Many other basic foods, not shown, are still near their all-time-highs, like dried beans for example, or potatoes, sugar, and flour, but you knew that if you've been grocery shopping recently.
Eggs, at $3.204/dozen on average nationally in August 2024, are higher right now than their average annual price EVER: $2.857 in 2022, $2.796 in 2023, and $2.469 in 2015. Eggs averaged $2.798 in the first half of 2024.
Prepare for more cultural enrichment, whether you like it or not.
Four Haitians took off in a gray, Toyota Tacoma, two men, two women, each with a goose in their hands.
ABC's debate moderators made sure NOT to go there, no sir. And they completely avoided making Harris defend her inflation record as Biden's VP and instead joined the attack on Trump, fact-checking him multiple times but not her. Trump had to debate three people.
It was a disgraceful spectacle which he should have known better than to join.
At least Trump called her a Marxist at one point, that was good.
Harris for her part continued to push for the gimmicks which WaPo previously called out: $25k down-payment assistance which will only increase housing prices by $25k; $50k tax credits for starting a business, which is notably a lot more than for the everyday folks Democrats say they care about most (how many of those will later declare bankruptcy and pocket the cash?); $6k child tax credit, an idea stolen from J. D. Vance and bid-up just like student-loan forgiveness in order to buy votes.
It's all just marginal stuff which treats the symptoms and not the causes.
She is not a serious candidate.
Gasoline was 29% cheaper under Trump on average than it is today: $2.49/gallon vs. $3.52 now.
Using electricity for anything was 23% cheaper under Trump on average than it is today: $0.136/kilowatt-hour vs. $0.177 now.
Heating your home with natural gas was 26% cheaper under Trump on average than it is today: $1.04/therm vs. $1.40 now.
Everyone is needlessly poorer after 3.5 years of this huge, Democrat-imposed impediment to the economy's potential, a gigantic tax hidden in plain sight.
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| 3.171 to 3.197: Wrong way! |
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| Time to get another roommate. |
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| seasonally adjusted core inflation was actually worse, at 3.3% year over year |
In August, Trump reiterated his opposition to Florida’s ban on abortions
after six weeks. Asked if he supported an amendment to the state’s
constitution expanding the right to abortion, Trump said,
“I am going to be voting that we need more than six weeks.” Faced with a
firestorm of criticism from anti-abortion groups, Trump campaign
officials maintained he “has not yet said how he will vote on the ballot
initiative.” ...
At the end of August, with polls showing a slight lead for Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump announced that “because we want more babies,” his administration would require either the federal government or insurance companies to pay the entire cost (which typically runs in the tens of thousands of dollars per individual) of IVF treatments for all Americans. He did not specify whether his proposal would be implemented through the Affordable Care Act, which he has promised to repeal, or whether he has become an advocate of socialized medicine. Nor did Trump reconcile the plan with the 2024 GOP platform, which has language that seems to support rights of citizenship, under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, to fertilized eggs, embryos and fetuses.
More.
Trump has learned nothing.
For Trump, who now says Americans “can live with marijuana,” his new position on legalization, which was forged in the context of Florida’s Adult Personal Use of Marijuana ballot initiative, can help him break down the Blue Wall.
More.
Pennsylvania and Georgia shift back into the Trump column.
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| Guy who says Mitt Romney was decent man says get fucked you fuckers |
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| Decent man says Paris Olympics opening ceremony mocking Christianity was great! |
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| Decent man says government mandates, fines, and taxes are not worth getting angry about |
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| Decent man says let autoworkers eat rust |
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| Decent man was NeverTrump because he is NeverFight |
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| Decent man inflames rioters and looters who go on to cause $2 billion in damage |
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| Decent man says Antifa "No USA at all" is morally superior to Robert E. Lee admirers |
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| Decent man says sodomy must be mainstreamed in America |
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| Decent man can't define "assault weapons" but says they have to go |
I couldn't believe it when I saw it, but it's true.
The pandemic emergency ended in May 2023.
Required reporting of hospitalizations expired in April 2024, after which "The number of hospitals regularly reporting data decreased by nearly two thirds."
Are the Feds preparing for the general?
https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html
https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/updated-hospital-reporting-requirements-for-respiratory-viruses.html
https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/fact-sheets/fy-2025-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-system-ipps-and-long-term-care-hospital-prospective-0
