If you thought 2020 was bad, you ain’t seen anything yet.
Two years in, it’s still routine for store shelves to be empty and the latest round of ‘Putin’s price hikes’ on milk, pop and eggs have just begun kicking in. It’s gotten so bad that people are renting egg-laying chickens and setting them up in suburban coops. And eggs are being smuggled in from Mexico.
Earlier this week, Jennifer De La O, the director of Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) San Diego Field Operations, tweeted that her office has “recently noticed an increase in the number of eggs intercepted at our ports of entry”.
For some local residents, attempts to purchase eggs in Mexico come as no surprise. A local affiliate of the BBC’s US partner CBS reported that a carton of a dozen eggs costs nearly $8 at some mini-markets in border communities, compared to less than $3 across the border in Tijuana, Mexico.
Anthony Gago, the owner of a market in San Ysidro – which sits on the border with Mexico – noted that some unhappy customers turn away and cross the border into Mexico when faced with high prices.
“Our 100 count eggs are $40. If you buy them separately they cost you $9.99 and it’s obviously more expensive if you buy five,” Mr Gago said.
Border Report, a website which focuses on the US-Mexico border, reported a similar trend along the border between El Paso, Texas – where eggs often cost about $6 – and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, where a carton of eggs costs approximately $3.40.
The Biden administration’s position is that it’s okay to smuggle in illegal aliens across the border, but not bring eggs across the border.
According to Mr Payne, the high fines of up to $10,000 are reserved for illegal commercial shipments. Individuals face civil fines of approximately $300, and those who declare their eggs may avoid fines altogether – although the eggs will be seized and ultimately destroyed.
Who would have imagined 5 years ago that hungry Americans would be smuggling in eggs from Mexico.
That is your country, this is your country under the Left.
Good, because America is so woke now it’s under its own yoke.
Like Venezuela that still has to talk about Big Oil as the source of grief.
BBC will be happy to offer encouragement with all kinds of nitwits only too happy for a globe trotting holiday with cameras at taxpayer expense.
I actually met a guy the other day who said gas prices were high because of Putin. I didn’t punch him or anything because he was a nice guy and wanted to be my friend but he was an example of how f’d up the fake news media and their indoctrination make people.
Can just have robots to manage a farm for you. Kinda good I didn’t sell anything to you guys. Would have been hard to kick out guys that have relations with vaxxed girls, they take it really hard
I don’t care if a chick is vaxxed or not. It doesn’t taint the VG.
The deepest converts are often the longest holdouts and America has been slow in realising this is them. Starvation is the new touchstone in fatty land.
That notion that Americans are fat is a British, Australian and New Zealand conceit. It has been for at least thirty years, based on some BULLSHIT BBC report.
You people are much fatter
I’m old as fuck and I’m not fat.
“Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday. In spite of its religious form (giving thanks to God for a good harvest), its essential, secular meaning is a celebration of successful production. It is a producers’ holiday. The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production. Abundance is (or was and ought to be) America’s pride—just as it is the pride of American parents that their children need never know starvation.” – Ayn Rand
I guess Rand wasn’t wrong all the time. Abundance is good and nobody decent wants kids to starve.
I grew up hungry so I know how bad that is.
It’s always a new famine because it’s happening to us.
Eggs are going to be so precious by the end of this thing the GOP will be campaigning on affordable eggs for all the people. And then you’ll know the GOP is at work for you.
People in border towns go to Old Mexico to put gas in their cars, too. That’s how f’ed up Biden America is.
Somebody down voted that comment? WTF is wrong with you? Do you think Alzheimer Joetard is a real President?
Everybody knows he’s a STUPID fraud and isn’t in charge of SHIT. He’s even more a phony than Ballsack Husseein Osama was
Move to Mexico, motherfucker. Get the fuck out of MY country.
You think this is some kind of game you want to play? It’s no game for play morons.
Was that directed at me? I’m not Greta Thunberg, you know.
Eighty-one million Americans are beaming in pride that their votes mattered and this administration delivers!!
In two more years the only humming of the score of Hooray for the Red, White and Blue will that which accompanies intense fellatio. So much for patriotism.
I guess the Republic did die in my boyhood, and all that’s left is prolonged death throes.
Your pride matters less than a muscle squirting on the beach.
Everything is on the line here so don’t come in unless you have everything on the line. Just stay away doing what you do.
Muscles squirt? I know they taste pretty good but I didn’t know they did that.
Their pride is on the line as if anybody but 81 million Americans care. Nobody cares dummy.
As in Russia if 81 million Americans disappeared tomorrow who would notice? Nobody.
Nobody cares about you any more than they cared about 60 million Russians, Chinese or 6 million Jews. You are all expendable for magnificent ideas.
The idea is you are expendable for great ideas.
Is there a twelve step program in your future?
I don’t know what a twelve strep program is but I know 5 year programs are way too ambitious, Maybe we could introduce 12 minute Trump programs?
When I say ambitious I mean really the opposite. I mean understated. Sorry,
Twelve comments, anyway. She probably drank too much tea. It has caffeine in it, you know. Not nearly as much as coffee but enough to wake you up, for sure.
A friend sent me a relevant meme this week. “Back in my day there was so much toilet paper and eggs that we would throw them at the houses of our enemies.” Though where I grew up, eggs were for enemies, and tp was for someone you liked.
We hit my best friend’s gf’s house with 120 rolls one time, and it drizzled later that night. It looked like it snowed in their yard for a few months, and we got to see it every day because her house was right across the street from our HS. We apologized to her dad, but even he was impressed, lol.
The only people I egged, other than friend on friend egg battles (much less painful than, bb gun, dirt clod, or wet pine cone battles), was someome who liked to molest passed out girls. Gave him merry h*ll every chance I got.
That’s so funny! me and my brother used to TP houses in SoCal when we where kids, too. My parents never caught us us but they must have wondered where all those TP rolls went. I t made us laugh to think of our dad not being able to take a shit because all the toilet paper was gone. He would get really mad and that just made us laugh harder.
We egged people, too.
I’l admit, I did that Last year. You wouldn’t believe how many lowlifes loiter in front of my Apartment building. I threw a whole dozen right on some F’ers head. He got really mad but I just laughed at him. It probably hurt because I’m on the fifth floor but that just made it more enjoyable for me.
San Jose has a lot of lowlifes.
The Biden administration is thinking about building a wall across the southern border to stop Mexican eggs from entering the US.