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White House "Surprised" and Disappointed By Record Levels of Inflation, Manchin Calls Pause to #BuildBackBrandon
Local confused old man wanders away from burning home, baffled that fire follows spark.
Manchin has said he might put a break on the whole #BuildBackBrandon bill over the explosive inflation:
The White House was forced on the defensive on Wednesday by a worse-than-expected inflation report that showed the largest annual increase in prices in three decades and triggered fresh criticisms of its legislative agenda on Capitol Hill.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the pace of inflation accelerated in October compared to September, with prices rising 0.9 percent and more than 6 percent over the prior 12 months. [Prices climbed 6.2 percent in October compared to last year, the largest increase in 30 years, as inflation strains economy]
Manchin reportedly wants to stop #BuildBackBrandon until next year. Which isn't that far away. But as we get into 2022, moderates will get more and more worried about the midterms. Via Ed Morrissey, the top economic advisor for Barack Hussein Obama admits that the inflation is largely driven by Biden's multiple rounds of unprecentedly huge "stimulus."
The Biden administration has faced unexpectedly strong political head winds by the continued rise in inflation. Polling suggests voters are frustrated over rising prices, and Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) has pointed at rising inflation as a reason to pause on some parts of the White House's agenda. "By all accounts, the threat posed by record inflation to the American people is not 'transitory' and is instead getting worse," Manchin said in a statement on Wednesday. "From the grocery store to the gas pump, Americans know the inflation tax is real and DC can no longer ignore the economic pain Americans feel every day."
"It's a large blow against the transitory narrative," said Jason Furman, who served as the top economic adviser in the Obama administration. "Inflation is not slowing. It's maintaining a red-hot pace." ... "A sizeable chunk of the inflation we're seeing is the inevitable result of coming out of the pandemic," said Furman, now an economist at the Harvard Kennedy School. Furman suggested, though, that misguided policy played a role, too. Policymakers were so intent on staving off an economic collapse that they "systematically underestimated inflation," he said. "They poured kerosene on the fire." A flood of government spending -- including President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, with its $1,400 checks to most households in March -- overstimulated the economy, Furman said. "Inflation is a lot higher in the United States than it is in Europe," he noted. "Europe is going through the same supply shocks as the United States is, the same supply chain issues. But they didn't do nearly as much stimulus."
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:46 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: klaftern at November 11, 2021 03:47 PM (taPSh)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:47 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Bidet, resident in chef. at November 11, 2021 03:47 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2021 03:48 PM (r5BVk)
Posted by: Mishdog at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (/VWLE)
Surprise Otter
Posted by: steevy at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (CYnTg)
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysteria at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (mf5HN)
Joe Biden is winning against Milton Friedman.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:47 PM (LvTSG)
Yeah, I rule as the shoe in Monopoly! Totally own those guys and their game.
Posted by: Bidet, resident in chef. at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (Ojki1)
It reached double digits for the first time last night.
How long until Biden's supporters qualify as Extremists?
Posted by: 29Victor at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysteria at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (mf5HN)
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I thought the House passed the Senate version and Biden just needs to sign it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (LvTSG)
It's clear Biden must have gotten some dire polling on this issue, of course they're not going to change course, just jawbone companies with raising prices.
Democrats are really boxed in with inflation, helicopter money is their solution to every problem and that just puts gasoline on the fire.
Posted by: Blago at November 11, 2021 03:50 PM (PwNLq)
Posted by: steevy at November 11, 2021 03:50 PM (CYnTg)
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 03:50 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2021 03:50 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: irright at November 11, 2021 03:50 PM (SchQD)
Posted by: The Buried Thread at November 11, 2021 03:50 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Hunter Biden at November 11, 2021 03:50 PM (WmGrA)
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (cUUIs)
Hes come a long way from Captains Quarters
Posted by: Larry Kudlows shocking pink tie at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (YTBIQ)
Stagflation 2: Economic Bugger-you.
And Jimmy Carter was continent. Well, he may not be now, but he was when he was POTUS.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: JT at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: JQ at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (dB4Iz)
Posted by: 29Victor at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (LvTSG)
Then why isn't it signed? That's weird.
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysteria at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (mf5HN)
If you want to "build back Brandon" you'll need to cryogenically freeze the dotard's husk until medical science can transplant the brain of a developmentally disabled 28yo child molester into that old porridge bowl.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (/KPLX)
Posted by: Buzzion at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (G2zl5)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (Xrfse)
Posted by: Muad'dib at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (WffSE)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (LvTSG)
Then why isn't it signed? That's weird.
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysteria at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (mf5HN)
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POCKET VETO!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (LvTSG)
Then why isn't it signed? That's weird.
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysteria at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (mf5HN)
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Silver Alert for F. Joe.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (/U27+)
Is there a good place, a particular album, to start for the Bowie nescient?
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (l4HL2)
As Uncle Milty said, inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (cUUIs)
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Beat me to it. Amazing how often the "best and brightest" are caught flatfooted.
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (YIXP3)
right...I get $600...some rich fuck democrat donor gets a few billion. and every illegal gets free housing, colleges, doctors, and food.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 03:53 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (LvTSG)
Then why isn't it signed? That's weird.
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysteria at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (mf5HN)
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POCKET VETO!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (LvTSG)
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I think he's suppose to sign it on Monday.
Posted by: redridinghood at November 11, 2021 03:53 PM (NpAcC)
And Jimmy Carter was continent. Well, he may not be now, but he was when he was POTUS.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (Mzdiz)
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Jimmuh's another mush-brained old piece of shit, but he's *still* more lucid than Brandon.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 03:53 PM (/KPLX)
TJM, I think Pocket Veto is gonna be the newest transgender Marvel superhero franchise soon... ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 03:53 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 11, 2021 03:53 PM (QU5/8)
Posted by: x at November 11, 2021 03:53 PM (oA+QO)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 11, 2021 03:53 PM (iDcra)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 03:53 PM (ZZK0E)
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What a generous dude! "Instead of plunging over the cliff at 130 MPH, I've stunningly and bravely insisted that we go over it at only 120 MPH. You're welcome ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 03:53 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: 29Victor at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (BJKQV)
They'll just change the measurements like they do every time a Dem president is facing a headache from their policy chickens coming home to roost.
Posted by: Bete at November 11, 2021 03:53 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Zeera Hunkering down here, Boss at November 11, 2021 03:54 PM (NQxvu)
https://bityl.co/9YSS
He has top men on it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 03:54 PM (yQpMk)
I think we're at the point where they'll say the way to fight inflation is to give Americans more money.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 03:54 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: JQ
Or incontinent.
He craps himself constantly, Joe Biden does.
SURPRISE!
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at November 11, 2021 03:54 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 03:54 PM (L2ZTs)
either the supply chain is crippled by people not getting vaxxed.
or
because California essentially shut down its ports. either one. could be crazy and point to the one that actually stopped stuff. YNK
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 03:54 PM (ZZK0E)
A flood of government spending -- including President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package, with its $1,400 checks to most households in March -- overstimulated the economy, Furman said.
"Inflation is a lot higher in the United States than it is in Europe," he noted. "Europe is going through the same supply shocks as the United States is, the same supply chain issues. But they didn't do nearly as much stimulus."
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And that's *Obama's* insane advisor saying that. This means one thing: they're hanging Joe out to dry. Those "stimulus checks" are now Biden's. They weren't a big part of the Senate and House campaigning anymore, are they? Just Joe. Just him.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 03:54 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Joking Joe at November 11, 2021 03:55 PM (+xGNi)
Posted by: x at November 11, 2021 03:53 PM (oA+QO)
Aren't a lot of liver coverage closed captioning handled by AI now?
Posted by: Buzzion at November 11, 2021 03:55 PM (G2zl5)
God knows they both have more balls than the entire GOP put together.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 03:55 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: CN- at November 11, 2021 03:55 PM (ONvIw)
Posted by: JQ at November 11, 2021 03:55 PM (dB4Iz)
Posted by: Bosk at November 11, 2021 03:55 PM (x6uUk)
Oh, there was something about inflation and the economy in the post too? I'd better go back and read it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 03:55 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (l4HL2)
Ziggy Stardust
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 03:55 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Angel at November 11, 2021 03:55 PM (otX8w)
At one time, Jimmy was a smart piece of shit. When you're a stupid piece of shit like Brandon, it doesn't take very much degeneration to knock you into the non-functional IQ bracket.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (/KPLX)
one, gas bills will be higher this winter. The winter's going to be cold as fuck. And three...there won't be any flooding from an angry dirt demon.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Buzzion at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (G2zl5)
Is there a good place, a particular album, to start for the Bowie nescient?
Posted by: banana Dream
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
then Diamond Dogs, then Aladdin Sane.
Posted by: x at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (oA+QO)
Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (9n4tF)
Do we have a lot of data to support that?
Posted by: The Paolo at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (vd8XM)
By 1983 and "Let's Dance," everyone had caught up to him.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: CN- at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (ONvIw)
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (cUUIs)
I object: This is incontinent, irrelevant, and immaterial.
Posted by: Hamilton Burger at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (Mzdiz)
We've spent the equivalent of 4 times what we spent on winning WWII to "recover" from the "Bush Recession," as Obama put it.
In 40 years, economist will call 2008 to 2028, the Second Great Depression, when they're safe--politically--to report the real numbers.
Posted by: Lrrr at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (jIL4c)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 03:55 PM (L2ZTs)
This is about me, isn't it?
Posted by: Miss Lindsey at November 11, 2021 03:57 PM (NgqoH)
* doffs Stetson *
Posted by: Dunccanthrax at November 11, 2021 03:57 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 03:54 PM (DU+/6)
Soon, much like the Vax, it'll be Trump's fault cause the wheels started in motion under him, and Joe just couldn't stop it.
Posted by: Bete at November 11, 2021 03:57 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2021 03:57 PM (s6l2k)
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 11, 2021 03:57 PM (YIXP3)
>>>Defense objection is that Armstrong method of "enhancement" adds pixels, modifies pixels, in image, so image no longer a fair and accurate representation of the original
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 03:57 PM (6dJKT)
I sat down and tried to figure out what I spent the 'stimulus' money on and it took weeks. In the end it was mostly shit I didn't need and probably is now useless.
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 11, 2021 03:57 PM (dQvv7)
Now go back to hiding under your desk screaming for the Capitol officers to shoot, shoot, shoot!
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 03:57 PM (L2ZTs)
Everything You Need to Know About Inflation
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 11, 2021 03:57 PM (+yMcb)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at November 11, 2021 03:58 PM (nxdel)
Is there a good place, a particular album, to start for the Bowie nescient?
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021
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"Fame" from 1975 is the only song of his I know. And for years, listening on tinny AM radio, I thought he was singing "Babe."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 03:58 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Dememtia Joe POTUS at November 11, 2021 03:58 PM (ZVkys)
that's a good question I'd like to know the answer to. I know his greatest hits and like them but I don't know an entry point into his albums. I tried to start his "Berlin Trilogy" which is Station to Station, Low, and Heroes (Maybe?) in some order I forget.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2021 03:58 PM (0G13K)
The hell you say.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 03:58 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 03:58 PM (L2ZTs)
Speaking of liver. I was just gifted a bunch of moose braunschweiger.
Yum.
That is all.
Posted by: Bosk at November 11, 2021 03:58 PM (x6uUk)
Do we have a lot of data to support that?
Posted by: The Paolo at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (vd8XM)
Shut up and TRUST us, peasant!
Posted by: EXPERTS! at November 11, 2021 03:58 PM (wqF6C)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 03:57 PM (6dJKT)
Fake but accurate your Honor...
Posted by: Fatlock at November 11, 2021 03:59 PM (NgqoH)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at November 11, 2021 03:59 PM (IytoW)
right...I get $600...some rich fuck democrat donor gets a few billion. and every illegal gets free housing, colleges, doctors, and food.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 03:53 PM (ZZK0E)
Isn't it a comfort to know your place?
Posted by: your betters at November 11, 2021 03:59 PM (v0R5T)
Is it full? Is it empty?
His underpants are Joe's version of Schrodinger's cat.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 11, 2021 03:59 PM (a1ycR)
Posted by: alexthechick
Still working on the commemorative pens for everyone
Posted by: The Paolo at November 11, 2021 03:59 PM (vd8XM)
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 11, 2021 03:59 PM (+yMcb)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 03:54 PM (L2ZTs)
Bet he never thought he'd live long enough to see his 1979 self again - talk about Back to the Future!
Posted by: Boswell at November 11, 2021 03:59 PM (5iUNf)
Posted by: CN- at November 11, 2021 03:59 PM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Viridian at November 11, 2021 03:59 PM (C+Y+8)
That would explain why when Biden's on it just posts gibberish.
"I'm gonna build back better!"
CC: "Blah blah Democrat shit blah blah"
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 03:59 PM (L2ZTs)
If you look at the money supply in Weimar, you'll see they got away with the wanton printing for a while. Then it all blew up.
Same thing the Fed has been doing. The turned up the printing presses in 2008 to "save the system". Ten years later, it's starting to blow.
Posted by: Hamilton Burger at November 11, 2021 03:59 PM (Mzdiz)
They didn't overstimulate shit. The (bad) idea behind stimulus is that it prompts people to do more work and make more things. That doesn't happen when your "paying" people to compensate shutting down their workplace.
Runaway inflation was the only possible consequence of that spending (and frankly that of Trump's last year, too). The primary problem was always the overreaction to covid, and having done the drastically wrong thing there, there is no longer any fix for the situation, but to suffer through the consequences.
Posted by: Methos at November 11, 2021 03:59 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 11, 2021
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I spent a good chunk of it on the Buick's loan. It's a big part of why I've paid the big red beast off now after only 2 years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 04:00 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Uncle JR at November 11, 2021 04:00 PM (7CrS3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2021 04:00 PM (s6l2k)
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2021 04:00 PM (0G13K)
Defense objection is that Armstrong method of "enhancement" adds pixels, modifies pixels, in image, so image no longer a fair and accurate representation of the original
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And the timestamp on it is 8.3.18
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2021 04:00 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2021 04:00 PM (bVYXr)
Posted by: Lrrr at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (jIL4c)
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If you keep priming, eventually you flood it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 04:00 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: x at November 11, 2021 04:01 PM (oA+QO)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 11, 2021 04:01 PM (QU5/8)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:01 PM (AtfPU)
And how every single year--even with the spending--they still had worse recovery?
Posted by: Lrrr at November 11, 2021 04:01 PM (jIL4c)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2021 04:01 PM (s6l2k)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:01 PM (L2ZTs)
Do we have a lot of data to support that?
Posted by: The Paolo at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (vd8XM)
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No, we have a lot of Harvard to support that.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2021 04:01 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:01 PM (ZZK0E)
That's some awful inflation for one month.
And I don't see it getting better anytime soon.
Brandon really has his work cut out for him to convince the entirety of the DNC to fall on this sword like Obama did with Obamacare.
Thankfully for him he' really persuasive and an excellent speaker who is on top of his mental game for this...
And not a senile old coot who will shart at you and decide it's naptime.
Posted by: ertdfg at November 11, 2021 04:01 PM (I388C)
Posted by: x at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (oA+QO)
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (0G13K)
Also, Sundown Joe's mental schedule is unpredictable.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (3hX1d)
The Dems want your savings, and they've determined this is an easier way to take it then passing the tax increases they want on the middle class.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (ESjRY)
Look at M0, monetary base, in FRED, here:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BOGMBASE
Just behold that. Note the big jumps in steps. That was each round of QE. Note they started tapering off and lowering M0 starting around 2015 or so.
Then came Covid and lockdown and it was To the Moon, Alice!
Posted by: Hamilton Burger at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Dunccanthrax at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Buzzion
As Uncle Milty said, inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion
We all may not know every detail of monetary policy as espoused by the government, but people "know" when they are "in the shit", as we were under Obama and more so now.
Economic growth is paltry and slow because taxes and policies become too punitive to encourage growth. And now, too much money is chasing too few goods. The disposable income is flooding the Stock Market, keeping it propped up, but is also causing inflation, as people are "bidding" on fewer goods. Demand is higher than supply. This will continue into the foreseeable future.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (ZZK0E)
Tomayto, tomahto...
Posted by: JQ at November 11, 2021 03:55 PM (dB4Iz)
I am NOT impotent!
Posted by: Joe Biden with a steel plate in his head at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (v0R5T)
At this point I don't even care.
As Lenin once said "The worse things get, the better".
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (jTmQV)
I spent a good chunk of it on the Buick's loan. It's a big part of why I've paid the big red beast off now after only 2 years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 04:00 PM
Buick you say? Could it hold about 100 reams of freshly printed ballots?
Posted by: New Jersey Democrat Party at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (dQvv7)
Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (9n4tF)
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Should add a new term to the urban dictionary: "malaise -- when you can't command your bowel movements, but you can command the destruction of a nation. Also, see 'mayonnaise-filled shart'."
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:03 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 04:00 PM (txdEq)
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We ended up getting something like 10,000 in stimulus across six months, and we put all of it towards debt.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 04:03 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Traitor Joe's Military Surplus, Vaccine and Massage Parlor at November 11, 2021
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I spent a good chunk of it on the Buick's loan. It's a big part of why I've paid the big red beast off now after only 2 years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 04:00 PM (txdEq)
The first two went two went to MIL's cremation expenses and a new shed. Don't remember what we did with the third one, but I think we paid taxes with it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 11, 2021 04:03 PM (Ez6QX)
We are now at Stage 5.
1. What inflation? There is no inflation.
2. If there is inflation, it's "transitory."
3. Inflation is "good" because it's a "leading sign" of a strong economy.
4. The pandemic and unvaccinated are causing this inflation.
5. We inherited this terrible inflation from Trump.
6. Experts say inflation is over and economy has never been better.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at November 11, 2021 04:03 PM (gwQC+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2021 04:03 PM (s6l2k)
But, as the FNM will tell you, the proles eat too well in America, and they've found a way to stop that.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:03 PM (ESjRY)
I know people love his classics from his peak years, but I really love Blackstar. He was getting close to dying and you can tell he knew it, poured his last thoughts and feelings about shuffling off this mortal coil into it. It is for me like older Johnny Cash: a finely aged wine of his distilled gifts for music and showmanship.
Plus I have a goth side and it appeals to that, especially in the music vids.
Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2021 04:03 PM (9n4tF)
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the only real argument they try to make is that ppl are buying too much stuff. that's all. a complete non-starter to obfuscate the money printing. Also, now that the dirt demon is satisfied we're paying $5 a gallon gas, folks are buying less gas, which makes the shit argument shittier.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:03 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:03 PM (AtfPU)
Including pics of Nicole Kidman playing Lucy. IMHO Nicole ended up looking a lot like Victoria Jackson.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:04 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Viridian at November 11, 2021
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She was . . . with her short hair, kind of a sexy, sensual Euro answer to Kim Darby in True Grit.
Cat People is also one of the few movies that have managed to capture at least some of the flavor of Noo Awlins on film. They shot it here, thankfully not all in the French Quarter. In one scene you can see the *old* entrance to the zoo as it looked in '81, before the place was renovated into a modern animal facility.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 04:04 PM (txdEq)
i should listen to that. i've heard good things.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2021 04:04 PM (0G13K)
Where did Furman get his MBA? Sears and Roebuck?
Posted by: Diogenes
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Is that better than a Harbor Freight MBA?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2021 04:04 PM (/U27+)
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.
Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at November 11, 2021 04:04 PM (rDgjh)
Posted by: 29Victor at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (BJKQV)
Empty shelves are good, and here's why:
Fully stocked shelves cost the stores money, so empty shelves save money, and the savings are passed on to you!
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 11, 2021 04:04 PM (VGRuw)
Biden 2021: Lower your expectations. Oh and fuck your freedoms.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:04 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2021 04:02 PM (axyOa)
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University of American Samoa online. [h/t James Morgan McGill, AKA Saul Goodman]
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysteria at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (mf5HN)
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POCKET VETO!!!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM
1. Congress has to "present" it to the president for his signature.
2. A "Pocket Veto" is if there is less than 10 days remaining in the Congressional session. Since that is not the case here, if the bill is presented to Brandon and he just forgets to sign it, it becomes law after 10 days.
Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (EughT)
Biden 2021: Lower your expectations. Oh and fuck your freedoms.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:04 PM (ESjRY)
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That escalated quickly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (LvTSG)
And Jimmy Carter was continent. Well, he may not be now, but he was when he was POTUS.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (Mzdiz)
Happiest living ex President today is Jimmy C. Knowing he will not go down as the worst.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (axyOa)
Perhaps. But they certainly can and will lie people into:
1. Blaming it on Trump. That will do for about 60% of the country.
2. Blaming it on themselves, because Americans are greedy assholes raping Mother Gaia. That's another 20% the country.
I have absolutely no confidence in people paying over $100 dollars for a tank of gas and seeing empty shelves to do anything other than blame Trump and his white supremacist buddies.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (2JVJo)
Manchin is slimy, but he's not stupid. He knows that by next year BBB is going to be impossible, as inflation continues to get worse while the elections get closer.
Lesson for any new administration, including our next one: if you want to make big changes, make sure and do them within 6 months of taking power. Any longer than that and the whole effort goes flat and dies.
Posted by: The Reaper at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (trdmm)
2. A "Pocket Veto" is if there is less than 10 days remaining in the Congressional session. Since that is not the case here, if the bill is presented to Brandon and he just forgets to sign it, it becomes law after 10 days.
Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (EughT)
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3. A joke is a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2021 04:06 PM (s6l2k)
Posted by: Lrrr at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (jIL4c)
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That isn't a fair comparison. The raw dollar terms or inflation-adjusted terms are a poor basis for comparison.
WWII was a total mobilization, and it consumed *everything* the economy was producing. WWII cost something like 38% of GDP in the peak year, and an average of about a quarter in other years. In similar terms, COVID cost about $3 trillion so far on a 2020 GDP of about $21 trillion. That is 3/21, or about 14%, which is nowhere near war costs even the non-peak War years.
But that doesn't mean it is a small amount of money or that it was well spent or that it was necessary or that any of it was a good idea. It is just nowhere near as expensive as a complete mobilization for the purpose of total war.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 04:06 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at November 11, 2021 04:06 PM (ZwxDF)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:06 PM (6dJKT)
The thing to understand is we have crossed the event horizon. The Fed cannot stop this if it wanted to. If they tried to pull a Volcker and start pulling all those trillions out, we'll the increase in interest rates would blow up the federal govt, now $28T in debt, not to mention blowing up the stock market and the bond market.
The Fed would likely destroy themselves. If they lost control of interest rates, that is investors realizing hey, they're doing it, and they start bidding up rates, the Fed's own balance sheet would undergo total protonic reversal.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 04:06 PM (Mzdiz)
I'd assume in today's dollars it would add up to trillions.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:07 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:07 PM (AtfPU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2021 04:04 PM (/U27+)
You pay money.
Here degree.
You go now.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2021 04:07 PM (axyOa)
Manchin is slimy, but he's not stupid. He knows that by next year BBB is going to be impossible, as inflation continues to get worse while the elections get closer.
I wonder if people like Manchin and Sinema realize that Biden is throwing their whole crooked way of life into jeopardy.
Yeah sure Dem politicians make their money by selling favors to big business. But if Biden either collapses the economy or even ushers in a new socialist state those opportunities likely go away. There are elites in North Korea after all...but they don't live like Sen Manchin...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:07 PM (ESjRY)
The turkeys were all too big for our tastes, mostly 16 to 20 pounds, so we went with just the breasts.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 04:07 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Joe Biden with a steel plate in his head
Suppose we could ask your daughter about that?
Or-- read her diary?
Posted by: JQ at November 11, 2021 04:07 PM (dB4Iz)
As Uncle Milty said, inflation is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (Mzdiz)
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My understanding is that we've exported much of the monetary inflation to other countries ... ONLY because the U.S. Dollar is still the world's reserve currency. When that ends, and all those dollars come flooding back into the USA, it's Weimar and Zimbabwe in America.
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:08 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: banana Dream
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars then Diamond Dogs, then Aladdin Sane.
Posted by: x at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (oA+QO)
I'll give this a try, thank you.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021 04:08 PM (l4HL2)
I pointed out repeatedly that the inflation was going to rapidly run out of control under Brandon. Trump, for all his other virtues, was a spendthrift. We were running at scary spending levels during his time in office, COVID bullshit notwithstanding.
The trick Trump had up his sleeve was tax-cuts, deregulation and many other savvy, business-friendly policies. This allowed economic growth to outpace the inflation.
The problem with that is that the growth hare is always just a step ahead of the inflation fox. As soon as *any* other person was in office, Republican or Democrat, many of those policies were going straight in the trashcan - and then, *BAM*, the fox catches up.
With a Democrat, businesses can't even cross their fingers and hope it won't be too bad. They know that the government is going to wreck all the new opportunity, and adjust their outlays accordingly. So the contraction is going to be immediate, yuuuge, and luxurious, while the spending will remain constant or grow.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 04:08 PM (/KPLX)
Biden 2021: Lower your expectations. Oh and fuck your freedoms.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:04 PM (ESjRY)
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That escalated quickly.
Wait til you get a load of me
Posted by: 2022, so close you can taste me at November 11, 2021 04:08 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2021 04:08 PM (s6l2k)
Posted by: banana Dream
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars then Diamond Dogs, then Aladdin Sane.
Posted by: x at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (oA+QO)
I'll give this a try, thank you.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021 04:08 PM (l4HL2)
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You could always start at the Labyrinth soundtrack.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 04:08 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Con Inc. Members of the US Senate at November 11, 2021 04:08 PM (2xGy+)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:08 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:08 PM (6dJKT)
Pixel-talk at the trial.
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:06 PM (6dJKT)
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"Can you move that pixel to the left slightly?.. Not that one... A bit less please..."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2021 04:09 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 11, 2021 04:09 PM (jTmQV)
https://outline.com/W9b4EK
What kills me is what people like Vernon Reid and Robert Cray are saying about him. I get that Reid is taking some statements that Clapton said about race personally, but Cray is another story. Cray and Clapton were very close for decades, and it looks like Clapton's stance on the vax has driven a wedge between their friendship - initiated by Cray. It's a long article, but you don't see until practically the end why, after bad reactions from two shots, Clapton might be a little leery about mandating other people getting the 'jab'.
Quite sad, really. Friendships shouldn't break over something more serious than a difference of opinion, but that's where we are now.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 11, 2021 04:09 PM (mMrkq)
Happiest living ex President today is Jimmy C. Knowing he will not go down as the worst.
Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (axyOa)
Obumbles already saved him from that "honor."
Posted by: Bete at November 11, 2021 04:09 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 11, 2021 04:09 PM (ekXJa)
You have to add in the indirect costs though too - how much did the lockdowns cost the economy? The numbers I see say it killed half of the small businesses in America.
So I think if you add in the costs born by the private sector and individuals it ends up being more then WWII already.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:09 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (2JVJo)
in this, I think your ingrained pessimism is leading you astray. You forget what a short term focus most people have. They're like my cat who when she runs to the door and sees it raining runs to the other day, because surely it won't be wet outside *both* doors.
The guy who sits in the oval office gets the blame for whatever is going wrong, no matter what the MSM (who no one listens to anymore) says. It might be unfair, but that's how people are.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:09 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at November 11, 2021 04:09 PM (ryAbn)
I'd assume in today's dollars it would add up to trillions.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:07 PM (L2ZTs)
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There are a bunch of ways to do it, but WWII is a really hard thing against which to draw comparisons. It was a full economic mobilization to support a total war. You can adjust it by inflation or use constant dollars (another form of inflation) or percentage of the federal budget on defense or compare it to the percentage of GDP committed to defense or do a GDP-based comparison in terms of percentage of GDP consumed by the war. I like the latter, but none of them are all that precise. There's really no way to do it, because of how *big* the War was.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 04:06 PM (Mzdiz)
That's bad. Okay. All right, important safety tip. Thanks
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (VGRuw)
Posted by: gourmand du jour
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right? because you're buying too much of it. Not because we have to use fake money to buy it from foreigners who want gold, thanks.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (s6l2k)
2. A "Pocket Veto" is if there is less than 10 days remaining in the Congressional session. Since that is not the case here, if the bill is presented to Brandon and he just forgets to sign it, it becomes law after 10 days.
Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (EughT)
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3. A joke is a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (LvTSG)
I DON'T GET IT.
Posted by: Ben Rothlesburger at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (Ojki1)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (AtfPU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2021 04:01 PM
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Gerald McRainey and Jameson Parker were great in that show. Don't remember any episodes about cat people though.
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (YIXP3)
Plus so many industries made bank off the war I believe.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (L2ZTs)
It isn't just the money, as it is when talking about run of the mill federal deficit spending. It was the willful shutting down of most of the economy for months on end. That would have caused inflation on its own (less stuff with the same amount of money sloshing around).
Posted by: Methos at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (kOpft)
Indeed. That is what has allowed us to get away with this shit for so long. Were we not the reserve currency, the dollar would've been destroyed a long time ago.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (AtfPU)
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They announced the greenlight a couple of weeks ago. Filming will begin in July of next year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 04:11 PM (LvTSG)
Bah just make the Germans give you more money.
Posted by: Greece at November 11, 2021 04:11 PM (ESjRY)
The turkeys were all too big for our tastes, mostly 16 to 20 pounds, so we went with just the breasts.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 04:07 PM (yQpMk)
Just one for me, plus the 3-pack of thighs for my mom.
... maybe it was a Martian turkey?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 11, 2021 04:11 PM (wqF6C)
In 50 years, we've went from "We're all Keynesians now," to "Keynesians? Screw those skinflints!"
Posted by: Wally at November 11, 2021 04:11 PM (H6bGV)
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The spike protein interferes with DNA repair mechanisms in vitro. DNA errors lead to cancer. The answer is to keep pushing the vax to see if there is a surge in cancer in the next few years. Vax your 5 year old. If he develops leukemia at 15, we will know that he probably should not have gotten the vaccine. Oops.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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Heard someone make a really interesting observation, although I'm no vaccinologist so I don't know the ins and outs.
The push for kids to get the Pfizer shot as a regularly-scheduled thing same as all the other school-required shots is because that puts Comirnity (or whatever the name is) permanently under a different level of legal protection where the maximum payout is something like $300K.
That's why kids are going to be required to get it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pfizer added a heart attack stabilizer to the kids injection, p14 at November 11, 2021 04:11 PM (XSoJN)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:11 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Tom Servo
Closing down the Keystone Pipeline on his very first fucking day creates OWNERSHIP of any and all fallout from that.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2021 04:11 PM (YQdCi)
So I think if you add in the costs born by the private sector and individuals it ends up being more then WWII already.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:09 PM (ESjRY)
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There's no way to measure it. National income is about the same, for example. GDP hasn't collapsed, either. The indirect costs are incalculable, literally. They are disastrous and the whole thing is an utter debacle that has been hugely destructive, but I doubt it can be effectively quantified.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 04:11 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (9n4tF)
.......
and Unity.
and Norms.
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2021 04:12 PM (v0R5T)
1. Make everyone take lots of poisonous vaccines
2. Give everyone $600 in Summer 2022
3. ?????
4. Profit!!!
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:12 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 11, 2021 04:12 PM (+xGNi)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:12 PM (AtfPU)
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Also, if the feral government calculated inflation as defined in 1980, we'd be over 14% now. F*cking joke of an unserious, pathetic, suicidal country ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:12 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (YIXP3)
Simon and Simon came on right after Mangum PI, and I liked it much more than MPI.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Scary Leprechaun with a cudgel at November 11, 2021 04:12 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (cSs/W)
Posted by: JQ at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (dB4Iz)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (L2ZTs)
The Fed would likely destroy themselves. If they lost control of interest rates, that is investors realizing hey, they're doing it, and they start bidding up rates, the Fed's own balance sheet would undergo total protonic reversal.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 04:06 PM
Correct, the Fed can't raise interest rates or they would destroy the economy and the Country.
There is literally nothing they can do after almost 15 years of near zero interest rates. If they raise the rates to 1970s-80s levels of 10-15% to control inflation the government defaults. We are fvcked.
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (bVYXr)
The turkeys were all too big for our tastes, mostly 16 to 20 pounds, so we went with just the breasts.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
I shot a 15 lb turkey last night.
Scared the shit out of everyone in the grocery store.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (YQdCi)
And looking at the other side of it, WWII gave us a defeated National Socialist Germany and Imperial Japan.
COVID mania gave us...well...apparently the same amount of COVID we had before we started burning all those pallets of money.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: FatAlbert at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (/Rqse)
Posted by: Methos at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (kOpft)
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Absolutely. Then there's the problem of doing all of this when debt already exceeded GDP, which is new territory and certainly didn't apply to the War period.
It's hard to compare either thing. WWII because of scale, this is because of how distinct it is in terms of circumstances. All I think I can comfortably say is, "it has been a tremendous and possibly civilization-destroying disaster who's harm can never be adequately quantified."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (IloDw)
Pixel-talk at the trial.
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:06 PM (6dJKT)
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"Can you move that pixel to the left slightly?.. Not that one... A bit less please..."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 11, 2021 04:09 PM (/U27+)
yeah this is all time wasting, they're at the end of the trial and this technical nit picking is going to have no bearing on anything.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:14 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Bete
Rectification comes for all of us and our dreams. There is what we want the world to be and there is reality. Media's spell is broken for most of us because we see their lies everytime we buy something, try to post something, or need medical care.
The Soviet media at the end was so distrusted that even the midlevel people knew that it was bullshit. The lords are the last to know.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:14 PM (9hXN1)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 04:11 PM (DU+/6)
National income and GDP haven't changed, but they've been redistributed. WalMart, Amazon, and the other big boys killed of the smaller guys. Same amount of money spent, but a whole lot more went to Bezos and the indolent Walton family
Posted by: Wally at November 11, 2021 04:14 PM (H6bGV)
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2021 04:14 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (2JVJo)
MP4 gets it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 11, 2021 04:14 PM (Ez6QX)
Your iPhone costs are about the same because of slave labor, while we are not pricing the working class out of their traditional food stuffs and...the government says no serious inflation here!
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:14 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 11, 2021 04:14 PM (sVtYq)
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3. A joke is a thing that someone says to cause amusement or laughter, especially a story with a funny punchline.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM
But all the time people say to me "I bet you're fun at parties"
Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2021 04:14 PM (EughT)
Prosecutors are trying to get an avenue to get their apple phone video in that they believe shows Kyle pointed his weapon first. That is what all the tech talk is about.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:15 PM (9hXN1)
Posted by: FatAlbert at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (/Rqse)
We have all these awesome bug recipes and you keep buying animal products!
Posted by: Great Resetters at November 11, 2021 04:15 PM (wqF6C)
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And why the risible "Build Back Better?" If everything is fine, there's no need to "build back."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:15 PM (YnEiF)
Posted by: Tom Servo
NOT using the Commerce Clause to beat the snot out of California and them being the SOLE cause of the supply chain logjam is SQUARELY on Joe's shoulders.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2021 04:15 PM (YQdCi)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2021 04:15 PM (r5BVk)
The Fed would likely destroy themselves. If they lost control of interest rates, that is investors realizing hey, they're doing it, and they start bidding up rates, the Fed's own balance sheet would undergo total protonic reversal.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 04:06 PM
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Yup. It can't be fixed without high interest to suck the excess liquidity out of the economy and cause the capital markets to rationalize, but doing that will turf a huge amount of asset value - especially in bonds, but also in equities - and cause the US government debt service to fail.
They're stuck, and so are we.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a coP!) at November 11, 2021 04:15 PM (DU+/6)
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The important thing is to remember it's on purpose.
The 2008ish "crash" wasn't really that big of a deal and there were systems in place to address all of it and come out stronger with some people having a bad year or two, and the media turned it into a world-changing event and the feds decided that was the moment to burn everything down.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Pfizer added a heart attack stabilizer to the kids injection, p14 at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (XSoJN)
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: vivi at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (+F+Xg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (AtfPU)
I remember a profile of some city where they raised the minimum wage to $15/h.
They were interviewing fast food workers who though it was GREAT...but...they found the costs for most of the stuff they wanted to buy had gone up so much they didn't actually have any more money in their pockets after all...and no one knew why that could have happened...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2021 04:14 PM (0G13K)
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Mistakenly filling the firetruck with kerosene and then showing up and using it to put out a fire.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (ZwxDF)
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (sVtYq)
I'd assume in today's dollars it would add up to trillions.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:07 PM (L2ZTs)
Along those lines, the Straight Dope once did a column about the relative cost of the Vietnam war:
https://tinyurl.com/259m9xj4
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (2JVJo)
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Oh, I don't know about that...
Posted by: Barack Obama circa Nov 2012 at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (IytoW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, the hero Gotham deserves at November 11, 2021 04:05 PM (LvTSG)
I DON'T GET IT.
Posted by: Ben Rothlesburger at November 11, 2021 04:10 PM (Ojki1)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE A JOKE ISN'T FUNNY IF YOU HAVE TO EXPLAIN IT
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (kOpft)
Agree completely, good characterization. People are wondering if our Titanic is going to hit the iceberg, and don't realize we've already hit it. It's just going to take quite a few more months for the lower decks to fill and the ship of state to sink.
That's a big part of why I think speculation about 2024 is so ridiculous at this point - the world is going to change so immensely over the next 3 years that we may not even recognize it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: whig
Which will go directly against what the state's witnesses claimed yesterday.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2021 04:17 PM (YQdCi)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:11 PM (ZZK0E)
hmm
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:17 PM (6dJKT)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:17 PM (YnEiF)
Posted by: Wally at November 11, 2021 04:14 PM (H6bGV)
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Yes. And we won't ever know how much or what the consequences are because we don't have time machine *or* any honesty whatsoever in any official figures.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:17 PM (DU+/6)
Bowie was one of kind, so many great albums in a variety of styles over almost 50 years.
But if you are uninitiated, I would start with a compilation. There are many, but the one from 1 few years ago, Nothing Has Changed , which is 3CDs, is very well put together and has all the highlights and some rarities.
Posted by: JoeF. at November 11, 2021 04:17 PM (mR6Gs)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:18 PM (AtfPU)
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Prager knocks this one out of the park. What's the first question EVERYBODY asks themselves (unless you're an elitist snob and "if you have to ask you can't afford it") when making a decision in every situation -- which is a mini-cost/benefit analysis, for example when shopping for an item?
"WHAT DOES IT COST?" But the death cult, suicidal Left NEVER asks that question ... and when YOU do and demand they answer it (which never happens owing to the Progda Enemedia), they run away with their infantile fingers in their ears screaming "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:18 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell, Heavy White Farter at November 11, 2021 04:18 PM (gFCzd)
I agree with you, Tom. The people who loathe Trump will continue to blame him (So, what else is new?) but anyone who's paying any attention knows the supply chain wasn't the problem time Trump was in office. Hoarders just took too much TP and cleaning products. They also know-because the media has been reporting it like it's the greatest thing since sliced bread-that Yay!; We have a big stimulus bill that will help lots of people and they don't see it. They see surges in gas prices and I'm sure something- ummm- leaks out somewhere about Joe's dementia
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2021 04:18 PM (YK8CE)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:18 PM (6dJKT)
Posted by: Barack Obama circa Nov 2012 at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (IytoW)
Even the Magic Man had a disastrous 2010 election cycle.
What saved him was that most of the GOP at the time was actually on his side.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:18 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at November 11, 2021 04:18 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (ESjRY)
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Which is, of course, why they're fast food workers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:18 PM (YnEiF)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:19 PM (ZZK0E)
https://is.gd/AUf0v6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:19 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:19 PM (6dJKT)
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (sVtYq)
That's going to be fun come tax time.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 11, 2021 04:19 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:19 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (bVYXr)
Trump deserves a fair amount of blame for blowing up the debt, but he did have a bipartisan gun to his head to inject funds into the economy because of COVID. On the good side, he added maybe 16 million jobs when we rebounded from the unemployment depths of last year (remember when the MSM was salivating about the prospect of 20% unemployment going into Election Day? Good times.) lickety-split.
His timing, therefore, is impeccable. He's out at just the right time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 11, 2021 04:19 PM (mMrkq)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/child-tax-credit/
Posted by: APJ at November 11, 2021 04:19 PM (G1dq6)
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 11, 2021 04:19 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 11, 2021 04:20 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 11, 2021 04:20 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (sVtYq)
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Trying to get the camel's nose in the tent re universal basic income, which is itself madness.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:20 PM (YnEiF)
The funny thing is the Fed's power is really psychological. The Fed can move things, but only because the markets believe the Fed has the power. I've read several interesting pieces on this over the years.
There have been several instances where the markets misinterpreted what the Fed wanted to do. That is, the Fed was actually trying to zig, but the market thought they were zagging. Guess which way reality goes? The way the market thinks, not the way the Fed wants.
The Fed knows this well. If they ever lose control, the market freaks out and does what it wants and the hell with the Fed, then it's game over.
If there is ever a realization that US debt is dog shit, which it is, and the market reacts accordingly, there is not a damn thing the Fed can do to stop the detonation.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 04:20 PM (Mzdiz)
A classic logical error is something called black and white. Binary logic doesn't work for most situations--he is assuming that what he sees and believes is a universal truth. It is not. Take a look at even the very Dem friendly polls. 70 percent know that something is wrong in the USA and the the LGB or the FJB indicates that the junta is not popular.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:20 PM (9hXN1)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at November 11, 2021 04:16 PM (ZwxDF)
F 451 was not the Government but the People that did not want others knowing what THEY though was unknowable or Incomprehensible.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 11, 2021 04:21 PM (yrol0)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/child-tax-credit/
Posted by: APJ at November 11, 2021 04:19 PM (G1dq6)
I think this is something that people normally get as a lump sum when they file their taxes, but now they are getting it monthly instead.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 11, 2021 04:21 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Kramerica A-counting Korp. at November 11, 2021 04:21 PM (gFCzd)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 11, 2021 04:21 PM (r5BVk)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2021 04:21 PM (5ZoBm)
The defense just proved that the altered photo the prosecution wants to introduce is in fact altered by interpolation is not a fair and accurate depiction of reality, and their own expert admitted that on the stand. So now they're telling the judge he's too old to understand the issues here!
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2021 04:22 PM (0G13K)
If there is ever a realization that US debt is dog shit, which it is, and the market reacts accordingly, there is not a damn thing the Fed can do to stop the detonation.
Posted by: publius,
If the markets don't know "this" by now, they're never going to freak out.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2021 04:22 PM (YQdCi)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:22 PM (6dJKT)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:17 PM (DU+/6)
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This is the killer right here. THEY have destroyed ALL Trust in virtually every institution and talking head/celebrity/"leader."
Out: I Want To Believe.
In: I Cannot Believe.
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:22 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:11 PM (ZZK0E)
hmm
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:17 PM (6dJKT)
still keeping an eye on it, looks like Kraus isn't fooling the Judge. BTW, Kyle admitted that at one point he stopped and pointed his gun at Rosenbaum to try and deter him from chasing him before Kyle started to run away from him again. That was brought out days ago.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:22 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:22 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2021 04:22 PM (TNYo7)
Posted by: H8 Marxist Rat Bastards and Hermaphrodite Leftie Policymakers at November 11, 2021 04:22 PM (5DfsO)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 04:20 PM (Mzdiz)
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And it's worse than that: if the Fed tries desperately to stop the detonation, that will only spook the market even more - because it will collectively reason that things must be even worse than they thought to panic the Fed.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:23 PM (YnEiF)
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 11, 2021 04:14 PM (Ez6QX)
As Tom Servo said, I am an ingrained pessimist.* But I live in Massachusetts, which is a sort of Ground Zero for leftist insanity POV. And I can tell you that, just from everyday conversations, the main topics are why the maskless are selfish bastards who need to die, why Trump is a much bigger liar than poor Joe Biden, that nobody knows about Keystone or gives a shit about Afghanistan, that high fuel prices are because of those rat bastard Big Oil pricks and that Republicans are brain-dead Fox-watching Trump cultists.
I extrapolate what is around me and, with good reason, I think a majority of this country is as brain-dead as the people here. YMMV.
*as well as a fat, alcoholic, chronically-depressed pig, but that's a topic for another day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 11, 2021 04:23 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 11, 2021 04:23 PM (e/pB2)
Out: I Want To Believe.
In: I Cannot Believe.
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:22 PM (cUUIs)
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Yup. We're in low-trust, on our way to zero.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:23 PM (DU+/6)
This bullshit. I believe nothing the government feeds us.
I've noticed WAY more than a 1% increase in the past month.
"No matter how cynical you think you are, you are still naive."
Posted by: Golfman at November 11, 2021 04:23 PM (hOMhY)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:23 PM (6dJKT)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:23 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:20 PM (9hXN1)
Agree to disagree. I can absolutely see a bunch of TikToking LIVs hearing that Biden inherited this economy from Trump and parroting that shit until the end of time.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 11, 2021 04:24 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Les Nessman at November 11, 2021 04:24 PM (63Dwl)
Kraus: This is an accredited lab--
Judge interrupts: What does that mean to me? What does peer review mean to me? You've presented no scientific evidence on this. Show me the images, I'll take a look.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:24 PM (trdmm)
For individuals, the standard deduction rose by $400 from $12,550 to $12,950. For married couples, the standard deduction rose by $800 from $25,100 to $25,900.
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 11, 2021 04:24 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:24 PM (AtfPU)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:24 PM (YnEiF)
Right now, the Masque of the Red Death resembles the party on wall street. Jaunty but tinged with terror that the devastation of the economy will reach them too.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:25 PM (9hXN1)
Maybe not the place to share this, but I started having weird heart stuff happen a month or two after my second vax. Daily heart palpitations, heart feels sluggish, left side of neck is chronically sore. I cannot sleep on my left side due to the internal neck pain. went into ER and they did an EKG and said I had no clots, and that was it for them. I did a heart monitor test but they act s like nothing was out of ordinary, when I know I have palpitation episodes recorded on the thing. I need a new GP, they were more concerned about me getting a mammogram than figuring out what was wrong with my heart. The second I told them I thought it might be vaccine related I got dismissed.
Not really sure what to do and am scared about my heart. Feel like the doctors are not listening to me.
Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2021 04:25 PM (9n4tF)
I think the intent is to break us all, make our money worthless. For the climate. Too much comsumin goin on.
Posted by: Javems at November 11, 2021 04:25 PM (fgFKs)
But he didn't shoot Ziminsky, did he?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:24 PM (YnEiF)
Get on a work call for 30min and miss the fun.
Posted by: redchief at November 11, 2021 04:25 PM (Kab4E)
Judge interrupts: What does that mean to me? What does peer review mean to me?
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It means the labs have "accredited" each other.
It's like the commies giving each other awards.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:25 PM (YnEiF)
https://is.gd/AUf0v6
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:19 PM (DU+/6)
That was my first Asian!
Posted by: Jeremy Grey at November 11, 2021 04:26 PM (R/m4+)
Are they flying in?
Posted by: Les Nessman at November 11, 2021 04:24 PM (63Dwl)
Mounting a counterattack?
Posted by: Wally at November 11, 2021 04:26 PM (H6bGV)
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 11, 2021 04:26 PM (Vxu+H)
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 11, 2021 04:23 PM (e/pB2)
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As it should. It should frighten everyone.
Why? Because it's a massively complex organic system. Would you deign to say, "I can control the food chain and make changes that better everyone and harm no one by changing who eats what at every level?" No, you wouldn't. No one rational would. There is no way to make that kind of statement honestly because it's a complex organic system. Yet for some reason these same assholes think they can control a complex system like the economy or the climate and can do no wrong and never have an accident and blow everything up.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:26 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 04:08 PM (/KPLX)
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Indeed. And who in their right mind would try to start a small business now after what has happened to most over the past couple of years?
There's a very real opportunity where I live to start a courier company (none exists), and if it was 2017 I happily might have tried. But now? There is ZERO incentive to take that risk when governments can wipe me out on a whim ...
Thank about THAT opportunity cost multiplied by tens of millions.
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:26 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: redchief at November 11, 2021 04:25 PM (Kab4E)
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"And so, in conclusion ... blah blah blah.
(turns off muting) "Huh? Oh. OK."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:27 PM (YnEiF)
*as well as a fat, alcoholic, chronically-depressed pig, but that's a topic for another day.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 11, 2021 04:23 PM (2JVJo)
You should be where I am in East Texas - covid is over and only a handful of frightened old people still wear masks.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:27 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:27 PM (AtfPU)
you mean he might have pointed it at Ziminsky, the man shooting a gun at him?
The horror!
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2021 04:27 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:20 PM (9hXN1)
A Black and White Fallacy is when someone irrationally limits the alternatives to (usually) two .
The real problem is that many people are shitty at figuring out all of the possibilities, so they default to a binary decision.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2021 04:27 PM (Q9lwr)
Look, I admit when I am wrong. I ate crow over the VA election. But I was fucking right on the money about Kung Flu and masks never going away. And I still believe I will be vindicated about people blaming a crashing economy on Trump / GOP.
I get it, I get it - I'm a doomposting, depressing asshole. But I find it's a damned sight healthier, psychologically, to expect the worst in every situation than hoping for the best and suddenly crawling over the floor wondering where your teeth are after Reality has taken a stormtrooper's boot to your head.
I'll see you on another thread.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at November 11, 2021 04:28 PM (2JVJo)
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The function of the law: to provide predictability, and thereby to allow planning and rational risk-taking.
Which is why, e.g., Somalia, is not a hotbed of entrepreneurship.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:28 PM (YnEiF)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 11, 2021 04:29 PM (GuTG8)
It's the most divisive bill ever created, according to her, filled with payoffs to every conceivable group other than middle class Americans. Criminals get paid, illegals gets paid, the wealthy get paid, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Asians of various flavors, Hispanics, AA, everyone gets a shit-ton of money, all freshly printed by the Fed.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2021 04:29 PM (TNYo7)
Posted by: dartist at November 11, 2021 04:29 PM (+ya+t)
Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2021 04:29 PM (Xo3T0)
Must all be sitting off Leftifornia coast
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2021 04:29 PM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Fartin' Joe Biden! at November 11, 2021 04:30 PM (I2/tG)
Really? If you feel that way about the people here maybe you should take a break from the board.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2021 04:30 PM (YK8CE)
Why White Voters With Racist Views Often Still Support Black Republicans
By Hakeem Jefferson and Michael Tesler
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 11, 2021 04:30 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:20 PM (9hXN1)
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Yes. This argument comes up when one option is clearly bad, so some nitwits assume the alternative must clearly be good.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:30 PM (YnEiF)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:24 PM (AtfPU)
........
Wore it out on ballots.
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2021 04:30 PM (v0R5T)
It's the most divisive bill ever created, according to her, filled with payoffs to every conceivable group other than middle class Americans. Criminals get paid, illegals gets paid, the wealthy get paid, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, Asians of various flavors, Hispanics, AA, everyone gets a shit-ton of money, all freshly printed by the Fed.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2021 04:29 PM (TNYo7)
Well, Coulter hated OrangeManBad, so she gets what she gets and she shouldn't get upsets.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 11, 2021 04:30 PM (mMrkq)
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2021 04:30 PM (V13WU)
Milton Friedman is dead, you know!
Posted by: Fartin' Joe Biden! at November 11, 2021 04:30 PM (I2/tG)
Bided plagiarized his pencil story.
AGAIN
Posted by: rhennigantx at November 11, 2021 04:30 PM (yrol0)
>>>Schroeder: I will allow it into evidence, but the witness will be cross-examined in front of the jury.
Chirafisi: He doesn't get to say what those images are, correct?
Kraus: No, I won't ask him that
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:31 PM (6dJKT)
What you are describing observing is Veblen's leisure class that knows it f.cked up but is unable to admit it. That is the class of midwits who fear being exposed as intellectual lightweights. When even Larry Summers, an ass, but educated ass, declares that the jig is up--the midwits desperately cling to I have to be right in my beliefs. When they turn, it will not be nice because the only way that midwits know to get out of their trap is to blame being deceived on those in power.
FWIW, You might try reading O. Henry for a bit. Have a bit of faith, watch an SEC game where they are openly chanting FJB.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:31 PM (9hXN1)
At least half the stores are gone. Very upsetting. I don't recognize what we have become.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 11, 2021 04:31 PM (7b2L9)
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 11, 2021 04:23 PM (e/pB2)
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As it should. It should frighten everyone.
Why? Because it's a massively complex organic system. Would you deign to say, "I can control the food chain and make changes that better everyone and harm no one by changing who eats what at every level?" No, you wouldn't. No one rational would. There is no way to make that kind of statement honestly because it's a complex organic system. Yet for some reason these same assholes think they can control a complex system like the economy or the climate and can do no wrong and never have an accident and blow everything up.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:26 PM (DU+/6)
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Yeah, we've been using the word narcissist a lot since the "unexpected" rise of DogEater. Methinks megalomaniac is a much better and more accurate description of these clinically insane assholes who've managed to beg, borrow, lie, cheat, claw, and kill (h/t The Clintons) their way into power -- and the millions/billions they've collected along the way ... but mostly millions/billions.
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:31 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2021 04:31 PM (0ryfU)
To be fair, few people *do* care about A'stan.
On 01.20.09, the Afghanistan war ceased being newsworthy. Over time, most of the LIVs forgot it was even still a thing. For those people who *did* care enough to pay attention, the inevitability of our loss had already been accepted. The fact that the war's sad denouement became a degringolade was only important to a small subset of voters who were already inclined to view Brandon and his handlers as unacceptably incompetent and malevolent.
However things go for Brandon & The Gang, A'stan won't be an important factor in any outcome. It will pass back into our national memory-hole within months.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 04:32 PM (/KPLX)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:32 PM (trdmm)
1. Kyle wasn't issued a bulletproof vest, thiugh jesaid he was.
2. Kyle isn't attending the school he said he was attending.
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:33 PM (6dJKT)
Posted by: LizLem at November 11, 2021 03:56 PM (9n4tF)
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It was the dog, I swear! C'mon, man!
Posted by: Joey Pantload at November 11, 2021 04:33 PM (lNHqD)
Hey media guy.
Yeah you.
The one with retro futuristic hair.
I found some white elite clothing accessories over here by this noose.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at November 11, 2021 04:33 PM (Cmpjp)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:23 PM (YnEiF)
One of our most boring presidents was advised to interfere in the financial and monetary markets during the Depression of 1920. He said, pretty much "fuck off."
And poof...it was short and nasty and we recovered very, very quickly.
Oh...guess who recommended the government "DO SOMETHING!"
Herbert Hoover.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2021 04:33 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:33 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:34 PM (AtfPU)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:32 PM (trdmm)
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It's a Hail Mary pass. I have little doubt that Fatlock and Littlefinger will bore the balls off the jury and the court with their vaporings.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:34 PM (YnEiF)
Ann, is the woman who probably screwed Bill Maher and found out she had a social disease. I simply do not take her seriously anymore because of repeated examples of poor judgment and I am well aware of the payoffs to the false gods of DIE in the BBB bullshit.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:34 PM (9hXN1)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:34 PM (ZZK0E)
DA is drowning, grasping at straws.
And has a stupid haircut.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 11, 2021 04:34 PM (jTmQV)
Evidently people in general are way more forgiving of incompetence than I am.
Posted by: Just Lily at November 11, 2021 04:34 PM (aOVzq)
2. Kyle isn't attending the school he said he was attending.
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:33 PM (6dJKT)
I think those complaints are about the independent journalist who testified earlier today - who isn't part of the case and who no one cares about.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:35 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:35 PM (ZZK0E)
And poof...it was short and nasty and we recovered very, very quickly.
Oh...guess who recommended the government "DO SOMETHING!"
Herbert Hoover.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2021 04:33 PM (Q9lwr)
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Yep. There's a lot to be said for a boring President. Lightbringers, etc. need not apply.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:35 PM (YnEiF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2021 04:35 PM (YK8CE)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:35 PM (6dJKT)
I think the intent is to break us all, make our money worthless. For the climate. Too much comsumin goin on.
Posted by: Javems
I bought a whole tenderloins at Sam's for $14.78/lb. That's only $2/lb hogher than last October. It's come down from a high of $18.75/lb.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2021 04:36 PM (YQdCi)
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2021 04:30 PM (V13WU)
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"How the hell does he keep escaping from the chains to the bathroom radiator? He must be greasing his limbs with all the shart leaking from his diapers ..."
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:36 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:36 PM (ZZK0E)
So, what was $10 a pound (tri-tip sirloin), became $12 a pound and is now $14.50 a pound. In two months.
Its like the old Carlin weather-man jokes, "Inflation is 6%, except where you live, where it might be 45%
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2021 04:36 PM (TNYo7)
What you are seeing was happening before with online shopping--it is just accelerating now due to Covid fears, shrinking income for most, and crime.
The last large inside mall was built in 2008 or so. Since then, malls have become morgues and keep closing throughout the US.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:36 PM (9hXN1)
Posted by: tmitsss at November 11, 2021 04:37 PM (f/L+y)
They will happily return to the regular reckless spending once you rubes calm down and stop bothering them.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2021 04:37 PM (Y5qcH)
Hi there!
Posted by: Zombie Friedrich Hayek! at November 11, 2021 04:37 PM (I2/tG)
I admit I haven't seen outrageous beef prices yet anywhere, except at Gelsons, where they wanted something like $80 a pound for filet? And their prices are high to begin with.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:37 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:37 PM (ZZK0E)
2. Kyle isn't attending the school he said he was attending.
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:33 PM (6dJKT)
I think those complaints are about the independent journalist who testified earlier today - who isn't part of the case and who no one cares about.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:35 PM (trdmm)
Thanks.
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:37 PM (6dJKT)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:37 PM (YnEiF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2021 04:30 PM (YK8CE)
Maybe a more careful reading of his comment is in order.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2021 04:37 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Zombie Friedrich Hayek! at November 11, 2021 04:37 PM (I2/tG)
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Yeah, you also understood debt. You're not welcome anywhere.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:37 PM (DU+/6)
Spending like a drunken sailor and pooping your pants: how to do the opposite!!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at November 11, 2021 04:38 PM (NCnpY)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2021 04:37 PM (Q9lwr)
Thanks; I just did that and made a correction.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2021 04:38 PM (YK8CE)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at November 11, 2021 04:39 PM (Cmpjp)
Not really sure what to do and am scared about my heart. Feel like the doctors are not listening to me.
Posted by: LizLem
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I have also had weird heart reactions and made note of it well before I read about the issue being a real thing.
Posted by: Blago at November 11, 2021 04:39 PM (usqGO)
Who told you blowing everything up was an "accident" you should have a talk with them about the difference between bugs and features
Posted by: mikethemoose at November 11, 2021 04:39 PM (T/vhV)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:39 PM (YnEiF)
AMPD5
Kraus: Heard testimony called INPUTE-ACE? Similar?
Yes.
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ace?
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:39 PM (6dJKT)
So it isn't a LA/LB port and trucking thing?
Why do I feel that everything is gas-lighting?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2021 04:40 PM (+LCoQ)
... uh ... by what criterion?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:39 PM (YnEiF)
I will say you are the best if you say I am the best.
See? It's easy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2021 04:40 PM (Q9lwr)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:34 PM (ZZK0E)
No one can. It is absurd and the judge is nuts for letting it be admitted.
Posted by: WiNO at November 11, 2021 04:40 PM (EpDzw)
... uh ... by what criterion?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:39 PM (YnEiF)
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Heh. Connections, cost, simplicity, ease-of-use, kickbacks, day of the week, sales dinner venue, etc...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:40 PM (DU+/6)
Evidently people in general are way more forgiving of incompetence than I am.
Posted by: Just Lily at November 11, 2021 04:34 PM (aOVzq)
It takes a long time for this much corruption and rot to have it's effect. But I am actually feeling very elated these days, much different than the previous years. Not because things will get "better" - no, I know they are going to get much worse.
But a year ago the most depressing thing was that we had no avenue to do anything; our enemies controlled all the levers of power, all the corporations, the media, education, everything. All we could do - and we talked about it here - was to sit tight and wait for them to start making mistakes that would give us an opening to upset their plans.
Well, now they're making them - HUGE mistakes, and the effects of those mistakes are just starting to snowball. They're about to lose control of everything, and that's EXACTLY what we have been waiting for!
so let's not blow the opportunity.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:40 PM (trdmm)
Biden by extending the stimulus that did two things. One, he told everyone we aren't coming out of this, and two, he dumped even more money for free on people. Inflation is not necessarily just printing money, its printing more money than you NEED. The Fed has been just as guilty of restricting money supply leading to recession as they are ow of printing more than needed.
So now - by overblowing Covid and stillborning the recovery for purely political reasons - you've seen all the consumer confidence numbers way in the tank, plus flooding the populace with money - also done for political reasons - we have stagflation coming. With unemployment only at a reasonable level because 5 million people appear to have permanently dropped out of the work force.
Posted by: Black JEM at November 11, 2021 04:40 PM (V6xwG)
Part of this is used to have deer and elk in the freezer and rarely bought any red meat at grocery. Part is just scintflint scandi genes.
Posted by: PaleRider, cheerful clinger at November 11, 2021 04:41 PM (3cGpq)
See? It's easy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2021 04:40 PM (Q9lwr)
CBD, you're the best!
(testing...)
;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:41 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: LizLem
New GP ASAP.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at November 11, 2021 04:41 PM (ekXJa)
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I can recommend a visit to the Silent Cal museum in Plymouth, Vt. if you ever are up that way and have an afternoon free. A pretty town-like museum with nice walking trails, and appropriately modest. Very different from the palace Obama is building in what was a public park in Chicago.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2021 04:42 PM (TNYo7)
Babbling socialite to Pres. Coolidge, "Mr. President, I made a bet with my friends I could get you to say more than two words!"
Silent Cal: "You lose."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 04:42 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 11, 2021 04:42 PM (sVtYq)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:42 PM (6dJKT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:42 PM (AtfPU)
This Old Blind Boomer prolly can't even open a PDF file without help.
Posted by: Teh Prosecution at November 11, 2021 04:42 PM (NYKO9)
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker at November 11, 2021 04:42 PM (cSyAR)
And Jimmy Carter was continent. Well, he may not be now, but he was when he was POTUS.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 03:51 PM (Mzdiz)
I have a similar (sort of) outlook. I think the last five years have woken up a lot of sleeping people. If there is ever going to be a time when popular will and even rage will force a catastrophic realignment of our broken political system, we're living in it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (/KPLX)
Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (Z0azh)
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (9hXN1)
Inflation and currency devaluation are 2 separate things. However, the effects of both show up as "inflation".
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (Y5qcH)
President Coyote Omelette
Posted by: Captain Splatter at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:35 PM (ZZK0E)
If you can see anything, it will probably be the rifle up for a fraction of a second.
Posted by: WiNO at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (EpDzw)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (/KPLX)
Posted by: Black JEM
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if I'm being intellectually honest, I think Trump would be having the same issues right now and we'd be largely spending the same amount of stimulus money and Trump would continue to pressure the FED to not raise interest rates to curb inflation.
I mean that was what he did his entire first term.
Posted by: Blago at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (usqGO)
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:36 PM (9hXN1)
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You're right. I generally only go maybe two or three times before Christmas each year because although I don't like shopping, I do like to see what's available out there and the decorations, music, etc. This was the absolute worst ever.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (7b2L9)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (AtfPU)
That sounds like a wonderful place to visit. Cal is my favorite President.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2021 04:44 PM (YK8CE)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:44 PM (ZZK0E)
Which is why, e.g., Somalia, is not a hotbed of entrepreneurship.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:28 PM (YnEiF)
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Nailed it, Jay.
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:44 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at November 11, 2021 04:44 PM (0ryfU)
See? It's easy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2021 04:40 PM (Q9lwr)
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It presumes that "bestness" is a scalar, whereas it is almost always a tensor.
Who is the best athlete? A powerlifter who can't run to the end of the block? A marathon runner who needs a spot to lift his dick? What?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:44 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (l4HL2)
I'm way late, but Ziggy Stardust (to be played at maximum volume).
Posted by: MkY at November 11, 2021 04:44 PM (Foq6I)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (AtfPU)
your dirty mind.
be glad it didn't say breasticles.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:45 PM (trdmm)
I think Target, Costco and those FF establishments are all that's keeping it afloat.
We also have a huge Macys but it never seems to get more than moderate traffic.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:45 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (AtfPU)
Same software the prosecution is using.
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:45 PM (6dJKT)
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Math helps explain it. Productivity rose during Trumps tenure, and has dropped by record amounts (most in 39 years) under Biden. Inflation is a money supply issue obviously, but lower productivity considerably magnifies the impact, and guarantees it will not be "transitory".
https://tinyurl.com/2226yx7t
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2021 04:46 PM (TNYo7)
Posted by: Viridian at November 11, 2021
Plus we also got to see a young Annette O'toole's premium boobies.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 11, 2021 04:46 PM (+yMcb)
Posted by: IrishEi
No mall I was ever in had a scrap yard. So I quit going.
Posted by: Some Rat at November 11, 2021 04:46 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at November 11, 2021 04:46 PM (s+i+g)
Just add into it a difficult Christmas shopping season.
The dems have no way out for 2022. They are going to get plastered in a year they could have hoped for about an even break (because in the Senate the GOP has more seats to defend). It's going to get ugly. And if the path continues - the GOP will have a 60 seat majority, or more, after 2024.
Our job is to make sure some of them aren't Murkowski, Romney, or Sasse.
Posted by: Black JEM at November 11, 2021 04:46 PM (V6xwG)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:42 PM
Chicken backstroke, butterfly, and freestyle are medleying through the roof.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 11, 2021 04:46 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:46 PM (AtfPU)
In a world of stupid terms for breasts, that has be among the stupidest.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2021 04:46 PM (YK8CE)
Posted by: Blago at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (usqGO)
The "infrastructure" bill would probably be a little different and there would be no BBB bill at all. And the increase in energy cost would have been less. But, yes, DC would have done many of the same things under Trump, and he probably would have gone along with it.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2021 04:47 PM (Y5qcH)
Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysteria at November 11, 2021 03:49 PM (mf5HN)
I thought it passed the Senate several months ago, and what the House recently passed was exactly what the Senate passed earlier, so it's "passed passed" by Congress and is just waiting for Sleepy Joe to get around to signing it.
Posted by: a.moron at November 11, 2021 04:47 PM (F6Xpw)
Have a doctor dictate your needs so you don't have to think about it.
Make a million dollars and rent a doctor. Be sure to pay them slowly.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at November 11, 2021 04:47 PM (Cmpjp)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at November 11, 2021 04:47 PM (otFiP)
Posted by: x at November 11, 2021 04:47 PM (oA+QO)
Anyway, my point is that I'm actually feeling optimistic. They can't unring the Trump bell. People are pissed off. And they're paying attention for the first time ever, and are getting more and more pissed off every day.
We may be finally passing out of that "awkward period" when you can't work within system, and can't etc., etc. yet. I would have hoped that 2020 would have been the final straw, though. That part gives me pause.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 04:47 PM (/KPLX)
Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at November 11, 2021 04:48 PM (rDgjh)
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i don't think the prosecution is even familiar with elements of a crime or affirmative defense.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:48 PM (ZZK0E)
Just add into it a difficult Christmas shopping season.
and January 8th the Mandates kick in, yes?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 04:48 PM (yQpMk)
Fvck Joe Biden.
Posted by: JuJuBee at November 11, 2021 04:48 PM (mNhhD)
Have you been taking your blood pressure daily? One of the side effects of the vaxx or even Covid itself is raised blood pressure levels which could explain some of your symptoms. I had covid and one of the problems was extremely raised blood pressure which finally dropped after several months. In my case, I had just had a MRI cardiac stress test (due to some other issues) and checks of arteries, etc. along with cardiac scoring. No significant blockages existed (so my bp increase was not caused by heart disease). Talking with nurses afterwards for other issues, found out that increased bp for a time was common among covid and vaxx patients.
That can be compounded by other medications that normally have no large effect on bp like Celebrex, steroids, etc.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:48 PM (9hXN1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 11, 2021 04:48 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (AtfPU)
Is there a good place, a particular album, to start for the Bowie nescient?
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (l4HL2)
"Diamond Dogs" is good.
Posted by: a.moron at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (F6Xpw)
-0--
no you don't understand, there's inflation because people are buying too much because they're all rich
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (ZZK0E)
#BurnBackBrandon
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (3l5Yq)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (l4HL2)
I'm way late, but Ziggy Stardust (to be played at maximum volume).
Posted by: MkY at November 11, 2021 04:44 PM (Foq6I)
I'm listening to the whole album now. Definitely a better start than my past forays into random selections with no context. More of a storyteller than I thought, with a better voice than Dylan.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (l4HL2)
https://tinyurl.com/2226yx7t
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2021 04:46 PM (TNYo7)
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And productivity is going to continue to fall. It might even collapse. The reason I think this will happen is only partially Brandon's fault. First, the vax mandate is extremely unpopular. A lot of folks will get fired or quit over it, which will be bad for production. But a lot of people who will remain employed are pissed off to a huge degree. You don't give your all when you're angry and resentful.
Then layer in the culture shit. The HR shit, I mean. The mandatory race and sex harangues. The demonization. The preferential hiring rules. All of it. It is all corrosive to people *wanting* to give their best. And so they won't. Productivity is going to keep falling.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (AtfPU)
your dirty mind.
be glad it didn't say breasticles.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:45 PM (trdmm)
LOL
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (6dJKT)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 04:44 PM
See Spot run. Run, Spot, run!
Posted by: Miss Lindsey at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (a3Q+t)
I mean that was what he did his entire first term.
Yes, but at least Trump wasn't shutting down entire industries at the same time.
Biden's money printing is more dangerous because _he doesn't want anything else "productive" to happen_. Just printed money going to favored classes and junk imported from China.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (s+i+g)
Posted by: Lady in Black at November 11, 2021 04:42 PM (sVtYq)
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Or you get the self-fulfilling prophecy of "psychological inflation" where people hoard as much as they can today on the knowledge and further assumption that prices are skyrocketing (and shortages are coming) -- which creates a spike in demand and further inflation. [h/t Econ 101]
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (cUUIs)
In a world of stupid terms for breasts, that has be among the stupidest.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
We should call them mommy bags or fun bags instead.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (Vxu+H)
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (2JoB8)
I mean that was what he did his entire first term.
Posted by: Blago at November 11, 2021 04:43 PM (usqGO)
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Fair expectation. But the few people I knew in DC connected to the GOP senate (lobbyists) said the GOP senate wasn't going to allow anymore - and had signaled to Trump he was out of get money free cards for pandemic relief.
Posted by: Black JEM at November 11, 2021 04:50 PM (V6xwG)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at November 11, 2021 04:50 PM (NW9xb)
Silent Cal: "You lose."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz)
Read a bio on him a few years back. May be my fav presidents.
Posted by: Infidel at werk at November 11, 2021 04:50 PM (/oG9s)
Scared the shit out of everyone in the grocery store.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (YQdCi)
Honestly, I'll catch up, but that's priceless!
Posted by: MkY at November 11, 2021 04:50 PM (Foq6I)
I think they already have the "fun bags" bit covered. Mommy bags sounds sort of sweet
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2021 04:51 PM (YK8CE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:42 PM
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Chickens don't care if you stroke their breast. Not really big on foreplay.
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2021 04:51 PM (v0R5T)
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
then Diamond Dogs, then Aladdin Sane.
Posted by: x
Was gonna say the same thing, with a heavy lean on Aladdin Sane. I feel like that one has some real indispensible Bowie, granted, also a couple low points. But it open and ends about as good as you could ever want from an album
Posted by: Theskepticalschnauzer aka Lonebadger at November 11, 2021 04:51 PM (lIDCz)
Posted by: Boss Moss
Wonder if the Judge considering risk to the jury will influence him to take the whole thing upon himself. Seems like a standup guy. Not guilty, my decision.
Posted by: Some Rat at November 11, 2021 04:51 PM (r1z5A)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:51 PM (AtfPU)
https://bityl.co/9YSS
He has top men on it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 03:54 PM (yQpMk)
Gee, why didn't Gerry Ford think of that, instead of the stupid "Whip Inflation Now" buttons?
Posted by: a.moron at November 11, 2021 04:51 PM (F6Xpw)
Scared the shit out of everyone in the grocery store.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 11, 2021 04:13 PM (YQdCi)
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That's fuckin' funny.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:51 PM (DU+/6)
They've got some free nukes they're thinking about sending our way. Express shipped.
Posted by: pep at November 11, 2021 04:51 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: IrishEi at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (7b2L9)
I am partial to Scary Monsters
Maybe give Tin Machine a listen
Posted by: fluffy at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (ZAyCt)
and January 8th the Mandates kick in, yes?
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
But that will be after the craaaazzzzzzy deals offered to the buying public on Insurrection Day!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (3l5Yq)
Then layer in the culture shit. The HR shit, I mean. The mandatory race and sex harangues. The demonization. The preferential hiring rules. All of it. It is all corrosive to people *wanting* to give their best. And so they won't. Productivity is going to keep falling.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (DU+/6)
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Thanks for having been the first I'd heard make this observation recently; I've been sharing it with others, with attribution of course to "Joe Mannix, Not a Cop! at one of the blogs I comment on" -- a real sharp dude. ;-)
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021
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The 'rona is over here in Da Swamp -- that's been obvious for a year or more if you examine facts instead of propaganda. Sadly a lot of the denizens of this pesthole are incapable of that and are still wearing the face diapers. I'm no longer getting hassled about my refusal to wear one . . . but to be surrounded by these zombies is disheartening.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (txdEq)
Kinda like the PCR tests, isn't it?
Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (vOGqy)
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (v0R5T)
https://tinyurl.com/86r3d3da
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (TNYo7)
In a world of stupid terms for breasts, that has be among the stupidest.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Challenge...accepted.
Posted by: pep at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (AtfPU)
Yeah, that's my point about Trump - he was a gambler when it comes to this, like in a lot of his checkered business past. He was banking on growth outpacing inflation. And he was able to make that gamble pay. How long would he have been able to keep it up? Well, who knows? But if the answer is "any longer," then he'd have these jagoffs beat by a mile.
As soon as the stolen election was in the bag, #BrokeBitchBrandon was an inevitable outcome.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 11, 2021 04:53 PM (/KPLX)
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker at November 11, 2021 04:53 PM (cSyAR)
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (2JoB
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I think something about showing Kyle raising his rifle and aiming at someone.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 11, 2021 04:53 PM (7b2L9)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 04:48 PM (yQpMk)
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Oh yeah, forgot about that monstrosity! Though in fairness, I don't expect it to survive. It is so flawed, for so many reasons.
But if it does survive, the shelves are going to get a lot more empty.
Posted by: Black JEM at November 11, 2021 04:53 PM (V6xwG)
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Can you really default when you can make up your own rules about book keeping and money as you go?
In a sane world obviously. But in clown world?
Posted by: simplemind at November 11, 2021 04:53 PM (n2Glg)
We are just bound and determined to hopelessly screw-up supply-chain forecasting models.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2021 04:54 PM (+LCoQ)
Biden's money printing is more dangerous because _he doesn't want anything else "productive" to happen_. Just printed money going to favored classes and junk imported from China.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (s+i+g)
And Trump would never have tried to shut down Oil production, Trump would not have killed Keystone, Trump would not have tried to halt all oil leasing. Also, I do believe Trump would have seen the supply chain problem coming and started to direct action to take care of it at the beginning of summer, when those watching started to say publicly "hey there's a problem building here."
The real problem with waiting so long to start addressing that is that even if everything is done right, it's going to take at least a year (if not more) to clear up all the blockages. That's why it's guaranteed to continue getting worse throughout this winter.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:54 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Cosda at November 11, 2021 04:54 PM (85LrU)
Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2021 04:54 PM (ynq4A)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:54 PM (AtfPU)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 04:48 PM (yQpMk)
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The OSHA mandates have that date, I think. The contractor mandates are month earlier on December 8th.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:54 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (vOGqy)
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Haha! Exactly.
Posted by: IrishEi at November 11, 2021 04:54 PM (7b2L9)
Was it the biography by Amity Shales? That was excellent.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2021 04:55 PM (YK8CE)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:54 PM (AtfPU)
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Which, if they apply to current accounts (bank accounts) have a name: a wealth tax.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:55 PM (DU+/6)
Silent Cal: "You lose."
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz)
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Read a bio on him a few years back. May be my fav presidents.
Posted by: Infidel at werk at November 11, 2021
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The story goes that the press asked him about his success with fishing from the pond at the White House (or maybe it was back home in New England). He murmured, "Well, I've haven't caught any yet. But I've pretty much got them all surrounded."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 04:55 PM (txdEq)
My company just changed the "fire you pure bloods because we are federal contrators" date to Jan...
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:55 PM (ESjRY)
That one makes me laugh; It's kind of sweet too.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2021 04:55 PM (YK8CE)
Just add into it a difficult Christmas shopping season.
and January 8th the Mandates kick in, yes?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 04:48 PM (yQpMk)
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Here in Northern AZ, so few are working now that all of a sudden most of the fast food places and convenience stores have kiosks -- where you can only pay with a card -- while those of us who use cash are relegated to long lines with a single cashier. Never imagined that I'd live in a 3rd world shithole ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:55 PM (cUUIs)
we know Major Tom's a Junkie
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:55 PM (trdmm)
is the winner
Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2021 04:54 PM (ynq4A)
Sweater puppies?
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:56 PM (6dJKT)
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
It's probably my favorite, but it is not entry level Bowie.
Posted by: x at November 11, 2021 04:56 PM (oA+QO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 04:56 PM (txdEq)
Most modern economists only focus on consumer and government spending by inclination. The truth is that investment (or the lack thereof) and net import/exports equally affect business climate.
Trump's primary focus was to keep C constant, G somewhat higher, but to boost Investment plus cut down on imports of energy, and boost strategic hi value manufacturing such as metals, etc.
Trump was making a gambler's bet that appeared paying off in 2019 of boosting the economic growth faster than government debt and spending. Bigger pie through investment and bringing manufacturing back home, you can service more debt.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:56 PM (9hXN1)
In a sane world obviously. But in clown world?
Posted by: simplemind at November 11, 2021 04:53 PM (n2Glg)
Can you really default if you are borrowing now to pay the interest on past debt? And now at much lower interest rates.
This situation is intentional. It was the plan.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2021 04:56 PM (Y5qcH)
but I can't see shit in that video.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:56 PM (ZZK0E)
Is there a good place, a particular album, to start for the Bowie nescient? Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (l4HL2)
"Diamond Dogs" is good.
Posted by: a.moron at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (F6Xpw)
Diamond Dogs even for a lot of Bowie fans is something of a mixed bag.
I was a big fan of the Berlin era stuff - but if I was going to suggest just one, it'd have to be his last great classic, Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). Great melodies and generally rocking, especially side 1.
I have a lot of Bowie (well, all of it), but TBH just never fell head over heels during his Ziggy period. He was always a lot more about texture/mood than melody. Strangely enough, I absolutely adore his super-early Anthony Newly period stuff.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 11, 2021 04:56 PM (wAnMi)
Correct. Trump knows how to anticipate and adapt. The Dems, and of course, their tuberous leader, are so straitjacketed by their ideology that reality never intrudes.
Posted by: pep at November 11, 2021 04:56 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: SmellyJoe at November 11, 2021 04:56 PM (jYQlA)
I actually thought this today.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at November 11, 2021 04:57 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:54 PM (DU+/6)
I think those could survive a challenge, at least for new contracts. It seems like the Feds can include just about any condition they want on bids that isn't a direct violation of law like requiring only white workers or something.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 04:57 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:55 PM (ESjRY)
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I'm so stealing that ... "Pure Bloods Need Not Apply!"
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 04:57 PM (cUUIs)
If the results of the enhancement are being challenged - and they are - the prosecution needs to get a different expert, one who can explain and counter the challenge. This guy can't do it. He uses the software, he didn't design it and he doesn't know how it works.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:57 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Buzzion at November 11, 2021 04:57 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 04:57 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:57 PM (9hXN1)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 04:55 PM (ESjRY)
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My old company did. My new one hasn't changed the date, though. It is one of the reason I haven't filed my exemption yet. I am waiting on both lawsuits and a goalpost move.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:58 PM (DU+/6)
we know Major Tom's a Junkie
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 04:55 PM (trdmm)
I should dust that one off - it's been a long time.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 11, 2021 04:58 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:58 PM (6dJKT)
And every action would be countered by some judge out of Hawaii; the first bureaucrat under a Trump appointee would have her whole departments slow-walk it; Congressional investigations would take place because clearly there would be a smell of corruption and patronage; bankers would immediately stop loans to those fixing the problem; NGOs would fall out of the ceiling to push environmental lawsuits; FBI would SWAT decision makers, confiscate their work and feed the information to Congresscritters to broker to their donors; unions would screw things up because that is what unions do...
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2021 04:58 PM (+LCoQ)
Posted by: pep at November 11, 2021 04:58 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 11, 2021 04:59 PM (cSs/W)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vaxxine is safe for kids because it's made from kids at November 11, 2021 04:59 PM (Y/ZsC)
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2021 04:59 PM (AtfPU)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 04:59 PM (6dJKT)
Those are inflation expectations. A positive feedback loop. If you anticipate prices going up, the impetus is to buy now, before the price goes up. Which puts pressure on prices to rise further.
That expectation loop is why inflation is so hard to kill once it gets started and those expectations are priced in so to speak.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at November 11, 2021 05:00 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2021 04:52 PM (TNYo7)
Maybe if you drive 45mph. It's about a four hour drive for me at a leisurely pace.
And stop at the Hatchery in Ludlow for breakfast or lunch. Best little place in the area.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2021 05:00 PM (Q9lwr)
.....
And productivity is going to continue to fall. It might even collapse. The reason I think this will happen is only partially Brandon's fault. First, the vax mandate is extremely unpopular. A lot of folks will get fired or quit over it, which will be bad for production. But a lot of people who will remain employed are pissed off to a huge degree. You don't give your all when you're angry and resentful.
Then layer in the culture shit. The HR shit, I mean. The mandatory race and sex harangues. The demonization. The preferential hiring rules. All of it. It is all corrosive to people *wanting* to give their best. And so they won't. Productivity is going to keep falling.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:49 PM (DU+/6)
I think you're right. The people who *did* get vaxxed will probably be less productive whether intentionally or not. Maybe they're pissed at the "unclean" for not Being In This Together! or maybe they're second guessing their own choice. The worktard execs and HR will assume only the Good People remain so they can triple down on the lefty propaganda, but they'll piss off all but the True Believers.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at November 11, 2021 05:00 PM (wqF6C)
Posted by: LizLem"
Assume they had you wear a holter monitor. Can't speak to the neck pain but I've had palpation's for 30 years or so. They call it arrhythmia I think. Sometimes it is worse. When it is really bad I seek help. I usually just get reassurances. It's good to have a good cardiologist though..
Posted by: Javems at November 11, 2021 05:00 PM (fgFKs)
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That's how you can tell it's a deadly emergency.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vaxxine is safe for kids because it's made from kids at November 11, 2021 05:00 PM (Y/ZsC)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 05:00 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
It's probably my favorite, but it is not entry level Bowie.
Posted by: x at November 11, 2021 04:56 PM (oA+QO)
I REALLY started getting into Bowie when he jettisoned the androgynous crap. Station to Station blew me away, and Low is an utter masterpiece. Love all of his Berlin Era recordings, I suppose Lodger being the weakest of the trio - which is nit picking.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 11, 2021 05:01 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at November 11, 2021 04:57 PM (yQpMk)
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Yeah, the legal disrimination and encouragement of it by gubmint of the unvaxxed.
In a rational world, would never survive a 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause challenge (IMHO, but IANAL); unfortunately, these days, the unvaxxed may not have standing and/or vaccinations may be considered a tax that must be paid in order to work, eat, and live.
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 05:01 PM (cUUIs)
They don't know how to shut up.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2021 05:01 PM (ynq4A)
Posted by: pep at November 11, 2021 04:58 PM (ZsR3z)
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Oh, so this is what you want. We'll get our Email and Texting HQ to change the messaging momentarily.
Posted by: Your GOPe Betters at November 11, 2021 05:01 PM (TNyrE)
Jury say, Meh.
Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at November 11, 2021 05:01 PM (MkuC5)
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021
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True enough. "What fresh hell is this?" she was quoted as saying when the doorbell sounded or the phone rang, for example.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 05:01 PM (txdEq)
They weren't his friends. More like cult acolytes.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at November 11, 2021 05:01 PM (g5I2H)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vaxxine is safe for kids because it's made from kids at November 11, 2021 04:59 PM
You have to ask? YOU HAVE TO ASK???? NOW DROP AND GIVE ME TWENTY!
Posted by: zombie GySgt Hartmann at November 11, 2021 05:01 PM (a3Q+t)
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I'm like whaaa? What are you trying to say this shows?
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 05:02 PM (ZZK0E)
Same here - I'm also reading about what has worked for people and what has not.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 05:02 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vaxxine is safe for kids because it's made from kids at November 11, 2021 05:02 PM (Y/ZsC)
Unexpectedly. Voters are supposed to like rising prices because the Dems are causing it.
Posted by: Ripley at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (+yMcb)
Reminds me of those FBI shows where some suit is standing behind some geek at a keyboard looking up at a 40 inch monitor screaming "ENHANCE" over and over.
What started as a grainy shot of a car forty feet away in a parking lot at night during a rainstorm ends up being an enhanced reflection of a person's face on a dirty car that is suitable for quick facial recognition in the FBI database.
ENHANCE!!!
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (+LCoQ)
Posted by: JuJuBee at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (mNhhD)
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 05:00 PM (ESjRY)
I think it's really hard to tell how much drugs influenced a lot of that - I can't even imagine that sort of intake. One thing for sure, he was not a dim bulb. But I think for a long time, he was borderline batshit insane.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - the vaxxine is safe for kids because it's made from kids at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (Y/ZsC)
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She lives at least an hour south of you, and I'm willing to bet you are a faster driver! Also, not to forget, once you get off I-91 there are plenty of local roads to get lost on.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (TNYo7)
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2021 03:52 PM (l4HL2)
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Cygnet Committee. It's a song off of his Space Oddity album. It perfectly sums up the progressive movement. by the end the "love machine" is rumbling on, mowing down man, woman and child, and not hearing any more. So relevant to today. A tad long but so worth it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKMSgZo9c8s
Posted by: 496 at November 11, 2021 05:04 PM (U1eOr)
But I thought it was cool that his son, Duncan Jones, made the very good and successful indie film "Moon" starring Sam Rockwell (and with the voice of that asshat pedophile, but good actor) Kevin Spacey.
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 05:04 PM (cUUIs)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2021 04:57 PM (DU+/6)
Yup. "I push button, computer go whrrrrrrrrr" is the technical expertise level of most users I support.
Posted by: 29Victor at November 11, 2021 05:04 PM (BJKQV)
Jury say, Meh.
Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at November 11, 2021 05:01 PM (MkuC5)
yeah - a couple of blurry photos at the very end of a trial are not going to counter 8 full days of previous testimony. Branca thinks Defense will base their entire closing argument on them, but really - their closing was all going to be bullshit anyways.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 05:04 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at November 11, 2021 05:04 PM (cSs/W)
I never want to hear a GOPe toady again tell me "oh we can't do that if we don't the presidency, a super majority in congress and 15 SC justices!"
Apparently you can run around injecting people with whatever witch's brew you want if you are president...so if we have a free and fair election in 2024 I expect President DeSantis to send the illegals and "dreamers" home to Central America the next day...with any judge that disagrees.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2021 05:04 PM (ESjRY)
If State had a compelling narrative of guilt, it wouldn't take 2.5 hours to sell it to a jury that's heard two weeks of testimony
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 05:05 PM (6dJKT)
7 bone chuck roast, arm roast, all the steaks, shank
Arm roast, tounge, tail,
Probably. 35- 3 pound rolls ground
More im.sure i cant remember
$700.
Just fit in our small chest freezer. Just barely fit.
We.are good until probably August. Will buy 3 turkeys during the tgiving sale, as i smoke a couple during the summer monts. They will going in the freeezer, too. And then maybe one venison. Our next purchase over next couple weks is an upright freezer. I put 40 qts of sweet corn in freezer every summer, and this year snagged 3 gallons of red raspberry from the property's edge. They are in freezer waiting to transformed into pie.
The city folk will be in canibal mode long beforre we feel a glitch.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid fattens sqwerls 'just in case' at November 11, 2021 05:05 PM (TRGyz)
So have I. At least the past 20 or so years.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at November 11, 2021 05:05 PM (nxdel)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 05:05 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2021 04:56 PM (9hXN1)
You need to strip regulation away from business to allow them to properly access and profit from markets - this was Trump's success, and was something that Hoover's desperate "toss of cash" to businesses wasn't ever about.
Sure, big business paid off some debts, and then preceded to just blow out the rest, burning it like kerosene on a fire, gone in a minute. It was dumb. Hoover probably didn't want to do it, but he'd been better off just paying out the WWI vets like promised before that became an issue - a real smart politician he wasn't...
Posted by: Boswell at November 11, 2021 05:05 PM (5iUNf)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 05:05 PM (6dJKT)
I'm not joking.
My word as a Biden.
Posted by: SmellyJoe
.......
She was 12, Joe.
Posted by: wth at November 11, 2021 05:05 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at November 11, 2021 05:05 PM (ZZK0E)
judge wants 1 1/2. Prosecution is arguing.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2021 05:05 PM (ynq4A)
ENHANCE!!!
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2021
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Stuff like that is why I find it impossible to write a truly baffling mystery story set in the modern day. It's impossible for a criminal or murderer to *conceal* anything.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at November 11, 2021 05:06 PM (txdEq)
Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2021 05:06 PM (2JoB8)
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at November 11, 2021 05:06 PM (cUUIs)
They weren't his friends. More like cult acolytes.
Like an article years ago describing the people who were Shaquille O'Neil's omnipresent posse as "people of unclear purpose".
They were there because they knew Shaq would always pick up the tab for living good.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2021 05:06 PM (+LCoQ)
ENHANCE!!!
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (+LCoQ)
that scene in the original Bladerunner where Harrison Ford is enhancing a picture - he somehow ends up looking around a corner inside the picture to see something not in the original photo. Cool looking but stupid.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 05:06 PM (trdmm)
What started as a grainy shot of a car forty feet away in a parking lot at night during a rainstorm ends up being an enhanced reflection of a person's face on a dirty car that is suitable for quick facial recognition in the FBI database.
ENHANCE!!!
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (+LCoQ)
I have a difficult time explaining to people why, precisely, this is not possible irl. They are usually really surprised at the fact. It's just one of the many myths that cop shows perpetrate. When anyone on NCIS would start "hacking" my wife would ask me to leave the room.
Posted by: 29Victor at November 11, 2021 05:07 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (wAnMi)
He was also fucking a 14 year old, so there's that.
Posted by: fringe at November 11, 2021 05:07 PM (FPur3)
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I'll try that. We are headed up there again for Christmas. It's the only way we get our Boston-based children to visit us, by throwing in a free vacation.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2021 05:07 PM (TNYo7)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 05:08 PM (6dJKT)
judge wants 1 1/2. Prosecution is arguing.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2021 05:05 PM (ynq4A)
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Defense should offer some of their time to the prosecution, based on Binger's performance so far.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 11, 2021 05:08 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (TNYo7)
Up the NYS Thruway and then East at Troy. It avoids the shitholes that are CT and MA.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 11, 2021 05:09 PM (Q9lwr)
judge wants 1 1/2. Prosecution is arguing.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2021 05:05 PM (ynq4A)
I hope he gets his 2 1/2. The longer he talks the worse he looks.
Posted by: 29Victor at November 11, 2021 05:09 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: Joe Biden at November 11, 2021 05:09 PM (mNhhD)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 05:09 PM (6dJKT)
Quite sad, really. Friendships shouldn't break over something more serious than a difference of opinion, but that's where we are now.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 11, 2021 04:09 PM (mMrkq)
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Cray's always been a leftist maniac. Kinda's put me off of him, even though I own a few of his albums and have seen him in concert.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 11, 2021 05:10 PM (EHrOO)
and accusing everyone else of being technical illiterates.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at November 11, 2021 05:11 PM (s+i+g)
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 05:11 PM (6dJKT)
judge wants 1 1/2. Prosecution is arguing.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 11, 2021 05:05 PM (ynq4A)
I hope he gets his 2 1/2. The longer he talks the worse he looks.
Posted by: 29Victor at November 11, 2021 05:09 PM (BJKQV)
Judge is thinking "Oh my god no one can sit through 2 1/2 hours of that idiot blathering on and on nonstop"
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 11, 2021 05:12 PM (trdmm)
and accusing everyone else of being technical illiterates.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at November 11, 2021 05:11 PM (s+i+g)
ewwww
Posted by: m at November 11, 2021 05:13 PM (6dJKT)
ENHANCE!!!
Posted by: Reuben Hick at November 11, 2021 05:03 PM (+LCoQ)
Maybe if it was film. Digital sucks.
Twenty years ago I took a pic of my house with a decent at the time digital camera and my crappy 35mm snapshooter. 3x5 print of snap shot, scanned at 4k.
I could zoom in on the all digital image of the house numbers... and read the numbers.
Scan of the chemical print could zoom in and clearly make out the brads holding the house numbers.
Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at November 11, 2021 05:15 PM (Z0azh)
and accusing everyone else of being technical illiterates.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at November 11, 2021 05:11 PM (s+i+g)
People think computers are magic. A computer adding information to a picture is no different than a human adding information to a picture. Unless by "zooming" they mean zooming in to a high-resolution picture displayed on a lower resolution screen. In that case they're just dumb. This isn't that.
Posted by: 29Victor at November 11, 2021 05:16 PM (BJKQV)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Don't remember Fen. I'm at work and can't look it up. Could have been. I just put another one on hold at the local library.
Posted by: Infidel at werk at November 11, 2021 05:18 PM (/oG9s)
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 11, 2021 05:10 PM (EHrOO)
Cray's a good player of a kind of blues lite. When he was on Showdown with Johnny Copeland and Albert Collins, it was clear who the two ass kickers were.
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at November 11, 2021 05:40 PM (g5I2H)
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at November 11, 2021 05:40 PM (g5I2H)
Right! I have that album (mostly 'cause I'm an Albert Collins fan), and I'd completely forgotten Cray was on it.
I mostly like his voice, and his tunes can be kinda catchy. But I stopped buying long ago because I couldn't disentangle Cray's politics from his music. (That's Phillistine of me, I know, but it is what it is.)
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 11, 2021 06:26 PM (EHrOO)
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