$5K per Household?
A recent article from Really American notes that Representative Ro Khanna, during the session on the 29th April that Defense Secretary Hegseth had with the House Armed Services Committee (it lasted 6 hours, that session!), said that there are estimates that the war in Iran is costing each American household $5k. Hegseth said the overall cost is lower, $25 billion instead of $631 billion, but that is still $600 per household. Now, I think it needs to cost each American household $0. In other words, it needs to not be happening!

And, of course, this doesn't even include the costs of the sanctions, the gas/oil/diesel/wev costs, grocery costs, and everything else. So I wonder what the true cost of this Trump crap is? Really? It cost over 100$ to fill the gas tank of our Toyota Tacoma truck yesterday. 100$! And it was over 350$ to go to the grocery store to get 3 bags of groceries, cat litter, some soda pop and toilet paper! Gads!

Yep!

The Really American article above discusses a Jon Ossoff ad and that discussion, and the ad, are pretty darn good. I generally hate political ads, but this one made me actually think a bit instead of just scoffing. You can read about the ad in the article link here, or, here's the youtube link to the ad:

I dunno, maybe Ossoff is doing ok, as much as possible. But it seems to be true that almost every good politician changes once they are completely sucked into the whole DC culture. Still, we gotta keep on keeping on, don't we!? Hoping for the best, when possible? Or tuning out completely, which is also a viable option at times.

Here's the open thread! What's up, whatcha doing? Reading? Thinking? Listening to? Remember, everything is interesting if you dive deep enough, so tell us about where you're diving!