Biden's Chief of Staff, and the Acting Shadow President, Ron Klain is Obsessed With High Gas Prices.<br>But He Has a Plan For Dealing With Them.

Biden's Chief of Staff, and the Acting Shadow President, Ron Klain is Obsessed With High Gas Prices.
But He Has a Plan For Dealing With Them.

Klain didn't care about gas prices before they started really hurting Democrats' poll numbers. In fact, Democrats celebrated high fuel prices as a necessary part of their Incredible Transition.

But now Klain's worried about them. Not because it hurts American citizens, but because it hurts anti-American Democrats.

For the past several months, a White House-led team of economic specialists has marked each day in the same way: With a painstaking, state-by-state examination of gasoline prices and the intricate market forces pushing them relentlessly upward.
Senior officials and others close to President Joe Biden view those prices as the cost that most directly affects voters' everyday lives, and therefore their perception of the economy as well. As such, Biden and his top advisers fixate on them with an intensity that some aides describe as obsessive. White House chief of staff Ron Klain has grown particularly absorbed by the issue, checking the average price of a gallon of gas every morning. He's lamented that it's the one item everyone knows the cost of because gas station billboards are so ubiquitous throughout the country.
"Could they advertise anything else?" Klain rhetorically, and ruefully, asked one recent visitor.

Gas station price billboards are going to advertise gas station prices. Don't know what to tell you, Ronnyboy.

The White House's focus on gas prices is bred from two sobering political conclusions top officials have made. The first is that they have little control over the problem.

No, you actually do, you just don't want to do the things that will bring prices down, because they involve increasing supply.

The second is that as prices rise at the pump, so do Democrats' odds of a midterm wipeout -- especially as the average U.S. gallon of gas hits fresh record highs.
"There really isn't one silver bullet," said one person familiar with the discussions. "It's a really difficult issue to message around when you can't deny the reality."
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The predicament has vexed administration officials already battling rising costs on a number of other fronts, with inflation at a 40-year high and polls showing voters souring on Biden's handling of the economy.

Publicly, the White House has continued to blame Russia for the record gas prices, attempting for months to brand the increase as "Putin's price hike" in hopes of convincing people the issue is largely out of Biden's hands. But with the war showing no signs of abating, some Democrats privately complain that the messaging is ineffective -- and that the White House needs to make a bigger show of at least attempting to fix the problem.

The article notes that among Biden's "solutions" is to simply publicize minor fixes he's already implemented, and which have already failed to make much impact. For example, he recently dispatched Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who has previously talked up the benefit of high energy prices, to tour the National Petroleum Reserve to simply bring media attention to the fact that Biden released oil from it a month ago.

...
Yet even Granholm, during her tour, allowed that the government has a limited arsenal left, telling CNN that "the president doesn't control the price."

So as you can tell, Biden has no actual solutions he is willing to implement. Oh, there are solutions -- namely, undertaking the pro-energy agenda that Trump implemented, that turned America into an energy powerhouse and powered our economy up to full throttle -- but his New Green Deal greenik coalition partners will not permit that without an open revolt, which will cost him 25% of his remaining 38% support.

So what is Biden's strategy for dealing with gas prices?

Well, as you can glean from the Politco article above, his strategy is not to deal with the reality of high gas prices, but to deal with perceptions about high gas prices.

As the article closes:

"There's probably nothing that will get gas back close to $3 a gallon," Sahm said. "But doing something is better than not doing something, because at least the president can say I'm trying."

They just want the media to carry the message that Biden is trying, and also, It's not really his fault, you know.

And also: President Biden doesn't really have much control over gas prices, you know.

Well, wouldn't you know it? Look what the Washington Post dialed up for its Special Propaganda Messaging today -- a long special animated Power Point Presentation for the Masses (TM) about why gas prices aren't Biden's fault, and why he really can't do anything about them beyond what he's already doing (TM).

WHAT ARE THE ODDS?!?!!

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost

Gas prices have more than doubled in two years, saddling millions of people who drive cars and trucks every day with enormous costs.
What happened?
Everything.

The economy's rapid recovery from the pandemic created more demand for gasoline, pushing prices higher. The invasion of Ukraine led to a global backlash against Russia, which produces more oil than all but two other countries. So prices went higher again.

Then the pandemic hit.

The world shut down. Oil prices fell sharply because there was little demand. Production also slowed. There was simply less need for gas because people weren’t going anywhere. https://t.co/MmGrp780jM pic.twitter.com/FlTxm2b90N
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 1, 2022

Oooh, animations! No one who uses animations could lie to me!

In early 2022, things seemed to stabilize. Prices went down a little.

But then Russia invaded Ukraine in late February. Prices shot back up. A full tank of gas can now cost more than $70, $80 or $90, depending on your car and where you live. https://t.co/MmGrp780jM pic.twitter.com/y26hWRsvX2
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 1, 2022

Isn't it just such an amazing bit of kismet that the moment Ron Klain is most desperate about the relentless "advertising" of gas station's price billboards, his political propagandist allies at the Washington Post ride to his rescue with this Propaganda Power Point?!

Remember just yesterday, that NBC "News" article noted that Crankpants McGee was grousing that his media pals weren't giving him enough credit for all his economic successes?

Well what do you know?!!

Joe Scarborough
@JoeNBC
America is the indispensable country for spreading freedom once again, we are aligned again with allies in a stronger NATO, and we are standing up to tyrants abroad instead of sucking up to them. Biden is also fighting fascists, crackpots, insurrectionists, and weirdos at home.
All in all, a good start. For those claiming Biden should do more on inflation, give us your plan. You're a lying hack or an ignorant rube if you claim this president has had more than a passing impact on inflation. See China's COVID policy, Russia's war, and past DC deficits.

As with gas prices: "Biden doesn't really have much control over inflation, you know."

Posted by: Ace at 05:15 PM

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1 Sponge!

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 01, 2022 05:15 PM (nByzo)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:16 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:16 PM (Zz0t1)

4 I want to to the gas station and NOT know what the price is. Genius!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:16 PM (ynpvh)

5 I notice it less when I see the billboard, more when I pay. That may just be me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2022 05:16 PM (08ncd)

6 Still do not regret the V8. It sounds purty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2022 05:16 PM (08ncd)

7 I'm getting the impression Ron isn't the puppetmaster here

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (V6f9+)

8 When it cost $10 per gallon will people start to get it?

Posted by: Guy watching a puppet show at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (vrz2I)

9 He's lamented that it's the one item everyone knows the cost of because gas station billboards are so ubiquitous throughout the country.

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Yes, if only the prices weren't listed on the billboards at gas stations then no one would know we were paying $5/gallon.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (HQPbJ)

10 You know...modifying those "I did that" stickers to include actual quotes from actual Democrats about high gas prices being a good thing would be a solid variation on the theme.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (LvTSG)

11 Who knew that Russia was so all powerful. They control EVERYTHING.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (Zz0t1)

12 Washington Post for the ~~win~~ Lie.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (ynpvh)

13 zhou bai-din reversed President Trump's energy policies. Here's your sign.

Posted by: Eromero at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (gktX6)

14 It's getting so you can't blindly believe anything you read on the Internet anymore!

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (OaZlZ)

15 Those damn gas price billboards!!

We need common sense gas price billboard control... NOW!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (WKPeU)

16 Then the pandemic hit.

The world shut down. Oil prices fell sharply because there was little demand. Production also slowed. There was simply less need for gas because people weren’t going anywhere. https://

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Oh, the world just shut down? Like, that was weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (LvTSG)

17 Come on folks... Biden RAN on raising gas prices as the pain of transitioning to Green Energy. He CAMPAIGNED on it...

and it's the only Campaign promise he is keeping. Don't allow the Dems to now get away with saying 'oh, this is so horrible!'.

THEY WANTED THIS and have done this BY POLICY.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (oHd/0)

18 Truckers should stop delivering to blue cities because, The fuels too damn high.

Posted by: Maj. Roger Healey at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (P5wHg)

19 > "Could they advertise anything else?" Klain rhetorically, and ruefully, asked one recent visitor.

How about Dopey Joe's approval rating?

Posted by: The Dairy Council at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (bW8dp)

20 Ban all gas station pricing signs!

Posted by: Executive Order at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (NQrvS)

21 This is just a current iteration of the stupid clintonian/Carville "it's the _____ stupid". I hated that then and this now.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (0fVbu)

22 >>>Look what the Washington Post dialed up for its Special Propaganda Messaging today -- a long special animated Power Point Presentation for the Masses (TM) about why gas prices aren't Biden's fault, and why he really can't do anything about them beyond what he's already doing (TM).

lol, they made cartoons for their mouthbreathing idiots. Perfect!

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (nByzo)

23 10 You know...modifying those "I did that" stickers to include actual quotes from actual Democrats about high gas prices being a good thing would be a solid variation on the theme.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (LvTSG)

'Incredible Transition!'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (08ncd)

24 You're a lying hack or an ignorant rube if you claim this president has had more than a passing impact on inflation. See China's COVID policy, Russia's war, and past DC deficits.

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Wow. You can literally look at the graphs when Biden took office and watch it increasing.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (HQPbJ)

25 All in all, a good start. For those claiming Biden should do more on inflation, give us your plan. You're a lying hack or an ignorant rube if you claim this president has had more than a passing impact on inflation. See China's COVID policy, Russia's war, and past DC deficits.

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Hey...how about we cut the deficit? That a solution?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (LvTSG)

26
Sounds like they want to label gas station price signs as "misinformation."

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (iKRxF)

27 I'd be helpful if the gas stations would advertise Slim Jim and lottery ticket prices.

Posted by: Weasel at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (0IeYL)

28
Wut? The one item? AYFKM?

Anybody who does pretty common things like eating food or heating their homes knows about inflation, you fuckin' pod-person.

Not all of us are insular DC Eloi who have other people pay for all their things.

Posted by: @TheRealWilliamHayes at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (FIJ+3)

29 "Could they advertise anything else?" Klain rhetorically, and ruefully, asked one recent visitor.

How about Dopey Joe's approval rating?"

HA!

Posted by: Guy watching a puppet show at June 01, 2022 05:19 PM (vrz2I)

30 Dammit, you paste-eating son of a bitch, stop calling all my aides and staffers the "Klainsmen"!

Posted by: Ron Klain at June 01, 2022 05:19 PM (6FeV1)

31 Come on folks... Biden RAN on raising gas prices as the pain of transitioning to Green Energy. He CAMPAIGNED on it...

and it's the only Campaign promise he is keeping
*

This.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 01, 2022 05:19 PM (HQPbJ)

32 "intricate market forces"

Yeah...supply and demand. The Democrats killed the supply in the US.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at June 01, 2022 05:19 PM (V6f9+)

33 I'm sure there's a rude Bezos joke here somewhere and shall return later to see if yinzall found it.

Posted by: DaveA at June 01, 2022 05:19 PM (FhXTo)

34 Who knew that Russia was so all powerful. They control EVERYTHING.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (Zz0t1)
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It's Putin's WITCHERY. Like how he used the Devil's disk-imaging to make a copy of Hunters laptop!!

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:19 PM (OaZlZ)

35 Joe "intern-killer" Scarbourough: " For those claiming Biden should do more on inflation, give us your plan."

Okay. Stop spending Government money. Stop printing Government money. Stop restricting natural gas and oil production. Stop preventing the FED from doing what it did in 1982. How's that for a start?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:19 PM (ynpvh)

36 24 You're a lying hack or an ignorant rube if you claim this president has had more than a passing impact on inflation. See China's COVID policy, Russia's war, and past DC deficits.

*

Wow. You can literally look at the graphs when Biden took office and watch it increasing.
Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (HQPbJ)

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It's just bad luck. America's bad luck increases with Democrats in charge. It's not really their fault, but in the interests of America's prosperity we should encourage good luck by never voting Democrat again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:19 PM (LvTSG)

37 I notice it less when I see the billboard, more when I pay. That may just be me.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2022 05:16 PM (08ncd)

There is one I pass on my way to and from work. I never get gas there because they're more expensive than other places, but I always look.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 01, 2022 05:19 PM (DRSnL)

38 I understand that if you knock back a couple of bottles of white wine, these cartoons make sense. At least, if you're a well off middle aged white liberal woman they do.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 01, 2022 05:19 PM (R0Tis)

39 Because of Trump Biden had to have 15%+ inflation. It is not Biden's fault!!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:20 PM (WKPeU)

40 Ban all gas station pricing signs!

Posted by: Executive Order at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (NQrvS)

For national security!

Posted by: MiniTru at June 01, 2022 05:20 PM (nByzo)

41 Tits McGee > Crankpants McGee

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:20 PM (Zz0t1)

42 Between robots and billboards I don't know how we'll get on.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 01, 2022 05:20 PM (0fVbu)

43
In early 2022, things seemed to stabilize. Prices went down a little.

This is a LIE.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 01, 2022 05:20 PM (iKRxF)

44 Poor Biden. So much bad luck.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at June 01, 2022 05:20 PM (OalnH)

45 Joe Scarborough is a fucking dunce cap.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:20 PM (Zz0t1)

46 HE HATES THESE GAS CANS! STAY AWAY FROM THESE GAS CANS!!!!!

Posted by: The Jerk (in the White House) at June 01, 2022 05:20 PM (6FeV1)

47 I'd be helpful if the gas stations would advertise Slim Jim and lottery ticket prices.
Posted by: Weasel at June 01, 2022 05:18 PM (0IeYL)

Do lottery ticket prices fluctuate?

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 01, 2022 05:20 PM (DRSnL)

48 All of the solutions put forward by Biden include spending more government money, which will make things worse.

How about that, Joe Scarborough?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:20 PM (LvTSG)

49 For those claiming Biden should do more on inflation, give us your plan. You're a lying hack or an ignorant rube if you claim this president has had more than a passing impact on inflation. See China's COVID policy, Russia's war, and past DC deficits.

*

We've got to pay those student loans off. No other choice.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (HQPbJ)

50 He checks the price of gas every morning. That's nice.

Posted by: davidt at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (Vg5Sd)

51 #FuckJoeBiden

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (wtvvX)

52 Gas just jumped 40 cents today in Michigan but I filled my tank plus 20 gallons in cans because of our potential blackouts in the Midwest.

Posted by: Clutch at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (9UmRs)

53 15 Those damn gas price billboards!!

We need common sense gas price billboard control... NOW!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (WKPeU)

This is why we need a Disiformation Board! /sarc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (ynpvh)

54 Everything is a lie.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (Mf7Vh)

55 Plan? We don't need no stinking plan......

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (bVYXr)

56 Part of my job is buying on-rd and off-rd diesel. Pricing sent to me today-
6/1/22:
On-Road - $6.00020/gal.
Off-Road - $5.37920/gal.

Posted by: sidney at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (Uy/WF)

57 41 Tits McGee > Crankpants McGee
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:20 PM (Zz0t1)

Rated: True

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (08ncd)

58
If we could only just cut off fuel and power exclusively to the Democrats and their idiot voters, we'd be all right.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (Mzdiz)

59 54 Everything is a lie.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (Mf7Vh)

Especially the cake.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (ynpvh)

60 it's so weird, I have deja vu of 1996 and the price of gas being an issue in an upcoming election. Same with 2010. I may even have been alive although not aware of gas problems in 1978 or whatever. It's like leftwing dipshit presidents cause gas prices to spike.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (OuH7W)

61 Betcha Mr Klain has tasted some hangdown

Posted by: REDACTED at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (us2H3)

62 "For the past several months, a White House-led team of economic specialists has marked each day in the same way: With a painstaking, state-by-state examination of gasoline prices"

How about food prices, assholes? How about everything prices, dickheads? The elites don't feel any of this shit, because their cost of living is like 1% of their annual income, 0.001% of their net worth.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (qpX6U)

63 All in all, a good start. For those claiming Biden should do more on inflation, give us your plan. You're a lying hack or an ignorant rube if you claim this president has had more than a passing impact on inflation. See China's COVID policy, Russia's war, and past DC deficits.

OK, here is my plan. Tell the damn Fed Res Board to stop printing so much money! M2 money supply has drastically increased over the last 2 years... increased at a faster rate than ever in US Dollar History. If you print extra dollars, during a downturn of GDP? YOU GET INFLATION.

And no, I'm not an economist... although I did sleep with a business major at a Holiday Inn once.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (oHd/0)

64 Econ 101: The customer always pays.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (c/0XQ)

65 brother, have you heard? gas ration's going up!

Posted by: parsons at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (sGtp+)

66 ugh, it's June and teh new gheyballz George Floyd based state religion is really fucking stupid.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (OuH7W)

67 We were a net exporter of oil / energy before Biden took office. 18 months later, fuel is over $5 a gallon.

But Joe had NOTHING to do with it? Fuck you all, in the fartclam with a barbed mace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (Zz0t1)

68 PRICE GOUGING BY GREEDY OIL COMPANIES!!!

Don't forget this oldie but goody. I just heard it at work today.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (LQjWA)

69 "There really isn't one silver bullet," said one person familiar with the discussions.
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That's because it's now a bunch of rainbow bullets.

Posted by: ... at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (dscaa)

70 It's just bad luck. America's bad luck increases with Democrats in charge. It's not really their fault, but in the interests of America's prosperity we should encourage good luck by never voting Democrat again.

**

It's fascinating to look at charts showing it since 1900.

2008 and 2020 are both off the charts for some unknown reason.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (HQPbJ)

71 "message around?"

Just say, we can't lie about it because people know the truth already.

AND QUIT LYING, YOU WORTHLESS PIECES OF SCUM.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (EHSip)

72
Talk about mis-, dis- and malinformation. That WP crap is the mother lode. Pure bullshit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (Mzdiz)

73 Ace mentioned the supply of gas. Don't forget the other issue raising gas prices...the supply of dollars. The market's saturated.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (OuH7W)

74 "There really isn't one silver bullet," said one person familiar with the discussions.

*

No one has a magic wand.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (HQPbJ)

75 He checks the price of gas every morning.

And then smiles and chuckles. Sometimes he laughs so hard he pisses his pants.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (WKPeU)

76 Biden is also fighting fascists, crackpots, insurrectionists, and weirdos at home. Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC

I don't see him fighting those in his own fucking admin, clownfart.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (IEa8U)

77
The whole energy sector is incredibly capital intensive. No company wants to sink capital into expansion when new regulations and orders can pull the rug out.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (/U27+)

78 Notice that Klain isn't blaming big oil.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (LvTSG)

79 Is your mother worried?
Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (V6f9+)

80
For those claiming biden should do more on inflation, give us your plan.

Okay, asshole: reverse all of biden's policies. That's my plan.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (iKRxF)

81 For example, he recently dispatched Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, who has previously talked up the benefit of high energy prices, to tour the National Petroleum Reserve to simply bring media attention to the fact that Biden released oil from it a month ago.

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This jumped up excuse of an HOA president doesn't get nearly enough credit for being one of the most absolutely retarded people in his administration.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (wb1YC)

82 I just had to deplete one of my retirement accounts merely to replace a fucking cracked gas tank in my car. Would have been cheaper to drive it with the fuel leak, 40 miles per tank full.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (qpX6U)

83 76 Biden is also ~~fighting~~ joining fascists, crackpots, insurrectionists, and weirdos at home. Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC

I don't see him fighting those in his own fucking admin, clownfart.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (IEa8U)

FIFY

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (ynpvh)

84 77
The whole energy sector is incredibly capital intensive. No company wants to sink capital into expansion when new regulations and orders can pull the rug out.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (/U27+)

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Maybe they should lean on the woke CEOs of the entertainment industry about that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (LvTSG)

85 America is the indispensable country for spreading freedom once again, we are aligned again with allies in a stronger NATO, and we are standing up to tyrants abroad instead of sucking up to them.

And Russia just completed nuclear drills with their strategic rocket forces.

Doing a great job there really white white house.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (anj39)

86 "For the past several months, a White House-led team of economic specialists has marked each day in the same way: With a painstaking, state-by-state examination of gasoline prices"

They check gas prices, every day. That's nice.

Posted by: davidt at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (Vg5Sd)

87 damn

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (ynpvh)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (LvTSG)

89 BELIEVE THE LIES!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (Mf7Vh)

90
Notice they don't mention the Key fucking Stone pipe fucking line.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (iKRxF)

91 They asked me the same question when Oblow was in. I said he just needs to take his foot off the throat of the economy.

Trump came in, took the government foot off, and whammy.

It's that simple again. Stop strangling the infant in the crib.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (OaZlZ)

92 in lockup, I'ma guessing that George Floyd's "I can't breath" didn't cut it

Posted by: REDACTED at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (us2H3)

93 I smell something awful...looks round and barrelish...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (ynpvh)

94 I did that

Posted by: President Puddinghead at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (qwO6y)

95 "The world shut down. Oil prices fell sharply because there was little demand. Production also slowed. There was simply less need for gas because people weren’t going anywhere."

what a bunch of total bullshit. During the lockdowns, the price of petroleum at one point fell to below zero because people were paying to not accept delivery (I have screenshots off the TV from Apr 20, 2020 showing petroleum at minus $7.92). Had the price just just been about the economy recovering, the price shouldn't have gone much about where it was in, say, 2019.

like the saying goes, everything a Democrat says is a lie, including this.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (Ynyl9)

96 80
For those claiming biden should do more on inflation, give us your plan.

//////

oh Joe...he should've been a better president the last 2 years. What can we do today? pain.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (OuH7W)

97 Barrel time

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (Mf7Vh)

98 Notice that Klain isn't blaming big oil.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (LvTSG)

He is gonna need a job after this

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (M+Lyo)

99 91 They asked me the same question when Oblow was in. I said he just needs to take his foot off the throat of the economy.

Trump came in, took the government foot off, and whammy.

It's that simple again. Stop strangling the infant in the crib.
Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (OaZlZ)

========

That doesn't match their theories. Or their punitive desires on the productive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (LvTSG)

100 Cool! A Fisher-Price "My Little Printing Press™!!

Posted by: Muldoon at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (cPDW+)

101 I was watching Fox the other morning when I had no computer. Some suit from the Biden admin blamed Putin and then said we are producing more oil and natural gas than ever. I wanted to throw my cup at the TV. This is why I can't watch the news. They lie with impunity.

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (nxdel)

102 "We were a net exporter of oil / energy before Biden took office. 18 months later, fuel is over $5 a gallon."

US annual oil production, per EIA:
https://tinyurl.com/2p88ke2c

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (qpX6U)

103 I'm surprised nobody said it was a bold move.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (ynpvh)

104 Bold strategy TJM... let's see if it pays off

Posted by: banana Dream at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (0fVbu)

105 Notice that Klain isn't blaming big oil.

BIG BILLBOARD is wrecking the country.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (ppBhU)

106 Bold move

Posted by: Weasel at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (0IeYL)

107 High Gas Prices:

Good News: Luxury Full Sized SUVs are cheap.

Bad News: Can't afford to fill Luxury Full Sized SUVs

Posted by: Beartooth at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (NQrvS)

108 And yet…

95% of blacks will happily vote for h8m again. As will 70% of union members, 80% of Jews and 70% of single whites women.

These are cult members, and gas could be at $20 and it would not matter. Every Dem has a 45% built in vote no matter what.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (OalnH)

109 Ted Cruz did a pretty good presentation on what Biden did to fuck the energy sector into the ground.

Yeah, it's ALL Biden's fault.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (Zz0t1)

110 67 We were a net exporter of oil / energy before Biden took office. 18 months later, fuel is over $5 a gallon.

But Joe had NOTHING to do with it? Fuck you all, in the fartclam with a barbed mace.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (Zz0t1)

And Biden is shipping oil from the National Reserves, to the EU...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (oHd/0)

111 98 Notice that Klain isn't blaming big oil.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:23 PM (LvTSG)

He is gonna need a job after this
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (M+Lyo)

=========

Nah, it's just that it polled so badly. No one was buying it, so they just stopped trying to message it.

He'll have a seven figure job in any Manhattan law firm without trying after this administration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (LvTSG)

112 All in all, a good start. For those claiming Biden should do more on inflation, give us your plan. You're a lying hack or an ignorant rube if you claim this president has had more than a passing impact on inflation. See China's COVID policy, Russia's war, and past DC deficits.

***

Hey, Joe? When we want to hear from Mika's cock holster we'll let you know. Until then STFU and go out and get an adult haircut, you goofy looking fuck.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (wb1YC)

113 Oh jim. I'll miss you.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 01, 2022 05:26 PM (DRSnL)

114 I heartily agree, there is no "magic bullet", or even a whole clip of magic bullets, to fix problems like inflation.

That's why you stop doing asinine shit, take your booger encrusted tentacles off the levers of power, and let things find their level naturally. You won't fix this. You can't fix this. There is nothing you can do but make it worse.

Stop expecting the High Priests of Study Studies to pull off a miracle.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2022 05:26 PM (6FeV1)

115 103 I'm surprised nobody said it was a bold move.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (ynpvh)

106 Bold move
Posted by: Weasel at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (0IeYL)

LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:26 PM (ynpvh)

116 105 Notice that Klain isn't blaming big oil.

BIG BILLBOARD is wrecking the country.

~~republicans~~ billboards pounce

Posted by: kulak anachronda at June 01, 2022 05:26 PM (sGtp+)

117 72
Talk about mis-, dis- and malinformation. That WP crap is the mother lode. Pure bullshit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (Mzdiz)

Well, bullshit can be composted and become useful. That crapola? Not so much.

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 01, 2022 05:26 PM (EHSip)

118 Gas is the one item everybody knows the price of?

Does Klain really think that Americans aren't noticing that the price of their groceries has doubled, or in some cases tripled or worse in the past few months?

There are going to be a lot of people having to decide between fuel and food very soon, because they won't be able to afford both.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 01, 2022 05:26 PM (MvHI3)

119 Oh Boy!!! Now the Real propaganda will start! They will start by demonizing everyone who actually has to work.

"Why are you working you greedy people, learn to live with les like the rest of us!"

Posted by: pawn at June 01, 2022 05:26 PM (kYVzH)

120 There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting the system with Kobayashi at June 01, 2022 05:27 PM (LvTSG)

121 I suspect a lot of lefties think life will be much more pleasant when we return to the lifestyles of the 1750s. No pollution, no homeless, no drug addicts, no unemployment, no need to save for retirement, no chance of someone like Trump being electing King.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at June 01, 2022 05:27 PM (Ynyl9)

122 White House chief of staff Ron Klain has grown particularly absorbed by the issue, checking the average price of a gallon of gas every morning. He's lamented that it's the one item everyone knows the cost of because gas station billboards are so ubiquitous throughout the country.

I got it! Ban gas price billboards!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 01, 2022 05:27 PM (12jgO)

123 The economy's rapid recovery from the pandemic created more demand for gasoline, pushing prices higher.

More demand for gasoline than when? When gas was $2/gallon? I doubt that. And Klain or any of his buddies are talking about the supply side of the equation. Even if you are AOC level stupid you should be able to understand the concept of economics and supply/demand.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 01, 2022 05:27 PM (N39Ws)

124 107

I bought a big bad evil suv in summer 2008 when gas went north of $4. I got a screaming deal. And 3 months later gas was down to $1.90 after the crash.

It always cracks me up when people make a decision on cars that they own for 3,4,5+ years based on a month of gas prices.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at June 01, 2022 05:27 PM (OalnH)

125 116 105 Notice that Klain isn't blaming big oil.

BIG BILLBOARD is wrecking the country.

billboards pounce

Posted by: kulak anachronda at June 01, 2022 05:26 PM (sGtp+)

They cause the gun violence, you know.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:27 PM (ynpvh)

126 Everything is a lie.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 01, 2022 05:21 PM (Mf7Vh)

Especially the cake.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

tell that to my protective glass cover you h8ter.
- Mona Lisa

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 01, 2022 05:27 PM (UgAdJ)

127 Too bad he didn't leave the overstrike tag open.

That's good times.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:27 PM (Zz0t1)

128 Oh I didn't look up far enough it wasn't TJM sorry.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 01, 2022 05:27 PM (0fVbu)

129 Until then STFU and go out and get an adult haircut, you goofy looking fuck.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (wb1YC)

I'm thinking that's pretty good advice for everybody. Even us?

Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (EHSip)

130 Supply the answer is supply. Produce more oil. Create prospects for future production. Supply more oil where its needed. Enhance the shipping infrastructure. Oil prices will decline. Easy. Get the fuck out of the way.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (0OmEj)

131 Jonathan Turley
@JonathanTurley
Depp walks away with a far greater victory in the rejection of Heard's allegations. Another loser in this case is the ACLU, which helped write the defamatory column. This will magnify criticism of the role of the ACLU.

-
Poor babies!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (FVME7)

132
Let's recall the white house inviting internet "influencers" to "brief" them on The Narrative.

That was $2/gallon ago.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (iKRxF)

133 Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:24 PM (OaZlZ)

You said it better than me. And earlier.

Harrumph.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (6FeV1)

134 President Trump predicted $5+ per gallon of gas and losing our Second Amendment rights if Joey the child predator was elected. He was right so far.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (WKPeU)

135 Resistance pro tip for gas station owners.......jack those those pump prices up to a ridiculous amount (for now) $10.53 for example prior to opening. Post it online with a rant just to mess with Klain. Don't forget to set the prices back to the new normal for the next customer

Posted by: The Walking Dude at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (cCxiu)

136 "They just want the media to carry the message that Biden is trying,"

trying...what?

what does he do all day, anyway?

let's go down memory lane, aside from closing gas leases and ending drilling...he begged the sauds to lower their profits, they larfed him out of the room. While Russia is bad, the admin has no problem with Iran and Argentina, for what that's worth.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (OuH7W)

137 LOL
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:26 PM (ynpvh)

if you go to the barrel

take solace

I'll be right behind you

Posted by: SHEP at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (us2H3)

138 125 116 105 Notice that Klain isn't blaming big oil.

BIG BILLBOARD is wrecking the country.

billboards pounce

Posted by: kulak anachronda at June 01, 2022 05:26 PM (sGtp+)

They cause the gun violence, you know.

well, billboards *are* a thing that goes up...

Posted by: kulak anachronda at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (sGtp+)

139
The economy's rapid recovery from the pandemic created more demand for gasoline, pushing prices higher.

We're in a fucking Recession.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (iKRxF)

140 118 Gas is the one item everybody knows the price of?

Does Klain really think that Americans aren't noticing that the price of their groceries has doubled, or in some cases tripled or worse in the past few months?

There are going to be a lot of people having to decide between fuel and food very soon, because they won't be able to afford both.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 01, 2022 05:26 PM (MvHI3)

Looking to do some grilling this past weekend. Steak tips were over $18/lb. Guess what wasn't on my menu.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (N39Ws)

141 127 Too bad he didn't leave the overstrike tag open.

That's good times.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:27 PM (Zz0t1)

Wouldn't quite be a bold move then if struck out...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (ynpvh)

142
It's cute that leftists think oil company executives all woke up one fine day and thought, "Hey, maybe I'll double gas prices today."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2022 05:29 PM (/U27+)

143 No one has a magic wand.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (HQPbJ)

Holy crap.

Posted by: ... at June 01, 2022 05:29 PM (dscaa)

144 Klain is a whiny boy. We’re the ones getting hosed.

Posted by: 7man at June 01, 2022 05:29 PM (qwO6y)

145 The solution suggests itself: just make the gas stations take down the billboards.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:29 PM (qpX6U)

146 Klain knows the price of gas because he sees the price on billboards, not because he actually buys gas.

Posted by: davidt at June 01, 2022 05:29 PM (Vg5Sd)

147 Are they gonna ketch-us up on the news that we must-heard this year about the average price of a 4th of July cookout being 3 cents cheaper this year? Let us relish in it?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 01, 2022 05:29 PM (12jgO)

148 Damn straight a president can't do anything about inflation. That Ronnie guy just got lucky.

Posted by: J. Carter at June 01, 2022 05:29 PM (uiT+8)

149 You said it better than me. And earlier.

Harrumph.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (6FeV1)

Never stopped me. Just saying.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 01, 2022 05:29 PM (DRSnL)

150 If this is a rapid recovery, can we please have a catastrophic crash?

Posted by: ... at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (dscaa)

151 Yes, if only the prices weren't listed on the billboards at gas stations then no one would know we were paying $5/gallon.
Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (HQPbJ)

The only logical solution is to ban billboards.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (BJKQV)

152
Wouldn't quite be a bold move then if struck out...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (ynpvh)

But, you would've struck bold.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (Zz0t1)

153 There really isn't one silver bullet," said one person familiar with the discussions.

No one has a magic wand.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

*******

It's not like we can just say "Abracadabra!"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (cPDW+)

154 What would you say you do here, Joe. Walk us through a typical day.

Posted by: Grump928's phone at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (6RVJj)

155 134 President Trump predicted $5+ per gallon of gas and losing our Second Amendment rights if Joey the child predator was elected. He was right so far.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:28 PM (WKPeU)

My "Trump was right" jar is getting full of quarters. Almost enough in there to buy a tank of gas for the truck.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (N39Ws)

156 US annual oil production, per EIA:
https://tinyurl.com/2p88ke2c
Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:25 PM (qpX6U)

OK, so why the HUGE drop in production from March to May of 2020? almost a 25% drop? Oil leases should not have changed that drastically? Regulatory change?

I know that's right after Biden came into office... but something totally tanked production.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (oHd/0)

157 but meanwhile the Big Mean Tweets are almost out of business.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (OuH7W)

158
Just do it like medical prices and billing. You don't know what the cost is until after you fill up.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (Mzdiz)

159 So it seems Trump was responsible for everything bad, but Joey Dirty Diaper has no control over anything.

No brains no headaches

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (M+Lyo)

160 And Biden is shipping oil from the National Reserves, to the EU...
____________

He's also been shipping tens of billions of dollars that we don't have and can't afford to piss away to Ukraine, to fight a fight that isn't our fight and isn't our ally's fight.

And he's been shipping tens of billions of dollars' worth of our hugely-expensive weapons to them too, and that shit will have to be replaced, at huge cost to U.S. taxpayers.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (MvHI3)

161 And I just bet you that if the destruction of food plants suddenly were somehow to come to the forefront of the news Klain would be looking at those every day and wondering bring how much plant destruction can they put off until after the election.

</tin-foil-hat>

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (OaZlZ)

162 143 No one has a magic wand.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is not enjoying the Amber Heard presidency at June 01, 2022 05:22 PM (HQPbJ)

yeah, I'm old but still

dunno

Posted by: SHEP at June 01, 2022 05:31 PM (us2H3)

163 My "Trump was right" jar is getting full of quarters. Almost enough in there to buy a tank of gas for the truck.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (N39Ws)

Yeah, just don't try to lift that jar... hernia danger.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 05:31 PM (oHd/0)

164 The solution suggests itself: just make the gas stations take down the billboards.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:29 PM (qpX6U)
===

The Gas Price Security Act.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:31 PM (WKPeU)

165 the dilution of dollars is the bigger problem. it's one thing to help Hunter's friends become billionaires from bailouts and quantive easing...but the Saudis just see the value of the thing we use to buy gas get cut in half.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:31 PM (OuH7W)

166 Well-hedged gas wise, CSX? Well, not so much.

ZOD is unimpressed by the missed opportunity for Class 1 rail to eat trucking's lunch.

Unimpressed, CSX.

Posted by: ZOD at June 01, 2022 05:31 PM (Q/6pY)

167 Marine ratched sent me picture of a Chevron sign in SoCal advertising gas for 8.17 a gallon just three days ago. Prolly more now.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 01, 2022 05:31 PM (lEaEN)

168 There are going to be a lot of people having to decide between fuel and food very soon, because they won't be able to afford both.

*

Not "going to be"". Already are. We're middle class and are telling the kids we're getting the $2 pretzels instead of the $4 Lay's so that we can drive to wherever for vacation this year.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at June 01, 2022 05:31 PM (c1p4Y)

169 How devoid of reasoning skills must one be to think that if you tear the price tag off of a thing before you buy it, it doesn't matter what it costs?

That's pre-kindergarten levels of thinking, right there.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2022 05:31 PM (6FeV1)

170
How's biden's baby food fiasco going?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 01, 2022 05:31 PM (iKRxF)

171 Gas jumped a dime last night. Up to 4.30 in my neck of the woods.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 01, 2022 05:32 PM (ju2Fy)

172 Joe Scarborough always comes across as aggressive and angry. Is it possible that Joe is lashing out to compensate for the humiliation Mika unleashes when she's pegging him?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 01, 2022 05:32 PM (BP3/z)

173 I guess Biden's big plan to incinerate baby formula using our oil reserves wasn't such a good idea, in hindsight.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:32 PM (OuH7W)

174 Adjusted for inflation gas prices have been very steady over the past 40 years. There are spikes and shar drop offs (remember early 2016?) but it quickly reverts back to the average. Most likely in a few months it will be back around $3 which is the inflation adjusted “normal” price.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at June 01, 2022 05:32 PM (OalnH)

175 Two months ago, Grandpa predicted releasing 1M barrels per day from the SPR would lower prices by 10-35 cents a gallon.

They are up 40 cents since then.

Apparently nobody told the retard that SPR barrels are sold on the open market, and in the first sale they went for $103 to $111 per barrel, or the exact same price the greedy companies like ExxonMobil are selling it for. Will the feds now investigate themselves for price gouging?

Posted by: the dandy at June 01, 2022 05:32 PM (m+gHC)

176 "We can't drill our way out of this."

- President Down-Low

Posted by: Azathoth at June 01, 2022 05:32 PM (wb1YC)

177 Hey, has anybody used “snizz” in the comments at all today?

It’s like I don’t know you people. Be better.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 01, 2022 05:32 PM (rzOL9)

178 "OK, so why the HUGE drop in production from March to May of 2020? almost a 25% drop? Oil leases should not have changed that drastically? Regulatory change?

I know that's right after Biden came into office... but something totally tanked production."

I wasn't making any particular point, just supplying some data. Make of it what you will. We're boned fer sure.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:32 PM (qpX6U)

179 Executive order that gas prices can only be advertised in cost/half-gallon (and only mentioning at the pump that it's per half gallon).

Posted by: SFGoth at June 01, 2022 05:32 PM (KAi1n)

180 ace, that "midterm wipeout" you referred to is a myth. Dems got away with stealing the 2020 election and suffered virtually no repercussions. There is no way in Hell they won't cheat this November. It's all they have.

It blows my mind that people keep referring to voting as if it matters.

Posted by: creeper at June 01, 2022 05:32 PM (cTCuP)

181 I know that's right after Biden came into office... but something totally tanked production.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (oHd/0)

For one, just before the fraud, ‘bite me’ promised to send oil executives to jail.

Posted by: 7man at June 01, 2022 05:33 PM (qwO6y)

182 Joey Diapers did say he was going to ban fracking and bankrupt the oil companies.

They must have believed him

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 01, 2022 05:33 PM (M+Lyo)

183 Unimpressed, CSX.
Posted by: ZOD at June 01, 2022 05:31 PM (Q/6pY)

What if we just bought a fuckload of Kenworths and say they "identify" as boxcars?

Posted by: CSX at June 01, 2022 05:33 PM (6FeV1)

184 Marine ratched sent me picture of a Chevron sign in SoCal advertising gas for 8.17 a gallon just three days ago. Prolly more now.

With apologies to the Kalifornians present, if there's a demo whose high gas prices I don't care about, it's Kalifornians.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 01, 2022 05:33 PM (ppBhU)

185 The inflation was their miscalculation, but - YOLO, so I guess you never know.

Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:33 PM (Vr12I)

186 $6.79 for regular here.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 01, 2022 05:33 PM (jTmQV)

187 170
How's biden's baby food fiasco going?
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 most trusted name in news at June 01, 2022 05:31 PM (iKRxF)

You mean the totally unpredictable shortage when you close a factory making 42% of the Baby Food for the Nation, while not allowing the import of Baby Food?

But... totes unpredictable... no one could have seen THAT coming....

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 05:33 PM (oHd/0)

188 The left knows that their policies are only popular when the truth of them is hidden from the public.

That's why they don't report on inner city crime, why they hate billboards, why they have to own the press, why they want to censor social media, why they don't want parents at school board meetings, etc, etc...

They don't care if their policies fail. They don't care if people suffer. They only cafe if other people find out about it.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 01, 2022 05:34 PM (BJKQV)

189 Obviously we need gas subsidies. Tax the rich to pay for it. Not that hard. The government can give the big chains $5/gallon and all we will have to pay is a government mandated $2/ gallon plus state taxes on the entire unsubsidized price. That should reduce total cost by about 10%!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 01, 2022 05:34 PM (12jgO)

190 in the 1970's, right, OPEC decided to limit production. That lowered supply.

We're not in a squeeze (outside of taking our own gas off the table), we're just fucked that we traded $600 stimmy checks for the low cost of cutting the value of the dollar in half.

Like Putin told Europe, "you want gas? you pay with gold, suckers." Can't print more gold.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:34 PM (OuH7W)

191 The only logical solution is to ban billboards.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (BJKQV)

A billboard once bit my sister.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 01, 2022 05:34 PM (nByzo)

192 Worse: High gas prices.

Worst: Mean tweets.

Posted by: Marooned at June 01, 2022 05:34 PM (w6hJ9)

193 4.29 for regular here.

Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:34 PM (Vr12I)

194 U know what else is on a billboard? Two guys in Kalvin Klein kissing.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 01, 2022 05:34 PM (3Or4S)

195 179 Executive order that gas prices can only be advertised in cost/half-gallon (and only mentioning at the pump that it's per half gallon).

dude. if you price it in liters, you can both confuse the american public and hide the increase. with the state of the american education system, nobody'll be able to figure out whether they're paying more for gas this week.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at June 01, 2022 05:34 PM (sGtp+)

196
A billboard once bit my sister.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at June 01, 2022 05:34 PM (nByzo)

3 Billboards was a shitty movie.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (Zz0t1)

197 What's going to be interesting is how this affects attempts to push people back into the office. Why should I burn through and extra $20-$30 of gas each day to drive into the office if I can do the job from home? Is the company going to pay me more? For that matter, what company wants to deal with the costs of heating/cooling, and lighting a large office building?

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (9AO9K)

198 A woman was gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park on Monday, May 25, 2022. Park officials said in a news release the 25-year-old woman from Ohio approached a bison to within 10 feet; two other people were also within 25 yards of the same bison.

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We need common sense buffalo control.

https://bit.ly/3am9XG4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (FVME7)

199 193 4.29 for regular here.

6.19 here

Posted by: kulak anachronda, behind the newsom curtain at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (sGtp+)

200 Note there's no expressed concern with how to stop it, just to stop people finding out.

Maybe instead of bill boards we need disinformation boards.

Posted by: ... at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (dscaa)

201 Joe Scarborough always comes across as aggressive and angry. Is it possible that Joe is lashing out to compensate for the humiliation Mika unleashes when she's pegging him?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 01, 2022 05:32 PM (BP3/z)

That and covering for that intern he killed in hid office

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (M+Lyo)

202 194 U know what else is on a billboard? Two guys in Kalvin Klein kissing.
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 01, 2022 05:34 PM (3Or4S)

Or chicks. Maybe. Who the fuck even knows.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (6FeV1)

203 169 How devoid of reasoning skills must one be to think that if you tear the price tag off of a thing before you buy it, it doesn't matter what it costs?

That's pre-kindergarten levels of thinking, right there.
____________

Well we are talking about Dims here.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (MvHI3)

204 justed for inflation gas prices have been very steady over the past 40 years. There are spikes and shar drop offs (remember early 2016?) but it quickly reverts back to the average. Most likely in a few months it will be back around $3 which is the inflation adjusted “normal” price.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at June 01, 2022 05:32 PM (OalnH)
==

I'll bet 1000 quatloos that it doesn't.

That was the free market. This is government doing the price hikes for a greeeeeeeeeen future.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (WKPeU)

205 No one has a magic wand.

Posted by: Moron Robbie

The Paulo begs to differ.

Posted by: The Paulo at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (IEa8U)

206 >>We're middle class and are telling the kids we're getting the $2 pretzels instead of the $4 Lay's so that we can drive to wherever for vacation this year.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at June 01, 2022 05:31 PM (c1p4Y)

$2 pretzels? I wish. Even the store brand snacks are pushing $4 now.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (La6gB)

207 185 The inflation was their miscalculation, but - YOLO, so I guess you never know.
Posted by: kraken

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this is the real grinds our gears thing...even rw blog commenters knew what causes inflation.

anyway, at the end of the day, you can't ghey-pride and george floyd your way out of people noticing $10 gas.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (OuH7W)

208 re 102: graph shows production was higher per month in 2019 than months since Biden got into the White House

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (Ynyl9)

209 "4.29 for regular here."

We've reached $5 here in Shithole City, IL.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:36 PM (qpX6U)

210 This sure does seem to be putting a whole lot of cash into putin's pocket. It sure is a good thing they got that russian stooge out of the whitehouse or things would be really bad now.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 01, 2022 05:36 PM (0fVbu)

211

Feed the homeless to the hungry then burn the hungry to spin the turbines, then vote the cemetery! Genius!

Posted by: Joey Bidet, Crack SBD Pilot at June 01, 2022 05:36 PM (Y50Mt)

212 seems Trump was responsible for everything bad, but Joey Dirty Diaper has no control over anything.

No brains no headaches
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (M+Lyo)
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Somehow Trump was responsible for every death of a virus they told us was very deadly, and would kill 2.2 million in a year, but now reality of what a president really can do has to set in.

How would the Democrats pander if they stuck to reality?

"Hey, everything might go to crap during my term, but I promise you one thing, it wasn't my fault, and I could only do so much against it"

Instead we got promises to "shut down a virus" which Dems didn't see as too much to believe a President could do.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:36 PM (OaZlZ)

213 196 3 Billboards was a shitty movie.

this is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: amber heard at June 01, 2022 05:36 PM (sGtp+)

214 A billboard ate the dingo.

Posted by: Elaine at June 01, 2022 05:37 PM (Vg5Sd)

215 Was is Obama, or PasteEater, or both, who said that High Gas Prices are a Good Thing (tm) because Teh Earf or some such jumped up bullshit?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2022 05:37 PM (6FeV1)

216
This, too, is the fell work of the masketeers.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2022 05:37 PM (/U27+)

217 $6.19 here $6.58 for Diesel

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 01, 2022 05:37 PM (M+Lyo)

218 I seem to recall Biden campaigning on "shutting down" fossil fuels.
Probably just me...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 01, 2022 05:37 PM (jTmQV)

219 gosh I don't check gas prices every day

I try not to look!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 01, 2022 05:37 PM (w0NJk)

220 OK, so why the HUGE drop in production from March to May of 2020? almost a 25% drop? Oil leases should not have changed that drastically? Regulatory change?

I know that's right after Biden came into office... but something totally tanked production.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 05:30 PM (oHd/0)
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Biden came in 2021. It was the 2020 COVID shut down. Oil production never made it back to pre-covid levels.

Posted by: WisRich at June 01, 2022 05:37 PM (G0vdT)

221 3 Billboards was a shitty movie.

I never saw it. But it has Frances McDormand, who has a face made for radio and a voice made for miming, so I trust your assessment is a reasonable one.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 01, 2022 05:38 PM (ppBhU)

222 Democrat: The Movie

You will believe a President can shut down a virus!

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:38 PM (OaZlZ)

223 Somehow Trump was responsible for every death of a virus they told us was very deadly, and would kill 2.2 million in a year, but now reality of what a president really can do has to set in.

///

those folks who died of covid related gsw's and carcrashes are blood on twumps hands.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:38 PM (OuH7W)

224 seems Trump was responsible for everything bad, but Joey Dirty Diaper has no control over anything.

***

Odd, that

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 01, 2022 05:38 PM (kf6Ak)

225 Federal Government is simply organized crime at this point

Posted by: Mozam at June 01, 2022 05:38 PM (ea+OK)

226 We were at 4.09 for a while, then it jumped 20 cents.

Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:39 PM (Vr12I)

227 the other thing, we said "biden is going to spike the price of gas" and the leftoids still worked overtime to cheat to get him in office.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:39 PM (OuH7W)

228 " "It's a really difficult issue to message around when you can't deny the reality.""

Translation, their normal MO (lie, lie, lie - AKA "message") is impossible to get away with when it is so obvious to everyone with a car that gas prices are shooting through the roof.

Posted by: J Thomason at June 01, 2022 05:39 PM (xvARV)

229 It's all well and good for Joe Scarborough to mouth off, but it's Mika's job to tell us what to think, and she seems to be falling down on the job.

And where's Tater with his Take(tm)?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 01, 2022 05:39 PM (a3Q+t)

230 iirc, the first thing Biden did upon taking office was cancel Keystone.

Posted by: davidt at June 01, 2022 05:39 PM (Vg5Sd)

231 although, to be honest, I've never seen a box of mail-in ballots pay for a tank of gas.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:39 PM (OuH7W)

232 anyway, at the end of the day, you can't ghey-pride and george floyd your way out of people noticing $10 gas.
____________

Yep, you need something much, much bigger to distract the angry domestic population.

Something like, perhaps, a nuclear attack from an enraged Russia?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 01, 2022 05:39 PM (MvHI3)

233 Biden misfired. He meant to shut down a virus and hit the kill switch on baby formula.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:39 PM (OaZlZ)

234 hell, two years ago Little Debbie snack stuff was $1.79 a box, now $2.59.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at June 01, 2022 05:40 PM (Ynyl9)

235 We need common sense buffalo control.

https://bit.ly/3am9XG4
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (FVME7)

Dunno, buffalo is doing its part to cull the stupid and weak.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at June 01, 2022 05:40 PM (V6f9+)

236
Reporter: Why didn't you move quicker on the baby formula shortage?

Biden: "I don't think anyone anticipated the impact of the shutdown of Abbott facility."

Reporter: "Didn't the CEOs just tell you they understood it would have a very big impact?"

Biden:"They did but I didn't"

**cue Curb Your Enthusiasm theme**

Posted by: Azathoth at June 01, 2022 05:40 PM (wb1YC)

237 Those SOB Oil Companies and Refineries raised the price of gas to make Biden look bad !!!!! Trump is behind this and should be impeached for 138th time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at June 01, 2022 05:40 PM (QgwDT)

238 Look honey, the buffalo will eat outta your hand.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 01, 2022 05:40 PM (Mf7Vh)

239 Klain's replacement, Anita Dunn will get the job done.

Posted by: Maj. Roger Healey at June 01, 2022 05:40 PM (P5wHg)

240 At least eggs are still 2$ a dozen.

Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (Vr12I)

241 My F100.holds 40 gallons gets 18mpg. At $7 gallon that's almost $300. I can't do it. Brandon killed my truck.

Posted by: torabora at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (YQSpA)

242 although, to be honest, I've never seen a box of mail-in ballots pay for a tank of gas.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:39 PM (OuH7W)
===

Oh it bought way more than a tank.

Posted by: Ballot Mule at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (WKPeU)

243
I never saw it. But it has Frances McDormand, who has a face made for radio and a voice made for miming, so I trust your assessment is a reasonable one.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 01, 2022 05:38 PM (ppBhU)

The premise is, her daughter was murdered by being lit on fire or something. Cop overhears a MILITARY guy bragging about how he lit some chick on fire, because THAT'S WHAT MILITARY GUYS DO.

Turns out, it wasn't THAT guy, but some OTHER military guy.......because that's what military guys do....light women on fire.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (Zz0t1)

244 Fuck Joe Biden in the fartclam with a rusty weasel.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (K5n5d)

245 "You think you can do better, asshole?"
-- Democrats, speaking to their bosses, the American voter.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (Zf0+a)

246 anyway, at the end of the day, you can't ghey-pride and george floyd your way out of people noticing $10 gas.
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Yeah but the only other thing that could keep them in power is governing. And they're so not equipped to use anything but words.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (OaZlZ)

247 >>> 232 anyway, at the end of the day, you can't ghey-pride and george floyd your way out of people noticing $10 gas.
____________

Yep, you need something much, much bigger to distract the angry domestic population.

Something like, perhaps, a nuclear attack from an enraged Russia?
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 01, 2022 05:39 PM (MvHI3)

*tee hee*

We are SMAHHHRRRTTT!!

Posted by: Great Resetters at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (llON8)

248 I can't even get mad at these dickwads anymore

stupid minds!!!! stupid... stupid minds!!!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (w0NJk)

249 225 Federal Government is simply organized crime at this point
Posted by: Mozam at June 01, 2022 05:38 PM (ea+OK)

It ain't even all that organized, to be honest.

Just a writhing fistula of lunatics and wormtongues dry-humping the levers of power in a florid orgy of impotence.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (6FeV1)

250 New BLM head Cicley Gay has filed for personal bankruptcy three times

https://tinyurl.com/mryu5e38

Posted by: redridinghood at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (NpAcC)

251 So what is Biden's strategy for dealing with gas prices?

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Beg all of America's enemies to produce more oil for us!

Super easy, barely an inconvenience ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (bqjxX)

252 So gas prices rose. It cost $45 to fill up a car. https://wapo.st/38IAEEo

Hey dipshit!
Most of our gas tanks hold more than 10 gallons.
Most of real Americans gas tanks are 20 or more gallons.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (9rYNN)

253 A severely depleted SOR that didn't change squat.
Every bit of this is Bribe'em's fault.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (IK4MJ)

254 Was watching "Die Hard" this past week. Didn't seem like its that old of a movie but then I noticed in one scene, they had a quick shot of gas station with the gas prices posted on the billboard: 75 cents....in LA!

I thought, "Wow, I'm really old".

Posted by: WisRich at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (G0vdT)

255 The premise is, her daughter was murdered by being lit on fire or something. Cop overhears a MILITARY guy bragging about how he lit some chick on fire, because THAT'S WHAT MILITARY GUYS DO.

Turns out, it wasn't THAT guy, but some OTHER military guy.......because that's what military guys do....light women on fire.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (Zz0t1)

When clearly anyone who listens to music knows its the other way around.... I mean...

Come on Baby, Light my Fire....

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (oHd/0)

256 >>> 238 Look honey, the buffalo will eat outta your hand.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 01, 2022 05:40 PM (Mf7Vh)

Why didn't *I* think of that?!

Posted by: Johnny Depp at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (llON8)

257 He's lamented that it's the one item everyone knows the cost of because gas station billboards are so ubiquitous throughout the country.

Translation: we only care because the prices are so easy to see changing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (KZzsI)

258 Surely someone remembers Obama's smart ass "magic wand" quip regarding Trump.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (c1p4Y)

259 >>What if we just bought a fuckload of Kenworths and say they "identify" as boxcars?
Posted by: CSX at June 01, 2022 05:33 PM (6FeV1)

"Promote this man for creative thinking. Then kill him for heresy."

ZOD EMPIRE is entrepreneurial...to gamma degree.

Posted by: ZOD at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (Q/6pY)

260 Eggs are $4 dozen in California.
Chickens live in the Hyatt long term residence now.
Homeless can starve.

Posted by: torabora at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (YQSpA)

261 $350 to replace a broken medium sized double-pane window.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (qpX6U)

262 "At least the president can say, 'I'm trying.'"

These are the President of the United States' advisors. They really want him to go to the American people and announce that, while he is trying, he is also failing.

He's failing. But at least he's trying.

That's what these fucking braniacs surrounding this dolt want him to go onto the fake White House set and announce.

They want him to announce that he's a failure.

Because of course they're all betas. They're all sucking each others dicks most of the day when they're not showing that white-painted-nails guy running around Tik-Toking this shit show.

I'd tell them all to eat a bag of dicks, but they're already doing that.

Posted by: JamesTCarville at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (z50H4)

263 My RV is now getting a mile/$.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:43 PM (WKPeU)

264 At least eggs are still 2$ a dozen.
Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (Vr12I)
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1) maybe where you live
2) that's still twice the price from 18 months ago where I live (which is more than $2/doz right now)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 01, 2022 05:43 PM (K5n5d)

265 woman was gored by a bison in Yellowstone National Park on Monday, May 25, 2022. Park officials said in a news release the 25-year-old woman from Ohio approached a bison to within 10 feet; two other people were also within 25 yards of the same bison.
-
We need common sense buffalo control.

https://bit.ly/3am9XG4
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (FVME7)

Years ago there was a spate of tourist killings by Buffalo in Yellowstone. The nearby Bozeman newspaper ran a sports page headline on the front page.

Bison 6 Tourist 0

Posted by: Beartooth at June 01, 2022 05:43 PM (NQrvS)

266 Brandon killed my truck.
Posted by: torabora at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (YQSpA)

Yup. I had planned on taking my truck to Utah in June, but now now I am taking my wife's Hyundai. Much better gas mileage, but I won't be doing any 4-wheeling with it.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at June 01, 2022 05:43 PM (xPJvm)

267 Joe Scarborough threw a hissy fit when his best friend, Baseball Cuck, dared to disagree with him. I wonder how Mika calmed him down.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at June 01, 2022 05:43 PM (uWF4x)

268 "the intricate market forces"

Supply and demand are not 'intricate.' They're very simple.

You limited supply with your policies by canceling leases and halting pipeline construction, while demand remains constant - or during the summer driving season, increases - so the price goes up.

Dishonest fucks.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at June 01, 2022 05:43 PM (TU8Tj)

269 Breaking…

Hawaiian judge has just ruled gas prices are unconstitutional.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at June 01, 2022 05:43 PM (OalnH)

270 We need common sense buffalo control.

My people used every part of the tatanka.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at June 01, 2022 05:43 PM (a3Q+t)

271 240 At least eggs are still 2$ a dozen.
Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (Vr12I)

They aren't even that cheap at my Aldi's anymore...

Not on sale 1 dozen large "store" eggs is $2.29 (Aldi's) to $3.99 here...

Gas is $4.89, so they've kept holding it under $5 so far...

Posted by: Nova local at June 01, 2022 05:44 PM (exHjb)

272 #257
California is getting windfall taxes off high gas prices.

Posted by: torabora at June 01, 2022 05:44 PM (YQSpA)

273 "Could they advertise anything else?" Klain rhetorically, and ruefully, asked one recent visitor.

Yes, they could.

"You know what will make you sicker than our gas station sushi? Our gas prices" How's that Klain?

Out here in Rube-Land, there are websites that people can go to to compare gas prices in their town each day to decide where the cheapest gas is. It has been available on the internet for a long time.

Posted by: Cheri at June 01, 2022 05:44 PM (oiNtH)

274 235 We need common sense buffalo control.

https://bit.ly/3am9XG4
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 01, 2022 05:35 PM (FVME7)

Dunno, buffalo is doing its part to cull the stupid and weak.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at June 01, 2022 05:40 PM (V6f9+)

/nods knowingly....

Posted by: Darwin at June 01, 2022 05:44 PM (oHd/0)

275 When it cost $10 per gallon will people start to get it?
Posted by: Guy watching a puppet show at June 01, 2022 05:17 PM (vrz2I)

Well, I'm wondering how people are dealing with the $115 limit on cards (at least here in the bay area). Do you have to switch cards, or do 2 separate transactions to fill up your car now? I just put in a few gallons every time I'm near a mid-$6 station, because I know it'll be a dime more tomorrow. Not even putting in half a tank and spending $60 is insane. I really have to wonder how some people are managing right now. Utter insanity.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at June 01, 2022 05:44 PM (zB/T/)

276 my bicycle doesn't need gas!

Posted by: Mayor Pete at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (Ynyl9)

277 Weird how market forces were straight forward during Trumps time. Then all of a sudden they got all intricate and shit in early 2021.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (OalnH)

278 California is getting windfall taxes off high gas prices.

oh fuck so is Pennsy I guess

dammit

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (w0NJk)

279 Gas must be advertised in 8/10s of a gallon.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (12jgO)

280 234 hell, two years ago Little Debbie snack stuff was $1.79 a box, now $2.59.
__________

Kraft cream-cheese dip, which was $1.99 at my supermarket a couple of months ago, is now $5.29. (I noticed that one because I buy it every week. Or I should say I used to buy it every week. Not anymore).

A 2-pound pack of chicken tenders is now $19.00. Eggs are around $5 a dozen (some are more, depending on the brand).

It's insane.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (MvHI3)

281 Eggs are $4.99/dozen here in SoCal.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (WKPeU)

282 The invasion of Ukraine led to a global backlash against Russia, which produces more oil than all but two other countries.

*one of them being the USA, not so long ago

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (KZzsI)

283 I'm late to the thread...

but y'know?

Continuing the covid-caused shutdown of much of the US energy industry was one of the ways in which these *&^#$% traitors helped send 300 billion or so dollars to Vladimir Putin.

Ugh.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Cryptid Anarchist at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (taEBS)

284 I disagree with the assertion by some that this is all some sort of grand plan for the global reset. I think the real problem is that it wasn't planned. These dipshits reflexively pushed this hard left crap and figured that it wouldn't hurt them because they've always relied in the past on the fact that the US economy was robust enough to absorb a lot of these types of decisions. The problem is that they had already burned through that margin of safety thanks to eight years of Obama and then their covid/ George Floyd violence.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (9AO9K)

285 276 my bicycle doesn't need gas!
Posted by: Mayor Pete at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (Ynyl9)

Or a seat, apparently.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (6FeV1)

286 264 At least eggs are still 2$ a dozen.
Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (Vr12I)
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1) maybe where you live
2) that's still twice the price from 18 months ago where I live (which is more than $2/doz right now)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 01, 2022 05:43 PM (K5n5d)

Well I cheat. Farmer down the road has a lot of layers. 2 bucks a dozen all you want. He said he's not in it to make money. He gives away many dozens of eggs every week to local food pantry. Still some good people out there.

Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:46 PM (Vr12I)

287 258 Surely someone remembers Obama's smart ass "magic wand" quip regarding Trump.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - the CEO of Moderna acknowledged the presence of patented sequence in Covid-19 at June 01, 2022 05:42 PM (c1p4Y)
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And I remember Trump's magic wand.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 01, 2022 05:46 PM (9rYNN)

288 For whatever reason I hate the word bison. I've always called them buffalo, and will do so for the rest of my life. Bison sounds kind of sissy.

Oh. And anyone getting gored by a buffalo is too close. Pretty simple. Stupid people doing stupid things. And the elk rut is nothing to mess around with either.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at June 01, 2022 05:46 PM (xPJvm)

289 The White House's focus on gas prices is bred from two sobering political conclusions top officials have made. The first is that they have little control over the problem.

Bull. Shit. You don't get to control EVERY ASPECT of oil, from drilling leases, to pumping amounts, to transport, to refining, to selling AND SAY YOU DON'T CONTROL PRICE!

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 01, 2022 05:46 PM (Ior/p)

290 266 Yup. I had planned on taking my truck to Utah in June, but now now I am taking my wife's Hyundai. Much better gas mileage, but I won't be doing any 4-wheeling with it.

that's ok. i suspect there isn't any lost aztec gold in that hole, anyway.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at June 01, 2022 05:46 PM (sGtp+)

291 It now cost almost $150 to fill up my truck. Just f'n unbelievable. Anyone who supports this fukwit should be type deleted.

Posted by: fd at June 01, 2022 05:46 PM (vrz2I)

292 i just checked the Wegmans app
AA Large eggs 2.79/doz
Jumbo eggs $3.29/doz

I think Redners might be cheaper but I don't have their app

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 01, 2022 05:46 PM (kf6Ak)

293 Joe Scarborough threw a hissy fit when his best friend, Baseball Cuck, dared to disagree with him. I wonder how Mika calmed him down.

She let him kill her intern

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 01, 2022 05:46 PM (KZzsI)

294
You joke about banning billboards, but you know damned well that they're seriously considering it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 01, 2022 05:47 PM (n+4am)

295 It's not "bison".
It's "bison bison".

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 01, 2022 05:47 PM (jTmQV)

296
They've already been reprogramming the pump controls to handle double digit fuel prices. So that tells you where they're projecting this is going.

Way back when prices went over $1 that was a problem for a lot of the older mechanical pumps. They would just divide the price by some integer to get it below $1 and then multiply the final price.

An old country store was still doing that well into the '80s. They weren't gonna buy any new pumps.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at June 01, 2022 05:47 PM (Mzdiz)

297 I think I paid $6 for 2 dozen at costco

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:47 PM (OuH7W)

298 California is getting windfall taxes off high gas prices.
Posted by: torabora at June 01, 2022 05:44 PM (YQSpA)

Governor Brylcreem Said a few months back he was going to push back the July tax increase, but has changed his mind apparently. Those parties at the French Laundry ain't gonna throw themselves. And now, he can do one more a month.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at June 01, 2022 05:47 PM (zB/T/)

299 The problem is that they had already burned through that margin of safety thanks to eight years of Obama and then their covid/ George Floyd violence.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (9AO9K)
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Yep. The "design margin" of the USA has, until recently, been quite large, allowing us to absorb quite a few shocks to the system. These fucksticks in charge have squandered our entire design margin to a razor's edge and think they have a winning formula.

Fucking idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (K5n5d)

300 You joke about banning billboards, but you know damned well that they're seriously considering it.

damn you're probably right ...

but they're talking about the station signage really - I can see Wawa or some large chain darkening the price boards at the order of Joebama, actually

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (w0NJk)

301 Spending 4.09 in ETEX, every time it gete down by 1/4 tank. Like going south seems like going downhill. Hroom!

Posted by: Eromero at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (gktX6)

302 276 my bicycle doesn't need gas!
Posted by: Mayor Pete at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (Ynyl9)

Do that in January in Colorado fag boy.

Posted by: Infidel at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (E0NVW)

303 Supply chain isn't words or a voting machine.

So the Dems don't know how to work anything not 100% manipulate.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (OaZlZ)

304 A 2-pound pack of chicken tenders is now $19.00. Eggs are around $5 a dozen (some are more, depending on the brand).
===

Something I've noticed in the last two weeks. The grocery store is running a deli cooked chicken pieces at $5/8 pieces, only dark meat. Which I like because that's what I eat.

But why would this be happening? White meat going to other uses and a real lack of available chickens is my guess.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (WKPeU)

305 263 My RV is now getting a mile/$.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:43 PM (WKPeU)

In 2008 Obama went to Indiana where all the RVs are made and touted how he was going to save their jobs. Meanwhile he did all he could to make gas so expensive nobody could afford to drive one,

But the rubes in Indiana happily voted for him.

American voters can be very idiotic very often.

Posted by: Joe Xiden at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (OalnH)

306 The whole “show us your plan” schtick is so stupid. I did not run for POTUS at a time when it was apparent that some inflation would set in. At the very least, Biden should have been able to identify people who could help him formulate a plan. But he could not even do that.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (T6NRc)

307 Biden wants gas prices to go higher. And energy bills are next.

Posted by: MikeN at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (ek6Pv)

308 We can still get chicken leg quarters for .69 cents/ lb at Hy-Vee.

Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (Vr12I)

309 295 It's not "bison".
It's "bison bison".

could be worse.

Posted by: buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (sGtp+)

310 >>>give us your plan. You're a lying hack or an ignorant rube if you claim this president has had more than a passing impact on inflation.

first of all, I'd open a murder investigation on a hack.

Posted by: x at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (uQFwj)

311 I'm too slow to keep up.

(motions to assertive aide)

Maneuver the conversation. In a direction.

The direction doesn't really matter. Just.....maneuver it. I need sleep.

Posted by: ZOD at June 01, 2022 05:49 PM (Q/6pY)

312 but goddamn if that $5 rotisserie chicken aint still five bucks

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:49 PM (OuH7W)

313 > Joe Scarborough threw a hissy fit when his best friend, Baseball Cuck, dared to disagree with him. I wonder how Mika calmed him down.

She asked he Paolo if it would be okay if the Joe watched the Paolo...how you say...dork her up the squeakhole.

Posted by: The Paolo at June 01, 2022 05:49 PM (bW8dp)

314 Meanwhile, you can't get any return on your savings in CDs. You want return, you have to go with dividend stocks, with the market just past the top of a 13 year rally. 4% dividend can't match +10% inflation. Situation is dire. This inflation is the kind of thing that brings the pitchforks and torches. Klain is right to be worried, even if he's too late to the party.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:49 PM (qpX6U)

315 Did see over $4.80 here today, diesel is around 6.20 I think in se Pa

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2022 05:49 PM (2JoB8)

316 Simple solution, change all prices on the gas stations signs to ounces or maybe liters.

Posted by: Colin at June 01, 2022 05:49 PM (YVx1O)

317 Let them eat Earth.

Posted by: Marie Antoinette of the 21st Century at June 01, 2022 05:49 PM (OaZlZ)

318 Lol. WaPo sure knows their readers. "Econ 101" So after reading the article lefties will become instant Economics Experts and anyone who blames Biden is an "idiot who doesn't even understand basic economics!!!"

How to appeal to smug midwits 101

Posted by: 29Victor at June 01, 2022 05:49 PM (BJKQV)

319 I disagree with the assertion by some that this is all some sort of grand plan for the global reset. I think the real problem is that it wasn't planned. These dipshits reflexively pushed this hard left crap and figured that it wouldn't hurt them because they've always relied in the past on the fact that the US economy was robust enough to absorb a lot of these types of decisions. The problem is that they had already burned through that margin of safety thanks to eight years of Obama and then their covid/ George Floyd violence.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in

Agreed. This is all Sri Lanka going full retard on organic farming, times every government regulation of everything.

Posted by: TexasDan at June 01, 2022 05:49 PM (z9npv)

320 remember guys, the fashion of the day during great depressions is Onion on the Belt.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:50 PM (OuH7W)

321 Do that in January in Colorado fag boy.
Posted by: Infidel at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (E0NVW)

I see a shocking number of bicycle idiots doing just that here in FC. Signal that virtue, idiots.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at June 01, 2022 05:50 PM (xPJvm)

322 Scarborough seems mighty angry. Did any of you morons hook Mika up with The Paulo?

Posted by: Mr. Barky at June 01, 2022 05:50 PM (hKi6n)

323
Bull. Shit. You don't get to control EVERY ASPECT of oil, from drilling leases, to pumping amounts, to transport, to refining, to selling AND SAY YOU DON'T CONTROL PRICE!
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 01, 2022 05:46 PM (Ior/p)

Well, the oil companies are just going to have to pump more oil out of the leases they already have. Oh, and reduce prices out of their huge 3% profit margins. Or else.

Geez, don't you people know how economics works????

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 01, 2022 05:50 PM (n+4am)

324 "Bison" is a little sexist.

Should be bi-offspring-of-their-own-selected-gender.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 01, 2022 05:50 PM (bW8dp)

325 California is getting windfall taxes off high gas prices.
Posted by: torabora at June 01, 2022 05:44 PM (YQSpA)

The tax is a static number per gallon. If gas is $3 or $6 the tax is the same, so how are they getting windfall profits?

Posted by: Joe Xiden at June 01, 2022 05:50 PM (OalnH)

326 They took a short holiday. The processing pants will be burning again soon.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 01, 2022 05:50 PM (Mf7Vh)

327 Forget gas. Let's watch the trannies make tacos.

Posted by: Biden at June 01, 2022 05:50 PM (Toy/J)

328 The first time Gen. Custer saw a bison-bison, he rode his horse over to have a look. The bison-bison promptly gored Custer's horse, which infuriated Custer, as it was his favorite horse. So Custer drew his revolver and shot at the bison-bison, the bullet ricocheted off the animal's skull and hit Custer's horse, killing it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 01, 2022 05:50 PM (jTmQV)

329 312 but goddamn if that $5 rotisserie chicken aint still five bucks
____________

My store used to have that too. Now the $5 rotisserie chicken is $7.99.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 01, 2022 05:50 PM (MvHI3)

330 Narrator: none of the employees at WAPo ever took Econ 101.

Posted by: TexasDan at June 01, 2022 05:51 PM (z9npv)

331 "American voters can be very idiotic very often."

Fickle, stupid, and very short attention spans.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:51 PM (qpX6U)

332 Meh Thai takeout near my office now $23-26 for a dinner entree. Plus Grub hub, tax and something as a tip and its over $30. Over $30 frickin dollars for a meh Thai dinner entree. That's with no appie and no drinks.

It was pricey before but now it's rape-rape.

Posted by: Zek at June 01, 2022 05:51 PM (OzNIz)

333 Yep. The "design margin" of the USA has, until recently, been quite large, allowing us to absorb quite a few shocks to the system. These fucksticks in charge have squandered our entire design margin to a razor's edge and think they have a winning formula.

Fucking idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (K5n5d)
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I keep saying that a lot of the problems over the past twenty years are due to people borrowing against the accumulated social, economic, cultural, and political capital of the west, while simultaneously burning through it. All for their own gain.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 01, 2022 05:51 PM (9AO9K)

334 314 Meanwhile, you can't get any return on your savings in CDs.

that's ok. the world's moved on to streaming, anyway.

Posted by: bitcoin at June 01, 2022 05:51 PM (sGtp+)

335 but goddamn if that $5 rotisserie chicken aint still five bucks
Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:49 PM (OuH7W)
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Even with the added labor of shaping rat to look like chicken.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:51 PM (OaZlZ)

336 Come on folks... Biden RAN on raising gas prices as the pain of transitioning to Green Energy. He CAMPAIGNED on it...

and it's the only Campaign promise he is keeping. Don't allow the Dems to now get away with saying 'oh, this is so horrible!'.

THEY WANTED THIS and have done this BY POLICY.
Posted by: Romeo13

Yeah, and Russia helped.
The global price for a barrel of crude has gone up, because the US is producing less oil (per capita) than in 2019, and because a lot of "Russian" oil is ...off the market. Although they are selling oil to China, India and others. Somehow the Russia "embargo" doesn't quite wash. And OPEC is doing no favors for Joey Bumblemouth, by increasing supply.
Like a lot of things lately, it seems supply is "inelastic" and demand pushes prices higher. Funny how that works.
There is a direct correlation to energy usage and GDP growth, not just for the US, but globally, for everybody. As energy production goes up, more wealth is produced. And that's why we are heading into a recession. Because they've spiked energy production; gas, oil, coal, you name it.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at June 01, 2022 05:51 PM (vcOmj)

337 Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (9AO9K)

The fact that we're headed toward everything both the detractors predicted was going to happen and supporters of the administration say they WANT to happen, doesn't give you pause?

Posted by: ... at June 01, 2022 05:51 PM (dscaa)

338 Skullfuck the uniparty to death before they destroy EVERYTHING.

Posted by: The Biden Abomination That Causes Desolation at June 01, 2022 05:52 PM (jV+aN)

339 So is Biden sucking Bezos' dick or is Bezos sucking Biden's dick.

Or do they just swap Scarborough back & forth?

Posted by: aelfheld at June 01, 2022 05:52 PM (Zy9Yy)

340
I see a shocking number of bicycle idiots doing just that here in FC. Signal that virtue, idiots.
Posted by: Pug Mahon,

Gah. I know. Hell, even speedo man would put on clothes in the winter. Never saw him in the snow.

Posted by: Infidel at June 01, 2022 05:52 PM (E0NVW)

341 304 A 2-pound pack of chicken tenders is now $19.00. Eggs are around $5 a dozen (some are more, depending on the brand).
===

Something I've noticed in the last two weeks. The grocery store is running a deli cooked chicken pieces at $5/8 pieces, only dark meat. Which I like because that's what I eat.

But why would this be happening? White meat going to other uses and a real lack of available chickens is my guess.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (WKPeU)

Mine is running a sale for that, too...we ate it tonight so I could go to the pool - but my sale price is $7/8 (with regular price not $9/

- yes, the sale price is last year's regular price, but I'll still buy it b/c the chicken prices are ridiculous and this is cooked and prepped...

Posted by: Nova local at June 01, 2022 05:52 PM (exHjb)

342 California is getting windfall taxes off high gas prices.
Posted by: torabora at June 01, 2022 05:44 PM (YQSpA)

The tax is a static number per gallon. If gas is $3 or $6 the tax is the same, so how are they getting windfall profits?

Posted by: Joe Xiden
===

Not the sales tax Mr. Accountant.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:52 PM (WKPeU)

343 307 Biden wants gas prices to go higher. And energy bills are next.
Posted by: MikeN at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (ek6Pv)

Yup, its why I'm putting MORE solar on the house, than I actually need... and putting in a battery. Paying for it out of pocket...

But this way peak rates here in Calif, which run from 4PM to 9PM... ie, partly after Dark... I can run off the battery... and still sell excess back to the power company.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 05:52 PM (oHd/0)

344 not = now $9

Posted by: Nova local at June 01, 2022 05:52 PM (exHjb)

345 284 I disagree with the assertion by some that this is all some sort of grand plan for the global reset. I think the real problem is that it wasn't planned. These dipshits reflexively pushed this hard left crap and figured that it wouldn't hurt them because they've always relied
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Circle jerk
Like all of Putin's yes men telling him 'Ukraine is a piece of cake'.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 01, 2022 05:52 PM (9rYNN)

346 Cannot stand Scarborough. But as far him highly praising the Potato for spreading freedom anew with NATO, it simply shows he knows which side his bread is buttered on as no one would know him if he didn't cling to the current wife and her immediate family. (The Administration follows her father's policies; her one brother is the U.S. Ambassador to Poland & the other is on the Atlantic Council.)

Posted by: Lola at June 01, 2022 05:53 PM (NIYa7)

347 Some states also have a sales tax on gas. So as the price goes up so does the tax income on the gas sold.

Posted by: Colin at June 01, 2022 05:53 PM (YVx1O)

348 Situation is dire. This inflation is the kind of thing that brings the pitchforks and torches. Klain is right to be worried, even if he's too late to the party.
_________

He knows what's coming. That's why he's leaving after the mid-terms.

Asswipe doesn't want to be in D.C. when the riots start for real.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 01, 2022 05:53 PM (MvHI3)

349 >>> New BLM head Cicley Gay has filed for personal bankruptcy three times

Posted by: redridinghood at June 01, 2022 05:41 PM (NpAcC)

I like descriptive names.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 01, 2022 05:53 PM (YsjiM)

350 "You joke about banning billboards, but you know damned well that they're seriously considering it."

Since all the billboards are electric now, don't even have to ban them. Just mandate turning them off, for the sake of "energy conservation."

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:53 PM (qpX6U)

351 my bicycle doesn't need gas!
Posted by: Mayor Pete at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (Ynyl9)

Do that in January in Colorado fag boy.
Posted by: Infidel

Do that in Texas in July or August.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 01, 2022 05:53 PM (Ior/p)

352 320 remember guys, the fashion of the day during great depressions is Onion on the Belt.

can't afford onions this time around.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at June 01, 2022 05:53 PM (sGtp+)

353 Just pass a law that gas stations can't post prices.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 01, 2022 05:54 PM (63Dwl)

354 So is Biden sucking Bezos' dick or is Bezos sucking Biden's dick.

Or do they just swap Scarborough back & forth?

Posted by: aelfheld at June 01, 2022 05:52 PM (Zy9Yy)
===

Have The Paola tell you about 69.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:54 PM (WKPeU)

355 yes, I like the whole "how can you possibly be expert enough to understand the vast penumbras and emanations of what it takes to bring a gallon of gas to your car," like rw blogs haven't told the story of ricardos rule of comparative advantage since 1990.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:54 PM (OuH7W)

356 Let's hope Klain pulls something off.
Because "Plan B" seems to be nuclear Wag the Dog.

Posted by: Zek at June 01, 2022 05:54 PM (OzNIz)

357 "It's a really difficult issue to message around when you can't deny the reality."

That's a particularly telling statement.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 01, 2022 05:54 PM (5pTK/)

358 Texas Dan @ 319-
Oh it was planned allright. The new world order goes back in to Woodrow Wilson, Administrator. At least.

Posted by: Eromero at June 01, 2022 05:54 PM (gktX6)

359 350 "You joke about banning billboards, but you know damned well that they're seriously considering it."

Since all the billboards are electric now, don't even have to ban them. Just mandate turning them off, for the sake of "energy conservation."

think of all the electric cars we could charge if we weren't wasting electricity advertising obsolete stuff.

Posted by: pete bootyjudge at June 01, 2022 05:54 PM (sGtp+)

360 Oh. And anyone getting gored by a buffalo is too close. Pretty simple. Stupid people doing stupid things. And the elk rut is nothing to mess around with either.
Posted by: Pug Mahon

I've seen buffalo from the safety of a tour bus on Catalina Island and a bull elk from the safety of a car. They are huge. This isn't a Disney movie where all animals want to sing with you by a wishing well.

Posted by: Cheri at June 01, 2022 05:54 PM (oiNtH)

361 Simple solution, change all prices on the gas stations signs to ounces or maybe liters.
Posted by: Colin

Gas is priced by the liter in much of Europe. Takes a bit of thinking to convert that around.
3.79 liters to a gallon (US).

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at June 01, 2022 05:54 PM (vcOmj)

362 The tax is a static number per gallon. If gas is $3 or $6 the tax is the same, so how are they getting windfall profits?

Posted by: Joe Xiden
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Yes think of the government outlay involved!

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:55 PM (OaZlZ)

363 You joke about banning billboards, but you know damned well that they're seriously considering it."

Since all the billboards are electric now, don't even have to ban them. Just mandate turning them off, for the sake of "energy conservation."
Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf

Do they turn them off and risk the iron of Madison Avenue?

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 01, 2022 05:55 PM (Ior/p)

364 >>> So is Biden sucking Bezos' dick or is Bezos sucking Biden's dick.

Or do they just swap Scarborough back & forth?
Posted by: aelfheld at June 01, 2022 05:52 PM (Zy9Yy)

lemon party ouroboros

Posted by: banana Dream at June 01, 2022 05:55 PM (YsjiM)

365 261" $350 to replace a broken medium sized double-pane window."

Dayum!!! That's some expensive plywood right there.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at June 01, 2022 05:55 PM (cCxiu)

366 by the way, Ron "Dumbass" Klain, I believe it is law gasoline stations prominently display their prices.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 01, 2022 05:55 PM (5pTK/)

367 329 312 but goddamn if that $5 rotisserie chicken aint still five bucks
____________

My store used to have that too. Now the $5 rotisserie chicken is $7.99.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 01, 2022 05:50 PM (MvHI3)

Mine's not $5 anymore either...it's $6.99 here now, and apparently 30 ounces...which seems smaller than it used to be...

Posted by: Nova local at June 01, 2022 05:55 PM (exHjb)

368 Moose are huge too. Will stomp you into a greasy little puddle if provoked.

Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:55 PM (Vr12I)

369 >>> 319 I disagree with the assertion by some that this is all some sort of grand plan for the global reset. I think the real problem is that it wasn't planned. These dipshits reflexively pushed this hard left crap and figured that it wouldn't hurt them because they've always relied in the past on the fact that the US economy was robust enough to absorb a lot of these types of decisions. The problem is that they had already burned through that margin of safety thanks to eight years of Obama and then their covid/ George Floyd violence.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in

Agreed. This is all Sri Lanka going full retard on organic farming, times every government regulation of everything.
Posted by: TexasDan at June 01, 2022 05:49 PM (z9npv)

Didn't the JEF say something about "managing the decline"? Because they are all so smart.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 01, 2022 05:55 PM (llON8)

370 The laws of economics, like the laws of physics, are never out-voted. Democrats always think they can do both.

It is depressing to be so adversely affected by people so fucking dumb.

Posted by: jc at June 01, 2022 05:55 PM (N1WXz)

371 on the plus side, the woke ceo who took over our company at the same time Biden was inaugurated got shitcanned today. his all outsider executive team are currently shitting their pants as well. this guy was a real Biden, undoing everything as fast as he could.

Posted by: x at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (uQFwj)

372 Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at June 01, 2022 05:51 PM (vcOmj)

Russia is making 50% MORE in oil Exports, than pre invasion.

Their balance of trade is positive, while ours continues to get MORE negative.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (oHd/0)

373 Regular has crashed over 5 bucks in NJ.

5.03 in Kenilworth, holding at 4.99 in Morristown.

Where's George Washington to cut a b*tch?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (MBjBd)

374 335 but goddamn if that $5 rotisserie chicken aint still five bucks
Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:49 PM (OuH7W)
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Even with the added labor of shaping rat to look like chicken.

loving drop-forged out of a rat-melamine slurry by chicom slave labor.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (sGtp+)

375 Since all the billboards are electric now, don't even have to ban them. Just mandate turning them off, for the sake of "energy conservation."
---
Besides, English units is white supremacy, and violent, terroristy...

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (OaZlZ)

376 We'll stop worrying about inflation after the October nuclear war.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (qpX6U)

377 2020 - 2021 Tax Holiday would have fucked Inflationary Trends in the ass, raw.

But, instead...
Printer Go BRRRRR.

Posted by: garrett at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (N2sJC)

378 Why didn't he announce there is nothing he can do before the election?

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (vN+oL)

379 Asked Bing what the Federal tax on gas is
Couldn't find a straight answer.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (9rYNN)

380 30 gallon gas tank here. Station I go to had a $125 limit on debit cards and $150 on credit cards. They just bumped the debit limit to the credit limit

I did run into one with a $90 limit. I just put more in it later.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (YynYJ)

381 Texas Dan @ 319-
Oh it was planned allright. The new world order goes back in to Woodrow Wilson, Administrator. At least.
Posted by: Eromero at June 01, 2022 05:54 PM (gktX6)

“We’re the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 01, 2022 05:57 PM (Mf7Vh)

382 Good Cafe material. Children and a deer play in a sprinkler.

https://bit.ly/3Q6M1H4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, That's AnonosaurX WrX, hater! at June 01, 2022 05:57 PM (FVME7)

383 Little brain Joey stuck his finger in the oil pipe day 1

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2022 05:57 PM (2JoB8)

384 Their balance of trade is positive, while ours continues to get MORE negative.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (oHd/0)terrorists...
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[Top Men At Work]

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:57 PM (OaZlZ)

385 I seem to recall an economic boom under some dude named Trump that was not also accompanied by run-away inflation. Odd that...

Posted by: FriscoYoda at June 01, 2022 05:58 PM (S7une)

386 Yesterday it was $6.19 here

Posted by: It's me donna at June 01, 2022 05:58 PM (bs+z0)

387 Chance of rain, better cover anything I don't want wet

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2022 05:58 PM (2JoB8)

388 Just trying to do all the wreckage they can before elections, looks increasingly like.

Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:58 PM (Vr12I)

389 I thought George Floyd went ghey so we could have cheap electric cars, did he die for us to have $10 gas? I don't think so.

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 05:59 PM (OuH7W)

390 Why didn't he announce there is nothing he can do before the election?

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (vN+oL)
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Because Democrats can bend iron bars with their teeth before an election.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 05:59 PM (OaZlZ)

391 FUCK

JOE

BIDEN

&

HIS

JUNTA

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:59 PM (WKPeU)

392 >>I seem to recall an economic boom under some dude named Trump that was not also accompanied by run-away inflation. Odd that...

A Decade of Stagnation and Paper Growth under Obama.

4 Years of real Recovery under Trump.

18 Months of Economic Rape under Biden.

Posted by: garrett at June 01, 2022 06:00 PM (N2sJC)

393 The White House's focus on gas prices is bred from two sobering political conclusions top officials have made. The first is that they have little control over the problem.
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This is an example of that "messaging" they're always going on about.

"The first sobering conclusion officials have drawn" contains an appeal to the authority and some idea that there is some kind of logic or deduction (and surprise in the form of "sobering") involved.

A journalist can't just write "they have little control" because it doesn't take up space and it's plainly a lie - but write that "officials" have drawn a "conclusion" that they have little control and suddenly it sounds" nice and plausible.

Posted by: ... at June 01, 2022 06:00 PM (dscaa)

394 "Chance of rain, better cover anything I don't want wet"

If rain chance is 50%, you only have to cover half your stuff.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 06:00 PM (qpX6U)

395 Pissing on us and telling us it's raining.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 01, 2022 06:00 PM (4+wAL)

396
Diesel used to be cheaper than gas. Now it's much more expensive. The reason? Increased taxes and government regulations on sulfur content.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 01, 2022 06:01 PM (/U27+)

397 I drive a 2015 Corolla. About a month ago I was looking at the dash/console thing at a stoplight and found the fuel economy screen. The best mileage I had recorded was 30.6 mpg. That seemed low, so I started really watching how I drive. At the last fill-up I was at 38.5 mpg.

Turns out those jack-rabbit starts really do eat up gas. And if you increase the buffer between you and the car in front, you don't have to hit the brakes each time they do and then hit the gas again when they go. It's made a huge difference.

Posted by: 496 at June 01, 2022 06:01 PM (VJsqe)

398 >>A journalist can't just write "they have little control"

Someone is gonna have to run down there and stop that boulder.

Posted by: Economic Advisor on top of the Hill at June 01, 2022 06:01 PM (N2sJC)

399 Flood the zone with helicopter money, while choking off energy production.

I think I see where the problems may lie.

But, hey, I'm not one of the Top Men, so, what do I know?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 01, 2022 06:01 PM (5pTK/)

400 391 FUCK. JOE. BIDEN & HIS JUNTA

//////////////////////////

the reprisals will be glorious. Biden basically yeeted for the king by coming after America's economy and history and people ...

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 06:01 PM (OuH7W)

401 Most likely in a few months it will be back around $3 which is the inflation adjusted “normal” price.

Where is the necessary increase in supply coming from?

Posted by: Squid at June 01, 2022 06:02 PM (xJQNm)

402 So WaPo thinks their readers are idiots. Fair take.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at June 01, 2022 06:02 PM (XSRBF)

403 I won’t have to worry about puttin’ gas in my car, I won’t have to worry about payin’ my mortgage.

If I help Biden, he's gonna help me.

Posted by: Peggy Joseph at June 01, 2022 06:02 PM (vN+oL)

404 seriously, if pelosi doesn't spend the next 10 years pole dancing for the GOP's new 1/6 committee while her family serves gelato in gitmo, then I don't want to be an american anymore

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 06:02 PM (OuH7W)

405 Hopefully the poor people starve.

Posted by: ZOD at June 01, 2022 06:02 PM (Q/6pY)

406 >>> Moose are huge too. Will stomp you into a greasy little puddle if provoked.
Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:55 PM (Vr12I)

Or bite your sister.
møøse bites can be nasty you know

Posted by: banana Dream at June 01, 2022 06:02 PM (YsjiM)

407 There's nothing that can resist the competence of Democratic power, before elections.

It's after you elect them, and they focus on rainbow painting for hydrants and removing gendered words from accepting speech that they tell you, there's really nothing we can do, we're fundamentally incompetent, because we can't focus on anything that's not ideology.

Which of course they never say that part out loud.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 06:02 PM (OaZlZ)

408 It's the first day of June, and the contours of the election this fall are becoming clear. Republicans won't say much, talk about the economy some; and Dems are going to go All In on Abortion up til birth and gun confiscation. That's it, there's not gonna be anything else unless Russia nukes DC. eh, we should be so lucky.

5 months from now, most likely that Russia and the Ukraine will still be locked into the same murderous pas de doux they're locked into now, that could grind on for years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 01, 2022 06:03 PM (Q61eE)

409 But the American Indian Squaw says the oil companies are making to much money, they need to be taxed more.

Posted by: Colin at June 01, 2022 06:03 PM (YVx1O)

410 loving drop-forged out of a rat-melamine slurry by chicom slave labor.
Posted by: kulak anachronda at June 01, 2022 05:56 PM (sGtp+)
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Hey, hey, hey, save that for the Re-education Camp Recipe Book!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 01, 2022 06:03 PM (5pTK/)

411 Public transit, FTW.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 01, 2022 06:03 PM (na73u)

412 You know what they could do and it would actually make a difference? Make nice to Saudi Arabia.

Instead, they are trying to lock up the Crown Prince as a murderer and they are sucking up to the ayatollahs.

It's a real brain trust there in the White House.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 01, 2022 06:03 PM (7B5FA)

413 @399

>>But, hey, I'm not one of the Top Men, so, what do I know?

The dudes that made the Hayek v Keynes videos should make some new ones with Hayek, Mises and Friedman cutting these economic illiterate b*tches up.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 01, 2022 06:04 PM (MBjBd)

414 Hey Ron Klain, a 4-pound whole chicken cost me $12.56 yesterday.

It's not just gas prices we notice.

Suck it.

Posted by: JM in Florida at June 01, 2022 06:04 PM (L7jyl)

415 >>Most likely in a few months it will be back around $3 which is the inflation adjusted “normal” price.

I remember a Demo-ThinkTard claiming we'd seen the 'Peak' in March.

I laughed and I laughed and I might have blacked out there for a moment.

Posted by: garrett at June 01, 2022 06:04 PM (N2sJC)

416 "GOP's new 1/6 committee"

That's why I keep coming back here: such wry humor.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 06:04 PM (qpX6U)

417 >> Hey Ron Klain, a 4-pound whole chicken cost me $12.56 yesterday.

You got taken by Big Cock.
They are giving those things away in Hawaii.

Posted by: Ron Klaine at June 01, 2022 06:05 PM (N2sJC)

418

The state gasoline tax (16¢!) in Newyorkistan has been suspended from today through the end of the year...

Yay...

Posted by: Zettai at June 01, 2022 06:05 PM (/OeOS)

419 5 months from now, most likely that Russia and the Ukraine will still be locked into the same murderous pas de doux they're locked into now, that could grind on for years. Posted by: Tom Servo at June 01, 2022 06:03 PM (Q61eE)

All true, but what worries me most about the next 32 months are the things we can't anticipate that are the consequences of their idiocy, like baby formula shortages.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 01, 2022 06:05 PM (7B5FA)

420 It's Big Cock month. Flag out front tells me.

Posted by: NCKate at June 01, 2022 06:06 PM (2oJif)

421 5 months from now, most likely that Russia and the Ukraine will still be locked into the same murderous pas de doux they're locked into now, that could grind on for years.
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 01, 2022 06:03 PM (Q61eE)

If we keep supplying Ukraine with weapons and intelligence it will and all for naught except to have more Ukrainians end up dead.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 01, 2022 06:06 PM (4+wAL)

422 319 I disagree with the assertion by some that this is all some sort of grand plan for the global reset. I think the real problem is that it wasn't planned.
Posted by: Colorado Alex

And they have no idea how to fix it. So they do what Progressives always do - start making grand plans for the future, a future where they'll all be retired and living on fat pensions when the bill comes due and their grand plans all fail.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 01, 2022 06:06 PM (BJKQV)

423 Posted by: 496 at June 01, 2022 06:01 PM (VJsqe)

And I'm a damn real American, who drives a truck... just as damn fast as I want.

Because that's Murica... the only reason we have outa sight gas prices is our own damn government. Ramp up production HERE, and outlaw oil and gas exports.

No one is out there helping us... why the hell should us American have to pay for THEIR mistakes in energy policy?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 01, 2022 06:07 PM (oHd/0)

424 >All true, but what worries me most about the next 32 months are the things we can't anticipate that are the consequences of their idiocy, like baby formula shortages.

The Government could open up Big Tracts of Land to the Public.

But they won't.

Posted by: garrett at June 01, 2022 06:07 PM (N2sJC)

425 But the American Indian Squaw says the oil companies are making to much money, they need to be taxed more.
Posted by: Colin at June 01, 2022 06:03 PM (YVx1O)
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Brilliant! tax something more to get less of it.

Like, gas.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 06:07 PM (OaZlZ)

426 Public transit doesn't work here. Kids live 6 miles away across the river. It would take 2+ hours to get there.

Posted by: Infidel at June 01, 2022 06:07 PM (E0NVW)

427 I wonder if Democrats have the nerve, should they be unable to cheat their way to a win this fall, to ignore the election results?

Hahahahahaha

Of course they do.

I crack myself up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 01, 2022 06:07 PM (5pTK/)

428 the more the planner plan....

Posted by: Fool Otto at June 01, 2022 06:08 PM (DB16e)

429 So. today, the first day of YAY! Butt-Sex Month, I walk into my local Wegman's, and what's playing on the intercom?

"YMCA."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 01, 2022 06:08 PM (rzOL9)

430 281 Eggs are $4.99/dozen here in SoCal.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 01, 2022 05:45 PM (WKPeU)

Second largest egg producer in the country suffered a major fire a couple of days ago. Killed a whole lot of chickens.

Posted by: 29Victor at June 01, 2022 06:08 PM (BJKQV)

431 I'm reminded lately of Gabriel Over the White House.

Saw it years ago. A nauseating experience really. Made in the middle of the Depression as a knob slob for more "New Deal" powers to really "Get things done! (TM)" if only we got that pesky Constitution out of the way.

Replete with extrajudicial assassinations of the "bad guys" by the new "Federal Police Force" etc.
Same as it ever was.

Posted by: Zek at June 01, 2022 06:08 PM (OzNIz)

432 >>Kids live 6 miles away across the river.

Some fine day.

You will find your way.

Posted by: Bruce Hornsby at June 01, 2022 06:08 PM (N2sJC)

433 They are huge. This isn't a Disney movie where all animals want to sing with you by a wishing well.
Posted by: Cheri at June 01, 2022 05:54 PM (oiNtH)

I've spent a lot of time in Yellowstone, both vacation and work. I've had some close encounters with buffalo as I round the corner of a trail or something.

But the thing is, when you do see one, do what you can to get out of the way. Most of the time they'll ignore you as long as you don't keep approaching. Females with calves are the most vicious too. Applies to moose and elk as well.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at June 01, 2022 06:09 PM (xPJvm)

434 Second largest egg producer in the country suffered a major fire a couple of days ago. Killed a whole lot of chickens. Posted by: 29Victor at June 01, 2022 06:08 PM (BJKQV)

Did they at least sell them as broilers?

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 01, 2022 06:09 PM (7B5FA)

435 *planners

Posted by: Fool Otto at June 01, 2022 06:09 PM (DB16e)

436 I don't expect the administration to get worried about the transient increase in the destruction of food plants, until the "In a way, it's kind of a good thing" phase.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 06:09 PM (OaZlZ)

437 433 They are huge. This isn't a Disney movie where all animals want to sing with you by a wishing well.
Posted by: Cheri at June 01, 2022 05:54 PM (oiNtH)

Now all the animals are gay

Posted by: It's me donna at June 01, 2022 06:09 PM (bs+z0)

438 Gas prices could be easily fixed. Put Trump back in charge.

Posted by: CTim Bo at June 01, 2022 06:10 PM (GXrTQ)

439 The Government could open up Big Tracts of Land to the Public.

But they won't.

Posted by: garrett at June 01, 2022 06:07 PM (N2sJC)

Those fools can speak for themselves!

Posted by: Kamala at June 01, 2022 06:10 PM (dscaa)

440 >>>but what worries me most about the next 32 months are the things we can't anticipate that are the consequences of their idiocy, like baby formula shortages.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at June 01, 2022 06:05 PM (7B5FA)
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They are unbound
One phone call to Abbott and formula problem is solved.
They hate us.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 01, 2022 06:10 PM (9rYNN)

441 Moose are huge too. Will stomp you into a greasy little puddle if provoked.
Posted by: kraken

Moose are just four legged canook geese with horns.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 01, 2022 06:11 PM (UgAdJ)

442 Second largest egg producer in the country suffered a major fire a couple of days ago. Killed a whole lot of chickens.
Posted by: 29Victor at June 01, 2022 06:08 PM
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At least they are free now.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 06:11 PM (OaZlZ)

443 telling CNN that "the president doesn't control the price."
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That can't be true. Nancy Pelosi told us all about it during the Bush years.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at June 01, 2022 06:12 PM (wYs5L)

444 California expects to make 8.8 billion this year on gas taxes.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 01, 2022 06:12 PM (NpAcC)

445 That's why I keep coming back here: such wry humor.

Posted by: Keep gp Out Yo MF'n Mouf at June 01, 2022 06:04 PM (qpX6U)

The wryest!

Posted by: ... at June 01, 2022 06:12 PM (dscaa)

446 I know how they want to lower gas prices.

Change the price per gallon to price per liter.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 01, 2022 06:12 PM (4+wAL)

447 "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas."

Posted by: Citizen Cake at June 01, 2022 06:12 PM (HmZuC)

448 Second largest egg producer in the country suffered a major fire a couple of days ago. Killed a whole lot of chickens.
Posted by: 29Victor at June 01, 2022 06:08 PM (BJKQV)

Just bad luck, really. No need to investigate further...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at June 01, 2022 06:13 PM (V6f9+)

449 @439

Garret, I would have no problem with the government opening big tracts of land to the public.

I think that they should make Christina Hendricks go first.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 01, 2022 06:13 PM (rzOL9)

450 2006, signs were STOP WAR STOP BUSH.
Where are the ads that if you support Biden's plan to raise prices another $2 a gallon support Democrats, otherwise send a message by supporting Republicans up and down the ballot?

Posted by: MikeN at June 01, 2022 06:13 PM (ek6Pv)

451
Moose are huge too. Will stomp you into a greasy little puddle if provoked.
Posted by: kraken at June 01, 2022 05:55 PM (Vr12I)

You haven't lived until you've seen a moose chasing a new second lieutenant through the woods after he got to close to it on an Army land navigation course in Alaska.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 01, 2022 06:13 PM (n+4am)

452 Even saying “back to $3” is lying about the extent of the problem. It was under $2 in every place I visited by car from Texas to Michigan to Tennessee back in 2020.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 01, 2022 06:13 PM (sxzqG)

453 Next move by the idiots in charge:

1) Gas stations must advertise the price of gas in quarts
or
2) Gas stations must stop advertising prices completely

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 01, 2022 06:14 PM (WFMLs)

454 Beto signaled it here in Texas - he's said he's going to spend the next 5 months going from town to town calling for all AR-15's to be forcibly confiscated. With a little bit of Abortion on demand and tranny talk thrown in. Shouldn't be a surprise, that's all that dems are anymore, and they can't deny the urge to be themselves

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 01, 2022 06:14 PM (Q61eE)

455 Congress should ban advertising gas prices. Scares common folk
Supreme Court has said advertising is subject to rational basis review BECAUSE IT'S COMMERCIAL SPEACH.

So prior restraint can be used on commercial speech.

The Supreme Court is an enemy of the People.

Posted by: torabora at June 01, 2022 06:14 PM (YQSpA)

456 448 Second largest egg producer in the country suffered a major fire a couple of days ago. Killed a whole lot of chickens.
Posted by: 29Victor at June 01, 2022 06:08 PM (BJKQV)

Just bad luck, really. No need to investigate further...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse

That's a serious mess of fried chicken.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 01, 2022 06:14 PM (tBR8T)

457 Senior officials and others close to President Joe Biden view those prices as the cost that most directly affects voters' everyday lives, and therefore their perception of the economy as well. As such, Biden and his top advisers fixate on them with an intensity that some aides describe as obsessive.
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They're fixated - FIXATED, I tell you - on gas prices. They're not doing shit about them, but they're fixated on them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 01, 2022 06:14 PM (pmpob)

458 I'm sort of under the impression moose are permanently in bad humor.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 01, 2022 06:14 PM (5pTK/)

459 >>I think that they should make Christina Hendricks go first.

I'd like to do that Impact Study, myself.

Posted by: garrett at June 01, 2022 06:15 PM (N2sJC)

460 to be honest tho, since American baby formula is just a white liquid version of Doritos, when it comes down to it, a soybean oil and corn starch slush...maybe the Great Depression 2.0 kids will at least start off life a little heathier than the chemspawn of ConAgra

Posted by: sockamster-rookie poster at June 01, 2022 06:15 PM (OuH7W)

461 My weekly trip usually means I get stuck behind a city person that brakes for curves they wouldn't slow down for in the city.

I track mileage and repairs with an app called Fuelly. Started it when I bought the car.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 01, 2022 06:15 PM (YynYJ)

462 The economy's rapid recovery from the pandemic created more demand for gasoline, pushing prices higher. The invasion of Ukraine led to a global backlash against Russia, which produces more oil than all but two other countries.

I have to give them credit for trying, but... both of these are ridiculous and weak arguments. I mean, I get that they are just trying to give their leftist buddies talking points but they are pathetic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 01, 2022 06:15 PM (KZzsI)

463 Gas station price billboards are going to advertise gas station prices.
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They're legally required to do that.

Interesting that Klain's first impulse is not to address the problem (canceling oil drilling license, the Keystone Pipeline, etc.) but rather just wishing he could hide the problem. As if motorists wouldn't notice the gas prices when they filled up. Idiot.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 01, 2022 06:16 PM (pmpob)

464 442 At least they are free now.
Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 06:11 PM

They're in a better place....

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at June 01, 2022 06:16 PM (dzZCL)

465 WaPo has reimaged freakin' JULIA as a gas pump.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 01, 2022 06:16 PM (xhaym)

466 The economy's rapid recovery from the pandemic created more demand for gasoline, pushing prices higher. The invasion of Ukraine led to a global backlash against Russia, which produces more oil than all but two other countries.
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And WE were one of those two other countries. Until January 2021.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 01, 2022 06:16 PM (pmpob)

467 Republicans again prove their lack of marketing skills. Other than the occasional Repub politician on Fox News, there is absolutely nothing about how under a Republican administration policies that enabled the drilling of oil brought prices down, that transportation costs affect literally every product sold, and the Biden admin has reversed all those policies. The RNC and every Repub PAC should be pounding on this point. But they don't. Because they're stupid.

Posted by: George V at June 01, 2022 06:17 PM (U2Tva)

468 They're fixated - FIXATED, I tell you - on gas prices. They're not doing shit about them, but they're fixated on them.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 01, 2022 06:14 PM (pmpob)
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I'd ask if the junta is stupid enough to EO turning off gasoline price signs, but, well, that question sort of answers itself.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at June 01, 2022 06:17 PM (5pTK/)

469 Supreme Court has cleverly wound a noose around the American People's neck.

Posted by: torabora at June 01, 2022 06:17 PM (YQSpA)

470 The funniest part of this whole thing has been missed.

The funniest part of this whole thing is that Ron Fking Klain believes that gas stations are "advertising" their prices on "gas billboards". Like gas is on "special" or something. Or like it's a sale item.

They're not "advertising" you fking fuckwit, they're just telling people what the cost is, you fucking moron. This mother fucker clearly has not paid for his own gas ever.

"Advertising" is when bread is 50 cents off, but only on Wednesday, per the circular.

Gas billboards are just telling people what the price of this shit is.

How can these people be so fucking obtuse?

They're so fucking clueless.

Posted by: JamesTCarville at June 01, 2022 06:17 PM (vkzx+)

471 I'm sort of under the impression moose are permanently in bad humor.

Not surprising. They put them out in public-facing positions but don’t give them the mentorship needed to advance. Result is, everyone ignores them and heads right on into the park.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 01, 2022 06:17 PM (sxzqG)

472 California expects to make 8.8 billion this year on gas taxes.
Posted by: redridinghood at June 01, 2022 06:12 PM (NpAcC)
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Which are going up in July.

Hello, $7/gal gasoline!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 01, 2022 06:18 PM (pmpob)

473 Next on MSM: Democrat who drank a bottle of whiskey last night can't figure out why he has headache. Has theory that Putin did it with some sort of negative ray device

Posted by: azjaeger at June 01, 2022 06:18 PM (PUrHv)

474 maybe the Great Depression 2.0 kids will at least start off life a little heathier than the chemspawn of ConAgra

Yeah its... not the best possible thing for kids. Should be a "pack some away when I can't be home" kind of thing like disposable diapers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 01, 2022 06:18 PM (KZzsI)

475 Gabriel over the White House, lol.. got a bad name when it was obvious that the film was advocating for an American Mussolini. But that's what the hard core left has always wanted.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 01, 2022 06:19 PM (Q61eE)

476 Gas billboards are just telling people what the price of this shit is.
__________

As is legally required.

Guess Klain forgot that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 01, 2022 06:19 PM (pmpob)

477 Imagine a typical White House meeting: Joe Biden Ron Klain, Carine Jean-Pierre. My goodness there is no one there that could run the drive thru.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at June 01, 2022 06:19 PM (vN+oL)

478 Notice the passivity of their statements too. This thing happened and then this happened as if Democrats weren't the ones causing all of it: the pandemic, the overly bellicose reaction to Ukraine, and block energy extraction and the pipeline.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 01, 2022 06:19 PM (QRdjz)

479 Uniparty
They are after us Big Time.

Posted by: torabora at June 01, 2022 06:19 PM (YQSpA)

480

My penis explodes with delight!

Posted by: Shemp Smith at June 01, 2022 06:19 PM (Y50Mt)

481 So energy prices - and subsequent inflation - are necessarily skyrocketing? And this is a problem somehow?

Did SCOAMF not set you up for this very success?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at June 01, 2022 06:19 PM (aXxgO)

482 I like Kamala's Deep Thoughts on this:

Oil prices are high because the price has gone up. High prices are painful because it cost lots of money to buy gas. High prices help us reflect on the cause of the price increases, how it affects us and what we can do to bring them down together.

I may have made that up.

Posted by: Ripley at June 01, 2022 06:19 PM (MxEKc)

483 Speaking of the Bidens running out of gas, those videos they're posting at the Daily Mail of Naked Hunter and The Prostitute are just devestating. Can't wait to see the spin on this stuff. Who you gonna believe, me or your lyin' eyes?

Posted by: Caliban at June 01, 2022 06:20 PM (HgGBT)

484 Supreme Court has cleverly wound a noose around the American People's neck.
Posted by: torabora at June 01, 2022 06:17 PM (YQSpA)
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They better hope the American people don't return the favor.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 01, 2022 06:20 PM (pmpob)

485 a prideful NOOD

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 01, 2022 06:20 PM (ppBhU)

486 I have an even lower opinion of Ron Klain than I do of Amber Heard.

Posted by: Peaches at June 01, 2022 06:21 PM (14URa)

487 In late breaking news: After the departure of many black staffers from the WH, peeps in the Hood now call it the "Cracker Crib" .

Posted by: I Speak Jive at June 01, 2022 06:21 PM (cCxiu)

488 >>>They're fixated - FIXATED, I tell you - on gas prices. They're not doing shit about them, but they're fixated on them.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 01, 2022 06:14 PM (pmpob)
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Like putting a turkey's head on the ground and drawing a straight line from its beak?

Posted by: Braenyard at June 01, 2022 06:21 PM (9rYNN)

489 Notice the passivity of their statements too. This thing happened and then this happened as if Democrats weren't the ones causing all of it: the pandemic, the overly bellicose reaction to Ukraine, and block energy extraction and the pipeline.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at June 01, 2022 06:19 PM (QRdjz)
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Mistakes were made. The hoarders, wreckers, and saboteurs must pay!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 01, 2022 06:21 PM (pmpob)

490 Klain ain’t stupid. Number one in his class at HLS. Evil, sure.

Posted by: Squid at June 01, 2022 06:21 PM (xJQNm)

491 What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: $8 gallon California gas at June 01, 2022 06:21 PM (YQSpA)

492 Republicans not using this to pound Dems is more proof of what we don't want to accept. The Washington Generals didn't go out and find star players so they could beat the Globetrotters, did they?

Posted by: azjaeger at June 01, 2022 06:22 PM (PUrHv)

493 but they're talking about the station signage really - I can see Wawa or some large chain darkening the price boards at the order of Joebama, actually

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 01, 2022 05:48 PM (w0NJk)

that is going to contradict a number of states' statutes on posting visible gas prices. Which will be fun.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 01, 2022 06:23 PM (xhaym)

494 Look on bright side, if Russia does win think of the 100s of thousands new Ukrainians we will import

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2022 06:24 PM (2JoB8)

495 455 Congress should ban advertising gas prices. Scares common folk
Supreme Court has said advertising is subject to rational basis review BECAUSE IT'S COMMERCIAL SPEACH.

But corporations are people. So it affects their first amendment rights.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 01, 2022 06:24 PM (Ior/p)

496
'The economy's rapid recovery from the pandemic created more demand for gasoline, pushing prices higher.'
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"I will not insult your intelligence by pretending that you actually believe what you just said" -- WFB

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2022 06:24 PM (Faksa)

497 Turns out those jack-rabbit starts really do eat up gas. And if you increase the buffer between you and the car in front, you don't have to hit the brakes each time they do and then hit the gas again when they go. It's made a huge difference.
Posted by: 496 at June 01, 2022 06:01 PM (VJsqe)
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Inflate your tires! - the Mocha Messiah

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 01, 2022 06:24 PM (pmpob)

498 "There's probably nothing that will get gas back close to $3 a gallon," Sahm said."
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How bout $1.79 jackass.

Posted by: Javems at June 01, 2022 06:25 PM (AmoqO)

499 210 This sure does seem to be putting a whole lot of cash into putin's pocket. It sure is a good thing they got that russian stooge out of the whitehouse or things would be really bad now.
Posted by: banana Dream at June 01, 2022 05:36 PM (0fVbu)

What cracks me up to no end is this site and others buying the BS that Putin was given “bad advice” by his advisors and the Russian military is performing “so poorly” when they are slowly and steadily taking control and physically annexing the parts of Ukraine they want - while the USA is shipping billions to the Ukraine and the last war we legitimately “won” was Grenada.

Putin laughs at night whenever he thinks about Dementia case in the White House. Even UK’s Boris - who doesn’t know how to comb his hair - laughs at Biden/USA.

Posted by: Just a dummy at June 01, 2022 06:27 PM (U2W4Y)

500 490 Klain ain’t stupid. Number one in his class at HLS. Evil, sure.

Posted by: Squid at June 01, 2022 06:21 PM (xJQNm)

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Never attribute to ignorance, stupidity, and/or incompetence what can be ascribed to evil.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, we got fun & games & Starveflation aims at June 01, 2022 06:27 PM (FUBfX)

501 Circle jerk
Like all of Putin's yes men telling him 'Ukraine is a piece of cake'.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 01, 2022 05:52 PM (9rYNN)

To be honest, the White House was saying the same thing to get funding for Ukraine, so can you blame them?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 01, 2022 06:27 PM (xhaym)

502
President Biden has little control over what comes out of his mouth.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 01, 2022 06:30 PM (ij5Y6)

503
Turns out those jack-rabbit starts really do eat up gas. And if you increase the buffer between you and the car in front, you don't have to hit the brakes each time they do and then hit the gas again when they go. It's made a huge difference.
Posted by: 496 at June 01, 2022 06:01 PM (VJsqe)

Did you inflate your tires correctly as well?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 01, 2022 06:32 PM (xhaym)

504 Fuck this motherfucker with motherfucking C4 filled pineapples covered in barbed wire. Twice...

Repeat, rinse, repeat.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at June 01, 2022 06:32 PM (+ldAm)

505 Second largest egg producer in the country suffered a major fire a couple of days ago. Killed a whole lot of chickens.
Posted by: 29Victor at June 01, 2022 06:08 PM
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Thank you for the tips on how I already drive.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 06:33 PM (OaZlZ)

506 President Biden has little control over what comes out of his mouth.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 01, 2022 06:30 PM (ij5Y6)
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Or other orifices.

Posted by: Axeman at June 01, 2022 06:34 PM (OaZlZ)

507 Cut government spending by 75%.

Cut income taxes by 50%.

Deregulate everything.

Fixed.

Posted by: Milton Friedman at June 01, 2022 06:40 PM (1dzqn)

508 Obamacare is expected to be a lot more expensive starting in 2023.

I wonder who Biden is going to blame for that?

Posted by: az_desert_rat at June 01, 2022 06:48 PM (S6qq5)

509 Regular grade $5.60/gal here today, and this in a state with 5 refineries.
That moronic WP article ignores the effect of cancelling hte Keystone Pipeline, cancelling scores of leases up for sale, and banning fracking.
There are few laws of economics less complicated than the iron law of supply and demand, but these idiots in charge cannot fathom how things got so bad so fast. Look in a frickin' mirror!!

Posted by: Fritz at June 01, 2022 06:58 PM (dS5zT)

510 Joe Scarborough is an exceptional kind of loathsome wretch. To think that he was once a Gingrich republican in good standing, and has not just slid to the center-left, but has gone several steps beyond that, settling in comfortably among the proud liar class. To pretend that Bidens economy is anything less than a complete disaster is not just lying, but Faustian, sell-your-soul level hatred of your fellow man.

Posted by: red speck at June 01, 2022 07:21 PM (gS3OW)

511 All of our economic problems, ALL of them, are directly caused by market interference.
What is the way out of this?

Posted by: Clear Eyed Killer at June 02, 2022 11:37 AM (5mIZs)

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Biden's Chief of Staff, and the Acting Shadow President, Ron Klain is Obsessed With High Gas Prices.But He Has a Plan For Dealing With Them.

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Biden's Chief of Staff, and the Acting Shadow President, Ron Klain is Obsessed With High Gas Prices.
But He Has a Plan For Dealing With Them.