Taylor Lorenz pens article decrying "disinformation" about inflation for WaPo.
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Is this what she is reduced to? Talking about menu prices at fast food places?
Not enough, she needs to be much worse off.
Unfortunately this is an indication she's getting Bezos Bucks.
Honestly this fast food story is probably one of the biggest things working against Biden going into the election for most voters who weren't already stuck in their ways.
Because it finally put a concrete comparison and ability to define into the hands of every American. Because top to bottom almost everyone eats Mcdonalds at some point and knows that its supposed to be cheap food.
So its massive price increase stopped the slow frog boil that was the vague bad "inflation" and gave it a name and dollar amount, thereby showing just how bad the economy has become in a short time. Which is why they have been desperately trying to excuse it.
Fast food is quickly approaching $20 for a combo while people still think a Jackson buys you a plate at Olive Garden.
The whole article is about Biden's team's plan to openly gaslight people about inflation and the economy.
Hey any money they don't make can be mine.
Taylor remembers when McDonalds meals were $1.
Even I have to admit there was a point I was gobbling up McDoubles because they were $1-$1.50 each.
No no, I mean Taylor remembers when the meals were a dollar. And I won't be talked out of thinking that until she tells us her age.
The family meal.
I remember gorging on Dollar Double Cheeseburgers this side of the millennium.
That's why this inflation on McDonald's is so offensive to everyone. Because we all had a time when it was the cheap garbage we consumed because we were poor.
pippa showed some 1994 commercials the other day
taco bell had a taco for 99 cents.
pippa is my oshi. There, I said it, it is done.
Anyhow, I was going to post late 90s/early aughts commercials and have a game of spot the difference with regards to modern stuff.
It's genuinely surreal. The thing is I only see TV when I visit family, like on Thanksgiving, so I have no idea what is normal or what has been normalized in the last decade or so.
the only tv i'm exposed to is whatever my grandma has on during the day, and it's largely in the categories of pills, funeral services, and lawyers.
So, because you express surprise, I assume that means the 99 center bean burritos are not a thing anymore? Because they were definitely a thing up until at least 2005 or so. Haven't been to Taco Bell in about that long, though!
there was another commercial for little caesars where you could get two pizzas, a drink, and crazy bread for like 8 bucks
The way it was setup is to utilize the excess farm production that the government ensures as both a political favor and a food security strategy. The idea was feed the people cheaply. In a way, it worked too well.
Bean burritos aren't too much worse now, like $1.30 or so. That is a 30% increase but it's still cheap compared to McDs. I expect to pay about $12 for a good meal and $8 if I'm skimping.
FACTCHECK: FALSE.
Taylor Lorenz is one of the youngest journalists of the 19th century. It is perfectly acceptable for her to DM and manipulate the young children of Kellyanne Conway
Hoooold on a second...
Speaking of Mcdonalds you know how the burger never looks like the advertisement? In Japan apparently they have laws against that because its considered false advertising. the burger has to look like how it looks in the ad.
in japan it's very common for restaurants to have replicas of the food they make out in the open for you to see.
Based
They really are an enlightened people.
I assume this has been a thing forever, but I’m reminded of gamergate tactics. Journos would toss out their inflammatory leftist opinions, 1 out of every ten thousand people would pop off with some racist or sexist online response, and that was all the journos needed to brand every last one of their detractors as a bigot. It’s disingenuous people weaponizing the white noise of the internet in order to deflect all criticism.
If you shovel a divisive opinion out to a hundred thousand people, what are the odds that you will receive at least one death threat? 99%? And if even one death threat occurs, are you then completely empowered to shift the conversation from your shit opinions to “muh harassment”? With that one death threat taken as a virtual given, journos have a built-in parachute to reliably escape the consequences of their own idiocy.
You want exaggeration? How about the US supposedly in a bull market, all because SEVEN (7) tech stocks are balls deep in the AI mania that's apparently going to make all human labor redundant.
It made Sam Altman, Mira and Emmet Sheer redundant in one week ;)
Didn’t they already do the “yes inflation is happening, and it’s a good thing” article or was that the New York Times?
Good grief. Someone gave Grandma the wifi password and she's back on the internet larping as a "journalist".
Greatest journalist of our time.
F*ck those frauds like Julian Assange who speak out against the government.
A great journalist says exactly what the government wants, but also able to take photos with her iphone.
Speaking of inflation, the new "dollar store" is now the five-dollar store, namely Five Below. Dollar Tree tried to raise prices to $1.50, but the turbo-poors that frequent the store made them back off.
Damn if people notice that the price of things is going up than we cant browbeat them with jargon and cooked statical nonsense to convince them that inflation is a figment of their imagination.