Lol, I do live in the hellhole that is the US, and uh, I have been living lean and building savings, dramatically lowered my cost of living, pre-emptively,because it is hellhole-ifying.
We will still have to wait for the actual price of course, but I've now got my own personal foodbank of months worth of staple goods I can survive off of.
Gotta play the video gaming meta game, to be able to keep video gaming, rofl.
You can look a year or whatever back into my comment history where I say 'this is gonna be the 2nd Great Depression' when Trump's econ 'plan' crystalized, before the election.
I was not joking, and I acted accordingly.