the grocery store. bacon is up tremendously for those of you who like bacon, we need to deal with the crisis we have now. whether inflation with all the spending bills. the crisis at the border, the crisis in the middle east with the afghanistan withdrawal and the rising predominance of china. there are real issues we need to be dealing with rather than catering to the progressives on the left of the democrat party. so back to joe manchin for the moment here. because we would be remiss if we didn t talk about joe manchin in a segment. given the amount of political power he carries in washington right now, so your party, congresswoman, is vigorously pursuing him trying to wooh him to cross party lines. throw in the towel, become a republican. mostly your senate colleagues are behind this. is this because they believe in