People tweeting stuff. We allow tweets from anyone.
RULES:
Prices in Canada and Mexico didn't increase anywhere near this much even at the height of the pandemic.
Maybe Bird Flu is refusing to cross international borders. Or maybe U.S. monopolies no longer need to even pretend to compete and the producers are raking in record profits.
What isn't?
This country never recovered from the 2008 crash. Each new "correction" as econ nerds put it has just compounded the damage done back then and added more. It isn't going to get any better.
200 millions dollars for a fucking ballroom??? Is it made of gold? Ok, it's Trump so with his shitty tastes, yeah it probably is at least plated...
It's made of scam. Hire some discount jank company to do the job for 1/5 of that and pocket the rest.
Whenever a Republican pretends to care about the national debt, they're lying.
Trumps is paying out of his pocket and an ~~donation~~ bribe from an unknown source.
I seem to recall that the White House is considered a historic building, and renovations need to be approved by Congress. It's actually been a problem, because there's a lot of wiring and plumbing issues that need to be addressed. Was this somewhere in the Big Murder Bill?
Oh, right, I forgot about what Administration we're dealing with. Of course he's going ahead with it.
Choppy chop!
Called the White House State Ballroom, the addition will be approximately 90,000 total square feet, which is significantly larger than the 55,000-square-foot White House as it stands now.
The ballroom will be bigger than the entire White House by ~35,000 square feet.
Room for infinite number of Big Macs and large fries.
Sixty percent of Americans living paycheck to paycheck and this twat is building a gaudy af stupid ballroom
You know they passed a law dramatically reducing social services and driving up the national debt with tax breaks for the rich.
Par for the course. Thank a right-wing neighbor.
He is turning the Whitehouse into Versailles
"No no -- the egg thing was for getting rid of Biden, we're done talking about that now" -- The Trump Admin, probably.
What do you mean "probably"? I can look up the exact quote if you need but what you said was pretty damn close to precisely what he said!?!
Oh wow, I didn't know they actually said it! Lol, I tried to satire but didn't go far enough 😆
When they go low... we bust through the floor to go even lower! (My bastardization of a quote from Michelle Obama.)
When they go low, start digging
When they go low, start waffle stomping.
never gets old
When does the leopard get full from eating so many faces?
That's the neat thing. It doesn't.
That's why it looks like it's for diabetus.
Release the Epstein files!
Oh look. Epstein distractions.
Now that's the kind of sensible spending that people voted for
"Fiscal Conservatism"
Doge here, looks like we are cutting USAID now we have money for a ballroom and a Qatari jet
When you squint you’ll see that phrase is actually “fascist consolidation”
The supplier that supplies eggs for Aldi was found price manipulating and abusing chickens. Meanwhile local farmers were selling much better tasting eggs where you could see the chickens out in the fields happily foraging and unafraid of humans AND for lower prices.
The local farmer can't supply eggs in the quantities Aldi needs, so Aldi prefers a simple supply chain with a couple of contracts with large-scale producers. Same as the other national/regional chains. Government stopped enforcing anti-monopoly laws, all the retailers consolidated to drive out the independents; the six remaining grocery chains forced all their suppliers to consolidate to national-scale production; the food packagers prefer to deal with factory-scale farms... We could really use a little competition in our 'free' markets.
Always support your local production! It's better than feeding the mega-corporations that have an oligopoly in basically every single industry and market.
The biggest issue is that these "too big to fail" conglomerates are willing to take a loss to kill off local businesses, and then raise prices when they're the only option you have left.
I'm leaving in half an hour to go to the Saturday market to get me some fresh free range (although not completely organic - near impossible if you want healthy birds) eggs. Cheaper than in the States and cheaper than Aldi, AH, Jumbo, all the big chains. I can see the farm on the map, with chickens outside, at least when google took that photo.
0.5c off if you reuse your old container. It's possible, just difficult to overcome the big chains. And yes I'm dripping in privilege but I moved continents to get it it.
Good job! You're doing your best!
We wouldn't need to move continents to do it if we hadn't destroyed the environment so dramatically :/
You think prices will go down once they go up?
650 people... adults or childs?
Teenage girls I assume
The childs are for eating.
I don't think that's what Trump and his friend Epstein were doing to the kids.
This is the right meme for the class war.
I know the federal reserve renovations were more expensive but it just feels like more hypocracy from this administration. No money to renovate a building that needs it, but gosh darn, we really need to spend hundreds of millions on a ballroom to be able to host better parties. And I have no doubt it's going to cost more than budgeted.
I saw the title of the post and said, "oh bullshit" but then went to walmart dot com and yeah, actually they are twice the price they were in 2019.
they were under $1 a dozen then, they're still about $3 here--last i noticed the price anyway.
The plebs will dine on the happiness of the elite and have full bellies.
Congrats Americans!
90,000 square feet for 650 people? how big are these people? /s
That's so that you can safely stay 12 feet from anyone else at all times once Bob Kennedy's vaccine-hating ways trigger another pandemic.
And yet we're not camped out on the white house lawn, grinding the economy to a halt.
They built a couple more walls around the White House for some reason.
So are house values
