This Thanksgiving in the New Normal
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. This special Thursday edition marks Thanksgiving for our American friends
Happy Turkey Day
1. Grocery Gaslighting?
Have you noticed that groceries have been getting steadily more expensive for years?
Well, you’re wrong. They haven’t.
In fact, according to a report from NBC…
Thanksgiving dinner is historically affordable this year
Apparently the cost of a family feast this holiday season is the lowest since 1984*.
*After adjusting for inflation, and not including Covid-hit 2020.
They cite a new report from the American Farm Bureau Federation, which claims that the average price of a family dinner for ten people this Thanksgiving is $58 (£45). Just about 6 dollars per person.
That’s insane. You can maybe get a turkey for half that in the UK, if you go as cheap as possible.
But it gets even dumber. To quote the report…
“If your dollar had the same overall purchasing power as a consumer in 1984 … this would be the least expensive Thanksgiving meal in the 39-year history of the AFBF Thanksgiving survey, other than the outlier of 2020,”
Which is technically true I suppose…only, your dollar doesn’t have the same overall purchasing power as it did in 1984 does it?
Its one of the few ways our current world doesn’t resemble 1984.
The purchasing power of the dollar is what makes things cost what they cost. Food hasn’t got more expensive because apples are rarer or turkeys have unionised and demanded fairer wages.
“If food were cheaper dinner would cost less” is up there with the dumbest sentences ever reported in the news.
2. Bird Flu Season
And while we’re on the subject of food being expensive, let’s discuss one of the reasons for that ever-increasing cost of living: Bird flu.
Or rather, fake bird flu pandemics trying to scare people into going vegan and massively inflating the cost of poultry and eggs. The terrifying H5N1 bird flu – which has infected fewer than 1000 people in the last 30 years – is back in the news this week, just in time for the holidays.
You can expect a longer-form piece on this in the coming week but, for now, let’s limit ourselves to the Thanksgiving-related content.
The Sacramento Bee is asking…
Is it safe to eat turkey this Thanksgiving amid bird flu outbreak?
…before grudgingly answering “yes” after about 900 words on the danger of bird flu.
The San Francisco Chronicle goes the same way, headlining…
Bird flu is spreading in California. What does that mean for your Thanksgiving turkey?
…and again concluding, “Yeah it’s fine.”
WebMD does the same thing
There are a ton of these articles out there, and none of them need to exist. People don’t need to ask these questions, it’s just so much cultivated anxiety.
It makes me sad. People just want to have a nice day, and they are being bombarded with fear porn for no reason at all.
3. Divide and conquer
Having successfully campaigned to divide society along race, gender, and orientation fault lines, the powers that be are moving to divide families along political lines.
The trend on social media – especially among liberals – is to publicly declare that they are “cutting off” their wrong-side-voting family, and refusing to invite them to, or accept invitations from them, for thanksgiving dinner.
Too many outlets to name are fueling this fire (here’s one, two, three, four, five for a start). It’s a familiar method – this is not a trend being reported on, it’s a trend being manufactured by pretending it already exists.
I’m old enough to remember 2021 and 2022 when the undesirables at Thanksgiving and Christmas weren’t Trump voters, but the unvaccinated and “Covid deniers”.
The messaging was the same, only the labels were different.
Disagreements are final. No discussion. No agreeing to disagree. No compromises. Anyone who doesn’t share your values and opinions to the last syllable is irredeemably evil.
No happy families. Families are bad.
BONUS: Cranberry Bye Bye
An old story with a new Thanksgiving twist. we’ve reported, many times, on programs in the UK and the US that pay farmers to “rewild” farmland in the name of saving the environment.
Well, this year the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is launching a scheme that will pay farmers millions in government grants to convert cranberry farms back into wetlands in order to mitigate the “climate crisis”.
What We’re Thankful for…
So, with all the bad stuff going on in the world, what is there to be thankful for?
Personally, I’m thankful for my cat. He’s sleeping next to me as I type this with dumb little paws up in the air. I’m thankful for the home that keeps me warm and the family that keeps me company.
I’m thankful for memes that make us laugh:
I’m thankful for Kamala Harris’ first video since losing the (s)election, and I’m thankful to the person who made this edit of it…
Kamala Harris finally breaks her silence after election loss 😂😂
— Sean (@Xcellent78) November 27, 2024
I’m thankful for great art that entertains and inspires, like our weekend movie recommendations A Man For All Seasons (1965), The Edge (1998), and Barton Fink (1991)
And, last but not least, we’re all thankful for our readers and supporters.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
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All told a pretty hectic Thanksgiving week for the new normal crowd, and we didn’t even mention the carbon footprint of your dinner or how sweet potato pie is a symbol of black resistance.
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“rewild”. That’s a new one for me. In my 11 years as a wetland restoration professional, never heard it. Never used it. In the Trump-Rogan 3 hour rambling conversation it was clear that Trump has no appreciation for wetlands. Given that 95% of them have been lost to development, it is no wonder that so many of our natural lakes and rivers have turned into polluted shit holes. Restoring cranberry farms into their former wetlands would be a good thing. I would be willing to pay extra for my cranberries. A couple of the wetlands we managed actually had native populations of cranberries. We were excited with a good feeling. A remnant population that managed to avoid extirpation after the glaciers began retreating 12,000 years ago. But I still don’t think the entire American farming industry should be shut down and restored into the natural areas they once were. People were already disturbing them thousands of years before Europeans arrived.
I must add afterwards that I misunderstood Hitler’s words (due to the soft tone of my loudspeaker). He did not say, “Die Juden haben dieselbe Erfindung” (“The Jews have the same invention”), but, “Millionen haben dieselbe Empfindung” (“Millions have the same feeling”).
Too bad, it would have been too correct. But it makes no sense to talk about Jews at a harvest festival, given the fact that Hitler, contrary to all the lying “historians”, rarely spoke of Jews in public. But it is precisely these few quotes that are repeatedly dangled in front of our noses.
Like Illuminati has been sneaking chemicals into our food and water, they have also deliberately made all loudspeakers with a soft tone only when Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, and Obama speaks.
The concept is called “make believe”. By hearing a soft tone, you are made to believe these 4 guys are goody-goody Leaders.
There is so much incomprehensible suffering in the world. I am not talking about daily brutal and merciless black-on-white crime. The great suffering I am talking about here is that of a young German woman, an “infuencer”, or more precisely, a hedgehog whisperer, named Talitha Girnus. This is clearly a case of unhealed Weltschmerz!
What must the fragile heart of a human, or better, humanizing animal mother endure! The real star is her African pygmy hedgehog (technical name Atelerix albiventris) “Mr. Pokee”, whereby it must be said that the original so named animal star died, but a (possibly also several) successor took over his name.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7466197/The-world-happiest-hedgehog-Herbee.html
https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/living/story/cutest-hedgehog-internet-epic-adventures-66376480
Major outlets such as DailyMail, Yahoo, Buzzfeed, Forbes, Huffpost, People, Bild, GMA, Boredpanda, Travel+Leisure provided a platform for the fighter for multiracial hedgehog love. A local German artist with the assumed pseudonym Luke Greenstone produced a “Mr. Pokee Song” for her. But things turned out very differently than she had hoped:
“Hedgehogs are the new cats on social networks. Petfluencers earn money with photos of hedgehogs – in the garden among toy dinosaurs or bathing in the sink, prickly animals with glasses and hats. Backwards on the palm of your hand in front of a fjord in Norway. The button eyes. The snub nose! Millions of followers melt away Millions are enraptured, animal experts are horrified, because the animals are suffering.
Are hedgehogs the new cats? This is the question of all questions on social media. The number of people posting photos and videos of hedgehogs has skyrocketed to such an extent that there is talk of a veritable hedgehog hype. These people are called petfluencers. They create accounts for their animals on Instagram or TikTok and report on their lives. Often in the first person, because the humanization of animals is well received online.
Talitha Girnus currently runs what is probably the most successful hedgehog account far and wide, with 1.8 million followers on Instagram. Hedgehog photos, she says, helped her through a difficult time. “When Mr. Pokee came into my life, I had all these little moments of happiness that I wanted to share with the world.” Mr. Pokee has long since become her main job and her business. Talitha, who says she studied innovation management, sells hedgehog calendars, plush hedgehogs and hedgehog key rings in her online store.
What is ‘cute’ for some is difficult for others to accept. Hedgehogs are nocturnal wild animals. During the day they sleep, at night they move around, five kilometers is a piece of cake for them. Information from the World Society for the Protection of Animals: “We see the uncritical presentation of animal suffering content on social networks as a problem. In our opinion, it is basically almost impossible to offer a hedgehog an animal-friendly life.
Much of the content is obviously created during the day, which does not correspond to the biorhythm of these animals. Not to mention disguises. Or bathing. Both are not only absurd from the hedgehog’s point of view, but also torture and possibly life-threatening. Being repeatedly placed in a supine position, a position in which the animals are actually vulnerable to predators, means stress. The fatal ‘wobbly hedgehog syndrome’ only occurs in hedgehogs that are kept as pets.
If you don’t keep a hedgehog in a species-appropriate way, the animal risks dying early. Thumbs down for the hedgehog hype. Over the centuries, humans have learned to live in close association with these two animal species. But nocturnal wild animals in the living room? It is unlikely that the hedgehog petfluencers will take the criticism to heart. Talitha Girnus says: ‘There are many reasons for and against keeping a hedgehog as a pet.’ She herself has always listened to her heart and intuition when making such decisions. Does that also feel right for the hedgehog?”
What about this trend of everybody having to pay for places that are nice that used to be public property? ( Cinque Terra ( spelling?), Venice, lots of other places)..all in the name of ..saving the planet ofcourse
Venice is trying to save itself man!
I’ve lived in Venice for 8 years. Why are cruise ships still stopping here when they’ve been banned? | Euronews
The NEW New Normal is shortages of stuff to replace the stuff like Antimeny that we bluw up trying to destroy Ukraine and the Middle East.
https://youtu.be/kwWur61HV-Q?t=185
are they gaslighting the populace on a cellular level?
with such a sustained mental assaults on people, it wouldn’t be surprising that this could cause DNA damage, which is something they seem to pursue.
“What does that mean for your Thanksgiving turkey?”
being suffocated in a dumpster, or baked in hell i.e. oven.
lovely to be looked after by humans, isn’t it?!
STOP the mRNA SHOTS–NOW!A new network has formed to push this plan forward: northgroup.info”Northgroup is a new organization—really a network— that was initially composed of parliamentarians and medical professionals from 10 Northern European countries. Practically as soon as it formed, Australians signed on. Making it a NorthSouth group. Then Ireland. The US has joined and the network is expanding as I write.
Its purpose is to end the use of mRNA COVID vaccines.”
https://merylnass.substack.com/p/stop-the-mrna-shots-now
It is not just “mRNA”, asuming there is such a thing. Blood is at the core of the organism, and injecting almost anything into it is risky. Besides the freedom to harm yourself if you trust voodoo and propaganda, any enforced jab is totalitarianism and the ravenous exploitation of public wealth.
Over 225 years, there have been no worthwhile vaccines. -Dr. Susan Humphries in Dissolving Illusions (updated)
The shot works. As long as people protest against the shots, jabs and boosters, and write a lot of angry articles about them, the jabs work……………LOL. €€€€€ $$$$$. Cash!
By the way, this malignant pedo, who calls himself “Professor Dave” (a downright fanatical “atheist”, i.e. a member of the so-called “skeptic movement”, who in principle only believes in irrational number salad that will be completely refuted tomorrow), has once again thrown his freshly excreted brain shit at Ms. Hossenfelder. The video is particularly revealing about the corner in which he “politically locates” himself. Although he has twice as many subscribers as Hossenfelder, he is filled with envy and resentment, a typical indicator of psychopathy and narcissism. This honorless heap of “humanoid” waste even seriously praises the deadly genetically adulterated poison “vaccination” against “Covid” as scientific truth and therefore indispensable for humanity.
I myself tend to favor the Germanic type of woman. Women do indeed have a prominent position in Germanism. But what many Americans (such as that disgustingly slimy and smarmy man-hater Kyle Hunt) misunderstand or confuse is that this is not a perverted exaltation or worship of women, not a cult like the Jewish “feminism” brought upon us (which he actually advocates without obviously even registering it), but equality, because these women do not require and demand Anglo-American chatterboxes, but whole men who can get down to business. An unreliable Anglo-American will not last long next to such a woman.
A German man doesn’t blather on about pseudomaniacal “goddesses” all day long. Germans may be romantics, but they’re not slimeballs. “My name is Anja and I teach urban and suburban families old-fashioned skills and heritage homemaking practices for a simpler, more meaningful, and sustainable living in a natural home. It all goes back to growing up in Germany and learning how my grandparents were doing so many things in their kitchen, their home, and their garden.” In contrast to Rose aka Pam, she is no arrogant un-instinctive psycho witch, but a tough warrior of the household. At least in the original version. It seems that Anja only really became German in America, otherwise she wouldn’t have emigrated there.
Anglo American? Don’t lump us together. American= gushy, positive. English= cold, factual
“The fears of the mother live on in the child.’ … (anon) …
About 20 years ago, I used to work with an ex-journalist who told me that when it was a quiet news day they would put bird flu on the front page which, luckily for me, gave me a heads up for all the nonsense to come in the UK press.
https://www.thecanary.co/opinion/2024/11/28/covid-mask/
“Covid isn’t over and my wife just doesn’t care if she infects me – SHOCK!”
There’s more but …. oh I can’t even be fucked trying to come up with a joke any more.
Jumping and shedding spike proteins, graphene antennas of satan 666 lipid nanobots inside your body and blood brain barrier and your entire internal message system,notwithstanding you refused 100% to take the jab.
Adam got the one and only woman in his life Eve, but even he was betrayed. Stay cool.
The 6 USD is without everything that makes life worth living.
Its without a beer, its without coffee, cookies and cognac afterwards, its without a peaceful cigar, without heartfelt small gifts to your family and friends.
The 6 USD is only industrial chicken food! One more time you were fooled by the Police State, the fascist Police who did it……alone, all by themselves!
Long Live Che Guevara, Hasta Sempre Il Comandante!!. https://youtu.be/nnaWla-oK8s
bE mindful of any festival ritual promoted by them
especially the ones on the Day number 333 of the year with 33 Days remaining.
Your alternative update on #COVID19 for 2024-11-27. King County, WA 98% one jab, 1,236% surge excess heart attack deaths. NIH nixed Own Expert CV Origins (blog, gab, tweet, pic1, pic2, pic3, pic4).
Perhaps it’s not the wetlands Massachusetts seeks to protect but the dwindling water. Since most commercial cranberries are harvested using wet harvesting, the fields are flooded in order to gather the berries. Doubtless that siphons off a lot of fresh water.
As to groceries, I’m taking the American Farm Federation’s report with me the next time I visit the grocery store and explain that’s why I’m manually ringing every single grocery item at 1984 prices. See, doubters: Self-Check IS good for something!
The corporate media and the “fact checkers” lie so much it’s as if they are having a contest to see who can tell the most absurd falsehoods. They think we are ignorant and many of us are; but as President Abraham Lincoln is supposed to have said, “You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, some of the people some of the time but you can’t fool all the people all the time” Let’s hope he is correct.
He is not.
As I said to Bobby Marley: “No Bobby, Its opposite, If you can fool the sheeple once, you can fool them all the time”, and I was right….again…………………….LOL.
Now, in this country, part of the shitty EU, but with the biggest border with Ukraine, the political struggle no longer cloaks the underground geopolitical struggle between the wings of various “services”. Now the electoral process in Romania can be considered blocked. The finalists in the presidential race are Calin Georgescu (C.G) and Elena Lasconi (E.L). Theoretically C.G (ex Clube of Rome and UN official) has converted to traditionalism and sovereignism. In contrast, E.L no doubt represents the insignificant progressivism/woke/lgbt/antifa side, but strongly supported by the EU and rainbow ngo. Things degenerated when C.G was announced the winner of the first round. Immediately, the few lgbt progressives organized protests demanding C.G’s removal from the presidential race chanting that he is a “Putinist” and that he plans to pull Romania out of NATO and that so-called trans people should be protected from the “far right” which is a danger for Romania and the EU. The minority side antifa/lgbt and E.L is strongly supported by the international and Romanian mainstream media. In a short time the Constitutional Court demanded a recount of the votes and the Supreme Council for the Defense met in connection with the meddling in the Romanian elections by “state and non-state actors”, for example TikTok – where C.G. campaigned. The pretexts are flimsy at contraventions, but not infractions. The evidence is insufficient to block the election, especially given that the Special Telecommunications Service said it successfully countered the cyber attacks. Very diplomatic was the message from the US embassy:
Romania is of course in the middle of elections. In all countries, elections make people think about the direction their countries have taken in the past and may take in the future. In the first round of presidential elections, it is clear that many Romanians voted for change. Few predicted the specific outcome, but people voting for change is not unusual. It is what democracy is about. It has happened before in both our countries.
But even more interesting is RFK’s potential arrival in Romania to promote his book “The Real Anthony Fauci”, for which C.G. wrote the preface to the Romanian edition. An interesting but debatable perspective is offered by The Spectator
I agree with Man for All Seasons. A beautifully written and acted film. I saw it way back then and even as a child it moved me to tears. I watch it again, every so often, during the winter holidays. Wrenching and edifying.
I don’t think the Kamala meme was funny. If she does have a drinking problem, or suffers from the disease of alcoholism, I don’t think there is anything funny about that.
Nor do I think there is anything funny about dementia, and have been rather sickened by the jokes about that for the past four years.
In any case, A Man for All Seasons. Wonderful.
Dementia IS funny when – and ONLY when – a person clearly suffering from dementia is offered to the American people as its President. It’s absolutely hilarious that a man with dementia can “run the country” for four years and it really doesn’t matter – because the President is only a sock puppet anyway. And now we’ll have an ex-MacDonald’s worker for the next four years – a man enthralled with a certain golfer’s anatomy.
You can’t make this up. Only in America. All of us Americans are props in a Saturday Night Live skit – a very long running skit.
I disagree. I don’t think dementia is funny in any circumstances.
I think it is terribly sad that Biden was so beholden to the powers he sold his soul to many years ago that he was put into that position. He was being exploited. I found it disgusting.
If you want to bring charges against someone, Biden in this case, for whatever crimes he committed over his political career, fine. But making fun of his dementia was a cheap shot.
I think it is terribly sad that that is what our country has come to. Cheap shots.
From all sides.
I’d like to believe we are better than that.
And, yes, it is a farce. It is all theatre and it is absolutely insane. At times I can laugh at some aspects, but at this point I’m pretty over-all disgusted.
Ridicule is a powerful weapon. Don’t discount it.
Until now we were the underdog. So we used it.
Didn’t do any good though, did it?
Ridicule won’t bring back the dead.
Or heal the injured.
It’s just stooping to their level.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX-NrS3eBjg
dementia can be funny….
To each their own.
Speaking of Tanks-giving, watch em roll:
https://www.statista.com/chart/29205/ukraine-tank-deliveries/
‘Tanks for the memo-re.’
“Apparently the cost of a family feast this holiday season is the lowest since 1984.“ I hear the chocolate ration doubled too and we’re positively swimming in boots.
Ever seen any tampering with Islamic traditions in Western Europe?
Never, although the number of followers of that medieval cult has grown substantially. Not on the WEF /Woke agenda.
Yes, one of the U.K lockdown happened on eid. ;0)
The cult loves the brain dead believers of sky gods with fake messiah saviour storys to keep the masses like you in a form of mindcontrol.
My religion is better than your religion.
Ever wonder why ODG never does an investigation in to religion.?
As a real alternative and not a fake alternative.
I do not do any of the rituals they shill to participant in.
Considering This Thanksgiving ritual date has changed and the fake alternative havent even noticed, shows just how fake the alternative must be.
Florida Introduces Bill to Ban Chemtrails.
And I’m truly grateful
Do you think all those people eating turkey on Thanksgiving Day
might cause an huge outbreak of ‘bird flu’ across the USA ?
(Turkeys being a bird – lest you didnt know !)
Moron
‘Global Warming’ has appeared in some headlines the past two weeks.
Does it mean ‘Climate Change’ is out, and ‘Global Warming’ is back in ?
Is that because Trump won ?
When kids, we used to say Grace before meals’; at school, we did the same.
At home i think our ridicule put a stop to it, though that happened around
the time The Beatles had become popular… I suppose by then Wartime
Rationing had come to an end…
Holidaysteria Best Thanksgiving Memes:
https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/holidaysteria-best-thanksgiving-memes
“Thanksgiving amid bird flu”
It’s back.
“Amid”
It’s back
This is a ure sign the next war game is upon us.
Beautiful!
Brilliant!
What’s new about this? The only new thing is that people have started to realise that they are lying bastards!!
I would like to emphasize at this point that it is extremely socially beneficial to design many variations of different cooking utensils for the beloved grandmas than, as the Jews prefer, to offer them so-called sex toys in all shapes, colors and flavors, which make the husband and grandchildren neglected. I think this strategic and insidious deviousness is fundamentally not dedicated to goyish family support. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_sex_tourism
This calls on the ladies, who are not deprived of their dignity, to work creatively in the service of the community, where they can develop their full potential and in return reap the love, longing and warmth of their family.
That would explain the long faces.
Be thankful that Kamala Harris isn’t going to be President.
Be thankful that Vladimir Putin isn’t a hothead.
Be thankful that you may be celebrating Christmas 2024 too…..
So you DO think it matters who is elected President?
This time, for beyond this the quality of the politician drops off a cliff as the system runs rampant with little resistance or checks and balances.
OK, that makes sense. Not. Come on, man.
Grandma Rose, whose Irish heritage is easily recognizable by her pale complexion and fiery hair, explains how it works with the mysterious German method. I have to say, however, that the American method with the tin lid does seem a bit off-puttingly cheap. Which of course is not the fault of all the beloved American grannies, but apparently none of the manufacturers have noticed that a glass lid is not only more aesthetically pleasing, but also much more tasteful. German ingenuity has once again done a great job here. No dedicated housewife from a good home can resist our practical, sensible solutions!
Strange how libtardism infiltrates Off-G occasionally: the last of the above memes portrays a native American showing whites in 17th century dress how to plant corn. A reference to the apparent initial welcome by the natives (shock, horror: a waycist word) of whites after 1642.
This is Regressive Left (sour) cherry-picking in the service of homoglobalism.”Only whites ever do bad things” from the standpoint of 2024 if not 1642, so the aim, after morale-sapping guiltification, is to breed out or kill off whites in some unspecified way, ……….by Covid jabs or poisoned food maybe?
Now conquest of lands by others is the rule in history. “Anatolian farmers, Yamnaya, Corded Ware, Bell Beaker, Rome vs. Gaul.”..and these are just whites killing whites.
Not that your average libtard knows any history other than what its school teacher thought it remembered of Howard Zinn. Or has heard of https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/books/noel-ignatiev-dead.html
But showing in a meme a white Saxon villager in 1066 being welcoming to a white Norman invader prior to all the Norman intra-white atrocities doesn’t give Kamala Harris white groupies that self-accusing frisson of moral virtue.
Because like the deluded ex-seminarian, white man Chris Hedges said in a recent speech, “we are called upon to love our neighbour, not our tribe”. Except if we are non-white, of course, then loving our tribe is organic and warm-hearted and vibrantly/colourfully cohesive and shows that sort of solidarity that only BIPOC socialism will bring, irony:off. .
Pity about those whites, but all that talk about freedom of speech and conscience and assembly resulting from their European Christianity (Tom Holland “Dominion”) is an inefficiency on the road to the transhumanist Great Reset.
White on white crime has killed more.
i.e world war 1 and 2 and the white church has a lot to answer for.
In general, the whites have been at each other’s throats for millennia.
It’s slightly different when no Native North Americans got into battleships to go conquer France and when no Tanzanians/Ghanaians rolled up in Rome demanding that Popes in future be black.
“Slightly different”? Classic oikophobia: do you think the peaceful virtue of the Noble Savages is shown by them not inventing battleships to sail across to France, or the wheel for that matter, irony: off.
As regards your penultimate line, Tanzanians/Ghanaians are not needed, the CofE is managing that demand quite well all by its white self.
Indians have the highest military volunteer rate of any ethnic group in the US. They don’t like foreigners.
“The trend on social media – especially among liberals – is to publicly declare that they are “cutting off” their wrong-side-voting family”.
Not a new idea amid self-styled progressives:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBgtdq3vuqg
“Okay, maybe they went a bit too far there but they were generally a good thing”:
https://odysee.com/@WyvernTheTerrible:0/tavistock-tone-the-specials,-jerry:b
“But I liked them and I’m so clever I can’t be deceived so… “
Maybe I’m glad to see it happened to someone besides me? I had a friend rant on the phone about the usual TDS subjects. Then she said that she didn’t really want to visit her Trump-loving relatives for Thanksgiving. I told her that I love my relatives, regardless of their politics — because you don’t really know why they prefer one candidate over another and you can’t just broad-brush them as mindless scum. She hung up on me when I suggested that her Trump-loving relatives might not appreciate her bringing her opinions to their table. “How dare you speak for my relatives??!!” No kidding. Unhinged. And she’s a yoga teacher, who obviously hasn’t learned a thing about what yoga really means.
Thank god! Australia’s kids are safe;
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-29/how-under-16-social-media-ban-will-work-remains-a-mystery/104662740
Pity about their access to mind numbing, mesmerising, propagandising garbage.
Inflation has been happening since 2000.
Housing, which takes pretty much half on average of the budget still climbs!
Relative to food and gas, housing is what screwed us!
The reason why this shit happens is because there’s a lot of cheap money that investors use to buy up commodities and profit from. They drive up the prices and the distributors and retail outlets mark up as usual. The way to fix this is to not allow investing with money that is meant for actual production.
The bigger problem is that the cheap money fed is buying the mortgages rather than letting the market set the prices, and if taxes on second homes were higher (perhaps much higher), fewer people with money would be driving up the price of homes making the ones with less money able to bid and win the auction. Right now they have to compete with the rich and super rich who can afford real estate.
Inflation has been happening since the JImmy Carter (Democrat) years starting in 1976. Inflation has been a major part of every democrat administration since then. Occasional respites during Republican administrations. However, the American electorate, in their perpetual stupidity, seem to always trust the econmically ignorant cemocrats more with the economy. Most recent example, Biden Vs, Trump in 2020. As thatforemost philosopher, Bugs Bunny, said “what a bunch of maroons!”
Inflation happened in 1973 when the Oil Shock raised petrol prices exorbitantly. Nothing to do with the West, that action of OPEC (driven primarily by Saudi Arabia).
Yeah, but why did OPEC do that? Israel’s Yom Kipper War. and if Israel does anything it’s because it was green lighted (at least) by the US. Do you really thing that US’ intelligence was so bad that the didn’t have a good idea how OPEC would response to Israel’s actions? The Oil Embargo was the proximal excuse for a raft of austerity policies instituted which later became known as neoliberalism.
Inflation has been happening since the invention of fractional reserve banking.
FIFY