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The potential future president had also told the crowd, "You know they say you gotta vote with your stomach, I don't know if you've heard it but it's a little bit true," before launching into some questionable food inflation numbers.

"Food has gone up at levels that nobody's ever seen before," he declared, following up his claim with some unsupported numbers. "We've never seen anything like it – 50, 60, 70 percent."

The online response to Trump's odd claims has been relentless, with one X/Twitter user writing, "Operation let him talk is going exceedingly well."

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[-] meep_launcher@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

I stopped eating bacon because it's $6 at Aldi, but the section over I can get breakfast sausage links for $2.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 3 points 4 months ago

I'm gonna go to the wind turbine just outside of town and eat a bunch of bacon, that'll show em.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It's because all the flying pigs are being chained to the ground so that their flapping wings can generate electricity that gets sold to China. Or something.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Let's give him the extremely stupid benefit of the doubt and say he's correct.

Who the hell is he to dictate what people eat?

If people decide to stop eating bacon because of wind power, that's their right.

Freaking weirdo.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I was watching a doc on vat-grown fish. I know other things are coming online for other meats. Hopefully it's not too far off.

I just have no idea what all these dumbphucks that tie so much of their cardboard cutout version of a male "identity" to things like performatively eating bacon or rolling coal in their diesel small d energy competency vehicles are going to do with themselves when nearly everything is vat-grown, most of our energy is not from burning carbon, and so on.

I seriously don't know what they are going to do. Buy more guns? Lobby dumbasses like donnie to "bring coal jobs back" and gomers like DeSantis to ban vat grown meat in their state?

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

once we get synthetic lab grown meat, we're probably home free, the entire agriculture industry consumes SO many resources just growing and managing live stock that it's actually insane. 70-80% of the water consumption of the colorado river is agriculture.

[-] Hoomod@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Chopping down the Amazon rainforest to make space for cows

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 months ago

we love slash and burn agriculture

[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I don't know about anyone else here but I stopped eating bacon specifically and only because we use wind power in America.

Like that was the only mitigating favor. THE ONLY ONE!

[-] Mobiledecay@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I stopped eating bacon because I ran out. 🤔

[-] chemicalprophet@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I stopped eating bacon because ‘foodies’ overdid that shit for more than a decade. That and ‘Wagyu burgers’ you can’t fit on your mouth. Dumb shit just comes to pass but this dumbshit’s too dumb to get it. Fucking shitgibbon hamberdler…

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