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In reply to the discussion: Trump: Cutting food assistance in budget bill "is going to give everybody much more food because prices are..." [View all]soldierant
(8,692 posts)24. Borowitz qas not writing for some years
because he and the New Yorker left each other. But he'd back. On Substack. And still managing to outdo reality most of the time.
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Trump: Cutting food assistance in budget bill "is going to give everybody much more food because prices are..." [View all]
Miles Archer
May 20
OP
Trump had already gone completely off the rails, the media just needed a way to create some false equivalence.
sop
May 20
#8
How on earth does cutting food assistance make more food suddenly appear? Because the people
Vinca
May 20
#3
That's how I interpreted it. Dead people don't eat or receive SNAP benefits. In
allegorical oracle
May 21
#38
Gas $3 a gallon. Eggs $5 a dozen. Pork chops on sale 4 chops for $8 😡 everything is higher
TommieMommy
May 20
#5
From the information I can find, the average price of eggs here in January 2024 was about $2.50 dozen
Wiz Imp
May 20
#19
Just bought 18 eggs for $8 at a big box store. Always open the container to check for
allegorical oracle
May 21
#39
It's called "power psychosis" -- a mental illness -- because he's living in a delusional world
William Seger
May 20
#25
Not true on energy's down. While groceries was down 0.4% in April, its up (slightly) over the last 3 months
progree
May 20
#27
Sure, it would makes sense that if grocery prices dropped then your reduced food assistance...
Ol Janx Spirit
May 20
#29
After this last decade of enduring his presence, have decided that he has no clue
allegorical oracle
May 21
#40