Answer this question – what institution is stronger, what societal function is running more smoothly, today than in 1991 after eight years of Reagan and a couple years before peaking under George Bush? Put aside technology. Yeah, you can have Grindr on your cell phone now. Big deal. But back at the pinnacle in 1991, would it have ever occurred to you that if you went to the store to get food for your baby – our native population was still growing back then, because people had hope for the future – you would find empty shelves? How about tampons? Did you have tampon shortages on your 2022 bingo card?
And then there’s chicken, that basic staple chicken. I went to speak to some Republicans at a country club – don’t worry, these ladies were highly based and would have laughed a squish like Jeb!’s fat tush out of the joint – and I sold it out because I am amazing. I get there and there’s room for another dozen tables. What’s up? Why not put up some more tables? Because the club can’t do it – it would love to, but it can’t guarantee that it can get that many chicken breasts.
In America! In America, when the hell would you ever imagine that you could not walk into a store and get as much yardbird as you wanted? Maybe in the forties, during WW2, with rationing. Yet in 2022, this is where we are. Our ruling class can’t even assure us of chicken.
But Kurt, what about the gas shortage in the seventies? Remember that? I sure do, both because I am old and because it was such bizarre and unusual one-off. Yet, under the current bipartisan establishment, nonsense like this is the new normal. Just like people telling us to wear a stupid, useless mask over our pieholes. Democracy has been replaced by self-appointed-expertocracy. Even the freedom supply chain is screwed up.
It never ends. The things we took for granted decades ago are uncertain, and there’s always an excuse – inevitably one that blames us. Like the new take on air conditioners, which is that they are an extravagance we should learn to live without. What the hell? Why?
And don’t get me started on the bizarre insistence of the resetters that we all need to give up beef and start eating bugs. I have a better idea. How about we eat ribeyes and burgers like Americans instead of crickets and locust like Third World famine victims?