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I don’t think I sit in echo chambers, just like you think you don’t. So I’m probably being unfair, but it’s the internet I guess. At the same time, anecdotal evidence doesn’t mean that they correspond with real prices. Even if my eggs were $7, that would not mean everyone’s were. Just like your eggs being 3.69 doesn’t mean average prices significantly decreased. The egg prices from the source you quoted (I am familiar) are not retail cost: “The egg prices refer to the national FOB average prices of white large eggs in wholesale markets, calculated based on the cost of 30-dozen cases of caged shell eggs.” And you know that oil futures do not correspond to refined gas prices. The tariffs are temporary (90 day) 30/10 tariffs. I do not believe tariffs have been demonstrated to be good economic policy, regardless of party. And I don’t have as much belief in the strategy in the mid term, based on the high probability of both inflation/recession AND the soft power reputational and relational costs that come with them. What is the long term play and the second/third order effects? I subscribe to the cyclical monetary thoughts that we are approaching a reckoning with our currency (we are well into quantitative easing). In the end, I hope that the policies do help the country. But investments are dependent on market sentiment and stability, and I see significant risk there.

I am not cherry picking anything... I bought eggs two days ago local and they were sub $4.00, Regular gas (I use premium), was $2.59. I did not say the economy is good, but it clearly is improving and is likely to do so. The futures are up big this morning (Dow 1,000 pts / NASDAQ 891 pts), as a result of the trade deal with China. I believe the deal sets the baseline at 10% on both sides. I certainly don't think Trump is going to replace the income tax with tariffs, but his strategy (which absolutely needed to be done), does appear to be working. I don't do truth and while my "echo chamber" is to focus on the positive yours is all negative.

I figured it out, this forum probably gets their programming directly from Truth Social. This is a real message from the real president.

So I assume everyone on this forum is having a conniption about the communist policy coming out? Would love to hear why central price control is different now - think critically.

I think so. I get the desire for the biggest and baddest. That said, I think it ultimately comes down to the engine redundancy…quads vs ETOPS. If it wasn’t for that, I think the 787 would take the cake based on higher cruise speed with comparable range.

Too beaucoup gi?

Dreamliner will do just fine.

Just switch to 777 Not cheap, not easy but if king for a day it would be part of a 777 mil variant project, tanker/mobility, VVIP, new NECAP platforms.

I stand unastonished. Not only will he take the gifted palace plane, he'll have use AF taxpayer money modify it, and he'll keep it afterwards. I say if he's gonna keep it, he has to refund the tax $$ used to modify it. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121680511

sounds like TDS bro...gas is $1.98/gal!

Your data are wholesale prices and commodities markets - not what people are actually paying. I do not live in California, but in nowhere-ville east coast eggs were $5.29 and gas was $3.45 today. Remember when Biden would cherry pick economic data to gaslight people about how good the economy was? The overall opinion is absolutely not what you stated. It is in your echo chambers, I am sure. But not in reality. The polls show that people neither believe Trump is doing well overall or on immigration. Yes, >85% of republicans are happy. But the actual majority of America are negative. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/29/nx-s1-5379596/trump-100-days-polling-grade-approval-rating https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/04/25/trump-immigration-approval-ratings-drop-poll/

You must live in California. National price for a dozen eggs is WAY down. Energy prices related to the price of crude ALWAYS lag and impact for more than simply what you pay at the pump. they matriculate across all aspects of the economy from production to transportation of goods. We've already seen the indicators from march Core Inflation...should continue to decrease. The U.S. market graph is somewhat funny...for so long we heard how all of the other economies were doing so poorly, of course they had more upside. I bought in at some of the lows, especially blue chips and I am above where I was when the corrections started. Actually bought a new range rover this week with some of it. The DNC can scream about process and storm ICE detention centers but the overall opinion is he is doing the right thing with the illegals. Don;t get me wrong, I want to follow the law but most don't seem to care.

There is hope, I'm currently deployed and just finished my FC1 last week. All in about a months timeline from when i started reaching out to folks to the day i was seen by the Flight Doc. I don't write this to brag by any means, i write this to say networking is key. I started with my home station med group who defended my deployed units med group when they initially denied seeing me for my FC1 stating "we aren't entitled to conduct your FC1, your home station is." I began scrambling with the unknown suspense for apps due to the Sq (have since found out it sounds like late June for me) reaching out to my home med group to see if they could pull some strings while I'm out here. A technician back home happened to know a technician out here, a buddy of mine went through ROTC with a current f-22 flyer and had me reach out to the f-22 flight doc, and both of those things got the ball rolling allowing me to get my lab work and vision done prior to my Flight Doc visit. Now granted, i am waiver-less and health has always been pretty solid so the med group here didn't necessarily feel anything would be dragged out/tied back to them but my recommendation: start with your home station med group, ask leadership at work, reach out to friends in other units/career fields/bases to see who they know. Someone always knows someone and all you need is one person to pull a string and boom you're getting your FC1 completed just before the buzzer sounds. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yup...

It is the Florida-Man of gun companies.

It's a Kel-Tec. Janky is included free of charge

Here’s the pragmatic answer - they aren’t gonna have a problem unless things change a lot. In reality, egg prices haven’t actually changed significantly for consumers (turns out bulk price decreases don’t matter to families), gas prices same. Tax proposals to create structures where the rich pay more are not supported by republicans in congress AND proposed policies that include elimination of income tax + tariffs are highly regressive, so good luck making people believe that the Repubs will actually do anything. Probably a graph like this would play well in the “things to cry about:” And immigration policy - despite whatever wins may be occurring - will be met with criticisms about the administration using tactics that appear dictatorial and unconstitutional. Maybe they’d throw the fact that the Epstein logs still haven’t been released? Who knows! That’s how 60% of America views those issues now. Hope it actually gets better.

Maybe. I haven't had the time to delve into it too much. When I shot it, I was just using the head box of a USPSA target at about 10 yards after a match. Probably a 4 inch group or so. The dot plate screws sit above the plate, so the dot mount is janky. ??? Beats me.

PVC will just be the new heritage 🤷🏻‍♂️ We're just getting old, that's all.

They just announced a deal with China. Lets see how this turns out... The UK deal was more symbolic than anything. With egg prices down, fuel costs down (inflation will come down in lag with energy costs), the border is closed and Trump just came out in favor of higher taxes on the top 1%. The Carville/Bernie/AOC are going to have to dig deep into the bag to find things to cry about.

mother of all thread derails jesus dude

*yawn* That sophist nonsense again? cool I'll play. Sorry about the GO thread derail: This isn't about generals, this is a larger austerity project than the author intimates. Yeah I see you (the royal you). I've heard that pitch at least 3 times before in my career as an AFRC baby. It's the same ol song and dance that if your position is primarily stateside, you shouldn't wear a uniform. And I got the same retort I've always had for these doublespeaking austerity hawks: FUPM. That expeditionary force myopia is not suprising, given this admin is the party of FAFO, but you're assaulting/gutting your Reserve component capacity with that kind of deployment-supremacist view. More to the regAF point, wildly overestimating the degree of active duty retention you think you have by attempting to extend that COA into AD end strength. Typical FAFO hubris from the "I won't be here when the grenade goes off" dum dum Willie types. To say nothing of AD largesee for me but not for thee run amok. Matters not. You think you can operationally staff DOD congressional pork barrel economy garden spots with 60 cents on the dollar 'local' blue suiters? Go right ahead, let me run to the microwave real quick and get the corn bag. Fact is nobody with a scintilla of existing corporate continuity/tactical expertise is going to do this job beyond the journeyman level (get the civilian transferable training and immediately bounce, brain drain jobs program) in present circumstances as an ART equivalent or worse, no military code GS, when they have to punch out of that 1960s decaying empire Boeing-betrayed POS. No buck no buck rogers homey. And there's a hell of a lot more to that buck than W2 wages. Serious people recognize than nuance, unserious austerity clowns don't. This not conjecture, they cannot staff ART billets to save their lives even if you threw in a free Oprah car with it. They gutted FERS with that multiplier nonsense (1.0 vs 2.5 or even 1.7 for LEO, good grief, and a 4.4 fee since '14 as of last reading), pushed the sunsetting of ART Tricare ineligibilily to FY30 (a fucking theft, when no such imposition is made of retirees who go straight GS employees). And you want to backstop your baseline regAF capacity with that kind of retail level turnover job offers? lulz. It's also the same reason you're not going to retain talent by trying to send career tactical experts (aka technicians, in the occupational meaning of the word) to warrant payscales. That's not a programmatic quip either, they're not doing that to end up paying operators *O(SP)-4/5 money to do the job. (*that's my ficitious O-4/5 equivalent to the ARMY exintct specialist SP tables, non-commanding track, latter which my late English-illiterate grandfather retired from the army in 1966). The point of their COA is the paycut. FAFO. The level of myopia in that austerity pitch is wild. It's all good though, we already got IPT early exit polls in AETC already brewing a real sweet track record on the FAFO front. Add some Boeing malfeasance on the T-7 side and you got yourself a real boondoggle. I could tell y'all what Boeing plans to do to meet IOC contract legalities this summer, but I'd straight up doxx myself at this point and betray the confidence of my sources, so I'm gonna digress. DOD management (leaders they are not) is starting to show their arsecrack once again when they bend over to pick up pennies while walking over dollars. Now back to GO officer drawdown kabuki theater potato.

Well done!

A bit more color from someone who spent a LOT of time around that environment...including as an exec for the Deputy Chief of Staff. Not suggesting it is a personal chauffeur but home to work was the norm when I was there and especially in places like DC it is a HUGE deal, especially with the parking and special security lanes. Also, moving around DC while the rest of us use the METRO. Ironically, I once Slugged with a dude and when we got to the Pentagon drop off area he asked if I worked in the building...I replied yes and showed him my badge. He said stay with me I have decent parking. We went through security, zipped past south parking and down pat the memorial and corridor five where all the 3-4 starts had their cars parked. I got real nervous when we turned the corner and he drove up the ramp and parked in the second spot by the Mall Entrance...unbeknownst to me I just rode to work with the DEPSECDEF who insisted on driving himself. I was trying to replay the conversation in my head because he was asking me questions all the way down 395. The "assist" with entertaining is the most abused part of the program. "International agreements with world leaders and senior partners" is absolutely comical. At least half the time they are hosting old friends who happen to work in industry. I never once saw a"world leader" but I saw a lot of old bros coming over for dinner and drinks. You forgot to add the USAF is sending these assistants to culinary schools...usually private ones. When I was an exec the boss' were swapping out and the new guy decided the interview of his new in-home assistant was a test case hosting a party for other senior leaders. That prep included mowing the Senior GO's lawn...by the way, the interviewee was pregnant. That was a defining moment when I knew I didn't want to be a GO. You forgot the execs and enlisted assistants that DO personal stuff like dry cleaning, uniform setup, going to get breakfast and lunch...I used to fill out birthday cards (I know because I got yelled at for one misspelled word in a stack of 53 cards). Same docs or not as you note they have a special place and process that they get to use even when RETIRED. They don't wait for appointments and why do they need more privacy than HIPAA provides the rest of us. My first boss had some medical issues, I could call the GO office at Walter Reed or the In-Pentagon Flight Doc and get him in within the hour. C-21s and other aircraft for the 1-3 starts...white caps for the 4 stars. Being a GO is hard work with long hours but I don;t feel sorry for them one bit.