“Thousands of Moroccan migrants again attempt to enter …”
Summary:
Bill Maher pulls the numbers on whether Gen Z is really suffering an affordability crisis.
He starts with the $20 burrito, then compares their net worth to previous generations. The numbers are staggering.
MAHER: “Have you heard about Burrito Gate? … A student had commented… a burrito shouldn’t cost $20.”
“It shouldn’t cost $20 because it doesn’t. It costs $20 because this kid factored in somebody bringing it to him in an Uber.”
[Audience groans]
“You can get one for $2, and you could buy it in the supermarket. And somebody said they feed a family of eight on $20 by buying ingredients like we used to do.”
“This is from the Fed. Okay, two-thirds of Americans consider groceries to be unaffordable. Maybe they are, but wages rose in the last decade, including the pandemic, 46%. Food prices rose 34%. So wages outpaced them by the numbers.”
“What we spend on food at the beginning of the last century, it was 42% of the budget, and then you go through the years, 1965, it was down to 15%. Now it’s under 10%, but including eating out more.”
“Also, Gen Z, I never realized this until people started writing about it. As they reach their late 20s now, they’re getting much richer than Gen X was. Millennials and Gen Z at age 30, their net worth is around $118,000.”
“Gen X’s was $53,000, like half of that. But Gen X never complained. You gotta love Gen X. They are the quietest f*cking church mice.”
SIDE NOTE: I will say that housing and rent prices are too damn high. But that also doesn’t discount the fact that kids these days are way too entitled and think they deserve to have food delivered AND have it be affordable. If you want convenience, it’s gonna cost you. Don’t complain when you’re on a budget and too lazy to make the burrito yourself for 1/10th the price.
https://x.com/VigilantFox/status/2088463828308705352?
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BILL MAHER IS CRUSHING THE DEMS LATELY…WITH HIS MOSTLY LEFT LEANING AUDIANCE IN SUPPORT HE IS A HUGE ASSET FOR CONSERVATIVES IMHO
We’ve gone so far beyond any previous level of lawfare, we’ve passed words like “historic” and reached a state of surreal parody. It seems that every single thing the President does must be battled in court. Challenge accepted.
JEFF CHILDERS
SEE COMMENT SECTION FOR TODAYS REPORT…STAND BY
The Italian institute now lists NIH-funded research in its own procurement records, including work on vaccines and monoclonal antibodies for potential pandemic viruses.
https://nataliegwinters.substack.com/p/exclusive-fauci-joined-a-foreign
A large part of the mainstream press no longer seems to believe that its primary responsibility is to report what happened, present competing arguments fairly, investigate the powerful and allow readers to reach their own conclusions. Increasingly, journalists have assigned themselves a different job. They aren’t merely reporting on society. They are helping society move toward what they believe it ought to become.
A major British telecoms giant is supplying thousands of free SIM cards loaded with six months of data to a charity that hands them out to illegal migrants arriving in the UK via boats, it has been revealed.
The charity Care4Calais has distributed more than 162,000 items to nearly 30,000 people, including 2,221 Vodafone SIM cards, 3,765 hoodies, 3,532 pairs of joggers, 1,174 T-shirts, 1,173 Ramadan food packs around Calais, 2,770 cold-weather “snug packs,” and 1,169 weatherproof garments.
Reform UK’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf has accused Vodafone of “facilitating the invasion of Britain”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/why-are-they-getting-free-sht
Millions of phones across England and Wales blared a sudden siren on Friday evening as the government unleashed its emergency alert system over ‘wildfire risk’.
What followed was a wave of neighbour-on-neighbour reporting that left fire services and police inundated with non-emergency calls about barbecues in gardens and parks.
Russia says 600 Ukrainian drones hit Moscow overnight. Over 200 intercepted near the capital. Fires at a Wildberries warehouse in Podolsk, casualties in Moscow and Rostov regions.
Do you understand what quietly happened in Kentucky tonight..
Mitch McConnell spent 41 years building the most powerful Republican machine in the Senate..
he blocked nominees.. killed legislation.. outlasted six presidents.. and bent the entire GOP caucus to his will for four decades..
and the moment he stepped back..
Trump walked in on May 1st.. endorsed Andy Barr.. offered the only real rival an ambassadorship.. and the rival dropped out the same week..
> Cameron — the man who was supposed to carry McConnell’s network forward — entered with a polling lead.. raised money.. had the name recognition.. had the Christian conservative base..
> Barr had none of that early.. until Trump made one phone call and one diplomatic offer..
> Cameron finished at 30%.. Barr won with 60%..
> the seat McConnell held since 1984 flipped to a Trump loyalist in a single primary night..
> the first open Kentucky Senate seat in 42 years.. decided by an endorsement and an ambassadorship..
every single establishment figure watching this tonight told their donors “the McConnell network is durable”.. every single one assumed the old machine had enough infrastructure to survive his retirement..
it didn’t survive a single election cycle..
not a scandal.. not a Democrat.. not a generational shift..
one endorsement.. one ambassadorship offer.. and 41 years of political infrastructure collapsed in an evening..
the quiet part nobody is saying out loud.. Trump didn’t just win a primary tonight.. he erased the last internal friction point inside the Senate Republican caucus without a single floor vote..
it’s only getting quieter from here..
https://x.com/Tironianae/status/2088734154187796487
LOTS OF DEAD SENATE RINOS
Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) – retiring.
Thom Tillis (North Carolina) – retiring.
Joni Ernst (Iowa) – retiring.
Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming) – retiring.
Steve Daines (Montana) – retiring.
Alan Armstrong (Oklahoma) – retiring
Bill Cassidy (Louisiana )-lost primary
John Cornyn ( Texas )- lost primary
and don’t forget this Dead Rino
Mitt Romney
My Guess is once the New Senate is sworn in in Jan 27 they will remove John Thune as Leader and install
a Trump Guy
PS..Likely the reason Trump is not going after Thune right now is he needs His war chest to be used to help Elect his guys in these open seats . Then …Kaboom
PROMETHIAN ACTION 15 MIN MUST SEE !!
https://eddowdbeyondthenarrative.substack.com/p/us-disabilities-hit-an-all-time-high
CTH is for the comments, not just Sundance
‘Variety of different options’ are on the table if Democrats regain power, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries says
If you bought gold during its 2023-2026 rally, you may be sitting on a large profit and a tax rule you have never heard of. The IRS classifies physical gold, and even the popular bullion-backed gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs), as collectibles, a category shared with art, stamps, and antiques. That classification changes the tax bill when you sell. Most holders discover it at the worst possible moment: after the sale, when nothing can be done.
Here is the rule to understand before you sign anything.
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/gold-tax-surprise-when-gold-profits-get-taxed-28-percent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgbzdk-eqJ0
h/t a Lert bear
John Campbell, Ph.D., said Moderna’s clinical trial reported substantially higher rates of adverse reactions among people who received its new mRNA flu vaccine than among those who received a standard flu vaccine. He also questioned why the FDA approved the vaccine one year after HHS announced a federal wind-down of mRNA vaccine development.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/18LJLiRF6C/?mibextid=wwXIfr
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19Rx6hSgLu/?mibextid=wwXIfr
If you are focused on defending the Antifa furry that murdered Charlie, instead of fighting the Globalist death-cult trying to replace the American People and implement a global one-party rule, you need to unfuck yourself immediately and reorient your priorities.
You and your liberties are under attack. Your way of life is in jeopardy. You are at war, whether you recognize it or not.
It’s long past time for everyone to start acting like it. Stop focusing on unimportant shit, ( like $10 more for a fill up ) and focus on the mission.
CLANDESTINE
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(OR perhaps much of the developed Western World. It is an important part of life to understand what those of different views are saying.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/escobar-new-great-game-revisited
In a matter of days, once-pristine beaches in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta have been reduced to open-air dumps and disease-ridden camps occupied by thousands of illegal migrants who refused to leave after the mass invasion from Morocco.
Locals describe feces, urine, garbage, and makeshift shacks covering the sand. Contagious illnesses are spreading. Mass brawls with bladed weapons have broken out.
What was a quiet coastal stretch has become a third-world encampment on European soil.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/it-was-destroyed-just-days
Also at Reuters but paywalled
