• Sundray@lemmus.org
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    “No no – the egg thing was for getting rid of Biden, we’re done talking about that now” – The Trump Admin, probably.

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    Sixty percent of Americans living paycheck to paycheck and this twat is building a gaudy af stupid ballroom

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    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.

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    My grocery bill is much higher than pre-pandemic. I don’t even notice the egg prices.

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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          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.

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    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…

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      It’s made of scam. Hire some discount jank company to do the job for 1/5 of that and pocket the rest.