Yes, the bubble, the echochamber. “It must be true because we all say it is true”. Then they employ the device they created, Bureaucracy, to wear down any dissent. As Stanislaw Lem wrote in “The Cyberiad”, the Steelypips found out that the Big B can defeat almost anything.
That is why they so fear and despise Trump. He is not of the system. He hates the Big B and its inherent evil. He slashes through it to get work done. He knows what paralysis and evil is hidden in reams of ill-used and sometimes arcane regulations with the force of law and which were not voted upon by public or congress.
She is right, of course about some things. Why buy Bucks’ noxious fluids full of arcane ingredients for 7 bucks when, with a Mr Coffee and a can of Folgers or Maxwellhouse, you can make your own caffeine drink at home for a few pennies a cup? Why, outside of need when busy, buy a breakfast sandwich of a toasted English muffin, a fried egg and a sausage patty for $4 when you can make it at home for about 60 cents?
But she is wrong about most Americans not changing their spending habits. Most of us, including old, widowed farts with adequate income streams, are changing spending priorities. I don’t fly to Europe unless it is in the back of a C-17 or other military jet. Then only when tasked. I eschew fast food dining except when on the run around the first of the month when I get most of the monthly chores accomplished. I do admit Five Guys burgers are rather good, but don’t ask for a large fry as I did my first time.
Liberal WASP women, especially those who are lesbians or cannot attract and keep a man, have a very skewed viewpoint. Personally I believe boxed wine makers are diluting their already useless product with various hormones to ensure addiction and with hallucinogens to prevent them from seeing reality.
Five Guys fries may not be the best, but if you are still hungry afterwards it’s your fault, they filler up. I concur fart food is an ooops I worked too late to cook a meal, not an every night item. My personal budget is tight enough that if I buy coffee it’s QT, and I almost get a 2 gallon bucket for 3$. I consider dining out a luxury, not a necessity, and am trying to spend less as I prepare for retirement.
There is something to be said for getting a lot of something. I like Five Guys burgers but I haven’t eaten there in about four or five years.
They had a commercial about the fries. A guy at the counter, his first time, asked for a large order of fries. It went slowmo as everyone in the joint stood up shouting: “Noooooo!!”. And a guy was backing up a small forklift with a 50 gallon barrel full of raw fries. I admit, I laughed pretty hard, remembering my own mistake. But being fried in peanut oil does make them taste pretty good. I use peanut oil at home as my preferred fry oil.
It’s funny how every industry has to rediscover every generation that the secret to success is giving the customer a quality product at a fair price. A good burger and fries sells itself.