Staff Reports
The Democrats have latched onto the “what about egg prices?” strategy with all the finesse of a toddler trying to pin a tail on a donkey. Their argument? Despite Trump’s grandiose promises to tackle high egg prices, the cost of a dozen remains sky-high. The irony is delicious. The current Democratic narrative conveniently overlooks the fact that over 148 million chickens and ducks have been euthanized, thanks to the latest bird flu panic, which has been a direct consequence of federal health policies that would make even the most ardent chicken lover cringe.
For those keeping score, the avian flu outbreak, which rolled into the U.S. in 2022, led to unprecedented culling of poultry. It’s as if someone decided that their answer to the rising egg prices was the same as their answer to everything else in the last three years: let’s just exterminate the problem. The media might downplay it, but this culling has effectively taken hundreds of millions of potential egg-laying candidates off the grid, leading to the grocery store debacles that millennials are gleefully capturing on TikTok.
Eggs 🥚 Whole Foods is out!
150 Million birds slaughtered and now we have no eggs. Same is true for Kroger. Scarcity creates high prices. pic.twitter.com/apRQMMhTLr— Prof. Whitey McPriviledged 𝕏 (@IceColdApathy) February 6, 2025
In a ridiculous twist, major grocery chains like Costco and Whole Foods have begun instituting purchase limits on eggs. It seems that the only thing more inflated than egg prices is the level of panic among shoppers, who are stripping the shelves bare faster than can be reported. It’s not exactly the great egg rush, but watching shoppers frantically hoard their omelet ingredients is something reminiscent of preparing for a snowstorm that never arrives.
The narrative spun by so-called conservative outlets like Fox Business is equally dubious. They highlight the limits on egg purchases while completely sidestepping the massive role played by the inept Public Health™ machinery that created this crisis. For all the chaos surrounding egg availability, they might want to look deeper than just sensational grocery headlines. After all, it wasn’t a virus munching on the chickens that wiped out flocks; it was heavy-handed government intervention, reminiscent of the lockdowns that nearly crushed the economy during the pandemic.
In a world where logic seems to be in short supply, the avian influenza crisis has served as the Democrats’ favorite scapegoat for inflationary woes. They whine about egg prices while ignoring the very government policies that beget these shortages. Perhaps the next time they want to throw Trump under the eggcart, they ought to consider the broader ramifications of their own policies and the havoc wreaked by government authorities.
As egg hunters scramble through grocery aisles like pushy Black Friday shoppers, the contradictions in Democratic rhetoric become more glaring than ever. For all their finger-pointing and blame-shifting, it appears the only thing scrambled is their message.
