The Situation on Friday 11-21-25

Prices are squeezing the middle class

https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/the-middle-class-is-buckling-under-almost-five-years-of-persistent-inflation-4d783aee?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfwCcti-qlDXLkadHzNNXhDoZ3vhtJCYp2YPILTr3sVTYiXOSI7Z5gWxDuIIww%3D&gaa_ts=69209360&gaa_sig=hR3YMlUrEL8qr-ymLuINkPkhhw2u8zQIo33uhLRFCEZy2JwwkMAx5t3QCLyCf3y8-NfouQ2PSEjrp6X2eLp7tA%3D%3D

Price jump

Some amazing numbers our Jr Associate Producer (Jet-A) put together about Tax Payer Relief Shots

A brief history of Taxpayer relief shots:

Michael originally began incorporating taxpayer relief shots into the program as a regular recurring feature in April of 2017. For the first several years, he would usually do one a day, almost every day. I (and a few others) would send them to Michael virtually every day as they occurred but only those involving homeowners & private citizens

Up until January of 2020, I would send the daily TPRS directly to Michael. Then in January of 2020, at Michael's request, I began sending then to Ryan Schuiling until October of 2021 when I began sending them to Angie.

Then in February of 2022, Michael decided to go to a once a week format with all TPRS being aired during the last hour of the week each Friday and open up the criteria to also include thugs killed by the police. I transmitted my first batch of TPRS directly to Dragon on July 18, 2022.

So if my math is correct, I sent roughly 150 TPRS to Michael in 2017 (8.5 months), and then more than 200 per year (one or more per week day) from 2018 - January of 2022 (4.1 Years X 200 per year = 820). Starting in February of 2022, I have been sending no less 10 TPRS per week (typically 12- 18) 50 weeks per year which would be another 500 per year since 2022 which would add another 2000 since then to those previous totals.

So how many in total? 150 + 820 + 2,000 = 2,970 as of this week. By the end of this year, we will easily hit the 3,000 (Fatal TPRS) mark. If we apply the rough ratio of 8 nonfatal defensive shooting incidents for every fatal shooting, that would bring the total of defensive gun discharge uses over the past 8 years to almost 25,000. Hundreds of thousand of other defensive gun uses occur every year where the intended victim merely display a gun in order to prevent an attack, assault or robbery.

So clearly people using guns to protect themselves from death or serious bodily injury at the hands of violent criminals is nothing more than a conservative myth.