The powers in Govt have to eat. When there plan fails they want to know who bought MRE. That way they can confiscate your MREs for national security.
When they show up, I’ll treat their party to Pb apetizers.
Since you are writing back to Elendur I feel justified in quoting from The Scouring of the Shire:
"...So things went from bad to worse. There wasn't no smoke left, save for the Men; and the Chief didn't hold with beer, save for his Men, and closed all the inns, and everything except Rules got shorter and shorter, unless one could hide a bit of one's own when the ruffians went around gathering stuff up "for fair distribution" which meant they got it and we didn't, except for the leavings which you could have at the Shirriff-houses, if you could stomach them. All very bad. But since Sharkey Obaama came it's been plain ruination."
No cheers, unfortunately.