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Screw You. And Can You Spare Some Eggs? [1]

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Date: 2025-03-19

Pathetic might be the appropriate word here.

After weeks of threats, tariffs, and bluster directed at our European allies by four-time indicted, twice-impeached, sexual assaulter, tax fraudster, insurrection inspirer, wannabe fascist dictator, convicted felon, Putin bitch, President Donald Trump, the United States is now going, hat-in-hand, to ask these same countries for help in addressing the rising costs of eggs.

The avian flu, also called the bird flu, has caused the death of more than 20-million egg-laying hens in the United States in the last quarter of 2024, a story on the Fortune website reported. This has caused egg prices to explode to a high of $5.90 per dozen in February, a 10.4 percent increase from a year ago, according to the consumer price index.

This after, as Reuters reported, Trump had promised to lower egg prices on his first day in office.

Funny how that didn’t work out.

Asking these other countries to increase eggs exports to us is part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture plan to invest $1 billion in lowering egg costs. One billion dollars? What does Elon Musk have to say about that?

Here’s the thing: This isn’t a bad idea to address the problem. It’s just that it’s another example of the incompetence of Trump and his administration to put themselves in a position of having to ask other countries for help after they’ve threatened them with steep tariffs and in Denmark’s case annexing its self-governing territory of Greenland.

That’s not to mention Trump’s alliance with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his obvious distain for Ukraine -- the victim of the Russian invasion -- the European Union, and the whole concept of NATO.

Europe is wiping American spit off its face every day.

The Danish Egg Association is open to the idea of sending eggs to the United States over the next six months, according to Jorgen Nyberg Larsen, the trade group’s CEO. However, he said that at best only a modest number would be available.

Larsen said his country doesn’t have a large oversupply of eggs, and it would make sure it supplied its long-term loyal customers before shifting attention to America.

That’s a great answer. No European country should go out of its way to help the United States in light of the Trump administration’s previous actions. It might be a good idea for them to try to get some assurances that Trump will back off his bullshit before they agree to send us any eggs.

Trump getting egg on his face would be a good thing for our country and the world.

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Here’s something really important to know: Heather Cox Richardson wrote in her very good newsletter that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has proposed addressing the bird flu epidemic by simply letting the disease run rampant. He suggests that such a course would permit scientists to discover birds that are immune to the disease.

What? Is this like the herd immunity bullshit that Trump’s first administration talked about for Covid-19? We all know that bunch’s corruption and incompetence led to tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths from the virus.

Dr. Gail Hansen, a former state veterinarian for Kansas, has labeled this “a really terrible idea, for any one of a number of reasons.” No kidding.

Chickens and turkeys don’t have the genes to resist the virus, and every infection is a chance for the virus to mutate into a more virulent form, one of which could mutate so it could spread among humans, Hansen told the New York Times.

If the virus were permitted to infect, say five million birds, “that’s literally five million chances for that virus to replicate or to mutate.”

Hey, blame it on the brain worm. Kennedy, a man who enjoys picking up dead animals and taking them home, who thought it was a keen idea to post selfies of himself hiking while measles spread in some parts of the country, is probably going to kill some people before he’s done.

Kennedy, our scrounging around for foreign eggs, the regular screw ups by Musk and his incels in their efforts to destroy the government, tariff fiascos, court losses piling up as a result of Trump’s continuing legal and constitutional violations, they all scream that this administration is out of control, corrupt, incompetent, and steering our country right into the rocks.

And we continue to go along for the ride. How many lives must be ruined or even ended, how many institutions torn apart, how many laws broken, and, for some, how much is an omelet going to cost before we do something serious about what’s going on in this country?

That ticking you hear isn’t a clock.

It’s a time bomb.

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