Pasta & POTUS 🍝
This Week in Review☕️: Calling all Carb lovers | Spaghetti prices rise due to popularity | Remote Work is here to stay | 2024 Presidential Race begins | Blockbuster opening at the movies this weekend |
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Quick Bites:
Elections🇺🇸: Florida governor- Ron DeSantis officially entered the 2024 Presidential race last week.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has once again claimed he might not accept the results of the upcoming White House Election.
If he needs help with acceptance, we have an A-list therapist who helped us accept the 2016 Election Results.
"I will beat Biden. I will serve two terms, and I will be able to destroy leftism in the country"
-Ron DeSantis
Ok.. you mean push the entire country into a war zone like you've done in Florida?
Your state is drowning underwater bc of global warming yet you don't do shit but throw homophobes into jail, pick a fight with Disney and get ‘To Kill a Mockingbird' banned 🖕🏻
YOUR CITIZENS ARE UPTO THEIR EARS IN WATER. WAKE THE F**K UP DESANTIS!! 👋🏻
A look at the laws Ron "DeSaster" DeSantis has passed as Florida governor so far:
💡Six-week abortion ban
💡"Don't say Gay" law
💡LGBQT restrictions
💡Allow citizens to carry concealed guns without a permit
💡Expand the death penalty
💡Outlaw puberty blockers
PS. The guy that fired Tucker Carlson just endorsed Ron DeSantis. Yep, it's over.
Our Thoughts💡: Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are tweeting insults and fighting over which one of them can be the bigger shit-eating fascist for the country. It's like Christmas came early.
PS. Trump being back on Twitter during Biden as POTUS and a potential Hitler-ian Republican on the loose is all the entertainment the world needs right now.
Let's make it happen @Elon? Can we get an organised Twitter feed for their exchanges please?🙏🏻
Food🍝: Calling all carb lovers!
Pasta prices skyrocket in Italy- enough to warrant a government intervention.
Mamma mia
PS. Y'all are Italian, make your own damn pasta
Key Highlights, according to CNN:
💡Pasta prices rose 16.5% in April from the same month in 2022
💡Pasta prices have soared despite the price of wheat (the main ingredient) falling in recent months
💡This is a problem of national importance. The average Italian consumes about 23 kgs of pasta each year
💡“Pasta is one of the foods most loved by Italians”
Our Thoughts💡: Folks already have to deal with a choppy stock market, unchecked illegal immigration, sky-high electricity bills and a proxy war in Europe.
And to top it off, we're now gonna have to break the bank to have our weeknight-fancy Spaghetti Bolognese with red wine and ground chuck
FML 🤦🏻♀️
Remote Work 👨🏻💻 : There is one major reason employees don't want to go back to the office: The commute.
People spent around $8,500 on commute expenses, accounting for around 19% of their incomes in 2022, according to Clever Real Estate.
What the "corporate" world doesn't understand- For today's generation, their profession is more than their monthly pay check. It's about flexibility and MOBILITY. Period.
Key Highlights, according to Business Insider:
💡Public transport, in cities like New York or London, can be very expensive.
💡In NYC, a single subway ticket costs $2.75, and a monthly MetroCard is $127.
💡In London, a monthly pass costs between $193 to $353 a month, depending on where you live.
💡Those who drive to work don't necessarily save more. American drivers spend an average of $1,771 a year on insurance alone. Those in New York spend about $764 on gas.
Commuting can also affect mental health; leading to "boredom, social isolation, anger and frustration from problems like traffic or delays", according to Psychology Today.
Besides the cost, many workers find it "a complete waste of time" and simply prefer working from home.
Our Thoughts💡: Tbh, we're all for being remote but #WFH has def blurred the boundaries between work and personal space!
However, a well-balanced diet of hotdogs & 10 expressos a day has def helped👇🏻😋
Entertainment🎥: The live action re-make of the "The Little Mermaid" has a stellar $118 million debut.
Over the past weekend, the film brought in $96mn, making it the 5th highest weekend opening in history.
In addition, the film grossed $68.3mn across 51 international markets, Variety reports.
This is also the first time that a black woman in a lead role is dominating the Memorial Day weekend box office.
Representation matters! Kudos to Walt Disney!🙌🏻
“It’s a classic,” said Tony Chambers, Disney’s head of distribution.
“You ask a lot of women or men of my age and it’s ‘Little Mermaid’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’ that rank as their favorite animated movie.
It’s a story that takes them back to their respective childhoods and this movie is the perfect opportunity for a lot of people to pass that love on to the next generation.”
Our Thoughts💡: The theater is back- with red leather recliners and tubs of buttery movie popcorn and WE ARE LIVING FOR IT! 🍿🍿
Quicker Bites:
Shanghai records its hottest May temperature in more than 100 years.
China sends first civilian astronaut to space.
Stock futures rise after GOP and White House reach tentative US debt ceiling deal.
Turkish lira continues drop to new record lows following Erdogan’s election victory.
Drones hit residential areas in Moscow for the first time.
Elon Musk expected to visit China this week.
Atleast 16 dead and dozens injured in shootings across the US over Memorial Day weekend.
Rare white bison born at Wyoming State Park.