Ben Meiselas

Gas prices are up.

Things are far less affordable.

Consumer sentiment is at record lows, even worse than great recessions, dot-com crashes.

Since some of these surveys have been around, people have never felt worse about the economy.

We often hear about K-shaped economy where the rich getting richer, that's the upper part of the K, and people who are struggling are doing worse.

It's the lower part of the K. That's the that's the euphemistic, you know, bizarre way it's kind of referred to as.

But but what else are you seeing?

You know, before we go, you know, you know, this institution, this building, this town better than about it, just about anybody.

What are you seeing?

Well, you know, his PR stunt yesterday involved a DoorDash grandma who claimed she was making $22,000 a year and that the tips made up half of her income at $11,000.

and that the savings that she made on no tax on tips allowed her to provide some treatment for her husband who had stage three cancer because there was no health care for her husband.

Although when you break down the fact that she was making $22,000 a year by her own admission,

The tax bracket that she falls in is such that no tax on tips would probably have a de minimis, if any, impact upon her.

And I think one of the big takeaways is, wait a minute, a grandma has to work in DoorDash in order to hope that her husband can live because we don't have a health care system.

I think that was one of the takeaways.

And Donald Trump handing her a $100 bill as though, be grateful for this.

I'm going to give you breadcrumbs.

And this is what you deserve.

Good luck with your husband's cancer was also a lasting takeaway.

Any reflections on that, Scott, before we go?