This is entirely a historically accurate and rational response.

You’ll have to ask the Framers.

“Prices are high” is a subjective opinion, it can’t be characterized as “reality”.

But now I learned that Rogan is about 5’ tall.

Malinowski should primary her.

Part of the problem is that people had gotten used to unusually stable prices - CPI increased by only 20% over 12 years from 2008 to 2020. The main reason is that it was a period of two deep recessions with slow recovery between them, but people think casually rather than causally.

But mortgage interest rates in early 1980s were in double digits.

The increase from 2019 to 2025 is almost equal to that for the last 6 years of the Reagan administration (1982-88), which was 23%.

A: Stop global warming!

B: OK, here’s expensive gas and expensive beef.

A: What?!? Bring out the guillotines!

That’s me as a doctor
That’s me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep coherent
And I don’t know if I can do it

Saruman: “We must join with Sauron”

Stopped clock…

People responsible for this should never again hold a non-menial job.

This. Been there twice and concluded that there’s no such thing as walking distance there.

Gimme Shelter Is housing crisis only a shot away?

It’s complicated - I wrote about it a year and a half ago: open.substack.com/pub/svenosau...

The only way something like this budget goes anywhere is if all Republicans sign on to a suicide pact to pass it by reconciliation a month before the election.

An 80s kitchen would be considered unacceptable and unusable by an average person today. It would also violate a bunch of safety regulations.

Who in the US did not own a car in the 1960s?

That’s not political, you just don’t understand what price is. Mortgage payments are not consumption; however, the equivalent rent is counted as expense for homeowners.

That said, CPI adjusts for quality, but that’s essentially impossible to do well with things like healthcare.

Yes but since you’re alive, I’m positive you didn’t get a condition that would run up a million in health costs. I bet your plan had a lifetime maximum in the 250k-1 million range. (2 million if you had the best plan available; those were rare.)

I don’t understand this. Catastrophic coverage is pretty common today (“high deductible plans”) and basically didn’t exist before the ACA - insurance typically had a lifetime maximum and if you really hit catastrophic levels, you used it up.

San Francisco is an outlier.

You bought at the bottom of the market and homes in your area appreciated significantly more than the national average. So you basically won the lottery… and are complaining?

However, people were only rational with an extremely short attention span. A couple years later, they universally blamed current governments for the inflation wave, not understanding that it was caused by the pandemic and that the alternative was their governments letting them starve.

You see a lot of “why did Sir Keir pick McSweeney” but the truth is that Sir Keir is Derek Zoolander: a beautiful, clueless, incurious oaf that bad people could use to assassinate the Prime Minister of Micronesia.

They’re calling Houston? Didn’t they realize one of them is the Copilot?

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OK, my bad. The unemployment rate for people w/o college degrees was often high enough to outweigh the fact that recent graduates are largely new entrants. But the current UR for recent graduates isn’t historically high; rather, the UR for non-graduates is quite low.

It’s literally always been above the “all workers” line, and it’s hard to imagine a world in which it wouldn’t be.

What’s the evidence that this hasn’t already happened and the head he wears on his shoulders isn’t fake?