Letters From the (First World) Front Lines

Not sure I’ve ever read a weaker lead. Is this really the best example they could find to illustrate the burden of increased fast food prices? https://t.co/XrG2pZznpu pic.twitter.com/v3Yd5ZpZYz

— Steve Mullis (@stevemullis) January 22, 2022

So it went up by...a dollar? O, the humanities!

I've stopped talking to my 30 year old daughter, who has never known real inflation in her life, about this.  I'm a child of the '70's (well, a teenager of the '70's), and I remember REAL inflation.  The kind Paul Volcker finally wrung out of the economy (and nearly stopped the economy dead) with double digit interest rates (the relic of which we still pay on our credit cards, because we are sheeple and apes and take what our "masters" give us and just say "Thank you, may I have some more credit?").  He broke inflation and squeezed it out of the economy, along with much of the middle and lower class income earners.  That was Reagan's REAL "Morning in America," and while Reagan opposed Volcker's actions, he took credit for the results.  Then again, inflation had been raging for a decade at the time.  Since then we've had mild inflation, major inflation in housing, and pretty much stagnant income levels. As I was saying about sheeple and apes....

6.8% annualized when it's been only a few months is like complaining about the street flooding in Houston from a rain storm when you weren't here for Harvey.

Also, as well:

Very very thin gruel. From the same article. https://t.co/iBDQHE2hP4 pic.twitter.com/ysbMZgOsxB

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 22, 2022

I'm all for contextualizing information, but I have no idea what that passage means.

“There’s simply never going to be a GOP revelation in which the rank-and-file suddenly decides, ‘It was a mistake to ever accommodate Trump, and now we want to be the party of Adam Kinzinger’

“There will be no Bourbon Restoration

⁦@RichLowry⁩ https://t.co/7YvVab8hPR

— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) January 22, 2022

Is The Lincoln Project aware of this? Because I think Mr. Lowry's conclusion is undeniable. The GOP started down this path after Eisenhower. They missed the turning point somewhere around Goldwater.

In lighter news:

Trump's new attorney in the New York case, Alina Habba, is on Hannity pic.twitter.com/VPbeDWOxvL

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 22, 2022

That would be this lawyer:

This is my favorite thing she’s done so far. pic.twitter.com/1g6x0HyZA3

— Ed Greenberger (@EdGreenberger) January 22, 2022

"Only the best people," as Charlie Pierce notes, will never not be funny.

Only the best people. https://t.co/yollNdVhtV pic.twitter.com/de5bPNJjkw

— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) January 22, 2022

Ya get what ya pay for.