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Ho, Hum, Inflation Sets Another Record, Hitting the Highest Level in 40 Years

Same Brandon different day.

US inflation soared 7.9% in past year, a fresh 40-year high
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER

WASHINGTON (AP) Propelled by surging costs for gas, food and housing, consumer inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year, the sharpest spike since 1982 and likely only a harbinger of even higher prices to come.

The increase reported Thursday by the Labor Department reflected the 12 months ending in February and didn't include the oil and gas price surges that followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. Since then, average gas prices nationally have jumped about 62 cents a gallon to $4.32, according to AAA.

Even before the war further accelerated price increases, robust consumer spending, solid pay raises and persistent supply shortages had sent U.S. inflation to its highest level in four decades. What's more, housing costs, which make up about a third of the government's consumer price index, have risen sharply, a trend that's unlikely to reverse anytime soon.

Oh look, they forgot to mention the fact that the dollar was devalued by multiple rounds of multitrillion dollar "stimulus."

"The numbers are eye-watering, and there is more to come," said Eric Winograd, senior economist at asset management firm AllianceBernstein. "The peak in inflation will be much higher than previously thought and will arrive later than previously expected."

...

Seeking to stem the inflation surge, the Federal Reserve is set to raise interest rates several times this year, beginning with a quarter-point hike next week. The Fed faces a delicate challenge, though: If it tightens credit too aggressively this year, it risks undercutting the economy and possibly triggering a recession.

That's Our Brandon!

From January to February, nearly every category of goods and services got pricier. Grocery costs jumped 1.4%, the sharpest one-month increase since 1990, other than during a pandemic-induced price surge two years ago. The collective price of fruits and vegetables rose 2.3%, the largest monthly increase since 2010. Gas prices spiked 6.6%, clothing 0.7%.

For the 12 months ending in February, grocery prices leapt 8.6%, the biggest year-over-year increase since 1981, the government said. Gas prices are up a whopping 38%. And housing costs have risen 4.7%, the largest yearly jump since 1991.

Lydia Boussour, an economist at Oxford Economics, estimates that if oil remains at $120 a barrel for the rest of this year -- which it topped Tuesday before slipping -- it would cost U.S. households $1,500, on average. It would also weaken economic growth by about 0.8 percentage point this year, she said. Many economists have cut their growth estimates for 2022 by roughly a half-point to about 2.5%.

I saw a forecaster predicting $150 per barrel.

Abigail Marone
@abigailmarone

Terrible February numbers. Biden WH can't blame this on Putin too but I'm sure they'll try

They'll introduce the Precognitive Price Index.

Posted by: Ace at 01:42 PM




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Posted by: RUReadingthis at March 10, 2022 01:42 PM (aQ25I)

2 Putin's fault.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (Ez6QX)

3 This is fine

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (V6f9+)

4 The facts at the individual level are just too damning to save this presidency. It's going to take a whole lot of cheating.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (QYPq3)

5 He'll hit the 50 year record soon.

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (AwYPR)

6 This didn't happen under Trump because Putin negotiated with the presidents of Brazil and Hungary to delay it until a Democrat president came to power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:44 PM (LvTSG)

7 Things are great.

Everyone loves the new normal.

War is good.

Men are women.

Etc.

Posted by: Czech Chick at March 10, 2022 01:44 PM (haWye)

8 Inflation is only happening because Biden's booming economy. You retarded deplorables just don't understand economics.
- Twitter

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (OalnH)

9 Poor Rick Santelli.

In a better timeline, he'd be head of the Treasury in a Tea Party administration.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (V6f9+)

10 Gosh, Biden is just so, so, so unlucky. Gets elected and the world just conspires to make him look bad.

Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (GZ/yK)

11 Putin's Inflation

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (lhr6a)

12 Fortunately, high inflation only hurts rich people! Context, people!

Posted by: Jen "I LOVE to Lie" Psaki at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (TKZuJ)

13 7 Things are great.
Everyone loves the new normal.
War is good.
Men are women.
Etc.
Posted by: Czech Chick at March 10, 2022 01:44 PM (haWye)

=========

Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I read it in a book once.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (LvTSG)

14 What is the quickest way to beggar the middle class you ask... Inflation.
What robs the retired... Inflation.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (onc9E)

15 Chocolate Rations are UP!

Posted by: InTrade Guy at March 10, 2022 01:46 PM (lhr6a)

16 8 Inflation is only happening because Biden's booming economy. You retarded deplorables just don't understand economics.
- Twitter
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (OalnH)

========

Also, rising gas prices are Putin's fault, which is a completely different problem from rising prices.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:46 PM (LvTSG)

17 To stop inflation, everyone just needs to quit their jobs. Then there won't be any money to be spent to inflate things. Why can't you figure this out, guys?

Posted by: Jen Psaki at March 10, 2022 01:46 PM (QYPq3)

18 Don't forget, the equity market is now back to March 2021 levels. It's very precarious at this point.

There is no escape from The Brandon Economy.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 01:46 PM (nkAm6)

19 I don't even think the oil shock has completely filtered through all the various markets yet.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 10, 2022 01:46 PM (jTmQV)

20 I predict PAIN and no GAINZZZ.

Posted by: Mr. T at March 10, 2022 01:46 PM (EpDzw)

21 Top 73!!!

Posted by: Greyman27 at March 10, 2022 01:46 PM (RKLPC)

22 What a shame for Biden that literally everything went to shit after the last election.

If only he was president, and had a friendly congress to work with him.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 01:46 PM (ESjRY)

23 Pretty much all of the inflation predates the invasion...so hold on to your hats for March's data...

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (exHjb)

24 What is hysterical is that, under Joe Biden, old women WISH they could find Cat Food to eat.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (lhr6a)

25
"Be on the lookout" for Putin shutting down US oil and raising taxes, everyone!

Posted by: Psuki Pfuki at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (aGUIs)

26
Putting $100 in yo gas tank on a regular basis will have a real impact on peoples decisions

Posted by: Yo! at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (WBeov)

27 ace,

I just discovered that there is a Jimmy Carter "Miss me yet" meme happening.

LOL

Posted by: 40 Miles North at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (uWF4x)

28 Chocolate Rations are UP!

Posted by: InTrade Guy at March 10, 2022 01:46 PM (lhr6a)

And Chocolate Rain is falling

Posted by: Tay Zonday at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (QYPq3)

29 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

30 I was assured that inflation was because Congress didn't pass BBB.

And now it's gonna be Putin?

Weird, that...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (LvTSG)

31 People are acting like this wasn't intended.


This is what happens when you allow an election to be stolen. The people that stole it aren't in favor of America surviving.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (5kI0z)

32 The facts at the individual level are just too damning to save this presidency. It's going to take a whole lot of cheating.

Math says he got about 20M fake votes last time around...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (ESjRY)

33 Disco will reveal itself again. It always follows Death and Pestilence. Being on the backside of the baby boom sucks balls.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (2graF)

34 Trump's presidency brought a lot of record-breaking too. Just in the other direction. "Endless economic misery and America in the toilet is a price we're willing to pay for no mean tweets!"

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (sVtYq)

35 It's not inflation! It's Funflation!! You idiot flyoverbillies!

Posted by: MSM at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (7bRMQ)

36 I read it in a book once.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (LvTSG)

I'm doubtful if someone who liked a certain film has ever read a book.

Posted by: W at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (EpDzw)

37 CNBC.

LOL!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

38 ace there's no way out of this economic mess, no clever gimmick to pull. We will suffer because we were always intended to pay Their Price for Utopia.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:48 PM (Vr12I)

39 I bet there's some warehoused "WIN" buttons the WH can release.

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:48 PM (AwYPR)

40 The left: We must raise the price of gas to save the ERF!

After the left assumes office the price of gas goes up

The FNM: What a shock that the price of gas has gone up. Must be that Trump's fault.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 01:48 PM (ESjRY)

41 Math says he got about 20M fake votes last time around...
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I'd guess 25M. Even Dems know he is a fuckwad.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:48 PM (2graF)

42 He'll hit the 50 year record soon.
Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (AwYPR)

...

He's gonna set the all time record.

I don't even want to know what that number is.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 10, 2022 01:48 PM (z9npv)

43 How can Biden fix anything if nothing is his result?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 01:48 PM (eGTCV)

44 I'm old enough to remember when Biden tweeted this:

"It's hard to believe this has to be said, but unlike this president, I'll do my job and take responsibility. I won't blame others. And I'll never forget that the job isn't about me -- it's about you."

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 01:49 PM (N39Ws)

45 Perfect time for the song playing right now......


I was up above it.

Now I'm down in it.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

46 Brandon's approval floor seems to be 40ish. So from here on out it's YOLO for the Dems. They give no fucks, they know they have 40% support no matter what.

Gird yer loins....

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 01:49 PM (OalnH)

47 Let's not forget the supply chain shortage. Got the last box of crackers at the dollar store. Last box of crackers. Let that soak in. Meanwhile, at the Department of Transportation, the Maltese Faggot wants people to buy electric cars and the dick sucking VP wants electric Macks and Freightliners.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 10, 2022 01:49 PM (lz5hY)

48 Are skirts getting shorter?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 01:49 PM (eGTCV)

49 >>Now I'm down in it.


Halo I-IV are amazing.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:49 PM (lhr6a)

50 I call dibs on the freight car at the top of the stack in the coming WEF-topia.

Posted by: Hands at March 10, 2022 01:49 PM (786Ro)

51 " I don't even think the oil shock has completely filtered through all the various markets yet."

It hasn't. That's why Brandon is trying to get Iranian Terrorist Oil back on the market. That will add over 1 million barrels a day to supply. He doesn't want that sweet American oil he's killed to rise up again.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 01:50 PM (nkAm6)

52 35 It's not inflation! It's Funflation!! You idiot flyoverbillies!
Posted by: MSM at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (7bRMQ)

We can all utilize Funflation as an excuse to have Staycaytions and drink Fun-flated margs out by our decreasing-value decks.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 01:50 PM (Rl7KJ)

53 As I said earlier this morning the monthly numbers (as opposed to the annualized total) and the component inflation underlying the aggregate are much worse than the top line number would have you believe.

In only one year, Biden brought back runaway inflation, stagflation and supply chain problems, and to those he add his own personal touches of brink of World War 3 and abrogation of the Bill of Rights.

One. Year.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 01:50 PM (iSndp)

54 Are skirts getting shorter?

Hey Sailor!

Posted by: A Tranny in a mini at March 10, 2022 01:50 PM (ESjRY)

55 33 Disco will reveal itself again. It always follows Death and Pestilence. Being on the backside of the baby boom sucks balls.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (2graF)

Disco never died, it merged with Funk and evolved into House.

Posted by: borderline at March 10, 2022 01:50 PM (4Hf9E)

56 48 Are skirts getting shorter?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 01:49 PM (eGTCV)

=========

Leon's getting larger!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:50 PM (LvTSG)

57
And Chocolate Rain is falling
Posted by: Tay Zonday at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (QYPq3)



Asshole......

*pounds head on desk to remove earworm*

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

58 Abigail Marone
@abigailmarone
Terrible February numbers. Biden WH can't blame this on Putin too but I'm sure they'll try


He'll have plenty of assistance in that regard:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/3jczzed3

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik [DHS Verdict: MDM] at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (DTX3h)

59 Hamburger and fires at a sitdown restaurant is about $17.95 now. It's crazy

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (M+Lyo)

60 China also calls the West an empire of lies and accuses the US of operating dangerous bio labs in Ukraine.

Posted by: It's happening at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (LAKVm)

61 skirts getting shorter?

Hey Sailor!
Posted by: A Tranny in a mini at March 10, 2022 01:50 PM (ESjRY)

I threw up in my mouth?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (eGTCV)

62 And who cares about this boring economic collapse when we need to focus all our energy on virtue-signalling for Ukraine?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (sVtYq)

63 US inflation soared 7.9% in past year, a fresh 40-year high

*

And again, in four years - assuming nothing worse happens that causes more inflation, hahaha - the dollar in your pocket will be worth 50 cents.

You don't want to think too long about what the dollar in your pocket will be worth in ten years.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (cUuEU)

64 This is fine

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (V6f9+)

(inserts Dog Sitting In Fire gif)

Posted by: memetastic pookysgirl at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (XKZwp)

65 We carry on about Putin, ad his reckless rolling f the dice with Ukraine. He can't hold a candle to the bastards in Washington. YOLO, indeed.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (Vr12I)

66 I mentioned this last night:

I'm affiliated with an organization that is building a new headquarters building. A detailed cost estimate a year ago said that the building would cost about $15 million.

We just put it out for bid: one bidder, $18.8 million bid.

Damn you, Putin!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (I2/tG)

67 You know what really annoys me? Seeing documents signed by these administration cocksuckers with "Honorable" in front of their names.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (moXXi)

68 Can you FEEL the transitoriousness????

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (6Livg)

69 Animal House inflation.

https://youtu.be/qPJDPSUevt4

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 10, 2022 01:52 PM (U7wke)

70 But Congress just gave $13.9 billion to Ukraine. Don't you feel better, ingrates?

I mean, it's not like they work to better the American people or something.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 01:52 PM (nkAm6)

71 We will see $200 oil unless we open up our own reserves and production. We're now essentially BEGGING hostile foreign powers to sell us oil. They have every incentive to push prices even higher.

On a related note, how is it possible that the president alone can basically shut down our country's entire oil and gas industry on his own, without any input from Congress or anyone else? Kings and emperors of old didn't have the power that today's president does.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 10, 2022 01:52 PM (iFTx/)

72 Can you FEEL the transitoriousness????
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (6Livg)



More like bitchassness.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)

73 I figure that the Fed will wait until after the midterms before seriously raising rates and throwing the country into a recession. They'll want the GOP to get the blame, and hope that the economy will recover enough by 24 to help the Dems.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 10, 2022 01:52 PM (wmDcS)

74 >>We just put it out for bid: one bidder, $18.8 million bid.


I hope you locked in your steel package before you wasted $150k posting that comment.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:52 PM (lhr6a)

75 Only 1 pronoun is appropriate for trannies, "it''.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 01:52 PM (UuD2k)

76 I recall during Trump's state of the union speech, when he said that America will never be a socialist country, the democrats literally hissed.

That was the point in time that the democrats and their globalist allies decided that cheating was their best option to get Trump out of the way so they could take down the main obstacle to their plans, the United States.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 01:52 PM (5kI0z)

77 Well as I'm sure you know, and if you'd read the briefing materials provided yesterday, the invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin is not something that President Biden could have controlled. This aggression from Trump's best friend, in addition to a worldwide pandemic has created unprecedented challenges that no President has faced in at least a generation.

Excuse me... that's Satan on the other line...

Posted by: Jen Psaki (D-Hell) at March 10, 2022 01:52 PM (OzNIz)

78 Do Biden's handlers tell him the truth or do they hide the truth from him?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 01:52 PM (eGTCV)

79 You don't want to think too long about what the dollar in your pocket will be worth in ten years.
Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (cUuEU)

...

Biden's legacy will be we finally stop minting the penny. Maybe the nickel and dime too.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (z9npv)

80 The Conservative Case For Not Being Able To Afford Your House Or Feed Your Family.

- National Review

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (OZtA4)

81 The Fed is a day late and a dollar short. I blame every administration since 2008. I think that last increase was in 2006.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (XntMs)

82 We have local seniors who can't make ends meet between the gas prices and inflation. But there's billions of your tax money for Ukrainians.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (nkAm6)

83 OK Claus, I accept that I'll own nothing, but I'm having a difficult time believing I'll be happy.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (sWM8x)

84 WASHINGTON (AP) Propelled by surging costs for gas, food and housing, consumer inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year

*

Wait, aren't both gas and food excluded from inflation calculations?

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (cUuEU)

85 "Now we're at Putin."

To be fair, Biden's been pootin' (in his pants) for a while now.

Posted by: lymond at March 10, 2022 01:54 PM (Jvjtu)

86 Fed is in a box ... pushin on a string ... (I'm sure there are other good memes, but those come to mind.)

Many think that at some point the market pushes rates higher on its own, and the fed won't be able to keep adding trillions of QE to stop it ... unless the intent is to destroy USD and make USA weaker

(gee, weaker like with like with the terrible Iran deal, or the China virus response, or the global warming excuse to shut down our energy, or the overthrow of a duly elected president? ... almost sensing a trend)

Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2022 01:54 PM (Cus5s)

87 Shadow Stats says 16.05% inflation if measured like we did in the 80's.

You know, back before they decided that if Apples would rise in price, you'd buy some other fruit instead.

And before they decided that if Dodge Charges raised their price, you'd just buy a Yugo instead.

Posted by: Romeo13, at March 10, 2022 01:54 PM (oHd/0)

88 Why don't we send our Army to the southern border and see how they do before rolling the dice on sending them to Ukraine?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:54 PM (2graF)

89 Isn't there a famous econ story about the cost of a sandwich v/ the cost of a roll with hooker in Greece?

If I had any googlefu I would go look that up...

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:54 PM (lhr6a)

90 >> 45 [ NIN ]

>> I was up above it.
>> Now I'm down in it.

I used to be so big and strong.
I used to know my right from wrong.
I used to never be afraid.
I used to be somebody.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at March 10, 2022 01:54 PM (uWF4x)

91 We will see $200 oil unless we open up our own reserves and production.

**


There are 3 million gay people that get every single thing they want.

There are 300 million automobile drivers that can go f*ck themselves.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:54 PM (cUuEU)

92 We carry on about Putin, ad his reckless rolling f the dice with Ukraine. He can't hold a candle to the bastards in Washington.

--

As we always say, painfully accurately so, if they wanted to destroy America, would they be doing anything differently than they already are?

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:54 PM (sVtYq)

93 "Damn you Putin!!!!"
--leftist looking around to see if anyone else joins in

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (KZzsI)

94 When the GOP takes over next year

the house investigations of conerservative Putin sympathizers is gonaa be lit

Posted by: REDACTED at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (us2H3)

95 I'm affiliated with an organization that is building a new headquarters building. A detailed cost estimate a year ago said that the building would cost about $15 million.

We just put it out for bid: one bidder, $18.8 million bid.

Damn you, Putin!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (I2/tG)

...

We are supposed to give OPCC (Opinion of Probably Construction Cost) for our clients.

I think we are adding a 40% margin to our numbers right now. It's anybody's guess.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (z9npv)

96 84 WASHINGTON (AP) Propelled by surging costs for gas, food and housing, consumer inflation jumped 7.9% over the past year

*

Wait, aren't both gas and food excluded from inflation calculations?
Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (cUuEU)

Yes, but that sounds better than irresponsible jackasses in charge of money printing.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (UuD2k)

97 One of the liberals at work said this was all because of the Trump tariffs.
Yeah I couldn't circle that square but I did chuckle at the ignorance.

Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (x6uUk)

98 China also calls the West an empire of lies and accuses the US of operating dangerous bio labs in Ukraine.

The State Department statement was very carefully worded - it said that the Department of Defense neither "owned" nor "operated" biolabs in the Ukraine.

Well, NIH didn't "own" or "operate" the Wuhan Institute of Virology either - it merely funded research there that would have been illegal in the US.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (I2/tG)

99 We are at peace with inflation. We have always been at peace with inflation :

Dollar Tree: Consumers supporting new $1.25 base price
Q4 same-store sales up for both Dollar Tree and Family Dollar divisions
Home Textiles Today, March 2, 2022

"Our shoppers have been very supportive of the change, confirming that consumers continue to choose Dollar Tree for the extreme value our products offer compared to other retailers," said Michael Witynski, president and CEO of Dollar Tree Inc....

"We continue to have terrific performance on other key strategic initiatives, including the expansion of our $3 and $5 Plus assortment in Dollar Tree stores, as well as our Combo Stores and H2 Renovations at Family Dollar," he added

https://bit.ly/3sZdAs8

Posted by: Hands at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (786Ro)

100 82 We have local seniors who can't make ends meet between the gas prices and inflation. But there's billions of your tax money for Ukrainians.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (nkAm6)

And billions more to protect OTHER countries borders.

Posted by: Romeo13, at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (oHd/0)

101 Gee, Fox has their Uke strategy map up again, everybody drawing lines on it. If he was still with us, they'd have Don Madden.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (lz5hY)

102 I met Gary Cole
Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (Ed8Zd)

I hope you and Lumberg didn't do the nasty!


Posted by: Peter Gibbons at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (Qxu49)

103 The Covid shutdown is definitely in the top five of the most stupid acts ever committed by mankind since the start of civilization.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (XntMs)

104 "Let the drive Teslas!"
--Transportation Secretary Buttgag

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (KZzsI)

105 97 One of the liberals at work said this was all because of the Trump tariffs.
Yeah I couldn't circle that square but I did chuckle at the ignorance.
Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (x6uUk)

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Then why did it take until year 2 of Biden's administration?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (LvTSG)

106 Our stock is soon to be the top on Wall Street.

Posted by: Yankee Candle at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (9Y010)

107 83 OK Claus, I accept that I'll own nothing, but I'm having a difficult time believing I'll be happy.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (sWM8x)

Vat vas dat...don't care.

***has peon wipe shit off his shoes***

Posted by: Claus Schwab at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (BgMrQ)

108 Are skirts getting shorter?
Posted by: N.L. Urker


Do girls wear skirts anymore?

I think the equivalent question for today is "are yoga pants getting tighter?"

Posted by: mikeski at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (P1f+c)

109 Yes, but that sounds better than irresponsible jackasses in charge of money printing.

**

I somehow literally says "Propelled by surging costs for gas, food..."

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (cUuEU)

110 Look on the bright side....

1/2 of America is obsese. Now that food is expensive, that number will shrink.

No wait what am I saying? The obese are welfare shitstains. Their checks always increase to keep up with inflation.

Never mind.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (OalnH)

111 Gee, Fox has their Uke strategy map up again, everybody drawing lines on it. If he was still with us, they'd have Don Madden.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (lz5hY)



You mean John Madden?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)

112 Well, NIH didn't "own" or "operate" the Wuhan Institute of Virology either - it merely funded research there that would have been illegal in the US.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (I2/tG)

You missed the part where we trained some of their staff.

Posted by: Romeo13, at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (oHd/0)

113
Is Reality not positioning Spendthrift Senile Joe for success?

Why this is an outrage!!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (OMayC)

114 Then why did it take until year 2 of Biden's administration?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (LvTSG)

They were extended release tariffs.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (UuD2k)

115 "The Covid shutdown is definitely in the top five of the most stupid acts ever committed by mankind since the start of civilization."

Hold my beer and watch this...

Posted by: LETTING THEM GET AWAY with the Covid shutdown for two years. at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (OzNIz)

116 Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (x6uUk)

Dunno how you did not fly into a rage and strangle the ever living fuck out of them.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (OZtA4)

117 103 The Covid shutdown is definitely in the top five of the most stupid acts ever committed by mankind since the start of civilization.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (XntMs)
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Now, now, it's only stupid if you want civilization to do something other than get rid of the Trump administration.

Posted by: Revenant at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (LRhmV)

118
Did oil peak yesterday?

Heating Oil in MA/NH down from $5.19/gal yesterday to $4.79 today.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (aGUIs)

119 111 Gee, Fox has their Uke strategy map up again, everybody drawing lines on it. If he was still with us, they'd have Don Madden.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 10, 2022 01:55 PM (lz5hY)


You mean John Madden?
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)

=========

Are you implying that John Madden wasn't a mafia boss?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (LvTSG)

120 Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (v72l5)

121 The Fed is a day late and a dollar short. I blame every administration since 2008. I think that last increase was in 2006.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (XntMs)

...

Imagine the debt if we had been paying 5% interest on the debt all those years.

But yeah there is no unwinding it now I don't think.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (z9npv)

122 Well, I'm going to do it, I'm going to buy that 392 Wrangler Rubicon before my moneys worth less, since I won't be financing it, I won't have to deal with high interest rates.

And I don't give a sh*t, I'm going to MOAB this year.

Going into YOLO, Julie Andrew's with dual uzis, zero f**ks to give mode.

They are intent on murdering us, destroying everything we've built, so before they do that one last road trip is in order.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (vdlzX)

123 I fear the day that one of The Powers That Be says to an underling " that "ace" fellow, shut down his internet, he vexes me". I know, crazy talk.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (Vr12I)

124 You better buy your Brandon "I did that!" stickers now, before the price doubles.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (a3Q+t)

125 Do girls wear skirts anymore?

I think the equivalent question for today is "are yoga pants getting tighter?"
Posted by: mikeski at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (P1f+c)

Yoga pants should be a privilege, not a right...

/looks at all the obese womenz in the grocery store...

Posted by: Romeo13, at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (oHd/0)

126 Why does one want 'steam' in a laundry machine? Is there something I'm missing? What's up with this steam stuff?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (zWpOF)

127 I think we are adding a 40% margin to our numbers right now. It's anybody's guess.

The one contractor who bid has an excellent reputation, so we are sitting down with them and seeing how the building could be modified to knock a couple of million off the construction cost.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM (I2/tG)

128 At this point, the only way we're undoing this damage is with a massive recession/depression, high interest rates, and a the immediate defenestration of any and all printing presses.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM (EFCmt)

129 $1.25 still better than $2.50 you pay in non discount retail stores. Customers aren't supporting you. They have no alternative.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM (XntMs)

130 Inflation...


Reuters: More pain is coming.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM (LAKVm)

131 82 We have local seniors who can't make ends meet between the gas prices and inflation.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (nkAm6)

___

I call bullshit on that. SS checks last year increased by 5.9% for 2022. Which is higher than virtually everyone who's working (outside govt of course).

Only thing slightly less pathetic than FOR THE CHILDREN is BUT THE SENIORS.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM (OalnH)

132 I'm looking forward to the average gas price in the country going down 20 cents from its high, still over $2 from the average under Trump, and the media fellating Biden for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM (LvTSG)

133
=========

Are you implying that John Madden wasn't a mafia boss?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (LvTSG)


I assumed it was a telestrator joke, for which John Madden was famous for drawing graffiti all over during broadcasts.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

134 Do girls wear skirts anymore?

I think the equivalent question for today is "are yoga pants getting tighter?"
Posted by: mikeski at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (P1f+c)

I'm sure Joe Mannix can line up a picture of a girl in a short skirt.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM (eGTCV)

135 111 Yeah, what was I thinking or typing?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (lz5hY)

136 106 Our stock is soon to be the top on Wall Street.
Posted by: Yankee Candle at March 10, 2022 01:56 PM (9Y010)

I TOLD YOU we'd make a come back!

Posted by: New England Buggy Whip Company at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (oHd/0)

137 Listen here, living with inflation is something that a lot of people are going to have to do if they want to see real financial growth in these times. These times are now, and now is the time that isn't before. And now is the time that is happening before the future. And let me say the future is important because the future hasn't happened yet. The future won't happen until after what happens now. So now is the time to make a difference.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (6Livg)

138 133 I assumed it was a telestrator joke, for which John Madden was famous for drawing graffiti all over during broadcasts.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

========

Probably was, but I took it a new, hilarious direction and you dropped the ball, man. Dropped it like it was hot.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (LvTSG)

139 I'm gobsmacked someone on CNBC called out the Biden junta for their several inflation excuses.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (VCz/u)

140 You mean John Madden?

Nah, Don Martin, from Mad Magazine. The lines wouldn't have anything to do with the war but they'd be hilarious and uplifting.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (KZzsI)

141 Wait, aren't both gas and food excluded from inflation calculations?
Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (cUuEU)


The BLS calculates CPI with food and energy, and a "core" CPI without it. The core is useful for longer time periods, since energy and food are both highly volatile and that makes it difficult if you're trying to include inflation in other models. But even if you don't directly include food and energy, long-term increases in food and energy prices will eventually drive up the core CPI so they eventually get included anyways.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (wmDcS)

142 Why does one want 'steam' in a laundry machine? Is there something I'm missing? What's up with this steam stuff?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (zWpOF)



Removes wrinkles.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)

143 High fuel costs lead to high tranport and shipping costs. I'm curious how Amazon handles this. How do they avoid the pressure on shipping charges? Do they raise the cost of a Prime membership? What about their free shipping for orders over $25? Do they raise that to, say $40 orders?

Do they stand pat as long as possible in order to force competitors out of the marketplace?

I'm gonna go with b.

Posted by: Hands at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (786Ro)

144 Remember when Obama used to try to take credit for the economy during the Trump years?
Damn, I miss those days.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (SVUeu)

145 CNBC's Rick Santelli highlights Biden's ever-changing excuses on #Bidenflation.

"First it was transitory, then inflation is good, then we went to corporate greed, now we're at Putin."

--------

Rick left out white supremacy and Trump, but mostly Trump!

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:00 PM (v72l5)

146 My boss.
I really like my job.
Other than that he is a pretty smart guy. We generally don't talk politics.

Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 02:00 PM (x6uUk)

147 The good news is Carson Wendz got a new job. The bad news is it's with the Redskins.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 02:00 PM (2graF)

148 144 Remember when Obama used to try to take credit for the economy during the Trump years?

____

MSM/Dem Rule #1 about the economy

When it's good under a Republican, the previous Democrat is the reason why.

When it's bad under a Democrat, the previous Republican is the reason why.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 02:00 PM (OalnH)

149 122 Well, I'm going to do it, I'm going to buy that 392 Wrangler Rubicon before my moneys worth less, since I won't be financing it, I won't have to deal with high interest rates.

I've got a brand new 400cu displacement engine coming for my H1. Was planning on going to Moab with it in 2023 but that's a pipe dream at this point.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 10, 2022 02:00 PM (EFCmt)

150 Do Biden's handlers tell him the truth or do they hide the truth from him?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh.



They read Doctor Seuss stories to him until he falls asleep.

Then, when they need him to speak, they pump him full of drugs that enable him to briefly read a 'prompter.

Repeat as necessary.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (iJVGX)

151 Another Carter record broken.

Brandon is an all around record setter.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (EjQb2)

152 So, if the evildoers in DC decide to actually devalue the dollar, what would be the best thing to do?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (7bRMQ)

153
I'm sure Joe Mannix can line up a picture of a girl in a short skirt.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM


and a long jacket?

Posted by: Cake at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (DUIap)

154 137 Listen here, living with inflation is something that a lot of people are going to have to do if they want to see real financial growth in these times. These times are now, and now is the time that isn't before. And now is the time that is happening before the future. And let me say the future is important because the future hasn't happened yet. The future won't happen until after what happens now. So now is the time to make a difference.
Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (6Livg)
--
The politics of failure have failed. We must make them work again

Posted by: Kang at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (LRhmV)

155 Klaus Schwab just banned Putin from Davos.

He'll have to surrender now!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (I2/tG)

156 So when do we get to the point where we negotiate being paid twice a day, then run out and buy bread STAT with our rapidly inflating Biden bucks?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (VCz/u)

157 140 Don Martin Cartoon with imbecilic looking surgeon removing the top of Biden's head for a look see.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (lz5hY)

158 People seem to think inflation isn't intentional, that these people are just this incompetent.

Nobody's that incompetent. This isn't rocket surgery, if you print money, it causes inflation. The more you print, the more inflation you get.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2022 02:02 PM (YV6PJ)

159 142 Why does one want 'steam' in a laundry machine? Is there something I'm missing? What's up with this steam stuff?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (zWpOF)


Removes wrinkles.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)

___

Best way to remove wrinkles is turn on the shower at full hot, and hang the shirt/pants in the bathroom for 5 mins. Wrinkles disappear.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 02:02 PM (OalnH)

160 Paul Volcker time.

Posted by: Ronnie Reagan at March 10, 2022 02:02 PM (Qxu49)

161 15 months to flatten All The Things.

Posted by: Brandon Admin, aka Obama 3.0 at March 10, 2022 02:02 PM (786Ro)

162 The one contractor who bid has an excellent reputation, so we are sitting down with them and seeing how the building could be modified to knock a couple of million off the construction cost.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM (I2/tG)

...

Listen to the contractor with a huge helping of salt. They're not on your side, no matter how good they seem to be.

Your design team is still the one defending your interest, though they have no control or ultimately info on the pricing. If you reduce quality of components that can cost much more in the long run. I do know architects who specify stupid expensive things so yeah, sometimes the GC can point those out. But mostly you're going to have to reduce square footage somewhere.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 10, 2022 02:02 PM (z9npv)

163 152 So, if the evildoers in DC decide to actually devalue the dollar, what would be the best thing to do?
-------------
Buy Crypto and ammunition.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (2graF)

164 Imagine the debt if we had been paying 5% interest on the debt all those years.

But yeah there is no unwinding it now I don't think.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (z9npv)

Yes which was the rate in 2007 ( 5.25) but they continued to lower it until it can't be any lower. Definitely should have had some incremental increases beginning 2010 but political pressure for elections is a powerful thing.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (XntMs)

165 161 15 months to flatten All The Things.
Posted by: Brandon Admin, aka Obama 3.0 at March 10, 2022 02:02 PM (786Ro)

15 months to flatten your spirit and the soul of a nation.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (KbCG3)

166 155 Klaus Schwab just banned Putin from Davos.

He'll have to surrender now!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (I2/tG)

That there fella is gonna get hisself killed

#poloniumteatime

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (BgMrQ)

167
Best way to remove wrinkles is turn on the shower at full hot, and hang the shirt/pants in the bathroom for 5 mins. Wrinkles disappear.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 02:02 PM (OalnH)



HOW DARE YOU!!!!!

Posted by: Greta Thundershart at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

168 Just take a look, ah, that's my boy.
Why, he's his daddy's little pride and joy.
The keeper of the keys to my heart.
Now, what's he gonna do with that poison dart?
Just take a look, ah, that's my lad.
Why, I'm in Heaven when he calls me 'Dad.'
He's all in life I'll ever desire.
See how cute, he sets the mailman on fire!
Little rascal, with his tousled hair,
Always seems so full of life.
Tiny footsteps, scampering here and there.
Just see how proudly he carries that knife!

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (RHGPo)

169 2 Weeks to Flatten the Curve

2 Years to Flatten the Working Class

Posted by: Guy Smiley at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (HsAzN)

170 I call bullshit on that. SS checks last year increased by 5.9% for 2022. Which is higher than virtually everyone who's working (outside govt of course).

Only thing slightly less pathetic than FOR THE CHILDREN is BUT THE SENIORS.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM (OalnH)

Higher than govt, too, if you are a working fed (fed got 2.7% for 2021). State and local govt workers would be the only ones with a shot to go that high, and if they did, it was probably blue states with Covid money...

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (exHjb)

171 >>>The BLS calculates CPI with food and energy, and a "core" CPI without it.


You may be interested in the PPI.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (EjQb2)

172 142 Why does one want 'steam' in a laundry machine? Is there something I'm missing? What's up with this steam stuff?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 10, 2022 01:57 PM (zWpOF)

Removes wrinkles.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (Zz0t1)
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Works wonders on Gwyneth Paltrow's front-hole clam.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (v72l5)

173 67- I'm with you Dave. Elective or appointment to office doesn't make one "honorable." It's pretentious and un-American, with more than a hint of a title of nobility. All official correspondence to government officials should begin with, "Hey asshole!"

Posted by: Lieutenant Dan at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (9KXDf)

174 Q: What did communists use for currency before bartering and auctioning people like sex chattel?

A: Cash, credit, gold, etc

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (6Livg)

175 155-

More virgin's blood for everyone else.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (YV6PJ)

176 First it was transitory, then inflation is good, then we went to corporate greed, now we're at Putin.

-
I'm pretty sure it's the Joker or maybe the Penguin.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (FVME7)

177 Another Carter record broken.

*

Someone posted this the other day.

https://tinyurl.com/y3cm3sef

Biden has doubled the gas prices from 1978 when adjusted for inflation using modern dollars.

Spoilers: Gas in 1978 was $2.44

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 02:04 PM (cUuEU)

178 Remember when Obama used to try to take credit for the economy during the Trump years?
Damn, I miss those days.
Posted by: Shooter McGavin


All part of the Democrat/MSM (but I repeat myself) standard narrative.

Bad things that happen during (R) admins are because of the current (R) admin. Bad things that happen during (D) admins are because of the previous (R) admin. Good things that happen during (R) admins are because of the previous (D) admin. And good things that happen during (D) admins are because of the current (D) admin.

Simple, no?

Posted by: mikeski at March 10, 2022 02:04 PM (P1f+c)

179 No, it's short skirts when times are good, long skirts when they aren't.
short skirts in the 1920s, long ones in the 1930s
short skirts in the 1960s, long (maxi) skirts in the 1970s.

of course, now women all wear pants.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:04 PM (5HBd1)

180 This is definitely an exciting time to be alive! We're actually on the verge of ending fossil fuel use. Things may be hard for a bit, but it will be well worth it in the long run.

Posted by: Sid at March 10, 2022 02:04 PM (PTfc7)

181 Oh come on, it's CLEARLY Putin's fault

Posted by: JayInAmes at March 10, 2022 02:04 PM (yGu6h)

182 2008-2016: This is the best the economy can do. Does Trump have a magic wand or something?

2016-2020: Wow this economy is terrible! Everyone has a job. There's little inflation. And outsourcing is way down!

2021-: This is the best the economy can do. No one has a magic wand or anything.

Posted by: A Tranny in a mini at March 10, 2022 02:04 PM (ESjRY)

183 @146
"My boss.
I really like my job.
Other than that he is a pretty smart guy. We generally don't talk politics. --Bosk"

I run a small office and have a no politics rule. One of our building cotenants (lawyer in his 60s) stopped by today to chat about his trip to Palm Beach. Everything was great except the golf course was across the street from "That Idiot's house." Otherwise a perfectly reasonable guy. But it never ceases to amaze me how in the Bright Blue areas (wealthy Westchester NY town) they just assume everyone has terminal TDS. Welp. Going upstate later today to clear my head...

Posted by: Zek at March 10, 2022 02:05 PM (OzNIz)

184 Building back better!

This is GRRRRRREAT!

HONK HONK.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 10, 2022 02:05 PM (B+KRM)

185
Removes wrinkles.
Posted by: Sponge
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The Gwyneth Paltrow jokes almost write themselves. I sense a 'steamed clam' crossover meme.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2022 02:05 PM (GBHAb)

186 143 High fuel costs lead to high tranport and shipping costs. I'm curious how Amazon handles this. How do they avoid the pressure on shipping charges? Do they raise the cost of a Prime membership? What about their free shipping for orders over $25? Do they raise that to, say $40 orders?

Do they stand pat as long as possible in order to force competitors out of the marketplace?

I'm gonna go with b.
Posted by: Hands at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (786Ro)

Amazon announced a $20/yearly increase in Prime membership to start this year...they'll probably try to wait til next year to put in another one...

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 02:05 PM (exHjb)

187 I don't have to drive. Just filled up and I'll put the trickle charger on. My brother drives over an hour each way to work and he's cheap as shit. This may finally force him to retire.

Posted by: dartist at March 10, 2022 02:05 PM (+ya+t)

188 Posted by: Sid at March 10, 2022 02:04 PM (PTfc7)

========

How many people's lives are you willing to end to see the end of fossil fuels?

Also...how do you make an electric car without oil?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:05 PM (LvTSG)

189 160 Paul Volcker time.
Posted by: Ronnie Reagan at March 10, 2022 02:02 PM (Qxu49

No can do...

System can't handle rates @ 2%, no less 12%

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 02:05 PM (BgMrQ)

190 @149

>>I've got a brand new 400cu displacement engine coming for my H1. Was planning on going to Moab with it in 2023 but that's a pipe dream at this point.

Ah come on, let's go, do you know what kind of adventure a fully loaded H1 and 392 can get into at MOAB?

I know decorum dictates against it but ** Jeep Wave **

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 10, 2022 02:05 PM (vdlzX)

191 Helen Thomas walked into a sauna one time and vanished.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:05 PM (6Livg)

192 "Klaus Schwab just banned Putin from Davos."

if Putin was ever to use a tactical nuke, I can't think of a better target. or maybe just a MOAB

Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (Cus5s)

193 >>This is definitely an exciting time to be alive! We're actually on the verge of ending fossil fuel use. Things may be hard for a bit, but it will be well worth it in the long run.


Suddenly. Kurt has competition.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (lhr6a)

194 Not to mention the shrinking sizes of items.

But it's all the Russian's fault!

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (GbPPJ)

195 Eight months until November.

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (6eRlp)

196 They do not even include food and gas in the inflation numbers, do they? Made the number look too big- so they just stopped counting it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (dNqv+)

197 >The left: We must raise the price of gas to save the ERF!

After the left assumes office the price of gas goes up

The FNM: What a shock that the price of gas has gone up. Must be that Trump's fault.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 01:48 PM (ESjRY)

Right. Brandon's first action as Executive was to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. Then they get away with gaslighting the lofos with the idea that they had nothing to do with this pain.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (L9uv7)

198 I have a strange itchy feeling in my fartclam.

Posted by: Admiral Rachel Levine at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (sWM8x)

199 Apparently, some economically illiterate lefty doofus named Thom Geier that writes for, get this, "The Wrap", which I guess decided that putting Fish in their title might hit too close to the truth, says that "Watch Fox News Peter Doocey get schooled by Jen Psaki on how pipelines work!"

He then proceeds to show why Jen Psaki is a complete economic imbecile by suggesting - "haw haw - pipelines don't produce oil, peter! we're already getting that oil - haw haw!" Except that pipelined oil is fucking way cheaper than that same oil being tankered around the world to a Houston port

Posted by: Boswell at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (5iUNf)

200 Isn't there a famous econ story about the cost of a sandwich v/ the cost of a roll with hooker in Greece?

. . .

Posted by: garrett


[2015 article] Young Greek women are selling sex for the price of a sandwich as six years of painful austerity have pushed the European country to the financial brink, a new study showed Friday.

. . .

"Some women just do it for a cheese pie, or a sandwich they need to eat because they are hungry."

Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (iJVGX)

201 That's because there was no COLA during the previous spike. I hate to break it to you but folks on SS don't get to write themselves an increase. And if you think it's easy living on less than $1700 a month, I got news for you. This is the worst possible time to be on a fixed income.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (5HBd1)

202 They tell him the truth, pudding for breakfast, pudding for lunch, go out for ice cream later, now read this...

Posted by: Lieutenant Dan at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (9KXDf)

203 Yeah Sid. It will be difficult for the next 20 years or so, will have little to no impact on the climate, and then you will be complaining about rare earth minerals

Posted by: Tofer732 at March 10, 2022 02:07 PM (rqNiX)

204 Just found out my Congressional district was modified, and now it looks like that fuckface Fred Upton might be my new GOP candidate.

Going to have to vote against the prick this primary. He has been there too long.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 10, 2022 02:07 PM (Qxu49)

205 How many people's lives are you willing to end to see the end of fossil fuels?

Also...how do you make an electric car without oil?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:05 PM (LvTSG)

Your bones will pave the way to the future!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2022 02:07 PM (dNqv+)

206 >> I have a strange itchy feeling in my fartclam.


Restless Fartclam is a known complication for Covid survivors.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 02:07 PM (lhr6a)

207 Never mind short skirts. Bring on the Nair ads and short shorts.

Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2022 02:07 PM (6eRlp)

208 Assuming there isn't another cheat in November, all I want congress to do is document the election theft in 2020.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 02:08 PM (5kI0z)

209 "This is definitely an exciting time to be alive! We're actually on the verge of ending fossil fuel use."

Could be true if the Imbecile In Chief touches off WWIII.

Posted by: Zek at March 10, 2022 02:08 PM (OzNIz)

210 179-

Eh, what's this "women" thing of which you speak? -

- 4th Generation Feminists

Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2022 02:08 PM (YV6PJ)

211 205 Your bones will pave the way to the future!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2022 02:07 PM (dNqv+)

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That sounds like something a totalitarian with genocidal impulses would say.

Probably just a coincidence.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:08 PM (LvTSG)

212 166 155 Klaus Schwab just banned Putin from Davos.

He'll have to surrender now!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (I2/tG)

That there fella is gonna get hisself killed

#poloniumteatime
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 02:03 PM (BgMrQ)
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"Guten Tag, Vlad, mein old friend! Is that an umbrella in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?"

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:08 PM (v72l5)

213 This is the worst possible time to be on a fixed income.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (5HBd1)

I've always loved that phrase "fixed income". Like I could just go turn up my income on the income knob if I needed more money.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 02:08 PM (UuD2k)

214 I'm just waiting for Brandon or one of his flunkies to start telling us how great inflation is cuz the more inflation the more we can pay our debts off to China, etc with cheap, worthless money.

They were talking about this very thing during the Obama Mistake. IRRC Tom Friedman was a big fan of this plan.

Like always...the Dims will tell you their idiotic plans and no matter how long it takes or how contrary to reality that plan is, they're gonna work until they get it.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2022 02:08 PM (OMayC)

215 206 >> I have a strange itchy feeling in my fartclam.


Restless Fartclam is a known complication for Covid survivors.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 02:07 PM (lhr6a)

Long fartclam has many symptoms.

Posted by: Roy at March 10, 2022 02:09 PM (Kpl/y)

216 Sid, take your dick out of Kurt's mouth and let him speak.

Posted by: Zek at March 10, 2022 02:09 PM (OzNIz)

217 But your house is worth a lot!!!!

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:09 PM (6Livg)

218 212 166 155 Klaus Schwab just banned Putin from Davos.

If he would only ban Justin Trudeau.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 02:09 PM (eGTCV)

219 >>This is definitely an exciting time to be alive! We're actually on the verge of ending fossil fuel use. Things may be hard for a bit, but it will be well worth it in the long run.


Suddenly. Kurt has competition.

--

I'd like to see a cage match of stupidity. I don't know who would win.

Simp's very happy to imagine life without oil (yet nothing even remotely close to take up that slack is available). It's like getting rid of every food humans eat...long before figuring out what your next food source will be. One that will feed 7 billion people.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 02:09 PM (sVtYq)

220 Klaus Schwab just banned Putin from Davos.

He'll have to surrender now!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (I2/tG)

I've proposed for a while now that the best way to free ourselves is ny shooting down every f*cking plane flying in and out of Davos. As a bonus, detonate the train station and RPG any vehicles. Oh, and I get first launch at Jay Nordinger.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 10, 2022 02:09 PM (+3ARs)

221 7.9%, who do they think they're fooling?

Posted by: t-bird at March 10, 2022 02:09 PM (KDCRD)

222 That sounds like something a totalitarian with genocidal impulses would say.

Probably just a coincidence.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:08 PM (LvTSG)

IIRC, Galron, TNG.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2022 02:09 PM (dNqv+)

223 I knew that Kamala sock was either ellipses or mannix

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 02:09 PM (Dz6mJ)

224 Ah come on, let's go, do you know what kind of adventure a fully loaded H1 and 392 can get into at MOAB?

I know decorum dictates against it but ** Jeep Wave **
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 10, 2022 02:05 PM (vdlzX)

If I go, it'll be in September when the Hummer Club does it's annual run. I've got the new engine coming this week, installing it April 4th. Then I need to upgrade some more components like the dinky tcase, dinky brakes, add a front locker, and put better underside armor on.

Sad part is that I had all of this done on my old H1 - then a 15 year old in a volvo T-boned me and flipped it over.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 10, 2022 02:09 PM (EFCmt)

225 Half the country is in recession already. Just because some bureaucratic twink and a lying federal reserve slut mendaciously claims we're "technically" not there because of some arbitrary number officially says we're there is total bullshit!

Posted by: Mean Tweets at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (BOJAx)

226 ust found out my Congressional district was modified, and now it looks like that fuckface Fred Upton might be my new GOP candidate.

Consider yourself lucky. The last time they did that to me I ended up with Ayanna Pressley.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (SVUeu)

227 I've always loved that phrase "fixed income". Like I could just go turn up my income on the income knob if I needed more money.

*

Before a certain age you can get another job without putting another source of income at risk, right?

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (cUuEU)

228 Who here got an 8% raise over the past year?

Yeah, me neither. Enjoy the pay cut!

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

229 43 How can Biden fix anything if nothing is his result?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 01:48 PM (eGTCV)


^ THIS!!!!!

Brandon says his "plans" to reduce unemployment and increase wages and boost yada yada yada, are working! Just take a look at these multi-coloresd charts that prove it!

All Brandon and the Junta have done is spend tons of borrowed money on Progressive dream projects. Child Tax Credits, extended COVID unemployment benefits, buying millions of doses to give away to sh!thole countries around the world, and so on. The Junta has not done a damned thing to bring manufacturing back to the US, or to boost steel, oil, electricity, textile, or mining production in the US. Because he and The Junta have never had concrete plans for any of that.

Brandon will soon be touting the start of a bunch of infrastructure projects that he'll claim all the credit for, from the bill passed and signed last autumn. But he really didn't care about infrastructure other than building a half-zillion EV charging stations across the country. The only economic plan he has is destroying the petroleum sector.

Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (AMIL/)

230 219 Simp's very happy to imagine life without oil (yet nothing even remotely close to take up that slack is available). It's like getting rid of every food humans eat...long before figuring out what your next food source will be. One that will feed 7 billion people.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 02:09 PM (sVtYq)

=======

Well, there is something.

Nuclear could probably get us relatively close.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (LvTSG)

231 OMFG!
Reporter: VP Harris, is the US going to help with Ukrainian refugees? President Duda, are you going to ask the US to take more refugees?

Kamala: A friend in need is a friend, indeed! Cackle!

What the fuck is wrong with her?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (qnVBz)

232 Nah, Don Martin, from Mad Magazine. The lines wouldn't have anything to do with the war but they'd be hilarious and uplifting.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (KZzsI)

Dawk!

Posted by: Karbuncle at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (7bRMQ)

233 But your house is worth a lot!!!!
Posted by: ...
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Two words: Reverse Mortgages.

Posted by: Tom Selleck at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (bk3Sg)

234 hahaha, I forgot about the "wave a magic wand" that Trump didn't have.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (cUuEU)

235 The Babylon Bee
@TheBabylonBee
Replying to @TheBabylonBee
Thanks to the fact-checkers at @USATODAY who have pointed out that this story [about Biden selling Alaska back to Russia] is satire. We would like to retract it, as we now realize it is false and was entirely made up.

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Lying bastards and thank you, USATODAY, for alerting us to this fake news.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (FVME7)

236 Technically, no one is supposed to live on just their Social Security, just as no one is expected to buy all their food with food stamps. Both were intended as supports, not full replacements, for income, but here we are...

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (exHjb)

237 4 The facts at the individual level are just too damning to save this presidency. It's going to take a whole lot of cheating.
____________

Not to worry.

We've got it covered!

Posted by: Dominion Voting Systems at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (k4dH2)

238 What you don't hear from anyone in the government is how to fix or reverse this worsening situation.

That alone is proof it's a desired outcome, not some oopsie!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (LKTKP)

239 228 Who here got an 8% raise over the past year?

Yeah, me neither. Enjoy the pay cut!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (DU+/6)

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Dolley got a 3.5% raise. She was excited.

I mentioned inflation. She said, "Better than the .5% I got last year."

That's...debatable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (LvTSG)

240 Going to have to vote against the prick this primary. He has been there too long.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 10, 2022 02:07 PM (Qxu49)


Forget too long, you should do it just because of the intestine shaped light bulbs he forced on us.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (CYEwl)

241 228 Who here got an 8% raise over the past year?

Yeah, me neither. Enjoy the pay cut!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (DU+/6)

But look at the roaring economy!

*economy gives a sickly cough*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (dNqv+)

242 I've always loved that phrase "fixed income". Like I could just go turn up my income on the income knob if I needed more money.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 02:08 PM (UuD2k)

Hell it works for the Federal Government - why shouldn't it work for me too?

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (EFCmt)

243 Sid, you're a moron, and not the good kind.

We're not on "on the verge of ending fossil fuel use", it's simply being made more expensive. btw, this is going to cause revolutions. Remember the "Arab Spring" in 2008, the last time oil prices were this high? That wasn't just about political changes, it was helped brought about because food prices (which are linked to oil/energy prices) made food so expensive in places like Egypt, which had 80% increases in food prices almost overnight.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (Rl7KJ)

244 I've always loved that phrase "fixed income". Like I could just go turn up my income on the income knob if I needed more money.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 02:08 PM (UuD2k)

...

Rising interest rates will actually some of the fixed income crowd a bit better return.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (z9npv)

245 CNBC's Rick Santelli highlights Biden's ever-changing excuses on #Bidenflation.

"First it was transitory, then inflation is good, then we went to corporate greed, now we're at Putin."

++++
Someone will be contacting his to fix his attitude.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (DU+/6)

246 Probably was, but I took it a new, hilarious direction and you dropped the ball, man. Dropped it like it was hot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM


Bonus points awarded for not mentioning Prometheus.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (a3Q+t)

247 This is definitely an exciting time to be alive! We're actually on the verge of ending fossil fuel use. Things may be hard for a bit, but it will be well worth it in the long run.




You're pretty stupid. How do you remember to breathe?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (Zz0t1)

248 236 Technically, no one is supposed to live on just their Social Security, just as no one is expected to buy all their food with food stamps. Both were intended as supports, not full replacements, for income, but here we are...

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (exHjb)

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Technically, Social Security was supposed to be a temporary program.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (LvTSG)

249 FWEE UKWAINE!

Posted by: LITTLE KAMALA at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (786Ro)

250 and somehow we came up with a stupid fucking number of $14 billion to help the Ukes. I hope they bought a lot of Hunter's paintings for that kind of mooola. I kind of hope they get their pants shitted by high inflation too.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (ZZK0E)

251 Nuclear could probably get us relatively close.

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Sure. But we all know they are just as against that as they are *cue scary music* fossil fuel.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (sVtYq)

252 Who here got an 8% raise over the past year?

*

Is there a name for when there's little or no growth but massive inflation?

/

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (cUuEU)

253 >Klaus Schwab just banned Putin from Davos.

He'll have to surrender now!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (I2/tG)

Was he petting a white Persian cat in his lap when he made the pronouncement?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (L9uv7)

254 Klaus Schwab just banned Putin from Davos.

He'll have to surrender now!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 10, 2022 02:01 PM (I2/tG)


Putin, you can't let them get away with insulting you like that.

Just nuke Davos. That'll teach those smart guys for laughing at you!!!!

Or are you a little punk like that Klaus Schwab says?

*walks away whistling*

Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (OMayC)

255 246
Bonus points awarded for not mentioning Prometheus.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (a3Q+t)

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I considered it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (LvTSG)

256 Think about it...$14 billion is 2 aircraft carriers and maybe a couple of destroyers. What fucking clown world bullshit is this?

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (ZZK0E)

257 Dolley got a 3.5% raise. She was excited.

I mentioned inflation. She said, "Better than the .5% I got last year."

That's...debatable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (LvTSG)

Ask her what she is going to do with the increase to her chocolate ration.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2022 02:13 PM (dNqv+)

258 You worked your entire life and paid a tax for the promise of receiving guaranteed retirement income at 65

Reaches 65

Oh, you are still making money? Yeah... you can't receive the benefits you paid for.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 02:13 PM (qnVBz)

259 "US inflation soared 7.9% in past year"

7.9% ? LOLOLOL!!!


That was a joke, right?

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2022 02:13 PM (MxEKc)

260 What the fuck is wrong with her?
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Hindoo Jamaican raised in Canada by college professors. Throw a dart.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 02:13 PM (2graF)

261 251 Nuclear could probably get us relatively close.

--

Sure. But we all know they are just as against that as they are *cue scary music* fossil fuel.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (sVtYq)

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I learned today that 55% of SC is powered by nuclear. Nothing built since the late 80s, of course. But still. It feels like a pretty solid hedge against rising oil and natural gas prices.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:13 PM (LvTSG)

262 Didn't Pelosi tell us that $1500 was peanuts when Trump offered the middle class some relief? Is it still a pittance now that democrats are stealing $1500 from everyone? I get so confused. I'm not an economist, like AOC.

Posted by: red speck at March 10, 2022 02:13 PM (gS3OW)

263 Dolley got a 3.5% raise. She was excited.

I mentioned inflation. She said, "Better than the .5% I got last year."

That's...debatable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (LvTSG)
++++
Yeah, it is. 3.5% this year is less of a real loss than 0.5% last year, since inflation is not running 6.5x faster this year than last year.

But there's a YUGE problem at my company, in a peer division (we do the same work, but for different product lines) that is much bigger than mine. They estimate attrition to double if the minimum raise for everyone who's better than a chair-warmer isn't in the neighborhood of 5.5%. The bean counters are panicking.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:13 PM (DU+/6)

264 Because people used to get pensions. Then they decided we should all go with 401ks. And for people working in low paying jobs, none of it amounts to anything. And yes, SNAP is a supplemental benefit.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:13 PM (5HBd1)

265 I know we don't do math here but 5.9% increase of SS is less than 7.2% inflation right? Also a 5.9% increase of the average monthly SS of $1565 is $93 a month. WhooHooo! Jackpot !!!!

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 02:13 PM (XntMs)

266 Right. Brandon's first action as Executive was to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. Then they get away with gaslighting the lofos with the idea that they had nothing to do with this pain.

The main argument I see on social media from left-tards right now is that Keystone wasn't done when Biden cancelled it so it has no effect on gas prices.

Its part of a general trick the left has done with energy prices forever;

In good times: We shouldn't increase energy supply now because we don't need it.

In bad times: We shouldn't increase energy supply now because it won't fix the problem NOW.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 02:14 PM (ESjRY)

267 by isolating Putin from the decadent, inflation ridden West and their hoardes of demographic changing immigrants, they're only creating a super block of the countries that actually produce our iphones and gas and who buy our (soon to no longer be) reserve currency.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:14 PM (ZZK0E)

268 Before a certain age you can get another job without putting another source of income at risk, right?
Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (cUuEU)

Depends on your job. Certain feds are allowed no additional jobs, or they get fired. Same goes for many other professions in the public and private sector.

Those folks' incomes are "as fixed" as seniors are...since technically both could toss their streams in full and go out and try for something different...

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 02:14 PM (exHjb)

269 Klaus Schwab looks like a Bond villain.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 10, 2022 02:14 PM (SVUeu)

270 I learned today that 55% of SC is powered by nuclear. Nothing built since the late 80s, of course. But still. It feels like a pretty solid hedge against rising oil and natural gas prices.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:13 PM (LvTSG)

Russia also controls something like 40% of the worlds uranium.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 02:14 PM (UuD2k)

271 oh great, push Putin into league with China, Saudis, Iran, India, and Mexico.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:14 PM (ZZK0E)

272 Is there a name for when there's little or no growth but massive inflation?

/
Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (cUuEU)


Hmmm, let's see...

Stag...Stag...Stagflation, that's it!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 02:14 PM (BgMrQ)

273 256 Think about it...$14 billion is 2 aircraft carriers and maybe a couple of destroyers. What fucking clown world bullshit is this?
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It'd be cheaper to invest in orbital lift capability to place Rods from God over China/Russia 24 hours a day.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 02:15 PM (2graF)

274 The main argument I see on social media from left-tards right now is that Keystone wasn't done when Biden cancelled it so it has no effect on gas prices.

*

Weren't there hundreds of simultaneous lawsuits related to the oil and gas field, too?

I'm guessing those are still going on.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 02:15 PM (cUuEU)

275 Technically, Social Security was supposed to be a temporary program.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (LvTSG)


Oh I'm sure it will be. I turn 65 in about 8 weeks so I'm expecting in about 7 weeks the powers that be will say sorry, that program was sadly temporary.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 10, 2022 02:15 PM (CYEwl)

276 This busty bikini blonde is upset because her first trip to the beach is also her last because she can't afford the gas or anything else:
https://is.gd/s9KxvJ

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:15 PM (DU+/6)

277 >>>Not to mention the shrinking sizes of items.

But it's all the Russian's fault!

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (GbPPJ)

The economy was in the pool! It was in the POOL!!!

Posted by: Joey Biden at March 10, 2022 02:15 PM (QYPq3)

278 Klaus Schwab just banned Putin from Davos.

Can we just nuke Davos? That would solve so many problems.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 02:15 PM (ZGrMX)

279 I remember watching SF dystopias from the 60s-80s, and the villains always seemed cartoony and over the top.

Then I see Klaus Schwab, George Soros and Tony Fauci and suddenly I see how dead on they were.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 02:15 PM (ESjRY)

280 They have been spewing out free money for years. It took a long time for it to finally catch up to us. And needed a shortage of supply (but with people still having free money) to get going.

PS All the federal money going to the cities is going to dry up - they aren't collecting taxes on parking like normal and people will stop paying income to some cities because they worked from home in another area.

the sh!+ has been hitting the fan for a while now and its hard to keep blaming the smell on the dog.

Posted by: Hello anyone home? at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (M0QqG)

281 248 236 Technically, no one is supposed to live on just their Social Security, just as no one is expected to buy all their food with food stamps. Both were intended as supports, not full replacements, for income, but here we are...

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (exHjb)

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Technically, Social Security was supposed to be a temporary program.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:12 PM (LvTSG)

It is - I won't be getting it, neither will my kids or theoretical grandkids...

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (exHjb)

282 Klaus Schwab looks like a Bond villain.

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Klaus Schwab needs a date with the Driller Killer.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (sVtYq)

283 Russia also controls something like 40% of the worlds uranium.
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Hillary helped. For a kickback.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (2graF)

284 Right. Brandon's first action as Executive was to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. Then they get away with gaslighting the lofos with the idea that they had nothing to do with this pain.

The main argument I see on social media from left-tards right now is that Keystone wasn't done when Biden cancelled it so it has no effect on gas prices.
Posted by: 18-1

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this is an important point. Gas is going up because WE DEVALUED THE DOLLAR. It'd be helpful to look at a chart of american gas prices for the last 30 years.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (ZZK0E)

285 Forget too long, you should do it just because of the intestine shaped light bulbs he forced on us.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 10, 2022 02:11 PM (CYEwl)

That too.
I learned a while back he comes from old money.
I think Whirlpool, which is headquartered in Benton Harbor.
Either that or old Upjohn, out of Kalamazoo.

Time to look it up.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (Qxu49)

286 Depends on your job. Certain feds are allowed no additional jobs, or they get fired. Same goes for many other professions in the public and private sector.

Not if your name sounds like Fanthony Auci.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (qnVBz)

287 Stag...Stag...Stagflation, that's it!
Posted by: browndog

*

Oooh, that's catchy! And sounds cool! Everyone will like it!

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (cUuEU)

288 I know a (Greek) girl who lives on the hill
she won't do it, but for a sammich,
her sister will!

Posted by: Zorba at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (lhr6a)

289 If you thought Kamala had plumbed the depths of banality, here she is as we teeter on the brink of WWIII.

Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
I'm standing, here, in front of you, at a podium, at an event, reading my notes, looking at you, the audience, who's also in this room, right here, with me, in this place.

https://bit.ly/3MEvPLi

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (FVME7)

290 82 We have local seniors who can't make ends meet between the gas prices and inflation.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (nkAm6)

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I call bullshit on that. SS checks last year increased by 5.9% for 2022. Which is higher than virtually everyone who's working (outside govt of course).

Only thing slightly less pathetic than FOR THE CHILDREN is BUT THE SENIORS.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 01:58 PM (OalnH)
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How much do seniors get from Social Security? I honestly don't have any idea. My elderly neighbors are moving to Florida to cut costs, as are so many people of all ages, but they specifically mentioned fixed incomes not keeping up.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (mcCnG)

291 >Bring on the Nair ads and short shorts.
Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2022 02:07 PM (6eRlp)

You didn't see ace's recent post about the latest trends in Zoomer women grooming, did you?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (L9uv7)

292 The next Putin outrage is Russian Running Shoes.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (2graF)

293 Soup went from $1.50 to $2. That's not a jump of 1.4 percent.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (p+1gI)

294 263 But there's a YUGE problem at my company, in a peer division (we do the same work, but for different product lines) that is much bigger than mine. They estimate attrition to double if the minimum raise for everyone who's better than a chair-warmer isn't in the neighborhood of 5.5%. The bean counters are panicking.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:13 PM (DU+/6)

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Both Dolley and I work in industries that are pretty resilient to economic pressures (she works for a bank, I work for a software company that handles financial software for utilities), and our monthly income has risen far higher than our steadily decreasing fixed costs (mostly because we paid off the student loans and could probably just pay off the rest of our car in cash right now if we wanted). We're pretty well protected from what's going on, so this stuff is affecting us but at a fairly minimal level. I'm thankful for that.

So, this ends up being an academic exercise in my mind. At least for the near future. It could always grow far out of control if left unchecked.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (LvTSG)

295 Bring on the Nair ads
Posted by: mrp at March 10, 2022 02:07 PM


We are not in favor of this.

Posted by: Carpet Devotees at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (a3Q+t)

296 After Kamala's visit, Polish people will be telling dumb American jokes for generations.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (UuD2k)

297 Oh I'm sure it will be. I turn 65 in about 8 weeks so I'm expecting in about 7 weeks the powers that be will say sorry, that program was sadly temporary.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 10, 2022 02:15 PM (CYEwl)
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Nah, Social Security is okay for now. They'll try to get everyone born before 1955 all the way through before they start cutting it significantly, and get all of the Boomers through before they cut it to the bone. The older Xers will get something. The younger Xers and those that came after will likely get very little. We'll get something, to be sure, but it won't be much and it won't matter.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (DU+/6)

298 276 This busty bikini blonde is upset because her first trip to the beach is also her last because she can't afford the gas or anything else:
https://is.gd/s9KxvJ

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:15 PM (DU+/6)


Joe, you always bring the happy thoughts!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (LKTKP)

299 I did get a big raise, because I haven't had a raise in two years and they thought there was a chance I might just quit.


It is about time for someone to complain that the Boomers won't just retire and free up those jobs. I'd like to do that, but this does not look like a good time to retire.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (5HBd1)

300 It hasn't. That's why Brandon is trying to get Iranian Terrorist Oil back on the market. That will add over 1 million barrels a day to supply. He doesn't want that sweet American oil he's killed to rise up again.
Posted by: Marcus T at March 10, 2022 01:50 PM (nkAm6)
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Only it won't be easy for them to do so. Estimates it will take them about a year to pick up about 500,000 a day. Venezuela is worse. And the Saudi's already have told Biden to get fucked. They are busy working with the Israelis to take out Iran's nuclear works as soon as the new Iranian deal ... ahem ... is signed.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (LyTO1)

301 Maybe Schwab could ban everyone but Putin and Brandon's aviators.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (eGTCV)

302 Hey, remember all those "Free Tibet" bumper stickers we all saw for decades? Decades when nobody in the world did fuck-all to help the Tibetans?

Hmmm, what's the difference between Chy-Nah vs. Tibet and Russia vs. Ukraine?

*The sudden realization that Chy-Nah has owned the world's politicians since the 70s*

Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (iJVGX)

303 Stag...Stagflation

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To the tune of Rock Lobster.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (FVME7)

304 This is actually a pretty good time to be on a fixed income. In the past couple months, I've been offered jobs. Now, I turned down the offers because, due to health, there's times where I wouldn't be able to report for work. Also, I'm comfortable with my income. There are a lot of ways out there where a person could supplement their income without screwing up benefits.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (lz5hY)

305 If it tightens credit too aggressively this year, it risks undercutting the economy and possibly triggering a recession.

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Undercutting the economy? Isn't that the current plan of this administration?

Posted by: Orson at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (N+V0i)

306 279 I remember watching SF dystopias from the 60s-80s, and the villains always seemed cartoony and over the top.

Then I see Klaus Schwab, George Soros and Tony Fauci and suddenly I see how dead on they were.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 02:15 PM (ESjRY)

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Ayn Rand seemed to understand the ridiculousness of end stage bureaucrats on the edge of collapse pretty damn well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (LvTSG)

307 >>This busty bikini blonde is upset because her first trip to the beach is also her last because she can't afford the gas or anything else:
https://is.gd/s9KxvJ


I would like to buy her a cheese pie.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (lhr6a)

308 I'm standing, here, in front of you, at a podium, at an event, reading my notes, looking at you, the audience, who's also in this room, right here, with me, in this place.
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She could probably qualify as a public school teacher.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (2graF)

309 Whaddya expect foe nuttin? A ruuuuuuubber bieeesscuit???

Posted by: MikeN at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (EGfE5)

310 That line: "Some women do it just for a cheese pie" needs to be made into a meme.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (iJVGX)

311
"Putin is at fault for the inflation" is my favorite new thing.

It's just this war and that lying sonofabitch Goldstein! His machinations are so treacherous.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (SKVme)

312 "Are You Guys Just Gonna Start Blaming Putin For Everything Until the Midterms?" - Peter Doocy Makes a Fool Out of Psaki

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (RHGPo)

313 258 You worked your entire life and paid a tax for the promise of receiving guaranteed retirement income at 65

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here's a shock. The newly imported teeming 3rd world masses DONT CARE about your grandparents. That's whether they're nurses at your dad's nursing home or if they're voting for politicians who set the COLA for social security.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (ZZK0E)

314 After Kamala's visit, Polish people will be telling dumb American jokes for generations.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (UuD2k)

LOL

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (6Livg)

315 @224

>>If I go, it'll be in September when the Hummer Club does it's annual run. I've got the new engine coming this week, installing it April 4th.

I am hoping to do Easter Jeep Safari in April, I would be taking the Jk for that, if all goes as planned I'll get the 392 in May, do some minor mods and get back out to MOAB in late August when my current project ends.

As they say, we shall see.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (vdlzX)

316 Klaus Schwab looks like a Bond villain.


No, Mr Putin, I expect you to cancel your reservations!

Posted by: Schwabfinger at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (786Ro)

317 This inflation was caused by the insurrection of January 6!

Posted by: Liz Cheney at March 10, 2022 02:18 PM (zi+hW)

318 So, this ends up being an academic exercise in my mind. At least for the near future. It could always grow far out of control if left unchecked.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (LvTSG)
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Yeah, at at certain income levels (you exceed them, from what you wrote) this is true. But it is only true for so long. There is still a labor market and a big factor in the "Great Resignation" is dollar-chasing. The salary bands will have to increase or companies will be unable to acquire people. This will happen first in the lower middle incomes, but it will get to everything.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (DU+/6)

319 Why aren't you people setting up Simple Joe for success?

You'd do it for a black woman with zero qualifications!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (oWZwa)

320 253 >Klaus Schwab just banned Putin from Davos.

I sure hope Putin doesn't nuke Davos when all the swells are there. that would be terrible.

Posted by: x at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (uQFwj)

321 And if you think it's easy living on less than $1700 a month, I got news for you. This is the worst possible time to be on a fixed income.

Shit mines less than that. Thank God I don't have to live on that. I wouldn't be eating. Or driving or doing much of anything actually. Existing.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (nxdel)

322 The bean counters are panicking.
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tell thos beeches to shut their holes and tell marketing prices are going up 8% across the board.

Posted by: problem solving at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (L3fzk)

323 Suddenly. Kurt has competition.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (lhr6a)

Dumber. Petroleum is not a fossil fuel. It was never from plants or other living things.

Posted by: Karbuncle at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (7bRMQ)

324 yeah, Joe's been bringing the A-game.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (ZZK0E)

325 The left: We have to print more dollars because of REASONS! Nothing else matters right now!

Also the left: What a shock the price of everything went up when we printed more dollars. I'm sure its coincidental. Also, we need to print more dollars because everything costs more now.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (ESjRY)

326 297 Nah, Social Security is okay for now. They'll try to get everyone born before 1955 all the way through before they start cutting it significantly, and get all of the Boomers through before they cut it to the bone. The older Xers will get something. The younger Xers and those that came after will likely get very little. We'll get something, to be sure, but it won't be much and it won't matter.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (DU+/6)

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And those of use beneath Gen X will never have a choice to not pay into it, even though older generations assure me that I deserve every penny back plus interest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (LvTSG)

327 297 Nah, Social Security is okay for now. They'll try to get everyone born before 1955 all the way through before they start cutting it significantly, and get all of the Boomers through before they cut it to the bone. The older Xers will get something. The younger Xers and those that came after will likely get very little. We'll get something, to be sure, but it won't be much and it won't matter.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (DU+/6)

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And those of us beneath Gen X will never have a choice to not pay into it, even though older generations assure me that I deserve every penny back plus interest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (LvTSG)

328 You haven't even mentioned the inflating of my colon.

Posted by: Kunt, gourd enthusiast at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (I+ZWa)

329 289 If you thought Kamala had plumbed the depths of banality, here she is as we teeter on the brink of WWIII.

Ian Miles Cheong
@stillgray
I'm standing, here, in front of you, at a podium, at an event, reading my notes, looking at you, the audience, who's also in this room, right here, with me, in this place.

https://bit.ly/3MEvPLi
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (FVME7


She's a replicant. Someone showed her a picture of a butterfly.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (LKTKP)

330 the max on SS is roughly $1800 a month. I'm on my late husband's benefits and he worked at the Naval shipyard. He maxed out what he paid in for several years. They take out for Medicare, which is roughly about $100 and you get to pay taxes on your benefits. My first husband's benefit was $500 a month.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (5HBd1)

331 >>it'll be in September when the Hummer Club does i


The First Rule of Hummer Club is that we brag to ALL our friends about being in Hummer Club.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (lhr6a)

332 Ayn Rand seemed to understand the ridiculousness of end stage bureaucrats on the edge of collapse pretty damn well.

Razorfist's new video has a clip from Ayn Rand's last public speech in 1981 that might as well be from 2021. She had all of these peoples' number.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 02:20 PM (ZGrMX)

333 321 And if you think it's easy living on less than $1700 a month, I got news for you. This is the worst possible time to be on a fixed income.

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all you retired people living in your homes, enjoy paying property taxes with that SS money

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:20 PM (ZZK0E)

334
Oh, G-d. Lady YD needs to grocery shop. Here we go. Brandonflation gets her so worked up she's almost crying by the time it's through.

I hate shopping day. She just gets angry and despondent, which is so not her.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 02:20 PM (SKVme)

335 "Mr. Putin, you'll get no exclusive parking space for your private jet; you'll get no Godiva chocolates on the bed pillows of your master suite; you'll get no photo op with Bill Gates or George Soros; you'll get no VIP limousine motorcade to and from special events; you'll get no access to the Epstein Special stable of young Estonian ladies groomed especially for you -- and you'll like it."

- Klaus Schwab

Posted by: red speck at March 10, 2022 02:20 PM (gS3OW)

336 Upton, Whirlpool, 1911

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 10, 2022 02:20 PM (Qxu49)

337 here's a shock. The newly imported teeming 3rd world masses DONT CARE about your grandparents. That's whether they're nurses at your dad's nursing home or if they're voting for politicians who set the COLA for social security.
Posted by: Tim Riggins

*

Yep.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 02:21 PM (cUuEU)

338 332 Ayn Rand seemed to understand the ridiculousness of end stage bureaucrats on the edge of collapse pretty damn well.

Razorfist's new video has a clip from Ayn Rand's last public speech in 1981 that might as well be from 2021. She had all of these peoples' number.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 02:20 PM (ZGrMX)

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I still see her philosophy as cartoonish and simplistic, but I consider her fiction less so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:21 PM (LvTSG)

339 Kamala: I'm standing, here, in front of you, at a podium, at an event, reading my notes, looking at you, the audience, who's also in this room, right here, with me, in this place.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (FVME7)

Translation: Hello

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:21 PM (6Livg)

340 And those of us beneath Gen X will never have a choice to not pay into it, even though older generations assure me that I deserve every penny back plus interest.

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yeah, we're fucked. Our parents hated us and replaced us. and gave our future to them.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:21 PM (ZZK0E)

341 339 Kamala: I'm standing, here, in front of you, at a podium, at an event, reading my notes, looking at you, the audience, who's also in this room, right here, with me, in this place.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (FVME7)

Translation: Hello
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:21 PM (6Livg)

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She is wise like an ent. Or just longwinded like one. Is there a difference?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:22 PM (LvTSG)

342
Joe, you always bring the happy thoughts!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (LKTKP)



And boobs. But more importantly, boobs.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

343 There are a lot of ways out there where a person could supplement their income without screwing up benefits.
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Put your chemistry degree to work for you.

Posted by: Walter White at March 10, 2022 02:22 PM (ovozQ)

344 NO WAY IN HELL WE WERE EVER GOING TO GET 2.5% GDP GROWTH.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 10, 2022 02:22 PM (iDcra)

345 191 Helen Thomas walked into a sauna one time and vanished.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:05 PM (6Livg)

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LOL. I'm imagining nothing left except the black hat of a wicked witch on the floor a la Wizard of Oz.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:22 PM (v72l5)

346 338 332 Ayn Rand seemed to understand the ridiculousness of end stage bureaucrats on the edge of collapse pretty damn well.

Razorfist's new video has a clip from Ayn Rand's last public speech in 1981 that might as well be from 2021. She had all of these peoples' number.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 02:20 PM (ZGrMX)

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I still see her philosophy as cartoonish and simplistic, but I consider her fiction less so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:21 PM (LvTSG)

The villains in her novels are real, unfortunately the heroes are not.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2022 02:22 PM (z5Vrg)

347 305 If it tightens credit too aggressively this year, it risks undercutting the economy and possibly triggering a recession.
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The recession is already here. Its like the Truckers, they're here but no one talks about them.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 02:22 PM (2graF)

348 there was that story from 2011 or so when Invasion Europe started in real earnest where some 3rd world mom with 9 kids popped into a small village somewhere in Gelderland and that caused everyone's taxes to go way up to support her. Then another 100 moms on welfare with 9 kids also showed up.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:23 PM (ZZK0E)

349 I'm amused that a "good" salary in say 1992 isn't considered enough to live on in 2022. Even though, prior to Brandon, we supposedly had basically no inflation.

I can't wait to hear people say they can't feed their kids on six figures by 2025...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 02:23 PM (ESjRY)

350 Kamala: I'm standing, here, in front of you, at a podium, at an event, reading my notes, looking at you, the audience, who's also in this room, right here, with me, in this place.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (FVME7)



Translation: I'm really showing that I suck one mean cock because there's really no other reason I'd reach these heights of my career any other way.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

351 And those of us beneath Gen X will never have a choice to not pay into it, even though older generations assure me that I deserve every penny back plus interest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa

we were saying the same shit 40 years ago. not like we had a fucking choice either.

Posted by: x at March 10, 2022 02:23 PM (uQFwj)

352 "Are You Guys Just Gonna Start Blaming Putin For Everything Until the Midterms?" - Peter Doocy Makes a Fool Out of Psaki

Did he really say that? LMAO!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 10, 2022 02:23 PM (nxdel)

353 The next Putin outrage is Russian Running Shoes.
Posted by: Puddinhead

Orchestras Pull Tchaikovsky From Concerts Over Russia's War on Ukraine

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Pyotr Ilyich has a lot to answer for.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 02:23 PM (FVME7)

354 The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) is a fusion of advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), genetic engineering, quantum computing, and more things that don't involve humans directly.

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 02:23 PM (RHGPo)

355 And those of use beneath Gen X will never have a choice to not pay into it, even though older generations assure me that I deserve every penny back plus interest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (LvTSG)

Just write it off as a tax in your mind...it will feel better.

If somehow you get pennies later, it will be a bonus to toss into a trust for the grandkids...

Although Medicare will actually be worse b/c it's gonna be even more bankrupt, but there, they can "withhold treatments" and effectively death panel folks out. It's why I'm never putting my health in Medicare's basket - that one is worth paying whatever it costs as long as I can pay it...

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 02:23 PM (exHjb)

356
yeah, we're fucked. Our parents hated us and replaced us. and gave our future to them.


Every major decision the US made since 1991 was the wrong one.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 02:24 PM (ESjRY)

357 351 And those of us beneath Gen X will never have a choice to not pay into it, even though older generations assure me that I deserve every penny back plus interest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa

we were saying the same shit 40 years ago. not like we had a fucking choice either.
Posted by: x at March 10, 2022 02:23 PM (uQFwj)

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I think the Amish are allowed to exempt themselves from paying social security taxes. I wonder if there's a way to take advantage of this...Do I have to learn German?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:24 PM (LvTSG)

358 tell thos beeches to shut their holes and tell marketing prices are going up 8% across the board.
Posted by: problem solving at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (L3fzk)

Not that simple.

You raise prices 8%, you're going to lose a certain amount of volume.

Prices will need to go up more like 10%

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 10, 2022 02:24 PM (EFCmt)

359 NO WAY IN HELL WE WERE EVER GOING TO GET 2.5% GDP GROWTH.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 10, 2022 02:22 PM (iDcra)



It would take some kind of magic wand or something.

- - Bacock Hussein Owebama

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

360 Think about it...$14 billion is 2 aircraft carriers and maybe a couple of destroyers. What fucking clown world bullshit is this?
Posted by: Tim Riggins


Sorry, we're beating our dicks against each other too hard to hear you.

Posted by: GE, BEA, Raytheon/ Boing! at March 10, 2022 02:24 PM (zWpOF)

361 A basic loaf a bread in my local grocery store is $1.50 per loaf. That's about a 15% jump from last year. The bread was about $1 per loaf two years ago. That puts inflation at 22% for the past two years.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 10, 2022 02:24 PM (eMEkg)

362 we were saying the same shit 40 years ago. not like we had a fucking choice either.

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this was the standard GOP talking point from 1960 to about 2005. Once Bush the Unwise got reelected he put a lot of effort into doing something but the national media and the cucked bullshit gOPe screwed him out of his only smart plan.

so he switched to Invaison USA.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:24 PM (ZZK0E)

363 all you retired people living in your homes, enjoy paying property taxes with that SS money
Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:20 PM (ZZK0E)

Many states and localities freeze seniors' property taxes at age 65.

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 02:24 PM (exHjb)

364 It is about time for someone to complain that the Boomers won't just retire and free up those jobs. I'd like to do that, but this does not look like a good time to retire.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:17 PM (5HBd1)

I did my part and retired early. I did not expect this crap fest to happen so soon and ruin all my plans.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 02:25 PM (XntMs)

365
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I think the Amish are allowed to exempt themselves from paying social security taxes. I wonder if there's a way to take advantage of this...Do I have to learn German?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:24 PM (LvTSG)



Meh. Just become Lebanon Levi from Amish Mafia and you're in.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

366 And those of us beneath Gen X will never have a choice to not pay into it, even though older generations assure me that I deserve every penny back plus interest.

Most Gen Xers I knew went into things assuming Social Security was fake and gay. That should be everyone's assumption on down.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 02:25 PM (ZGrMX)

367 It is about time for someone to complain that the Boomers won't just retire and free up those jobs.

Or you know, send the illegals and H1Bs home.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 02:25 PM (ESjRY)

368 Many states and localities freeze seniors' property taxes at age 65.
Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 02:24 PM (exHjb)
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They do. They'll change that as they get desperate. I am very pleased my municipality and county have virtually no debt and has been running a balanced budget for the past decade.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:25 PM (DU+/6)

369 354 The 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) is a fusion of advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), genetic engineering, quantum computing, and more things that don't involve humans directly.
Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 02:23 PM (RHGPo)

Speaking as someone who works with machine learning and big data every day...

believe me there's plenty-o-human that goes into it.

Those training datasets don't curate themselves you know.

Posted by: Defenestratus at March 10, 2022 02:25 PM (EFCmt)

370 Brandon's first action as Executive was to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. Then they get away with gaslighting the lofos with the idea that they had nothing to do with this pain.

The main argument I see on social media from left-tards right now is that Keystone wasn't done when Biden cancelled it so it has no effect on gas prices.

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It certainly has an effect on our energy independence in the future. And we used to be energy independent...before Keystone. Trump made it happen. Likewise, Grandpa Mushbrains did cancel leases, which I'm sure had an immediate effect.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 02:25 PM (sVtYq)

371 253 >Klaus Schwab just banned Putin from Davos.

I sure hope Putin doesn't nuke Davos when all the swells are there. that would be terrible.

Posted by: x
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Big, BIG second look at Putin.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (iDcra)

372 366 Most Gen Xers I knew went into things assuming Social Security was fake and gay. That should be everyone's assumption on down.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 02:25 PM (ZGrMX)

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And yet...the SS taxes are still getting taken out of my paycheck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (LvTSG)

373 Kamala: I'm standing, here, in front of you, at a podium, at an event, reading my notes, looking at you, the audience, who's also in this room, right here, with me, in this place.
==
The AI conversation module upgrade was actually a little buggy. It was a rush "upgrade". There were some bad interview moment with ver 1.0. Well, turns out, extemporaneous conversation isn't that easy for a computer program to emulate. Told them we'd have to port it into the AI, but they said the system was maxed out and to run a subroutine emulator on the hard drive.

Posted by: Weyland-Yuntani R & D at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (mwv8V)

374 all you retired people living in your homes, enjoy paying property taxes with that SS money
Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:20 PM (ZZK0E)


Yeah, Texas is awful on that count.

Next Guv will probably be the one who promises to end or severely cut property taxes, once the reality of fixed income in inflationary times really asserts itself in people's minds.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (OMayC)

375 357 Change name to Yoder. Or Mueller.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (lz5hY)

376 There's the old Greek joke about the German couple on a leisurely vacation in Greece. They pull into a charming town and decide to check into a small hotel.

"Certainly sir", says the innkeeper, "but we require the first night up front". So Mein Herr peels off a hundred Euro note and gives it to the hotelman, and then he and his wife go walking off, looking for a lunch spot.

Immediately, the hotel keeper runs over to his meat supplier at the mans farm on the edge of the village and uses the 100 Euros to pay off his longstanding debt.

The farmer gleefully accepts the 100 Euros and immediately walks over to pay off his local hooker, to whom he owed money.

Worried she might spend the money on some frivolity, the hooker runs over toward the hotel, passing the German couple as she ran, and paid off the hotel keeper for past room use. She left satisfied her business was now back in a healthy state.

Just then the vacationers, having changed their mind, walk in and ask for their money back, telling the inn keeper they've decided to push on.

The Germans leave the Greek town behind, now completely solvent.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (mcCnG)

377 Every major decision the US made since 1991 was the wrong one.

Posted by: 18-1

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I'm pretty sure I supported NAFTA on general principles at the time but then 30 years of results showed the libertarian world view that "countries are just economic zones with fungible populations" was bullshit and economies had to be concerned with the nationality issue. Of course, it's weird how globohomo and liberatarians combined to replace the US and European population.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (ZZK0E)

378 344 NO WAY IN HELL WE WERE EVER GOING TO GET 2.5% GDP GROWTH.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at March 10, 2022 02:22 PM (iDcra)

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Leave it to Literally-Hitler, Literally-Stalin, Literally-Mussolini Trump to stumble onto a Literally-Magic Wand in one of those white supremacist Dungeons and Dragons games.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (v72l5)

379
I still see her philosophy as cartoonish and simplistic, but I consider her fiction less so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:21 PM (LvTSG)
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She is a polemicist. She was painting the opposite of the New Soviet Man to demostrate the absurdity of the former. She's a Russian Jew with a thing for German Polemics/Literature (but I repete myself). I quite enjoyed her books. The still sells extremely well. It looks like the New Soviet Man will be replaced by the New Nihilistic Aristocrats.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (2graF)

380 The "Future"? Never heard of it. Got any pix of it?

Posted by: klaftern at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (taPSh)

381 "The peak in inflation will be much higher than previously thought and will arrive later than previously expected."
_________

When will we find other experts to set economic expectations? The guys now doing it are worse than Stan and Ollie.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (R0Tis)

382 372 366 Most Gen Xers I knew went into things assuming Social Security was fake and gay. That should be everyone's assumption on down.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 02:25 PM (ZGrMX)

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And yet...the SS taxes are still getting taken out of my paycheck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (LvTSG)

Well they were robbed, and so the only way they see to make themselves whole is to rob you.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (z5Vrg)

383 Rekieta Law is on Nate the Lawyer livestreaming of Juicey Smollet in Maga Country

If you want some fun today

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (dKiJG)

384 I'm certain inflation is required for whatever they are up to in conjunction with the WEF.

We're in phase two of the great reset.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (LKTKP)

385
Yeah, Texas is awful on that count.

Next Guv will probably be the one who promises to end or severely cut property taxes, once the reality of fixed income in inflationary times really asserts itself in people's minds.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (OMayC)



Texas does lock it in at the rate you are paying when you hit 65, tho. If it ever does lower, you get to lower it, but I don't believe it ever increases.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)

386 Most Gen Xers I knew went into things assuming Social Security was fake and gay. That should be everyone's assumption on down.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 02:25 PM (ZGrMX)


I'm Gen X and my retirement plans are based on not getting SS.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (Ez6QX)

387 So how are they gonna blame Trump ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (J8ILO)

388 Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (OMayC

Your main property tax rate freezes once you reach 65 which is something I guess.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (XntMs)

389 Every major decision the US made since 1991 was the wrong one.

*

Depends on your goals
- the alphabets

Posted by: Moron Robbie - nothing's built, nothing's back, nothing's better at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (lIk+J)

390 And yet...the SS taxes are still getting taken out of my paycheck.

Me too. But unlike my parents I'm not assuming I'll ever see a dime of it.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (ZGrMX)

391 Good.

Keep going....higher and higher baby!



Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (sDz6A)

392 382 And yet...the SS taxes are still getting taken out of my paycheck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (LvTSG)

Well they were robbed, and so the only way they see to make themselves whole is to rob you.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (z5Vrg)

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Seems fari.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (LvTSG)

393 146 My boss.
I really like my job.
Other than that he is a pretty smart guy. We generally don't talk politics.
Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 02:00 PM (x6uUk)

I like my boss too. Though he does hate it when I call him Dick. Especially since his name is Steve.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (N39Ws)

394 Has the media started pronouncing Amish as ah-MEESH?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (eGTCV)

395 And yet...the SS taxes are still getting taken out of my paycheck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (LvTSG)


Twice by the way. Don't for a minute think your boss does does not consider his portion of SS and MC to be part of your cost as an employee.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (CYEwl)

396 we were saying the same shit 40 years ago. not like we had a fucking choice either.

It's what I was taught to expect fifty years ago. Hasn't changed at all.

Posted by: t-bird at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (Lt1JN)

397 Kamala: I'm standing, here, in front of you, at a podium, at an event, reading my notes, looking at you, the audience, who's also in this room, right here, with me, in this place.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 02:16 PM (FVME7)


The video at the bottom of the linked page is worse. Nothing but social justice blather. "Whether we've seen it or not doesn't mean it didn't happen."

So it's the Narrative that counts, huh?

Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (AMIL/)

398 Even before the war further accelerated price increases

The war didn't accelerate price increases. Putin was perfectly happy to go on selling us oil until Brandon cut it off.

Posted by: Methos at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (kOpft)

399 390 And yet...the SS taxes are still getting taken out of my paycheck.

Me too. But unlike my parents I'm not assuming I'll ever see a dime of it.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (ZGrMX)

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It was yours first. Withholding is evil.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:29 PM (LvTSG)

400

The video at the bottom of the linked page is worse. Nothing but social justice blather. "Whether we've seen it or not doesn't mean it didn't happen."

So it's the Narrative that counts, huh?
Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (AMIL/)




FUCK that woman is piss ignorant.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

401 395 And yet...the SS taxes are still getting taken out of my paycheck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (LvTSG)

Twice by the way. Don't for a minute think your boss does does not consider his portion of SS and MC to be part of your cost as an employee.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (CYEwl)

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Yeah, your cost as an employee is about 150% of your salary. That includes their side of SS taxes as well as all the money they put into benefits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:29 PM (LvTSG)

402 Haha! Jenn Psaki is on TV right now saying price increases in gasoline and fuel products are going to be "temporary".

On our way to "good" !!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 02:29 PM (mcCnG)

403 Gen X here. No one believed we'd ever see a dime of SS. They've been talking of insolvency since the 80s.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:30 PM (LKTKP)

404
And yet...the SS taxes are still getting taken out of my paycheck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (LvTSG)

Well they were robbed, and so the only way they see to make themselves whole is to rob you.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (z5Vrg)

Since it was set up as a Ponzi scheme, you'd expect it would work that way...the next investors always pay off the previous ones til you don't have enough new investors coming in - which is where we are right about now-ish...

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 02:30 PM (exHjb)

405 I got 2.5% for an outstanding performance appraisal. First words out of my boss's mouth were "I know this doesn't even come close to the cost of living rise. They are having deep discussions about it in HR"

Fortunately for me a relatively small percentage of my income goes to items affected by inflation. Most payments have a contractually fixed cost (like mortgage).

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 02:30 PM (Dz6mJ)

406 Haha! Jenn Psaki is on TV right now saying price increases in gasoline and fuel products are going to be "temporary".

The earth has what...5 billion years or so until the sun swallows it so..yeah...temporary.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 02:30 PM (ESjRY)

407 402 Haha! Jenn Psaki is on TV right now saying price increases in gasoline and fuel products are going to be "temporary".

On our way to "good" !!
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 02:29 PM (mcCnG)

Everything is temporary depending on your time horizon.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 02:30 PM (N39Ws)

408 They don't freeze the tax. You still get to pay it all, when you sell the house. And maybe property taxes are cheap where you are, but they sure aren't out here.

Oh, and food stamps are run by the states, so the amount you get depends on your state. My cousin gets $10 a month. Out here, single people get $200.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:30 PM (5HBd1)

409 >>> 384 I'm certain inflation is required for whatever they are up to in conjunction with the WEF.

We're in phase two of the great reset.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:27 PM (LKTKP)

Yep. "it will be all better if we control everything"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 02:30 PM (llON8)

410 405 Fortunately for me a relatively small percentage of my income goes to items affected by inflation. Most payments have a contractually fixed cost (like mortgage).
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 02:30 PM (Dz6mJ)

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Are yearly passes to parks being affected by inflation?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:31 PM (LvTSG)

411 Operation Utmost Yarn.


Just planting this stake. Soon.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at March 10, 2022 02:31 PM (kyWWM)

412 My boss.
I really like my job.
Other than that he is a pretty smart guy. We generally don't talk politics.
Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 02:00 PM (x6uUk)

I like my boss too. Though he does hate it when I call him Dick. Especially since his name is Steve.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at March 10, 2022 02:28 PM (N39Ws)


I *did* like my boss. He retired last year. The new guy sucks. He's from Portland.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 02:31 PM (Ez6QX)

413 Most Gen Xers I knew went into things assuming Social Security was fake and gay. That should be everyone's assumption on down.
Posted by: Ian S
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Yep.

Those taxes taken out of your paycheck each week goes directly to those who collect SS now.
Not to fund your own SS nest egg.
Talk about a fairy tale being successful in fooling the rubes.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 02:31 PM (Uc0pL)

414 I decided we should use the Democrat argument about drilling for oil against all the shit they claim to want from now on.

"Sorry, it will take seven years to end racism. Let's not bother."

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:31 PM (6Livg)

415 205 Your bones will pave the way to the future!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2022 02:07 PM (dNqv+)


There was a John Ford western (I think) where an old woman was talking about how wild and dangerous Texas was. "It will take our bones in the ground to make this country tame and bountiful" paraphrase.

And it's a odd phrase, but it stuck with me. It is a generational effort to knock down your worst threats, and leaving the rest, that your children's problems will be lesser. The Pelosi generation has been the opposite of this ... Apres moi le deluge.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2022 02:31 PM (44ww/)

416 Keep this in mind. People actually starved during the Depression. It was a great time for the Lefties in FDR's administration to try out their pet programs. One of those was Social Security. Imagine what sort of fun the Lefties can have with the coming crash.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:32 PM (5HBd1)

417 The Germans leave the Greek town behind, now completely solvent.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 02:26 PM (mcCnG)

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I think that was an example of the "money multiplier effect" we learned about in my macroeconomics class some 30+ years ago.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (v72l5)

418 Those taxes taken out of your paycheck each week goes directly to those who collect SS now.
Not to fund your own SS nest egg.
Talk about a fairy tale being successful in fooling the rubes.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 02:31 PM (Uc0pL)
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It's the nature of a Ponzi scheme. Sadly for those who designed it, they didn't see the fertility crash coming...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (DU+/6)

419 405 I got 2.5% for an outstanding performance appraisal. First words out of my boss's mouth were "I know this doesn't even come close to the cost of living rise. They are having deep discussions about it in HR"
....
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 02:30 PM (Dz6mJ)


sra blaster works for a very large corporation, and she is a manager there. We sit in the same home office and so I get to hear her discussions. Of late, she's beein in the review process. Her crew has been getting about 5%, and she has the same message - we know this isn't close to inflation, and HR is looking at that.

Posted by: blaster at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (9otr5)

420 >>>He'll have plenty of assistance in that regard:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/3jczzed3
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik [

...

I literally just came across that meme and downloaded it for later.

Posted by: AllahPundit at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (0G13K)

421 Hey Jordan!

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (Uc0pL)

422 415 205 Your bones will pave the way to the future!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2022 02:07 PM (dNqv+)


There was a John Ford western (I think) where an old woman was talking about how wild and dangerous Texas was. "It will take our bones in the ground to make this country tame and bountiful" paraphrase.

And it's a odd phrase, but it stuck with me. It is a generational effort to knock down your worst threats, and leaving the rest, that your children's problems will be lesser. The Pelosi generation has been the opposite of this ... Apres moi le deluge.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2022 02:31 PM (44ww/)


That's from The Searchers. I think.

Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (AMIL/)

423 Haha! Jenn Psaki is on TV right now saying price increases in gasoline and fuel products are going to be "temporary".

Each increase only lasts until the next increase. So, I guess she's right.

Posted by: t-bird at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (KDCRD)

424 He's from Portland.

Ugh....say no more. You have my sympathy.

Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (x6uUk)

425 >>> 413
.....
Yep.

Those taxes taken out of your paycheck each week goes directly to those who collect SS now.
Not to fund your own SS nest egg.
Talk about a fairy tale being successful in fooling the rubes.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 02:31 PM (Uc0pL)

Charles Ponzi to the white courtesy phone. Ponzi to the courtesy phone please.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (llON8)

426 Keep this in mind. People actually starved during the Depression. It was a great time for the Lefties in FDR's administration to try out their pet programs. One of those was Social Security. Imagine what sort of fun the Lefties can have with the coming crash.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:32 PM (5HBd1)



Never let a crisis go to waste!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

427 Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (AMIL/)
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I appreciate the sentiment, but the amount of what I might call reindustrialization going on in the US and North America overall is pretty dramatic right now. Covid did that, and so did China being such a prick that businesses are scrambling to get supply lines out of there like crazy. And Biden has not really touched the tariffs Trump placed on China.

China is in a world of hurt.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (LyTO1)

428 Imagine what sort of fun the Lefties can have with the coming crash.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:32 PM (5HBd1)


That's been on my mind a lot lately.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (Ez6QX)

429 I plan on taking SS at 62 at reduced rate.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 02:34 PM (XntMs)

430 all you retired people living in your homes, enjoy paying property taxes with that SS money
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Not sure if it's across the country but we have discounts and freezes on property taxes for seniors around here. I pay less than half of what it was. Helps a lot.

Posted by: dartist at March 10, 2022 02:34 PM (+ya+t)

431 Fauxcahontas thinks the solution to high gas prices is massively increasing taxes on oil companies.

Yep, she's obviously a genius who well-deserves that endowed chair at Harvard. Obviously.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at March 10, 2022 02:34 PM (bW8dp)

432 The Amish were smart to sue and not have to pay into SS

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 10, 2022 02:34 PM (dKiJG)

433 Leave it to Literally-Hitler, Literally-Stalin, Literally-Mussolini Trump to stumble onto a Literally-Magic Wand in one of those white supremacist Dungeons and Dragons games.
Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis!

Moshe Schwartz
@YWNReporter
On the @fullsendpodcast Trump says that as President he sent German Chancellor Angela Merkel a white flag as a "gift" telling her she was surrendering to Russia by signing the agreement over the Nordsteam 2 pipeline.

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There it is! A mean tweet!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 02:34 PM (FVME7)

434 It's the nature of a Ponzi scheme. Sadly for those who designed it, they didn't see the fertility crash coming...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (DU+/6)

It's a legacy system, they assumed they would always have enough coming in to balance what was going out.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 02:34 PM (UuD2k)

435 >>> 419 405 I got 2.5% for an outstanding performance appraisal. First words out of my boss's mouth were "I know this doesn't even come close to the cost of living rise. They are having deep discussions about it in HR"
....
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 02:30 PM (Dz6mJ)

sra blaster works for a very large corporation, and she is a manager there. We sit in the same home office and so I get to hear her discussions. Of late, she's beein in the review process. Her crew has been getting about 5%, and she has the same message - we know this isn't close to inflation, and HR is looking at that.
Posted by: blaster at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (9otr5)

Interesting. My current manager did *not* bring this point up with me.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 02:34 PM (llON8)

436 "The Germans leave the Greek town behind, now completely solvent."

A friend that lives in Europe told me that one a few years ago. But I don't think they owe each other money, they owe BigBank the money, plus high interest. (while BigBank gets free money and BigBailouts)

Same with TARP, BigBank got the money, homeowners were left underwater. No banker went to jail for all their frauds.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2022 02:35 PM (Cus5s)

437 Cost us our retirement that we spent our working lives to attain and some people are going to have a visit.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 10, 2022 02:35 PM (KATBx)

438 It's a legacy system, they assumed they would always have enough coming in to balance what was going out.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 02:34 PM (UuD2k)


The real reason they want all those illegal aliens.

Posted by: blaster at March 10, 2022 02:35 PM (9otr5)

439 Charles Ponzi to the white courtesy phone. Ponzi to the courtesy phone please.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Heh, yep.

How are you doing Helena?

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 02:35 PM (Uc0pL)

440 433 There it is! A mean tweet!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 10, 2022 02:34 PM (FVME7)

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Do we get low gas prices with it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:35 PM (LvTSG)

441 Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2022 02:31 PM (44ww/)


That's from The Searchers. I think.
Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (AMIL/)

I think so, too. No doubt TJM can confirm or deny.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 10, 2022 02:35 PM (dfRN6)

442 441 That's from The Searchers. I think.
Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (AMIL/)

I think so, too. No doubt TJM can confirm or deny.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 10, 2022 02:35 PM (dfRN6)

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It sounds like it, but I don't have the movie memorized.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:35 PM (LvTSG)

443 The real reason they want all those illegal aliens.
Posted by: blaster at March 10, 2022 02:35 PM (9otr5)
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Yeah, 'cause their tax contributions are so high...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (DU+/6)

444 >>> 432 The Amish were smart to sue and not have to pay into SS
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 10, 2022 02:34 PM (dKiJG)

We may all have to be a lot more like them, and soon.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (llON8)

445 Don't worry!!! Very soon all that money that iur ires saved in the Trump trillion dollar tax cuts will all come trickling down on us. Trump promised that would happen you just have to believe in him
Would he lie to us?

Posted by: Kurt at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (KQ2vE)

446 Cost us our retirement that we spent our working lives to attain and some people are going to have a visit.
Posted by: irongrampa
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ig!

Supporting people like you is an honor.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (Uc0pL)

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Posted by: Shirley at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (lz4yl)

448 On the bright side Trump gave us a four year reprieve and shitload of laughs on the way to the ovens. We're essentially living the Hillary Presidency except with our eyes a lot more open.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (6Livg)

449 They are letting the illegals tap into the system without paying into it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (5HBd1)

450 Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1979.

Posted by: All the news fit to Prince at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (WmGrA)

451 Oh well.

Posted by: My standard of living at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (VJsqe)

452 ++++
Yeah, 'cause their tax contributions are so high...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (DU+/6)

Yes... Here they live ten to a home and send the majority of their money back to their "home" Country....

Posted by: It's me donna at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (J8ILO)

453 Same with TARP, BigBank got the money, homeowners were left underwater. No banker went to jail for all their frauds.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2022 02:35 PM (Cus5s)

Because the govt was in on it. They couldn't punish the bankers without exposing themselves.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (UuD2k)

454 A quarter of a percent!?

Well, problem solved.

Posted by: Chemist at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (uSps2)

455 Hylkema's "Rudebarbs" in Reason mag years ago did a piece about the wage and price control bureaucrats:

a - well, we've had some tough breaks...
b - yes, just when we printed enough money for everyone...
a - inflation set in! and just when we got all the wage and price controls established...
b - we entered an era of shortages!

etc, but they blamed capitalism.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (Ynyl9)

456 Yeah, at at certain income levels (you exceed them, from what you wrote) this is true. But it is only true for so long. There is still a labor market and a big factor in the "Great Resignation" is dollar-chasing. The salary bands will have to increase or companies will be unable to acquire people. This will happen first in the lower middle incomes, but it will get to everything.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (DU+/6)
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Yep, and many companies just do not have the pricing power to absorb the cost. Which will help, because after all the re-adjustment goes on as white collar productivity gets lots of people whacked - already happening in financial services - we will need those excess people. The age of surplus labor supply is over.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (LyTO1)

457 I think every society needs a safety net but as with everything created by government, it will eventually be bastardized and looted by those who follow.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (XntMs)

458 It certainly has an effect on our energy independence in the future. And we used to be energy independent...before Keystone. Trump made it happen. Likewise, Grandpa Mushbrains did cancel leases, which I'm sure had an immediate effect.
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It is impossible that there is oil that is not being pumped but is permitted and available, when the price is 130 per barrel. If it was 30 per barrel okay, that is about break even wait for the price to rise. But at 130 per barrel there is now way they are sitting on it. Naw.
Sure, demand is up from last year lock down, but to be fair - its not all the way back to what it was in 2019 2020. National Aver all grades all places in 2019 was 2.30's to 2.90's depending on season.

Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (GUq3t)

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Posted by: Shirley at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (lz4yl)

460 Posted by: Kurt at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (KQ2vE)

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I mean...the economy was doing pretty well until the governors of places like New York and California decided to shut down entire economies in an effort to gin up fear against a virus that mostly killed old and fat people. That had something to do with it, and then Democrats refused to let go of that power until midterm polls started coming in.

So, yeah, Trump's fault.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (LvTSG)

461
Last November the white house goblin said inflation was "transitory."

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (aGUIs)

462 Inflation is temporary, in the same sense that Biden's dementia is temporary. It ends with death.

Posted by: Wally at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (S8gsF)

463 416 Keep this in mind. People actually starved during the Depression. It was a great time for the Lefties in FDR's administration to try out their pet programs. One of those was Social Security. Imagine what sort of fun the Lefties can have with the coming crash.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:32 PM (5HBd1)

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You will automatically be enrolled in the new Sexual Security program at birth, after which you will be required to sexually service any individual who contributes $20, same as in town before hyperinflation, to your account.

With each decade you age, the price goes down 10%. SCOTUS 2023 ruled 99-2 that this was constitutional and a tax, citing the Obamacare precedent.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (v72l5)

464 We have a spammer ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (J8ILO)

465 What the hell is keeping Nancy Pelousi alive? She looks like she's going to fall apart every time she talks.

Posted by: Mean Tweets at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (BOJAx)

466 Lace Wigs were much more compelling.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (DU+/6)

467 427 Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (AMIL/)
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I appreciate the sentiment, but the amount of what I might call reindustrialization going on in the US and North America overall is pretty dramatic right now. Covid did that, and so did China being such a prick that businesses are scrambling to get supply lines out of there like crazy. And Biden has not really touched the tariffs Trump placed on China.

China is in a world of hurt.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (LyTO1)


Agreed. But how much is directly due to anything the Junta has done? Maybe Brandon and Nanzi have allocated monies to help revitalize some US industries or provided tax breaks to companies bringing manufacturing back from overseas. If so, it's strange Brandon isn't claiming credit for it.

Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (AMIL/)

468 I know you desperately want to make sense, Ku*t, so please try that one again.

Posted by: t-bird at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (JioHo)

469 I honestly didn't think it was possible for Obama to look like an elder statesman.

But, Biden has managed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (5pTK/)

470 Shirley, you can't be serious.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (Ez6QX)

471 459 Posted by: Shirley at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (lz4yl)

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I thought this was a bit.

Is this not a bit?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (LvTSG)

472 My biggest worry is we have rampant inflation but our electorate just keeps wanting their $1000 checks in the mail.

Greece went through this where they basically had the choice of a currency collapse or still getting to retire at age 50, and they just kept voting for their bennies.

Posted by: Blago at March 10, 2022 02:39 PM (wXQdC)

473 make it up artist at 445.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at March 10, 2022 02:39 PM (Ynyl9)

474 >>> 439 Charles Ponzi to the white courtesy phone. Ponzi to the courtesy phone please.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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Heh, yep.

How are you doing Helena?
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 02:35 PM (Uc0pL)

Doing well considering, thanks. Started planting some things and working on more. I'm also looking at getting some four-legged critters to go with the chickens. This should be... interesting...

How about yourself?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 02:39 PM (llON8)

475 464 We have a spammer ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (J8ILO)

Lace Wigs Forever...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 02:39 PM (BgMrQ)

476 On the bright side Trump gave us a four year reprieve and shitload of laughs on the way to the ovens. We're essentially living the Hillary Presidency except with our eyes a lot more open.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (6Livg)

3 years .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 02:39 PM (XntMs)

477 On the bright side Trump gave us a four year reprieve and shitload of laughs on the way to the ovens. We're essentially living the Hillary Presidency except with our eyes a lot more open.
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Life is beautiful. Politics is hell.

Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at March 10, 2022 02:39 PM (VIj48)

478 Heh! USA Today is 'fact' checking The Babylon Bee. Amazing.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 10, 2022 02:39 PM (OTXUv)

479 You will automatically be enrolled in the new Sexual Security program at birth, after which you will be required to sexually service any individual who contributes $20, same as in town before hyperinflation, to your account.

With each decade you age, the price goes down 10%. SCOTUS 2023 ruled 99-2 that this was constitutional and a tax, citing the Obamacare precedent.
Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (v72l5)
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Great. The Federal Sex Bureau is the last thing we need.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:39 PM (DU+/6)

480 I love how Kurt is trying to blame our current economic issues on the Trump tax cuts. It is to laugh.

Because it is silly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:39 PM (LvTSG)

481 472 My biggest worry is we have rampant inflation but our electorate just keeps wanting their $1000 checks in the mail.

Greece went through this where they basically had the choice of a currency collapse or still getting to retire at age 50, and they just kept voting for their bennies.
Posted by: Blago at March 10, 2022 02:39 PM (wXQdC)

The hyperinflation is baked into the cake. I don't even worry about the debt anymore.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2022 02:39 PM (z5Vrg)

482 Somehow, the crash will be all Trumps fault.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:40 PM (LKTKP)

483 Posted by: its an op, m'kay, ops are bad, m'kay at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (GUq3t)

Fracking becomes profitable at $60 a barrel... numbers may be a couple of years old, but still in the ballpark.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 02:40 PM (oHd/0)

484 Sciatica Girl >>>> Shirley

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 10, 2022 02:40 PM (dfRN6)

485 482 Somehow, the crash will be all Trumps fault.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:40 PM (LKTKP)

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He didn't tweet hard enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:40 PM (LvTSG)

486 Fossil fuel prices are rising all over the planet
Renewables continue to drop
And it will take minimum 15 years for a new 2nd generation nuke to be designed and built. But we can be assured the multi national oil companies as well as our good friends the Saudis Russians Iraq Iran and the other Arab countries will thoroughly lube us before fucking every possible dollar out of us

Posted by: Kurt at March 10, 2022 02:40 PM (KQ2vE)

487
What the hell is keeping Nancy Pelousi alive? She looks like she's going to fall apart

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Well, except for when Brandon talks about soldiers getting cancer from toxic burn pits. Then, she looks like she's going to start running on all fours and devour a small child.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 02:40 PM (SKVme)

488 TRUMP!

Posted by: Mean Tweets at March 10, 2022 02:40 PM (BOJAx)

489 Tax cuts do not create inflation.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (LKTKP)

490 Everything in this degenerate society is The Bezzle.

Grab what you can before it all goes Tango Uniform.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (L9uv7)

491 Inflation is gay! Gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay GAY!

Posted by: Mark Hamill at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (44ww/)

492 Looks like they are going to delay resuming student loan payments again.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (5HBd1)

493 Are yearly passes to parks being affected by inflation?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa
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Yep, but the cost is fixed for a full year. I just paid for the next year. They won't raise annual pass prices again until next January.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (Dz6mJ)

494 Charles Ponzi to the white courtesy phone. Ponzi to the courtesy phone please.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (llON

Ponzi couldn't carry my jockstrap....

Time to start calling these things Madoff Schemes.

Posted by: Bernie Madoff at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (sDz6A)

495 Pretty sure all or most of the oil that would have been safely and cheaply coming in with Keystone XL. Is still coming in. Just with WarrenBuffett's BNSF railway. Natch.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (aSRbU)

496 Just found out yesterday that my kid has been getting free lunch and breakfast at school for the past few months...kind of baffled because this is supposed to be a low income Federal program.

Come to find out that because of covid last year it was instituted, to be application only, but then opened it to ALL students and then the Feds RENEWED it for this year.

This is a top 5 school district in the State and the population overall isn't hurting at all for position economically upper middle class overall.

Told the kid no more. Morally and ethically you're stealing and you don't just get to get free meals at school because you're too lazy to make your lunch at home.

Thankfully a bunch of parents had the same concern and contacted the school like I did...hell the person I spoke to agreed with me but the Feds made the decision.

They're teaching the next generation to gleefully accept handouts from the Government and I'm not fucking happy about it.

Posted by: H Badger at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (n/0Nw)

497 457 I think every society needs a safety net but as with everything created by government, it will eventually be bastardized and looted by those who follow.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (XntMs)

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It used to be called family and community.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (v72l5)

498 What the hell is keeping Nancy Pelousi alive? She looks like she's going to fall apart


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The drive to live another day and do some more insider trading.

Posted by: Blago at March 10, 2022 02:42 PM (wXQdC)

499 493 Are yearly passes to parks being affected by inflation?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa
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Yep, but the cost is fixed for a full year. I just paid for the next year. They won't raise annual pass prices again until next January.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (Dz6mJ)

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NOOOOOO!!!!!

Reupping our Universal passes is going to hurt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:42 PM (LvTSG)

500 The hyperinflation is baked into the cake. I don't even worry about the debt anymore.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at March 10, 2022 02:39 PM (z5Vrg)

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Yesterday, Gourmand posted a list of his cherished notions that have been dashed in recent years. This one is one of mine. For years I've been going on about the national debt (and especially our unrecorded liabilities). I no longer care. Tightening our belts will not get us out of this. Our kids are screwed.

Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 02:42 PM (VJsqe)

501 Keep this in mind. People actually starved during the Depression. It was a great time for the Lefties in FDR's administration to try out their pet programs. One of those was Social Security. Imagine what sort of fun the Lefties can have with the coming crash
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you want benefits you say? you want to eat?

Do you want it on your hand or your forehead?

Posted by: Govt RFID chip implanter at March 10, 2022 02:42 PM (M0QqG)

502 Kunt, you ignorant twat. Tax revenues went up after the Trump tax cuts.

But taxes for you leftists have nothing to do with something so simplistic as revenue. You can print as much money as you want. It's a tool of punishment to you, isn't it?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 02:42 PM (L9uv7)

503 I hope my garden does well this year....
groceries getting expensive

Posted by: McCool at March 10, 2022 02:42 PM (BqBIh)

504 And congress just passed another 1.5 Trillion dollar boondoggle, so there's that.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2022 02:42 PM (6lMp2)

505 We are pumping more domestic oil now than when Trump left. But each barrel is now worth the world market price. THAT is why gas costs so much
Oil companies are setting record profits soooo let's blame Brandon!!!

Posted by: Kurt at March 10, 2022 02:43 PM (KQ2vE)

506 Somehow, the crash will be all Trumps fault.

That is a sure bet. Vegas won't be giving odds on that!

Posted by: Mean Tweets at March 10, 2022 02:43 PM (BOJAx)

507 I'm pretty sure the gov't will just do what Japan did several years ago with their SS-type payments.

They simply lowered them a bit each year and pretty soon you were receiving, I've forgotten 25-50% less.

Bingo Bango.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2022 02:43 PM (OMayC)

508 Posted by: Kurt at March 10, 2022 02:43 PM (KQ2vE)

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Why didn't they do this under Trump?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:43 PM (LvTSG)

509 Posted by: Kurt at March 10, 2022 02:36 PM (KQ2vE)


You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 10, 2022 02:43 PM (Zz0t1)

510 /sock hasbeen

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 10, 2022 02:44 PM (44ww/)

511 >>> It's a tool of punishment to you, isn't it?

Thats what the jug-eared guy said.
Doesnt matter if taxes bring in more revenue
as long as the right people take it in the chops

Posted by: McCool at March 10, 2022 02:44 PM (BqBIh)

512 Kurt's back.

Monkey fucking football time again.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 10, 2022 02:44 PM (OMayC)

513 Doing well considering, thanks. Started planting some things and working on more. I'm also looking at getting some four-legged critters to go with the chickens. This should be... interesting...

How about yourself?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
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I'm doing okay.

On a dehydrating food, then storing them in my freezers kick for some reason...

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 02:44 PM (Uc0pL)

514 Charles Ponzi to the white courtesy phone. Ponzi to the courtesy phone please.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 02:33 PM (llON

Ponzi couldn't carry my jockstrap....

Time to start calling these things Madoff Schemes.
Posted by: Bernie Madoff

Hold my Chardonnay.

Posted by: Elizabeth Holmes at March 10, 2022 02:45 PM (FVME7)

515 402 Haha! Jenn Psaki is on TV right now saying price increases in gasoline and fuel products are going to be "temporary".

On our way to "good" !!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 02:29 PM (mcCnG)


A follow-up question the media is too stupid to ask: "Jen, when inflation does end, as you and the President say it will, will prices then begin falling? Or will we be stuck with the prices at the end of the temporary inflation period?"

Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 02:45 PM (AMIL/)

516 sum crazy woman last year shorted oil


runs a hedge fund

Posted by: REDACTED at March 10, 2022 02:45 PM (us2H3)

517 Agreed. But how much is directly due to anything the Junta has done? Maybe Brandon and Nanzi have allocated monies to help revitalize some US industries or provided tax breaks to companies bringing manufacturing back from overseas. If so, it's strange Brandon isn't claiming credit for it.
Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 02:38 PM (AMIL/)
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He has a little bit - chips, he made a big deal about the Intel factory in Ohio. But chips were viewed as sector solution issue, we need chips!!

So it was safe. DC in general hates China, even the democrats. But Biden still can't toot that horn too much. He has to keep the graft going you know.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 10, 2022 02:45 PM (LyTO1)

518 Conspiracy Theory:

They print money like there is no tomorrow because the people in the know, know that something is going to wipe the slate clean soon.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:45 PM (LKTKP)

519 Someone will get a little 💩 on his lips!

Posted by: Brandon Ass Kisser at March 10, 2022 02:45 PM (BOJAx)

520 Kurt. You're wrong. IF in fact we ARE pumping more oil, it's NOT FOR THE US. We're shipping it elsewhere. The REASON oil is so high is because of supply and demand. And, adding the fact that we're no longer a net EXPORTER of oil and we're buying more than we were, it's really not feasible we're pumping more, now IS it, mental midget.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

521 Tightening our belts will not get us out of this. Our kids are screwed.
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Its enough to make you hope for a quick resolution via SMOD. I mean, frankly, there's no way they won't insist on humiliating us, and our heirs, before killing us off as undesirable, dead weight on enlightened society.

Posted by: Sunshine makes me happy! at March 10, 2022 02:45 PM (GUq3t)

522 They're teaching the next generation to gleefully accept handouts from the Government and I'm not fucking happy about it.

Posted by: H Badger at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (n/0Nw)

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As bad as that is, it's more than that: it's straight-up grift and corruption -- the D's throw helicopter money at their special interest groups, who in turn donate a good portion of it back to the D Party and election fraud.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:46 PM (v72l5)

523
The girl thinks Psaki is demon-possessed (she also entertains the notion that Psaki might be a vampire). She's probably right. But I get a really creepy vibe off of Pelosi, too.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 02:46 PM (SKVme)

524 It used to be called family and community.
Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (v72l5)

Still is where family is intact. And we have more charities these days then ever. The main thing is they have changed the requirements of who falls into that safety net. Too many abled body people have become leeches.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 02:46 PM (XntMs)

525 431 Fauxcahontas thinks the solution to high gas prices is massively increasing taxes on oil companies.

Yep, she's obviously a genius who well-deserves that endowed chair at Harvard. Obviously.
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Tell her to double the tariffs on China and see what she says.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 02:47 PM (2graF)

526 Someone will get a little 💩 on his lips!
Posted by: Brandon Ass Kisser at March 10, 2022 02:45 PM (BOJAx)



It's only safe to go ATM if you really love that person.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

527 The girl thinks Psaki is demon-possessed (she also entertains the notion that Psaki might be a vampire). She's probably right. But I get a really creepy vibe off of Pelosi, too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 02:46 PM (SKVme)
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They're a cut above Hillary. They might be demon-possessed, but she's an actual demon.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:47 PM (DU+/6)

528 Babylon Bee: Biden Sells Alaska Back To Russia So We Can Start Drilling For Oil There Again

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 02:47 PM (Y5qcH)

529 I suspect whatever is keeping Pelosi alive is definitely NOT a Dorian Gray-type deal.

Posted by: Wally at March 10, 2022 02:47 PM (S8gsF)

530 497 457 I think every society needs a safety net but as with everything created by government, it will eventually be bastardized and looted by those who follow.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 02:37 PM (XntMs)

--------

It used to be called family and community.
Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM (v72l5)

Amen. That was a big reason you had a family...especially a big one.

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 02:47 PM (exHjb)

531 This is just Trump telling he be business friends in the oil industery to raise prices to makes Presdent Bidum looks bad. TRump is screwing everythang up again......

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at March 10, 2022 02:47 PM (6w+Vo)

532 This all began when Ike left office

been going downhill ever since

Posted by: REDACTED at March 10, 2022 02:48 PM (us2H3)

533 So when does Biden start talking about green shoots?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 02:48 PM (2graF)

534 test: 🎼 ♭ 5 / 4

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 02:48 PM (u82oZ)

535 I didn't know you could make an emoji an Italican

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 02:48 PM (L9uv7)

536 So when does Biden start talking about green shoots?
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 02:48 PM (2graF)



I only get that when I eat too much spinach.

- - Joey Fingerstick McShitpants

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (Zz0t1)

537 5/4

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (u82oZ)

538 I really hate to respond to the dumbshit. But what the fuck are "renewables" that are getting "cheaper".

Solar and wind have no relationship to the cost of gasoline, and oil is not used much for power generation in the US.

The only relationship would be replacement of all vehicles with Teslas. Which would collapse the electrical grid.

So again you are rhetorically conflating two things that are not related and trying to imply causality. The reason your propaganda doesn't work here is because you are really bad at it.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (Dz6mJ)

539 >>> 513
.....
I'm doing okay.

On a dehydrating food, then storing them in my freezers kick for some reason...
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 02:44 PM (Uc0pL)

I saw that, and I might have to be a copycat. Seems like dehydration would work better for some types of veggies instead of canning.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (llON8)

540 Our new economy will be based on ticktok and YouTube.

Learn to twerk!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (LKTKP)

541 It's only safe to go ATM if you really love that person.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)


Just...no.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (Ez6QX)

542 WE are not pumping as much oil. Jeesh, where does he come up with this stuff.

Posted by: Black JEM at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (LyTO1)

543 I suspect whatever is keeping Pelosi alive is definitely NOT a Dorian Gray-type deal

Great reference. Wipe your chin, Kurt! Brandon doesn't like a soaker!

Posted by: Brandon Ass Kisser at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (BOJAx)

544 The girl thinks Psaki is demon-possessed (she also entertains the notion that Psaki might be a vampire). She's probably right. But I get a really creepy vibe off of Pelosi, too.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
___

Sometimes, evil is made manifest in people.

Just as we are made in God's image, some are made in their father's image, who is the master of lies.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (Uc0pL)

545 541 It's only safe to go ATM if you really love that person.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

Just...no.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (Ez6QX)


This. Let them get their own cash.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:50 PM (LKTKP)

546 Our new economy will be based on ticktok and YouTube.

Learn to twerk!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (LKTKP)
++++
If there is anyone who would not only be unable to monetize twerking but might also be hauled in to the Hague for doing so, it's me.

I'm screwed in the new economy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:50 PM (DU+/6)

547 They're a cut above Hillary. They might be demon-possessed, but she's an actual demon.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:47 PM (DU+/6)

Oh definitely, that monster just climbs out of it's basalt throne each morning, folds it leathery wings, stuffs itself into that redolent hag carcass, and goes about its business among the humans.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 02:50 PM (SKVme)

548
Just...no.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (Ez6QX)



But a movie told me!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

549 Our new economy will be based on ticktok and YouTube.

Learn to twerk!
Posted by: AlaBAMA
___

I don't think so.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 02:50 PM (Uc0pL)

550 Net Exporter under Trump. Begging for oil from islamo-facists and south american marxists under Biden.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2022 02:50 PM (6lMp2)

551 Kurt. You're wrong. IF in fact we ARE pumping more oil, it's NOT FOR THE US. We're shipping it elsewhere. The REASON oil is so high is because of supply and demand. And, adding the fact that we're no longer a net EXPORTER of oil and we're buying more than we were, it's really not feasible we're pumping more, now IS it, mental midget
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Don't bother. He was incapable of understanding the Admin's obvious mendacity when they cited the numbers from Trumps first month and compared it to bidens first month. Trump was operating under the Obama limits still, and the shiteater was operating under Trumps because the supply didn't drop off right away. Its an obvious trick. Durt has twisted it around in his mind thinking it is an apples to apples comparison. They have over 4600 permits pending. The stopped the productive stuff. The prospecting permits aren't producers.

Posted by: Sunshine makes me happy! at March 10, 2022 02:50 PM (Abixs)

552 12 million is less than 9.5 million. I'll kiss it harder, big guy!

Posted by: Brandon Ass Kisser at March 10, 2022 02:51 PM (BOJAx)

553 You're all interrupting Kunt's autoerotic asphyxiation sexy time

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:51 PM (VaT5M)

554 >>505 We are pumping more domestic oil now than when Trump left. But each barrel is now worth the world market price. THAT is why gas costs so much
Oil companies are setting record profits soooo let's blame Brandon!!! Posted by: Kurt

US Oil production peaked at 13,000 barrels per day in February 2000 just before COVID hit, and the trajectory was headed up. We are currently at only 11,600.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 10, 2022 02:51 PM (YFAIE)

555 It's not 7.9% a year.

Gas is going up 15 cents a DAY in Sacramento.

Posted by: torabora at March 10, 2022 02:51 PM (76KdS)

556 This is on purpose. We were told that they were going to shut down oil. We were told that they were going to shut down energy. We were told that they were going to make food more expensive. This was their plan, and they made it public, just before they stole the election.

Democrats want to hurt you. In fact, they would prefer it if you were dead. I don't understand why anyone would not understand this.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 02:52 PM (5kI0z)

557 528 Babylon Bee: Biden Sells Alaska Back To Russia So We Can Start Drilling For Oil There Again
Posted by: sniffybigtoe



After careful fact checking, we have found this false.

Posted by: USA Today, serious news at March 10, 2022 02:52 PM (0chEi)

558
Gas is going up 15 cents a DAY in Sacramento.
Posted by: torabora at March 10, 2022 02:51 PM (76KdS)


But as it rises, that 15 cents becomes a smaller percentage so WINNING!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:52 PM (Zz0t1)

559 US Oil production peaked at 13,000 barrels per day in February 2000 just before COVID hit, and the trajectory was headed up. We are currently at only 11,600.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 10, 2022 02:51 PM (YFAIE)
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Thousand-thousand, or millions. And yes. I don't know where this "we're pumping more than ever" talking point comes from, because the EIA data puts it down pretty quickly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 02:52 PM (DU+/6)

560 >>It's only safe to go ATM if you really love that person.


BOSCO!

Posted by: J. Peterman's Mom at March 10, 2022 02:52 PM (lhr6a)

561 544

Sometimes, evil is made manifest in people.

Just as we are made in God's image, some are made in their father's image, who is the master of lies.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 10, 2022 02:49 PM (Uc0pL)

The Banality of Evil. There is a drab soullessness to Psaki, something is missing in her.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 02:53 PM (Vr12I)

562 Erick Erickson shares damning montage that quite clearly shows that 'high gas prices are all part of Biden's plan' [video]

https://tinyurl.com/2vpz38z9

Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2022 02:53 PM (NpAcC)

563
Democrats want to hurt you. In fact, they would prefer it if you were dead. I don't understand why anyone would not understand this.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 02:52 PM (5kI0z


Uh, we all get it. Have gotten it for a while

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:53 PM (LKTKP)

564
Democrats want to hurt you. In fact, they would prefer it if you were dead. I don't understand why anyone would not understand this.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 02:52 PM (5kI0z)



PREACH it brother!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)

565 Here's the data on US crude production:

https://is.gd/Yf8DoV

Kunt is parsing his words very carefully in order to lie with statistics. We're down quite a bit in production from the previous levels during Trump's term.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 02:53 PM (L9uv7)

566 Democrats want to hurt you. In fact, they would prefer it if you were dead. I don't understand why anyone would not understand this.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 02:52 PM (5kI0z)


The only carbon neutral humans are dead. Its not really a hard concept.

Posted by: blaster at March 10, 2022 02:54 PM (9otr5)

567 562 Erick Erickson shares damning montage that quite clearly shows that 'high gas prices are all part of Biden's plan' [video]

https://tinyurl.com/2vpz38z9
Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2022 02:53 PM (NpAcC)

=======

Does it end with a celebration of the death of Ashli Babbett?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:54 PM (LvTSG)

568 Democrats want to hurt you. In fact, they would prefer it if you were dead. I don't understand why anyone would not understand this.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 02:52 PM (5kI0z)

Because Republicans are scumbags and only seem to be able to hide it from their voters.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:54 PM (VaT5M)

569 As bad as that is, it's more than that: it's straight-up grift and corruption -- the D's throw helicopter money at their special interest groups, who in turn donate a good portion of it back to the D Party and election fraud.
Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:46 PM (v72l5)
++++++++++++
It's not just Ds -- if you haven't noticed if they can't take taxpayer money and give it to private individuals/schools/corporations, they don't do it at all.

Obamacare not only requires people to buy insurance from private companies, but the Medicaid expansion part of it is a private insurer takeover of Medicaid (no single payer system anymore, the state pays a monthly fee to 3 or 4 private insurers for everyone "enrolled" in each insurer's Medicaid program).

Federal government student loan programs is 100% a way to get taxpayer money into the hands of universities. Hence every half-wit out there has a college degree and thinks they're smart (which is why there are so many worthless programs at universities now like gender studies)

All of these private actors then turn around a give a good portion of those funds to the pols. It is taxpayer money laundering

Posted by: Venus at March 10, 2022 02:54 PM (YVBLw)

570 China owns about 75% of the solar panel and wind turbine market due to their cheap slave labor. This of course produces clean clear energy of pixie dust and unicorn burps.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2022 02:54 PM (6lMp2)

571 They think we're as stupid as they are clever.
I'd like to have a word with Brandon around back.

Posted by: torabora at March 10, 2022 02:54 PM (76KdS)

572 553 You're all interrupting Kunt's autoerotic asphyxiation sexy time

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:51 PM (VaT5M)

--------

Has he started a children's camp yet?

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 02:54 PM (v72l5)

573 566 Democrats want to hurt you. In fact, they would prefer it if you were dead. I don't understand why anyone would not understand this.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 02:52 PM (5kI0z)

The only carbon neutral humans are dead. Its not really a hard concept.
Posted by: blaster at March 10, 2022 02:54 PM (9otr5)

========

Well, unless you're rich and but indulgences. Then you're carbon neutral.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:54 PM (LvTSG)

574 >Thousand-thousand, or millions.

Yes. Thank you.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 10, 2022 02:55 PM (YFAIE)

575 All the spinning in the world won't stop the reality.

They can't stop the signal Mal.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 02:55 PM (XntMs)

576 563
Democrats want to hurt you. In fact, they would prefer it if you were dead. I don't understand why anyone would not understand this.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 02:52 PM (5kI0z


Uh, we all get it. Have gotten it for a while
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:53 PM (LKTKP)

True, but we're hardly mainstream. I still run into Republicans who have yet to grasp this, even though I know them to have enough intellectual capacity to do so. Denial is a powerful thing, I guess.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 02:55 PM (II3Gr)

577 The girl thinks Psaki is demon-possessed (she also entertains the notion that Psaki might be a vampire). She's probably right. But I get a really creepy vibe off of Pelosi, too.
==
Well, she's a ginger so she does consume souls, minimum. Maybe not a blood drinker, but a type of vampire. Pelosi is like a renfield type creature. A vampire familiar. He husband is probably in the crypt right now. As for Hillary, she's done turned. Transformed into something that's pretending still to be what she was, but isn't anymore. I'll say no more.

Posted by: I'm not an exorcist, but I know a scary beyatch when i see one at March 10, 2022 02:55 PM (M0QqG)

578 I don't know where this "we're pumping more than ever" talking point comes from, because the EIA data puts it down pretty quickly.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)



Note they carefully use the words, 'when Trump left office'. In the middle of a shut down, where oil consumption was half of what it was in 2019.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 02:55 PM (5kI0z)

579 The Dem talking point on oil takes the lowest point of Trump's presidency (early on in Covid) and compares it to the highest point of Biden's presidency.
A decent fact checker would give it about 75 Pinocchios

Posted by: Wally at March 10, 2022 02:56 PM (S8gsF)

580 578 Note they carefully use the words, 'when Trump left office'. In the middle of a shut down, where oil consumption was half of what it was in 2019.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 02:55 PM (5kI0z)

========

Democratic governors and bureaucrats shut down more than half the country for about a year in order to hurt Trump at the advise of a gnome who tried to convince you that you would get AIDS in the 80s.

Let it never be forgotten.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:56 PM (LvTSG)

581 Tire Irons solve a lot of shit.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:56 PM (LKTKP)

582 576

True, but we're hardly mainstream. I still run into Republicans who have yet to grasp this, even though I know them to have enough intellectual capacity to do so. Denial is a powerful thing, I guess.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 02:55 PM (II3Gr)

I suspect that many don't want to face up to the fact that it has all come undone.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 02:57 PM (Vr12I)

583
https://tinyurl.com/2vpz38z9
Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2022 02:53 PM (NpAcC)



There IS no better renewable source of energy that OIL you stupid mutherfuckers. I HATE YOU ALL.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 02:57 PM (Zz0t1)

584 570 China owns about 75% of the solar panel and wind turbine market due to their cheap slave labor. This of course produces clean clear energy of pixie dust and unicorn burps.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2022 02:54 PM (6lMp2)

While they build coal and nuclear.

If it was so great, you'd think they'd use it themselves.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 10, 2022 02:57 PM (dNqv+)

585 I'm willing to bet kurt's breath smells like his grandma's cooch.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2022 02:57 PM (6lMp2)

586 Note they carefully use the words, 'when Trump left office'. In the middle of a shut down, where oil consumption was half of what it was in 2019.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 02:55 PM (5kI0z)

Every lefty statistic is a lie. No exceptions.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 02:57 PM (4u5zd)

587 Re: Oil. Yeah, what Thomas Paine said when he beat me to the punch.

Posted by: Wally at March 10, 2022 02:57 PM (S8gsF)

588 Renewables are getting cheaper because the energy used to "renew" them is getting more expensive by the minute. Makes sense.

Posted by: klaftern@yahoo.com at March 10, 2022 02:57 PM (taPSh)

589 One of my favorite quips.

They are so for off they are comparing apples to orangutans

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 02:57 PM (XntMs)

590 581 Tire Irons solve a lot of shit.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:56 PM (LKTKP)

This is but one of many motivational statements on the wall of our sales center.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 02:57 PM (II3Gr)

591 and just think, the 81 million ballots counted for Biden are zero-issue voters. They don't care. because they're not real.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 02:57 PM (ZZK0E)

592 Kurt: you are an ignorant af clown who wants to be lied to. No one with an IQ above room temp cares what you think. Go over to Reddit, you'll have better luck there finding mouth breathers to fool.

Posted by: Venus at March 10, 2022 02:58 PM (YVBLw)

593 Gas is going up 15 cents a DAY in Sacramento.
Posted by: torabora at March 10, 2022 02:51 PM (76KdS)
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So, as a percentage, price increases are going down, right?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 02:58 PM (5pTK/)

594
All of these private actors then turn around a give a good portion of those funds to the pols. It is taxpayer money laundering
==
and people scoff at the notion that our government is organized crime

season 3, Fargo

Posted by: its right there at March 10, 2022 02:58 PM (xkG2O)

595 To be honest ( and it burns to even say that), my administration has no idea what is happening in real time. We just wait for the polling numbers to come through and make shit up as we go along.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 10, 2022 02:58 PM (GMueY)

596 Dave in Fl,

They say renewables are getting cheaper based solely on the govt spending more subsidizing renewables. That is the logic these people use to make these statements.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 02:59 PM (Y5qcH)

597 590 581 Tire Irons solve a lot of shit.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:56 PM (LKTKP)

This is but one of many motivational statements on the wall of our sales center.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 02:57 PM (II3Gr)


I've visited your Deluth store. Very nice. Coffee was a little burnt though.

Wasn't about to complain, because, you know...tire irons.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:59 PM (LKTKP)

598 595 To be honest ( and it burns to even say that), my administration has no idea what is happening in real time. We just wait for the polling numbers to come through and make shit up as we go along.
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 10, 2022 02:58 PM (GMueY)

========

I mean...probably.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 02:59 PM (LvTSG)

599 Gas went up to 4.49 for regular. Diesel well over $5 a gallon.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 02:59 PM (II3Gr)

600 593 Gas is going up 15 cents a DAY in Sacramento.
Posted by: torabora at March 10, 2022 02:51 PM (76KdS)
--------------

So, as a percentage, price increases are going down, right?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 02:58 PM (5pTK/)

If they raised it a penny a day, the price would about double in a year. Boil that frog!

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 02:59 PM (Vr12I)

601 How soon until we hit Weimar Republic numbers?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 10, 2022 03:00 PM (Qk7up)

602 I've visited your Deluth store. Very nice. Coffee was a little burnt though.

Wasn't about to complain, because, you know...tire irons.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 02:59 PM (LKTKP)

Our Customer Service department receives very few complaints, it is true.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 03:00 PM (II3Gr)

603 Its odd that our Transportation Secretary hasn't focused on potholes yet.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 03:00 PM (2graF)

604 arguing about gas prices without admitting monetary policy has made buying a barrel of oil with a 2022 dollar is like trying to buy a tesla with wampum

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 03:00 PM (ZZK0E)

605 Come to find out that because of covid last year it was instituted, to be application only, but then opened it to ALL students and then the Feds RENEWED it for this year.

(...)

They're teaching the next generation to gleefully accept handouts from the Government and I'm not fucking happy about it.
Posted by: H Badger at March 10, 2022 02:41 PM

Several years ago I learned that once a family has been identified as "needy," various services are pushed toward them. We had one of those programs "backpack" programs foisted on our district. It sent "needy" kids home on Fridays with a backpack of food.

I wasn't too fond of it after custodians started pulling cans of food out of the trash (surprise: the kids didn't want to bring home the healthier stuff, just sweetened cereal and fruit snacks).

One of my students approached me before the usual release time and said, "Miss ____, I don't want it. My parents take care of us. It was only one year that Dad couldn't work." I wondered how many families who didn't need it simply took it because it was "free."

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 10, 2022 03:00 PM (fxCK2)

606 Gas went up to 4.49 for regular. Diesel well over $5 a gallon.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 02:59 PM


Gas in Denison Texas hit $4.00 a gallon today with diesel up to $5.50. We are screwed.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 10, 2022 03:00 PM (bVYXr)

607
601 How soon until we hit Weimar Republic numbers?
Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 10, 2022 03:00 PM (Qk7up)


*whispers*

Soon

Posted by: Joey Bidet at March 10, 2022 03:00 PM (LKTKP)

608 Diesel at $6.50+ here in N. California.

Posted by: observer at March 10, 2022 03:01 PM (GMueY)

609 Its odd that our Transportation Secretary hasn't focused on potholes yet.
Posted by: Puddinhead

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street care equity requires that we fill potholes at the same rate we plow snow in florida.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 03:01 PM (ZZK0E)

610 601 How soon until we hit Weimar Republic numbers?
Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 10, 2022 03:00 PM (Qk7up)

Have to go through Venezuela, then Zimbabwe first.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 03:01 PM (Vr12I)

611 Oh, look Erik Erikson is sharing a video that shows this is all part of Brandon's plan.

Not mentioned is that NeverTrump mofo and the rest of his cohorts helped put Brandon in the White House. They not only voted for him because Orange Man Bad!, they ignored Dems flagrantly violating election laws and stopping the vote counts in 6 swing states, then gave them weeks to "count" more ballots. After, when anyone dared to say that was fishy, they shouted them down and demeaned them as crackpots.

Erik can truly GO F*** HIMSELF

Posted by: Venus at March 10, 2022 03:01 PM (YVBLw)

612 I'm not even looking at gas prices until I need to fill up. I topped off on Tuesday with mid grade at 3.99.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:01 PM (XntMs)

613 Shit economy and world unrest of the 1970s without any of the sex or drugs. Panopticon corporatist dystopia predicted in the 1990s without any of the sex or drugs.

What's the opposite of pangloss?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 10, 2022 03:01 PM (II3Gr)

614 198 I have a strange itchy feeling in my fartclam.
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Then you may be needing some steam.

Posted by: Ciampino at March 10, 2022 03:01 PM (qfLjt)

615 Hey...remember that Ron Klain tweet thanking Biden personally for a two cent decrease in gas prices a year ago? Implying that Biden was in control of gas prices as of at least that moment?

Good times...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:01 PM (LvTSG)

616 The chick babbling in the sentencing of Juicy is a One.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 10, 2022 03:02 PM (Qxu49)

617 608 Diesel at $6.50+ here in N. California.
Posted by: observer at March 10, 2022 03:01 PM (GMueY)

I've seen $5.15 here in Southern LA. Less than 200 yds from a refinery.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:02 PM (Y5qcH)

618 >>>The AI conversation module upgrade was actually a little buggy. It was a rush "upgrade". There were some bad interview moment with ver 1.0.

>You may want to look into the Willard Romney firmware upgrade. It's a standard flash module available for download.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 03:02 PM (oWZwa)

619 I wonder if Psaki has a lie about how not buying Russia gas wont affect prices...or wait, they did say this was a necessary evil of supporting Ukraine, which they'll probably memory hole like they did with the biden 2020 campaign's strategy to eliminate fossil fuels.

Posted by: Tim Riggins at March 10, 2022 03:02 PM (ZZK0E)

620 592 Kurt: you are an ignorant af clown who wants to be lied to. No one with an IQ above room temp cares what you think. Go over to Reddit, you'll have better luck there finding mouth breathers to fool.
Posted by: Venus at March 10, 2022 02:58 PM (YVBLw)

Room temperature fahrenheit or celsius?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh at March 10, 2022 03:02 PM (eGTCV)

621 They say renewables are getting cheaper based solely on the govt spending more subsidizing renewables. That is the logic these people use to make these statements.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe


Texas spent 66 billion on windmills and solar farms over the past decade, which gave them a blackout a year ago. 22 billion of that was federal subsidy. The people who build them are doing it solely for the subsidy - there is no windmill that can break even without a subsidy.

So, the consumer pays for the electricity, and they pay a portion of it again when they pay their taxes.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 03:02 PM (5kI0z)

622 Hey...remember that Ron Klain tweet thanking Biden personally for a two cent decrease in gas prices a year ago? Implying that Biden was in control of gas prices as of at least that moment?

Good times...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:01 PM (LvTSG)

It was...how you say...a plethora of economic boom?

Posted by: Joey Amigo at March 10, 2022 03:03 PM (LKTKP)

623 >>The chick babbling in the sentencing of Juicy is a One.


So is that plucky little pole dancer in the sidebar.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 03:03 PM (lhr6a)

624 "Its odd that our Transportation Secretary hasn't focused on potholes yet."


Yes he has! Oh wait. You said POTholes.

Posted by: Wally at March 10, 2022 03:03 PM (S8gsF)

625 Smollett - is he going to the Big House?

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 03:03 PM (Vr12I)

626 I mean, Louisiana. Not LA the city.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:03 PM (Y5qcH)

627 >>I have a strange itchy feeling in my fartclam.


Your Fartclam should feel peaceful and easy. Maybe talk to your doctor.

Posted by: Zombie Glenn Fry at March 10, 2022 03:04 PM (lhr6a)

628 Gas in Denison Texas hit $4.00 a gallon today with diesel up to $5.50. We are screwed.
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They mean to have gas up to 10 a gallon by summer vacay season.

its their way of "nudging" you into another lock down.

Btw, do they think people are going to commute everyday back to work or work from home with gas prices this high?

FFS they aren't even trying to hide it.

Posted by: its right there at March 10, 2022 03:04 PM (VIj48)

629 Anyone else notice how Psaki is laughing at the questions about gasoline prices going up? Or, at least she was in the clip I looked at. That woman truly seems to think it's a joke the average American is getting punished by the stupidity of the clowns running things.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 03:04 PM (5pTK/)

630 I'm not even looking at gas prices until I need to fill up. I topped off on Tuesday with mid grade at 3.99.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:01 PM (XntMs)


I only pass one gas station on the way to work, and that one is usually high compared to other ones in the area. I try to fill up on base on the weekends when I'm at the commissary.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 03:04 PM (Ez6QX)

631 Outrage of the day.

If you dispute stolen elections, you are an insurrectionist.

But the Biden Junta, now in charge of the Census, issued a report saying the Census underdercounted "black, Latino and indigenous" people by nearly 19 million people (probably all in swing counties in Texas / Sarc) and now they are calling the House allocation into question.

Hey Demofascists! Fuck. You. Cheaters.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 03:04 PM (1xYm9)

632 201 That's because there was no COLA during the previous spike. I hate to break it to you but folks on SS don't get to write themselves an increase. And if you think it's easy living on less than $1700 a month, I got news for you. This is the worst possible time to be on a fixed income.
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That!

Posted by: Ciampino at March 10, 2022 03:04 PM (qfLjt)

633 625 Smollett - is he going to the Big House?
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The cell block is yearning for his sweet ass.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 03:04 PM (2graF)

634 I don't know where this "we're pumping more than ever" talking point comes from, because the EIA data puts it down pretty quickly.

In the clip I heard on Crowder the other day Biden said "We pumped more domestic oil in my first year in office than my predecessor did in his first year in office". Which is a ridiculous and meaningless comparison.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:05 PM (ZGrMX)

635 I've dispatched Kamala Harris to meet with this Mr Inflation to get this issue settled once and for all.

Posted by: President Joey Biden, Ice Cream at March 10, 2022 03:05 PM (XkuN6)

636 Erik can truly GO F*** HIMSELF

==

Exactly. Spare me your "all part of Biden's plan" garbage. You advocated for him by constantly demonizing Trump's presidency. You voted for him rather than soil yourself with a vote for Trump's reelection. Screw yourself.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 03:05 PM (sVtYq)

637 Defense chick is relitigating the entire fucking trial right now.

I have something to put in her mouth so this can proceed.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 10, 2022 03:05 PM (Qxu49)

638 If you people had taken the 8 cents that Biden saved you by lowering the cost of hot dogs for the 4th of July, and invested that money wisely, you'd be cruising through this temporary inflation

Posted by: Wally at March 10, 2022 03:05 PM (S8gsF)

639 >>But the Biden Junta, now in charge of the Census, issued a report saying the Census underdercounted "black, Latino and indigenous" people by nearly 19 million people


Prove it.

Which requires you wait for the next Census, bitches.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 03:06 PM (lhr6a)

640 I only pass one gas station on the way to work, and that one is usually high compared to other ones in the area. I try to fill up on base on the weekends when I'm at the commissary.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 03:04 PM (Ez6QX)

I do not miss commuting to work. But surprisingly I miss the paychecks.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:06 PM (XntMs)

641
Exactly. Spare me your "all part of Biden's plan" garbage. You advocated for him by constantly demonizing Trump's presidency. You voted for him rather than soil yourself with a vote for Trump's reelection. Screw yourself.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 03:05 PM (sVtYq


Ace has extensively covered the 'who me?' phase of NeverTrumpers.

Alfred E NeverTrump

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 10, 2022 03:06 PM (LKTKP)

642
Exactly. Spare me your "all part of Biden's plan" garbage. You advocated for him by constantly demonizing Trump's presidency. You voted for him rather than soil yourself with a vote for Trump's reelection. Screw yourself.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 03:05 PM (sVtYq)


Erickson is nothing but a crowing cock.

Fuck that guy.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

643 I take it as a matter of faith that when the Republicans win the House this fall, they'll have legislation lined up like jets on a runway. Kinda like when Paul Ryan was Speaker of the House.

Posted by: mr tmz at March 10, 2022 03:06 PM (tasZ1)

644
Your stakeholder percentage just increased -7.9%

Your social credit score in OUR DEMOCRACY is higher as well.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Auspex at March 10, 2022 03:07 PM (bQvYf)

645 I have a fartclam.

It's a clam, and it farts.

You might say it's a fartclam.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2022 03:07 PM (ZGrMX)

646 I saw that, and I might have to be a copycat. Seems like dehydration would work better for some types of veggies instead of canning.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Peppers, cherry tomatoes

Posted by: MkY at March 10, 2022 03:07 PM (cPGH3)

647 Funny thing about mid-grade gasoline. Virtually no refineries make it and most gas stations only have 2 gasoline tanks. Regular and Premium. They just mix them 50/50 to give you mid grade.

Just use the octane you car says to use. There is no point it giving it higher octane.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:07 PM (Y5qcH)

648 The AI conversation module upgrade was actually a little buggy. It was a rush "upgrade". There were some bad interview moment with ver 1.0.

>You may want to look into the Willard Romney firmware upgrade. It's a standard flash module available for download.
==
*Shudders*

Look that was a early prototype failure. For some fcuking reason it decided putting the dogcage on top of the car for a 2000 mile road trip was no big deal, even tho it had the dog inside the cage. I hated that build. Creepy hair, dead eyes. That was before we got the eyes right.

Posted by: Weyland-Yuntani R & D at March 10, 2022 03:07 PM (GUq3t)

649 643 I take it as a matter of faith that when the Republicans win the House this fall, they'll have legislation lined up like jets on a runway. Kinda like when Paul Ryan was Speaker of the House.
Posted by: mr tmz at March 10, 2022 03:06 PM (tasZ1)

========

Legislation that Biden will veto?

Actually, very likely. The failure theater will be strong.

Actual budgetary order, which could do sweeping damage to the administrative state? Less so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 03:08 PM (LvTSG)

650 >> 633 625 Smollett - is he going to the Big House?
>> The cell block is yearning for his sweet ass.

Everybody in the whole cell block
will be hamm'rin Jessie with their big c...

Jailhouse Rock 2022

Posted by: 40 Miles North at March 10, 2022 03:08 PM (uWF4x)

651 But the Biden Junta, now in charge of the Census, issued a report saying the Census underdercounted "black, Latino and indigenous" people by nearly 19 million people


Prove it.

Which requires you wait for the next Census, bitches.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 03:06 PM


Guarantee you that biden will try and get a new census through EO.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 10, 2022 03:08 PM (bVYXr)

652 $4.25 for regular in my neck of the woods.

I also saw something I'd never seen in the small-town grocery store: bread packaged as half-loaves.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 10, 2022 03:09 PM (fxCK2)

653 nood Jennifer Granholm

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at March 10, 2022 03:09 PM (a/dOO)

654 I know, I know but,
Jennifer Granholm NOOD

Posted by: micky at March 10, 2022 03:09 PM (3byMq)

655 Possums! Rabbits! Squirrels! We even have genuine nutrias! Pre-74 silver U.S. coins only. 1/2 squirrel for just a dime!

Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2022 03:10 PM (/RDPd)

656 Anyone else notice how Psaki is laughing at the questions about gasoline prices going up? Or, at least she was in the clip I looked at. That woman truly seems to think it's a joke the average American is getting punished by the stupidity of the clowns running things.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 03:04 PM (5pTK/)
**************
She's enjoying it as as the rest of the administration. This has been their dream to force us to buy electric cars. Putin is their scapegoat now.

Posted by: redridinghood at March 10, 2022 03:10 PM (NpAcC)

657 But the Biden Junta, now in charge of the Census, issued a report saying the Census underdercounted "black, Latino and indigenous" people by nearly 19 million people


Prove it.
==
No you will have to wait for the next one to prove they cheated by nearly 19 million people in the next couple elections. They just telegraphed their margin of cheating to everyone listening. Now they have to figure out where to inject those 19million ghost votes to tip the scales.

Posted by: watch and see at March 10, 2022 03:10 PM (HKJ/x)

658 Just use the octane you car says to use. There is no point it giving it higher octane.

On modern cars the ECU can sense the fuel type and adjust the settings so it'll appear to run OK on the lower-grade gas but things are more optimal the higher-grade the gas is.

If you're running a '69 GTO (and it better be orange), none of that matters.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 03:12 PM (ZGrMX)

659 Anyone else notice how Psaki is laughing at the questions about gasoline prices going up? Or, at least she was in the clip I looked at. That woman truly seems to think it's a joke the average American is getting punished by the stupidity of the clowns running things.
==
Was it last month the energy secretary lady granholm (idiot) was laughing it up on Fox business or something about gas prices. Its part of their plan. They are laughing because their plan is working and it delights them.

Posted by: watch and see at March 10, 2022 03:13 PM (5OQFf)

660 Just use the octane you car says to use. There is no point it giving it higher octane.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 03:07 PM (Y5qcH)

You're right of course but I've always thought it kept my engine cleaner. Even if true using a gasoline additive every couple of fill ups would do the same thing. I will switch to regular next full up.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 03:13 PM (XntMs)

661 You're right of course but I've always thought it kept my engine cleaner. Even if true using a gasoline additive every couple of fill ups would do the same thing. I will switch to regular next full up.
==
Its hard to tell in the real world, but the maths work out that the higher octane will give you more mpg. It also delivers more horsepower, which as a practical matter tends to induce more foot stomping not less. Human nature.

Posted by: if we all just inflated our tires . . . at March 10, 2022 03:16 PM (L3fzk)

662 Keeping your tank full when prices are outrageous is much better than letting it get empty. You're going to pay the same amount in the end, but smaller bites are much easier to manage.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 10, 2022 03:27 PM (KATBx)

663 You cant blame this on Trump you sorry little pathetic little Snowflakes

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 10, 2022 06:12 PM (wGqjj)

664 Inflation is at least 20%. Gas hit 4.67 regular today. Up from 4.40 last week. Ground beef is 7/lb.


These dhimmierats want to destroy America.

Posted by: Harry at March 10, 2022 08:02 PM (EcD5Y)

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