Lovin’ those cheap eggs and gas yet?
If you’re living in Aurora, or just about anywhere else in the country, it’s an easy “nope.”
Store-brand eggs are still almost $9 a dozen. The price of gasoline surged about 25 cents a gallon from the day Donald Trump took the oath of office, promising to right America’s economic wrongs from Day One, according to national gas-watch websites.
Instead, what Trump has done in his first week back in office is make liars out of those who said, “it won’t be that bad.”
In the time it took for the winter day to get about 2 minutes longer, Trump violated his oath of office at least twice, told dozens of lies and worked furiously to upset the nation’s precious structure of checks and balances.
Here’s the short list of what Trump supporters didn’t understand or believe would happen when they traded their Nov. 5 vote for cheaper soda pop and the ability to round up all the minority immigrants who came to the United States trying to flee their home nations made unlivable by people very much like Trump.
Way back last summer and fall, when Trump was just plowing through his usual daily crop of lies, all provably false, he said his “Number One” issue was inflation, which he blamed on the Biden administration.
Clearly, his Number One was just more of Trump’s Number Two.
This week, Trump said that ridding the nation of millions of immigrants was now his priority. That was now. This was then:
“When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short period of time,” he told NBC’s “Meet the Press, just after the election, talking about Day One. “And I won an election based on that. We’re going to bring those prices way down.”
Or not.
“They all said inflation was the No. 1 issue. I said, ‘I disagree,’” Trump said. “I talked about inflation too, but how many times can you say that an apple has doubled in cost?”
Yesterday, Co-Vice President JD Vance, trying desperately to persuade himself and the nation that Elon Musk is just another one of Trump’s advisors, who just never goes away, also started back-peddling on promises of being able to bring home affordable bacon.
“Prices are going to come down, but it’s going to take a little bit of time, right?” he said Sunday on CBS News. “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”
Et tu, JD? Et tu?
What the MAGA movement got, along with all of us, was a big bowl of slimy cold revenge, served up by Trump himself.
First, he pardoned each and every one of his terrorist groupies that tried and failed to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election.
The approximately 1,500 pardons and sentence commutations for the Jan. 6 insurrectionists included those for about 400 thugs and creepers who viciously beat cops and law enforcers who were trying to keep the insurrectionists from breaking into the Capitol.
What Republican and Democrat judges, voters and members of Congress agreed on after an exhaustive investigation was that Trump lied repeatedly about the election being “rigged” after he lost the election in 2020. After that, Trump promoted and coerced sketchy tyrants like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys to help gather a couple thousand people on Jan. 6 to riot and break into the Capitol in hopes of pulling off an insurrection and end the United States as we all used to know it.
Why so many Americans want to ignore what they saw and heard with their own eyes and what Trump’s fellow Republicans convicted him of, will remain one of the nation’s biggest mysteries and embarrassments.
The fiat he issued this week, shattering endless cases of due process and convictions based primarily on video evidence, made clear that Trump was taking revenge on the nation’s government, which held him and his fellow felons accountable for their crimes.
He said he was reversing a “grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years and begins a process of national reconciliation.”
Members of Congress who had to hide and fend off the Jan. 6 attackers felt differently. Honest, cogent people, including newly elected Western Slope Republican Jeff Hurd, told Colorado Public Radio this week he was “disappointed” that Trump would give “get out of jail free” cards to violent convicts.
“I’m a rule of law Republican,” Hurd told CPR. “January 6 was a dark day in American history, and it was an assault on our republic and the peaceful transfer of power.”
That kind of talk won’t get Hurd anywhere in Trump’s GOP.
Aurora Democratic Congressperson Jason Crow was less diplomatic about what Trump did “on Day One.”
“Pardoning January 6 insurrectionists who brutally beat police officers is an endorsement of political violence,” Crow said in a statement last week. “President Trump talks about rule of law and then lets cop beaters and killers walk free. It’s disgusting and wrong.”
But wait — there’s more.
Before the first week ended, Trump violated the Constitution, and his oath of office, by trying to end so-called “birthright citizenship” with an edict. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser joined about half of his peers by getting the courts to begin putting the the kaibosh on Trump’s constitutional folly. He tried a similar scheme later when he attempted to do an end-run around Congress and the Supreme Court, which upheld a wildly bi-partisan approved law banning TikTok.
A buck for an egg doesn’t seem so heinous in light of what Trump did do, instead of what he isn’t.
It’s OK. Trump is rapidly undermining the once gold-standard of public health systems that did things like protect the nation from food poisoning and plague.
Unaffordable Trump eggs may save your life since he’s working fast to destroy the agencies that ensure they’re not rife with Avian Flu or the next wave of medical malaise.
The takeaway? Better be getting your news and fact checks from trusted journalists and go back to just getting sight gags from Facebook and X.
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Is this the Left’s new plan? The prices reflect the damage done by Democrat Joe Biden’s administration as well as Democrat legislature/governor in Colorado. The Sentinel would have us believe that Trump is able to magically decrease prices in 1 week. The Sentinel knows better but their ideology forces them to make this absurd, bumbling headline. When the same eggs were at the same price, the Sentinel made no demands of Biden or Polis to lower the prices. Disingenuous lies and failed policies are all the Sentinel has to rest upon.
Way to go Juan, just keep looking back in the rear view mirror and not accept responsibility for you and others being so STUPID to vote for your “Dear Leader”. Of course when Biden was in he was blamed for everything. Hey Juan eat shit and live with your decision
Awwww, still bitter over the election we see. It will get easier. Despite your eagerness to assign blame and cleanse your party’s soiled image, Trump will fix things. Sadly, even you will benefit from Trump’s exemplary actions. Unlike the fragile and vindictive Left, sane Conservatives don’t wish harm upon the other side. Even when your precious eggs get down to $2.59 you’ll still be mad.
Awww Juan Still “too stupid to know you are stupid”. You really are DUMB. I’ll bet you are proud of your 6th grade education
That puts his quite a bit above your kindergarten-level education, rata.
LOL, please. We all know you vermin love your “liberating tolerance,” you just don’t like it when you get it right back with interest.
Ever heard of avian flu? And by the way, I thought conservatives don’t like anyone messing with their sacred markets?
The avian flu is the cause of the price crisis, not “Joe Biden” who seems to have exercised otherworldly powers just to p— Republicans off. And if you were really following the facts, you would know that your precious markets set the price, not the president.
But I guess Democrats invented the avian flu just to make Trump look bad. FACTS, how do they work? Like Kryptonite to Republicans, apparently.
“Ever heard of avian flu? And by the way, I thought conservatives don’t like anyone messing with their sacred markets?”
LOL, you and your new neocon allies are the ones who think the market can’t adjust or innovate without imported peon stoop labor, Jeffy-poo. But then, you morons voted to get rid of the Gallagher Amendment and then were surprised when your property taxes skyrocketed, so it’s not like your side has any sort of future-time orientation to speak of.
Remember Juan, he promised on day one lower grocery prices, lower gas prices etc. How is that working out?
It’s working out great for me, Peggy, because your side is getting squashed right now.
You’re a moron and UnAmerican trash
This has to be one of the most ridiculous editorials out of the Aurora Sentinel yet. It demonstrates either sheer ignorance about the workings of the massive U.S. economy or simply “sour grapes” about the election results. I have to assume it is the later because no one with even a fraction of intelligence believes the one could turn around the titanic U.S. economy in a little over 1 week. It took several years of unrestrained spending by the Biden/Harris administration and Democrats before the full damage to the economy was realized and it will take an equally long time before the economy can be repaired. It takes time to stop a freight train or turn around an ocean liner and it will take time to correct inflation in an economy the size of ours.
The January 6th “mostly peaceful protest” (as Democrats would call it) did turn into a riot, but only a handful of the 1500 charged actually assaulted officers. And they served considerable time in prison for their actions.
And as far as how MAGA voters feel, I can tell you they feel like they have died and gone to heaven as far as changes in true leadership and the direction of our country. So try again on this front.
Regarding trusting journalists, the only hope for the Aurora Sentinel to become a trusted and fair source of information is for Elon Musk to buy it and clean house of all personnel. Currently it functions merely as a left-wing partisan rag. Other than that, you folks do a great job! 🙂
How is the kool aid you drink in gallons Kirk, cheap? Where did you get so undereducated about life in this country. Is hate enough to feed you?
LOL, Jim Jones was one of your fellow travelers, Margaret, and you can’t even read a book that doesn’t require crayons to finish.
Your side deserves all the hate it gets.
Gee, eggs in Indiana are $4/doz and I can buy from neighbors for less.
Your $9/doz is the result of Polis’ policy on cage-free eggs. Trump has no control over the stupidisms that Democrats inflict upon themselves.
The 25 cent hike is less than the margin that gas stations increase their prices every Wednesday or Thursday.
And I witness the age-old slander of ‘untold numbers of lies’ with nothing substantiated.
But none of that matters to a bottom-feeding leftist rag like the Sentinel.
I laugh whenever Mr. Perry, a partisan hack of the lowest order, refers to himself as a trusted journalist.
You sir have nailed it on the head. All the years I have lived in Aurora, The Sentinel and Dave Perry have towed that Socialist/Democrat line
The fact that you Republicans are irked tells me Mr. Perry is doing his job just fine.
Now go back to watching Trump use the White House to sell worthless crypto and gaudy bibles. He sure as hell doesn’t give a damn about you.
The fact that you Democrats are irked at what Trump is doing tells me that he’s doing his job just fine.
Now go back to watching MSNBC use their studio to sell worthless political theology and gaudy utopias. They sure as hell don’t give a damn about you.
How you fell About losing your Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid genius
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“toed” Wayne
How you fell About losing your Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid genius
Thanks, Mr. Perry. Well said. Ignore the conservative snowflakes, they never have anything constructive to offer anyway.
Glad you agree this political polarization needs to continue escalating, Bret.
Although I can’t define in my own mind what a “conservative snowflake” is all about, I suppose I am a conservative. After reading the above comments, I’m pleased that after years more and more conservatives are replying with my exact thoughts without using foul language.
In Aurora the four things that help make us less of a community in order are the socialists, (including the three on Council), Dave Perry, black activists and illegal immigrants. Without them, Aurora would be on the way back from the black hole that we find ourselves in currently.
Don’t worry, we all know the whites-only paradise you envision.
Yes, Jeffy-poo, you’ve made it clear several times how much you hate white people.