The scary part is that there absolutely is logic to it. They're still just slightly short of being willing to say that part out loud.

I feel like 9/11 was the inflection point. The great recession was just another symptom of the problem. Banks can't get overwhelmed by underwater mortgages if people aren't underwater in the first place.

That would explain why she's willing to just toss the coffee in the back seat. Must have a side hustle doing razor blade disposal as well.

The other side of the coin is that customers aren't obligated to buy. There's always a limit to how expensive you can make a product/service before people will simply stop paying for it. Trying to find that balance point can be damned difficult.

No. I refuse to concede even one more facial hair style to the fascists.

Else, Jaws can't get you if you're nowhere close to the sea

Until they release a Jaws/Sharknado crossover.

Between adding the adds to Prime video, and their refusal to use real couriers to deliver packages to me, I cancelled prime and stopped using Amazon altogether.

I mean, you can. Probably shouldn't though.

Osmosis

The VPNs will be harder to ban. Not just from a technical standpoint, but politically as well. Big businesses will be absolutely opposed to VPN bans.

The problem is, unless things change drastically, that is the trajectory the US is on.

Until one of the other branches of government decides to grow a spine, Trump is free to do whatever he wants.