I paid $100 for 2 bags of fucking groceries dude…your numbers don't mean shit when I can barely afford to put food on the table, much less make a difference in the world…
Your Numbers On Digital Screens Don't Mean A Thing When The Numbers On My Receipts Don't Match With Yours— Jake Angeli-Chansley (@AmericaShaman) September 10, 2025
The headline is a very slight edit/truncation of what Republican North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer told Semafor in a Tuesday article on the GOP’s worries about the economy going into 2026. “The headwinds that matter the most to an election are how American citizens are feeling about things, not so much the official numbers as people’s situation,” said Cramer, adding “I just talked to a group of farmers who are feeling pretty tough right now because they’re not selling their products.”
Tempting as it’d be to riff on how Cramer told on himself with the “American citizens” part as though the declining number of international tourists, legal immigrants, illegal ones, and so on aren’t also getting screwed, as well as him skipping said farmers getting cut off from global markets and the intentional destruction of USAID eliminating a major buyer isn’t a major reason for them having a tough time, that’d be too much of a tangent from the, um, synergy here between Cramer’s sentiment and that of a prominent former Republican voter. It’s like their psychic energy had some sort of quantum confluence or whatever ethereal mystical shit our guy Jake would ascribe it to.