This guy ran for office promising that he would raise taxes on billionaires and freeze the rents and it only took him 45 days to announce massive tax hikes that will hurt the middle class and result in rents being raised.
This is why we don't elect communists, kids.
Tucker Carlson: "If they're paying foreigners to have kids while you can't afford to have kids, if they're shaking you down... but allowing foreigners a pass... they hate you and are trying to k*ll you, right?"
California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.
One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.
But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.
Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.
The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.
The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.
Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.
Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.
Pretty obvious the Phillies missed their window now.
I don’t think I’ve been as disappointed in a Philadelphia team as I am in the Phillies the last 3 years.
Many are justifying the Kyle Tucker signing, by saying that any owner could spend like the Dodgers but “they just don’t want to win enough”. This is the most idiotic take I’ve ever seen. It shows you know nothing about the business side of the game.
MLB let Dodgers keep almost all of their TV Money. They are the only team that gets to do this because of negotiations during the McCourt Bankruptcy.
After the bankruptcy settlement, They negotiated the largest local TV deal in all of MLB but the settlement amount subject to revenue share was based on the OLD contract. They do not have to share most of their TV money and this is what allows the insane spending. Again, they are 1 of 30 teams to get this carveout from the league and the only team who could even attempt to spend like this.
Stop saying other owners are cheap. None of them have a special exemption on revenue sharing for their TV contracts like the Dodgers do. MLB Created this situation.
The lets get this straight. Nick Sirianni rested his starters, lost the two seed. AND then scored 19 against a team missing all their defensive starters. Fire Nick Sirianni.
What does Nick Sirianni offer as a head coach?
He doesn’t call plays.
He’s not competent enough to be involved in the offense.
He’s not allowed in defensive meetings.
He’s a horrible game manager.
He’s so lucky Kellen Moore and Vic Fangio won him the Super Bowl last year…
The defending Super Bowl champs, with maybe the most loaded offensive roster in the league, gave playcalling duties to a man who had never called plays before, and they just waited an entire season for him to try and figure it out.
I’ll never get over it. What a waste of a year.
if the Eagles lose they have no one to blame but Nick Sirianni for appointing a terrible OC because he's a pal & then not reassigning play calling when it was clear that the OC was horrible
wasting an elite defense because you wanted to let your buddy call offensive plays