Finally!
Mercury retrograde is over. But just look at what trump did during this retro, which started on Feb 25 and ended on March 20.
On Feb 28, he started a war with Iran. And now gas prices are shooting upward. Before the retro started, we were paying around $2.79 for gas, and that was at the least expensive station around here. The other day, I paid $3.87, I think it was, & now that station is selling it for over four bucks a gallon.
& it’s not just gas that’s shooting for the moon – grocery prices are right up there, too. Grapefruit, which is local to south Florida, used to cost about 50 cents for a plump beauty perfect for breakfast. Now a single grapefruit at Publix costs $2.05. In a bag of about 6 or 7, they are cheaper by a few cents, but they’re also smaller.
Eggs, which trump mentioned repeatedly during his campaign, now run between five and eight bucks a dozen, depending on what kind you buy.
And on and on the list goes.
Now that the retro has ended, Trump is threatening to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants if they don’t open the Strait of Hormuz by Monday, the 23rd. Like, uh, tomorrow. Tehran promises to retaliate. Trump seems to be, well,clueless about all this. No surprise.
Maybe the strangest synchronicity about the Israeli/American team work on the Iran war is that both Netanyahu and Trump are using the war to stay out of prison.
& the cost of this war – of any war -makes the cost of grapefruit and gas seem absurd, particularly when I ran across this article online about what to do in the event of a nuclear strike.
Find a cellar is one of the first suggestions.Uh-huh, not in south Florida.
Oh well. It’s starting to sound like the novel by Frank Herbert, Alas Babylon.
