyway. Not something Harris or Biden caused or could wave away with a wand.
- That's the justification, and maybe the catalyst, but prices have stayed higher than they were due to price gouging. It's not Biden/Harris fault, but rather capitalism. They saw they could still make more profit while selling less at a higher price, so they kept doing so.
  
  On top of that, the FTC under Biden/Harris has been investigating price gouging at the grocery store level and Kroger just came right out and admitted it. While vying for a merger with another conglomerate chain grocery.
  
  well.
  yes.
  though, I'm pretty sure the FDA isn't entirely powerless to create regulations about vaccinating livestock.... oh fuck. Republicans shat on that, too.
- Republicans don’t want to hear facts. They just want “alpha males” to cater to their feelings.

he's so incompetent. Its amazing how often he just walks into the rakes.
- VC.
  Reality is what you say it is.
  
  (In case any readers are actually wondering; Venture Capitalism - JD Vance is the puppet of Paypal co-founder and Palantir spyware owner Peter Thiel. A far-right billionaire who promised trump millions of dollars if he put his plant, JD Vance, on the ticket so in the event trump wins and keels over (odds are good, yeah?) Peter Theil becomes de facto dictator and . . . does whatever evil a billionaire tech bro can't get away with on that alone.)
  
  Venereal... c'isease

“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually has to pay attention to the suffering of American people, then that’s what I’m going to do,”
Jack Dick Vance, a U.S. Senator representing Ohio.
- JD Vance, a US senator who barely won Ohio despite being a republican
- If he has to create stories so that the American media makes the ambitions of the most vile, ruthless and reactionary sections ruling class look like the suffering of the american people, then that's what he's going to do

Because these guys actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning
Motherfucker trying to raise an army of Gastons over there.
- They'll probably be this take on Gaston.
  https://youtu.be/9DDN5nhCUUU?si=URyqTw3dfpIkxqTr

I know this is one of the dumbest things to latch onto, but why do they keep talking about "Kamala Harris's policies" like she's the current president? If that were true, then Vance is a dementia addled lying sack of....
Huh, I guess I answered my own question.
- Desperation, they really, REALLY wanted to run against Biden, where the age issue worked more for than against him.
  They know they are fucked, their only option left is to bang on the table.
- They want to try and pin some things that currently go on on her, because they assume, as the vice president, she could have some say in what the president does. The Orange Menace brought it up in the debate as well btw. 🙄
  However, there is not much to pin on. Everything the republicans care for is going relatively well, given the circumstances. So they're making things up.
  
  I don't think they assume she could have some say, I think it is just malice, a bad faith argument on their part. They know very well and also know that their base you eat it up because they already hate the other side, they just need something that resembles a reason.
  
  I think it’s also that they’re acting as though Harris is secretly running the show since Biden is, according to their narrative, too old and senile to lead. I fully expect if Harris wins that in 2028 they’ll sue her on term limits when she runs.
- It's NOT one of the dumbest things to bring up.
  We thank you for an amazing question.
- Thank you! I think it's sad how they are so desperate to paint their election opponent in a negative light to score political points that they are pretending she's the president and is responsible for everything going on. Even in normal circumstances, the president can't push a magic button and control the price of eggs or gasoline or whatever, but the hypocrisy of blaming Harris for it now is just doubling down on the lie. It was all "Biden did this, Biden did that" right up until he bowed out of the race and suddenly Harris is actually responsible for all that shit and it's infuriating to see them trying it and even more infuriating to see it somehow actually working on people.

He's an admitted, unashamed liar. Don't even give him the time of day.
- This is probably why his boss hired him in the first place. Good god, Americans. Get out and vote!
  
  A qualification, certainly, but no. He was brought on the ticket for Peter Thiel's money and no other reason.
- He's really pathetic

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.
- It's funny how he keeps finding new ways to live up to the “weird” label without even trying
- Did he talk about 88 of something after he said 14 eggs?
- Vivec? Like, of the Tribunal?
- Pssssh, when I was a lad, I ate 4 dozen eggs every morning to help me get large.
- i think more than 2 as an adult isn't a great idea unless you're tossing out the yolks

Well. At least they used the word lying in the title. The scare quotes don't help anyone but whatever.
- they help the lawyers
  
  Feh.

So unshocking.
- this is why I'm voting for the party of Any Competent Adult ™️
  if I had ranked choice I'd be voting for Giant Meteor first. Just saying.
  
  Giant Meteor DOES solve the global climate change issue really easily.
  
  If we had ranked choice, I would be voting for Kodos then Kang then Giant Meteor.

I'm a Republican who does their Own Research and saw the Video and this is FAKE NEWS! Whatever Trump and Vance tell me is True is TRUE! Those Price Tags are FALSE just to make Vance look like a LIAR even though he said on TV he lied which was also FAKE NEWS! I'm not WEIRD!
- That was a really weird response. Where can I buy a flag with your name on it to put in my yard?
- a Republican who does their Own Research
  LOL, that was the best part of your joke!
  
  I love how their own research is whatever Jordan Peterson or Matt Walsh says.
- Waiting for someone to complain that there is no “/s” in 3… 2…
  
  There's no "1" in your response! And another thing! There are too many memes these days that aren't the two pictures of the black guy pointing any more. I am not a crank!

"So tell us JD, how will you help lower the price of eggs if elected?"
Ok, good.
- As a reporter, I'd ask him why, as a current sitting Senator, Vance himself hasn't done anything to help lower the price of eggs even while his colleagues in the Senate and the House are.
  Kroger exec admits to artificially increasing the price of eggs: link
  27 Representitives and Senators calling for a block of the merger between Kroger and Albertsons: link
  ...Vance was not among those calling for a block of the merger of the price fixing grocery store..
- "eggs, butter, some bread... whatever makes sense"
- The egg shortage has enabled record quarterly profits and sales at Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), the largest producer and distributor of eggs in the United States. The company produces brands such as Farmhouse Eggs, Sunups, Sunny Meadow, Egg-Land’s Best and Land O’ Lakes eggs.
  https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/business/egg-prices-cal-maine-foods/index.html
  The problem, once again, is monopolies. Not enough competition means one company can jack up prices.
  It's not clear if Harris will continue Biden's policies, but one of the best things Biden's admin has done is to actually go after monopolies for the first time in decades. Under a Trump / Vance presidency, I don't think that's very likely.

What does an egg cost, $10?
- There's always money in the egg stand
- I was just at a Wegman's yesterday for the first time in a couple years just for shits and giggles, because my broke ass usually never shops there. Those kinda grocery prices are not far off. I laughed, turned around, left the store, and went back into the Aldi where I belong.
- Have you even seen a chicken?

Vance is quite probably the worst VP pic in modern history. Palin riled up the base as intended. Mondale added gravitas as intended. What has Vance added to the Trump campaign?
And with Trump's age and obvious cognitive decline, he's not the future of MAGA. Trump won't be the Fuhrer of Project 2025. Vance will be.
- Silicon valley money. Hundreds of millions of dollars in dark money basically, and a lot of power brokers in tech working behind the scenes for the campaign.
  He brings nothing from a "fill the gap" stance because he's exactly like Trump, but less addled by age. The pick was stupid from that perspective but if you're money hungry, he brought it.
  
  I disagree, what he brings is obedience. Trump is a wildcard, Pence believed in America or at least that he might lose an attempted coup, but Vance does as he’s told and can change his behavior. He clearly doesn’t believe in anything but not in a chaotic way, more of a “I’ll believe what you tell me to” way.
- Vance throws red meat to the base. He’s exactly what MAGA wants.
  But I hope Vance costs Trump the election.

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.
- 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.
- 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.

“Alternative facts” strikes again.

What he's holding is a flat, not a dozen.
- Article mentions that.

Looks like JD Vance got a firmware update at least. A grocery store encounter with a prior revision might have looked like this:
Ok. Good. Whatever makes sense. How long have you worked here for?
- “Eggs, yeah can I get 20? And make them chicken eggs.”

the onion would have said this was too on the nose.
- The onion knew it was out gunned by reality, they were wise to pack it in.
  
  They just started printing again, actually

Free market. The companies are responsible for setting the price. Let's put blame where it belongs: corporate greed. Remember when "They were stealing our jobs," and not realizing the company was outsourcing their jobs? And how the fuck does someone steal the job you were hired for? Always bothered me as a kid.

the price behind him was fake news

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

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

There's some irony of this being in Reading, PA..

Jesus you cannot make this shit up lol
- I cannot. But he can, and somehow he's really really bad at doing so!

“The WOKE made the eggs prices skyrocket!!”

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.

This fucking guy...

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He said eggs were $4.
Eggs are $4 at my store.
y’all are really reaching on this shit
- But that's your store. Vance was saying Eggs were $4 while standing in front of a sign saying "Eggs $2.99" and complaining about egg prices in the area, while blaming Harris for making eggs $4.
  He could've stood in front of the $2.99 sign to only show the more expensive eggs. He could've gone to a "higher end" store to find those $7 eggs. He could've just stood in a different part of the store. But his crew looked at the backdrop and said "eh, go for it." and did.
  Harris isn't responsible for the price of eggs anyway. There's no "Vice Presidential Office of Egg Prices" she presides over.
  
  To be clear those are cage free eggs per the label and box art. I personally approve but lets be clear those are not your standard eggs that is insinuated.

Weird thing is, he didn't have to lie. He said that the price went from $1.5 a dozen to $4 a dozen, but it's not like his argument would have been that much weaker had he used the real price $3...
- Weird thing is this would still be a lie.
  No need to point out how he could have lied better while ignoring the fact that he’s blaming Kamala for the price of eggs while ignoring avian flu and corporate forced inflation.
  
  It'd be more of a spin, or a lie of omission, at most. Either way it'd be less stupid.
- Weird thing is, last time I bought eggs, a few weeks ago at Safeway, a dozen was about $7. All he's done here is make me feel a little better about the economy.

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