WELL, GOOD: Healthy Lifestyle May Stave Off Dementia.
WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF HATE? For Passover and Good Friday, NYT essayist writes about ‘killing’ ‘hateful God.’
UPDATE: Good Friday: NBC’s Today Show Chats With Leftist in ‘Thank God for Abortion’ Shirt.
21ST CENTURY EMPLOYMENT: I’m a professional baby namer: Rich parents pay me $10K to do it for them.
TALES FROM THE REALITY-BASED COMMUNITY: Lady Glues Herself to the Court During an NBA Game, Because That’s How You Save Chickens.
BE PREPARED: Augason Farms Breakfast and Dinner Variety Pail Emergency Food Supply. #CommissionEarned
CHANGE? Pennsylvania state Senate passes bills banning ballot drop boxes, Zuckerbucks. “Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) opposes both Senate bills, but his office did not indicate whether he would veto them, according to Pittsburgh’s NPR News Station. He previously vetoed a bill that allowed only the secretary of the commonwealth to receive the funds and distribute them equally across counties.”
IT’S GOOD TO BE THE NOMENKLATURA: Maxine Waters pays daughter another $24,000 in campaign cash, adding to $1.2M in previous payments.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Plasma ejections from the sun could cause damage on Earth, scientists say.
JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO SAUDI ARABIA WAS THE DEVIL:
CUT UP SOME FALLEN LIMBS WITH MY ELECTRIC CHAINSAW — I have this one, — and it occurred to me that although it’s effective, quiet, and easy to use, the quietness almost makes it more dangerous. A gas-powered chainsaw sounds dangerous, while this just whirrs along. But it went through an 8″ branch like butter and I’m sure it would go through a leg just as easily. I wonder if the quietness and smoothness of electric cars lulls people into a false sense of security, too?
I also feel more manly when I use a gas-powered chainsaw, but they’re more trouble to store and put to work and put away. I used to have a little Poulan but I gave it away years ago to a friend who needed one more.
VIDEO: Is China Screwed?
A few highlights:
They were going shrink in half by 2100. “Then they realized that they had been overcounting people for some time.” Then new data moved the date moved up to 2070.
And now they’re saying it will be 2050. “For that to be true, the Chinese would have overcounted the population by 100 million.” And all of those missing people are of childbearing age.
Their population actually peaked 15 years ago.
Much more at the link.
AT THE VERY LEAST, A LOT OF PEOPLE MOST EVERYWHERE ARE SHIFTING AWAY FROM BIDEN: Is New York Shifting Red?
I’M GOING WITH NO: Can KT Tunstall Resurrect the White House Correspondents’ Dinner?
DOING THE JOB MOST AMERICAN PRESIDENTS WON’T DO: Abbott, Mexican governor reach agreement to secure part of Texas-Mexico border.
TAMARA KEEL: A Higher Power: FN America updates a classic pistol. “I’m not sure when the last clean-sheet-of-paper, all-metal, hammer-fired pistol intended for the American commercial market happened.”
THE REVOLT AGAINST THE MASSES: The Leftist Media Is Unglued Over Possible Elon Musk ‘Free Speech’ Twitter Takeover.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE: Mask mandates are back on campus. But they go against CDC guidance.
NOW: Real Wages Plummet Nearly 3% Due To Inflation.
Then: Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years.
I could sure use some mean tweets right about now.
HITLER THOUGHT THE WEST WAS WEAK AND DECADENT, TOO. NAPOLEON THOUGHT THE BRITISH WERE A NATION OF SHOPKEEPERS: “The Russian conservative elites currently in power supported war because they see Western power as decadent and declining.”
They may even be right, but that doesn’t mean the West is too weak and decadent to kick their ass.
NEW YORK MAGAZINE: Say, where did all that Black Lives Matter money go, anyway?
Black Lives Matter’s leadership had hoped to keep the house’s existence a secret. Documents, emails, and other communications I’ve seen about the luxury property’s purchase and day-to-day operation suggest that it has been handled in ways that blur, or cross, boundaries between the charity and private companies owned by some of its leaders. It creates the impression that money donated to the cause of racial justice has been spent in ways that benefit the leaders of Black Lives Matter personally.
On March 30, I asked the organization questions about the house, which is known internally as “Campus.” Afterward, leaders circulated an internal strategy memo with possible responses, ranging from “Can we kill the story?” to “Our angle — needs to be to deflate ownership of the property.” The memo includes bullet points explaining that “Campus is part of cultural arm of the org — potentially as an ‘influencer house,’ where abolition+ based content is produced by artists & creatives.” Another bullet is headed “Accounting/990 modifications” and reads in part: “need to first make sure it’s legally okay to use as we plan to use it.” The memo also describes the property as a “safehouse” for leaders whose safety has been threatened. The two notions — that the house is simultaneously a confidential refuge and a place for broadcasting to the widest possible audience — are somewhat in tension. The memo notes: “Holes in security story: Use in public YT videos.”
Related: Black Lives Matter used donations to buy $6 million Southern California home: report. Plus: Inside BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ million-dollar real estate buying binge.
BLM = Buy Large Mansions.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: ‘Censorship is free speech’ is the establishment’s Orwellian line on Elon Musk’s Twitter crusade. “‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ is the motto of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post. It may sound like a warning, but more and more it seems like a summary of the left’s aspirations to control debate and shut down any opposition.”
My editor especially liked the end.
Media figures everywhere are openly complaining that they dislike the Musk move because they’re terrified he will censor people less. Bullet-headed neoconservative fussbudget Max Boot was among the most emphatic in expressing his fear of a less-censored world. . . .
In every newsroom I’ve ever been around, there’s always one sad hack who’s hated by other reporters but hangs on to a job because he whispers things to management and is good at writing pro-war editorials or fawning profiles of Ari Fleischer or Idi Amin or other such distasteful media tasks. Even that person would never have been willing to publicly say something as gross as, “For democracy to survive, it needs more censorship”! A professional journalist who opposed free speech was not long ago considered a logical impossibility, because the whole idea of a free press depended upon the absolute right to be an unpopular pain in the ass.
Things are different now, of course, because the bulk of journalists no longer see themselves as outsiders who challenge official pieties, but rather as people who live inside the rope-lines and defend those pieties. I’m guessing this latest news is arousing special horror because the current version of Twitter is the professional journalist’s idea of Utopia: a place where Donald Trump doesn’t exist, everyone with unorthodox thoughts is warning-labeled (“age-restricted” content seems to be a popular recent scam), and the Current Thing is constantly hyped to the moronic max. The site used to be fun, funny, and a great tool for exchanging information. Now it feels like what the world would be if the eight most vile people in Brooklyn were put in charge of all human life, a giant, hyper-pretentious Thought-Starbucks.
Heh.
DEAL OF THE DAY: Dual Dash Cam with Built-in GPS. #CommissionEarned
THE NYT HEADLINE WILL CALL THIS A “GROUNDSWELL OF OPPOSITION:” Around a Dozen People Show Up to Campaign Event for Ron DeSantis Opponent.
BECAUSE WE FINALLY LEARNED THE EXTENT OF GROOMING, AND INSTEAD OF GROOMERS CRAWLING FAR AWAY FROM SOCIETY, THEY BECAME CELEBRATED BY LEFTIES LIKE THE AUTHOR OF THIS PIECE: Why So Many Conservatives Are Talking About ‘Grooming’ All Of A Sudden.
CORN POOP: Is This the Dumbest Fact Check Ever?
NARRATIVE MANAGEMENT: Why You Won’t Be Hearing Much More About (Alleged) Subway Shooter Frank R. James. “This is the wrong sort of lunatic for the mainstream media’s taste. He doesn’t help them politically. A guy who looks like that is supposed to be a victim, not an aggressor. So they’ll find a way to either excuse it or dismiss it, and then they’ll get back to maligning their preferred enemies. Remember when that maniac in an SUV plowed down a bunch of old ladies and children at a Christmas parade in Wisconsin last year? It might as well have been 100 years ago. The libs couldn’t blame it on Trump or his supporters, so they’ve all moved on. And they’ll move on from this attack as well.”
Related: Media downplays accused Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James’ hatred of whites. “Just as they did with Darrell Brooks, the man charged with driving through a Wisconsin Christmas parade, the press is eager to bury a black suspect’s anti-white statements and ignore them as a possible motivation.”
AND THERE IS STILL SOME: Our Culture, What There Is of It.
MAYBE THEY OUGHT THINK ABOUT GETTING ASTRONAUTS TO THE MOON? NASA testing futuristic spacesuits that keep astronauts safe on the moon.
Okay, never mind. Musk will.
YOU’RE NOT ALLOWED TO REPEAT OUR CRAZY! Today’s blacklisted American: Twitter blocks Libs of Tik Tok for the crime of reposting actual leftist statements.
ECONOMICS CAN’T BE IGNORED: We Told You So.
It can’t be gentled. It can’t be wished away. Contrary to what they taught yo in school, it’s a hard science. And the equations are always cold. Only fools and communists believe otherwise.
ANOTHER GAME CHANGER: Trump’s civil RICO suit against Hillary Clinton.
GAME CHANGER: The Moskva.
AND EVEN SO IT’S INFLATED: Joe Biden’s public approval craters to 33% — and it’s about to get worse.
MOSTLY HE’S CRAZY LIKE A FOX: Maybe Donald Trump wasn’t crazy to endorse Dr. Oz.
UNFORTUNATELY REGULATORS: Is There Anyone Taking This Green Energy Transition Thing Seriously?
STAGNAFLATION: Federal Reserve: Raise Interest Rates To “Curtail Growth”.
WOULDN’T IT BE NICE IF WE HAD IMPARTIAL DATA COLLECTION? Does Vaccination Make You MORE Likely to Catch Covid?
THE DELOS D. HARRIMAN WE NEEDED: Elon Musk Offers to Buy Twitter for $43 Billion: ‘Best and Final Offer’.
LESLIE FISH HAS WRITTEN A SONG ABOUT IT: Ukraine Updates: Russian Warship Moskva Sinks After Fire and Explosions Onboard.
To the tune of Barrett’s Privateers….
ANYONE ELSE GETTING A FEELING RUSSIA JUST WANTS NUCLEAR DEPLOYMENT? Russia Threatens Nuclear Deployment if Sweden and Finland Join NATO.
OH, IF THAT’S GOING TO BE THE STANDARD… Some Democrats Reportedly Concerned Sen. Dianne Feinstein No Longer Mentally Fit to Serve.
Pelosi, Kamala, Biden, Sotto Mayor, whoever the critter is who thought Guam would tip over…. I mean, seriously? They’d lose an IQ contest with my cat, and this is the cat who has three brain cells. (Food, sleep, pets.)
April 14, 2022
THAT WOULD BE A BEARABLE LOSS: Report: Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal ‘in danger of losing his employees.’
OPEN THREAD: I swore it wouldn’t happen again.
This is the same SEC where the prosecutors are reading the files of the judges.
PROFESSOR CARRINGTON, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Solar storm could supercharge northern lights as far south as New York.
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: ‘Censorship is free speech’ is the establishment’s Orwellian line on Elon Musk’s Twitter crusade. “‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ is the motto of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post. It may sound like a warning, but more and more it seems like a summary of the left’s aspirations to control debate and shut down any opposition.”
My editor especially liked the end.
I DIDN’T KNOW THEY HAD SUVs 18,000 YEARS AGO: 18,000 Years Ago, The ‘Zealandia Switch’ Decimated Earth’s Glaciers. Has It Returned?
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Whistleblower Claims Rutgers Created Fake Jobs For Graduates To Goose Business School Ranking.
THE TOPIC WAS MEN WHO MENSTRUATE: In November 2019, they all laughed at Dennis Prager for saying what, in 2022, they all get mad at you for not saying.
Related (From Ed): Won’t Get Fooled By Groomers Again? “This is how it always, always goes with the Left, on sex stuff. It’s the Law of Merited Impossibility in action: ‘Men can’t menstruate, and when they can, you bigots will deserve it.’”
ARTEMIS/SLS WEST DRESS REHEARSAL UPDATE:
Teams concluded today’s wet dress rehearsal test at approximately 5:10 p.m. EDT after observing a liquid hydrogen (LH2) leak on the tail service mast umbilical, which is located at the base of the mobile launcher and connects to the rocket’s core stage. The leak was discovered during liquid hydrogen loading operations and prevented the team from completing the test.
Before ending the test, teams also met test objectives for the interim cryogenic propulsion stage by chilling down the lines used to load propellant into the upper stage. They did not flow any propellant to the stage because of an issue with a helium check valve identified several days ago.
When teams paused propellant loading, the rocket’s core stage liquid oxygen tank was about 49% filled and the liquid hydrogen tank had been loaded to about 5% capacity prior to the hydrogen leak.
Teams are now working to drain propellant from the rocket. They will inspect the umbilical connection, review data, and establish a go-forward plan to address the hydrogen leak.
Not much of a rehearsal, really.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A MUCH BIGGER BLOG: The Four Most Unhinged Responses to Elon Musk’s Offer to Buy Twitter.
PEOPLE PUSHING CRYPTO NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT GOVERNMENTS WILL PUSH BACK: Former Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Sentenced to 5+ Years in Prison for North Korea Trip.
Also, you’re not advancing liberty against tyranny by helping North Korea.
WHY IS THE LEFT SUCH A CESSPIT OF ABUSE? Democratic donor Ed Buck gets 30 years in prison for fetish deaths.
Even after two men were found dead in his California apartment, Ed Buck did not stop injecting gay men with walloping doses of methamphetamine.
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced him to 30 years in prison in the deaths of Gemmel Moore and Timothy Dean. Another man, Dane Brown, was repeatedly injected by Buck but survived and his harrowing account of being revived twice finally led to Buck’s arrest in 2019.
Buck, 67, a big dollar donor to Democratic, LGBTQ and animal rights causes, appeared in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for providing fatal doses of drugs, operating a drug den and enticing men to travel for prostitution. He was convicted last summer.
Flashback: John Nolte On Democrats’ Creepy Trio of Donors: Ed Buck, Terry Bean, and Jeffrey Epstein.
THE RNC JUST TOLD THE BIASED COMMISSION ON PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES TO SHOVE IT: “The [the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD)] has been plagued by accusations of left-wing bias for years. In 2012, debate moderator Candy Crowley infamously disputed Mitt Romney when he said that Barack Obama refused to call the Benghazi terrorist attack for two weeks. Crowley sided with Obama, claiming that he had, although Romney was indeed correct. The CPD has also faced accusations of personal conflict due to members’ close ties with Democrats. In 2016, several CPD board members had reportedly been Hillary Clinton donors.”
LIFE IN THE BLUE ZONES:
HEY, CHARLTON HESTON PLAYED HIM ON THE BIG SCREEN — ISN’T THAT ENOUGH? Moses Got Cheated Out Of Recognition On Passover.
THE BANNINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES: Twitter Punishes Libs Of Tik Tok For Daring To Expose Radical Leftism.
Essentially, Twitter deemed it illegal to amplify what gender-bending, Trump-hating, racist, groomer leftists have already revealed about themselves online.
Since its beginnings in November 2020, the “Libs of Tik Tok” account has amassed more than 613,000 followers on Twitter and gained rapid popularity on other platforms such as Instagram for cross-posting TikTok wokeness.
The account features nightmarish videos, pictures, and even exclusive looks at the left-wing radicalism in schools and other institutions, which it refers to as coming from the “Depths of Hell.” From advertisements for genital mutilation to critical race theory to pornographic library books, “Libs of Tik Tok” documents how U.S. public schools have become a breeding ground for progressive ideology.
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“Libs of Tik Tok” has been instrumental in helping parents understand the insane indoctrination occurring to their children every day, which is why Twitter wants to squash it under its authoritarian boot.
“[A] lot of parents are really getting awakened now. My account has been very influential on this, as well as other accounts and media outlets, in really showing parents what is going on in the schools that they otherwise wouldn’t know or realized. So I think that I do have a lot of hope for the future. And I think that we’re going to retake our school,” the “Libs of Tik Tok” creator told The Post Millenial last week. “…The average parent doesn’t want their six-year-old to be taught about pansexuals.”
Naturally, Twitter’s response is, “shut up.” Andrew Klavan’s evergreen video remains evergreen:
DON’T GET COCKY: Democrats face nightmare scenario, ‘biblical disaster.’
As Glenn has written, “If you want to win, donate and volunteer. Winning takes work, and commenting on Internet blogs, even this one, doesn’t count.”
IT WAS POORLY STITCHED TO BEGIN WITH: The Brooklyn Subway Attack Just Unraveled the Gun Control Argument Presented in NYSRPA v. Bruen. “Honest, hard-working people were going about their day in Brooklyn, headed to work. Thanks to the intransigence of their local and state governments, these people were completely disarmed, left to the mercy of someone who’d planned his attack to do the most damage possible. ‘First responders’ were too late to do anything about the shooting. They always are.”
Actually, Biden himself referred to civilians who gave first aid as first responders, but of course failed to take the obvious next step.
HMM: Tesla’s Texas Charger Grant Applications Fail; It’s Bad For Texas But Reveals Tesla’s Super-Low Costs. “A Texas program which gives grants to install fast EV chargers, as long as they support non-Tesla TSLA cars got applications by Tesla. This was a first for Tesla in the USA, as their stations normally only charge Tesla cars. Also interesting is the amounts of the grants, which can cover 70% of the cost of the chargers, to a maximum of $150,000 per charger. Tesla’s applications ask for as little as $30,000 per charger, while most other applications are claiming the maximum $150,000 and perhaps cost even more.”
PROTECT YOUR EYES: Polarized Sunglasses for Driving. #CommissionEarned
A MASSIVE TRANSFER OF WEALTH TO THE WEALTHY: Schumer Says Biden ‘More Open’ to Canceling Student Debt by Executive Action.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Colorado Wants to Fine Schools $25K a Month That Don’t Drop Indian Mascots.
Why does the left want to toss Native Americans down the memory hole?
SPACEX’S STARSHIP: America’s Secret Weapon. “Dual-use technologies always turn into weapons.”
FROM THE IEEE: Including IEEE in Your Estate Plans Can Make A Difference.
From me: Including Glenn Reynolds in your estate plans can make a difference! Uh, certainly for me. Which is just like IEEE. . .
SO INSTAPUNDIT HAS ROUGHLY 50 TIMES THE AUDIENCE OF CNN+ I GUESS:
To be fair, I don’t have Chris Wallace.
JIM TREACHER: Elon Musk Seems Like a Cool Guy and Maybe He’ll Hire Me at Twitter. “Libs don’t want us expressing our honest opinions, because then it’s a lot tougher to control us. And they hate being ridiculed because, as Saul Alinsky noted decades ago, there’s no defense against it. If you make a joke about Richard Levine being a man — which he is, because that’s how chromosomes work and everybody knows it — libs will panic and try to silence you. In their minds, they have no choice. The truth is just too dangerous. Elon Musk is standing up for the Babylon Bee, wielding his astonishing fortune like a giant spiked baseball bat, and it’s a modern liberal’s worst nightmare. Tee-hee!”
LIVE AT 3 P.M. EASTERN: ‘Five O’Clock Somewhere’ with Kruiser, VodkaPundit, Special Guest.
I MEAN SURE, MAYBE… The Twitterati are taking this whole “possible free speech” thing super well and I, for one, am glad they are the people who set the agenda for our public discussion.
SHOCKING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF SCIENCE: Family structure associated with delinquency for adolescents. “Adolescents living in single-father, single-mother, father-stepmother and mother-stepfather families report more delinquency than those living with both their parents.”
THE GOVERNMENT PLOT TO KIDNAP A GOVERNOR: Inside the FBI’s infiltration and entrapment of a Michigan militia crew.
The FBI got walloped last week when a Michigan jury concluded that the bureau had entrapped two men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Those men and others were arrested a few weeks before the 2020 election in a high-profile, FBI-fabricated case that Joe Biden claimed showed President Trump’s “tolerance of hate, vengeance, and lawlessness to plots such as this one.” But the jury verdict exposes how the feds have created the monsters they parade to vindicate their vast power over Americans.
Michigan was a swing state in the 2020 election. When the arrests were announced, Whitmer speedily denounced Trump for inciting “domestic terrorism.”
Biden won the 2020 election because of the early voting, and the Michigan kidnapping plot was one of the biggest stories in October 2020. Prior to the presidential election, Attorney General Bill Barr assured that news did not leak about multiple federal investigations into Hunter Biden. But the FBI felt no such constraints and trumpeted a ludicrous scheme that was shot down even by a jury that a federal judge had largely blindfolded. . . .
It was all a setup. Shortly before that excursion, an FBI agent texted instructions to Chapel: “Mission is to kill the governor specifically.” There were as many FBI informants and undercover agents as there were purported plotters in this case.
The conspiracy began unraveling even before the trial began last March.
From tech companies to the FBI, every single part of the establishment dedicated itself to ensuring that Biden was installed.
Related: The ‘cabal’ that bragged of foisting Joe Biden on us must answer for his failed presidency.
JON GABRIEL: We Can No Longer Afford to Be ‘Respectable.’
Perhaps if you’ve made a lot of money, sold a lot of books, need to curry favor with media moguls, and have grown accustomed to a certain level of material wealth and social influence, these attacks spook you. After all, you have to pay for the house, the cabin, and your kids’ private school.
Or you’re less materialistic yet thrive on the speaking invites, conferences, and Beltway social connections. You think the primary goal of life is to be “nice” and “respectable.” Abandoning that belief horrifies you.
The rest of us no longer care about being respected, especially by people who despise us. We expect the insults, the bad-faith arguments, and attempts at cancellation. When attacked on social media, the only passion I can gin up is clicking the “mute” button.
Read the whole thing.
OUT ON A LIMB: Rent Control in St. Paul Totally Backfired and Hurt the Poor, Study Reveals.
Thomas Sowell, call your office!
IF MEN WERE LESS SATISFIED, WE’D BE TOLD IT WAS BECAUSE OF MALE ENTITLEMENT: Study underscores gap in sexual satisfaction for men, women. And that they should “man up” and look after their own needs or do without.
On the one hand, I’m sure plenty of men could raise their game. On the other hand, millions of women don’t know where their own vagina is located.
ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Democrat Operatives Warn Joe Biden Will Have 2024 Primary Challenger.
That should be fun: “[M]ost of the time, presidents who fend off a primary challenge wind up losing the general election. Here’s a look back at the major primary challenges against presidents in the modern era.”
NO: Fauci Fanboys on Chinese-style Lockdowns, Admits Real Purpose of Lockdowns. “Well, China has a number of problems, two of which are that the complete lockdown — which was their approach — a strictest lockdown you’d never be able to implement in the United States. Although that prevents the spread of infection — I remember early on they were saying, and I think accurately, that they were doing better than anyone else.”
STRANGERS IN A NORMAL LAND: WaPo Mounts Another Expedition To Darkest Redstate Texas.
WAR ON THE MIDDLE CLASS: Howie Carr: Biden out to empty your pockets.
Putin’s price hikes! Putin’s price hikes! Putin’s price hikes!
No matter how many times Dementia Joe Biden and his caregivers at the White House try to blame out-of-control inflation on the bogeyman du jour, not even low-info Democrat voters seem to be buying into this week’s Big Lie from Deep State media.
It’s all on Brandon, these “extraordinarily elevated” increases in the consumer price index, as Jen Psaki, his fork-tongued flack with the gasoline-colored hair, put it on Monday.
Tuesday’s headline: “Inflation surges 8.5% in March, hitting a new 40-year high.” . . .
What follows are just a few of this week’s stories about what are no longer the “unexpected” disasters being inflicted on the American population by Dementia Joe Biden and his regime.
From 339: “Good news: gas at Cumberland Farms is down to $3.84 from $3.86. So instead of paying $48 to fill up it’s now $47.50.”
From 603: “Market Basket Bedford NH had ZERO ground turkey today. Always have a bunch of it.”
Bruce: “Don’t forget shrinkflation. I bought a bag of air today and they threw in a few potato chips at the bottom of the bag.”
Speaking of which, when was the last time you saw a “pound” of bacon? A “pound” of coffee now generally runs around 11 ounces. Do they even sell half-gallons of ice cream anymore – even the store brands? The ever-diminishing packages remind me of that old country song about divorce: “I can’t afford to half my half again.”
From 617: “We’re renovating our bathroom. The price just keeps going up as lumber and other materials increase in price. The corner beads cost $5 when we bought them last year. Now they’re $14.”
Among Deplorables, Whole Foods has long been derided as “Whole Paycheck.” But its core constituency — the non-working classes — don’t care, because who worries about money if you’re just living off Uncle Sam or your trust fund.
But things are getting so bad that even the rich wokesters who patronize Whole Foods are beginning to feel the pinch. Consider this report last week from Politico on the results of a Democrat focus group:
“A woman from the Boston area who went first mentioned rising gas and food prices, food shortages at her local Whole Foods, and the increasing cost of housing. ‘It just seems like everything is going up, and there’s no end in sight,’ she said.”
From Boston, and she shops at Whole Foods! Hmmm, I wonder who this moonbat voted for in 2020. Truly, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh at her plight. Perhaps she can demand a raise at the nonprofit where she works (from home of course because … the Panic).
That’s the thing. Even in the Great Depression, most people had jobs. But inflation hits nearly everyone, and the impact is hard for the government to hide.
Plus:
Of course Republicans are seizing, pouncing, weaponizing all these developments. So the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) are accusing any GOP politicians who dare mention the calamity that is Biden of being “fully in lockstep” with Putin.
That was exactly the phrase one of Biden’s payroll patriots used Tuesday to describe Sen. Rick Scott of Florida when he pointed out the crushing effect of deranged Democrat demagoguery on the working classes.
So GOP Congressman felt compelled to point out that, according to recent polls, more than 60% of the American public blames Biden for their economic plight. In other words, close to two-thirds of the American electorate are “fully in lockstep” with Putin.
“That should work well in the midterms,” the Congressman said.
Ouch.
Related: Don’t pretend that high prices and American suffering are a ‘bug’ for the establishment — it’s a historic feature. “Sh*t is so fake that the minute an outsider took office we got cheap gas, cheap food, became energy independent, no wars and focused on our country’s own issues. Establishment hacks get back in and we have inflation, medical tyranny, world war 3, need to take a mortgage for gas.”
AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING! JustTheNews digs deeper into the Hunter Biden files (you know, the ones everyone told us was Russian disinformation) and finds yet more shady sh*t:
“[M]emos gathered by the FBI show, the charitable discussions evolved into an expanding relationship between Hunter Biden and Chinese energy giant CEFC to include business deals that would eventually reap the Biden family millions of dollars.”
For those who think this is nothing, and has no bearing on the President, you need only answer ONE question to shut me up:
WHO IS “THE BIG GUY” WHO GETS HIS 10%?
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