With apologies to Jim Gaffigan, who said it of kale, can we please just stop with the egg propaganda?
Eggs may have the same shape as one, but must we endlessly treat them as a political football?
Democrats are completely obsessed by the price of eggs—when prices are up and a Republican is in the White House. They've even produced a stage play. You've probably seen it outside Tesla showrooms or inside Trump Tower. It's an Off-Off-Off Broadway street theater production of "Empathy, the Musical!" Get your tickets now!
As Matt Margolis reports nearby, prices of eggs currently down. Good. You'd think that would put a damper on the Democrats' boffo production, but no.
Democrats who claim they want to lower prices were two seconds ago toying with the idea of torpedoing the continuing resolution (CR), not on Thomas Massie-like principle (surely they kid themselves if they think anyone would fall for that codswallop). For Republicans, the idea is to fold all budget and tax cuts for "one big beautiful bill," which the GOP had better deliver on or conservatives will begin planning production of their new musical called "Republicans, the Funeral!"
For Democrats, the show must go on! In their latest road show production of "Empathy, the Musical!" Democrats wanted to close down the government to show that closing down parts of the government is wrong. Or, in the words of Democrat thought leader Jasmine Crockett, they were closing down the federal government and idling employees to show that laying people off is wrong.
Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D): We shutting down the government to block federal layoffs pic.twitter.com/ZXZHWOFCQy
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 13, 2025
Make no mistake, with that fantastic logic in mind, the librettist for "Empathy the Musical!" has written a toe-tapping doozy. Here's a look at the script. And another. And another.
About 50 House Democrats just posted the same exact talking points, word for word pic.twitter.com/85v1Kt2pqs
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If you're really in the dark about the recent high prices of eggs, recall that in the waning days of the Biden Administration, Joe, or rather his understudy, began shoveling billions in USAID and "environmental" slush fund greenbacks to Stacey Abrams's five-minute-old "environmental" group. She wasn't alone. Multi-billions of other dollars flowed to other never-heard-of-before NGOs, and, due to inflation, prices for everything went up—especially energy prices. Abrams now claims her mission was to buy electric ovens and give them to poor people or something. Insert here your inner dialogue observation about how you could have done that for a lot less than BILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
Democrats over the past four years industriously and meticulously ignored rising prices even though we were howling–I remember dozens of those Joe Biden "I did that" stickers at local gas stations and grocery stores. I know, because I distributed a bunch of them.
After Joe Biden and Democrats spent trillions of dollars, the price of everything—or nearly everything— went up. This was surprising to Democrats, apparently.
Democrats were not putting on any Capitol Hill productions of "Empathy, the Musical!" to feel our pain. They ignored us and kept pouring on the spending. Only when Donald Trump brought up higher prices every damned day on the campaign trail did Democrats feel they had to respond when he became president. Now it's eggs. Tomorrow it will be tariffs. The day after it will be back to tax cut complaints. And the day after that we'll be back to being worried about the head cases on Wall Street. Sorry, I remember 2008 and 2009.
Egg prices went up because Joe ordered the extermination of millions of chickens due to bird flu fears. Eggs grew scarce. Scarce eggs are more expensive. This totally escaped the notice of Democrats to the extent that they called for an investigation against Big Egg for "price fixing."
My egg prices haven't changed much at all on the West Coast, Messed Coast™. The neighbors have some good gals who lay most of the year. They're free range, hippy dippy chickens that lay eggs and are raised by granola heads.
Seven bucks a dozen. Pricey, but not volatile.
There are other reasons for the volatility of egg prices. The price of fertilizer has shot up due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Chicken farmers, like most large farmers, use fertilizers. USDA experts are now seeing bird flu cases go down so the prices are going down since Joe isn't here to gas the hens.
I think we can all agree that stopping government overspending, stopping the Russian-Ukraine war, cutting USAID-paid grants to study the menstrual habits of girls who want to be boy mice or something, halting the borrowing of so much money, and, sadly, cutting U.S. overhead by reducing employees will do more to bring down egg prices and everything else than pretending to be empathetic.
DOGE is my co-pilot. Let's go.
