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Unexpectedly, The Unemployment Rate Spikes Upwards as the Economy Fails To Produce the Million Jobs That "Experts" Predicted, and Instead Produces Only a Catastrophe of 266,000
Maybe this has something to do with people being paid not to work, and now deciding they'd rather keep just sitting at home, not paying rent, and collecting their stimmy checks.
And the pseudoright's embrace of that situation -- shrieking that anyone who said the economy had to be kept open was a brain-dead MAGA Zombie and a Grandma Killer -- is going to end up plunging the US into a depression, and harming the candidate they worked so hard to (fake) elect, Joe Biden.The U.S. economy added just 266,000 jobs in April and the unemployment rate ticked up to 6.1 percent, the Labor Department said in its monthly labor assessment Friday, smashing expectations. This was far below expectations. Analysts surveyed by Econoday had predicted Friday’s report would show between 755,000 and 1.25 million workers added to payrolls in April. The median forecast was for 938,000 and an unemployment rate of 5.8 percent. The disappointing number for April could be a sign that hiring is being held back by enhanced unemployment benefits and schools that have not reopened full time, requiring some parents to stay home to take care of children. Many businesses say that they cannot hire enough workers to fill positions because of the government’s enhanced unemployment benefits program. The economy has outperformed expectations on many metrics this year as vaccinations have boosted business and consumer confidence and restrictions on businesses have been lifted. Friday’s employment numbers represent a rare miss.People like Philip Klein and the various liberal corporate cvcks at National Review are now bemoaning the fact that, after having been enrolled, mostly against their will, in a federal welfare program for 18 months, people have gotten used to being "institutionalized" on welfare (and to a kind of at-home prison system) and now resist returning back to the world. Well, the idea that you can't give people a taste of welfare or socialism, lest they decide they like sloth more than labor, is a very old conservative notion. Which the "True Conservatives" who are against making America great again quickly abandoned. Weird how they so readily abandon longstanding conservative doctrine whenever their leftwing Twitter budz demand that they do. Also weird how they abandon any semblance of even a conservative inclination if it helps them Get Trump and Teach His Base a Lesson. You did this, NeverTrump. And your decrepit rapist savior Joe Biden is going to preside over an economic collapse. What did you think was going to happen, Genius Brigade? Or did you not think past "My Twitter pals will emotionally validate me for my covid panic spreading" and "This will really hurt Trump"? Take a bow. Take another bow, I mean -- let's celebrate all the many successes you've scored the last five years. Update: In addition to wet-squib job creation, you can also expect... massive inflation.
CNN's @ChristineRomans: "If you haven’t felt it yet, it’s coming. You can expect higher prices for toilet paper, diapers, soft drinks, plane tickets, a tank full of gas. Whirlpool is raising prices of some of its appliances by up to 12% ..." pic.twitter.com/02JnIf4b4s
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) May 7, 2021
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: huerfano at May 07, 2021 11:13 AM (DzhEB)
Posted by: havelhavolim at May 07, 2021 11:14 AM (fLpTX)
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Posted by: f'd at May 07, 2021 11:16 AM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Bete at May 07, 2021 11:16 AM (Ojki1)
//Zhou Bai-Dan
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 11:17 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:17 AM (nMXLX)
Posted by: DOMINION at May 07, 2021 11:17 AM (l0Lgi)
Posted by: runner at May 07, 2021 11:17 AM (V13WU)
Build Back Better!!!
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 07, 2021 11:18 AM (jvt6t)
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Given the national crisis, everyone is going to need to go on anti-depressants and wear tie on sleeves over their arms and wrists for safety.
Posted by: Fraundchi at May 07, 2021 11:19 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:19 AM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Bete at May 07, 2021 11:16 AM (Ojki1)
We can do Zimbabwe and reallocate the farms for reparations because you just never know what might work and equity
Posted by: havelhavolim at May 07, 2021 11:19 AM (fLpTX)
Posted by: Bosk at May 07, 2021 11:19 AM (SWbVS)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2021 11:19 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 07, 2021 11:20 AM (VVEnO)
//Zhou Bai-Dan
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 11:17 AM (Lzpvj)h
What makes you say it's a supply problem?
Posted by: havelhavolim at May 07, 2021 11:20 AM (fLpTX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2021 11:20 AM (W2Pud)
Way to go, Biden.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:20 AM (nMXLX)
Wait until he gets going and there's going to be negative jobs numbers.
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:20 AM (sADuh)
I wanted to call it "The Trump Depression" as a joke but we all know that's going to be their actual play.
Posted by: ace at May 07, 2021 11:20 AM (eOTGX)
Posted by: trev006 at May 07, 2021 11:21 AM (3KNJ9)
Yeah, people may be sitting at home because they are getting paid, but, there are also other incentives to keep one from going to work.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:21 AM (2SdPm)
Posted by: ace at May 07, 2021 11:21 AM (eOTGX)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 07, 2021 11:21 AM (pNxlR)
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Yeah, it's bizarre watching the same people who insist that organic vegetables are awesome and GMO foods are evil demand that people take a shot to f*ck with their RNA.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming
Posted by: Axeman at May 07, 2021 11:21 AM (cI7Oj)
I count 1 TRUTH and 2 LIES In that fake news chyron from commie news network.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:21 AM (pw+jk)
We don't have that here yet. What we have is a scrambled group of oligarchs that unified in getting rid of Trump but are unable to produce an effective unified vision of the future as government by committee generally fails to do.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 11:14 AM (pO7gM)
Hopefully this period is something akin to the rule by the Thirty Tyrants, which lasted only a year before Athenians overthrew them.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 07, 2021 11:21 AM (jOcSX)
If you pay people to sit on their asses and then say it was unexpected, you need to wear a mask over your nose when you're alone just as a reminder - because you're too stupid to remember to breathe.
Posted by: Roy at May 07, 2021 11:21 AM (Ti+Tv)
Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2021 11:21 AM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (h1jJh)
*squeal, squeal*
Posted by: The MFM at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (m+jkK)
Posted by: Doof at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Gates, now poorer with smaller volcano lair and white kitten at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: zmdavid at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (xqRaG)
I have a hundred bucks that says she's a CCP honeypot.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (Wm5SB)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (89T5c)
IF Biden and Congress had just sat on their a$$e$ and done absolutely nothing, the U.S. would have added 1,000,000 jobs. These results are beyond pathetic.
I'm waiting for a lot of stories about how bad the Trump economy was.
Posted by: Forheremenaremen at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (GMR0L)
This is what the Obama economy looked like. Sure, government drones and the rich like it. But for the working and middle classes this is pure poison.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (DpkTQ)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (jOcSX)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (VVEnO)
My son being hired in 11 minutes for a 12 buck an hour job despite only having national guard hurricane duty on his resume since leaving federal service?
That I could literally leave my job and get to work with a CDL in an hour?
We are a nation of wastrel layabouts, brought to you by NRO, the Lincoln Catamites preservation Society, and Heritage....
"No more mean tweets."
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: He fails, because that's his idea of success at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (bZywp)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (iTXRQ)
Prices will go up, the feds will pump funny money to chase it...
simple economic lesson will be relearned.
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 11:23 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:23 AM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:23 AM (sADuh)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2021 11:23 AM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Doof at May 07, 2021 11:23 AM (mZUr4)
Fu*king liars.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2021 11:24 AM (axyOa)
People under the age of 30 get REAL nervous when you point that out about the AGW cult.
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 11:24 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: nurse ratched
up more than a dollar/gal here in Coloforniarado
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:24 AM (iTXRQ)
He's an AEI fellow, and an editor-in-chief.
Oh, here he is.
I really like men's hats. I'd wear them more except for three things. 1. I have an enormous misshapen gourd of a head. 2) They seem like a desperate effort to make a fashion statement, something I lost interest in decades ago and 3) they tend to be sad code for baldness.
Posted by: Senator Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at May 07, 2021 11:24 AM (NuVOb)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2021 11:24 AM (Uh2oA)
Posted by: Doof at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM
I'll just grab my ankles, then, shall I?
Posted by: That Chicken at May 07, 2021 11:24 AM (m+jkK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2021 11:24 AM (63Dwl)
If you are ALREADY employed, how can they make being vaccinated a condition of employment? Isn't that breach of contract?
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (XxJt1)
If economic analysts had any honor, they'd kill themselves. They're NEVER right.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (3sEUj)
Prices will go up, the feds will pump funny money to chase it...
simple economic lesson will be relearned.
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 11:23 AM (Lzpvj)
Oh I doubt there will be much learning.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (z5Vrg)
*squeal, squeal*
Posted by: The MFM
Killing a few Kulaks will straighten this out.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (VVEnO)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (Wm5SB)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (h1jJh)
Posted by: ace at May 07, 2021 11:21 AM (eOTGX)
Oh, I've lived long enough to not even be the worst white president in memory!
Posted by: Carter at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2021 11:24 AM (63Dwl)
Let's be civil here.
Posted by: Roy at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (Ti+Tv)
vegetables are awesome and GMO foods are evil demand that people take a
shot to f*ck with their RNA.
And they were saying the "Trump Vaccine" was a threat to your health last year. Note, all the jabs are the "Trump Vaccine"
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (DpkTQ)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:23 AM (iTXRQ)
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They were trying for Obama's 3rd term, they're getting Carter's 2nd.
Posted by: zmdavid at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (xqRaG)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (3sEUj)
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (sADuh)
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the economy has to tank
you don't get Hitler until people are desperate - hungry desperate
Posted by: its all part of the plan at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (M92BA)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2021 11:24 AM (63Dwl)
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This...just before 2024.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2021 11:26 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2021 11:26 AM (G2zl5)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (h1jJh)
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Joe Mountain Dew Biden?
Posted by: Axeman at May 07, 2021 11:26 AM (cI7Oj)
Posted by: EveR at May 07, 2021 11:26 AM (ZZDMQ)
Posted by: Thrawn at May 07, 2021 11:26 AM (Enc9Y)
That I could literally leave my job and get to work with a CDL in an hour? [...]
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (Lzpvj)
I get there is supply problem in certain job categories. But I'm inclined to read the .75% job creation number as a demand problem over all.
I don't know how 'new job creation' is defined but the term implies a demand problem.
Posted by: havelhavolim at May 07, 2021 11:26 AM (fLpTX)
They seem like a desperate effort to make a fashion statement
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They're an effort to make one, anyway. Some dudes can pull it off. Some desperate sadsacks are like Max Boot, and it's a signal to immediately punch them in the face.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 07, 2021 11:26 AM (Uh2oA)
Yet, despite not enough workers, the unemployment rate was at record lows in late 2019, only a year and a half ago.
Posted by: davidt at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (pnSY9)
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Fun fact:
The generational spending of the Great Depression was less than $1T of today's dollars.
We're going to spend $11T in one year.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (nMXLX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (VVEnO)
The White House prepared to celebrate a jobs-gained milestone of 2 million on Friday under President Joe Biden during his first 100 days -- but those plans were shattered by the devastating jobs report for April.
Punchbowl News reported Friday morning that senior White House staffers were watching the jobs estimates of created 700,000 jobs, eager to promote the record number of jobs created during Biden's first 100 days.
Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (4A0e9)
Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (AwYPR)
C'mon, this is America! They'll find a way!
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Roy at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (Ti+Tv)
https://tinyurl.com/ys4692d7
Hollywood is desperate for money from theaters again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM
I have a buddy by that name. I should probably tell him about this.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (m+jkK)
remember the economy under Jimmy Carter?
yeah, Biden's gunning for that title
Posted by: He fails, because that's his idea of success
He got economic advice from Jimmy when they took that picture.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (63Dwl)
Berkeley hippies used to refuse to get their dogs vaccinated because they "didn't want a chemical dog."
Meanwhile they themselves used every drug known to man, and tried to discover yet more.
Leftists are only consistent in their inconsistency.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (3sEUj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
By sundown today (and that could be any moment with Sundown Joe), someone of "importance" in the government will do that.
Donald Trump, is, after all, our own Emmanuel Goldstein.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 07, 2021 11:28 AM (vcOmj)
They managed to create a situation where no one believes them. I don't see how that changes.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at May 07, 2021 11:28 AM (5p7BC)
If you are ALREADY employed, how can they make being vaccinated a condition of employment? Isn't that breach of contract?
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (XxJt1)
https://www.ncsl.org/research/
labor-and-employment/at-will-employment-overview.aspx
Posted by: havelhavolim at May 07, 2021 11:28 AM (fLpTX)
Posted by: EveR at May 07, 2021 11:26 AM (ZZDMQ)
We just hire Russians!
Posted by: VA Beach and the Outer Banks at May 07, 2021 11:28 AM (89T5c)
Posted by: lin-duh 27-4 at May 07, 2021 11:28 AM (UUBmN)
Will Dem voters buy it for another 6 years?
Probably.
Posted by: Axeman at May 07, 2021 11:28 AM (cI7Oj)
All those people who left the cities over the past year aren't coming back anytime soon. Add in that higher gas prices will make people more resistant to going back into the office, and rising energy prices will make those offices more expensive, and you've got a commercial real estate market that is about to go down harder than your moms during Fleet Week. Together, cities can kiss much of the revenue goodbye...
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 07, 2021 11:28 AM (jOcSX)
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (jOcSX)
I've got a fever. And the only cure is moar stimulus!
Posted by: 2022 Dem candidates at May 07, 2021 11:28 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Mark1971
and a new Creedence album. The last one sucked ass.
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:28 AM (iTXRQ)
In a traditional American economy yes that would be true, you have a spare traditional American economy?
There are jobs EVERYWHERE for the having friend, go outside and look.
The kids have been taught they do not have to work, and worse that expectations of work are systemic racism.
The machine is broken and they will ride the good workers into the dirt but we are finally inarguably DOOMED! as we used to say here.
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (XxJt1)
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (xopIz)
Widespread use would end this madness and no vaccines needed.
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (sADuh)
Posted by: sven
Wife told me a story about DFW area trucking companies paying $14k a week. Yeah.
14 thousand. That's how bad they need drivers.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (Xh7t/)
"Technically, a vaccine is not an organism" - Some lefty fuckwad
Posted by: Roy at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (Ti+Tv)
yeah, Biden's gunning for that title
Posted by: He fails, because that's his idea of success
He got economic advice from Jimmy when they took that picture.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
If the roots are sound, there will be growth in the Spring.
Posted by: Chauncey Gardner at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (vcOmj)
Got. It.
Guess I better get the rest of my appliances and finish the kitchen. Also has the sadz I have to get tires today. I shouldn't have cheaped out and bought some on sale back in December, but I figured I could get another 5-6k out of them. Now I've picked up a nail, barely too worn to repair, and a set of new tires is almost 50% more than when I priced them 5 months ago.
Thanks Joe. You drooling fuckwad.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (wAnMi)
"Technically, a vaccine is not an organism" - Some lefty fuckwad
Posted by: Roy at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (Ti+Tv)
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AIIIIDDDDSSSS!
*in perfect Rich Evans imitation*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (4A0e9)
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (XxJt1)
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These are the lie. Bet they revise them down later.
Unexpectedly!
Posted by: Just Lily. Thread-Winner Elect at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (ATwT1)
The argument is that there aren't enough workers, so we need to import them."
It gets worse from here. The current border invasion will cut into the working groups who did best, and made substantial gains under Trump. They are going to (maybe) stop the welfare checks, those people will "try" to go back to work, and the ones who can least afford it won't find a job or will take one at reduced wages. It's the perfect storm
Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (VpIIl)
Absolutely true. The question is where to put money that will float on the inflation rate, apart from the equity market?
I'm asking. I have no idea, and am nervous about equities, but ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (3sEUj)
Posted by: Thrawn at May 07, 2021 11:26 AM (Enc9Y)
The shelves in my basement bathroom are full of TP from last spring/summer. Mrs Doof's dad goes all-in on panic stockpile buying and we get the overflow. Dude was NUTS during the Y2K panic!
Posted by: Doof at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (mZUr4)
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (XxJt1)
It's quite possible they did.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (z5Vrg)
Now, even though I could easily find work, I have zero interest, because too many employers have Covid requirements.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (2SdPm)
Widespread use would end this madness and no vaccines needed.
Posted by: torabora
Also, you'd be worm free.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (Xh7t/)
The White House prepared to celebrate a jobs-gained milestone of 2 million on Friday under President Joe Biden during his first 100 days -- but those plans were shattered by the devastating jobs report for April.
Punchbowl News reported Friday morning that senior White House staffers were watching the jobs estimates of created 700,000 jobs, eager to promote the record number of jobs created during Biden's first 100 days.
Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (RHGPo)
So no fireworks unless they tie the people who estimated 700,000 to them and then set them off.
I can accept this.
Posted by: Bete at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (4A0e9)
I'm holding out for bralessness.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (3sEUj)
https://tinyurl.com/ys4692d7
Hollywood is desperate for money from theaters again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (LvTSG)
Suck it Hollywood.
The theaters in my area have all closed permanently. And that is fine with me.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: Dr Spank - Cocks and Logic at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (WJDNo)
vegetables are awesome and GMO foods are evil demand that people take a
shot to f*ck with their RNA.
And they were saying the "Trump Vaccine" was a threat to your health last year. Note, all the jabs are the "Trump Vaccine"
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half the country are pod people. Zombies who have no will of their own, but simply adopt what they are told to adopt.
this is how you get cultural revolutions and cannibalism. Yes. Actual cannibalism, not figurative. The chinese cultural revolution featured town thrown human barbeques. Not because they were starving either. It was the height of party unity to literally eat the political scape goat classes.
The french revolution was a nightmare, but they didn't eat people. So being American, means this time the revolution will have to be 1. industrialized 2. commoditized 3. sexualized and available on pay per view.
Posted by: its all part of the plan at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (1Z8Wl)
You've got to see the new cover to Empire magazine:
https://tinyurl.com/ys4692d7
Hollywood is desperate for money from theaters again.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Did they remake "The Great Escape"?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (63Dwl)
Which is why I laughed at a counter-intel agent who asked if someone I knew harbored ill intentions for the United States.
I reminded the agent that the country is a 747 balanced on a spider's web and the feds are letting leftist kids burn the webs.
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:28 AM
Come on, man! It's not our fault no one can understand what the hell John is saying!
Posted by: CCR at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (m+jkK)
I'm asking. I have no idea, and am nervous about equities, but ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (3sEUj)
Invest in prostitutes.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (1ISKN)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (4A0e9)
B. So. . . how will this be used to justify Biden's policies, moar infrastructure spending and open borders, perhaps?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (bDqIh)
Missed it by that >< much.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (3sEUj)
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (XxJt1)
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Because they believe their own nonsense, and never, in a million years, thought this would happen.
It won't happen again.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (2SdPm)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (VVEnO)
And your decrepit rapist savior Joe Biden is going to preside over an economic collapse.
What did you think was going to happen, Genius Brigade?
++++
You say "economic collapse." That isn't so. Not at all. It is going to be an economic reallocation and shift. The proles will sit on their UBI and rent from the oligarchs.
We are okay with that. We love that. That's not a collapse, it's just a little shift.
Posted by: The Genius Brigade at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (Jsjd7)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (1ISKN)
Or Scotch? Or both?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (3sEUj)
Breach of what? *sounds of paper ripping*
Posted by: Your Corporate Partners in Government at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (CTJwJ)
This isn't even assuming lazy or stoned.
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (sADuh)
Some potential beneficiary of the upcoming stagflation are all the people who stockpiled TP last year.
Posted by: Thrawn
Has SloJo appointed his Toilet Paper Czar to manage our National Toilet Paper Strategic Stockpile Reserve yet?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (pNxlR)
Employment law is a hodge podge of local, state, and federal regulations. Find a good employment law firm in your state is my best advice. Martindale Hubbell used to be the gold standard to look up lawyers and did have ratings on them. Think it is online now.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (pO7gM)
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You're just posting for Big Ivermectin!
Just like Trump got *rich* off of HCQ stocks!
Posted by: Blue-Anon at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (cI7Oj)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at May 07, 2021 11:18 AM (jvt6t)
I've noticed that the elite, the deep state and their puppets use the "our democracy" term to keep the peasants cheering for them.
After all, our education and media has taught them that America is an evil place, and who wants to support evil. But all good people will support "our democracy", right?
Posted by: kbdabear at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (qAR6u)
I'm asking. I have no idea, and am nervous about equities, but ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (3sEUj)"Select commodities, instuments like TIPS and other government bonds. Also, lots of cash in reserve for when things hit bottom.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (VpIIl)
I'm going long on shag carpet and harvest gold / avocado green appliances.
Posted by: pep at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (v16oJ)
Posted by: Mark1971
and a new Creedence album. The last one sucked ass.
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:28 AM (iTXRQ)
Since were getting bands back together, I'm in for Three Dog Night.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: CN at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (xPl2J)
I'd prefer a '75 or '77 arena tour -- but I like your line of thinking!
Posted by: Doof at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (mZUr4)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (pNxlR)
You don't need toilet paper, just run a hose into the bathroom.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (1ISKN)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (LvTSG)
Wait, wasn't Disney+ and HBO Max gong to save them?
Posted by: Bete at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (Ojki1)
Widespread use would end this madness and no vaccines needed.
Posted by: torabora
Also, you'd be worm free.
Posted by: rickb223
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Which I have not been for quite some time . . .
second look at Ivermectin?
Posted by: Racheal Madcow at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (1Z8Wl)
In the Carter years stores had to put the higher price stickers over price stickers. Now they can do it digitally so inflation's costs less to inflate and that is a real time saver.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (pw+jk)
This is my understanding.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (bYTQR)
Posted by: pahound at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (KSssB)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (4A0e9)
I wish we could back to the 70s to be followed by the 80s and 90s and the ...
What's happening now is unprecedented.
A must read. We've been taken over by a suicide cult
https://www.city-journal.org/
bidens-war-on-merit-puts-americas-scientific-edge-at-risk
Posted by: havelhavolim at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (fLpTX)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (4A0e9)
It won't happen again.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (2SdPm)
I think that that's right: they believe their own bullshit. See their responses to "homelessness," aka "vagrancy." They overlook the obvious truth standing in front of them, and promote policies that actually encourage vagrancy, and then are surprised when vagrancy increases.
It's amazing.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (3sEUj)
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (XxJt1)
It's quite possible they did.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (z5Vrg)
Hence Obama's numbers always being revised downwards. It's why I asked about March and April. Because I bet those had downward revisions. There was this one month under Obama I remember where the jobs added and the two previous months revisions resulted in a zero jobs increase. It was always the opposite for Trump I believe. More jobs created than "expectations" and upward revisions on previous months.
Posted by: Buzzion at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (G2zl5)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 07, 2021 11:32 AM (1ISKN)
Or Scotch? Or both?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (3sEUj)
Better add cigars to that as well.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (axyOa)
Her Majesty - an industrious, capable person - was whacked in November (also known to employers as "turkey season"). She applies for jobs to fulfill getting unemployment, but she no longer wants to go back to working.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (mht8P)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (3sEUj)
....and tube tops.
Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (AwYPR)
***
Carry some post-it notes and a sharpie in your vehicle. Write and leave on the pump:
Remember $1.80 gas?
Remember secure borders?
Remember ending wars?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (nMXLX)
That CNN Chyron writer should get an award. That's unreal. A "Booming Economy" doesn't mean massive rates of business failure, unemployment, industrial dislocation, crashing tax receipts, unfettered money printing, capital markets entirely disconnected from conditions and complete lawlessness.
That Chyron is one of the most remarkable things I've read all year.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (Jsjd7)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (pw+jk)
Go long on wheelbarrows.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (3sEUj)
*checks readouts*
Child trafficking: up
Drug trafficking: up
Arms trafficking: up
Money laundering: !
Looks good on our end.
Posted by: The Elite at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (l0Lgi)
Posted by: CN
The apple flavored ivermectin paste for horses is the bomb diggity!
Posted by: rickb223 at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (Xh7t/)
https://tinyurl.com/ys4692d7
- - - -
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE ACTORS WERE SOME OF THE BIGGEST PROPONENTS OF 'ALONE TOGETHER' -- WHY DO THEY NOW INVITE US TO SUPER-SPREADER EVENTS?
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (bDqIh)
If we are going to relive the 70's can we at least get a Led Zeppelin stadium tour?
Posted by: Mark1971
and a new Creedence album. The last one sucked ass.
Posted by: DB- just DB
We WILL get fooled again!
Posted by: Who? at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (lgsTz)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 07, 2021 11:33 AM (pNxlR)
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Most authoritarians make this mistake. They always run out of toilet paper. No one ever wants to be appointed Toilet Paper Czar.
Posted by: zmdavid at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (xqRaG)
Yup. They fucked up by letting a little bit of truth out. You can rest assured they won't be making that same mistake next economic quarter. The reports will show that our economy is booming. Workers are happy and smiling and all will be well once more. There will be no inflation because they'll change those metrics again. UE will suddenly plummet thanks to their efforts.
Hide and watch.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: havelhavolim at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (fLpTX)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (4A0e9)
The important question is, "Will AlextheChick get her figure back?"
Also, I just want the cocaine and sexual revolution. You all can keep the disco.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (jOcSX)
Has this been floated yet by Psaki yet?
Posted by: Ripley at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (MxEKc)
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 11:25 AM (XxJt1)
Read the "at will" clause and the "for cause" clause
Posted by: kbdabear at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (qAR6u)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (3sEUj)
....and tube tops.
Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (AwYPR)
Oh yes.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (cSyAR)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (4A0e9)
I knew I kept those platform shoes for a reason!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (cwI4U)
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (sADuh)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (4A0e9)
"
The media is framing this as "oooh, so close. I spit Poland Spring all over the place. Oh yeah, also some kind of "market dislocation", which it's clear they have no idea what they're talking about.
This fairy tale is going to crash harder on them then the Russia Hoax.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (VpIIl)
The news that made me sick to my stomach this morning is that a Federal grand jury has indicted Derek Chauvin and the 3 other cops who were there. This is just sickening. We have people presumed guilty sitting in isolation in DC jails. FBI is raiding peoples homes wihtout warrants on flimsy anonymous reporting. Armed antifa beating people up in broad daylight. Asians, Jews being randomly attacked just walking down the street by a protected minority.
Where is the outrage? Who will come to the people's defense?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (sd8p8)
Posted by: callsign claymore at May 07, 2021 11:37 AM (GDQ3B)
They'll just exclude from the CPI anything that increased in price. Nothing to it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:37 AM (7gCqK)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 07, 2021 11:37 AM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (3sEUj)
....and tube tops.
Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM
So this is how the hardwood/carpet wars end?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 07, 2021 11:37 AM (m+jkK)
I'm asking. I have no idea, and am nervous about equities, but ...
As a retired Fed, I have the option of moving my thrift plan money into the G fund, which is government securities, and guaranteed not to lose money. That's not the same as guaranteed to keep up with inflation, but it's better than lots of the other options. The trick is to move it into that fund right before the market crashes.
What's that? You don't have access to such plan? Sucks to be you, peasants.
Posted by: pep at May 07, 2021 11:37 AM (v16oJ)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
....and tube tops.
Posted by: BignJames
You are going to love this summer....
Posted by: Lena Dunham at May 07, 2021 11:37 AM (l0Lgi)
Bingo
Posted by: Vic at May 07, 2021 11:37 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (AwYPR)
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Tube tops!
https://tinyurl.com/vs4x5c4c
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:37 AM (2SdPm)
Women looked, you know, like women.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (4A0e9)
_________
Now it's men that look like women.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2021 11:37 AM (mht8P)
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 11:29 AM (XxJt1)
It's quite possible they did.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead
Yes, things may actually be worse than we know.
Or not. Really, we're all just spit-ballin' here.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (vcOmj)
Posted by: pep at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (v16oJ)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (3sEUj)
"
Wait. This isn't a thing already? My academic research at the ice cream place says, yes.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (VpIIl)
Cincy's finest....with trust and hardwork as its dna
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (Lzpvj)
Remember $1.80 gas?
Remember secure borders?
Remember ending wars?
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM (nMXLX)
THIS!!!
Be an urban/suburban warrior! Post that shit everywhere! Keep reminding people how they got screwed.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (4A0e9)
Birthing people, racist!
Posted by: havelhavolim at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (fLpTX)
Presidents don't "run" the economy, they don't "create jobs". But how dramatically policies can suppress, or unleash, the natural prosperity that always seems to be just waiting to burst out in the US has never been more clear.
Inflation and monetary issues remain a bit of a puzzle. But they've been that way since 2008, when (as in March 2020, with epidemiology) the book was thrown away and basically those in charge said "hell, let's try this and see what happens!". Monetary base has ballooned in historic fashion. Much of that currently sucked up by record personal savings. We've been off my monetary policy map going on 12 years, so I have no idea.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (4A0e9)
Posted by: Arkansas Biden Baby at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (W4eKo)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (4A0e9)
I'm holding out for bralessness.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM (3sEUj)
**
Daisy Dukes and halter tops can't get here quick enough
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (h1jJh)
It is. The criminals' lobby is getting all of its Christmases at once.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (7gCqK)
ALONE TOGETHER!
BUILD BACK BETTER!
Word salads go better with mayonnaise-based dressings.
Prove me wrong!
VEEP Kamaltoe, with something on her chin.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (pw+jk)
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The economic term for that is "menu costs." It costs money to update the menu - determining the new price, doing research, printing up the price lists and tags, etc.
And digital displays and online commerce reduces menu costs to something approaching zero.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (Jsjd7)
I'm asking. I have no idea, and am nervous about equities, but ...
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
***
I would really like a thread about this so that people who lived through it can give their experience and what they learned. I'm leaning towards land, but that's a very long term investment that can't easily be liquidated. I also think the market will hit at least 50K before they can't keep the plates spinning any longer, so I figure I might as well make money in that market, too.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (nMXLX)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:31 AM
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....and tube tops.
Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM
I'm here for you.
Posted by: Nancy Pelousi at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (Wm5SB)
Doubt anyone will take that bet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (lgsTz)
Posted by: kbdabear at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (qAR6u)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (xPl2J)
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (sADuh)
The crazier things get, the more I appreciate this place.
Posted by: callsign claymore at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (GDQ3B)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (GPwVZ)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:37 AM (7gCqK)
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Food and energy? Who needs that stuff anyway?
Posted by: zmdavid at May 07, 2021 11:39 AM (xqRaG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2021 11:19 AM (63Dwl)
They already are
Posted by: Vic at May 07, 2021 11:39 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Arkansas Biden Baby at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (W4eKo)
Except this time there will be no breadlines.
Posted by: havelhavolim at May 07, 2021 11:39 AM (fLpTX)
Posted by: Stacy0311 at May 07, 2021 11:39 AM (GuwCy)
Posted by: CN at May 07, 2021 11:39 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 11:27 AM (LvTSG)
Wait, wasn't Disney+ and HBO Max gong to save them?
Posted by: Bete at May 07, 2021 11:34 AM (Ojki1)
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It's not doing anything for Paramount, Lionsgate, or the other major producers that can't get their own streaming platforms to become popular.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 11:39 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Joe XiDen
She Doesn't Work Hard For the Money
- Donna "Recovery" Summer
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (VVEnO)
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (cSyAR)
responses to "homelessness," aka "vagrancy." They overlook the obvious
truth standing in front of them, and promote policies that actually
encourage vagrancy, and then are surprised when vagrancy increases.
I've been on the cesspool website known as nextdoor and the big subject is what to do about the poo poo homeless. It is unbelievable the BS that leftists spout but it all involves taking my money and giving it away. I've been called heartless, unChristian, a jerk, called out to fight two guys. These are super smart people and nonviolent.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (pw+jk)
Posted by: runner at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (V13WU)
Maybe we need moar fail.
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (sADuh)
The Venezuelan stock market is amazing if you disregard inflation.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (z5Vrg)
The problem is we are not about to get the American 1970s. We are about to get the East German 1980s.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (DpkTQ)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:37 AM (7gCqK)
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Nah, that's too obvious. This is what "hedonic adjustment" is for.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (Jsjd7)
Posted by: Javems at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (MIkft)
Posted by: CN at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM
It was a time of happy bushes.
Posted by: Zombie Bob Ross at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Axeman at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (cI7Oj)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: runner at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (V13WU)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (4A0e9)
Yoga Pants = Spandex Pants
Posted by: kbdabear at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (qAR6u)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (4A0e9)
You might be interested in a video on "Economics Explained" that addresses exactly this phenomenon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUFZ1_fC3Kw
Bottom line: one of the drivers was white flight from inner cities. Imagine.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (7gCqK)
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I no-joke heard on a local talk show that there is discussion (or maybe it's already happening) of ending inflation by not tracking it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (nMXLX)
Posted by: runner at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (V13WU)
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Yep, the cost of energy is always the lead indicator. Everything requires energy, and, when those costs go up, the cost of goods and services rises also.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (2SdPm)
Posted by: Kamala Harris - Fellation Czarina at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (DMQdU)
If everybody would just get he vax, the jobs numebr would be better. Blame ant corona taxers (except the ones of color)
Has this been floated yet by Psaki yet?
Posted by: Ripley
USA Today - It's time to start shunning the 'vaccine hesitant.' They're blocking COVID herd immunity.
https://tinyurl.com/z7xc4dsp
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (nMXLX)
Yes, me too.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (sADuh)
Is enough of America *so* dumbed down, misinformed, or deranged by some kind of shallow ideology or political fever that this nearly implausible contrast - a booming economy with basically full employment, repatriation of capital and manufacturing, first real household income increase for semi-skilled/unskilled labor, etc - vs. this instant malaise disaster, doesn't register at all with them?
The obviously incontestably artificial shutdown of course clouds the picture for the less thoughtful (a large %). But still. Eighteen months is not that long. You'd think *some* would remember and think, WTF?
Posted by: rhomboid at May 07, 2021 11:42 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:42 AM (4A0e9)
Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2021 11:35 AM
I'm here for you.
Posted by: Nancy Pelousi at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (DMUuz)
TUBE TOPS not TUBE SOCKS
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:42 AM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM (Wm5SB)
Doubt anyone will take that bet.
The widely distributed glamour shot everyone saw yesterday must have been the best picture she ever took. The rest of them do not show an attractive woman.
Posted by: pep at May 07, 2021 11:42 AM (v16oJ)
- Donna "Recovery" Summer
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (VVEnO)
"Beep Beep Toot Toot Snort Snort"
- - Cvnt Hunter
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 07, 2021 11:42 AM (s2VJv)
we're seeing, and what we saw under the obamanation - malaise. "
I partially agree. But you have an equity market that is way over valued, and when people start to see that futures earnings are uncertain, that will change. Then once you get that correction (I am thinking a year end S and P ~ 4,000 or lower) you will get inflation starting to kick in and then probably stagnation. You simply can't pump government money into the economy, attack productive people by raising taxes, increase the welfare state and expect anything resembling a healthy economy.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 07, 2021 11:42 AM (VpIIl)
Thanks for the refresher course in at-will employment. I found nothing in there that would discourage me from filing suit if an employer tried to force the issue.
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 11:42 AM (XxJt1)
Big shock here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 11:42 AM (KZzsI)
Shag carpet rakes were a thing.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 07, 2021 11:42 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
....and tube tops.
Posted by: BignJames
Somebody cue kbdabear.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2021 11:42 AM (axyOa)
Puppet Boy was hired by China to wreck our economy and create jobs in China, not America.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 07, 2021 11:43 AM (m6qV1)
Or not. Really, we're all just spit-ballin' here.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (vcOmj)
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It could be that they think they don't need to bother hiding it anymore.
It could also be they want another crisis they can not let go to waste.
Posted by: zmdavid at May 07, 2021 11:43 AM (xqRaG)
Posted by: Like A Rock at May 07, 2021 11:43 AM (9ls8w)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 07, 2021 11:43 AM (VVEnO)
***
I no-joke heard on a local talk show that there is discussion (or maybe it's already happening) of ending inflation by not tracking it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (nMXLX)
Well that would fix social security.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 07, 2021 11:43 AM (z5Vrg)
Gas spiked to $2.89 from $2.69 Wednesday.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 07, 2021 11:43 AM (3H9h1)
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (cSyAR)
What's a bush party?
Posted by: banana Dream asks naively at May 07, 2021 11:43 AM (bYTQR)
https://tinyurl.com/vs4x5c4c
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:37 AM (2SdPm)
There's a special place in hell reserved for you.
Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2021 11:43 AM (AwYPR)
It's the foundation of our costs, our gold bullion. If we paid and were paid in gasoline, we might not notice any inflation.
Posted by: t-bird at May 07, 2021 11:44 AM (3fR4G)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (nMXLX)
Yes, me too.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (Ez6QX)
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Anyone else remember 15% interest on home loans?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:44 AM (2SdPm)
Posted by: Moron Robbie
if the media doesn't report it, it's like it never happened!
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:44 AM (iTXRQ)
2. Decrease supply, because there isn't anyone working to produce goods, since they're getting "free" money and no longer have to work.
3. Whip up some good old fashioned inflation!
4. Blame Trump.
5. Also, come up with a euphemism for inflation ("Right pricing" or something similarly stupid) like we did when Obama gave us "funemployment"
Right now, we're speeding through 1-4. I just look forward to the euphemism the media will settle on for Step 5
Posted by: Wally at May 07, 2021 11:44 AM (FJYfm)
That's enough inflation to give Jimmy Carter a 4 hour stiffie.
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:44 AM (sADuh)
Posted by: Ripley at May 07, 2021 11:44 AM (MxEKc)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 07, 2021 11:44 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (xPl2J)
Posted by: CN at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:30 AM (4A0e9)
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I want our old May Day motto to be brought back: "Hurray, hurray, it's the First of May! Outdoor fucking starts today!"
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (3i7pT)
Answer: Its all fucking lies
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (h1jJh)
https://is.gd/u8JXVU
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (Jsjd7)
I no-joke heard on a local talk show that there is discussion (or maybe it's already happening) of ending inflation by not tracking it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming
Come over here and sit beside me ** pats seat **
-- Midget Kruggie's Trillion Dollar Coin
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (pw+jk)
Exactly. Our burg's city council is now going to give out vouchers so that the "homeless" can stay in motels and hotels near the beach. People come - or used to come - from all over the country to occupy those rooms in the summer, as this is - was - a major tourist area. Now any tourists will be dossing down with bums in adjacent rooms. I'm sure tourists will be happy to pay top dollar for that privilege.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (7gCqK)
Hide and watch.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 07, 2021 11:36 AM (HaL55)
Tanned, rested and ready boss!
Posted by: Jobs saved and created at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (Ojki1)
Maybe we need moar fail.
I suspect this reflects all the people with money trying to figure out how to stay ahead of inflation. Stocks are the good play....until they aren't.
Posted by: pep at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (v16oJ)
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (sADuh)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (DpkTQ)
Imagine Taylor Swift singing 99 Luftballoons, Forever
Posted by: kbdabear at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (qAR6u)
Posted by: Axeman at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (cI7Oj)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: Spiff The Spaceman at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (lfSFb)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (iTXRQ)
It was only a matter of time. Same bullshit talking points I hear from one of my family members. "But...but...Ted Nugent!!!". Unbelievable.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (W4eKo)
Posted by: lin-duh 27-4
Misspelled North American Continent.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (o89XP)
Comrade is feature not bug. Old peoples no produce, consume little. 5 year plan remove old people is good economy.
Future will be glorious comrades, GLORIOUS!!!!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:46 AM (pw+jk)
-- Scrotum Inflators' Local 415
if inflation were beneficial, there'd be no need for the atlanta genital institute.
Posted by: Johnny Dangerously at May 07, 2021 11:46 AM (v3pYe)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 07, 2021 11:46 AM (3i7pT)
Giving your money away = chum for the vagrants.
My wife and I have given Next Door a very wide berth indeed.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:46 AM (7gCqK)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (nMXLX)
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Ah, the "quantum mechanics" approach. It won't occur if we don't observe it!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 11:46 AM (Jsjd7)
Makes you wonder what's going on here - perhaps the Anna Chapmans of the world won't give a Gates or a Fartwell the pegging they really want?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2021 11:46 AM (DpkTQ)
I suspect this reflects all the people with money trying to figure out how to stay ahead of inflation. Stocks are the good play....until they aren't.
Posted by: pep at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM (v16oJ)
Venezuelan stock market hasn't stopped going up. It just doesn't go up as much as inflation. So stocks are at least somewhat resilient to inflation, and under more modest rates of it are actually beneficiaries(as it transfers ownership from debt holders to equity owners).
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 07, 2021 11:46 AM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Floridachick at May 07, 2021 11:46 AM (DnWIB)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 11:46 AM (KZzsI)
Posted by: BignJames at May 07, 2021 11:43 AM (AwYPR)
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Thanks!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:47 AM (2SdPm)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (DpkTQ)
Imagine Taylor Swift singing 99 Luftballoons, Forever
Posted by: kbdabear at May 07, 2021 11:45 AM
Just effin' great. Wartburgs and girls who don't shave.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 07, 2021 11:47 AM (m+jkK)
Posted by: t-bird at May 07, 2021 11:47 AM (3fR4G)
I no-joke heard on a local talk show that there is discussion (or maybe it's already happening) of ending inflation by not tracking it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (nMXLX)
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Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev are on a train together. The train comes to a stop.
Stalin says, "Shoot the engineer!"
Khrushchev says, "Let's reorganize the railroads."
Brezhnev says, "Lower the curtains, turn on the radio and pretend we're moving."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2021 11:47 AM (mht8P)
Posted by: Ziba at May 07, 2021 11:47 AM (S1hrL)
That is actually not true historically. People so impoverished like in Venezuela or North Korea are simply trying to stay alive. Political unrest usually occurs before people are impoverished or they fear going back to that condition.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 11:47 AM (pO7gM)
Posted by: Like A Rock at May 07, 2021 11:48 AM (9ls8w)
You want Charlize Theron Banging Hot French Spy Women
You'll settle for Taylor Swift singing 99 Luftballoons
You'll get Charlize Theron Banging a tranny (seriously go back and watch Atomic Blonde a little closer next time)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2021 11:48 AM (DpkTQ)
And it is really more than $20 and hour when you adjust for having no costs like gas, wear on the car, etc. plus there is no payroll tax on UE benefits so that is another 7.65% on top of the $20.
It is really a $25 an hour job. And lets say you could make $30 working. I think most people will say fuck it I will give up $5 an hour to not have to go to work every day.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:48 AM (4A0e9)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:48 AM (nMXLX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 07, 2021 11:43 AM (VVEnO)
I'm waiting for denim jackets with flannel lining to come back because I can rock that look. Also, you can communicate your mood just by configuring your collar in different ways. Down - just jammin like a salmon. All up - ready for action. One down one up - watch out! I'm a maniac today!
Very versatile.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 07, 2021 11:48 AM (bYTQR)
My guess: the market expected even WORSE numbers. So maybe Lily was correct in #113.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:48 AM (7gCqK)
Khrushchev says, "Let's reorganize the railroads."
Brezhnev says, "Lower the curtains, turn on the radio and pretend we're moving."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 07, 2021 11:47 AM (mht8P)
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Yeah, our current government will do all three.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:48 AM (2SdPm)
Posted by: Ziba
Used blazing saddles for sale.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 07, 2021 11:49 AM (o89XP)
And it is really more than $20 and hour when you adjust for having no costs like gas, wear on the car, etc. plus there is no payroll tax on UE benefits so that is another 7.65% on top of the $20.
It is really a $25 an hour job. And lets say you could make $30 working. I think most people will say fuck it I will give up $5 an hour to not have to go to work every day.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:48 AM (4A0e9)
Yeah people trade-off between leisure time and money. That's standard labor economics. More free stuff increases the reservation wage(minimum pay required to get them to work).
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 07, 2021 11:49 AM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Floridachick at May 07, 2021 11:49 AM (DnWIB)
The Dow do love itself some good old Fed money printing
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 07, 2021 11:49 AM (3i7pT)
That's enough inflation to give Jimmy Carter a 4 hour stiffie.
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:44 AM (sADuh)
correct
Posted by: runner at May 07, 2021 11:49 AM (V13WU)
Jay, our city council just made stores and restaurants give their employees $5/hr more for the next three months. I'm sure that will help those businesses stay open, and help out all of the unemployed people that used to work in those business.
Plus it won't ad to inflation.
Also spent $5 million on buying a hotel to home 15 homeless people. WINNING!!!!!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:49 AM (pw+jk)
WH, Pelosi believe disappointing jobs report proves need to double down on what made the jobs report a disappointment
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 07, 2021 11:50 AM (VVEnO)
Has a single member of Congress even mentioned any related concept, in any context, in recent memory?
Has it played any part in any political debate?
So while the oligopolistic structure of much of the digital world, and its catastrophic impact on civil society, and the sudden transformation of the Fortune 500 into suicide bombers for the most idiotic ideas and policies already darken the horizon, there is literally not even any debate over fiscal insanity.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 07, 2021 11:50 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Ziba at May 07, 2021 11:50 AM (S1hrL)
That's enough inflation to give Jimmy Carter a 4 hour stiffie.
Posted by: torabora
And you know, the quality of lumber is down too.
I can remember buying really nice (white pine) 8 ft 2x4's at Home Depot for about $1.98. About 5-6 years ago.
And yes, they are now $5-8 each, depending on where you shop.
And they largely look like crap. Warped, flawed, etc.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 07, 2021 11:50 AM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:46 AM (7gCqK)
I told them to delete my account after multiple posts by neighbors who called the cops on kids playing in the park during Covid.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2021 11:51 AM (Ez6QX)
***
Errybody knows that if the homeless had a home they wouldn't be homeless.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:51 AM (nMXLX)
Fire some of your people and tell them to go out and grab some of those great-paying jobs before they're gone!
Posted by: t-bird at May 07, 2021 11:51 AM (3fR4G)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 07, 2021 11:51 AM (2goRJ)
Posted by: Javems at May 07, 2021 11:40 AM (MIkft)
I've got a plan for that.
Posted by: Andrew Cuomo at May 07, 2021 11:51 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:49 AM (pw+jk)
What for?!
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2021 11:51 AM (Ez6QX)
That's enough inflation to give Jimmy Carter a 4 hour stiffie.
Posted by: torabora
And you know, the quality of lumber is down too.
I can remember buying really nice (white pine) 8 ft 2x4's at Home Depot for about $1.98. About 5-6 years ago.
And yes, they are now $5-8 each, depending on where you shop.
And they largely look like crap. Warped, flawed, etc.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 07, 2021 11:50 AM (vcOmj)
That's interesting, because it's not flowing through to the timber market. They shouldn't be having any trouble acquiring good raw materials.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is Already Dead at May 07, 2021 11:52 AM (z5Vrg)
I told you, we are re-living 2009.
Manufactured Crisis, Things Getting Worse, Fake News says everything is getting better, a candidate who promised to "fix everything" is making everything worse, etc.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at May 07, 2021 11:52 AM (RhlVF)
No thanks, the first time was already a waste. I don't think I even managed to make it to the end of the film.
It did make me look up why Pan Am flew 737s on European routes ...
Posted by: spindrift at May 07, 2021 11:52 AM (h5TKJ)
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the commercial real estate market is probably well and truly boned. A lot of companies are realizing they don't need a big down town foot print and people can work remotely. Going to be a soft market for a while. Farm land, ala Bill Gates, you better be really really rich, because its spendy, and then you gotta have it working to pay the taxes. Residential real estate - buy housing property in the south. Probably a good investment. THe cost of new building and the logistics of new building is getting higher and its going to pump the value of existing housing stocks. But, you gotta manage that stuff while you own it.
Find property out west on which you can prospect gold. Live there, gun up, get some cows, and build some green houses. It sounds like I'm joking . . .
Posted by: financial advice at May 07, 2021 11:52 AM (bZywp)
Makes you wonder what's going on here - perhaps the Anna Chapmans of the world won't give a Gates or a Fartwell the pegging they really want?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 07, 2021 11:46 AM (DpkTQ)
It's rarely about just physical beauty. Cleopatra was of average looks, but managed to be seductive. A lot of times these guys are looking for someone who makes them feel important, powerful, appreciated. They don't want to deal with the nagging from the wife at home, or the constant drama and stress of work.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at May 07, 2021 11:52 AM (jOcSX)
Posted by: CN at May 07, 2021 11:52 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Like A Rock at May 07, 2021 11:48 AM (9ls8w)
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I was in grade school then. Comedians made fun of Democrats in those days.
Posted by: zmdavid at May 07, 2021 11:52 AM (xqRaG)
Posted by: Bosk at May 07, 2021 11:52 AM (SWbVS)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2021 11:52 AM (8zaaV)
Summer recovery Part Deux.
Posted by: YIKES! at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (t6XCL)
And they largely look like crap. Warped, flawed, etc.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 07, 2021 11:50 AM (vcOmj)
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Even better, when you drive in a nail or a screw, enough moisture comes out to water the garden.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (2SdPm)
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (sADuh)
The stock market loves bad jobs numbers because they know the Fed will use that number to keep the helicopter money drops flying, which goes into the stock market.
Posted by: kbdabear at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (qAR6u)
Has it played any part in any political debate? ...
Posted by: rhomboid at May 07, 2021 11:50 AM (OTzUX)
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We went from Dick Cheney's "deficits don't matter" to unchecked printing and spending with no discussion or debate whatsoever in less than 20 years.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (Jsjd7)
Posted by: Ziba at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (S1hrL)
Posted by: CA hobo at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (89T5c)
I think the response to that is "well, Our Betters at Big Pharma have admitted that those who get the ccp lung flu injection can SPREAD the ccp lung flu, so perhaps it's time to start shunning those who have received the injection. For meemaw and the children."
Posted by: Vyx at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (0Yiin)
Posted by: Jen the original at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (v4A4V)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (4A0e9)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (nMXLX)
So can we also end the (supposed) prevalence of cops killing blacks and Asian hate crimes in the same manner?
Posted by: Bete at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (5HBd1)
Jukin,
The technique to demoralize them is agree and amplify to a ridiculous level (the Bee does this effectively).
Point out to them that the personal is political and that they themselves have an obligation to take in a homeless person into their own homes--that kicking the problem over to a government is cold and heartless because you know how coercive government or ngos helping the homeless can be by requiring behavioral standards.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (pO7gM)
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2021 11:51 AM (Ez6QX)
Because and the leftists are super stoked they did it.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (pw+jk)
***
Another moron posted that he's in the industry and it's not changing their numbers at all. The price increase is happening either at the end or somewhere right before.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (nMXLX)
That's enough inflation to give Jimmy Carter a 4 hour stiffie.
Posted by: torabora
It is friggin brutal. A hell of a lot of construction coming to a halt as price projections are getting flushed down the toilet. A 4x8 sheet of plywood now at $50. Complete bullshit!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: zmdavid at May 07, 2021 11:52 AM
Carter, Dukakis...good times....
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 07, 2021 11:54 AM (m+jkK)
Sciamachy - sham fighting for exercise or practice, an act or instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy
It is an alternative to the frequent kabuki theater, obviously.
Posted by: Delurk Ergo Sum, Wasting a Box, Obviously at May 07, 2021 11:54 AM (YwPJG)
**
Quit and draw $25/hour.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:54 AM (nMXLX)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at May 07, 2021 11:54 AM (o89XP)
Posted by: Jimco Industries at May 07, 2021 11:55 AM (buTO7)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:41 AM (nMXLX)
So can we also end the (supposed) prevalence of cops killing blacks and Asian hate crimes in the same manner?
Posted by: Bete at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (Ojki1)
Hey look! They just ended the war in Afghanistan.
What war?
Exactly!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2021 11:55 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 07, 2021 11:55 AM (h1jJh)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 07, 2021 11:55 AM (GPwVZ)
That's some really good propaganda from fake news cnbc: We have inflation...but only because the economy is booming!
Okay, liars.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at May 07, 2021 11:55 AM (RhlVF)
Posted by: f'd at May 07, 2021 11:55 AM (Tnijr)
Posted by: kbdabear at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (qAR6u)
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The helicopter drops go into the real economy, which is a big part of what's driving retail inflation.
It's the stealth printing that they launder through the Fed that goes into the capital markets and causes the big equity and bond inflation.
And now, of course, they're doing both at once! Win/win!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 11:55 AM (Jsjd7)
Its not just wacky former rockers who have put herd immunity out of reach. It is white evangelicals (45% say they won't get vaccinated). And it is Republicans (almost 50% are refusing the vaccine). In Texas, 61% of white Republicans say they are reluctant to get the vaccine or would refuse it. You can slap the euphemism "vaccine hesitancy" on the problem, but in the end the G.O.P., and the children of G.O.D., are perpetuating a virus that is sickening and killing people in droves.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2021 11:55 AM (W4eKo)
Posted by: f'd at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (5HBd1)
This time last year, I was paying less than $2/gal using Kroger points.
But at least we're spared mean Tweets.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (4A0e9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (8zaaV)
I don't know what she is smoking, but she should share
Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Like A Rock at May 07, 2021 11:48 AM (9ls8w)
That will be one major difference between now and then. The nightly news will not mention any inflation or unemployment, much less misery.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (axyOa)
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It's really hurting contractors, due to people holding contractors to a contract done six to eight months ago.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (2SdPm)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 07, 2021 11:55 AM (h1jJh)
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That's not how you get a great reset with UBI-dependent proles renting everything from the oligarchs, Lemmy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (Jsjd7)
Posted by: Ziba at May 07, 2021 11:57 AM (S1hrL)
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When 85%+ of the population is naturally immune to the virus and 85%+ of the remaining amount have to be told that they've caught it, herd immunity was reached before it even started.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:57 AM (nMXLX)
Posted by: YIKES! at May 07, 2021 11:57 AM (t6XCL)
Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at May 07, 2021 11:57 AM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at May 07, 2021 11:57 AM (RhlVF)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (8zaaV)
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Home Depot or Lowes, here in CA, for instance.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:57 AM (2SdPm)
Plus it won't ad to inflation.
Also spent $5 million on buying a hotel to home 15 homeless people. WINNING!!!!!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 11:49 AM (pw+jk)
Yeah, that's been happening here in the People's Republic of California, too. "Hero pay" mandates have caused grocery chains to close entirely a number of locations that weren't performing all that well.
Meanwhile, in LA (IIRC), they're building condos for vagrants - at $300,000 each. Yeah, you read that right.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 11:57 AM (7gCqK)
Posted by: f'd at May 07, 2021 11:57 AM (Tnijr)
I mean it can't possibly just be that they were wrong.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 11:58 AM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2021 11:58 AM (8zaaV)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2021 11:55 AM (W4eKo)
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Let the otherizing continue. It'll make it easier to sell the extermination to come.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 11:58 AM (Jsjd7)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2021 11:58 AM (PiwSw)
Yikes. Where?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (8zaaV)
Seattle/Tacoma area. Neighbor just had his roof redone. They charged him $29.95 for the plywood they brought but needed to get more. Those three 6 sheets were $49.95.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 07, 2021 11:58 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at May 07, 2021 11:58 AM (2goRJ)
Also, Disney appears to have held back the release of the next big Marvel movie until after theaters started to reopen. Even "We have Disney+" wants theaters running.
Posted by: junior at May 07, 2021 11:58 AM (vdZ9F)
Posted by: torabora
The stock market loves bad jobs numbers because they know the Fed will use that number to keep the helicopter money drops flying, which goes into the stock market.
Posted by: kbdabear
Because of bad job numbers, they perhaps (rightly) assume that inflation has not really taken hold yet. When demand for goods gets hotter, then offered job wages will go up, to attract more workers.
Stock market investors KNOW that fuel prices will go up, due to Sundown Joe's policies on fracking. They also expect big "infrastructure" payouts by FedGov into the economy. This has already been factored in, I think.
Or, I am just full of shit. That too, obviously.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative ....Living on the prison planet at May 07, 2021 11:58 AM (vcOmj)
Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2021 11:59 AM (RHGPo)
Amazon has a book out by a survivor of the Argentinian financial collapse in the 2000's. Has some good tips about surviving a fiat money collapse including not buying investment grade silver (attracts robbers and govt attention) as a means of exchange. Best to have old worn out silver coins instead of bullion. Title is
The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse by Aguirre. Amazon has it.
There is a similar one that is even more depressing about living through the Yugo Civil War and surviving. Also recommended.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 11:59 AM (pO7gM)
The socialist freak-friendly policies are bringing people in in droves, and accordingly, apartment projects and other housing is springing up like weeds
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:59 AM (iTXRQ)
here it is impossible to hire a contractor to do any work. They are all
booked out months, some years. Seems like every 2nd house is under
renovation.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (4A0e9)
A guy near me said it was going to take a month or two just to get his new porch built. Everyone is backed up.
Posted by: Mark1971 at May 07, 2021 11:59 AM (xPl2J)
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 11:59 AM (XxJt1)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (2SdPm)
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I have had a project scheduled for close to six months now. It was supposed to be done in January, but it still ain't done. The problems? Weather and materials. I need a lot of fill dirt, and it's been so wet that they can't get it. Or so they say. I don't know if they're trying to defer it because it's no longer profitable, but that's a possibility. I am going to start re-shopping the job next week if I am still not scheduled. I'll see how much more expensive it will be than my current contract.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (Jsjd7)
Posted by: Marooned at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (5TnwH)
And, yes, the "global financial meltdown" was a manufactured crisis. It was a myth created as an act of terrorism to bring drastic political change.
Just like the "pandemic."
Great Recession, my ass. They caused it.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (RhlVF)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (5HBd1)
Posted by: Double Digit Inflation at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (GZ/yK)
I'll bet good money that disastrous creature ends up in the Biden administration.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: J. Galt at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (TMb1F)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (GPwVZ)
Well she's way beyond the cute stage now and her "innocent slut" act doesn't work because every comedienne in the world is doing the same act now, so she has to find attention somehow.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: runner at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (V13WU)
Huge increases.
We're seeing scarcity of product along with allocations being implemented by the manufacturer.
Gird your loins and fill your cupboards.
Posted by: Bosk at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (SWbVS)
Posted by: Soothsayer's
how can a tranny be transphobic?
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (iTXRQ)
I'm in Santa Barbara. As I said, Moon Bat Central.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at May 07, 2021 12:01 PM (pw+jk)
I guess paying people to sit on their butts makes them lazy and not want to actually work.
Crazy that.
Posted by: Czech Chick at May 07, 2021 12:01 PM (haWye)
*squeal, squeal*
Posted by: The MFM at May 07, 2021 11:22 AM
Hey, MFM, that's my job.
Posted by: Squealer (one of the more-equal pigs) at May 07, 2021 12:01 PM (awtm/)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 11:57 AM (nMXLX)
A doc from Hopkins (I think) said we probably reach immunity in late Jan or early Feb when the number started dropping 10 to 15% per week.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 07, 2021 12:01 PM (yrol0)
The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse by Aguirre.
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I can see having $2500 in silver coins, but a Scrooge McDuck pile of $500K worth of coins after cashing out your investments is going to tough to hide.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 12:01 PM (nMXLX)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (Jsjd7)
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Good luck.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 12:01 PM (2SdPm)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (2SdPm)
This is in vol. 17 of "Things That Leftists Fail to Grasp," viz., that economic growth requires predictability. If you can't predict what the government or economy will do in the near future with some degree of confidence, what do you do? Nothing. You hunker down, and wait and see what happens. It's the Magic Negro's economy limped along so badly. Who knew what a-hole would do next? Mandates kicked in at 50 employees. Maybe tomorrow they'll kick in at 20.
We're going to have the same problem now with Presidentish Biden.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 12:01 PM (7gCqK)
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 12:00 PM (iTXRQ)
Old and Busted: Self-gassing Jew
New Hotness: Self-phobic Tranny
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 07, 2021 12:01 PM (PiwSw)
CREEPY PORN PRESIDENT Michael Avenatti hardest hit
Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2021 12:01 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (sADuh)
The stock market loves bad jobs numbers because they know the Fed
will use that number to keep the helicopter money drops flying, which
goes into the stock market.
Posted by: kbdabear at May 07, 2021 11:53 AM (qAR6u)
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The stock prices will go up as long as they keep printing money. The stock didn't change in value, the dollar did.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 07, 2021 12:02 PM (h1jJh)
Posted by: PabloD, boop/bop/beep at May 07, 2021 12:02 PM (E+6hU)
We've been promised inflation since The Ben Bernank was tossing money out of helicopters. Somehow it never materializes. Inflation is the inflation trend of tomorrow... and always will be.
The only thing that gets predicted as the Next Big Thing more than inflation is American soccer.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at May 07, 2021 12:02 PM (dJLqG)
Yikes. Where?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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That's cheap. The last piece we bought was $58 a few months ago. I know it's gone up since.
Posted by: lin-duh at May 07, 2021 12:02 PM (7N09i)
I wonder how much burnout there is. I enjoyed the first Dr Strange movie, but don't really care if I see the next one, and have zero interest in most of the rest of their ideas.
They killed off nearly all the first run interesting characters, now they're dragging the bottom of the barrel for C-list nobodies to make movies about.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:02 PM (KZzsI)
Inflation is the inflation trend of tomorrow... and always will be.
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"Inflation is the ECONOMIC trend of tomorrow... and always will be."
Derp.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at May 07, 2021 12:02 PM (dJLqG)
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And yet somehow a 4wd Toyota Tacoma costs $50K.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 12:03 PM (nMXLX)
He had three people send in resumes and were qualified, but never showed up for their interviews. Just a few years ago he was getting resumes from as far away as CA.
Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at May 07, 2021 12:03 PM (ptqGC)
I guess paying people to sit on their butts makes them lazy and not want to actually work.
Crazy that.
Posted by: Czech Chick at May 07, 2021 12:01 PM
Also, because they have to pay the staff that actually shows up more than before, the items sold between 8 and 10 pm might not cover the employees pay.
Posted by: Chuck C at May 07, 2021 12:03 PM (awtm/)
Also, Disney appears to have held back the release of the next big Marvel movie until after theaters started to reopen. Even "We have Disney+" wants theaters running.
Posted by: junior at May 07, 2021 11:58 AM (vdZ9F)
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They made a lot of money through their release of Mulan that allowed Disney+ members to pay $30 for access. It was a lot of money they didn't have to share with theaters.
I believe the current strategy is for Black Widow to go through that strategy with a concurrent theatrical release. Disney wants the best of both worlds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 12:03 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 12:01 PM (2SdPm)
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Thanks. It doesn't even involve lumber. It's a few window wells and some reshaping of the yard to divert water away from the foundation. It isn't critical but it does need to be done. Everything is ground to a halt. The contractor has offered to refund my deposit and cancel the contract due to the delays. I might take them up on it if anyone else can do the work sooner at something in the same ballpark price-wise.
It's been a shit show. The furniture market is bonkers with delays, too. Everything is wild. I suspect the supply chain damage we did last year is still cascading through the system and (hopefully not) compounding.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 12:03 PM (Jsjd7)
...we've had inflation for 9 of the last 12 years, how have you not noticed the prices on food etc???
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:03 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 12:03 PM (4A0e9)
Posted by: torabora at May 07, 2021 11:38 AM (sADuh)
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The jobs numbers mean that inflation is LESS likely.
A year from now you're going to be sitting here saying "where's all that inflation"? Because inflation is always promised and never shows up, no matter how much money we print.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at May 07, 2021 12:04 PM (dJLqG)
I wonder how much burnout there is. I enjoyed the first Dr Strange movie, but don't really care if I see the next one, and have zero interest in most of the rest of their ideas.
They killed off nearly all the first run interesting characters, now they're dragging the bottom of the barrel for C-list nobodies to make movies about.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:02 PM (KZzsI)
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I do ask, "Who the fuck gives a shit about The Eternals?"
But then I remember Guardians of the Galaxy, but that was in the middle of Marvel-mania which seems to have subsided a bit. I don't think we'll know until Black Widow opens.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 12:04 PM (LvTSG)
Yeah I don't know what kind of 19-figure income this dude has to not notice inflation but the rest of us have been hammered with it for years.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:04 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 11:59 AM (XxJt1)
The video I linked (by an Aussie) said that people left the inner cities for the suburbs because the suburbs were perceived to be safer. Yeah, ya think?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 12:04 PM (7gCqK)
Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2021 12:05 PM (RHGPo)
In other news, I'm so happy I left the Chicago area for Florida earlier this year.
Posted by: JimLennon at May 07, 2021 12:05 PM (mR5GH)
Trying to get some work done by local contractor. He can't find anyone to take a job.
Local grocery store produce manager short staffed, because (and I quote) "I don't want to work so hard" from a manager-trainee. Also quote, another person: "I make more on the covid checks."
Between the $15 "livable wage" (spit), the extra unemployment $$, and a generally slothful population...you get numbers like this.
If this was NOT foreseen by the "people in charge," they are too stupid to govern. I amof the opinion they DID foresee this. Therefore they are malicious, destructive, and evil people.
Posted by: Flyover at May 07, 2021 12:05 PM (Rbu5d)
Assistant Under-Secretary for *fill in blank*
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2021 12:05 PM (8zaaV)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:03 PM (KZzsI)
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Food isn't measured as part of core inflation.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at May 07, 2021 12:05 PM (dJLqG)
The author of the Argentina book was just an average guy trying to eat.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 12:05 PM (pO7gM)
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at May 07, 2021 12:02 PM (dJLqG)
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We were promised it and we got it. It was, however, contained. That surprised me. The inflation sure as hell did come, though. It was reflected in equities and bonds and real estate. Real estate was the primary leak into the real world.
But the capital markets inflated like crazy over the past 10-12 years.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 07, 2021 12:05 PM (Jsjd7)
Posted by: Bosk at May 07, 2021 12:05 PM (SWbVS)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 07, 2021 12:05 PM (ifmtJ)
The socialist freak-friendly policies are bringing people in in droves, and accordingly, apartment projects and other housing is springing up like weeds
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 11:59 AM (iTXRQ)
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I heard it was Canada's fault. They aren't exporting lumber like they used to. I don't know if that's true or not.
Posted by: zmdavid at May 07, 2021 12:06 PM (xqRaG)
But yeah aside from those minor things that practically nobody uses, no inflation at all.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 12:06 PM (4A0e9)
I think the window for smart cracking movies about violent action heroes with weird abilities might be closing.
But hey: black Superman!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:06 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: runner at May 07, 2021 12:06 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 07, 2021 11:56 AM (2SdPm)
General contractor friend had to revise his estimate timeline from 30 days to 14, and I think he may go to 7.
Posted by: Chuck C at May 07, 2021 12:06 PM (awtm/)
In my area, there is no being offered a $400 sign on bonus, a $500 sign on bonus and one place has a $1000 sign on bonus.....to bartend.
I have am an unskilled laborer in the service industry and they are now so desperate they are recruiting people in my field.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 07, 2021 12:06 PM (YA914)
Posted by: Jane D'Oh #Impeach Foady Six! at May 07, 2021 12:06 PM (ptqGC)
I guess paying people to sit on their butts makes them lazy and not want to actually work.
Crazy that.
Posted by: Czech Chick at May 07, 2021 12:01 PM (haWye)
We have a local burger place that can't even open the lobby because they don't have the staff. Drive through only.
Posted by: Jordan61 at May 07, 2021 12:06 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 07, 2021 12:06 PM (GPwVZ)
Who gives a crap what sneaky tricks the fed uses to ignore the real life costs of inflation hammering all of us?
You sound like the Obama stooge telling reporters there's no inflation because cell phone prices went down.
Dude. I can't eat a smartphone.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:07 PM (KZzsI)
The author of the Argentina book was just an average guy trying to eat.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 12:05 PM (pO7gM)
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Yeah, that's the depressing part. Do what's "right" for your entire life, live on a budget, don't assume a lot of financial debt, pay off loans as agreed to in contracts, accumulate savings for retirement, and then poof. It's gone in a form of taxation that doesn't have to be passed by Congress or signed into law.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 12:07 PM (nMXLX)
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at May 07, 2021 12:07 PM (cSyAR)
I think the window for smart cracking movies about violent action heroes with weird abilities might be closing.
But hey: black Superman!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:06 PM (KZzsI)
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When black Superman written by noted racist Ta-neshi Coats (whatever, I think I'm close) does even worse than Zack Snyder's movies did financially, it'll just be further proof that DC's fanbase is racisty racist.
And Warner Brothers will tell the world very loudly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 12:07 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 07, 2021 12:07 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 12:03 PM (nMXLX)
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That car will get 500,000 miles and contains luxuries that would have been unimaginable 25 years ago.
$50,000 is a bargain for what you're getting.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at May 07, 2021 12:07 PM (dJLqG)
and soon medical costs, college costs, fuel costs, and durable good costs won't be either...
it does not change the fact that their debauching the dollar is killing purchasing power.
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 12:08 PM (Lzpvj)
Yikes. Where?
Posted by: Anna Puma
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That's cheap. The last piece we bought was $58 a few months ago. I know it's gone up since.
Paid a dollar more than that for quarter inch unfinished on both sides last week in Connecticut.
Posted by: Cthillary, dead but dreaming at May 07, 2021 12:08 PM (FOXpt)
Andy Ngo
May 5
A group called Black Hammer has allegedly acquired 200 acres of land in Colorado to create an ethno, communist state for black & brown people. They're currently trying to raise $500k on
@gofundme
LOLOL - I give it #TwoWeeks till they come crawling back down out of the mountains.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 07, 2021 12:08 PM (Bmy3R)
Posted by: nurse ratched at May 07, 2021 12:08 PM (W2Pud)
Assistant Under-Secretary for *fill in blank*
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2021 12:05 PM (8zaaV)
She said she got a job with one of the generic retail pharm companies seen on every street corner. On their board.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 07, 2021 12:08 PM (bYTQR)
Crazy stuff.
Posted by: Flyover at May 07, 2021 12:09 PM (Rbu5d)
The Eternals? Good luck with that. Howard the Duck has a better chance.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 07, 2021 12:09 PM (8zaaV)
As it happens, the next movie is focused on one of those dead characters.
Black Widow will get a movie in July. Dunno if that's one of the dead characters you were referring to.
Posted by: junior at May 07, 2021 12:09 PM (vdZ9F)
They might pull it off if they can market it like Marvel did with Black Panther and Captain Marvel: enjoy and praise this or you're a bigot! All negative reviews are deleted!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:09 PM (KZzsI)
Depends, some of the materials such as Hardi plank or its competitors has not went up like wood. Dunno about vinyl siding.
LP Smartside siding in 4x8 sheets is actually cheaper than plywood right now running about 40 per sheet at Lowes or Home Depot. That might be due to more demand for cement based siding which I have not been tracking.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 12:09 PM (pO7gM)
You sound like the Obama stooge telling reporters there's no inflation because cell phone prices went down.
Dude. I can't eat a smartphone.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:07 PM (KZzsI)
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Food prices may be increasing, but food prices don't increase for the same reasons that the general price level increases.
Increased good prices are good for farmers - you know, rural conservatives. If you're going to complain about the price level, this is a bad look.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at May 07, 2021 12:09 PM (dJLqG)
She's one of the C-Listers.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:09 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 07, 2021 12:10 PM (R/m4+)
She's one of the C-Listers.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:09 PM (KZzsI)
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She's also dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 12:10 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 12:03 PM (nMXLX)
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That car will get 500,000 miles and contains luxuries that would have been unimaginable 25 years ago.
$50,000 is a bargain for what you're getting.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at May 07, 2021 12:07 PM (dJLqG)
Buy it used, if you can. Otherwise...yeah. Wife bought a new 4Runner in 2015 and it will probably run for our entire lifetime.
Zero problems with it since 2015.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 07, 2021 12:10 PM (ifmtJ)
Attention AOC.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 12:10 PM (7gCqK)
and soon medical costs, college costs, fuel costs, and durable good costs won't be either...
it does not change the fact that their debauching the dollar is killing purchasing power.
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 12:08 PM (Lzpvj)
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Ah, we're running Classic AoSHQ posts from 2009, I see.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at May 07, 2021 12:10 PM (dJLqG)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 12:11 PM (4A0e9)
She's one of the C-Listers.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:09 PM (KZzsI)
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She's also dead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 12:10 PM (LvTSG)
You're forgetting time travel. Steve Rogers will save her for reasons.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 07, 2021 12:11 PM (ifmtJ)
OK you seem to think that when prices go up that just means the producers of this stuff get rich. Food prices go up because costs have gone up for the producers and they have to charge more or shut the hell down. I think you're a bit out of touch with regular folks here.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:11 PM (KZzsI)
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That car will get 500,000 miles and contains luxuries that would have been unimaginable 25 years ago.
$50,000 is a bargain for what you're getting.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at May 07, 2021 12:07 PM (dJLqG)
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Yes, and that car was $20K 25 years ago.
Such a mystery.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 12:11 PM (nMXLX)
Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2021 12:11 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 07, 2021 12:11 PM (5HBd1)
Meanwhile the billionaires got even richer playing the markets with leverage, up and down. They also know how to avoid being in inflating cash that pays zero interest. ... Oligarchs get their way, the middle and lower will get a few Stimulus checks to shut them up for now. ... if things fall apart, they will Build Back Better (for them).
Posted by: illiniwek at May 07, 2021 12:11 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: PabloD, boop/bop/beep at May 07, 2021 12:12 PM (E+6hU)
Uh huh, yeah that's it. It has nothing at all to do with looking at the historical records of internet communication during vote counting.
Look! A squirrel!
https://tinyurl.com/3wzfur4a
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 07, 2021 12:12 PM (3i7pT)
Posted by: red speck at May 07, 2021 12:12 PM (gS3OW)
High gas prices help Texans Pete, and by golly Hooker fees going up helps Arm And Hammer through the increased use of it as a cutting agent...
meanwhile on planet Earth we have quadrupled America's debt in my lifetime.
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 12:12 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 12:10 PM (LvTSG)
You're forgetting time travel. Steve Rogers will save her for reasons.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 07, 2021 12:11 PM (ifmtJ)
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She'll always be dead to me. We have that bond.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 12:12 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 12:12 PM (pO7gM)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at May 07, 2021 12:12 PM (5HBd1)
May 5
A group called Black Hammer has allegedly acquired 200 acres of land in Colorado to create an ethno, communist state for black & brown people. They're currently trying to raise $500k on
@gofundme
LOLOL - I give it #TwoWeeks till they come crawling back down out of the mountains.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 07, 2021 12:08 PM (Bmy3R)
I am on my way....free living at it's best!
Posted by: Bernie Sanders, democrat layabout at May 07, 2021 12:12 PM (R/m4+)
Grocery prices have gone up about 300% in the past 10 years.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 07, 2021 12:13 PM (HaL55)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:13 PM (KZzsI)
That'll buy a lot of Flavor-Aid.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 12:13 PM (7gCqK)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 07, 2021 12:11 PM (KZzsI)
He's out of touch with reality, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 07, 2021 12:13 PM (lgsTz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at May 07, 2021 12:12 PM (LvTSG)
Just like Star Wars and the MCU is for me.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 07, 2021 12:13 PM (ifmtJ)
Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 07, 2021 12:13 PM (4A0e9)
A group called Black Hammer has allegedly acquired 200 acres of land in Colorado to create an ethno, communist state for black & brown people.
Cool. Call it 'People's Temple' or something like that. Serve Kool-aid at the meetings. Just spitballin' here.
Posted by: DB- just DB at May 07, 2021 12:13 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 12:13 PM (XxJt1)
No thanxs. I'll keep my already paid off Sequoia.
I can't see people forking out those car pmts if they dont have to work because the government is paying them to stay home, forcing them to work from home, and/or allowing them to stay in their rentals or homes without having to pay for them.
Posted by: Floridachick at May 07, 2021 12:14 PM (DnWIB)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at May 07, 2021 12:14 PM (5Y7oe)
I am not joking. I wish I was. I deleted that part of Ngo's Tweet because it sounded like Fake News. It's apparently not.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 07, 2021 12:14 PM (Bmy3R)
"I think it's going to be time for somebody else to have this job, in a year from now or about a year from now," Psaki said.
Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2021 12:14 PM (RHGPo)
If I start a fund me group for white people how long would it stay up?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 07, 2021 12:15 PM (GPwVZ)
The problems are now if anything worse, in 2009 we did not have a population that had been taught at figurative gunpoint that sloth was a virtue.
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 12:15 PM (Lzpvj)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 12:15 PM (nMXLX)
For example, steel framing has not went up like wood and is probably more cost effective for non load bearing walls right now than a wood studded wall.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 12:16 PM (pO7gM)
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 12:12 PM (Lzpvj)
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If we're that deep in debt, then it's a damn good thing we're going to be able to inflate our way out of it.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at May 07, 2021 12:16 PM (dJLqG)
Posted by: creeper at May 07, 2021 12:13 PM (XxJt1)
That's an easy DIY job. I've done it several times, and takes less than an hour. Let me know if you want details.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 07, 2021 12:16 PM (7gCqK)
In this instance, it's a damned shame they failed.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at May 07, 2021 12:16 PM (W4eKo)
Zero problems with it since 2015.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at May 07, 2021 12:10 PM (ifmtJ)
There was a defect in a control unit that was used in both the 4Runner and the tacoma line. It pretty much crippled your vehicle, it was more than a few grand to fix, and could and would fail again. The same issue was completely fixed by a retrofit for tocamas at no cost to the owners. The 4Runner owners were told, no you just have to shell out a few grand every 4 years because our profit margin isn't as good with you.
That was my last toyota.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 07, 2021 12:16 PM (bYTQR)
the cost of domestic steel has effectively double since the election
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 07, 2021 12:17 PM (DUIap)
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 12:17 PM (pO7gM)
Posted by: Fool Otto at May 07, 2021 12:18 PM (DB16e)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Important article about what's coming at May 07, 2021 12:18 PM (nMXLX)
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 12:19 PM (pO7gM)
A lot of people are unemployed, but if they're sitting things out because they'd rather have their Biden Bux, then they weren't productive to begin with.
Before you tell me with certainty that we're going to have all this inflation, first explain to me why you were wrong in predicting inflation when Helicopter Ben was throwing money around. And if your answer is "food prices," then you need to explain why inflation was confined to food prices.
A year from now there will be no meaningful inflation. Take it to the bank.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at May 07, 2021 12:19 PM (dJLqG)
life, live on a budget, don't assume a lot of financial debt, pay off
loans as agreed to in contracts, accumulate savings for retirement, and
then poof. It's gone in a form of taxation that doesn't have to be
passed by Congress or signed into law.
It doesn't help when the government decides that you no longer need to work in your chosen field, so it passes sweeping legislation to destroy an entire segment of the economy that was booming and give it to our sworn enemies, the ChiComs so they can enjoy it.
Can you say NAFTA? I knew you could...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 07, 2021 12:19 PM (HaL55)
Hyperinfaltion is a tax that devours the worker comrade.
I am glad you are wealthy enough, or insane enough to not care....sincerely.
Posted by: sven at May 07, 2021 12:20 PM (Lzpvj)
Supply chain!
Posted by: Fapping Retard at May 07, 2021 12:21 PM (h5TKJ)
Posted by: runner at May 07, 2021 12:22 PM (V13WU)
On possible way is to get a new LED light fixture that has a plugin built into it. Light circuits have increasing capacity as the switch from incandescent to LED lights has decreased the demand on lighting circuits in older homes.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 12:23 PM (pO7gM)
Posted by: runner at May 07, 2021 12:27 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 12:19 PM
I track coil steel, "sheet metal" for work, so I think we're talking about different steel markets. I do know structural steel if excluded from the indices that I look at
I'm looking at steel for manufacturing, specifically automotive
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 07, 2021 12:28 PM (DUIap)
Yet another false train story
Posted by: SMOD at May 07, 2021 12:29 PM (RHGPo)
More goods, less supply, massive inflation. More govt regulation affecting production, more inflation because less goods are produced. Raise minimum wage, less goods produced. Increase energy prices, less goods produced, more inflation.
In 2010, going from memory, we were about 70 percent debt to GDP ratio, we are now well over 100 which means that ZIRP effectively adds fuel on the fire as is increasing Govt spending.
It's all been done before and expecting different results is what gets people into trouble. The educated are generally the worst in believing this.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 12:29 PM (pO7gM)
Be interesting to know whether the increase in sheet steel for autos is because of demand or supply issues. I do know that US Steel canceled an new steel mill in US probably because of the Biden admin. expected future policies.
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 12:32 PM (pO7gM)
A group called Black Hammer has allegedly acquired 200 acres of land in Colorado to create an ethno, communist state for black & brown people.
Is this the 2021 version of Green Acres?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 07, 2021 12:41 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: whig at May 07, 2021 12:32 PM
demand ramped back up faster than supply in the third quarter, driving a spike in prices
throughout the 3rd quarter, all the talk was about steel making capacity coming back on line in the first half of 2021. that talk ended right after the election. why start up your steel mill when you face an onerous regulatory burden?
so, there's not enough supply to meet the demand.
(I can go on for hours)
Posted by: AltonJackson at May 07, 2021 12:41 PM (DUIap)
Posted by: President NPC at May 07, 2021 12:48 PM (FPuSC)
Print all the dollars you want, no problem. -- Modern Monetary Theory
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I'll take MMT and a wheelbarrow full of greenbacks to buy a loaf of bread, Alex
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 07, 2021 01:13 PM (HCeRP)
Congratulations if you answered Uncle Sam.
Why? Because you pay back good money with inflated (cheaper) money.
Posted by: JM in Florida at May 07, 2021 01:18 PM (HCeRP)
1) If you pay people not to work, not working becomes their job.
2) That which is free has no value.
3) Idle hands are the devil's workshop.
4) I don't remember the 4th but the first three explain ghettos pretty effectively! Help me out people! wHAT IS THE 4TH??
Posted by: thesgm at May 07, 2021 01:26 PM (y2v/7)
Posted by: Inspector kemp at May 07, 2021 01:41 PM (EwPKb)
People are legit fed up with the bullshit and are going Galt or taking all that they can from the government. I can't fault either move.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 07, 2021 01:44 PM (yM0jp)
God, I hate most of the inhabitants of this ocuntry. I no longer call them fellow citizens.
Posted by: butch at May 07, 2021 03:00 PM (cHvOo)
Posted by: Joey "Junk Without Trunks" Biden, Esther Williams Lifeguard of the Year, 1962 at May 07, 2021 03:32 PM (Ndje9)
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