Fresh Report on Slowing Jobs Creation Indicates That the Recession We're Definitely Not Already In May Be Becoming Even More Non-Recessionary

We can't be in a recession -- look at the jobs numbers!, they told us.

And now what? "We can't be in a recession, look at the strong demand for baby formula and unemployment checks!" Yes, I think that will be next.

Private payrolls grew by just 132,000 in August, ADP says in reworked jobs report
Companies sharply slowed the pace of hiring in August amid growing fears of an economic slowdown, according to payroll processing company ADP.

Fears of an economic slowdown?

The economy's contracted for six months and counting.

Those fears are no longer fears, they are facts.

Private payrolls grew by just 132,000 for the month, a deceleration from the 268,000 gain in July, the firm said in its monthly payroll report.
The Dow Jones estimate for the ADP count was 300,000.
"Our data suggests a shift toward a more conservative pace of hiring, possibly as companies try to decipher the economy's conflicting signals," said ADP's chief economist, Nela Richardson. "We could be at an inflection point, from super-charged job gains to something more normal."
August payroll numbers are notoriously volatile. ADP's release also comes at an uncertain time for a U.S. economy which saw negative growth for the first half of 2022 amid the highest inflation the nation has seen since the early 1980s.

Didn't we used to have a word to describe a situation of prolonged, six-months-or-more negative "growth"?

Via Ed Morrissey, who notes this rate of job creation is so low that it will not result in America regaining the jobs lost due to the covid shutdowns, when you factor in population growth. (That is, the working age population has grown by four million, and we're not even close to "saving or creating" the jobs the older working population had, nevermind producing four million new jobs for those four million new entrants.)

A report showed a slowing in the purchasing managers index, noted Nick Arama of Red State.

Via CNN:

The latest S&P Global preliminary flash composite purchasing managers index, or PMI, registered a level of 45 as of August 22, down from 47.7 in July.
The rate at which business activity slowed was the fastest recorded since May 2020 when the pandemic shutdowns first took hold, according to S&P Global. This marks five consecutive months that the activity index has fallen and the second consecutive month that it has been in contraction territory.
Levels above 50 indicate expansion, while levels below represent a contraction is occurring, according to S&P Global.
"The data is certainly pointing to a downturn at the moment," said Sian Jones, senior economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence. "Obviously, we have to wait and see how it progresses, but it's certainly going to be a challenging business environment going forward." [....]

Pointing to a downturn. But we're not in a downturn, right? The media is very careful about which "experts" they permit to appear in their propaganda sheets.

I'm sure a hundred analysts would say "Obviously we're in a recession," but CNN reached out for the Biden Fan they knew would only say that a record decline in purchasing "pointed to" a downturn.

🇺🇸 US business activity contracted for a second straight month in August
*The S&P Global flash composite purchasing managers output index slid 2.7 points to 45, the weakest reading since May 2020
*Link: https://t.co/4Iy7JgC3JI pic.twitter.com/BsFV9YsRiV
— Christophe Barraud🛢🐳 (@C_Barraud) August 23, 2022

Posted by: Ace at 05:00 PM

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2022 05:00 PM (bVYXr)

2 ST!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2022 05:00 PM (48gIr)

3 Damn.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 31, 2022 05:00 PM (48gIr)

4 I thought I read an article this morning on the morning report that said we are in a red hot job creation market.

I will have to go and look again.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2022 05:00 PM (bVYXr)

5 Hi ace!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 31, 2022 05:00 PM (Wy1BU)

6 hi madame!

Posted by: Jean-Pierre Ace at August 31, 2022 05:02 PM (B3oWe)

7 Yep, definitely not a recession.

Posted by: Sphynx at August 31, 2022 05:02 PM (P6qMv)

8 Damn, read the content first!

Posted by: Mick at August 31, 2022 05:03 PM (sVc11)

9
Remember when the media accused 'W' of 'talking down' the economy?

Posted by: Sphynx at August 31, 2022 05:03 PM (P6qMv)

10 It's not a recession. It's the trajectory of the new normal our betters have determined to be the noble path for the Normals.

Posted by: Fool Otto at August 31, 2022 05:04 PM (DB16e)

11 Oh sure! All you Biden-haters kept talking about a Recession and now look what you've done!

Posted by: Wally at August 31, 2022 05:04 PM (cD+K3)

12 The October economic reports are gonna be lit AF. And magically revised way down about six weeks later. Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 05:04 PM (BXxcV)

13 It amazes me that there is no sense among the elites that their pronouncements are ridiculous on their face, and that their hedging and use of jargon, which may have worked 20 years ago, simply doesn't ring true. Especially after two years of Covid lies and bullshit.

I guess in Hyde Park and the Upper West Side and Madison and Pacific Heights it is believed...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2022 05:05 PM (XIJ/X)

14
I shot a man in Reno with an AR-15, just to watch him vaporize.

Posted by: Johnny Cash at August 31, 2022 05:05 PM (krQz2)

15 Not yet!
No recession in election years.

In fact I betcha Powell gets dovish in October.

Posted by: torabora at August 31, 2022 05:05 PM (Y274z)

16 THIS IS STILL THE TRUMP ECONOMY STUPID PEOPLE !!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 31, 2022 05:05 PM (0vFtj)

17 Still see plenty of help wanted, mostly because people found not working is fun I guess

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2022 05:05 PM (k8B25)

18
'This economy is five times more active than any previous economy ever.'

--Joey

Posted by: Sphynx at August 31, 2022 05:05 PM (P6qMv)

19 I don't know about you fatcats, but I'm still living off the 16 cents I saved last July 4th.

If the double digit inflation since then is hurting you, it's cause you're a Russian agent who hates gay marriage in the Ukraine.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2022 05:06 PM (Zf0+a)

20 Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at August 31, 2022 05:06 PM (Pf3h7)

21 Recession? Why no!
Actually we've reached peak Humpty-Dumpty...
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean- neither more nor less."

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2022 05:06 PM (AVBXd)

22 Is it wrong for me to hope Joe gets so angry in his upcoming speech that his brain explodes and blood comes gushing out every orifice.

Posted by: Just a guy, lurking in the north lurking. at August 31, 2022 05:06 PM (eGTCV)

23 "The weakest since May 2020"

Let that sink in. Covid panic, lockdowns, job destruction was still ongoing in May 2020. This is at a time when the fed gov is trying to lie the economy into improvement.

Wow.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 31, 2022 05:06 PM (Wy1BU)

24 The good news is, people seem to be able to find that second and third job they need to buy the gas to search all over town for baby formula.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 31, 2022 05:07 PM (vivhj)

25 a small recession the size of a large recession

Posted by: TheThinMan at August 31, 2022 05:07 PM (evrF/)

26 The rate at which business activity slowed was the fastest recorded since May 2020 when the pandemic shutdowns first took hold, according to S&P Global.
---
Just listen to that. Nobody slows down an economy faster than my administration!

The faster we're through the downturn, the faster we'll be in recovery. There won't even be any room for a recession.

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at August 31, 2022 05:07 PM (krQz2)

27 We are not in a recession..... The economy has grown 62,000 % since 10,000,000 BC when Biden was a young man. Get with it people and take some math classes........

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 31, 2022 05:07 PM (0vFtj)

28 "Some of the little people will have to suffer a while as we transition into a more humane and compassionate economy! What are a few hundred thousand lives compared to a utopia where you don't have to work at anything except what you wish?"
--leftists

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2022 05:08 PM (Ivdso)

29 I prefer to call this economic transition "Fred".

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at August 31, 2022 05:09 PM (krQz2)

30 I know we're not supposed to outlaw speech, but I would be tempted to support a ban on citing "experts" without naming them. They'll usually turn out to be the reporter at the next desk. (I have a friend who actually overheard two DC reporters agreeing to do that, on a train ride.)

Posted by: Eeyore at August 31, 2022 05:09 PM (TgBWG)

31
Let's redefine the redefinition of recession . . .

Posted by: Karine Jean-Pierre at August 31, 2022 05:09 PM (P6qMv)

32 I wonder if this resonates with Democrats and Independents. They have to see what is happening in the economy; would they continue to vote in leftists while their finances collapse?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 31, 2022 05:09 PM (XSRBF)

33 Buncha no-nooders.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 31, 2022 05:09 PM (DRSnL)

34 signs, signs, do this don't do that, can't you read the signs.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2022 05:09 PM (vz2tI)

35 you can have a recession if we bomb you with f-15's right?

merrick garland, probably.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:09 PM (OuH7W)

36 Notice how they're not saying the new jobs aren't anything but dead end minimum wage drudge work?

They're not saying it because Trump isn't in the White House.

In fact I can't believe they're not saying that the Bad Orange Man didn't position the Retard er cognitively challenged retard for success.

Posted by: torabora at August 31, 2022 05:09 PM (Y274z)

37 87k new IRS agents will help.
-----
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a rocketing star in the Republican Party, has come up with an idea for what a few of those 87,000 new Internal Revenue Service agents should be tasked with doing:

Auditing members of Congress who supported the creation of that army.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 31, 2022 05:10 PM (nSdVr)

38 I know, let's name the next law the "recession reduction act" in it we'll ban all jobs for republicans.

merrick garland, probably.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:10 PM (OuH7W)

39 Daily Mail had an article earlier about people using Klarna and Afterpay to buy groceries. That will not end well.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 31, 2022 05:10 PM (DRSnL)

40 Biden's Soul of the Nation speech tomorrow ; is he going to blame wreckers and hoarders for the recession?

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 31, 2022 05:10 PM (sAmhv)

41 Buncha no-nooders.
Posted by: Jordan61

It's Chuy's fault!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 31, 2022 05:10 PM (AVBXd)

42 Powell has to act, Europe is cratering, our Installee is more gone everyday. Can't understand why economic indicators are negative.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 31, 2022 05:10 PM (oWBc3)

43 It amazes me that there is no sense among the elites that their pronouncements are ridiculous on their face, and that their hedging and use of jargon, which may have worked 20 years ago, simply doesn't ring true. Especially after two years of Covid lies and bullshit.

I guess in Hyde Park and the Upper West Side and Madison and Pacific Heights it is believed...
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2022 05:05 PM (XIJ/X)

Their Press Secretary just told us -with a straight face- that no illegals walk across the border. When it comes to how big of a whopper they'll try to tell us, there truly is no limit.

Posted by: Wally at August 31, 2022 05:10 PM (FJYfm)

44 OT, but couldn't wait for 100.

From Bloomberg:
(Headline)
DOJ Is Likely to Wait Past Midterms to Reveal Any Trump Charges

(Sub-Heads)
Long-held policy prevents prosecutors from impacting elections
Charges could still be filed under seal before the election

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2022 05:10 PM (hBN1n)

45 They'll pivot after the election, when the recession will be the argument for why the GOP congress shouldn't dare to cut any gov spending.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at August 31, 2022 05:11 PM (ptgVI)

46 just think...right now Biden is being lubed up his asshole for the suppositories of amphetamines and ADHD drugs he's going to have to absorb in order to do his Hutsi Ba'athist townhall thing tommorrow night to annouce preemptory reprisals against republicans

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:11 PM (OuH7W)

47 Hey those numbers are my numbers. Uhm, for eight years. We call that success.

Posted by: The Light workers at August 31, 2022 05:11 PM (Y274z)

48
Ja, is goingk to b cold these winter

Posted by: German guy chopping wood at August 31, 2022 05:11 PM (P6qMv)

49

Camouflage and decoys like a duck hunter would use. Fool us into a false sense of safety to lure us in past the point of return.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at August 31, 2022 05:12 PM (EtZ5S)

50 To quote the late Senator Ernest Hollings..

"There is too much consuming going on around here" !!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 31, 2022 05:12 PM (0vFtj)

51 "reworked jobs report"

If it's worth doing once, it's worth doing 3 or 4 times!

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 05:12 PM (sn5EN)

52

They want to slow the economy down, so they can profit, and so the world will be saved, and white idiots in DC will be personally responsible and saviors.

It is so odd that population degrowth and electric cars with aging and shitty grids are pushed hard.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at August 31, 2022 05:12 PM (DcDjg)

53 So. Much. BS. from our "news media"

Posted by: JQ says ~~dark~~ DORK BRANDON really is a... thing at August 31, 2022 05:13 PM (dpnJh)

54 The timing on this is going to have the layoff notices go out with the absentee ballots.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:13 PM (llXky)

55 13 It amazes me that there is no sense among the elites that their pronouncements are ridiculous on their face, and that their hedging and use of jargon, which may have worked 20 years ago, simply doesn't ring true. Especially after two years of Covid lies and bullshit.

I guess in Hyde Park and the Upper West Side and Madison and Pacific Heights it is believed...

They believed it all. They lived in The House Of Government, until Stalin, the Orthodox Christian Apostate killed them all. Then they screeched their own creation, Communism, was always Anti-Semitic.
Good Riddance.
I'd be nicer about this but...
really.

Posted by: LenNeal at August 31, 2022 05:13 PM (U11/V)

56 alex berenson has a new substack pointing out the MRNA virus thing caused our ballz to fall off.

goddamn, I hope that's after a booster or two, or not the J&J.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:13 PM (OuH7W)

57 Inflation Reduction Act or IRA because they are coming after yours.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2022 05:13 PM (vz2tI)

58 Interesting observation by the Duran podcast the other day:
The leaders of the West all obtained their position by not making waves, by default more or less.

That is, none of the leaders rose by conquest but by acquiescence. They're timid mice who cower before the radicals.

So there are none, not one, who will dare stand up to the radical left aggressors and reverse their inflationary depression-inducing policies.
Instead, to a one, they're going to continue the sanctions on Russia, continue green strangulation and print even more money to hand out. The Temple of Doom runaway minecart is a safer ride than the one we're on.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2022 05:13 PM (Zf0+a)

59 It is going to be a long cold winter in Europe soon....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 31, 2022 05:13 PM (0vFtj)

60
I keep getting youtube suggested videos about the coming collapse . . . worse ever . . . much worse than 2008 . . . more like 1974 . . . etc etc.

Or could be just because I watched one of those to begin with.

Posted by: Sphynx at August 31, 2022 05:13 PM (P6qMv)

61 From Bloomberg:
(Headline)
DOJ Is Likely to Wait Past Midterms to Reveal Any Trump Charges

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 31, 2022 05:10 PM (hBN1n)
---
How do you keep a nation of morons in suspense?

Such a good thing that they waited until after the midterms and didn't do a whole noisy public raid first and then poll the public about how high should Trump hang for stealing nuclear codes.

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:13 PM (krQz2)

62 "There is too much consuming going on around here" !!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 31, 2022 05:12 PM (0vFtj)
---
"We had to bring in a pork loin barbecue!"

(Rush did a great impression of him. RIP.)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:14 PM (llXky)

63 It is going to be a long cold winter in Europe soon....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at August 31, 2022 05:13 PM (0vFtj)
---
Keep an eye on them Vikings.

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:14 PM (krQz2)

64
Demand for face oil washing fluid, however, is TIGHT!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 31, 2022 05:14 PM (Bg6BS)

65 I predict this future NYT headline:

"Biden Claims Recession Is Due To Republicans Not Embracing Original $3.4 T Build Back Better Plan"

Posted by: Gref at August 31, 2022 05:14 PM (S6ZRI)

66 What about all the "Now Hiring" signs and places that have to close early because they can't get workers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 31, 2022 05:15 PM (63Dwl)

67 you know, having heat during winter, or not being pushed in front of an oncoming subway car by 11 year old ferals comes from a place of privilege.

merrick garland, probably.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:15 PM (OuH7W)

68 Experts - "You can't have runaway inflation and a recession!"

Jimmy Carter - "Hold my Billy Beer"

Joe Biden - "It isn't a recession and eat bugs."

Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2022 05:15 PM (BJKQV)

69 CBD of course this idiotic nonsense plays in places like that, where well-off people who are basically hamsters as far as being citizens go predominate. But seems there is traction far beyond that.

As there is nothing remotely resembling a press, and hasn't been in years, it's more difficult to say just how stupid, incurious, ignorant, irresponsible, and self-destructively reckless the populace is. They marinate in delusional nonsense, but certain kinds of economic decline cannot be hidden. Of course not one in 1,000 could describe or explain the very broad boom, especially for the lower income quintiles, that was happening as a direct result of Trump policies - doesn't matter to them anyway.

But recent election results don't give any reason to think there's any upside ahead. Much more a question of pace and nature of decline.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2022 05:15 PM (OTzUX)

70 "Recessional? We don't know any of those"

Posted by: the Orchestrated Media at August 31, 2022 05:15 PM (LyVHa)

71 I'm no longer worried about 'recessions' and 'negative job trends'. My worries are: food, fuel, ammo, water, being able to access my money.

I feel like I'm walking on thin ice over molten lava...and hearing cracking sounds.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 31, 2022 05:15 PM (XvPQV)

72 AZ deplorable, nah, it was that Froggy Jean-Pierre

Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2022 05:16 PM (vz2tI)

73 Sundowner strokes out live not many will see it, but the replay will be off the charts in ratings

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2022 05:16 PM (k8B25)

74 would they continue to vote in leftists while their finances collapse?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at August 31, 2022 05:09 PM (XSRBF)

Are you at work? If so...step outside and look around. There's your answer!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (XIJ/X)

75 >>59 It is going to be a long cold winter in Europe soon....

Must suck to be them. They can burn some of that modern shit art they keep trying to push on us or run laps around their gay roundabouts to stay warm. I don't fucking care what happens to them quite frankly.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (nSdVr)

76 People are seriously hurting. We (company) raked in about 65 to 90 million gross per quarter for pretty much 2020-present, when shit was going soft even in 2019 pre-covid... now it is tapering off notably. If the money is there, they spend it... it's not there.

Posted by: somedood at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (BbSpR)

77 It's not a recession, it's economic constipation. And if I know anything about constipation, we'll blow the bottom out of it next quarter.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (sWM8x)

78 I feel like I'm walking on thin ice over molten lava...and hearing cracking sounds.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 31, 2022 05:15 PM (XvPQV)
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Molten lava is denser than you are, so just take off at a sprint and hope the vapor barrier holds until you get off of it.

Then take off your flaming shoes ASAP.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (llXky)

79 Ugh. I know I should probably be stockpiling to have some reserves against the next great depression but I don't know what stuff to stockpile. Not going to mess with cigs since I don't smoke. Liquor I do drink but not a huge amount to where I'd use up much of a stock bought for bartering purposes if we get another Nov 2016 reprieve soon.

I bought some silver and gold in 2009-2011 and paused that because I wasn't getting that much peace of mind or whatever value.

Theoretically the retirement fund should grow with inflation and hopefully some of companies and sectors stay healthy even in a depression so it might end up half or less as much purchasing power than if the deep state hadn't managed the steal but should be something.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (3cGpq)

80 Totally unrelated, but military: The USS Texas has arrived safely in Galveston and is in the drydock. Dewatering and raising the drydock will take several hours.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (lTGtQ)

81 alex berenson has a new substack pointing out the MRNA virus thing caused our ballz to fall off.

goddamn, I hope that's after a booster or two, or not the J&J.
==
You didn't need those balls for anything anyway.

Posted by: Progressives systematically reducing resistance at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (CQsqd)

82 Unemployment isn't increasing. Employers are simply becoming more selective.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at August 31, 2022 05:18 PM (ptgVI)

83 Housing market crash is coming and it will be glorious.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 31, 2022 05:18 PM (nnp+f)

84 Such a good thing that they waited until after the midterms and didn't do a whole noisy public raid first and then poll the public about how high should Trump hang for stealing nuclear codes.
Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:13 PM (krQz2)

The purpose of this raid nonsense is to get Trump back into the headlines - to make the election about Trump while hiding Biden back in his basement. Mission accomplished, I'd say.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2022 05:18 PM (BJKQV)

85

Wait'll Ace takes up Japanese.

NANI?!

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:18 PM (9/WBT)

86 Must suck to be them. They can burn some of that modern shit art they keep trying to push on us or run laps around their gay roundabouts to stay warm. I don't fucking care what happens to them quite frankly.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (nSdVr)
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Putin can cut his natural gas exports to Europe by half and still double what he made a year ago.

Think about that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:18 PM (llXky)

87 Ha! Maybe I should go back to work. Fucking Biden Administration never gave me a dime for the last two years. I should be less honest and self-reliant.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 31, 2022 05:18 PM (DOvc/)

88 I bought some silver and gold in 2009-2011 and paused that because I wasn't getting that much peace of mind or whatever value.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (3cGpq)

Did you jump into it and swim around like Scrooge McDuck?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 05:18 PM (Y5qcH)

89 What about all the "Now Hiring" signs and places that have to close early because they can't get workers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Minimum wage jobs are not being filled, middle class jobs are not being offered.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 31, 2022 05:19 PM (lTGtQ)

90 You didn't need those balls for anything anyway.

Posted by: Progressives systematically reducing resistance at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (CQsqd)
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They're castrating themselves and their children.

Weird strategy for conquest. Let's see how this plays out.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:19 PM (llXky)

91 59 It is going to be a long cold winter in Europe soon....
Posted by: Ferd Berfall

https://youtu.be/uh90i7oQ0Tg

Mood music!

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 31, 2022 05:19 PM (sAmhv)

92 Sundowner strokes out live not many will see it, but the replay will be off the charts in ratings
Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2022 05:16 PM (k8B25)

How will we know? Will he slur his words? Stop in mid-sentence and lose his train of thought? Get angry and start yelling? Crap his pants? Inappropriately grope people?

Posted by: Wally at August 31, 2022 05:19 PM (FJYfm)

93 Yes, things don't look good. OK, things look bad. Terrible, even.

But at least we have each other!!!

Posted by: Weasel at August 31, 2022 05:19 PM (0IeYL)

94 (Rush did a great impression of him. RIP.)

I'll never forget the first time I heard him do an impression of old Fritz. I was in my car waiting for my mom and I was laughing so hard people were staring at me. God I miss him.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 31, 2022 05:20 PM (nxdel)

95 The purpose of this raid nonsense is to get Trump back into the headlines - to make the election about Trump while hiding Biden back in his basement. Mission accomplished, I'd say.

///

as if the genius brains who came up with that idea have any insight as to how that would help anyone running blue in 2022

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:20 PM (OuH7W)

96 Was at Buick dealer. Showroom floor had more room than a dance floor.

Posted by: DaveA at August 31, 2022 05:20 PM (FhXTo)

97 Molten lava is denser than you are, so just take off at a sprint and hope the vapor barrier holds until you get off of it.

Then take off your flaming shoes ASAP.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (llXky)

*The More You Know Rainbow*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 31, 2022 05:20 PM (XvPQV)

98
How did gas drop a buck??

What made that happen?

btw, I just filled my oil tank. $4.62/gal. A thousand bucks.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:20 PM (9/WBT)

99
I'm thinking a piece of ground with a good fence and a water well, plus a little silver and gold. And a rifle that fires five times the velocity of any known gun.

Posted by: Sphynx at August 31, 2022 05:20 PM (P6qMv)

100 "Unemployment is less than 4%!" -- a cow-orker

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 31, 2022 05:20 PM (llON8)

101 1 lb roast beef
1 lb pepper jack cheese
1 loaf of bread $30.00

fucking nuts

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 31, 2022 05:20 PM (M+Lyo)

102 Joeconomics

Posted by: wth at August 31, 2022 05:20 PM (v0R5T)

103 As there is nothing remotely resembling a press, and hasn't been in years, it's more difficult to say just how stupid, incurious, ignorant, irresponsible, and self-destructively reckless the populace is. They marinate in delusional nonsense, but certain kinds of economic decline cannot be hidden.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2022 05:15 PM (OTzUX)

This is what fascinates me. I will be at a very large family event this weekend, and a fair number of the 20-30 somethings are committed left-of-center. I will talk to them and have to restrain myself from saying what I am thinking, which will be, "You can't possibly be this fucking stupid!"

But they can be. The Covid transfer payments made their lives pleasant, and they see nothing wrong with that policy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2022 05:21 PM (XIJ/X)

104 Must suck to be them. They can burn some of that modern shit art they keep trying to push on us or run laps around their gay roundabouts to stay warm. I don't fucking care what happens to them quite frankly.
===
Their lack of supply increases the demand on what we usually use. Your prices will follow. Not right away but, word to the wise. If you got a nice rate on electricity and or gas now, lock it in for a couple years if that is an option. Putin is going to hang on like a starving dog to a butcher bone.

Posted by: But Moo Moo will probably tell you that I'm leaving money on the table at August 31, 2022 05:21 PM (nqU+u)

105 Posted by: Progressives systematically reducing resistance at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (CQsqd)
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They're castrating themselves and their children.

Weird strategy for conquest. Let's see how this plays out.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 20

==========

One other thing I posted that I saw today:

The tranny boys who got put on puberty blockers...apparently have never had an orgasm as an adult post drugs (or post operation too, for all I know).

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:21 PM (OuH7W)

106 Do I hear THREE quarters of negative growth?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 31, 2022 05:21 PM (lTGtQ)

107 89 What about all the "Now Hiring" signs and places that have to close early because they can't get workers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr

Minimum wage jobs are not being filled, middle class jobs are not being offered.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 31, 2022 05:19 PM (lTGtQ)

Ding, ding, ding.

And even the hours not being run. At this point, I feel that is business excuse. I don't think most think they can make enough money for their old hours (with the additional variable costs) to be worth it. So, the hiring is in "poster only."

Posted by: Nova local at August 31, 2022 05:21 PM (exHjb)

108 Diesel is now back over $5.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 31, 2022 05:22 PM (lTGtQ)

109 1 lb roast beef
1 lb pepper jack cheese
1 loaf of bread $30.00
===
this time next year

$60.00 (if you are lucky)

Posted by: But Moo Moo will probably tell you that I'm leaving money on the table at August 31, 2022 05:22 PM (nqU+u)

110 I'll never forget the first time I heard him do an impression of old Fritz. I was in my car waiting for my mom and I was laughing so hard people were staring at me. God I miss him.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 31, 2022 05:20 PM (nxdel)
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His Tom Lantos was impression was also legendary.

"Meester Livingstone, I will remind you that Admiral BooooorDAH killed heemself for far less..."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:22 PM (llXky)

111 >>> 28 "Some of the little people will have to suffer a while as we transition into a more humane and compassionate economy! What are a few hundred thousand lives compared to a utopia where you don't have to work at anything except what you wish?"
--leftists
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 31, 2022 05:08 PM (Ivdso)

You misspelled "billion".

Posted by: WEF at August 31, 2022 05:22 PM (llON8)

112 Was at Buick dealer. Showroom floor had more room than a dance floor.
Posted by: DaveA at August 31, 2022

***
One near me (actually a Chevrolet dealer) has enough room on its used car lot for a soccer team to practice. This dealer has been around since the late '40s and has always had a good selection of used cars.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 31, 2022 05:22 PM (J2vNu)

113 Do you have to have high school diploma to be an airline pilot? I hear they're looking for help.

Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2022 05:22 PM (CqUXU)

114 I bought some silver and gold in 2009-2011 and paused that because I wasn't getting that much peace of mind or whatever value.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (3cGpq)

Did you jump into it and swim around like Scrooge McDuck?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 31, 2022 05:18 PM (Y5qcH)

Or at least have sex on it?

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 31, 2022 05:23 PM (DRSnL)

115 What was that stupid way that stupid Instagram brood, who seriously wrote, "the economy is just people out peopling" said was the reason we're not in a recession?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2022 05:23 PM (Zf0+a)

116 Of the 132k jobs created 130k were internet influencers.

Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2022 05:23 PM (CqUXU)

117 I will talk to them and have to restrain myself from saying what I am thinking, which will be, "You can't possibly be this fucking stupid!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2022 05:21 PM (XIJ/X)
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It's irrational to think that.

They demonstrate that daily.

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:23 PM (krQz2)

118 EXCELSIOR!

Posted by: The Recession Thing That Goes Up at August 31, 2022 05:24 PM (VDLxK)

119 >>Diesel is now back over $5.

I just put gas in the car and for the first time since last year gas was just under $4 at $3.99.

In a related note this is usually one of the busiest weeks of the year here and town is about half full.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 31, 2022 05:24 PM (ZLI7S)

120 One other thing I posted that I saw today:

The tranny boys who got put on puberty blockers...apparently have never had an orgasm as an adult post drugs (or post operation too, for all I know).

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:21 PM (OuH7W)
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We need to speak out more forcefully on what these "treatments" entail.

No, they can't "make" you anything, they can just mutilate your junk. That's it. That's all they can do.

And "puberty blockers" are chemical castration.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:24 PM (llXky)

121 The tranny boys who got put on puberty blockers...apparently have never had an orgasm as an adult
==
male or female - apparently. if they don't go through puberty, it aint happening.

Posted by: so how does a 9 year old even know what that means at August 31, 2022 05:24 PM (rmV2/)

122 Everybody that wants a job has one so that is why the jobs numbers are going down- KJP

Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2022 05:24 PM (vz2tI)

123 Y'all just want biden to fail. You're a bunch of h8ers. We are a kinder, gentler more respected nation now.

The adults are in charge and you need to have a better attitude.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2022 05:25 PM (D9x5h)

124 79 Ugh. I know I should probably be stockpiling to have some reserves against the next great depression but I don't know what stuff to stockpile. Not going to mess with cigs since I don't smoke. Liquor I do drink but not a huge amount to where I'd use up much of a stock bought for bartering purposes if we get another Nov 2016 reprieve soon.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 31, 2022 05:17 PM (3cGpq)

If you don't know, get what you cannot live without. For me, that's my script (which I have a current 6 month supply) and my vitamins (same). I try to keep 6 months minimum for both in case things go weird for awhile b/c I can't live without them with my health.

I'll even build up to a year (which I did in 2020), but not much longer b/c then they aren't good anymore once I take them...

Posted by: Nova local at August 31, 2022 05:25 PM (exHjb)

125
Amazon jacked up their Prime membership a few months ago.
But still has the "free shipping" for $25+ orders. I suspect that'll change presently.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:25 PM (9/WBT)

126 According Ukrainska Pravda sources close to Zelenskyy, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, who appeared in the capital almost without warning, brought two simple messages. The first is that Putin is a war criminal, he should be pressured, not negotiated with.

And the second is that even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the collective West, which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 05:25 PM (Wrs74)

127 DOOM!

Anyone got some good cricket recipes?

Posted by: Ken at August 31, 2022 05:25 PM (cMXNt)

128 And even the hours not being run. At this point, I feel that is business excuse. I don't think most think they can make enough money for their old hours (with the additional variable costs) to be worth it. So, the hiring is in "poster only."

Posted by: Nova loca

I know some people working in my area, whom I see working at one retail store certain days, and another retail store on other days. Many, many people are working multiple retail jobs, as the stores will not give them full time status, which entails benefits.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 31, 2022 05:25 PM (lTGtQ)

129 Whatever happened to big boobed, cat eared Japanese teaching YouTube girl?

Posted by: Just a guy, lurking in the north lurking. at August 31, 2022 05:25 PM (eGTCV)

130 No, they can't "make" you anything, they can just mutilate your junk. That's it. That's all they can do.

///

and then you add the damage done by climate change. I mean, it was 86 degrees today, that must've damaged a lot of people...what with them getting all that sunlight having fun outside.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:26 PM (OuH7W)

131 as if the genius brains who came up with that idea have any insight as to how that would help anyone running blue in 2022
Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:20 PM (OuH7W)

It's the exact same strategy they used in the 2020 election.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2022 05:26 PM (BJKQV)

132 What are people living on if they aren't working and the Covid unemployment money ran out?

Posted by: NCKate at August 31, 2022 05:26 PM (2oJif)

133 Anyone heard from TiFW?

Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 05:26 PM (BXxcV)

134
Battle Ship USS Texas coming into dock,
Galveston, Texas for repairs.
She's like the old soldier, nobody gives a shit.

@1:14:00, give her about twenty seconds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umwrKkQzDNc

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 31, 2022 05:26 PM (u3z76)

135 Was at Buick dealer. Showroom floor had more room than a dance floor.
Posted by: DaveA at August 31, 2022 05:20 PM (FhXTo)
.......

Honda dealer here had only 11 new cars on lot. Used CRV's going for same price as mine bought 6 years ago.

Posted by: wth at August 31, 2022 05:26 PM (v0R5T)

136 I don’t think the 132k number is bad for August. I think it looks bad in light of the insanely optimistic 300k prediction by ADP.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 31, 2022 05:26 PM (JgDaw)

137 And "puberty blockers" are chemical castration.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:24 PM (llXky)
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But it's a castration that makes them feel better.

LGBT* does 2 things:
1. Promotes non-reproductive sex
2. Promotes voluntary sterilization of neurotics.

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:26 PM (krQz2)

138 But they can be. The Covid transfer payments made their lives pleasant, and they see nothing wrong with that policy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 31, 2022 05:21 PM (XIJ/X)
_____________

In winter, warming hands over fire: "We're not cold yet. We've still got furniture left."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 31, 2022 05:26 PM (giAl5)

139 "When you're down, look at a clown."
- Joe Dirt's parents.

See? All better now--clown is in the White House

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 31, 2022 05:27 PM (Zf0+a)

140 Anyone got some good cricket recipes?
Posted by: Ken at August 31, 2022 05:25 PM (cMXNt)

Gotta sous vide that shit.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 31, 2022 05:27 PM (DRSnL)

141 Remember businesses started to hire only people for 30 hours or less because of Obamacare rules.

Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2022 05:27 PM (CqUXU)

142 My Fritz imitation is much better than Limbaugh's was, but a friend way back was so good he pranked some committee staff over the phone imitating Fritz. Would always stop whatever I was doing and listen whenever Fritz would talk. Didn't matter the topic. Rarely if ever any notes, or prepared remarks. He allowed only one of his staff on the floor. Two others with the traditional gift of southern gab back then were Juuuuuudge Heflin of AL, and David Pryor of AR. Bumpers would talk forever but was just a gas-bag, nothing entertaining.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2022 05:27 PM (OTzUX)

143 Anyone got some good cricket recipes?

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There are no good cricket recipes.

Posted by: Just Lily at August 31, 2022 05:27 PM (vivhj)

144 If Minecraft taught you anything it's not to swim in the lava.

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at August 31, 2022 05:27 PM (3AD8C)

145 It's the exact same strategy they used in the 2020 election.
Posted by: 29Victor

//

they had other strategies in 2022. excuse me while I fix this watermain at 3am.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:28 PM (OuH7W)

146 And the second is that even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the collective West, which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 05:25 PM (Wrs74)
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I saw reports that the Ukraine's big counteroffensive was a total disaster. Russians claiming crushing tank losses because Ukraine did not have adequate artillery support or control of the skies.

The UK MoD which is normally the world's biggest Ukraine propaganda outlet has not offered a rebuttal.

We'll see.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:28 PM (llXky)

147 Was at Buick dealer. Showroom floor had more room than a dance floor.
==
Was looking to buy a car back in the spring because I had a feeling inflation was going to be a thing. Couldn't get a Toyota Rav - 9 month wait - not guaranteed either.

Mazda dealers had cars on the lot. Not many but they were getting deliveries. Checked on out, was comparable, about 8K cheaper than Rav and available. Bought it. Would still be waiting for the Rav.

Posted by: The weirdness INTENSIFIES at August 31, 2022 05:28 PM (T9yTW)

148 Anyone got some good cricket recipes?
Posted by: Ken at August 31, 2022 05:25 PM (cMXNt)

Start with a wicked.

Posted by: Just a guy, lurking in the north lurking. at August 31, 2022 05:28 PM (eGTCV)

149 Went to buy a birthday card. Every decent, not cheap looking card was priced at 6.99-9.99.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 31, 2022 05:28 PM (IW8z9)

150 140 Anyone got some good cricket recipes?
Posted by: Ken at August 31, 2022 05:25 PM (cMXNt)

Gotta sous vide that shit.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 31, 2022 05:27 PM (DRSnL)

Gotta trash that shit. End of discussion. I'm neither a bat nor an anteater. No thanks.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at August 31, 2022 05:28 PM (EHSip)

151
What's Pork Butt going for today?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:28 PM (9/WBT)

152 https://tinyurl.com/ycyy794j
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (k8B25)

153 >>> 126 According Ukrainska Pravda sources close to Zelenskyy, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson, who appeared in the capital almost without warning, brought two simple messages. The first is that Putin is a war criminal, he should be pressured, not negotiated with.

And the second is that even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the collective West, which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 05:25 PM (Wrs74)

"war criminal" is the new "racist".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (llON8)

154 LGBT* does 2 things:
1. Promotes non-reproductive sex
2. Promotes voluntary sterilization of neurotics.
Posted by: Axeman

///

"same love" every corporation and democrat, probably

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (OuH7W)

155 Remember businesses started to hire only people for 30 hours or less because of Obamacare rules.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2022 05:27 PM (CqUXU)
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Yup. 2 of my kids were "hired in full-time" at 30/week.

Luckily all of them have moved into a 40+/week situation.

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (krQz2)

156 But it's a castration that makes them feel better.

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:26 PM (krQz2)
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Not really. They kill themselves at really high rates.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (llXky)

157 What are people living on if they aren't working and the Covid unemployment money ran out?

I have been wondering that too.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (nxdel)

158 93 Yes, things don't look good. OK, things look bad. Terrible, even.

But at least we have each other!!!
Posted by: Weasel at August 31, 2022 05:19 PM (0IeYL)

Remember. We're all in this together.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (BdMk6)

159 Well, I botched that used car story.
3 year old CRV's going for same price as advertised NEW ONES. Only problem is, there are no new ones on lot.
"COMING SOON"

Posted by: wth at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (v0R5T)

160 I went to Red Robin yesterday at lunchtime. I was the only customer in the place. I guess $15 hamburgers may have something to do with it.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (4I/2K)

161 LOL folks. I think I have like two gold coins. A swiss gold 'dime' and .25 oz coin. I did buy a bunch of bullion silver coins. Was too cheap to pay extra for U.S. or even Canadian mint coins. Considering things I'm glad I don't have coins with the 'mark of the beast.'

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 31, 2022 05:30 PM (3cGpq)

162 Remember businesses started to hire only people for 30 hours or less because of Obamacare rules.
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2022 05:27 PM (CqUXU)
____________

A totally foreseeable consequence that went unseen by our "elites."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 31, 2022 05:30 PM (giAl5)

163 Where is Kevin Bacon when you need to calm the panic?

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 31, 2022 05:30 PM (hQsZ8)

164 Local dealer offered me 16k for my 2011 4dr Wrangler. Would be nice if a new similar model didn't cost 40k.

Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2022 05:30 PM (CqUXU)

165 Up yours Autocorrect. I meant wicket and you know it.

Posted by: Just a guy, lurking in the north lurking. at August 31, 2022 05:30 PM (eGTCV)

166 Dry the crickets into flour and make pasta out of them.

Cricket pasta with creamy grub sauce.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 31, 2022 05:30 PM (D9x5h)

167 >>> 143 Anyone got some good cricket recipes?

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There are no good cricket recipes.
Posted by: Just Lily at August 31, 2022 05:27 PM (vivhj)

We don't need recipes, can we have your share?

Posted by: hens at August 31, 2022 05:30 PM (llON8)

168 Biden's Soul of the Nation speech tomorrow...

Yes, that's exactly what I need.

A moral lecture from a senile child-sniffing creep who on the payroll of China, and who when he's not scooping up graft that his drug-addict son generates is purposely smashing the economy and fomenting civil unrest and violent division.

Is there going to be a hymnal for this excursion into the Church of Biden?

Might I suggest "Aqualung"?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2022 05:30 PM (5NkmN)

169 >>59 It is going to be a long cold winter in Europe soon....

Doesn't Europe have plenty of those thermal hot springs up in Skandiland? Take a train up there and put your head in the water. Don't hold your breath. Warm you up from the inside out.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 31, 2022 05:31 PM (nSdVr)

170 What's Pork Butt going for today?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:28 PM (9/WBT)
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She lost her primary.

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:31 PM (krQz2)

171
Youtuber mechanic makes Ribs and Pork Butt...

tell me you don't want ribs and pork butt right now:

https://youtu.be/QSZf95qG-tQ?t=384

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:31 PM (9/WBT)

172 I've had the opportunity to ah, attend a, a showing you might say, a presentation of ah, this Porn Rock as they call it. In the tested pornography, one of the things to look at is that it does not have any redeeming social value. Ah, there could be an exception here because I haven't attended that presentation. A redeeming social value, I find that it's inaudible. I have a hard time understanding it.

And, Paul, since I travelled the country for three years and they said they couldn't understand me, maybe I could make a good rock-star, I don't know. But in all candour I would tell you it's, it's outrageous filth. So I'll be looking from this senator's standpoint not just to bring pression, but to try to see if there is some constitutional provision to tax, or procedure can be used on the Congress to limit this outrageous filth.

Posted by: Fritz Hollings at August 31, 2022 05:31 PM (sn5EN)

173 93 Yes, things don't look good. OK, things look bad. Terrible, even.

But at least we have each other!!!
Posted by: Weasel at August 31, 2022 05:19 PM (0IeYL)

Remember. We're all in this together.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (BdMk6)

Me and you and a dog named boo
Travellin' and livin' off the land
Me and you and a dog named boo
How I love being a free man

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 05:32 PM (4I/2K)

174 Private payrolls grew by just 132,000 for the month, a deceleration from the 268,000 gain in July

*

And don't forget, those jobs were part time and mainly women entering the workforce, and men leaving due to firings and lay offs.

People taking 2nd and 3rd jobs and wives returning to the workforce to help scrape by is what those numbers were.

And those numbers dropped.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 05:32 PM (iKxI+)

175 >>And the second is that even if Ukraine is ready to sign some agreements on guarantees with Putin, they [the UK and US] are not. Johnson’s position was that the collective West, which back in February had suggested Zelenskyy should surrender and flee, now felt that Putin was not really as powerful as they had previously imagined, and that here was a chance to "press him."

Wow. That is profound bullshit right there.
Putin's hand is only growing stronger the longer they play at this game.

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2022 05:32 PM (4wq3h)

176 The prices at restaurants are generally so astonishingly high now that I cannot understand how so many people can afford to patronize them. We cut way back years ago because the value proposition had collapsed for all but the few best places. That was about 60-70% "cheaper ago" than now.

Unbelievable.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2022 05:32 PM (OTzUX)

177 "What's Pork Butt going for today?"

$20. Same as in town.

Posted by: Pete Bootygig at August 31, 2022 05:32 PM (sn5EN)

178

Speaking of souls of the nation...

anyone see the trailer for the hunter biden movie?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:33 PM (9/WBT)

179 I would get a severe hard on if once the country crashes into a depression media outlets like MSNBC, CNN, etc. have to fire 3/4 of their newz readers just to keep the C-Suite jerk-offs afloat.

Bonus hard on's if I see one or more of the newz readers living under a bridge in a cardboard box sucking dicks for $15 (because the good oral is found in town for $20)

Whelp... back to the Bourbon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 31, 2022 05:33 PM (BFigT)

180 >>>What are people living on if they aren't working and the Covid unemployment money ran out?

Posted by: NCKate

>I've had no debt for over 15 years, don't live beyond my means and have 6 figures of cash that I sleep in.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 31, 2022 05:33 PM (DOvc/)

181 Went to buy a birthday card. Every decent, not cheap looking card was priced at 6.99-9.99.

I get mine from the Dollar Store.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 31, 2022 05:33 PM (nxdel)

182 "Fears of an economic slowdown?"

----

"Things are only like this because those ignorant and clueless business owners have allowed themselves to be stampeded by right-wing MAGA white supremacists into thinking that there's a slow down! It's all in their head!"

-- Your betters in the Biden administration

Posted by: junior at August 31, 2022 05:33 PM (lQ5Yz)

183 What are people living on if they aren't working and the Covid unemployment money ran out?

I have been wondering that too.
Posted by: jewells45 at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (nxdel)
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Credit cards and death. Mostly death.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 31, 2022 05:33 PM (5pTK/)

184 Discovered today at the grocery store that the new thing apparently is to label normal size groceries as "Family Size".

Seriously I saw a regular box of Oreos called "Family Size" now.

And now what used to be "Family Size" is labeled "Party Size". Also a 5 oz bag of potato chips that is mostly air in a giant bag was 5.59 which doesn't even seem real at this point.

We are in stunning, brave times.

Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 05:34 PM (BXxcV)

185 How's this for a flaming skull, at NY5:
"New NY gun law applicants have to provide social media accounts"

Posted by: UltraSemi-gp at August 31, 2022 05:34 PM (qpX6U)

186 >>166 Dry the crickets into flour and make pasta out of them.

Cricket pasta with creamy grub sauce.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Wash it down big glass of rat milk.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2758007/

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 31, 2022 05:34 PM (nSdVr)

187 anyone see the trailer for the hunter biden movie?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:33 PM (9/WBT)
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Stars Charlie Sheen, right?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 31, 2022 05:34 PM (5pTK/)

188 The Hunter Biden movie is directed by Special Agent Johnson. No, the other one.

Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 05:34 PM (BXxcV)

189 The prices at restaurants are generally so astonishingly high now that I cannot understand how so many people can afford to patronize them. We cut way back years ago because the value proposition had collapsed for all but the few best places. That was about 60-70% "cheaper ago" than now.

Unbelievable.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2022 05:32 PM (OTzUX)
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My wife and I went to a local college bar once known for cheap burgers. I had a hard cider, we got onion rings as appetizers and each got a burger with fries.

$50.

We're not eating out again any time soon.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:34 PM (llXky)

190 Oh I did buy 30 lbs of whole bean coffee and put in the freezer as "stuff I don't want to live without" Shrugs at the cringing gourmands going "freezing hurts the taste" I've always bought a few months worth at a time and stored in freezer, Now I have about 2 years worth and will probably keep buying to keep that much reserve.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at August 31, 2022 05:34 PM (3cGpq)

191 Speaking of Obamacare, I just read something about how Joe just made 0-care cost more.

You know how banks make money on making loans, right? They pay out in a couple of lump sums and then they collect principal + interest that more than compensates the payout.

Well, when Obama nationalized the student loans, he counted all that "profit" as offsetting the cost of 0-care. Now that Biden is planning to forgive that--or at least defray those payments, the fed is not getting those payments, so the revenue that the government had on paper is not going to be there.

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:35 PM (krQz2)

192 If'n I were Texas, or any of the southern states, I'd be advertising hugely on Yerpian TV about how nice and warm it is in the winter down yonder.

Posted by: MkY at August 31, 2022 05:35 PM (cPGH3)

193 Do I hear THREE quarters of negative growth?
Posted by: Thomas Paine
_______________________

Atlanta GDPNow for 3rd quarter currently at 1.6% growth. So, if it holds up, it'll be all "turning the corner" happy talk and "see we were right about two quarters not being a recession."

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 31, 2022 05:35 PM (es0Dj)

194
Yes, that's exactly what I need.

A moral lecture from a senile child-sniffing creep who on the payroll of China, and who when he's not scooping up graft that his drug-addict son generates is purposely smashing the economy and fomenting civil unrest and violent division.
+++++
expect a full throated defense of the FBI (they have the laptop, and so he is a puppet) and a big announcement of a new FBI program to curb "insurrectionist" groups on-line and counter terrorism efforts to round up dangerous plotters, wreckers and saboteurs. Then a knock on your door. Be sure to come out with your hands up.

Posted by: The weirdness INTENSIFIES at August 31, 2022 05:35 PM (My8yV)

195 Why is Jill Biden having meetings in the WH with cabinet members and teachers unions? Who elected her to what office?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 05:35 PM (Wrs74)

196 Fire up that Xbox and spark the joint.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2022 05:35 PM (ai/gj)

197 I'll go vegan before I eat bugs and worms. I am almost there anyway.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 31, 2022 05:35 PM (IW8z9)

198 I take it Michael Saylor is not an avowed lefty...or at least, not a Biden supporter...

Funny enough, I can't even really be mad about this suit b/c I'm sure these are the games billionaires play, but it would be nice if the eventual winnings were required to be rebated back to the taxpayers he fleeced...and not kept by lefty governments to give to their cronies...

https://wtop .com/dc/2022/08/ dc-ag-sues-local- billionaire-over-taxes/

Posted by: Nova local at August 31, 2022 05:36 PM (exHjb)

199 Nothing in recent times (this was 2004) really can top this - Fritz, at a press conference after a trade negotiation session in Geneva:

"I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find these potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."

Yowzah.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2022 05:36 PM (OTzUX)

200 Well. For the let it burn set, the fuse is lit.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 31, 2022 05:36 PM (hQsZ8)

201
I don't like the idea of applying BBQ Sauce to uncooked ribs, even if slow cooking.

BBQ sauce is best applied in the final 5-10 minutes of cooking.

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:36 PM (9/WBT)

202 hrugs at the cringing gourmands going "freezing hurts the taste"
==
Frozen coffee is a shit ton more satisfying on the palate than Imaginary coffee.

Posted by: Sooper Genius at August 31, 2022 05:36 PM (My8yV)

203 Why is Jill Biden having meetings in the WH with cabinet members and teachers unions? Who elected her to what office?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 05:35 PM (Wrs74)
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She had to tell Joe what to mumble.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 31, 2022 05:36 PM (5pTK/)

204 a moral lecture from a guy who needs two days of pre-speech methamphetamines to read a teleprompter

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:36 PM (OuH7W)

205
Well, it was probably the wrong time to do it, but the time was the only time. I just bought a house. Finished the closing this morning, turned on all the utilities.

I say goodbye to this concrete and steel Communist antpile on Sunday. Au revoir, Denver. Enjoy rotting.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (uaLxw)

206 I shot the sheriff
And I vaporized his deputy

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (g1EEm)

207 People live on public assistance, get a job that pays cash, make enough to satisfy themselves, quit job, live on public assistance, get a job that pays cash - to infinity.

Posted by: kraken at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (Vr12I)

208 >>We're not eating out again any time soon.

Why punish her for inflation?

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (4wq3h)

209 It isn't a recession until the negative inverse gamma of the delta GDP/yield/sapper curve crosses -1 at the inflection point of epsilon.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (Wrs74)

210 I got some coffee that's supposed to last 25 years. In 24 years I'm gonna drink it anyway.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (sn5EN)

211 All of us here at Schooner Tuna sympathize with all of you hit so hard by these trying economic times. In order to help you, we are reducing the price of Schooner Tuna by 50 cents a can. When this crisis is over, we will go back to our regular prices. Until then, remember, we're all in this together. Schooner Tuna. The tuna with a heart.

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (4I/2K)

212 Doesn't matter if we're in a recession they'll just lie through their teeth and tell us that we aren't, just like there are no illegals crossing the border.

And sadly people will believe them.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2022 05:38 PM (NpAcC)

213 nah, but it's great, the leftist hyperpartisan, totalitarian, police state loving, riot enthusiastas who eliminated local police viability are going to lecture us about how we're semi-fascists because -checking the stream- we want to not wear masks on airplanes.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:38 PM (OuH7W)

214 181 Went to buy a birthday card. Every decent, not cheap looking card was priced at 6.99-9.99.

I get mine from the Dollar Store.
Posted by: jewells45 at August 31, 2022 05:33 PM (nxdel)

I use mineral oil on my counter tops and sinks and I used to pay about 90 cents, it's 3 dollars at the grocery store. I'm using it a little more sparingly.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2022 05:38 PM (2nXUK)

215 Teeter has pork butt 1.29 and pork loin 1.99 this week.

Posted by: NCKate at August 31, 2022 05:38 PM (2oJif)

216 An AR-15 can kill God--no joke.

Posted by: President Charlie Foxtrot at August 31, 2022 05:38 PM (krQz2)

217 It isn't a recession until the negative inverse gamma of the delta GDP/yield/sapper curve crosses -1 at the inflection point of epsilon.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (Wrs74)

This guy gets it!

Posted by: Paul Krugman, Enron Advisor at August 31, 2022 05:38 PM (4I/2K)

218 And the only reason we know about that is because FJB walked in on the meeting confused and wandered out. Oh, silly ol Joe!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 05:38 PM (Wrs74)

219 Discovered today at the grocery store that the new thing apparently is to label normal size groceries as "Family Size".

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They're preparing for & front-running the One Child Policy Executive Order Mandate which will require all non-trans babies to continually be aborted until a family produces one Blessing of Liberty.

Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at August 31, 2022 05:39 PM (A2Um1)

220 But it's a castration that makes them feel better.
Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:26 PM
(krQz2)
Not really. They kill themselves at really high rates.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (llXky)

I imagine the thought progression goes something like this:
1) *wakes from surgery* Ok, I'm a woman now. Everything is going to be fine. Just fine.*sigh*Now my true life begins!

2)???????????
3) Oh, my God. This is awful. I, I, I still want to kill myself. Turning myself into a woman did nothing. And I cut off my dick! AAAAGGGHH! I cut off my dick!!! Why did I do that? Now I can't even go back. I feel awful and I don't even have a dick! Mean, I used tp be able to jack-off when I felt bad but now I can't even do that because I cut off my dick!!!!
4)*hangs self*

Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2022 05:39 PM (5NkmN)

221 What are people living on if they aren't working and the Covid unemployment money ran out?

I have been wondering that too.
Posted by: jewells45 at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM (nxdel)
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Credit cards and death. Mostly death.
==
See we felt we would kill more people, and thus, reduce demand so that inflation would be moderated somewhat.

Oops Oopsie.

Posted by: The WEF, we don't like crowds either at August 31, 2022 05:39 PM (rmV2/)

222 I imagine the thought progression goes something like this:
1) *wakes from surgery* Ok, I'm a woman now. Everything is going to be fine. Just fine.*sigh*Now my true life begins!

////

also consider: who is supposed to find you attractive? what are you attracted to? Would it be easier just to be a gheyboi?

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:40 PM (OuH7W)

223 Congrats YD

Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 05:40 PM (BXxcV)

224 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (uaLxw)

Congrats!

First thing to bring in the new house - salt.
Blessed salt if possible.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 31, 2022 05:40 PM (gbzeC)

225 4)*hangs self*
Posted by: naturalfake

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that's because of global warming.

merrick garland, probably

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:40 PM (OuH7W)

226
Congrats YD
Posted by: ... at August 31, 2022 05:40 PM (BXxcV)

Thx

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2022 05:40 PM (uaLxw)

227 Teeter has pork butt 1.29 and pork loin 1.99 this week.
==
per oz, not per pound

Posted by: The punch line at August 31, 2022 05:40 PM (rmV2/)

228 Party at YD's new place!

Posted by: Weasel at August 31, 2022 05:41 PM (0IeYL)

229 4)*hangs self*

Would you rather have a dead son or an alive, then dead daughter?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 05:41 PM (Wrs74)

230 Here, why don't you try My Coffee?

I'm done with it, now.

Posted by: Mike Lindell at August 31, 2022 05:41 PM (krQz2)

231 181 Went to buy a birthday card. Every decent, not cheap looking card was priced at 6.99-9.99.

**

KTE and I were looking at bday cards in.Target yesyerday. Sticker shock

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 31, 2022 05:41 PM (gbzeC)

232 YD, Congratulations.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 31, 2022 05:42 PM (vz2tI)

233 3) Oh, my God. This is awful. I, I, I still want to kill myself. Turning myself into a woman did nothing. And I cut off my dick! AAAAGGGHH! I cut off my dick!!! Why did I do that? Now I can't even go back. I feel awful and I don't even have a dick! Mean, I used tp be able to jack-off when I felt bad but now I can't even do that because I cut off my dick!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2022 05:39 PM (5NkmN)
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Think about it from the other side, though. Women are told to cut off their breasts and rip out their vaginas so that they can be...impotent men.

Telling women that they can ever function as men like that is cruel and unusual punishment.

"Yeah, you'll be a totally studly 5' nothing dude without a dick and all the guys will respect you and the women will want you."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:42 PM (llXky)

234 Well, I botched that used car story.
3 year old CRV's going for same price as advertised NEW ONES. Only problem is, there are no new ones on lot.
"COMING SOON"

Posted by: wth at August 31, 2022 05:29 PM

They pulled this $hit on me with a new Honda Ridgeline that I wanted to buy. Looked on the dealer website and finally saw one that I wanted, pictures and everything. I call them up to schedule a test drive and find out that truck is actually in South Carolina and if I drive down to McKinney and put a deposit down they can have it here in less than a week. I declined.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2022 05:42 PM (bVYXr)

235 Yep, gouging one of the greatest economic and social debacles of modern times ("Obamacare") to "finance" another enormous disaster (massive bailout of the most pernicious and overpaid/over-invested sector in the country - "education").

Good job, America!

Like I said, just a question of details as to pace and nature of decline. The incredible engine that is the American economy (the free, natural parts remain being most of that), the incredible legacy inheritance of infrastructure, rule of law, high trust environment for key institutions, etc - they're masking/cushioning it tremendously. Many can and will still do well.

But it's almost akin to the New Economic Policy in the early USSR. Out of desperate necessity, allow some of the productive elements to remain productive, while looting them and channeling the proceeds to further degradation and distortion.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2022 05:42 PM (OTzUX)

236 blame wreckers and hoarders

my favorite is capitalist roaders

Posted by: free tibet at August 31, 2022 05:42 PM (n+JaS)

237 Employment is a lagging indicator, but its about to finally catch up with the rest of the Biden-recession.

Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2022 05:43 PM (Ed8Zd)

238 I figured out a weird trick to beat Big Greeting Card. Alienate friends and family just before a special occasion!

Posted by: Weasel at August 31, 2022 05:43 PM (0IeYL)

239 Would you rather have a dead son or an alive, then dead daughter?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 31, 2022 05:41 PM (Wrs74)
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Would your rather have a dead son or a dead castrated son?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:43 PM (llXky)

240 Just thought the Gaia Religion pushing ghey and Trannie sex to cut down on population?

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2022 05:43 PM (k8B25)

241 "Yeah, you'll be a totally studly 5' nothing dude without a dick and all the guys will respect you and the women will want you."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August

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oh these girls transition so well into guys...except for looking like 5'5" girls.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:43 PM (OuH7W)

242 MSNBC -"The economy is becoming more selective."

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2022 05:44 PM (59VRb)

243 It takes a while to figure out what the willy is really for. Once I figured that out there was no way I was going to let it go.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 05:45 PM (sn5EN)

244 back to economic news, though, now that Russia's winning the economic battle...there's also the little problem that dipshit pederast Joe Biden staked the dollar's reserve status on isolating Russia.

So........that's not going to be good for us.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:45 PM (OuH7W)

245 Karine Jean-Pierre Says People Who Voted For Trump Are “an Extreme Threat to Our Democracy, to Our Freedom, to Our Rights”

OK.
Have it your way Cabbage Patch Scrunt.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 31, 2022 05:45 PM (U/IL3)

246 These dismal numbers don't even factor in the soon-to-be-unemployed WaPo "reporters."

It is to laugh.

Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2022 05:45 PM (Ed8Zd)

247

Anyone ever make ribs with the chinese restaurant flavor?

What do they call that stuff?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:45 PM (9/WBT)

248 Good for you YD. Congrats.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 31, 2022 05:45 PM (nxdel)

249 I figured out a weird trick to beat Big Greeting Card. Alienate friends and family just before a special occasion!

Posted by: Weasel at August 31, 2022 05:43 PM (0IeYL)
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Just for you: many years ago, a leading sportsman in Michigan announced the birth of his son by sticking blue mailing labels saying "It's a boy!" on live 12 gauge shotgun shells. There was a little blue ribbon tied around it as well.

Best birth announcement ever.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:46 PM (llXky)

250
YUM YUM Sauce?

Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:46 PM (9/WBT)

251 "What do they call that stuff?"

MSG?

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 05:46 PM (sn5EN)

252 How do you have sex with a guy to chick tranny if you're a guy with an actual dick? You put it in the surgical hole and then don't move like the Mormon kids do? When you pull out you might pull dude chicks old wiener out too.

Posted by: NCKate at August 31, 2022 05:46 PM (2oJif)

253
First thing to bring in the new house - salt.
Blessed salt if possible.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 31, 2022 05:40 PM (gbzeC)

Why salt?

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2022 05:46 PM (2nXUK)

254 man, can't wait for Biden's grunge revival tomorrow night. His band really hits the high-low sound mixing thing, eh?

whisper "i'm the guy who did the thing jack"

wait for it

LOUD "putin trump russia semi-fascist wreckers!!!!"

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:46 PM (OuH7W)

255 Well, it was probably the wrong time to do it, but the time was the only time. I just bought a house. Finished the closing this morning, turned on all the utilities.

I say goodbye to this concrete and steel Communist antpile on Sunday. Au revoir, Denver. Enjoy rotting.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (uaLxw)
********
Congratulations!!

Posted by: redridinghood at August 31, 2022 05:46 PM (NpAcC)

256 You want a virtual job? Here's virtual food.

Posted by: Zek at August 31, 2022 05:46 PM (OzNIz)

257 Who bet on Putin being the Belisarius to thwart the New Woke Odor?

Well stand ready to collect your Rubles

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 31, 2022 05:47 PM (59VRb)

258
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:46 PM (llXky)
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Nice!

Posted by: Weasel at August 31, 2022 05:47 PM (0IeYL)

259 Frozen coffee is a shit ton more satisfying on the palate than Imaginary coffee.
Posted by: Sooper Genius

I read that to my wife with a laugh, and she immediately said, "Why not vacuum seal it and have it taste like yesterday's."

Posted by: MkY at August 31, 2022 05:47 PM (cPGH3)

260 Congratulations Yud !

Don't forget to keep gutters cleaned

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2022 05:47 PM (k8B25)

261 "Why salt?
Posted by: CaliGirl "

It's a Viking thing.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 05:47 PM (sn5EN)

262 *puts up dukes*

"Lies! Damn Lies! And Sadists!!!"

-- SpongeBrain ShitPants Biden

Posted by: Sharkman at August 31, 2022 05:47 PM (c+cQQ)

263 Dollar Tree has cards.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2022 05:47 PM (ai/gj)

264 Is Biden going to announce his final solution tomorrow?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 31, 2022 05:47 PM (nSdVr)

265 Karine Jean-Pierre Says People Who Voted For Trump Are “an Extreme Threat to Our Democracy, to Our Freedom, to Our Rights”

OK.
Have it your way Cabbage Patch Scrunt.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 31, 2022 05:45 PM (U/IL3)

At least 79 million Americans voted for Pres. Trump. I'm pretty sure she doesn't understand the word "our."

Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2022 05:48 PM (Ed8Zd)

266 Why salt?

Posted by: CaliGirl

So the new homeowner can bake a nice fresh loaf of bread?

Posted by: Sharkman at August 31, 2022 05:48 PM (c+cQQ)

267 How do you have sex with a guy to chick tranny if you're a guy with an actual dick? You put it in the surgical hole and then don't move like the Mormon kids do? When you pull out you might pull dude chicks old wiener out too.

Posted by: NCKate at August 31, 2022 05:46 PM (2oJif)
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Michael Walsh (I think) was posting on all the complications (which are not rare, but common) and it seems like one actual bout of sex could rip open the abdomen.

Of course, since post-op trans can't orgasm anyway, what's the point?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:48 PM (llXky)

268 Anyone ever make ribs with the chinese restaurant flavor?

What do they call that stuff?
Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:45 PM (9/WBT)
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Poodle?

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:48 PM (krQz2)

269 "Dollar Tree has cards."

Unfortunately the Anniversary cards are all addressed "Dear Sis."

Posted by: Lo' The Hanging Fruit at August 31, 2022 05:48 PM (OzNIz)

270 You can make your own card and print it out. Bling it up if you want to. Mrs fd makes some really fancy cards.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 05:49 PM (sn5EN)

271 It requires far more effort than I'm willing to invest to glean even tidbits of reality from Russian media, when it comes to battlefield news, but I might try a bit later. All that is known is that the Ukes have launched some operations in the south, no big changes yet, usual competing claims from both sides. Russkis continue nibbling around Kharkhov, to what end I'm not clear. But even without current details, fundamentals remain the same: unless there is an unlikely big collapse or retreat on the Russian side (in the south, just about impossible in the east), it's at worst a sitzkrieg for Moscow, And Ukes don't have situation, resources, or manpower to keep this up indefinitely.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2022 05:49 PM (OTzUX)

272 Remember three years ago when we were in the greatest economy in decades and median household income had increased by $4500?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 05:49 PM (iKxI+)

273
175
Wow. That is profound bullshit right there.
Putin's hand is only growing stronger the longer they play at this game.

Posted by: garrett at August 31, 2022 05:32 PM (4wq3h)

They have to keep it going.

1- for the graft.

2 - to have Zelensky sign off on anything less would mean the elites would have to admit (sort of, not that they would) all the pain and upheaval was for nothing peons.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at August 31, 2022 05:49 PM (NW9xb)

274 why bother to look for a job when, in many big cities, you can shop lift and steal to your heart's content and not face any repercussions?
Trump's fault, because he set our country on the wrong path

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 31, 2022 05:49 PM (Ynyl9)

275 At least 79 million Americans voted for Pres. Trump. I'm pretty sure she doesn't understand the word "our."
Posted by: LASue

It's a bold, stupid, poorly calculated move. Defy half the population. Try to "unperson" us. It's not gonna end well.

Posted by: MkY at August 31, 2022 05:49 PM (cPGH3)

276 Au revoir, Denver. Enjoy rotting.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Congrats. Where ya going?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 31, 2022 05:50 PM (nSdVr)

277 someone made my birthday cards by right clicking on meme maker images and emailing them to me. only cost him 2.3 bitcoins

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at August 31, 2022 05:50 PM (OuH7W)

278 >>> 205
Well, it was probably the wrong time to do it, but the time was the only time. I just bought a house. Finished the closing this morning, turned on all the utilities.

I say goodbye to this concrete and steel Communist antpile on Sunday. Au revoir, Denver. Enjoy rotting.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (uaLxw)

Congratulations YD and family!

And I think this may be exactly the right time to GTFO of a commie shithole.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 31, 2022 05:50 PM (llON8)

279 Charades! I love charades.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 31, 2022 05:50 PM (PY/t0)

280 At least 79 million Americans voted for Pres. Trump. I'm pretty sure she doesn't understand the word "our."
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2022 05:48 PM (Ed8Zd)

Sure she does. She means theirs. They believe they own it. This is their Democracy, they are worried about their Freedoms and Rights. The rest of us can go screw ourselves.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2022 05:50 PM (BJKQV)

281 192 If'n I were Texas, or any of the southern states, I'd be advertising hugely on Yerpian TV about how nice and warm it is in the winter down yonder.
Posted by: MkY
--------------------

How are they any different than what's coming across our southern border?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 31, 2022 05:50 PM (u3z76)

282 I'm not paying $10 for a card. Fucking insane.

Congrats on the new house, YD.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2022 05:51 PM (ai/gj)

283 79M votes? How do ya figure? Thought it was more like 75M.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2022 05:51 PM (OTzUX)

284 We May Never Know™ if this is a recession!

Posted by: The MFM at August 31, 2022 05:51 PM (Jg92y)

285 Au revoir, Denver. Enjoy rotting.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (uaLxw)

Wow. Very brave. Well done.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2022 05:51 PM (BJKQV)

286 The Sampo makes salt, flour, and gold. Every household needs one.

Posted by: Louhi Louhi at August 31, 2022 05:51 PM (sn5EN)

287 >>>Those fears are no longer fears, they are facts.

Can't spell fascist without facts, now can you, factscist?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 31, 2022 05:51 PM (yHsuS)

288 How are they any different than what's coming across our southern border?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials?

Tersts got money. Invaders got appetites.

Posted by: MkY at August 31, 2022 05:52 PM (cPGH3)

289 Anyone ever make ribs with the chinese restaurant flavor?

What do they call that stuff?
Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:45 PM (9/WBT)
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Poodle?
Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:48 PM (krQz2)

We no see you cat. Stop asking.

Posted by: Hunan Inn at August 31, 2022 05:52 PM (4I/2K)

290 Bidenomics ftw.
Joeflation!

Posted by: Glenn John at August 31, 2022 05:52 PM (HKku6)

291 272 Remember three years ago when we were in the greatest economy in decades and median household income had increased by $4500?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 05:49 PM (iKxI+)

Yeah, but the mean tweets.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2022 05:52 PM (BJKQV)

292 Trump got 81M.

You can tell because that's what they say Biden got.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 05:52 PM (iKxI+)

293 I say goodbye to this concrete and steel Communist antpile on Sunday. Au revoir, Denver. Enjoy rotting.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2022 05:37 PM (uaLxw)

Congratulations, fellow fascist!

Party meeting at YD's house.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 31, 2022 05:53 PM (yHsuS)

294 I recycle the birthday cards the car dealership sends me.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 05:53 PM (sn5EN)

295 Well, it was probably the wrong time to do it, but the time was the only time. I just bought a house. Finished the closing this morning, turned on all the utilities.

And now the real fun begins!

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 31, 2022 05:53 PM (3hSHB)

296 All that is known is that the Ukes have launched some operations in the south, no big changes yet, usual competing claims from both sides.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 31, 2022 05:49 PM (OTzUX)
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Grab yourself a WW II atlas. Now imagine the Germans as holding the current line in the Ukraine and deciding that the winning move was to attack *Crimea.*

Basically punch into a strategic cul-de-sac.

Asia Times has been tracking the "offensive" and as of yesterday hadn't seen proof of it yet, but noted that Russian forces continue to nibble away at key positions in Donbas and seem to be putting pressure on the road to Odessa.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:53 PM (llXky)

297 Anyone ever make ribs with the chinese restaurant flavor?

What do they call that stuff?
Posted by: Soothsayer, Abbott, & Costello at August 31, 2022 05:45 PM (9/WBT)
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Poodle?
Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:48 PM (krQz2)

We no see you cat. Stop asking.

Posted by: Hunan Inn at August 31, 2022 05:52 PM (4I/2K)

MSG.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 31, 2022 05:54 PM (yHsuS)

298 I think the real secret to Chinese BBQ is ginger. More than you may think. And fresh grated.

Posted by: MkY at August 31, 2022 05:54 PM (cPGH3)

299 From previous thread

Karine Jean-Pierre Says People Who Voted For Trump Are “an Extreme Threat to Our Democracy, to Our Freedom, to Our Rights”

Peter Doocy should ask her "When will the Trump voters have to wear armbands indicating they voted for Trump?"

Seriously, if you asked her specific ways they were a threat to democracy, freedom and rights what would she say?: "Some people thought that the last election was crooked." Hillary bleated the same things for years after 2016

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 31, 2022 05:54 PM (wvo9L)

300
Congrats. Where ya going?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 31, 2022 05:50 PM (nSdVr)

Thanks (to everyone saying it, not just Healey).

A Southern State. I don't want to say exactly where, because I don't want to be that guy who draws in the ants from the antpile I left. But it's not the deep South - too hot for my Russian blood down there.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2022 05:54 PM (uaLxw)

301 Funemployment

Brokeback to the unemployment line

Staycation

All good terms, comrade!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 31, 2022 05:54 PM (PY/t0)

302 263 Dollar Tree has cards.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 31, 2022 05:47 PM (ai/gj)

Our local dollar store took the "Everything A Dollar" off of their façade. Because everything is now a buck and a quarter. But no mean tweets.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2022 05:54 PM (BJKQV)

303 280 At least 79 million Americans voted for Pres. Trump. I'm pretty sure she doesn't understand the word "our."
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2022 05:48 PM (Ed8Zd)
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Here is an excellent answer to your question via J.J. https://bit.ly/3wG3TjT

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 31, 2022 05:54 PM (u3z76)

304 1. Can't have a recession before the midterms.
2. Can't admit we have nothing on Trump before the midterms.

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 05:54 PM (krQz2)

305 In a related note this is usually one of the busiest weeks of the year here and town is about half full.
Posted by: JackStraw

They're at Burning Man.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 31, 2022 05:54 PM (KAi1n)

306 little known fact: unemployment was going up for months before the Oct 1929 stock market crash.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 31, 2022 05:55 PM (Ynyl9)

307 Anyone know a place where a broken down middle aged dude with decent writing skills and not much else to recommend him can make a decent living he can actually, y'know, live on?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: zombie Timothy Treadwell at August 31, 2022 05:55 PM (OUMaO)

308 A Southern State. I don't want to say exactly where, because I don't want to be that guy who draws in the ants from the antpile I left. But it's not the deep South - too hot for my Russian blood down there.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2022 05:54 PM (uaLxw)

Ah, Arkansas!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 31, 2022 05:55 PM (PY/t0)

309 And I think this may be exactly the right time to GTFO of a commie shithole.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 31, 2022 05:50 PM (llON

When you see Legal Insurrection talking about prepping, it is probably time.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 31, 2022 05:55 PM (yHsuS)

310 Dang it, bear-chow sock off.

Posted by: Brother Tim...as the man said, the die is cast at August 31, 2022 05:55 PM (OUMaO)

311 Someone remind me on the food thread, and I'll post a recipe my wife and I developed for chicken, ribs, whatever. Sauce, for the last ten minutes of grilling.

Posted by: MkY at August 31, 2022 05:55 PM (cPGH3)

312 Anyone know a place where a broken down middle aged dude with decent writing skills and not much else to recommend him can make a decent living he can actually, y'know, live on?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: zombie Timothy Treadwell at August 31, 2022 05:55 PM (OUMaO)
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The Bulwark is hiring. You have to buy your own assless chaps, though.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:55 PM (llXky)

313
I imagine the thought progression goes something like this:
1) *wakes from surgery* Ok, I'm a woman now. Everything is going to be fine. Just fine.*sigh*Now my true life begins!

2)???????????
3) Oh, my God. This is awful. I, I, I still want to kill myself. Turning myself into a woman did nothing. And I cut off my dick! AAAAGGGHH! I cut off my dick!!! Why did I do that? Now I can't even go back. I feel awful and I don't even have a dick! Mean, I used tp be able to jack-off when I felt bad but now I can't even do that because I cut off my dick!!!!
4)*hangs self*
Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2022 05:39 PM (5NkmN)

It's like jumping off a tall building to commit suicide. Halfway down you think, "What the fuck am I doing?!"

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 31, 2022 05:56 PM (BdMk6)

314 "Our local dollar store took the "Everything A Dollar" off of their façade."

They could have left it up. Something like a card could be a dollar a page. You just have to buy the set.

Posted by: fd at August 31, 2022 05:56 PM (sn5EN)

315 >>>How do you have sex with a guy to chick tranny if you're a guy with an actual dick? You put it in the surgical hole and then don't move like the Mormon kids do? When you pull out you might pull dude chicks old wiener out too.

Posted by: NCKate

>He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, and said, "What a good boy am i!"

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 31, 2022 05:56 PM (DOvc/)

316 Why you hire a professional.

I just installed a new toilet but had to Jerry rig it because the base didn't sit in the previous space cut out of the tile. No problem right as long as it can sit on the tile on both side and front and back? Well it can but the tile floor slopes up toward the wall so causing the toilet to tip forward. Well I cut some tile to put under the front to lift it up and when I tighten the toilet down it was steady. Of course that left me with space on the sides so I 'caulked' it with quick dry cement. I'll use regular caulk around that when it dries and sets.

It's a redneck solution but at least it doesn't look like it. I'm sure it will require replacing with new tile work but I'm not re-tiling my bathroom until I have to,

Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2022 05:56 PM (CqUXU)

317 FTSB -Megyn Kelly now transitioning to an "All-Blue" format
She says the journalistic model she wants to emulate is Redd Foxx.

Soft porn?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 31, 2022 05:56 PM (yQpMk)

318 >>A Southern State.

Nice. Enjoy the freedom.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 31, 2022 05:56 PM (nSdVr)

319 Marijuana (well, delta9 THC) degrades to about 1/4 strength after a year. So, stockpile accordingly.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 31, 2022 05:57 PM (KAi1n)

320 The stock market isn't allowed to crash unless the people in charge want it to. Remember the ability to put the brakes on and shut down the market?

Funny how Trump was allowed to let it hit 21k or whatever, isn't it?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 05:57 PM (iKxI+)

321
Remember three years ago when we were in the greatest economy in decades and median household income had increased by $4500?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at August 31, 2022 05:49 PM

I remember tearfully attempting to explain to my daughter why the Republicans were doing this to the country but I ended up lost for words.

Posted by: Karen CheChe at August 31, 2022 05:57 PM (jE276)

322 I tried to buy a new Lincoln Aviator last Dec here. Local dealer (60+ years) had zero on the lot. Said two or three were scheduled to be built in March but he predicted April. I just was there and still zero on the lot. Maybe 10 new vehicles and 30 used.

Posted by: free tibet at August 31, 2022 05:57 PM (n+JaS)

323 >How do you have sex with a guy to chick tranny

I recently watched a Rekieta Law episode on Rumble. His guest posted a letter/email from a male friend describing a sexual experience with a dudes front hole. It is very disturbing. After the experience the non-trans male has a new perspective and will never engage in such activity in the future.

Posted by: Fool Otto at August 31, 2022 05:57 PM (DB16e)

324 Karine Jean-Pierre Says People Who Voted For Trump Are “an Extreme Threat to Our Democracy, to Our Freedom, to Our Rights”

Where 'Our' is defined as just the people on her side of the podium.

Posted by: t-bird at August 31, 2022 05:58 PM (Jg92y)

325 Vienna Sausages are $1 each!

(When Purchased In a Six Pack)

Posted by: The Dollar Stoe fine print at August 31, 2022 05:58 PM (sn5EN)

326 Grab yourself a WW II atlas. Now imagine the Germans as holding the current line in the Ukraine and deciding that the winning move was to attack *Crimea.*

Basically punch into a strategic cul-de-sac.

Asia Times has been tracking the "offensive" and as of yesterday hadn't seen proof of it yet, but noted that Russian forces continue to nibble away at key positions in Donbas and seem to be putting pressure on the road to Odessa.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:53 PM

Yep the Germans in WWII poured everything they had into keeping the Crimea in 1944 and got trapped there when the Russians cut them off. It did not work well for them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 31, 2022 05:58 PM (bVYXr)

327 It's like jumping off a tall building to commit suicide. Halfway down you think, "What the fuck am I doing?!"
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 31, 2022 05:56 PM (BdMk6)

"So far, so good."

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 31, 2022 05:58 PM (yQpMk)

328
Thanks (to everyone saying it, not just Healey).

A Southern State. I don't want to say exactly where, because I don't want to be that guy who draws in the ants from the antpile I left. But it's not the deep South - too hot for my Russian blood down there.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2022 05:54 PM (uaLxw)

Congrats to you!

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2022 05:58 PM (2nXUK)

329 Do you realize that a Biden recession develops 5 times as rapidly as a recession from any other President? It will blow the guts out of an economy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc. etc. at August 31, 2022 05:58 PM (E5ADw)

330 It's a redneck solution but at least it doesn't look like it. I'm sure it will require replacing with new tile work but I'm not re-tiling my bathroom until I have to,
Posted by: polynikes at August 31, 2022 05:56 PM (CqUXU)

I foresee problems. Watch the basement ceiling.

Posted by: MkY at August 31, 2022 05:59 PM (cPGH3)

331 old: Conjunction Junction, what's your function?

new: Recession Session, what's your mention?

Posted by: Schoolhouse Rock at August 31, 2022 05:59 PM (+oR7L)

332 FYI - In addition to Duck, Ace of Spades HQ is now shadow banned on Bing searches as well. Entering Ace of Spades HQ will bring up Wiki, Facebook, other references but no direct link to ace.mu.nu. Was working last week. Google still works. Not sure about Brave etc...

Posted by: MikeN at August 31, 2022 05:59 PM (P31W2)

333 We no see you cat. Stop asking.

Posted by: Hunan Inn

=====

I did not say you served horse meat. I merely inquired as to the whereabouts of the pony once tethered behind your establishment.

Posted by: Zombie W.C. Fields at August 31, 2022 05:59 PM (neqtN)

334 Soft porn?
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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Until she loses audience share then she goes hard core.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 31, 2022 05:59 PM (u3z76)

335 little known fact: unemployment was going up for months before the Oct 1929 stock market crash.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 31, 2022 05:55 PM (Ynyl9)
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That's when snaps happen. Given a little pressure from a slackening economy.

Remember the market was fine for a while while the normally stable MBSs were losing value, because finance companies for a while could buy "swaps" and count them as assets against outlays.

And then the institutions selling the swaps snapped.

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 06:00 PM (krQz2)

336 Anyone ever make ribs with the chinese restaurant flavor?

What do they call that stuff?

Hoisin sauce and five spice powder. Also, they don't usually use ribs. They use pork butt.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 31, 2022 06:00 PM (i0wNm)

337 A Southern State. I don't want to say exactly where, because I don't want to be that guy who draws in the ants from the antpile I left. But it's not the deep South - too hot for my Russian blood down there.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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Welcome South, brother.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Blue Ridge at August 31, 2022 06:00 PM (E5ADw)

338 The UK MoD which is normally the world's biggest Ukraine propaganda outlet has not offered a rebuttal.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at August 31, 2022 05:28 PM (llXky)

In an interesting coincidence just before the last 2 offensives in the Kherson area Boris Johnson made an emergency visit to Kiev to his buddy Zelensky.

Strategically, the Kherson area is a terrible place for a counteroffensive. There's the main line, then a huge river breaking up the front. So even if they get the Russians retreating for a little, the river stops that dead. The Russians have ample artillery to hold off any 'crush them against the river' nonsense.

But lets say the do force them over. Then *they* have to cross the river, and behind that is the narrow peninsula leading to Crimea that a very small force could hold for a long time. Meanwhile the rest of the Russian army can move to the area and hit the flank.

There's nothing in that direction that can end the war.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2022 06:01 PM (eoQWY)

339 280 At least 79 million Americans voted for Pres. Trump. I'm pretty sure she doesn't understand the word "our."
Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2022 05:48 PM (Ed8Zd)
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Here is an excellent answer to your question via J.J. https://bit.ly/3wG3TjT
Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 31, 2022 05:54 PM (u3z76)

Thanks. Excellent and depressing.

Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2022 06:01 PM (Ed8Zd)

340 As was noted in a recent morning thread, the Vatican has recently ordered its affiliates worldwide that all financial assets and holdings are to be transferred into the direct custody of the Vatican Bank by Sept 30 of this year. This, needless to say, involves a LOT of money.

We talk about the coming financial collapse a lot here, but it still always seems like some nebulous, far off thing that will happen at some unknown time. It bothers me quite a bit when I see highly connected people and very large institutions beginning to put a date on it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 06:02 PM (trdmm)

341 In case anyone missed the link nurse posted yesterday, here is the obit for Ann Wilson (empire1)

https://tinyurl.com/2uc587xs

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 31, 2022 06:02 PM (gbzeC)

342 it's weird how polynikes' description of his slightly-off new toilet install and the discussion of how one would actually penetrate an M-to-F tranny ...are so similar.

Redneck Solutions, indeed.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 31, 2022 06:02 PM (w0NJk)

343 YD, even if you're in city limits you may want to get some chickens. Most small towns will allow hens.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 31, 2022 06:02 PM (llON8)

344 Late to the party.
Tried two places and no light cream to be had. So,e types of milk still on the shelves but it is starting to look like we are in for another bout of missing items.
I also can't get over the fact that a single peach is $.89. Not per pound. Per piece. Most fruit now priced by the piece. When did this happen?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 31, 2022 06:02 PM (Y+l9t)

345 Off vaudeville sock

Posted by: 2009Refugee at August 31, 2022 06:02 PM (neqtN)

346 Karine Jean-Pierre Says People Who Voted For Trump Are “an Extreme Threat to Our Democracy, to Our Freedom, to Our Rights”
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Well, you can't have voters voting for just whoever they want in a "democracy"!

Posted by: He Explained at August 31, 2022 06:02 PM (krQz2)

347 Chuy, have you read Daily Mail's review of Rings of Power yet?

Ouch. It's cruel.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3njb7h

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 31, 2022 06:02 PM (M9XmQ)

348 ADP is usually wrong..

Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2022 06:02 PM (bs+z0)

349 A Southern State.

An actual part of the old Confederacy? Or a southish state, like East Carolina or Kentucky?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 31, 2022 06:02 PM (yQpMk)

350 Non-Recession deniers are semi facists.

I think im figuring it out.

Posted by: torabora at August 31, 2022 06:03 PM (Y274z)

351 The closest Dollar Store is a little ways away. I don't go there for just one item. I do shop there occasionally but it is when I need a bunch of stuff.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 31, 2022 06:03 PM (IW8z9)

352 Anyone ever make ribs with the chinese restaurant flavor?

What do they call that stuff?

Hoisin sauce and five spice powder. Also, they don't usually use ribs. They use pork butt.
Posted by: bonhomme
___

Char Siu...and yeah, pork butt or pork shoulder is required.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 31, 2022 06:03 PM (jwDzO)

353
Welcome South, brother.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
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Currently clear, bright blue sky, 80 deg., 46% humidity, mid-50's overnight.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, in the Blue Ridge at August 31, 2022 06:03 PM (Xnr/7)

354 That black, lesbian immigrant seems a little stupid.

Posted by: Just a guy, lurking in the north lurking. at August 31, 2022 06:04 PM (eGTCV)

355 My autistic son is taking an online sociology class 101 in some rather large University - it's really all Marxist theory on how you get them young and then teach them the rules of socialization, - these people, like Max Weber, really did go to school on how to turn people early into cattle.

They figured out that if you got to people early on in life, you could brainwash them into being "social" which was code for becoming a good cog in a socialist society.

Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2022 06:04 PM (+Cgut)

356 That black, lesbian immigrant seems a little stupid.
Posted by: Just a guy, lurking in the north lurking. at August 31, 2022 06:04 PM (eGTCV)

Since a Moron mentioned it, I can't not see her as a Muppet.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 31, 2022 06:04 PM (yQpMk)

357 It's like jumping off a tall building to commit suicide. Halfway down you think, "What the fuck am I doing?!"

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at August 31, 2022 05:56 PM (BdMk6)
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And "Why exactly are my nuts gone?!"

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 06:05 PM (krQz2)

358 That black, lesbian immigrant seems a little stupid.
Posted by: Just a guy, lurking in the north lurking. at August 31, 2022 06:04 PM (eGTCV)

Too many titles just squeezes the brains right out of you. Works for aristocrats, generals, you name it.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2022 06:05 PM (eoQWY)

359
2)???????????
3) Oh, my God. This is awful. I, I, I still want to kill myself. Turning myself into a woman did nothing. And I cut off my dick! AAAAGGGHH! I cut off my dick!!! Why did I do that? Now I can't even go back. I feel awful and I don't even have a dick! Mean, I used tp be able to jack-off when I felt bad but now I can't even do that because I cut off my dick!!!!
4)*hangs self*
Posted by: naturalfake at August 31, 2022 05:39

I hear this in Sam Kinnson's voice.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 31, 2022 06:05 PM (2nXUK)

360 But Biden has got his mojo back and the Democrats are going to hold both the House and Senate.

Because every election in the last 200 years has been completely divorced from the facts on the ground.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 31, 2022 06:05 PM (5p7BC)

361 YD, I have been looking at southern states
Can you email me which one you picked? I'm safe to tell since we are stuck here in PA for the foreseeable future anyway

(votermom at g m ail)

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 31, 2022 06:05 PM (gbzeC)

362 There's nothing in that direction that can end the war.
Posted by: Oldcat
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So, you're saying O'Biden's people are directing the offense?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 31, 2022 06:05 PM (u3z76)

363 Okay, I can:

A. Go work on the damned lawn tractor

OR

B. Take a nap

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 31, 2022 06:05 PM (Xnr/7)

364 That black, lesbian immigrant seems a little stupid.

Posted by: Just a guy, lurking in the north lurking. at August 31, 2022 06:04 PM (eGTCV)
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But xe sure plays a mean pinball.

Posted by: Axeman at August 31, 2022 06:05 PM (krQz2)

365 Kathryn Davidson has her YouTube California fire blog back up. She's low key but gets after the rascals whose corporate and public policy is killing people and wiping out entire towns and neighborhoods.

Posted by: torabora at August 31, 2022 06:06 PM (Y274z)

366 I stocked up on catsup and canned tomato products from the Dollar Store today. Farmers warning of shortages this fall and winter. Along with everything else.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 31, 2022 06:06 PM (nxdel)

367 For probably half of Biden supporters they feel no difference between Trump's and Biden's economy. I'm betting the state of the economy effects them very little. The rich, government workers, some retirees and welfare recipients lives didn't improve under Trump and won't be effected by the garbage economy now.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2022 06:06 PM (BJKQV)

368 So Latrine Jean Pierre says that at minimum 75 Million Voters are an extreme threat to Democracy ? I do not think that word meaans what she thinks it means

Posted by: It's me donna at August 31, 2022 06:06 PM (bs+z0)

369 My autistic son is taking an online sociology class 101 in some rather large University - it's really all Marxist theory on how you get them young and then teach them the rules of socialization, - these people, like Max Weber, really did go to school on how to turn people early into cattle.

Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2022 06:04 PM (+Cgut)

Its ironic because Communist states always had problems with agriculture and providing food for themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2022 06:06 PM (eoQWY)

370 Because every election in the last 200 years has been completely divorced from the facts on the ground.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at August 31, 2022 06:05 PM (5p7BC)

In fairness, I felt secure in 2012 as no incumbent had ever been returned to office with 7%+ UE.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 31, 2022 06:06 PM (yQpMk)

371 Okay, I can:

A. Go work on the damned lawn tractor

OR

B. Take a nap
Posted by: Mike Hammer

What? All the likker gone?

Posted by: MkY at August 31, 2022 06:07 PM (cPGH3)

372 But lets say the do force them over. Then *they* have to cross the river, and behind that is the narrow peninsula leading to Crimea that a very small force could hold for a long time. Meanwhile the rest of the Russian army can move to the area and hit the flank.

There's nothing in that direction that can end the war.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2022 06:01 PM (eoQWY)

Now I take no positions on whether this operation succeeds or fails; but I believe it's obvious that this action isn't about "winning the war", it's about getting a propaganda victory before winter which will keep western support flowing. Well, that's the plan - go to the river and stop, and then spend the next 6 months saying "Neener Neener" to the Russians.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 06:07 PM (trdmm)

373 Raggity Karine is way over her head, and a pure Propagandist

Posted by: Skip at August 31, 2022 06:07 PM (k8B25)

374 nood kjp

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at August 31, 2022 06:07 PM (yHsuS)

375 >>>What are people living on if they aren't working and the Covid unemployment money ran out?

Posted by: NCKate

>I've had no debt for over 15 years, don't live beyond my means and have 6 figures of cash that I sleep in.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 31, 2022 05:33 PM (DOvc/)
_____________

A lot of people - especially young people - are finding out that times, like luck, comes in two flavors.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at August 31, 2022 06:07 PM (nDa05)

376 In case anyone missed the link nurse posted yesterday, here is the obit for Ann Wilson (empire1)

https://tinyurl.com/2uc587xs
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 31, 2022 06:02 PM (gbzeC)

I didn't know. What a beautiful obituary- her life was clearly full of laughter and love.

Posted by: LASue at August 31, 2022 06:08 PM (Ed8Zd)

377 366 I stocked up on catsup and canned tomato products from the Dollar Store today. Farmers warning of shortages this fall and winter. Along with everything else.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 31, 2022 06:06 PM (nxdel)

++++

That sounds like a really good idea.

Posted by: washrivergal at August 31, 2022 06:08 PM (IW8z9)

378 Nood

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at August 31, 2022 06:09 PM (YglAn)

379 really did go to school on how to turn people early into cattle.

Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2022 06:04 PM (+Cgut)

Its ironic because Communist states always had problems with agriculture and providing food for themselves.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2022 06:06 PM (eoQWY)

Soylent Green is people.

Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2022 06:09 PM (BJKQV)

380 So, you're saying O'Biden's people are directing the offense?

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at August 31, 2022 06:05 PM (u3z76)

I'm not sure which group of idiots is mismanaging the war - from the hold to the death on one front to bang your head into the enemy's strength -- with no airforce or artillery or tanks left the infantry, even if successful will take a long time to walk the distance to the Black sea. It just seems like each step is praying for a miracle to happen, but no step even comes close to allowing one to happen.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2022 06:09 PM (eoQWY)

381 Its ironic because Communist states always had problems with agriculture and providing food for themselves.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2022 06:06 PM (eoQWY)

Soylent Green is people.
Posted by: 29Victor at August 31, 2022 06:09 PM (BJKQV)

They had trouble keeping human population up too.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2022 06:10 PM (eoQWY)

382 A "secret" grand jury is in session.
The DOJ issues a new 34 page filing that Team Trump
has until 8 p.m. to answer.
All news talking about the TS doc photos. They look real!!

This is the lalapalooza of hoaxes. The Big Bang.

Viva Trump. Viva viva viva.

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2022 06:12 PM (4h9M3)

383 Now I take no positions on whether this operation succeeds or fails; but I believe it's obvious that this action isn't about "winning the war", it's about getting a propaganda victory before winter which will keep western support flowing. Well, that's the plan - go to the river and stop, and then spend the next 6 months saying "Neener Neener" to the Russians.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 31, 2022 06:07 PM (trdmm)

Just look at WWI to see how well that works. And at that point the attacking side had air and arty superiority.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2022 06:12 PM (eoQWY)

384 It's a buck twenty five store thanks to Joe.

Posted by: torabora at August 31, 2022 06:13 PM (Y274z)

385 One thing I can see - in these Sociology studies in academia - the whole thing is essentially Godless - they acknowledge that Religion plays a role in imparting behavior, then quickly jump to how its just a part of that total imprint on your development, like you are an ape or a frog or an amoeba to be injected with different "ideas" in which you may respond, good and bad - not its the whole reason we are here at all...no, its just a factor, one of many - almost like an obstacle - before they jump to your social class and parents and your location as most important - this was always the most important element for socialists. This is why Christians confound them and torture them - its...inconceivable to them.

Posted by: Boswell at August 31, 2022 06:14 PM (+Cgut)

386 I still laugh at the time Trump talked at the UN and told the Germans (and the EU) not to depend on the Russians for oil and gas. The Germans laughed and practically rolled in the isles when he said that. I guess we might see the end of the 4th Reich?

Posted by: Colin at August 31, 2022 06:15 PM (SO9GB)

387 Congrats, YD!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 31, 2022 06:19 PM (5pTK/)

388 I still laugh at the time Trump talked at the UN and told the Germans (and the EU) not to depend on the Russians for oil and gas. The Germans laughed and practically rolled in the isles when he said that. I guess we might see the end of the 4th Reich?
Posted by: Colin at August 31, 2022 06:15 PM (SO9GB)

Even Trump couldn't know that they would first get so dependent on the Russians, then antagonize them to the point of a war in Ukraine, and finally put up sanctions to block the Russians shipping them what they need. Putin didn't even need to threaten them - they put the rope around their own neck and pulled tight.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2022 06:23 PM (eoQWY)

389 oh, I gotta buy milk

maybe back later

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at August 31, 2022 06:24 PM (Ynyl9)

390 Me: I fear that at some point in the future indications point to a premature ejaculation.

Drenched hooker: Sure sport.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at August 31, 2022 06:24 PM (ICvs1)

391 they put the rope around their own neck and pulled tight.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2022 06:23 PM (eoQWY)

"We simply must do it," said the Head of the E.U., "for Ukraine."

Posted by: Ziba at August 31, 2022 06:26 PM (4h9M3)

392 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 31, 2022 06:05 PM (gbzeC)

over to you

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 31, 2022 06:27 PM (uaLxw)

393 "There's nothing in that direction that can end the war.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 31, 2022 06:01 PM (eoQWY)"

Anyone paying attention knows that like 15km farther and they can cut off water the the peninsula again. Taking Kherson also puts the entire land logistics route to Crimea in MLRS range.

They have a ton of reasons to do this.

Posted by: somedood at August 31, 2022 06:32 PM (BbSpR)

394 The government is going to fuck with unemployment numbers until one day they will talk about having more people working than there are jobs. Ace's robotic head will then break it down for us and explain how to pull out the government massaging and recreate 2028 numbers. The year of the last election.

Posted by: Fish at August 31, 2022 06:38 PM (ADw0E)

395 All the mangled butchery going on with the trans men and women will prompt a remake of The Crying Game (literally) that will be off the charts.

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