It’s kinda funny that Spencer Pratt’s whole thing is being aggrieved by his house burning down, but he has zero public plans to stop it from happening again.
Corporation: "We made $4B but spent $3.9B so we only owe taxes on $100M."
Government: "Totally reasonable."
You: "I made $60K but spent $58K on survival."
Government: "You owe taxes on $60K."
You: "That's not—"
Government: "File by May 15."
It's so funny whenever people are like "it's because of the LEFT that we're overrun by homeless people on the street!" knowing that the real reason is that Ronald Reagan slashed all the funding for low income housing and mental hospitals
A reminder that the the New York Supreme Court ruled for New York to redraw their maps. The Supreme Court overturned that. When the Virginia Supreme Court struck down Virginia’s legal redistricting, the Supreme Court didn’t intervene. The supreme court is nothing but a blatant partisan Institution
I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
Landlord: Rent has gone up.
Businesses: That’s a natural part of doing business.
Suppliers: Materials cost more.
Businesses: That’s a natural part of doing business.
Worker: My labour costs more.
Businesses: Whoa, whoa... Let’s not get unreasonable here.
We ask candidates of all political persuasions about their own words and actions. If that makes them “look bad,” perhaps it’s not the fault of journalists.
Run the math on the lunch and it falls apart in about ten seconds.
A $28 lunch every working day is roughly $7,000 a year. That is the entire prize for never eating out again.
Now look at what actually moved. The median US home went from $321,500 in 2019 to about $420,300 in 2024. That is nearly $99,000 in five years, close to $20,000 a year. A Gen Z worker who banks every single lunch saves $7,000 while the house they are chasing gets $20,000 more expensive in the same twelve months.
You can do everything Kevin says and still lose ground.
Zoom out and it gets worse. Since 1980 home prices are up 551% and incomes are up 373%. The price-to-income ratio went from 3.65 to over 5. The distance between what a salary buys and what a house costs is the whole story, and no amount of skipped sandwiches closes a gap that compounds faster than anyone can save.
The lunch was never the variable.
The math gets funnier when you check who is giving the lecture. Kevin took just under $15 million to be the face of FTX, put around $9.7 million of it into crypto that went to zero, and held a $1 million stake that also went to zero. The man telling 23-year-olds that lunch is why they stay poor lit more money on fire in one bad bet than most of them will earn in a lifetime.
A $28 plate of ham and cheese was not the problem.
So Alabama is allowed to use their Republican approved map that favor Republicans but Virginia isn't allowed to use their voter approved map that favor Democrats????