Consumer Sentiment Hits Absolute Rock-Bottom All-Time Historic Low as The Economy Enters a Recession

Karine Jean-Pierre just told us that Biden had given us an "historic" economy.*

US Consumer Sentiment Slumps to Record Low on Rapid Inflation
US consumer sentiment plunged in early June to the lowest on record as soaring inflation continued to batter household finances.
The University of Michigan's preliminary June sentiment index fell to 50.2, from 58.4 in May, data released Friday showed. The figure was weaker than all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists which had a median forecast of 58.1.

This tracks perfectly with public confidence
in the pronouncements of Bill Kristol and David French

From John Sexton, a Financial Times survey of economists finds that a majority expect a recession next year.

Next year?

Okay sure whatever.

The US economy will tip into a recession next year, according to nearly 70 per cent of leading academic economists polled by the Financial Times...
Jay Powell, the Fed chair, has conceded that the central bank's efforts to moderate inflation may cause "some pain", leading to a "softish" landing that sees the unemployment rate rise "a few ticks".
But many of the economists polled are concerned about a more adverse outcome given the severity of the inflation situation and the fact that monetary policy will need to shift towards much tighter settings in short order to address it.

Yeah so we didn't have to wait until next year: At least according to the Atlanta Fed tracker, the economy is predicted to post a 0.0% growth rate in the second quarter, which, combined with the negative growth in the first quarter, means we're gone two quarters of zero or negative growth.

(Corrected: This is a predicted growth rate not a "posted" one as I said originally.)

We're in a recession.

Economists consider the economy to be in recession when there is zero or negative growth for two consecutive quarters or more, and that's what we’ve gotten in the first half of 2022 after a full year of Bidenomics has had its effects.
The economy shrank at an annual rate of 1.5% from January through March. That was revised downward from an original estimate of 1.4% shrinkage, and worse than the expected revision to 1.3%.

Also via Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, consumer spending fell 0.3% in May.

Americans trimmed their spending unexpectedly in May compared with a month before, underscoring how surging inflation on daily necessities like gas is causing them to be more cautious about buying discretionary items.
U.S. retail sales slipped 0.3% last month, down from a revised 0.7% increase in April, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

Idiots kept saying "Sure inflation is through the roof but the US consumer is keeping the economy afloat!"

And how long did you expect that to go on for, Idiots, when people can barely afford food and gas and rent, and mortgage interest rates are about to shoot through the sky, and people's accumulated wealth in their home values is about to be slashed 15-20%?

Did you think they would keep spending forever, just to keep your senile president (allegedly) in the game?

I keep wanting to blaspheme. It's taking everything to avoid it.

Jiminy Crickets, we have absolutely the worst, stupidest, poorest-educated, most incompetent "Elite" class.

CNN's Harry Enten on Biden's "awful" approval rating on inflation: Biden is "doing WORSE than Jimmy Carter" pic.twitter.com/2vbBx4tLvE
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 15, 2022

Biden's economic advisor, though, says, "Stop complaining, Rubez -- you've never had it better."

Top Biden economic advisor Bharat Ramamurti says Biden is "sympathetic" to Americans concerned about gas prices, inflation, and market losses — but they "need to take a step back" because they're actually "doing very, very well." pic.twitter.com/R8DCPJ8Xku
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 14, 2022

Pivot to Anger!

* My first use of "an historic." I'm glad you could be here for it.

Posted by: Ace at 03:11 PM

Comments

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1 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 15, 2022 03:10 PM (bVYXr)

2 And yes we are fvcked.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 15, 2022 03:11 PM (bVYXr)

3 Doom.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:12 PM (yQpMk)

4 "We're making history, folks!"--Joe Biden

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:12 PM (ynpvh)

5 Trump stole the magic wand! It's his fault!

Posted by: DNC 2022 platform at June 15, 2022 03:12 PM (F9322)

6 a 1 car flea circus,
With a dress on.

Posted by: DaveA at June 15, 2022 03:12 PM (FhXTo)

7 Where are all of those pundits that tracked Trump's 'lies'? Can we get an update on Biden's?

Posted by: PAgirlinNC at June 15, 2022 03:12 PM (EzVvv)

8 it's not 0.0% growth, it's worse.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (ynpvh)

9 Get to know your local and state representatives, especially the new Republicans in your state houses and city councils.

They're going to be in much stronger positions come January than they are now.

If you want change. Make it through them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (LvTSG)

10 Damnit! Somebody read the Chinese curse and STOP trying to make things "interesting"!

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (krQz2)

11 5 Trump stole the magic wand! It's his fault!

Posted by: DNC 2022 platform at June 15, 2022 03:12 PM (F9322)

You can't steal what you were born with. Use you're own "magic staff", if you have one...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (ynpvh)

12 Historic economy.

You know who else was historic?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (CbMK6)

13 People don't have enough money to spend on frivolities and have to spend more on things that keep them alive???

Shocking.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (SF4EO)

14 “Jay Powell, the Fed chair, has conceded that the central bank's efforts to moderate inflation may cause "some pain", leading to a "softish" landing that sees the unemployment rate rise "a few ticks".”

That’s Democrats-in-power speak for absolute fucking disaster.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (i2rD5)

15 But Larry Summers told me this is entirely the fault of January 6 Insurrectionists. And he taught at Harvard, so he must be right.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (WO46G)

16 6 a 1 car flea circus,
With a dress on.

Posted by: DaveA at June 15, 2022 03:12 PM (FhXTo)

Transgender 1-car flea circus.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:14 PM (ynpvh)

17 Fauci should take care around monkeypox what with him being one quarter macaque.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 15, 2022 03:14 PM (44ww/)

18 Atlanta Fed model is a prediction. The 2nd quarter isn't over yet and the GDP hasn't been calculated yet. Atlanta Fed has been wrong before. Quite often, actually.

My gut feel is that it will be bad, but were not there yet.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 03:14 PM (Y5qcH)

19 It takes a special man to give you hyperinflation, a depression AND a nuclear war.

And Joe Biden is a very special man.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2022 03:14 PM (ESjRY)

20 8 it's not 0.0% growth, it's worse.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (ynpvh)

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It's about the revision.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:14 PM (LvTSG)

21 Is there a treatment for a hairy enten?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 15, 2022 03:14 PM (eGTCV)

22 It took Carter 4 years to do what Joe has in less than 2.

History!

Posted by: Chia pet spokes creature full of representation at June 15, 2022 03:14 PM (F9322)

23 The economy is falling faster than my pecker after an 2nd tug job from Mayra Flores.

Posted by: Heavy Squats at June 15, 2022 03:14 PM (0hj5F)

24 In these hard economic times, at least we can savor the fear of any Democrat running for re-election in a non-safe district.

They finally messed things up so much that the normals can't help noticing.

Posted by: Splunge at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (2hil/)

25 Good. I want pain. I want suffering. I want every mother fucking wine mom who freaked out about mean tweets to literally starve. And yes I mean literally in the literal sense of the word. Her and her children too.

Fuck you, war.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (H9K5h)

26 Only one way to fix this economy. More bottom surgeries.

Posted by: Some Dem economist at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (ESjRY)

27 So In the near term, might be having some new competition for my traditional food sources like muskrat meat and cattails (typha latifolia)?

Posted by: Sasquatch. the Original Trans-Wookie at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (SDNQO)

28 20 8 it's not 0.0% growth, it's worse.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (ynpvh)
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It's about the revision.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:14 PM (LvTSG)

And it will be "unexpectedly"!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (ynpvh)

29 But Larry Summers told me this is entirely the fault of January 6 Insurrectionists. And he taught at Harvard, so he must be right.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (WO46G)
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That guy is not that dumb. He must really want to get the Two-minute-haters on to some other trail and hopefully save the Dems embarrassment.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (krQz2)

30 Well, see Biden has finally stumbled into a plan to stop inflation. Now it's stagflation time instead of inflation time.

Prices will still go up, but it won't matter anymore because you won't have a job to buy anything no matter the price.

Posted by: Match Checksout at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (dYe5S)

31
In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all - time loser,
Headlong to his death.

He feels the piston scraping -
Steam breaking on his brow -
Old Donald stole the handle and
The train it won't stop going-

No way to slow down..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (yQpMk)

32 When Biden abandons his attacks on the oil and gas industry and actively works to resume Trump regulatory policies on the industry, economic stability has a chance of returning.

But he won't, so buckle up world.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (WO46G)

33 tHIs EcoNomy is So gOOd it'S lIteRaLLy KiLliNg mE!!@!?#

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (DJFLF)

34 OK... you got AN historic of your system.

NEVER use it again.

Posted by: DAVID SMITH at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (RB6NY)

35 Prices will still go up, but it won't matter anymore because you won't have a job to buy anything no matter the price.

Seeing, he's delivering on his promise to save the Erf.

Posted by: Some Dem economist at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (ESjRY)

36 Biden economic advisor Bharat Ramamurti is full of shi*.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (hmWcn)

37 Kevin Bacon just told us "All is Well".

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (44ww/)

38 Biden's going to fix this by doing even more of what he's been doing. Of course it will work. C'mon, man.

Posted by: Splunge at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (2hil/)

39 Unexpectedly!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (a3Q+t)

40 3 Doom.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:12 PM (yQpMk)

Which is why the demons are trying to take away our BFGs.

Posted by: Bete at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (F9322)

41 WE'RE CHANGING PEOPLE'S LIVES!

Posted by: Preezy Puddinhead Schittpantz at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (sWM8x)

42 The Fed cannot raise interest rates the way Paul Volker did. The deficit would skyrocket.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (lKAqb)

43 Looks like we're going to have to admit: We live in interesting times.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (hmWcn)

44 Hey LIVs - Biden has already cost you 40% of your life savings in inflation. How much more do you want?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (ESjRY)

45 32 When Biden abandons his attacks on the oil and gas industry and actively works to resume Trump regulatory policies on the industry, economic stability has a chance of returning.

But he won't, so buckle up world.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (WO46G)

=========

I look forward to him announcing it off the cuff at a speech and his people walking it back.

He controls nothing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (LvTSG)

46 BRB, going dancing in the streets and handing out sweets

Posted by: The Great Reseters at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (DTX3h)

47 It's about the revision.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven

The revision will rise faster than my pecker watching Mayra Flores do heavy dumbbell straight leg dead lifts in an sheer white lace thong.

Posted by: Heavy Squats at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (0hj5F)

48 Will this make joe's eye bleed? We can hope.

Posted by: NCKate at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (2oJif)

49 it's not 0.0% growth, it's worse.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (ynpvh)
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It's a growth in the margin above expansion.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (krQz2)

50 I feel your pain. So shut up, will ya?

Posted by: banana Dream at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (0fVbu)

51 Americans concerned about gas prices, inflation, and market losses but they "need to take a step back" because they're actually "doing very, very well."
.........

compared to Venezuela. For now.

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (v0R5T)

52 WE'RE CHANGING PEOPLE'S LIVES!

ME TOO!

Posted by: Genghis Khan at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (ESjRY)

53 40 3 Doom.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:12 PM (yQpMk)

Which is why the demons are trying to take away our BFGs.

Posted by: Bete at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (F9322)

Exactly.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (ynpvh)

54 Good. I want pain. I want suffering. I want every mother fucking wine mom who freaked out about mean tweets to literally starve. And yes I mean literally in the literal sense of the word. Her and her children too.

Fuck you, war.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM

The problem with that is that good people who voted for Trump are going to suffer as bad or even worse than the wine moms because of biden.

It's going to be worse than the 70s and that sucked big time for everyone.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (bVYXr)

55 Sometime soon we will look back at Carters stagflation and say "Times were so good then, and we just didn't realize it!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (WO46G)

56 Except I didn't get the US into a nuclear war.

Posted by: Jimmah Cahtah at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (SDNQO)

57 When do we hit the 1929 neighborhood?

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (bar5X)

58 42 The Fed cannot raise interest rates the way Paul Volker did. The deficit would skyrocket.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (lKAqb)

========

That also can be addressed.

By cutting Medicare and social security payments. Also discretionary spending, but the bulk will need to be safety net spending.

It's going to happen eventually.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (LvTSG)

59 The Best and Brightest are cudgeling their brains “as they search for any and all ideas to tackle rising energy costs.”

Posted by: jwmiii at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (ii2y5)

60 Bharat Ramamurti

It's always the upper-caste Indians. If they love Communism so much, why do they all come here to advocate for it instead of trying to make a go of it in India?

Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (ZGrMX)

61 Historic. Economic. Kaboom.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (TNyrE)

62 Biden needs to slip on his aviators, step up to a microphone and do some incoherent shrieking.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (eGTCV)

63 Americans concerned about gas prices, inflation, and market losses but they "need to take a step back" because they're actually "doing very, very well."

--------------------

Compared to how they'll be doing when Biden leaves office.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (UuD2k)

64 43 Looks like we're going to have to admit: We live in interesting times.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (hmWcn)

And we've come to the attention of the emperor...
What's the third of that triad of mixed fortunes?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (ynpvh)

65 At least when Carter was President we got Billy Beer.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (i2rD5)

66 Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (H9K5h)

Yes. Youve mentioned that several times before. The kids-who don't vote-can just die and decrease the surplus population, eh?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (FZ2cV)

67 Can I take that sympathy and write a check with it to pay bills?

Posted by: Bosk at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (x6uUk)

68 What The Biden Occupation is doing is intentional.

Those that defend it should not be given any benefit of ignorance or stupidity-- they know.

They all mean to grind us up and sell our bones.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (Zf0+a)

69 a Financial Times survey of economists finds that a majority expect a recession next year.

LOL Economists, always wrong and always late.

The problem for the Democrats is that if they suddenly turned into Reagan x Trump squared on the economy it still wouldn't help. Because businesses don't trust them to not put the knife in as soon as they turn around to work.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (KZzsI)

70 When Biden abandons his attacks on the oil and gas industry and actively works to resume Trump regulatory policies on the industry, economic stability has a chance of returning.

But he won't, so buckle up world.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (WO46G)
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People used to ask me to name one thing Obama could do to improve the economy (like that's my job), and I would answer "take the foot off its neck". But Obama never did.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (krQz2)

71 This is the elite class trying to squeeze people out of the economy.

All to go along with WEF's vision of population reduction.

Posted by: Allie at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (UnA8+)

72 And yet.....

Just this afternoon I was at a local Mexican place. A regional version of Chipotle. Line was insane, easily 15 people in front of me.

So I read things like the economy is in shambles but then Insee that happening too.

You have to remember the media does love sensational stories.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (H9K5h)

73 Heritage America: Cheap gas, low inflation, vacations, safety from crime, but very, very mean tweets

Biden's America: Reverse all that

Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2022 03:19 PM (ESjRY)

74 49 it's not 0.0% growth, it's worse.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:13 PM (ynpvh)
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It's a growth in the margin above expansion.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:16 PM (krQz2)

Well, the penumbras of the economy will grow. Illegal drugs, theft, etc.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:19 PM (ynpvh)

75 Measures of consumer confidence aren't helped by the fact that the federal government has a 100% pure unbroken record of lying its ass off.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at June 15, 2022 03:19 PM (sWM8x)

76 We are all Honduran tortilla vendors now.

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2022 03:19 PM (v0R5T)

77 At least when Carter was President we got Billy Beer.
Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (i2rD5)
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Agreed. It could be worse.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:19 PM (krQz2)

78 Watch out Canada. By next year we will be looking at you the way a lion looks at a gazelle.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:19 PM (yQpMk)

79 Good. I want pain. I want suffering. I want every mother fucking wine mom who freaked out about mean tweets to literally starve. And yes I mean literally in the literal sense of the word. Her and her children too.

Fuck you, war.

Posted by: Joe XiDen

Welcome to the dark side.
Let it burn.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (bar5X)

80 57 When do we hit the 1929 neighborhood?

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (bar5X)

When Bidenvilles start popping up.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (ynpvh)

81 US Consumer Sentiment Slumps to Record Low on Rapid Inflation

Do you miss me now?

Never thought I'd get to say that.

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (D6lWx)

82 The problem with that is that good people who voted for Trump are going to suffer as bad or even worse than the wine moms because of biden.
___

That doesn't matter to a lot of people, as long as they get to point and laugh from their perch.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (SF4EO)

83 You still have indoor plumbing!

Posted by: Bhamat Ramamurti at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (ppBhU)

84 Consideration: A rapist changes some peoples' lives.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (krQz2)

85 I think people got the sense that Jimmy Carter did actually care and wanted to make things better, but was just incompetent and had all the wrong ideas. Biden comes across as creepy, senile, and uncaring.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (KZzsI)

86 That also can be addressed.

By cutting Medicare and social security payments. Also discretionary spending, but the bulk will need to be safety net spending.

It's going to happen eventually.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (LvTSG)

Star Trek replicators would solve it as well.

And they are more likely to happen than any govt mule cutting a program before the great collapse to try to prevent the collapse.

Posted by: Bete at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (F9322)

87 60 Bharat Ramamurti

It's always the upper-caste Indians. If they love Communism so much, why do they all come here to advocate for it instead of trying to make a go of it in India?

Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (ZGrMX)

Not that they didn't try in India...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (ynpvh)

88
Yes. Youve mentioned that several times before. The kids-who don't vote-can just die and decrease the surplus population, eh?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (FZ2cV)

Im done caribg about people who hate me. But you do you.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (H9K5h)

89
Karine Jean-Pierre just told us that Biden had given us an "historic" economy.*

Did she go on to honk, honk, honk about just how historic she is?

I would be shocked if she did not.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (pNxlR)

90 "Get to know your local and state representatives, especially the new Republicans in your state houses and city councils."

ROFL
- California

Posted by: SFGoth at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (KAi1n)

91 When Bidenvilles start popping up.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (ynpvh)

There already are homeless encampments all over the place.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 03:21 PM (UuD2k)

92 I like the unprecedented cliff-dive right as Biden is installed.

Then the, "well, maybe it won't be so bad" climb.

And now the, "oh holy F, it's worse!" we're in now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 15, 2022 03:21 PM (Zf0+a)

93 Women elected Biden, or at least their majority support for Democrats made the biggest difference in the states that mattered most. Tucker should go back and interview those voters and ask them what they think about their decision now.

Believe it or not, I bet plenty of those voters think Biden is doing just fine. They simply do not connect their votes to the disaster we face.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:21 PM (WO46G)

94 Next year?

Okay sure whatever.

They're going to avoid declaring a recession until after the GOP takes over Congress, so that the Dems have someone to blame.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 15, 2022 03:21 PM (wmDcS)

95 61 Historic. Economic. Kaboom.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (TNyrE)

Biden's Kaboom Economy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:21 PM (ynpvh)

96 So I read things like the economy is in shambles but then Insee that happening too.

Wow, your personal subjective experience clearly negates the facts!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:21 PM (KZzsI)

97 Welcome to the dark side.
Let it burn.
Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (bar5X)

I was always LIB adjacent. But now Im dead center ready to light fires.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:21 PM (H9K5h)

98 Americans trimmed their spending unexpectedly in May compared with a month before, underscoring how surging inflation on daily necessities like gas is causing them to be more cautious about buying discretionary items.

These experts sure do get surprised a lot, and by things that everyone else knows.

Posted by: t-bird at June 15, 2022 03:21 PM (D6lWx)

99 Bharat Ramamurti

It's always the upper-caste Indians. If they love Communism so much, why do they all come here to advocate for it instead of trying to make a go of it in India?
Posted by: Ian S.

Because they'll kill them.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:21 PM (bar5X)

100 From Billy Beer to Hunter's Crack.

Let's keep this in the 70s for as long as we can, ok?

Posted by: Jimmah Cahtah at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (SDNQO)

101 Ed gets a bad rap at Instapundit because he links lots of different people, but he consistently links here to Ace. Sometimes I come back and reread a blog post because of something Ed points out.

Posted by: David Prince at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (WUxVt)

102 And real inflation is, IMHO, twice the official CPI.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (lKAqb)

103 76 We are all Honduran tortilla vendors now.

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2022 03:19 PM (v0R5T)

Pupusas

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (ynpvh)

104 I guess I'll need to brush up on the secret hobo symbols.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (UuD2k)

105 Believe it or not, I bet plenty of those voters think Biden is doing just fine. They simply do not connect their votes to the disaster we face.

100%. Biden isn't hurting their feelings, and that's 100% of what AWFLs care about.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (ZGrMX)

106 To my simple mind, if inflation is 8%, and GDP growth is zero, the real "growth is minus 8%. The "growth was not in an increase in the quantity of goods and services produced, just the selling price.

Now we have crazy inflation and the cure is to raise interest rates which, of course, will bring on more inflation in the short term.

Brandon must have an honorary PhD in economics to go with his other accolades.

Posted by: Barney Rubble at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (qiUw+)

107 Jeebus criminy works, I think...

I hope.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (QYPq3)

108 Send in the Clowns
There Ought to be Clowns
Don't Bother, They're Here

Posted by: kraken at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (Vr12I)

109 I feel better knowing the country's in good hands

Posted by: havel at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (PRDNR)

110 85 I think people got the sense that Jimmy Carter did actually care and wanted to make things better, but was just incompetent and had all the wrong ideas. Biden comes across as creepy, senile, and uncaring.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (KZzsI)

Campaign slogan 2024: Vote Biden. He’s like Carter, but corrupt.

Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (i2rD5)

111 I think people got the sense that Jimmy Carter did actually care and wanted to make things better, but was just incompetent and had all the wrong ideas.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

America actually had a textiles industry back then (IYKWIM).

Posted by: SFGoth at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (KAi1n)

112 I dislike the use of "an" before "historic". The "h" is a consonant, not a vowel. Please correct this Ace.

Posted by: The Mitch at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (Qcsjz)

113 People refusing to acknowledge how awesome things are under Biden are going to lead to him having an historic meltdown on camera.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (eGTCV)

114 77 At least when Carter was President we got Billy Beer.
Posted by: Supreme Gentleman at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (i2rD5)
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Agreed. It could be worse.
Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:19 PM (krQz2)

*Grins*

Wait til they get a load of me.

Posted by: 2023 at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (F9322)

115 Today, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden, tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid antigen test. He is fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice. He is currently experiencing mild symptoms.

Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (RHGPo)

116 Wow, your personal subjective experience clearly negates the facts!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:21 PM (KZzsI)

Im not the enemy dude.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (H9K5h)

117 101 Ed gets a bad rap at Instapundit because he links lots of different people, but he consistently links here to Ace. Sometimes I come back and reread a blog post because of something Ed points out.
Posted by: David Prince at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (WUxVt)

=========

He linked one of my movie posts once.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (LvTSG)

118 76 We are all Honduran tortilla vendors now.

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2022 03:19 PM (v0R5T)

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And no choice between flour and corn tortillas.

It will only be flour, since all of the corn will go into the ethanol blends.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (TNyrE)

119 But that idiot spokesperson is a Harvard grad. She must be right!

Posted by: Marcus T at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (VF4WI)

120 86 That also can be addressed.
By cutting Medicare and social security payments. Also discretionary spending, but the bulk will need to be safety net spending.
It's going to happen eventually.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (LvTSG)

Star Trek replicators would solve it as well.
And they are more likely to happen than any govt mule cutting a program before the great collapse to try to prevent the collapse.
Posted by: Bete at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (F9322)

Can't run them on green energy though. We need anti-matter engines, Stat!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (ynpvh)

121 These experts sure do get surprised a lot, and by things that everyone else knows.

Yeah they keep being caught off guard by the obvious, never expecting what everyone else knows. What, exactly is it you'd say you are experts in again?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (KZzsI)

122 It's going to be worse than the 70s and that sucked big time for everyone.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (bVYXr)

I for one welcome the return of men in white bell-bottom pants and platform shoes

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (DJFLF)

123 Believe it or not, I bet plenty of those voters think Biden is doing just fine. They simply do not connect their votes to the disaster we face.

100%. Biden isn't hurting their feelings, and that's 100% of what AWFLs care about.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:22 PM (ZGrMX)
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That's because their programmers gave them a track to think on. "Prices aren't under the President's control" (true and yet specious).

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (krQz2)

124 My gut feel is that it will be bad, but were not there yet.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 03:14 PM (Y5qcH)

If they're saying zero, I'm thinking g that's a best case wish. Trying to get ahead of the news.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (NW9xb)

125 78 Watch out Canada. By next year we will be looking at you the way a lion looks at a gazelle.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:19 PM (yQpMk)

Or Russia looking at Ukraine and Poland...

Posted by: Moki at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (JrN/x)

126 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (1Yy3c)

127 Karine Jean-Pierre just told us that Biden had given us an "historic" economy."

__________

She's not wrong.

It's historically bad.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (MvHI3)

128 America actually had a textiles industry back then (IYKWIM).

You could still buy American-made electronics then too.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (ZGrMX)

129 Believe it or not, I bet plenty of those voters think Biden is doing just fine. They simply do not connect their votes to the disaster we face.

Yep. A core segment of left leaning LIVs cannot or will not associate their political leaders with the impacts those leaders have on their lives.

Biden said he was going to raise the price of gas, I voted for Biden and he won and the price of gas went up unexpectedly. What bad luck!

Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (ESjRY)

130 >>>* My first use of "an historic." I'm glad you could be here for it.

That's how I've always done it. Also, I read to the end.

Okay, Dear Ray Comfort, I lied. I skipped to the end.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 15, 2022 03:24 PM (QYPq3)

131 Tears of a Clown is going through my head.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2022 03:24 PM (89T5c)

132 Sponge brains shit pants said "We are changing so many lives."

For the worse.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:24 PM (lKAqb)

133 How are booze prices? I haven’t seen a huge increase yet. But, then, I drink the cheap stuff.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2022 03:24 PM (CbMK6)

134 Having lived through the Carter Years, the youngers won't believe what'll happen to them.

Posted by: kraken at June 15, 2022 03:24 PM (Vr12I)

135 Im done caribg about people who hate me. But you do you.Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (H9K5h)

You were done with that some time ago. Months at least.
5 year olds who don't know you should starve and freeze o death?!!. As much of a sinner as I am in need of God's grace I am grateful with those sentiments you have never evinced on hereany belief in God whatsoever. I am also grateful for the conservative Atheists who don't hope all children of leftists die

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 15, 2022 03:24 PM (FZ2cV)

136 "The Best and Brightest are cudgeling their brains “as they search for any and all ideas to tackle rising energy costs.

Posted by: jwmiii"

We would have a better economy if a gang of monkeys had been hired to run the country and ended up spending all their time eating, sleeping fighting and throwing poo. At least they would have would have done no damage by doing nothing than all the great ideas of the regime to "help"us.

Posted by: Ripley at June 15, 2022 03:24 PM (MxEKc)

137 "Thank God I'm not even the 2nd worst president evah!!"
-- Jimmy Carter while contemplating Obama and Biden.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 15, 2022 03:24 PM (N39Ws)

138 I for one welcome the return of men in white bell-bottom pants and platform shoes

Wait til you see me in a polyester shirt open to my navel!

*whispers* Hai Karate cologne

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:24 PM (KZzsI)

139 This is easily explained...The graph is upside down!

IT IS!! Stop looking at me like that! Whoopie, don't you start. Don't you start with me!

Posted by: Joy Behar, out of the box thinker at June 15, 2022 03:25 PM (PiwSw)

140 It's going to be worse than the 70s and that sucked big time for everyone.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (bVYXr)
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In the 70s we still had the dollar as the universal exchange currency.

When our meddling in Ukraine manages to destroy the Petrol Dollar, we're going to be feeling all kinds of hurt.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:25 PM (krQz2)

141 When do we hit the 1929 neighborhood?

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (bar5X)

When Bidenvilles start popping up.
Posted by: jim

I feel like the little girl in Poltergeist.

"They're here!"

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:25 PM (bar5X)

142 My first use of "an historic." I'm glad you could be here for it.

Did you stay in an hotel last night?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2022 03:25 PM (/NCI4)

143 >> * My first use of "an historic." I'm glad you could be here for it.

It sounds correct if you speak like a brit with a silent 'h'. When Americans do it, it sounds so pretentious. That's why it's so popular among the press.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at June 15, 2022 03:25 PM (uWF4x)

144 So far Buchanan is still a worse president then Biden...but he still has plenty of time to "win"

Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2022 03:25 PM (ESjRY)

145 Do you miss me now?

Never thought I'd get to say that.
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (D6lWx)
..........

brain tumor > brain aneurysm

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2022 03:25 PM (v0R5T)

146 138 I for one welcome the return of men in white bell-bottom pants and platform shoes

Wait til you see me in a polyester shirt open to my navel!

*whispers* Hai Karate cologne
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:24 PM (KZzsI)

=========

"You make this sound like a bad thing."
-Doctor McCoy in TMP

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:25 PM (LvTSG)

147 >133 How are booze prices? I haven’t seen a huge increase yet. But, then, I drink the cheap stuff.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2022 03:24 PM (CbMK6)

They should lag, what's on sale now was produced years ago and if you buy KY you aren't paying overseas shipping.

Posted by: havel at June 15, 2022 03:25 PM (PRDNR)

148 my main concern is the crime - it's already bad and getting worse and spreading out of the city.

it's going to get very ugly the criminal element know full well where rich people are

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at June 15, 2022 03:25 PM (w0NJk)

149 I don't know what your problem is. Brandon says families have less debt and more saving since he took office.

https://is.gd/UVuM1g

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2022 03:25 PM (DRSnL)

150 Good. I want pain. I want suffering. I want every mother fucking wine mom who freaked out about mean tweets to literally starve. And yes I mean literally in the literal sense of the word. Her and her children too.

Fuck you, war.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (H9K5h)

I'm good with that. I'll even up it and chuckle at the ancient fucks who still vote dem like truman is still alive when they die like a popsickle in their ice houses when they can't pay for heating oil.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (VwHCD)

151 Jay Powell, the Fed chair, has conceded that the central bank's efforts to moderate inflation may cause "some pain", leading to a "softish" landing that sees the unemployment rate rise "a few ticks".

___________________________

Wtf did he say? Translation: "You're fucked."

I actually am more optimistic than most. I think a significant portion of inflation and the downturn in the markets is driven by paranoia. There's a feeling that things are spiraling out of control and that begets over-reaction. I think a lot of the current malaise and pain can be cured simply by (i) end of Ukraine war and (ii) some semblance of a rational USA energy policy. No 1 will come eventually. No 2 may come in November.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (iFTx/)

152 Hell, the only thing I care about is team red got the Hot Brown Girl in office. AOC is seething rn.
Since the Empire is burning, might as well elect hotties into office for a eye candies and a accelerations.

Posted by: Heavy Squats at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (0hj5F)

153 Ed gets a bad rap at insty because he constantly links treacher and the never trump bs

Posted by: NCKate at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (2oJif)

154 I dislike the use of "an" before "historic". The "h" is a consonant, not a vowel. Please correct this Ace.

"This is supposed to be an 'appy occasion..."

Ace is channeling his inner Python, so to speak.

Posted by: t-bird at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (D6lWx)

155 I'm sure it will help a lot to cut SS payments, when they get less than $1800 a month. That should kill off a few more and will be real popular.

If you have it, please kick in a few dollars to your local food bank.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (5HBd1)

156 I don't know what your problem is. Brandon says families have less debt and more saving since he took office.

Si. Es Verdad.

Posted by: Some Spherical Guatemalan at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (ESjRY)

157 If there's a silver lining, it's that DOCTOR Jill is probably livid at the situation. I imagine she thought life would be all rosy in the white house. Now she sees that she hitched her wagon to this incompetent, mean, perverted, venal loser with a son whose numerous kinks and escapades make most perverted druggies look like they're sandbagging it. You just know that Jill is letting Joe have an earful every minute of the day.

Posted by: 496 at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (VJsqe)

158 Housing collapse in 3...2....1, followed by food shortages

Posted by: Chance at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (HXNDP)

159 Axeman- yep.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (89T5c)

160 Fuel prices are going to Drag down the economy like a anchor

Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (2JoB8)

161 I for one welcome the return of men in white bell-bottom pants and platform shoes
Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (DJFLF)

And the polyester shirts unbuttoned to the belly button.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (DRSnL)

162 All by design, my pretties. All by design.

Posted by: creeper at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (GdtZp)

163 It's almost as if Leftie is doing all this on purpose.

Posted by: The Biden Abomination What Causes Desolation at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (jV+aN)

164 Ironically, Blue Oyster Cult is playing their first 3 albums, in their entirety, this September in NYC. We truly are back to the 70's.

And let's remember, it wasn't just Carter. We had [fuck] Nixon to kick around for 4 3/4 years. That dude was the ultimate RINO. He'd adopt any left-wing policy, except letting people smoke pot, if it'd buy him votes.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (KAi1n)

165 Do you miss me now?

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (D6lWx)
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I miss Ronald Reagan more.

Heck, I'd take second-term Bill Clinton as well.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (krQz2)

166 Fauci has COVID .. ha ha

Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (RHGPo)

167 There's no problem facing America today that can't be addressed by peanut butter subsidies.

Posted by: Jimmuh Carta at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (sWM8x)

168 if you buy KY you aren't paying overseas shipping

What exactly are you drinking?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (/NCI4)

169 US retail sales unexpectedly drop in May as inflation weighs in on inflation.
-- Commerce Dept.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (N39Ws)

170 115 Today, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden, tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid antigen test. He is fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice. He is currently experiencing mild symptoms.

Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2022 03:23 PM (RHGPo)

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I advocate that he should be administered a couple dozen more boosters, just to lessen the symptoms even further.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (TNyrE)

171 Economists consider the economy to be in recession when there is zero or negative growth for two consecutive quarters or more
==

NOT WHEN A DEMOCRANAZI IS PRESIDENT. THEN A RECESSION CAN NEVER HAPPEN AND THE DEFINITION CHANGES TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (WKPeU)

172 I paid $5.60 per gallon of gas at COSTCO the other day. Costco has the cheapest gas around by far. It's about $5.85 per gallon around me today.

I bought cheese at Costco too, and it was $2.00 more than a month ago.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (kDGvA)

173 Out: Economic growth, freedom, safety, hope, a future

In: Bottom surgeries and dancing boys

Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (ESjRY)

174
When Bidenvilles start popping up.
Posted by: jim

Good call; but, the homeless camps should be called this *right* now.

Going use it the next time someone brings up the homeless.
Thanks.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (hmWcn)

175 it's going to get very ugly the criminal element know full well where rich people are

Hence the stories of crime moving into Beverly Hills and the Upper West Side and the Miracle Mile.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (ZGrMX)

176 82 That doesn't matter to a lot of people, as long as they get to point and laugh from their perch.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 15, 2022 03:20 PM (SF4EO)

And get to puff their chest out as the biggest "badass".

Posted by: Allie at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (UnA8+)

177 and yet the price of gold and silver has declined. This perplexes me.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (yQpMk)

178 >>>Housing collapse in 3...2....1, followed by food shortages

Posted by: Chance at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (HXNDP)

Wow, that's so April. try to keep up.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (QYPq3)

179 Every other socialist regime features food riots.

When do we get food riots?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (PlZ6z)

180 }It's going to be worse than the 70s and that sucked big time for everyone.

Posted by: Mister Scott"

I will welcome the return of tube tops and cut-offs (on women)

Posted by: Ripley at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (MxEKc)

181 My Energy Secretary appeared in a music video singing about the end to the oil and gas companies.
My transportation secretary was a Jr. Officer in a small motor pool outside an Afghan village for a few months.

I have complete faith in everything they tell me.

Posted by: JOE BIDEN at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (z9V4B)

182 You were done with that some time ago. Months at least.
5 year olds who don't know you should starve and freeze o death?!!. As much of a sinner as I am in need of God's grace I am grateful with those sentiments you have never evinced on hereany belief in God whatsoever. I am also grateful for the conservative Atheists who don't hope all children of leftists die
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 15, 2022 03:24 PM (FZ2cV)

I don't do the God thing, no.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (H9K5h)

183 The other difference is that Carter didn't surround himself with incompetents.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (5HBd1)

184 Consumer spending will keep dropping. So will the housing market, followed by corporate profits. He's already killed our best consistent industry, energy. So we're already halfway there.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (VF4WI)

185 177 and yet the price of gold and silver has declined. This perplexes me.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (yQpMk)

Until you try to buy physical and you get hit by the high mark up.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (UuD2k)

186 Spending on canned goods is probably up.

Posted by: fd at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (vrz2I)

187 I saw a youtube video that claims Susan Rice is the real POTUS.

LOL

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (lKAqb)

188 It will only be flour, since all of the corn will go into the ethanol blends.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle

Ain't no reason for ethanol. Ain't no gas to put it into.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (bar5X)

189 158 Housing collapse in 3...2....1, followed by food shortages
Posted by: Chance at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (HXNDP)

I don't think there will be a housing collapse. It will cool off and some areas will lose value but the cost to build is sky rocketing and there's more demand than supply.

Posted by: havel at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (PRDNR)

190 I don't know what your problem is. Brandon says families have less debt and more saving since he took office.

I think there is a chance that might have been true, six months ago. People who couldn't leave their house to go anywhere because everything was shut down, had more money to pay bills and pay down debts. At least some people put those government "stimulus" checks in savings. At least some people just didn't pay rent because they could not be evicted. Those unemployment checks kept coming for over a year.

So yeah, I could buy that a few months back, that was true.

But that savings is gone now and the debts are piling up again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (KZzsI)

191 In Chinese, Crisis and Opportunity are synonymous.

This is Crisis By Design.

Posted by: davidt at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (NqOsP)

192 And the polyester shirts unbuttoned to the belly button.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (DRSnL)

and the porn 'stache!

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:29 PM (DJFLF)

193 don't know what your problem is. Brandon says families have less debt and more saving since he took office.

Can't wait to see how much money Americans will be saving on 4th of July BBQs.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 15, 2022 03:29 PM (N39Ws)

194 172 I bought cheese at Costco too, and it was $2.00 more than a month ago.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (kDGvA)

Cans of soup that were $2.20 at the supermarket just months ago are over $4.00 now.

Posted by: Allie at June 15, 2022 03:29 PM (UnA8+)

195
Yes. Youve mentioned that several times before. The kids-who don't vote-can just die and decrease the surplus population, eh?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

At least they'll have electric cars.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 15, 2022 03:29 PM (63Dwl)

196 170 115 Today, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and Chief Medical Advisor to President Biden, tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid antigen test. He is fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice. He is currently experiencing mild symptoms.

great so we can all agree these shots do nothing, right?

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at June 15, 2022 03:29 PM (w0NJk)

197 Karine Jean-Pierre

Brandon's SpokesThing makes me long for the days of Psakoshit.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:29 PM (HsAzN)

198 Sniffybigtoe - that reminds me, I've been meaning to paint the hobo symbols for "vicious dog," "husband has a gun," and "you will get a beating" on my porch. There was a chart explaining all of those codes somewhere on the internet.

Posted by: PabloD says start up the rotors at June 15, 2022 03:29 PM (rbh9X)

199 Its actually funny the way they stand up there and lie to our faces. Who you gonna believe rubes? Me or your lyin eyes? Heh.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 15, 2022 03:29 PM (QSjkU)

200 168 if you buy KY you aren't paying overseas shipping

What exactly are you drinking?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (/NCI4)

Knob Creek

Posted by: havel at June 15, 2022 03:29 PM (PRDNR)

201 We should start using "unexpectedly"as our national motto.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 15, 2022 03:29 PM (oWBc3)

202 AWFLs are going to care when we go mid-19th century technology. Men's bodies are much easier to operate and maintain when mechanical power and gravity are all you've got.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (KAi1n)

203 Yep. A core segment of left leaning LIVs cannot or will not associate their political leaders with the impacts those leaders have on their lives.
--
They're not going to like this new paradise they think they're building at all.
And they'll still be blaming people like me and you as they're being lined up against the wall.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (Zf0+a)

204 And the polyester shirts unbuttoned to the belly button.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (DRSnL)

and the porn 'stache!

Posted by: kallisto

Tanned, rested and ready.

Posted by: Freddy Mercury at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (/NCI4)

205 Honestly, these functional retards trying to convince us that Russia is in the middle of economic collapse is sus as fuck. Even if you set aside the massive economic dislocation in America, the consequence of Russia losing their biggest trading partner should be complete economic chaos, not commodity revenue windfalls and normalized interest rates.

Russia isn't the one pumping up interest rates by historically high margins, ya dicks.

Posted by: trev006 at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (lBjST)

206 Hence the stories of crime moving into Beverly Hills and the Upper West Side and the Miracle Mile.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (ZGrMX)
_____________________________

I'm on UWS. No real crime here other than the usual petty shit. UWS is very residential and doesn't have a lot of juicy jewelry and other stores with valuable, easy to carry away goods. There is far more crime in midtown and Broadway where there are more "juicy" stores to rob.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (iFTx/)

207 Yes. Youve mentioned that several times before. The kids-who don't vote-can just die and decrease the surplus population, eh?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Do we not have prisons for them to go to?

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (krQz2)

208 I want CrossFit Mommies and Var Bunnies stacking the back benches of Team Red by 2024.
Its called priorities and winning. We win with aesthetics and not being fat and old.

Posted by: Heavy Squats at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (0hj5F)

209 196 great so we can all agree these shots do nothing, right?

Fraudci post one of those Hostage Tweets yet?

(robotic monotone) I. am. so. happy. that. i. am. vaxxed. and boosted.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (HsAzN)

210 Brandon's SpokesThing makes me long for the days of Psakoshit.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:29 PM (HsAzN)

Never! I'd rather dumb as bag of rocks than evil and contemptuous.

Posted by: havel at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (PRDNR)

211 I will welcome the return of tube tops and cut-offs (on women)

I have to admit that the tube top had trashy appeal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (KZzsI)

212 By cutting Medicare and social security payments. Also discretionary spending, but the bulk will need to be safety net spending.

It's going to happen eventually.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (LvTSG)
================
My cousin just signed up for Medicare. She went off her company insurance to do it. This is what I believe she says the deal looks like:

Under her old plan she paid Blue Cross a little over $14,000 in annual premiums, had two (in and out of network) $4,000 deductibles and she paid required co-pays on a lot of services and medications. She says in 2021 she spent just over $21,000 in medical insurance related expenses.

Under Medicare she has a $450 payment due at sign up, related somehow to her income. She has annual premiums that will total about $2500. No deductibles and no co-pays. The only thing her old plan covered that her Medicare plan does not is Dental.

She thinks her annual costs will be $3,000 this year and less in ensuing years. The $18,000 difference is being paid by the taxpayers of the US. Every year, for as long as she survives. She is pretty excited.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (RqmTL)

213 170 I advocate that he should be administered a couple dozen more boosters, just to lessen the symptoms even further.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (TNyrE)

That, and a metric shit-ton of remdesivir.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik [DHS Verdict: MDM] at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (DTX3h)

214 Heck, I'd take second-term Bill Clinton as well.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (krQz2)
===

The good second term happened only because of Newt Gingrich having a tight control on the house. Otherwise the USA economy would have been Fucked up.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (WKPeU)

215 It's going to be worse than the 70s and that sucked big time for everyone.

Posted by: Mister Scott"

I will welcome the return of tube tops and cut-offs (on women)

Posted by: Ripley at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (MxEKc)

Yeah..that was..yeah...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (VwHCD)

216 Barat Ramajamma ain't no Kevin Bacon.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (oWBc3)

217 "and yet the price of gold and silver has declined. This perplexes me."

Buy it, cause paper aint gonna be worth a thing.

Posted by: IP at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (w9UC1)

218 I saw a youtube video that claims Susan Rice is the real POTUS.

She's absolutely in the mix, and certainly has a better claim to the job than Biden.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (ZGrMX)

219 175 it's going to get very ugly the criminal element know full well where rich people are

Hence the stories of crime moving into Beverly Hills and the Upper West Side and the Miracle Mile.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (ZGrMX)

Good and hard.

Posted by: Bete at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (F9322)

220 Until you try to buy physical and you get hit by the high mark up.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Still, gold and silver should still be going up. Even with huge markups.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (bar5X)

221 on the bright side.

Gaslight futures are up

Posted by: Shaftoe at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (Rvxb7)

222 Get me an 'ore!

Posted by: creeper at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (GdtZp)

223 And how long did you expect that to go on for, Idiots, when people can barely afford food and gas and rent, and mortgage interest rates are about to shoot through the sky, and people's accumulated wealth in their home values is about to be slashed 15-20%?
++++
It will go on until the cards are maxed out. And that's happening more or less now.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (0zQHa)

224 "He is fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice."

Sure. Because they said so? The existence of words on a page or in the air does not, ipso facto, make them true.

Posted by: SFGoth at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (KAi1n)

225 Americans trimmed their spending unexpectedly

There's that word again.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (Xrfse)

226 Until you try to buy physical and you get hit by the high mark up.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (UuD2k)

Yeah but, it is still not rising vs the dollar. I can buy a Krugerrand for less now than last year.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (yQpMk)

227 I can guess that gold and silver would be down in anticipation of the fed raising rates...an expectation that someone will eventually do something sometime about inflation.

I can also guess how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop, but I don't really know.

Posted by: David Prince at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (WUxVt)

228 if you buy KY you aren't paying overseas shipping

What exactly are you drinking?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (/NCI4)

Knob Creek

OK, that makes more sense. I still can't find Russell's Reserve Single Barrel Rye anywhere. When I ask at the liquor store, they just laugh.

Posted by: Freddy Mercury at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (/NCI4)

229 Second look at Swift's " A Modest Proposal", next year?

Posted by: kraken at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (Vr12I)

230
When do we hit the 1929 neighborhood?

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:17 PM (bar5X)

When Bidenvilles start popping up.
Posted by: jim

There's plenty of open space in the vicinity of pResident Cotton-Headed Ninny Muffin in northern Delaware ... just sayin'

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (pNxlR)

231 You know that it's Hunter running the country don't you?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (QSjkU)

232 And we've come to the attention of the emperor...
What's the third of that triad of mixed fortunes?

Something like "May you get what you deserve."

Posted by: Oddbob at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (nfrXX)

233 A 24-year-old Canadian actor and former "Riverdale" star charged with murdering his mother also allegedly plotted to kill Canadian Prime Minister Justice Trudeau in March 2020, prosecutors claimed during ongoing sentencing hearings this week expected to wrap up Wednesday.

Ryan Grantham, who played Jeffery Augustine in the hit CW series, has already admitted to shooting and killing his mother, 64-year-old Barbara Waite, in the back of the head while she played piano inside their townhouse in the community of Squamish in British Columbia on March 31, 2020.

He pleaded guilty to a second-degree murder charge in March, downgraded from the initial charge of first-degree murder.

Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (RHGPo)

234 I have to admit that the tube top had trashy appeal.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (KZzsI)

You could roll it up, or roll it down, and there was always a prize to be found.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (VwHCD)

235 I'm not sure if Ramamurti is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic after it hit the berg of if he's Kevin Bacon trying to calm attendees at the Faber College Homecoming Parade.

Posted by: Octochicken at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (oCS0o)

236 212 She thinks her annual costs will be $3,000 this year and less in ensuing years. The $18,000 difference is being paid by the taxpayers of the US. Every year, for as long as she survives. She is pretty excited.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (RqmTL)

=========

And she will plan and go through with an assassination mission on any politician that even thinks about proposing a measure to get her to pay any more.

Cut foreign aid instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (LvTSG)

237 197 Karine Jean-Pierre

Brandon's SpokesThing makes me long for the days of Psakoshit.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:29 PM (HsAzN)

Not me. Psaki could be slick and even charismatic at times, and seemed to charm the reporters. Ms. Jean-Pierre is as good at her job as Biden is at his, so it's a very appropriate choice for this Administration.

Posted by: Splunge at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (2hil/)

238
Can't wait to see how much money Americans will be saving on 4th of July BBQs.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Hot dogs were sixteen cents cheaper last July 4 compared to the year before. At least, that's what they claimed.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (63Dwl)

239 Be prepared: Disco will make a comeback.

Do the hustle, everybody! Plus a remake of Saturday Night Fever, which we have to look forward to.

Posted by: RS at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (1XDfN)

240 I saw a youtube video that claims Susan Rice is the real POTUS.

She's absolutely in the mix, and certainly has a better claim to the job than Biden.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (ZGrMX)
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Rice is the General Secretary then?

I wasn't so sure it was Klain when people said it.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (krQz2)

241 I think Pennsylvania is cooking the books for the senate candidate polls, we seen it before. I honestly think oz is leading but is being covered up. One of the polls say only 15% in Pennsylvania support the economy. This tells me that there is no way oz is behind by 9% to the democrat candidate.

Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (pmoqr)

242 Every other socialist regime features food riots.

When do we get food riots?
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (PlZ6z)
.......

And runs on banks. That will be fun.

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (v0R5T)

243 Bidenville, Bidentown, or Bidenburg?

Which is best for a can a beans and a scrap of cardboard to sleep on?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (Zf0+a)

244 Fox is reporting the recall George Gascon petition has gathered enough votes.

dlvr.it/SSFqQg

Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (kDGvA)

245 ANd 40% still approve. This is why we need massive pain.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (H9K5h)

246 Yeah but, it is still not rising vs the dollar.

I think that maybe long-term investors are looking at the future and cringing because nothing is going to be worth anything, and even if it was, who's gonna have the money to buy it?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (KZzsI)

247 Here's the other difference. People that are savers and frugal know how much things cost six months ago compared to now. So they notice the difference in prices. The LIV doesn't pay any attention. It will be months before they notice.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (5HBd1)

248 How are booze prices? I haven’t seen a huge increase yet. But, then, I drink the cheap stuff.

Does E85 use straight ethanol, no denaturing ingredients (other than the gasoline which easily separates out from water)?

Posted by: t-bird at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (D6lWx)

249 72 And yet.....
Just this afternoon I was at a local Mexican place. A regional version of Chipotle. Line was insane, easily 15 people in front of me.

So I read things like the economy is in shambles but then Insee that happening too.

You have to remember the media does love sensational stories.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:18 PM (H9K5h)

Anecdotal evidence. Where is the Chipotle? What's the economic status of most people in the immediate area? Office workers and wine moms or construction workers and auto mechanics in the line? More or fewer people in line on a daily average at the same clock time as six months ago? A year ago? Three years ago? And I can think of more data to ask for.

Posted by: tuesday's gone? at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (AMIL/)

250 great so we can all agree these shots do nothing, right?
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at June 15, 2022 03:29
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Nope. Thank G*d he got the shots. Probably would've died otherwise.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (ju2Fy)

251 BabylonBee: Marlboro Adds Puberty Blockers To Cigarettes To Make Them Legal For Kids

Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (RHGPo)

252 "if you buy KY you aren't paying overseas shipping"

I came in on the middle of this conversation and am not sure how to interpret it.

Posted by: fd at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (vrz2I)

253 Fauci should be hospitalized and stuck on a respiratory, he cried he wanted more so they should find one for him.

Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (2JoB8)

254 I want nothing but Capped Delts and Flat Tummies in spaghetti string tanks from Thursday to Sunday and tight pencil skirts and 3-4 inch heels for business days Monday to Wed.
Recruit the Talent. Get them on the bench. YOLO and shit!

Posted by: Heavy Squats at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (0hj5F)

255 Rice is the General Secretary then?

I wasn't so sure it was Klain when people said it.
Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (krQz2)

I suspect that there's a power struggle behind the scenes. Klain vs Rice vs Harris vs. Jill.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (wmDcS)

256 Be prepared: Disco will make a comeback.

If that means people start playing basslines on Fender P-Basses again instead of computers, I'm here for it.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (ZGrMX)

257 Let's fix Medicare by making the work requirement 240 months. If you haven't put into the system for at least 20 years, go back to Guatamala and collect from them.

Posted by: Regular joe at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (nnp+f)

258 That's the way, uh huh, uh huh I like it, uh huh, uh huh.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (HsAzN)

259 Fauci has sinned against Science (TM) and has been cursed with Covid.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (OuH7W)

260 We could use a man like Shaft again.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (lKAqb)

261 177 and yet the price of gold and silver has declined. This perplexes me.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (yQpMk)

Until you try to buy physical and you get hit by the high mark up.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM

Yep, silver was going for a little over $3.00 over spot 24 months ago. Now it is $14.00 over spot price. I quit buying silver.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (bVYXr)

262 I will welcome the return of tube tops and cut-offs (on women)
Posted by: Ripley at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (MxEKc)

Hello sailor.

Posted by: Lena Dunham at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (F9322)

263 "Unexpectedly, America has seen unprecedented growth in detention camps."

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (krQz2)

264 Bidenville. They were called Hoovervilles in the past.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (5HBd1)

265 If that means people start playing basslines on Fender P-Basses again instead of computers, I'm here for it.

Couldn't we just bring bank funk instead?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (KZzsI)

266 The Growth of a Bear market.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (krQz2)

267 Consumer spending will keep dropping. So will the housing market,

i checked my home value on zillow, according to them it's appreciated quite a lot since i bought it 8 yrs ago.

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (DJFLF)

268 I see Teh Horde is super cereal today.
White Knuckling Ninjas need to chill and laugh.

Posted by: Heavy Squats at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (0hj5F)

269 "Hot dogs were sixteen cents cheaper last July 4 compared to the year before. At least, that's what they claimed.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. "

I hope someone makes that comparison again and spreads it far and wide.

Posted by: fd at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (vrz2I)

270 Kids here won't starve since the school system will continue to feed them breakfast and lunch all summer long. Along with the food stamps the momma is getting. So one meal a day is all momma has to buy on our dime. Fat little fuckers should survive.

Posted by: NCKate at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (2oJif)

271 oh you guys already heard about fauci? lolz

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (OuH7W)

272 "if you buy KY you aren't paying overseas shipping"

What about Astroglide?

Posted by: SFGoth at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (KAi1n)

273 Klain vs Rice vs Harris vs. Jill.

Jarrett's in there too, and I don't think Harris or Jill are real factors.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (ZGrMX)

274
(robotic monotone) I. am. so. happy. that. i. am. vaxxed. and boosted.
Posted by: Guy Smiley

at. least. my. symptoms. will. be. mild. so. I. will. be. fine.

I. curse. the. unvaxxed. for. letting. this. go on.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (pNxlR)

275 And as far as disasters go we ain't seen nothing yet. Fuel shortages are just beginning in rural areas and food shortages will soon follow. Thinks are likely to be bad in the US in the developing world they will likely be apocalyptic.

The economic philosophy behind "Build Back Better" can more aptly be described as "Mass Murder Millions".

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (Z14TK)

276 Be prepared: Disco will make a comeback.

Posted by: RS at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (1XDfN)

If ever there was a line to cross before the mass culling begins this is it.

Posted by: Robert at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (1Yy3c)

277 228 OK, that makes more sense. I still can't find Russell's Reserve Single Barrel Rye anywhere. When I ask at the liquor store, they just laugh.
Posted by: Freddy Mercury at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (/NCI4)

Is this what you are looking for? How close to NH are you?

https://tinyurl.com/yujhn4ex

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (N39Ws)

278 We could use a man like Shaft again.

I hear he's a bad mutha---

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:36 PM (KZzsI)

279 259 Fauci has sinned against Science (TM) and has been cursed with Covid.
Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (OuH7W)

Nah, now the new talking point amongst this crowd is that everyone will eventually get COVID.

They're (maybe) not wrong, but they sure as hell weren't saying that a year+ ago.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 15, 2022 03:36 PM (Rl7KJ)

280 My cheap bourbon has gone up 20% in the last 3 months.

It ain't lagging.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:36 PM (lKAqb)

281 mmmmm, tree bark.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2022 03:36 PM (ZLI7S)

282 Fauci has sinned against Science (TM) and has been cursed with Covid.
Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (OuH7W)
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But he's a leading Scilentist!

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:36 PM (krQz2)

283 "Couldn't we just bring bank funk instead?"

I think we are going to get bank funk whether we like it or not.

Posted by: fd at June 15, 2022 03:36 PM (vrz2I)

284 The other difference is that Carter didn't surround himself with incompetents.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:28 PM (5HBd1)
===

Disagree.
Carter DID surround himself with incompetents but they didn't hate America.
Biden has surrounded himself with ruthless and efficient competency in destroying America.

This is all on purpose to think it has anything to do with stupidity is playing into their hands... and naive.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 15, 2022 03:36 PM (WKPeU)

285 Fauci should be hospitalized and stuck on a respiratory, he cried he wanted more so they should find one for him.

Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2022 03:34 PM (2JoB

I would settle for sticking his silly ass into an ancient diving bell, TIG weld it shut and kick his ass into the ocean like a retarded buoy.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 15, 2022 03:36 PM (VwHCD)

286 at. least. my. symptoms. will. be. mild. so. I. will. be. fine.

I. curse. the. unvaxxed. for. letting. this. go on.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (pNxlR)

LOL, yep. Perfect! They are literally parodies of themselves.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:36 PM (HsAzN)

287 271 oh you guys already heard about fauci? lolz
------------------------

Remdesivir shots and 30 days in a FEMA camp!!

Posted by: Haywood at June 15, 2022 03:37 PM (vFzm9)

288 Grand Funk Railroad > Bank Funk

Posted by: 496 at June 15, 2022 03:37 PM (VJsqe)

289 great so we can all agree these shots do nothing, right?
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at June 15, 2022 03:29

well, they make you more likely to get coof re-infected. I wouldn't exactly call that *nothing*.

It's effective at something, just a different something than teh Bidet said

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:37 PM (DJFLF)

290 Fauci has Covid. Lololololol!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 15, 2022 03:37 PM (ptqGC)

291 One thing I enjoy about ace is how big picture he is. All of us are thinking 70s and disco, but you can see the man is ahead of the curve and researching gruel.

Posted by: David Prince at June 15, 2022 03:37 PM (WUxVt)

292 > Do we not have prisons for them to go to?

Y'all are gettin' all literary up in this blog.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 03:37 PM (kDGvA)

293 Is this what you are looking for? How close to NH are you?

No, but I can't find that one either. The Single Barrel Reserve was running about $60-65 a year ago. Regardless, NH is a fur piece.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 15, 2022 03:37 PM (/NCI4)

294 Sly and the Family Stone > The Biden Family

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:37 PM (KZzsI)

295 "I will welcome the return of tube tops and cut-offs (on women)
Posted by: Ripley at June 15, 2022 03:27 PM (MxEKc)

Hello sailor.

Posted by: Lena Dunham"

Of course, the Mao suit had a certain appeal on some women.

Posted by: Ripley at June 15, 2022 03:37 PM (MxEKc)

296 bank funk

Earth, Wind & Fiduciaries

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:37 PM (HsAzN)

297 Any chance illegals will migrate back to their countries of origin?

Posted by: mr tmz at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (rJ48h)

298 189- rising interest rates will cripple the asking prices and it's already starting. Bubbles are a terrible thing. Vegas is going to be hit very hard and those greedy Strip properties are going to see a huge vacuum> No one has money top pay $500 a night and $28 for a drink and $23 to park and ridiculous resort fees and taxes.

Posted by: Chance at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (HXNDP)

299 Fauci getting covid is AN hilarious development.

Posted by: 496 at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (VJsqe)

300 The Bidens are a curse and a plague on our country because we have forgotten the LORD.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (sI15f)

301 Parliament Funkadelic > all other funk

Posted by: fd at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (vrz2I)

302 This tells me that there is no way oz is behind by 9% to the democrat candidate.
Posted by: Genzconservativist at June 15, 2022 03:32 PM (pmoqr)

Simple. Oz seems sleazy.

Posted by: golfman at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (hOMhY)

303 Holy Shit, the gaslighting is epic with these people. Ramamurti can shove it up his ass.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (DcKNO)

304
I for one welcome the return of men in white bell-bottom pants and platform shoes
Posted by: kallisto

my robin's egg blue polyester leisure suit with zip up jacket and elvis collars won't fit my fat ass anymore. i'd get a replacement, but no petroleum means no polyester.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (UgAdJ) - at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (UgAdJ)

305 Honest question: Since the beginning of the Kenyan Dog-Eater’s first term, I have been hoarding change on the assumption that coins, being made of metal, could still retain some residual value if the dollar collapses. Is there any merit in this assumption?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (CbMK6)

306 285
I would settle for sticking his silly ass into an ancient diving bell, TIG weld it shut and kick his ass into the ocean like a retarded buoy.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 15, 2022 03:36 PM (VwHCD)

Nah, it needs to be dragged on for much longer that what he'd suffer in a diving bell. Never forget what he and his ilk did to us for 2 years. Payback in this life or the next.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (N39Ws)

307 Can't wait to hear he has monkeypox. 🤡😂

Posted by: Jane D'oh at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (ptqGC)

308 So tell us, Joe, how are your investments doing? Notice any change there? There are plenty of signs that things are not going well, without the "we're all going to die" stories.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (5HBd1)

309
O we want bank funk
Gotta' have bank funk.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (krQz2)

310 BabylonBee: Marlboro Adds Puberty Blockers To Cigarettes To Make Them Legal For Kids
Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (RHGPo)
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Oh that's funny!

Satire...right?

Posted by: Joe Scarborough at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (RqmTL)

311 One thing that strikes me is that the few Dems I know don't seem to be preparing for what is coming. It's as if they don't believe it. Beyond $8 a gallon gas, what is going to convince them?

And are they going to be on my doorstep when the SHTF?

Posted by: creeper at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (GdtZp)

312 > How are booze prices? I haven’t seen a huge increase yet. But, then, I drink the cheap stuff.

Brewer's yeast and potato time?

Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (kDGvA)

313 Sholanda: My momma said my daddy's name was Black Dynamite.

Brickwilla: So did my momma!

Black Dynamite: Err, uhh, hush up little girls. A lot of cats have that name.

Posted by: BLACK DYNAMITE at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (z9V4B)

314 Couldn't we just bring bank funk instead?

Vulfpeck did that already, but I wouldn't mind more people picking that up.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (ZGrMX)

315 Yahtzee!

Posted by: SFGoth at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (KAi1n)

316 FUCK JOE BIDEN!

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (0OmEj)

317 Yep, silver was going for a little over $3.00 over spot 24 months ago. Now it is $14.00 over spot price. I quit buying silver.
Posted by: Mister Scott

APMEX.com
Silver is currently $22.09
Silver rounds - $28.69 via credit card
US Mint Coins 2022 - $38.57 via cc
US Mint Random Year - $38.55 via cc

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (bar5X)

318 All of us are thinking 70s and disco, but you can see the man is ahead of the curve and researching gruel.

I got the Lobscouse and Spotted Dog recipe book about foods mentioned in the Patrick O'Brian sea novels. There are like 8 recipes for oatmeal in it, under different names. Very basic, stock food for lower classes in the 18th century.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (KZzsI)

319 I forgot today is Elder Abuse Day, hope someone died hot sauce in his oatmeal, jalapeños in his salad and no sweetened ice cream

Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (2JoB8)

320 301 Parliament Funkadelic > all other funk

fistbump.

I ain't see anybody else landing no MF'in' spaceship on a stage LOL

Early Rick James before he got big was pretty fly too.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (HsAzN)

321 Only if those coins are pre-1970. Those have some value. Newer ones don't

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (5HBd1)

322 Tube Tops, eh? Think this through. For every Gal Gadot, there is a Stacy Abrams. The Universe balances.

Posted by: kraken at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (Vr12I)

323 Parliament Funkadelic > all other funk
Posted by: fd at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (vrz2I)
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This is true, y'all.

Posted by: George Clinton at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (RqmTL)

324 >>>There are plenty of signs that things are not going well, without the "we're all going to die" stories.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (5HBd1)

Yeah? Well, we're all going to die, sooo...

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (QYPq3)

325 Anecdotal evidence. Where is the Chipotle? What's the economic status of most people in the immediate area? Office workers and wine moms or construction workers and auto mechanics in the line? More or fewer people in line on a daily average at the same clock time as six months ago? A year ago? Three years ago? And I can think of more data to ask for.
Posted by: tuesday's gone? at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (AMIL/)

Of course it's anecdotal. But its not just that one place. Generally speaking, in my burg things are no different than usual. Traffic is the same, restaurants are packed as usual, etc. My in laws who love to bitch about gas prices, and are Biden voters, lol, are out doing their usual summer RV trips.

Maybe its just me. But maybe it isnt.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (H9K5h)

326 I don't care how back to the 70s we get, I'm not burning my bras.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (dzEyh)

327 tested positive for COVID-19 on a rapid antigen test. He is fully vaccinated and has been boosted twice.

I think I see the problem here...

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (DJFLF)

328 purty shore Carter held onto congress after the middies

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (us2H3)

329 We are going to raise corporate taxes, jack energy prices through the roof and watch inflation make every damn thing cost more.

And the natural results of all this is everyone will have amazing amounts of extra money.

The Underpants Gnomes promised me!

Joe Biden

Posted by: JB1000 at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (xP1gB)

330 At least they'll have electric cars.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Have? No, no, no. They can rent electric clown cars. Plebes ain't going to own anything. Why do you think GM and Ford are going along with it?

The Fed is promising to buy fleets of Plebe cars that will be limited depending on the crisis du jour.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (IEa8U)

331 I have to admit that the tube top had trashy appeal.

One of my happiest memories not involving sex, but somewhat related.

The Lakeside Rodeo, circa 1976. Pretty little things in short shorts and halter tops.

Happy memories.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:39 PM (lKAqb)

332 Mercy, mercy.

https://tinyurl.com/3th8arjz

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (QSjkU)

333 Anecdotal evidence. Where is the Chipotle? What's the economic status of most people in the immediate area? Office workers and wine moms or construction workers and auto mechanics in the line? More or fewer people in line on a daily average at the same clock time as six months ago? A year ago? Three years ago? And I can think of more data to ask for.

Posted by: tuesday's gone? at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM

Anecdotal evidence? We go to a local pizza bar for lunch during the week three or four times a month. Two months ago there would be a bar full of people drinking and eating lunch with at least a dozen other people there for lunch, today the wife and I were there alone at noon. That has never happened before in the five years we have lived here.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (bVYXr)

334 BabylonBee: Marlboro Adds Puberty Blockers To Cigarettes To Make Them Legal For Kids
Posted by: SMOD at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM (RHGPo)
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Oh that's funny!

Satire...right?
Posted by: Joe Scarborough at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (RqmTL)

For now.

Posted by: Robert at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (1Yy3c)

335 Bank funk:

Free your mind, and your assets will follow

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (HsAzN)

336 It's actually worse than they admit. Sales are down .3% in the NOW INFLATED WORTH LESS DOLLARS.

So, from last year, actual buying power... things... are down 8.3%... they never adjust for inflation in these numbers. We've really had a contracting economy for a lot of years now.

If growth does not exceed inflation, then people are BUYING LESS STUFF.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (oHd/0)

337 Obama, Jarret, Rice, Klaine, etc. are just buffahs. We don't see or hear the people actually pulling the strings...

https://tinyurl.com/4t9tnfhp

Posted by: davidt at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (NqOsP)

338 I wonder if MSDNC is second-guessing the Psucki hiring decision.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (RqmTL)

339 But then, the beach at Pacific Beach in the late 60s. Whoooo.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (lKAqb)

340 > I have been hoarding change on the assumption that coins, being made of metal, could still retain some residual value if the dollar collapses. Is there any merit in this assumption?

Heh, no. US coins are made of nickel, copper, and zinc. There's very little intrinsic value in them.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (kDGvA)

341 If you have it, please kick in a few dollars to your local food bank.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (5HBd1)

I understand the sentiment and I really do admire you and anyone else that shares it. I however am a cold hearted SOB who has worked his butt off for 42 years keeping the lights on, food on the table, and educating my kids. Some crazy percentage (like 70+%) of the residents of this state voted for this crap and they would just as soon see me dead and take what I have as look at me. As far as I'm concerned they can eat dirt.

I didn't always used to be this way. Not that long ago I was volunteering untold hours of time plus money to various local charities and organizations. Sort of wish I could get back to that but not happening in the current environment. Love your enemy is something I have a very hard time with and I'm probably going to pay the price for that.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (NxOLn)

342 Simple. Oz seems sleazy.
Posted by: golfman at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (hOMhY)

That's been my problem with him for years. The man does not ooze trust.

Posted by: creeper at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (GdtZp)

343 mmmmmmm.......grass clippings.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (89T5c)

344 They are going to blow the roof off this sucka.

Posted by: fd at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (vrz2I)

345 Volker was Treasury Secretary under Carter. We get Yellen now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (5HBd1)

346 Parliament Funkadelic > all other funk

It is known.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (KZzsI)

347 Do we not have prisons for them to go to?
Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (krQz2)

Or workhouses. Let's send the three year olds who didn't choose their parents-to work off the sin of having liberal parents by working on the treadmill/s. It's sounds like some bizarre conservative political version of original sin You can never be redeemed from having leftist parents. You must DIE-the sooner the better. This doesn't really sound anybetter than crazy, evil leftist "All conservatives must die" stuff

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (FZ2cV)

348 Fuck. We got the financing figured out for our manufactured home. Nothing is locked down yet so we could step back. Interest rates going up has me worried.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (Wy1BU)

349 133 How are booze prices? I haven’t seen a huge increase yet. But, then, I drink the cheap stuff.

Don't know if the prices are affected that bad but i can't find any wild Turkey 101 Rye, So FJB!

Posted by: Shaftoe at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (Rvxb7)

350 I for one welcome the return of men in white bell-bottom pants and platform shoes
Posted by: kallisto

Is KC and the Sunshine Band still alive? Seems like a good time for a reunion tour.

Posted by: Biergood at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (FQWHA)

351 I'll see you all this coming fall
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (yQpMk)

352 297 Any chance illegals will migrate back to their countries of origin?
Posted by: mr tmz at June 15, 2022 03:38 PM (rJ48h)

Ans give up all the govt bennies? Shirley you jest.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (H9K5h)

353 291 One thing I enjoy about ace is how big picture he is. All of us are thinking 70s and disco, but you can see the man is ahead of the curve and researching gruel.
Posted by: David Prince at June 15, 2022 03:37 PM (WUxVt)

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Well, they said 70s. Didn't mention the century.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (CAJOC)

354 US coins are made of nickel, copper, and zinc. There's very little intrinsic value in them.

Catalytic converters have platinum in them and are easy to get to, though

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (KZzsI)

355 Volker was Treasury Secretary under Carter. We get Yellen now.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (5HBd1)
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WHY IS THAT??!!!!!

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (krQz2)

356 "Economists consider the economy to be in recession when there is zero or negative growth for two consecutive quarters or more, and that's what we�ve gotten in the first half of 2022 after a full year of Bidenomics has had its effects."
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'Economists' will just change the definition.

Posted by: Javems at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (AmoqO)

357 I read LIGHTS OUT. The old coins with actual silver in them were worth a lot in that EMP scenario.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (HsAzN)

358 The government is going to have to start killing kulaks.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (lTGtQ)

359 I saw a youtube video that claims Susan Rice is the real POTUS.

She's absolutely in the mix, and certainly has a better claim to the job than Biden.
Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:31 PM (ZGrMX)
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Rice is as stupid as Kamaltoe. She ain't running shit. Maybe she might be the conduit to the people running things but neither her nor Obama are smart enough to have pulled off all the destruction in such a short time frame. It hasn't even been a year and a half.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (WKPeU)

360 Is KC and the Sunshine Band still alive? Seems like a good time for a reunion tour.

I am guessing they don't have the wind they used to

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (KZzsI)

361 331 I have to admit that the tube top had trashy appeal.

my mom wore a tube top over her bra

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (DJFLF)

362 I actually welcome post-consumerism. It will force people to embrace truly meaningful things such as family, and to hate with the passion of seven burning-white suns the evil "Elite" and their junta-imposed police state. Better make those New Zealand bug-out bunkers nuke-proof, motherfuckers.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 15, 2022 03:43 PM (nMx88)

363 Bidenville. They were called Hoovervilles in the past.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:35 PM (5HBd1)

A pot for every chicken, or a chick full of pot, or a pothead chicken -- you know the thing!

Posted by: Doof at June 15, 2022 03:43 PM (yUjc0)

364 75/25 No midterm election. not joking.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2022 03:43 PM (89T5c)

365 Chinese researchers detected what they believe is an alien civilization sending out radio broadcasts. Or, it may be black hole generated interference. But, you know its aliens; it's always aliens.

But if it is aliens, China claims the territory and wants to invite them to Wuhan. For study.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:43 PM (RqmTL)

366 I went to verify that comment about Volker. And I found this interesting bit in a Forbes article.

Among the hapless moments of the Carter presidency, the "malaise speech" of July 1979 sticks out. Oil prices were going up wildly, and Carter addressed the problem by telling the American people, in the speech, that the root of the problem was some kind of "crisis of confidence" domestically.

Whatever Carter was getting at, he kicked things up a notch the day after the speech. He called a Cabinet meeting and asked everyone to resign. He accepted several of the resignations, including that of the treasury secretary, Michael Blumenthal.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:43 PM (5HBd1)

367 As far as I'm concerned, Putin can launch an invasion of Indiana so I can get in on some of that sweet debt cancelation that the folks in Donbass are getting from Russia. Not that I'm carrying a ton of debt, but still...and also get a leader that still eats solid food and isn't all into this tranny pedo shit

Posted by: Theskepticalschnauzer aka THELonebadger at June 15, 2022 03:43 PM (h+7ej)

368 Is KC and the Sunshine Band still alive? Seems like a good time for a reunion tour.
Posted by: Biergood at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (FQWHA)

A recent live clip came up in my YT recc's recently so they must be.

As a kid I always thought on "Keep it Comin' Love" he was singing "Keep it Common Law." Turns out from the Youtube comments I was far from alone.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:44 PM (HsAzN)

369 I have been hoarding change on the assumption that coins, being made of metal, could still retain some residual value if the dollar collapses. Is there any merit in this assumption?

I think that nickels are the only coins where the materials are more valuable than face now.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:44 PM (yQpMk)

370 But I thought at least copper had some value? Like weren’t thieves ripping out piping and wiring a few years ago for its resale value?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2022 03:44 PM (CbMK6)

371 360 Is KC and the Sunshine Band still alive? Seems like a good time for a reunion tour.

she gone

Posted by: Bill Wither at June 15, 2022 03:44 PM (us2H3)

372 So we'll bring back draft cards? For the grrrrlllllpower 18 year olds as well?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 15, 2022 03:44 PM (PlZ6z)

373 When the commies said they wantes to destroy the corrupt capitalist system so they could rebuild it in their utopian vision, maybe people should have taken them more seriously?

Anywhoo, let's make sure to force people to start turning in their guns!

Posted by: Grimmy at June 15, 2022 03:44 PM (JCZqz)

374 >>>75/25 No midterm election. not joking.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2022 03:43 PM (89T5c)

I been sayin'...

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 15, 2022 03:44 PM (QYPq3)

375 I guess mom wasn't down with the feminist liberation message of the tube top

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:44 PM (DJFLF)

376 Amazon trucks have completely dried up in my neighborhood. Last year they were running down this street 5-6 times a day. No more. And UBER eats? Forgettaboudit

Posted by: Chance at June 15, 2022 03:44 PM (HXNDP)

377 358 The government is going to have to start killing kulaks.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (lTGtQ)

Too late for them, I think. That required well-fed NPC's and the foot soldiers of the Banana Empire to have a modicum of competence. I expect the Gulfstreams to start to fly off for real this time.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (nMx88)

378 He accepted several of the resignations, including that of the treasury secretary, Michael Blumenthal.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:43 PM (5HBd1)
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And nobody learned from that.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (krQz2)

379 Like weren’t thieves ripping out piping and wiring a few years ago for its resale value?

They are, but things like pipes and wiring are pure copper. Pennies aren't.

Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (ZGrMX)

380 US coins are made of nickel, copper, and zinc. There's very little intrinsic value in them.
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Real (pre 1982) copper pennies are worth 4.2cents. Or have appreciated 420%. They are worth something the zinc ones, nada

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (WKPeU)

381 The government is going to have to start killing kulaks.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (lTGtQ)
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Bruce?

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (krQz2)

382 Rice is as stupid as Kamaltoe. She ain't running shit. Maybe she might be the conduit to the people running things but neither her nor Obama are smart enough to have pulled off all the destruction in such a short time frame. It hasn't even been a year and a half.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (WKPeU)

It don't take a sooper-genius to break things. It doesn't require intent, either.

Posted by: tuesday's gone? at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (AMIL/)

383 376 Amazon trucks have completely dried up in my neighborhood. Last year they were running down this street 5-6 times a day. No more. And UBER eats? Forgettaboudit
Posted by: Chance at June 15, 2022 03:44 PM (HXNDP)

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Because people are going out again?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (LvTSG)

384 It's sounds like some bizarre conservative political version of original sin You can never be redeemed from having leftist parents. You must DIE-the sooner the better. This doesn't really sound anybetter than crazy, evil leftist "All conservatives must die" stuff
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 15, 2022 03:41 PM (FZ2cV)

You are waaaaaay overthinking my original comment. i want my enemies to suffer. Period. No sin, no God, none of that. Just good old fashioned fuck you, war. People like you who always want to be the better person and shit is why we never win ling term. They want to kill you, you are here defending their precious children.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (H9K5h)

385 my mom wore a tube top over her bra
Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM

Isn't that cheating?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (a3Q+t)

386 As far as I'm concerned they can eat dirt.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (NxOLn)

Hard to argue the sentiment. Vicious partisanship works both ways, and I hope the next few years proves it to the lefties.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (Un0M2)

387 This busty blonde's husband tells her that they face serious problems because of inflation and she has to cut back. She ain't happy:
https://is.gd/N3xEyD

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (0zQHa)

388 That's been my problem with him for years. The man does not ooze trust.
Posted by: creeper at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (GdtZp)

Heh. Considered the use of the word "ooze".

Posted by: golfman at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (hOMhY)

389 KC is alive and he and his band have about two dozen tour dates this summer.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (rJ48h)

390 I don't think Carter hated America
biden doesn't even know he is in America

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (Irn0L)

391 I think that nickels are the only coins where the materials are more valuable than face now.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:44 PM (yQpMk)

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If I had a nickel for every time I had a nickel, well, I'd be rich very quickly, at least until the universe collapsed seconds later.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (CAJOC)

392 Anecdotal evidence. Where is the Chipotle? What's the economic status of most people in the immediate area? Office workers and wine moms or construction workers and auto mechanics in the line? More or fewer people in line on a daily average at the same clock time as six months ago? A year ago? Three years ago? And I can think of more data to ask for.
Posted by: tuesday's gone? at June 15, 2022 03:33 PM

How many electric vehicles were in the parking lot? That's your key indicator.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (hOAT3)

393 Copper isn't worth all that much either, honestly. I cannot work out why people would do that much for so little payoff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (KZzsI)

394 > Catalytic converters have platinum in them and are easy to get to, though

You might have to fight a meth-head / crack-head to get to that catalytic converter, though.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (kDGvA)

395 The "A chicken for every pot" is from some French King. He was popular and good for the country.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (lKAqb)

396 387 This busty blonde's husband tells her that they face serious problems because of inflation and she has to cut back. She ain't happy:
https://is.gd/N3xEyD
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (0zQHa)

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Her bra budget has been slashed to nothing!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (LvTSG)

397 Or have appreciated 420%.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (WKPeU)

Toke!

Posted by: A Filthy Hippy Hitting The Bong at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (1Yy3c)

398 As a kid I always thought on "Keep it Comin' Love" he was singing "Keep it Common Law." Turns out from the Youtube comments I was far from alone.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:44 PM (HsAzN)
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"Scuse me, while I kiss this guy" -- Jimi Hendrix

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (krQz2)

399 >>>my mom wore a tube top over her bra
Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM

Isn't that cheating?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (a3Q+t)

At the very least, false advertising.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (QYPq3)

400 Henri IV, France.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:47 PM (lKAqb)

401 my mom wore a tube top over her bra
Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (DJFLF)

LOL, sexy!

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2022 03:47 PM (DRSnL)

402 >>> This busty blonde's husband tells her that they face serious problems because of inflation and she has to cut back. She ain't happy:
https://is.gd/N3xEyD
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (0zQHa)

They can't even afford heating oil!

Posted by: banana Dream at June 15, 2022 03:47 PM (0fVbu)

403 Hey Joe Mannix....

Check your email!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 15, 2022 03:47 PM (Un0M2)

404 380 US coins are made of nickel, copper, and zinc. There's very little intrinsic value in them.
==

Real (pre 1982) copper pennies are worth 4.2cents. Or have appreciated 420%. They are worth something the zinc ones, nada
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (WKPeU)

So if I take a, say, 1979 penny into a coin dealer they will give me more than face value for it?? Serious question.

Posted by: kraken at June 15, 2022 03:47 PM (Vr12I)

405 KC is alive and he and his band have about two dozen tour dates this summer.
Posted by: mr tmz

Ha! That's great. I actually saw them in the 70s live. It was a great show.

Posted by: Biergood at June 15, 2022 03:47 PM (FQWHA)

406 394 > Catalytic converters have platinum in them and are easy to get to, though

You might have to fight a meth-head / crack-head to get to that catalytic converter, though.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (kDGvA)

------------------------------

And I don't think it's just the platinum. The have other valuable metals in them as well.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 15, 2022 03:47 PM (CAJOC)

407 Did she stuff her bra too?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:48 PM (lKAqb)

408 This busty blonde's husband tells her that they face serious problems because of inflation and she has to cut back. She ain't happy:
https://is.gd/N3xEyD
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (0zQHa)

Aye, Dios mio!

Posted by: Robert at June 15, 2022 03:48 PM (1Yy3c)

409 "Scuse me, while I kiss this guy" -- Jimi Hendrix
Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (krQz2)

"blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night"

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 03:48 PM (Y5qcH)

410
Hard to argue the sentiment. Vicious partisanship works both ways, and I hope the next few years proves it to the lefties.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (Un0M2)

Yep. Something I never thought I would write: I have NO hesitation about censoring them and using local and state police to make political arrests now when opportunities present.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 15, 2022 03:48 PM (nMx88)

411 Before I made the fifteen mile drive I called the closest liquor store yesterday to ask if they had a bottle of Rabbit Run bourbon.

"Which one?" the lady asked and started reeling them off. I panicked till she said, "Dareringer?" That rang a bell and I was off.

Liquor store was fully stocked for now.

Posted by: creeper at June 15, 2022 03:48 PM (GdtZp)

412 So, I guess I'll disagree with a lot. I don't want or wish pain on anyone.

Right now, with this admin, I just expect pain, but it would be nice if everyone could avoid it.

Step 1 - getting back to energy independence.

Posted by: Nova local at June 15, 2022 03:48 PM (exHjb)

413 Let's send the three year olds who didn't choose their parents-to work off the sin of having liberal parents by working on the treadmill/s.

Some say they should be fed to pigs but that isn't very efficient. Better they go straight into the stew pot.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:48 PM (yQpMk)

414 Consider this pine tree...

Posted by: Euall Gibbons at June 15, 2022 03:49 PM (sWM8x)

415 bathroom's on the right.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2022 03:49 PM (89T5c)

416 I thought it was 1984 and before. (copper pennies)

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:49 PM (lKAqb)

417 If you have it, please kick in a few dollars to your local food bank.

——-

I kick in a few dollars to 6 or 7 different taxation entities. Im good.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:49 PM (H9K5h)

418 Hooterville>>>>>>>>>>Hooverville

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 15, 2022 03:49 PM (CbMK6)

419 Obama, Jarret, Rice, Klaine, etc. are just buffahs. We don't see or hear the people actually pulling the strings...

https://tinyurl.com/4t9tnfhp

Posted by: davidt at June 15, 2022 03:40 PM (NqOsP)
.........

is that blood spatter on the wall?

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2022 03:49 PM (v0R5T)

420 I think the normal way they address this of trying to gaslight the voters is counter productive.

Telling people they should be happy for the shit sandwich they are being served isn't going to help them.

They would at least come across as adults if they told the truth. It wouldn't hurt them at this point.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 15, 2022 03:49 PM (5p7BC)

421 I have a picture of Kathryn Winnick on my split screen and no Biden economy is making me give it back.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:49 PM (RqmTL)

422 KC is alive and he and his band have about two dozen tour dates this summer.
Posted by: mr tmz at June 15, 2022 03:46 PM (rJ48h)

KC is a pedo.

Posted by: golfman at June 15, 2022 03:49 PM (hOMhY)

423 414 Consider this pine tree...
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It moved, Jerry!

Posted by: James Comey at June 15, 2022 03:49 PM (sWM8x)

424 @ace -> "the worst, stupidest, poorest-educated, most incompetent "Elite" class."

==========================

All of those things but also, critically, deceiving and fundamentally dishonest.

Posted by: Paul in Texas at June 15, 2022 03:50 PM (RaWcF)

425 my mom wore a tube top over her bra
Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM (DJFLF)

LOL, sexy!

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2022 03:47 PM (DRSnL)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 15, 2022 03:50 PM (VwHCD)

426 I have a friend who was sure, arguing with me, that the line in "Free Will" by Rush was about a diving bell.

"I will choose the bathysphere, I will choose free will"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:50 PM (KZzsI)

427 Ha! That's great. I actually saw them in the 70s live. It was a great show.
Posted by: Biergood at June 15, 2022 03:47 PM (FQWHA)

Those were some high-energy shows. They look like a blast. Not my usual kind of music but it would have been fun to see them live in the day.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 03:50 PM (HsAzN)

428 So if I take a, say, 1979 penny into a coin dealer they will give me more than face value for it?? Serious question.

Posted by: kraken at June 15, 2022 03:47 PM

No they will not. If you take it to a metal recycle place they might give you more than a penny for it though.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at June 15, 2022 03:50 PM (bVYXr)

429 412 So, I guess I'll disagree with a lot. I don't want or wish pain on anyone.
Right now, with this admin, I just expect pain, but it would be nice if everyone could avoid it.
Step 1 - getting back to energy independence.
Posted by: Nova local at June 15, 2022 03:48 PM (exHjb)

==========

A lot of people will only learn about the nature of good governance through the pain of bad governance.

I may be wrong, but I think the calls for pain are less a wish for senseless suffering and more for a deep education that they won't soon forget.

Having a great economy wasn't enough. Maybe having a shit one will be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:50 PM (LvTSG)

430 LOL, sexy!

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 15, 2022 03:47 PM (DRSnL)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 15, 2022 03:50 PM (VwHCD)

mom was a lot of fun

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:50 PM (DJFLF)

431 385 my mom wore a tube top over her bra
Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:42 PM

my dad wore a bra over his tube

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2022 03:50 PM (us2H3)

432 When do we get food riots?
--------------------------------------
Send for the 'Scoops'.

Posted by: Detective Thorn at June 15, 2022 03:51 PM (yikp0)

433 Karine says it's the patriotic duty of oil companies to act now to increase crude production and increase gasoline refining, to decrease prices at the pump! She says Joe has done everything he can to deal with the impacts of Putin's War, and now it is time for the oil companies to step-up in a patriotic fashion and do the right thing for the country!

Posted by: tuesday's gone? at June 15, 2022 03:51 PM (AMIL/)

434 my dad wore a bra over his tube

It was a manziere!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:51 PM (KZzsI)

435 No Democrats Propaganda Ministry winds hiring past Government officials, it's all pay up, just like millions for book deals that won't sell 10,000 books, most in bulk.

Posted by: Skip at June 15, 2022 03:51 PM (2JoB8)

436 Copper isn't worth all that much either, honestly. I cannot work out why people would do that much for so little payoff.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

$3.30/lb scrap.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:51 PM (bar5X)

437 > The "A chicken for every pot" is from some French King. He was popular and good for the country.

Do you guys remember when Fidel Castro "solved hunger" in Cuba? He distributed a crap ton of rice cookers to the people. Boom. Problem solved.

Fidel's shambling zombie corpse is smarter than Biden, so we can look forward to even worse "solutions" to our problems.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 03:51 PM (kDGvA)

438 Real (pre 1982) copper pennies are worth 4.2cents. Or have appreciated 420%. They are worth something the zinc ones, nada
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 15, 2022 03:45 PM (WKPeU)

So if I take a, say, 1979 penny into a coin dealer they will give me more than face value for it?? Serious question.

Posted by: kraken
To a coin dealer, no way. That is the melt value of the copper in a copper penny. If it weren't for federal law you would get that or close at a recycler or smelte...oh we don't have those anymore.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 15, 2022 03:52 PM (WKPeU)

439 It's so hot outside, the meth heads are putting the copper back in the ac units.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:52 PM (bar5X)

440 My cousin just signed up for Medicare. She went off her company insurance to do it. This is what I believe she says the deal looks like:

Under her old plan she paid Blue Cross a little over $14,000 in annual premiums, had two (in and out of network) $4,000 deductibles and she paid required co-pays on a lot of services and medications. She says in 2021 she spent just over $21,000 in medical insurance related expenses.

Under Medicare she has a $450 payment due at sign up, related somehow to her income. She has annual premiums that will total about $2500. No deductibles and no co-pays. The only thing her old plan covered that her Medicare plan does not is Dental.

She thinks her annual costs will be $3,000 this year and less in ensuing years. The $18,000 difference is being paid by the taxpayers of the US. Every year, for as long as she survives. She is pretty excited.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:30 PM (RqmTL)

This is why you can't get the newest treatments on Medicare...that would bankrupt everything.

Posted by: Nova local at June 15, 2022 03:52 PM (exHjb)

441 "a chicken for every pot and a car in every garage" was part of the Republican Party's campaign for Herbert Hoover's reelection.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:52 PM (KZzsI)

442 Jiminy Crickets, we have absolutely the worst, stupidest, poorest-educated, most incompetent "Elite" class.

There is something to that. Multiple generations of Ivy League grads finding each other, procreating, and sending their spawn back into the mix...all the while learning the same bullshit, without the benefit of alternate perspectives.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2022 03:52 PM (anj39)

443 420 I think the normal way they address this of trying to gaslight the voters is counter productive.

Telling people they should be happy for the shit sandwich they are being served isn't going to help them.

They would at least come across as adults if they told the truth. It wouldn't hurt them at this point.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 15, 2022 03:49 PM (5p7BC)

I agree but understand why they are doing it. Look at all the other shit they have been able to do in the past with gaslighting. All habits are hard to break, habit that led to success even more so.

There are a few NPC's who can be gaslit over their hunger, and even fewer when their routers go out, but very few.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 15, 2022 03:53 PM (nMx88)

444 Posted by: tuesday's gone? at June 15, 2022 03:51 PM (AMIL/)

So, when Joe promised on the Campaign trail to raise OIL prices to FORCE us into Green Energy...

He was just kidding?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 15, 2022 03:53 PM (oHd/0)

445 It's looking more and more like the Vax actually makes you MORE likely to get the Vid. It's the Biden of Meds

Posted by: azjaeger at June 15, 2022 03:53 PM (b6R1O)

446 I for one welcome the return of men in white bell-bottom pants and platform shoes
Posted by: kallisto

Don't my body is up to hip hugging bell-bottoms anymore. Mine were light blue. The belt was white.

Posted by: Javems at June 15, 2022 03:53 PM (AmoqO)

447 In the Burning Times to come, I worry that the hoarded silver I have will not be as negotiable as I thought it might be, at one time. Agreeing upon a value for it seems more and more problematic.

Posted by: kraken at June 15, 2022 03:53 PM (Vr12I)

448 I have a picture of Kathryn Winnick on my split screen and no Biden economy is making me give it back.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 03:49 PM (RqmTL)

I think she was the only "Who Dis?" I was the first to identify back when they were a regular feature on Oregon Muse's midday rants.

Posted by: Doof at June 15, 2022 03:53 PM (yUjc0)

449 Fidel's shambling zombie corpse is smarter than Biden, so we can look forward to even worse "solutions" to our problems.

You won't notice your hunger if you use your free Biden crack pipe, comrade.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 15, 2022 03:54 PM (ppBhU)

450 Don't forget the lapels in the 70s, lapels for miles. Wide as your bell bottoms.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:54 PM (KZzsI)

451 Catalytic converters contain platinum, palladium, and rhodium, in rising value order.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 15, 2022 03:54 PM (lTGtQ)

452 > So if I take a, say, 1979 penny into a coin dealer they will give me more than face value for it?? Serious question.

That depends on the coin's condition. Probably. But you're not making a lot on a 1979 penny.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 03:54 PM (kDGvA)

453 So things are really going to improve when these 5 million illegal migrants that are predicted over Biden's 4 hrs start getting food stamps, Medicaid and sending their kids to public schools.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2022 03:54 PM (Y+l9t)

454 I really did like feathered hair on girls, though. it looked amazing

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:54 PM (KZzsI)

455 Jiminy Crickets, we have absolutely the worst, stupidest, poorest-educated, most incompetent "Elite" class.

---
We can probably start calling them "The Corrupt Class", they have all that money and they keep it because they are corrupt, more than they are "elite".

The Grift Class.

Joe Biden, Mr. %10, is probably a good example of it.

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 03:54 PM (krQz2)

456 A chicken in every pot, and a cap in every ass.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2022 03:55 PM (89T5c)

457 280 My cheap bourbon has gone up 20% in the last 3 months.

It ain't lagging.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:36 PM (lKAqb)

The Kirkland Silver Tequila is gone from my Costco liquor store. Had to pony up for the 1800 which, frankly, isn't as smooth.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik [DHS Verdict: MDM] at June 15, 2022 03:55 PM (DTX3h)

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 15, 2022 03:55 PM (yikp0)

459 When is a WH reporter going to tell black Psaki everything that she and her salad brained boss says is a fucking lie? It's all lies.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 15, 2022 03:55 PM (MkYsY)

460 I may be wrong, but I think the calls for pain are less a wish for senseless suffering and more for a deep education that they won't soon forget.

—-

For be its both education and punishment.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:55 PM (H9K5h)

461 Agreeing upon a value for it seems more and more problematic.
Posted by: kraken at June 15, 2022 03:53 PM (Vr12I)

Lead will be personally valuable. Don't trade that. You don't want it coming back at you.

I think alcohol is the best barter item.

Posted by: golfman at June 15, 2022 03:55 PM (hOMhY)

462 434 my dad wore a bra over his tube

It was a manziere!!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:51 PM (KZzsI)

------------------------

It was a Bro!

Posted by: No One of Consequence at June 15, 2022 03:55 PM (CAJOC)

463
I used to have a buddy who'd collect copper wire from jobs where he had to do tearouts. He'd sit on his couch watching movies or whatever, stripping the wire, and rolling it into a massive lump of copper. Whenever it would get almost too big to fit through the door, he'd roll it off the deck into the truck and cash it in.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 15, 2022 03:55 PM (ZRrE6)

464 " If you have it, please kick in a few dollars to your local food bank.'

I buy an 20# bag of rice and and 8# bag of pinto beans and give them to the food bank.

I asked them "Do you need ziploc bags to portion them out?"

"No. We have them."

My K of C council just raised over 1000 pounds of food for Christian Charities*

*Sometime in the past, a Protestant pastor realized that the poor were "gaming the system." So he got all the churches in town (OMG, even the Catholics) to get together to run the food bank. Records are kept. Folks get what they need but cannot abuse it.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:55 PM (lKAqb)

465 KC is a pedo.
Posted by: golfman

babe I love you so..

hey, you're right!

Posted by: x at June 15, 2022 03:55 PM (uQFwj)

466 Do you guys remember when Fidel Castro "solved hunger" in Cuba? He distributed a crap ton of rice cookers to the people. Boom. Problem solved.

Fidel's shambling zombie corpse is smarter than Biden, so we can look forward to even worse "solutions" to our problems.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 03:51 PM (kDGvA)

I thought Fidel solved hunger by drastically reducing demand

Posted by: Doof at June 15, 2022 03:55 PM (yUjc0)

467 Glad the mortgage is a fixed rate. 😁

Posted by: Mikey NTH The Outrage Outlet is Stocked With Vexation and Ire. at June 15, 2022 03:56 PM (s+u6b)

468 I know I can look forward to losing my Medicare benefits that I paid for my entire working life and my retirement funds seized so those 5 million can live comfortably.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2022 03:56 PM (Y+l9t)

469 Wife is mortgage underwriter. They announced massive layoffs today at her firm. Things are gonna get UGLY.

Posted by: D Schauer at June 15, 2022 03:56 PM (mAJkd)

470 if copper is 3.30 a pound, 16 ounces to the pound, that's .20 cents a pound. So, 11 pennies to the ounce, is a profit of .09 per ounce. My math says 695,000 pounds of pennies nets you a one million dollar profit

Posted by: IP at June 15, 2022 03:56 PM (w9UC1)

471 424 @ace -> "the worst, stupidest, poorest-educated, most incompetent "Elite" class."

==========================

All of those things but also, critically, deceiving and fundamentally dishonest.
Posted by: Paul in Texas at June 15, 2022 03:50 PM (RaWcF)

Evil. They're doing stan's work.

Posted by: creeper at June 15, 2022 03:56 PM (GdtZp)

472 460 I may be wrong, but I think the calls for pain are less a wish for senseless suffering and more for a deep education that they won't soon forget.

—-

For me its both education and punishment.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 03:55 PM (H9K5h)

========

Punishment can be an education unto itself

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 03:56 PM (LvTSG)

473 I miss Oregon Muse

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:56 PM (KZzsI)

474 453 So things are really going to improve when these 5 million illegal migrants that are predicted over Biden's 4 hrs start getting food stamps, Medicaid and sending their kids to public schools.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2022 03:54 PM (Y+l9t)

All the food stamps in the world cannot put basic necessities on shelves. That was the key lesson the USSR learned in a less hard way than we are about to.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (nMx88)

475 So if I take a, say, 1979 penny into a coin dealer they will give me more than face value for it?? Serious question.

Posted by: kraken
To a coin dealer, no way. That is the melt value of the copper in a copper penny. If it weren't for federal law you would get that or close at a recycler or smelte...oh we don't have those anymore.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 15, 2022 03:52 PM (WKPeU)

A coin dealer will give you the current coin dealer community's value of the specific coin, considering its condition, minus at least 10 percent for his profit when he sells the coin in the future.

Posted by: tuesday's gone? at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (AMIL/)

476 451 Catalytic converters contain platinum, palladium, and rhodium, in rising value order.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 15, 2022 03:54 PM (lTGtQ)

Palladium has risen a lot in the past 5 or 10 years. Platinum has gone down quite a bit. I know because I bought the 1st US Mint platinum coin when it came out and I still haven't broke even on it.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (Y5qcH)

477 Bragging that he will destroy the oil industry and then begging the oil industry to save his ass has to be the most bizarre thing I have ever seen a politician do. It's proof that's he's a sociopath.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (SseOZ)

478 I don't know where the absolutely innumerate bullshit about consumer spending being able to support an economy came from, but it is nonsense. Pent-up demand eventually gets satisfied...and quickly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (Un0M2)

479 Fire works great for stripping wire.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (89T5c)

480 My math says 695,000 pounds of pennies nets you a one million dollar profit

Modern pennies are mostly zinc, gonna have to redo your numbers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (KZzsI)

481 My campaign slogan was, "I'll keep an eye out for the little guy!"

Posted by: zombie Henri II at June 15, 2022 03:58 PM (yikp0)

482 > Catalytic converters contain platinum, palladium, and rhodium, in rising value order.

There's a YouTuber named Cody that does a lot of interesting things with chemistry. He did a video where he extracted precious metals from all the dirt that builds up on the side of the freeway. He did manage to get a little bit, but not enough to turn a profit.

https://youtu.be/v5GPWJPLcHg

Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 03:58 PM (kDGvA)

483 My math says 695,000 pounds of pennies nets you a one million dollar profit

Posted by: IP

But, you'll get terrible mileage taking those coins to the bank.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 15, 2022 03:58 PM (lTGtQ)

484 341 If you have it, please kick in a few dollars to your local food bank.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (5HBd1)

Or, if you're jaded, make sandwiches for your emergency homeless shelters or provide a lunch casserole for the day drop in homeless site - food isn't gonna be turned into anything else but nourishment...

Posted by: Nova local at June 15, 2022 03:58 PM (exHjb)

485 "a chicken for every pot and a car in every garage" was part of the Republican Party's campaign for Herbert Hoover's reelection.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:52 PM

A car in every pot, two chickens in every garage.

Posted by: Alfred E Neuman at June 15, 2022 03:58 PM (hOAT3)

486 473 I miss Oregon Muse
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:56 PM (KZzsI)

That hurt.

*reaches for tissues*

Posted by: creeper at June 15, 2022 03:58 PM (GdtZp)

487 my dad wore a bra over his tube

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2022 03:50 PM (us2H3)

He always was the edgy one...

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 03:58 PM (DJFLF)

488 I've been through economic downturns before (some even in foreign countries) but what makes this looming one different is that all the asset classes are taking a hit.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2022 03:59 PM (jTmQV)

489 I buy an 20# bag of rice and and 8# bag of pinto beans and give them to the food bank.

Finally found a 25 lb box of par-boiled rice at Sam's. Why par-boiled? Only take 12 minutes of boiling to finish.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 03:59 PM (bar5X)

490 "The Kirkland Silver Tequila is gone from my Costco liquor store. Had to pony up for the 1800 which, frankly, isn't as smooth."

These liquor law in the South are pissing me off. Trader Joe's in Calif has "Campo Azul" reposado. 10 bucks or less for 750 ml.

The shit is great.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 03:59 PM (lKAqb)

491 Whenever it would get almost too big to fit through the door, he'd roll it off the deck into the truck and cash it in.
-----------------------
Just like a big-boobed Japanese model!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 15, 2022 03:59 PM (yikp0)

492 Pent-up demand eventually gets satisfied...and quickly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (Un0M2)

"That's what"
- She

Posted by: Doof at June 15, 2022 03:59 PM (yUjc0)

493 Pent-up demand eventually gets satisfied...and quickly.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (Un0M2)

It used to. Now the shortages and supply line problems have changed that.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 15, 2022 03:59 PM (SseOZ)

494 My Russian teacher in High School went to Russia every so often (I think he was actually a CIA recruiter, but that's another story) and he brought back interesting tales. Like the families lining up to buy shoes when they were actually in stock, and buying anything whatsoever they could grab fastest. They'd trade shoes hoping to get the right size.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 03:59 PM (KZzsI)

495 Top Biden economic advisor Bharat Ramamurti says Biden is "sympathetic" to Americans concerned about gas prices, inflation, and market losses — but they "need to take a step back" because they're actually "doing very, very well."

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At that point, he should've been loaded up and locked into a stockade while rotten garbage was thrown at his face.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 15, 2022 03:59 PM (sVtYq)

496 Fire works great for stripping wire.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (89T5c)

and as a training aid.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) misses Monty at June 15, 2022 03:59 PM (yQpMk)

497 I used to be in the "help it burn" camp. Bidet doesn't need any help.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at June 15, 2022 03:59 PM (3AD8C)

498 A car in every pot, two chickens in every garage.
Posted by: Alfred E Neuman at June 15, 2022 03:58 PM (hOAT3)
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Some pot in every car...

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 04:00 PM (krQz2)

499 I miss OM, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2022 04:00 PM (89T5c)

500 > I thought Fidel solved hunger by drastically reducing demand

He did that too. I'm not kidding about the rice cooker thing, though.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 04:00 PM (kDGvA)

501 "Modern pennies are mostly zinc, gonna have to redo your numbers."

Sorry, that was based on pre-1979 coins. Current coins are going to be smelted for use as bullets.

Posted by: IP at June 15, 2022 04:00 PM (w9UC1)

502 Remdesivir shots and 30 days in a FEMA camp!!
Posted by: Haywood

nah, sorry, hospice.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at June 15, 2022 04:00 PM (OuH7W)

503 I miss OM, too.

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Enormous ditto.

Posted by: Lady in Black at June 15, 2022 04:00 PM (sVtYq)

504 A car in every pot, two chickens in every garage.
Posted by: Alfred E Neuman at June 15, 2022 03:58 PM (hOAT3)

And the monkeypox in your ass.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 04:00 PM (Y5qcH)

505 Ain't eating no Hoover Hogs.

Posted by: rickb223 TEXIT at June 15, 2022 04:00 PM (bar5X)

506 Prices will still go up, but it won't matter anymore because you won't have a job to buy anything no matter the price.
Posted by: Match Checksout at June 15, 2022 03:15 PM (dYe5S)

Better still, not only is there inflation and you've lost your job...there's nothing to buy anyway. Building Back Better!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at June 15, 2022 04:01 PM (uvymP)

507 477 Bragging that he will destroy the oil industry and then begging the oil industry to save his ass has to be the most bizarre thing I have ever seen a politician do. It's proof that's he's a sociopath.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (SseOZ)

Also proof that majority of Americans are imbeciles with the attention span of a gnat. Because if you took a poll on this 60% would say yeah man punish those evil oil companies.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 04:01 PM (H9K5h)

508 Why did the chicken cross the road?

To avoid the food riot.

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2022 04:01 PM (v0R5T)

509 I hope Mrs Muse understand how dearly loved and respected her husband was and still is here. I think it would bring her some comfort in her loss.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 04:01 PM (KZzsI)

510 Christmas shopping at Wylie's bait shop, getcher worms and crickets for that family meal!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at June 15, 2022 04:02 PM (xIc/g)

511 A coin dealer will give you the current coin dealer community's value of the specific coin, considering its condition, minus at least 10 percent for his profit when he sells the coin in the future.
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¢1.2 is the best I can do.

Posted by: Rick at June 15, 2022 04:02 PM (yikp0)

512 Back in the day, as a tourist to Russia take a couple of cartons of Marlboro and a couple of Levis jeans. Oh and a zippo lighter.

Quick profits.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 04:02 PM (lKAqb)

513 Top Biden economic advisor Bharat Ramamurti says Biden is "sympathetic" to Americans concerned about gas prices, inflation, and market losses — but they "need to take a step back" because they're actually "doing very, very well."
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That's like an arsonist asking to be thanked for burning down your house because he cleared your lot.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at June 15, 2022 04:03 PM (WKPeU)

514 I hope Mrs Muse understand how dearly loved and respected her husband was and still is here. I think it would bring her some comfort in her loss.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2022 04:01 PM (KZzsI)

I hope so too.
He is missed.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2022 04:03 PM (anj39)

515 When do we get the gubmint cheese back? That shit was the best.

Posted by: IP at June 15, 2022 04:03 PM (w9UC1)

516 Calling it monkey pox is discrimination!!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at June 15, 2022 04:03 PM (xIc/g)

517 My campaign slogan was, "I'll keep an eye out for the little guy!"
Posted by: zombie Henri II at June 15, 2022 03:58 PM

Mine, too!

Posted by: Dan Crenshaw at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (4p7Em)

518 ... and prayers to Mrs. OM

Posted by: IP at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (w9UC1)

519 477 Bragging that he will destroy the oil industry and then begging the oil industry to save his ass has to be the most bizarre thing I have ever seen a politician do. It's proof that's he's a sociopath.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (SseOZ)

He knows the oil companies cannot do much if anything. By publicly asking, he sets the stage for publicly blaming them when they do nothing. This situation is one where we need an honest media, not a tribe of Dem and Joe sycophants who will mindlessly blame Big Oil for everything when Joe tells then to.

Posted by: tuesday's gone? at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (AMIL/)

520 Few things make me angrier than some Dem flunky arrogantly insisting that, actually, things are great for me. You fucking lying worm

Posted by: radar at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (BySB9)

521 Some dems and Van Jones question Biden’s cognitive ability.

25th amendment here we come.

Welcome Preezy Knee Pads.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (MkYsY)

522 Im sure red flag laws will fix all this.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (H9K5h)

523 I really resent people complaining because Medicare is cheaper than private insurance. When I was working and self employed I paid double Medicare taxes plus spent $1300/ mo for private insurance. Now that I'm retired, no longer have a paycheck every week, I earned that Medicare lower payment. I still have to pay a premium which is deducted from my social security which is based on past earnings which doesn't come close to the inflated paychecks of today.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (Y+l9t)

524 Speaking of good vengeance news, Fauci has tested positive for Covid. Silver linings, folks, although that may be like Greta faking she had it when the spotlight left her.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (nMx88)

525 Tom Nichols has lost his cracker

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (us2H3)

526 In the USSR, if you saw a line to buy something, you just got in it, because there is a line so there must be something to buy. You'd have no idea what the line was for until you entered the store just in time to see the woman in front of you buy the last of whatever it was they were selling.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2022 04:05 PM (jTmQV)

527 484 341 If you have it, please kick in a few dollars to your local food bank.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at June 15, 2022 03:26 PM (5HBd1)

Or, if you're jaded, make sandwiches for your emergency homeless shelters or provide a lunch casserole for the day drop in homeless site - food isn't gonna be turned into anything else but nourishment...
Posted by: Nova local at June 15, 2022 03:58 PM (exHjb)

Our food pantry is 100% donations.No government involvement. Walmart IS hugely generous, but others too.One local bakery regularly bakes extra bread and rolls for us. Some big Mennonite farms give us thousands of eggs each year. There is a hunter's group that gives us ground venison by the thousand weight.

Posted by: kraken at June 15, 2022 04:05 PM (Vr12I)

528 477 Bragging that he will destroy the oil industry and then begging the oil industry to save his ass has to be the most bizarre thing I have ever seen a politician do. It's proof that's he's a sociopath.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (SseOZ)

There goes the myth of the sociopath as evil genius.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 15, 2022 04:05 PM (nMx88)

529 Lol

Ford is recalling almost 3 million cars because they could roll away while in Park. Ahh nothing like that UAW label to signify quality.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 04:06 PM (H9K5h)

530 Remember those old cartoons of a guy so broke he was wearing a barrel with suspenders?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at June 15, 2022 04:06 PM (xIc/g)

531 Like the families lining up to buy shoes when they were actually in stock, and buying anything whatsoever they could grab fastest. They'd trade shoes hoping to get the right size.

That's what reloaders have been doing for the last couple of years with power and primers.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 15, 2022 04:06 PM (nfrXX)

532 Few things make me angrier than some Dem flunky arrogantly insisting that, actually, things are great for me. You fucking lying worm
Posted by: radar at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (BySB9)

Ditto.
Tone deaf arrogant fuck.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2022 04:06 PM (anj39)

533 521 Some dems and Van Jones question Biden’s cognitive ability.

25th amendment here we come.

Welcome Preezy Knee Pads.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (MkYsY)

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Not even Mike Pence did it because siccing the 25th Amendment on a president who is walking around and talking is political suicide for the party as a whole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 04:06 PM (LvTSG)

534 Blackrock: A bug in every rented pot!

Posted by: Axeman at June 15, 2022 04:06 PM (krQz2)

535 s/power/powder/

Posted by: Oddbob at June 15, 2022 04:06 PM (nfrXX)

536
Fuck. We got the financing figured out for our manufactured home. Nothing is locked down yet so we could step back. Interest rates going up has me worried.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench)

When I bought this place in 1989 rates were 10.25%

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 15, 2022 04:06 PM (63Dwl)

537 "This situation is one where we need an honest media..."

Too bad we'll never have one.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 15, 2022 04:07 PM (SF4EO)

538 not a tribe of Dem and Joe sycophants who will mindlessly blame Big Oil for everything when Joe tells then to.
Posted by: tuesday's gone? at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (AMIL/)

Profit is what you get when you are producing what the market wants. Oil companies don't increase their profits by producing less they do it by producing more.

I'd like to say that most adults in the US understand this simple concept, but I'm not so sure anymore.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 04:07 PM (Y5qcH)

539 519 477 Bragging that he will destroy the oil industry and then begging the oil industry to save his ass has to be the most bizarre thing I have ever seen a politician do. It's proof that's he's a sociopath.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 15, 2022 03:57 PM (SseOZ)

He knows the oil companies cannot do much if anything. By publicly asking, he sets the stage for publicly blaming them when they do nothing. This situation is one where we need an honest media, not a tribe of Dem and Joe sycophants who will mindlessly blame Big Oil for everything when Joe tells then to.
Posted by: tuesday's gone? at June 15, 2022 04:04 PM (AMIL/)

It is the gaslighting thing Dave in Fla referenced earlier. It worked so long they thought it always would work.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at June 15, 2022 04:07 PM (nMx88)

540 Speaking of good vengeance news, Fauci has tested positive for Covid.

what is the chart for Covid 19 futures?

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2022 04:07 PM (DJFLF)

541 I wanted to contribute something to Oregon Muse's church or another organization he admired -aside from ASHQ which I already contribute too- but we never got that information . I'm assuming Mrs Muse didn't let anyone here know. Anyway OM wrote some time before he died that his new pastor was from abroad-maybe Australia and that he liked him so I think if OM liked him it would be good church to contribute to

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 15, 2022 04:08 PM (Eo2Aa)

542 I've said this before. There will be no 25th amendment against Biden because the people in his cabinet are some of the stupidest people on the planet and no one in their right mind would hire them. Which is why they were picked.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2022 04:08 PM (Y+l9t)

543 food isn't gonna be turned into anything else but nourishment...

Ahem.

Posted by: Amber's bed turd at June 15, 2022 04:08 PM (xIc/g)

544 You know what the real problem is? People weren't allowed to hear how good things were with Trump as President.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM (YynYJ)

545 Check your email!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 15, 2022 03:47 PM (Un0M2)
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My reply keeps getting bounced back. Short reply: sure thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM (0zQHa)

546 I wonder when the CD rates will go up .

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM (SseOZ)

547 Ford is recalling almost 3 million cars because they could roll away while in Park. Ahh nothing like that UAW label to signify quality.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 04:06 PM (H9K5h)
........

Won't the extension cord charging them keep them from rolling away?

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

548 530 Remember those old cartoons of a guy so broke he was wearing a barrel with suspenders?

Recently watched the very, very first Our Gang comedy from 1922...the plot revolved around the Gang trying to find some clothes for their friend Sunshine Sammy to wear because the poor kid's having to actually wear a barrel as all the family's clothes are in the wash - being done outdoors by hand by his mom.

Probably the only time I've seen someone actually wearing a barrel. Better than being IN one!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM (HsAzN)

549 Brandon was at the presidential exchange blackjack table. He was dealt an ace and a jack. Of course, he said “hit me!”. Dunce.

Posted by: Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM (uN6X9)

550 544 You know what the real problem is? People weren't allowed to hear how good things were with Trump as President.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM (YynYJ)

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It was easy to hear if you chose to not watch TV or get onto Twitter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM (LvTSG)

551 > Ford is recalling almost 3 million cars because they could roll away while in Park. Ahh nothing like that UAW label to signify quality.

That's the third significant recall by Ford that I know of. They're recalling ~50K Mach-Es because there's a battery issue that can cause the car to lose power during travel or cause it to stop turning on.

They also had a bunch of SUVs that were burning for unknown reasons.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM (kDGvA)

552 My paper losses this year in my 401(k) are more than my yearly salary. And that's just so far this year.

Now, I said paper losses because I haven't sold anything and don't plan to do so. But people look at the dollar figures and they will flip out. More so when it costs $50 to fill up a Civic and when you can't even find chicken at the store to pay $3.99 a pound for thighs.

Posted by: alexthechick at June 15, 2022 04:10 PM (tFjfd)

553 Dang it, now I'm all sad again.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trailer Trash Adjacent at June 15, 2022 04:10 PM (xPJvm)

554 In the USSR, if you saw a line to buy something, you just got in it

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2022 04:05 PM (jTmQV)

Some journalist or spy wag used to get his jollies in the bad old days by just standing in front of a random door on the street. Then when the line was long enough, he'd walk away.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 15, 2022 04:10 PM (NjDVB)

555 Against my advice, my wife looked at her 401K account about an hour ago. She's still yelling about it. She thinks she might be able to retire at about 80. Or 85! (she just yelled).

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 04:10 PM (lIEmR)

556 BTW, if my story about the USSR implies that I had visited it, this is accurate. I've visited almost all the hard core communist countries, USSR, CCP, Cuba.
They don't have economic ups or downs because everyone is in a constant state of hunger and misery, unless you are in the ruling junta, then you're Scrooge McDuck rolling in a vat of gold.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 15, 2022 04:11 PM (jTmQV)

557 I've said this before. There will be no 25th amendment against Biden because the people in his cabinet are some of the stupidest people on the planet and no one in their right mind would hire them. Which is why they were picked.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2022 04:08 PM (Y+l9t)

All those degrees.
So little intellect.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2022 04:11 PM (anj39)

558
We all remember the the Great Depression. My old man packed up the Congastoga wagon and headed West from Scranton, because we heard it was a land of plenty.

Those were hard times, like you don't see anymore, before Democrats were around. Most of us didn't make it to Oregon. I heard "you have died of dysentery" more than once, myself. And I'll never forget how mad the old man got when I pawned the wagon for crack, but you know how kids are. I was only 42.

Anyway, I'm just saying we didn't stand around complaining about the price of beet sugar, jack. You people need to stop your belly-achin', or you ain't black.

Posted by: Brandon at June 15, 2022 04:11 PM (ZRrE6)

559 I remember when we had big, beautiful 401k's under President Mean Tweets.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 04:11 PM (HsAzN)

560 Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 04:10 PM (lIEmR)
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Helps when you realize that you'll retire when you die.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at June 15, 2022 04:11 PM (SF4EO)

561 You know what the real problem is? People weren't allowed to hear how good things were with Trump as President.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM (YynYJ)

Things weren't good the last year but I understand your point.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 15, 2022 04:11 PM (SseOZ)

562 Speaking of good vengeance news, Fauci has tested positive for Covid.
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Toronto's city version of Fauci has it too. Eff them both.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 15, 2022 04:11 PM (yikp0)

563 Retirement as we know it is probably going to end. The old-school approach of living with your kids is probably going to come back into vogue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2022 04:12 PM (0zQHa)

564 paper losses this year in my 401(k) are more than my yearly salary. And that's just so far this year.

Now, I said paper losses because I haven't sold anything and don't plan to do so. But people look at the dollar figures and they will flip out. More so when it costs $50 to fill up a Civic and when you can't even find chicken at the store to pay $3.99 a pound for thighs.
Posted by: alexthechick
My situation exactly and absolutely agree except your cost to fill the gas tank closer to $80 these days.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2022 04:12 PM (Y+l9t)

565 Wife is mortgage underwriter. They announced massive layoffs today at her firm. Things are gonna get UGLY.
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Redfin laid off some 470, about 8%
Another realtor laid off more, around 10%.

Both on May's numbers.

Wait until June and July's numbers hit ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 15, 2022 04:12 PM (Zf0+a)

566 Tom Nichols, Former Green Beret has thoughts

https://tinyurl.com/2p8erk88

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 15, 2022 04:12 PM (dKiJG)

567 The economy crashing is a good thing Jack, the more the economy shrinks, the more room it has to grow.

Posted by: Old Man Biden at June 15, 2022 04:12 PM (2BCN8)

568 My paper losses this year in my 401(k) are more than my yearly salary. And that's just so far this year.

Posted by: alexthechick

I know the feeling. The only saving grace is my after tax money is in energy stocks.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 15, 2022 04:12 PM (lTGtQ)

569 remember the opening to running man, I swear these people want to enact every farking dystopia, food riots in bakersfield, schwartnegger's character, rebels, and hence he is framed for the attack, when was running man set?

Posted by: no 6 at June 15, 2022 04:12 PM (i0Lci)

570 It IS historic...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at June 15, 2022 04:12 PM (08ncd)

571 542 I've said this before. There will be no 25th amendment against Biden because the people in his cabinet are some of the stupidest people on the planet and no one in their right mind would hire them. Which is why they were picked.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2022 04:08 PM (Y+l9t)

If they vote to get rid of Joe, two bad things could happen to them. 1. Kamala fires them. (They are in the jobs not for the measly paycheck, they are in them for the power-rush and the kickbacks now and in the future based on rulings they make.) 2. Kamala keeps them on-board but reduces their cut of the current kickbacks, to keep more for herself.

Posted by: tuesday's gone? at June 15, 2022 04:13 PM (AMIL/)

572 569 remember the opening to running man, I swear these people want to enact every farking dystopia, food riots in bakersfield, schwartnegger's character, rebels, and hence he is framed for the attack, when was running man set?
Posted by: no 6 at June 15, 2022 04:12 PM (i0Lci)

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Arnie would shoot on the crowd now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

573 Probably the only time I've seen someone actually wearing a barrel. Better than being IN one!
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM

At AoSHQ, Barrel wears you!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 15, 2022 04:13 PM (4p7Em)

574 Great. And my F350 is going in to the dealer Friday for a new sideview mirror. They'll probably install it facing front.

Posted by: wth at June 15, 2022 04:13 PM (v0R5T)

575 552 My paper losses this year in my 401(k) are more than my yearly salary. And that's just so far this year.

Posted by: alexthechick at June 15, 2022 04:10 PM (tFjfd)

My paper losses are around 10% so far. Oil and coal stocks have been on a tear since the lockdowns and have mitigated all my losses in everything else.

All my bonds have lost value too with the interest rate rises, but I don't plan on selling them and will get the full amount on redemption, so it's not even a real loss.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2022 04:13 PM (Y5qcH)

576 If Fauuci gets monkeypox too I will convert and be a god believer.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 04:14 PM (H9K5h)

577 no tom nichols has gasesous discharge, not the same as thoughts,

Posted by: no 6 at June 15, 2022 04:14 PM (i0Lci)

578 Gaslighting people by telling them to ignore their own lying eyes because they are "actually doing very, very well" should really help.

Posted by: deadrody at June 15, 2022 04:14 PM (/jrmI)

579 s/power/powder/
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Does the S indicate 'substitute'? I don't know any coding and am just curious.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 15, 2022 04:14 PM (yikp0)

580 And if there was anyone with sense in this administration, they would fire anyone telling people that they don't know how good they have it.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 15, 2022 04:14 PM (YynYJ)

581 576 If Fauuci gets monkeypox too I will convert and be a god believer.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 04:14 PM (H9K5h)

=========

There's always shinto if the monkeypox thing doesn't pan out.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 04:14 PM (LvTSG)

582 "Don't piss on me and call it rain."

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at June 15, 2022 04:14 PM (lKAqb)

583 546 I wonder when the CD rates will go up .
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM (SseOZ)

mostly pegged to the 10 year

soon, a one year 3%

by labor day, maybe 4-4.5 % two year

Posted by: REDACTED at June 15, 2022 04:15 PM (us2H3)

584 Tom Nichols has lost his cracker

That happened years ago. AtC calls him "Wireless Gratis Tomas" to avoid typing his real name and attracting his attention. (His Twatter handle is "RadioFreeTom").

Posted by: Ian S. at June 15, 2022 04:15 PM (ZGrMX)

585 If yiu are under 55ish paper losses are a good thing since you will be dollar cost averaging at a 30% discount for the next little while.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 04:15 PM (H9K5h)

586 Well, I went and checked my 401k. -13.5% this year so far. Nice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2022 04:15 PM (0zQHa)

587 They also had a bunch of SUVs that were burning for unknown reasons.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 15, 2022 04:09 PM (kDGvA)

Wow, a twofer on that whole global warming thing.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at June 15, 2022 04:15 PM (NxOLn)

588 "mostly pegged to the 10 year "

So was the lincoln project

Posted by: IP at June 15, 2022 04:16 PM (w9UC1)

589 In mid 2007 CDs hit 5%. And then a year later the crash. We are heading in the same direction just a lot faster.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 04:16 PM (H9K5h)

590 NOOD!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at June 15, 2022 04:17 PM (hmWcn)

591 30 yr mortgage rate today 6.28%. One year ago 2.8%.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at June 15, 2022 04:17 PM (Y+l9t)

592 NOOD

Posted by: Pat at June 15, 2022 04:17 PM (wtnJT)

593 Please sir may I have some more gruel?

Posted by: Oliver Twit at June 15, 2022 04:17 PM (vrz2I)

594 Everyone don't understand the "Power" of "no mean tweets" in spreading "joy-joy-fellingz" in everyone you know.

Posted by: Paladin at June 15, 2022 04:19 PM (+Ivv+)

595 Combined all my retirement plans are down 19% this year. One of them which is heavy tech is down 44%. But still up about 350% for the past 10 years. Long term is what matters no short term gyrations.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 15, 2022 04:20 PM (H9K5h)

596 101 Ed Driscoll was never trump, AFAIK. F him and Treacher.

And my 401(k) has lost everything that's gone into it in the last two years and then some, and that's not even factoring in future gains lost.

No retirement in the future's gonna be awesome, especially once Social Security and Medicare are eventually zeroed out.

Posted by: Gaff at June 15, 2022 04:21 PM (59Hbh)

597 Jiminy Crickets, we have absolutely the worst, stupidest, poorest-educated, most incompetent "Elite" class.

This is a good sign for us.
Wiemar at this point had the best, smartest, superior educated, most competent "Elite" in the world.
And what did it get them?

Looks like we've got the cards -
just have to play our hand right.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 15, 2022 04:21 PM (Wpbgs)

598 s/power/powder/
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Does the S indicate 'substitute'? I don't know any coding and am just curious.

Yes. It's a common syntax for many old school UNIX text based tools. I'm not the only Moron to use it to mean "fix my typo" in comments.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 15, 2022 04:22 PM (nfrXX)

599 My paper losses this year in my 401(k) are more than my yearly salary. And that's just so far this year.

I did not partake of the bubble. I won't partake of the bust.

Posted by: Thanks at June 15, 2022 04:23 PM (aNNcs)

600 Arnie would shoot on the crowd now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at June 15, 2022 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

And then go home and engage in hot, sweaty decadence with the maid(s) afterwords.

Posted by: Thrawn at June 15, 2022 04:23 PM (Rl7KJ)

601 Yes. It's a common syntax for many old school UNIX text based tools. I'm not the only Moron to use it to mean "fix my typo" in comments.
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Thanks, Oddbob. You can ignore my repeating the question in the nood thread. Cheers again.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at June 15, 2022 04:25 PM (yikp0)

602
Retirement as we know it is probably going to end. The old-school approach of living with your kids is probably going to come back into vogue.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Biden has reunited families!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 15, 2022 04:25 PM (63Dwl)

603 Let's not say historic until we see just how apocalyptic it gets.

Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2022 04:26 PM (KATBx)

604 Interest rates and the conservatives who locked insub 4 rates are racist. President Kamala Harris will unlock those for you in the name of equity.

Posted by: Welcome to Wokistan at June 15, 2022 04:28 PM (ADw0E)

605 "From John Sexton, a Financial Times survey of economists finds that a majority expect a recession next year.

Next year?

Okay sure whatever."

Well .... beginning this year, like last month.

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at June 15, 2022 04:32 PM (0AUR/)

606 603 Let's not say historic until we see just how apocalyptic it gets.
Posted by: irongrampa at June 15, 2022 04:26 PM (KATBx)

Read the tea leaves bro .... we're screwed.

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at June 15, 2022 04:33 PM (0AUR/)

607 Everything that is supposed to be down is up and everything supposed to be up is down! Yuk yuk

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 15, 2022 04:45 PM (+EWfa)

608 "* My first use of "an historic." I'm glad you could be here for it."

As the legendary Drac said during "Slide", I like that.

Posted by: Kwai Chang Mandelblit at June 15, 2022 04:46 PM (0AUR/)

609 An historic feels more capital A ace

Posted by: TexasDan at June 15, 2022 04:46 PM (eCM59)

610 Now that Fauci has Covid, I can only hope he gets the sand fly experimental treatment before the Wuhan disease gets him.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at June 15, 2022 04:47 PM (ad0JD)

611 KAKISTOCRACY, official word of 2022

Posted by: Sal A. Mander at June 15, 2022 05:20 PM (K6C5q)

612 "Recession isn't official until the second quarter of negative growth"
Ya...just like a fight isn't a fight until the SECOND punch gets thrown.
(I recognize it as a fight as soon is the first punch is cocked and ready to be thrown, don't wait...you'll be too late)

Posted by: Birddog at June 15, 2022 08:32 PM (uAI4S)

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