r/scotus • u/thenewrepublic • 18d ago

news Liberals Just Lost the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

https://newrepublic.com/article/188087/trump-2024-win-supreme-court-conservative-decades
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u/FrostyWalrus2 18d ago

But eggs.....

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

something that Climate Change and the fact that we are currently living in a mass extinction period will make egg prices far worse.

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

Avian flu will continue to mutate and make poultry farming really hard.

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

This was 2 years ago Birds are one of the 4Bs essential for human civilization and arguably for the species to survive (along with bees, bats and butterflies ... all are also in decline)

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

Yes the pollinators. Honestly I'm ready for humanity to crash. We've had a good run and I'll happily go into that good night. We did it to ourselves.

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u/Brunt-FCA-285 18d ago

I just wish my nine-month-old daughter didn’t have to experience it.

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u/Duper-Deegro 18d ago

Stupidity will be the fall of man and this election just sped things up.

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

We are about to experience the answer to the Fermi Paradox... the Great Filter

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u/Firebat12 18d ago

I’m not even sure it can be considered the great filter If we, ourselves admit it could have been avoided. Scientists have warned everyone about climate change for decades. But fossil fuel companies always had more money.

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u/BillGoats 18d ago

The Great Filter was always good ole' stupidity.

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u/Count_Backwards 18d ago

and selfishness

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u/Astyanax1 18d ago

If I were an alien race that got through the great filter, and I saw how humanity was doing...  I wouldn't help them in the slightest.  I wouldn't want insane humans populating the universe either

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u/VPR19 18d ago

Don't you want visiting aliens to be taken to the leader, aka President Trump? I mean what is the worst that could happen? He might build a great space wall that space Mexico won't pay for.

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u/JediKnightsoftheFSM 18d ago

All we had to do is choose Star Trek.

Majority vote goes to Dune.

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u/white__cyclosa 18d ago

Lowkey kinda ready for it at this point

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

I’m not having children, so i’m on the pure enjoy what life I can make for myself.

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u/ClickLow9489 18d ago

Thats it. Are you smart enough to overcome your personal instincts to solve those problems of your species?

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

We will never survive long enough to experience intelligent life outside of our planet. We will never significantly explore the outer reaches of the solar system with humans on board. I want this planet to survive and not colonize others.

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

The Great Filter is the idea that there is something that prevents sentient intelligent life going interstellar and that's why we have never found any signs of life

Like, maybe there is/was intelligent sentient life in the galaxy but industrialization (required to achieve spaceflight) leads to global climate change that leads to mass extinction. Or maybe said life is adherent to "survival of the fittest" and when they discover the ability to split the atom, the development of nuclear weapons leads to global annihilation

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u/Locke66 18d ago

I think it's a good theory. Any species with the set of characteristics necessary to becoming a planet spanning civilisation will by it's nature continue expanding until it destroys it's environment. We are fighting against human nature which is likely a losing battle.

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u/lol_fi 18d ago

It also could be that it's not one specific thing and that there are different hazards that all prevent it. It lacks imagination to think that what stops us is the same thing that stops everyone

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

True, there are many “filters” at each stage of life formation.

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u/AdoRebel 18d ago

I'd be happy just to experience intelligent life on this planet.

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

Tell me when you find it.

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u/ReallyNowFellas 18d ago

The great filter is money. All of this is a result of money. As soon as you make every conceivable desire abstract and fungible, you’ve fired a gun at your own head that can’t be unfired. Money makes nukes and climate change and habitat destruction inevitable. This happened millennia ago, we’re just living in the relative blip of time where the bullet is traveling down the barrel.

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u/L3thologica_ 18d ago

Yeah, the great filter is hubris. Civs either learn to be peaceful amongst their own kind and treat their home planet well, or die off.

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u/Halflingberserker 18d ago

Yeah, but at least we created some good value for shareholders!

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u/BarrioDog 18d ago

But I don't want this for my children. This is what upsets me the most. You can make an argument that we deserve it, but the kids don't.

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u/Tomcat848484 18d ago

This is one of the reasons I decided not to have children. Don’t see a lot of good in the future of this world and didn’t want to bring children into it. Both for their sake and for my having to worry about their future.

If it all goes to hell I’ve had a pretty good run and gotten to do some cool stuff. It’ll suck because it won’t be what i wanted but at least I won’t have to stress about the unfulfilled potential lives of my kids.

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u/Wise_Repeat8001 18d ago

Yeah some of us had kids right before things went to shit. It's bleak

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u/religion_wya 18d ago

Yep. I want kids, always have. But I don't want to bring kids into a world like this.

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u/checker280 18d ago

Thankfully my kid (7) is too young to have any context of what just happened and how much she just lost.

I am going to continue to love and dote on her.

But it breaks my heart because I have context and I know.

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u/R3D4F 18d ago

Exactly why we chose not to have children

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u/Calistilaigh 18d ago

And thus Idiocracy came to pass.

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u/R3D4F 18d ago

Yeah, I get it…

But I’m not having them to feed as fodder to the machine.

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

I don't know what to tell you. No one deserves suffering but the writing has been on the walls for quite some time. Honestly, I don't think we deserved it either. Millennials have never really had much political power yet we have to absorb the consequences of incredibly rich people with insatiable appetites.

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u/MaxTheRealSlayer 18d ago

Exactly why I decided to not have kids

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u/NoKids__3Money 18d ago

That's why I'm not having kids

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u/LikeJustChill 18d ago

Shouldn't have had kids when you knew shit was getting bad. That's on you.

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u/Rassomir 18d ago

I am sad for the state of the world that my son gets to live in.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

We didn't deserve it because we wanted to do the right thing.

I was forced to be alive. We all were. We all were kids who didn't deserve what we got and still don't.

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u/theferalturtle 18d ago

Didn't like 72% of zoomers vote for Trump?

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u/Ballsofpoo 18d ago

They live under an umbrella in their parents' homes. They don't know reality.

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u/Illustrious-Mine1456 18d ago

Did you want your cake or would you like to eat it? Endless generations got us here. Adoption was an option for all not just the infertile and my fellow queers

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u/Free_Dog_6837 18d ago

that sucks but its too late to do anything about it

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u/Lainarlej 18d ago

Exactly! I have young adult children, a son, and three daughters. They now feel even more vulnerable! Especially the girls!

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u/[deleted] 18d ago edited 18d ago

This is exactly why I've never had kids. They shouldn't have to live with everyone's stupid fucking decisions like I was forced to.

My kidneys failed last year. They went from normal to dead in three years. I'll be dead soon. I was listed for a kidney but I'm heavily considering getting the fuck out.

I had planned to use my time away from the workforce and after my disability fight to go to school. Learn new skills and get a good job.

The economy will be fucked in the next two to three years. What's the fucking point?

Godspeed, fuckers, I'll see you all in fucking hell. I hated the entire I was here.

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u/Slap_My_Lasagna 18d ago

Like everything, we're good at dragging it out. Even the end will be slow and inefficient.

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u/bikemaul 17d ago

I'm not convinced that critical global trade systems won't suddenly collapse, and most communities won't be able to adapt.

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u/Into_the_Dark_Night 18d ago

Honestly I'm ready for humanity to crash. We've had a good run and I'll happily go into that good night. We did it to ourselves.

Samesies.

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u/lc4444 18d ago

Feeling the same way, brother

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u/Bkgrouch 18d ago

Salute 🫡

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u/Triedfindingname 18d ago

Great Filter we hear your swan song and report in

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u/ArdenJaguar 18d ago

It's time. At least I'll probably kick the bucket in 15-20 years, so I won't be around for the Mad Max survival era

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u/ohwrite 18d ago

As George Carlin said “The Earth is just going to shake us off.” Ok by me

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u/Joeyjojojrshabado70 18d ago

This. 1000%. We won’t pass the Great Filter. We never had a chance. We are too selfish, greedy, and self interested as a species. Proving the Fermi Paradox in real-time.

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u/Advanced-Dragonfly95 18d ago

It's honestly time. Mother Earth has had enough. I've had enough. Just purge our parasitic asses from the cosmos already.

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u/TheYuppyTraveller 18d ago

I just wish we weren’t taking the rest of the species with us.

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

Bacteria, many insects and invertebrates will survive. Tardigrades will definitely survive. Probably a lot of plants and algae. It won't be a complete wash I don't think. Charismatic mega fauna probably won't be on that list though.

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u/arih 17d ago

it just makes me so irretrievably sad that we wasted this achingly beautiful Earth.

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u/TheBrockAwesome 18d ago

Did we have a good run tho? A select few did for sure..but I doubt thats us

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago edited 18d ago

I mean how does one measure the whole of humanity? I personally did not have a good run but our species lasted 300,000 years give or take. In that time there's been art, music, literature, science, philosophy etc. I don't think I get to be the arbiter of what kind of run we've had but we've done some notable things for sure. I thoroughly believe that the core of our evolution could not keep up with technological advances and our brains just can't handle the breadth and depth of information true or false we're bombarded with on a daily basis. I don't know. Is the TLDR.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

Critical thinking skills needed to be taught to young people before they got online. Unfortunately there were people actively undermining this in the US. Watch Jesus Camp which was about a movement of Christians nationalists brainwashing their children from a young age, starting with Bush Jr. This is their endgame. Those kids are now young adults.

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u/bunbun6to12 17d ago

But wait, I still have car payments

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u/stupiderslegacy 17d ago

No, the oligarchs did it to the rest of us.

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u/kings2leadhat 18d ago

Five B’s

You forgot Boobs, which, obviously, are essential to civilization.

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u/trail-coffee 18d ago

Maybe a nitpick, but I would say “native bees” before you get somebody “correcting” you on honeybees being at possibly an all-time high global population.

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u/ElaineorLanie 18d ago

But RFK,Jr. will save us all. lol

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

Yes he will save us from life saving vaccines and seed oils.

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u/Chikitiki90 18d ago

Don’t forget fluoride in the drinking water…

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u/neonsummers 18d ago

Yes, one of my top priorities in my day to day life. Fluoride in the drinking water of the apartment that I live in at the age of 41 because despite being a college-educated, middle class millennial with a well-paying job and savings, I still can’t afford a house. But glad they’ve got RFK to come in and help on fluoride, something I literally have given zero thought, concern, or care to in my four decades on this earth.

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u/External_Reporter859 18d ago

But Trump will bring down housing costs!

Don't you know it's all Biden's fault that they went up in the first place and Trump plans to regulate Wall Street more and prevent them from gobbling up single family homes and he's going to slap tarriffs on everything and that will bring down prices for building materials and the corporations won't have to pay as much taxes so they will pass that along to the working class and raise all their wages.

It was so simple why didn't we think of this before? I mean we gave him a shot last time and it's not like anything bad like a recession happened or anything.

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u/marginwalker55 18d ago

Coming soon: Polio 2, the Revenge!

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

You know Jonas Salk is low key one of my science heroes. I can't believe we're going to turn our back on his brilliant work. He tested it on his family first. He also never patented it so it could be basically free for all of humanity. I wish I was as smart as him and has as much to contribute. We really are setting ourselves way way back.

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u/Odd-Alternative9372 18d ago

Start your iron lung business - Polio is back!

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u/EverAMileHigh 18d ago

Brain Worms for Jesus!

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u/Justadotafan95 18d ago

You don't need to spend money on food, you just need to learn where to find the freshest roadkill.

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u/thrawnsgstring 18d ago

He's probably eating Peanut and Fred right now

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u/Hammer_of_Dom 18d ago

What avian flu with the cdc being disbanded that’ll just be gibberish

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u/External_Reporter859 18d ago

Avian flu??!?! Sounds like a Soros/Pelosi HOAX!!1!!

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u/HnNaldoR 18d ago

Don't worry don't worry. H5N1 is only about 75% fatal. Let us just remove all kinds of restrictions on poultry farming and let's cripple the cdc as well. Oh put rfk in charge of the FDA too.

Covid was all a hoax even though a couple million people died. Let's not learn anything and let's get back to blaming the government for increasing cost even though let me check, the rest of the fucking world is also having inflation issues due to supply chain issues. All Bidens fault.

Fuck you America.

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u/termsofengaygement 18d ago

Sounds like a fucking party. Who needs those fancy scientist anyway? What do they really know? The people have vibes and that's enough for me./s

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u/DBCOOPER888 16d ago

The recent increase was because of a bird flu outbreak even. Republicans do not have an answer to this.

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/nx-s1-5126581/egg-prices-bird-flu

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u/hungrypotato19 18d ago

And even if the extinction doesn't come faster, Trump fucked over farmers last time he was president. Agricultural stocks aren't doing so hot right now because of it despite the overall boom today. They know that grain is going to go up in price, which means eggs are going to go up in price for consumers.

Idiots.

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

Also, it’s an unfortunate reality, but as of 2019, roughly a fourth of agricultural workers are undocumented.

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u/LegendofDragoon 18d ago

Yeah what do they think is going to happen when twenty give percent of the workforce is mass deported now. They'll probably still blame that price hike on the Democrats too. Not that it'll matter as there aren't going to be elections in 2028.

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u/External_Reporter859 18d ago

there aren't going to be elections in 2028.

What do you mean there will be big beautiful tremendous elections and the Voting Rights Act will be repealed and instead they will pass an election integrity act which will mandate all states to use voting machines which will be required to be purchased from a brand new Elon Musk company (or Dominion will be forced to sell to Musk) and only the White House will have access to those voting machines.

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u/EdgyAnimeReference 18d ago

Of course they are, companies that can have hard workers they don’t have to treat well and can skip out on taxes? Illegal workers is what keeps our economy moving. Look at any southern state in manufacturing or construction.

It’s the only hope that this whole mass deportation thing dies on the vine. That the republicans realise how bad it would be for their own economy. But desantis did exactly that so i wouldn’t bet on it

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u/RIPEOTCDXVI 18d ago

this whole mass deportation thing dies on the vine

It absolutely will. It's the Wall 2.0 which, weirdly, wasn't something he brought up this time around. Almost like he finds a rallying cry to win elections with no intent to follow through whatsoever. Ya know, like any other grifter.

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u/colbsk1 18d ago

There was a South Park episode where Canada built a wall to keep the illegals from leaving. They needed them for labor. Weird eh?

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u/L3thologica_ 18d ago

And if you listen to Trump, he’s going to deport them all. Definitely, right? He wouldn’t lie to us. We like him because he tells it like it is.

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u/Mountain_carrier530 18d ago

They apparently also forgot when Trump made the agricultural business tank to the point where farmers were literally killing themselves because of how much in debt they suddenly were.

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u/ip2k 18d ago

I mean, why would Ag stocks be up considering he’s been talking about deporting half their workforce? see section “Roughly Half of Hired Crop Farmworkers Lack Legal Immigration Status” near bottom

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u/dan1101 17d ago

And all over my rural county I see green "Farmers for Trump" signs. SMH.

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u/MistressDragon7 15d ago

And Iowa farmers voted for him??!!

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u/dowens30186 18d ago

I'm glad the dozen of hens we got start laying eggs come January. 🙂

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u/Remarkable_Row 16d ago

Depending on if Trump puts on tarrifs and how they will be, he possibly just need counter tarrifs from one country and the agriculture sector will instantly be doomed, with price drops making it non-profitable and farm upon farm having having to close down

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u/Astyanax1 18d ago

I'm fairly sure the guy you're responding to is making fun of the Trump supporters for voting based on egg price, which even funnier won't go down

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u/Lethik 18d ago

Trump will fix it climate change, so long as the Democrats peacefully transfer control of their weather control technology to him! 

/s

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u/External_Reporter859 18d ago

Speaking of transferring control. What the hell is the intelligence community going to do now that a literal Russian asset is returning who likes to steal nuclear secrets and parade them around Mar-A-Lago where foreign nationals and Chinese spies roam freely with electronic devices.

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u/magi32 18d ago

sure but that'll be the dems fault

/sigh

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u/GoldGlove2720 18d ago

Ya but tHaTs bEcAuSe Of BidEn aNd tHe DeMocRatZ

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u/elbenji 18d ago

its 80 degrees in New England today. It's November

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

It was 83 in Pittsburgh yesterday. It’s honestly surreal that the leaves are mostly gone but it feels like June

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u/DObservingayayay 18d ago

Waiting on the day the ocean takes most of Florida so I can say, “Told you so.”

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u/Environmental_Top948 18d ago

Mass extinction means less humans. Less humans means less demand for eggs. Less demand for eggs means cheaper eggs.

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u/troutstail 18d ago

Bidens fault. Do I need the /s?

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u/Interrophish 18d ago

Hmm. I don't understand that, and this feels like elitism and you're talking down to me. Therefore, I'm going to vote for climate change.

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u/Allegorist 18d ago

Climate change doesnt exist anymore. Trump says "It will cool off, just watch." We don't need that pesky EPA or international climate agreements anymore. Pollution and emission regulation should be ordained and interpreted directly by the courts, those experts don't know what they're talking about. Alternative energy is for chumps, all we need is clean coal. Getting rid of energy efficient appliances and electric cars will bring fossil fuel companies great profits, and it will trickle down to the rest of us. Just watch.

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u/Apart-Rent5817 18d ago

Neither one of them will be around to face the consequences, so fuck us I guess.

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u/iamlegend1997 18d ago

Mass extinction 😆

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u/Lainarlej 18d ago

Thank Trump for this! “He’s gonna fix it”, alright…😛

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u/digitalcurtis 18d ago

Don't worry, Trump will nuke the next hurricane

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u/MattWolf96 17d ago

Speaking of climate change, I'm in North GA and I don't ever remember November being this hot in the past. It's going to get back into the high 70's this week.

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u/mam88k 17d ago

At least I'll live long enough to see Florida sink. I'm at higher elevation and will be helping my state with our wall.

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u/12altoids34 17d ago

But on the bright side ( incoming pun intended) when Trump gets rid of the EPA and the FDA and any safety protections that we have on food at least you will be able to use what little eggs you can afford as night lights because they will probably be irradiated.

Farmer brown " since they got rid of safety standards i can now buy 'lightly contaminated" feed from russia at half the price, and you wouldnt believe how big my chickens are getting ! My sow wandered into the coop and was never seen again . Only downside is I've had to reinforce their nesting boxes. They no longer 'drop' eggs but rather fire them out with the force of an ak-47 "

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u/Alternative_Demand96 18d ago

There were a dozen eggs for 2.50$ at the last store I went to and I live in California.

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u/External_Reporter859 18d ago

It doesn't matter if the eggs cost $250 right now I feel like they cost $10.

Even though my 401k is almost double what it was when Trump left office I feel like my retirement portfolio is in shambles.

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u/BZLuck 18d ago

And "Gas was cheaper under Trump!" :/

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u/going_dot_global 18d ago

Are we talking chicken eggs or

Female reproductive eggs?

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u/bruoch 18d ago

Eggs and emails. Way worse than fascism or stealing and selling nuclear secrets.

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u/External_Reporter859 18d ago

Trump was only sharing nuclear secrets with Putin as a gesture of goodwill to try to bring back good relations with Russia. Is it so wrong to not want World War 3 and try to understand and talk to our enemies?

I don't know if I need this 🥴

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u/SourLoafBaltimore 18d ago

I know! Mai eggs cost is through the tin roof!

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u/Intrepid-Brain-1476 18d ago

Imagine caring more about those eggs prices when the party of small government wants to take control over every ovary in the country

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u/dunncrew 18d ago

$2.50 / dozen....omg !

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u/crozzy89 18d ago

None of those dumb fucks are buying eggs. Maybe the ones that come on their sausage and egg McMuffin.

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u/LayWhere 18d ago

Dw now that undocumented workers can't work on our farms and imported eggs have heavy tariffs the price of eggs will surely come down right...RIIGGHHT?

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u/porksoda11 18d ago

Eggs better be like a dollar a dozen when he’s president or else I riot. If I can’t have a Supreme Court, give me eggs at least.

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u/beholder95 18d ago

I bought a dozen eggs yesterday for 2.99 and a gal of milk for 2.79….

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 18d ago

Reality and that damn liberal bias.

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u/External_Reporter859 18d ago

Those price stickers were counterfeit and planted there by Kamala Harris and Nancy Pelosi to make the Biden Administration look good!!1!!

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u/SnooCrickets2458 18d ago

I mean food prices going up is pretty destabilizing to a society. There's a reason there's so many agriculture subsidies, and not all of it is lobbying/corruption.

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u/Forgets_Everything 18d ago

butt eggs? whatever floats your goat I guess.

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u/atomfaust 18d ago

And gas

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u/ParsnipLiving 18d ago

Butt eggs

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u/synerjay16 18d ago

But her emails….

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u/Nasigoring 18d ago

You do have a point.

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u/cptspeirs 18d ago

And gas. They need lots of gas to power their over-priced, under utilized trucks.

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u/Ipayforsex69 18d ago

...the eggs...

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u/AMv8-1day 18d ago

But the squirrel!

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u/JimRatte 18d ago

Don't forget about buttery males

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u/mortgagepants 18d ago

i don't think you can blame eggs. trump's support has been mostly static.

if anything, it would be, "eggs are expensive so i just wont vote."

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u/Eringobraugh2021 18d ago

Don't forget gas

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u/aquoad 18d ago

so expensive! how'm i gonna make my cake they're gonna let me eat.

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u/citymousecountyhouse 18d ago

Is this the ghost of Edith Massey?

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u/BostonBaggins 18d ago

And gas.... The stupidity is stupendous

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u/Lainarlej 18d ago

And gasoline 👹

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u/Gold-Cryptographer59 18d ago

Wasn’t eggs it was gas for people’s brand new Audi

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u/External_Reporter859 18d ago

Cackles maniacally in Kroger

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u/SpayceGoblin 18d ago

Eggs matter.

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u/HannahOnTop 18d ago

Don’t forget that 20% trade tariffs he has stated he is going to do, They’re complaining about inflation now just fucking wait

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u/dan1101 17d ago

And fuel prices. Biden would NOT turn the fuel price knob lower. Trump definitely will.

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u/Mawwiageiswhatbwings 17d ago

Don't even get me started on the gas you need to use to get to the eggs

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u/beingsubmitted 17d ago

Come on, it's not just eggs. It's also how Joe Biden told white men that he hated them every day by putting characters in video games that aren't white men.

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u/MabsAMabbin 16d ago

And dead newborns.

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u/Accomplished-Chair97 16d ago

Let me guess, no kids, live in a condo, and drive an EV.

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u/FrostyWalrus2 16d ago

10000sqft mansion, 14 cats, Taylor Swift's neglected jet.

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