Monday evening. This morning, I pulled the trigger on the biggest financial decision of my life. Thus far, anyhow. This isn’t the time or the place to go into details, but it’s one of the main components of my plan to retire early, aka lean-FIRE.

Looks like the US has officially decided that it’s okay with 3,000 Americans dying each day a month from now, in early June – and that’s if things don’t get even worse. The Benghazi hearings lasted for years, over the deaths of four Americans. I doubt there will ever be hearings of even remotely close intensity once this is all over. Just like always, it’ll be empty platitudes about bipartisanship and the need to stick together and forgive. Not a single person will see the consequences of their ineptitude. At best, some minor politician might lose their job…

Cumulative death total in the US as of right now: 69,658; in Canada, 3,854.