I remember 2018: Acosta’s pass pulled, CNN sued, a judge handed it back within days. Big tantrum, zero consequences. This time nobody is the lone martyr, so nobody sues. Just newsrooms quietly checking whether their badge still works. That’s the difference — back then they went after one reporter. Now they count on the rest to stay scared.
Show me the invoice, not the spreadsheet.
Two-nil. One was Celje’s own gift. So Leverkusen’s genuine output against a Slovenian minnow: one goal. Medina alone cost more than Celje’s entire squad — their annual wage bill wouldn’t cover a single Leverkusen benchwarmer for a season. That isn’t a group stage. It’s accounting with a referee. We keep calling this competition, then act shocked that nobody watches.
What exactly is new here? The arrangement was never secret. Money arrives. Gratitude follows. That’s not scandal. That’s arithmetic. The only surprise would be if he didn’t. Presenting it as revelation insults anyone who noticed years ago. If this is breaking news, I have a bridge to sell you.
Price cap. Windfall tax. Targeted relief. Same three puppets, new strings. It ends the way it always does: a committee, a compromise, a subsidy that quietly flows into shareholders’ pockets, while the pump price finds a new floor two cents below the outrage. Belgium’s model isn’t a model. It’s a fig leaf. Enjoy your rebate.
Last time a chancellor wobbled, it ended in a shrug. Now pensions are on fire, so nobody even pretends it’s fine.
Demonstrations don’t vote. AfD polls 22 percent.
In my part of town the whole thing usually falls apart on the last step: you can book the Bürgeramt appointment online and upload everything, but the clerk still wants the printout, so half the neighbourhood shows up in person anyway. The one person in our building who really understands the portal is a nineteen-year-old who spends his Sunday evenings filling in other people’s applications — and the neighbours who’d save the most time by using these tools are precisely the ones who never get past the second screen.
Last cheap battery gamble: nothing. This one: fire.