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Summary
The Trump administration faces a dilemma as skyrocketing egg prices due to bird flu have forced Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to consider emergency imports.
With eggs now averaging $8 per dozen (up from $2.25 last fall), Trump may need to request imports from countries he’s recently antagonized—particularly Canada, the largest U.S. egg importer, which Trump has threatened with tariffs and annexation.
Other potential egg suppliers (Netherlands, UK, China) have also faced Trump’s recent hostility through tariffs or threats.
Meanwhile, Turkey plans to export 420 million eggs to the U.S., but this represents less than 5% of monthly U.S. production.
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“JK, no eggs for Nazis!”
“We MUST invade Canada. Not for the oil, not for the water, not for the minerals, steel or aluminum, but for the eggs! Get America cracking again!”
Trump Might Have to Ask Foes Like Trudeau for Emergency Eggs
Woah woah woah. Why the ever-loving fuck are they calling Trudeau a “foe”?! Are they just priming people to believe we’re enemies now so that when the inevitable invasion comes they feel justified?!
Language matters and this is yet another disgusting betrayal.
Trudeau kinda is one of Trump’s foes though, isn’t he?
I think I’m the only one who remembers when Trudeau and Trump and Nieto signed that NAFTA agreement and Trump screwed up by signing in the wrong place and Trudeau covered for him to save him embarrassment. A very classy move that went completely unnoticed by a classless thug.
That’s what allies do.
…Ugh.
Common sense is trump’s foe… anyone with a lick of it is basically a sworn enemy
Trump is much more a foe to the US than Trudeau ever would be
Which is why being Trump’s foe ain’t a bad thing.
melania and trumps daughter doesnt seem to think so.
but not of the US. and trump represent the US. many people consume news by inferring from headlines. and a headline like this one reads the canada is a foe of the us
The entire remaining free democratic world is Trump’s foe now
More like Trump is their foe
No. We’re allies and good trading partners. If Trudeau is a “foe” then it’s only because Trump is making unrealistic demands of submission or being crushed.
Trump’s foe. Canada is the US’s ally.
Are we? Really doesn’t feel like we’re allies these days
Trump’s voice is loud, bombastic, and belligerent, but rarely anchored in reality. There doesn’t seem to be any limits to how low he will go, but that doesn’t change realities like the worlds two largest trading partners, thousands of miles of unguarded border, a long history of cooperation and yes, friendship. Do what you have to to deal with Trumps BS and know that half the US will cheer you on and only hope you’ll give us the chance to make it up to you in four years
Trump’s America’s foe.
The US is no ally of Canada. The US is currently allied with Russia and North Korea.
Not we, the Daily Beast is one overly dramatic headline away from a tabloid.
Trump might need to ask his Canadian neighbour Trudeau for emergency eggs.
Of course Trudeau is a foe to Trump. Trudeau is still part of the free world and has not succumbed to the new Russian Empire.
Krasnov Trump’s foe due to threatening Trudeau with invasion,
Canada is not US foe.
I can vaguely remember what eggs used to cost
If trump keep “creating history” for another 50 days like he has been doing for the first 50 days so far, I surely wont remember what an egg look like.
Even some of my friends from China and Russia are taken aback by the level of vulnerability and obedience Americans seem to have towards brainwashing techniques.
Even some of my friends from China and Russia are taken aback by the level of vulnerability and obedience Americans seem to have towards brainwashing techniques.
Years ago, when Donald Trump was still just a reality TV star, I went to a conference in the US and talked for quite a bit of time with someone from Germany, who had grown up in East Germany before the Berlin Wall fell. He said that in his childhood, all the TV news and print media were filled with State propaganda. Nobody believed it. But everyone said they did, to avoid unwanted government scrutiny.
He remarked that the media in the US sounded very similar to the media that used to be in East Germany. And not just Fox News (the Conservative darling at the time). All the US media resembled the media in East Germany back in the day, to some extent. But he was very surprised to realize that Americans believed the media, as long as it agreed to their pre-conceived political beliefs. (And, worse yet, didn’t believe the media that offered opposing viewpoints out of hand). Here we had the freedom to believe whatever we wanted, and we let ourselves get brainwashed.
Things have only gotten worse since Americans started getting their news online, from self-selected social media influencers.
Here we had the freedom to believe whatever we wanted, and we let ourselves get brainwashed.
This is true, but I have to nitpick this a little bit. Here in America everyone is constantly bombarded from all sides, every minute of every day, with constant propaganda of all types. People have to choose what to believe now because any story will have at least three conflicting accounts of it being told. There is no reliable source of truth. There are no reliable fact checkers. There are no laws enforced about truth in reporting.
I think this more than anything led to the problems that we have now.
Thanks for sharing this experience.
One mistake of East Germany (and Russia and China) was that their basic education is not that bad so people are able to figure out things don’t add up. America might be immune to this issue as it’s advancing to authoritarian.
Plus there are ultra rich class to assist and fine tune the brainwash technology to micro targeting each individual ( the “self selected“ influencers are not selected by yourself after all)
Yeah, the fascists learned their lesson and started dismantling our education system in the 70s.
Probably a bunch of the Nazis we imported into the US to help with the space program. They learned the system here, and used it to their advantage.
i hope they all tell america to fuck right off. start selling that shit to countries that deserve it
Why? Sell that shit at a premium. Like sell every dozen at exactly 99 cents below the average price. If the capitalist oligarchy doesn’t exploit this moment for all it’s worth what are they even good for?
if anyone can pull off highway robbery like that its canadian grocery cartels. I’m sure they’d love to get in on the price-fixing.
the united states needs to suffer lest this festering fascism fall into complete dictatorship.
the average people must suffer in order to wrest the reigns of democracy from the oligarchs hands.
Yeah so make them suffer and profit off their suffering.
It’s what America knows best
the best thing for the world right now would be for america to suffer the consequences of its poor decisions. the beatings must continue until we start making better decisions.
What the fuck even is 2025 though
Americas fall into full blown fascism.
One of the oldest addages: Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
The US is facing rising egg costs because their chicken farms are absolutely massive and susceptible to disease. Ironically a larget network of small farms results in stable prices.
This is a metaphor for all of capitalism.
Well said!
Trudeau would be within his rights to tell him to suck off
Or “suck an egg” if you will.
Psalm 69
Does anyone know what’s happening to the tariffs ?
they’re waiting on orders fron putin
Literally no one. Not even the fuck-wit-in-chief has any idea at this moment.
The White House said they weren’t coming, then Trump got mad and said they definitely were, now the White House is saying they don’t konw it’s up to Trump.
Trudeau should plan a meeting in Ottawa to sign the egg pact, then berate Trump’s ill-fitting suit and say that Canada will slap a 100% export tariff on eggs to the US unless Trump hands over Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
He won’t, because not even Trudeau is that big of an asshole.
“Canada is holding the egg cards! You’ve never once thanked Canada for our eggs!”
I might just move to Canada if he does that.
Sure, we have a golden citizenship for 20 millions (CAD, makes it cheaper for you). You’ll still be an immigrant tho, so expect our conservatives to tell you your DEI if you work and a parasite if you dont.
I hope Canada puts a 100% tariff on eggs to the USA, get those egg prices up to $1.50 per egg.
Dear Canada, as an American, please don’t send us any eggs. 77M+ people here need to face the FO part of FAFO.
At about 1,4$US for a dozen, why don’t you come visit instead?
Peanut fried fries, day fresh cheese curds, steaming thick chicken BBQ sauce with an over easy egg on top is worth the detour.
Been a couple times, would love to go again! Great food, nice people, great sights. Unfortunately, as a non-white person, leaving the States right now except for some permanent reason seems tenuous to me, and I’ve a family to consider.
Working on convincing everyone to move, but it’s tricky with jobs and pets and extended family kids…but we’ll see.
In the meantime, I’ve been buying eggs from local farmers directly for ~$5-$6 per dozen which is less than the store and half the time is basically a neighbor of mine.
Been trying to get a visa and properly become Canadian ever since visiting and falling in love.
In time…
Oof.
Or oeuf, as we sometimes say in Canada.
Un oeuf, deux zeux.
I know where cheap eggs are…
Costco.
Got 2 dozen for $8 last weekend in Colorado (where they have to be cage free chickens). Costco is a pretty good place to shop.
Maybe the cage free ones are good, but I bought costcos organic eggs once. Threw them all away. Thin shells, watery pale yolks. Yuck.
I am not much of an egg eater but if I do I want decent fresh eggs. Like the ones my chickens laid.
That’s the problem I see, I don’t want just any eggs, I want good eggs.
And trying to source them from just anywhere they can find them, or ship them long distances just isnt worth it.
I’m lucky enough to live in a place with a lot of local, organic eggs. $4/dozen at my grocery store
Yeah, I never thought I’d be happy to live in an area where chickens vastly outnumber people.
