Effects of inflation as seen in a meal for two.

[Oerdin]

Inflation is just unbelievable. Part of it is California is a one party state and the Democraps keep pushing absurd garbage like minimum wages which automatically go up every year no matter how it effects the economy (Now at $16.30 and goes up automatically every January). Part of it is also that the Fed literally quadrupled the total supply of U.S. dollars in just three years resulting in ever more dollars chasing the same amount of goods. Part of it is Democraps are still giving people tons of money to not work (check out how many are now on SSIDI often for frivolous stuff because Dems made it easy for everyone to get a free check).

Prices definitely went up. Tonight my wife and I went out to eat at a local seafood chain restaurant (Brigantine Seafood) and it was nice enough, it is a sit down restaurant, five years ago it probably would have been $25-$40 per person depending on what you ordered. Today after tax and a 15% tip it was $165. I went for the daily special (crab stuffed seabass with veggies and rice pilaf and a cup of clam chowder), wife went for blackened salmon (similar sort of soup and sides offered) plus we opted for an appetizer of six oysters (three baked, three on half shell). I drank iced tea and my wife ordered lemonade.

Does that sound like a $165 meal for two at a chain restaurant? I swear to God before COVID this would have been $50-$70 tops but now it is more than double that.

 

[Oerdin]

I confess I did fuck up on one thing. If you order the oysters at their "oyster bar" during happy hour than they are only $1.50 per oyster. We were there during happy hour but if you sit at a table and not in their bar than magically the same oysters become $4 each. Not sure how that works.

 

[Oerdin]

Inflation from a different view:

I like to pay my utilities as soon as they post though I guess they aren't officially due until the end of the month. The fucking water bill was $250 on a regular suburban house, Democraps recently raised water rates "because we are in a drought and need to force people to conserve", we than got two years worth of rain in three months. The drought is magically gone but higher rates remain forever. My SDG&E (gas and electric) bill was $400 because Democraps don't want to build any power stations plus they ordered utilities in the state not to have the usual storage of natural gas because "we are phasing out fossil fuels for green energy". The result? Shortages of both electricity and natural gas with prices up 300%.

Democraps are like retarded incompetent children but no matter how badly they fuck everything up their loyal zombie mail in voters make sure none of them ever loses an election.

I recently paid $20,000 to have solar installed to try to lower the sky high electric bills (still have one payment of $4000 due when the system is installed and working). It turns out Democraps lied about giving a shit about "green energy" because if this system isn't installed and operating by April 15th then instead of Netmetering 2.0 it will fall under netmetering 3.0. What is the difference? Utilities will give homeowners with solar systems just 15% of what they would get under 2.0. That is right, the Democraps reduced the amount homeowners get for investing tens of thousands of dollars in solar panels by 85% yet still lie and pretend they care.

 

[Oerdin]

Went to a breakfast place with my wife and youngest (eldest whined about not wanting to get out of bed "early". It was 10am.). The restaurant was "Snooze, an A.M. Eatery". Waited, no shit, 1.5 hours in line for a table; originally it was supposed to be 25-30 minutes so we took a walk around Hillcrest (the gay part of town), and bought smoothies at Whole Foods then walked back to be just on time for our 30 minute wait. The restaurant had my wife's phone number and said they would text when it was our turn.

A full fucking hour later (1.5 hours after we put our name on the list) we got a table. I got their "Snooze Classic" (three sausage links, three eggs, hash browns, and toast), wife got their Italian eggs benidicts (just one poached egg on half a slice of toast with a tiny slice of prosciutto ham and hash browns with a side of toast) while the sixth grader got the same order as me plus a single "banana creme brulee pancake). Drinks were 1 bloody Mary (served in a pint glass mostly filled with ice), 1 margarita (maybe half a pint in size), and orange juice and a pineapple juice.

Total damage with tax and 15% tip was $98! Fuck that.

 

[Oerdin]

Later went to Balboa Park, walked around, went to the "Museum of US" which cost $58 for 1 vet, 1 adult, and 1 child but buying a ticket means you get free entry for an entire year. Now, until 2020 it was called "The Museum of Man" but radical leftists claimed that was a sexist name and it was changed to "Museum of us" to follow D.EmI. requirements by the state according to a display at the entry. At the same time they changed the name of the museum of man they also opened a "Museum of women" which is somehow not sexist. Make this shit make sense.

Back in the day it was all about cultural and artistic creations as well as displays about different cultures in different time periods. Now it was literally over run with racist woke garbage and political phrases. One section declared "right wing racism to be rooted in white supremacist racialism". Another was supposedly about "our border region" which dealt exclusively on drumming up sympathy for illegal aliens criminals while a third was about beer which claimed primitive south Americans chewing dried corn in their mouth then spitting the chewed up corn and their spit into a bowl made of lightly fired mud was "an advanced brewing process from an advanced civilization. To compare European beer brewing was called "barbaric and backwards" and an ancient SE Asian practice of putting moldy rice into a container of water was "the Hallmark of a higher civilization". I shit you not.