Inflation Hits Another High, Marking Its Highest Level in 40 Years

It jumped 7.5% since last February, the biggest year-over-year increase since the A-Team debuted. (My bad, that was 1983.)

Inflation has now hit the highest rate in 40 years, jumping 7.5 percent since last February, the biggest year-over-year increase since February 1982, more than experts had expected. Among the reasons that the AP blamed were "shortages of supplies and workers" as well as "heavy doses of federal aid." Paging Joe Biden, his mandates, and his spending, although, of course, they don't say that. Unfortunately, they're not expecting it to slow anytime soon.

Say, didn't Biden's Covid Response Team just demand billions and billions and billions more in new covid "aid" yesterday?

Norms are being restored, if the Norms you mean are the inflation and malaise of 1982. (Which did happen under Reagan, but it was required to wring out the stagflation of the Carter years.)

When measured from December to January, inflation was 0.6%, the same as the previous month and more than economists had expected.

There's always so much unexpected economic news under Democrat "presidents."

Boy, Democrat presidencies must be exciting times for analysts! So many unexpected plot twists!

Biden spent 2021 paying people not to work. When businesses complained that they were short-staffed because people were being paid not to work, Brandon told them to "pay them more" -- to compete as an employer with the government, which was paying people as a non-employer.

This would raise everyone's wages, he whispered. (And it was, in fact, a creepy whisper moment.)

But here's the thing that anyone who understands anything about economics understands:

If everyone's wages increase, especially when due to an artificial external factor like government forcing, then nobody's wages increase.

Because all that's actually happened is that the default wage -- the "curve," if we were talking about grades in a class -- has risen, and everyone is still the same distance from that point.

And when employers have to pay everyone more money, they raise prices, because their costs are obviously higher.

Or as the AP sugarcoats it: Higher wages "can pressure" companies to raise prices.

Which means the "higher wages" buy the same amount of product.

Which means they're not higher wages in real terms.

The dollar has just been reduced in value.

Wages are rising at the fastest pace in at least 20 years, which can pressure companies to raise prices to cover higher labor costs.

Manchin declared I Told You So:

Now let me tell you a little story.

The Democrats used to push a strategy of taxing the rich at very high levels, and then wasting that money by pissing it down ratholes they claimed was "social spending on the poor."

But under Clinton and then under Obama, the Democrat Party repositioned itself to be the party of the urban corporate elite and the mega-wealthy. And the urban corporate elite and the mega-wealthy do not like paying high tax rates.

But the Democrat Party still wanted to piss money down ratholes.

So the Democrat Party became enamored of a new "theory" of money: That they could literally spend as much money as they wanted, pissing it down ratholes, and not bother raising taxes on their mega-wealthy donors, because the government could just print as much money as it liked and never worry about balancing the books and nothing bad would ever, ever happen.

This is really their theory. It's called "Modern Monetary Theory" (MMT). They called it that because "Retard Money Theory" was already taken.

Now that this "theory" is being disproven by soaring inflation, people are... questioning it.

The New York Times recently ran a positive piece on this lunacy that you can literally run the mint's printing presses all day and night and see no negative consequences, and real economists are critical.

Here's the leftwing Obama economic advisor Larry Summers calling this obviously lunatic theory snake-oil:

One critic notes the MMT people do not really have a theory they can even write down, or that could ever be tested -- they just have unfalsifiable claims and slogans.

[A]ny attempt to engage with the actual substance of MMT quickly finds that such substance is curiously lacking. MMT proponents almost always refuse to specify exactly how they think the economy works. They offer a package of policy prescriptions, but these prescriptions can only be learned by consulting the MMT proponents themselves. There is no model here -- no set of equations or definite formal statements that a layperson could use to generate their own MMT policy prescriptions without appealing directly to the gurus.
...maybe MMT people don't write down models of the economy because they can't. Because as Françoise, Christian, Rondina, Palley, and others have concluded, MMT is not a theory of how the economy works, but rather a set of political memes to push for more deficit spending.

But here's the unexpected -- or the inevitable -- plot twist.

You may have noticed that the woman pushing MMT is, in fact, a woman.

You may have also noticed that the Current Year is 2022, and we must Believe All Women, including, especially, when they say stupid things that could not possibly be true, especially when these stupid things involve impossibilities of basic math.

And so:

Real MMT, like real communism, has never been tried. But today, Axios has published a piece titled "Male economists are freaking out over a NYT profile" that suggests the pushback against MMT is akin to mansplaining.

This Twitter-based econ fight is about more than one economist. It's an argument over a natural economic experiment -- the U.S. government spending unprecedented sums to keep the economy from free-falling during COVID.
And the gender dynamics-- male economists piling on against a female economist and a female journalist, Times' reporter Jeanna Smialek, in ways distinctive from typical academic arguments -- look terrible here.

Women are men's equals, but also, you're never allowed to criticize women and you also have to pretend they're right even when they're completely wrong or it's "mansplaining."

The Socratic Method

It's just mansplaining with questions.

22 "Critical Money Theory" would have just been giving the game away.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Colorado Alex says I've got the Retard Money Theory wrong:

That isn't even MMT. Even MMTs proponents agree that you have to remove money from the system via taxation. And you can't simply spend willy-nilly, because the spending has to result in an increase in GDP. This is just standard DC "spend everything!" politics dressed up in another cheap costume. It's no different than we've seen in previous years, just a lot more of it.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile

Joe Mannix says so too:

There's a *bit* more to it than that, but this is a mighty fine explanation crammed into just two paragraphs. I think it is worth pointing out, however, that George W. Bush may well have been worse than Clinton in this regard.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Frankly I feel like I'm being mansplained to, so... I'm right.

Posted by: Ace at 12:38 PM

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1 1st?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 10, 2022 12:38 PM (yxWAx)

2 I'll fetch the others.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 10, 2022 12:38 PM (yxWAx)

3 inflation is always and everywhere something something...

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 12:39 PM (H2rNu)

4 So, who is going to take the politically painful steps to get inflation under control?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 12:39 PM (LvTSG)

5 The junta is going to have a moon shot to cure inflation.

The Fed has promised to print whatever sum is necessary to fund this plan to end inflation

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 10, 2022 12:39 PM (5kI0z)

6 Second look at Biden's Federal crack pipe distribution program?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 12:39 PM (H2rNu)

7 Ace is wrong, I have been assured repeatedly by the biden administration that inflation is mild and only transitory.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 10, 2022 12:40 PM (bVYXr)

8 3 inflation is always and everywhere something something...
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 12:39 PM (H2rNu)

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Something to harm those who refused you power by voting for the uncouth orange man?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

9 Lady sort of looks like Jennifer Aniston

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 12:40 PM (DJFLF)

10 Don't hear much about Income Inequality these days from ANYONE, but I'm sure that's doing real swell too.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 12:41 PM (YVvUa)

11 NeverTrump is essentially an attempt to procure sexual relations from mentally ill women by agreeing with, and parroting their delusions.

And Democrats, but I treat them with the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Posted by: Oschisms at February 10, 2022 12:42 PM (BD0Jm)

12 Democrats are pro COVID, pro inflation and pro crime.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2022 12:42 PM (BFigT)

13 "Hey...you know how economics is a borderline joke of an academic field? What if we made it a complete joke?"

"That'd be hilarious, dude. Let's do it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 12:42 PM (LvTSG)

14 By the way, MMT has always been a joke amongst actual economists. It is essentially a marxist version of economics.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 10, 2022 12:42 PM (5kI0z)

15 Willowed:

Biden Admin' s @BrianDeeseNEC on the #FreedomConvoy: "Legitimate peaceful protest is, of course, something that is always encouraged. But taking steps like this that do nothing but hurt the economy ... really make no sense."

So only the homeless or unemployed can peacefully protest? Because employed people will quite naturally, not be at work if they are protesting.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2022 12:42 PM (Hica+)

16 This is really their theory. It's called "Modern Money Theory" (MMT). They called it that because "Retard Money Theory" was already taken.
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Note to Self: Do not drink water while reading Ace

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 12:42 PM (YVvUa)

17 The Fed has promised to print whatever sum is necessary to fund this plan to end inflation

And if that doesn't work, we'll go big on tulip futures.

Posted by: The Fed at February 10, 2022 12:42 PM (ZsR3z)

18 Inflation minus wage increase is less than 2% per annum.

Corporations are setting record profits this year
The price of oil extraction and refining has not changed significantly but retail prices have skyrocketed cm keyed
When should we call inflation price gouging by the elites?

Posted by: Kurt at February 10, 2022 12:42 PM (r4XH6)

19 I look forward to these supposed higher wages and salaries that set-off inflation. Cause right now? I'm just getting the inflation side of things.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2022 12:43 PM (KFhLj)

20 He's the best.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at February 10, 2022 12:43 PM (hObqH)

21 It jumped 7.5% since last February, the biggest year-over-year increase since the A-Team debuted. (My bad, that was 1983.)

I love it when a plan comes together!

Posted by: Klaus Schwab at February 10, 2022 12:43 PM (a3Q+t)

22 "Critical Money Theory" would have just been giving the game away.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 12:43 PM (6FeV1)

23 Got here just in time to read Kurts BS...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2022 12:43 PM (J8ILO)

24 Posted by: Kurt at February 10, 2022 12:42 PM (r4XH6)

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When it's them printing trillions of dollars instead of the federal government.

You're kinda dumb, aren't you?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 12:43 PM (LvTSG)

25 All that stimulus money the Feds gave away over the last couple of years? Pissed away on inflation.

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2022 12:43 PM (vrz2I)

26 But under Clinton and then under Obama, the Democrat Party repositioned itself to be the party of the urban corporate elite and the mega-wealthy. And the urban corporate elite and the mega-wealthy do not like paying high tax rates.

But the Democrat Party still wanted to piss money down ratholes.

So the Democrat Party became enamored of a new "theory" of money: That they could literally spend as much money as they wanted, pissing it down ratholes, and not bother raising taxes on their mega-wealthy donors, because the government could just print as much money as it liked and never worry about balancing the books and nothing bad would ever, ever happen.
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There's a *bit* more to it than that, but this is a mighty fine explanation crammed into just two paragraphs. I think it is worth pointing out, however, that George W. Bush may well have been worse than Clinton in this regard.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2022 12:43 PM (DU+/6)

27 "One critic notes the MMT people do not really have a theory they can even write down, or that could ever be tested -- they just have unfalsifiable claims and slogans."
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OK, so it's just like gorbal enwarmening.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 10, 2022 12:43 PM (sWM8x)

28 If everyone's wages increase, especially when due to an artificial external factor like government forcing, then nobody's wages increase.

What happens when your wages DON'T increase, but everything else does? We've been under a salary freeze for two years.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (Hica+)

29 Audit the Fed!

Posted by: mr tmz at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (m/Gc2)

30 I disagree with Manchin.

Inflation doesn't rob from "every American", it robs from "working people". It robs from those earning a paycheck. The wealthy own financial assets, many of which grow with inflation. The poor get government payouts, all indexed.

Working people, middle class people, pay all those bills.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (H2rNu)

31 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

Posted by: Can't Spell Flagpole Without gp at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (qpX6U)

32 Got here just in time to read Kurts BS...
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Bless his heart, he isn't very bright.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (6BZZn)

33 Ace, so you're saying we're saved from the economic horrors of outflation?

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (sm4Ko)

34 So the Democrat Party became enamored of a new "theory" of money: That they could literally spend as much money as they wanted, pissing it down ratholes, and not bother raising taxes on their mega-wealthy donors, because the government could just print as much money as it liked and never worry about balancing the books and nothing bad would ever, ever happen.

This is really their theory. It's called "Modern Money Theory" (MMT). They called it that because "Retard Money Theory" was already taken.

That isn't even MMT. Even MMTs proponents agree that you have to remove money from the system via taxation. And you can't simply spend willy-nilly, because the spending has to result in an increase in GDP. This is just standard DC "spend everything!" politics dressed up in another cheap costume. It's no different than we've seen in previous years, just a lot more of it.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (wmDcS)

35 "there is no model here -- no set of equations or definite formal statements that a layperson could use to generate their own MMT policy prescriptions without appealing directly to the gurus."

Posted by: Ace at 12:38 PM

Math is hard and it is much harder if you are stupid hence MMT is pushed by progressives.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (9GaEk)

36 Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Cure for ClownWorld Turned Out to be Honking at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (sSrKq)

37 @julie_kelly2

Liz Cheney hired a retired Secret Service agent to accompany her to the Capitol on January 6.

Adam Kinzinger told his wife to stay home and he brought a gun to the Capitol on January 6.

Almost like they knew something would go down...

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

38 Shut your annum, Kurt, before someone shuts it for you.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 12:45 PM (6FeV1)

39 Depressing news

Posted by: The Economy at February 10, 2022 12:45 PM (lCui1)

40 And the gender dynamics-- male economists piling on against a female economist and a female journalist, Times' reporter Jeanna Smialek, in ways distinctive from typical academic arguments -- look terrible here.
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LOLWUT? Seriously? What the actual fuck am I reading at this point?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2022 12:45 PM (DU+/6)

41
"MMT" sounds really similar to, oh, I dunno, RUNNING UP YOUR CREDIT CARDS without any regard whatsoever to ever paying it back or even caring about where that $$ came from in the first place. The $$ is just there.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at February 10, 2022 12:45 PM (gQZm2)

42 Me, I think we should just raise the minimum wage to, say, $4 trillion dollars per hour.

That way we could all work a few seconds and then retire.

If only Borgia Monetary Theory were put into practice, we'd all be set for life!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 10, 2022 12:45 PM (bW8dp)

43 Inflation and my IRA lost 1.6% last month.

Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2022 12:46 PM (AwYPR)

44 Next month we'll be hearing about 'How Calorie Restrictions increase health'. A month after that we'll get a rollout of a new ration/EBT card program for all residents.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 10, 2022 12:46 PM (XvPQV)

45 Really, why didn't the evil greedy capitalists get all the extra profits under evil greedy capitalist Trump?

Why did they wait for Biden to take charge?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 12:46 PM (LvTSG)

46 Sure it's inflation and inflation is bad, but I have it on good authority that they're only going to give us the tip.

Posted by: 496 at February 10, 2022 12:46 PM (U1eOr)

47 Ohio planning board nixes affordable housing development after Dave Chappelle throws down the gauntlet:

https://tinyurl.com/2p982upm

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 12:46 PM (DJFLF)

48 You idiots aren't supposed to believe the universe inexplicably sprang into existence from nothingness like that. You're supposed to believe that the universe inexplicably sprang into existence from nothingness like THIS, because this way is how Smart People believe, and it's smart, not how stupid people that believe it sprang from nothing in a stupid way.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 12:46 PM (A4cav)

49 Kurt suffers from Dumbflation

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 12:46 PM (YVvUa)

50 They called it that because "Retard Money Theory" was already taken.

LOL, thanks for somehow getting a laugh in the middle of an incredibly depressing piece.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at February 10, 2022 12:46 PM (wAnMi)

51 A lot of leftists are trying to float the price gouging scapegoat. No one is buying it because they are grownups, and not halted development leftists.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 10, 2022 12:46 PM (UuD2k)

52 Modern Funetary Theory

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (YVvUa)

53 If everyone's wages increase, especially when due to an artificial external factor like government forcing, then nobody's wages increase.

What happens when your wages DON'T increase, but everything else does? We've been under a salary freeze for two years.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM

Fixed income people are also getting kicked in the nuts by inflation. Real grocery store and gas station inflation is over 10% but all we got was a 5.9% COLA increase in our social security and Navy retirements.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (bVYXr)

54 Also fuck Larry Summers with a running chainsaw

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (XvPQV)

55 The price of oil extraction and refining has not changed significantly but retail prices have skyrocketed cm keyed
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Supply/demand, much?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (H2rNu)

56
Manfred Mann vs Manspread Man.

Discuss!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (s2VJv)

57 Shadow stats, who measure inflation using the formulas they did in the 70's, puts inflation at 15.63%, highest since 1947.

Yeah, all that money I saved for retirement? This is a big fuck you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (oHd/0)

58 So, who is going to take the politically painful steps to get inflation under control?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

They are not political steps... they are financial steps... and as long as we have omnibus spending bills (or as foul Harry taught us "no spending bills") there is no pressure to take financial steps.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (9GaEk)

59 4 So, who is going to take the politically painful steps to get inflation under control?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

How about a war? That's always fun

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (lCui1)

60 MMT doesn't even have the benefit of a single fatal flaw underpinning the entire thing. The Chicago economics (monetarism) has that fatal flaw, in that it treats all debt as self-liquidating and thus debt == money and you don't have to worry about debt. This was a great mistake for the "deficits don't matter" crowd but even that has run out of steam. We need new magic, and that magic needs to be even more nonsensical than the old magic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (DU+/6)

61 Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

lol @ Kinzinger brought a gun...Must have been a Nerf gun

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (DJFLF)

62 MMT sounds like the theories proposed by the old Canadian Social Credit Party. Oddly enough it didn't work.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (eGTCV)

63 wasting that money by pissing it down ratholes they claimed was "social spending on the poor."

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Thank God we've moved on to Biden Crack Pipes.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (FVME7)

64

"And they said I was crazy."

- - Trofim Lysenko

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (s2VJv)

65 I really like some of the analysis I am seeing.

Pay raises offset inflation? You mean like when the grocery has to pay their employees more, so they raise prices even more?

Inflation is always and only a monetary phenomenon.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 10, 2022 12:48 PM (5kI0z)

66 MTM >>>>>>>>MMT

(Mary Tyler Moore. Mmmmmm.....)

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 10, 2022 12:48 PM (dfRN6)

67 59 4 So, who is going to take the politically painful steps to get inflation under control?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

How about a war? That's always fun
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (lCui1)

It'll make for a lot of good (and bad) video games, movies, and books one day.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 10, 2022 12:48 PM (z5Vrg)

68 So, who is going to take the politically painful steps to get inflation under control?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

How about a war? That's always fun
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (lCui1)

Odds on one starting in Europe in the next 10 days...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 10, 2022 12:48 PM (XvPQV)

69 Gasoline has gone up to $3.50/gal. here. But the left tells me it's not Brandon's fault.

I remember when we were energy independent.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 12:48 PM (ptqGC)

70 61 Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

lol @ Kinzinger brought a gun...Must have been a Nerf gun
Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (DJFLF)

If he keeps on crying, he'll rust the damn thing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2022 12:48 PM (s2VJv)

71 It's just mansplaining with questions.

my mrs is using mansplaining incorrectly, how exactly do i fix this...?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 12:48 PM (8D42x)

72 69 Gasoline has gone up to $3.50/gal. here. But the left tells me it's not Brandon's fault.

I remember when we were energy independent.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 12:48 PM (ptqGC)

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I remember when Ron Klain thanked Biden for a 2 cent decrease in gas prices last year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 12:48 PM (LvTSG)

73 Guess which group will reappear in 23 with a Gope congress?

Posted by: Millionaires and Billionaires for higher taxes at February 10, 2022 12:48 PM (H4n73)

74 Who is the woman in the Larry Summers tweet?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (txdEq)

75 I go to the grocery a couple of times a week. Every time there is something that is more expensive than it was the time before.

Posted by: blaster at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (9otr5)

76 Manfred Mann vs Manspread Man.

Discuss!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (s2VJv)

Well Manfred Mann and his Earth Band were blinded by the light, Manspread Man IS the light.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (XvPQV)

77 Manfred Mann vs Manspread Man.

Discuss!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (s2VJv)

Doo Wah Diddys vs. Calm Yo Titties

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (6FeV1)

78 Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

lol @ Kinzinger brought a gun...Must have been a Nerf gun

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (DJFLF)

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What if the idiot had actually shot someone?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (ptqGC)

79 Fixed income people are also getting kicked in the nuts by inflation. Real grocery store and gas station inflation is over 10% but all we got was a 5.9% COLA increase in our social security and Navy retirements.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Ouch.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (Hica+)

80 46 Sure it's inflation and inflation is bad, but I have it on good authority that they're only going to give us the tip.
Posted by: 496 at February 10, 2022 12:46 PM (U1eOr)

Ah, the 'Lie back and think of England' ploy!

Well played... whicked googly though...

/golf clap

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (oHd/0)

81 Kinzinger brought one of Martha Stewart's used glue guns to the Capitol on J6

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (DJFLF)

82 Adam Kinzinger seems like scum but he regards himself to be a man of integrity.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (eGTCV)

83 65 I really like some of the analysis I am seeing.

Pay raises offset inflation? You mean like when the grocery has to pay their employees more, so they raise prices even more?

Inflation is always and only a monetary phenomenon.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 10, 2022 12:48 PM (5kI0z)

Reductions or increases in productivity will affect prices independent of monetary policy. If say Iran nuked Saudi Arabia oil prices and then everything else would shoot up.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (z5Vrg)

84 MMT is like a credit card that you never have to pay back, the credit limit is always raised, and the more debt you rack up, the lower the interest rate gets.

It just sucks to be the credit card company loaning you the money. US citizens are the credit card company in this analogy.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (UuD2k)

85 Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 12:41 PM (YVvUa)

I heard it (the term income equality) from someone yesterday. She and her husband are old school liberals, and I don't think they know how awful the Democrats are because they only read the NY Times or listen to MSNBC. The two of them are better off than we are financially because he is a retired engineeer and she is a retired teacher.. I said we have to get my 19 year old car repaired which will be quite a bit of money and she offered to pay for the repairs because she loves me and I love her, because she is a very generous person and because of income inequality. I said "I didn't think that was necessary although very kind" because I don't want to be beholden to anyone that isn't family and I'm not going to ask them either.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (GezNK)

86 But inflation will make the debt look smaller!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (F4b8f)

87 MMT is based on the Dan Akyrod Jimmy Carter sketch "We'll all be millionaires," but, you know, the serious academic version of that sketch, copies of which may be found only in Harvard's library, not the ones available on youtube to the hoi polloi.

Posted by: Match Checksout at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (dYe5S)

88 Is it illegal yet to plant your own vegetable garden? How about deer hunting?

Just thinking about eating the rest of the year.

Posted by: Sphynx at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (rXie1)

89 43 Inflation and my IRA lost 1.6% last month.
Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2022 12:46 PM (AwYPR)

In before demi-troll comes to brag about his investment winnings.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (XvPQV)

90 86 But inflation will make the debt look smaller!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (F4b8f)

A funhouse mirror.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (s2VJv)

91 10 Don't hear much about Income Inequality these days from ANYONE, but I'm sure that's doing real swell too.
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 12:41 PM (YVvUa)

Only Democrats could scream and bitch about the current system, where certain individuals (Bezos, Musk, etc.) wind up with hugely disproportionate wealth. Then Democrats act surprised when you dump seven trillion dollars or so into the same system, and the same people end up with most of the money.

What the flock did you expect to happen?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (cupoy)

92 82 Adam Kinzinger seems like scum but he regards himself to be a man of integrity.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 12:49 PM (eGTCV)

I question both the man and the integrity... Pantywaist crybaby

Posted by: It's me donna at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (J8ILO)

93 >38 Shut your annum, Kurt, before someone shuts it for you.

I'd like to add:

And now go get your shinebox.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (YFAIE)

94 Women are losing their cachet to the other victim groups, who are busy diluting what's left of any cachet for all future victim groups, and don't even know it.

"But the males are piling on the woman!!!"

Great. No one gives an everloving fuck. Next issue.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (YVvUa)

95 Women are men's equals, but also, you're never allowed to criticize women and you also have to pretend they're right even when they're completely wrong or it's "mansplaining."

Which reminds me, apparently there's a dramatized bio-pic forthcoming about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, sociopath, con woman, grifter and now convicted criminal.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (II3Gr)

96 MMT --- Magic Money Tree

Posted by: illiniwek at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (Cus5s)

97 I love how good ol Larry just had to get a dig in on Christians.

Posted by: Jonahex at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (UvQXJ)

98 Norms are being restored, if the Norms you mean are the inflation and malaise of 1982. (Which did happen under Reagan, but it was required to wring out the stagflation of the Carter years.)
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And that's *really* scary. The Reagan Recession was engineered and it was done to stomp on the brakes and get out of the problems that had been accumulating since Nixon and Ford and metastasized under Carter. It sucked, but it worked and it allowed for new progress to start up.

But this blowup isn't related to tough choices made to try to solve problems of long-term economic dislocation. This is a blowup related to shit falling apart.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (DU+/6)

99 LOLWUT? Seriously? What the actual fuck am I reading at this point?

What you are reading here is that there is no position a woman can occupy where any criticism of her won't be attributed to sexism. Which is actually an argument for making sure women do not occupy important positions. Not that these dummies realize it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2022 12:51 PM (KFhLj)

100 1. Raise spending and print more money.
2. ???
3. Profit!

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 10, 2022 12:51 PM (AiZBA)

101 Just gimmie a stimmie. It is all good.

Posted by: Biden fan at February 10, 2022 12:51 PM (E5emk)

102 Manfred Mann vs Manspread Man.
Discuss!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM

There he was,
Just a-manspreadin' on the seat
Singin' Do-wah diddy-diddy down diddy-do

Posted by: Manfred Mann at February 10, 2022 12:51 PM (a3Q+t)

103 1940's: My name if Elmer J. Fudd, Millionaire, I own a mansion and a yacht.

2022: my name is Romeo 13, Millionaire, I own a run down old home, and a Paddleboard.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2022 12:51 PM (oHd/0)

104 Wait, how does a 2.5% pay increase offset a 7.5% (in reality 20%+) inflation rate?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 12:51 PM (A4cav)

105 My 401k has done kind of crappy since the first of the year. It had been going like gangbusters steadily for years but hit a wall in Jan. An average return now in the negative single digits since the beginning of the year.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (BvX7g)

106 Have Republicans pounced on the sudden shift in mask policy by Dems? I think it is a pouncy moment for the MSM.

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (MxEKc)

107 It's no different than we've seen in previous years, just a lot more of it.
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For decades, Democrats and Republicans have claimed their deficit spending is justified because they're Keynesians, even though Keynes would NEVER have endorsed this sort of profligacy.

Maybe this MTM is just an attempt to find a new justification, since nobody believes their bullshit about Keynes any more.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (sWM8x)

108 56 JJ, Manfred Mann had the best Earth Band out of all the Earth Bands out there!

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (sm4Ko)

109 But the crack pipes are getting out OK, right?

Posted by: NeverBiden at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (eIGHH)

110 Manfred Mann vs Manspread Man.

Discuss!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (s2VJv)
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Manspreading men on the border are preventing Quinn The Eskimo from getting here, so nobody is jumping for joy!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (DU+/6)

111 MTM >>>>>>>>MMT

(Mary Tyler Moore. Mmmmmm.....)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 10, 2022 12:48 PM (dfRN6)

MTG>>>MTM>>>>>>>>>>MMT

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (8D42x)

112 BTW China has shut down some factories bc of pollution.

They don't want it seen during the Olympics.

Can you say supply chain issues?

Posted by: I Mean at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (H4n73)

113 If we can get to 100,000% inflation, $30 trillion in debt will be pocket change. Granted, the national debt will be measured in quintillions, but that will be dealt with later.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (F4b8f)

114
If you cannot make your payments
Well, do like the national governments
And you can pay off what you owe
By taking out a bigger loan
You gotta put it on credit and then forget it
Don't let it bother you no more, no more
Put it on credit and then forget it
And go back to the store

https://youtu.be/I-ZvL2Suw_8

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut IN at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (mZOHK)

115 For some reason, I suddenly saw "Critical Money Theory" as "Critical Mon(k)ey Theory."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (YIVH2)

116 Fuck your America. You wanted this. Enjoy it good and hard.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 10, 2022 12:53 PM (pEABt)

117 lol @ Kinzinger brought a gun...Must have been a Nerf gun
Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (DJFLF)
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Who was he planning to shoot?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 12:53 PM (H2rNu)

118 "you're never allowed to criticize women and you also have to pretend they're right even when they're completely wrong..."

Most people I know call this marriage.

Posted by: Gunslinger at February 10, 2022 12:53 PM (R2gO3)

119 People fail to understand that ANY theory, no matter how stupid or lunatic or suicidal, will "succeed" at first. Only after some certain amount of time will a theory be tested sufficiently to gauge its success. A lunatic can have a theory that drinking battery acid is good for you. Sure enough, if you drink the battery acid, you might not immediately die and it might even give you a high. "See?" the lunatic says. "The theory works!" So the fact that the lunatic MMT supposedly "worked" during a one-off, lunatic one year under the pandemic, means nothing.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 10, 2022 12:53 PM (iFTx/)

120 Gasoline has gone up to $3.50/gal. here. But the left tells me it's not Brandon's fault.

I remember when we were energy independent.

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It would be trivially easy to immediately return to that, too. All Biden would have to do is make a statement that he was going to, and the Saudis et al would drop their prices to try and prevent mom and pops and fracking etc.

That Biden doesn't do that tells you what his intentions are.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 12:53 PM (A4cav)

121 Central Banking is one of the key tenets to Communism. But we appreciate both parties blaming each other instead of us.

Posted by: The Federal Reserve at February 10, 2022 12:53 PM (snFip)

122 BTW China has shut down some factories bc of pollution.

They don't want it seen during the Olympics.

Can you say supply chain issues?
Posted by: I Mean

Not to worry. Those were all Soylent Green factories. They stockpiled for a year.

Posted by: Bruce at February 10, 2022 12:54 PM (vd8XM)

123 "How do you make money?"

"Volume."

Many years ago SNL did a fake tv commercial about a "bank" that only had one service: Making change.

https://youtu.be/CXDxNCzUspM

part 2:

https://youtu.be/KodqIPMbyUg

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at February 10, 2022 12:54 PM (gQZm2)

124 It's just a ball of confusion. That's what the world is today.
https://youtu.be/-9poCAuYT-s

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2022 12:54 PM (DU+/6)

125 Reductions or increases in productivity will affect prices independent of monetary policy. If say Iran nuked Saudi Arabia oil prices and then everything else would shoot up.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy

I agree that productivity can affect prices, usually in a deflationary manner, but the argument by the left that pay raises offset inflation is ridiculous.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 10, 2022 12:54 PM (5kI0z)

126 Modern Funetary Theory
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 1

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Oh, yeah -- remember "funemployment"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 10, 2022 12:54 PM (txdEq)

127 Remember when you said women are capable of anything and told everyone to shut the fuck up?

Well if that's the game then you can't exclude taking criticism like a grown-up, or hide behind your own skirt the moment you are challenged intellectually.

It's called having your cake and eating it too. Not possible. Next.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 12:54 PM (YVvUa)

128 Shadow stats, who measure inflation using the formulas they did in the 70's, puts inflation at 15.63%, highest since 1947.

Yeah, all that money I saved for retirement? This is a big fuck you.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2022 12:47 PM (oHd/0)

Yeah, this just chaps my hide. Watching purchasing power melt away.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2022 12:54 PM (M+Lyo)

129 It would be trivially easy to immediately return to that, too. All Biden would have to do is make a statement that he was going to, and the Saudis et al would drop their prices to try and prevent mom and pops and fracking etc.

That Biden doesn't do that tells you what his intentions are.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 12:53 PM (A4cav)

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You get an electric car! And YOU get an electric car! And a crack pipe!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 12:54 PM (ptqGC)

130 This is deliberate economic crippling of the American people. Every Rat kid diddler from Bloomberg on down deserves to be flayed for this.

Posted by: trev006 at February 10, 2022 12:54 PM (Eqkqm)

131
obamanomics

https://youtu.be/KodqIPMbyUg?t=53

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at February 10, 2022 12:54 PM (gQZm2)

132 105

Sigh. You were up 100% since 2019 and. you are down 4% for 2022. And you are whining. I swear some people....

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 10, 2022 12:55 PM (pEABt)

133 And the gender dynamics-- male economists piling on against a female economist and a female journalist, Times' reporter Jeanna Smialek, in ways distinctive from typical academic arguments -- look terrible here.

Sexism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 12:55 PM (II3Gr)

134 If we can get to 100,000% inflation, $30 trillion in debt will be pocket change. Granted, the national debt will be measured in quintillions, but that will be dealt with later.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

**

I heard on the radio that we went from $17T in debt in 2019 to $30T in debt today. Three years (two, really), and the bastards nearly doubled it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 12:55 PM (A4cav)

135 At this point, screw it, mint the trillion dollar coin.

Mint 150 of them and bam! No more deficit!

My economic theory for this is burn baby burn, fiscal inferno.

Posted by: alexthechick - boobs and hysteria at February 10, 2022 12:55 PM (l+q5H)

136 Most people I know call this marriage.
Posted by: Gunslinger at February 10, 2022 12:53 PM (R2gO3)

My husband never does this, but then we seem to agree on most things and he just know how to do certain things that I have no clue about and which I am grateful for hat he does.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 12:55 PM (GezNK)

137 Welp, off to the doctor.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 12:55 PM (ptqGC)

138 Gasoline has gone up to $3.50/gal. here. But the left tells me it's not Brandon's fault.

I remember when we were energy independent.

That is so 2020.

Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2022 12:55 PM (AwYPR)

139 People here are complaining that inflation is causing the high natural gas prices.
That's part of it. But, guess where a large supply of natural gas was coming from.

Posted by: Bruce at February 10, 2022 12:55 PM (vd8XM)

140 If the dems tank the economy any more, we're all going to need crack pipes.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 10, 2022 12:55 PM (Y5qcH)

141 t.ly/bDMK

FYI - the McCloskeys screwed over by Missouri Supreme Court. Don't ask me how the Governor can give them a pardon, and then the state SCOTUS can still sentence them.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 10, 2022 12:55 PM (IkuSF)

142 For decades, Democrats and Republicans have claimed their deficit spending is justified because they're Keynesians, even though Keynes would NEVER have endorsed this sort of profligacy.

Maybe this MTM is just an attempt to find a new justification, since nobody believes their bullshit about Keynes any more.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (sWM8x)

That's exactly it. They latch onto the part about spending and ignore the parts about how you still in theory need taxation to remove excess money from the system, as well as how you can't simply dump cash anywhere in the economy.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2022 12:56 PM (wmDcS)

143 Who was he planning to shoot?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 12:53 PM (H2rNu)

DJT I imagine

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 12:56 PM (DJFLF)

144 Joe Rogan is a smart ass.

"I haven't used that word in years," Rogan said. "But it's kind of weird people will get really mad if you use that word and tweet about it on a phone that's made by slaves."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 12:56 PM (FVME7)

145 MMT holds that eating ice cream cake and pancakes at every meal leads to a healthier (and skinnier!) you.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 12:56 PM (H2rNu)

146 "Wait, how does a 2.5% pay increase offset a 7.5% (in reality 20%+) inflation rate?

Posted by: Moron Robbie"

Common core. Always round to the nearest number divisible by 5 before doing your calculations. In this case 2.5% goes up to 5 and 7.5% goes down to 5. Now inflation is not hurting you.

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2022 12:56 PM (MxEKc)

147 Democrats never come up with a plan, policy, program or idiocy stupid enough to give the geniuses at the NYT pause.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 12:56 PM (eGTCV)

148 124 It's just a ball of confusion. That's what the world is today.
https://youtu.be/-9poCAuYT-s
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2022 12:54 PM (DU+/6)

Eve of destruction, tax deduction. Oh, wait a second!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2022 12:56 PM (s2VJv)

149 long time lurker - ace has mentioned a book he used to quit smoking, I was looking for it, can someone give me a hand in finding it?

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Micahel at February 10, 2022 12:56 PM (K0dTU)

150 Yeah, all that money I saved for retirement? This is a big fuck you.
Posted by: Romeo13

*

Yep. My neighbors who have never saved a penny and live three or four stations above their real lot in life are proving to me that they are much, much smarter than I am.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 12:56 PM (A4cav)

151 I love how good ol Larry just had to get a dig in on Christians.
Posted by: Jonahex at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (UvQXJ)

look at it this way, he hates the christians so much, and yet, he puts this in the same category. tells you exactly how crackpot of a theory it is...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 12:56 PM (8D42x)

152 If everyone's wages increase, especially when due to an artificial external factor like government forcing, then nobody's wages increase.

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"We've been trying to tell you since St. Marx that capitalism is a zero-sum game. QED, H8R!" -- Paul Krugman (D -CCP), Nobel Laureate in Economics

Posted by: ShainS -- The Cure for ClownWorld Turned Out to be Honking at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (sSrKq)

153 Here is a popular leftist meme on inflation right now;

"Umm, can we can we stop calling it inflation and call it what it really is? Price gouging and corporate greed."

Posted by: JROD at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (0jZnq)

154 Retvrn to Monke!

Posted by: Monke at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (snFip)

155 If we can get to 100,000% inflation, $30 trillion in debt will be pocket change. Granted, the national debt will be measured in quintillions, but that will be dealt with later.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 10, 2022 12:52 PM (F4b8f)

Hey kids, if that happens we can afford to build a Death Star.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8jvnwc

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (AiZBA)

156 We just need to get on with the collapse already so we can all laugh as these MMT morons come to the stark reality that there is nowhere to charge their tesla and the whole foods is closed.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (F4b8f)

157 Actually, MMT sounds to me a lot like Keynesian idiocy just on steroids and with modern-sounding lipstick on the pig. There is literally never any new idea in DC. At best it's warmed over mush. This is that.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

158 153 Here is a popular leftist meme on inflation right now;

"Umm, can we can we stop calling it inflation and call it what it really is? Price gouging and corporate greed."
Posted by: JROD at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (0jZnq)

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Yeah, Kurt already dropped it because he's a smart, independent thinker who comes to his own conclusions independently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (LvTSG)

159 "I haven't used that word in years," Rogan said. "But it's kind of weird people will get really mad if you use that word and tweet about it on a phone that's made by slaves."

Truth is, Western people love slavery. So long as you keep it out of sight.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (KFhLj)

160 "We've been trying to tell you since St. Marx that capitalism is a zero-sum game. QED, H8R!" -- Paul Krugman (D -CCP), Nobel Laureate in Economics
Posted by: ShainS -- The Cure for ClownWorld Turned Out to be Honking at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (sSrKq)

"I know, right?!"

- - Enron

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (s2VJv)

161 FYI - the McCloskeys screwed over by Missouri Supreme Court. Don't ask me how the Governor can give them a pardon, and then the state SCOTUS can still sentence them.
Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 10, 2022 12:55 PM (IkuSF)
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Isn't one of them running for office? That might be the reason...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (YIVH2)

162 I also look at the 'product' producers reported profit. If it has increased then they have taken the opportunity to raise prices without being blamed. (it's inflation's fault !!!) .

Short term Corporate greed is real.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (W3ofY)

163 118 "you're never allowed to criticize women and you also have to pretend they're right even when they're completely wrong..."

Most people I know call this marriage.
Posted by: Gunslinger at February 10, 2022 12:53 PM (R2gO3)

Heh. Add in "lest she take your kids, house, half your cash and retirement accounts, and 50% or more of your income for the next 18 years" and it would be spot on.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (II3Gr)

164 We don't care what you call it, just give us a "theory" that lets us do whatever the fuck we want.

Posted by: Washington Elite at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (vOGqy)

165 Phil Kerpen points out that the CPI is now being calculated differently than it used to be. Under the old weighting, last year's inflation rate would have been 8.7%.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (kyWWM)

166 With most food items up 25 - 50% in the last year I would like to know what products are down a comparable amount to get an average of only 7.5%.

Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (gfQwz)

167 I think I'm going to read MMT as*Magical* Money Theory from now on. I guess in their world money really does grow on trees, or rather spontaneously generates from electrons.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (nC+QA)

168 Yeah Chimpy McHitler was the biggest spender until Obama sashayed into DC...

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (CYnTg)

169 157 Actually, MMT sounds to me a lot like Keynesian idiocy just on steroids and with modern-sounding lipstick on the pig. There is literally never any new idea in DC. At best it's warmed over mush. This is that.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (iFTx/)

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It's people who heard of Keynes through political arguments in a college dorm, understood none of it, and decided that this time printing endless money is fine because the right people will do it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (LvTSG)

170 >LOLWUT? Seriously? What the actual fuck am I reading at this point?

you can't say anything bad about the skirts

Posted by: DB at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (geLO8)

171 The real cause of inflation comes out!

Luke Zaleski
@ZaleskiLuke
Is it possible GOP oil industry allies have been price gouging as a means of politically sabotaging an administration that's less friendly to their anti-climate agenda and red state governors and right wing media have intentionally worked to prolong Covid in order to blame Biden?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (FVME7)

172 It would be trivially easy to immediately return to that, too. All Biden would have to do is make a statement that he was going to, and the Saudis et al would drop their prices to try and prevent mom and pops and fracking etc.

That Biden doesn't do that tells you what his intentions are.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 12:53 PM (A4cav)

My heating bill is just about TWICE what it was last year at this time... $650 vs $335... this is in Calif where it has not frozen at all this year, and yesterday it was 70 degrees out.

We are sending Natural Gas to POLAND... and my F'n bill is through the roof?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (oHd/0)

173 Did anyone see that VP Harris was at the DNC headquarters when the pipe bombs were discovered on Jan 6?

That seems like something the news would have mentioned.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (Y5qcH)

174 "you're never allowed to criticize women and you also have to pretend they're right even when they're completely wrong..."

Most people I know call this marriage.
Posted by: Gunslinger
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I'm sorry you're in a marriage like this.

Seems like many of the 'rons here are in the same predicament, sad to say.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 12:59 PM (6BZZn)

175 These hoarders and wreckers shit my pants!

Posted by: PERVOTUS at February 10, 2022 12:59 PM (6FeV1)

176 To save our economy we all need to go out and break some windows. My Nobel prize-winning research proves this truth.

Posted by: Paul "Little kids" Krugman at February 10, 2022 12:59 PM (H2rNu)

177 Here is a popular leftist meme on inflation right now;

"Umm, can we can we stop calling it inflation and call it what it really is? Price gouging and corporate greed."
Posted by: JROD at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (0jZnq)
++++
https://youtu.be/BNsrK6P9QvI

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2022 12:59 PM (DU+/6)

178 Of course Chimpy's tax cuts helped the exact same people ....

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2022 12:59 PM (CYnTg)

179 171 The real cause of inflation comes out!

Luke Zaleski
@ZaleskiLuke
Is it possible GOP oil industry allies have been price gouging as a means of politically sabotaging an administration that's less friendly to their anti-climate agenda and red state governors and right wing media have intentionally worked to prolong Covid in order to blame Biden?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (FVME7)

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I thought inflation wasn't a bad thing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 12:59 PM (LvTSG)

180 Would anyone know Adam Kinzinger's if he wasn't buds with Liz Cheney and Nazi Pelosi?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 12:59 PM (eGTCV)

181 149 long time lurker - ace has mentioned a book he used to quit smoking, I was looking for it, can someone give me a hand in finding it?

Thanks in advance.

Posted by: Micahel at February 10, 2022 12:56 PM (K0dTU)

I don't know but maybe one of the Morons does

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 12:59 PM (DJFLF)

182 Kinzinger's name

Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 01:00 PM (eGTCV)

183 >>Women are men's equals

Another Theory that fails testing, repeatedly.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:00 PM (qpGP0)

184 149 long time lurker - ace has mentioned a book he used to quit smoking, I was looking for it, can someone give me a hand in finding it?

Thanks in advance.
Posted by: Micahel at February 10, 2022 12:56 PM (K0dTU)
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Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 10, 2022 01:00 PM (sWM8x)

185 Most people I know call this marriage.
Posted by: Gunslinger at February 10, 2022 12:53 PM (R2gO3)

Heh. Add in "lest she take your kids, house, half your cash and retirement accounts, and 50% or more of your income for the next 18 years" and it would be spot on.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (II3Gr)

And then people wonder why I've remained single after my divorce 30 years ago. I pride myself on never making the same mistake twice.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2022 01:00 PM (oHd/0)

186 If the Democrats really did take most of that money and hand it to poor people it would be bad, but not as bad as what they do now. They take that money and hand it to buddy organizations who give a pittance to poor people, then pocket the rest, and donate a lot of it back to individual politicians. Even the most efficient, top rated lefty charities only give a small portion to the alleged targets of their donations.

Its not just ineffective to give money to bums so they can buy another bottle of cheap booze, its a scam.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (KZzsI)

187 We don't care what you call it, just give us a "theory" that lets us do whatever the fuck we want.
Posted by: Washington Elite

The Shazam! economic theory.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (FVME7)

188 Would anyone know Adam Kinzinger's if he wasn't buds with Liz Cheney and Nazi Pelosi?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 12:59 PM (eGTCV)

All shitweasels look the same to me.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (AiZBA)

189 Ace stopped smoking and started fasting and building shelves...

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (CYnTg)

190 Lady sort of looks like Jennifer Aniston
Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 12:40 PM (DJFLF)

What breed is your seeing-eye dog?

Posted by: spindrift at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (h5TKJ)

191
Luke Zaleski
@ZaleskiLuke
Is it possible GOP oil industry allies have been price gouging as a means of politically sabotaging an administration that's less friendly to their anti-climate agenda and red state governors and right wing media have intentionally worked to prolong Covid in order to blame Biden?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

How is this not a Conspiracy Theory??

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (gQZm2)

192 Inflation is really just a word for saying "everyone has more money", and that's obviously a very good thing.

Posted by: Jenn Psaki morning thoughts at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (H2rNu)

193 Guess the hub and I really are oddities.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (6BZZn)

194 I'm thinking maybe just say screw it and enjoy the ride. Anybody know where I apply for government grant to design a zero emissions crack pipe? We need to preserve Mother Gaia AND fight racism.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (cupoy)

195 Allen Carr - Easy Way to Quit Smoking

Posted by: lurker at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (+XCWQ)

196 191
Luke Zaleski
@ZaleskiLuke
Is it possible GOP oil industry allies have been price gouging as a means of politically sabotaging an administration that's less friendly to their anti-climate agenda and red state governors and right wing media have intentionally worked to prolong Covid in order to blame Biden?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

How is this not a Conspiracy Theory??
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (gQZm2)

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Misinformation that must be banned from Twitter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (LvTSG)

197 Take the biggest oil companies. Figure out their political donations and those of their board members.

I'll eat my shoes if they donate more to R than to D.

It's just a meme born of Dick Halliburton Uniparty Shittydaughter Cheney.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:02 PM (6FeV1)

198 @177 Joe Mannix-I am not able to view what you put up. What do I type at Youtube?

Posted by: JROD at February 10, 2022 01:02 PM (0jZnq)

199 Heh. Add in "lest she take your kids, house, half your cash and retirement accounts, and 50% or more of your income for the next 18 years" and it would be spot on.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 12:57 PM (II3Gr)
++++
You ain't heard nothin' yet! Then she took the house, kids and both of the cars!
https://youtu.be/eV67FuREdSc

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2022 01:02 PM (DU+/6)

200 191
Luke Zaleski
@ZaleskiLuke
Is it possible GOP oil industry allies have been price gouging as a means of politically sabotaging an administration that's less friendly to their anti-climate agenda and red state governors and right wing media have intentionally worked to prolong Covid in order to blame Biden?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

How is this not a Conspiracy Theory??
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (gQZm2)

It's literally a conspiracy theory. Not that being a conspiracy theory inherently makes it correct or incorrect.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at February 10, 2022 01:02 PM (z5Vrg)

201 Of course Chimpy's tax cuts helped the exact same people

This was what the left said too, but most of the tax cuts were for middle class people. And, since Dems freaked out, "cuts" were also extended to the poor, who pay no taxes to begin with.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:02 PM (KZzsI)

202 Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking

It worked for my wife

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:02 PM (YVvUa)

203 The country is going down in economic flames and they're actually arguing about men vs. women economists?! Why are we effed? That right there. We are not a serious country. An we're going to suffer mightily for it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2022 01:02 PM (sVtYq)

204 >>Luke Zaleski
@ZaleskiLuke
Is it possible GOP oil industry allies have been price gouging as a means of politically sabotaging an administration that's less friendly to their anti-climate agenda and red state governors and right wing media have intentionally worked to prolong Covid in order to blame Biden?

Oh, shit gunys...Luke cracked the code.

It's over man. It's Over!

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:02 PM (qpGP0)

205 189 Ace stopped smoking and started fasting and building shelves...
Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (CYnTg)

Jury's still out on whether that was the healthy choice.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:02 PM (II3Gr)

206 What breed is your seeing-eye dog?

Posted by: spindrift at February 10, 2022 01:01 PM (h5TKJ)

haha

my eyesight is 20/40. Let me guess - you're a big Jennifer Anniston fan!

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (DJFLF)

207 With most food items up 25 - 50% in the last year I would like to know what products are down a comparable amount to get an average of only 7.5%.
Posted by: Phuk Ho Le at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (gfQwz)

big screen tvs and q-tips.

that's it.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (8D42x)

208 Keynesian Economics = Debt is Good....'zat it?

Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (AwYPR)

209 Joe Mannix-I am not able to view what you put up. What do I type at Youtube?
Posted by: JROD at February 10, 2022 01:02 PM (0jZnq)
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Huh. Odd. It was a Star Trek clip of Picard giving his classic "double facepalm" move. I searched for "Picard double facepalm" to find it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (DU+/6)

210 Luke Zaleski
@ZaleskiLuke
Is it possible GOP oil industry allies have been price gouging as a means of politically sabotaging an administration that's less friendly to their anti-climate agenda and red state governors and right wing media have intentionally worked to prolong Covid in order to blame Biden?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 12:58 PM (FVME7)

There is alot of conspiracy wrapped up in that. If not for oil companies and red state governors, FJB would be winning. By that line, imagine how successful Trump would have been if Blue state governors and the media didn't spend 4 years pushing a fake russia hoax.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (F4b8f)

211 Why wouldn't oil execs do the whole price gouging thing under Trump when Trump could help provide them political cover by appealing to his cult's misplaced sense of patriotism?

Wouldn't the oil execs gladly give Trump a cut of their price gouging in order to accomplish that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (LvTSG)

212 > There is no model here -- no set of equations or definite formal statements that a layperson could use to generate their own MMT policy prescriptions without appealing directly to the gurus.

I think every "modern" theory leftists embrace are intentionally made to lower the attack surface to near zero. That specifically requires being vague as hell about what you're actually arguing for, or doing a Motte and Bailey strategy. Eg: "Feminism is the radical idea that women are equal to men." (Motte) vs "A biological man is a woman if they say so." (Bailey)

Part of being vague as hell about what you're actually arguing for is the counter-attack. When you find yourself being asked a question that gets to the heart of the matter, Eg: "Define 'woman'", just attack. "You're making me feel unsafe by erasing me!"

Posted by: bonhomme at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (x980n)

213 Retards that don't even understand supply and demand

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (CYnTg)

214 I feel like wholesale stabbing will bring down inflation.
Not sure how, but worth a try.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (lCui1)

215 "gender dynamics... look terrible here"

whoa, intersectional economics ftw

Woke Zombie Keynes: These brutes are slaves of some defunct cis-normative discourse construct.

Posted by: Hands at February 10, 2022 01:04 PM (786Ro)

216 MMT is economic misinformation. Homeland Security needs to arrest that woman.

Posted by: Larry Summers at February 10, 2022 01:04 PM (H2rNu)

217 I'm thinking maybe just say screw it and enjoy the ride.

I took steps to sign up for everything and go on the dole but couldn't quite make myself do it. Too much pride, I guess.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:04 PM (KZzsI)

218
Less MMT
More MTG

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:04 PM (YVvUa)

219 MMT is like communism (in many ways) ... It can work, if you have perfect people perfectly implementing. It just has to be "done right".

But the bailouts for billionaires and keeping BigBank in control has given us $9 Trillion dollar entities like Black Rock, that get their money for nothing, so compete against average home buyers. They allegedly overpay so they can get their hands on real assets, apparently aware that their trillions in paper could vanish.

So appraisals go up, and taxes go up with it ... all while small and private business was forced to shut down for two years. ... Methinks they have a plan.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 10, 2022 01:04 PM (Cus5s)

220 The dollar is so boned. But on the bright side, every other currency is in worse shape, so we have that going for us.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 10, 2022 01:04 PM (yQpMk)

221 Is it possible GOP oil industry allies have been price gouging as a means of politically sabotaging an administration that's less friendly to their anti-climate agenda and red state governors and right wing media have intentionally worked to prolong Covid in order to blame Biden?

That's right - there is a huge conspiracy between multiple corporations and their hundreds of thousands of shareholders, all getting together in a secret cabal to reduce output and lower their corporate bottom lines and shareholder returns, just to hurt the democrats.

When all you have is a hammer and sickle, all of your problems look like Kulaks.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 10, 2022 01:05 PM (5kI0z)

222 214 I feel like wholesale stabbing will bring down inflation.
Not sure how, but worth a try.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (lCui1)

I enthusiastically endorse this plan

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 01:05 PM (DJFLF)

223 I feel like wholesale stabbing will bring down inflation.
Not sure how, but worth a try.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (lCui1)
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If "worth a try" is the standard, I propose Gemma Arterton dance naked in my living room.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 01:05 PM (H2rNu)

224 Luke Zaleski
@ZaleskiLuke
Is it possible GOP oil industry allies have been price gouging as a means of politically sabotaging an administration that's less friendly to their anti-climate agenda and red state governors and right wing media have intentionally worked to prolong Covid in order to blame Biden?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Oh, good. It took less than two years to turn America into Venezuela.

And that's not sarcasm. That's excellent news. One, because when there are enough CANADIANS to stand up to corpo-rat tyranny, America really needs to be shamed into acting. Second, Goldman Sachs justifies their outsize influence over every aspect of American life with "merit" and competence. Take that away, and repudiating all debt owed to them will be a snap.

Posted by: trev006 at February 10, 2022 01:05 PM (Eqkqm)

225 And then people wonder why I've remained single after my divorce 30 years ago. I pride myself on never making the same mistake twice.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2022 01:00 PM (oHd/0)

some of are just gluttons for punishment...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 01:05 PM (8D42x)

226 208 Keynes was a marxist.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 10, 2022 01:05 PM (sm4Ko)

227 MMT.

It's more of a suggestion than an actual theory.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 10, 2022 01:05 PM (vivhj)

228 Western Civ is falling down,
Falling down,
Falling down.
Western Civ is falling down
My dear Modern Monetary Theorists.

Posted by: Eat The Eloi at February 10, 2022 01:05 PM (BvNzB)

229 I used to be an economist like you, but then I took a Snopes debunking to the knee.

Posted by: Generic Whiterun Guard at February 10, 2022 01:05 PM (MRe2S)

230 I feel like wholesale stabbing will bring down inflation.
Not sure how, but worth a try.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (lCui1)

Endorsed.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:06 PM (II3Gr)

231 The Marxist stroll through academia has yielded fruit. Economists who know zero about economy and less about common math.

The sudden and total collapse of what's left of the country is going to be staggering to watch. Leftists' hardest hit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2022 01:06 PM (BFigT)

232 The dollar is so boned. But on the bright side, every other currency is in worse shape, so we have that going for us.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 10, 2022 01:04 PM (yQpMk)

I've been hearing that since 2005.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:06 PM (6FeV1)

233 Only grade-school intellects don't understand that a company making a profit is good for everyone.

I used to talk about this while shopping with my kids. I'd ask them "Do you know why there are so many different types of cereal?" Of course it's because there's a profit in it. If there was no profit in cereal we would be lucky to have even 1 kind of cereal.

Why don't some grown adults understand this?

Posted by: 496 at February 10, 2022 01:06 PM (U1eOr)

234 @209 Joe Mannix-Thanks. Yeah, unfortunately there were conservative types posting up that meme too.

Posted by: JROD at February 10, 2022 01:06 PM (0jZnq)

235 The Left is insane and using the well used strategy of their mentor Stan and mix in a little truth with their lies. No doubt some corporations are using this inflation crisis to increase their prices more than necessary and reaping increased profits.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 10, 2022 01:06 PM (W3ofY)

236 Don't worry, we're already getting or about to get the "70's-style Inflation Isn't that Bad" swarm of MFM articles getting us primed for this "new normal".

Posted by: Thrawn at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (Rl7KJ)

237 >> Women are men's equals, but also, you're never allowed to criticize women and you also have to pretend they're right even when they're completely wrong or it's "mansplaining."

I see you attend modern church regularly as well.

Posted by: Fed Up at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (snFip)

238 Democrats make plenty of money from the oil industry, but you already knew that.

They used to say R's were the Party of Wall Street too.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (YVvUa)

239 Less MMT
More MTG
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:04 PM (YVvUa)
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If only Kevin McCarthy would retire to Frank Luntz's boudoir permanently.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (H2rNu)

240 I feel like wholesale stabbing will bring down inflation.
Not sure how, but worth a try.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (lCui1)

Endorsed.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:06 PM

Operation Bubble Wrap

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (6FeV1)

241 Corporations do not help themselves in this by paying such outlandish, ridiculous pay packages to the guys who are running them so badly. I get that you want the best and brightest, so you offer good pay and benefits, but are you getting the value of what you're paying?

And when one guy makes 8 figures while the prices keep going up because you have to pay your workers more, that doesn't look good to the public. It hurts your argument about prices and costs.

Obviously if Joe Exec makes 18 million a year and he has 5 million workers, cutting his pay won't make much difference overall, its just a matter of appearance and public relations. And as I said, is this guy really worth that?

How much did Zucker get paid to run CNN off a cliff? How much do sportsball commissioners get paid to ruin their sports and crater ratings and ad revenues? How much does a studio exec get to pump out bomb after bomb of woke crap?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (KZzsI)

242
the Left: There is no inflation.

also the Left: Big Oil is causing all this inflation!

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (gQZm2)

243 Keynesian Economics = Debt is Good....'zat it?
Posted by: BignJames at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (AwYPR)

Nope. Keynesian Economics is really more about how the classical dichotomy of nominal and real variables doesn't exist, at least in the short run, and that changes to nominal variables (price levels, interest rates) can affect real variables (such as output). Keynes primary interest was in how to avoid periods of high unemployment, since he saw them as destructive to society.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (wmDcS)

244 The dollar is so boned. But on the bright side, every other currency is in worse shape, so we have that going for us.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 10, 2022 01:04 PM (yQpMk)

I've been hearing that since 2005.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:06 PM (6FeV1)

See!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (yQpMk)

245 Radio propaganda talking a lot about the truckers today, especially the blockade on the bridge and the supply problems and shutdowns they are going to cause. Regime is looking for scapegoats, they are going to need lots of them.

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (MxEKc)

246 That's right - there is a huge conspiracy between multiple corporations and their hundreds of thousands of shareholders, all getting together in a secret cabal to reduce output and lower their corporate bottom lines and shareholder returns, just to hurt the democrats.

When all you have is a hammer and sickle, all of your problems look like Kulaks.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 10, 2022 01:05 PM (5kI0z)

OK, now do News Corporations, and Big Tech, and Democrats.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (oHd/0)

247 This the first time I have heard of the MMT. Why is it that Democrats are so fuckin stupid? Can you actually see yourself believing in what this idiot mouth piece is spewing out and about for all to hear. Truly sad to know there are those that will believe in it. Oye.

Posted by: sidney at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (LJJah)

248 their anti-climate agenda

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Death to climate and all its minion!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (FVME7)

249 Guess the hub and I really are oddities.

Posted by: SMH

Nope, you're not. I seldom read the ettes disparage husbands or ex-husbands.
The few boobs that drag their personal grudges into aoshq every single day are.

Posted by: old chick at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (sOete)

250 Well they have a REALLY good excuse when next months inflation and jobs numbers are way worse. It will be all the fault of the, mostly Canadian, truck drivers who have shut down the bridge(s) between Detroit and Windsor. Those horrible wreckers /sarc

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (3cGpq)

251 I took steps to sign up for everything and go on the dole but couldn't quite make myself do it. Too much pride, I guess.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:04 PM (KZzsI)

I could make a good case for disability. I have MS and cancer.

I can't bring myself to do it. But the more I feel like I'm paying into a corrupt system, the more I want to do it.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (vivhj)

252 Fat CD's in 1982 I think.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (k54jv)

253 And then people wonder why I've remained single after my divorce 30 years ago. I pride myself on never making the same mistake twice.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2022 01:00 PM (oHd/0)

Wise. I suspect you've been accused of "being afraid of commitment" a few times thereafter...

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (II3Gr)

254 MMT is a video game economic theory brought to the real world by people who have never had $0.00 in their banking account.

Posted by: Well at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (UIm4F)

255 more than experts had expected

Who, exactly, issues "expert" credentials. Seems like they might want to tighten up on their requirements.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (nR2nR)

256 How Politicians Escape Economic Reality | Thomas Sowell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drVx-elzQ8o

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (6BZZn)

257 Keynes was a marxist.

But even he figured out over time that all those theories were not working under FDR.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (KZzsI)

258 208 Keynesian Economics = Debt is Good....'zat it?
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Keynes advocated government spending to counter the business cycle. Spend in deficit when the economy is contracting, then accumulate surpluses when the economy is expanding.

Politicians used that as a justification for spending more all the time. Nobody ever got around to the accumulate surpluses part.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (sWM8x)

259 How much did Zucker get paid to run CNN off a cliff? How much do sportsball commissioners get paid to ruin their sports and crater ratings and ad revenues? How much does a studio exec get to pump out bomb after bomb of woke crap?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (KZzsI)

It's almost like they are paid because they are members in a caste and not because of their ability.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (Y5qcH)

260 Preparing people for the " renewable energy" blackouts to come

https://instapundit.com/502498/

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2022 01:09 PM (CYnTg)

261 If "worth a try" is the standard, I propose Gemma Arterton dance naked in my living room.
Posted by: Huck Follywood,

You want Gemma Arterton
You'll settle for Anna Kendrick
You'll get Tank Abrams

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 01:09 PM (lCui1)

262 I feel like wholesale stabbing will bring down inflation.
Not sure how, but worth a try.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (lCui1)

if all you have is a knife, everything looks like a balloon.

and i endorse this plan

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 01:09 PM (8D42x)

263 I am so happy to drop to third place in the worst ever list.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 10, 2022 01:09 PM (ufFY8)

264 237 >> Women are men's equals, but also, you're never allowed to criticize women and you also have to pretend they're right even when they're completely wrong or it's "mansplaining."

I see you attend modern church regularly as well.
Posted by: Fed Up at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (snFip)

Oh snap. But not wrong.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:09 PM (II3Gr)

265 Radio propaganda talking a lot about the truckers today, especially the blockade on the bridge and the supply problems and shutdowns they are going to cause. Regime is looking for scapegoats, they are going to need lots of them.
Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (MxEKc)

They want a scapegoat? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Anthony Fauci.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 10, 2022 01:09 PM (AiZBA)

266 UNANSWERED QUESTION:

Should Twitter be censoring MMT as disinformation ?

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2022 01:09 PM (RHGPo)

267 Posted by: Just Lily at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (vivhj)

Prayers for your health

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 01:10 PM (lCui1)

268 Regular Gas is $4.89 here.

gaaack

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2022 01:10 PM (M+Lyo)

269 I am so happy to drop to third place in the worst ever list.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 10, 2022 01:09 PM (ufFY

Sock fail, dammit!

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 10, 2022 01:10 PM (ufFY8)

270 I feel like wholesale stabbing will bring down inflation.
Not sure how, but worth a try.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 01:03 PM (lCui1)

Endorsed.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker.

Their secret plan is to raise the price of tire irons out of the reach of the average American!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 01:10 PM (FVME7)

271 I can't bring myself to do it. But the more I feel like I'm paying into a corrupt system, the more I want to do it.

Yeah that's where I am now. But I cannot pull that trigger yet, it just feels so wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:10 PM (KZzsI)

272
I told you last year that 2021 was 2009 all over again.
And now we're reliving 2010.

The same playbook of excuses, lies, and conspiracy theories is at play, here.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at February 10, 2022 01:10 PM (gQZm2)

273 But the more I feel like I'm paying into a corrupt system, the more I want to do it.
Posted by: Just Lily

You are. And you should.
No reason to stay a sucker.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2022 01:10 PM (Hica+)

274 I give you Anthony Fauci.
Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 10, 2022 01:09 PM (AiZBA)

Former Trump Advisor Anthony Fauci, thank you very much.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:10 PM (6FeV1)

275 And that's not sarcasm. That's excellent news. One, because when there are enough CANADIANS to stand up to corpo-rat tyranny, America really needs to be shamed into acting. Second, Goldman Sachs justifies their outsize influence over every aspect of American life with "merit" and competence. Take that away, and repudiating all debt owed to them will be a snap.
Posted by: trev006

You left out some folks.

Posted by: BlackRock, Vangaurd, Rothschilds, ect... at February 10, 2022 01:10 PM (snFip)

276 Posted by: old chick at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (sOete)

Calm down

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 10, 2022 01:10 PM (W3ofY)

277 "Or as the AP sugarcoats it: Higher wages "can pressure" companies to raise prices."

Besides providing cover for Brandon, this statement is also a nod to the far-left/socialist "economists" that reject the notion that higher wages necessitate price increases and inflation. Morons like Richard Wolff and Kyle Kulinski say corporations could just sell MORE product with the same profit margin, and everyone would come out ahead, but they instead use increased wages as an excuse to raise prices (and profits) at the expense of the working man.

Posted by: Grimmy at February 10, 2022 01:11 PM (JCZqz)

278 I saw Few Boobs open up for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones back '97.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:11 PM (YVvUa)

279 195 Allen Carr - Easy Way to Quit Smoking
Posted by: lurker

Thanks all!

Posted by: Micahel at February 10, 2022 01:11 PM (1yr7f)

280 You want Gemma Arterton
You'll settle for Anna Kendrick
You'll get Tank Abrams
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 01:09 PM (lCui1)
====================
And there he goes...Huck runs into the woods, maskless, and screaming hysterically, "Save me from my fate! Whip inflation now!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 01:11 PM (H2rNu)

281 Comparing today's numbers to 1982 is a sham. If they used the 82 equation inflation would clock somewhere between 13 to 16%, doubling the high of 82. Fuck. They just lie, lie and lie again. Deep State sucks Donkey Balls.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 10, 2022 01:11 PM (xSnmX)

282 MMT explains why so many Democrat Representatives are all gung-ho on BBB

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2022 01:11 PM (RHGPo)

283 Gemma is here to party:

https://tinyurl.com/mrypjvh4

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 01:11 PM (LvTSG)

284 >>Posted by: old chick at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (sOete)

>Calm down

Hahahaha.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:11 PM (BdF2V)

285 Wise. I suspect you've been accused of "being afraid of commitment" a few times thereafter...
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (II3Gr)

Actually had a 10 year committed relationship during that time. Lived together with our kids... just never got married.

Which turned out to be wise when we split up.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2022 01:11 PM (oHd/0)

286 How much did Zucker get paid to run CNN off a cliff? How much do sportsball commissioners get paid to ruin their sports and crater ratings and ad revenues? How much does a studio exec get to pump out bomb after bomb of woke crap?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (KZzsI)

Isn't that called the penis principle. Dicks

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (M+Lyo)

287 Money is just a time coupon. There should be no increase in money unless there is an increase in available time.

For example, the trans-continental railroad, telegraphs, telephones, airplanes, etc., all freed up time. So, it became appropriate for the money supply to increase to match those increases in available time.

When politicians do stupid shit that actually consumes time and simultaneously increases money supply they are screwing all of us from both directions.

Posted by: jc at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (N1WXz)

288 CAT's guide to quit smoking:

STOP IT!

But I need a cig-

STOP IT!!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (F4b8f)

289 Women are men's equals, but also, you're never allowed to criticize women and you also have to pretend they're right even when they're completely wrong or it's "mansplaining."

I see you attend modern church regularly as well.
Posted by: Fed Up at February 10, 2022 01:07 PM (snFip)

Oh snap. But not wrong.
Posted by: Insomniac

Snort.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (Hica+)

290 I could make a good case for disability. I have MS and cancer.

I can't bring myself to do it. But the more I feel like I'm paying into a corrupt system, the more I want to do it.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 10, 2022 01:08 PM (vivhj)

Oof. I'm sorry about your health problems. I understand the hesitation - I was dick broke for a while and tried (unsuccessfully) to get on Medicaid - but you've had your money stolen to go into the system, it's only fair you get some of it back.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (II3Gr)

291 Several red states have surpluses this year.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (pEABt)

292 saying that this gal economist with her silly theories on MMT are sexist mansplaining is so 2015.

also, what is a woman?

The current complaint should be that conservatives are weaponizing math and economic.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (ZZK0E)

293 And if that doesn't work, we'll go big on tulip futures.
Posted by: The Fed at February 10, 2022 12:42 PM (ZsR3z)

Or just bet on the Stupid Bowl with your 56/1 odds.

Posted by: Draft Kings or FanDual or whatever at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (ufFY8)

294 >>Morons like Richard Wolff and Kyle Kulinski say corporations could just sell MORE product with the same profit margin

These guys employed at the Fed or something?

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (BdF2V)

295
Remember when obama "pulled the economy from the brink."

In two weeks, I guarantee biden will use that phrase in the SOTU.

He'll say he "pulled the economy from thee brink."

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (gQZm2)

296 We spent more than twice the amount on Covid relief giveaways in 6 months than we did in 20 years of all military actions in the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (W3ofY)

297 Jerry Rivers taking 'old dumb greaser" a lil far

Posted by: REDACTD at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (us2H3)

298 The Marxist stroll through academia has yielded fruit. Economists who know zero about economy and less about common math.

The sudden and total collapse of what's left of the country is going to be staggering to watch. Leftists' hardest hit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2022

***
I noticed yesterday that my boss, a Ph.D. in economics, had to use a calculator to figure out 7.5 x 5. He's a big and nervous believer in the Coof Hysteria too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (txdEq)

299 Church was the first place in which I saw the left begin to systematically gut worship services for crap repetitive praise songs and cheesy amateur "worship bands", happy clappy singing, and huggy "meet and greet" portions of the worship service as if its about making buddies instead of worshipping God... they pushed for all that, then complained that people who fought against it were creating "worship wars" and causing trouble.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (KZzsI)

300 Oil companies make their "obscene profits" off of selling barrels of oil not a gallon of gas/diesel. So no this is not the oil companies trying to screw the Biden Administration. Bidens energy policy tossed the ability to set the price of a barrel of oil back over to our enemies like Russia and OPEC. Our oil companies benefit too. Just how it works.

Posted by: JROD at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (0jZnq)

301 Isn't that called the penis principle. Dicks
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (M+Lyo)

Rise to one's level of maximum impotence

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (6FeV1)

302 281 Comparing today's numbers to 1982 is a sham. If they used the 82 equation inflation would clock somewhere between 13 to 16%, doubling the high of 82. Fuck. They just lie, lie and lie again. Deep State sucks Donkey Balls.
Posted by: Puddin Head at February 10, 2022 01:11 PM (xSnmX)

15.63% according to Shadow stats, who runs those calculations based on the old way of measuring inflation.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (oHd/0)

303 >>lol @ Kinzinger brought a gun...Must have been a Nerf gun

A .90 caliber Derringer with the thing that goes up.

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (GYllL)

304 MMT is sort of "anti-inflation" (not to be confused with deflation).

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (RHGPo)

305 Their secret plan is to raise the price of tire irons out of the reach of the average American!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 01:10 PM (FVME7)

I'm your huckleberry.

Posted by: half inch rebar pulled from the rubble at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (yQpMk)

306 If you qualify for govt cheese fucking get it. I never get people who say they feel wrong to do it or whatever. Hate the game not the playah.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (pEABt)

307 296 We spent more than twice the amount on Covid relief giveaways in 6 months than we did in 20 years of all military actions in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (W3ofY)

========

For decades it's been a mantra on the left that we should spend more on domestic policy than the military.

Well, we got it over the past two years, and what happened? Massive inflation. Will they learn anything from this?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (LvTSG)

308 I think Solzenhitzyn had it wrong. You know who your INFERIORS are by whom you are not allowed to criticize.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 10, 2022 01:14 PM (5kI0z)

309 The "Crapification" Of The U.S. Economy Is Now Complete

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2022 01:14 PM (RHGPo)

310 I would expect Twitter to censor Milton Freidman before MMT.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 10, 2022 01:14 PM (F4b8f)

311 260 Preparing people for the " renewable energy" blackouts to come

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meanwhile Germany is bulldozing an ancient forest to build fucking solar panels or fans or immigrant housing, who knows.

it's like the USSR, I tells ya. PJ orouke encountered something similar, just bulldoze it all, it's free.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 10, 2022 01:14 PM (ZZK0E)

312 The current complaint should be that conservatives are weaponizing math and economic.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (ZZK0E)

Well, Math has already been deemed RAAAAACIST!

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 10, 2022 01:14 PM (oHd/0)

313 I: told you last year that 2021 was 2009 all over again.
And now we're reliving 2010.

The same playbook of excuses, lies, and conspiracy theories is at play, here.

Posted by: Soothsayer"

Somehow the Obama regime kept a lid on things. He and his handlers at least knew enough to try and hide their contempt for most Americans. The current regime does not even try and obviously enjoy watch Americans suffer.

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2022 01:14 PM (MxEKc)

314 >>15.63% according to Shadow stats, who runs those calculations based on the old way of measuring inflation.

Yep. Will be closer to 20-22% by the end of this year, too.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:14 PM (BdF2V)

315 I noticed yesterday that my boss, a Ph.D. in economics, had to use a calculator to figure out 7.5 x 5. He's a big and nervous believer in the Coof Hysteria too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (txdEq)

I can't say anything... I've used a calculator to multiply by 10 before.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:14 PM (6FeV1)

316 Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (F4b8f)

Electric shock aversion therapy.

I need a cig
ZAP!!
But I REALLY need a cig...
ZAP!!!
*whimpers* I guess I can do without a cig...

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:14 PM (II3Gr)

317 Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 01:10 PM (lCui1)

Thank you most sincerely!

Posted by: Just Lily at February 10, 2022 01:14 PM (vivhj)

318 MMT is pure BS.

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2022 01:15 PM (MRWHf)

319 311 They'd be better off burning the wood afterwards...

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2022 01:15 PM (CYnTg)

320 I believe AOC is a big advocate of MMT. Tells you a lot.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:15 PM (Ynyl9)

321 On the hopeful side of the economy-starting March 1 all rental cars will come with a free government issue crack pipe. Look in the glove compartment.

Posted by: Go Mental! at February 10, 2022 01:15 PM (snngm)

322 I seldom read the ettes disparage husbands or ex-husbands.
The few boobs that drag their personal grudges into aoshq every single day are

Its like anywhere, a few loud voices sound like the majority when the majority just stays quiet about it.

I mean, the complaints of the few aren't invalid, but they are too broadly sweeping. Its one thing to complain about how you were treated or how too often this happens, but its another entirely to declare all marriages to be that way.

Men are very justly leery of getting into a hard long term commitment with how crazy things are and how poor many women act these days (and men), but that doesn't mean marriage as a whole or even generally is misery.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:15 PM (KZzsI)

323 Kurt is always and everywhere a booger-eating phenomenon.

Posted by: Hands at February 10, 2022 01:15 PM (786Ro)

324 I think I'm gonna need my Biden Crack Pipe.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 01:15 PM (H2rNu)

325 I confess I don't understand economics like you people do. All I know is, stuff costs more but I'm not getting paid more.

Posted by: DB at February 10, 2022 01:15 PM (geLO8)

326 Democrats have always gained power by promising more government handouts during economic downturns.

What's now interesting is, there's literally no public outcry for more government spending.
That is, for the 1st time in history, the working class is blaming the Democrats, specifically their spending sprees; they've bought off all the working class they can by now.
See also, The Law of Diminishing Returns; which has also not been repealed no matter how many economic papers Studies majors write.

Posted by: Well at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM (UIm4F)

327 >>Somehow the Obama regime kept a lid on things. He and his handlers at least knew enough to try and hide their contempt for most Americans. The current regime does not even try and obviously enjoy watch Americans suffer.

The Obama plan was to force the Landed Class to liquidate their holdings and expose those investments/savings to Taxation.

You can only go to that well once.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM (BdF2V)

328 I can't say anything... I've used a calculator to multiply by 10 before.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:14 PM (6FeV1)

I've seen math Ph.Ds screw up a simple multiplication when working a problem for the class.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM (wmDcS)

329 if the Republicans do not win big this November, you know something is fishy.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM (Ynyl9)

330 MMT with a sprinkle of CRT and a dash of GND is how you destroy a nation.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM (pEABt)

331 Apparently the bad press caused them to drop the crack pipe idea. They still hand out needles for the heroin junkies though...

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM (CYnTg)

332 >> I believe AOC is a big advocate of MMT

I still think e should be calling her Titty Ruxpin.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM (BdF2V)

333 I loved my late wife. I've never spoken critically of her publicly and never will.
But here's a pet peeve of mine. Mother's Day sermons are always sentimental and positive, telling people to be grateful for their mothers.
Father's Day sermons are about the short comings of men.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM (eGTCV)

334 and right wing media have intentionally worked to prolong Covid

*

Out in yo streetz licking yo doorknobz

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM (A4cav)

335 The Canadian truckers and farmers are doing a number on the federal and regional Canadian governments. Each time the government tries to crack down on them they counter by closing off more and more. It is like watching an anaconda suffocate its prey. The more the governments struggle, the more the truckers and farmers tighten the restrictions.

Take a look at the Apple map on your phone. You can now see the congestion caused by the three big border crossings that have been closed (Coutts, the ND border crossing, Windsor). Those are obvious (often they are categorized as construction on the apple map. But, if you look closely at other smaller border crossings out west - there is also "construction" going on on the Canadian side as well. News flash - its is utterly brutal weather right now at all of those boarder crossings. There is no "construction". I think it is famers and truckers quietly shutting down those other crossings as well.

Posted by: Brian at February 10, 2022 01:17 PM (IJWkh)

336 161 FYI - the McCloskeys screwed over by Missouri Supreme Court. Don't ask me how the Governor can give them a pardon, and then the state SCOTUS can still sentence them.
Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 10, 2022 12:55 PM (IkuSF)
---
Isn't one of them running for office? That might be the reason...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
---------------
Yep, Uniparty in action. Same reason that McConnell bleated yesterday about Jan 6. To many politicos are at the trough from both parties.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2022 01:17 PM (Iq9dF)

337 Well, Math has already been deemed RAAAAACIST!
Posted by: Romeo13 at Feb

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if you blink, you can miss current theory leftwing excuses.

2018 republicans are using math as a talking point
2019 math is mansplaining
2020 math is racist
2021 math is domestic terror
2022 math is being weaponized by the right

Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 10, 2022 01:17 PM (ZZK0E)

338 331 Apparently the bad press caused them to drop the crack pipe idea. They still hand out needles for the heroin junkies though...
Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM (CYnTg)

Drop the idea, i.e., hide it from public view.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:17 PM (KbCG3)

339 288 CAT's guide to quit smoking:
STOP IT!
But I need a cig-
STOP IT!!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 10, 2022 01:12 PM (F4b8f)

There's a Newhart skit along those same lines, damn funny...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 10, 2022 01:17 PM (BgMrQ)

340 I told my kids use a calculator. There is no need to waste time doing that shit on paper. It is 2022 not 1822.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 10, 2022 01:17 PM (pEABt)

341 it's kind of circular

Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 10, 2022 01:17 PM (ZZK0E)

342 I noticed yesterday that my boss, a Ph.D. in economics, had to use a calculator to figure out 7.5 x 5. He's a big and nervous believer in the Coof Hysteria too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (txdEq)

37.5. And I did it in my head. And I'm just a stupid fucking dumbass lawyer.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:17 PM (II3Gr)

343 The left does the same thing as in churches with culture. They stomp on everything people hold dear, tear down every tradition, gut everything that used to hold the culture together, then accuse anyone who complains or fights back as starting "Culture wars"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:18 PM (KZzsI)

344 342 I noticed yesterday that my boss, a Ph.D. in economics, had to use a calculator to figure out 7.5 x 5. He's a big and nervous believer in the Coof Hysteria too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 10, 2022 01:13 PM (txdEq)

37.5. And I did it in my head. And I'm just a stupid fucking dumbass lawyer.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:17 PM (II3Gr)

Yeah but it apparently took you four minutes.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:18 PM (KbCG3)

345 Well, I told my wife the star of "Reacher" is gay, but she looked him up on something or other and found out he's married and he and his wife have three kids.

So...not gay. Her fantasies have resumed, and now she doubts my word. Maybe I'll tell her about MMT next.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 10, 2022 01:18 PM (H2rNu)

346 >>37.5. And I did it in my head.

Well, if you can't show us your work you don't get credit.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:18 PM (BdF2V)

347 nd right wing media have intentionally worked to prolong Covid

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shine on you crazy leftwing diamonds

Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 10, 2022 01:18 PM (ZZK0E)

348 Father's Day sermons are about the short comings of men.

Posted by: N.L. Urker
------------------
Go and bitch at the preacher/priest/rabbi for such quietly after the service. If you want to be bold and noticed, walk out during the sermon.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2022 01:18 PM (Iq9dF)

349 I can't say anything... I've used a calculator to multiply by 10 before.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022
*
I've seen math Ph.Ds screw up a simple multiplication when working a problem for the class.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2022

***
That was most of why I got poor grades in math in school. We didn't *have* calculators yet. One error in arithmetic = wrong answer = no credit on exam.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at February 10, 2022 01:18 PM (txdEq)

350 Yeah but it apparently took you four minutes.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:18 PM (KbCG3)

Blow me.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:18 PM (II3Gr)

351 Posted by: illiniwek at February 10, 2022 12:50 PM (Cus5s)

I like yours better. Hadn't seen it before I posted oe I probably wouldn't have bothered.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 10, 2022 01:19 PM (nC+QA)

352
Well, if you can't show us your work you don't get credit.
Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:18 PM (BdF2V)

DAMMIT

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:19 PM (II3Gr)

353 kind of like poetrey

Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 10, 2022 01:19 PM (ZZK0E)

354 I understand that chicken farmers are also raising prices just to mess with the Biden admin's wonderful plans of endless spending.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:19 PM (Ynyl9)

355 Apropos of nothing, a charming vignette:
Gaggle of kids in a school halway between classes, mostly black. One kid says "n*****" in the course of gambolling about with the others. Teacher says "hey! We don't use that word!". Kid insouciently says "it's part of my culture." Teacher yells "well your culture has no place here!!!" Kid says "oh really?" Flustered teacher goes into maximum spazz out asscover panic mode. Kids crack up laughing and walk on by.

I thought it was beautiful, at any rate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:20 PM (6FeV1)

356 The injury that left a man stumbling on a downtown street carrying his severed arm last month was apparently self-inflicted, police said.

Police and Occupational Health and Safety Administration officials have ended their investigation into the Jan. 21 incident involving Abdiaziz Hussein. OSHA was involved after it was revealed the incident took place at AK Market at 280 Pine St.

Hussein did not work at the store, police said this week.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2022 01:20 PM (RHGPo)

357 Father's Day sermons are about the short comings of men.

Mother's Day sermons are about how great moms are and how men are awful.

NEITHER ONE SHOULD BE PREACHED IN CHURCH. Preach Christ and Him Crucified not "topic of the week." Use the Bible, not the newspaper for your topics.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:20 PM (KZzsI)

358 Well, if you can't show us your work you don't get credit.
Posted by: garrett

7x5 = 35.
.5 x 5 = 2.5
35 + 2.5 = 37.5
Easy peasy Japanesey.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2022 01:20 PM (Hica+)

359 Father's Day sermons are about the short comings of men.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM (eGTCV)

I was told that size does not matter.

Posted by: Kamala at February 10, 2022 01:20 PM (SH2Zi)

360 340 I told my kids use a calculator. There is no need to waste time doing that shit on paper. It is 2022 not 1822.

Posted by: Joe XiDen
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If you have no sense of numbers from manual calculations, then you will not notice wrong entries in the computer or calculator.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2022 01:20 PM (Iq9dF)

361 CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
Joe Biden's disapproval rises to 58%, with most detractors saying they like nothing he has done since becoming President, a CNN poll finds.

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Well, I liked it when he fell down the stairs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (FVME7)

362 something or other and found out he's married and he and his wife have three kids.

So...not gay
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Ummmmm...

Posted by: Rock Hudson at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (YVvUa)

363 Inflation also makes China more important.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (xSnmX)

364 Where did this crazy MMT come from?

China. The dems saw that the Chinese were printing and spending as much as they wanted, and there were no consequences. So they said, hot damn! Lets do that.

Except. The Chinese spend on shit. Every yen printed goes to a business that is insanely producing products. None of it goes to welfare.

So, China. Spend on products like mad. Get no inflation.

America. Spend on spending like mad. Get inflation.

We really do have the most idiotic leaders ever.

Posted by: Loki, a hero archetype, just like Supes and Jeezus at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (ZW1rs)

365 I now have a fluid pricing schedule at work.

If I suspect that you are a government employee or a Democrat, I charge 20% more than what I need for services.

I also tack on a travel fee and note in my quotes that it is due to the rising cost of fuel.

If you are gonna support policies that increase costs and inflation, you will pay disproportionately for those policies.

That's my policy.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (/3dED)

366 Ya know, there is a time and place for Manspalinin...

And that time is anytime I got somethin to say, and anywhere I decide to speak.

Done with being nice.

Posted by: Romeo13, Unrepentant Man at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (oHd/0)

367 Covid-19 Vaccines caused 1048% increase in Diseases of the Nervous System among the Military in 2021 according to Official U.S. Government Database

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (RHGPo)

368 As a kid keeping score in youth bowling league helped with doing math quickly in your head . Playing the drinking game buzz in college did the same. I'm an expert in multiples of seven.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (W3ofY)

369 7X10=75

75 / 2 = 37.5

Posted by: fd at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (vrz2I)

370 Well, if you can't show us your work you don't get credit.
Posted by: garrett

7x5 = 35.
.5 x 5 = 2.5
35 + 2.5 = 37.5
Easy peasy Japanesey.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2022 01:20 PM (Hica+)

Ah hah! You did not use correct pronouns, racist.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (SH2Zi)

371 Well, I liked it when he fell down the stairs.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (FVME7)

And shit his pants

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2022 01:22 PM (M+Lyo)

372 Do they even teach addition or multiplication tables anymore? We drilled the fuck out of those things when I was in first grade. I credit those and a couple of shortcuts I learned later on for being able to do basic arithmetic in my head fairly quickly.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:22 PM (II3Gr)

373 Well, I liked it when he fell down the stairs.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (FVME7)

Correction: He fell UP the stairs.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 10, 2022 01:22 PM (AiZBA)

374 Maths...

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2022 01:22 PM (MRWHf)

375 Eh. They know how to do it. They learned it. But there is no point do do it anymore manually when Alexa is there with the answer in 3 seconds.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 10, 2022 01:22 PM (pEABt)

376 Keynes was a marxist. Marx was a satanist.

And that right there cuts to the heart of the matter in a flash, doesn't it?

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 10, 2022 01:22 PM (sm4Ko)

377 Printing money instead of selling bonds and paying interest on those bonds ... COULD make sense. But clearly BigGov has no discipline to do it correctly.

IF they manage to "break the USD", and perhaps insert some Global Currency (replacing USD as the reserve currency) ... then inflation in the USA could really get rolling, since anyone holding USD in the world would look to cash out, and we would have to pay premium prices for foreign goods.

That might help our trade balance, but USA would have to "refinance". But "they" will keep acquiring America itself, offshoring ownership of everything, till we stop them. Not sure how that happens, since they run everything.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 10, 2022 01:22 PM (Cus5s)

378 This is the Abbott and Costello explanation of economics and money.

Got it.

Posted by: Archer at February 10, 2022 01:22 PM (gmo/4)

379 >>Covid-19 Vaccines caused 1048% increase in Diseases of the Nervous System among the Military in 2021 according to Official U.S. Government Database

1048%...huh. Is that all?

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:22 PM (BdF2V)

380 > but that doesn't mean marriage as a whole or even generally is misery.
Posted by: Christopher

Marriage is not for everyone. but, basing and generalizing all husbands or wives on ONE experience is silly.
Some people need 3,4 or 5 spouses to get it right!

Posted by: old chick at February 10, 2022 01:23 PM (sOete)

381
This is actually worse than MMT (which itself is very dumb).

But, its not exactly "retarded," as you put it. I mean, these people know it can't work. It's just part of the Great American Shell Game. It's not supposed to work. It's supposed to impoverish everyone except for the donor class.

Then, of course, the ball moves to another cup. "It's the fault of the damned rich people," they explain, "except for the rich people you can see. It's the other rich people. The ones you can't see. Phantasmagoric rich people who wreck everything while the good rich people (the ones you can see) bankroll our campaigns so we can fight for you, the little guy. Make sure to get out and vote like your life depends on it!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 10, 2022 01:23 PM (CARG2)

382 Probably already noted but unfortunately Trump administration, at the end, and in service of the crackpot "mitigation" strategy, had the money machine turned to 10 as well. And while obviously every Biden policy, not just in this area, is idiotic (and known to be so, and in most cases have never even polled above 30%), it is impossible to disentangle the current inflationary situation from the last year of Trump's term.

Though of course otherwise Trump's policies had directly enabled and/or encouraged the best economic trends in decades.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 10, 2022 01:23 PM (OTzUX)

383 Automakers are stopping production because they can't get parts across the border.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 10, 2022 01:23 PM (F4b8f)

384 Inflation is an epidemic of the unvaccinated!

Posted by: Sundown Joe Biden, angry man at the bus stop at February 10, 2022 01:23 PM (H2rNu)

385 NEITHER ONE SHOULD BE PREACHED IN CHURCH. Preach Christ and Him Crucified not "topic of the week." Use the Bible, not the newspaper for your topics.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:20 PM (KZzsI)

Agreed. Women and men both need to hear the gospel.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 01:23 PM (eGTCV)

386 296 We spent more than twice the amount on Covid relief giveaways in 6 months than we did in 20 years of all military actions in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

Now do us since 2008.
Over 30 trillion to bailout the asset classes (millionaires and billionaires) of the world, baby!

BlackRock got 7 trillion plus bailouts if needed by executive order. They basically are the FED now.
BlackRock was founded in 1988 btw. Wonder how they made all that money

*Checks Early Life*

Posted by: 2008 bailouts of the asset class at February 10, 2022 01:23 PM (snFip)

387 350 Yeah but it apparently took you four minutes.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:18 PM (KbCG3)

Blow me.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:18 PM (II3Gr)

That reply took considerably less time.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:23 PM (KbCG3)

388 Well, I liked it when he fell down the stairs.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (FVME7)

And shit his pants
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 10, 2022 01:22 PM (M+Lyo)

MY BUTT'S BEEN WIPED!

Posted by: FJB at February 10, 2022 01:23 PM (AiZBA)

389 Well, I liked it when he fell down the stairs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Stupid Son of a Bitch at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (FVME7)

I was *very* impressed by the way he allowed DOCTOR Jill! to lead him into a packed press conference like a dog on a leash.

Made me proud

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (DJFLF)

390 >> Do they even teach addition or multiplication tables anymore?

No. They have decided that rote memorization doesn't help kids learn.

Really. They think that.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (BdF2V)

391 WXYZ (Detroit) said yesterday that the Ambassador Bridge moves about 400M in goods per day. That is what, 150B or so per year? At one crossing.

Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron is blocked. After that, the next are Ste St Marie and Buffalo.

This should get the attention of Ottawa and DC.
And all they have to do is ANNOUNCE en end to vax mandates.

Dumbshits.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (ufFY8)

392 I can't imagine the shock on the faces of divorced men all around the world at the concept that a lot of women don't understand that you can't spend your way out of debt.

My ex-wife that I was married to for about 4 years back in the '80s could wear the embossing off of a credit card.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (W3VUu)

393 Omfg. The Bee is killing it today.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (W2Pud)

394 This is not how any of this works!

Milton Friedman

Posted by: Archer at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (gmo/4)

395 7x5 = 35.
.5 x 5 = 2.5
35 + 2.5 = 37.5
Easy peasy Japanesey.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 10, 2022 01:20 PM (Hica+)

8X5 = 40
.5X5 = 2.5
40-2.5 = 37.5

I guess I am a glass half empty guy.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (yQpMk)

396 Keynes was a marxist. Marx was a satanist.

And that right there cuts to the heart of the matter in a flash, doesn't it?
Posted by: callsign claymore at February 10, 2022 01:22 PM (sm4Ko)

Keynes wasn't a marxist, and in fact his whole intent was to counter the criticisms of communists and fascists.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (wmDcS)

397 some years ago, a young lady at work got her first paycheck. She worked one day the previous week. The paycheck stub had 8 hours times $8 an hour. After looking at it for a moment, she looked up and said, "Anyone know what's 8 times 8?"

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (Ynyl9)

398
Remember when we were laughing at biden and his stupid "no malarkey" bus tour?

Remember when we were laughing at biden speaking gibberish about record players?

Look at us now.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (gQZm2)

399 382
Though of course otherwise Trump's policies had directly enabled and/or encouraged the best economic trends in decades.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 10, 2022 01:23 PM (OTzUX)

=======

I've noted that irony before. If Trump was been allowed to win, he'd be dealing with inflation right now. Probably not as bad because of certain policy differences, but we'd definitely still be in an inflationary environment.

And now...Biden and Democrats get all of the perceived blame.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, laughing with Mel Brooks at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (LvTSG)

400 Covid-19 Vaccines caused 1048% increase in Diseases of the Nervous System among the Military in 2021 according to Official U.S. Government Database
Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (RHGPo)

Holy hell.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (Ez6QX)

401 Quickly! What is square root of 1048?

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (MRWHf)

402 No. They have decided that rote memorization doesn't help kids learn.

Really. They think that.
Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (BdF2V)

The "education" system is very much anti-education these days.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (II3Gr)

403 Trump and the gop senate started the Covid spending idiocy in 2020. Biden just took the baton and ran with it in 2021.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 10, 2022 01:25 PM (pEABt)

404 The way I do stuff like 7.5 x5 is this:

7.5x2=15
20x2=30
20+7.5 = 37.5

I mean, its slow I guess but its methodical and its the only way I know how to do that kind of math in my head.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:25 PM (KZzsI)

405 I've seen math Ph.Ds screw up a simple multiplication when working a problem for the class.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2022

Lived with a Middle School MATH teacher for 10 years.

She could not do a 15% tip in her head.

But she had a World Class Ass (track coach).

Posted by: Romeo13, Unrepentant Man at February 10, 2022 01:25 PM (oHd/0)

406 Mother's Day sermons are always sentimental and positive, telling people to be grateful for their mothers.
Father's Day sermons are about the short comings of men.

--

I've never paid attention to that. Now I'll make a point to, not that I don't doubt you.

Cherish Mom on Mother's Day
Dad's Day? Do better.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2022 01:25 PM (sVtYq)

407 "Joe Biden's disapproval rises to 58%, with most detractors saying they like nothing he has done..."
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Detractors saying "they like". Because God forbid the "detractors" *dislike* anything, or we have a negative word anywhere near the concept of Joe Biden. And detractors doesn't count because it's a slur. Might as well say "deplorables".

The Left is *always* working the refs. They play these language games without ceasing. I know no one cares but I can't help but notice them.

Posted by: Rock Hudson at February 10, 2022 01:25 PM (YVvUa)

408 I did a deep dive about 15 years ago into Milton Friedman. He's one of my favorite 20th Century Americans. Just based off what I read of his, I was saying back when Trump started paying people to not work during the pandemic we were going to face inflation. Told all my friends and family.

My brother is a hard-core socialist. So I've been inundated with all the lefty talking points meant to denigrate Friedman. It's obvious why many waited till after his death to attack him, because he was too smart to deal with directly. It's also obvious why they try so hard to smear him, because if people knew and understood his points, all this nonsense with government spending would be a lot harder to get away with.

Posted by: Haimerej at February 10, 2022 01:25 PM (Si3CN)

409 MMT says 5 and 7.5 are 37.5 are just numbers that don't really matter anyway.

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2022 01:25 PM (MxEKc)

410 Love the casual slur (way above and outside his apparent capacities) by Summers on "creationist theories".

A far better, and obvious - though probably not to Summers and his ilk, who as a practical matter are often not very bright - example of crackpot nonsense would be 95% of everything the CDC and FDA and Surgeon General have been pushing/imposing since March 2020.

That the idea of using this example for the spectacular, obviously ineffective, and actually related (to the economic question) "ideas" or "theories" didn't cross his mind is illustrative.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 10, 2022 01:25 PM (OTzUX)

411
Eve of destruction, tax deduction. Oh, wait a second!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

We need a dawn of correction.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 10, 2022 01:25 PM (63Dwl)

412 I got more bad news. If you believe that inflation is ONLY 7.5% that the Biden-democrat-deep state gives you then you probably believe the employment data the Biden-democrat-deep state produced last Friday.

Both of these have so much pig lipstick. These numbers have nothing to do with reality.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 10, 2022 01:26 PM (iDcra)

413 What's a calculator?

Posted by: Gen-Y college chick who just asks Siri to do the math at February 10, 2022 01:26 PM (786Ro)

414 Covid-19 Vaccines caused 1048% increase in Diseases of the Nervous System among the Military in 2021 according to Official U.S. Government Database

1048%...huh. Is that all?
Posted by: garrett

Wait until you learn about todays news!

Posted by: Cancer rates skyrocketing and new Super HIV in Britain at February 10, 2022 01:26 PM (snFip)

415 Biden's Plan Fails to Move Long Beach Port Operations to 24/7 After 4 Months

more good news from President FuckUp

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2022 01:26 PM (RHGPo)

416 8X5 = 40
.5X5 = 2.5
40-2.5 = 37.5

I guess I am a glass half empty guy.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (yQpMk)

Or 7.5*10 = 75
75/2 = 37.5

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:26 PM (II3Gr)

417 396 Check his letters. Keynes was a marxist and an enemy of Western Civilization.

It's laughable that he has any pull in economics.

Posted by: callsign claymore at February 10, 2022 01:26 PM (sm4Ko)

418 There is no construction. I think it is famers and truckers quietly shutting down those other crossings as well.
Posted by: Brian

Jen Psaki called it temporary congestion. See? Not construction at all!

Posted by: Loki, a hero archetype, just like Supes and Jeezus at February 10, 2022 01:26 PM (ZW1rs)

419 Quickly! What is square root of 1048?
Posted by: runner at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (MRWHf)

You can't fool me. Roots aren't square.

Posted by: FJB at February 10, 2022 01:27 PM (AiZBA)

420 No; SMH. I don't think you are the only person in a good marriage. It's just that the unhappy voices-who either went through a bad marriage or a contentious divorce and are still dealing with a spouse they were profoundly disappointed by and angered by (I think that's terribly hard and painful) tend to have louder voices than the people who are happy. Also, men as rule tend not to share "My wife is great" lest they be accused of being liars or too emotional . Also, you and ex ex share a faith life and I suspect pray together and share things you are grateful for in each other regularly, which makes a big difference. Everybody likes to be appreciated. I also sense he is your best friend -aside from the friend you have in Jesus.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:27 PM (GezNK)

421 409 MMT says 5 and 7.5 are 37.5 are just numbers that don't really matter anyway.
Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2022 01:25 PM (MxEKc)

Modern Multiplication Theory:

2x2=4
2x2=8
2x2=16
2x2=32
...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:27 PM (6FeV1)

422 Manchin is going to run for President, I'm now certain of it. He's bucking his party and FJB big time.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 10, 2022 01:27 PM (2NHgQ)

423 I seldom read the ettes disparage husbands or ex-husbands.

**

+1. I can't think of ever seeing a post where they were joking around about husbands not wanting to have sex.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:27 PM (A4cav)

424 >299 Church was the first place in which I saw the left begin to systematically gut worship services...

Grew up in an ELC and quit ten years ago after a sermon on climate change. Wasn't the first one.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 10, 2022 01:27 PM (YFAIE)

425 Lived with a Middle School MATH teacher for 10 years.

She could not do a 15% tip in her head.

But she had a World Class Ass (track coach).
Posted by: Romeo13, Unrepentant Man at February 10, 2022 01:25 PM (oHd/0)

At least you had your priorities in order!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:27 PM (II3Gr)

426 >>some years ago, a young lady at work got her first paycheck. She worked one day the previous week. The paycheck stub had 8 hours times $8 an hour. After looking at it for a moment, she looked up and said, "Anyone know what's 8 times 8?"

Well. 8 x 7 is 56...

and 8 x 9 is 72.

Think you can handle it from here, sugartits?

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:27 PM (BdF2V)

427 Men are very justly leery of getting into a hard long term commitment with how crazy things are and how poor many women act these days (and men), but that doesn't mean marriage as a whole or even generally is misery.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
___

Thank you for this.

Can't really blame men for not getting married with all the crazy women out there. This creates a vicious cycle where both men and women suffer.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:27 PM (6BZZn)

428 Okay

7.5 x5
if you have 5 apples on the table, and the other train is going 60mph..
wait-

circle back to me in a minute

Posted by: DB at February 10, 2022 01:28 PM (geLO8)

429 @357 Christopher R Taylor-Bearing false witness, you know, accusing commenters here of being abusive to women without providing an example, you are one to talk on shit like this. I asked you to defend your accusation and you didn't say shit. Funny watching you become pious and saintly at times then the last few days its pussy this and "pene" and "vageen" that. Been a commenter here since 2011. You can call me a cocksucker and a motherfucker all day but making accusations like what you did.......... I'd love to have you stand in front of me and make the same accusation.

Posted by: JROD at February 10, 2022 01:28 PM (0jZnq)

430 My ex-wife that I was married to for about 4 years back in the '80s could wear the embossing off of a credit card.

But it was on sale! I saved money!

They have decided that rote memorization doesn't help kids learn.

I mean... if they mean "you don't learn why it is that way" OK but that's the stuff you learn in college, not grade school. Grade school you memorize. Then you learn in higher grades how to use that yourself to solve problems. Then in higher grades you learn WHY it works, and begin to come up with new things yourself.

The Trivium. That's how great men and women created civilization and ruled the world. Then in the 1950's everyone decided that was bad and we should stop doing it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:28 PM (KZzsI)

431 You can't fool me. Roots aren't square.
Posted by: FJB at February 10, 2022 01:27 PM (AiZBA)

I hear the japanese watermelon people turned their attention to turnips...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:28 PM (6FeV1)

432 I just made lunch for my kid which involved a ham sandwich, simple but I cut it into four triangles, so special. Then dessert, which was a sliced pear in a light caramel sauce topped with fresh whipped heavy cream with vanilla and topped off with some granola sprinkles. Bam! I have been voted the greatest dad cook in history.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 10, 2022 01:28 PM (sqH0x)

433 Covid-19 Vaccines caused 1048% increase in Diseases of the Nervous System among the Military in 2021 according to Official U.S. Government Database

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It is quite possibly the biggest human scandal story of our lives. And the "media" could not care less. But don't say anything, don't ask any questions about it, or the State Dept will label you a potential terrorist spreading "mis dis mal" information.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2022 01:28 PM (sVtYq)

434 Super HIV is the kind of diverse superhero the world needs
Marvel and DC Comics

Posted by: steevy at February 10, 2022 01:28 PM (CYnTg)

435 >Covid-19 Vaccines caused 1048% increase in Diseases of the Nervous System among the Military in 2021 according to Official U.S. Government Database
Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2022 01:21 PM (RHGPo)

No, no. See the government neglected to do their warmal colding dataset adjustments before that leaked out. Now that they've done the proper data management, there's been no increase in disease. Totally. They wouldn't lie and alter data for a narrative. No sir, they're straight shooters.

In fact, now that you mention it, those "whistleblowers" are pushing MDM and need a visit from Homeland Security.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 10, 2022 01:28 PM (26aeI)

436 420 No; SMH. I don't think you are the only person in a good marriage. It's just that the unhappy voices-who either went through a bad marriage or a contentious divorce and are still dealing with a spouse they were profoundly disappointed by and angered by (I think that's terribly hard and painful) tend to have louder voices than the people who are happy. Also, men as rule tend not to share "My wife is great" lest they be accused of being liars or too emotional . Also, you and ex ex share a faith life and I suspect pray together and share things you are grateful for in each other regularly, which makes a big difference. Everybody likes to be appreciated. I also sense he is your best friend -aside from the friend you have in Jesus.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:27 PM (GezNK)

My wife is amazing. My best friend and ultimate ally. I am absolutely blessed.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:29 PM (KbCG3)

437 Wages are rising at the fastest pace in at least 20 years, which can pressure companies to raise prices to cover higher labor costs.

Except that wages aren't rising quickly everywhere. The effective minimum has gone up by ~50% but people who already had jobs, older middle class people, they're seeing raises of 3-4%.

So this is yet another thing doing it's part to destroy the middle class and savings. The wealthy don't care, the poor cheer it on because they fail to understand the end result.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 10, 2022 01:29 PM (nR2nR)

438 The answer to our woes is more MGs.

Posted by: Lucas Electrics at February 10, 2022 01:29 PM (a3Q+t)

439
g'early afternoon, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at February 10, 2022 01:29 PM (DUIap)

440 No; SMH. I don't think you are the only person in a good marriage.
___

Not so much being in a good marriage.

Remarrying your ex, and having a better marriage than before you divorced...lol.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:29 PM (6BZZn)

441 The country is paying a high price by people with thin skins who couldn't abide mean tweets.

Fuck them in particular.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 10, 2022 01:30 PM (BFigT)

442 didn't Trump sign a bill into law that gave some healthcare providers a 15 percent bonus for treating people with Covid19? No reason to suspect cheating there, especially since the CDC in March 2020 said doctors could diagnose patients as having CV19 bases just on symptoms, which are the same as a bad cold or flu.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:30 PM (Ynyl9)

443 AZ Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake takes on an muckraking Aussie ponce who works for CNN.

https://bit.ly/3JiGwAD

Posted by: bonhomme at February 10, 2022 01:30 PM (x980n)

444 258 208 Keynesian Economics = Debt is Good....'zat it?
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Keynes advocated government spending to counter the business cycle. Spend in deficit when the economy is contracting, then accumulate surpluses when the economy is expanding.

Politicians used that as a justification for spending more all the time. Nobody ever got around to the accumulate surpluses part.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis
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Biggest problem with Keynes is he was never an entrepreneur--he got wealth speculating in currency values so his ideas on capital investment and formation were undeveloped. He was not a Marxist nor a mathematician. Paul Samuelson was the main Keynesian theorist that fleshed out Keynesian economics with equations.

The issue is that capital investment is actually the fastest changing variable in the old consumer spending, government spending, and investment (leaving aside imports/exports for a moment.) Consumer and Government spending are slower to react to changes but changes in investment are fast and based on predictions in the probable future.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2022 01:30 PM (Iq9dF)

445 >>I mean... if they mean "you don't learn why it is that way" OK but that's the stuff you learn in college, not grade school. Grade school you memorize. Then you learn in higher grades how to use that yourself to solve problems. Then in higher grades you learn WHY it works, and begin to come up with new things yourself.

Repetition. Check it out.

Posted by: Soren Kierkegaard at February 10, 2022 01:30 PM (BdF2V)

446 I know everyone is consistently questioning crypto. But it's this type of monetary destabilization that makes crypto look attractive. Crypto isn't any less real than a US dollar with the exception that in the US you have to accept US dollars for payment. Crypto is voluntary money you only accept it if you want to, and since once you have it you can instantly exchange it for whatever else you'd rather have, further that the relative market fluctuations between crypto and what you'd like to have can be built into the crypto transaction, it makes moving toward crypto attractive.

Posted by: mikethemoose at February 10, 2022 01:30 PM (T/vhV)

447 >> Do they even teach addition or multiplication tables anymore?

No. They have decided that rote memorization doesn't help kids learn.

Really. They think that.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (BdF2V)

We do, as part of a home school program. Skip counting, they call it. It is an invaluable tool to teach higher math concepts such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, as I observed to the Mrs. the other day. It builds a base of knowledge upon which to relate new concepts, and it can provide a bit of relief from frustration while the kid "gets it."

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:30 PM (SH2Zi)

448 == Quickly! What is square root of 1048?

an 8 inch penis attached to a 6 figure salary for me!
Yay!

Posted by: Modern Women at February 10, 2022 01:30 PM (snFip)

449 389 Well, I liked it when he fell down the stairs.
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He fell up the stairs. That take some serious retardation.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 10, 2022 01:31 PM (xSnmX)

450 +1. I can't think of ever seeing a post where they were joking around about husbands not wanting to have sex.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:27 PM (A4cav)

I can think of one person in particular.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 10, 2022 01:31 PM (Ez6QX)

451 I also sense he is your best friend -aside from the friend you have in Jesus.
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This is true. He is.

He's known me almost as long as Jesus...lol.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:31 PM (6BZZn)

452 and it's not only wages that aren't keeping up with rising prices. You on a fixed income? Good luck. Maybe Kurt can tell you how to make ends meet.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:31 PM (Ynyl9)

453 The answer to our woes is more MGs.
Posted by: Lucas Electrics at February 10, 2022 01:29 PM (a3Q+t)

I had an MG Midget. I loved that car until it threw a rod in the middle of nowhere in the Central Valley.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at February 10, 2022 01:31 PM (AiZBA)

454 Ha, It's internet dick measurin' time.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 10, 2022 01:31 PM (yQpMk)

455 442 didn't Trump sign a bill into law that gave some healthcare providers a 15 percent bonus for treating people with Covid19? No reason to suspect cheating there, especially since the CDC in March 2020 said doctors could diagnose patients as having CV19 bases just on symptoms, which are the same as a bad cold or flu.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach

And guess who drafted it--Pelosi and McConnell. President doesn't create legislation but either vetoes it or signs it more or less.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2022 01:31 PM (Iq9dF)

456 Can't really blame men for not getting married with all the crazy women out there. This creates a vicious cycle where both men and women suffer.

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If I were a normal guy out there in the dating scene today, I would be very cautious. Women, too many women I should say, are off their rockers. They've been driven mad by culture.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 10, 2022 01:31 PM (sVtYq)

457 Do they even teach addition or multiplication tables anymore?

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I'm not joking when I say that math is now learning different ways to learn to multiply, and not multiplication itself.

You and I: 2x2 = 4. Moving on.

Now: Okay, so the test will be how to make two rows of two dots, and another row of two dots. Next week we'll make columns, and then...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:31 PM (A4cav)

458 Second look at Jimmy Carter?

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 10, 2022 01:32 PM (XSRBF)

459 Oh and my first grader is about finished with his second grade math curriculum a little over half way through the school year.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:32 PM (SH2Zi)

460 re 449: imagine the CNN coverage if Trump ever did anything like that.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:32 PM (Ynyl9)

461 I am very skeptical that wages are rising so much. Are you all getting paid a lot more? Or more at all?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:32 PM (KZzsI)

462 OT - but I just finished up my meeting with the department director, and I didn't get fired. Which I can't decide if that is a good thing or not.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 10, 2022 01:32 PM (Ez6QX)

463 The answer to our woes is more MGs.
Posted by: Lucas Electrics

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No one believe this post. My goodness, whatever you do, do NOT believe this post.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (A4cav)

464 I know everyone is consistently questioning crypto. But it's this type of monetary destabilization that makes crypto look attractive. Crypto isn't any less real than a US dollar with the exception that in the US you have to accept US dollars for payment. Crypto is voluntary money you only accept it if you want to, and since once you have it you can instantly exchange it for whatever else you'd rather have, further that the relative market fluctuations between crypto and what you'd like to have can be built into the crypto transaction, it makes moving toward crypto attractive.
Posted by: mikethemoose

The DOJ and other government institutions can seize it and they are. It's accelerating btw.

Posted by: Hard Truth at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (snFip)

465 And I did it in my head. And I'm just a stupid fucking dumbass lawyer.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:17 PM (II3Gr)

yeah, but you're OUR stupid fucking dumbass lawyer...

but you only get partial credit as we can't follow your work...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (8D42x)

466 I've seen math Ph.Ds screw up a simple multiplication when working a problem for the class.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2022
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I hired a math PHd to do some calculations for a magnetic levitation paint line for tubing. The guy was smart but had no real world common sense. He would spend hours doing a calc give it to me and I could tell it was wrong at first sight Not just wrong but really wrong. They get so into the weeds when a back of the napkin rough estimate shows they are way off.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (iDcra)

467 He fell up the stairs. That take some serious retardation.

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I'm pretty sure he could find a way to trip if you stuck him in zero gravity.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (W3VUu)

468 Also, men as rule tend not to share "My wife is great" lest they be accused of being liars or too emotional .

Posted by: Fen
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You don't tell other men your wife is great because then they start getting curious.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (YVvUa)

469 Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:29 PM (6BZZn)

Probably because you learned things to do and not do from the first time and are both older and more mature.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (GezNK)

470 Posted by: banana Dream at February 10, 2022 01:28 PM (sqH0x)

good job Dad! Yes, the triangles make all the difference. The kiddos love shapes

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (DJFLF)

471 Gas is $3.79 here in se Pa

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (jS3LZ)

472 Keynes wasn't a marxist, and in fact his whole intent was to counter the criticisms of communists and fascists.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (wmDcS)

Keynes also was a hedonist, who had no children. Even when he was dating his Ballerina wife, he kept a male lover who was best man at his wedding.

He did not care about the future, which is shown by the predictable outcome of his theories.

Posted by: Romeo13, Unrepentant Man at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (oHd/0)

473 Oh and my first grader is about finished with his second grade math curriculum a little over half way through the school year.
Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:32 PM (SH2Zi)

Did it take him hours and hours and hours?

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 10, 2022 01:34 PM (Ez6QX)

474 If I were a normal guy out there in the dating scene today, I would be very cautious. Women, too many women I should say, are off their rockers.

Young men are no prizes either. We're a mess

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:34 PM (KZzsI)

475 Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:29 PM (KbCG3)

I am very glad to hear that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:34 PM (GezNK)

476 +1. I can't think of ever seeing a post where they were joking around about husbands not wanting to have sex.
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I can think of one person in particular.
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Did she marry a gay man?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:34 PM (A4cav)

477 No. They have decided that rote memorization doesn't help kids learn.

Really. They think that.

They have a derogatory name for it and everything. They call it, "drill and kill."

Posted by: bonhomme at February 10, 2022 01:34 PM (x980n)

478 471 Gas is $3.79 here in se Pa
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (jS3LZ)

$4.79 here in Clownifornia.

Posted by: Romeo13, Unrepentant Man at February 10, 2022 01:34 PM (oHd/0)

479 Now: Okay, so the test will be how to make two rows of two dots, and another row of two dots. Next week we'll make columns, and then...
Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:31 PM (A4cav)

Yeah, I've seen some of this common core shit. It turns bright children who used to love math into rage-crying, frustrated messes. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:34 PM (II3Gr)

480 I'm not joking when I say that math is now learning different ways to learn to multiply, and not multiplication itself.

You and I: 2x2 = 4. Moving on.

Now: Okay, so the test will be how to make two rows of two dots, and another row of two dots. Next week we'll make columns, and then...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:31 PM (A4cav)

Another beauty of home school. You can skip right over that gobbledygook if it is not necessary to get your student to understand the concept. Everyone learns differently. You find out very quickly home schooling, by necessity, how your student learns. And they learn that, too, which is an invaluable skill, a skill that I did not really discover until I was a few years short of 29.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:34 PM (SH2Zi)

481 Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:32 PM (SH2Zi)

another good Dad!

(I hope I didn't misgender you)

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 01:34 PM (DJFLF)

482 They get so into the weeds when a back of the napkin rough estimate shows they are way off.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (iDcra)

Hiring a mathematician to work a physics or engineering problem is like commissioning a piano tuner to compose a symphony.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (6FeV1)

483 >>Oh and my first grader is about finished with his second grade math curriculum a little over half way through the school year.

Every opportunity you get, reinforce that shit. Discounts a the store, tax calculations...shit, cut him some string and teach him the 3,4,5 triangle and then take him over to the stairs and explain why it all matters to the guy who builds stairs.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (BdF2V)

484 Masks and social distancing are intended to make the "little people" FEEL safe, regardless of whether they are safe or not, while the ruling class is exempt from those rules. Likewise, this version of MMt looks like it's supposed to make the prols FEEL like they have money, while the ruling class accumulates the actual money and wealth.

Posted by: Hands at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (786Ro)

485 "No. They have decided that rote memorization doesn't help kids learn.
Really. They think that.

Posted by: garrett"

I made my kids learn them at home, told me they never seen them in school and it was way easier and helpful than all the idiotic common core short-cuts shoved down their throats

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (MxEKc)

486 Probably because you learned things to do and not do from the first time and are both older and more mature.
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Probably.

Amazing what one learns, and still learns, after 30+ years.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (6BZZn)

487 I know everyone is consistently questioning crypto. But it's this type of monetary destabilization that makes crypto look attractive. Crypto isn't any less real than a US dollar with the exception that...

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Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (A4cav)

488 Has Joe Rogan apologized for anything today?

Posted by: Capital Eff at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (GYllL)

489
Woman be wise
Keep you mouth shut
Don't advertise your man

Posted by: Sippse Wallace at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (yQpMk)

490 he fell down three times.

liberals be like "you wingnuts know who else fell three times?"

Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (ZZK0E)

491 474 If I were a normal guy out there in the dating scene today, I would be very cautious. Women, too many women I should say, are off their rockers.

Young men are no prizes either. We're a mess
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:34 PM (KZzsI)

The trouble with dating is that people tell you who they are and too many people don't listen.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (KbCG3)

492 Moron Robbie who couldn't use another MG-34 or 42?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (jS3LZ)

493 The answer to our woes is more MGs.

"I agree!"
--Booker T

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (KZzsI)

494 Gas is $3.79 here in se Pa
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (jS3LZ)

$2.99 here for premium with member card "discount" of $0.80.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (SH2Zi)

495 There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a 1 in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves. In the background is the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorial, each one of these monuments is 19 feet high.

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president. Thomas Jefferson, the third president, and 16 and 3 make 19 again. What is so deep about this number 19? Why are we standing on the Capitol steps today? That number 19! When you have a nine, you have a womb that is pregnant. And when you have a one standing by the nine, it means that there's something secret that has to be unfolded.

Posted by: FARRAKHAN-MMT at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (RHGPo)

496 re 476: Keynes was married, it was a good cover for the fact that he was a homosexual. Keynes also did well as a speculator as he was able to influence government policies.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:36 PM (Ynyl9)

497 > Quickly! What is square root of 1048?

32 point something.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 10, 2022 01:36 PM (x980n)

498 No. They have decided that rote memorization doesn't help kids learn.

Really. They think that.

****

What, you don't realize that all of this modern civilization in this country just sprang up out of someone's forehead?

Posted by: Azathoth at February 10, 2022 01:36 PM (W3VUu)

499 A second look at that rabbit that attacked Jimmy Carter.

Posted by: klaftern at February 10, 2022 01:36 PM (taPSh)

500 478 471 Gas is $3.79 here in se Pa
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 10, 2022 01:33 PM (jS3LZ)

$4.79 here in Clownifornia.
Posted by: Romeo13, Unrepentant Man at February 10, 2022 01:34 PM (oHd/0)

I looked at the refinery utilization rates and the west coast PADD is only at 77%. Better hope they are doing maintenance for the summer driving season.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 10, 2022 01:36 PM (UuD2k)

501 452 and it's not only wages that aren't keeping up with rising prices. You on a fixed income? Good luck. Maybe Kurt can tell you how to make ends meet.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:31 PM (Ynyl9)

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Out: Guns, Germs, and Steel.
In: Caves, Bugs, and Stills.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Cure for ClownWorld Turned Out to be Honking at February 10, 2022 01:36 PM (sSrKq)

502 Another beauty of home school. You can skip right over that gobbledygook if it is not necessary to get your student to understand the concept
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Yep. We're getting our ducks in a row for that. The COVID shutdowns opened our eyes to a lot of stuff. Our daughter was the one who suggested it, because she saw that we were doing in a day what they were taking three weeks to go over in class.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:36 PM (A4cav)

503 You're all wrong. Its the "I saved money because it was on sale" economic theory this woman is promoting.

Did that sound sexist? because it seemed a little sexist. Nah, I identify as non-sexist.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 10, 2022 01:36 PM (coYBh)

504 I made my kids learn them at home, told me they never seen them in school and it was way easier and helpful than all the idiotic common core short-cuts shoved down their throats

Posted by: Ripley at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (MxEKc)

I am convinced that common core is more of a job security program.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:37 PM (SH2Zi)

505 >>>The DOJ and other government institutions can seize it and they are. It's accelerating btw.

You cannot seize crypto in a personal wallet without the key. Period. They can coerce you but you have to either compromise, or voluntarily divulge your key.

If you leave your crypto in an online exchange wallet for any period of time with any significant value, you're either in the business of the currency trade or stupid.

Posted by: mikethemoose at February 10, 2022 01:37 PM (T/vhV)

506 "changes in investment are fast and based on predictions in the probable future." - whig

Absolutely correct, and central to any discussion of govt. policy and economics.

My bad but I haven't been tracking the key indicators for this critical area - which of course was booming under Trump, and in areas that had lagged for many years (manufacturing in particular).

Overdue for a talk with a friend who's got some national profile on this, and trade, it's my lazy way of catching up. But I imagine the picture is extremely bleak, and a dramatic change from the previous 4 years, which is just some sort of natural variation, or something ....

Posted by: rhomboid at February 10, 2022 01:37 PM (OTzUX)

507 NPR had to remind me three times that this is the worst inflation since REAGAN.

And the Fed will be raising interest rates half a percent. in order to slow inflation and decrease demand. In theory makes sense but with all the free money around, nobody is paying interest.

Posted by: Golfman at February 10, 2022 01:37 PM (MTvoR)

508 Young men are no prizes either. We're a mess.
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I feel sorry for young people, period.

So much mistrust and hate.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:37 PM (6BZZn)

509 Quickly! What is square root of 1048?
Posted by: runner at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM

32.372828112477291

Posted by: The Cafe Bats at February 10, 2022 01:37 PM (a3Q+t)

510 If I were a normal guy out there in the dating scene today, I would be very cautious. Women, too many women I should say, are off their rockers. They've been driven mad by culture.

I've got to think there's going to be a correction because a lot of women are going to be living and dying alone over the next 50 years or so. But that's a long time.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2022 01:37 PM (KFhLj)

511 Bath time for doggeh. Pray I don't drown

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 10, 2022 01:37 PM (lCui1)

512 This reminds me of the comment:

I like my machine guns like I like my tamales, sold from the trunk of a car in a parking lot without let or hindrance from the the government

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (xhaym)

513 No. They have decided that rote memorization doesn't help kids learn.

Really. They think that.
Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:24 PM (BdF2V)

not only that, but my son does ALL of his homework on a computer. they don't have books. and don't do paper homework. just click the correct answer. no understanding of HOW to work out a problem.

so each weekend i have him and get to help with homework, i have to show him, freshman in HS, how to write out a problem and how to work through it. he's very smart, and gets it once he sees the OLD way of doing it.

but they don't teach that anymore. and since the computer does all the grading, i'm thinking teaching isn't what it used to be, for those schools that use tech.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (8D42x)

514 When you have a nine, you have a womb that is pregnant. And when you have a one standing by the nine, it means that there's something secret that has to be unfolded.

*raises hand excitedly*

The dinner napkin?

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (DJFLF)

515 I don't know how the hell I found my wife. Or how she found me anything but repulsive.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (YVvUa)

516 >>I've got to think there's going to be a correction

You'd have to be insane to think things would change.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (BdF2V)

517 cut him some string and teach him the 3,4,5 triangle and then take him over to the stairs and explain why it all matters to the guy who builds stairs.

This is the part that was all too often missing in math classes. There was no creativity and no real world application.

I mean... they'd try? That's where those weird story problems came from (Bob buys 82 bananas... why the hell is someone buying 82 bananas??). But they lacked real world application. There's stuff all over a classroom you can use to illustrate and show in real life what you're doing. Instead it was too dry and academic and didn't apply anywhere. Small wonder kids are bored and don't care.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (KZzsI)

518 I've got to think there's going to be a correction because a lot of women are going to be living and dying alone over the next 50 years or so. But that's a long time
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I truly believe in my heart that we don't have that much time left.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (6BZZn)

519 At this point, screw it, mint the trillion dollar coin.

Pick it up and put it in your pocket or somebody else will.

Posted by: DaveA at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (FhXTo)

520 re 490: the excuse was "it was windy"

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (Ynyl9)

521 Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:30 PM (SH2Zi)

My kids will all join in doing skip counting just driving around in the car.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (z9npv)

522 Every opportunity you get, reinforce that shit. Discounts a the store, tax calculations...shit, cut him some string and teach him the 3,4,5 triangle and then take him over to the stairs and explain why it all matters to the guy who builds stairs.

Posted by: garrett a
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The new rule for that is: potato, bean, banana at schools.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (iDcra)

523 Yep. We're getting our ducks in a row for that. The COVID shutdowns opened our eyes to a lot of stuff. Our daughter was the one who suggested it, because she saw that we were doing in a day what they were taking three weeks to go over in class.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:36 PM (A4cav)

Teaching to the LCD was one of my primary reasons for choosing it. That was even before the CRT, hypersexualization of kids, and leftist indoctrination became the kickers.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:39 PM (SH2Zi)

524 I don't know how the hell I found my wife. Or how she found me anything but repulsive.
Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (YVvUa)

You are clever and funny. And you don't look like Kate Beckinsale.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 10, 2022 01:39 PM (Ez6QX)

525 I don't know how the hell I found my wife. Or how she found me anything but repulsive.
Posted by: ...
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It's a matter of looking with more than the eyes.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:39 PM (6BZZn)

526 Checking-account balances are still 350% of their pre-pandemic level. Of the $5.8 trillion in total Covid stimulus approved by Congress, some $400 billion has yet to be spent. Massive state surpluses have emerged from federal grants. All states combined are sitting on $113 billion in ready cash. Median household real wealth has surged by $27 trillion since the pandemic began, generating a potentially massive wealth effect on consumption.

The producer price index, a key driver of consumer prices, rose 9.7% in 2021, while import prices, usually a moderator of inflation, rose 10.4%. And 75% of the 17% rise in housing costs last year has yet to show up in consumer prices because rental leases cause shelter costs to lag behind increases in housing costs. Shelter costs make up a third of the consumer price index.

There is a lot of money out there.

Posted by: FARRAKHAN-MMT at February 10, 2022 01:39 PM (RHGPo)

527 If train A leaves the station at 10.12 am and train B leaves the station T 11.12 am....when will gas prices increase by another 25% ?

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2022 01:39 PM (MRWHf)

528 And the best part is we're going to switch to homeschooling at almost exactly the same time I'll be running for the school board.

"Why do you think I pulled my kid out? If I can fix it, I'll let her return."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:39 PM (A4cav)

529 495 There, in the middle of this mall is the Washington Monument, 555 feet high. But if we put a 1 in front of that 555 feet, we get 1555, the year that our first fathers landed on the shores of Jamestown, Virginia as slaves. In the background is the Jefferson and Lincoln Memorial, each one of these monuments is 19 feet high.

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president. Thomas Jefferson, the third president, and 16 and 3 make 19 again. What is so deep about this number 19? Why are we standing on the Capitol steps today? That number 19! When you have a nine, you have a womb that is pregnant. And when you have a one standing by the nine, it means that there's something secret that has to be unfolded.

Posted by: FARRAKHAN-MMT at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (RHGPo)

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Little-known fact: Q is The 19th letter in the Ebonics alphabet. Coincidence?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Cure for ClownWorld Turned Out to be Honking at February 10, 2022 01:39 PM (sSrKq)

530 518 I've got to think there's going to be a correction because a lot of women are going to be living and dying alone over the next 50 years or so. But that's a long time
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I truly believe in my heart that we don't have that much time left.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (6BZZn)

I agree with you.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at February 10, 2022 01:39 PM (sI15f)

531 > but I just finished up my meeting with the department director, and I didn't get fired....
Posted by: Jordan61

there's something you're not doing wrong
think, man

Posted by: DB at February 10, 2022 01:40 PM (geLO8)

532 The seven year itch is a real thing. If a couple can get over that hump and reconcile their differences it can be a great marriage. I've seen a number of couples work at it and become better friends and lovers to each other than ever. I've unfortunately seen just the opposite and one or both don't want to bother to work it out and get divorced eventually. And of course there are some that weren't meant to be no matter how hard they worked at it. Probably shouldn't have gotten married to each other in the first place.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 10, 2022 01:40 PM (W3ofY)

533 Hey Jordan!

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:40 PM (6BZZn)

534 Checking-account balances are still 350% of their pre-pandemic level.

**
Wow.

People are terrified.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:40 PM (A4cav)

535 You're all wrong. Its the "I saved money because it was on sale" economic theory this woman is promoting.
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The more you spend the more you save!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 10, 2022 01:40 PM (iDcra)

536 Little-known fact: Q is The 19th letter in the Ebonics alphabet. Coincidence?
Posted by: ShainS -- The Cure for ClownWorld Turned Out to be Honking at February 10, 2022 01:39 PM (sSrKq)

... wait, does that mean JFK Jr. is actually black?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:40 PM (6FeV1)

537 329 if the Republicans do not win big this November, you know something is fishy.
Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM

If the Republicans do anything of significance after winning big this November, you know something's fishy (or you've been hitting your government-issued crack pipe).

Posted by: Grimmy at February 10, 2022 01:40 PM (JCZqz)

538 I am convinced that common core is more of a job security program.

I agree in this sense: Common Core is a system to make teaching obscure and block out parents. If you make the system so cryptic that parents cannot help or teach it, then you control education.

Nothing about it is better or teaches anyone in a superior way, but its like teaching kids in Mandarin: you and they might get it, but their parents won't understand a word.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (KZzsI)

539 but they don't teach that anymore. and since the computer does all the grading, i'm thinking teaching isn't what it used to be, for those schools that use tech.
Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (8D42x)

I didn't know that! That's awful.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (Ez6QX)

540 you know, this whatever current version of math is like reading. Every so often the usual geniuses produce a new way to learn how to read, and the number of kids diagnosed with reading disabilities jumps in about two years.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (Ynyl9)

541 This is actually worse than MMT (which itself is very dumb).

But, its not exactly "retarded," as you put it. I mean, these people know it can't work. It's just part of the Great American Shell Game. It's not supposed to work. It's supposed to impoverish everyone except for the donor class.

Then, of course, the ball moves to another cup. "It's the fault of the damned rich people," they explain, "except for the rich people you can see. It's the other rich people. The ones you can't see. Phantasmagoric rich people who wreck everything while the good rich people (the ones you can see) bankroll our campaigns so we can fight for you, the little guy. Make sure to get out and vote like your life depends on it!"
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THE USA is in the late stages of a bustout scheme.. You know where the MOB becomes a silent partner to a legit business. Then the MOB burns of that business's credit, steals the money, burns down the store and takes the insurance money and leaves the legal owner looking at fraud charges while the mob guys disappear.

Season 3 Fargo for reference.

Posted by: Its going to get a LOT worse. at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (zjGat)

542 Should we be calling it Bidenflation?

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (YVvUa)

543 The trouble with dating is that people tell you who they are and too many people don't listen.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (KbCG3)

As a long time serial dater guy... that's close.. but I've found that people tell you who society tells them they should be, not who they are.

Yes, you get glimpses... but so many today are playing roles, that you don't really see them until the shit hits the fan... or, they get bored.

Posted by: Romeo13, Unrepentant Man at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (oHd/0)

544 Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (YVvUa

I don't live with you, of course but I wouldn't call you repulsive at all (Do you go too long between not cutting your toenails so that it's sometimes painful in bed?

From here you seem like a very bright, amusing, interesting person with a depth of spirituality.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (GezNK)

545 Soon lace wigs will be considered a solid investment...,

Posted by: runner at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (MRWHf)

546 Hey SMH!

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 10, 2022 01:42 PM (Ez6QX)

547 @julie_kelly2

Liz Cheney hired a retired Secret Service agent to accompany her to the Capitol on January 6.

Adam Kinzinger told his wife to stay home and he brought a gun to the Capitol on January 6.

Almost like they knew something would go down...
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 12:44 PM (ptqGC)

And they work in a building which has been, somewhat, hardened against attack and has huge, heavy doors with magnetic locks which could keep attackers outside unless the people in charge choose to open those doors...for some reason.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at February 10, 2022 01:42 PM (nR2nR)

548 , because the government could just print as much money as it liked and never worry about balancing the books and nothing bad would ever, ever happen.

This is part of the way the left looks at everything now. Economics says that you get inflation when the government spends money it doesn't have? Well, that's because economics is racist!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2022 01:42 PM (ESjRY)

549 I like it high!

Posted by: 20 Something Student Lakesha Moreasha Wakanda at February 10, 2022 01:42 PM (lOuKL)

550 Instead of "inflation" they should call it "reduction in the average American's standard of living".

So we just saw a 7.5% reduction in the average American's standard of living.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2022 01:42 PM (eMEkg)

551 My kids will all join in doing skip counting just driving around in the car.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 10, 2022 01:38 PM (z9npv)

I have pimped the Classical Conversations program here before. Faith based, classical topics, parent-lead. .

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:42 PM (SH2Zi)

552 It's a matter of looking with more than the eyes.

Or, if you're an Eastern European Girl, knowing that these are the only guys to pick from.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:42 PM (KZzsI)

553 re 537: it will be like the Obama years, the Repubs will send out plenty of emails saying "send money so we can [fill in the blank]", but what did they accomplish in Trump's first two years? Trump might have accomplished a lot, but I don't think Ryan and McConnell were a great help.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:43 PM (Ynyl9)

554 Given everything that's going on in the economy, how is it possible to justify a massive increase in the omnibus appropriations bill, a new stimulus bill, or the resurrection of Build Back Better?

In a final desperate effort to save Build Back Better and elevate government to the center of American life, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is trying to pitch the Biden economic agenda as "modern supply-side economics." But whereas real supply-side economics creates a private incentive to work, save and invest, Ms. Yellen's approach expands government benefits as a way of "fixing supply-chain bottlenecks" and substitutes "public investment" for private investment.

In virtually every case where Ms. Yellen claims Build Back Better will expand employment and production, experience and logic suggest otherwise. Almost 43% of the first year's cost of the bill is funding the expanded child tax credit with no work requirement. A quartet of University of Chicago economists have concluded the expanded child tax credit would reduce labor supply by 1.5 million workers, just as soaring pandemic transfer payments resulted in 2.5 million workers dropping out of the labor market.

Posted by: SMOD at February 10, 2022 01:43 PM (RHGPo)

555 446 I know everyone is consistently questioning crypto. But it's this type of monetary destabilization that makes crypto look attractive. Crypto isn't any less real than a US dollar with the exception that in the US you have to accept US dollars for payment. C
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Crypto is a store of value, not really a currency per se. Arguably gold or silver could do everything that you propose crypto can do but you can physically hold it. Booze, real estate, etc. are all real items that also serve as a store of value.

Now, the risk for physical assets is seizure by government or thieves (redundant I know) and that is also true for crypto. Pixy's greatest criticism of crypto is that it relies on central servers to conduct transactions so seize/hack those servers--your crypto vanishes. Distributed networking would help but make any conversions slow to process.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2022 01:43 PM (Iq9dF)

556 Irrelevant question but I'm innocent. What distinguishes a crack pipe from any other kind of pipe, other than the fact crack is smoked in it?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 01:43 PM (eGTCV)

557 ===If I were a normal guy out there in the dating scene today, I would be very cautious. Women, too many women I should say, are off their rockers.

==Young men are no prizes either

RV death camps when?

Posted by: Day of the Pillow at February 10, 2022 01:43 PM (snFip)

558 oron Robbie who couldn't use another MG-34 or 42?
Posted by: Skip's Phone at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (jS3LZ)

I'll take a pair of MG-42. twin mounts if possible...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 01:44 PM (8D42x)

559 I am convinced that common core is more of a job security program.

**

Not only for the teachers, but for the "elite's" kids.

Their schools are still teaching the old fashioned way.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:44 PM (A4cav)

560 As a long time serial dater guy... that's close.. but I've found that people tell you who society tells them they should be, not who they are.

Yes, you get glimpses... but so many today are playing roles, that you don't really see them until the shit hits the fan... or, they get bored.
Posted by: Romeo13, Unrepentant Man at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (oHd/0)

Yep. And if you're naive and/or sheltered, you're especially susceptible to this until its WAY too late.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:44 PM (II3Gr)

561 543 The trouble with dating is that people tell you who they are and too many people don't listen.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (KbCG3)

As a long time serial dater guy... that's close.. but I've found that people tell you who society tells them they should be, not who they are.

Yes, you get glimpses... but so many today are playing roles, that you don't really see them until the shit hits the fan... or, they get bored.
Posted by: Romeo13, Unrepentant Man at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (oHd/0)

Dated all through my 20s and I was terrible at recognizing those glimpses for what they were.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:44 PM (KbCG3)

562 Janet yellen is seriously the treasury secretary?

Holy fuck. No wonder everything is tango uniform.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 10, 2022 01:44 PM (6FeV1)

563 re 550: no, they will call it "saving the planet for our children by lowering everyone's standard of living, except for the elite, because they are entitled to it all"

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:44 PM (Ynyl9)

564 545 Soon lace wigs will be considered a solid investment...,
Posted by: runner at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (MRWHf)

Go long on machines.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:45 PM (II3Gr)

565 You are clever and funny. And you don't look like Kate Beckinsale.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 10, 2022 01:39 PM (Ez6QX)

Heh. Well I guess there's that.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:45 PM (YVvUa)

566 Or, if you're an Eastern European Girl, knowing that these are the only guys to pick from.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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I watched a doc a while back about the lack of marriageable women in China due to their one-child policy, resulting in millions of men who will never get married.

Maybe they need to be paired up with the many women in Eastern Europe.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:45 PM (6BZZn)

567 because the government could just print as much money as it liked and never worry about balancing the books and nothing bad would ever, ever happen.

Also, traditional thinkers would realize most decisions would have positives and negatives to them - certainly some with many more positives...but that life was mostly choosing between imperfect options.

The left rejects that now. For EVERYTHING it wants, everything is upside.

Give money to the poor? No you don't need to take the money from anyone else.

Increase restrictions on energy generation for da Erf? No that won't harm anyone because we'll just make more electricity appear in your outlet.

and on and on

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2022 01:45 PM (ESjRY)

568 THE USA is in the late stages of a bustout scheme.. You know where the MOB becomes a silent partner to a legit business. Then the MOB burns of that business's credit, steals the money, burns down the store and takes the insurance money and leaves the legal owner looking at fraud charges while the mob guys disappear.

"Now the guy's got Paulie as a partner. But now the guy's got to come up with Paulie's money every week. No matter what. Business bad? F**k you, pay me. Oh, you had a fire? F**k you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning, huh? F**k you, pay me.

Also, Paulie could do anything. Especially run up bills on the joint's credit. And why not? Nobody's gonna pay for it anyway. And as soon as the deliveries are made in the front door, you move the stuff out the back and sell it at a discount. You take a two hundred dollar case of booze and you sell it for a hundred. It doesn't matter. It's all profit.

And then finally, when there's nothing left, when you can't borrow another buck from the bank or buy another case of booze, you bust the joint out. You light a match."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:45 PM (KZzsI)

569 329 if the Republicans do not win big this November, you know something is fishy.
Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:16 PM

If the Republicans do anything of significance after winning big this November, you know something's fishy (or you've been hitting your government-issued crack pipe).

Posted by: Grimmy
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SPOILER ALERT: THERE IS SOMETHING FISHY.

Like shithouse door on a tuna boat.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 10, 2022 01:45 PM (iDcra)

570 re 559: a lot of those schools seem to be big on CRT.

Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:45 PM (Ynyl9)

571 I hired a math PHd to do some calculations...
Posted by: Jukin
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Waaay back, I attended a seminar on what was a nascent technology, Text-to-Speech conversion by computers. I was amused by the fact that there was a trio of CIA spooks there.

A significant portion of the technical side of things was a presentation by a Polish physicist...a guy spirited out post-WWII. He filled a blackboard (remember those?) with lengthy mathematics associated with various transforms. It was staggering.

Anyhow, myself and two other people had dinner with the guy. At one point he asked me, 'But, how do you implement any of this with electronics?' I was at a bit of a loss to explain, as he had no practical grasp of practical electronics beyond the switch on a lamp.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2022 01:45 PM (oY5A0)

572 It's a matter of looking with more than the eyes.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:39 PM (6BZZn)

: ) Besides I think she needs glasses.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:46 PM (YVvUa)

573 Irrelevant question but I'm innocent. What distinguishes a crack pipe from any other kind of pipe, other than the fact crack is smoked in it?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 01:43 PM (eGTCV)

Drugs are vaporized in a crackpipe, as opposed to be burned as in a regular pipe.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 10, 2022 01:46 PM (yQpMk)

574
Maybe they need to be paired up with the many women in Eastern Europe.

Sorry there dear, we're going to need bigger cocks in this deal.

Posted by: The Union of Single Eastern European Girls at February 10, 2022 01:46 PM (ESjRY)

575 563 re 550: no, they will call it "saving the planet for our children by lowering everyone's standard of living, except for the elite, because they are entitled to it all"
Posted by: mallfly the Georgia Peach at February 10, 2022 01:44 PM (Ynyl9)

Of course. The politburo feasts at their dachas while the proles starve. Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at February 10, 2022 01:46 PM (II3Gr)

576 I've now been married longer than I've not been married. I can't imagine not being married. which is why I worry when my husband has medical issues, and why I feel so badly for the dear people in my congregation who have lost their beloved spouse after 40, 50 or even 60 or more years of marriage. It's like a part of them are us completely cut off.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:46 PM (GezNK)

577 I agree in this sense: Common Core is a system to make teaching obscure and block out parents. If you make the system so cryptic that parents cannot help or teach it, then you control education.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (KZzsI)

This is exactly why I conclude that it is a job security program. We know that - as a general rule - teaching is not about the kids. CC fits the pattern, and it produces truly awful end-results, except for the goals of controlling education and entrenching the guild members.

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:46 PM (SH2Zi)

578 555 Booze, real estate, etc. are all real items that also serve as a store of value.
Posted by: whig at February 10, 2022 01:43 PM

You forgot guns and ammo, my dear boy. They not only retain value, but help you acquire more after the apocalypse!

Guzzaline is good, too.

Posted by: Lord Humongous at February 10, 2022 01:47 PM (JCZqz)

579 I retired early on a fixed income just in time !

Of course that's sarcasm. My timing has always been terrible.

I'll be getting that part time job sooner than I had planned.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 10, 2022 01:47 PM (W3ofY)

580 I watched a doc a while back about the lack of marriageable women in China due to their one-child policy, resulting in millions of men who will never get married.
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Hey you round eye! What you think war for?

Posted by: China at February 10, 2022 01:47 PM (iDcra)

581 Yeah, they had to throw out the Friedman monetary theory because that would have told told our Top. Men. that blowout spending drives inflation.

Posted by: JM in Florida at February 10, 2022 01:47 PM (L7jyl)

582 and on and on
Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2022 01:45 PM (ESjRY)

RST Rainbow and Skittle Theory

You're right. It's all the kinds of stories you tell very little children.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:48 PM (YVvUa)

583 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at February 10, 2022 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

584 Yes, you get glimpses... but so many today are playing roles, that you don't really see them until the shit hits the fan... or, they get bored.

I remember on many first dates the girls told me who they were and...let's just say girls from urban New York/New England have some drawbacks, and I don't just mean the accents.

Posted by: Obligatory at February 10, 2022 01:48 PM (ESjRY)

585 I don't think all Eastern European women are prizes either. They may be presenting themselves as something they are not just to get the green card.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:48 PM (GezNK)

586 High inflation is good for the economy because people put more money in circulation.

Everybody wins!

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at February 10, 2022 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

587 but I just finished up my meeting with the department director, and I didn't get fired....
Posted by: Jordan61

congrats, i guess lol

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 01:48 PM (8D42x)

588 Sorry there dear, we're going to need bigger cocks in this deal.
Posted by: The Union of Single Eastern European Girls at February 10, 2022 01:46 PM

With two, you get eggroll.

Posted by: Single Chinese Dudes at February 10, 2022 01:48 PM (a3Q+t)

589 You are clever and funny. And you don't look like Kate Beckinsale.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 10, 2022 01:39 PM (Ez6QX)

Heh. Well I guess there's that.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:45 PM (YVvUa)

*illusions shattered*

Posted by: flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at February 10, 2022 01:49 PM (SH2Zi)

590 Sitting here in the plastic surgeon's waiting room to see about the removal of the cancer on my nose. Every woman in here appears to have had boob jobs.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 01:49 PM (9gilQ)

591 From here you seem like a very bright, amusing, interesting person with a depth of spirituality.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (GezNK)

You're too kind Fen. I do shower but my disposition is what one might call resentful. My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:49 PM (YVvUa)

592 I watched a doc a while back about the lack of marriageable women in China due to their one-child policy, resulting in millions of men who will never get married.

This is why I consider China a threat, the threat. The regime either has to kill a lot of men or collect brides abroad, or both. A nation in which that many men effectively have no use whatsoever for their dicks other than urination has no future but a violent one.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2022 01:49 PM (KFhLj)

593 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at February 10, 2022 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

I have to say....I don't believe you on this.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:49 PM (GezNK)

594 576 I've now been married longer than I've not been married. I can't imagine not being married. which is why I worry when my husband has medical issues, and why I feel so badly for the dear people in my congregation who have lost their beloved spouse after 40, 50 or even 60 or more years of marriage. It's like a part of them are us completely cut off.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:46 PM (GezNK)

Being divorced after 40+ years of being together is a shock to my system.

I do my best to compartmentalize this reality, but I'm not always successful.

***sigh***

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (BgMrQ)

595 I had a guy denigrate Friedman by the compelling argument: "Well, he's dead."

Posted by: JM in Florida at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (L7jyl)

596 The media is filled with low IQ morons. What freaking experts are they talking about when they say that inflation soared "more than expected"? That is the go to line for propagandists and government friendly ideologues whenever something bad happens as a result their dumbass policies. I'm so sick of hearing these assholes frame bad news in that manner.

Posted by: Trip at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (9KwNl)

597 Posted by: ... at February 10, 2022 01:49 PM (YVvUa)

Well, you're obviously still married so spouse met the grade, I guess.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (GezNK)

598 if not already said

Nevada drops mask mandates effective immediately (schools can drop mask tomorrow) - applies to all

Posted by: Big Star at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (Modkf)

599 This is not lowering the cost of keeping my wife happy with bulls!!

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (iDcra)

600 Every woman in here appears to have had boob jobs.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 01:49 PM (9gilQ)

If ever there was a "pics, or ..." comment.

Posted by: spindrift at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (h5TKJ)

601 I don't think all Eastern European women are prizes either. They may be presenting themselves as something they are not just to get the green card.

Everyone is of course an individual, but Russian culture has some issues and if you are getting involved with a Russian woman you should realize that culture is something she's been surrounded by her whole life.

Of course Pole, or Slovaks, or whatever have their own quirks...but that's true of every culture.

Posted by: Obligatory at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (ESjRY)

602 Another Trump mess that Presdent Bidum needs to cleen up !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (SXAnb)

603 Governor Sissypants (Dumb) of Nevada is lifting indoor mask mandates

Still have to wear them in medical and federal buildings.

Gee, thanks asshole. You have ruined Nevada and destroyed our economy.

Posted by: Czech Chick at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (haWye)

604 >>Sitting here in the plastic surgeon's waiting room to see about the removal of the cancer on my nose. Every woman in here appears to have had boob jobs.

Shoot some photos and we'll tell you which ones are real.

Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (BdF2V)

605 Pretty soon, counterfeit $100 bills will be worth more than legitimate bills--because you know they are always printing more "real" $100 bills

Posted by: Well at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (UIm4F)

606 I'm heading to see a chiropractor in a bit regarding my wonky knee.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 10, 2022 01:51 PM (eGTCV)

607 Now, the risk for physical assets is seizure by government or thieves (redundant I know) and that is also true for crypto. Pixy's greatest criticism of crypto is that it relies on central servers to conduct transactions so seize/hack those servers--your crypto vanishes. Distributed networking would help but make any conversions slow to process.
Posted by: whig at February 10, 2022 01:43 PM (Iq9dF)

Gold and Silver have capital gains against the value saved.

Also the one benefit that weighs against the distributed, slow process of clearing the credits is that there is no additional cost: banking charges for credit clearing run between 2% - 4%, with crypto time is money.
Still not sold on it, but I am now interested

Posted by: Kindltot at February 10, 2022 01:51 PM (xhaym)

608 Right now is a great time to set up multi-tiered pricing based on political affiliation.

You can mention Donald Trump in a neutral way and most conservatives will avoid the subject, but I'm going to estimate 70+ % of liberals can't resist saying something. Then you can simply agree with them, engendering yourself to them, and raise your normal rate by 20-25% and pad your profit margins.

I highly encourage this. We are not in a competitive market, we are in a goods and labor market where people will pay about anyone that will show up and do work. Capitalize on it while you can for the next year or two, and stick it to your political opponents pocket books.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 10, 2022 01:51 PM (/3dED)

609 I've been single my whole life. I tried to get married but it didn't work out well and I've decided its just best to keep it this way.

I came to this conclusion: people who complain about being married or being single are both right. There are serious drawbacks to either one that do not take much time to work out. And there are benefits to each one that do not take much time to work out. I'm talking personal drawbacks and benefits.

Between the two, speaking strictly from a selfish personal perspective, it appears to be a push: either one is roughly equivalent.

But when you add in society, the future, and Biblical mandate, marriage is by far the superior choice and proper state of humanity wherever possible. Its just not always possible or reasonable for everyone. And the crazier things get... well remember Paul: he advised Christians to probably not get married at that time because of the heinous persecutions and horrors on the horizon.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:51 PM (KZzsI)

610 Sitting here in the plastic surgeon's waiting room to see about the removal of the cancer on my nose. Every woman in here appears to have had boob jobs.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
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Pics...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2022 01:51 PM (oY5A0)

611 Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (BgMrQ

Yes; I imagine that's a profound shock.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:51 PM (GezNK)

612 Shoot some photos and we'll tell you which ones are real.
Posted by: garrett at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (BdF2V)

I would need to weigh the evidence.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 10, 2022 01:51 PM (yQpMk)

613 Kevin McCarthy says Jan 6 was a "violent insurrection."

http://bitly.ws/oqz4

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 10, 2022 01:51 PM (sWM8x)

614 The trouble with dating is that people tell you who they are and too many people don't listen.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:35 PM (KbCG3)

As a long time serial dater guy... that's close.. but I've found that people tell you who society tells them they should be, not who they are.

Yes, you get glimpses... but so many today are playing roles, that you don't really see them until the shit hits the fan... or, they get bored.
Posted by: Romeo13, Unrepentant Man at February 10, 2022 01:41 PM (oHd/0)

Dated all through my 20s and I was terrible at recognizing those glimpses for what they were.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:44 PM (KbCG3)

i saw so many red flags i thought it was a carnival and thought "let's party"...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 01:52 PM (8D42x)

615 532 The seven year itch is a real thing. If a couple can get over that hump and reconcile their differences it can be a great marriage. I've seen a number of couples work at it and become better friends and lovers to each other than ever. I've unfortunately seen just the opposite and one or both don't want to bother to work it out and get divorced eventually. And of course there are some that weren't meant to be no matter how hard they worked at it. Probably shouldn't have gotten married to each other in the first place.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 10, 2022 01:40 PM (W3ofY)

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Yeah those successful marriages amount to 7% of all marriages, SEVEN PERCENT.

That means the vast majority of marriages end in divorce or simply drone on from inertia or fear of change.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2022 01:52 PM (eMEkg)

616 610 Sitting here in the plastic surgeon's waiting room to see about the removal of the cancer on my nose. Every woman in here appears to have had boob jobs.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
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Pics...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 10, 2022 01:51 PM (oY5A0)

Jane D'oh - Future Adidas Social Media Marketing Manager

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 10, 2022 01:52 PM (KbCG3)

617 This is why I consider China a threat, the threat. The regime either has to kill a lot of men or collect brides abroad, or both. A nation in which that many men effectively have no use whatsoever for their dicks other than urination has no future but a violent one.
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This has been the case throughout history.
Don't see any reason this won't be the case now.

Fact is, when (not if) China moves against Taiwan, we will not stop them.
Nor will we stop Putin when he makes his moves.

The US is no longer in any position to defend anyone.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at February 10, 2022 01:52 PM (6BZZn)

618 55 Booze, real estate, etc. are all real items that also serve as a store of value.
Posted by: whig at February 10, 2022 01:43 PM

You forgot guns and ammo, my dear boy. They not only retain value, but help you acquire more after the apocalypse!

Guzzaline is good, too.
Posted by: Lord Humongous

Test C and Test E suppliers will rule the world.

Posted by: An Athletic Chemist at February 10, 2022 01:52 PM (snFip)

619 Nood

The Fear

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 10, 2022 01:52 PM (XvPQV)

620 Every woman in here appears to have had boob jobs.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

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Old & Busted: Sending your daughter to Europe for a HS graduation present.

New Hotness: Giving your daughter saline pillows for a HS graduation present.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at February 10, 2022 01:52 PM (iDcra)

621 >Being divorced after 40+ years of being together is a shock to my system.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (BgMrQ)

That's rough, buddy. Sorry to hear it.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 10, 2022 01:52 PM (26aeI)

622 Gee, thanks asshole. You have ruined Nevada and destroyed our economy.

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Sure, but think of all the good it did. John Hopkins determined what, a 0.2% difference from doing nothing?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - did you wonder about the sciinz behind the D about face? at February 10, 2022 01:52 PM (A4cav)

623 Marriage to the right person is a wonderful thing.

Marriage to the wrong person is a nightmare.

And modern American culture encourages people to BE nightmares.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 10, 2022 01:52 PM (ESjRY)

624 I wonder how many boob jobs the stimulus paid for?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 10, 2022 01:52 PM (5kI0z)

625 507 NPR had to remind me three times that this is the worst inflation since REAGAN.

And the Fed will be raising interest rates half a percent. in order to slow inflation and decrease demand. In theory makes sense but with all the free money around, nobody is paying interest.
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Oddly, NPR forgot about Carter. How do they do this?

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 10, 2022 01:53 PM (xSnmX)

626 > Anyhow, myself and two other people had dinner with the guy. At one point he asked me, 'But, how do you implement any of this with electronics?' I was at a bit of a loss to explain, as he had no practical grasp of practical electronics beyond the switch on a lamp.

This seems like a good thing to me. The guy specialized in a way that enabled him to do bleeding edge work, and someone else was able to come in and implement his calculations. Specialization baby. Without it, we'd all be 18th century farmers, making our own candles and clothing.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 10, 2022 01:53 PM (x980n)

627 585 I don't think all Eastern European women are prizes either. They may be presenting themselves as something they are not just to get the green card.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:48 PM

I remember seeing a video with a pickup artist type who decided to settle down. His advice was to marry an Eastern European women, but live in her country. Your US income/investments mean you live very well, so she's less tempted to "jump ship" to others likenshe might in the US. Plus, typically much better divorce laws.

Posted by: Anonny Moronny at February 10, 2022 01:53 PM (JCZqz)

628 Yellen was hired to get her off the street.

Posted by: klaftern at February 10, 2022 01:53 PM (taPSh)

629 This is why I consider China a threat, the threat. The regime either has to kill a lot of men or collect brides abroad, or both. A nation in which that many men effectively have no use whatsoever for their dicks other than urination has no future but a violent one.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 10, 2022 01:49 PM (KFhLj)

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May we suggest the term Jannisaries?

Posted by: Ottomam Empire at February 10, 2022 01:54 PM (z9npv)

630 Every woman in here appears to have had boob jobs.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 10, 2022 01:49 PM (9gilQ)

If ever there was a "pics, or ..." comment.
Posted by: spindrift at February 10, 2022 01:50 PM (h5TKJ)

i second this...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at February 10, 2022 01:54 PM (8D42x)

631 Collectively, humanity has both virtues and faults. And as you go down the different divisions of society, sex, religion, etc. you find that same thing--virtues and faults.

But, you don't marry a collective sex classification, you marry an individual. Same as you don't attend a collective religion, you attend a specific church, and so on.

I find this world is a bit easier to navigate and less depressing if one lives in the specifics of your own life and interactions with others rather than trying to apply sweeping generalities to them. Reduction of the analysis to specific people instead of stereotypes also affirms that like it or not, we are all of the Lord's creation and share in varying degrees sins, vices, and virtues.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2022 01:54 PM (Iq9dF)

632 Early on at some airplane companies, before there was even such a thing as engineering or aeronautical engineering. Like the 20s and 30s it was physicists writing out equations of motion and then they had mathematicians from local universities write it out into formulas and those formulas became the computer algorithms in the 50s and 60s. The problem with this, and anybody that had to deal with the fortran code in the 70s and 80s found this out, was that the math majors from the university had no attachment to what was going on and they just saw it all as a matter of bookkeeping. So you ended up with these complex fortran codes with all the variable names being A0001, A00002-A99999. The only way you could make any sense of it was a log that translated the variable codes to the physics. If the log was lost you were screwed. It was a horrible mess that many companies never even got around to fixing. Lots of NASA code ended up like this too.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 10, 2022 01:54 PM (sqH0x)

633 I don't think all Eastern European women are prizes either.

Well when young they are on average stunningly gorgeous, just jaw-dropping, far more than most other places. Its unreal, especially given what drooling knuckle dragging troglodytes many of the young guys are.

But personally and culturally they are a serious mess. They smoke like a coal burning plant, they drink like a fish, they have often been raised with zero moral compass and if they have one its a weird cultic Eastern European church cultural thing (not religious). I'm generalizing heavily here but that's the observation I've made.

Its sad because they have so much to offer in terms of looks but are going overtime to destroy that with their lifestyle of super late nights, heavy drinking, terrible food, and smoking. By the time they hit 30 they look like a sack of potatos.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:55 PM (KZzsI)

634 Yeah, when Our Resident Retard Economist, Punchy Joe said, "Milton Friedman isn't running the show anymore."

That was the signal for Our Robber Democrat class to start destroying the economy by stealing future generations' money.

Great job, a-holes.

This is serious. I expect that the retired and others on fixed income really are going to start eating dog food and burn stuff to keep warm if the rate of inflation keeps zooming upward.

Also, buy a gun folks. Inflation in the US meant high crime rates and in South America has meant daylight carjackings and kidnappings.

Biden and the Democrats have fucked us for years.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2022 01:55 PM (OMayC)

635 The Sopranos showed a great example of taking over a guy's business and ruining the business and the guy. Heartbreaking.

But don't get in debt to the mib.

Posted by: JM in Florida at February 10, 2022 01:56 PM (L7jyl)

636 And I have to say, I have heard more stories of men saying, "I didn't know anything was up and she came home and announced that she wanted a divorce" and they had been taking care of things-I don't mean they were having an affair although they might have been-just that they had consulted a divorce lawyer and tidied up their assets before announcing it, which seems really duplicitous to me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:56 PM (GezNK)

637
I have to say....I don't believe you on this.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 10, 2022 01:49 PM (GezNK)

World. *shattered*

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at February 10, 2022 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)

638 That means the vast majority of marriages end in divorce or simply drone on from inertia or fear of change.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2022 01:52 PM (eMEkg)
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The proportion of marriages ending in divorce is high because of serial divorcers, e.g, Hollywood scum.

Think about it: say a couple divorces, each marry anothers, divorce THEM, and do this a couple times so that they have between them, say, four failed marriages apiece, then EIGHT marriages would have to be successful just to raise the average to 50%.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 10, 2022 01:56 PM (YqDXo)

639 628 Yellen was hired to get her off the street.
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She is a disgusting woman. Creepy only begins to describe her.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 10, 2022 01:57 PM (xSnmX)

640
America got a Boob Job when "we" "elected" Senile Joe.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 10, 2022 01:57 PM (OMayC)

641 Yeah, when Our Resident Retard Economist, Punchy Joe said, "Milton Friedman isn't running the show anymore."
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Of course, neither is Biden. So who IS running the show?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 10, 2022 01:58 PM (YqDXo)

642 Larry Summers is sorry to see MMT taken seriously, because intellectually it's the equivalent to creationism.

Way to go, sport. Signal to the other liberals that you're not a kook or a flyover rube by bashing Christians.
He could have used flat earthers, or faked moon landing or agw or 100% reliance on renewable energy to run our whole economy, but he chose that one.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 10, 2022 01:58 PM (MFphb)

643 Yeah those successful marriages amount to 7% of all marriages, SEVEN PERCENT.

Those numbers are a bit skewed. Divorce numbers, for example are seriously messed up, because they add up all the divorces, divide by the marriages and give you a percentage that sounds horrible 55%!!!! 60%!!!!

Except that's not accurate. Many, perhaps most people who get divorced do so more than once. So they are skewing the statistics by every divorce they have. If 100 people never get divorced, but 20 people get divorced 3 times each, that makes the total number 60 out of 120. OH MY GOD 50% of marriages end in divorce!!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:59 PM (KZzsI)

644 and stick it to your political opponents pocket books.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 10, 2022 01:51 PM (/3dED)

contractors around here have been doing that since trump was in office. If there was any sign of libtardism on the owner's front lawn, the estimate immediately went up 10-20%

Posted by: kallisto at February 10, 2022 01:59 PM (DJFLF)

645 Of course, neither is Biden. So who IS running the show?
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The Too Big To Fail in the Kingdom of SoDiNY. NY, DE, CT, NJ, and Philly.

Posted by: Puddin Head at February 10, 2022 02:01 PM (xSnmX)

646 The proportion of marriages ending in divorce is high because of serial divorcers, e.g, Hollywood scum.

Right. For example in my close family, 15 people got married. Four of them got a divorce. Of those four, 3 got divorced multiple times, one more than 4 times. If you pile up all those stats in one column it looks horrific. But if you look at individual people suddenly it looks pretty good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 02:02 PM (KZzsI)

647 newd

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 02:02 PM (KZzsI)

648 Gold and Silver have capital gains against the value saved.

Also the one benefit that weighs against the distributed, slow process of clearing the credits is that there is no additional cost: banking charges for credit clearing run between 2% - 4%, with crypto time is money.
Still not sold on it, but I am now interested

Posted by: Kindltot
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FWIW, the current IRS treatment of crypto is as property just like gold or silver. 1040 Tax form for 2021 asks specific questions about transactions using cryptocurrency so you have the duty to report any gains or losses involving transactions as part of your income.

Just checked that via IRS official publications to make sure. Simply keeping cryptocurrency in a wallet like gold, silver, real estate, etc. does not require reporting. But, any transaction that results in gain or loss triggers income consequences. In a way, crypto is actually worse for tax purposes because every ledger has the transaction recorded while privately exchanging gold or silver for cash does not. The only supposed safety is that theoretically you are anonymous in many transactions using blockchain.

Posted by: whig at February 10, 2022 02:04 PM (Iq9dF)

649 Except that's not accurate. Many, perhaps most people who get divorced do so more than once. So they are skewing the statistics by every divorce they have. If 100 people never get divorced, but 20 people get divorced 3 times each, that makes the total number 60 out of 120. OH MY GOD 50% of marriages end in divorce!!!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 10, 2022 01:59 PM (KZzsI)

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I'm not talking about divorce per se. I'm talking about couples in which both individuals report being in a happy and satisfying marriage.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 10, 2022 02:12 PM (eMEkg)

650 >>>Now, the risk for physical assets is seizure by government or thieves (redundant I know) and that is also true for crypto. Pixy's greatest criticism of crypto is that it relies on central servers to conduct transactions

That isn't quite true. It relies on central servers to do fiat to crypto transactions. Crypto transactions themselves are decentralized and can't be controlled or hacked. The threat of losing an exchange server is real and has happened. That's why you don't leave your money, in whatever form it might be, in an exchange unless trading crypto is what you do.

You
a. Run the transaction.
B. Change the crypto to whatever you want it to be on the exchange.
C. You withdraw your money and put it someplace you can trust if you aren't using crypto that might be an offshore bank.

Follow those rules and the only thing the government can do by attacking exchanges is make it harder to go from crypto to fiat. They can't seize any real portion of your cash.

Posted by: mikethemoose at February 10, 2022 02:12 PM (T/vhV)

651 Brianna Keilor really has put on weight. she Whoopie and Navaro must be in a mir eating contest

Posted by: avi at February 10, 2022 02:36 PM (hMd9S)

652 pie eating

Posted by: avi at February 10, 2022 02:36 PM (hMd9S)

653 There IS a theory to MMT. But you won't like it.

The theory is this - the modern economy is, at it's heart, highly deflationary. Technology gets faster and cheaper each and every day. That reduces the goods and services needed to generate the things we need. Deflation is bad for the economy. It's especially bad if you owe a shit ton of money like the U.S. government does - in a deflationary economy, those debts just keep getting bigger. In an inflationary economy they get smaller in real terms.

So, the government needs to print excess cash to increase inflation to fight this natural deflation.

The theory may hold some merit, except politicians LOVE spending cash they don't have to tax anyone for, and if they can do a little of that, then a whole lot of that would be even better.

Posted by: Inspector kemp at February 10, 2022 03:07 PM (nkp5d)

654 "This is really their theory. It's called "Modern Monetary Theory" (MMT). They called it that because "Retard Money Theory" was already taken."
LOL
Ace really cracks me up

Posted by: thePeg at February 10, 2022 03:56 PM (IIWsy)

655 "Norms are being restored, if the Norms you mean are the inflation and malaise of 1982."

Why do people insist on comparing this to 82? In 82 the government was roughly only one trillion dollars in debt, We hadn't offshored our jobs, and the country was 90% White. In our wildest fantasies we wish for the conditions that existed in 1982.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 10, 2022 05:04 PM (OHy0b)

656 The problem with MMT isn't that it doesn't work. The government has been living on printed and borrowed money for decades now, and the world hasn't ended. However, it's primary problem is that it turns relationships on their heads.

In MMT all wealth flows from the government, instead of the economy. The private sector doesn't have to be responsible for anything because the government is in charge of everything. They can scam, cheat and steal all they want and it's fine because they aren't in charge, Daddy is. MMT makes the government their customer not us, and so they don't have to listen to us at all, and they've been waiting to hear that for years.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 10, 2022 05:13 PM (OHy0b)

657 "MMT makes the government their customer not us, and so they don't have to listen to us at all, and they've been waiting to hear that for years."

The private sector no longer has to listen to the public, and now they've fixed elections so not even the politicians have to listen to the public. You see the trend here? The ruling class of this country is really fucking tired of hearing from the peasants, and they've taken steps to ensure they no longer have to listen to us, or even pretend they do.

Posted by: DFCtomm at February 10, 2022 05:21 PM (OHy0b)

658 Its fun to blame the Dems for all this for sure, but Trump spent useless Trillions in stimulus too. He primed the pump. All of the political classes are to blame.

Posted by: QT 3.14159 at February 10, 2022 05:32 PM (mSEtp)

659 Liberal Democrats please go to a place in your home and pound your Brains out on the wall for voting for Biden

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