if things go sideways i honestly want them to go sideways with plenty of red left on the clock, not a third round of poison chalice passing

How do we tell if things are getting bad? My understanding is that farmers are always begging for handouts

I really think an underrated cause of the Biden-era vibecession was that the Dem primary in 2020 had started about all these promises about what we would build and what we would fix in government and by the time we took office we had to put out all the COVID fires and couldn't do any of them