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CULTURCIDAL (John Hawkins) - Price Controls: How to Turn an Economy Into a Zombie Movie

Why Price Controls Would Make Your Life Worse

A lot of times, if you’re watching a well-done movie, you subconsciously identify with the lead characters. As the movie unfolds, your brain is going, “What would it be like if I had superpowers, if I was a badass, or if I were engaged in that torrid romance”? While it’s true that not all movies are like that, have you ever thought about zombie movies through that lens? Granted, you might think about what you might do in that situation, but what would be APPEALING about it? Believe it or not, there certainly are some things about that situation. The scoreboard would be reset, and you wouldn’t be feeling like you could never catch up to George Soros or Michael Jordan. Hell, the only thing you’d have to do to be a standout in…Open

CULTURCIDAL (John Hawkins) - Why Your Burritos Are Never Going to Be Cheap Again

X has been consumed with debates over the cost of burritos this week.

Yes, really. It seemed to mostly revolve around a couple of posts from Joel Berry of the Babylon Bee and Matt Walsh from the Daily Wire that were really describing different aspects of the same problem, rather than actually contradicting each other: From there, things went in just about every direction you can imagine… burritos don’t cost $20, here’s where you can get cheap burritos, people are out of touch because they don’t know what burritos cost, are the Jews behind expensive burritos, what to do if socialists promise people free burritos, the Boomers probably want us to eat dirt burritos, etc., etc., etc. So, how do we skin this cat or alternately, stuff this burrito? Well, first of all, it’s worth noting that as a…Open

YOUTUBE (MS NOW) - Joe DESTROYS Trump's socialism attacks: socialist threat ‘is coming from the White House!’

The Morning Joe panel discusses the debate over the socialism scare heading into the midterms. Joe argues that President Trump and his administration are responsible for the biggest ‘socialist threat’ in the U.S., pointing out how the Trump administration has ‘seized’ chunks of dozens of private companies and instituted price controls. Meanwhile, Chris Matthews gives analysis on how Democrats should handle the rise of DSA within the party.