Canadian here: I paid $6.49 for organic, no abuse here, eggs. That's about $4.50 in American dollars. If you were our 11th Province, it would be cheaper for you and you would have health care too. ;->
Can we get Florida included in this deal ? No, I Don’t guess so.
Wish he’d have stayed in his gauche gold palace in NY instead on inflicting himself on us.
Our sheriff in Palm Beach County has asked the County Commissioners for $45 Million to cover overtime hours incurred protecting lard ass the last 6 months. Meanwhile we County workers got 2% raises last year.
What a joke. A very bad joke. The guy just sucks all the energy, and the money out of any place he goes.
It is past time for the Blue Few to say Fuck You to the red freeloaders and to stop paying ALL Federal taxes until the oligarch and his MAGAt minion are tied to rails, tarred, feathered and deposited in the Gulf Of Blow A Horse,
I'm hopeful that perhaps Canada and other countries will accept Americans seeing political asylum at some point. I'm staying and fighting for now, but I also want to explore other options.
If you're a nurse practitioner and fluent in English, French and Spanish, you can move. My niece brought her illegal (in the states) husband and three children to Canada several years ago, because she could not get the US to legalize her husband from Mexico. So that's how it works, the US loses a citizen with valuable skills because they don't want her husband, who has done unskilled work here ever since I met him (barista, house repair, smoking fish, building toy playhouses for his kids and never spent any time lounging around, like a golf playing president I know of).
A friend just moved to New Zealand - she said they would take any NP on a required two year work condition. Would rather go to Canada - can just U haul everything across the border!
I applied, too. Only to be rejected. Even though I have plenty of assets and wouldn't be any kind of a burden, I'm old(er), fluent in French, retired and lack the skills Canada wants/needs. Tant pis! Canada's loss. Mine, too, sadly.
You can only (legally stay 6 months in it though.) I'm married to a Canadian and we looked into all the options. As for healthcare, no, you must have status. But they don't know how to take money for payment. I had that problem until I got my Permanent Resident card ( I had to be sponsored or have a guaranteed amount of money in the bank) and until then they had to figure out how to bill me. Citizenship is entirely different, you can't just squat there and get that. There's tons of legal paperwork and you have to be legal permanent resident for at least five years IIRC. I'm in the process of it now.
Yes, I didn't think the friend knew her own country's requirements! We were accepted to farm in Nova Scotia after GWB's re-election with the guaranteed money amount a part of it, but it would have been a cross-country move and no guarantee of permanent citizenship. My sister is a permanent Australian resident, but with some of her ordeals, not sure about that one either. We'll just stay here and fight back as well as we can!
Yes, I think you have to actually be involved to know the issues, I could not tell you our requirements except for PR card, because I sponsored my husband here. Citizenship is nil because he doesn’t want it.
even with a costly immigration attorney it is difficult. A multi-year process.. And for those who are financially set, you have to have another purpose to live there besides you can afford it.
Yes..they reworked the amount of immigrants coming in sometime this year or late last year..Also very smartly I think because of what's going on here in the states..We r not going to be able to run off to alot of countries- we need to stay right here a resolved this mess that some of r fellow Americans so proudly supported with their vote..so they sold r freedoms for cheaper gas & eggs & a better economy that by the way was improving..Know ur history in all categories..the economy & gas & groceries go up & down..when u have people in charge u understand it all the ups & downs can be managed..When u got people who know nothing then u nose dive deeper & have to have someone else come along & fix it..Also what really makes me laugh is people who voted for trump did so because they didn't want to vote for a woman & they didn't know enough about her!..🙈lol..but all they had to do is take a few minutes & bring up her bio..trump on the other hand had a hugh lifetime of exposure - he was a known con artist u like to skip out on paying his contractors - he was a noted liar - he was a womanizer/Adulter - rapist - sexual harasser- something he bragged about on t.v. years ago..his bio is so ugly & long u couldn't go to the polls not knowing who u were voting for - ever!
A friend sent out a bunch of resumes to Canada right after the election. He didn't expect any responses, since he'll be 60 in a few months. But lo and behold, he got a great offer in Vancouver. He's just waiting on his visa.
Congratulations & I wish u much luck..My grdparents & grt grd,¹parents r from Vancouver B.C...I use to have the address & 0v one day as an adult I would research where the address was located..but well life got in the way!☝️🤣..I did make it to Windsor once when spent summer with Aunt-uncle..Met a great shop girl & we talked all about their educational system..
Our kids have chickens and share their lovely eggs with us. Of course, the chicken coop is hidden away out of sight and wrapped in concertina wire, but hey.
Centuries from now, as democracy has survived at least in other countries,, political scientists will marvel at the disastrous implosion of America, hopefully a temporary one, over how much eggs cost in 2024, only to see the prices get much worse in 2025. It will be a case study in unfathomable manipulation using a ridiculous resentment meme.
And yet it worked. That’s the sad and insane part. It’s like I saw someone say in a TikTok vid to the MAGAts: you could have voted for actual policies or for hate. And you chose hate
But, let's not forget the swing state 5 million voters that were disenfranchised by eligibility challenges. According to Greg Palast. Which is what usually happens to big inner city voters with black or Latino sounding names--except this time on steroids.
Egg prices were representative of the ceaseless lying trump and the repubs did about inflation. That, and the hot button issue of immigration, which twanged the racist and xenophobic chords of MAGAs and the MAGA-susceptible, were more effective than Harris’s ideas to actually help people.
Your own private Fort Knox! You should probably consider some armed guards....lots of them are looking for jobs since they were fired from their government/military jobs.
I can go to the farmers market 6 days a week in my city center in Germany, and in my local grocery store, there is also a section where one can fill a carton with regional fresh eggs. No one even refrigerates them here. We just keep them in cartons out of the fridge and use them.
I don’t mean to be a jerk but has it occurred to anyone to not buy eggs when they’re astronomically priced? I mean, are they THAT necessary? I like them but they aren’t a must-have food in my pantry. I eat Greek yogurt and fruit for breakie. I cynically think that Big Egg is going to see how nutty we are about eggs. Remember when the big cholesterol scare? People were afraid to eat eggs.
I know, I know, this is about bird flu, which is serious. But I wonder if the run on eggs has more to do with fear of not having any.
You live with your choices. I can't help you. However, the lady who baked our pies, and we still order them for special occasions, did move to upper New York state last year. Pie Society was the name here in Berkeley.
Best, most beautiful farmers' markets I have ever seen were in Ottawa, Canada. Wish I'd moved there before I got too old to be accepted as an immigrant....some mistakes we never stop paying for, it seems.
I paid $11/dozen (with $1 off per dozen for bringing my own cartons!) at my farmers market in FL last week, and was happy to do so because there weren't any in the stores. Yes they are organic and pasture raised and delicious. I eat them every day so have been hoarding them a bit and am grateful that I have the ability to pay double what I did before.
I've driven all over the south half of the state. I really liked Madison, and stayed at a boutique hotel in La Crosse that used to be a candy factory, super-cool 🍬😎
JFC. I’ve already dumped 3 grocery stores. No Food Lion here. I’d do Costco but I’m one person and can’t use up the amount of stuff I’d normally buy. Was a member when I was married and the kids were small. Thanks for the info!
I've shopped at Trader Joe's before it was Trader Joe's (i.e., Pronto Market.)
The founder, Joe Coulombe, sold the chain to Aldi (a German supermarket chain) in the late 70s but remained as chairman until he retired in the late 80s. Aldi had a hands-off approach, only wanting to grow the business. Things went south after Dan Bane, who replaced Joe as CEO, retired in mid-2023. The new CEO is a MAGA knucklehead. I haven't shopped there in about a year.
PLEASE NOTE: Excerpt from Chicago Tribune February 19:
Some companies, such as Amazon and Trump ally Elon Musk’s SpaceX, have filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the NLRB’s structure, . . . .
Rohde maintained Trader Joe’s has no intention of filing or joining a lawsuit against the NLRB.
That should definitely be on your list of 5 things you did. In fact, a list of prices you paid, and how they are going up because Musk got rid of the people that could do something like manage avian flu should be in the list.
Maybe someone can be sending in a list of 5 things EM did last week. It is not hard to find, because there is the Trump Tyranny Tracker, Musk Watch, Democracy Index, Project 2025 Tracker, etc...
However, there's also the unqualified dipshit RFK Jr. who opposes conventional medicine and wisdom. In Finland, the government is vaccinating their poultry farmers. For those of us over 65 who got the super flu shot this season, it offers a certain degree of protection although the risk of transmission to humans is still considered low.
Jeff, you should move to Berkeley. I checked at the biggest grocery store in Berkeley (Berkeley Bowl West) on Thursday and I didn't see any eggs over $7.99 a dozen. The kind I buy, Clover free range, were $4.99 and as you could say, locally laid, across the Bay in Sonoma County. The Bay Area, where you can be a locavore for almost everything you eat.
Target has to sell eggs cheap cause their stock is in a free fall ... I would pay 3x the price of eggs at my local non-corprate grocery store than go to Target. Fortunately, my local has eggs and even my preferred Jumbo Eggs are still under $4.00 a dozen cause they source their eggs locally
I cannot love those responses to Ketamine Kid's email enough.
My two cents: threatening people's livelihoods with a ridiculous anwer-by-Monday-night-or-be-fired missive ON A WEEKEND with the intent to cause chaos and instill fear, anxiety, and panic into innocent people is FUCKING TERRORISM. Russ Vought, who helped author Project 2025, flat-out admitted that he wanted to terrorize federal employees.
We The People have had FUCKING ENOUGH. Vought, Musk, Butternut Bitchtits and all who acquiesce to these fucking Nazi DOGEbags should be arrested as the terrorists they are. NOW.
A friend whose husband worked for USAID said DOGE jackboots raided his office, ordered everyone to leave, ripped posters off the walls and threw them on the floor. Over 190 nearly completed USAID projects around the globe were simply cancelled without review and without notice. Employees were treated like criminals.
Like I said... terrorism. They are intentionally bullying, intimidating, and harassing people in the hopes that they'll be scared or stressed enough to resign.
Some people use ketamine for its hallucinogenic properties. Ketamin can sedate, incapacitate, and cause short-term memory loss, and because of this, some people use it as a date-rape drug. Google sez.
Here are my five accomplishments for the past week:
- I told as many people as possible that no one elected you and that your actions are illegal and Un-American
- I called my representatives in the House and Senate to tell them to block any actions you and your unelected minions try to push through via legislation
- I shared ridiculous photos of you holding your phallic chainsaw in what is so obviously an attempt to compensate for your physical shortcomings
- I shared the story of your public document that was supposed to be “proof” of fraud and waste but instead was proof that you and your team can’t even do basic math.
- I proudly wore my “Hey, I Didn’t Vote For Him” t-shirt, which applies to both you AND your demented boss.
Americans are ignorant because it's not that hard to get through life as a dumbass. If you can hold down a gig and keep a roof over your head, food in the fridge and gas in the tank, you can carry on without a thought in your head. I once taught a class of college freshmen who didn't know America used to be English colonies. The dumb runs deep in this country.
So that said, even dummies know when they've been smacked upside the head with a dead mackerel, and town halls are reflecting a growing anger at Trump and Musk. Someone predicted that there will be a peel-off of Trump support, county by county, issue by issue, and that sounds intuitively correct to me. Hang in there, folks. We're down but not out.
That's what happened last time around. Representatives hated being screamed at, and might have been a touch scared, too, so they stopped holding town hall meetings.
I’m gonna need more coffee to respond to Elonias email… I consider this a creative challenge! 😂😂😂. I always laugh reading Jeff’s brilliance but today was priceless! 👏👏👏
Please share what you send so we can enjoy your creativity. I’m heading out for a run with the pups in the woods and will think on what to send as well…then I’ll need to create a throw away email address.
My grandmother Nellie Lee did the same thing. Here’s this cute little old lady walking up to a mom and going on and on about how cute her baby is or “ I buy the same cat food as you do” or god knows what else 😂😂. I’m just like her!🤣
I WISH school nurses were performing gender-affirming care! Where exactly ARE these magical places? We have spent tens of thousands on my son’s transition…pediatricians, psychologists, psychiatrists, endocrinologists, DOs, voice coaches, plastic surgeons…so you can understand my frustration at all the trans kids who got it all done between Algebra & Twentieth Century American Lit.
No thanks needed, other than my own to you for making me laugh out loud. And for being a loving, amazing mom.
If you could do me favor: kiss your son on the forehead for me. No need to tell him why. I just want YOU to pass my love and support onto him via you, his dear mom. ❤️
“Tariff” is one of his favorite words and he doesn’t even know what it is. His clown handlers can’t even get it through his big fat pumpkin head that he is embarrassing himself.
Hell, he does it everyday Walt. You never know what's going to come out of that rancid mouth of his but guaranteed, it'll be more of his usual bullshit of no substance that makes no sense. And, the media will do their best to ignore and sanewash him.
I keep going back to a video from several weeks ago where Elon said "You can hack anything." Did he hack vote tabulters in some key swing states? I can't get this out of my mind.
And I think I heard Elon talk about just messing with a few votes in each district so it wouldn't be obvious. I fear the upcoming special elections will be hacked as well. We may never win another election with Leon around.
Isn’t there anyone smart enough to figure out how he did it, find evidence and charge him as a traitor, election interference, fraud, anything else that would remove him from society? We could all split his billions.
Agreed. I don't have proof of anything, but I picture Musk saying, "I can get you the election, just have to fix Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania and you're in." But of course the thin-skinned narcissist had to say " Uh-uh. I have to get ALL the swing states and the popular vote!!" Which almost gave the game away. He probably demanded California too.
tRump kept saying it out loud! “We don’t need more votes, (fart squish), we have plenty of votes.” A phrase heretofore unheard of in the political spectrum.
Monday had my free gender reassignment surgery paid for exclusively by Christian fundamentalist taxpayers
Tuesday rejoiced in finally getting my dream job of doing backbreaking work in the fields now that those pesky brown immigrants aren’t around to steal work from us white people
Wednesday did 10 pull ups and drank a gallon of bleach to stave off illness and disease
Thursday felt too gleeful over the suffering of others and economic calamity that certainly will only impact minorities and libtards (like children needlessly dying of AIDs, research funding frozen, soaring inflation, random firings of working class Americans etc) to get off my couch
Friday transitioned back to a girl cause I changed my mind and heck why not? It was free!
20 years ago, if someone told you that a conman and wannabe celebrity would state aloud, for all to hear, on national television, that young children were going to school in the morning as boys and coming home in the afternoon as girls…and that smelly old conman would THEN run for POTUS and be “elected,” you’d definitely think I was smoking something.
Dang Jeff! This was the best one yet! Leave trans people alone you assholes-learn something about them instead. God-so sick of this! And your messages to felony elonny (just made that up-sounds like a movie line Reese Witherspoon was in!) ….anyway-awesome!!!!!
This is another example of MAGA Math, a specialty of delusional loudmouths for manipulative purposes. Did you see James Carville rip Hannity a new one? Where Carville tells Hannity the supposed billions that DOGE tried to save by axing USAID was 0.014% of the $6 trillion federal budget? Massive savings! Thanks, Nelo Smuk!
Also, notice that they mostly get their knickers in a wad over trans women in women's sports.
I will ask them to go search for "trans men" and then ask them if they want them in the bathroom with their wives/daughters, or playing Women's sports in the NCAA.
(Of course, we test for testosterone levels so these "student athletes" are usually excluded. But if you truly want the XX and XY chromosomes to be the delineator, these trans men should be playing in women's sports)
First, I’m no doctor. My understanding is that many of the most difficult cases regarding sexuality in athletics has to do with people born with abnormal genetics. Extra chromosomes that blur the lines. How are those athletes to be treated? It’s a complicated issue…far too complicated for a smelly old demented gas bag occupying our White House with his equally demented minions.
There are also those who are not chromosomally different but have gender dysphoria, where their neurology and gender identity do not match their phenotype. I have personally known several of these people. Why would anyone choose this feeling of not being comfortable in their own bodies? It is a highly personal aspect of who they are and it is difficult enough without judgment and worse, hatred and discrimination from others who don't understand it and have zero empathy. As Tim Walz said, mind your own damn business.
I saw a reality chart it is 1% over all in sports teams, but headlines are 20%, come on look around use your own damn eyes you now that is bs why not make is 51% then it would be the most of them, holy fuck! Stay out of peoples privacy (a right)! That’s why they use vague terms.
Yes, in addition to being dumbfucks, Trump, his boss Musk and the rest of the Project 2025 assholes are nasty sadistic. Malignantly so. They really enjoy hurting people. I see a lot of them as young boys torturing animals.
meanwhile, I paid nine bucks for a dozen eggs yesterday. granted, they were the free-range, humane-treatment kind, but still ...
Canadian here: I paid $6.49 for organic, no abuse here, eggs. That's about $4.50 in American dollars. If you were our 11th Province, it would be cheaper for you and you would have health care too. ;->
Dear Canadian government: please annex California and up to Washington State...
We would love it, thanks, West Coast folks ashamed of America
To be safe from the Orange Turd, all blue states should join us until he is gone.
And include Wisconsin because we sound like Canadians anyway.
You made me laugh 😂
Definitely annex Illinois, please please
😂 yes we do!!
Can we get Florida included in this deal ? No, I Don’t guess so.
Wish he’d have stayed in his gauche gold palace in NY instead on inflicting himself on us.
Our sheriff in Palm Beach County has asked the County Commissioners for $45 Million to cover overtime hours incurred protecting lard ass the last 6 months. Meanwhile we County workers got 2% raises last year.
What a joke. A very bad joke. The guy just sucks all the energy, and the money out of any place he goes.
THAT is a super interesting observation because it's true. Now that I think about it... he's like a big black hole of a hungry ghost - never enough.
It is past time for the Blue Few to say Fuck You to the red freeloaders and to stop paying ALL Federal taxes until the oligarch and his MAGAt minion are tied to rails, tarred, feathered and deposited in the Gulf Of Blow A Horse,
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Thanks James was writing that yesterday but never finished it to send..it was just one of those busy busy days & I was writing inbetween it all! ☝️🤣
And SW Alaska, which is blue.
Want some distant relatives?
Me too 🙏🏻✌🏻💙
I checked into moving to Canada and I was told they’re not allowing people to move there. Only teachers, Doctors, etc. 😔
I'm hopeful that perhaps Canada and other countries will accept Americans seeing political asylum at some point. I'm staying and fighting for now, but I also want to explore other options.
Like in The Handmaid’s Tale?
*Exactly* like The Handmaid's Tale.
My thought, too, Lisa.
If you're a nurse practitioner and fluent in English, French and Spanish, you can move. My niece brought her illegal (in the states) husband and three children to Canada several years ago, because she could not get the US to legalize her husband from Mexico. So that's how it works, the US loses a citizen with valuable skills because they don't want her husband, who has done unskilled work here ever since I met him (barista, house repair, smoking fish, building toy playhouses for his kids and never spent any time lounging around, like a golf playing president I know of).
A friend just moved to New Zealand - she said they would take any NP on a required two year work condition. Would rather go to Canada - can just U haul everything across the border!
I applied, too. Only to be rejected. Even though I have plenty of assets and wouldn't be any kind of a burden, I'm old(er), fluent in French, retired and lack the skills Canada wants/needs. Tant pis! Canada's loss. Mine, too, sadly.
A Canadian friend told us if you can afford to buy a house there, you can go - don't know if that gets you citizenship or medical care.
You can only (legally stay 6 months in it though.) I'm married to a Canadian and we looked into all the options. As for healthcare, no, you must have status. But they don't know how to take money for payment. I had that problem until I got my Permanent Resident card ( I had to be sponsored or have a guaranteed amount of money in the bank) and until then they had to figure out how to bill me. Citizenship is entirely different, you can't just squat there and get that. There's tons of legal paperwork and you have to be legal permanent resident for at least five years IIRC. I'm in the process of it now.
Yes, I didn't think the friend knew her own country's requirements! We were accepted to farm in Nova Scotia after GWB's re-election with the guaranteed money amount a part of it, but it would have been a cross-country move and no guarantee of permanent citizenship. My sister is a permanent Australian resident, but with some of her ordeals, not sure about that one either. We'll just stay here and fight back as well as we can!
Yes, I think you have to actually be involved to know the issues, I could not tell you our requirements except for PR card, because I sponsored my husband here. Citizenship is nil because he doesn’t want it.
What about retired teachers/doctors? We still know stuff! Whoops, I was asking for a friend.
even with a costly immigration attorney it is difficult. A multi-year process.. And for those who are financially set, you have to have another purpose to live there besides you can afford it.
Yes..they reworked the amount of immigrants coming in sometime this year or late last year..Also very smartly I think because of what's going on here in the states..We r not going to be able to run off to alot of countries- we need to stay right here a resolved this mess that some of r fellow Americans so proudly supported with their vote..so they sold r freedoms for cheaper gas & eggs & a better economy that by the way was improving..Know ur history in all categories..the economy & gas & groceries go up & down..when u have people in charge u understand it all the ups & downs can be managed..When u got people who know nothing then u nose dive deeper & have to have someone else come along & fix it..Also what really makes me laugh is people who voted for trump did so because they didn't want to vote for a woman & they didn't know enough about her!..🙈lol..but all they had to do is take a few minutes & bring up her bio..trump on the other hand had a hugh lifetime of exposure - he was a known con artist u like to skip out on paying his contractors - he was a noted liar - he was a womanizer/Adulter - rapist - sexual harasser- something he bragged about on t.v. years ago..his bio is so ugly & long u couldn't go to the polls not knowing who u were voting for - ever!
Oh how I wish.
A friend sent out a bunch of resumes to Canada right after the election. He didn't expect any responses, since he'll be 60 in a few months. But lo and behold, he got a great offer in Vancouver. He's just waiting on his visa.
Congratulations & I wish u much luck..My grdparents & grt grd,¹parents r from Vancouver B.C...I use to have the address & 0v one day as an adult I would research where the address was located..but well life got in the way!☝️🤣..I did make it to Windsor once when spent summer with Aunt-uncle..Met a great shop girl & we talked all about their educational system..
You're on!
I live in California. Getting adopted by Canada is looking better and better.
I love this. Count me in.
But would you want Idaho?
They are the MAGA play pen of America.
No Idaho. Sorry.
Agree 👍
Idaho, fuck, no.
I lived there for two years in S.E., and it seemed like two decades. If you're not LDS, you're nobody and it gets worse from there.
The whole reason there's Idaho is so idiots don't have to go all the way to Texas.
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Huzzah!! Is there a petition I can sign??
Costa Rica here I asked at the farmer’s market he said $8 for 40 eggs you do the math.
You must be yolking
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I would love to be your 11th province.
In my next life I'm going to be Canadian.
Please take us
Maybe you can adopt some of us?
$5.99 doz for much loved and treasured pasture raised eggs at our local Sprouts in San Luis Obispo, CA yesterday.
Might you be looking to adopt, Mary? I come with my own clothes, books, car, and pets.
I’d be happy to be your 11th province! Where do I sign?!
Our kids have chickens and share their lovely eggs with us. Of course, the chicken coop is hidden away out of sight and wrapped in concertina wire, but hey.
Centuries from now, as democracy has survived at least in other countries,, political scientists will marvel at the disastrous implosion of America, hopefully a temporary one, over how much eggs cost in 2024, only to see the prices get much worse in 2025. It will be a case study in unfathomable manipulation using a ridiculous resentment meme.
Egg prices and the "threat" of trans-gendering. That's just about all they had.
And yet it worked. That’s the sad and insane part. It’s like I saw someone say in a TikTok vid to the MAGAts: you could have voted for actual policies or for hate. And you chose hate
But, let's not forget the swing state 5 million voters that were disenfranchised by eligibility challenges. According to Greg Palast. Which is what usually happens to big inner city voters with black or Latino sounding names--except this time on steroids.
Palast is nuttier than squirrel poop. Might as well quote Alex Jones.
Lunatic, like the tulip craze in the 1630s. Although, eggs are not really the issue, are they?
Egg prices were representative of the ceaseless lying trump and the repubs did about inflation. That, and the hot button issue of immigration, which twanged the racist and xenophobic chords of MAGAs and the MAGA-susceptible, were more effective than Harris’s ideas to actually help people.
Your own private Fort Knox! You should probably consider some armed guards....lots of them are looking for jobs since they were fired from their government/military jobs.
Dig a moat too
Now you’re thinking!
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Same here Walt. Both my kids are organic farmers and one has 12 chickens that give eggs.
No farmer’s markets up there? Ours are $4.00 at farmers market….
it's the middle of winter here in the Hudson Valley, no farmers markets until May
Where's everyone's lists?
1.) wondered what hole Donny Convict was on
2.) drank a delicious mix of two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen
2.) Made a mistake
4.) pondered what i did this week
5.) felt existential dread
1. Took copious amounts of Pepto to soothe my anxious stomach
2. Took Xanax to calm my nerves
3. Bought a case of scotch to ease my worries
4. Smoked ounces of pot to try and pretend I was in a dream
5. And called the Senate switchboard 20 times to register my outrage
Stock up on Xanax since Secretary Wormbrain thinks they are evil.
I made out an entire email then realized I’m on the account that doesn’t allow me to send 😞. Will redo later. Loved the one with the Beatles song
#5 🥲😟😩
Ours is indoors from Nov-May!
lucky lucky
Sorry I already posted but in case people missed it I’m in Costa Rica and asked a farmer at the market last week 40 eggs for $8.
And you can buy a house for $500.
I wish! We Oregonians have to wait for spring for farmer’s markets to reopen. It’s the rain ☔️ that binds us.
I can go to the farmers market 6 days a week in my city center in Germany, and in my local grocery store, there is also a section where one can fill a carton with regional fresh eggs. No one even refrigerates them here. We just keep them in cartons out of the fridge and use them.
In the USA, the egg suppliers wash the natural protective coating off. Thus, in the fridge they go.
Nice!
I have an indoor one close to me, but haven’t been there yet. Just discovered it.
I don’t mean to be a jerk but has it occurred to anyone to not buy eggs when they’re astronomically priced? I mean, are they THAT necessary? I like them but they aren’t a must-have food in my pantry. I eat Greek yogurt and fruit for breakie. I cynically think that Big Egg is going to see how nutty we are about eggs. Remember when the big cholesterol scare? People were afraid to eat eggs.
I know, I know, this is about bird flu, which is serious. But I wonder if the run on eggs has more to do with fear of not having any.
For some people, eggs are an essential source of protein. And per meal, they're still cheaper than many meats.
". . .fear of not having any"
Like toilet paper in 2020
They are a necessary ingredient in many recipes, as cooks know.
Jeff, I love how you interact with your subscribers. Thank you.
It's the middle of winter here, too. 81° outside today 😎
Thanks Steve. For some reason it's raining today in Seattle.
My brother lives there (well in Gig Harbor anyway.) Rain is what Seattle does best ☂️😂
We're on an island south of Gig Harbor. Very heavy rain past two days. They're calling it an 'atmospheric river'.
It's pouring here. Even so, two of our Representatives and hundreds of people showed up to show solidarity with Ukraine.
Not being a native, I am usually too chicken to show up in the rain. Rain is very wet.
Actually, it doesn't rain any more than a lot of cities. It's the damn darkness 8 months of the year.
Gig Harbor is the same thing, just smaller.
Unheard of!!!
You live with your choices. I can't help you. However, the lady who baked our pies, and we still order them for special occasions, did move to upper New York state last year. Pie Society was the name here in Berkeley.
Best, most beautiful farmers' markets I have ever seen were in Ottawa, Canada. Wish I'd moved there before I got too old to be accepted as an immigrant....some mistakes we never stop paying for, it seems.
I'm going to Ottawa in August! I will look for the farmer's market.
I've never been there. I need to put my passport to better use.
You would be astonished by the place. It's what the U.S. was supposed to be and never was.
That's the beauty part--every neighborhood has one! Can't miss them. There's also the big one downtown.
I paid $11/dozen (with $1 off per dozen for bringing my own cartons!) at my farmers market in FL last week, and was happy to do so because there weren't any in the stores. Yes they are organic and pasture raised and delicious. I eat them every day so have been hoarding them a bit and am grateful that I have the ability to pay double what I did before.
They were $9 here in South Jersey at the supermarket, the jumbo brown eggs were only $6.29, so now I have jumbo eggs.
Where do you you live, Tess? I'm packing as I type.
Wisconsin
I've driven all over the south half of the state. I really liked Madison, and stayed at a boutique hotel in La Crosse that used to be a candy factory, super-cool 🍬😎
The farmers market here is riddled with MAGA weirds. Not an option for me 🤢
Trader Joe’s $4.99 but one carton to a customer.
Trader Joe’s is maga. You should grocery shop at food lion or giant or Costco
JFC. I’ve already dumped 3 grocery stores. No Food Lion here. I’d do Costco but I’m one person and can’t use up the amount of stuff I’d normally buy. Was a member when I was married and the kids were small. Thanks for the info!
I don’t eat eggs.🥚
That simplifies things.
I don’t belong to Costco either for the same reason. Although I do have plenty of storage space and freezer
It's worth being a member just for the $5 rotisserie chickens 🍗😋
I've shopped at Trader Joe's before it was Trader Joe's (i.e., Pronto Market.)
The founder, Joe Coulombe, sold the chain to Aldi (a German supermarket chain) in the late 70s but remained as chairman until he retired in the late 80s. Aldi had a hands-off approach, only wanting to grow the business. Things went south after Dan Bane, who replaced Joe as CEO, retired in mid-2023. The new CEO is a MAGA knucklehead. I haven't shopped there in about a year.
Please don’t shop at MAGA!
I got two dozen eggs at Costco for less than $8.00 just last week.
What is the source for your statement, please?
Substack: Bridges to Burn, Feb 4 Grocery Stores
If it was this, I don't see Trader Joe's on the list: https://bridgestoburn.substack.com/p/wall-of-shame
I have it saved in my archive but don’t know how to link to it
https://bridgestoburn.substack.com/p/voting-with-your-dollars-grocery
I just ordered from Giant. Eggs near Scranton; nine dollars/dozen. You can find it less expensive by a dollar or two if you look.
Scranton!! Awe I miss NE PA. From a little north of Hazleton. Now in VA
PLEASE NOTE: Excerpt from Chicago Tribune February 19:
Some companies, such as Amazon and Trump ally Elon Musk’s SpaceX, have filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the NLRB’s structure, . . . .
Rohde maintained Trader Joe’s has no intention of filing or joining a lawsuit against the NLRB.
Yesterday, Cosco had a big stack of two dozen egg flats for $7.99. In the meantime, local restaurants are charging patrons a .50 surcharge per egg.
I just bought them yesterday in Novato, California!
Yes, even at our TJ’s in CA they were that price. Bless them!
That should definitely be on your list of 5 things you did. In fact, a list of prices you paid, and how they are going up because Musk got rid of the people that could do something like manage avian flu should be in the list.
Maybe someone can be sending in a list of 5 things EM did last week. It is not hard to find, because there is the Trump Tyranny Tracker, Musk Watch, Democracy Index, Project 2025 Tracker, etc...
Brought to you by range free Nazis.
We desperately need a cheap Avian Flu vaccine for the poultry industry, but of course those are the people at the CDC that Melon fired...
However, there's also the unqualified dipshit RFK Jr. who opposes conventional medicine and wisdom. In Finland, the government is vaccinating their poultry farmers. For those of us over 65 who got the super flu shot this season, it offers a certain degree of protection although the risk of transmission to humans is still considered low.
For now. Flu viruses are notoriously fast mutating
Bovines also need to be vaccinated. They’re catching avian flu from chickens and other birds.
I made a quiche yesterday and my son said, "Wow, that thing must be worth its weight in gold!"
I guess we have more flocks that aren't dead yet in Michigan... I only paid $6 for a dozen ORGANIC eggs yesterday!
Jeff, you should move to Berkeley. I checked at the biggest grocery store in Berkeley (Berkeley Bowl West) on Thursday and I didn't see any eggs over $7.99 a dozen. The kind I buy, Clover free range, were $4.99 and as you could say, locally laid, across the Bay in Sonoma County. The Bay Area, where you can be a locavore for almost everything you eat.
Is there a Target near you? They got cheap eggs. Yeah, Target. Go figure.
Target has to sell eggs cheap cause their stock is in a free fall ... I would pay 3x the price of eggs at my local non-corprate grocery store than go to Target. Fortunately, my local has eggs and even my preferred Jumbo Eggs are still under $4.00 a dozen cause they source their eggs locally
We don't shop at Target.
Holy shit Jeff!! I have to ask the husband what he paid for our free-range eggs(the only eggs we buy) nine bucks is crazy!!
I paid $2.00 for a dozen at a Smith's store in Albuquerque last week. Lucky, lucky me, indeed!
Costco outside of Cleveland was selling two dozen organic eggs for $8.50.
At my Wegmans on friday, $4.99 xl, cage fee, limit 10 doz.
"The Wife" found eggs at $3.99 at our local Trader Joe's (that bastion of liberal sanity and bland ethnic food).
I cannot love those responses to Ketamine Kid's email enough.
My two cents: threatening people's livelihoods with a ridiculous anwer-by-Monday-night-or-be-fired missive ON A WEEKEND with the intent to cause chaos and instill fear, anxiety, and panic into innocent people is FUCKING TERRORISM. Russ Vought, who helped author Project 2025, flat-out admitted that he wanted to terrorize federal employees.
We The People have had FUCKING ENOUGH. Vought, Musk, Butternut Bitchtits and all who acquiesce to these fucking Nazi DOGEbags should be arrested as the terrorists they are. NOW.
Props to those workers for viciously funny responses. If they get fired, maybe they can write comedy. "Izafukinazi" Hahaha
I saw a sign at a protest yesterday that called them ""Swasticars".
Kathleen Weber
From:
ne***ew@yahoo.com
To: hr@opm.gov
Sun, Feb 23 at 12:05 PM
Spent my Social Security check.
Did not get transgender surgery.
Thought bad things about Elon Musk.
Cheered for Ukraine.
Hoped Donald Trump would drop dead.
Absolutely brilliant response! Kudos to you Kathleen. Can I borrow this, please?
Of course!!!!
Well dug week of work Kathleen !!
A friend whose husband worked for USAID said DOGE jackboots raided his office, ordered everyone to leave, ripped posters off the walls and threw them on the floor. Over 190 nearly completed USAID projects around the globe were simply cancelled without review and without notice. Employees were treated like criminals.
Like I said... terrorism. They are intentionally bullying, intimidating, and harassing people in the hopes that they'll be scared or stressed enough to resign.
…and that the rest of us will be cowed into mute acceptance.
They are wrong. The tide is rising against them
Make it so!
I don’t understand how they are getting away with it!
Totally agree! 👍
They are breaking laws constantly! How come they haven’t already been arrested?
Bravo Lisa!!
Muskolini must go!
No more sunglasses at night for dope addicted Ketamine boy. He’s busted but that maybe is why he’s on it and are the black market or prescribed?
Some people use ketamine for its hallucinogenic properties. Ketamin can sedate, incapacitate, and cause short-term memory loss, and because of this, some people use it as a date-rape drug. Google sez.
Ketamine is a disassociative drug. Some people find this pleasant. Some find it terrifying.
Money. He’s probably got a direct drug distributor. The Ketamine Kid rambles again.
I think when one has billions of dollars there is no more black market.
It's pretty dumb to be on Xitter.
Indeed Hannah!!
And the circus continues...
Here's mine:
"Dear Unelected Bureaucrat,
Here are my five accomplishments for the past week:
- I told as many people as possible that no one elected you and that your actions are illegal and Un-American
- I called my representatives in the House and Senate to tell them to block any actions you and your unelected minions try to push through via legislation
- I shared ridiculous photos of you holding your phallic chainsaw in what is so obviously an attempt to compensate for your physical shortcomings
- I shared the story of your public document that was supposed to be “proof” of fraud and waste but instead was proof that you and your team can’t even do basic math.
- I proudly wore my “Hey, I Didn’t Vote For Him” t-shirt, which applies to both you AND your demented boss.
Can’t wait to share next week’s list."
Good work, Marian. We all need to do our bit.
And send it from a throwaway email address.
No, I used my real name and email address.
Fuck that shit. Bring it on!
brilliant
👏👏👏. Wonderful!
I'd email it multiple times if I were you. I'm busy sending as many emails as I can now.
Did the same things only my "Don't look at me, I didn't vote for him " shirt is a sweatshirt because it's cold here.
I’m in Amsterdam so also cold! I also have one that says, “Sorry about Donald Trump” which always gets a smile!
Americans are ignorant because it's not that hard to get through life as a dumbass. If you can hold down a gig and keep a roof over your head, food in the fridge and gas in the tank, you can carry on without a thought in your head. I once taught a class of college freshmen who didn't know America used to be English colonies. The dumb runs deep in this country.
So that said, even dummies know when they've been smacked upside the head with a dead mackerel, and town halls are reflecting a growing anger at Trump and Musk. Someone predicted that there will be a peel-off of Trump support, county by county, issue by issue, and that sounds intuitively correct to me. Hang in there, folks. We're down but not out.
I'm thinking that soon the GOP congress will refuse to hold town hall meetings. They are fragile and weak.
Our stupid rep here, Eli Crane, hasn’t held one. We have stood outside his office with signs once and will do it again Friday. He’s an asshole.
That's what happened last time around. Representatives hated being screamed at, and might have been a touch scared, too, so they stopped holding town hall meetings.
And cowardly.
Best laid plans, etc.
I think they're just biding their time as to when they will try the 25th.
Exactly Burke!!
1. Post Fuck Trump memes
2. Post Fuck Elon memes
3. Post Fuck Noem meme
4. Post Fuck RFK Jr meme
5. Post Fuck everyone in Orange Fuckwit’s admin memes
Your memes are great and people are noticing them, Kay-El.
Thanks Walt. Just trying to do my part for our country. Resist!
Your activities interest me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter
Lol, I remember that saying from Wonkette
Well played Kay-EI!!
I’m gonna need more coffee to respond to Elonias email… I consider this a creative challenge! 😂😂😂. I always laugh reading Jeff’s brilliance but today was priceless! 👏👏👏
Please share what you send so we can enjoy your creativity. I’m heading out for a run with the pups in the woods and will think on what to send as well…then I’ll need to create a throw away email address.
uh-oh. I used my real email address. Am I in trouble?
If you get an email telling you you're fired from your nonexistent government job, please share.
😂😂
Living dangerously can be fun J G!!
'Elonias' - good one!
My grandmother Nellie Lee did the same thing. Here’s this cute little old lady walking up to a mom and going on and on about how cute her baby is or “ I buy the same cat food as you do” or god knows what else 😂😂. I’m just like her!🤣
Ok your family was already nuts yes or no?
Touché Douglas !!
I WISH school nurses were performing gender-affirming care! Where exactly ARE these magical places? We have spent tens of thousands on my son’s transition…pediatricians, psychologists, psychiatrists, endocrinologists, DOs, voice coaches, plastic surgeons…so you can understand my frustration at all the trans kids who got it all done between Algebra & Twentieth Century American Lit.
You're a wonderful parent. Your son must love you so much. I did laugh at your comment, pardon me.
I LOVE that you laughed! That seriously makes my day!!! And thank you for your kind words 💙💙💙
No thanks needed, other than my own to you for making me laugh out loud. And for being a loving, amazing mom.
If you could do me favor: kiss your son on the forehead for me. No need to tell him why. I just want YOU to pass my love and support onto him via you, his dear mom. ❤️
“Tariff” is one of his favorite words and he doesn’t even know what it is. His clown handlers can’t even get it through his big fat pumpkin head that he is embarrassing himself.
…and maggots have no clue
Big fat pumpkin head.....
Still a fave of mine.
Makes me laugh every time!
Hell, he does it everyday Walt. You never know what's going to come out of that rancid mouth of his but guaranteed, it'll be more of his usual bullshit of no substance that makes no sense. And, the media will do their best to ignore and sanewash him.
We are the media now, Rick. Fuck those billionaires…fuck ‘em straight to hell.
Agreed Walt. Fuck those corporate gazillionaires.
The orange asshole has a bachelor's degree in economics from Wharton. Fred probably bought that one for him.
I keep going back to a video from several weeks ago where Elon said "You can hack anything." Did he hack vote tabulters in some key swing states? I can't get this out of my mind.
And I think I heard Elon talk about just messing with a few votes in each district so it wouldn't be obvious. I fear the upcoming special elections will be hacked as well. We may never win another election with Leon around.
Isn’t there anyone smart enough to figure out how he did it, find evidence and charge him as a traitor, election interference, fraud, anything else that would remove him from society? We could all split his billions.
Agreed. I don't have proof of anything, but I picture Musk saying, "I can get you the election, just have to fix Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania and you're in." But of course the thin-skinned narcissist had to say " Uh-uh. I have to get ALL the swing states and the popular vote!!" Which almost gave the game away. He probably demanded California too.
tRump kept saying it out loud! “We don’t need more votes, (fart squish), we have plenty of votes.” A phrase heretofore unheard of in the political spectrum.
Go to Greg Palast’s website and read how they did it: Prevent voters from voting and if they get away with voting, don’t count their votes.
Try, because it's fantasy.
You can't have a fair election when you win and a crooked one when you lose. WE were in charge in November 2024 and we lost.
Discard the Blue-anon and move on.
Dear techbros, had a busy week:
Monday had my free gender reassignment surgery paid for exclusively by Christian fundamentalist taxpayers
Tuesday rejoiced in finally getting my dream job of doing backbreaking work in the fields now that those pesky brown immigrants aren’t around to steal work from us white people
Wednesday did 10 pull ups and drank a gallon of bleach to stave off illness and disease
Thursday felt too gleeful over the suffering of others and economic calamity that certainly will only impact minorities and libtards (like children needlessly dying of AIDs, research funding frozen, soaring inflation, random firings of working class Americans etc) to get off my couch
Friday transitioned back to a girl cause I changed my mind and heck why not? It was free!
Wow- that’s a busy week for the “bee”!
Next will be even busier. Want to keep the overlords happy!
20 years ago, if someone told you that a conman and wannabe celebrity would state aloud, for all to hear, on national television, that young children were going to school in the morning as boys and coming home in the afternoon as girls…and that smelly old conman would THEN run for POTUS and be “elected,” you’d definitely think I was smoking something.
Barely beats out Haitian immigrants eating -all- the cats and dogs in Ohio or somewhere.
To be fair, you might have been. Not the point, but I'm into mind bending again. 😜
One of the people I follow put this as his answer to the 5 things he did:
1. Redacted
2. Redacted
3. Redacted
4. Redacted
5. Answered this shitty email
🤣🤣🤣
Love the response from John:
* I put my left foot in
* I pulled my left foot out
* I put my right foot in
* And I shook it all about
* I did the hokey pokey and I turned myself around
That's what it's all about.
🤣🤣🤣💙
Dang Jeff! This was the best one yet! Leave trans people alone you assholes-learn something about them instead. God-so sick of this! And your messages to felony elonny (just made that up-sounds like a movie line Reese Witherspoon was in!) ….anyway-awesome!!!!!
NCAA president Charlie Baker said he believed there are fewer than 10 transgender athletes among the 510,000 competing at member schools.
This pain being inflicted on trans people is just for fun.
This is another example of MAGA Math, a specialty of delusional loudmouths for manipulative purposes. Did you see James Carville rip Hannity a new one? Where Carville tells Hannity the supposed billions that DOGE tried to save by axing USAID was 0.014% of the $6 trillion federal budget? Massive savings! Thanks, Nelo Smuk!
Also, notice that they mostly get their knickers in a wad over trans women in women's sports.
I will ask them to go search for "trans men" and then ask them if they want them in the bathroom with their wives/daughters, or playing Women's sports in the NCAA.
(Of course, we test for testosterone levels so these "student athletes" are usually excluded. But if you truly want the XX and XY chromosomes to be the delineator, these trans men should be playing in women's sports)
First, I’m no doctor. My understanding is that many of the most difficult cases regarding sexuality in athletics has to do with people born with abnormal genetics. Extra chromosomes that blur the lines. How are those athletes to be treated? It’s a complicated issue…far too complicated for a smelly old demented gas bag occupying our White House with his equally demented minions.
There are also those who are not chromosomally different but have gender dysphoria, where their neurology and gender identity do not match their phenotype. I have personally known several of these people. Why would anyone choose this feeling of not being comfortable in their own bodies? It is a highly personal aspect of who they are and it is difficult enough without judgment and worse, hatred and discrimination from others who don't understand it and have zero empathy. As Tim Walz said, mind your own damn business.
Well stated, Doc.
I saw a reality chart it is 1% over all in sports teams, but headlines are 20%, come on look around use your own damn eyes you now that is bs why not make is 51% then it would be the most of them, holy fuck! Stay out of peoples privacy (a right)! That’s why they use vague terms.
Yes, in addition to being dumbfucks, Trump, his boss Musk and the rest of the Project 2025 assholes are nasty sadistic. Malignantly so. They really enjoy hurting people. I see a lot of them as young boys torturing animals.
Walt they are bullies pure and simple. They have issues and take it out on everyone else.
He’s a brainless dumbfuck who’s going for Hitler status Jeff https://thistleandmoss.com/p/trump-plans-to-fire-all-democrat
Thank you Jeff for all you do
Excellent, Wendy! Scary, but excellent.
A blabbering mass of evil and dementia. It looks like Elmo is getting on the nerves of his fellow Nazis. Circular firing squad, anybody?😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤪
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