Bet we get a correction in the near future about how they were actually up too. =P

And we're just about to enter our first Christmas season with tariff induced inflation on top of ALL the other nightmarish crap we have to deal with AND whatever new horrors will be introduced between now and the end of the year.

People are only gonna get madder from here, and they should.

In my experience, most people just want to go about their day and not think about scary stuff. But it's getting VERY hard to do that and if you then look to the people saying they'll help you and see they're NOT, yeah. It's breaking through cause many CAN'T just go about their day afterwards now.

Trump's entire second term so far has been massive acceleration and expansion of every horrid thing he did last time but Dems put up the same tired facade to pretend they're fighting, and I do think people are noticing.

Dems talk nebulously about consequences while their voters SEE it every day.

Entrenched Democratic politicians and some of their allied consultants, pundits, etc are amongst the few people MOSTLY protected from the consequences of their (in)action.

Everyone below that doesn't have the luxury to ignore this shit anymore, and even some of the pundit class are getting pissed.

When I was a young man they just recast leading actors all the damn time. They couldn't even keep Val Kilmer on for Batman & Robin so next movie we got George Clooney but every other actor stayed the same.

I wasn't confused (by that specifically, other things in Batman & Robin I found confusing).

I'm a professional scientist, it's my curse. I literally just spent an hour looking up cost of basic food ingredients on a per-calorie basis.

For instance, just over 1 lb of pure sugar will provide 2000 calories for maybe $1.10. It's the cheapest thing. Really puts the obesity crisis in context.

You've put a lot of thought into this.

They can only destroy. They don't have the patience and care needed to make something people would ENJOY.

This immediately leads me to ask what the best you can do WHILE pissing off the ATF?

Yet.

Ah, you're right. Well I'm very curious to what the first poll taken after the cave is gonna look like.

"Mystery ANYTHING" means you probably wouldn't pay for it if they told you what it is.

Curious to the context that leads Batman to ask that question.