Grocery shopping yesterday we really noticed it for the first time. Things have been higher and higher for a while but now there an extra 10-30% on some goods, overnight. Gonna be a brutal year. I’ve never seen stagflation in the flesh. No one my age has.

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Fabric softener isn’t soap tho, it’s like the opposite, a bunch of greasy conditioners and relaxants and fragrances designed to cling to your clothes even after rinsing.

Because becoming a billionaire itself contributes to society’s collapse. They are opposite goals.

OK but this is pretty funny. If this is how the new pope rolls, I’m here for it.

CLIP don’t grind, you don’t want all them profits going up in dust!

These make you stupid but they do help

It’s going to be a lot of “that homespun wisdom being ratcheted up to 11 and slathered onto topics of today” which will likely get patronizing quickly, especially if they try to make fun of the younger generation without understanding them.

Maybe I’m wrong but

Dicks were big in the 70s. It was cool to work them into art, or wear them as jewelry.

Mine went missing for a day, and then at 2am a neighbor started pounding on the door - was this our cat wailing keeping them awake?

So I climbed about 30’ up a pine tree in my boxers, in the dark, unwrapped the cat from the tree, wrapped it around my bare chest (it’s terrified fully extended claws made this a snap, right into my flesh) and down we went.

She never tried that again, but did enjoy annual escapes onto the roof until the arthritis got too bad.

You don’t need to leave the kitchen, just need a pi

Went to the mall today and one store, a toy store I think, had a big Israel flag hanging by the entrance - like I get that you have an identity at stake here but none of us want to walk under that particular flag to spend our money right now, and you could see that reflected. And that’s not anti-semitism, it’s just voting with our feet.

Next, it’d be nice to get our tax dollars to do the same thing…

Own your own consulting firm which helps this occur anyway.

But it was pre-Covid the last time I made this work, I finally got in with the idea of steady jobs - they pay you like, $2k every couple weeks just to sit in a little room all day… ok I can doomscroll in a different place for a while if you’re going to pay my bills

We’ve all made ChatGPT create the Celebrity Deathmatch clips

The GOP grew itself as the “big tent party” because it masterfully understood how to get many divergent interest groups in line. I think a lot of this just has to do with the authoritarian might that’s always been central to the Republican party, and how the liberal culture is more “your refined, college educated uncle who’d rather go get high in the garage than get involved in the fight.”

I don’t think we need one central orthodoxy, rather we need a drum being beat loudly, and no one on our side has strong arms.

Venn diagram, we need to focus on the “nazi” and “alpha male” circles which are smaller than the “little dick” circle, which is actually - gay dude here - I’ll tell you pretty big.

So who is the candidate to watch?

He’s mouthy and good with the bully pulpit, which is engaging television and probably wins over hearts and minds WAY better than progressive policy (sadly).

The right person has to have the charisma AND the progressive underpinning. Style and substance.

But I would take enough charisma to shut down MAGA at this point, even if it was a bit establishment. Piecemeal it. IDK if we’ll get the style and substance candidate, or how much that will matter.

We know that capitalism is self-correcting so don’t worry, it’ll shake itself out

House is 123 years old, I have a couple of cast-iron pans that are civil war era, still get regular use.