You’re not mad about the burrito prices. You’re mad about service prices

Published August 5, 2026 8:31pm ET



In a bit of X discourse so dumb that it culminated in the vice president fat-shaming a newspaper columnist, the right-wing commentariat has spent the last 48 hours arguing over whether burritos are too expensive. Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire began the dialogue by blaming “insane” grocery prices on “stupid foreign wars,” followed by Turning Point’s Andrew Kolvet claiming a college student lamented that “a burrito shouldn’t cost $20.” Marc Thiessen, the aforementioned Washington Post columnist, noted that college students have access to cafeteria food, concluding with JD Vance commenting that Thiessen “has never missed a burrito.”

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