The Sindex: Price of Booze Away From Home Up 6.6 Percent Since 2022
The Reason Sindex tracks the price of vice: smoking, drinking, snacking, traveling, and more.


At Reason, we're keeping an eye on the price of vice. The Sindex tracks changes in prices economywide and compares them with a basket of sins: smoking, drinking, snacking, traveling, and more. The data come from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, so unfortunately the prices of illegal vices like marijuana and commercial sex aren't included. The most recent data here cover June 2023.
Category | Change since January 2020 | Change in last year |
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Overall Inflation | 17.3% | 3.1% |
Tobacco and smoking products | 24.4% | 5.8% |
Cable, satellite, and livestreaming services | 15.4% | 4.4% |
Medicinal drugs | 4.2% | 3.8% |
Meats | 22.2% | 0.7% |
Televisions | -18.7% | -9.9% |
Cigarettes | 25% | 5.7% |
Sugar and sweets | 25% | 11% |
Airline fares | -1.1% | -18.9% |
Gasoline, unleaded regular | 28% | -27.1% |
Prescription drugs | 2% | 3.1% |
Alcoholic beverages (At home) | 9.4% | 3.2% |
Alcoholic beverages (Away from home) | 16.8% | 6.6% |
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I have a large patio with a roof and a Blackstone grill. I enjoy my whiskey or beer there while listening to Steely Dan and grilling. I also shake my fist at clouds.
Gasoline only up 28% since Jan 2020? Jan 2021 it was $2.20, now $3.78. Thats 72% since the most corrupt, stupid, and demented Prez ever was inaugurated.
Jan 2021 it was $2.20
Pandemic, shitty economy, 30 million jobs lost prices, moron.
Fatass Donnie left the economy in the toilet.
So tired.
But so true.
Admit it, gas prices fell because the economy cratered. Same thing happened in 2008.
But there were no Bush Cultists left afterward.
You're short term memory is demented. Gas prices were gliding along at around $2.60 ($3.90 in CA dollars) well before the Scam we now know as the 'Pandemic'. Following the announcement that parts of the world couldn't go anywhere the need for gas went down, as did the price. There were boats stuck in harbors that couldn't unload the surplus. When your current Pres-flame took over his policy choices drove the costs through the roof - of everything. Blaming Trump for that economy is being economically childish but I would expect that from a gaslighting clown show like you.
The US is producing record amounts of oil and gas. We are more energy independent than anytime in modern history.
You don't have an argument that Sleepy Joe's "policy choices" adversely affected the price of gas.
Now Donnie's bestie in Saudi land - strongman MBS, can certainly move the price of oil.
And you do it again. You credit Joe despite the energy being in areas his policies do not effect while ignoring gas production is down on federal lands, just like under Obama.
It is endemic for you to lie to protect Joe.
At least you tried to include it this time, half heartedly.
Although you do intentionally ignore the permitting restrictions on new refineries despite a growing population base.
I didn't credit Joe with anything. He is a fucking tomato that can't defend himself. That is why his approval numbers are so bad.
I'm just calling out Fatass Donnie's lies that he had us "energy independent before Joe screwed it up".
You were banned for posting a link to child pornography.
Up above.
Overall Inflation
Change since January 2020: 17.3%
Change in last year: 3.1%
Your scam is done, Buttplug. It's over.
If you'd been properly reading your ActBlue and Open Society missives instead of just copypasting the talking points, you would have known to switch to "Inflation is a good thing" ages ago.
It’s not his memory. He’s a lying scumbag.
It was 2.63 on average in 2019 dumum.
https://www.finder.com/gas-prices
Nuh uh.
— Pedo Buttplug
On top of that the Moron in Chief sold off a large fraction of the strategic oil reserve.
All time dumbest Prez, possibly excepting when Wilson was stroked out.
No, the Mrs was doing ok.
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Fuck off
the Moron in Chief sold off a large fraction of the strategic oil reserve.
Can't believe I forgot about that.
Did the voters?
Most voters were never aware of it to forget it.
Hey Kiddie Raper, in late 2019 it was barely above that where I live. Now it’s doubled. So fuck off with your Soros worshipping lies.
Amd go commit suicide.
Gasoline up to $3.79 and more at some stations. The local farmers exchange is at $3.25
The Cuervo Gold
The fine Colombian
Make tonight a wonderful thing
"Black Friday," "Aja," "Throw Back the Little Ones," plus Fagen's "IGY" and "New Frontier" would be super for either a suburban cook-out or a little shindig on the boat slip.
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"I also shake my fist at clouds."
Does Government Almighty PERMIT that kinda thing in your neck of the woods?
I have a similar lifestyle. The only problem is that from back there I can't see if there are kids on the front lawn.
That's why there are wide-angle doorbell cam apps, LRAD dishes, and Killdozer ground drones.
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https://twitter.com/remnantposting/status/1710511966798672261?t=hr281V1Hsdebq9cJzavPYQ&s=19
The fact that they feel comfortable saying this stuff out loud means they're confident no one will do anything.
And they're right! Conservatives have no organizational capacity. Most "red state" gov'ts are squishy moderates. Con, Inc. talkers just whine about the constitution.
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I turned on the local con talk show today and you know what they were saying? That it's "just Hillary Clinton, so who cares?"
She's only one of the most well-connected people in the regime's metapolitical ecosystem, explicitly giving the game away. Who cares, right?
There should be no more democrat party, and the practice of Marxism should be criminalized. Ideally through a constitutional amendment.
There are already laws protecting Life, Liberty, and Property...if only the DAs and Judges would enforce them.
As for merely advocating any of the flavors of Collectivism and Totalitarianism, there's always the hearty "Fuck Off" to give them, as we always do here.
Wouldn't bother me if someone made her their friend for a change.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1710630999623708790?t=q9GBok4NFM-1_i9bnWA0AA&s=19
1 month ago Trump predicted the $6 Billion that Biden gave Iran would be used for terror attacks across the Middle East and specifically kidnapping
This is exactly what we are seeing in Israel this morning
https://twitter.com/growing_daniel/status/1710547145496113153?t=5P6HgGebNyYqr0MUVsNi3w&s=19
The insane thing about the horrifying videos and images coming out of Israel right now is that their sources are pro-Gaza telegram channels. Like they're proud as hell of all these corpses whereas most militias and their supporters would try to hide it. Totally schizo savagery.
https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1710556140231369201?t=iI0JpEmWMpWGnSvIAaVKHw&s=19
Israelis are evacuating the areas around Gaza on foot.
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https://twitter.com/Megatron_ron/status/1710552846649766062?t=ACwM1MZ9zCFGVHvboo1A9g&s=19
BREAKING:
The situation in Israel
- The Palestinian fighters have freed prisoners from Ashkelon Prison.
- The Palestinians claim to have taken several Israeli soldiers hostage
- Israel's military has lost control over a border crossing with Gaza
- Hamas calls on armed groups in Lebanon to join the fight against Israel
- The Palestinians have taken several Israeli soldiers hostage
- The Israeli settlers run towards airports in mass as Palestinian resistance fighters' retaliatory attacks intensify.
-The war is getting very brutal, Israel is bombing civilians in Gaza, Palestine is liquidating Israeli civilians in cities
-Palestinians destroyed Israeli tanks
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"Israel’s military has lost control over a border crossing with Gaza"
Big if true. Obama's pallets of cash to Iran are hard at work.
I wonder if any of their weapons were bought at the Taliban army surplus store?
https://twitter.com/Wagnersfamily/status/1710746698471940184?t=uCNlJbV_-UImQIO8D7_77w&s=19
Hamas thanked Ukraine for selling them weapons.
Middle Eastern TG channels report that most of the RPGs used by Hamas in the Al-Aqsa Flood operation were supplied by the Ukrainians.
You do know that Putin is an ally of Assad who, in turn, is an ally of Iran who, in turn, is behind the Hamas wing of The Palestinian Authority, right?
And you do know that the AK from Putin’s Russia is the weapon of choice of all the anti-Israeli nations and terrorists, right?
You do know that America is an ally of Turkey who, in turn, is an ally of Iran who, in turn, is behind the Hamas wing of The Palestinian Authority, right?
Sadly yes, that's true. All the more reason that Erdogan is no friend of the U.S.
Still, I can never let Nardz slide when he lets Putin slide for Putin's obvious role in these ugly world events.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1710682052427739648?t=LvbL-WvGrgtU8TBljGTHUA&s=19
BREAKING:
The Taliban have announced that they have asked Iran, Iraq and Jordan to grant them passage to Israel.
They have stated that their intent is to "conquer Jerusalem”
It’s the perfect time to do it. While Biden is still in office, Israel will stand alone.
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1710623083042619660?t=ol7eJofPwAlQgwG4ceTQFg&s=19
Breaking Israel: Entire families and car loads of Israeli civilians have been slaughtered in the most brutal surprise attack on the Sabbath when many Israelis were celebrating #Shabat
The Israeli Defence forces appear to have been completely caught off-guard and the feared #Mossad intelligence services have failed spectacularly in preventing this horrific attack.
We are likely to see a retaliation so severe that Palestine may cease to exist.
Iran watches with interest and considers whether to take advantage of a blindsided Israel and push the attack to destroy the nation of Israel once and for all.
#IsraelUnderAttack #IsraelPalestineWar #Iran
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We are likely to see a retaliation so severe that Palestine may cease to exist.
The Zionists and their fellators have always said that Palestine does not exist.
No they haven't.
Well, there was a Palestine mandate, allegedly run by the British.
Then they accurately assessed the situation and said "these folks can't get along, and never will, and we're outta here".
And then did what they always did and through partition split the regions in ways that would guarantee they would be always fighting each other and not the UK in the future.
https://twitter.com/cirnosad/status/1710604205474673112?t=UZVErOn9eGSOOoXcCOr0Wg&s=19
Gaza just doubled in Size in literally four hours.
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I remember when Dubya gifted the Gaza strip to Palestine. Conservatives loved Dubya.
Then he gift-wrapped Iraq for Islamic extremists.
Worst foreign policy ever.
You and sarc promote neocons more than anyone else here. Lol.
Why do you pretend to hate Bush when you're obviously a ferocious Neocon who supports every aspect of what his administration did?
Yeah. This is all pretty insane in Israel at the moment. The estimated number of rockets was 5000 in the barrage. The number of armed hamas soldiers is another. Sure is a lot of weapons from a group AOC and the squad claim to be destitute and starving. Can't wait for their statements.
My guess... those who support Ukraine on this site will be angry at Israel fighting back under the same conditions.
No not calling for US troops in Israel. The IDF is going to push them back. But this was funded a lot off of foreign aid and by monies given to Iran.
It's ugly over there.
Also none of our business.
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They don't need spokescritters like you anyway and now that they have their own oil, they really don't need anybody.
They do need to change their National Anthem to AC/DC's "Big Balls", though.
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How could I forget to add the link?
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AC/DC--Big Balls (Official Audio)
https://youtu.be/4WwJ6OVSwkM?si=zjnvqH96votASfjz
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, the author reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/04/gaza200804
Do I have to remind you that you post more neocon articles than anyone here. Need links to Obama love for Iran?
Pro-Ukraine and Pro-Israeli and Pro-U.S. right of self-defense here.
You were saying?
under the same conditions.
No, not the same conditions. We must never forget that the Zionists are the aggressors in this conflict.
Get your Squad talking points out of here.
I’m sure the kids murdered and the women raped over night were all taking day trips to Palestine to cause strife.
Muslims and jews both live in Israel. Is that true of Palestine? With same rights?
No, not the same conditions. We must never forget that the Zionists are the aggressors in this conflict.
Lemme get this straight:
Israel’s neighbors have waged war against them 4 times plus did countless minor sorties against Israel…
They attempted to squeeze Israel dry during the 1970s OPEC oil boycott…
The Palestinian Authority still attacks Israel even after getting 90 percent of what they wanted in the Oslo Accords of the 1990s…
Israel’s neighbors ultimately wants Israel pushed into the sea and it’s inhabitants either converted to Islam or murdered…
And yet somehow Israel is the aggressor???
Are you sure you’re not sharing notes with Herr Misek?
And none of that would have happened if the Zionists had stayed in their own countries and not colonized Palestine.
What a load of shit. Your premise is essentially that it’s the Jew’s fault for not appeasing bloodthirsty Muslims. Many of who, allied with Hitler during the war.
No, that's not what I said. I said the Zionists started the conflict by colonizing Palestine.
And no one would have ever called for a Zionist State at all were it not for 3000+ years of Anti-Jewish persecution by Assyrians, Babylonians,, Persians, Romans, Christians, Muslims, Continental Monarchies, Czarists, Communists, and cumulating with the Nazis in The Holocaust.
Please consider all that when making your scurrilous condemnations of Israel.
That wasn't the Palestinians' problem.
If Palestinians join in with the rest of history's Anti-Jewish villains, then, yes, they are part of the problem.
Israel gave the Palestinian Authority 90 % of their demands in the Oslo Accords. Despite this, the Palestinian Authority still attacks Israel.
Clearly, this will not end with a Two-State Solution, nor really will it end if Israel were wiped off the face of the Earth. This is only one front of a larger global struggle where Islam is against the rest of the world and wants The Big Blue Marble.
So, you're down with group punishment and scapegoating. Nice. I do agree with you that there is no solution at this point. This conflict will continue indefinitely.
The fuck they are.
the $6 Billion that Biden gave Iran
No one gave Iran a goddamn penny, you imbecile.
Well, Donnie did green-light Iran's nuclear program. They have that going for them in the never-ending war.
Biden unfreeze 6B in assets you fucking retard. Assets that are less than what Iran owes to victims of its terrorism through lawsuits. Yes. He gave 6B to Iran in order to try to get a deal with Iran started again. Iran had no access to the funds before Joe okayed it.
You can lie and defend Joe all you want. But facts are facts.
"No one gave Iran a goddamn penny, you imbecile"
The pallets of cash were real, you lying retard.
$1.7-billion payment to Iran was all in cash due to effectiveness of sanctions, White House says
And
Biden reaches deal with Iran to free US citizens and unfreeze $6 billion in assets
I really wish Open Society would send some better educated fifty-center to replace you.
Someone should superimpose one of the Biden ‘I did that’ stickers that were attached to gas pumps with high prices on a still of those murdered Israelis.
https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/status/1710743259075449189?t=mO22y60ldZl1DBx6ynM_gQ&s=19
Part of the cultural enrichment of mass immigration involves importing all the most horrific ethnic conflicts from across the globe
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True Libertarianism requires that all people be allowed to enter any country they wish, to exercise their rights to travel and freedom of association. And of course, they may bring weapons with them, because they have a right to bear arms. /jeffy
Do they have the right to arm bears though?
Sounds like the position you are taking regarding the genocidal Hamas invaders.
Only if you pretend that the world was created in 1968 and the previous century of violent colonization of Palestine by the Zionists didn’t happen, and that the continuing seizure of Palestinian land by Zionist colonists isn’t happening.
https://twitter.com/PeterWrangel/status/1710614442797326378?t=WwC6Cp43gLDIQ6ypK0hpTg&s=19
I wonder what the equivalent of US Army Divisions of fighting age males crossing the Southern border could be doing in the near future.
"Looks like there’s a multifaceted attack in Israel.
• infiltration by boat
• ground infiltration
• rocket attacks
• terrorists inside Israel proper driving around and technicals shooting stuff and police up"
Remember the “Operation Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal?
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1710613560294850770?t=7XKyypkHkdiFCmV5O2XoAg&s=19
Hamas uses Igla MANPADS at Israeli aircraft, which are currently operating in Gaza.
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That 15-second video sums up the murderous Theocratic mentality in a nutshell. Firing a deadly rocket at civilians while yelling Bismillah (Arabic “For the Sake of God”) and Allahu Akbar (Arabic for “God is The Greatest.”)
Notice also the context in which the Jihadis use these battle-cries.
It is always as a prelude to a deadly blow and it is proclaiming to the victim: “My God is not just great, but greater than yours and your miserable, blind, Unbeliever lives and all that you stand for!”
It also serves as notice to keep this mindset away from political power in our own society and to have no dealings with any who hold to it. I am looking at you also, Religious Right at home and Putin abroad!
https://twitter.com/BrentScher/status/1710635081721692342?t=Wc5e_DddEMGb9KG3zexsSQ&s=19
I realize it's early on Saturday morning and Biden sleeps in, but this is the sort of thing you wake presidents up for.
Statement from the USA should be from him, not an NSC comms staffer.
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https://twitter.com/omriceren/status/1710599560001634458?t=xfGV2QhFxHDcgYPs15IyPg&s=19
Team Biden made a Day 1 decision to pour millions of dollars into Hamas areas. Internal emails show them saying it would boost Hamas terrorism, but they did it anyway.
Then Hamas launched an invasion of Israel.
Team Biden's immediate response was to tell Israel to roll with it.
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Biden doesn’t give a shit about the Isarelis.
Well I for one am looking for Reason to dedicate some serious time writing articles explaining to us whether or not The Science!(tm) tells us that's a good thing. Come on! Can Bailey find us some studies that tell whether more expensive booze results in less political disturbance? Maybe Sullum can wring his hands for a bit on whether or not those health studies showing better outcomes with less booze have good results or not? And then ENB can go out and cherrypick some study that shows exactly what Libertarians actually prefer.
This is the woeful state of Reason- an almost autistic obsession with finding "Data" that supports their poorly thought-out views. They spend more time trying to find misery indexes than explaining the logical, moral case against misery. They spend more time mumbling about Masking/Lockdown/Mandate Science!(tm) than explaining why libertarian values are right.
Sullum is busy working on an article declaring inflation for metals being due to J6 rioters knocking down the fence barriers.
Gold down $40/oz since Biden sworn in.
HAPERINFLATION! BUY YER GOLD BOYS!
Don't you ever get embarrassed talking on the economy to have your talking points easily refuted like yesterday?
Like you "refuted" the CBO claim that the US ran surpluses 1999-2000?
CBO "1999 surplus was $67 billion".
Jesse "No it wasn't!"
You didn't refute a fucking thing, you silly boy.
Yes. Me and others and even sarc told you how stupid that repeated talking point was.
Once again. Debt increased every year. There was no surplus to reduce the debt.
Playing games with accounting tricks does not generate revenue.
You were even told how bad CBO projections are and how they are required by law to use assumptions and accounting tricks. But you persist.
He just believes whatever Soros and the DNC order him to. He thinks they’ll give him all the little kids he can fuck when they have total control.
A claim from 23 years ago now. Good point. Seems like that much surplus would have solved the debt crunch. So what happened?
That would require shrike to have an ounce of shame. Something he hasn’t exhibited through: welching on bets, not paying his mortgage, not leaving when he was proven wrong, and creating a 2nd SPB account because his first one got nuked.
"Gold down $40/oz since Biden sworn in.
HAPERINFLATION!"
Lol, what the fuck, seriously?
Market fluctuations in precious metals isn't inflation and has nothing to do with inflation, you retarded scammer.
You tried to pull the same scam with Brent Crude futures a while ago.
Koch doesn't want ideologues, he wants useful drones.
What's next Reason, the Pilgrim 500?
And what kind of Sindex leaves out tiki torches and Twitter fees?
WOT??? NO SEX WORKER PRICES???
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Long thread of videos.
Real war happening.
Biggest attack on Israel in 50 years.
Egypt has said it will get involved if Israel goes into Gaza. Hezbollah is apparently mobilizing in the north.
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1710558796760645859?t=Z44Dvbj6q_wEieDBHHpibw&s=19
War in Israel … Hamas starts operation in southern Israel
Many soldier drive in on pickups into southern Israel.
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I hope SloJo is at least sharing satellite data with Bibi.
I’d prefer we send support there than Ukraine. But they likely can handle themselves.
More likely Darth Brandon’s puppeteers are sharing satellite data with Hamas.
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https://twitter.com/JMichaelWaller/status/1710661399981015134?t=bqe3yZMhqnZ0fwXWragK0Q&s=19
How easy would it be for foreign death squads, inserted and sheltered illegally in the United States, to run sabotage and murder ops in America the way the Palestinian terrorists are doing it in Israel?
Like I said above, the “Operation Fast and Furious” gunwalking scandal wasn't actually an oopsie.
https://twitter.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1710742029796307290?t=RAQCbXrAyjr4mNRncFxPnw&s=19
Breaking News Israel: Riots are being reported in Northern Israel as local Israeli Arabs start to attack infrastructure with unconfirmed reports that they are attacking Israeli civilians and setting fires.
Areas with mixed populations are becoming increasingly tense.
#Arabs #Israel #IsraelUnderAttack #PalestinianTerrorists #Gaza
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Most Israeli Arabs are Christian and hate Hamas and the PLO more than the Jews do, so I'm a little skeptical.
21% of Israelis are Arab, so it'd be a big deal if true.
IsIsrael couldn't have lasted as long as it has without the help of Arab Intel and operatives, especially those of the Druze religion.
Pop-Up Video Factoid: The Encyclopedia of Unbelief edited by Gordon Stein has an entire friendly entry on "Zionism."
“Israel couldn’t have lasted as long as it has without the help of Arab Intel and operatives, especially those of the Druze religion.”
Some of the Israeli army’s best fighters.
“The Encyclopedia of Unbelief”
The antitheist equivalent of the “Answers in Genesis” creation science magazine. About as historically and scientifically literate too, and it preys on the gullible in much the same manner. It’s a safe bet that the opposite is true regarding whatever it and Skeptics Annotated say.
So you're saying you're against Israel if an Atheist media source supports Israel? What the actual fuck?
Weak sophistry. I'm saying your little religious tracts are jokes.
It's an Encyclopedia, not a tract, and yes, you just committed a Genetic Fallacy.
One good thing about the Druze that Christians and Muslims could emulate: The Druze neither seek nor want converts and keep their mouths shut about religion. If there has to be religion, that's the way I like it.
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As I accurately predicted last week, Readon is choosing to completely ignore Robert F. Kennedy's declaration of independence from the democratic party. They haven't even mentioned it in passing. Right again, as usual!
Their Biden corruption coverage has been excellent though.
They are too busy asking Aella what kind of buttplugs she prefers.
He said mean things about the Koch Bros. I mean really mean things. Like many years ago. But those wounds may never heal. If RFK Jr. runs as a Libertarian, Reason will be faced with a tough choice. But I'm confident that the editors will strategically and reluctantly endorse the Biden regime. It's all within normal parameters.
Well, you wouldn't want to live in an actual libertarian country, would you?
I've said it before, but those numbers are far less than the real effects. At least with "sins" like groceries, as meat prices have more than doubled for beef and pork, chicken is close to that.
The only reason the numbers are this low is that purchasers are switching to cheaper products. You used to buy ribeye on sale for $4, now that's the sale price for chuck. Tritips that used to go for $2.79 now go on sale for $6. These cheap cuts of meat are 25% higher than higher quality ones used to be, but the government lumps them all together.
My life costs almost twice what it did at the beginning of 2020. Utilities are up 80%, gas is over $6, food costs are up astronomically. The 17.3% for overall inflation is bullshit.
Also, is it weird to call things like prescription drugs "sin" products? Airline fairs? Meat? I mean, is having a piece of chicken with my dinner really a sin?
That's a shite way to describe some of these things. Especially from a libertarian perspective.
Yeah 17.3 doesn't reflect my reality either. Of course Reason relies on government inflation numbers which they have been openly redefining for decades. I was hoping to be fully retired by now but between the regime covid scam and the regime Bidenomics I'm fucked. Of course reluctantly and strategically it all makes sense because peace and prosperity just weren't worth the cost of mean tweets.
According to the WEF and the Greenies, they are indeed sins, just like living in a shelter larger than 400 square feet, turning lights on after dark, and living longer than 40 years.
You’ve nailed it. That’s what I mean, and we should laugh in the face of anyone so ridiculous.
Don’t get me wrong, I think we’re overpopulated here. And in general, if we want to live a good life, eat seafood, raise plenty of cattle and all. I’m not against fewer people in the world in the future. It’s happening in a natural way, folks having one or two kids instead of a bunch, so population growth slows. This is just fine, and we should have strong, balanced economies that allow everyone to prosper and live good lives.
But the econarcissists sure do seem like they want exactly what you’re saying. ‘We’re destroying the earth” so we can’t have… well, fucking anything. Every time you give up a plastic bag, another “sin” replaces it as the most important thing ever to wipe out. Now it’s gas stoves, for some fucking reason.
And that makes me paranoid that we’re headed toward more forceful steps to reduce population, either by making life so fucking miserable common folk don’t have kids, or worse.
Letting econihilists determine whether I can have a straw with my iced tea, turn on my air conditioner, or drive to the beach seems like a terrible way to make public policy. But calling meat a sin pretty much does this.
Don't forget toilet paper.
is it weird to call things like prescription drugs “sin” products?
I can see some justification for that. The majority of prescription drugs are either psychoactive drugs that are essentially recreational, or drugs to counter the damage of excesses like gluttony or heavy drinking. Then there’s Viagra and Cialis and contraceptives…
Speak for your own medicine chest, Grand Mufti.
Not only do I take Metformin for Type 2 Diabetes (which is both genetic and lifestyle-related) but also because it may be anti-carcinogenic and even anti-aging. People have said I look younger than my age since I started taking Metformin, so there is that. I want the stuff to be over-the-counter.
Between Metformin and nanotech-made bullet-resistant plastic vest plates, I get a feeling that Hamas may have a rough time rendering Israel totally Judenrein. Sucks to be your side.
Are they?
My friend's husband is type 1 diabetic. He has a refrigerator full of insulin. Birth control pills are (were) prescription medication, but also used to treat things ovarian cysts. An old friend has a bout with a disease that left him with great pain and he had a very carefully controlled pain regimen as he recovered, those prescription meds got him through the surgery that bought him two more decades of good life.
I'd be interested in any data on how many prescription drugs are for recreational use rather than actual medical use, if you have any. Seems to me that the antibiotics you get to treat an ear infection or the chemo you get to treat your cancer don't quite qualify as a "sin".
My kiindest thoughts to you, your husband, and your friend.
One of the hopes I have for a free society is that all of these medicines will be Over-The-Counter, as transparently priced as a fast-food menu, and made cheap as candy by Free-Market Capitalist competition, with no more need for third-party financing by either private insurance or Medicare/Medicaid!
Verner thinks that innocent Israelis are aggressors and Hamas murderers are victims, so I wouldn't trust his bedside manner on anything.
No mention of the price of crack cocaine?
I don't know but Hunter does.
Rolling in kickbacks recently.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1710728027733209245?t=xIpy9wiY_6J52VbJ2N72_A&s=19
WH staffer: “Nobody wants to talk about Iran in WH today, if you even utter the name Iran you might find yourself without a job. They know how bad this payout looks now”
From the comments:
Don’t worry about this war in the Middle East will affect gas prices, everyone, America still has our massive Strategic Petroleum Reserve!
Oh wait…
Mossad and CIA completely blindsided by an assault that would have taken at least a couple of months to stage. Another Jeffery Epstein moment.
So, where’s Hillary?
Have they ever predict anything they didn't orchestrate?
So just saw our leader and chief on the telly. Turns out the regime stands behind the state of Israel. Bunch of Republican head bobbers joining in the chorus. Of course they also stand behind Ukraine and Taiwan. As I've said before, the only way Biden can retain his senile grip on power is by dragging us into a boots on the ground, rally round the flag, war. Everybody is bored with the Ukraine thing and most have figured out that it's just another Biden crime family grift. And of course Putin is just itching to unleash nuclear war. Taiwan? Well that's complicated and the odds of war with China before the 2024 election are pretty slim. But Arabs in the middle east? Shit. We've been cakewalking that thing for decades. I mean this attack was totally unprovoked (but financed by us) and we were totally blindsided (even though we financed it) . And Israel too (well it's complicated). It's like WMDs all over again (and GWs approval ratings hopefully).
I used to be a conspiracy theorist but now I'm a conspiracy realist. The only thing I know for sure is that the Biden regime needs this war and the timing couldn't be better.
Really shocking that Obama/Sleepy Joe's "appease Iran" policy ended up as a complete and total fucking disaster, just like all the rest of their asinine, shitty policies!
Yes, of course. We all know that evil Putin invaded the democracy known as Ukraine just to start a nuclear war.
But,but Joe told us if we don't stop Putin in Ukraine, we will have to fight him here, so more billions need to be dumped into Ukraine itself, after all Zelensky needs to pay for that $25 million dollar villa in Miami, the one next to Nancy and Paul.
Thanks to the Rethuglicans and their Catholic henchmen and henchwomen on the Supreme Court, this index should now include the cost incurred by having to travel to another state to obtain an abortion, because the reich-wing sees it as a sin.
Go enjoy your dead baby float.
Gas and airfare are already there.
Beyond that, reason used US gov data on inflation to come up with that table, they are way too lazy to break it down by state.
Beyond that, they actually don't give a shit about the costs of abortions.
Everything Is So Terrible And Unfair, Ana.
Haha.
If she doesn't like it, she can always trans into a man. That way she won't have to worry about getting pregnant, she can get other women pregnant.
Right?
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