Darby Faire

Small business owner with my husband. Mother of two amazing adult kids. Conservative.

[Christine Drazan @ChristineDrazan]

We can lead again. We can build again. And we can make Oregon a place where the next generation can achieve their dreams right here at home.

The Drazan Plan is my commitment to that future.

Oregon’s best days are still ahead.

https://t.co/pmtfFdUNOe

[Taren Feist @tarenfeist]

OREGON — The choice in House District 32 couldn’t be clearer.

On one side you have Max Sherman — a salt-of-the-earth farmer, agriculture teacher and lifelong educator who grows and gives away thousands of pounds of food to his community every year.

On the other side you have Cyrus Javadi — a wealthy dentist who was elected as a Republican and after flip-flopping on every issue, he’s running as a DEMOCRAT! He now backs Tina Kotek, raising YOUR taxes, and is heavily funded by Democrats and Portland elites — out of district.

Farmer vs. flip-flopper. Community vs. Portland politics.

HD 32 deserves Max Sherman.

[Darby Faire @BigDee0709]

@pdxmoderate @alice_kinzer Jefferson should have been closed years ago. Instead, PPS let parents in that district chose to stay or go to 3 other schools. Guess what happened? Loads of families chose to go to the other schools but “we can’t close Jeff” because it has historically black enrollment. Racist

[Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin]

Trump’s Top 25 Achievements: The List Every Conservative Should Know and Use

Donald Trump doesn’t have an accomplishment problem. Republicans have an information problem. It’s on each of us to change that.

With the midterms coming, an astonishing number of Republican voters cannot name three things President Trump has accomplished. Which is remarkable when you consider that Donald Trump has accomplished more in a year and a half than any other president ever did in four.

Indeed, he has accomplished so much, so fast, across so many fronts that most people cannot keep up. The Enemedia buries the victories, while Republicans do an abysmal job of explaining them.

So here is the cheat sheet. It barely scratches the surface. And yet each and every item here is a game-changer, and your befuddled black-pilling friends need to know it.

This is not a list of promises. It’s a list of laws enacted, cases won, policies implemented, agreements secured, and measurable results.

You don’t have to memorize all 25. Learn five. And when somebody says Trump “hasn’t done much,” show them the receipts.

Trump Restored American Safety and Sovereignty

1. He made the border a real border again.
In a matter of months, Trump reduced illegal border crossings to their lowest level in half a century. Catch-and-release is finished. The wall is going up and even being expanded, “Remain in Mexico” is back, and the Administration reduced releases into the country by an incredible 99.9 percent.

2. He reversed mass migration.
America recorded negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in at least half a century. So far, nearly 3 million illegal aliens have left the country, whether voluntarily or involuntarily: more than 675,000 forcibly deported and the rest “self-deported.”

Many of those self-deportations were facilitated by the President’s innovative program to offer plane tickets and cash bonuses for illegals to leave, not only incentivizing good behavior but significantly reducing the cost of deportations. Citizenship and the law actually mean something again.

3. He signed the Laken Riley Act — and required detention of criminal illegal aliens.
Named for an innocent girl murdered by an illegal alien, the Laken Riley Act requires federal authorities to detain illegals arrested for theft, burglary, shoplifting, assaulting police, or any crime causing death or serious injury. It also lets states sue officials who refuse to enforce it.

Laken Riley should still be alive. This law will prevent tragedies like hers.

4. History’s biggest drop in violent crime, and the lowest violent crime rate in 126 years.
According to FBI data, violent crime in America dropped an incredible 9.7 percent in 2025 — the largest one-year decline in history. Murder fell 18.1 percent, robbery fell 18.5 percent. And America’s violent crime rate is its lowest since 1900.

This is what happens when you put the National Guard on the streets in crime-ridden blue cities: fewer victims, safer streets, and better futures for America’s poorest.

Trump Launched an American Industrial Supercycle

5. He made the 2017 tax cuts permanent…and better.
The One Big Beautiful Bill locked in the largest tax cut in modern history, including the doubled standard deduction, the expanded Child Tax Credit, and 100 percent expensing for factories and equipment. It also delivered No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, an abolition of most taxes on Social Security benefits, and major relief for seniors.

Every Democrat voted no. With the 2017 act set to expire in December 2025, that would have resulted in the largest tax hike in American history.

6. He repealed 129 regulations for every new one.
In fiscal 2025, federal agencies finalized 646 deregulatory actions and just five regulatory actions: 129-to-1, and in nearly every case, the “one” was to repeal the others! OIRA says the savings exceeded those of Trump’s entire first term. That is more freedom, lower costs, and less bureaucratic sabotage.

Of these, the crown jewel was the repeal of Obama’s 2009 “Endangerment Finding”, the legal foundation for the Green New Scam’s vehicle mandates. EPA calls it the largest deregulatory action in American history and estimates that by itself, it will save Americans more than $1.3 trillion. Trump also killed the federal EV mandate, restored Americans’ freedom to buy the cars and trucks they actually want, and even eliminated the incentives behind the almost universally hated start-stop button.

7. He secured $18 trillion in announced investment commitments.
That’s nearly two-thirds the size of the entire American economy, building American factories, chip plants, data centers, energy projects, steel mills, shipyards, and supply chains employing American workers. Apple, Meta, NVIDIA, Micron, Hyundai, U.S. Steel, Ford, Taiwan Semiconductor, and many corporations and sovereign wealth funds are betting big on Trump’s America.

No President has ever done anything remotely like it. And it’s just getting started.

8. He made “reshoring” and “reindustrialization” real, not a slogan.
Ford is moving Lincoln production out of China. Toyota is shifting Tacoma production from Mexico to Texas. GM, Honda, Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis, and others are expanding U.S. production. The capital equipment pouring into the country is the machinery that’s building the growing boom.

9. He replaced lopsided trade deals with balanced, reciprocal trade.
Trump used tariffs as leverage to reverse 80 years of lopsided trade deals that favored everyone but America, and to win new or improved agreements with trading partners accounting for more than half of global GDP. Those agreements open foreign markets, attack non-tariff barriers, defend strategic industries, and make it more profitable to build in America than to export American jobs.

10. He shifted global energy dominance from the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of America.
Once the world’s largest energy importer — “exporting” $700 billion a year to our enemies — America now outproduces Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. The U.S. is also setting new records in oil, natural gas, and LNG exports, becoming the first country ever to export more than 100 million metric tons of LNG in a year.

Trump also opened land, accelerated permits, expanded pipelines and export terminals, and made American energy a tool for prosperity and peace.

11. After four decades of nuclear paralysis, Trump brought five new reactors online in a single year.
For more than 40 years, not one new privately developed non-light-water reactor reached criticality in America. Trump ordered at least three by July 4, 2026. DOE delivered four by the deadline, then a fifth just one month later.

Decades of zero. One Trump summer: five. That is a genuine nuclear renaissance.

Trump Made Elections Matter Again

12. He broke the Deep State’s power to defy the elected branches.
In Trump v. Slaughter, the Supreme Court ruled for the first time in 90 years that Article 2, Section 1 is still part of the Constitution: the President may fire subordinate officials in the executive branch, overturning the 1935 precedent that insulated “independent” agencies from voters’ control.

Ever wonder why elections often seem to change nothing? How about one President and 5,000 political appointees vs. 2.8 million unfireable, unaccountable bureaucrats? THAT is the “Deep State”.

Trump then made that victory real. For the first time in a century, all policy-making bureaucrats can now be fired for misconduct, incompetence, or defying lawful directives. The permanent bureaucracy no longer gets to veto the voters.

13. He ended nationwide injunction abuse.
In Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court sharply limited nationwide injunctions. A single, local, district judge should not be able to block a national policy for everyone, everywhere; and yet that’s exactly what they’ve done, nonstop, ever since Trump (and only Trump) took office in 2017.

In restricting that unconstitutional power, the Court kneecapped the Black Robe Bureaucracy’s favorite tool of unlawful judicial supremacy.

14. He shut down USAID as a left-wing slush fund and shadow government.
USAID had become a taxpayer-funded machine for exporting abortion, gender ideology, censorship, and left-wing politics. It had a bigger budget than the CIA and the State Department combined, absolutely no accountability whatsoever, and a penchant for overthrowing governments.

Trump terminated it — completely — and moved real humanitarian aid under the State Department. Immediately, seven socialist Latin American governments lost re-election. Coincidence?

15. He shrank Federal employment to its lowest level in 60 years.
From a high under Biden, the federal workforce is now its smallest since 1966. Workforce reductions, agency closures, and spending cancellations mean fewer bureaucrats paid to resist the voters.

What’s more, when Biden left office, 94 percent of federal employees “worked” from home. The Trump administration cracked down: as Elon Musk put it, “you can work from the office or you can pretend to work somewhere else.”

16. He expelled DEI from the federal government.
Trump eliminated federal DEI offices and barred race- and sex-based preferences across the executive branch. Government hiring and contracting are returning to merit and equality under the law, ending the grotesque Democrat idea that “fighting discrimination” requires the federal government to discriminate.

He Defended Faith and Family

17. He delivered sweeping pro-life reform.
In his first term, Trump delivered the judges that overturned the abominable Roe v. Wade. Hardly anyone believed it could be done, or that Trump would do it. But he did, and a half-century nightmare finally ended.

Since returning to office, Trump has enforced the Hyde Amendment prohibiting the use of federal funds to pay for abortions, reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy prohibiting federal funding of foreign abortions, ended federal fetal-tissue research, strengthened conscience protections, protected Medicaid from funding large abortion providers, and pardoned 23 pro-life activists prosecuted by Biden’s weaponized Justice Department.

He’s also done everything within the Executive Branch’s power to defund Planned Parenthood. It would be nice if Congress did likewise.

No President has ever done more to protect life. No one.

18. He got men out of women’s sports, and restored biological reality to federal policy.
The United States government once again officially recognizes two sexes: male and female. Trump ended federal support for the chemical and surgical gender mutilation of children, stopped taxpayer funding of such irreversible abominations, and forced more than three dozen health systems to end or suspend their programs as well.

Trump also enforced Title IX as written: women and girls deserve their own teams, trophies, scholarships, and locker rooms. The NCAA and other athletic organizations changed their rules in response. After years of Democrats doing everything they could to destroy women’s sports and ruin girls’ lives, Trump’s administration protects women and girls again.

19. He enacted America’s first nationwide school-choice program — and launched Trump Accounts.
As part of the President’s One Big Beautiful Bill, Trump enacted America’s first-ever nationwide school choice program. The new Education Freedom Tax Credit helps fund scholarships for tuition, books, and other educational costs.

That’s on top of the new Trump Accounts, which give every child a tax-advantaged stake in America’s future, including a $1,000 federal seed for eligible newborns. Parents gain power. Bureaucracies lose it. And children learn first-hand about free markets and future orientation.

20. He targeted anti-Christian bias and discrimination.
Trump created the White House Faith Office, Religious Liberty Commission, and Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias. He restored conscience protections and made clear that Christians do not surrender their First Amendment rights merely by entering public life.

He Restored Peace Through Strength and Put America First

21. He forced NATO to stop freeloading and increase defense spending by 250 percent.
For decades, wealthy European governments underfunded their militaries, effectively sending America the bill and using American taxpayers to subsidize their bloated welfare states. Trump forced NATO to replace its old two-percent-of-GDP spending target with an enormous five percent by 2035.

Allied spending is rising, American defense orders are soaring, and Europe is becoming a partner instead of a dependent.

22. He drove China out of the Caribbean.
China spent years building strategic beachheads at both ends of the Panama Canal, in Cuba, and in Maduro’s Venezuela. Trump forced Panama out of Belt and Road, expanded American security access around the Canal, and captured Maduro, who now sits in a New York jail cell awaiting trial.

Beijing’s planned encirclement of the United States collapsed. The Monroe Doctrine is back. Call it the Donroe Doctrine.

23. He brokered eight peace deals in just eight months.
In eight months, Trump brokered peace in eight conflicts spanning four continents, including wars that had gone on for as much as 40 years. It’s a record unmatched by any other President.

24. He launched and funded Golden Dome, the first-ever true missile defense for the U.S. population.
Ronald Reagan dreamed of making nuclear missiles obsolete through his Strategic Defense Initiative. Today, Trump is actually building it: a layered homeland shield with space-based sensors and interceptors, conventional defenses, and new technologies including microwave systems to destroy drone swarms and directed-energy weapons (yes, lasers) that can replace an $11 million missile with $2 of electricity.

Congress has funded the initial $25 billion, with far more on the way once it passes the NDAA this fall. Better a shield than a sword.

25. He restored the warrior ethos — and reversed the recruiting crisis.
After years of missed targets under Biden, every active military component met or exceeded its 2025 recruiting goal. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refocused the newly renamed Department of War on actually winning wars, while pouring resources into shipbuilding, munitions, drones, missile defense, and America’s atrophied industrial base.

Young Americans once again believe their Commander-in-Chief is worth serving. And they’re showing up en masse.

Now Act Like It Matters

Those are not tweets or campaign promises. They are changes in law, power, investment, sovereignty, culture, and the structure of the Republic itself. And they’re just the top 25: I could give you hundreds more.

Midterms are turnout elections. We do not need to convince Democrats to love Donald Trump. We need Republicans and friendly independents to understand what is at stake — and to show up.

And let’s be clear. When you say (as some of you will) “the Republicans need to do a good enough job telling this story”, you’re pointing at yourself. You are “the Republicans.” The Democrats don’t rely exclusively on their elected officials to tell their story: everyone from their media lackeys to their lowest-level supporters are constantly spreading their “news”, whatever that “news” happens to be.

Today’s conservatives have more ability to find whatever you want to know than any group of people in human history, yet half of them couldn’t name any of the accomplishments in this essay, and if they were to read it, they would just complain that something else they wanted hasn’t happened fast enough to suit them.

This is called “black-pilling.” It’s a loser mindset, and if you engage in it, you deserve to lose: horribly, painfully, personally. And guess what: you will, unless people who are serious step up to save you. Which is frankly pathetic, but for the rest of our sakes, necessary.

So tell people our story. Donald Trump is delivering great things, whether or not heaven on earth has broken out quite yet. Do the work, send the team he needs to Washington to finish the job, and get ready for 2028 afterward.

Take the time to learn at least five of these victories. Share this list with someone who needs it. And vote as though the most consequential Presidency in modern history depends on what you do.

Because it does.

(Oh, and those receipts? Follow the link in my bio to get them all.)

[Red Wave @RedWaveOR]

“Promising indicators” while costs keep climbing under your watch?

Tyrannical gaslighting.

You took office January 9, 2023 (Biden still president).

Since then:

• Gas tax: 38¢ → 40¢ (Jan 1, 2024). You then signed a 6¢ hike to 46¢ — Oregonians crushed it 83–17 in May (Referendum 120).

• Electricity: 12.79¢/kWh (2023 avg) → 16.27¢ (May 2026). +27%.

• Unemployment: 4.8% (Jan 2023) → 5.2% (2026).

• Housing: Your own 36,000 units/year goal. Actual permits: 17,697 (2023), 14,270 (2024). Missed every single year? That’s failure in action.

Higher costs didn’t start with Trump.

They started with you on your watch.

Oregon families have been paying every which way because of your failures.

Own your record.

Own your failures.

#Oregon #Kotek

@MoniqueforOR @pdxmoderate

[Taren Feist @tarenfeist]

LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ASKING ABOUT DRAZAN’S “PLAN.” WELL… HERE IT IS. 🇺🇸

Christine Drazan just released The Drazan Plan, laying out six major areas of focus:

1. LOWER THE COST OF LIVING
Put affordability first. Drazan proposes a Day One affordability order, reviewing regulations that drive up costs, vetoing new taxes and fees, reforming the Corporate Activity Tax, increasing Oregon’s standard deduction, protecting the Kicker, providing property tax relief for veterans and seniors, and more.

2. REIGNITE OREGON’S ECONOMY
Make Oregon “open for business” again by cutting unnecessary regulations, supporting small businesses, investing in infrastructure, prioritizing reliable and affordable energy, strengthening natural resource industries, expanding apprenticeships and CTE, and making Oregon competitive for employers and good-paying jobs.

3. BREAK THE CYCLE OF HOMELESSNESS & ADDICTION
Audit where the billions being spent are actually going and start measuring RESULTS. Prioritize treatment, recovery and long-term sobriety, fully fund State Police, increase penalties for drug traffickers, clean up public spaces and declare a state of emergency on Oregon’s addiction and mental-health crises.

4. UNLOCK THE DOOR TO HOMEOWNERSHIP
Make it faster and less expensive to actually BUILD. Her plan calls for streamlining permits, cutting unnecessary regulatory delays, expanding first-time homebuyer assistance, making more buildable land available while protecting working farmland, and holding government accountable for the number of homes actually built.

5. RESTORE GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
Bring back meaningful academic standards. Prioritize reading proficiency by third grade, restore graduation requirements, support teachers in maintaining safe classrooms, strengthen special education, expand school choice and reinforce parents’ rights to know what their children are being taught.

6. AUDIT SPENDING & DELIVER RESULTS
Create a new Office of Government Accountability, audit how state services are being delivered, publish the true costs of government, streamline agencies and permitting, eliminate wasteful spending and start measuring whether government programs are actually producing results.

So for everyone who has been asking what her plan is, please take some time and read it for yourself.

READ THE FULL DRAZAN PLAN HERE: https://t.co/IbHfmJ0xwC

[Darby Faire @BigDee0709]

@Speedra28854601 @GovTinaKotek Mine both left already. 32 (Idaho) and 27 (Colorado) years old and neither will ever come back.

[Marcus Mendoza @MendozaVictor50]

@GovTinaKotek

[Darby Faire @BigDee0709]

@pdxmoderate Amen, brother. Well said

[Portland Moderate. @pdxmoderate]

Portland Fentanyl Crisis

For three years, federal prosecutors have been forced to confront what Portland’s streets made painfully clear: fentanyl trafficking had become an entrenched public-safety crisis.

Since 2023, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, working with the FBI and Portland Police Bureau, has federally prosecuted more than 100 defendants accused of trafficking fentanyl in downtown Portland.

Those cases have produced staggering seizures: more than 100 kilograms of fentanyl, over 40 firearms, and approximately $1.3 million in suspected drug proceeds.

According to the figures cited by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, more than 80% of those defendants were nationals of Honduras and Mexico who were unlawfully present in Oregon. The amount of fentanyl seized was enough, based on the commonly used lethal-dose estimate, to potentially kill tens of millions of people.

And those numbers may not capture the full scale of the problem. In cases where immigration authorities remove individuals before federal criminal charges can be brought, those people may never appear in the federal prosecution statistics—meaning the documented cases could represent only a fraction of the trafficking activity investigators encountered.

This is what happens when open-air drug markets are allowed to flourish while local systems struggle to hold street-level traffickers accountable.

A sanctuary policy cannot be allowed to become a shield from accountability.

Compassion for vulnerable people and enforcement against organized drug trafficking are not mutually exclusive. A government can welcome immigrants while still demanding that anyone who traffics deadly drugs, carries illegal firearms, or repeatedly preys upon vulnerable communities face consequences.

Portland does not need excuses for fentanyl dealers. It needs enforcement, prosecution, accountability, and policies that put public safety first.

The Statue of Liberty’s promise of refuge should never be twisted into a promise of immunity for criminal conduct.

@FBIPortland
@MayorKWilson
@GovTinaKotek

https://t.co/jGLvPRIUOQ

[Darby Faire @BigDee0709]

@tracegallagher I saw her live in concert in 1977. She came out on stage and said “I see a lot of you have binoculars out there, I know what you’re looking at but you don’t need binoculars to see these babies” Legend.

[Darby Faire @BigDee0709]

@KATUNews Trump already did it, nitwit Tina. Nice try glomming on and taking credit.

[OregonWolf @WhitewolfOr7]

Tina Kotek’s latest scare tweet is peak progressive gaslighting.
Christine Drazan has never “spent her entire legislative career attacking the reproductive rights of Oregonians.” That’s pure fiction. She wasn’t even in the Legislature when Kotek and the Dems passed the 2017 Reproductive Health Equity Act that turned Oregon into one of the most extreme abortion states in the country, taxpayer funded abortions up to the moment of birth, no meaningful limits. Drazan has been crystal clear, she is pro life, she supports common sense protections (especially after viability), she would veto any bill that pushes Oregon even further outside the mainstream and she will enforce the law as written. Period.
Oregon law already locks in abortion access. Drazan has said it over and over. Kotek knows it. Yet every election cycle she reaches for the same tired playbook, scream “she’ll ban abortion!” while Portland burns, kids can’t read, fentanyl is cheaper than a latte, and the middle class is fleeing the state she helped ruin.
Drazan has spent her career fighting for safer streets, better schools, lower costs, and parents’ rights, actual issues Oregonians live with every day. Kotek’s record is open borders for abortion tourism, open borders for chaos, and endless lectures about “reproductive justice” while the state collapses around her.
This isn’t about protecting Oregon women. It’s about protecting a radical status quo that most Oregonians don’t actually support. Keep lying, Tina. Voters are noticing. Prove Me Wrong.
🇺🇸 🐺
@TeamDrazan

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

DSA leader gets sued for eviction while living off his rich dad’s $1.5 million townhouse.

Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, is facing an eviction lawsuit after stiffing his landlord on three months of $2,500 rent for a Crown Heights apartment.

Court records show he moved in while a $1.5 million Brooklyn townhouse gifted by his wealthy father underwent renovations.

He skipped payments, paid a lump sum after falling behind, then fell behind again.

The landlord sued for the unpaid balance. Gordillo never even filed an answer in housing court.

This is the same activist who rails against landlords, property ownership, and people making returns on real estate.

His own family bought the townhouse for under $1 million in 2019 through an LLC. Its value has risen sharply. While the renovations happened, the socialist co-chair rented elsewhere and treated the rent like an optional suggestion.

The pattern is familiar. Preach redistribution and class warfare. Enjoy the benefits of private capital when it is your own family’s. Then fail to pay the working landlord who actually provides housing.

Hypocrisy this blatant should not surprise anyone who has watched the DSA operate. It still deserves to be highlighted every time it surfaces.

#DSA #Hypocrisy

[Darby Faire @BigDee0709]

@seventensuited @abcstoreshawaii I had to buy a clear purse to go to the WNBA game (Fever were in town). Park MGM gift store bag-$130. ABC store across the street-$10.99. And it was a bigger bag. Easy decision.

[Red Wave @RedWaveOR]

Tina Kotek is running on abortion.

Something that a governor has no power to just erase from Oregon law.

Same candidate who has a litany of failures next to her name.

The true lack of platform here will be examined for years to come.

Vote Drazan.

#oregon

@ChristineDrazan

[Darby Faire @BigDee0709]

@theneongutter @CircusVegas Our absolute favorite steakhouse in Vegas!

[Democrats For Mike Rogers @DemsForMike]

We encourage Democrats and Independents of all faiths and backgrounds who love our country and oppose extremism to join us on November 3rd to defeat Abdul El-Sayed. The stakes have never been higher.

Country over party. Common sense over crazy.
Retweet and follow if you agree.

[Darby Faire @BigDee0709]

@MissB53 Great analysis! This “show” was so phony! But low IQ Dems eat it up. Pun intended.

[Queen of Carni @MissB53]

This might be one of the dumbest “gotchas” I’ve seen in a while.

Buckle in, it’s a long one🤣

A cooking series shows Americans how to make real meals for about $5 per serving, and the response is to go grocery shopping, spend around $70 buying all the ingredients, and announce:

“Actually, this meal costs $70.”

No.

You spent $70.

You did not eat $70.

If the recipe uses one egg, you calculate the cost of ONE EGG. You don’t charge the meal for the entire carton because the other 11 eggs are still sitting in your refrigerator.

If the recipe uses two tablespoons of mayonnaise, the meal did not consume the entire jar.

If it uses part of an onion, you still own the rest of the onion.

Those groceries make more food.

That is literally how grocery shopping works.

And yes, there is a legitimate conversation to have about upfront grocery costs. Someone may need $50 or $70 available to stock their kitchen before they can turn those groceries into multiple inexpensive meals. That absolutely matters.

But upfront grocery cost and cost per serving are two completely different numbers.

I teach people how to eat on a budget. I have shown people over and over again how to make meals for under $5 per person.

That does not mean I walk into the grocery store with $5 and ask the cashier to sell me two eggs, four slices of bacon, and 1/17th of a stick of butter.

I buy groceries. Then I make multiple meals with them.

And some of the arguments being made to defend this are even more bizarre.

“Well, what if someone doesn’t already have the ingredients?”

Then they buy them. And now they have them for the next meal.

“What if they don’t own pots and pans?”

Okay. But are we calculating the price of the frying pan into every meal they cook for the rest of their life?

If the actual ingredient prices used in the original recipe are inaccurate, challenge those prices. That’s completely fair.

But pretending the entire purchase price of every package belongs to ONE meal isn’t a fact check. It’s comparing two different things.

We should WANT people to know how to take $50 or $70 worth of groceries and turn them into multiple affordable meals.

We should WANT people to learn how to cook at home.

We should WANT people to understand that eating real food does not automatically require spending $20 or $30 every time they sit down to eat.

Of all the things worth criticizing, teaching people how to make affordable meals at home should not be one of them.

The groceries do not disappear after you make dinner.

Be so fucking for real.