When Corruption Grows [Joe Mannix]

Much ink has been spilled - including by me - about the deplorable state of integrity within the government and other institutions. The institutions are hopelessly corrupt and operate for their own benefit and without any checks or balances. They take as take can, and to hell with the consequences. Those consequences are largely paid for by the little people or those who fall out of favor. It's classical Party corruption and our institutions and systems are lousy with it.

Our institutions are so full of corruption that it isn't unreasonable to call it total. Every major institution from the government agencies and legislatures and courts to the universities to the major corporations to the NGOs to the school boards and so on down the line is hopelessly, even diabolically corrupt. What we have in this country (and what is present in many other countries) is essentially total institutional corruption. It is systemic corruption in that all official systems of size are corrupted. This is not good by any means, but it could be worse - and we'll get there if the trend continues.

The flip side of total systemic corruption is that some things - things outside the major power system - are not corrupt. Daily life is not too bad in this regard. You can go to the supermarket and be reasonably confident that you will get what it says you'll get on the tin. The odds of being ripped off by a random stranger aren't terribly worse now than they used to be. The level of fraud, theft, abuse, etc. between and among people and during the routine work of daily life is not the defining characteristic of everyday interactions. In this regard, our total systemic corruption intersects with the wider population arbitrarily and with no mercy, but things are okay until the evil eye of the corrupt falls on you.

The next stage from systemic corruption is what I call endemic corruption - the condition where all things are corrupt in all respects and between all people at all times. In such an environment, none of the normal honesty of daily life is present. You buy food and find that it is fake and the package is either empty or it contains some ersatz food. You buy a house and find that it falls apart moments after you move in. You buy goods and find that they are counterfeit. The reports you use at work are all doctored and the company transparently lies about everything they do. Everything from financial statements to pollution controls to mileage to the octane content of gasoline is fabricated. The machinery with which you interact is manipulated to count high for things you buy and low for things where you get paid. Your money is stolen and contracts are unfulfilled. You can spin the wheel in the courts, but then the official corruption intersects and if you're not in favor, you lose. Party favor gives some the right to behave with impunity in all aspects of life, and the rest just have to get abused.

And become abusers. In a world without morality in a condition of endemic corruption when everything from weights and measures to ingredient lists to business practices are a lie, only a sucker tries to follow the rules. You get ripped off, sure, but you're not above ripping someone else off. Survival is survival. You might not like it, but you'll probably do it - especially when your boss tells you to go ahead and use timber to reinforce concrete instead of steel, or else be fired. The problem compounds with each turn of the crank. The primary problem to be solved is no longer "how do I do the right thing" but rather "how do I not get caught?" Societies with endemic corruption are, in a word, exploitative. Everyone exploits everyone else at all times.

If you want a vision of how such a world looks, cast your sight across the Pacific to Red China. For as bad as a lot of the crap they export is, the domestic market is often worse. Fake food, fake construction, fake goods, fake measures, fake numbers, fake everything. If you're Party-connected (in the right faction), there are no rules in any venue. If you're not, your job is to be harvested until you tap out. We are not anything like that far along in this country. In terms of law, the Party-connected can do anything they want but it doesn't yet extend downstream to everything like it does in places further along the corruption curve.

And so what happens in such an environment? Universal pain, exploitation and hopelessness. That has its own consequences, which can be seen through some fringe movements in Red China like "lying flat" (doing nothing above intermittent subsistence labor - similar to the "anti-work" concept floated in this country, but with a wildly different motivation) to people referring to themselves as "leeks" or "chives," depending on translation (people who grow to be harvested and regrown and harvested again) and, more distressingly, arguing that the current generation should be the last. "I am the last generation" or "I will give birth to no more leeks" is the ultimate black-pill attitude. A quote I heard that was attributed to a young Chinese office worker seems to sum up the essential problem fairly well: "everyone hurts me and I hurt everyone."

Endemic corruption is evidence of general moral degradation along with with legal and institutional illegitimacy. The people who live in such a condition are regularly and routinely abused and regularly and routinely engage in abuse themselves. This will continue until hope is lost. For Red China's sake, I hope those fringe elements remain fringe and that some degree of honesty can emerge. For our sake, I hope we learn the lesson that Red China can provide and avoid the problems of endemic corruption. Our systemic corruption, if not contained and reversed, will flow downstream and take us to a very rotten place.

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1 Bigger the Government the smaller the citizens

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2022 12:01 PM (2JoB8)

2 1st

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 10, 2022 12:01 PM (ppx0p)

3 nope.
I'll go fetch.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 10, 2022 12:01 PM (ppx0p)

4 Dutifully called, onto content

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2022 12:02 PM (2JoB8)

5 th!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 10, 2022 12:02 PM (RctME)

6 I get it, I fetch em

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2022 12:02 PM (2JoB8)

7 Integrity...Government...two words that shouldn't be in the same paragraph.

Posted by: BignJames at July 10, 2022 12:04 PM (AwYPR)

8 But muh voting....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2022 12:04 PM (BFigT)

9 The rot is growing out of control

Posted by: Zeera at July 10, 2022 12:06 PM (dX3/4)

10 I wrote about this recently myself, Joe. A sort of "spiral dynamics" that describes the collapse of civilization.

The trick is to ID the escape paths (which do exist), and then convince enough people to take them.

Link, if you are curious:

https://piercello.sub stack.com/p/solving-politics-part-ii

take out the extra space

Posted by: Piercello at July 10, 2022 12:06 PM (ajoh7)

11 Hmmm. Didn't know that stack of subs had been banned from the URL box! Interesting.

Posted by: Piercello at July 10, 2022 12:06 PM (ajoh7)

12 arguing that the current generation should be the last. "I am the last generation" or "I will give birth to no more leeks" is the ultimate black-pill attitude.
Posted by: Joe

Hence the recent call by the PTB that all CCP party members must have multiple children.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 10, 2022 12:08 PM (ppx0p)

13 I believe extensive corruption in our government has been around throughout our history. Maybe even worse. The same with law enforcement regard corruption and brutality. It's just that in today's instantaneous communication and recording we are aware of it more . I have to think this to have any type of hope.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 12:08 PM (aToww)

14 "The people who live in such a condition are regularly and routinely abused and regularly and routinely engage in abuse themselves"

Your average fast food restaurant worker.

Posted by: fd at July 10, 2022 12:09 PM (sn5EN)

15 The left is pretty open they want China's government and culture.

They were in the woods after the fall of the Soviet Union...until they the Chinese model as a way to get permanent political power with enough economic growth

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:10 PM (ESjRY)

16 Fantastic one Joe, can't disagree with anything.
Mentioned before Dennis Prager points out almost anywhere in world corruption is a personal issue down to being stopped by a policeman for nothing but a shakedown hand out or else.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2022 12:11 PM (2JoB8)

17 Hence the recent call by the PTB that all CCP party members must have multiple children.

From one child to multiple children in one generation.

I guess this meshes with China clamping down on homosexuality as well.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:12 PM (ESjRY)

18 Pretty sure the workers at my local Taco Bell are all self-abusing

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 10, 2022 12:12 PM (sJHOI)

19 My opinion and many Leftists have said through years they love China for their iron fist over the population.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2022 12:12 PM (2JoB8)

20 We tend to be honest in this country. The disadvantage is that we expect that the courts, the media etc are also honest. It's a big psychic jolt to realize that the courts can be corrupt and the media is very corrupt and lazy. They will lie and smother facts to farther their socialist dreams and will do no more than read a press release for subjects unrelated to their goals.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at July 10, 2022 12:13 PM (3cGpq)

21 One of the best ways to avoid much of this corruption is to become debt-free.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 12:13 PM (Qhnrt)

22 Abolish the federal government and many of our "problems" would disappear.

From our overseas adventures, to market manipulations, to protected classes and raycisses, to the sodomite mafia, to the ponzi schemes of social security and medicare and the income tax swindle.

Poof! Gone with the wind...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 10, 2022 12:14 PM (R/m4+)

23 "The primary problem to be solved is no longer "how do I do the right thing" but rather "how do I not get caught?" Societies with endemic corruption are, in a word, exploitative. Everyone exploits everyone else at all times."

"If you want a vision of how such a world looks, cast your sight across the Pacific to Red China."

Closer. Look at every ghetto inner city.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 10, 2022 12:14 PM (M9XmQ)

24 We have an ersatz government

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 10, 2022 12:15 PM (ZGvh3)

25 Abolish the federal government and many of our "problems" would disappear.

I pay 50% of my income, at least, to the federal government in various way.

And what problems does it solve for me? I guess it mostly resolved the threat of domestic Islamism a decade ago. Since then? Nothing.

And it creates endless problems - clot shot mandates, inflation, shortages, tranny spree shooters, on and on.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:17 PM (ESjRY)

26 23 "The primary problem to be solved is no longer "how do I do the right thing" but rather "how do I not get caught?" Societies with endemic corruption are, in a word, exploitative. Everyone exploits everyone else at all times."

"If you want a vision of how such a world looks, cast your sight across the Pacific to Red China."

Closer. Look at every ghetto inner city.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 10, 2022 12:14 PM (M9XmQ

Any democrat run city.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 12:17 PM (Qhnrt)

27 Societies with endemic corruption are, in a word, exploitative. Everyone exploits everyone else at all times."

The old saw of, "Every good deed will be punished" is becoming more and more true.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:18 PM (ESjRY)

28 I figure that the upcoming midterm election may be the last before resorting to the cartridge box for resolving the issues facing us.

I've long advocated a political solution but given the current situation that may not be feasible.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 10, 2022 12:18 PM (KATBx)

29 In terms of law, the Party-connected can do anything they want but it doesn't yet extend downstream to everything like it does in places further along the corruption curve.
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One of the aspects of illegal migration is the court-shopping. In hard terms, it is worth the expensive and dangerous trip for a chance at the lottery bonanza of our current liability system. Even if you are illegal, a good slip and fall is a jackpot.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 10, 2022 12:20 PM (MIKMs)

30 Huge, nationwide protests in Albania now too demanding the Government resign over massive [food] inflation and corruption.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 10, 2022 12:20 PM (yikp0)

31 It'll take us to Sri lanka

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 12:20 PM (ONvIw)

32 Sri Lanka went full Zimbabwe?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 10, 2022 12:21 PM (ZGvh3)

33 Huge, nationwide protests in Albania now too demanding the Government resign over massive [food] inflation and corruption.

We need at least one of these countries to go full on Romania.

The video of the former political elite of a country paying for their crimes would be a major wake up call.

But so far the elites have crushed peaceful protest in Canada and the US. so they believe they are untouchable.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:22 PM (ESjRY)

34 These are the conditions I observed in late Soviet society. You didn't buy food at the supermarket, they had none. You got food from your neighbor, your cousin, your apartment manager, your boss.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 10, 2022 12:22 PM (EZebt)

35 I figure that the upcoming midterm election may be the last before resorting to the cartridge box for resolving the issues facing us.

I've long advocated a political solution but given the current situation that may not be feasible.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 10, 2022 12:18 PM (KATBx)

This is an aos news breaking comment.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 12:23 PM (aToww)

36 up to 2000, DC was losing population hand over fist

then something happened, people started moving their in droves, rich people

National debt in 2000 5.6 trillion

maybe a connection, dunno

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:23 PM (us2H3)

37 30 Huge, nationwide protests in Albania now too demanding the Government resign over massive [food] inflation and corruption.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 10, 2022 12:20 PM (yikp0)

Albanians also don't have guns. I still wish them luck though.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 12:23 PM (Qhnrt)

38 They were in the woods after the fall of the Soviet Union...until they the Chinese model as a way to get permanent political power with enough economic growth
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:10 PM (ESjRY)
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And that's where our Leftists will fail. They don't believe in economic growth. All they care about is votes to keep themselves in power for all eternity.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 10, 2022 12:23 PM (K5n5d)

39 Katie Daviscourt @KatieDaviscourt; 6h
In the town Coevorden at the Eschebrügge border crossing, which has roadways that belong to Germany, Dutch farmers moved the Netherlands sign inwards towards Holland so the farmers could have Germany’s nitrogen laws.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 10, 2022 12:23 PM (yikp0)

40 Corruption is why the existing form of government and those that participate in it can never be recycled into anything resembling a new society. If national divorce or civil war is what it takes to remove the leftists from power there's no way in hell we can keep the politicians and the status quo government left behind. Not a single part of it and not a single person associated with the government can ever be used again.

Blank slate. Some assembly required.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2022 12:24 PM (BFigT)

41 Endemic corruption is evidence of general moral degradation along with with legal and institutional illegitimacy. The people who live in such a condition are regularly and routinely abused and regularly and routinely engage in abuse themselves. This will continue until hope is lost. For Red China's sake, I hope those fringe elements remain fringe and that some degree of honesty can emerge.

I often wonder if the Russians can ever recover from the degradation and cynicism of the Soviet years, and the associated social pathologies. The evidence so far is not encouraging.

I fear we may be on a slower path to that same end point.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 12:24 PM (/NCI4)

42 All of our current issues are directly caused by Covid and the ill advised shut down.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 12:25 PM (aToww)

43 Businesss have always been a lil corrupt

but when the gub got into the act

jesus christ

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:26 PM (us2H3)

44 8 But muh voting....
Posted by: Martini Farmer a
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Right. The only way we win an election is large enough turnout to beat the cheat. Not voting is cheating opportunity.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 12:26 PM (Mh7Nr)

45 Very disturbing but realistic.
Thanks Joe.

Posted by: MAC V SOG at July 10, 2022 12:26 PM (P4Pk9)

46 Corruption isn't for me. It's for my cause.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 10, 2022 12:27 PM (yqL9p)

47 Video here as there seems to be some interest in it:

Gabor Gurbacs @gaborgurbacs; 16h
Huge protest in Albania demanding the government to resign. Food prices in Albania increased by double digit percent since a month ago. Inflation isn't transitory.

https://nitter.net/gaborgurbacs/status/
1545922423945666562#m

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 10, 2022 12:27 PM (yikp0)

48 And buy more ammo!

Posted by: MAC V SOG at July 10, 2022 12:27 PM (P4Pk9)

49 Dutch farmers moved the Netherlands sign inwards towards Holland so the farmers could have Germany’s nitrogen laws.

One sort of libertarian answer to our current woes is making it easy for regions to leave nations. The government of the Netherlands passes a stupid law the other provinces hate? Watch them all leave.

This is basically what we did with Britain in a sense.

Amusingly though "international law" is all over the place on this depending on whether the transnational elite like the people seeking to leave or not. So the Donbassians can't leave Ukraine, but the East Timorians can leave Indonesia.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:28 PM (ESjRY)

50 @21 18-1- The feds take 50-70k a year just out of my checks and then I have Cali state tax and I can’t even get synchronized traffic signals at 4:20am on Lone Tree Way.

I don’t get jack shit for my money.

Posted by: JROD at July 10, 2022 12:29 PM (nsFgR)

51 If you want a vision of how such a world looks, cast your sight across the Pacific to Red China. For as bad as a lot of the crap they export is, the domestic market is often worse...fake construction...fake everything.

Hilariously, I just watched an interesting video on this. Why the giant empty cities China keeps building are actually critical to their economy. Basically, common people can't safely invest money into anything except real estate, and the government encourages (but micromanages and regulates) building and loans to keep a constant supply of new buildings for people to invest in. Almost like a ponzi scheme, everyone just accepts property value goes up, even though no one will ever live in these homes. It's ripe for a major bubble burst.

https://youtu.be/wJ8JBTIVUVw

Posted by: Grimmy at July 10, 2022 12:29 PM (iSwfz)

52 More than likely we'll get or are getting another export from south of the border to fit in with our New Zero Trust, High Corruption Society-

La Mordita or "The Bite".

It'll be everywhere. Pulled over by the Police. You get "the bite" and you're free. Go to the Doctor. You get "the bite" so he'll do his job properly. Go to the grocery.Maybe you don't get meat until you get "the bite". On and on.

I don't see laying down/ "chive people" as a thing that will catch on here.
That's more of an Asian dealio: the nail that stands up gets hammered down thing, so fine I'll lay down and I won't get up. Very passive.

But, La Mordita? Yeah, I can absolutely see that here. and to a certain degree it fits into the free market ethos, ie. paying the real worth of what you want.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 10, 2022 12:29 PM (5NkmN)

53 I often wonder if the Russians can ever recover from the degradation and cynicism of the Soviet years, and the associated social pathologies. The evidence so far is not encouraging.

shit ...Italia never recovered from the Borgias

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 10, 2022 12:29 PM (w0NJk)

54 All of our current issues are directly caused by Covid and the ill advised shut down.

The COVID lockdowns were like giving your cocaine snorting good for nothing cousin crack.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:29 PM (ESjRY)

55 Protect the shores, deliver the mail on time and get the hell out of my way
_Eddie Chiles

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 12:30 PM (Mh7Nr)

56 up to 2000, DC was losing population hand over fist

then something happened, people started moving their in droves, rich people

National debt in 2000 5.6 trillion

maybe a connection, dunno

No, what changed was the exit of Marion Barry. Really. Things started changing after he left. DC always should have been a very desirable place to live, like Manhattan, but it had to become marginally safe. It did, and it is.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 12:31 PM (/NCI4)

57 Something that must be remembered is that a large part of our heritage is continuing the struggle by those who preceded us to ensure the Republic endures.

Throughout our history we've met and prevailed over issues even more serious than the current mess. With an unbroken record of success.

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the gravity of the situation, but we cannot fall prey to despair.

THAT leads to certain defeat.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 10, 2022 12:31 PM (KATBx)

58 Great post, Joe. Not sure how this mess can be undone.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 10, 2022 12:31 PM (Xrfse)

59 Joe Mannix, I really enjoy your thoughtful takes on current issues. However, I am usually lighthearted and lightheaded, so your title somehow was confabulated to me as: Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes . . .

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 10, 2022 12:32 PM (MIKMs)

60 almost like a ponzi scheme

EXACTLY like a Ponzi scheme. It is one.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 12:32 PM (/NCI4)

61 No, what changed was the exit of Marion Barry. Really. Things started changing after he left. DC always should have been a very desirable place to live, like Manhattan, but it had to become marginally safe. It did, and it is.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 12:31 PM (/NCI4)

ur blind, dude

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:32 PM (us2H3)

62 All of our current issues are directly caused by Covid and the ill advised shut down.

The COVID lockdowns were like giving your cocaine snorting good for nothing cousin crack.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:29 PM (ESjRY)

Agree. We were on the path but the shut downs were an over dose and no one has narcan on hand.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 12:32 PM (aToww)

63 Some of the desperation described reminds me of Russia and why they can never produce.

China's harvesting of humans, the leeks and chives, is horrendous. May they implode upon themselves.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 12:34 PM (Mh7Nr)

64 these corrupt pos never leave DC

Lugar never went back home

the last time Liz was in WY, she bagged a Mastodon

fucking Bill Nelson never went back to FL, works for NASA

DC has become the hugiest trough in the history of man

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:35 PM (us2H3)

65 18 Pretty sure the workers at my local Taco Bell are all self-abusing
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 10, 2022 12:12 PM

It's official work business. I'm putting the sour cream in your chalupa!

Posted by: Taco Bell Worker at July 10, 2022 12:36 PM (iSwfz)

66 Just like HellRaiser, flag needs blood from retarded and big egos

Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 10, 2022 12:36 PM (yqL9p)

67 Kind of seems that fighting WWII and the cold war were useless now doesn't it?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 10, 2022 12:36 PM (WKPeU)

68 >>> Corruption is why the existing form of government and those that participate in it can never be recycled into anything resembling a new society. If national divorce or civil war is what it takes to remove the leftists from power there's no way in hell we can keep the politicians and the status quo government left behind. Not a single part of it and not a single person associated with the government can ever be used again.

Blank slate. Some assembly required.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2022 12:24 PM (BFigT)

Or, hear me out, ditch the idea of government. There is no reason for anyone in the modern world to be subject to the level of authoritarian structures as we are. Our ability to take care of ourselves and deal with others independently now without interference or "assistance" is greater than at any point in history. Even the level of government of the USA during the 1700s is ridiculous. Government at every level should be nearly (or, I posit, truthfully) nonexistent. The beast exists only for itself and to our terrible and eternal detriment.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 10, 2022 12:37 PM (eubJX)

69
Amusingly though "international law" is all over the place on this depending on whether the transnational elite like the people seeking to leave or not. So the Donbassians can't leave Ukraine, but the East Timorians can leave Indonesia.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:28 PM (ESjRY

I think this is what the leftists fear most about this country and why they're distorting what SCOTUS did the last few weeks. Some states are finally waking up to the 10th Amendment.

Individual states really do have more power than DC. And it's all Constitutional.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 12:37 PM (Qhnrt)

70 US has 2 choices

either enter into drepession or allow inflation to rage beyond 15 or 20%

my guess is the first

gird your loins

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:37 PM (us2H3)

71 The Chinese have gifted us with the term "tofu dregs", referring to shoddily constructed high rises, some of which sway tens of feet in a high wind. So that's something.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 12:38 PM (/NCI4)

72 Ah, should have said "La Mordita" is a near universal bribe to get what you want or need from Your Betters.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 10, 2022 12:38 PM (5NkmN)

73 37 30 Huge, nationwide protests in Albania now too demanding the Government resign over massive [food] inflation and corruption.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 10, 2022 12:20 PM (yikp0)

Albanians also don't have guns. I still wish them luck though.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 12:23 PM

The Albanian people are great, but their government is a mess. During the cold war, they were basically the North Korea of Europe, going full retard commie and severing ties with Russia and China because they were "sellouts". That kind of economic misery takes a lot of time and investment to overcome .

Posted by: Military Moron at July 10, 2022 12:38 PM (iSwfz)

74 purty much everything evi in the US can be trace to the Clintons

and mostly to Cankles

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:39 PM (us2H3)

75 Corruption has always been around in some fashion, but previous generations of leadership were competent enough to get things done beyond the scope of the corruption. Today's leaders are very much incompetent, so all they do is siphon money and provide nothing in return.

Posted by: CppThis at July 10, 2022 12:39 PM (UewuT)

76 Having dived into Russian history for decades really last book made me convinced they will never get out from a oligarchy society

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2022 12:39 PM (2JoB8)

77 How long before the Chinese 996 work model is here?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 10, 2022 12:39 PM (PDrA3)

78 And buy more ammo!

Posted by: MAC V SOG at July 10, 2022 12:27 PM (P4Pk9)
===

Even if in the it does you no good, it feels good now.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 10, 2022 12:39 PM (WKPeU)

79 74 purty much everything evi in the US can be trace to the Clintons

and mostly to Cankles
Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:39 PM (us2H3)

Da fuq?
- Kennedy Family, FDR, Teachers Unions

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 10, 2022 12:41 PM (PDrA3)

80 It's infuriating to see people put their faith in a politician over and over again thinking that somehow the political calculus is going to change in their favor. It never does. The political class is so far removed from the common man and the day to day issues they might as well be a different species.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2022 12:41 PM (BFigT)

81 "Party favor gives some the right to behave with impunity in all aspects of life, and the rest just have to get abused.

And become abusers."

Sweet dreams are made of these. Who am I to disagree?

Posted by: go get your fuckin shine box at July 10, 2022 12:41 PM (8VDkz)

82 ur blind, dude

Posted by: REDACTED

I can live with your disapproval.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 12:42 PM (/NCI4)

83 The good news, if one could call it that, is that total endemic corruption everywhere only lasts about one generation before self destructing. China gets away with it because of their export economy, take that away (e.g. because everyone else is too broken to buy their cheap consumer goods) and they'd collapse almost overnight.

Posted by: CppThis at July 10, 2022 12:42 PM (UewuT)

84 JMHO, but the majority of countries use the parliamentary system, and our republican form offers a little more stability. Deliberately attempting to destabilize is a tactic for control over production.

Posted by: mustbequantum at July 10, 2022 12:43 PM (MIKMs)

85 Good point, irongrandpa!

Posted by: Alana at July 10, 2022 12:43 PM (7iVzU)

86 70 US has 2 choices

either enter into drepession or allow inflation to rage beyond 15 or 20%

my guess is the first

gird your loins
Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:37 PM

Embrace the power of "and", Jack. I am to overachieve for my globalist masters (or I'm an incompetent jack wagon). Hey, another "and"!

Posted by: Military Moron at July 10, 2022 12:43 PM (iSwfz)

87 Mr Smith Goes to Washington was made in 1939.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 12:43 PM (aToww)

88 A lot of the shit offered on Amazon is fake.

Posted by: jeff at July 10, 2022 12:44 PM (Rviza)

89 >>> Posted by: humphreyrobot at July 10, 2022 12:36 PM (yqL9p)

I'm listening to Daft Punk, Robot Rock, and I'm imagining you jamming out to that.

I'm trying to get my kid to wake up (in the friggin afternoon) and I'm sure like all kids she hates dad's taste in music and will eventually get up to tell me so. Hopefully, before my wife gets pissed off for the same reason.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 10, 2022 12:44 PM (eubJX)

90 15 The left is pretty open they want China's government and culture.

They were in the woods after the fall of the Soviet Union...until they the Chinese model as a way to get permanent political power with enough economic growth

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:10 PM (ESjRY)

The Left wants to decide who should live, and who should die - soon and of unnatural causes, in order to attain their Utopia.

Of those who are chosen to live, the Leftists, who all believe they will have key life and death decision-making roles, next want to decide who among the living is entitled to what resources - food, medicine, type of housing, everything. And to assign a Utopia-supporting job to everyone.

Currently the Chinese Model looks the best to the Leftists for achieving their goals.

Posted by: GLSD at July 10, 2022 12:44 PM (AMIL/)

91 OK, lets try this

Cankles is the most vile, evil person to ever inhabit the universe

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:45 PM (us2H3)

92 How old is political corruption? Whatever age politics is, less 5 minutes.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 10, 2022 12:45 PM (PDrA3)

93 Re the endemic corruption. Obama & Biden didn’t have to instruct DOJ or IRS to target political enemies. The bureaucrats know that’s their role, and they do it without prompting, or fear of prosecution.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 10, 2022 12:46 PM (d9Cw3)

94 Justin greeted by his many fans in Sudbury, Ontario [mid-north nickel-mining centre].

https://twitter.com/6ixbuzztv/status/
1545779738588971008

Communist pig!

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 10, 2022 12:46 PM (yikp0)

95 Embrace the power of "and", Jack. I am to overachieve for my globalist masters (or I'm an incompetent jack wagon). Hey, another "and"!
Posted by: Military Moron at July 10, 2022 12:43 PM (iSwfz)

did you just assume my gender ??

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
[broke up long string; JM]

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:47 PM (us2H3)

96 Selling our oil to China should have been a triggering event. We are still too comfortable.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 12:48 PM (aToww)

97 91 OK, lets try this

Cankles is the most vile, evil person to ever inhabit the universe
Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:45 PM

No! I corrupted a young man, and told him to slaughter children! I executed order 66, killing thousands of space hippies!

Posted by: Emperor Palpatine at July 10, 2022 12:48 PM (iSwfz)

98 "For our sake, I hope we learn the lesson that Red China can provide and avoid the problems of endemic corruption."

the "easy" wealth from the stock market (much of it floated on "free money") has kept the general population anaesthetized, and such "bread and Hollywood circuses" is part of the New (liberal?) World Order plan.

Dumbed down, indoctrinated generations was a methodical process. While we were left as the Super Power after WW2, the interior rot had begun much earlier.

imo the USA is unique in that -- sure we had the work ethic, but it emerged from a Christian basis for trusting the people over an all powerful state. Putin may see the benefit of allowing strong Christian communities, but the state is still basically a tyranny, run by thugs.

Xi took control of China (CCP being a thugocracy, criminal organization) but their people had been prepped by Mao. Piece by piece, DC subsumed the powers of the state, and now they really want to take the guns, as they make their final moves. They will ignore SCOTUS to get there ... as Garland supports Antifa terrorizing the "conservative" justices.

tick tock

Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2022 12:49 PM (Cus5s)

99 And the corruption starts early.
Find the newest elected member of a city council. Any typical small to mid-sized city. Get a copy of this council member's schedule. See how long it took before they jetted off to a "conference" hosted by the makers of new fire engines, or police cars, or road construction companies.
All vital to the welfare of the city.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2022 12:49 PM (anj39)

100 91 OK, lets try this

Cankles is the most vile, evil person to ever inhabit the universe
Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:45 PM

I'll see your Hillary and raise you one Karl Marx.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 10, 2022 12:50 PM (iSwfz)

101 The political class is so far removed from the common man and the day to day issues they might as well be a different species.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2022 12:41 PM (BFigT)

I totally understand your pain and frustration. It's awful when your leaders have nothing in common with you. But, I'm different.

Vote for me and I'll keep you knee deep in fresh green eucalyptus leaves!

Posted by: The Koala at July 10, 2022 12:50 PM (5NkmN)

102
I'm listening to Daft Punk, Robot Rock, and I'm imagining you jamming out to that.

I'm trying to get my kid to wake up (in the friggin afternoon) and I'm sure like all kids she hates dad's taste in music and will eventually get up to tell me so. Hopefully, before my wife gets pissed off for the same reason.
Posted by: banana Dream at July 10, 2022 12:44 PM (eubJX

I know I'd get fully pissed off if you were playing that shit in my house.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 12:50 PM (Qhnrt)

103 well, all is well in Berkshireville

a fresh shipment of Schwepps Tonic water has arrived

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:50 PM (us2H3)

104 100 91 OK, lets try this

Cankles is the most vile, evil person to ever inhabit the universe
Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:45 PM

I'll see your Hillary and raise you one Karl Marx.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 10, 2022 12:50 PM (iSwfz)

Marx was a comedian compared to Hills

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:51 PM (us2H3)

105 The left is pretty open they want China's government and culture.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:10 PM

We have seen China's government and culture infect Western nations across the world in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. And we have been experiencing it here in the USA since March 2020. Censorship, lockdowns, mask mandates, clot shot mandates, etc.

Justin Trudeau: "The admiration I actually have for China. There they... basic dictatorship..."

Paul Joseph Watson video (2:00 mark): https://bit.ly/3bXwZUl

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 10, 2022 12:51 PM (Do5/p)

106 95
did you just assume my gender ??

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:47 PM

I was already kicking myself for failing to switch to my Biden nickname, lol.

Posted by: Military Moron at July 10, 2022 12:51 PM (iSwfz)

107 >If you're Party-connected (in the right faction), there are no rules in any venue. If you're not, your job is to be harvested until you tap out. We are not anything like that far along in this country. In terms of law, the Party-connected can do anything they want but it doesn't yet extend downstream to everything like it does in places further along the corruption curve.

Even after you "tap out". Harvested body organs comes to mind.

Posted by: mrp at July 10, 2022 12:51 PM (6eRlp)

108 77 How long before the Chinese 996 work model is here?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 10, 2022 12:39 PM (PDrA3)

They might try it, but it'd be a bowl of instant Cloward-Piven. Think about it...996 is predicated on keeping the factories going nonstop to churn out exports for the West, enriching the party elite in the process. If the West is now wage-slaves, there's nobody to buy any of that stuff, ours or theirs.

Something else worth keeping in mind about China is that they all run on a sense of desperate urgency, from the 996 proles to the ruling elite. They all know that the current way of things is unsustainable, they just want their slice before the music stops, the global economy collapses, and everyone goes back to agrarian feudalism.

Posted by: CppThis at July 10, 2022 12:52 PM (UewuT)

109 The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 10, 2022 12:52 PM (yQpMk)

110 Endemically corrupt societies can actually be pretty okay. I think about late 20th century Italy. Amazingly corrupt. But it was as they say La Dolce Vita. It was a pretty sweet life. You could even go down to the coffee shop and talk politics as college students loved to say about Europe. You weren't going to jail for it. But nothing was going to change, either. People knew what they could get away with and who they had to grease to make it so.

I am not saying that its ideal or we would want to live that way. But lots of people do live that way, and live decent lives.

Posted by: blaster at July 10, 2022 12:52 PM (6TxNR)

111 The plebes in Sri Lanka have now overtaken their central bank as well as their prez palace. So sometimes it doesn't work out for the oligarchs.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 10, 2022 12:53 PM (8GBH4)

112 Mannix, if you're around, please fix the unbroken text in 95. It blew the margins.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2022 12:53 PM (u73oe)

113 Think it was newest CJN speaks but either show China is doomed for their decades of 1 child policy, it's a quickly aging society. They will still have hundreds of millions of population but it will go downhill.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2022 12:53 PM (2JoB8)

114 Ha.

Endemic corruption is here. America rejected merit for simply knowing people LONG ago. The mantra for job searches is “It’s not what you know it’s WHO you know!” “Network” is a noun, but in a society dominated by the insider/outsider dynamic that has thoroughly rejected the concept of merit, it’s now a verb and seen as the only way to attain employment.

If you are an insider, great! If you are an outsider, America has two words of advice for you: DROP DEAD.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2022 12:54 PM (CdZ4i)

115 Biden and Garland both support "protestors" illegally harassing US Supreme Court justices, but if a retired three-star general makes a social media jest against Jill Biden, he's punished.

Posted by: mrp at July 10, 2022 12:55 PM (6eRlp)

116 105: PM Rutte in the Netherlands seems pretty jealous of the power Xi has.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2022 12:56 PM (CdZ4i)

117 Of those who are chosen to live, the Leftists, who all believe they will have key life and death decision-making roles, next want to decide who among the living is entitled to what resources - food, medicine, type of housing, everything. And to assign a Utopia-supporting job to everyone.

All we have to do is develop a VR game that will allow leftists to spend every waking minute bossing others around and arranging firing squads. While they're busy there, the rest of us can get on with real life.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 12:57 PM (/NCI4)

118 the flag of "Cankles 2024" went up and no one farted

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 12:57 PM (us2H3)

119 110: Frederick Taylor points out in his amazing book “Berlin Wall” that in the GDR if you kept your head down and your mouth shut life could be OK.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2022 12:58 PM (CdZ4i)

120 If you are an insider, great! If you are an outsider, America has two words of advice for you: DROP DEAD.

you are not wrong

altho it might be less so dependent on region ... it's certainly so here

a million "help wanted" signs around me and my kid didn't get a summer job - after like twenty interviews! - until a family member offered one.

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 10, 2022 12:58 PM (w0NJk)

121 blaster with an interesting point. But it seems Italy is if not unique, then close to that, in terms of how it has combined an enviable lifestyle with more/less prosperity amidst systemic corruption (of the state). Not smart enough to figure it out, but it seems to have something to do with history, geography, culture.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2022 12:58 PM (OTzUX)

122 Is this it? That's what it's all about, Manny? Eating, drinking, fucking, sucking? Snorting? Then what? You're 50. You got a bag for a belly. You got tits, you need a bra. They got hair on them. You got a liver, they got spots on it, and you're eating this fuckin' shit, looking like these rich fucking mummies in here... Look at that.

Posted by: Tony Montana at July 10, 2022 12:58 PM (R/m4+)

123 Think it was newest CJN speaks but either show China is doomed for their decades of 1 child policy, it's a quickly aging society. They will still have hundreds of millions of population but it will go downhill.

It isn't just China. Japan, Germany, Taiwan, pretty much any developed country (and many developing ones) are looking at the same demographic collapse. It's pretty much baked into the cake now. We're looking at a Children of Men scenario. It'll be interesting.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 12:59 PM (/NCI4)

124 DC, what happened was the Clinton's came to town and brought Balloon the Bureaucracy with them.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 12:59 PM (Mh7Nr)

125 Hmm.

Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant; 13h
The World Economic Forum's Cyber Polygon hacking simulation was scheduled for yesterday, by coincidence, the day that one of Canada's largest networks, Rogers, was knocked down down. The WEF says they actually cancelled their simulation yesterday.
Jul 10, 2022 · 3:42 AM UTC

https://nitter.net/ezralevant/status/
1545976643981758464#m

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 10, 2022 12:59 PM (yikp0)

126 No one should live in DC.
Come to work in DC and go home.
'

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 01:00 PM (Mh7Nr)

127 115 Biden and Garland both support "protestors" illegally harassing US Supreme Court justices, but if a retired three-star general makes a social media jest against Jill Biden, he's punished.
Posted by: mrp at July 10, 2022 12:55 PM

We will no longer prosecute people for minor, non-violent misdemeanors. It's a human rights issue!

someone shots in the driveway of one of Pelosi's homes

I will track the heinous villain to the ends of the earth, and ensure he is punished to the maximum extent of the law! Plus, I'll leak as much personal info as possible, for extrajudicial justice as well!

Posted by: San Francisco DA office at July 10, 2022 01:01 PM (iSwfz)

128 124 DC, what happened was the Clinton's came to town and brought Balloon the Bureaucracy with them.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 12:59 PM (Mh7Nr)

oh yes, but the balloon was actually a pinata and it exploded in 2000

the insiders knew this and were there to grab the goodies

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 01:02 PM (us2H3)

129 No! Damn you auto cucumber! Someone SHIT in Pelosi's driveway!

Posted by: San Francisco DA office at July 10, 2022 01:02 PM (iSwfz)

130 @122

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcD56vLv-n0

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 01:03 PM (/NCI4)

131 Mannix, if you're around, please fix the unbroken text in 95. It blew the margins.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2022 12:53 PM (u73oe)

**Sits back. Lights cigarette**

Posted by: The Margin at July 10, 2022 01:03 PM (anj39)

132 I think a way to help stop the slide is to end the two-tier justice system. The FBI is not there to do national-level investigations, it is there to keep the connected out of legal trouble There's no Constitutional mandate for it, so let its defenders go public with their justifications, steamroll them with facts, and then disband the corrupt organization. If we can't demolish its headquarters, then let the first floor be a a Holocaust-style museum. "Never again!"

Posted by: pookysgirl has some ideas at July 10, 2022 01:04 PM (XKZwp)

133 Citizens tore down the gates to the Bank of Sri Lanka, burned down the Prime Ministers house, and tore up the Presidents house. Yesterday.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 01:05 PM (Mh7Nr)

134
a million "help wanted" signs around me and my kid didn't get a summer job - after like twenty interviews! - until a family member offered one.
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 10, 2022 12:58 PM (w0NJk)

Or maybe the kid needs to learn how to do an interview.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 01:05 PM (Qhnrt)

135 Hiya

Posted by: JT at July 10, 2022 01:05 PM (T4tVD)

136
126 No one should live in DC.
Come to work in DC and go home.
'
Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 01:00 PM (Mh7Nr)

This. If DC were shut down for 9 months a year and nobody could enter other than for maintaining buildings and cutting the grass and shit, 90% of our problems would go away.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 10, 2022 01:05 PM (PDrA3)

137 lets import more Sri Lankan immigrants

Posted by: vivi at July 10, 2022 01:05 PM (33kEg)

138
It isn't just China. Japan, Germany, Taiwan, pretty much any developed country (and many developing ones) are looking at the same demographic collapse. It's pretty much baked into the cake now. We're looking at a Children of Men scenario. It'll be interesting.
Posted by: Archimedes

Just following the Georgia Guidestones here, boss.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2022 01:05 PM (63Dwl)

139 Sorry, Joe, but you're VERY wrong on this one. Our system is not corrupt - there's nowhere our gov't requires bribes, etc.

Our gov't is *compromised*. It is compromised by a false religion that warps it's mind and behavior. The problem isn't people not doing their job, it's understanding what that job is supposed to be. It's a worldview that no longer sees the same virtue or vice that we used to see. It's a worldview that no longer sees self-governance as the end goal. It's called PROGRESSIVISM.

The only cure is to evangelize and indoctrinate the people back into Christianity and Americanism.

Posted by: GWB at July 10, 2022 01:06 PM (8tx0F)

140 I'm sure there is a good reason not to but why can't all of DC be done on remote and all the wheeling and dealing be on DM

it would clean things up in a hurry

fuck cop body cams

put them on politicians

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 01:06 PM (us2H3)

141 Hot but not humid JT, finally moved truck into shade to work on it.

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 10, 2022 01:06 PM (2JoB8)

142 And the systemic corruption of institutions does not exist or progress in a vacuum - the populace in large part either actually supports it or is indifferent to it.

The Third World, unbelievable corruption exhibited in the rolling coup against both candidate and president Trump, in which the most powerful organs of the state acted like this was a small African backwater with no history of solid institutions, would have led to a cataclysm in the America many of us grew up in. Instead, what amounted to silence from the people and their elected reps, including the target's own political party.

All the extravagant and histrionic violation of the idiotic "public health" measures by high-profile politicos - zero political consequences. Zero. It's standard to refer to the low expectations and long-suffering stoicism of populations in historically rough places like Russia (or Cook County) in explaining why things rarely improve. Well, the USA can take a long look in the mirror on that one now.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2022 01:07 PM (OTzUX)

143 131 Mannix, if you're around, please fix the unbroken text in 95. It blew the margins.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 10, 2022 12:53 PM (u73oe)

**Sits back. Lights cigarette**
Posted by: The Margin at July 10, 2022 01:03 PM (anj39)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I did that !!

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 01:07 PM (us2H3)

144 Hot but not humid JT, finally moved truck into shade to work on it.
Posted by: Skip's phone

Yep; a BEEYOOTIFUL Day !

Posted by: JT at July 10, 2022 01:08 PM (T4tVD)

145 93 Re the endemic corruption. Obama & Biden didn’t have to instruct DOJ or IRS to target political enemies. The bureaucrats know that’s their role, and they do it without prompting, or fear of prosecution.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton
-----------------------

When housecleaning begins it will be swift and thorough.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 01:08 PM (Mh7Nr)

146 million "help wanted" signs around me and my kid didn't get a summer job - after like twenty interviews! - until a family member offered one.
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 10, 2022 12:58 PM (w0NJk)

I’m thinking this a your kid problem not an economy problem. There are signs in my burg that say we will hire you on the spot, today, ask how. Some fast food joints are giving $1000 signing bonuses. Signing bonuses for flipping burgers. On top of $17 an hour pay. It is so bizarre to watch this happen.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 10, 2022 01:08 PM (PDrA3)

147 139 Our system is corrupt.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:08 PM (ONvIw)

148 Somebody above mentioned Cankles being the most evil vice Marx (Karl, not Groucho) but I would throw the Cloward - Piven's into the mix as the most despicable and evil. One of the two, IIRC is still alive.

Their very idea of overwhelming the system just to bring it down is as demonic a thing as I can imagine.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 10, 2022 01:08 PM (+a8WH)

149 Heh. Dems trying to figure out who's the bigger Hitler, Trump or DeSantis. Apparently DeSantis is now Hitlerus Magnus. Is this it old switcheroo or do they really think that DeSantis is the bigger threat?

https://tinyurl.com/4pccwzex

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 01:08 PM (/NCI4)

150 I think those were gunsharts. That is sulfur I smell, isn't it??

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 10, 2022 01:09 PM (yikp0)

151 I’m thinking this a your kid problem not an economy problem. There are signs in my burg that say we will hire you on the spot, today, ask how. Some fast food joints are giving $1000 signing bonuses. Signing bonuses for flipping burgers. On top of $17 an hour pay. It is so bizarre to watch this happen.

yeah f*ck you moo moo

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 10, 2022 01:09 PM (w0NJk)

152 In the Philippines, everyone has an opportunity to take off from work and 'go home' to vote. Many provincial poor find jobs in the cities. They go home to vote because they get PAYOLA for votes. I have seen how our constructiin workers suddenly jhad money on a tuesday. When i asked Mom how this was possible, she laughed and said it was election day.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid. in hoc signo vinces at July 10, 2022 01:09 PM (3Or4S)

153 Or maybe the kid needs to learn how to do an interview.

I actually listened in bc often they were virtual

did very well

so also thanks for that

even at that level it is having connections

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 10, 2022 01:10 PM (w0NJk)

154 Just in case you haven't seen it...should prolly save for the Gun Thread...from the Bee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmyyEbvDgr8

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

155 42. Lol. Covid lockdowns were a symptom, a bad one. Our current problems started long before

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:10 PM (ONvIw)

156 155 42. Lol. Covid lockdowns were a symptom, a bad one. Our current problems started long before

correct

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 10, 2022 01:11 PM (w0NJk)

157 Ok calling Kankles the most evil person since Marx, in a post Marx world that includes Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc is kinda dumb. Sorry but come on!

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 10, 2022 01:11 PM (PDrA3)

158 133 and killed a lot of people, I don't blame them. The fertilizer ban was murderous.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:12 PM (ONvIw)

159 ...It's standard to refer to the low expectations and long-suffering stoicism of populations in historically rough places like Russia (or Cook County) in explaining why things rarely improve. Well, the USA can take a long look in the mirror on that one now.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2022 01:07 PM (OTzUX)

Well stated rhomboid. I used to think we were the good guys. I no longer do. And I like the reference to Cook county, btw. Well done and apt.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 10, 2022 01:12 PM (+a8WH)

160 I was watching a video on "induced demand".

Basically the left believes if you build more roads you get more traffic and if you remove/reduce roads you get less.

Why? Well if you give people an easy way to get somewhere they will take it. If you take that away from them they'll just figure something else out.

It is stunningly dumb...and evil. Sure Granny McJones will stop driving to her doctor and instead bike. In January. In Minnesota.

The real answer is an *aggressively* anti-urban plan (and send the illegals home). If you don't build everything in a city (jobs, entertainment, healthcare, airports, etc), you don't force everyone to take the same roads to get into that city.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 01:13 PM (ESjRY)

161 Seeing lots of Help Wanted around here but they seem to be slow to hire. Not sure why. It's picked up a bit here since school has been out but not much. Ive been offered two jobs in the last month from managers I know but they want more...ahhh...mature workers.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2022 01:15 PM (anj39)

162 DeSantis is America's best governor. And the man has no fear. They've yet to beat him.

I can understand why they fear what he could do at the federal level.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 01:15 PM (ESjRY)

163 And speaking of the FBI (I know, I know, nobody was) I think they need to add 'speaking with a German accent' to their training syllabus. So they can be more authentic sounding.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 10, 2022 01:15 PM (+a8WH)

164 Lol. Covid lockdowns were a symptom, a bad one. Our current problems started long before
Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:10 PM (ONvIw)

Are current problems are issues we've not had to deal with before.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 01:16 PM (aToww)

165 Eh, Marx wasn't that bad of a guy when taken in the context of 1848, French Revolution, and Europe's lurch from feudalism to feudal-derived crony capitalism. The problem arose when his writing was adapted by Lenin et al as the basis for a totalitarian regime.

Posted by: CppThis at July 10, 2022 01:17 PM (UewuT)

166 157 Ok calling Kankles the most evil person since Marx, in a post Marx world that includes Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc is kinda dumb. Sorry but come on!
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 10, 2022 01:11 PM (PDrA3)

she is more evil than all of them combined

just because she did not do as much as the others does not make her any less evil

there are plenty of smart people that didn't achieve much, doesn't make them any less smart

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 01:18 PM (us2H3)

167 121 blaster with an interesting point. But it seems Italy is if not unique, then close to that, in terms of how it has combined an enviable lifestyle with more/less prosperity amidst systemic corruption (of the state). Not smart enough to figure it out, but it seems to have something to do with history, geography, culture.
Posted by: rhomboid
===============

What's the ratio of poor people stuck in hovel to people sipping at the coffee shop patio?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 01:18 PM (Mh7Nr)

168 164. We have always dealt with disease. We have dealt with inflation, oil prices, and war abroad. These issues are not new. We dealt with environmental nutcase and horror predictions.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:18 PM (ONvIw)

169 Endemic corruption is here: "The reports you use at work are all doctored and the company transparently lies about everything they do." This is our education system, emphasis on the words "all" and "everything." And healthcare is right on the heels of education. The government bureaucracy has made itself "the experts" and we will be punished for questioning them. The marxist socialist default is that if you disagree with their "benevolent, smarter-than-you leadership" you are ruining utopia and therefore must be destroyed. This is where they are headed- we don't have to go with them.

Keep speaking up, pointing out the flaws, and resisting... in the end we win, they lose. (stolen from Sarah A Hoyt who got it from someone else)

Posted by: ama at July 10, 2022 01:19 PM (ez10z)

170 Our politicians were on the take before previous covid.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:19 PM (ONvIw)

171 42. Lol. Covid lockdowns were a symptom, a bad one. Our current problems started long before

correct
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 10, 2022 01:11 PM (w0NJk)

So you also thought our improving economy, energy independence and working supply chain was going to suddenly collapse without the shutdown ? Yeah definitely lol.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 01:19 PM (aToww)

172
I actually listened in bc often they were virtual

even at that level it is having connections
Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 10, 2022 01:10 PM (w0NJk)

Is this like an internship type job? Cuz that is always via a connection. My job between HS and freshman year in college was working at a law office doing paper pushing work. $10 an hour!!! Which for the time was crazy good money for a summer job. How did I get it? My friend’s dad’s lawyer is how. He hooked up both of us and another one of our friends.

And then the next year my dad repaid the favor getting me and my friend a job at his company answering phones (customer service stuff) for $12 an hour. These jobs didnt really exist they were created for us specifically.

And that’s how that shit works now and has always worked.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 10, 2022 01:20 PM (PDrA3)

173 Steve Bannon to testify at closed Jan 6 hearing Tuesday.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2022 01:20 PM (63Dwl)

174 159 ...It's standard to refer to the low expectations and long-suffering stoicism of populations in historically rough places like Russia (or Cook County) in explaining why things rarely improve. Well, the USA can take a long look in the mirror on that one now.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2022 01:07 PM (OTzUX)

Well stated rhomboid. I used to think we were the good guys. I no longer do. And I like the reference to Cook county, btw. Well done and apt.
Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 10, 2022 01:12 PM (+a8WH

Good guys can be lazy too. Sometimes the house gets so dirty that it has to be cleaned up in order to function. I think the good guys will be reaching for the mop and bucket pretty soon now.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 01:20 PM (Qhnrt)

175 The Covid lockdowns accelerated what was economically inevitable. IMO, the world basically ate it's seed corn for two years, moving the collapse up by a decade at least.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 10, 2022 01:20 PM (yQpMk)

176 BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 10, 2022 01:10 PM

I am sorry that your son didn't get a job. My son tried about four or five places before he finally got a job on a farm but he just started last week. If your son was going for a job in the summer I think that people are reluctant to hire for those and it frustrating for them, and even more so if the jobs are gotten through connections,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2022 01:20 PM (c8EA0)

177 Yesterday at work talking to job supervisor, finished up a $4M office d floor and they won't have a dozen people in it yet as everyone works at home still. His theory and first K even thought about it is lots of people working at home might be double timing with another company.

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 10, 2022 01:21 PM (2JoB8)

178 If the world wants to cut back on nitrogen fertilizer, so be it, but this process must be incremental and based on new fertilizer and probably new plant strains. It should be tested and maybe cross titrated.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:21 PM (ONvIw)

179 Our politicians were on the take before previous covid.
Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:19 PM (ONvIw)

Our politicians have always been on the take.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 01:21 PM (aToww)

180 161 Seeing lots of Help Wanted around here but they seem to be slow to hire. Not sure why. It's picked up a bit here since school has been out but not much. Ive been offered two jobs in the last month from managers I know but they want more...ahhh...mature workers.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 10, 2022 01:15 PM (anj39)

I see the same but try and offer the help wanted and they turn up their noses in many cases. Such has been my experience, anyway.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2022 01:21 PM (CdZ4i)

181 And our Gay Ole Time Transportation Sec just announced he's going to 'investigate' why airlines are so screwed up, and why customers are dissatisfied....

DUH. These problems have been going on for months... and only going to start asking why NOW? Guess he is finally off of Maternity Leave?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2022 01:22 PM (oHd/0)

182 The basic requirements for a retail worker are to show up for work on scheduled days at the required time. The ability to address customers in a polite manner is also helpful. Young people today, generally, have a tough time understanding the rules.

Posted by: mrp at July 10, 2022 01:22 PM (6eRlp)

183 "Their very idea of overwhelming the system just to bring it down is as demonic a thing as I can imagine."

and these "Marxists" saw our "benevolence" as a weakness. So they wanted to overwhelm the welfare roles ... apparently in their perfect world, their would be no such weakness. No mercy for the weak, or the elderly ... or the non-connected. Once you are not serving them, you are disposable.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2022 01:22 PM (Cus5s)

184 166 157 Ok calling Kankles the most evil person since Marx, in a post Marx world that includes Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, etc is kinda dumb. Sorry but come on!
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 10, 2022 01:11 PM (PDrA3)

she is more evil than all of them combined

just because she did not do as much as the others does not make her any less evil

there are plenty of smart people that didn't achieve much, doesn't make them any less smart

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 01:18 PM (us2H3)

From 2006 until she dropped-out of the 2008 campaign, I repeatedly told my friends that Hillary is the most dangerous person on the Earth. I began again in 2014 and went to bed on election night 2016 expecting that everything was going to take a turn for the worse before noon the next day.

Posted by: GLSD at July 10, 2022 01:23 PM (AMIL/)

185 Precious covid. Not previous. Covid lockdown and mandates are the work of people paid off by pharma and oligarchs. Not a helpless response to the unknown

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:23 PM (ONvIw)

186 DUH. These problems have been going on for months... and only going to start asking why NOW? Guess he is finally off of Maternity Leave?

He got impacted by a flight delay, IIRC, a few months ago. Suddenly it went from a non-issue to his #1 target.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 01:24 PM (ESjRY)

187 I pride myself on never using personal connections to get a job. It hasn't exactly been an easy road, but it's who I am and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I do totally agree that the system is rigged in favor of clout and nepotism, though.

Posted by: CppThis at July 10, 2022 01:24 PM (UewuT)

188 After I read this post, I thought about it. Then I yelled, "Who wants ice cream?!"

Posted by: Corona at July 10, 2022 01:24 PM (nakGR)

189
9/11 was something of a climacteric. We willy-nilly passed a Patriot Act that's now being used to persecute ordinary Americans and established a TSA and Homeland Security department that opened the door to the petty harassment that climaxed in the Covid response.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 10, 2022 01:24 PM (/U27+)

190 Grump I'm puzzled by your metaphor. The US economy was undergoing a secular boom based on real, and "new" (at least in recent context) things - reindustrialization from change in pool water temperature and reciprocal trade policies, rising real wages in lower quintiles due to this plus decreasing availability/prospective big drop in illegal labor migration, etc.

Do you mean the insane monetary policies dating to 2008? Those could have been corrected and after a pause the boom (in the US) would have continued, probably.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2022 01:24 PM (OTzUX)

191 16 Fantastic one Joe, can't disagree with anything.
Mentioned before Dennis Prager points out almost anywhere in world corruption is a personal issue down to being stopped by a policeman for nothing but a shakedown hand out or else.
Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2022 12:11 PM (2JoB

I agree with this assessment as well. One thing - is there any society that exhibits endemic corruption that has the ability to militarily dominate? I've said for a long time that China will wildly overestimate their chances for taking over Taiwan for several reasons (not least of which is their shoddy manufacturing practices), but I hadn't thought about how you don't want to put your life on the line for a corrupt government. Could this be true in this case as well, when push comes to shove?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 10, 2022 01:25 PM (X5Q23)

192 175 The Covid lockdowns accelerated what was economically inevitable. IMO, the world basically ate it's seed corn for two years, moving the collapse up by a decade at least.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 10, 2022 01:20 PM (yQpMk)

If Inflation exceeds your GDP growth per year? You are in a declining economy.

ACTUAL inflation, not the government gerrymandered number.

We have had a declining economy for a generation... with a few years as outliers.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2022 01:25 PM (oHd/0)

193 I am sorry that your son didn't get a job. My son tried about four or five places before he finally got a job on a farm but he just started last week. If your son was going for a job in the summer I think that people are reluctant to hire for those and it frustrating for them, and even more so if the jobs are gotten through connections,

he did get a job! it just took FOREVER and a LOT of interviews, second interviews etc etc

my only point was, all those help wanted signs mean something but not that people (at least around here) are desperate. they were being really picky. he's here and not leaving so you'd think they would like a kid who won't be going back to college, but still he lost a few because he's younger. and at least half because he's male, btw. a lot of places were all-female with female managers and they really barely gave him a shot. that's just natural, you have a little group you want to keep that vibe going and not hire some random dude

he was getting pretty dejected because he was mostly getting second interviews and was so sure he'd have a job right away! in the end he got one via a connection and it's better than the ones he wasn't selected for.

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 10, 2022 01:25 PM (w0NJk)

194 The basic requirements for a retail worker are to show up for work on scheduled days at the required time. The ability to address customers in a polite manner is also helpful. Young people today, generally, have a tough time understanding the rules.

But...how will they find out about their racism and white privilege if I don't enlighten them?

Posted by: Young worker at July 10, 2022 01:25 PM (/NCI4)

195 178 If the world wants to cut back on nitrogen fertilizer, so be it, but this process must be incremental and based on new fertilizer and probably new plant strains. It should be tested and maybe cross titrated.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:21 PM (ONvIw)

Every bird and every tree on Earth will die tomorrow if we do not ban use of these accursed fertilizers TODAY!

Posted by: The Progressive Karen next door at July 10, 2022 01:26 PM (AMIL/)

196 How many days was my school closed for Hong Kong flu?
Zero. Measles? Mumps? Chicken Pox? All zero.
Our upcoming food shortages have fuck all to do with poor Zdogg and everything to do with central planning.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:26 PM (ONvIw)

197 Great post, Joe Mannix.

I think the driver for the corruption in the US is simple: a flawed worldview. TPTB are convinced that everyone is equivalent, everyone is equally deserving (we must be "non-judgmental"), that any inequality is necessarily pernicious. That means that such "inequality" must be righted, which in turn necessitates state action, which again in turn necessitates concentration of power in the state to effect that action. Such concentration of power quickly supersedes any mechanism for reining it in, which invites corruption.

See, e.g., the vagrancy problem. TPTB see this as a "homelessness" problem, to be solved by providing homes to the vagrants, thereby solving the problem. That necessitates raising taxes, which inevitably results in their allocation to cronies in an unaccountable fashion. TPTB fail to admit that the problem arises from drug addiction and mental illness, thereby allowing the problem - and that lovely tax dosh - to continue.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:26 PM (YqDXo)

198 Is this it old switcheroo or do they really think that DeSantis is the bigger threat?

https://tinyurl.com/4pccwzex
Posted by: Archimedes at
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Who knows what goes on in their brains.

One thing for sure, it gives DeSantis national attention and it doesn't hurt Trump. It's a twofer.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 01:26 PM (Mh7Nr)

199 185 Precious covid. Not previous. Covid lockdown and mandates are the work of people paid off by pharma and oligarchs. Not a helpless response to the unknown

exactly

it was planned

it was malicious

it was no "symptom" unless you mean a symptom of how dark our leaders have become. they rolled this op out on us.

Posted by: BlackOrchidOfDerp at July 10, 2022 01:27 PM (w0NJk)

200 195. I wonder if old Clifton Wharton is lucid enough to punch out Karen

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:27 PM (ONvIw)

201 If the world wants to cut back on nitrogen fertilizer, so be it, but this process must be incremental and based on new fertilizer and probably new plant strains. It should be tested and maybe cross titrated.
Posted by: CN

I read that as cross titillated....

Posted by: JT at July 10, 2022 01:27 PM (T4tVD)

202 So they wanted to overwhelm the welfare roles ... apparently in their perfect world, their would be no such weakness

Some Bernie Bot was running for...Senate? I forget which state.

He said that if his economic plan was put into action there would be no unemployment - the government would give everyone a job.

So a reporter actually asked him a real question - "What would happen if someone did want the job the government offered him?" And the answer? "Well of course they'd just have to do it".

And that is the end plan of all this welfare crap. In the bright glorious future there won't be welfare. They'll be labor camps.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 01:27 PM (ESjRY)

203 Do you mean the insane monetary policies dating to 2008? Those could have been corrected and after a pause the boom (in the US) would have continued, probably.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2022 01:24 PM (OTzUX)

I mean the period 2020-2021. People were paid without production.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 10, 2022 01:28 PM (yQpMk)

204 but I hadn't thought about how you don't want to put your life on the line for a corrupt government. Could this be true in this case as well, when push comes to shove?

Another reason why the PRC probably won't invade is that so many families now are "bare branches", i.e. they only have one male offspring. Getting a bunch of them killed and thus destroying a family's continuation will not go over well.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 01:28 PM (/NCI4)

205 Can't wait until mayor pete comes up with a solution to the airline problem that will ultimately do nothing except make things worse.

Posted by: irongrampa at July 10, 2022 01:29 PM (KATBx)

206 I also agree with the commenter upthread that not only are we fighting corruption, but also religious zealots. The religion of gaia, the religion of perversion and similar knockoffs have become solidly established in this country. Religion is a tough nut to crack.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 01:29 PM (Qhnrt)

207 178 If the world wants to cut back on nitrogen fertilizer, so be it, but this process must be incremental and based on new fertilizer and probably new plant strains. It should be tested and maybe cross titrated.
Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:21 PM (ONvIw)

ANY thing a government does to an economy, is always a negative. Period. End Stop. End of Quote.

The Free Market, as unfettered as possible to still maintain order, WOULD fix the economy itself. WHY? As a rational choice between products becomes available, people WILL choose the cleaner, better for the environment, product... even if it costs a bit more.

We've seen it time and time again... BUT the government can't mandate innovation. Something cleaner HAS to exist, for market forces to move that needle.... or they just destroy the economy... like with oil.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2022 01:29 PM (oHd/0)

208 A lot of social ills manifested themselves during the age of covid. Locking people up in their homes, prohibiting them from socializing and conditioning many to comply with questionable mandates created an untrustworthy environment... socially speaking. It persists today.

However some of us were suspicious about the government's motivations from day one. That hasn't changed either and persists today as well.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 10, 2022 01:29 PM (BFigT)

209 I’m thinking this a your kid problem not an economy problem. There are signs in my burg that say we will hire you on the spot, today, ask how. Some fast food joints are giving $1000 signing bonuses. Signing bonuses for flipping burgers. On top of $17 an hour pay. It is so bizarre to watch this happen.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 10, 2022 01:08 PM (PDrA3)

This doesn't explain the Help Wanted signs everywhere. If that were indeed the case, they'd take on anybody.

I'd say you are a well-connected Insider who sees nothing wrong with the way things are.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2022 01:29 PM (CdZ4i)

210 We have had a declining economy for a generation... with a few years as outliers.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2022 01:25 PM (oHd/0)

There is a lot of ruin in a great nation but eventually even a great nation runs out of room to decline.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 10, 2022 01:30 PM (yQpMk)

211 199 Samantha Power, may her name be erased, said farmers will just have to make do without nitrogen fertilizer or come up with something else. I'd like to see zombie Norman Bourlag rise up and bitch slap her

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:30 PM (ONvIw)

212 ACTUAL inflation, not the government gerrymandered number.

I'm paying 50% more for groceries in the summer of 2022 then I was in the summer of 2020.

And according to the government inflation was

2020: 1.4
2021: 7.0
2022: 4.3 (est)

Note that does not equal 50%.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 01:30 PM (ESjRY)

213 the libs know for a fact that a Republican will occupy the WH in 2024

and they will spend all their energy trying get most liberal Reublican elected

they will start with Trump and work down

Posted by: REDACTED at July 10, 2022 01:31 PM (us2H3)

214 No mercy for the weak, or the elderly ... or the non-connected. Once you are not serving them, you are disposable.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2022 01:22 PM (Cus5s)

The GDR had no problem letting the elderly go to West Berlin; oftentimes they would dump them on the West because paying for their medical care became too expensive and besides they served their purpose to the State.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2022 01:31 PM (CdZ4i)

215 Samantha Power, may her name be erased, said farmers will just have to make do without nitrogen fertilizer or come up with something else.

This is the same answer as for "induced demand" in regards to traffic above.

I expect in relation to food though the left just expects to kill enough people that you won't need fancy fertilizer.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 01:31 PM (ESjRY)

216 My position has been the same since the day it was implemented. The two week lockdown was going to hurt us more than help us. When it continued I believed it would destroy us and was the stupidest thing man had done ever excepting specific wars.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 01:32 PM (aToww)

217 I am about to go to Walmart for groceries and I guarantee that my bill for the same items as last month will be +10%.

It's not Weimar yet but it is getting there.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 10, 2022 01:32 PM (yQpMk)

218 And our Gay Ole Time Transportation Sec just announced he's going to 'investigate' why airlines are so screwed up, and why customers are dissatisfied....

DUH. These problems have been going on for months... and only going to start asking why NOW? Guess he is finally off of Maternity Leave?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2022 01:22 PM (oHd/0)
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C'mon, he was still nursing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:32 PM (YqDXo)

219 Samantha Power, may her name be erased, said farmers will just have to make do without nitrogen fertilizer or come up with something else.
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Composting liberals?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:32 PM (YqDXo)

220 New World Order was spoken by 1 but many are thinking it

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2022 01:33 PM (2JoB8)

221 I am about to go to Walmart for groceries and I guarantee that my bill for the same items as last month will be +10%.

It's not Weimar yet but it is getting there.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 10, 2022 01:32 PM (yQpMk)
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A can of soup yesterday: $4.

I'm not making that up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:33 PM (YqDXo)

222 215 not fancy at all, chemical and effective and created for new high yield grain varieties by men who want to solve hunger and not spread it throughout the world. Undoing their work without new means of production is a crime against humanity.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:34 PM (ONvIw)

223 I can survive a lot of inflation, I won't be the least bit happy about it, but I can survive. The poorest will get by as they always have. But the working poor are going to get lashed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 10, 2022 01:35 PM (yQpMk)

224 216 My position has been the same since the day it was implemented. The two week lockdown was going to hurt us more than help us. When it continued I believed it would destroy us and was the stupidest thing man had done ever excepting specific wars.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 01:32 PM (aToww)

What is worse? It did not help against the virus at all. Studies out of the EU show this conclusively... yet.. they somehow used the virus to destroy the very essence of Freedom in this country. They used FEAR of an unreal Threat, to convince people to voluntarily give up Freedoms their Forefathers had fought and died for.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2022 01:35 PM (oHd/0)

225 Some Bernie Bot was running for...Senate? I forget which state.

He said that if his economic plan was put into action there would be no unemployment - the government would give everyone a job.

So a reporter actually asked him a real question - "What would happen if someone did want the job the government offered him?" And the answer? "Well of course they'd just have to do it".

And that is the end plan of all this welfare crap. In the bright glorious future there won't be welfare. They'll be labor camps.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 01:27 PM (ESjRY)
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They'll repeal the 13th Amendment.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:36 PM (YqDXo)

226 Is this like an internship type job? Cuz that is always via a connection. My job between HS and freshman year in college was working at a law office doing paper pushing work. $10 an hour!!! Which for the time was crazy good money for a summer job. How did I get it? My friend’s dad’s lawyer is how. He hooked up both of us and another one of our friends.

And then the next year my dad repaid the favor getting me and my friend a job at his company answering phones (customer service stuff) for $12 an hour. These jobs didnt really exist they were created for us specifically.

And that’s how that shit works now and has always worked.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 10, 2022 01:20 PM (PDrA3)

"(WHINE) Why is society so corrupt???"

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2022 01:37 PM (CdZ4i)

227 Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:26 PM (YqDXo)

You are far too generous. They have no concern for any one or thing but themselves. They are elite, all knowing and genetically superior to wee peasants.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 01:37 PM (Mh7Nr)

228 This blog is corrupt. The machinery for creating content is controlled completely by Ace and only those with connections to power can post content!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:37 PM (t3/qz)

229 Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2022 01:29 PM

Either that or he's a convincing troll trying to make conservatives look bad because the impression. He gives is that he doesn't care for anyone but his family. It would almost be better if he is leftist troll pretending to be a conservatives because then we wouldn't have to claim him.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 10, 2022 01:38 PM (VRZey)

230 What's the problem with nitrogen fertilizer? I mean the real problem, not a fictitious "sky is falling" liberal version of a problem.

Have these idiots never heard of the nitrogen cycle? Environmental "studies" courses don't even mention it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:38 PM (YqDXo)

231 The WPA was very effective... at something.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:39 PM (t3/qz)

232 173 Steve Bannon to testify at closed Jan 6 hearing Tuesday.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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They don't want him embarrassing them in public.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 01:40 PM (Mh7Nr)

233 The problem with nitrogen fertilizer is runoff. It collects in waterways and causes algae blooms or something.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:40 PM (t3/qz)

234 206 I also agree with the commenter upthread that not only are we fighting corruption, but also religious zealots. The religion of gaia, the religion of perversion and similar knockoffs have become solidly established in this country. Religion is a tough nut to crack.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 01:29 PM (Qhnrt)

The sooner people understand the Left wants to REPLACE God with the State, the better off we will be (so that we can fight it). Why do people think government is AT WAR with civil society, who has one of its anchors in churches/synagogues?

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2022 01:40 PM (CdZ4i)

235 You are far too generous. They have no concern for any one or thing but themselves. They are elite, all knowing and genetically superior to wee peasants.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 01:37 PM (Mh7Nr)
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While simultaneously in public deprecating the very notion of genetic superiority.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:40 PM (YqDXo)

236 "What's the problem with nitrogen fertilizer?"

It feeds people and the WEF wants fewer people.
Way, way fewer.
(notice use of "fewer" instead of "less")

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 10, 2022 01:40 PM (jTmQV)

237 The problem with nitrogen fertilizer is runoff. It collects in waterways and causes algae blooms or something.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:40 PM (t3/qz)
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Ah. I thought that that was phosphates that did that. Algae blooms fix carbon dioxide; is that bad now?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:41 PM (YqDXo)

238 Testify behind closed doors so all of the committee members can run to the cameras and make up stories about the testimony.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:42 PM (t3/qz)

239 WPA work is actually better then simple welfare checks. People learn skills, have to actually spend time in return for money just like a real job, AND hopefully build something useful.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 01:42 PM (ESjRY)

240 "China produced 32.0% of the worldwide production (of anhydrous ammonia) followed by India with 8.9%, Russia with 8.2%, and the United States with 6.5%."

yes, we must stop those other countries from producing so much fertilizer ... I'm sure they will listen if Greta Thernborg just shames them into agreeing.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2022 01:42 PM (Cus5s)

241 The problem with nitrogen fertilizer is runoff. It collects in waterways and causes algae blooms or something.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:40 PM (t3/qz

Solve or reduce that problem. You don't cure your baby's whooping cough by killing him.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 01:42 PM (aToww)

242 This blog is corrupt. The machinery for creating content is controlled completely by Ace and only those with connections to power can post content!

Revolution!!!! We should start with attractive women with their tops off, a la Delacroix.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 01:42 PM (/NCI4)

243 Algae blooms fix carbon dioxide; is that bad now?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay

Unless it is a toxic algae. You don't want to swim in that.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:43 PM (t3/qz)

244 I was greatly amused when India bought a bunch of Russian oil and told the west to f*ck off.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 01:43 PM (ESjRY)

245 Irongrampa- Buttgieg’s solution will probably be “just stop doing it,” like Biden’s solution to the price of gas is for the gas stations just to lower their prices.

Posted by: Alana at July 10, 2022 01:43 PM (7iVzU)

246 All of our institutions are corrupt.

Posted by: Naked, sitting in a sensory deprivation room, smoking crack. at July 10, 2022 01:43 PM (QY+6a)

247 WPA work is actually better then simple welfare checks. People learn skills, have to actually spend time in return for money just like a real job, AND hopefully build something useful.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 01:42 PM (ESjRY)
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I agree. It reinforces - or in many cases, inculcates for the first time - the notion of a work ethic.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:43 PM (YqDXo)

248 Ah. I thought that that was phosphates that did that. Algae blooms fix carbon dioxide; is that bad now?

It's both. Phosphates are probably worse.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 01:43 PM (/NCI4)

249 They used FEAR of an unreal Threat, to convince people to voluntarily give up Freedoms their Forefathers had fought and died for.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 10, 2022 01:35 PM (oHd/0)

And it was sooo easy. I lost a lot of faith in my country over that.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 01:43 PM (Qhnrt)

250 Unless it is a toxic algae. You don't want to swim in that.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:43 PM (t3/qz)
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Surely a soluble problem. Don't swim in it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:44 PM (YqDXo)

251 My grandfather cursed FDR and the WPA until the day he died.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:44 PM (t3/qz)

252 Surely a soluble problem. Don't swim in it.

Easy for you to say.

Posted by: Fish at July 10, 2022 01:45 PM (/NCI4)

253 233. Well by all means replace it. But test the replacement fertilizer and replacement grains before you collapse the food supply. No one seems to have thought this through or the thought was maximum damage and maximum revolution.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:45 PM (ONvIw)

254 "It feeds people and the WEF wants fewer people.
Way, way fewer. (notice use of "fewer" instead of "less")"

they also seem to want "lesser" people. People that are dumber and less independent. Better to deal with as a slave class.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2022 01:45 PM (Cus5s)

255 Bureaucracy breeds corruption, it only grows to feed itself

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2022 01:45 PM (2JoB8)

256 Ah. I thought that that was phosphates that did that. Algae blooms fix carbon dioxide; is that bad now?

It's both. Phosphates are probably worse.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 01:43 PM (/NCI4)
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I doubt that either one poses a significant problem.

Do the genius bleating about nitrogen fixation know that nitrates get reduced back to elemental nitrogen by some bacteria?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:45 PM (YqDXo)

257 Well by all means replace it. But test the replacement fertilizer and replacement grains before you collapse the food supply.

*nods*

Posted by: Zombie Edmund Burke at July 10, 2022 01:46 PM (/NCI4)

258 And it was sooo easy. I lost a lot of faith in my country over that.

I remember when it came out that the official chance of dying from COVID was something like 1/1000 that Branch COVIDians started arguing, "would you eat an M&M if out of the dish of one thousand you knew one was poisoned?"

And the argument was grating. In such a case the answer is clearly no - because its an M&M.

If you restructure the analogy to be more accurate..."Would you rather risk a 1/1000 chance of dying or...lock yourself in solitary confinement for life?" the answer becomes obvious.

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

259 " Abolish the federal government and many of our "problems" would disappear.

I pay 50% of my income, at least, to the federal government in various way.

And what problems does it solve for me? I guess it mostly resolved the threat of domestic Islamism a decade ago. Since then? Nothing.

And it creates endless problems - clot shot mandates, inflation, shortages, tranny spree shooters, on and on.

Posted by: 18-1"

They turbocharged domestic islamism. Just for the record.

Posted by: Naked, sitting in a sensory deprivation room, smoking crack. at July 10, 2022 01:47 PM (QY+6a)

260 White Privilege - expecting little / no corruption in government.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 10, 2022 01:47 PM (4zTqm)

261 Djokovic wins Wimbledon and now will be denied entry into the United States for the US Open because he's not vaxxed.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 01:47 PM (aToww)

262 257. Surely we have the ag schools that can do this .

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:47 PM (ONvIw)

263 I doubt that either one poses a significant problem.

Do the genius bleating about nitrogen fixation know that nitrates get reduced back to elemental nitrogen by some bacteria?

I think it's pretty well established that phosphates are a problem. As to nitrates, etc., I'm not really up on the lit, but I'm pretty sure most of the people pushing these restrictions never had a chemistry course.

Posted by: Zombie Edmund Burke at July 10, 2022 01:47 PM (/NCI4)

264 @12
Hence the recent call by the PTB that all CCP party members must have multiple children.

----

Meanwhile, the public at large is still only having one kid per couple. The reasons for this are both cultural (everyone has gotten used to only having one kid) and economic (a lot of couples can't afford to have more kids).

Posted by: junior at July 10, 2022 01:48 PM (zlh9V)

265 >>> yes, we must stop those other countries from producing so much fertilizer ... I'm sure they will listen if Greta Thernborg just shames them into agreeing.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2022 01:42 PM (Cus5s)

Isn't the Amonia problem that we don't produce enough for ourselves?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 01:48 PM (Mh7Nr)

266 Djokovic wins Wimbledon and now will be denied entry into the United States for the US Open because he's not vaxxed.

I wonder what would happen if he flew to Mexico and just crossed the border?

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

267 A lessen for us all.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 10, 2022 01:49 PM (yikp0)

268 To the young man that didn't get the job....let it be a learning experience.

Review the interview process, sit up straight, look the interviewer in the eyes, answer all questions clearly and concisely.

And thank the interviewer at the end.

Posted by: JT at July 10, 2022 01:49 PM (T4tVD)

269 Pe-do Pe-ter
clap clap
clap clap clap

Posted by: bonhomme at July 10, 2022 01:49 PM (i0wNm)

270 Why, it's almost as if society is in decay.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2022 01:49 PM (MrUzB)

271 A lessen for us all.

Heh.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 01:49 PM (/NCI4)

272 I think it's pretty well established that phosphates are a problem. As to nitrates, etc., I'm not really up on the lit, but I'm pretty sure most of the people pushing these restrictions never had a chemistry course.
Posted by: Zombie Edmund Burke at July 10, 2022 01:47 PM (/NCI4)
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I'm much more prepared to believe that phosphates are a problem because they're not volatile. (Btw, "pretty well established" doesn't really budge the needle with me, because "climate change" is also billed as "pretty well established. I want to see the data.)

It is my cross to bear to have to listen to people who've obviously had a chemistry course babbling about chemistry. Good times, good times.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:50 PM (YqDXo)

273 Very good article, Joe.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 10, 2022 01:50 PM (U3uv2)

274 To the young man that didn't get the job....let it be a learning experience.

Review the interview process, sit up straight, look the interviewer in the eyes, answer all questions clearly and concisely.

And thank the interviewer at the end.
Posted by: JT at July 10, 2022 01:49 PM (T4tVD)
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And don't have, e.g., neck tattoos.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:51 PM (YqDXo)

275 Norman Borlaug was a hero, Bill Gates and his greenies are fucking criminals.

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:51 PM (ONvIw)

276 Pe-do Pe-ter
clap clap
clap clap clap

Why bring Hunter's dad into the thread?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 10, 2022 01:51 PM (Bd6X8)

277
they also seem to want "lesser" people. People that are dumber and less independent. Better to deal with as a slave class.
Posted by: illiniwek

Vote for the evil of two lessers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 10, 2022 01:51 PM (63Dwl)

278 Isn't the Ammonia problem that we don't produce enough for ourselves?

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 01:48 PM (Mh7Nr)
___________

Zombie Fritz Haber clears his throat.

The problem is most likely that most of the ammonia is going to produce meth.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:52 PM (YqDXo)

279 The basic requirements for a retail worker are to show up for work on scheduled days at the required time. The ability to address customers in a polite manner is also helpful. Young people today, generally, have a tough time understanding the rules.

Posted by: mrp at July 10, 2022 01:22 PM (6eRlp)

Those are all white supremacist values. Or so they say. To me they're nothing more than the fucking way you get ahead in life and become successful. But that makes me an oppressor. FFS.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 10, 2022 01:52 PM (+a8WH)

280 Homestead exemption netted me a $170 discount on a $10,000 property tax. Yay government!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:52 PM (t3/qz)

281 I wonder if any companies have changed their minds on the Just in Time inventory system.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 01:52 PM (aToww)

282 It is my cross to bear to have to listen to people who've obviously NEVER had a chemistry course babbling about chemistry. Good times, good times.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:52 PM (YqDXo)

283 There's nothing wrong with nitrogen fertilizers. Quit buying into the left's narratives. Sometimes it's very evident on the these threads why the left keeps gaining power.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 01:53 PM (Qhnrt)

284 Grump, clear. Of course you're correct. The shutdowns, as anti-doesn't matter commented, were one of the stupidest most destructive public policies in history.

And it wasn't a surprise or mystery that they had little to no benefit. Not a single of the many idiotic and destructive policies adopted in response to C19 were novel in concept or even practice, they were all well known to be of no value. I guess "social distancing" was in fact "new", i.e. was based on literally nothing, just made up out of thin air, and of course had no benefit.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 10, 2022 01:53 PM (OTzUX)

285 Pork Chop

Your concern is noted.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:54 PM (t3/qz)

286 It is my cross to bear to have to listen to people who've obviously NEVER had a chemistry course babbling about chemistry.

I figured as much.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 01:54 PM (/NCI4)

287 283. I'm not. But if people want to replace them produce a quality alternative. Not starvation

Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:54 PM (ONvIw)

288 Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 01:53 PM (Qhnrt)

WTH? No one is agreeing with the Left's position on nitrogen fertilizer.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 01:54 PM (aToww)

289 I wonder if any companies have changed their minds on the Just in Time inventory system.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10

Yep, trim it down to be just in time. Until it's not.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 10, 2022 01:54 PM (ftFVW)

290 This blog is corrupt. The machinery for creating content is controlled completely by Ace and only those with connections to power can post content!

Revolution!!!! We should start with attractive women with their tops off, a la Delacroix.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 10, 2022 01:42 PM (/NCI4)

If were tearing it all down, I call dibs on Mannix' hotties.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 10, 2022 01:54 PM (U3uv2)

291 Most people know the old joke from the Soviet Union, they pretend to pay me and I pretend to work. Communist China is at that stage at present so if we follow the Soviet timeline they will be gone in 15 years. What takes the communists' place is anyone's guess.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 10, 2022 01:54 PM (JpgOf)

292 I wonder if any companies have changed their minds on the Just in Time inventory system.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 01:52 PM (aToww)

"Not in Time" isn't working?

Posted by: BignJames at July 10, 2022 01:54 PM (AwYPR)

293 Those are all white supremacist values. Or so they say. To me they're nothing more than the fucking way you get ahead in life and become successful. But that makes me an oppressor. FFS.
Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 10, 2022 01:52 PM (+a8WH)
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The whole purpose of society is to oppress people, because some people - criminals, drug dealers, gang members, pedophiles, etc. - SHOULD be oppressed. Someone is going to be oppressed; it's either that crew, or ordinary, decent, productive people.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:55 PM (YqDXo)

294 The left learned many things about population control, don't write the past 2 years off as a complete waste.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:55 PM (t3/qz)

295 Djokovic wins Wimbledon and now will be denied entry into the United States for the US Open because he's not vaxxed.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 01:47 PM (aToww)

Not if he comes across the southern border claiming amnesty.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 10, 2022 01:55 PM (a9L5/)

296 I wonder if any companies have changed their minds on the Just in Time inventory system.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 10, 2022 01:52 PM (aToww)

Smart people understand that having multiple vendors is vital. It just takes more work.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 10, 2022 01:56 PM (XIJ/X)

297 "Just in time" used to be called "living hand to mouth."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:56 PM (YqDXo)

298 Any professional athlete who gets the Fake Vax is a Russian Roulette player.

Posted by: Skip at July 10, 2022 01:56 PM (2JoB8)

299 The whole purpose of society is to oppress people, because some people - criminals, drug dealers, gang members, pedophiles, etc. - SHOULD be oppressed...

You left out politicians.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 10, 2022 01:57 PM (+a8WH)

300 I wonder if any companies have changed their minds on the Just in Time inventory system.

Some have. The ones smart enough to realize that "Just in Time" leads to "Out of Time" leads to "Out of Business."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 10, 2022 01:57 PM (Bd6X8)

301 China builds cities for nobody built out of shoddy concrete and filler.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:57 PM (t3/qz)

302 The really important chinese projects are built by the French or Americans. That is why the 3G dam hasn't failed yet.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:58 PM (t3/qz)

303 I wonder if any companies have changed their minds on the Just in Time inventory system.

Some have. The ones smart enough to realize that "Just in Time" leads to "Out of Time" leads to "Out of Business."
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at July 10, 2022 01:57 PM (Bd6X

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Yay MBAs!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:58 PM (YqDXo)

304 China builds cities for nobody built out of shoddy concrete and filler.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:57 PM (t3/qz)
___________

One good earthquake, and ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:58 PM (YqDXo)

305 There are two Founders’ quotes that are constantly at the fore for me — from Adams and Washington.

“ Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
and…
“ Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.."

This sense of both wisdom and duty to do one’s part to keep the Union functioning rightly is palpable.

There was a cspan talk with Douglas Murray and Yoram Hazony recently where they discussed this notion of the breakdown of morality owing to a purposeful abandonment of Christianity at the turn of the century; like an experiment to see how liberally the reins could be loosed before things fell apart. The question now is whether or not theres enough muscle-memory of Judeo Christian morality to bring culture back to the sensibilities that established it.

Posted by: red speck at July 10, 2022 01:59 PM (gS3OW)

306 Just in time or inventory tax, hmmm which one?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 10, 2022 01:59 PM (t3/qz)

307 Speaking of corruption:

Retired 3 star says something bad about wife of fake president, gets investigated.

https://tinyurl.com/z39mu74n

Mil say insubordinate things against Trump, rewarded.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 10, 2022 01:59 PM (7bRMQ)

308 "Isn't the Amonia problem that we don't produce enough for ourselves?"

idk, but prices skyrocketed this year. All that cheap natural gas we had made for cheaper ammonia, so they had to kill that off.

For about $14/acre there is an additive that allegedly holds the nitrogen in the soil better, so rains don't push it into groundwater or downstream I guess. Soybeans are able to fix some Nitrogen "naturally" out of the air ... but more is better. They figure about a pound of nitrogen for each bushel of beans a field produced.

But for corn, they still add a lot of nitrogen. So if they had 60 bushel soybeans, they still add at least 140 pounds of nitrogen for corn, almost always via anhydrous ammonia.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 10, 2022 02:00 PM (Cus5s)

309 Djoker: Banned
Nadal: Injured
Medvedev: Russian
Rublev: Russian

Link included, just for fun, from ATP Rankings on ATP website. Tell me what you notice different about the 1st and 8th ranked players in the world....

https://tinyurl.com/bdz9t3zt

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 10, 2022 02:00 PM (a9L5/)

310 It is my cross to bear to have to listen to people who've obviously NEVER had a chemistry course babbling about chemistry.
-----

Whew. Had me in a quandary for a minute there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 10, 2022 02:01 PM (id1Da)

311 BRING YOUR 1ST WP upstairs
NOOD

Posted by: Skip advising you of your Nood threads at July 10, 2022 02:01 PM (2JoB8)

312 "Just in time" used to be called "living hand to mouth."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:56 PM (YqDXo)

Having worked at Walmart some years ago, I saw the real time effects of Just in Time. Especially regarding grocery. Even a one day stoppage of deliveries due to weather (wind or snow, mostly) would mean a couple of days of half empty shelves. Once we got hit by flooding and the interstate was closed for two or three days. It looked like the shelves after the plandemic hit.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 10, 2022 02:01 PM (x8Wzq)

313 Posted by: CN at July 10, 2022 01:54 PM (ONvIw)

Willowed:

Cole Porter post in Book Thread was joke. I know he was gay.

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

314 Heh. It seems I am the new willow.

Whom I miss BTW.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Non-sequitur professional at July 10, 2022 02:01 PM (x8Wzq)

315 289 I wonder if any companies have changed their minds on the Just in Time inventory system.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter
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Just-in-time became popular about the same time local governments discovered tax-their-inventory.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 10, 2022 02:03 PM (Mh7Nr)

316 Just in time was developed by know-it-all bean counting nerds who's underlying assumption had to be based on everything working perfectly, all the time, i.e., nerds with no wisdom or just plain old experience in how things actually worked in the real world. Just my opinion.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 10, 2022 02:04 PM (+a8WH)

317 Who's should be whose.

Posted by: Guidons, Guidons...Lariat Advance at July 10, 2022 02:05 PM (+a8WH)

318 I don't see any alternatives to nitrogen fertilizers that will give us the same food abundance. If there are, the marketplace would be deciding which to use, not the government.

Farmers would be scurrying to that alternative.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 02:08 PM (Qhnrt)

319 Yay MBAs!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 10, 2022 01:58 PM (YqDXo)

In critical works, JIT never made a showing.

And in the defense of adherents to JIT, your own government's sabotage and mass paranoia and fear due to your own government's fear mongering and genocide for profit were kind of black swan events that I was not seeing anyone (Denninger maybe one exception) making a rational case for.

Take that sort of thing to a board meeting pre-2018, and people would have uncomfortably moved slowly away from you.

War or terror attacks, sure. That's what SWOT analysis is for as a counterbalance to the beancounters. I don't think we've seen the end of these types of attacks by a domestic enemy.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 10, 2022 02:09 PM (U3uv2)

320 "they also seem to want "lesser" people."

Which augments my observation.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 10, 2022 02:09 PM (jTmQV)

321 I guess "social distancing" was in fact "new", i.e. was based on literally nothing, just made up out of thin air, and of course had no benefit. Posted by: rhomboid
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Social distancing was based on tuberculosis research in the 1940's by a guy whose name I forgot. I posted it about two years ago. However, it was revived by a science fair project by a Bush's aide during the 00's after the SARS scare. The aide then introduced the idea into planning for a new pandemic and thus the seed grew.

In general, medical research, especially public health, looks backwards and is biased to large scale statistical studies and historical studies. The worldwide Spanish Flu epidemic had ad hoc local lockdowns as had previous waves of pandemics that seemed to 'work' to tamp down the epidemic. These are what our local public health laws regarding quarantines are based upon. But, there is little or no evidence given the ease of travel today versus past (Spanish Flu--train and boat service for distances only), that global lockdowns work. Basically, it is a ecological fallacy because what may work at the local level does not scale up.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2022 02:13 PM (BjqxB)

322 318 I don't see any alternatives to nitrogen fertilizers that will give us the same food abundance. If there are, the marketplace would be deciding which to use, not the government.

Farmers would be scurrying to that alternative.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons
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Problem is that farmers choose optimal plants for the type of ground they have. Unlike Michael Bloomberg's idiotic mantra, farming is a science and you match your crop to the type of soil, climate, and water conditions. Soybeans, for example, fix nitrogen in the soil like other legumes and require little. Corn, on the other hand, requires a lot. Milo is in between. Cotton likes it hot, corn does not. And so on.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2022 02:16 PM (BjqxB)

323
Djokovic wins Wimbledon and now will be denied entry into the United States for the US Open because he's not vaxxed.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter

Restraint of trade, IOW.

You know who else -- someone honored for no apparent cause recently -- benefitted from restraint of trade?

The Rappin' Hoe, using the push for higher salaries for those wondrous wahmyns soccer players, to keep her spot on the team.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 10, 2022 02:23 PM (ZvxPV)

324 -
Problem is that farmers choose optimal plants for the type of ground they have. Unlike Michael Bloomberg's idiotic mantra, farming is a science and you match your crop to the type of soil, climate, and water conditions. Soybeans, for example, fix nitrogen in the soil like other legumes and require little. Corn, on the other hand, requires a lot. Milo is in between. Cotton likes it hot, corn does not. And so on.
Posted by: whig at July 10, 2022 02:16 PM (BjqxB

This is true. Can't grow large fields of lettuce or corn too well in OK, but wheat flourishes. The sad part is that the government doesn't think this way.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 10, 2022 02:24 PM (Qhnrt)

325 This is true. Can't grow large fields of lettuce or corn too well in OK, but wheat flourishes. The sad part is that the government doesn't think this way.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons
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Governments cannot think as most of a bureaucrat's time is actually spent on day to day pushing emails, worrying about budgets, worthless 'training', etc. Interest groups associated with a particular government department are what drive any projections of the future and naturally leftist interest groups are way overrepresented in influence on department policies. Iron triangles or the newer issue networks tie activists, politicians, donors, and a department into a rigid mindset that ignores the outside world until it can't.

Posted by: whig at July 10, 2022 02:32 PM (BjqxB)

326 Pro tip...
The Right is just as corrupt as the Left....because they're both bought and sold by the international banking cartel.

The only remedy is the total rejection of them.

Posted by: Broken Apple at July 10, 2022 03:05 PM (hmjcR)

327 Wrath of God. Romans 1:18-32.

Easy to fix. Repent. Romans 10:13.

Will we?

Posted by: setnaffa at July 10, 2022 03:11 PM (ZM3l8)

328 134: spoken just like another well-connected Insider, which you in fact are. Your disdain and contempt for Outsiders are also well noted.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 10, 2022 03:37 PM (CdZ4i)

329 Hence the recent call by the PTB that all CCP party members must have multiple children.

From one child to multiple children in one generation.

I guess this meshes with China clamping down on homosexuality as well.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 10, 2022 12:12 PM (ESjRY)
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I'm late. but China is dying. They overshot one child and are now the fastest aging society on the planet and much older than us. Old before per capita wealthy is a huge problem. And having forced everyone to run to the eastern urban conclaves, the minions don't have space or money to create new large families.

China is royally fucked.

Posted by: Black JEM at July 10, 2022 03:39 PM (xWZcb)

330 Late to the game here but I can't pass up mentioning someplace that most here think is just incompetent but few realize is also massively corrupt and that institution/place is NASA.

Posted by: pawn at July 10, 2022 03:41 PM (wsHtO)

331 Yep. We should be saying this alot more

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at July 10, 2022 10:12 PM (0SrVS)

332 "social distancing" was in fact "new", i.e. was based on literally nothing, and just made up out of thin air, of course had no benefit."

It had a benefit for the surveillance cameras that collect(ed) and record(ed) our mugs using facial recognition tracking technology.

Posted by: Ju at July 10, 2022 10:18 PM (aTmM/)

333 Issue is 2/3 of population is still bluepilled that all these trends are leading in one direction.

Morally decayed authoritarianism with the wealthy coastal elites who vote left but live right still in charge. It's the ivy league wilsonians and wasps with rainbow topping fully in charge of media pentagon, government, corporations, etc.

Only us and them understand the plan.

Like the Chinese who instead of trying to build a better aircraft carrier designed a missile that nullifies our carriers advantages. So the coastal elites picked a few minor issues that we find distasteful and turned them into sacred cows to grant them the perceived moral authority to be rulers of the "diverse" peasantry. With a few don lemon's scattered about to do the talking. Then use our rejection of these things to drive us from power.

Issue with digging a hope for another is how often you find yourself at the bottom. Just ask Nancy Pelosi who is more likely to drive her from power and put her in jail for corruption. Mitch McConnell or AOC.

Posted by: Shiggz (defective slave) at July 10, 2022 10:25 PM (0SrVS)

334 Ouroboros.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ouroboros

Posted by: Beverly at July 11, 2022 12:49 AM (KRVZG)

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