The Dems are in oh fuck mode. I think they were hoping Biden would bail. He's massively unpopular. I just quoted a limo for our spring break trip since the garage is gonna be $200. Limo used to be $300-350 from my location. Fucking $850!! That's more than the first part of the trip.
Shit like this is happening to average people all over. I could afford it and can't stand driving, but fuck that. So now a small business loses revenue. Even with IL MFT taxes on gas we have pretty low fuel cost here. 2-1/2 hour round trip. I get the driver has to get to our home, but maybe an hour at most.
This is our economy. Biden is senile. Price of a limo is double from a few years back. And that driver and business loses money. That's called a lost vote. Won't shift IL, but maybe eventually. IL is going to be tighter than historic averages. Won't go red, but this illegal alien situation is becoming a problem here.
$350->$850 can't be explained by gas prices. They are not up 3x since "few years back". More like slightly up or even sligtly down (because they yo-yo-ed all over). What else is a factor? Airport fees?
IL gas is maybe up 10-20% from Trump. Probably a factor of minimum wage increases, insurance and cost of vehicles? I don't know. Half the trip is free because of points. I'm naive to money really, but that is insane. Thought it would be fun to splurge and that's off the table now. I was thinking $400 since we'd pay $200 for the parking garage anyway. I'd rather do a nice date night and leave the kids back at the hotel or Airbnb we rented.
And Johnson is quick to vacuum up the AIPAC bucks while causing probs in the Dem coalition at the same time: