Lou
who has just one more question
Lou never states a conclusion. Not once, constitutionally. He lays out everything — every receipt, every number, in plain order — and then he asks, and you answer. His question sits under the Word’s two dials every day; it is the only sentence on the page that ends in a question mark, and it is always the trap. He is not real. The facts he asks about are.
I have it here — you said 'we have a deal.' August 18, two hours before midnight. Just a second... and three days later, right here, the neighbor says 'we got attacked.' Fifty percent tariffs, under a 1930 statute used for the first time. And this page — about $1,100 a year per household, the bottom tenth paying nearly three times that. Sorry, I know you're in a hurry, this is the last thing. The deal lasted three days. What lasts?
First, I wrote down that you said there was twelve billion in bridge payments. Just a second — I wrote it down and, ah, here it is. Credited to tariff revenue. Then a little further down the page: forty percent of the row-crop money goes to the largest operations, and farm income is propped by a record $44.3 billion in direct payments. Now, my understanding of a bridge — and you'll correct me — is that it goes from one bank to another. Excuse me, before you go. Which bank is this one leaving?
I wrote this down — the secretary said the blockade can run 'indefinitely.' Just a second, it's here somewhere... here it is. Indefinitely, so the gas gets cheaper. And then this other page: August, the highest at the pump of any August on record. And this one — nine ships got through the strait the day the word was used. Now, I'm sure there's a simple explanation, and I'll get out of your way. It's just that I keep looking at the word. Indefinitely — for whom?