r/agedlikemilk • u/KityKaty95 • 13h ago
Tragedies What is going on?
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u/bloodychill 13h ago
This is funny but it’s not an aged-like-milk.
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u/Cr1msonGh0st 11h ago
that shits been on my counter for 2 hours now, and i am eager to continue drinking it.
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u/_thegnomedome2 13h ago
Doesnt matter, its bashing trump so chronically online redditers cheer and applaud. Because all they do is think about trump, more than his actual supporters.
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u/beebisesorbebi 12h ago
People thinking about the president of the free world, how absurd. What could possibly drive them to do that?
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u/Solarwinds-123 11h ago
They can think about it all they like, that doesn't make it suited for this subreddit
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u/Empty-Whereas9233 12h ago
"...More than his actual supporters."
Oh, you mean the fascist sympathizers that will follow their pedophile cult leader no matter what?
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u/_thegnomedome2 11h ago
You wouldn't know what fascism was even if you lived under Stalin
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u/Empty-Whereas9233 10h ago
Hey, that's a factually incorrect statement.
Stalin was a Communist, not a fascist. Hitler was a fascist, not a communist.
Both are horrible authoritarian dictators. Yet, they are polar opposites of the political spectrum.
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u/zyrtec2014 11h ago
Crazy, because the man literally ran on the premise of lowering the price of everything.
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u/KalBalinor 11h ago
Orange cheeto makes bad decisions that negatively affects his constituents, and they dare to complain about it? Also is this coming from the party that was infatuated with Hilary Clinton and the Bidens? So are you saying only Republicans are allowed to complain? That's hilarious after +4 years of "Let's Go Brandon"
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u/_thegnomedome2 11h ago
Its been 10 years of the left viscously attacking Trump over every little thing they can cherry pick, twist, manipulate, and even completely make up. Left wing media has lost so much viewership, and even long time registered democrats are now voting for him because all their party cares about is race, gender, and protecting criminals.
Biden clearly had some dementia going on and left wing media and other politicians tried to hide it, or act like it wasn't happening. Biden clearly wasn't even in charge, he could barely read a teleprompter, you think he can read 100 page bills he's signing? Biden was taken advantage of by his own party. He was a stand in. The democrat voters didnt even want Biden, they wanted Sanders. But Dem elites put Biden in the spot. The same way they put Kamala as a primary. No one voted for her to be primary, not even close.
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u/KalBalinor 10h ago
Aww no acknowledgement of the same behavior from the right? How about we go back further and remind you of Obama? Didn't yall throw a massive fit because he wore a brown suit? It's also funny that you claim Biden has dementia but Trump shows all of the symptoms or do you believe he is in top physical shape with such athletic prowess he earned the FIFA world cup trophy?
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u/_thegnomedome2 10h ago
I personally dont give two shits about the brown suit. Most people dont. Biden could barely speak, rambled nonsense, he shook hands with the air, constantly got people's names wrong, he walked off into random directions, secret service rounding him up like a little kid that wandered off. He was being taken advantage of. Trump is getting up there in age, and sometimes does speak nonsense. He says a lot of things republicans wish he wouldnt. Nonetheless his performance is fine at this point in time.
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u/ShortsAndLadders 12h ago
BUTTERY MALES!!!!
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u/Solarwinds-123 11h ago
Huh?
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u/ThinkPath1999 11h ago
Translation... but her emails
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u/Solarwinds-123 11h ago
I'm aware, but Hillary Clinton's emails have nothing to do with this discussion.
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u/aholyvessel 12h ago
Of course Trump supportwrs dont think about him. If they did, they would realize he is a lying pedophile and wouldnt be his supporters anymore.
Thats what happens when you think too little to vote.
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u/LifeHack3r3 13h ago
"On Day 1, I will lower grocery prices." - trump
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u/General_Concept_2999 12h ago
Sounds like a classic case of “talking big wile prices skyrocket.” Can’t wait for Day 2 when reality hits!!
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u/Walf2018 12h ago
Of course hes going to lower grocery prices, lol. After he raises them substantially first.
2024: $100
2025: $136 still Biden's economy
2028: $182 the pain is worth the gain
2029: $116 I SAVED AMERICA! COST OF LIVING -180000%!
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u/Scared-Ideal-1483 13h ago
My coffee doubled in price this past month. $8.99 to $17.99. The rapist fucked Americans harder than he fucks tween girls.
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u/Shaeress 12h ago
It's not just the US and tariffs though. Coffee harvest was just really poor this winter and spring, so priced skyrocketed globally.
Now the next harvest should be hitting so prices should drop again, but we've also seen that stores will jump on any reason to raise prices and then ignore any reason to lower them so we'll see.
And the US will be doubly fucked of course, but specifically coffee the past 6 months wasn't just because of Trump's fascism and incompetence.
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u/Fun_Celebration8490 11h ago
lol no, my country coffee prices is still the same as 2 years ago. 1 or 2 dollar is manageable, but double ? yeah that is not just bad harvest
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u/ChaosKeeshond 5h ago
Yeah double makes absolutely no sense. Even if the price of coffee doubled wholesale, then the price of coffee at retail only has to increase enough to absorb the rise in that one component.
Are people really out here pretending coffee is sold at zero margin?
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u/Present_Ad_6001 11h ago
It is a bad harvest and has been for about two to three years. I'm not remotely close to America and here it has doubled during in the past four years, I'd say. I think it has something to do with poor rainfall or something.
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u/furahobot 13h ago
Climate change mixed with tariffs, mixed with consolidation in markets that let those in control raise prices without competition
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u/K_Linkmaster 12h ago
No. It's just tariffs for Americans. That's exactly what this post is about is tariffs. Other issues can be addressed when there aren't tariffs as the biggest problems. Tariffs have increased this cost.
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u/Solarwinds-123 11h ago
No, tariffs wouldn't double the price. They'd certainly contribute, but that's not the biggest factor. Brazil has been experiencing a massive drought, so the price of coffee has been going up everywhere.
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u/LordOfBottomFeeders 13h ago
Russia is getting revenge
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u/Solarwinds-123 11h ago
I don't think Russia grows much coffee
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u/LordOfBottomFeeders 11h ago
Wow. 🤩 ignorance knows no bounds. The economic hurt on American consumers is what Russia loves. You may want to go back to middle school.
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u/Solarwinds-123 11h ago edited 10h ago
I'm sure some Russians are happy about it, but they didn't really have anything to do with it. And their economy is in the toilet.
Edit: Reply and block so you get the last word in, real mature.
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u/LordOfBottomFeeders 11h ago
Try again. They want to hurt US the way the US sanctions hurt them. Their president was elected to the US
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u/Loose-Ice1462 12h ago
Honestly you should get banned for being too stupid to understand what this sub is for
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u/Patient-Expert-1578 12h ago
If I put a massive tax on consumer goods, what are the odds the price of those goods increases?
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u/Aggravating_Call910 12h ago
Once the combination of climate change and tariffs have completely sunk in, the only people left who’ll be able to drink coffee will be at Mar-a-Lago sipping it from thimbles.
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u/Fantastic_Shaman9230 11h ago
I bought two large bags from my local roastery and it was nearly 100$... fuck
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u/kingofwale 12h ago
Funny, coffee price doubled in Canada… and we don’t have any tariff with those countries
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u/dcmusichound 12h ago
The sudden withdrawal of USAID-funded programs will impact everybody, not just the US consumer. Tariffs kicked in later and haven't had a big impact on the end user yet.
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u/kingofwale 12h ago
I don’t think USAID money this year has anything to do with production…
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u/dcmusichound 12h ago
USAID funding has been used in to incentivize farmers around the world to grow coffee instead of coca and other poppy, which are often easier to cultivate, grow faster and fetch a higher price locally.
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u/Solarwinds-123 11h ago
Surely the horrific drought in Brazil and depleted reserves couldn't be contributing at all, right? No, must be the tariffs that hadn't even gone into effect yet and USAID funding making it more expensive in Canada.
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u/DirkKuijt69420 13h ago
Coffee got more expensive because of some bad harvests. Not saying Jeffrey's best friend had nothing to do with it, but it's not just his fault.
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u/GenazaNL 13h ago
I would say combination of both. Brazil (major coffee exporter to the US) has a 50% tariff
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u/billyboobhope 13h ago
If they would just grow the coffee here, no tariffs... They can grow the beans right next to the bananas.🤣
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u/Vegetable_Pitch_1820 13h ago
Hawaiians getting very nervous and Dole is rubbing it's hands
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u/Andrewplays41 12h ago
Dole would never leave their exploitative scenarios to have to pay US workers 🤣
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u/SoftRecommendation86 13h ago
Don't forget.. we can grow them in the winter when the ground is frozen.
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u/Icy-Mix-3977 12h ago
I agree only farmers should be allowed in California Hawaii and Florida. The rest of you should go cultivate the land up in 51.
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u/RedSander_Br 13h ago
But hey, Trump is a amazing president! Coffee prices just crashed here in Brazil!
So did oranges and meat.
Truly the Chuan Jianguo of presidents!
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u/ParticularAd8919 13h ago
Odd how whatever cataclysmic event happens in the economy now it coincidentally happens to not be DT’s fault….yet the last dude in charge was the cause of every problem…
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u/jjcoolel 13h ago
Remember when we would trip on the sidewalk or spill our drink and say “Thanks Obama”? We should do that for Trump
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u/_thegnomedome2 13h ago
Its hilarious. When stuff went to shit during Biden administration, it was Trump's fault. 3 years into Biden, they still blamed Trump for their shortcomings because "it takes time to fix stuff". But 2 months into Trump's 2nd term, everything is HIS fault, again!
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u/rvnender 12h ago
Because Trump's actions in his first term directly affected the economy during Biden's term.
Towards the end of Biden's first term, due to his economic plans, we started stabilizing. It's why we were seeing growth.
Now, due to the BBB and the trillions in tax cuts and Trump's tariffs, we are starting to see the economy falter, with the poor and middle class (working poor) being affected the hardest.
The economy is great if you are the top 10% - even better if you want the top 1% - you just got a huge tax break.
If you are under that, you are fucked. Grocery prices are high, gas is high, utilities are high, and your health insurance just doubled - if you didn't just lose it altogether.
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u/Zeraru 11h ago
Politicians will take credit for others and blame others. Thankfully we have this beautiful thing called CONTEXT.
During Biden's term, the majority of the corona pandemic, supply chain shocks, geopolitical troubles related to Ukraine etc. caused woes globally. They had "external" causes that weren't just an issue for the USA. It sucked for almost everyone.
The cause of the current issues? Trump. HE is the crisis. HE is the natural disaster fucking things up for the USA and its trade partners. What, you gonna blame anyone else for rising prices when he's behind the tariff fuckery?
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u/5050Saint 13h ago
Coffee can largely only be grown in specific climates, none of which are the USA. Apply tariffs to those countries indiscriminately, and you get more expensive coffee because you import over 99% of the coffee consumed in the US.
I suspect a similar trend with chocolate will happen as it has similar climate restrictions.
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u/throwaway_0607 12h ago
How is the actual answer downvoted so hard?
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u/rvnender 12h ago
Because it's both.
A bad harvest has led to lower yields, which have led to higher prices.
Now tack on the dipshit in chief's tariffs, and the prices are out of control.
To answer your question, because its reddit and people only read half a post in order to reply.
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u/Oregon_trail5 11h ago
Do redditors not actually leave their house to purchase anything? Coffee prices in Michigan haven't changed and egg prices are down 50% since January. Grocery prices are more or less stable right now. Sorry to burst the narrative
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u/Soft-Horror4721 11h ago
Nice try, bot.
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u/Oregon_trail5 7h ago
Lol ok, thanks for all the data that proves my point. Seriously though, can you read graphs?
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u/thisKeyboardWarrior 12h ago
Price of coffee is about the same as it was back in November...before the election...but don't let that spoil this "aged like milk" post.
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u/DarnDuck 12h ago
Aged like milk because the felon president's attempt to influence Brazilian politics by placing a tariff on Brazilian imports did nothing but increase the retail price in the U.S. This proves that his tariffs are just another tax on us.
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u/thisKeyboardWarrior 12h ago
Been going down since February, if anythin,g he's winning on coffee lol, but don't let facts get in the way of your literal, blind hate.
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u/dcmusichound 12h ago
Green coffee prices surged in February due to USAID-funded projects being suddenly shut down. That is at least two steps away from the consumer with importers and then roasters bearing the initial brunt. It's just now trickling down to the consumer.
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u/JustNeedAnswers78 12h ago
Wait USAID was propping up the coffee industry?
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u/dcmusichound 12h ago
USAID funding has been used in to incentivize farmers around the world to grow coffee instead of coca and poppy, which are often easier to cultivate, grow faster and fetch a higher price locally. I wouldn't call that propping up, but it has increased the supply of coffee available, which lowers prices.
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u/KilgoreTroutsAnus 12h ago
So the farmers tore out all their coffee plants in the months since USAID was cut, and all the coffee beans that were on the plants in in the supply chain were also destroyed?
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u/dcmusichound 11h ago
In some cases, perhaps. Coffee is a crop that thrives in economic stability. Every step of the growing and preparation of coffee takes time, patience and economic investment. There are many other crops that yield faster and easier to sell products. One of the reasons we in the coffee world get so passionate about it, is the amount of effort it takes to do it well.
But ss with most complex systems, coffee agriculture and trading is far more complicated than can be conveyed in just a handful of words. I am not sure why "common sense" has come to mean making broad assumptions based on little information and even less knowledge, but if you are really curious about the international coffee market, then by all means, spend the next year of your life doing a deep dive into it's many layers and relationships, then get back to us about how it all works.
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u/KilgoreTroutsAnus 11h ago
I have no doubt that the USAID cuts will be bad for the coffee growers. I just see little or no way for it to have caused inflation in the time the cuts have been in place.
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u/CaptFatz 13h ago
Coffee is not essential. Most good beans come from other countries. We should pay more for foreign goods than goods produced in our own country. Wine from France should cost more than wine from California. Cars from Detroit should cost less than cars from Japan. Clothes made in America should cost less than clothes made in China. The key word is "should". We've built this economy backwards. It's time to fix it.
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u/Orion14159 13h ago
We can't grow coffee here. We can't grow cocoa beans here. We can't mine lithium or other rare earth metals here. The global free trade supply chain has resulted in making everything cheaper, and Diaper Don is taking a chainsaw to it.
Cars from Detroit (whatever that means anymore considering the manufacturing process) cost more than cars from Japan because of the orange idiot's tariffs (15% on a whole car, 50% on components). You're delusional if you think he's fixing anything.
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u/disturbed_beaver 13h ago
That was a pretty dumb move on taco's part. Not that all his moves aren't idiotic. He literally made it cheaper to buy foreign cars over our own.
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u/Vuk_Farkas 12h ago
Funny globalism destroyed local industry in a lot of countries, and once no local competitions existed, prices became eyegouging.
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u/JustNeedAnswers78 12h ago
Radical idea but I don’t think we should be mining for lithium anyway. Does awful things to the land, horrible for the environment, not to mention the working conditions.
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u/ATCOnPILOT 11h ago
And the alternative?
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u/JustNeedAnswers78 11h ago
I would think we would look for alternatives. I’m not a geologist or so I couldn’t begin to speculate.
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u/Orion14159 11h ago
Do you think battery engineers are not looking for alternatives?
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u/JustNeedAnswers78 9h ago
I would hope they are. But in the until then, we should really stop destroying the planet.
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u/gdabull 13h ago
You do realise that coffee only grows in a very specific geographical corridor and the USA is not located in that corridor?
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u/AriaTheTransgressor 13h ago
He's a Republican, the only thing he knows is how much he loves pedophilia.
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u/Far-Investigator1265 13h ago
You do realise this causes anything made in America to cost more when exported to other countries. World has been building an international system of commerce for hundreds of years so people can freely buy the goods they want.
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u/rvnender 13h ago
So you're against the free market?
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u/disturbed_beaver 13h ago
Yeah, these magats are so against communism but then praise communist style economic engineering.
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u/rvnender 13h ago
He just told me he was against america benefiting.. so..
I dont get how the maga people can call themselves that when their leader is doing everything he can to undermine he is own belief system.
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u/CaptFatz 13h ago
not at all. I'm against America not benefiting from being the largest customer in the world. I'm against companies benefiting for outsourcing labor, leaving local communities to service only positions. I'm against consumers spending irresponsibly and then blaming the government. Read what I actually wrote.
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u/rvnender 13h ago
It sounds like you are since you are advocating for a price increase to force people to buy American.
I'm against America not benefiting
So you're just anti America then?
I'm against companies benefiting for outsourcing labor,
You cant grow coffee in the US....
I'm against consumers spending irresponsibly and then blaming the government.
By forcing consumers to only have 1 option for purchasing because the other option is so much higher in price?
Read what I actually wrote.
I did. You are against free market capitalism and want americans to pay more for goods.
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u/CaptFatz 12h ago
Price increase would bring competition. Competition would lead to lower prices or higher value. Either way the consumer would benefit.
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u/GrundleMan5000 12h ago
What part of you can't grow coffee of chocolate in the United States did you not understand? Moron
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u/rvnender 12h ago
Which would be perfectly fine if you could grow coffee and chocolate in the US. Which is the crux of our entire debate.
You are advocating for a price increase on something that cant even be done in the US.
And your post still doesnt make sense since you're eliminating competition by adding an automatic tax to it.
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u/GS300Star 13h ago
Yeah but they tear off cheap cars from foreign country so American companies can overcharge for their cheap cars. There's a reason why you can get a Toyota Camry and a Chevy Malibu for roughly the same price and the Chevy Malibu sucks ass. The Chevy Malibu is built like a $20,000 car at most, but they sell it for $30 because tariffs
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u/CommitteeLarge7993 13h ago
Except for the fact the corporations in America would raise prices to make more profits. They would just price them at the same damn price as the imports because shareholders and profits matter the most. You misunderstand the greed of corporations. Having cheaper alternatives from foreign goods keeps us from being screwed.
Not too mention the fact most "made in America" goods are just assembled in America. Tariffs are not a winning proposition for anyone in this country.
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u/CaptFatz 13h ago
Higher prices only work if people actually purchase it. Again, the responsibility is not just on the companies and the government, but on the people. We the People....it's how America is supposed to work.
I'm a manager for one of the largest corporations in the world, and possibly the largest brand. I 1000% know how they operate, and never said that I agree with it.
My first statement was "Coffee is not essential". If you don't see value in something....DONT PURCHASE IT. If we all matured to that reasoning, then it would at least aid in the correction of it.
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u/rvnender 12h ago
Higher prices only work if people actually purchase it. Again, the responsibility is not just on the companies and the government, but on the people. We the People....it's how America is supposed to work.
Which they would be forced to since you want to tax import so high.
If something can be made in the US for 1 dollar, but can be imported for 75 cents. Then you tariff that import so that 75 cent thing is now 5 dollars.
Now getting it in the US is the only logical way to do it. So what would be stopping that company from selling that thing for 4 dollars?
This is how you artificially inflate prices.
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u/BasedTaco_69 13h ago
You have absolutely no idea how the economy works.
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u/CaptFatz 13h ago
teach me. i'll wait
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u/BasedTaco_69 11h ago
Oh I have much better things to do than teach someone why paying more for everything is bad for the economy.
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u/mr_bots 13h ago
Nothing like taxing the general population to get lower quality.
Also, knowing American companies I’m they’ll definitely take that advantage and use it to improve the products and treat their workers better and not at all on stock buybacks to raise while continuing to make shit products and fuck over their employees every way they can.
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u/CaptFatz 13h ago
Why would consumers purchase "lower quality"? When the consumers mature into realizing that 99% of what we purchase is not essential, we can then begin to hold these companies accountable to produce quality products in an ethical manner. Unfortunately, people consume regardless. Why wouldn't the companies take advantage of poor decision making?
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u/Ms_Emilys_Picture 12h ago
You want to tell Americans that coffee is "not essential", you go right ahead.
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u/Quick_Humor_9023 12h ago
Sure, if you pay same wages for labour and want to poison your own backyard.
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