〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️

“While election law and voting rights might seem to have become nakedly partisan, only one side is actually favoring democracy.” 🚫MAGA/Musk 〽️#GoBlue

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

Possibly the most accurate and timely tweet in my time here.

[Dustin Nickerson @DustinNickerson]

Raising teens is fun if you want someone to think you’re the dumbest human alive while simultaneously needing your help to do anything

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@BSchaefferNJ @cindywo55439465 @JoJoFromJerz Conservatives are universally silent when a rightwingnut attacks someone. You should stop lying and just stfu.

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@thatsam009_ So you’re saying CR7 is the SGA of soccer.

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@JustinThind Cope and seethe

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@dubsa98 @gtconway3d It’s comical how objectively stupid most MAGAts are, including and especially those who are elected to “lead.”

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

Only 5 of 26 players on the DR Congo WC roster were born in DR Congo. 🤔

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

Hypocrite snowflake pussy @DarkoStateNews laughing at 〽️ making moves not to play TTU, while devoting his life to “investigating” the 〽️ athletic program for any sign of wrongdoing.

Get a life, man.

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

No call here is wild. The Spain defender literally rammed the ballcarrier with a football stiff-arm. 😂

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@KLind62526 @JoJoFromJerz You don’t even know what communism is, you dumbass inbred.

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@jcniyomugabo Well…at least no one can claim those steaks were underdone. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Inflation would have taken a $35 concert ticket to about $50 today. The jump to $350 came from a change in how the music business makes its money.

Fifteen years ago, the concert was an ad. Artists made their money selling albums, and the tour was there to sell more CDs. Then streaming showed up and wrecked that. Spotify pays about $0.003 to $0.005 per play, so an artist with 10 million plays in a year makes around $30,000. Money from recorded music fell so far it hit bottom in 2014 at $13.1 billion, down from $22 billion in the CD days. The album stopped paying the bills.

So the tour became the paycheck instead of the ad. For many working musicians it now brings in up to 80% of their income. Even Taylor Swift, the biggest streaming artist alive, made 91% of her 2018 money on tour and under 6% from streaming. When the live show is the only thing left to sell, it gets priced that way.

Then there is who controls the tickets. Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010 and never let go. Ticketmaster now handles about 80% of tickets when they first go on sale at major venues, and Live Nation owns or runs close to 78% of the big outdoor amphitheaters. In April 2026, a jury in New York found the company ran an illegal monopoly that overcharged fans. Live Nation made a record $23 billion in 2024.

Fees pile on top. A 2018 government report found fees add about 27% to a ticket's price, and a look at 40 recent concerts put it closer to 28%. That turns two $100 tickets into a $256 bill. To be fair, the venue keeps most of that fee, not Ticketmaster, whose own share is only a few percent.

The biggest jump came from something newer. After the pandemic, promoters saw that fans would pay almost anything, so they turned on dynamic pricing, the same way airline seats cost more as a flight fills up. Bruce Springsteen's $400 seats shot up to $4,000 and $5,000 the moment they went on sale. Live Nation's own finance chief said it plainly: stadium tickets are now priced to scare off scalpers. That means setting the official price at whatever a scalper would charge, so the extra money goes to the artist and Ticketmaster instead of a reseller.

The $35 ticket made sense when a concert sold a $15 album. The $350 ticket makes sense when the concert is the product, the streaming money barely counts, and one company controls almost the whole path to the stage.

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@jaketapper Coming from someone who’s part of the (media) problem.

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@UsingLyft You can see small dick energy in your tweets.

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

Detroit radio @1067WLLZ playing commercials encouraging people to move to Ohio is certainly a choice.

Playing the same commercial two or even three (!) times during a single commercial break is downright annoying. Even more annoying than the dumb commercial, itself.

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@FoxNews Says the man who retired once the rest of the football world was able to pay players like Bama did for years.

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

Just paid the most I’ve ever paid in my life to fill up my gas tank. And at Costco, where the gas is cheapest.

THANKS BIDEN

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@QualkTalk Another dumb take.

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@MichaelMHanna So you think that a format that rewarded UCLA with playing at home AND required them to lose twice on their home field is stupid?

More stupid than single-elimination bball and hockey?

I can’t wait for the next bball 1-seed who gets upset in round 1 to call the format stupid. 🙄

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@sthorn_23 Or just don’t be a hot dog.

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

@RepNancyMace Agreed. Go check 1600 Penn Ave. The orange guy shitting his diaper is named in the Epstein files 30,000 times. Start with him.

Otherwise, stfu.

[〽️ Kwisatz Haderach 〽️ @ConCit17]

OKC fans chanting “flopper” about anyone not on their team is wild.