Trump Might Have to Ask Foes Like Trudeau for Emergency Eggs
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After a month of tariffs and trade wars, Trump is begging his adversaries for eggs.

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.

  • @dhorkEnglish
    21•1 day ago

    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.

    • skulblaka
      7•1 day ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]English
      10•1 day ago

      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)

      • @[email protected]English
        5•1 day ago

        Yeah, the fascists learned their lesson and started dismantling our education system in the 70s.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•3 hours ago

          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.