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Cowbell: Stock Market Surges After Yuge Jobs Report

Gotta have more cowbell.


Stocks surged on Friday on the back of U.S. jobs growth that easily topped analyst expectations as Wall Street wrapped up a choppy week of trading.

...

The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in November, according to figures released by the Labor Department. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected a gain of 187,000. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, matching its lowest level since 1969.

“After the sharp slowdown at the start of the year, the recent rebound in employment growth is clearly encouraging, and suggests that the loosening in financial conditions this year is starting to support the economy,” said Andrew Hunter, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics, in a note.

Posted by: Ace of Spades at 12:28 PM




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1 But what about #MuhPresidentialNorms?!?!?!?!

Posted by: El Kabong at December 06, 2019 12:29 PM (datdl)

2 Everybody is working for the weekend.


Literally.

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 12:29 PM (2oqPC)

3 Yuge!!!!

Posted by: StefanH at December 06, 2019 12:30 PM (ob8FX)

4 Should we tell them down below that we are up here?

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:30 PM (bCLt0)

5 Top Ten!

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at December 06, 2019 12:30 PM (JUOKG)

6 but, but #OrangeManbad

we must reverse this to keep him from getting reelected...

/Democraps

Posted by: SturmToddler at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (8D42x)

7 I monitor Stocktwits when I'm day trading.

There are some Twits who are constantly warning about an upcoming recession. They are trying to speak it into existence.

Posted by: Emmie at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (87gB3)

8 >>After the sharp slowdown at the start of the year,


Show your work.

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (2oqPC)

9 Hey, how boot that job loss report out of Canada today, eh?


Can they make Justin prime minister for life?

Posted by: ShainS at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (2KkD9)

10 But we have to work 8 jobs to stay alive

Posted by: Said no one ever at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (U7k5w)

11 TRUMP!

Posted by: MAGA at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (byR7a)

12 Kurt?

Kurt?

Kurt?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (KUaJL)

13 Impeachment in the toilet, huge jobs report.
You almost have to believe this is divinely inspired.

Posted by: Dad of Six at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (FI5IC)

14 I believe that Trump is reelected on the economy, on this basis alone.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (bCLt0)

15 NeverTrump wept.

I will never understand these clowns. Trump is literally doing everything GOP Grift, Inc. has always allegedly wanted, and now that it's happening, they deride him.

I think after everything is said and done, Donald Trump will be one of the most accomplished presidents we have ever had.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (VWp7G)

16 If OrangeMan = Bad
And if OrangeMan = Booming Economy
....then Booming Economy = Bad

Posted by: NeverTrump Philosphers at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (datdl)

17 Fourteenth! To some approximation thereof.

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (8erNz)

18 #NotTiredOfWinning

Posted by: RICO aka msm/DNC/msm at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (x6XkS)

19 Can the Krugenator recover from this blow?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for All Your Festival of Gloom Decorations! at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (hLRSq)

20 I got a fevah!

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (3Z6pZ)

21 Might be the first impeachment, where the Dems say we just don't like Trump, because he is ruining the country. (Nancy Pelosie)

Posted by: Colin at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (7gBqA)

22 Interesting that the professional "economists" keep underestimating the jobs added. Almost as if they don't understand the economy.

Strange, that.

Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (ECrgQ)

23 Next exporter of oil, we are. Yeah, screw you Obama.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (bCLt0)

24 The Dems are going to try everything, including a stock market crash. But the market is proving to be uncooperatively buoyant.

Posted by: Emmie at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (87gB3)

25 Rocking Horse Jennifer Connelly gif?
Tricorner Hat Girl?

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (lnyJN)

26 16 If OrangeMan = Bad
And if OrangeMan = Booming Economy
....then Booming Economy = Bad


STFU you bastard, we have to sell that to the American public!

Posted by: Your Friendly DNC at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (8erNz)

27 I think after everything is said and done, Donald Trump will be one of the most accomplished Impeached presidents we have ever had.


Fix-a-Dented for Accuracy.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi's Dentures at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (2oqPC)

28 If the oft-repeated bromide that the economy a year out determines people's sense of well-being, the Dems should just take a cruise, preferably on Disney.

Posted by: pep at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (T6t7i)

29 >>> I believe that Trump is reelected on the economy, on this basis alone.


Even the most hardened leftist realizes how good the economy has been. They won't tell their SJW pals, but some will vote for his reelection.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (VWp7G)

30 But...but....progs in my fish wrap keep telling me PDT is destroying Obama's economy. And there are no jobs out there, and OrangeManBad, and.....

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:33 PM (ptqGC)

31 Oh, and Sept and Oct results were revised upward 46k jobs....unexpectedly.

Posted by: WisRich at December 06, 2019 12:33 PM (G0vdT)

32 Can the Krugenator recover from this blow?
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for All Your Festival of Gloom Decorations! at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (hLRSq)
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Is he even relevant any more? Was he ever relevant?

Posted by: Captain Obvious at December 06, 2019 12:33 PM (3Z6pZ)

33 The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in November, according to figures released by the Labor Department. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected a gain of 187,000. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, matching its lowest level since 1969

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Best economy in decades and we've been adding millions of jobs, and unemployment has gone down 1% since the Jug Eared Miserable F*ckup's last year in office:

"The U.S. labor market showed continued improvement in 2016. The unemployment rate - 4.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016"

https://tinyurl.com/yx669lhq

Gosh, it's almost like it's all smoke and mirrors.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Rainbow flags on men indicate poop is a major sexual turn on at December 06, 2019 12:33 PM (wwq+l)

34 Gonna be hard to spin this as bad news.

Which excuse will the dems/media recycle? Or are jobs causing climate change?

Posted by: RedEchos at December 06, 2019 12:33 PM (EhZaP)

35 >>>Rocking Horse Jennifer Connelly gif?
Tricorner Hat Girl?



Vica Kerekes playing pool gif?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2019 12:33 PM (VWp7G)

36 with an encore set:

A Kentucky judge has been accused of turning her chambers into a glorified frat house, having a threesome with staffers and allowing employees to get drunk on the job - all while abusing her power to win re-election, according to reports.

https://nypost.com/2019/12/06/kentucky- judge-accused-of-frat-house-behavior-threesomes- with-staffers/

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:33 PM (0Y+lE)

37 >>Sept and Oct results were revised upward 46k jobs....unexpectedly.


Talk about the career gov employees that need a pink slip...

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (2oqPC)

38 Well, Trump has certainly overturned the Obama economy, truly.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (bCLt0)

39 But sadly, and with great remorse, and prayerfully, with love in our heart and the best interests of the nation, we must take the solemn path to IMPEACHMENT

Posted by: Nancy Pelousy at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (CqE5x)

40 I will say this about the Donks like Marie Harf, Jessica Tarlov and others that appear on FOX, too a man or women they have the same talking points and can regurgitate them on command.


I truly believe the disparate Democrat apparatchik spread out in the Media Wilds get their days talking points downloaded directly into their brains from the syndicate.

Posted by: Huxley's Eyeglass Emporium at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (MWIPy)

41 NO NUMBER, I'M STILL IN THE PREVIOUS THREAD!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (jjaLl)

42 >>> Gonna be hard to spin this as bad news.


Won't have to, because the MSM will ignore it.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (VWp7G)

43 Can't say I give a shit about the stock market.

But if it makes the dems look bad...

Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (RU4sa)

44 Listening to Obama's bot Marie Harf railing against PDT all the time and telling me how Trump needs to be impeached because of his "abuse of power" or something, makes me shake my head.

Weaponizing the IRS against conservatives was a big nothing, right Cat Hork?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (ptqGC)

45 And Canada has lost 70,000 jobs in the same period, if I heard Rush correctly.

Stuff it, Justin. OR just shut up and learn something from the Master, PDJT.

Posted by: Pete Seria at December 06, 2019 12:35 PM (7ZQe3)

46 I don't remember any sharp slowdowns.

Posted by: Ronster at December 06, 2019 12:35 PM (2RhG0)

47 Biden just called the economy fat, and challenged it to a push up contest.

Posted by: Ted K. at December 06, 2019 12:35 PM (9SA8w)

48 Those jobs ain't never coming back.


Get used to the new normal.

* Shit what some idiot said.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (cqNba)

49 >>I don't remember any sharp slowdowns.


Because they never happened.

Just like the headlines of 'Stocks Sharply Down' when Dow 25k slips 120 pts.

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (2oqPC)

50 A Kentucky judge has been accused of turning her chambers into a glorified frat house ...
Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:33 PM (0Y+lE)
+++++++++++++
I call BS on that. I've been in frat houses. They don't have a janitorial staff to clean up after their escapades, and it shows. I'll bet her chambers were clean and her couch was soaked in taxpayer-funded Scotch Guard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (I2dne)

51 44 Listening to Obama's bot Marie Harf railing against PDT all the time and telling me how Trump needs to be impeached because of his "abuse of power" or something, makes me shake my head.

Weaponizing the IRS against conservatives was a big nothing, right Cat Hork?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (ptqGC)

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Jane, I loves ya...but why the hell do you even watch it in the first place if you know it's only going to piss you off??

Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (RU4sa)

52 Well, Trump has certainly overturned the Obama economy, truly.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (bCLt0)


No, no,no,no..... we are still reaping the benefits of the economy the One set us up with just prior to his leaving office......

Posted by: Kurt's Little Brother- Kurt's still in bed. at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (jjaLl)

53
Pelosi: You're being impeached.

Trump: More Cowbell, bitch.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (r+sAi)

54 I believe that Trump is reelected on the economy, on this basis alone.


Even the most hardened leftist realizes how good the economy has been. They won't tell their SJW pals, but some will vote for his reelection.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (VWp7G)

And Suburban Wine Moms have developed a taste for the more expensive stuff...and it's not like there are cameras in the voting booth, right?

So no one will know.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (CqE5x)

55 29 >>> I believe that Trump is reelected on the economy, on this basis alone.

Probably. But we've been slowly moving away from a cultural mindset that makes rational decisions based on the "economy." So many people live on government subsidy and have no connection to "the economy." Half the country doesn't even pay taxes.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (H8QX8)

56 43 Can't say I give a shit about the stock market.

But if it makes the dems look bad...
Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (RU4sa)

My paltry investments have done exceedingly well under Trump. I am certain people like me benefitting from a great economy pisses off my betters.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (bCLt0)

57 What, you fatsos think Trump can just wave a f*cking magic wand or something?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Rainbow flags on men indicate poop is a major sexual turn on at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (wwq+l)

58 I guess Trump found Obama's missing magic wand.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (ptqGC)

59 And Canada has lost 70,000 jobs in the same period, if I heard Rush correctly.

Stuff it, Justin. OR just shut up and learn something from the Master, PDJT.

Posted by: Pete Seria at December 06, 2019 12:35 PM


Learn to Canode!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (r7Fvf)

60 CNN anchors looked suicidal having to report good job numbers this morning, per Twitter. LOL

Posted by: jmel at December 06, 2019 12:37 PM (RWHIh)

61 >>>I guess Trump found Obama's missing magic wand.


It was inside Reggie Love.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2019 12:37 PM (VWp7G)

62 @33

Obama's economy and stats were all bullshit.

Shortly after he got into office they started filtering all of the numbers through a "jobs created or saved" black box.


BLS numbers were literally garbage.

Posted by: Huxley's Eyeglass Emporium at December 06, 2019 12:37 PM (MWIPy)

63
Rocking Horse Jennifer Connelly gif?
Tricorner Hat Girl?

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (lnyJN)



You're welcome.

https://tinyurl.com/hbugdhj

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2019 12:37 PM (kw0bd)

64 What is really interesting to me?

This proves Hayek was correct, the Economy IS organic. Its made up of people.

Give those people HOPE, and things get better.

Everything the 'economists' said would tank the economy is happening. Dollar is up. Still have a large trade deficit. Trade treaties still sitting in limbo. Trade war with China and others. Tariffs UP.

Yet because the BUSINESS people think the economy is doing well? it is.

Self fulfilling Prophecy. Just like under Obama where he said a sucking economy was 'the new normal', and under him? it was.

Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 12:37 PM (NgKpN)

65 But... but... but.... Orange Man bad!

Posted by: GuyfromNH at December 06, 2019 12:37 PM (Gs5TH)

66 >>I guess Trump found Obama's missing magic wand.


Guess where he was hiding it.

Go on...

Posted by: Reggie Love at December 06, 2019 12:37 PM (2oqPC)

67 Worse day of high school for me.

I was taken off the cow bell during band practice in front of everone. I was so ashamed.

Hey look not everyone can keep time or is not tone deaf.

At least my color blindness is only red green.

Posted by: Parker Longbaugh at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (Rog7V)

68 A Kentucky judge has been accused of turning her chambers into a glorified frat house, having a threesome with staffers and allowing employees to get drunk on the job - all while abusing her power to win re-election, according to reports.

so let me get this straight.

We have a Kentucky judge (not to be confused with a Hawaii judge) who's in a band, she hired her band's guitarist, who's a 'former' pastor, but apparently the idea of drunken debauchery never crossed his pulpit or maybe that's why he's 'former'?

And she's a nasty catbitch toward anyone who opposes her?

Interesting, as they say...

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (8erNz)

69 Learn to Canode!

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (r7Fvf)



*Golf Clap*

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (jjaLl)

70
34 Gonna be hard to spin this as bad news.

Which excuse will the dems/media recycle? Or are jobs causing climate change?

Posted by: RedEchos at December 06, 2019 12:33 PM (EhZaP)


America the Exhausted: Americans work more hours and earn more money, but at what cost?

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for All Your Festival of Gloom Decorations! at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (hLRSq)

71 Jane, I loves ya...but why the hell do you even watch it in the first place if you know it's only going to piss you off??

Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (RU4sa)


I keep Fox on low in the background. Helps somewhat with my tinnitus.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (ptqGC)

72 "It was inside Reggie Love."

I hope Trump was wearing gloves when he tugged on it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (cqNba)

73
Shovel Ready Jobs: 0
Saved Jobs: 0
This is all smoke and mirrors!

Posted by: TFG at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (88+cf)

74 >>>And Suburban Wine Moms have developed a taste for the more expensive stuff...and it's not like there are cameras in the voting booth, right?

So no one will know



Exactly.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (VWp7G)

75 64 What is really interesting to me?

This proves Hayek was correct, the Economy IS organic. Its made up of people.

Give those people HOPE, and things get better.



Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 12:37 PM (NgKpN)

Well that can't be true. Obama was all about HOPE! It was his slogan after all! And Trump is mean and dividing us and being all bad and not nice and stuff.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (KUaJL)

76 Maybe the job market report is so good because a bunch of displaced journolist finally learned to code?

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (F5mnE)

77 So is this a big deal?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (IQLCr)

78 I think Trump should say something like "I'm beginning to see impeachment as a badge of honor. I must be doing a good job for America if the anti-Americans in the democrat party want to get rid of me."

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (H8QX8)

79
BREAKING//WASHINGTON (AP) _ US official: Naval Station shooting suspect was Saudi aviation student; authorities investigating if terrorism-related.

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (BqBId)

80 >>So is this a big deal?


Shit got real.

Posted by: Reggie Love at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (2oqPC)

81 Now is not the time to celebrate. We must PRAY. And take the sad , but necessary step towards IMPEACHING this president who we all (cough) LOVE.

Posted by: Sister Nancy D'Allesandro at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (CqE5x)

82 #stillnottiredofwinning

Posted by: Deep State 368 at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (i7KWZ)

83 68 A Kentucky judge has been accused of turning her chambers into a glorified frat house, having a threesome with staffers and allowing employees to get drunk on the job - all while abusing her power to win re-election, according to reports.

so let me get this straight.

We have a Kentucky judge (not to be confused with a Hawaii judge) who's in a band, she hired her band's guitarist, who's a 'former' pastor, but apparently the idea of drunken debauchery never crossed his pulpit or maybe that's why he's 'former'?

And she's a nasty catbitch toward anyone who opposes her?

Interesting, as they say...
Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (8erNz)

She is a solid 1 to boot.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (0Y+lE)

84 I keep Fox on low in the background. Helps somewhat with my tinnitus.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (ptqGC)

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Yeah, tinnitus sucks.

But Fox blows even more.

I have music on in the background.

Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (RU4sa)

85
48 Those jobs ain't never coming back.


Get used to the new normal.

* Shit what some idiot said.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice


also:
"Elections have consequences."

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (d7Ww2)

86 58 I guess Trump found Obama's missing magic wand.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:36 PM (ptqGC)

Hey, WAIT! he told me I was his magic... wand

/goes off crying

Posted by: Regie Love at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (NgKpN)

87 Naval Station shooting suspect was Saudi aviation student;

No way.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (lnyJN)

88 >>>The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, matching its lowest level since 1969.


Trump's trying to influence the election. IMPEACH!!!!

Posted by: x at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (nFwvY)

89 People are going nuts over Trump's new food stamp legislation. AOC sez her family would have starved to death after her father died.

Someone, please give me a good reason why able-bodied young people shouldn't work, doing something.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (ptqGC)

90 BREAKING//WASHINGTON (AP) _ US official: Naval Station shooting suspect was Saudi aviation student; authorities investigating if terrorism-related.
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (BqBId)

Great.

Our Friends the Saudis.....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (CqE5x)

91 BREAKING//WASHINGTON (AP) _ US official: Naval Station shooting suspect was Saudi aviation student; authorities investigating if terrorism-related.

Dafuq?

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (8erNz)

92 >>Yeah, tinnitus sucks.

>But Fox blows even more.

>I have music on in the background.



Somebody answer the damned phone!

Posted by: Uncle Leo at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (2oqPC)

93 48 Those jobs ain't never coming back.


Get used to the new normal.

* Shit what some idiot said.
_________________

And we're not gonna drill our way into being a net exporter of energy! My word as an Obama!

Posted by: Barky O'Fuckwit at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (k4dH2)

94 And to think y'all thought my economy would never take off...

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (Ibwur)

95


Mayor Pete Buttjudge weighed in: "If I may just say, this is not what our politics should be, we need to have rapid change and become a better people."


Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (lg/F7)

96 Green shoots.

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 12:40 PM (v0R5T)

97 IMPEACH!!

Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 12:41 PM (77WPm)

98 Revised upward? Such a change from the consistent revisions downward of only a few years ago...

Posted by: Inogame at December 06, 2019 12:41 PM (84N55)

99 Probably the one thing that has surprised me most in this political campaign is the collapse of Elizabeth Warren. Of course I despise her; but I would have thought she was exactly what the progs wanted.

not surprised at all to see Kamela go, she was a horrible campaigner and horrible candidate. But why would someone support Bernie and yet despise Liz? Must be sexists, all of them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2019 12:41 PM (Kpl3J)

100 Recovery summer.

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 12:41 PM (v0R5T)

101 79
BREAKING//WASHINGTON (AP) _ US official: Naval Station shooting suspect was Saudi aviation student; authorities investigating if terrorism-related.
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (BqBId)

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Fuckers want to bring on another 9/11.

I despise our govt.

Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:41 PM (RU4sa)

102 Still not tired of winning! Go Trump, drain the swamp, MAGA!

Posted by: Kenny The G from AZ at December 06, 2019 12:41 PM (ZiySd)

103 This should carry us to victory. It has about the same timing as the tax cuts in 2017. Remember how well that worked out. Everyone can just sit on their asses now and forget THE WALL. Forget DEPORTATIONS. forget INDICTMENTS. Forget Culture war. Forget everything, because economic numbers. I know thats what I care about, economic numbers, cause I'm like, stuck in 1986, and haven't realized yet Wall St interests are most definitely NOT the same as mine, no matter what "conservative" sites tell me.

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 06, 2019 12:41 PM (Fxgkp)

104 Recovery Summer!!

Posted by: Biden at December 06, 2019 12:41 PM (88+cf)

105 Naval Station shooting suspect was Saudi aviation student;

Prayers for the poor families of the victims. Why, oh why, was a Saudi on a Naval base studying aviation? Have we learned nothing since 9/11?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (ptqGC)

106 64 What is really interesting to me?

This proves Hayek was correct, the Economy IS organic. Its made up of people.

Give those people HOPE, and things get better.

Everything the 'economists' said would tank the economy is happening. Dollar is up. Still have a large trade deficit. Trade treaties still sitting in limbo. Trade war with China and others. Tariffs UP.

Yet because the BUSINESS people think the economy is doing well? it is.

Self fulfilling Prophecy. Just like under Obama where he said a sucking economy was 'the new normal', and under him? it was.
Posted by: Don Q at December 06, 2019 12:37 PM (NgKpN)

Maybe the wannabe masters of the universe aren't as smart as they think they are.

Maybe their theories are a product of groupthink and bias, not honest study.

Nah, we can't question "the experts", they're the experts, you know!

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (J+mig)

107 And we're not gonna drill our way into being a net exporter of energy! My word as an Obama!

Everything the Democrats say is a lie, including 'a', 'an', and 'the'.

Posted by: JEM channeling my inner Bongino at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (8erNz)

108 -
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Saudi aviation student

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Uhm. Haven't we had enough trouble with this sort of thing?

Posted by: irright at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (pMGkg)

109 Well, these jobs will certainly set back our plans to destroy America. Quick, import more illegals.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (bCLt0)

110 And Canada has lost 70,000 jobs in the same period, if I heard Rush correctly.

Stuff it, Justin. OR just shut up and learn something from the Master, PDJT.
Posted by: Pete Seria at December 06, 2019 12:35 PM (7ZQe3)
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70k? Seriously?

Canada's working-age population is about 24 million. That's it. That means that 0.3% of the working-age population lost their jobs. That's a big damn figure.

Contract with the winning side of the border. We've added around 4 million jobs since 2017. Our working-age population (not the labor force, just the whole population) is about 210 million. By the same standard, 1.9% of the working-age population *gained* a job.

A 0.3% loss versus a 1.9% gain in countries that essentially share a common culture.

If I were a Canadian facing this kind of contrast, especially given how fucked up the US is, I'd be sorely tempted to burn Ottawa to the ground.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (I2dne)

111 Short answer, Jane, no, we haven't learned a damned thing.

Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (RU4sa)

112 Revised upward? Such a change from the consistent revisions downward of only a few years ago...

Posted by: Inogame at December 06, 2019 12:41 PM (84N55)


Sort of really highlights the political leaning of the BLS, don't it?

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (jjaLl)

113 Part Deux!

Posted by: Biden at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (88+cf)

114 I know it's only news when the "estimates" (aka, guesses) by the "polled economists" are wrong, but doesn't it seem like they're ALWAYS wrong by a significant amount? And biased in a certain direction? So, what good are they? I could give equivalent estimates with similar accuracy, with no experience in the field.

Posted by: redsweater at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (4LOJk)

115 Naval Station shooting suspect was Saudi aviation student;

Ah, yes. A Saudi student of aviation. Who could have predicted any of this? Just another act of Allah.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 12:43 PM (EYsyU)

116 BREAKING//WASHINGTON (AP) _ US official: Naval Station shooting suspect was Saudi aviation student; authorities investigating if terrorism-related.
..........

Call the FBI, they'll figure it out! Just as soon as they find their car keys.

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 12:43 PM (v0R5T)

117 One of the reasons the elite and the wealthy rail so much at Trump is that they are.....getting wealthier by the minute in Trump's economy and rather than give him credit, hate on him so they don't have to thank him.

So they get it to have it both ways----as usual.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 12:43 PM (CqE5x)

118 Uhm. Haven't we had enough trouble with this sort of thing?

They just decided to step it up from the civil to the military side.

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 12:43 PM (8erNz)

119 89 People are going nuts over Trump's new food stamp legislation. AOC sez her family would have starved to death after her father died.

Someone, please give me a good reason why able-bodied young people shouldn't work, doing something.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019


*
*

It's like those life insurance radio spots where the announcer intones, "And what would your wife do if you were Out of the Picture?"

I snap at the radio, "She'll have to get a job like the rest of us!"

AOC: You're a hairball.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 12:43 PM (Ejm1K)

120 @55

Or are American by birth.

Per immigration numbers from the year book....

We immigrate 1.5 million legally per year over the course of the last twenty years.

90 pct of immigrants come from three sources...


- South of the Border (Mexico and SA)
- Asia (Expansive to include India, Pakistan, etc.)
- Africa


And these groups vote anywhere from 3:1 to 5:1 Democrat and are mostly on some form of welfare.

Posted by: Huxley's Eyeglass Emporium at December 06, 2019 12:43 PM (MWIPy)

121 99 Probably the one thing that has surprised me most in this political campaign is the collapse of Elizabeth Warren. Of course I despise her; but I would have thought she was exactly what the progs wanted.

not surprised at all to see Kamela go, she was a horrible campaigner and horrible candidate. But why would someone support Bernie and yet despise Liz? Must be sexists, all of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2019 12:41 PM (Kpl3J)

Not surprised. She reminds me of that middle school teacher who is in over her head and can't control a classroom. She's not a leader, she can't control a debate, and she never dominates the conversation.

Progs want to win, and they know she'll wilt like a potted plant if she had to go on a debate stage with Trump.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 06, 2019 12:43 PM (KUaJL)

122 Did the Saudi hit any strip clubs before going jihadi? That's generally a tell.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

123 i have tinnitus, i refuse to use fox. ozzy, ac/dc, early metallica, etc. treats it fine.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 06, 2019 12:44 PM (KP5rU)

124 Call the FBI, they'll figure it out! Just as soon as they find their car keys.

We're already on it, we have fifteen FISA wiretap requests on Trump advisors in progress now.

Posted by: Your FBI, in peace and war at December 06, 2019 12:44 PM (8erNz)

125 And Canada has lost 70,000 jobs in the same period

Canada is, what, a tenth of our population? That's a huge drop.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 12:44 PM (EYsyU)

126 It's so bad out there people are able to quit their second jobs if they want to.

Posted by: MSNBC at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (3e+AB)

127 the world faltering, and USA holding it together, bringing back manufacturing, decoupling from China ... middle class incomes rising ... stay the course through 2020's election. Just Win Baby.

imo there are "global economy" problems, and USA is still the safe haven, and being the super power does not hurt. After 2020 we either go MMT (modern monetary theory, magic money tree) and/or we take some deliberate actions against the corporate ownership of our government.


Debt will get "repaid" in some sense, but it could be in some sort of restructuring/reset/ColdFusion/Jubilee ... Trump mentioned something about restructured debt (haircut for the bond holders I guess) early in his campaign and Maria B seemed enthused ... iirc. Lots of ideas on how to MAGA ... but for now ... pedal to the metal, leverage to infinity, and beyond. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (Cus5s)

128 >>>And Canada has lost 70,000 jobs in the same period


Maybe Trudeau should shut his pie-hole at NATO events now?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (VWp7G)

129 So the smart thing to do after these numbers... Impeach Trump!

Posted by: It's me donna at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (6XlcD)

130 7
I monitor Stocktwits when I'm day trading.



There are some Twits who are constantly warning about an upcoming recession. They are trying to speak it into existence.

Posted by: Emmie at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (87gB3)

What do you think is going to happen when impeachment fails? I expect a pretty serious correction this summer. The bottom will fall out right before the election, probably worse than what happened in 2008 and for many of the same reasons. All of the underlying problems are still there, except this time there's nothing the gov't can do to bail it out.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (CQ3Qb)

131 Headline: Too Many Americans Working Leads to Distressing Lack of Breadlines, Welfare Recipients.

Posted by: MSM Who else? at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (0dmP2)

132 -
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BREAKING//WASHINGTON (AP) _ US official: Naval
Station shooting suspect was Saudi aviation student; authorities
investigating if terrorism-related.

..........



Call the FBI, they'll figure it out! Just as soon as they find their car keys.

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 12:43 PM

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Hey, now. We already had him on like a dozen watchlists. What else were we supposed to do?

Posted by: teh FBI at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (pMGkg)

133 If I were a Canadian facing this kind of contrast, especially given how fucked up the US is, I'd be sorely tempted to burn Ottawa to the ground.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (I2dne)

And yet, when given the opportunity mere weeks ago to send Justine's champagne-socialist government packing? Yeah, sent them right back to Ottawa.

Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (77WPm)

134 122 Did the Saudi hit any strip clubs before going jihadi? That's generally a tell.

They tried, but I had all the dancers back at a YUUUUge suite at the Hilton before they got there.

Posted by: Hunter Biden, The Spawn Putting the Vice in Vice-President at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (8erNz)

135 Elizabeth Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, or conversely, the bitchy neighbor always stirring shit in the neighborhood. Her appeal is narrow.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (bCLt0)

136 114 I know it's only news when the "estimates" (aka, guesses) by the "polled economists" are wrong, but doesn't it seem like they're ALWAYS wrong by a significant amount? And biased in a certain direction? So, what good are they? I could give equivalent estimates with similar accuracy, with no experience in the field.
Posted by: redsweater at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (4LOJk)

Having a basic, working knowledge of the subject, and having familiarity with Smith, Say, and Bastiat will lead to better guesses than a Ph.D acquired studying Keynes.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (J+mig)

137 pantera,ministry, white zombie, are also cures for tinnitus.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (KP5rU)

138 >> Canada has lost 70,000 jobs in the same period


It's winter. Sap has gone cold.

They'll add those jobs back in the Spring.

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (2oqPC)

139 not surprised at all to see Kamela go, she was a horrible campaigner and horrible candidate. But why would someone support Bernie and yet despise Liz? Must be sexists, all of them.
Posted by: Tom Servo


They are sexists and rayciss.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (yDqYW)

140 Any link to the Saudi student story?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (cqNba)

141 And yet, when given the opportunity mere weeks ago to send Justine's champagne-socialist government packing? Yeah, sent them right back to Ottawa.
Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (77WPm)
++++++++++++
Yup. As do we, most of the time.

Nanny-statism is a helluva drug.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (I2dne)

142 I love how that sawed off turd, Bloomberg, has been carpetbombing my television with ads about how he's gonna make the economy better for everyone. Better than this, Mikey?

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (y7DUB)

143 79
BREAKING//WASHINGTON (AP) _ US official: Naval Station shooting suspect was Saudi aviation student; authorities investigating if terrorism-related.

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (BqBId)

This is the Pensacola shooting, right? Not the Hawaii one?

This is getting hard to keep up with.

WTH is going on with our Armed Forces stations this week?

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (CmURZ)

144 There was a horrible shooting at a military base today killing three and injuring more... One report says a man of Middle eastern descent... Can't find anything else.. Has anyone else seen anything?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 06, 2019 12:47 PM (6XlcD)

145 62 @33

Obama's economy and stats were all bullshit.

Shortly after he got into office they started filtering all of the numbers through a "jobs created or saved" black box.

---

Yeah, I wonder what the numbers today would be if they were using the Obama BS criteria. "Saved or created", what a crock of crap.

Posted by: Pete Seria at December 06, 2019 12:47 PM (7ZQe3)

146 Canada has lost 70,000 jobs in the same period



We need a Northern Wall toot sweet!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:47 PM (yDqYW)

147 Saturday Night Live, when they actually had candidate Trump host the show featured a skit where Trump was in the Oval office bored as Hell and all his aides popping in to say everything was great and the economy was humming along and no one had complaints....

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 12:47 PM (CqE5x)

148 Saudi aviation student?

Nope, doesn't ring any bells.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at December 06, 2019 12:47 PM (Ibwur)

149 SLAYER


That's how you cure Tinitus.

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 12:47 PM (2oqPC)

150 Imagine being a legal immigrant from some shit hole country. Dems think they own you. You are completely immersed in the strongest economy in the world and doing better than anyone you know in the old country.

You think that vote is a lock for dems? I don't.

Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2019 12:47 PM (XTiHL)

151 #muslimban

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:47 PM (lnyJN)

152 Best part? How this contradicts the narrative Democrats and the globalist leaders in n Europe have woven. People see the impact on their daily lives and future. They're not giving this up any time soon.

But the big crash is coming, or something.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 12:47 PM (G1tCv)

153 "The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in November, according to figures
released by the Labor Department. Economists polled by Dow Jones
expected a gain of 187,000. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, matching
its lowest level since 1969."


This is hate people. 187K jobs of hate....or something blah blah yadda yadda..

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'if you can't laugh at yourself, make fun of oher people' at December 06, 2019 12:47 PM (VqhL9)

154 slayer works.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (KP5rU)

155 Elizabeth Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, or conversely, the bitchy neighbor always stirring shit in the neighborhood. Her appeal is narrow.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (bCLt0)


The Massholes can really pick 'em.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (y7DUB)

156 Canada's working-age population is about 24 million. That's it. That means that 0.3% of the working-age population lost their jobs. That's a big damn figure.

At the rate Trudeau is going, we're gonna have to start building a wall on the northern border.

Posted by: JEM (by the way Brie Larson has no ass) at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (8erNz)

157

"Saudi aviation student"

Seems to be a pattern here, hard to discern however.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (lg/F7)

158 A good jobs report?
Malarkey. You're a damn liar, man. No one has ever said that. Get your your words straight. Look, fat... feel my legs.

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (v0R5T)

159 What Canada needs is Mexicans. They fix everything!

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (Ibwur)

160 I can guarantee you, unlike President Hussein Prissypants, PDT *will not* call the shootings "workplace violence."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (ptqGC)

161 I'll be honest, I was worried that this economy was going to peter out before the election, just because it has been something like 12 years since the last recession.

But it looks like it's going to be "Morning in America" for Trump in 2020.

Posted by: Blago at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (sjTfF)

162 Elizabeth Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, or conversely, the bitchy neighbor always stirring shit in the neighborhood. Her appeal is narrow.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (bCLt0)

She's the personification of "I need to speak with your manager, NOW!"

Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (77WPm)

163 Wait...there's been another shooting besides Pearl?

Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (RU4sa)

164 >>>34 Gonna be hard to spin this as bad news.

Today's economic news isn't very inclusive of the transcommunity, obese blue hairs and beta soyboys currently waiting in line for Rise of Skywalker tickets.

Posted by: El Kabong at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (datdl)

165

"Elizabeth Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, or conversely, the bitchy neighbor always stirring shit in the neighborhood. "

"Why haven't you cut down those shrubs yet? We've been waiting and waiting, look at my shrubs, they are trimmed perfectly, I did that on the first dat of last week. I know you try, you try hard, but we all expect more from you and you just aren't delivering."

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (lg/F7)

166 She's the personification of "I need to speak with your manager, NOW!"
Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (77WPm)

Karen 2020. "Don't you know who I am?!?"

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (KUaJL)

167 135 Elizabeth Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, or conversely, the bitchy neighbor always stirring shit in the neighborhood. Her appeal is narrow.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (bCLt0)

Charlie Brown's teacher is what comes to mind every time I hear her.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (CmURZ)

168 132
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BREAKING//WASHINGTON (AP) _ US official: Naval

Station shooting suspect was Saudi aviation student; authorities

investigating if terrorism-related.


..........





Call the FBI, they'll figure it out! Just as soon as they find their car keys.



Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 12:43 PM

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Hey, now. We already had him on like a dozen watchlists. What else were we supposed to do?



Posted by: teh FBI at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (pMGkg)

Am I the only one who thinks the only difference between the FBI and a mall cop is the FBI has guns?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (N39Ws)

169 Jane, cold comfort I know, but in time I learned to tune out the buzzing in my head. A fan or air conditioner running at night helps. It does get bette, ma'am.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (bCLt0)

170 I'll be honest, I was worried that this economy was going to peter out before the election, just because it has been something like 12 years since the last recession.

But it looks like it's going to be "Morning in America" for Trump in 2020.
Posted by: Blago at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (sjTfF)

If you believe that we never really exited the last recession until about the middle of 2017, it starts to make sense.

Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (77WPm)

171 saudi aviation student= unknown motive. racist sister humpers.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (KP5rU)

172 Elizabeth Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, or conversely, the bitchy neighbor always stirring shit in the neighborhood. Her appeal is narrow.
Posted by: john knox


Gladys Kravitz.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (yDqYW)

173 Wait...there's been another shooting besides Pearl?

Yeah, NAS Pensacola.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (lnyJN)

174 Yeah, that Canadian jobs report is awful. Especially given the American numbers. And if they insist on stonewalling the USMCA, it's entirely possible that Donald Trump will simply withdraw from NAFTA. No Canadian government could even survive that.

Posted by: trev006 at December 06, 2019 12:50 PM (6OzV/)

175 winning !...again !

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 12:50 PM (gYJGA)

176 how about if you like to schtupp goats you can't come to USA in any way

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 12:50 PM (BqBId)

177 shit

Posted by: SMH at December 06, 2019 12:50 PM (RU4sa)

178 At the rate Trudeau is going, we're gonna have to start building a wall on the northern border.

Just buy Canada! They've got great acreage for a lot of Federal offices.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 12:50 PM (Ibwur)

179 someone downstairs said all this shit makes sense when you realize, first and foremost, that Trump Broke Them.

All of them. They are screaming, hair on fire, running in circles bashing into each other broken.

Now it's funny.
Popcorn please.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 06, 2019 12:50 PM (d7Ww2)

180 "Wait...there's been another shooting besides Pearl?"

Yes

Pensacola

This morning.

Three plus shooter dead.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:50 PM (cqNba)

181 What are the chances the GDP reports very low numbers like .4% growth and then a negative number for Q1 with a revision downwards for Q4 so the media can report we are in a recession (2 consecutive quarters of negative growth)? All to attack Trump's campaign. This news would break around May-June.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:50 PM (0Y+lE)

182 OT:

Ronan Farrow calls a Democrat politician's office. Communications director is panicked, says staff is worried, politician refusing to Talk and is referring to lawyer.

Farrow claims he hadn't even asked a question yet.

The guilty flee when no man pursueth.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for All Your Festival of Gloom Decorations! at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (hLRSq)

183 176 how about if you like to schtupp goats you can't come to USA in any way
Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 12:50 PM (BqBId)

Satyrist!

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (H8QX8)

184 >>Just buy Canada!


Fuck that.

We can take BC and the NW Territories.

The rest of it can go to pseudo French hell.

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (2oqPC)

185
What do you think is going to happen when impeachment fails? I expect a pretty serious correction this summer. The bottom will fall out right before the election, probably worse than what happened in 2008 and for many of the same reasons. All of the underlying problems are still there, except this time there's nothing the gov't can do to bail it out.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (CQ3Qb)

Nice try, but even if your scenario DOES occur--and it won't--Trump's at the helm, not Bush. He'll inspire confidence.

Remember when that huge tanker was sunk by Iran? At any other time in my LIFETIME, that would have lead to a spike in gas prices. What happened with Trump as prez?
Nothing. Barely a ripple.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (CqE5x)

186 Wait...there's been another shooting besides Pearl?

Yeah, NAS Pensacola.
Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (lnyJN)

Shampeachment isn't really going well at all, is it.

Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (77WPm)

187 But the big crash is coming, or something.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 12:47 PM (G1tCv)
++++++++++++
It might be. It might not be. We have a lot of structural debt that hasn't been very productive. At all levels of individuals, businesses and governments. The debt is a very serious problem and things can go pear-shaped easily. We have a major problem with our medical industry that, if it gets fixed, is going to knock out a bunch of (malinvested) GDP and result in significant unemployment for a bit. Interest rates are still too low and there is a huge amount of global monetary cheating.

Not everything is rosy. We are, however, roaring along and I'll happily take it. More importantly, we're making major and crucial structural changes that is altering the "America is the world's sap and piggy-bank" policy, and that is a very good thing indeed. Rationalizing trade, regulation, policies, moving toward bilateral or trilateral trade agreements instead of giant omnibus disasters, etc. are all huge positive developments.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (I2dne)

188 Unrxpectedly!

Posted by: steevy at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (KNsKs)

189 173
Wait...there's been another shooting besides Pearl?

Yeah, NAS Pensacola.



Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (lnyJN)
Friend of mine's son just transferred down there for Coastie aviation training - just last week.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (N39Ws)

190 I thought it was four plus shooter dead. Eleven wounded? Including two deputies who raced to the scene.

Can we finally ban Muzzies now?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (ptqGC)

191 >>>soyboys currently waiting in line for Rise of Skywalker tickets


Some of the YouTubers have been releasing spoilers, and if half of them are true, this film is going to make Phantom Menace look like Citizen Kane.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2019 12:52 PM (VWp7G)

192 Gonna be hard to spin this as bad news.

More Americans Forced To Pay Taxes In So-Called Trump Economy!

Posted by: CNN at December 06, 2019 12:52 PM (Ibwur)

193 I'll be honest, I was worried that this economy was going to peter out before the election, just because it has been something like 12 years since the last recession.

Gaylord's recovery was so piss poor that it barely met the criteria for not still being a recession. The growth which was stifled for eight fucking years was just waiting for anyone to take the boot off the neck.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 06, 2019 12:52 PM (y7DUB)

194 "You think that vote is a lock for dems? I don't."

That narrative only has a hold on people here illegally, others who believe they will get a hand out or better union retirement package. But those are the days that are really over. As we eliminate illegal immigration, crack down on employers, remove their benefit incentives and in general pair down our social programs to people who truly need them, the cracks start to form.

I know many legal immigrants who don't support Democrats at all. A lot of them own small businesses or work for them. They get it.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 12:52 PM (G1tCv)

195 135 Elizabeth Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, or conversely, the bitchy neighbor always stirring shit in the neighborhood. Her appeal is narrow.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019


*
*

The heck of it, and the puzzle, is that she was an attractive young woman. Usually we see the unattractive people slide toward the Left; they aren't happy with the way the world is (naturally, since it doesn't immediately favor them), and focus instead on the way the world ought to be. And the way it can be coerced into existing (they think) with the aid of Big Government.

But Warren was attractive. At least on the outside, in the pics we saw on the 'Net earlier this year. So was Hillary, sort of. I suspect there was something else about each of them that made them unattractive despite the fairly nice outer envelope.

Feminism?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 06, 2019 12:52 PM (Ejm1K)

196 " I thought it was four plus shooter dead"

I could be wrong.

Been working in the attic.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:52 PM (cqNba)

197 I thought it was four plus shooter dead. Eleven wounded? Including two deputies who raced to the scene.

Can we finally ban Muzzies now? And how in the hell did the Saudi get a gun on base?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:52 PM (ptqGC)

198 She is a solid 1 to boot.
Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (0Y+lE)

Your link didn't work for me. Democrat judge?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 12:52 PM (/sgva)

199 Speaking of Liz. Did anybody see her clip on Tucker. She is hoping that if she is elected President she's going to work to make sure she is the last President elected by the Electoral College.

LOL! She is a fucking professor! Does she think she can just XO the EC away?

Since the Dems are just all about protecting the Constitution, they probably know that this would HAVE to be a Constitutional amendment. And that means Congress votes and it immediately goes to the states--she would have NO ROLE after perhaps, propsing the amendment into Congress.

And then you have three-fourths of the states agree that they want to lose representation in the EC vote. Almost half of which would be losing 20% or more of their votes.

Here's the thing, if you have two-sided politics. One side wants to get rid of the EC--and that side can't win an EC vote, an EC vote does not take winner-take-all EC votes in 3/4ths of the states!

If you can win the EC amendment ratification process, the EC itself is no problem.

Dumbness has taken flesh and come to Earth and it is the anti-EC Constitutional amendment.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:52 PM (YOhRS)

200 Just buy Canada!

Trump To Buy Greenland, Install Shiplap, Hardwood Floors, Flip For Profit
- Babylon Bee

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:53 PM (lnyJN)

201 192 Gonna be hard to spin this as bad news.

"Heightened economic activity spurs heavier carbon footprint."

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:53 PM (H8QX8)

202 And after the Middle Eastern Muslims launched their attacks in 2001, what did we do, Grandpa?"
"Well kids, we let in WAY more Muslims to the US. And if anyone opposed that, we called them racists."
"That's not even possible. Grandpa's off his meds again."

Posted by: Ted K. at December 06, 2019 12:53 PM (9SA8w)

203 What Canada needs is Mexicans. They fix everything!

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (Ibwur)
.......

Only if they're trannies or midgets.

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 12:53 PM (v0R5T)

204 US official: Naval Station shooting suspect was Saudi aviation student; authorities investigating if terrorism-related.

If this was UK, france or Germany, they would surely conclude that Islam had absolutely NOTHING to do with this.
He was just having some mental issues and a loner.

Will our DOJ conclude the same ?


Posted by: McCool at December 06, 2019 12:53 PM (lWCRE)

205 82 OT:

Ronan Farrow calls a Democrat politician's office. Communications director is panicked, says staff is worried, politician refusing to Talk and is referring to lawyer.

Farrow claims he hadn't even asked a question yet.

The guilty flee when no man pursueth.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for All Your Festival of Gloom Decorations! at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (hLRSq)

Now what in the heck could THAT be all about?

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (CmURZ)

206 AP says: Four dead, including shooter.

15 minutes ago.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (cqNba)

207 161 I'll be honest, I was worried that this economy was going to peter out before the election, just because it has been something like 12 years since the last recession.

But it looks like it's going to be "Morning in America" for Trump in 2020.
Posted by: Blago at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (sjTfF)

A good Trump ad for 2020:

Fade in, picture of dismal economic headlines from the Obama era.

"After 8 years of mourning for America, it's now morning in America."

(brag about record low unemployment, rising wages, other markers of prosperity.)

"Are you tired of winning yet? All of this was achieved over the opposition of a hostile Congress. Imagine what could happen without it?

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (J+mig)

208 "Heightened economic activity spurs heavier carbon footprint."
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:53 PM (H8QX
+++++++++++++
Higher productivity and employment drive up stress. Trump's economy is killing our best and brightest through increased stress and it's knock-on effects.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (I2dne)

209 The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in November, according to figures released by the Labor Department. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected a gain of 187,000. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, matching its lowest level since 1969.

If the media were not totally in the bag for Marxism, one of their number would ask Obama for his reaction to this. I for one would be fascinated to hear him pirouetting around attempting to take credit for the booming economy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (d0vJg)

210 Jane- we train lots of Saudi military pilots, fixed and rotary wing. I walk with my father out at Whiting Field in nearby Milton and we see them playing soccer frequently. My Uncle used to be a rotary wing instructor at Ft. Rucker-same deal.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (87EdW)

211 Clearly, low unemployment rates are an impeachable event.

Also, has anyone yet mentioned 'unexpectedly'?

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (Z4rgH)

212 >> I suspect there was something else about each of them that made them unattractive despite the fairly nice outer envelope.

A sick lust for power. And feminism in its modern form is just a means to gain power over others.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (l6b3d)

213 LOL! (Lizzie) is a fucking professor! Does she think she can just XO the EC away?

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:52 PM (YOhRS)

I'll allow it.
- Random Obama-appointed Hawaiian Judge #4

It's a tax.
- CJ John "It's a tax!" Roberts

Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (77WPm)

214 But the big crash is coming, or something.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 12:47 PM (G1tCv)

Yes, the next time a Democrat is elected president. They'll fuck it all up and then......blame Trump.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (CqE5x)

215 205 82 OT:

Ronan Farrow calls a Democrat politician's office. Communications director is panicked, says staff is worried, politician refusing to Talk and is referring to lawyer.

Farrow claims he hadn't even asked a question yet.

The guilty flee when no man pursueth.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet for All Your Festival of Gloom Decorations! at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (hLRSq)

Now what in the heck could THAT be all about?
Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (CmURZ)

=========

Possibilities:

IG Report
Specific sex misconduct allegations
Bad acid trip

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (q80AH)

216 We can take BC and the NW Territories.

And all their Plains States- Saskatoon, Moose Jaw and what-not.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (jyVW0)

217 That settles it:

WE MUHST IN PEECH

Posted by: Sandor Clegane at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (6MoD2)

218 Am I the only one who thinks the only difference between the FBI and a mall cop is the FBI has guns?


Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM


News to me.

Posted by: Gecko45 at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (OMsf+)

219 Yeah, I wonder what the numbers today would be if they were using the Obama BS criteria. "Saved or created", what a crock of crap.

No, it wasn't a crock of crap. It was a whole dumpster of it.

Let's see how Obama ripens with history.

I mean, in 1979 Carter was the Worst President Ever, but over time it's become clear that LBJ was far worse, and those things that Carter bumbled have either been nugatory (the canal) or offset by other real achievements (he pissed the Shah into the canal, but we bought Egypt at the same time). And he gave us Reagan.

Right now Obama is clearly worst-five ever, while Carter's kinda moved up the list a bit and might still be worst-third but clearly not Worst Ever. I'm still not convinced that Obama was *not* an agent of a foreign power, but mostly I think he was trying to stir up racial animus domestically. We dodged a huge bullet with the 2010 Congressional election, but the GOP did just about the minimum with it.

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (8erNz)

220 What profitith a man to gain the stock market but lose his immortal soul?

Posted by: Saint David French at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (iys0/)

221 1 But what about #MuhPresidentialNorms?!?!?!?!
Posted by: El Kabong at December 06, 2019 12:29 PM (datdl)

Norm!

Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (7HtZB)

222 209 The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in November, according to figures released by the Labor Department. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected a gain of 187,000. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, matching its lowest level since 1969.

If the media were not totally in the bag for Marxism, one of their number would ask Obama for his reaction to this. I for one would be fascinated to hear him pirouetting around attempting to take credit for the booming economy.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (d0vJg)

=========

"Mr. Obama, you said that Trump didn't have access to a magic wand, but he seems to have a stronger economy than you. What do you think of being such a dumbass?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (q80AH)

223 161 I'll be honest, I was worried that this economy was going to peter out before the election, just because it has been something like 12 years since the last recession.

But it looks like it's going to be "Morning in America" for Trump in 2020.
Posted by: Blago at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (sjTfF)

To be fair, it was due around 2015-2016, but that would've harmed Hillary so it's been put on hold. These things tend to be cyclical every 7-8 years. Lots of intervention going on to delay and time another crash just right.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (0Y+lE)

224 Random thought:

50K/month * 12 = 600K a year.

The Clinton administration called anybody making over 250K a year "rich". And wanted to stick it to "the rich".

But at 600K a year (minimum)--NEVER YOU MIND WHAT POOR HUNTER DID TO MAKE THAT MONEY!!

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (YOhRS)

225 Am I the only one who thinks the only difference between the FBI and a mall cop is the FBI has guns?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (N39Ws)
..........

Special Agent Paul Blart

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (v0R5T)

226 216 We can take BC and the NW Territories.

And all their Plains States- Saskatoon, Moose Jaw and what-not.
Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (jyVW0)

Annex everything except Toronto, Frenchy-Frenchland, and the Newfies.

Posted by: Allie at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (sm6Pk)

227 Am I the only one who thinks the only difference between the FBI and a mall cop is the FBI has guns?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM
++++++++++++
Am I the only who thinks that the only difference between the FBI and the mafia is state power?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (I2dne)

228 imo Warren's problem is she has her own version of MAGA .. and the globalists don't want that.


"Elizabeth Warren's new "Plan for Economic Patriotism," unveiled Tuesday, marks a stunningly ambitious revival of American industrial policy.

Warren berates American companies that "have no loyalty or allegiance" to the nation they were born in.

"These 'American' companies show only one real loyalty: to the short-term interests of their shareholders, a third of whom are foreign investors," she writes. "If they can close up an American factory and ship jobs overseas to save a nickel, that's exactly what they will do -- abandoning loyal American workers and hollowing out American cities along the way."


Newsweek link to article on Warren's plan
https://tinyurl.com/s9e5ts5

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (Cus5s)

229 Uhm. Haven't we had enough trouble with this sort of thing?

Posted by: irright at December 06, 2019 12:42 PM (pMGkg)

One would think that a military aviation student from Saudi Arabia would have been vetted by the Saudi government...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (/sgva)

230 Three plus shooter dead.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:50 PM (cqNba)


I see they're reporting the guy was a Saudi national.

So, back to impeachment.

Posted by: clutch cargo at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (Z1ykJ)

231 Interesting that the professional "economists" keep underestimating the jobs added. Almost as if they don't understand the economy.

Strange, that.
Posted by: Linn Ridge at December 06, 2019 12:32 PM (ECrgQ)


Assuming the models
- are unbiased, as well as the forecasters
- forecasts would be equally likely to be higher or lower than the index they were predicting

Therefore,
- Obama consistently underperformed all forecasts
- Trump consistently out performs forecasts

Always forecasting low is not a bad thing.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (1g7ch)

232 If the media were not totally in the bag for
Marxism, one of their number would ask Obama for his reaction to this. I
for one would be fascinated to hear him pirouetting around attempting
to take credit for the booming economy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (d0vJg)


Barry's reply: "Ummm.....errrrr.....let me be clear......ahh.....ummmm....at some point you've made enough money......you only need so many houses, you can only eat so much food......errrrr......."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (ptqGC)

233 83 68 A Kentucky judge has been accused of turning her chambers into a glorified frat house, having a threesome with staffers and allowing employees to get drunk on the job - all while abusing her power to win re-election, according to reports.

so let me get this straight.

We have a Kentucky judge (not to be confused with a Hawaii judge) who's in a band, she hired her band's guitarist, who's a 'former' pastor, but apparently the idea of drunken debauchery never crossed his pulpit or maybe that's why he's 'former'?

And she's a nasty catbitch toward anyone who opposes her?

Interesting, as they say...
Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (8erNz)

She is a solid 1 to boot.
Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (0Y+lE)

Do not put your dick in judicial crazy.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (RD7QR)

234 219 Let's see how Obama ripens with history.

I mean, in 1979 Carter was the Worst President Ever, but over time it's become clear that LBJ was far worse, and those things that Carter bumbled have either been nugatory (the canal) or offset by other real achievements (he pissed the Shah into the canal, but we bought Egypt at the same time). And he gave us Reagan.

Right now Obama is clearly worst-five ever, while Carter's kinda moved up the list a bit and might still be worst-third but clearly not Worst Ever. I'm still not convinced that Obama was *not* an agent of a foreign power, but mostly I think he was trying to stir up racial animus domestically. We dodged a huge bullet with the 2010 Congressional election, but the GOP did just about the minimum with it.
Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (8erNz)

=========

History is going to be kind to him for a while, but not forever.

The corrective is going to be fascinating and decades in the making.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 12:57 PM (q80AH)

235 What profitith a man to gain the stock market but lose his immortal soul?
Posted by: Saint David French at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (iys0/)
---
Just what I said.

Posted by: Nancy Pantloadsi at December 06, 2019 12:57 PM (YOhRS)

236 "After 8 years of mourning for America, it's now morning in America."

(brag about record low unemployment, rising wages, other markers of prosperity.)

"Are you tired of winning yet? All of this was achieved over the opposition of a hostile Congress. Imagine what could happen without it?


Only eight years? But yeah, I approve this message.

#VisionZeroDemocrats

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 12:57 PM (8erNz)

237 >>> Four dead, including shooter.

CNN and MSNBC furiously trying to create a
'This is Trump's fault' narrative

Posted by: McCool at December 06, 2019 12:57 PM (lWCRE)

238 Do you think the Dems would welcome another 9/11 type attack? They could blame Trump all day and all night and it would seem to play into their filthy hands.

Posted by: Abby at December 06, 2019 12:57 PM (7jGI+)

239 203 What Canada needs is Mexicans. They fix everything!

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (Ibwur)
.......

Only if they're trannies or midgets.
Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 12:53 PM (v0R5T)

Trudeau is thinking of how to cosplay as a midget, I'm sure.

Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2019 12:58 PM (7HtZB)

240 Three plus shooter dead.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:50 PM (cqNba)
---
That's a shame. I liked him in Happy Gilmore.

Posted by: Nancy Pantloadsi at December 06, 2019 12:58 PM (YOhRS)

241 I have a second job at a HUGE national corporation and lately they have been hiring all kinds of people they NEVER would have hired when i started working there 15 years ago. I'm talking ex-cons, tattooed "druggie'-looking types, soy boys, old guys.

And they are NOT just seasonal hires.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 12:58 PM (CqE5x)

242 Just buy Canada!

Trump To Buy Greenland, Install Shiplap, Hardwood Floors, Flip For Profit
- Babylon Bee
Posted by: mikeyG


Trump buys Saskatchewan, BC & Yukon thereby making Alaska contiguous.

Trades Hawaii, California & Puerto Rico to Canada.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:58 PM (yDqYW)

243 232 If the media were not totally in the bag for
Marxism, one of their number would ask Obama for his reaction to this. I
for one would be fascinated to hear him pirouetting around attempting
to take credit for the booming economy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (d0vJg)

Barry's reply: "Ummm.....errrrr.....let me be clear......ahh.....ummmm....at some point you've made enough money......you only need so many houses, you can only eat so much food......errrrr......."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (ptqGC)

Have you seen the Martha's Vineyard mansion the grifters just bought? Yeah, GFY Obama, you parasite.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:58 PM (bCLt0)

244 Justin's doing great up here too!
https://twitter.com/baletown_crawl/status/
1202964606915792896

Posted by: andycanuck at December 06, 2019 12:58 PM (Dh1wo)

245 Any link to the Saudi student story?



Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (cqNba)

VIA, just do a search on it. It is everywhere including many local TV stations.

Posted by: Timon at December 06, 2019 12:58 PM (dKm4U)

246 RUSSIA

RECESSION

ukRAINE

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (v0R5T)

247 Four dead, including shooter.

CNN and MSNBC furiously trying to create a
'This is Trump's fault' narrative
Posted by: McCool at December 06, 2019 12:57 PM (lWCRE)

Without mentioning the guy is a Muslim.

Posted by: JoeF. at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (CqE5x)

248 243
Have you seen the Martha's Vineyard mansion the grifters just bought? Yeah, GFY Obama, you parasite.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:58 PM (bCLt0)

=========

Joke's on him. That place is gonna be underwater in weeks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (q80AH)

249 Know who also had a roaring economy?

Nazi Germany. They added a lot of jobs too.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (KUaJL)

250
Elizabeth Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, or conversely, the bitchy neighbor always stirring shit in the neighborhood. Her appeal is narrow.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019


partial credit

the correct answer is that Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, who lives next door, & wants to be president of your HOA

Posted by: David St.Hubbins at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (ceIDk)

251 I wonder about that 2008 scenario. Soros pulled the plug on sub-primes and everything went to shit in a few weeks.

Could these billionaire tech-bastards + Soros + other minions of Hell do the same before 2020?

"Election interference"

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (lnyJN)

252 198 She is a solid 1 to boot.
Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (0Y+lE)

Your link didn't work for me. Democrat judge?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 12:52 PM (/sgva)

Gotta removes spaces. It's Kentucky so maybe a D in R's clothing's. And the fact that law schools are to the left of Stalin, I'll assume she is a lefty.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (0Y+lE)

253
Am I the only one who thinks the only difference between the FBI and a mall cop is the FBI has guns?


Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM

News to me.
Posted by: Gecko45 at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (OMsf+)







Dammit, you beat me to the obvious, well-used joke.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (kw0bd)

254 Not only did I save or create an unprecedented number of jobs, I put many more on lay-away.

You'd think you'd be thanking me.

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (EYsyU)

255 Trump buys Saskatchewan, BC & Yukon thereby making Alaska contiguous.

Trades Hawaii, California & Puerto Rico to Canada.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:58 PM (yDqYW)

Manitoba and Alberta are practically Wyoming. Who pass-up on potentially 4-more Senators for "our" side?

Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (77WPm)

256 Richard Jewell did it!

Posted by: Bob Mueller, Top Man--TOP! at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (Ndje9)

257 "Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (I2dne)"

I don't necessarily disagree the debt needs to be addressed, but I believe some of that will happen with a better economy and enhanced tax structure. The part that won't get under control while Democrats are on charge is federal spending.

Inflation as a sole economic metric is way overblown. Even the Fed is finding that out.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (G1tCv)

258 Now what in the heck could THAT be all about?
Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 12:54 PM (CmURZ)

=========

Possibilities:

IG Report
Specific sex misconduct allegations
Bad acid trip

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 12:55 PM (q80AH)

All of the above . . .

Wouldn't it be great if Farrow would let us know which Democrat politician's office it was

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (CmURZ)

259 what did the media say, without evidence, after that dog blew up that ISIS guy "no thanks to the president"?

Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (FEQY4)

260 250

partial credit

the correct answer is that Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, who lives next door, & wants to be president of your HOA
Posted by: David St.Hubbins at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (ceIDk)

Lolol.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (bCLt0)

261 History is going to be kind to him for a while, but not forever.

The corrective is going to be fascinating and decades in the making.


Oh, I think we're in agreement. Carter never looked worse than the day he left office, and Obama never looked better.

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (8erNz)

262 234 History is going to be kind to him for a while, but not forever.

The corrective is going to be fascinating and decades in the making.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 12:57 PM (q80AH)

Both Carter and King Barry seemed to love the idea of a Hardline Islamist Iran as a force to keep us in check.

Posted by: Allie at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (sm6Pk)

263 Trudeau is thinking of how to cosplay as a midget, I'm sure.

Posted by: josephistan at December 06, 2019 12:58 PM (7HtZB)
.........

But can he wrestle?

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (v0R5T)

264 And yet, when given the opportunity mere weeks ago to send Justine's champagne-socialist government packing? Yeah, sent them right back to Ottawa.
Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (77WPm)

To be fair, though, only as a minority government. They lost the big majority they had. I expect another election within 18 months.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (/sgva)

265 250
partial credit

the correct answer is that Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, who lives next door, & wants to be president of your HOA
Posted by: David St.Hubbins at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (ceIDk)

==========

"Everyone loved Nadine as our president, but then Lizzy came around and showed us how awful Nadine really was. Now we may be miserable under Lizzy, but at least we don't have that ugly bitch Nadine anymore."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (q80AH)

266 Could these billionaire tech-bastards + Soros + other minions of Hell do the same before 2020?

"Election interference"
Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (lnyJN)

Paul Craig Roberts thinks that's exactly what they'll do.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (H8QX8)

267 The Western Provinces are not too happy with Justine and did everything they could to knock him out. If anyone is ever wondering why the Electoral College is a good thing, look no further than Premier Scott Moe's letter to Justine.
https://tinyurl.com/y5d2hsyj

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (I2dne)

268 Also, not to be lost in the tragedy at NAS
A Minnesota National Guard Blackhawk went down yesterday. Killing all 3 aboard. There was a pic in the local paper of the wreckage in the woods on the edge of a snow covered field. behind it was a church, it's cross on the steeple illuminated but the sun hitting it perfectly. It was a moving picture. Some families are going to have a devastating Christmas this year. Prayers for them and the victims at Pearl and Pensacola. God bless the men and women who serve.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (r7Fvf)

269 Local news now reporting Saudi student confirmed.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (cqNba)

270 Could these billionaire tech-bastards + Soros + other minions of Hell do the same before 2020?

"Election interference"
Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM (lnyJN)

Gotta imagine that Donnie TwoScoops would have no trouble tying Soros around the neck of whatever commie the Donks nominate, especially if he tried to pull shit like this.

Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (77WPm)

271 258
All of the above . . .

Wouldn't it be great if Farrow would let us know which Democrat politician's office it was
Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (CmURZ)

=========

Meh.

Farrow's an operative of the far left, willing to take out an establishment Democrat here or there, but very much in the tank for the cause.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (q80AH)

272 man, all these hirings...you know what america needs? right?

Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (FEQY4)

273 Fucking News : If the guy was shot at the scene, he is no longer a suspect.

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (2oqPC)

274 255 Trump buys Saskatchewan, BC & Yukon thereby making Alaska contiguous.

Trades Hawaii, California & Puerto Rico to Canada.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 12:58 PM (yDqYW)

Manitoba and Alberta are practically Wyoming. Who pass-up on potentially 4-more Senators for "our" side?


It didn't work last time.

Posted by: James Madison at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (8erNz)

275 The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in November, according to figures released by the Labor Department. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected a gain of 187,000. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, matching its lowest level since 1969.

--

Democrat's response to correct that, as well as the overall booming Trump Economy:

"This is not who we are."

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (JoUsr)

276 Saudi *aviation* student? What, is that a joke?

Posted by: Al Crapton at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (GlmxK)

277 233
83 68 A Kentucky judge has been accused of turning her chambers into a
glorified frat house, having a threesome with staffers and allowing
employees to get drunk on the job - all while abusing her power to win
re-election, according to reports.



so let me get this straight.



We have a Kentucky judge (not to be confused with a Hawaii judge)
who's in a band, she hired her band's guitarist, who's a 'former'
pastor, but apparently the idea of drunken debauchery never crossed his
pulpit or maybe that's why he's 'former'?



And she's a nasty catbitch toward anyone who opposes her?



Interesting, as they say...

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 12:38 PM (8erNz)



She is a solid 1 to boot.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 12:39 PM (0Y+lE)



Do not put your dick in judicial crazy.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (RD7QR)
Losing your bunny to a hot bath would be the least of your concerns.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (N39Ws)

278 I don't necessarily disagree the debt needs to be addressed, but I believe some of that will happen with a better economy and enhanced tax structure. The part that won't get under control while Democrats are on charge is federal spending.

Inflation as a sole economic metric is way overblown. Even the Fed is finding that out.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (G1tCv)
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For sure. I don't share your optimism about a non-Dem Congress controlling spending, but growth and structural tax changes will help a lot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (I2dne)

279 Wall St hates me, wants me dead/replaced. But I'm supposed to cheer their continued rape of our land, with profits they will partially use to further push unfettered abortion, open borders, amnesty, gay marriage, etc?

Okay boomer

Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (Fxgkp)

280 272 man, all these hirings...you know what america needs? right?
Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (FEQY4)

More Muslims, obviously.

Posted by: Allie at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (sm6Pk)

281 The moral should be that hiring professional politicians to run the government is bad. They don't understand the economy or business.

Posted by: notsothoreau at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (JKNZq)

282 276 Saudi *aviation* student? What, is that a joke?
Posted by: Al Crapton at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (GlmxK)

I hear Iran has a flying program for the gay folks.

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (JFO2v)

283 Manitoba and Alberta are practically Wyoming. Who pass-up on potentially 4-more Senators for "our" side?
Posted by: DocJ


Those too. Hell, I don't know all of their provinces.
And the Northwest Territory.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (yDqYW)

284 Farrow's an operative of the far left, willing to take out an establishment Democrat here or there, but very much in the tank for the cause.

Nah, I don't think Farrow's hard left, but I do think he's an opportunist who will do what he thinks he needs to for the right positioning.

Posted by: James Madison at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (8erNz)

285
Could these billionaire tech-bastards + Soros + other minions of Hell do the same before 2020?

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I would be surprised if they didn't try at least.

I'd expect big money to start making destructive moves shortly after the Dem convention in Milwaukee. They can afford to lose some cash if it means getting their globalist regime back in power.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (AzW6q)

286 276
Saudi *aviation* student? What, is that a joke?

Posted by: Al Crapton at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (GlmxK)
Someone has to teach them to fly planes into our buildings fly the fighter jets we sell them.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 06, 2019 01:03 PM (N39Ws)

287 I'LL WRESTLE THOSE MIDGETS!

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 06, 2019 01:03 PM (v0R5T)

288 Obama's economy and stats were all bullshit.
Remember when someone did some investigating those new jobs and they called a few school districts to find out what jobs were created. The reply was we don't know what you are talking about , we have not hired anyone. After that there were no more investigations. So, it looks like a lot of money disappeared into democrat pockets.

Posted by: Cicero Skip at December 06, 2019 01:03 PM (FIrEF)

289 Fucking News : If the guy was shot at the scene, he is no longer a suspect.
Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (2oqPC)
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Just allegedly the shooter with the alleged gun in his alleged hand found allegedly dead at the alleged scene.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:03 PM (YOhRS)

290 Fucking News : If the guy was shot at the scene, he is no longer a suspect.


Allegedly.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 01:03 PM (lnyJN)

291 Posted by: Permaculture Pete at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (Fxgkp)

I take it you don't have a 401k.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 01:03 PM (2DOZq)

292 Manitoba and Alberta are practically Wyoming. Who pass-up on potentially 4-more Senators for "our" side?
Posted by: DocJ

Throw in Greenland and we've got a deal.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 06, 2019 01:03 PM (KUaJL)

293 288 Obama's economy and stats were all bullshit.
Remember when someone did some investigating those new jobs and they called a few school districts to find out what jobs were created. The reply was we don't know what you are talking about , we have not hired anyone. After that there were no more investigations. So, it looks like a lot of money disappeared into democrat pockets.
Posted by: Cicero Skip at December 06, 2019 01:03 PM (FIrEF)

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Impeach!

No, not Obama. Trump. Impeach Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:03 PM (q80AH)

294 281 The moral should be that hiring professional politicians to run the government is bad. They don't understand the economy or business.
Posted by: notsothoreau at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (JKNZq)

See: Most of Congress.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 01:03 PM (bCLt0)

295 282 276 Saudi *aviation* student? What, is that a joke?
Posted by: Al Crapton at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (GlmxK)

I hear Iran has a flying program for the gay folks.
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (JFO2v)

Or crane operations.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 06, 2019 01:03 PM (NWiLs)

296 Thanks Obama.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:04 PM (yQpMk)

297 We need one of the fine Christian ladies on this blog to comment on the rules of banging your preacher in a 3some!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:04 PM (JFO2v)

298 The bottom will fall out right before the election, probably worse than what happened in 2008 and for many of the same reasons. All of the underlying problems are still there, except this time there's nothing the gov't can do to bail it out.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 12:45 PM (CQ3Qb)

That's not exactly true; that crisis was triggered by massive amounts of sub-prime loans, and the bundling of them into securities that appeared good but were actually worthless. Although there are still subprime loans, the circumstances that led to that particular crash were a one-off that won't be repeated.

AND I think the Bush Admin *did* deserve a good bit of the blame, because they should have seen this coming a year or two ahead of time (plenty of people did) and they did nothing at all about it. *Probably* because they gambled that they could put off any unpleasantness til after the election.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2019 01:04 PM (Kpl3J)

299 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 01:04 PM (Zz0t1)

300 I'll remove my sock now. Only one of them, lest the odor bring the blog down.

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 01:04 PM (8erNz)

301 Something has changed - and I like it.

I've seen the Dow go down because employment got too "tight". Just corporate America bitching that labor costs would be too expensive.

I firmly believe stock prices are not driven by logic, but rather by perception. Trump has changed that perception. People working is being seen as a "good" again.

Trump > Reagan, to my eyes.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at December 06, 2019 01:04 PM (ob5xJ)

302 Fucking News : If the guy was shot at the scene, he is no longer a suspect.


Allegedly.
Posted by: mikeyG


Nor allegedly. More like Guaranteed.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:04 PM (yDqYW)

303 271 258
All of the above . . .

Wouldn't it be great if Farrow would let us know which Democrat politician's office it was
Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 01:00 PM (CmURZ)

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Meh.

Farrow's an operative of the far left, willing to take out an establishment Democrat here or there, but very much in the tank for the cause.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (q80AH)

That was sarcasm.

Yes, he is very much a tool of the leftists.

Which makes me wonder why he said this.

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 01:04 PM (CmURZ)

304 the correct answer is that Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, who lives next door, & wants to be president of your HOA
Posted by: David St.Hubbins at December 06, 2019 12:59 PM


Slight correction. She's the pissy nag at the HOA meeting that doesn't want to actually DO anything, just tell others how bad they are at their job and hoe much better she could do it. Then ramble for 17 minutes how Bev Johnsons' planters are the wrong, unapproved color.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 01:04 PM (r7Fvf)

305 The guy was really good at flying, but showed no interest in taking off or landing the plane.

Posted by: Saudi guy's flight instructor at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (Tnijr)

306 Jinx buy me a coke!

Actually Axeman wins with variations of 'alleged' to my one.

Posted by: mikeyG at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (lnyJN)

307 Nah, I don't think Farrow's hard left, but I do think he's an opportunist who will do what he thinks he needs to for the right positioning.
Posted by: James Madison at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (8erNz)
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I think Farrow is more like trying to balance fitting in with the extreme politics on his side with what somebody once told him journalism was and he still kinda believes it.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (YOhRS)

308 301
I firmly believe stock prices are not driven by logic, but rather by perception. Trump has changed that perception. People working is being seen as a "good" again.

Trump > Reagan, to my eyes.
Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at December 06, 2019 01:04 PM (ob5xJ)

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It's essentially a bet on future earnings, so perception has a huge part to play in it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (q80AH)

309 Amazing.

The Speaker of the House just demanded that Articles of Impeachment be brought up against the duly elected President of The United States, and the DOW is still going up.

If that doesn't show how irrelevant the Democrats are, nothing does.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (Zz0t1)

310 297 We need one of the fine Christian ladies on this blog to comment on the rules of banging your preacher in a 3some!

Fortunately you didn't ask for a youtube video.

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (8erNz)

311 There was no magic wand. Trump did this with the tools available to all of his predecessors, all while being "mentally unfit", "desperately dumb", "dangerously racist", and "courting nuclear war".

Imagine what your favorite Leftist could have accomplished had he chosen to.

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (gHCnG)

312 It seems that what determines a person is an expert is the ability to come up with more complex reasons their predictions were wrong than the average person does.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (m45I2)

313 My leg hairs just went completely flaccid.

Posted by: Joke Biden at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (BRpqW)

314 I was patting myself on the back for having gone to Cash last Wednesday and missing all the drops since.

I was hoping the minor correction would last until January.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (yQpMk)

315 309 Amazing.

The Speaker of the House just demanded that Articles of Impeachment be brought up against the duly elected President of The United States, and the DOW is still going up.

If that doesn't show how irrelevant the Democrats are, nothing does.
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (Zz0t1)

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No one thinks impeachment is actually happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:06 PM (q80AH)

316 168 . . . Am I the only one who thinks the only difference between the FBI and a mall cop is the FBI has guns?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
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You left out the stuff about me not being a traitorous, law-breaking scumbag.

Posted by: A Mall Cop at December 06, 2019 01:06 PM (9vQJW)

317 Saudi *aviation* student? What, is that a joke?

Posted by: Al Crapton at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (GlmxK)


Apparently, after 9/11 we're still slow learners.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 01:06 PM (ptqGC)

318 We need one of the fine Christian ladies on this blog to comment on the rules of banging your preacher in a 3some!
Posted by: rhennigantx


I'm thinking that pretty much falls under "If you have to ask".

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:06 PM (yDqYW)

319 Headline: Markets Rejoice at Trump Impeachment

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:06 PM (yQpMk)

320 272 man, all these hirings...you know what america needs? right?
Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (FEQY4)

Uh, busty lesbian pron?

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 01:06 PM (RD7QR)

321 Am I the only one who thinks the only difference between the FBI and a mall cop is the FBI has guns?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed
____________

You left out the stuff about me not being a traitorous, law-breaking scumbag.
Posted by: A Mall Cop


He ran out of pixels.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:07 PM (yDqYW)

322 280 272 man, all these hirings...you know what america needs? right?
Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (FEQY4)

More Muslims, obviously.
Posted by: Allie at

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I mean, duh. But also illegals. so many illegals. damn, you trump!

Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 01:07 PM (FEQY4)

323 320 272 man, all these hirings...you know what america needs? right?
Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 01:01 PM (FEQY4)

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An aqueduct.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:07 PM (q80AH)

324 Apparently, after 9/11 we're still slow learners.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 01:06 PM (ptqGC)

I wouldn't be surprised if Jamie Gorelick is involved in this story somehow.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at December 06, 2019 01:07 PM (H8QX8)

325 312 It seems that what determines a person is an expert is the ability to come up with more complex reasons their predictions were wrong than the average person does.
Posted by: Muldoon at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (m45I2

Alternatively: they come up with more convincing reasons to give them more money to research how to improve their predictions than the average person.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 06, 2019 01:07 PM (KUaJL)

326 Remember when someone did some investigating those new jobs and they called a few school districts to find out what jobs were created. The reply was we don't know what you are talking about , we have not hired anyone. After that there were no more investigations. So, it looks like a lot of money disappeared into democrat pockets.
Posted by: Cicero Skip at December 06, 2019 01:03 PM (FIrEF)

That's the fatal flaw in all Democrat jobs plans and public works plans. They budget all this money that is supposed to do all this great stuff, and then nothing happens at all, but all the money disappears. Look at how much has already been spent on California's bullet train to nowhere, and how little has actually been done.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2019 01:07 PM (Kpl3J)

327 There was no magic wand. Trump did this with the tools available to all of his predecessors, all while being "mentally unfit", "desperately dumb", "dangerously racist", and "courting nuclear war".

Imagine what your favorite Leftist could have accomplished had he chosen to.
Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (gHCnG)
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Yes, this.

Trump has created nothing new. No new frameworks, no new laws, no new powers, nothing.

He has just taken an ax to everything in his purview - regulations, informal agreements (Paris, Iran), trade agreements, etc. He has picked his congressional battles (taxes, trade, judges).

He violated some "norms," I guess (as defined by assholes), but didn't actually change anything in terms of his powers or abilities. Those are the same as they've been for a while now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (I2dne)

328 POTUS has until 5pm to declare whether he will participate in impeachment proceedings...I know what I want his reply to be.

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (X/Pw5)

329 There was no magic wand. Trump did this with the tools available to all of his predecessors, all while being "mentally unfit", "desperately dumb", "dangerously racist", and "courting nuclear war".

Imagine what your favorite Leftist could have accomplished had he chosen to.
Posted by: t-bird


Obama did.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (yDqYW)

330 And the Northwest Territory.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:02 PM (yDqYW)

The "riding" as they call parliamentary districts in Canada, for the Northwest Territory - that's right ONE district - went to the Libs.

Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (77WPm)

331 A measly 30% off, thank God for the Pro's.

Top. Men.

Posted by: nip at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (Izot6)

332 If the guy was shot at the scene, he is no longer a suspect.

No longer a suspect, but now "we will never know the motive".

Posted by: t-bird at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (Wd55D)

333 310 297 We need one of the fine Christian ladies on this blog to comment on the rules of banging your preacher in a 3some!

Fortunately you didn't ask for a youtube video.
Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (8erNz)

great idea

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (JFO2v)

334 I'm thinking that pretty much falls under "If you have to ask".
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:06 PM (yDqYW)
++++++++++++
You can't afford it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (I2dne)

335 327 Yes, this.

Trump has created nothing new. No new frameworks, no new laws, no new powers, nothing.

He has just taken an ax to everything in his purview - regulations, informal agreements (Paris, Iran), trade agreements, etc. He has picked his congressional battles (taxes, trade, judges).

He violated some "norms," I guess (as defined by assholes), but didn't actually change anything in terms of his powers or abilities. Those are the same as they've been for a while now.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (I2dne)

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The slashing of regulations is going to be one of his top legacies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (q80AH)

336 The Speaker of the House just demanded that Articles of Impeachment be brought up against the duly elected President of The United States, and the DOW is still going up.

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but she did it as a catholic who is very somber, so it's ok. I am impressed, actually. They did some weird hearings where no real cross examination happened, and as I understand, no rebuttal witnesses were called. And there was no actual coherent crime alleged. And the person hearing the "inquiry" was actually in on the charges...if not the crime itself.

but ok.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (FEQY4)

337 AND I think the Bush Admin *did* deserve a good bit of the blame, because they should have seen this coming a year or two ahead of time (plenty of people did) and they did nothing at all about it.

IIRC, the Bush Administration and some Republican Congressmen tried to do something about it, but the Dems blocked it in an effort to protect Sallie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (d0vJg)

338 moslems are the enemy of all good people.

Posted by: Chris M at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (eAZVt)

339 That's not exactly true; that crisis was triggered
by massive amounts of sub-prime loans, and the bundling of them into
securities that appeared good but were actually worthless. Although
there are still subprime loans, the circumstances that led to that
particular crash were a one-off that won't be repeated.



AND I think the Bush Admin *did* deserve a good bit of the blame,
because they should have seen this coming a year or two ahead of time
(plenty of people did) and they did nothing at all about it. *Probably*
because they gambled that they could put off any unpleasantness til
after the election.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2019 01:04 PM (Kpl3J)

Sub-prime is back in a big way. They just renamed them "non-prime" loans. CDO's have also returned. Personal debt is higher than ever.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (CQ3Qb)

340 If that doesn't show how irrelevant the Democrats are, nothing does.

By the 2020 election they'll be on their fourth round of impeachment hearings, at the rate things are going.

This is embarrassing. You've got a loudmouth with forty years in the public eye elected President and after every bit of Soros-funded nastiness the best they can come up with is that he put out a mean tweet?

They can't even find someone buried under a corner of one of his buildings? I thought that was the gold standard for NYC property developers.

I'm sure somewhere there are Democrats drinking themselves into blackouts over the notion that TRUMP MIGHT NOT ACTUALLY BE DIRTY.

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (8erNz)

341 He has just taken an ax to everything in his purview - regulations, informal agreements (Paris, Iran), trade agreements, etc. He has picked his congressional battles (taxes, trade, judges).


==

so basically he Marie Kondo'd govt

Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (G546f)

342 328 POTUS has until 5pm to declare whether he will participate in impeachment proceedings...I know what I want his reply to be.
Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (X/Pw5)

Impeachment! Sad! Best economy ever! Fat Jerry needs to be impeached! He's yuge!

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (RD7QR)

343 Wit udder certainty ah would state that super patriot wrinkles Pelosi must be pulling a train of homeless transexxuals in commemoration of this joyful tiding. Merry Christmas!!!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (OZZ16)

344 328 POTUS has until 5pm to declare whether he will participate in impeachment proceedings...I know what I want his reply to be.
Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (X/Pw5)


Strangely enough (and I mean that) I would be good with send Federal Marshals to arrest them all.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (kUmUV)

345 Alternatively: they come up with more convincing reasons to give them more money to research how to improve their predictions than the average person.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 06, 2019 01:07 PM (KUaJL)

I will always believe that the Smartest Men in the World were those Polish researchers who figured how to get their University to pay them for staring at boobs all day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (Kpl3J)

346 One would think that a military aviation student from Saudi Arabia would have been vetted by the Saudi government...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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That's the problem AOP. He probably was.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (Y4EXg)

347 i hope nancy is pissed.

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (gYJGA)

348 Another case of Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Saudi national.

There was the weird tanker 'attack'.

There was the false flag attack by 7th century savages with precision GPS guided missiles on Saudi oil assets that supposedly took half of their production off line for a year....a bald faced lie. Saudis are talking production cuts in OPEC ...No follow up attacks.



Khashoggi I believe was an op to rid themselves of a irritant ant also drive a wedge between Trump and the Saudi government.

It didn't work.

Posted by: torabora at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (Y274z)

349 309 Amazing.

The Speaker of the House just demanded that Articles of Impeachment be brought up against the duly elected President of The United States, and the DOW is still going up.

If that doesn't show how irrelevant the Democrats are, nothing does.
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 01:05 PM (Zz0t1)

Drunk Granny Botox and her cohorts probably think it's a sign from whatever she prays to that they're doing the right thing.

Lefty pretzel logic. How does it work?

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (CmURZ)

350 The economy started turning around the day Trump was elected. That was purely optimism. People believed PDT would be good for business, and he is.

Posted by: freaked at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (Tnijr)

351 In fairness, the growing economy is partially attributable to Obama. When the government has it's boot on the economies throat for eight years, you are almost certainly going to have a more rapid than normal recovery when the pressure is removed.

So, Thanks Obama! For leaving.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (yQpMk)

352 firmly believe stock prices are not driven by logic, but rather by perception. Trump has changed that perception. People working is being seen as a "good" again.

Trump > Reagan, to my eyes.
Posted by: Lurking L

Reagan took over a very damaged economy and very demoralized country. What he did can't be equaled IMHO. He changed expectations of what future economies should be.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (2DOZq)

353 so basically he Marie Kondo'd govt
Posted by: vmom, anti-vahzist at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (G546f)
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LOLOLOL. What a way to put it. Yup, he's "decluttering." Bigly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (I2dne)

354 351 In fairness, the growing economy is partially attributable to Obama. When the government has it's boot on the economies throat for eight years, you are almost certainly going to have a more rapid than normal recovery when the pressure is removed.

So, Thanks Obama! For leaving.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (yQpMk)

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Postwar Germany's rapid growth was Hitler's doing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (q80AH)

355 I firmly believe stock prices are not driven by logic, but rather by perception. Trump has changed that perception. People working is being seen as a "good" again.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at December 06, 2019 01:04 PM (ob5xJ)
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I believe you are right. It was called "Voodoo economics" in Reagan's term. But Reagan was 100% right that good expectations drive a good economy.

Because he knew his stuff on economics. He knew the data that every time the Carter administration tried to "intervene" with counter-recession measures, the market analysts saw that and interpreted that as a "sign of recession" and it actually *caused* cut-backs on investment and urge to spill inventory and *cause* recessionary moves. That the Carter administration had been creating self-fulfilling prophecies.

Most good Economics analysts know about this trend.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (YOhRS)

356 But sadly, and with great remorse, and prayerfully, with love in our heart and the best interests of the nation, we must take the solemn path to IMPEACHMENT
Posted by: Nancy Pelousy at December 06, 2019 12:34 PM (CqE5x)

But before that, let's go the bar! Kegstands!

Posted by: Grand Rapids at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (Xo3T0)

357 Trump's Job Numbers Kill Funemployment

Posted by: MSM Who else? at December 06, 2019 01:11 PM (0dmP2)

358
Warren berates American companies that "have no loyalty or allegiance" to the nation they were born in.

"These 'American' companies show only one real loyalty: to the short-term interests of their shareholders, a third of whom are foreign investors," she writes. "If they can close up an American factory and ship jobs overseas to save a nickel, that's exactly what they will do -- abandoning loyal American workers and hollowing out American cities along the way."


Sounds like Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2019 01:11 PM (aKsyK)

359 Trump has created nothing new. No new frameworks, no new laws, no new powers, nothing.

He has just taken an ax to everything in his purview - regulations, informal agreements (Paris, Iran), trade agreements, etc. He has picked his congressional battles (taxes, trade, judges).

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but in choosing not to intervene, he made a powerful and hard choice, because

1. the left bitched every step of the way.
2. everyone seeks rent

and also, lets not forget the tariff wars, which the left bitched every step of the way through.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 01:11 PM (FEQY4)

360 >>The economy started turning around the day Trump was elected. That was purely optimism. People believed PDT would be good for business, and he is.


People KNEW Obama was BAD for the Country.

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 01:11 PM (2oqPC)

361 AND I think the Bush Admin *did* deserve a good bit of the blame, because they should have seen this coming a year or two ahead of time (plenty of people did) and they did nothing at all about it. *Probably* because they gambled that they could put off any unpleasantness til after the election.
======

I'm no defender of GWB, but I remember the several hearings before it all happened, wherein Bush's people were called "racists" and worse for even questioning the solvency of Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae.

Then Barney Frank's fat, disgusting ass all over TV during it saying, "Fannie and Freddie are fundamentally strong!" just days before it all collapsed.

Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 06, 2019 01:11 PM (vg8iE)

362 Warren berates American companies that "have no loyalty or allegiance" to the nation they were born in.

Google, Apple hardest hit.

Oh wait, where are those donations coming from?

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 01:12 PM (8erNz)

363 but in choosing not to intervene, he made a powerful and hard choice, because

1. the left bitched every step of the way.
2. everyone seeks rent

and also, lets not forget the tariff wars, which the left bitched every step of the way through.
Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 01:11 PM (FEQY4)
++++++++++++
No argument from me. I didn't say it wasn't ballsy, I just said it required nothing *new* in terms of powers or abilities. Anyone could have done it. No one did. They either didn't want to or didn't have the balls.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:12 PM (I2dne)

364 The slashing of regulations is going to be one of his top legacies.


But the easiest undone to start the Burning Time.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:12 PM (yQpMk)

365 I hope Trump ignores the fat asses deadline. But, either way, the Dems are Losing Losers who Lose on this impeachment kabuki.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 01:12 PM (bCLt0)

366 Fuck that.

We can take BC and the NW Territories.

The rest of it can go to pseudo French hell.
Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 12:51 PM (2oqPC)

No, you don't want the entirety of B.C. Leave the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, which are cloud-cuckoo land like Seattle/Portland, as a rump Socialist entity, and take the B.C. "Interior", which is basically the coast from Powell River north, plus all the Fraser River watershed upstream of Hope. Also take Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon, and Northwest Territories. Manitoba? It has resources, and a seaport on Hudson Bay. You could probably also roll in the vast majority of Northwestern Ontario, too. Mineral resources, and a history of conservative voting.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 01:12 PM (/sgva)

367 328 POTUS has until 5pm to declare whether he will participate in impeachment proceedings...I know what I want his reply to be.
Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (X/Pw5)

4:59 pm simultaneous raids, with OANN news cameras rolling?

Posted by: Marybeth at December 06, 2019 01:12 PM (CmURZ)

368 328 POTUS has until 5pm to declare whether he will participate in impeachment proceedings...I know what I want his reply to be.

===

I'm sure by participate, the left does not mean "cross examine witnesses", present a defense, or introduce evidence.

Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 01:12 PM (FEQY4)

369 I'm thinking that pretty much falls under "If you have to ask".
Posted by: rickb223


++++++++++++
You can't afford it?
Posted by: Joe Mannix


In that specific case, I think your soul can't.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:12 PM (yDqYW)

370 i hope nancy is pissed dies painfully.
Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (gYJGA)


Corrected for true feelings.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)

371 Jane, cold comfort I know, but in time I learned to tune out the buzzing in my head. A fan or air conditioner running at night helps. It does get bette, ma'am.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:49 PM (bCLt0)
*********
I already had dealt with Anxiety my whole Lie & then the Tinnitus started & ended up with full scale Panic Attack & BP went 200 over 100 & something

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 01:13 PM (BqBId)

372 I found out my alma mater WSU in Wichita KS is pondering opening an engineering extension university in Mexico. This is being funded by big money interests apparently.

As a back story ,now is starting to be a good time for engineering. Easily the best in my lifetime. For the past 2-3 decades wages have been depressed from hiring masses of third-world engineers at bargain wages. But lately, the past 2-3 years, hiring has boomed. Not just in defense but commercial. More importantly there's a renewal of gonzo-engineering ideas like Super Sonic Transport, sky taxis, drones, space, etc.. Jobs reqs are getting hard to fill because the younger crowd is all leaving traditional engineering to work on "cool" stuff. So a need to back fill causing rising wages, better opportunities, yada yada.

But no, we can't have that so lets create another stream of cheap engineering labor, this time from south of the border.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2019 01:13 PM (l6b3d)

373 AND I think the Bush Admin *did* deserve a good bit of the blame, because they should have seen this coming a year or two ahead of time (plenty of people did) and they did nothing at all about it. *Probably* because they gambled that they could put off any unpleasantness til after the election.

isn't there a few videos from that era that showed the dems screaming racism every time someone mentioned looking into FreddieMac and FannieMae? I recall Barney Frank and Maxine Waters were out front in most of them

Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2019 01:13 PM (XTiHL)

374 >>No, you don't want the entirety of B.C. Leave the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island, which are cloud-cuckoo land like Seattle/Portland, as a rump Socialist entity, and take the B.C. "Interior", which is basically the coast from Powell River north, plus all the Fraser River watershed upstream of Hope. Also take Alberta, Saskatchewan, Yukon, and Northwest Territories. Manitoba? It has resources, and a seaport on Hudson Bay. You could probably also roll in the vast majority of Northwestern Ontario, too. Mineral resources, and a history of conservative voting.


You are now a General.

Please. Report to wardrobe for your Epaulettes.

Posted by: garrett at December 06, 2019 01:13 PM (2oqPC)

375 364 The slashing of regulations is going to be one of his top legacies.


But the easiest undone to start the Burning Time.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:12 PM (yQpMk)

=========

Easier than a lot, but not that easy.

I would really like a law that said that any regulation with a proposed impact of greater than $0.73 needs to get approved by Congress before the Executive Branch can implement it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:13 PM (q80AH)

376 I have it on good authority that Trump bribed the garbagemen at Trump Tower by giving them gifts at Christmas.

Posted by: Shifty at December 06, 2019 01:14 PM (Y274z)

377 350 The economy started turning around the day Trump was elected. That was purely optimism. People believed PDT would be good for business, and he is.

This.

We've fought a cold civil war for a few decades, and Trump's the first time since the '80s we've actually had a leader who'd fight back.

Posted by: JEM at December 06, 2019 01:14 PM (8erNz)

378 In fairness, the growing economy is partially attributable to Obama. When the government has it's boot on the economies throat for eight years, you are almost certainly going to have a more rapid than normal recovery when the pressure is removed.

So, Thanks Obama! For leaving.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (yQpMk)

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Right on. I used to physically demonstrate to people what the next president had to do to boost the economy. And I'd pantomime stepping back. And they would ask me what that was. And I'd tell them, "just step off the neck of the economy".

I think my analysis has proven true--but I'm also going to say that it's very likely a good deal of it is Trump.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:14 PM (YOhRS)

379 Have we purchased Greenland yet?

Posted by: mrp at December 06, 2019 01:14 PM (Pqytn)

380 Ace in the last 2 years the stock market has averaged 2% growth per year
Or
Zero percent adjusted for inflation

Posted by: Kurt at December 06, 2019 01:14 PM (lt82u)

381 AND I think the Bush Admin *did* deserve a good bit of the blame, because they should have seen this coming a year or two ahead of time (plenty of people did) and they did nothing at all about it. *Probably* because they gambled that they could put off any unpleasantness til after the election.

They went to Congress multiple times to have them address this legislative issue and were basically told to fuck off.

Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 01:15 PM (2DOZq)

382 My last thing on tinnitus is that a couple of people I know have it and don't deal with it well because they are fairly OCD.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 01:15 PM (bCLt0)

383 Reagan took over a very damaged economy and very demoralized country. What he did can't be equaled IMHO. He changed expectations of what future economies should be.
Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (2DOZq)


The guy who deserves the most credit for that economy?

Paul Volcker, chairman of the Fed. He and his colleagues racked up interest rates through the roof. That wrung inflationary expectations out of lenders' calculations,* because it proved that the US had the balls to do something unpopular but necessary.

Thereafter lenders were willing to loan the US money at much lower interest rates, which in turn sparked the economic boom.

* Recall that the late 70s were an era where unions were demanding more and more to offset inflation, and were showing signs of British-style trade union militancy. That era ended when Reagan clobbered PATCO, and Volcker clobbered expectations of inflation.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 06, 2019 01:15 PM (d0vJg)

384 The slashing of regulations is going to be one of his top legacies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (q80AH)
++++++++++++
This is one area where I think Trump didn't go too far enough.

My dream?
Build a database of regulatory dependencies. There are lots of enabling regulations, where one depends on the other. Then, order the agency heads to have a list of ten regulations they're going to remove on your desk by 12:00 noon every Friday.

Run them through the database. Those regulations go, along with any dependent ones. If they don't have them on your desk by noon, he will pick 15 regulations from the agency at random and remove them - along with all dependencies.

And the agency heads aren't allowed to use the database.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:15 PM (I2dne)

385 >>> The slashing of regulations is going to be one of his top legacies.


Regulations can (and will) be easily re-created when Trump is gone.

He's proven that less regulations stimulate economic growth, but the Left doesnt care about growth. They care about control.

Posted by: McCool at December 06, 2019 01:15 PM (lWCRE)

386 155
Elizabeth Warren is everyone's pissy mother in law, or conversely,
the bitchy neighbor always stirring shit in the neighborhood. Her appeal
is narrow.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 12:46 PM (bCLt0)



The Massholes can really pick 'em.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 06, 2019 12:48 PM (y7DUB)

She's the mom who in elementary and high school would go into the administration a crap all over everyone until her kids got put in all the high end enrichment activities, and club presidents.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at December 06, 2019 01:15 PM (pPMEy)

387 Ace in the last 2 years the stock market has averaged 2% growth per year
Or
Zero percent adjusted for inflation

Posted by: Kurt at December 06, 2019 01:14 PM (lt82u)



Which market, Halfwit?


Oh, never mind, just shut the fuck up, Dunce.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (yQpMk)

388 i hope nancy is pissed.

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (gYJGA)
.........

I just hope she doesn't have an aneurysm or something sad.
I'll be praying for her, yes I will pray every day.

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (v0R5T)

389 knocking back that disastrous 'waters of the USA' EPA ruling probably jumped a lot of jobs into the shovel ready category

Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (XTiHL)

390 Bigly

Posted by: G marks the spot at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (GXoKW)

391 In the past 2 years Kurt has grown 2% stupider. Quite a feat seeing where he started.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (OZZ16)

392 isn't there a few videos from that era that showed the dems screaming racism every time someone mentioned looking into FreddieMac and FannieMae? I recall Barney Frank and Maxine Waters were out front in most of them
Posted by: DanMan at December 06, 2019 01:13 PM (XTiHL)
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Yes. That's what they did. And then we elected their #1 recipient of campaign contributions (HOW the HELL do we allow a GSE to contribute campaign contributions!) as President.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (YOhRS)

393 i hope nancy is pissed dies painfully.
Posted by: trapper's girl


Corrected for true feelings.
Posted by: Sponge


The judges will allow the ruling on the field to stand.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (yDqYW)

394 "These 'American' companies show only one real loyalty: to the short-term interests of their shareholders, a third of whom are foreign investors," she writes. "If they can close up an American factory and ship jobs overseas to save a nickel, that's exactly what they will do -- abandoning loyal American workers and hollowing out American cities along the way."

You're blaming the companies for policies put in place by Democrats for decades forcing them to leave in record numbers.

And unions....I haven't mentioned unions yet.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (Zz0t1)

395 Posted by: Kurt at December 06, 2019 01:14 PM (lt82u)
************
FART how many times do you have to be told the Stock Market isn't the economy you fucking retard

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (BqBId)

396 Regulations are the pipelines that feed government graft.

Posted by: mrp at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (Pqytn)

397 IMPREACH COW BELL FORTY FI !!!!

Posted by: Max Power at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (q177U)

398 Math whiz is here....or wizz.

Posted by: BignJames at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (X/Pw5)

399 161 I'll be honest, I was worried that this economy was going to peter out before the election, just because it has been something like 12 years since the last recession.

Posted by: Blago

I don't care what the well ackshully people say. there was a recession from 2008-2016 and the boom is only 3 years old.

Posted by: x at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (nFwvY)

400 I'm no defender of GWB, but I remember the several hearings before it all happened, wherein Bush's people were called "racists" and worse for even questioning the solvency of Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae.

Then Barney Frank's fat, disgusting ass all over TV during it saying, "Fannie and Freddie are fundamentally strong!" just days before it all collapsed.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at December 06, 2019 01:11 PM (vg8iE)


Bush was hamstrung by being a tongue tied dolt about all this horseshit instead of going on a nationally televised address essentially screaming fuck this shit. Having that worthless turd, Rove, advising him to stay mum didn't help.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (y7DUB)

401 The judges will allow the ruling on the field to stand.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:16 PM (yDqYW)


HOORAY for the challenge flag!

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)

402 379 Have we purchased Greenland yet?
Posted by: mrp at December 06, 2019 01:14 PM (Pqytn)

The Danes are resisting. Maybe we should just make them an offer they can't refuse.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (RD7QR)

403 Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 01:15 PM (bCLt0)
********
Yeah that wouldn't be a good Combo

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (BqBId)

404 yeah, Reagan did the same thing...ish. Some would say simply not being Jimmy Carter was enough.

Whatever, I knew that trump would skyrocket economy. and I said that if i was fluid I would've put all my money in the stock market (if only I new about 2017's crypto fest).

Posted by: mushroom maniac at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (FEQY4)

405 i hope she has a cow.

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (gYJGA)

406 just saw a headline: guman kills three; dies. must have been heart failure, or a stroke.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (KP5rU)

407 I don't know about you, Waste of Skin, but I'm up 32.8% YTD.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (yQpMk)

408 Right on. I used to physically demonstrate to people what the next president had to do to boost the economy. And I'd pantomime stepping back. And they would ask me what that was. And I'd tell them, "just step off the neck of the economy".

I think my analysis has proven true--but I'm also going to say that it's very likely a good deal of it is Trump.
Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:14 PM (YOhRS)


Yep. Sitting around the dinner table I said Trump had a good chance of getting nomination, and if he did, a not bad chance of winning the election, and in that case the economy would explode because Obama's stinky foot would be off the neck of the economy, and Hillary's wouldn't take its place.

The family rolled their eyes, thinking I was ready for the dementia ward. But they admit now I was correct, across the board.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 06, 2019 01:18 PM (d0vJg)

409 No one thinks impeachment is actually happening.

--

Dear, dear TJM...don't think for one second that Alyssa Milano's eyes will not be gushing with tears once she realizes he is not going to be removed from office. She and those like her are true believers.

Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2019 01:18 PM (JoUsr)

410 The Danes are resisting. Maybe we should just make them an offer they can't refuse.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (RD7QR)
+++++++++++++
Is this about Danegeld again?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:18 PM (I2dne)

411 My last thing on tinnitus is that a couple of people I know have it and don't deal with it well because they are fairly OCD.
Posted by: john knox


Heh. Now it sounds like a car alarm way far off in the distance. Besides the normal "tv snow" white noise.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:18 PM (yDqYW)

412 Kurt, no one wants to discuss the growth rate of your anal lesions. My 401K, on the other hand, has topped 13%.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 06, 2019 01:19 PM (l6b3d)

413 Sounds like Tucker Carlson.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2019 01:11 PM (aKsyK)

As to whether Companies should be "loyal" - the entire question is, to who? To say "America" is misleading, because that hides what the speaker really wants. Liz Warren wants companies to be "Loyal" to the Far Left Wing of the Democrat Party. She does NOT want companies taking a stand against Transgenderism, for just one example.

I think it's fair to ask that Companies based here should be loyal to the everyday working Americans who were born here and who will die here. That, I think is justified.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 06, 2019 01:19 PM (Kpl3J)

414 Sub-prime is back in a big way. They just renamed them "non-prime" loans. CDO's have also returned. Personal debt is higher than ever.
Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 06, 2019 01:09 PM (CQ3Qb)

Sub prime car loans. 8-10 years with zero down. It's insane.

Then the technicals of the stock market. The majority of stocks are under their 50 day moving average. The majority are in the red moving down. The market is being moved by a handful of huge companies, whose P/E ratios are at historically high numbers like Amazon at with a 78x multiple. Companies are buying back their own stocks but the largest shareholders are selling for a huge profit. The influx of ETFs, which are a new financial product. Banks will need to be bailed out again looking at that large German bank at 7 bucks a share down from 120 will be the next Lehman. The Fed is still injecting more and more momey with diminishing returns.

The markets should have been allowed to correct in 2008 and in 2015-2016. The Globalists are setting Trump and Americans up IMHO.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 01:19 PM (ecUbR)

415 285, The techlords, etc. might have done Bush in in 2008 but Trump is another matter.

Imagine a similar crash in Sept. 2020, do you really think that Trump would not announce immediate investigations, nationalization of companies, with the the oligarchs. An angered general population would be looking for a target and Trump could easily direct them to Soros, Steyer, Buffet, etc. Remember, that FISA plays both ways, arguably given many of the financial industries footsie with corrupt foreign leaders and governments, Trump essentially could simply query the NSA intercept database and release any incriminating documents to the enraged population and on the q/t do the same thing with Congress critters.

Note, that in the case of 2008, Obama did nothing regarding the self-dealing, corruption, etc. that was disclosed after the financial crisis.

I don't think that Trump would be so restrained as GWB as they are not wired the same way. Increasingly, I think that GWB was a passive receptacle for whatever policies that Global Inc wanted which is why a lot of the old Bushies are NeverTrumpers--their grift is disappearing.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2019 01:19 PM (MwILh)

416 410 The Danes are resisting. Maybe we should just make them an offer they can't refuse.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (RD7QR)
+++++++++++++
Is this about Danegeld again?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:18 PM (I2dne)

Grendel, tanned, rested and ready.

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 01:19 PM (bCLt0)

417 The Danes are resisting. Maybe we should just make them an offer they can't refuse.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (RD7QR)

==========================
What we need is a CEO who knows how to make a deal.

Posted by: mrp at December 06, 2019 01:19 PM (Pqytn)

418 Just checked my 403(b). Up 18.11 percent year over year. But ORANGEMANBAD!

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (RD7QR)

419 I'm no defender of GWB, but I remember the several hearings before it all happened, wherein Bush's people were called "racists" and worse for even questioning the solvency of Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae.

Allegations of "racism" are the stock in trade of the cognitively disenfranchised and other nitwits who have nothing of substance to say.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (d0vJg)

420 The House Dems will pass impeachment to satisfy their base.

The Senate GOP will dismiss to satisfy their base.

It has probably already been agreed to and arranged by both party leaderships.

Posted by: davidt at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (l3+k2)

421 I just checked and I have to correct myself, I'm up 32.86% as of yesterday.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (yQpMk)

422 If Obama believed in the country, her people and our way of life this COULD have been his economy. But he didn't and was only trying to find a way to "transform it" while keeping some of the gravy flowing. The economy never took off because he wanted to try and increase the reach of government into the private sector in order to better control the means of production.

In the end, it FI ailed miserably and people started to figure out what was happening. That's how you got Trump.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (G1tCv)

423 409 No one thinks impeachment is actually happening.

--

Dear, dear TJM...don't think for one second that Alyssa Milano's eyes will not be gushing with tears once she realizes he is not going to be removed from office. She and those like her are true believers.
Posted by: Lady in Black at December 06, 2019 01:18 PM (JoUsr)

==========

I had forgotten of her and her ilk.

That poor dear. How does a broken mind break again? Cause that might happen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (q80AH)

424 2% what a fucking idiot

NASDAQ

12/05/2019 8308.4 0 8321.19 8321.19 8272.83

01/02/2019 6360.87 0 6198.68 6394.74 6198.68

About 29%

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (JFO2v)

425 I believe you are right. It was called "Voodoo economics" in Reagan's term.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (YOhRS)




Dont forget who coined that phrase. George HW Bush.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (JtBPN)

426 I had forgotten of her and her ilk.

That poor dear. How does a broken mind break again? Cause that might happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (q80AH)
+++++++++++
From shards to dust.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:21 PM (I2dne)

427 The guy who deserves the most credit for that economy?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 06, 2019 01:15 PM (d0vJg)
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Reagan knew what needed to be done, and got himself elected into the position where he could be the one to do it.

I agree that Volker's contribution cannot be slighted.

And a little known fact is that Congress was waiting for a president willing to take the bullet on Supply-Side economics. It's one of the reasons that it passed so quickly through Congress, despite all the belly-aching and rhetoric in the press.

The Preening Class in Congress was waiting to see what Supply-side could do, but they were politicians, and they don't stick their neck out for anybody. So when Reagan trotted up to the plate, he was willing to be the scapegoat that Congress needed in case it all went South.

The rest was all show.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:21 PM (YOhRS)

428 i hope she has a cow.

Posted by: trapper's girl at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (gYJGA)
..........

She would hate that. Oh wait, she doesn't hate anything!
I better not mess with her!

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 01:21 PM (v0R5T)

429 That darned Trump.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2019 01:21 PM (1CjJc)

430 421 I just checked and I have to correct myself, I'm up 32.86% as of yesterday.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (yQpMk)


The Paolo, he too has had remarkable growth.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 06, 2019 01:21 PM (7HtZB)

431 I had forgotten of her and her ilk.

That poor dear. How does a broken mind break again? Cause that might happen.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (q80AH)
+++++++++++
From shards to dust.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:21 PM (I2dne)
+++++++++++
From filings to rust.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:21 PM (I2dne)

432 http://bit.ly/36gaXnP
*******
REVEALED: Ukraine was the Origin of the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax and It Ran Right Through the Office of Eric Ciaramella
-------
GP

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 01:21 PM (BqBId)

433 Have we purchased Greenland yet?


Posted by: mrp at December 06, 2019 01:14 PM


Yep. Black Friday sale, plus we had Kohl's cash and a 30% off coupon.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (r7Fvf)

434 About 29%
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (JFO2v)

Can you really blame Kurt when he was raised on Common Core math?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (KUaJL)

435 So, Rose McGowan, Alyssa Milano and Emma Watson walk into a bar. The bartender says-----

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (bCLt0)

436 About 29%
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (JFO2v)


You didn't really think Kurt calculated those numbers, right?

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (y7DUB)

437 430 421 I just checked and I have to correct myself, I'm up 32.86% as of yesterday.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (yQpMk)


The Paolo, he too has had remarkable growth.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 06, 2019 01:21 PM (7HtZB)

I read that as GIRTH

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (JFO2v)

438 407 I don't know about you, Waste of Skin, but I'm up 32.8% YTD.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:17 PM (yQpMk)

You should go ahead and lock in some of those profits if not most. Learn from 2008.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (ecUbR)

439 434 About 29%
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (JFO2v)

Can you really blame Kurt when he was raised on Common Core math?
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (KUaJL)

==========

Kurt stopped at the 2 of 29.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (q80AH)

440 PDT is like that kitty, knocking all your useless sh*t off the shelves.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (ptqGC)

441 That poor dear. How does a broken mind break again?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (q80AH)

Slowly, at first. Then all at once.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (1CjJc)

442 This post cannot be complete unless the original More Cowbell sketch from SNL is also included.

Thus:

https://tinyurl.com/BOC-Moar-CBell

Posted by: Sharkman at December 06, 2019 01:23 PM (C/oM9)

443 I believe you are right. It was called "Voodoo economics" in Reagan's term.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (YOhRS)

Dont forget who coined that phrase. George HW Bush.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (JtBPN)
---
I know. A man whose degree was in ... Economics.

Always a sore point with me on Sr. He should have known better.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:23 PM (YOhRS)

444 So, Rose McGowan, Alyssa Milano and Emma Watson walk into a bar. The bartender says-----
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (bCLt0)
+++++++++++++
I have your private room ready, ladies. Please follow me.
(surreptitiously to the other bartender: Sorry, man, but I need you to handle this. you know how they run off the other customers)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:23 PM (I2dne)

445 440
PDT is like that kitty, knocking all your useless sh*t off the shelves.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (ptqGC)

Purrfect!

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 06, 2019 01:23 PM (1CjJc)

446 How does a broken mind break again?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison



I'm praying for a flat line. Just stroke the fuck out.
Aneurism. Blood squirting out the ear.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:23 PM (yDqYW)

447 Kurt stopped at the 2 of 29.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (q80AH)


The 9 key is broken from his constant searches for male 69.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 01:23 PM (Zz0t1)

448 George Bush 41 was the one who termed cutting taxes Voodoo economics, I believe. Not Reagan.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 06, 2019 01:23 PM (C/oM9)

449 433 Have we purchased Greenland yet?


Posted by: mrp at December 06, 2019 01:14 PM


Yep. Black Friday sale, plus we had Kohl's cash and a 30% off coupon.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (r7Fvf)

Oooh, that's nice, maybe we should get one of those weighted blankets for the Inuit too as a housewarming gift.

Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at December 06, 2019 01:24 PM (RD7QR)

450 The 9 key is broken from his constant searches for male 69.
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 01:23 PM (Zz0t1)
+++++++++++++
This is how we know he's stupid. Everyone knows that if you turn your keyboard around, the 6 becomes a 9.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:24 PM (I2dne)

451 So, Rose McGowan, Alyssa Milano and Emma Watson walk into a bar. The bartender says-----

Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (bCLt0)
........

..."Sorry, we don't serve fur oil."

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 01:24 PM (v0R5T)

452 So, Rose McGowan, Alyssa Milano and Emma Watson walk into a bar. The bartender says-----
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM (bCLt0)


WE'RE CLOSED! Moose out front should'a told ya.

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 01:24 PM (Zz0t1)

453 440
Jane.
The Iconic Fuck this n that cat.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 06, 2019 01:24 PM (OZZ16)

454
I remember the several hearings before it all happened, wherein Bush's people were called "racists" and worse for even questioning the solvency of Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae.

Because of Franklin Raines. He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of the Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as Fannie Mae, who served as White House budget director under President Bill Clinton. His role leading Fannie Mae has come under scrutiny. He has been called one of the "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis" according to Time magazine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2019 01:24 PM (aKsyK)

455 The Paolo, he too has had remarkable growth.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 06, 2019 01:21 PM (7HtZB)


----
I read that as GIRTH

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:22 PM


Ohhh, that too!

Posted by: Mrs. Wm. Kristol at December 06, 2019 01:24 PM (OMsf+)

456 What did that Nobel Prize-winning NYT scribbler, who has completely lost his mind, say about the future of the US economy?

Posted by: mrp at December 06, 2019 01:24 PM (Pqytn)

457 So, Rose McGowan, Alyssa Milano and Emma Watson walk into a bar.
---
Normally, you think the third person would have seen that bar.

But, those three have probably walked into a lot of bars.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:24 PM (YOhRS)

458 Have we purchased Greenland yet?


Posted by: mrp at December 06, 2019 01:14 PM


Yep. Black Friday sale, plus we had Kohl's cash and a 30% off coupon.
Posted by: Minnfidel



We should have got Western Canada on Cyber Monday.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (yDqYW)

459 Nood CNN lulz

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (KUaJL)

460 Impeachment in the toilet, huge jobs report.
You almost have to believe this is divinely inspired.

Posted by: Dad of Six


The Lord's use of fallen, imperfect humans to do His bidding on Earth is well-documented.

DJT is definitely one of them.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (C/oM9)

461 My friend who is a Barista told me. it's 2%!

Posted by: Kunt at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (r7Fvf)

462 S and P 500

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1 year change +16.85%

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (JFO2v)

463 440

Jane.

The Iconic Fuck this n that cat.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 06, 2019 01:24 PM (OZZ16)


That's exactly what I had in mind!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (ptqGC)

464 454 Because of Franklin Raines. He is the former chairman and chief executive officer of the Federal National Mortgage Association, commonly known as Fannie Mae, who served as White House budget director under President Bill Clinton. His role leading Fannie Mae has come under scrutiny. He has been called one of the "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis" according to Time magazine.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 06, 2019 01:24 PM (aKsyK)

===========

That list isn't complete until they're added Trump, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Just All about the Billy Wilder movies at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (q80AH)

465 George Bush 41 was the one who termed cutting taxes Voodoo economics, I believe. Not Reagan.
Posted by: Sharkman at December 06, 2019 01:23 PM (C/oM9)


Correct.

Wasn't Reagan's phrase 'trickle down economics?'

Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

466 If we have cowbell, shouldn't we have actual cowbell?

Or did ace lose the gif file?

Posted by: blaster at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (E6tRR)

467 What did that Nobel Prize-winning NYT scribbler, who has completely lost his mind, say about the future of the US economy?
Posted by: mrp at December 06, 2019 01:24 PM (Pqytn)
+++++++++++++
That it is all because of the multiplier effect of expanding government payrolls, probably.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (I2dne)

468 NASDAQ

12/05/2019 8308.4 0 8321.19 8321.19 8272.83

01/02/2019 6360.87 0 6198.68 6394.74 6198.68

About 29%
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (JFO2v)

Which is why you should be selling right now. 30% in one year is crazy. Buy low, sell high.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (ecUbR)

469 You should go ahead and lock in some of those profits if not most. Learn from 2008.


As I noted, I went to cash for the rest of the year last Wednesday morning so I am missing this week's rally but I'm content to book what I got.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:26 PM (yQpMk)

470 How does a broken mind break again?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
........

How do you stop the rain from falling down?

Posted by: wth at December 06, 2019 01:26 PM (v0R5T)

471 414, the problem with sub-prime loans on cars is more readily resolvable than of homes. The used car market generally disposes of used cars more easily than homes. Mortgage crises destabilize neighborhoods and local tax collection because foreclosure is difficult and valuations are more sticky in those cases.

Foreclosures on car loans are easier and represent less of a general threat to the economy (they are more similar to the 1980's crisis of loans to foreign countries) in that they threaten the institutions making them but less so the general economy. Regarding car loans, people that default will presumably have to buy beaters, the used car market will get a lot of late model types that hurt current car sales but people driving beaters will trade up.
You can also transfer repo cars to different markets unlike real estate.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2019 01:26 PM (MwILh)

472 Think of all the bullshit that a Obama sold people. Now tell me how that comports now with his multi million dollar mansions, million dollar speeches and the rest of his grifting. He was just another hustler, only with a different skin tone. Most people have to see that.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 01:26 PM (G1tCv)

473 451 So, Rose McGowan, Alyssa Milano and Emma Watson walk into a bar. The bartender says-----

this way ladies. Mr. Weinstein called and will be a few minutes late.

Posted by: x at December 06, 2019 01:26 PM (nFwvY)

474 2% what a fucking idiot

NASDAQ

12/05/2019 8308.4 0 8321.19 8321.19 8272.83

01/02/2019 6360.87 0 6198.68 6394.74 6198.68

About 29%
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:20 PM (JFO2v)
---
Carry the decimal.

Posted by: Burp at December 06, 2019 01:27 PM (YOhRS)

475 Ace
Why not also give us a synopsis of the reason for this job numbers report ?
Your fav. ZrtoHedge gives a good explanation

Posted by: Kurt at December 06, 2019 01:27 PM (lt82u)

476 The "riding" as they call parliamentary districts in Canada, for the Northwest Territory - that's right ONE district - went to the Libs.
Posted by: DocJ at December 06, 2019 01:08 PM (77WPm)

Mostly because the one city, Yellowknife, is a company town, and that company is the Federal Government. Used to be a gold mining town, but the mines are mostly played out. And the Indians in the smaller villages are basically welfare clients.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 01:27 PM (/sgva)

477 Why not also give us a synopsis of the reason for this job numbers report ?


Okay, Trump.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:28 PM (yQpMk)

478 The guy I travel with for work still picks Reagan - for the reasons you folks have listed. It's a fair point - I remember the Misery Index and all that.

I'll settle for Trump and Reagan being the only Presidents worth a damn in my lifetime.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at December 06, 2019 01:28 PM (ob5xJ)

479 Rudy Guiliani
Shocking disclosure
Much of the $5.3B in US Aid Ukraine reported as misused was given to the embassy's favored NGO's.
At the time Yovanovitch, witness for the Witchunt, was the Amb. That embassy directed the police not to investigate.
Wonder why Obama forgot Art. 2, Sec. 3.

Posted by: Deep State is in Deep Shit at December 06, 2019 01:28 PM (BqBId)

480 How do you mend....a broken brain....


How do you mend...a broken mind...

Posted by: The GeeBees at December 06, 2019 01:28 PM (cqNba)

481 126. I keep trying to get fired from my first job. The damn Union keeps getting in the way.

Posted by: Parker Longbaugh at December 06, 2019 01:28 PM (Rog7V)

482
Jan 20 2017 - dow ended at 19,827.
I'll let others do the math.*



*ok, its + 41.3% as of now.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at December 06, 2019 01:30 PM (r+sAi)

483 462 S and P 500

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Average daily volume (3 months) 1,890,317,656
Average P/E 24.4
1 year change +16.85%
Posted by: rhennigantx at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (JFO2v)

That's not sustainable. It's awesome that it's taken off, you should be able to make money on the correction as well.

Posted by: squirrelly dan at December 06, 2019 01:30 PM (ecUbR)

484 We will get a correction or several small corrections at some point. We always do. That's why you see a lot of money on the sidelines. But the conditions and circumstances for a 2008 style crash are not there.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 01:30 PM (G1tCv)

485 BUY GOLD!

Posted by: G. Gordon Liddy at December 06, 2019 01:30 PM (yQpMk)

486 The U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs in November, according to figures released by the Labor Department. Economists polled by Dow Jones expected a gain of 187,000. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5%, matching its lowest level since 1969.
---------------

*dammit*

Posted by: The Musty Offices of Dems, MSM, reeking of bile at December 06, 2019 01:31 PM (jhfGG)

487 The guy I travel with for work still picks Reagan - for the reasons you folks have listed. It's a fair point - I remember the Misery Index and all that.

I'll settle for Trump and Reagan being the only Presidents worth a damn in my lifetime.
Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at December 06, 2019 01:28 PM (ob5xJ)


I'd add Eisenhower even though I was too fucking young to really know what was going on; but the progs said they sucked maximum cock so that must mean they were really good.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 06, 2019 01:31 PM (y7DUB)

488 imo Warren's problem is she has her own version of MAGA .. and the globalists don't want that.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 06, 2019 12:56 PM (Cus5s)

Warren is trying to play the leftists against the establishment and business dems, just like they all used to do. The understanding is that she's lying about all of it.

Trouble is, too many progs aren't in the mood to believe this instant progressivism and plans swiped from the other candidates, and the business dems might even be starting to wonder if she will really hurt them like the rhetoric claims.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 01:32 PM (eoQWY)

489 the problem with sub-prime loans on cars is more readily resolvable than of homes. The used car market generally disposes of used cars more easily than homes. Mortgage crises destabilize neighborhoods and local tax collection because foreclosure is difficult and valuations are more sticky in those cases.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2019 01:26 PM (MwILh)
---
That and people don't normally package debt on cars as the return of other instruments.

By the way, the MBSs could have survived, if it hadn't have been for the Sarbanes-Oxley act, which made them toxic in a declining market.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:32 PM (YOhRS)

490 One would think that a military aviation student from Saudi Arabia would have been vetted by the Saudi government...
--
Recommendation - how 'bout we train them over there? Rather than a vacation here?

Posted by: FrodoB at December 06, 2019 01:34 PM (BQAo9)

491 NeverTrump wept.

I will never understand these clowns. Trump is literally doing everything GOP Grift, Inc. has always allegedly wanted, and now that it's happening, they deride him.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at December 06, 2019 12:31 PM (VWp7G)

There are few contradictions in life. If A claims they want X but then fights against X, the only conclusion is that the claim they wanted X was a lie from the start.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 01:34 PM (eoQWY)

492 "Your fav. ZrtoHedge gives a good explanation"

You mean the Russian propaganda site run by a guy with links to the FSB and Russian intelligence services?

That Zerohedge?

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 01:34 PM (G1tCv)

493 My last thing on tinnitus is that a couple of people I know have it and don't deal with it well because they are fairly OCD.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 01:15 PM (bCLt0)

I have tinnitus. Manifests as a hiss or faint ringing buzz. Ever-present. It's there; I deal with it. No point in whining about it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 06, 2019 01:34 PM (/sgva)

494 We always vet these people and so do, allegedly the foreign governments.

Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 01:35 PM (G1tCv)

495 Wasn't Reagan's phrase 'trickle down economics?'
Posted by: Sponge at December 06, 2019 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)
---
Nope, that was another characterization. Reagan did talk about the Trickle Down Effect. But his economic plan wasn't just Trickle-down Economics.

However, just like many media frauds in the age of Reagan, all serious economists knew about this effect, and some pretended not to.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:36 PM (YOhRS)

496
*dammit*
Posted by: The Musty Offices of Dems, MSM, reeking of bile
--------

Imagine that, the Democrats and media actually angry because the well-being of the country has improved.

Speaks volumes.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2019 01:37 PM (mhs6e)

497 firmly believe stock prices are not driven by logic, but rather by perception. Trump has changed that perception. People working is being seen as a "good" again.

Trump > Reagan, to my eyes.
Posted by: Lurking L

Reagan took over a very damaged economy and very demoralized country. What he did can't be equaled IMHO. He changed expectations of what future economies should be.
Posted by: Easy Andy at December 06, 2019 01:10 PM (2DOZq)

Not to mention defeating the Soviet Union. Nato used to be a real thing, rather than a tired joke. Reagan made that huge committment to preparting for world war unneeded. This can't be understated.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 01:37 PM (eoQWY)

498 Reagan's term was Supply Side Economics. I think he got that from the great disappoint Jack Kemp.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 06, 2019 01:38 PM (yQpMk)

499 Warren is trying to play the leftists against the establishment and business dems, just like they all used to do. The understanding is that she's lying about all of it. 

Posted by: Oldcat at December 06, 2019 01:32 PM (eoQWY)

Her real problem will be when the President starts making moves against his corporate enemies and she has to either look like a phony or tacitly applaud.

But it won't ever happen. She's an idiotic fraud and has less chance of winning the nomination than Kamala Harris did. They won't let her face Trump, just to spare themselves Dukakis redux. And he was much smarter and had more integrity than Warren ever possessed.

Posted by: trev006 at December 06, 2019 01:38 PM (6OzV/)

500 I did the Bogleheads thing and moved my money into index funds. It's up 34.9%. Of course,I will have to gut this to pay off the taxes on the two places here. But if we can sell the house, I'll do the index funds again.

Posted by: notsothoreau at December 06, 2019 01:38 PM (JKNZq)

501 My last thing on tinnitus is that a couple of people I know have it and don't deal with it well because they are fairly OCD.
Posted by: john knox at December 06, 2019 01:15 PM (bCLt0)

I have tinnitus. Manifests as a hiss or faint ringing buzz. Ever-present. It's there; I deal with it. No point in whining about it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
---------

Mine comes and goes. Occasionally I will realize, 'Hey, there's no ringing...right now.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2019 01:39 PM (mhs6e)

502 The connection between stock indexes and depressions is not 100%. The massive drop in 87 did not presage a depression unlike the 1929 crash.

One of the issues involved is that stock prices in the long term revert to expected earnings from future profits. There is a lot of short term noise in individual stocks but overall the stock markets are fairly efficient in being able to predict future earnings (dividends and capital gains) when considering the market as a whole.

Current economic models have been based largely on the idea of single country analysis in a global world so that the whole idea of the business cycle and Keynesian economics is rendered suspect.

A shift in the U.S. becoming more self reliant in production as it has in petroleum has created means that a significant outflow for energy has been replaced by that money staying in the country. Multiply that by insourcing other production and moving production of some things to other countries not named China has also created some uncertainty in just how much growth the U.S. economy might gain. The financial industry, on the other hand, will presumably suffer from low interest rates, less international transactions to gain commissions, etc., and so on.

I really do not think that economists trained under the dominant Keynesian economics have effectively dealt with the single country effects of de-globalizing as their predominant presumption was that globalization would carry all before it and there was no turning back.

History says quite another thing and that the results are difficult to predict (see the nature of the Reformation on fund transfers from Northern to Southern Europe for example). There just are not that many economic historians with most current economists quantitative analysts of one sort or another.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2019 01:40 PM (MwILh)

503 My tinnitus is constant, it just has various levels of me noticing it. It tends to make me more crazy than I already am.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 06, 2019 01:43 PM (E+OcO)

504 489, Axeman, seems reasonable to me. The 1986 Tax Reform act was a primary cause of the 1987 Stock Market meltdown but the effects were muted by effective policy actions by Treasury and the Fed unlike in 2008. We nearly had a similar issue in 1997 regarding debt issues in Asia but again prompt action prevented that from spreading.

Paulson was an awful Sec. of Treasury appt. by Shrub and Helicopter Ben was not much better.

Posted by: whig at December 06, 2019 01:43 PM (MwILh)

505 We will get a correction or several small corrections at some point. We always do. That's why you see a lot of money on the sidelines. But the conditions and circumstances for a 2008 style crash are not there.
Posted by: Hesco Gypsy at December 06, 2019 01:30 PM (G1tCv)
---
I agree, we corrections are bound to happen. Which is why I fear that political opportunists will run to the camera and give their rendition of Chicken Little.

Again, economies can stay afloat when people have an expectation of return. If the media spreads panic--and why should we not expect them to?--it could result in anything.

That's one of the big things of the 2007 fall. If you had the MBSs in your portfolio you had no expectation of being able to get them out by selling them. They were going to the ground and you weren't getting out of them. There was no expectation of return, so panic.

Now that propagandists have basically branded swaps as Evil, we won't have similar forces to 2007. However lenders are still going to need offsetting assets against liabilities in the case that their assets are devalued in the market, and it will be interesting to see how that works in any downturn of the market.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:44 PM (YOhRS)

506 Yikes! Listening to a recording of a Bob Jones sermon in the background. Speaking of fire and brimstone, whew!

Ah...now back to Christmas music.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2019 01:46 PM (oTMWb)

507 Yikes! Listening to a recording of a Bob Jones sermon in the background. Speaking of fire and brimstone, whew!

Ah...now back to Christmas music.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 06, 2019 01:46 PM (oTMWb)
---
Sinners at the hand of an angry Bob.

Posted by: Axeman at December 06, 2019 01:47 PM (YOhRS)

508 >>> So, Rose McGowan, Alyssa Milano and Emma Watson walk into a bar. The bartender says-----
Posted by: john knox


"Next time duck."?

Posted by: Howard Johnson, now with a laurel and hardy handshake at December 06, 2019 01:50 PM (o9apC)

509 I'd add Eisenhower even though I was too fucking young to really know what was going on; but the progs said they sucked maximum cock so that must mean they were really good.

Posted by: Captain Hate at December 06, 2019 01:31 PM (y7DUB)


Ike intrigues the Hell out of me. A cat that did work on behalf of the State at the highest level - yet didn't trust it.

Not a perfect guy - who is ? But a guy I would have bought the drinks for, just to listen to.

Posted by: Lurking Libertarian at December 06, 2019 01:55 PM (ob5xJ)

510 289 you assume the LEO's shot the actual killer. Mistakes have been made in the past.
And no this not a defense of muslims, blacks or native americans

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John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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