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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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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
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 trying to get a visa and properly become Canadian ever since visiting and falling in love.
In time…
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.
I dont think USA will be getting eggs because Doug Ford just threatened to cut power that we we supply to the US due to the tariffs going into effect tomorrow.
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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.
Trump might need to ask his Canadian neighbour Trudeau for emergency eggs.
Krasnov Trump’s foe due to threatening Trudeau with invasion,
Canada is not US foe.
Trudeau kinda is one of Trump’s foes though, isn’t he?
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.
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.
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
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
The entire remaining free democratic world is Trump’s foe now
More like Trump is their foe
melania and trumps daughter doesnt seem to think so.
Not we, the Daily Beast is one overly dramatic headline away from a tabloid.
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.
Zelensky should have brought a carton of eggs to the oval office.
That would be such a power move.
Spoiled eggs from Turkey sounds like a great way to Make America Sick Again, LOL. Dear Canadians, Please post photos of your inexpensive eggs. Additionally, please post photos of all the items you use eggs to make. Fuck trump.
This is a good idea. Fuck trump. Fuck the republican traitor filth.
We kind of don’t need to post pictures— our grocery stores have their marked up prices on their website https://www.loblaws.ca/en/search?search-bar=eggs
Your website shows $17 for a thing of eggs and they’re out of stock.
Math is hard.
That’s a 30 count though. And presumably in CAD. Still more expensive than the pic posted. (EDIT pic posted elsewhere in this thread.)
30 eggs
Organic
About 10$ for the same thing if they’re not organic
It’s probably pasteurised eggs. And it’s probably not direct to consumer either. Lots of things have eggs in them and those eggs were probably bought in jugs or barrels rather than dozens.
I buy my eggs by the gallon.
I’ve seen Costco selling egg whites by the litre carton. Gallons wouldn’t be farfetched for restaurant supply.
Most food is made in factories, not homes or restaurants. Kinda gross.
I actually do have a photo of Canadian eggs ($3.79 CAD is about $2.50 USD)
Where is that? Eggs $6 minimum in Victoria
I wish Trump what he deserves.
I wish his supporters everything they voted for
$50 eggs. I recognize so many citizens actually support these moves. This is a relatively harmless way to draw attention to more of these bad decisions.
By all means, let the price of eggs skyrocket. It’s the least harmless of what we collectively voted for.
The problem is, there is no way for only his supporters to feel the pain.
Stuff that. We should all say “No” and make him go to his handlers in Russia for eggs.
Out of chicks at the local farm stores too.
I hope Canada puts a 100% tariff on eggs to the USA, get those egg prices up to $1.50 per egg.
Checkmate America.
What an odd way to signify 36 eggs
. “Twin cartons of two less a score m’lud” is what the egg valet relayed to me.
It’s two cartons of eggs, each container is a dozen and a half. Eggs are normally in units of a dozen so keeping that as a consistent unit across multiple brands and styles makes sense. Costco normally indicates how many things are packaged together more than the overall total. It’s useful to know the format.
If it was on tray of 36 eggs the would have used 3 dozen and the indicator to keep it consistent with the standard unit of eggs.
Americans cant do math.
You’re telling me a 1/3lb burger is bigger than a 1/4lb??
/s
“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!”
If this temporary rise in egg prices is the leverage Canada has on the US then Canada is in a bad spot.
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
This document outlines many of Trumps talking points and actions, enough so that I believe it is Trumps plan, and I don’t think these tariff are going away.
When you’ve built up over 100% of government federal/provincial debt on the back of unfettered access to the US market you’re entirely at their whims, and as 80% of exports go to the US Canada is about to get a massive hike in inflation as its FX falls off a cliff, causing a shock to one of the largest housing bubbles on the planet, causing the money supply to contract, which will cause stagflation.
Which is when the US will politely ask for Canada to become part of the US, when we are in a deep depression as we scramble to perform austerity as people are losing their jobs. Considering this happens next week it could be insane to watch, and I am unlucky enough to have a front row seat.
I’d say not being ruled by a babyllionaire nazi that bankrupt casinos and not having 2/3 of our population being under-educated lazy-ass losers is our main advantage over US right now.
Education is great if you’re paid for it. We also aren’t any more productive, we have like half the investment per worked than the US.
We also destroy the poor here via the housing crisis.
Education is great and free in Quebec, not sure about the roc.
Wages are still lower on median.
The subject is education…
Canada has a lot more leverage than eggs.
The US is much better prepped to withstand the storm but he’s not going to be able to exacerbate America’s cost of living crisis indefinitely and it isn’t just tariffs on Canada that will be driving that.
If he puts tariffs in then it means less USD available globally, which will increase the value of the dollar to offset the cost imposed by the tariffs, would it not?
He then uses the funds to cut corporate taxes, which will decrease goods prices lowering the CPI basket.
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!
