If there’s one thing Rep. Jim Jordan is good for, it’s ignoring sexual assault complaints from college wrestlers and being unable to recall if he spoke to Donald Trump before, during, or after the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol saying something idiotic on Twitter and then getting dragged for it in the comments. This week was no exception.
“Turkeys are going to cost more this Thanksgiving,” Jordan, who is currently under intense scrutiny for his alleged involvement in the January 6 insurrection, warned on Tuesday. “But don’t worry. The Biden Administration says you saved 16 cents on July 4th.”
Turkeys are going to cost more this Thanksgiving.
But don’t worry. The Biden Administration says you saved 16 cents on July 4th.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) November 2, 2021
We’re not even going to bother trying to make sense of his tweet, because, well, why bother? The man’s an idiot. But giving credit where credit is due, we will say he’s right in saying the cost of turkeys is expected to be slightly higher this Thanksgiving season compared to last year.
The Farm Bureau’s 2020 annual report found the average cost of last year’s Thanksgiving dinner for 10 was the lowest it’s been in a decade, coming in at roughly $46.90, or less than $5 per person. In 2019, it was slightly higher, at $48.91, but still less than $5 per person. It remains to be seen exactly what the average cost of this year’s turkey dinner for 10 will be, but if history is any indication, we’re guessing it will probably once again fall around the $5 per person mark, give or take a few cents.
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But we digress. The point is, the amount it costs to serve turkey and the traditional sides to a table of 10 on Thanksgiving fluctuates year after year depending on things like inflation and supply and demand. This is Economics 101 stuff. But it didn’t stop Jordan from trying to turn turkeys into a political rallying cry.
Anything to distract from the fact that the House select committee investigating January 6 has their sights set on him, right?
Here’s how people are responding to his frantic turkey tweet…
I just bought a Butterball for 99¢ a pound. So what’s the problem again?
— Tim Murphy 🇺🇸 (@Murp1953Tim) November 2, 2021
Imagine that! Everything in life gets more expensive… except wages.
Maybe minimum wage should be raised
— JJ Cornflower * My Body, My Choice * (@JJCornflower) November 2, 2021
When the chef is stuffing the turkey, do you look the other way?
— Milton Fletcher (@mfletcher530) November 2, 2021
You didn’t raise your own turkey? What happened to personal responsibility?
— Dawn (@dafw333) November 2, 2021
So pull yourself up from your bootstraps and work harder! If that advice flies with people facing hunger and crippling debt, it works for everyone.
— ZeitzGeist (@ZeitzGeist1) November 2, 2021
My turkey cost the same as last year and the year before… Butterball for $.99 a pound so stop the lies.
— Gudlaug Hawkinson (@GudlaugHawkinso) November 2, 2021
Those of us who grew up poor know that the holidays aren’t about turkeys or presents, they are about family and friends.
— Spang (@CMontyBurnsIII) November 2, 2021
But at least we have toilet paper unlike last year! Remember?
— MCS (@MCS_BlueVoter) November 2, 2021
I’m vegetarian, so I’ll be fine. Also, I don’t think Biden controls turkey prices. If turkeys are more expensive, it is because of low supply and high demand. Also, don’t you think that if Biden wanted to lower prices on his own, he’d do it?
— Yaman Sezener II (@ysezener2) November 2, 2021
I bet you know where to get wrestling shorts half off… pic.twitter.com/EyrcPkf7ge
— SᕼIᖇᒪEY ᗰᗩᖇᗷᒪES (@ShirleyMarbles) November 3, 2021
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
ptn2719
Simple economics (supply and demand) is also why gas prices are a lot higher this year than what they were last year. However, that simple, logical fact (since when do Republicans care about facts anyway?!) doesn’t stop them from crowing about how gas was lower under Trump…of course it was when demand was lower because of the worst pandemic in 800 years!
Kangol2
And Obama brought gas prices down from where they were under W Bush and also made the US energy independent and the GOP shrieked and wailed about him nonstop. They are so full of it.
Remind me again why Gym Jordan hasn’t been charged despite allegedly not responding to knowledge of or the complaints of college wrestlers who were sexually abused?
NateOcean
Ever notice how a turkey’s wattle, kind of looks like an old man’s nut sack? Just sayin’.
Invader7
@ ptn2719 & @NateOcean & @Kangol2 … EXACTLY… If we non-gop rational people had that kind of power the gop mistakenly thinks we do. Don’t they THINK we’d would have solved a lot of the problems in America already ? Why do gop criminals get away with heinous ILLEGAL behavior cause the are connected. They’ll get theirs …one day.. Karma is a bitch… 🙂
dhmonarch89
Sadly- when it comes to fighting Republicans… snarky comments is all we have.
Kangol2
Don’t give up. Just one year ago the Democrats won the Presidency, held control of the House, and gained control of the US Senate, tenuous though the latter two are. Democratic and liberal complacency, hopelessness and a sense of defeat empower the GOP. It does not have to be a foregone conclusion that they win back one or both houses of Congress in 2022 and the Presidency in 2024. The challenge is to organize, to be proactive with messaging, to be ACTIVE with badly needed policies, and to SELL them. Why on earth let all these lies about “critical race theory” spread like wildfire??? Don the Con, whatever else one might think of his treasonous, lying, psychopathic @ss, was an indefatigable salesmen for his sham show. He constantly touted successes where there were none, and grossly inflated what little positive things he did.
The Democrats want to be policy wonks, fine-tune everything, and refuse to get on the road and sell their policies, and this includes Biden, who has made a few trips to Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Delaware, New Jersey, etc. If the Democrats can pass these two major bills, they had better sell the positive legislation like there is no tomorrow. Obama didn’t do this with Obamacare, one of the most vital, lifesaving pieces of legislation of the last 50 years, and we saw the results. The Democrats do not have to cede the ground to the GOP if they are doing their jobs. Too many feel that people are just going to get get it when the reality is, with all the disinfo, they aren’t and won’t.
dhmonarch89
sadly- I have given up. People are idiots- blaming Biden for Manchin and Sinema’s betrayal (showing they’re too stupid to know how Gov’t works) AND Voting Republican After 1/6 terrorist attack. I’m done- this lazy, stupid country deserves shitty government. My life was awful with full Repub government and full Dem government- I’m done.
mcflyer54
I’m in Ohio (Jordan’s district unfortunately) and had my choice of a Butterball or Jennie-O Turkey for .77 cents a pound at a Dayton grocery yesterday. Bought a beauty (25 pounder) for $19.25 – biggest, and cheapest bird I EVER BOUGHT.
Mack
Do you really expect Jordan to be truthful? Has he ever been?
winemaker
Thanks to all the ignorant lemmings who voted for joey and ‘heels up’. harris, hope you’re satisfied as to what ‘s been happening for the last 9 months. Thanks to your foolishness, we all will have higher gas, food and other prices on everything. Under the liberals, you can count on higher and higher prices for everything as these fiscally incompetent fools have no concept of economics. Got an important question: .Just what have the liberals done for the the gay community, ( other than pander to us with the Republicans are bad yada, yada, yada, will take our rights away blah, n]blah, blah) and for that mater for the Latino and black communities as well? I’ll wait for a credible answer as to what these anti American slugs have done for anyone but themselves, too late ,answer: they’ve done ZIPPO for anyone but themselves. If you don’t believe this and need a clue, take a look at San Francisco, the one time gay mecca, jewel and gem of the Golden Gate that has become the ‘new doo doo’ capital of the USA and the calcutta, mogadishu, nairobi and port au prince of the west coast. This isn’t political, this is about America and a better future for everyone, both gay and straight.
BaltoSteve
Coming to the defense of the Party that has been trying to repackage trickle down economics as a viable system while continuing to try and cut tax revenues at every turn and NEVER do a thing about spending, so we as a country have to continue to borrow money. That’s some of the funniest bit of ignorance I’ve seen in a while. And to top it off, how cute, you blame Capitalism on the current administration. As if Biden is in control of the Free Market. Isn’t that anathema to the GOP, restricting and regulating the free market?
Kangol2
Winemaker, I don’t think you’ve been to Mogadishu, because if you had, you’d NEVER compare San Francisco or any other US city to it. I’ll also add that it is a libertarian paradise on many levels, which is what people in your anti-gay GOP often claim to want, limited government, lots of guns everywhere, corporations armed to the teeth, etc. I get that you want a San Francisco operating as it did in its golden age, but cities change and SF, which is the largest city in one of the richest and most economically productive parts of the US (Silicon Valley and California in general are major engines of the US and global economy), will unfortunately never go back to what it was. And it certainly won’t do so under the control or aegis of the GOP, which does zilch economically or politically for regular Americans!
Den
Ah, whinemaker, whinemaker, whinemaker… too dull to even understand what causes price fluctuationa and what effect the President does or does not have on it. Too dull to get the irony of supporting a sexual predator, serial adulterer and pathological liar and yet impugning our legally elected vice president for minor past actions.
As for what the Democratic party has done for the gay community, no other question more clearly labels you as a heterosexual right winger mistaking your lies as truth. A better question is what has the Republican party ever done for LGBT people throughout their entire history, and what has the Republican party done for people of color since the 1960’s? Or how about, why does the Republican party try repeatedly to advance statewide voting restrictions that are clearly designed to make it more difficult for people of color, poor people, students, and others to vote based on the undeniable lie of voter fraud?
And as someone who actually lives in SF (God only knows where a liar like you actually lives, and nobody really cares), what has transformed SF into a city that shares many contemporary problems with other modern cities is its geographical limits (certainly a huge contributor to the housing crisis), its current state as a playground for transient libertarian high tech types who have no actual allegiance to this town (it is just one more two year stopover between Seattle or Atlanta or wherever).
And it hilarious to see you bring up economics. The Republican economic cult of Supply Side (trickle down) has been laughed at by the overwhelming majority of economists that has driven the redistribution of wealth in this country. You right wingers are dull and transparent, and if you are gay you are also a tool!
Mr. Stadnick
This a just a self serving smoke screen so no one talks about his support for the January 6th attempted coup d’etat.