Biden's White House: Who's to Say What a Recession Is? Well, We Are. We Say What a Recession Is. <br>And We Say This Isn't One, So Stuff It.

Biden's White House: Who's to Say What a Recession Is? Well, We Are. We Say What a Recession Is.
And We Say This Isn't One, So Stuff It.

At Twitchy, the White House has just gone right out and redefined the economic term "recession:"

What is a recession? While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle. Instead, both official determinations of recessions and economists' assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data--including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production, and incomes. Based on these data, it is unlikely that the decline in GDP in the first quarter of this year--even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter--indicates a recession.

They're doing this because the official GDP numbers are released on Thursday, and the unofficial numbers say the GDP contracted 1.6% in the second quarter, making it two back-to-back quarters of contraction, and therefore a recession.

Only... now they're claiming "It's not that simple."

Oh? This economist points out that the last ten times we've seen back-to-back quarters of negative GDP growth, it's been declared a recession... all ten times.

So it is that simple.

Except Brandon doesn't want it to be.

By the way, I got shuck-and-jived by this a few weeks ago. I seized and pounced on the Atlanta Fed tracker's snapshot of the second quarter as showing negative growth, and pointed out that meant we were in a recession. But a "Mainstream" media article I found said that this would merely be a "technical" recession, and that a real recession would have to be declared by Biden's council of economic advisors, based on So Many Factors.

I thought I maybe had had it wrong all these years about the "two quarters of negative economic growth" and just accepted that the "mainstream" media was telling me the truth.

Now I realize this push by Biden to redefine a recession just started last month, and that the Biden Administration's spinners were "helping" the media to "correct" their definition of a recession in June.

During Pride Month?

During Pride Month?!!

David Harsanyi writes about Biden's bold new Orwellian strategy to redefine the word "recession," following in the footsteps of his Best Friend Forever Barackh Jibrama, who changed the government's metric for job growth from "jobs created" to "jobs saved or created."

In 2009, mired in the slowest recovery in American history, the Obama administration decided to dispense with antiquated economic metrics and cook up a new, non-falsifiable number that would better accommodate the president. And so, we were introduced to jobs, "saved and created."
Every month, an administration economist, under the veneer of expertise, would trot out this fake statistic -- one that had never been used by the Labor Department or Treasury Department or the Bureau of Labor Statistics or anyone else. And every month, the political media would dutifully report on it without much skepticism. Obama claimed his recovery plan would "save or create three to four million jobs over the next two years." But once the "saved" part of "created and saved" was removed, we found out the economy had lost 2 million jobs, with unemployment reaching 9.4 percent. Our fortunes only turned around after Democrats lost Congress and gridlock hampered Washington's ability to inflict any more damage.
All of it was transparently stupid, yet it was flat-out genius compared to the scheming of the Biden administration.
Well, get ready for a debate over the word "recession." It's true, there's no scientific definition for a recession, because economics isn't an exact science. Yet, for decades, the media, government, economic textbooks, and dictionaries have all, more or less, defined a recession as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. But now, with the prospects of this week's GDP report being in the red -- the Atlanta Fed estimates GDP will contract 1.6 percent -- the administration and media are engaged in a pedantic discussion over the real meaning of a recession.
"What is a recession?" the White House Council of Economic Advisers ponders. "While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle." It isn't? It is true that on rare occasions, as the National Bureau of Economic Research did in the early '90s, experts will declare a recession when there are non-consecutive quarters of negative growth, but not once has the media covered two consecutive quarters of contraction as anything but a recession.

In other words, sometimes they'll declare a recession absent two quarters of back-to-back negative growth when other factors are suitable dire, but they've never once seen two quarters of negative growth and failed to brand that a recession.

Back to back quarters of negative growth aren't required for a recession -- but they are sufficient for one.

...
The administration argues we aren't technically in a recession because of the low unemployment rate. But simply because the Biden administration says we're experiencing historic job growth doesn't mean we have to play along. Indeed, the private sector hasn't even regained the jobs lost due to the "man-made" downturn that was caused by needless government-compelled Covid shutdowns. The Chamber of Commerce says 3.25 million fewer Americans are working today than were in February of 2020. (In 2019, presidential candidate Joe Biden argued the economy was "teetering on recession" when there were zero quarters of negative growth and the unemployment rate was at 3.7 percent. Today it's at 3.6 percent.)

And if Biden's staking his claim on employment, it's a bad claim. Ed Morrissey points out that even his lockstep ally the Washington Post says that Putin's Job Creation Boom is over.

The labor market, until now a pillar of economic resilience, is showing cracks.
Job growth is slowing, unemployment claims are ticking up and several big companies, including Apple and Meta, are putting hiring plans on hold. There are signs that more firms are slashing jobs in industries as varied as tech, advertising, health care, finance and law.
Convenience store chain 7-Eleven laid off 880 corporate workers in Texas and Ohio, following its purchase of a rival chain, a company spokesperson said an email. Ford Motor Co. is planning to cut 8,000 positions in the coming weeks, Bloomberg reported. Meanwhile, electric carmaker Rivian is cutting 700 positions, delivery start-up Gopuff is laying off 1,500, and mortgage lender LoanDepot is slashing 4,800 jobs this year, according to reports.
"What had been universally positive labor market news is certainly less so now," said Liz Ann Sonders, managing director and chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab. "The anecdotes are starting to stack up of companies laying off workers or freezing hiring or limiting job postings."

He also points out that Putin's Job Creation Boom is nothing of the sort-- we merely added back some of the jobs lost to the covid shutdowns, and didn't even add jobs to keep pace with population growth.

For those keeping track, the new number of total jobs filled is now 151.98 million. That puts the US a little over a half-million jobs shy of the February 2020 figure of 152.504 million jobs filled, the last full month before the pandemic shutdowns destroyed 22 million jobs in April and May of the same year.
It means we have recovered 98% of the jobs lost since March 2020, but that is a static measurement. Population growth in the US -- between 2 and 2.5 million per year -- requires constant job growth to keep up the employment-population ratios and maintain a healthy economy. Even at a minimal population-growth assumption of 4 million over 28 months, we need an additional 2.4 million jobs to keep pace with the February 2020 dynamic status quo, so we are now about 2.9 million jobs shy of full recovery from the pandemic.

There are, however, some people out there who believe that Biden is an economic genius for convincing Vladimir Putin to give us the Putin Job Creation Boom.

And those people are the North American Man Boy Lincoln Association, aka the Lincoln Project.

You know -- the real conservatives. And not just the con artist liberals who have grifted conservatives for decades before we vomited their foulness out of the party, whereupon they began grifting their own kind, bourgeois liberals and nasty bitter sexless Karens.

With the nation on the cusp of entering a recession, the anti-Republican PAC of so-called Republicans is praising Joe Biden for "his enormously successful first 18 months in office" and for creating "one of the strongest economies in American history."
I know, I know, just try to stop laughing and continue reading.
The Lincoln Project cites what it calls record-shattering job growth in his first year in office and wage growth as indicators that Biden is truly the bee's knees when it comes to the economy.
Of course, readers of PJ Media know these are bogus indicators as wage growth is not keeping pace with historic inflation and he didn't actually create any jobs in 2021.
Do you think that matters to the Lincoln Project? Nope.
"President Biden is a decent human being who exhibits the qualities we should cherish in a President: he's a strong leader with clear moral standards and empathizes with Americans for the challenges they face every day," Lincoln Project cofounder Reed Galen said. "President Biden shows what American greatness looks like."

This stupid cow-eyed sub-moron:

KJP: "Economic indicators...do not show that we are in a recession or even a pre-recession." pic.twitter.com/krVl2xzQUp
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 25, 2022

The media and Baba Yaga's uglier older spinster sister are out there spreading The New Gospel of Joe:

.@SecYellen: Two negative quarters of economic growth "is not the technical definition" of a recession pic.twitter.com/oR5Ael4yyd
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 25, 2022

Posted by: Ace at 01:56 PM

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1 I got nothing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 01:57 PM (z99Zw)

2 FJB

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 01:57 PM (DRSnL)

3 First in the hearts of his countrymen

Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2022 01:57 PM (5NkmN)

4 I've called the others.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at July 26, 2022 01:58 PM (z99Zw)

5 Nope.

*kicks rock*

Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2022 01:58 PM (5NkmN)

6 Completely expected. How could it be otherwise?

Posted by: fd at July 26, 2022 01:58 PM (sn5EN)

7 I actually read the content! We’re in a recession.

Posted by: Squid at July 26, 2022 01:59 PM (dfTsU)

8 My dictionary is so outdated.

Posted by: BignJames at July 26, 2022 01:59 PM (AwYPR)

9 What's a few quarters of negative GDP growth among friends? Hey, can I sniff the essence of your pubescent daughter?

Posted by: Brandon at July 26, 2022 01:59 PM (U3uv2)

10 Funny, a recession was declared in 2020 with only one quarter of negative growth.

What could have motivated that?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 01:59 PM (lTGtQ)

11 "Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."

-Guess Who

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 01:59 PM (GKhsT)

12 Stop lying you f-n liars.

Posted by: Everybody at July 26, 2022 01:59 PM (pCXlW)

13 These vermin infesting DC need to suffer the rectumification of Ebola and not Monkeypox.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 01:59 PM (yn/SF)

14 There's no way they'd be using an alternative definition of recession which led to the conclusion that we're in one if there we didn't have two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth. In such case, they'd be announcing from the rafters that there is "NO RECESSION! HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN!"

Posted by: Alec Leamas (working from home) at July 26, 2022 02:00 PM (HCRZt)

15 One might think this is a stupid notion. And, of course, one would be correct in that thought. But stupid is a very useful tool if you are a commie, and you want to spread it around. Stupid is good, intelligent is racist, you know. Joe said so.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 02:00 PM (QSjkU)

16 I know what will solve this. A bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 26, 2022 02:00 PM (OalnH)

17 he's a strong leader with clear moral standards

He’s a ped@phile.

Posted by: Squid at July 26, 2022 02:00 PM (dfTsU)

18 Gaslight anyone?

Posted by: WisRich at July 26, 2022 02:00 PM (G0vdT)

19 If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck..well it's a fucking duck. FJB.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 26, 2022 02:00 PM (nxdel)

20 based on a holistic look

If the whole is greater than the sum of the parts you added wrong.

Stuff Sister Mary Elephant said.

Posted by: DaveA at July 26, 2022 02:00 PM (FhXTo)

21 Just a run of bad luck. Time to double down recoup our losses!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 26, 2022 02:00 PM (4I/2K)

22 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:00 PM (Zz0t1)

23 Fuck Joe Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:00 PM (Zz0t1)

24 >>>Now I realize this push by Biden to redefine a recession just started last month, and that the Biden Administration's spinners were "helping" the media to "correct" their definition of a recession in June.

They're just following orders.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 02:01 PM (U3uv2)

25 Since the 3rd quarter will also be negative, the question will be mooted.

Posted by: Ultimate MAGA G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2022 02:01 PM (yQpMk)

26 Must be nice to change the definition of words that have been in use for decades if not centuries to suit your specific political purpose.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 26, 2022 02:01 PM (bVYXr)

27 I just saved 10000 jobs today.
Prove I didn’t.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 26, 2022 02:01 PM (OalnH)

28 Waiting for Merriam Weber to update their dictionary definition in parallel.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 26, 2022 02:01 PM (odVni)

29 It's actually quite simple - because a Democrat is President, Democratic Governors have allowed most people whom they'd prohibited from working to return to work in the jobs that they had before the prohibition. This is the Democrats' idea of "job creation."

I'm rather certain that we could get Paul "How did kiddie porn get on here anyway?" Krugman to tell us that this is the true definition of "job creation."

Posted by: Alec Leamas (working from home) at July 26, 2022 02:02 PM (HCRZt)

30 Has the CCP virus killed that guy yet?

Posted by: torabora at July 26, 2022 02:02 PM (Y274z)

31 Communists like to keep the goal posts on wheels.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 02:02 PM (QSjkU)

32 Reuters:

WASHINGTON, July 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. recession touched off by the coronavirus lasted only two months, ending with a low point reached in April 2020 after the start of a sharp drop in economic activity in March of that year, the U.S. Business Cycle Dating Committee announced Monday.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 02:02 PM (lTGtQ)

33 Cow-eyed is a great description of KJP. Thank you!

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 02:03 PM (VJsqe)

34 What are you saying?
We can't strangle the Energy sector and print trillions of dollars without economic consequences?
Consequences everyone but those in the DC swamp will immediately notice?
While engaged in a proxy war?
There's some real forehead slappers...

Posted by: gourmand du jour, partly cloudy clearing in the afternoon at July 26, 2022 02:03 PM (jTmQV)

35 >>>33 Cow-eyed is a great description of KJP. Thank you!
Posted by: 496

thank you! I thought that was a good one.

Posted by: ace at July 26, 2022 02:03 PM (B3oWe)

36 After GOP takes Congress we will be in a recession.

Posted by: fd at July 26, 2022 02:03 PM (sn5EN)

37 Any time any of us ever feel that we've not quite lived up to our potential, there's always time to reflect that, "well, at least I don't work for The Lincoln Project".

Then again, it's also a positive that I'm not sucking weezer for French fries behind a dumpster at J & J Fish & Shrimp, but I guess it's good to start small and work up!

Posted by: William F. "Buck" Dharma at July 26, 2022 02:03 PM (oedLL)

38 Yes, we are probably in a recession. So what? Almost nobody cares or even understands what a recession is. Some people may even think it means that inflation is going down (receding). Even if they do know and understand, it means nothing to their actual lives. I think the better strategery is not to get into pissing contests over things that nobody cares about or understands, but to keep hammering on the things that people DO care about and understand. Like higher prices for everything and especially gas.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

39 If you change the definition of the Sun, it's still the Sun.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 02:03 PM (GKhsT)

40 Just throw another trillion on the bonfire. It's all debased money anyway.

Posted by: torabora at July 26, 2022 02:04 PM (Y274z)

41 As long as they keep increasing my chocolate rations, they can call it whatever they like...

Posted by: Simple Stevo at July 26, 2022 02:04 PM (SOV+T)

42 he's a strong leader with clear moral standards

He’s a ped@phile.

Posted by: Squid at July 26, 2022 02:00 PM (dfTsU)

They don't call them the North American Man Boy Lincoln Association for nothing.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 02:04 PM (U3uv2)

43 WTF is a "pre recession"?

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 26, 2022 02:04 PM (bVYXr)

44 Ed Morrissey points out that even his lockstep ally the Washington Post says that Putin's Job Creation Boom is over.

Ed Morrissey points out that he is a Pillsbury Dough Boy filled with cream filling and failure. But mostly failure.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)

45 I've got a job for someone... Go and lance that huge pimple on that poor young ladies back and I will give you $100. Whose in?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 26, 2022 02:04 PM (flINI)

46 Damn, just when I donated my Real-World/Clown-World Bilingual Dictionary to the library book sale.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:04 PM (2urLC)

47 They can call it whatever they want. Lipstick on a pig wears off pretty quickly.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 26, 2022 02:05 PM (Xrfse)

48 new cruelties added under the fold

Posted by: ace at July 26, 2022 02:05 PM (B3oWe)

49 Cow-eyed is a great description of KJP. Thank you!
Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 02:03 PM (VJsqe)

My personal favorite was tranny Emmanuel Lewis.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 02:05 PM (DRSnL)

50 Third quarter results won't be released until after the mid-terms.

They are hoping this will go away by rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It won't because even those using EBT are noticing a shrinkage of their buying power.

When a $4.97 rotisserie chicken at Walmart jumps up to $6.97 in three months, you have inflation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:05 PM (yn/SF)

51 Let's not forget that Bill Clinton was elected on continuous repetition of the lie "worst economy in 50 years."

Which economy is 5 times better than today ....

PS: The point of this un-speak ("to not call what it is") is to give the social censorship thugs cover to delete and ban any discussion of recession as "disputed" or disinformation.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 26, 2022 02:05 PM (bmuY5)

52 Not a re-cession, it is a "gay-cession". The economy is taking it up the arse, but the WH is happy about it. The new (ab)Normal.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 26, 2022 02:05 PM (Cus5s)

53 The Lincoln Project guys will be thrilled when they are told "up against the wall".

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 26, 2022 02:05 PM (oWBc3)

54 Gird your loins. We're in it for the long haul to dive deeper.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 26, 2022 02:05 PM (0ocXn)

55 34 What are you saying?
We can't strangle the Energy sector and print trillions of dollars without economic consequences?
Consequences everyone but those in the DC swamp will immediately notice?
While engaged in a proxy war?
There's some real forehead slappers...

Posted by: gourmand du jour
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Essentially, we have the same press as the Soviets did in the 70's and 80's, with a similar geriatric leadership. Probably end up the same way.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 02:05 PM (CXr4y)

56 Abraham Lincoln, tails, and legs, some assembly required

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 02:05 PM (GKhsT)

57 The bonfire at the local school burned so hot it melted the glass in the gymnasium perimeter under the eaves.

Posted by: torabora at July 26, 2022 02:05 PM (Y274z)

58 It's actually quite simple - because a Democrat is President, Democratic Governors have allowed most people whom they'd prohibited from working to return to work in the jobs that they had before the prohibition. This is the Democrats' idea of "job creation."

I'm rather certain that we could get Paul "How did kiddie porn get on here anyway?" Krugman to tell us that this is the true definition of "job creation."

Posted by: Alec Leamas (working from home) at July 26, 2022 02:02 PM (HCRZt)

And they only did so because polling was so atrociously against them, and VA at their lunch.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 02:06 PM (U3uv2)

59 Anytime, anywhere that someone says that we have to look at something "holistically ",

They are lying to you.

They can't actually get you to swallow the gross, smelly dog turd of lies by itself.
So they load it up with chocolate sprinkles and caramel sauce and whipped cream and nuts and sliced bananas and cherries and hope you'll gobble up the dog turd. And stupid people do.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 26, 2022 02:06 PM (5NkmN)

60 The Daily Daddario has better balance than the spinmeisters:

https://tinyurl.com/436phn9p

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:06 PM (LvTSG)

61 >>>My personal favorite was tranny Emmanuel Lewis.

haha, thank you.

Posted by: ace at July 26, 2022 02:06 PM (B3oWe)

62 Yellen's voice makes me want to strangle my speakers.

Posted by: fd at July 26, 2022 02:06 PM (sn5EN)

63 John Oliver did a thing on inflation. He bent so over backwards to make Biden not be the cause of it. But even he had to admit Biden is at least partially to blame. Oddly enough Trump was not to blame at all.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 26, 2022 02:06 PM (OalnH)

64 So things are going worse financially for people and businesses than they were under previous official recessions, but this one isn't a recession?

Makes sense.

Posted by: chique l'African ViQueen of Greenland, the Merciless, open to talks with the Great MAGA King at July 26, 2022 02:06 PM (rF64X)

65 >>>Anytime, anywhere that someone says that we have to look at something "holistically ",
They are lying to you.

good rule

Posted by: ace at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (B3oWe)

66 Obi-Wan Kenobi is now bisexual
https://youtu.be/BUzQDbcgqq0

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (xPl2J)

67 I always go in as deep as I can. It's all about me.

Posted by: Fauci at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (Y274z)

68 It's been said plenty of times. He who controls the language, controls what's written.

This is the biggest bunch of rewritten bullshit in the history of the world.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (Zz0t1)

69 Since the 3rd quarter will also be negative, the question will be mooted.
==
Three quarters of negative growth is not the technical definition of a recession.

Posted by: Janet Yellen, from the Future at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (pknfx)

70 What is the sound of one hand fapping? This entire administration and their Renfields in the MSM.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (/NCI4)

71 When a $4.97 rotisserie chicken at Walmart jumps up to $6.97 in three months, you have inflation.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:05 PM (yn/SF)

But gas went down 30 cents, whooo!!

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (DRSnL)

72 It's gets worse. Not only are we in a recession, but take a look for the last time that happened with 9.1%+ inflation. This only gets worse, mortgages and home prices are getting pummeled and soon it will hit the job market. The Walmart earnings report just further foreshadows what's about to come. Remember they are a retailer for a large part of the population. So that aptly shows both consumer confidence and spending are also about to take a hit.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (vBMpQ)

73 "The board has said that two negative quarters in succession is a recession, but I think that's a narrow view. So, I told them to fuck off."

"Very good, Janet. Stick it to them."

"In my head, and then I told them that we could possibly revisit the definition of a recession out loud."

"Very good, Janet. Play with their heads."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (LvTSG)

74 Words have meaning, but only the meaning communists tell you they have. Meaning is flexible, like the constitution, it basically says what they tell you it says. They are our betters you know. Look for a new definition of "failure" to be coming along shortly. Hint: it means success.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (QSjkU)

75 42 he's a strong leader with clear moral standards
He’s a ped@phile.

Posted by: Squid

They don't call them the North American Man Boy Lincoln Association for nothing.

Posted by: Comrade flounder
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Evil has a thing about posing that they are good. Transference.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (CXr4y)

76 These people trying to redefine a recession are the same people who can't tell you what a woman is, tell you that anyone can be whatever sex they want to be, and have a man wearing a dress as a federal health official.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (lTGtQ)

77
He’s a ped@phile.
Posted by: Squid at July 26, 2022 02:00 PM (dfTsU)

That shoved his fingers up a young intern's cooter.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (Zz0t1)

78 Old and busted: You will own nothing and be happy.
New hawtness: You will own nothing and shut up.

Posted by: The Trajectory at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (OzNIz)

79 The msm is orgasming that gas has fallen 35 cents in the past month. See everyone, all is well again. Biden is a hero.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (OalnH)

80 Are we talking about the Putin recession?

Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (buTO7)

81 It probably says we are in for a rough Q3 (and beyond), given how hard they are fighting this language issue. Otherwise, they could say "look hkw quickly we turned this around folks!" Bottom line is we proles have known we have been in a downturn for 18 months now.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (oWBc3)

82 Well damn. Tony Dow has died.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (nxdel)

83 Joe could be filmed sexually assaulting a 10-year-old and those amoral neverTrump grifters would be talking about his moral standards.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (eGTCV)

84 >>>"President Biden is a decent human being who exhibits the qualities we should cherish in a President: he's a strong leader with clear moral standards and empathizes with Americans for the challenges they face every day," Lincoln Project cofounder Reed Galen said. "President Biden shows what American greatness looks like."

>Ace, you added this as a goof, right? Is there no limit to your cruelty?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (0ocXn)

85 63 John Oliver did a thing on inflation. He bent so over backwards to make Biden not be the cause of it. But even he had to admit Biden is at least partially to blame. Oddly enough Trump was not to blame at all.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 26, 2022 02:06 PM (OalnH)

=========

In order to blame Trump, Oliver would have to attack handouts from the government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (LvTSG)

86 >>Yes, we are probably in a recession. So what? Almost nobody cares or even understands what a recession is.

Obviously, the Biden administration cares very much and so does everyone in Congress running for reelection. If not, they wouldn't be going to such stupid lengths to lie.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (ZLI7S)

87 The Econopox is not confined to men who have sex with men.

Posted by: Ultimate MAGA G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (yQpMk)

88 BTW

Walmart has enacted a hiring freeze.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:09 PM (yn/SF)

89 Remember the bad old days of 2019 when unemployment, inflation and mortgages were all around 3%?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 26, 2022 02:09 PM (OalnH)

90 The redefinition of Recession surprises exactly no one. Its transparently nonsense, but it allows news organizations to avoid using the term entirely and hope nobody notices.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:09 PM (Ivdso)

91 I believe we’re 4.5 million jobs short of 2019 peak employment. That ignores population growth. Growing economy my ass.

Posted by: Squid at July 26, 2022 02:09 PM (dfTsU)

92 new cruelties added under the fold
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Pacing dear Ace. Pacing.

My refractory period is not what it used to be...

Posted by: VDH at July 26, 2022 02:10 PM (7XMjC)

93 86 >>Yes, we are probably in a recession. So what? Almost nobody cares or even understands what a recession is.

Obviously, the Biden administration cares very much and so does everyone in Congress running for reelection. If not, they wouldn't be going to such stupid lengths to lie.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (ZLI7S)

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People don't care about definitions. They care about purchasing power in the most immediate sense to them.

Declarations of recessions are trailing indicators of economic reality that the people are dealing with. Trying to mangle definitions is pure desperation, a very obvious, "Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:10 PM (LvTSG)

94 "Third quarter results won't be released until after the mid-terms. "

Doesn't matter. People already know what's going on. They live it. Very few people wait for the official report to come out. It just confirms to the average person what they already know intuitively.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 26, 2022 02:10 PM (vBMpQ)

95 8 My dictionary is so outdated.

Posted by: BignJames
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Dayum... you sir owe me a fresh cup o coffee.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 26, 2022 02:10 PM (129KA)

96 89 Remember the bad old days of 2019 when unemployment, inflation and mortgages were all around 3%?
Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 26, 2022 02:09 PM (OalnH)

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There was chaos in the White House every day, though. Also mean tweets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:10 PM (LvTSG)

97 The Biden Administration:

Pissing on you and telling you it's raining since 2021.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

98 Insane Democrat Posse.

Posted by: Democrats: Raping The Children We Cannot Kill Since 1973! at July 26, 2022 02:10 PM (jV+aN)

99
In order to blame Trump, Oliver would have to attack handouts from the government.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (LvT

He defended those and said it was necessary for Biden to send money to people. But that maybe it should have been more targeted and not a massive giveaway. He sounded almost rational and sane.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 26, 2022 02:10 PM (OalnH)

100 Fist!

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 26, 2022 02:11 PM (WmGrA)

101 Government - by Fiat/Diktat/Executive Order. Puck one. This is what they have always lusted after. They got a taste of this with FDR, and have worked back towards it since then. All that is necessary is a compliant opposition. Rant off.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 02:11 PM (C5Ncp)

102 "Anytime, anywhere that someone says that we have to look at something "holistically ",
They are lying to you."

Biden's biggest tells are "literally," "not a joke" and invoking God. I wouldn't want to stand next to him in a thunderstorm.

Posted by: Zek at July 26, 2022 02:11 PM (OzNIz)

103 The Walmart earnings report just further foreshadows what's about to come. Remember they are a retailer for a large part of the population. So that aptly shows both consumer confidence and spending are also about to take a hit.

Posted by: Marcus T

Yes, when Walmart is hurting, every other retailer is. I can't wait until the bread lines start.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 02:11 PM (lTGtQ)

104 I don't know if my stomach could handle learning what Reed Galen's perversions are.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 02:11 PM (eGTCV)

105 Ward, wasn't the Beaver a little hard on Wally last night?

Posted by: Obligatory Zombie June Cleaver at July 26, 2022 02:11 PM (Xrfse)

106 Almost nobody cares or even understands what a recession is.

Everybody knows the economy sucks, and blames Biden for it. It doesn't matter if they know the textbook definition of the term.

People vote on what hits them at home, that's why politicians can get away with so much outrageous crap and corruption. Yeah what a waste of money, sending tens of billions to Ukraine, but hey, I gotta take care of me, right? Not like I can do anything about it.

But high gas prices, skyrocketing food prices, food shortages, etc... that hurts the voter at home, it hits them where they live.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:11 PM (Ivdso)

107 35 >>>33 Cow-eyed is a great description of KJP. Thank you!
Posted by: 496

thank you! I thought that was a good one.
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It's raaaaaacist!

Cows all have brown eyes. KJP is a POC, and you're comparing her to a brown-eyed animal! Report to indoctrination camp immediately, you deplorable raaaaaacists!!!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 26, 2022 02:11 PM (MvHI3)

108 I've been telling people for years that Yellen is a partisan ideologue idiot. They always tried to retort she was a brilliant economist. How's my ass taste, you guys?

Posted by: Marcus T at July 26, 2022 02:11 PM (vBMpQ)

109 Since we are past 100, more baseball pre-game show

https://youtu.be/t6TxAe88S0Q

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (yn/SF)

110 They do love their Big Lie.

They read 1984, Brave New World and Propaganda by Goebbels and used them as 'how to' guides.

Fucking statists.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (XvPQV)

111 "President Biden is a decent human being who exhibits the qualities we should cherish in a President: he's a strong leader with clear moral standards and empathizes with Americans for the challenges they face every day," Lincoln Project cofounder Reed Galen said. "President Biden shows what American greatness looks like."

"There's someone out there that thinks we still have credibility."

"Hold my beer......"

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

112 >>>109 Since we are past 100, more baseball pre-game show

there is no 100 post rule in my posts, I crap out 9 of these a day, you don't have to stay on topic in my threads, ever

Posted by: ace at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (B3oWe)

113 Has Paul Krugman attacked his credibility as an economist over this?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (eGTCV)

114 86 >>Yes, we are probably in a recession. So what? Almost nobody cares or even understands what a recession is.

Obviously, the Biden administration cares very much and so does everyone in Congress running for reelection. If not, they wouldn't be going to such stupid lengths to lie.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2022 02:08 PM (ZLI7S)
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They lie about anything and everything. Whatever is black they will say is white. You can't single out the definition of a recession as uniquely indicative of what they fear. 99% of voters either don't care or don't understand about recessions, or both. They have much bigger worries right now. As I said above, if we want to win in November, we should pound on those.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (iFTx/)

115 In fairness, these people can't even define "woman".

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (FVME7)

116 Two negative quarters of economic growth "is not the technical definition" of a recession. Also these are not the droids you're looking for. -- Jane Yellen

Your stupid Jedi mind tricks only work on the weak minded and the MFM.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 26, 2022 02:13 PM (AiZBA)

117 Recessions are as unique as the empty shelves in the bogedas of Brooklyn, or the abandoned storefronts of Miami, or the empty tortillas that could have been breakfast tacos in San Antonio.

C.C. Pwodaway, dudes ay dudettas!

Posted by: Dr. Jill Taco, Fired up for Taco Tuesday! at July 26, 2022 02:13 PM (9s20h)

118 >>Declarations of recessions are trailing indicators of economic reality that the people are dealing with. Trying to mangle definitions is pure desperation, a very obvious, "Who are you going to believe? Me or your lying eyes?"

I agree, and that's exactly what they are at this point. Desperate.

The last thing the left wants right now on top of all the other bad news is months of reporting on the obvious recession we are in that they caused. Desperate times and desperate measures.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2022 02:13 PM (ZLI7S)

119 112 there is no 100 post rule in my posts, I crap out 9 of these a day, you don't have to stay on topic in my threads, ever
Posted by: ace at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (B3oWe)

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So, Star Trek...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:13 PM (LvTSG)

120 They won't call it a recession because they're saving that name for the depression we're about to plunge into.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at July 26, 2022 02:13 PM (Bd6X8)

121 The left has redefined everything... a woman, man, recession, energy, war, peace, etc. The words, what do they even mean anymore?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2022 02:13 PM (BFigT)

122 How many live and dead bodies do you have to have in your closet to say Biden is a decent human being?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 26, 2022 02:13 PM (oWBc3)

123 BTW

Walmart has enacted a hiring freeze.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:09 PM

Where is that being reported? There were "we are hiring" signs all over the place for jobs at the Walmart when I went there this morning.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (bVYXr)

124 Remember they are a retailer for a large part of the population. So that aptly shows both consumer confidence and spending are also about to take a hit.
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Personally, I'm shocked we've gone this far without it being worse by now. But I think demand is down people are cutting back what they can and how they can. I wouldn't want to own a professional sports franchise right now.

Posted by: Depression 2022 electric bugaloo at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (T8tFz)

125 I remember this story when I was child about an Emperor and his new set of clothes.

In retrospect, I guess it was all about how we define fashion.

Posted by: blaster at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (6TxNR)

126 saw this quote recently, on New Realities.

"A straight line runs from the madness of the German Inflation to the madness of the Third Reich. Just as the Germans saw their marks inflated into millions and billions and in the end bursting, so they were later to see their state inflated into 'the Reich of all the Germans', 'the German Living Space' 'the New Europe', and 'the New World Order', and so too they will see it burst.

It was during the Inflation that the Germans forgot how to rely on themselves as individuals and learned to expect everything from 'politics', from the "state", from 'destiny.' They learned to look on life as a wild adventure, the outcome of which depended not on their own effort but on sinister, mysterious forces.

The millions who were then robbed of their wages and savings became the 'masses' with whom Dr. Goebbels was to operate. Inflation is a tragedy that makes a whole people cynical, hardhearted and indifferent. Having been robbed, the Germans became a nation of robbers."
-Thomas Mann 1942

Posted by: illiniwek at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (Cus5s)

127 I'm so old I remember when everyone was convinced that the WH's loyalists would change the numbers and not the definitions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (LvTSG)

128 "Biden's biggest tells are "literally," "not a joke" and invoking God. I wouldn't want to stand next to him in a thunderstorm."

Don't forget "the fact of the matter is" and "here's the deal" and "hey, guess what?"

Posted by: Box Culvert, Cynic at Large. Okay, Medium. at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (9s20h)

129 What's the point of "hiding" what we all know is a recession? So they're hiding the word and pretending like it's not there. But the rest of the country can see it and feel it. They're not fooling anybody but the most dimwitted amongst us.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (sVtYq)

130 Job Creation Boom is nothing of the sort-- we merely added back some of the jobs lost to the covid shutdowns, and didn't even add jobs to keep pace with population growth.

Exactly. We're still below the employment levels of the Trump years, and worse yet millions of workers were trained to stay home and wait for government checks instead of going out to find a job.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (Ivdso)

131 Mister Scott, I work at a Walmart.

Two days ago I was told we are in a hiring freeze.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (yn/SF)

132 "President Biden is a decent human being who exhibits the qualities we should cherish in a President: he's a strong leader with clear moral standards and empathizes with Americans for the challenges they face every day," Lincoln Project cofounder Reed Galen said.

I don't know what Reed Galen is smoking, but I'd sure like some of it right now.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (Rl7KJ)

133 how can a quarter be negative ?

I mean, it's like 3 dimes or so

Posted by: REDACTED at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (us2H3)

134 Since we are past 100, more baseball pre-game show

there is no 100 post rule in my posts, I crap out 9 of these a day, you don't have to stay on topic in my threads, ever

Posted by: ace at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (B3oWe)

I, and perhaps others, try as a show of respect. No homo.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 02:15 PM (U3uv2)

135 By the way, Fauci is out there claiming that he never called for lockdowns even though there's abundant footage of him doing that exact thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:15 PM (Ivdso)

136 I like the tweet over at insty
It's not a real recession unless it's from the Recession region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling misery

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 26, 2022 02:15 PM (/cOrp)

137 It's okay, you guys, the suffering is all worth it if retards can feel good about the climate.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 02:15 PM (UuD2k)

138 I crap out 9 of these a day, you don't have to stay on topic in my threads, ever
Posted by: ace at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (B3oWe)

You're quite modest, sir. I'm sure everyone wishes they could shit out such beautiful poetry as you do.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

139 "President Biden is a decent human being who exhibits the qualities we should cherish in a President: he's a strong leader with clear moral standards and empathizes with Americans for the challenges they face every day," Lincoln Project cofounder Reed Galen said. "President Biden shows what American greatness looks like."

Psilocybin is a hellluva thing.

Posted by: Box Culvert, Cynic at Large. Okay, Medium. at July 26, 2022 02:15 PM (9s20h)

140 131 Mister Scott, I work at a Walmart.

Two days ago I was told we are in a hiring freeze.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (yn/SF)

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My company, that designs financial software for utility companies, lifted its hiring freeze yesterday.

Utilities are not going to hurt, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:15 PM (LvTSG)

141 I can tell you that the "two quarters" rule has been used as far back as 1991 (don't recall if it was used in the 1982 recession, too young at the time).

The key point about this rule is that it takes most of the politics out of the determination.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 26, 2022 02:15 PM (KwBmy)

142 I crap out 9 of these a day

Does that need to be marked proprietary / competition sensitive in case other blog owners try to copy your secret of success?

Posted by: Squid at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (dfTsU)

143 Oh and you know how I kee saying they are rubbing our noses in it?

They are rubbing our noses in it.

Posted by: blaster at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (6TxNR)

144 106 Almost nobody cares or even understands what a recession is.

Everybody knows the economy sucks, and blames Biden for it. It doesn't matter if they know the textbook definition of the term.

People vote on what hits them at home, that's why politicians can get away with so much outrageous crap and corruption. Yeah what a waste of money, sending tens of billions to Ukraine, but hey, I gotta take care of me, right? Not like I can do anything about it.

But high gas prices, skyrocketing food prices, food shortages, etc... that hurts the voter at home, it hits them where they live.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:11 PM (Ivdso)
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I agree and that was kinda my point: no need to argue over vague economics-speak like "recession" when there is so much more concrete stuff out there that's hurting people in ways they can see and touch.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

145 Joe's brain is recessioning daily.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (eGTCV)

146 how can a quarter be negative ?

I mean, it's like 3 dimes or so
Posted by: REDACTED at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (us2H3)

Two bits.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (AiZBA)

147
Sub-moron?

Honestly, I'm offended to have that idiot lumped into the same category that I've expended so much effort to deserve.

Shame, Wicket. Shame.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (n+4am)

148 Looking from top to bottom at the Biden Administration, and there's not one - not a single one - competent official in that place. Yellen had the credentials going into the office, but she's proven that she's just as much of a hack as Jared Bernstein.

I struggle to find even one appointment that's worth more than a warm bucket of spit. Jimmy Carter, at least, appointed Paul Volcker, and Joe Califano. This guy doesn't have anybody.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (CeGA3)

149 91 I believe we’re 4.5 million jobs short of 2019 peak employment. That ignores population growth. Growing economy my ass.
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Yep, and those government population growth estimates conveniently ignore the millions of illegal aliens the Biden junta is waving across the border every month.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (MvHI3)

150 You're quite modest, sir. I'm sure everyone wishes they could shit out such beautiful poetry as you do.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

There has to be a word for it.

Crueltry?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (U3uv2)

151 https://youtu.be/t6TxAe88S0Q
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (yn/SF)

Nice. Would be better sans face diaper.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (QSjkU)

152 Speaking of going off topic…

I found out yesterday that part of the super duper bipartisan infrastructure bill passed by the gop last year, there is money for REMOVING highways. Yes the gop allocated money to remove highways inside a bill sold as building new highways.

Why are highways getting removed? Cuz racism of course. And no I am not kidding. In cities like Syracuse NY they are spending billions of dollars to remove interstates that run through the city in the name of equity.

We live in clown world squared.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (OalnH)

153 Well done 9 out of 10, enlightening and cruel. Spinster is great because she's an old hag and she is spinning a tale.

So will we have to wait two quarters after they declare a pre-recession (whatever that is) before they will finally admit we are in recession?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (PPufO)

154 Baba O'Reily > Baba Yaga

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (XvPQV)

155 there is no 100 post rule in my posts, I crap out 9 of these a day, you don't have to stay on topic in my threads, ever
Posted by: ace at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (B3oWe)

*in before Mark Andrew Edwards*

BOOBS.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

156 Economics are always uneven, that's why I disregard individual reports of various sectors or Moo Moo's bleating about how things are great in his back yard.

Even in the worst possible depressions, some people are doing okay and some businesses are doing gangbusters. You cannot pick one and claim that represents the economy as a whole.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (Ivdso)

157 https://youtu.be/t6TxAe88S0Q

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NO YELLOW!

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (flINI)

158 Kamala isn't only heels up, yah know. She's much more!

https://tinyurl.com/yckvfpun

(Twitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (odVni)

159 135 By the way, Fauci is out there claiming that he never called for lockdowns even though there's abundant footage of him doing that exact thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:15 PM (Ivdso)

The gaslighting is part of the kink.

Posted by: blaster at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (6TxNR)

160 144 I agree and that was kinda my point: no need to argue over vague economics-speak like "recession" when there is so much more concrete stuff out there that's hurting people in ways they can see and touch.
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

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I don't know.

It's a big, obvious example of the powers that be lying to the people.

It should be highlighted repeatedly. If they're lying to the people about this (and it's obvious that they are), what else are they lying about?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (LvTSG)

161 Biden spox like to say now "these numbers are backward looking". It's like saying, "these projections are forward looking". Yes, so what? I'm assuming they think the voters are dumb enough to think, "well these bad numbers are in the past, better times are now here, thanks mush-brained Joe!"

Unfortunately, it will work on many.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (fs1hN)

162

Don't you dare talk about that gay lesbian immigrant female black woman!!!

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (TuGd3)

163 I can tell you that the "two quarters" rule has been used as far back as 1991 (don't recall if it was used in the 1982 recession, too young at the time).

The key point about this rule is that it takes most of the politics out of the determination.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 26, 2022 02:15 PM (KwBmy)

Same as with pre-propagandist state job creation numbers.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 02:18 PM (U3uv2)

164 131 Mister Scott, I work at a Walmart.

Two days ago I was told we are in a hiring freeze.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM (yn/SF)

The Great Resignation turns into The Great Lockout in 3..2...1...

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 26, 2022 02:18 PM (CeGA3)

165 These guys are idiots. People paying $4+ dollars at the gas pump and paying today's prices for groceries aren't going to be listening to any bullshit about the technical definitions of recessions. This is not effective messaging, and it will not work no matter how much water media dummies are determined to carry for The Turnip.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 26, 2022 02:18 PM (ppBhU)

166 re:"President Biden is a decent human being who exhibits the qualities we should cherish in a President: he's a strong leader with clear moral standards and empathizes with Americans for the challenges they face every day," Lincoln Project cofounder Reed Galen said. "President Biden shows what American greatness looks like."

Well, bravo, at least for consistency. If you're going to lie about one thing, you might as well lie about everything.

Posted by: Simple Stevo at July 26, 2022 02:18 PM (SOV+T)

167 I agree and that was kinda my point: no need to argue over vague economics-speak like "recession" when there is so much more concrete stuff out there that's hurting people in ways they can see and touch.

While, yes, this is true, it's *also* extremely important that we don't let these fuckers redefine these things.

WORDS HAVE MEANING people. If we let the leftist pieces of trash redefine all this stuff at will, we will *ALWAYS* lose. ALWAYS.

Posted by: GMan at July 26, 2022 02:18 PM (GfWuY)

168 What they've done to the economy is so much more insidious that can even be expressed in GDP, or other traditional economic metrics.

Diminishing the work ethic and socialization of a generation of young people is just the start of it.

Posted by: Zek at July 26, 2022 02:18 PM (OzNIz)

169 Well folks, time to stop paying taxes. The government is acting outside of its Constitutional boundaries and it no longer hiding its intentions, so it is our duty to starve it.

We are honor bound.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at July 26, 2022 02:18 PM (sI15f)

170 They should dial back the lying just a tidge. I have a theory that if you lie too blatantly for too long while people start starving or becoming jobless or homeless or otherwise "poor" that you end up like Sri Lanka where the people start hunting the government

Posted by: Joe kidtoucher at July 26, 2022 02:18 PM (W+TLY)

171 "Why are highways getting removed?"

Butt-guy transportation secretary, he's really smart, he's a McKinsey Consultant!

Posted by: gourmand du jour, partly cloudy clearing in the afternoon at July 26, 2022 02:18 PM (jTmQV)

172 What Twitter is pushing in the sidebar to the great, unwashed masses:

What's happening
Openly 🏳️‍🌈·
This morning
Inside the fight for trans and non-binary people for abortion access

1984
"To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself -- that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink."

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 26, 2022 02:18 PM (MFZ8i)

173 Mister Scott, I work at a Walmart.

Two days ago I was told we are in a hiring freeze.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:14 PM

Must have not filtered down here to rural NE Texas yet.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (bVYXr)

174 *in before Mark Andrew Edwards*

BOOBS.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

Boobs indeed.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (XvPQV)

175 They lie about anything and everything. Whatever is black they will say is white. You can't single out the definition of a recession as uniquely indicative of what they fear. 99% of voters either don't care or don't understand about recessions, or both. They have much bigger worries right now. As I said above, if we want to win in November, we should pound on those.

Yea, I read what you said. I just don't agree.

There's a reason the left is desperately lying that we aren't in a recession and it's because they don't want that narrative to take hold. I disagree that people don't know what a recession or at least what it means. It's the economy stupid is a real thing, the single most important thing.

Virtually every single election the economy is the first or second most important issue to voters. Not global warming, not abortion, not foreign policy. It's the economy. Voters might not know the technical meaning of recession which is why the White House is currently lying but they know that a recession means the economy sucks.

The enemy will tell you what they fear.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (ZLI7S)

176 Well folks, time to stop paying taxes. The government is acting outside of its Constitutional boundaries and it no longer hiding its intentions, so it is our duty to starve it.

I mean, it has been for a while now? But its even more so at this point, to a ludicrous extreme.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (Ivdso)

177
Even in the worst possible depressions, some people are doing okay and some businesses are doing gangbusters. You cannot pick one and claim that represents the economy as a whole.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (Ivdso)

I know a guy who worked at a construction company during the 08 crash. Everyone else went tits up so their business did great.

Posted by: Someguy's at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (mLvsV)

178

"Why are highways getting removed? Cuz racism of course. And no I am not kidding. In cities like Syracuse NY they are spending billions of dollars to remove interstates that run through the city in the name of equity. "

The reality of what racial politics is all about is never spoken about. Tom Wolfe nailed it fully, but what goes on in these fucking cities is so much worse than anyone knows.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (TuGd3)

179 "The economy is great, and we're gonna cut off your kids' dicks."
-The DNC platform for 2022

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (LvTSG)

180 David Bowie, It Ain't Easy, he sounds like Robert Plant or Jack White occasionally.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (44ww/)

181 Reed Galen can't possibly believe even one word of that codswallop he spewed about Biden.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (eGTCV)

182 They would not demand articles about the recession not to say recession, unless we are in a recession.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (lTGtQ)

183 Are you better off now than you were three years ago?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (h01er)

184 Kamala isn't only heels up, yah know. She's much more!

https://tinyurl.com/yckvfpun

(Twitter)
Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (odVni)

Top. Men.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:20 PM (Zz0t1)

185 you end up like Sri Lanka where the people start hunting the government

What a shame that would be.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:20 PM (Ivdso)

186 Is anyone really surprised? All they do is try to redefine reality.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 26, 2022 02:20 PM (H8QX8)

187 "Famine" is such an ugly word. Let's use "decalorication".

- Ivy League Geniuses at the White House

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 26, 2022 02:20 PM (FVME7)

188 They can't actually get you to swallow the gross, smelly dog turd of lies by itself.
So they load it up with chocolate sprinkles and caramel sauce and whipped cream and nuts and sliced bananas and cherries and hope you'll gobble up the dog turd. And stupid people do.

Posted by: naturalfake
-----------------------
It is more that the college miseducated working in secure jobs that tend to swallow bullshit from the media. People with less insulation from the economy do not such as a small business owner that sees costs escalate and declining sales, a blue collar construction worker seeing it cost more and more to fill up and as a result has to give up a vacation, a grocery shopper trying to feed a family, and so on.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 02:20 PM (CXr4y)

189 Maybe nobody knows what the definition of recession is, but these people know damn well it's a term that scares people and they are moving to avoid a panic or a further free fall of their poll numbers. The effect of this nonsense is like the line in The Sandman, "never mind that noise you heard, it's just the beasts under your bed."

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 26, 2022 02:20 PM (oWBc3)

190 BTW, who cut Yellen's hair? She looks the kid from the Dutch Boy Paint Can

Posted by: Marcus T at July 26, 2022 02:20 PM (vBMpQ)

191 If only the White House didn't have a messaging problem, everything would be fine.

Posted by: MJ at July 26, 2022 02:20 PM (zwDuR)

192 "The economy is great, and we're gonna cut off your kids' dicks."
-The DNC platform for 2022
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (LvTSG)

"...right after we shove our monkeypox laden dicks up their wittew tushies."

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

193 When was the last time the US was governed by this many reprobates?

Posted by: mr tmz at July 26, 2022 02:21 PM (rJ48h)

194 BTW, who cut Yellen's hair? She looks the kid from the Dutch Boy Paint Can
Posted by: Marcus T at July 26, 2022 02:20 PM (vBMpQ)

Introducing: The FLOWBEE 2.0!!!

Posted by: Ronco at July 26, 2022 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

195 Yellen has apparently never held a job outside academia, a think-tank or government post. And to hear her talk she sounds like a not-particularly-talented grade school teacher.

Posted by: Zek at July 26, 2022 02:21 PM (OzNIz)

196 Just a bit of pre-recession, I swear.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 26, 2022 02:21 PM (vcv8B)

197 Ace,
This is a trans-economic boom. A trans-economic boom is two or more quarters of declining GDP.
If you deny this you are economic boomphobic. Please don't deny our economies lived experience.

Posted by: Bill H at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (TVAXO)

198 Yeah, Joe is a decent human being who takes showers with his pre-teen daughter and raised a 3rd degree drug addict and pornographer for his Son who is also his crooked advisor. Boy, you sure are stupid, I mean desiccated pile of dog shit stupid.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (QSjkU)

199 Has Twatter banned the word "recession" yet?

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (PPufO)

200 It should be highlighted repeatedly. If they're lying to the people about this (and it's obvious that they are), what else are they lying about?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (LvTSG)

If the GOP were smart...

Yeah, I know.

Anyway, they would make this very point over and over. Problem is they are afraid that the media is going to jump on them for "talking the economy down." I know they never do that to Dems, just watch you saome Matt Gaetz and emulate

Posted by: blaster at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (6TxNR)

201 Even in the worst possible depressions, some people are doing okay and some businesses are doing gangbusters. You cannot pick one and claim that represents the economy as a whole.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (Ivdso)

For instance, right now, I'm killing it, economically.

Posted by: Hunter Biden's Dealer at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (FJYfm)

202 The definition and declaration of recession does matter.
CEOs and hiring managers will feel compelled to freeze hiring and investment. It may seem superficial, but thats the corpoate world, a despeate race to keep up with the smart people and never do anything that appears dumb.

Posted by: Bandana Dee at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (GVDNJ)

203 I try to entertain the Horde and all I hear is complaints. Geez Louise people...

https://youtu.be/Vfm1WnLKJlo

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (yn/SF)

204 If Trump were President, they would obviously be just as reluctant to call it a "recession." Right?

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (H8QX8)

205 "When was the last time the US was governed by this many reprobates?"

I'd say the Grant administration, but at least, some were competent.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, partly cloudy clearing in the afternoon at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (jTmQV)

206 The racialist component is the main driver. But the general war on cars is also an influence. Gee how cool is it that we got rid of this highway? Now everyone can bike to work instead. That is a thing now.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (OalnH)

207 Kamala isn't only heels up, yah know. She's much more!

Give her credit, she seems to know what a woman is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (Ivdso)

208 And Yellen speaks like Mr Magoo. I wouldn't trust her to wash my car.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (vBMpQ)

209
Boobs indeed.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (XvPQV)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

210 https://tinyurl.com/2h2jxswn

OT

A story from Not the Bee. A young couple livin' their Best Life but The Man didn't appreciate it. The Po-Po got them, eventually. After some time had passed. The FBI looks 'great' in all of this.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (sAmhv)

211 No doubt when the world hits a depression that's worse than anything in the 1930's, THAT will be named a recession.

So as not to spook the great unwashed (and unfed) masses.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (RLLZj)

212 If there's one thing I hate more than stupid, baldfaced lies, it's stupid, baldfaced lies that are easily refuted.

Posted by: Regular joe at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (nnp+f)

213 156 Economics are always uneven, that's why I disregard individual reports of various sectors or Moo Moo's bleating about how things are great in his back yard.

Even in the worst possible depressions, some people are doing okay and some businesses are doing gangbusters. You cannot pick one and claim that represents the economy as a whole.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
--------------------
You noted the classic ecological fallacy--what is true for the individual may not be true for the whole economy and vice versa.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (CXr4y)

214 So when it happens for the third and fourth quarters too, will that be enough?

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (yikp0)

215 I try to entertain the Horde and all I hear is complaints. Geez Louise people...

https://youtu.be/Vfm1WnLKJlo
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (yn/SF)

I certainly appreciate your efforts.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

216 Has Twatter banned the word "recession" yet?

They're waiting for Reddit to blaze the path

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (Ivdso)

217 People that believe two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession are racist. And prosperity deniers.

Posted by: Ripley at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (MxEKc)

218 Gender queers don't get to define what a man or a woman is, and political hacks don't get to define what a recession is.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (lTGtQ)

219 We shamed everybody about being judgemental so that when the Dems roll out people who just look like weirdos people have to pretend that their ideas are valid.

Posted by: blaster at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (6TxNR)

220 Happy Birthday AtC !

Posted by: JT at July 26, 2022 02:24 PM (T4tVD)

221 197 Ace,
This is a trans-economic boom. A trans-economic boom is two or more quarters of declining GDP.
If you deny this you are economic boomphobic. Please don't deny our economies lived experience.
Posted by: Bill H

Are you an Econ professor from Harvard?

Because that's some smart sounding shit right there.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2022 02:24 PM (h01er)

222 Yeah, Joe is a decent human being who takes showers with his pre-teen daughter and raised a 3rd degree drug addict and pornographer for his Son who is also his crooked advisor. Boy, you sure are stupid, I mean desiccated pile of dog shit stupid.
-----------------
I think its important to note that his daughter is a lifelong drug/sex addict and an alcoholic.

8/10 would smash

Posted by: MJ at July 26, 2022 02:24 PM (zwDuR)

223 I wonder if that would work with one of us working stiff's banks? Hey, just because I've missed 6 months of mortgage payments doesn't indicate that I'm in any financial trouble! Just transitioning my money fascists!

Posted by: Cheri at July 26, 2022 02:24 PM (oiNtH)

224 > Biden spox like to say now "these numbers are backward looking".
________________

Stupid bint got the notes upside down!

Or can't read.

Or both.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2022 02:24 PM (BFigT)

225 185 you end up like Sri Lanka where the people start hunting the government

What a shame that would be.
__________

May the odds be ever in your favor

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 26, 2022 02:24 PM (fs1hN)

226 Yes, happy hoppity birthday to Alex

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 02:24 PM (XvPQV)

227 Just a bit of pre-recession, I swear.

Posted by: quantum mechanic

So like recession foreplay? They get you all excited with some falling GDP, joblessness, and scarcity, then BAM! You get to the real recession.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 26, 2022 02:24 PM (PPufO)

228 I thought that the preferred spelling, per the AoS Style Manual, was “bewbs.”

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:25 PM (2urLC)

229 It's just the recession tip, I promise.

- - The Biden Administration

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:25 PM (Zz0t1)

230 Monkey Pox > Mitch McConnell > Kevin McCarthy > Joe Biden

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 26, 2022 02:25 PM (m7R0k)

231 RIP Tony Dow. Love that show and have it on most mornings while getting ready for work.

Posted by: Cheri at July 26, 2022 02:25 PM (oiNtH)

232 I believe two consecutive quarters of declining squirrel population would be an undeniable indicator.

Posted by: Zek at July 26, 2022 02:25 PM (OzNIz)

233 225 May the odds be ever in your favor
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 26, 2022 02:24 PM (fs1hN)

=========

*whistles G, B flat, A, D*
*holds up three fingers*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:25 PM (LvTSG)

234 Yellin is a type of weeble.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:25 PM (ptqGC)

235 I'd be nice if these Korean girls could actually dance . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

236 Joe Biden.

The Jimmy Carter of Paul Krugman's.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

237 If you G search for Barackh Jibrama you get results for Obama. Didn't know that until now. LOL!

Posted by: Ethan Saunders at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (W1E3x)

238 Someone want to tell what the difference between this nonsense and the transgender nonsense. Because, I don't think you can.

Posted by: Orson at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (CNfLd)

239 No doubt when the world hits a depression that's worse than anything in the 1930's, THAT will be named a recession.

"We're facing some slowing and seeing hardship for the trans community, but your thanksgiving dinner is 75% more healthy this year as you are all now eating bark from your trees and lawn clippings!"
--Biden White House

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (Ivdso)

240 and, it's going to hit the 90s for the next several days in Seattle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlUH40ZEYZo

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (W2Pud)

241 The left has been prepping their drones with this "redefinition" since the horrible numbers came out last quarter. The new definition is now solidly in the hive mind and anyone who doesn't accept the new definition is a stupid hillbilly Nazi who wants to kill trannies.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (BJKQV)

242 I try to entertain the Horde and all I hear is complaints. Geez Louise people...

https://youtu.be/Vfm1WnLKJlo
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 26, 2022 02:22 PM (yn/SF)

I certainly appreciate your efforts.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

I, also, would like to bag it. No diggity.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (XvPQV)

243 Looking forward to how they will attempt to spin the 3rd quarter drop.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (u9Awk)

244 They’re also using the phrase “transition economy” as a distraction. I think they mean from peace and prosperity to sorrow and sodomy.

Posted by: Squid at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (dfTsU)

245 BTW, who cut Yellen's hair? She looks the kid from the Dutch Boy Paint Can
Posted by: Marcus T at July 26, 2022 02:20 PM (vBMpQ)

Now I will never be able to unsee that.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (DRSnL)

246 Yellin looks like Biden appointed the lunch lady from the local elementary school to his cabinet.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (Y5qcH)

247 The administration is scared to admit that which anyone with a functioning brain already knows: We're in a recession.

I don't think it really matters what the White House says or doesn't say, because Joe and Jane Average American darn well know what's happened to the price of gasoline and groceries.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at July 26, 2022 02:27 PM (5pTK/)

248 economists' assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data
_______________

Spot the weasel word.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Impeach Joe Biden at July 26, 2022 02:27 PM (L0j+V)

249 There's a new "conservative" permanent co-host on The View.

Alyssa Farrah Griffin.

"Conservative."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:27 PM (ptqGC)

250 Is it AtC's birthday? Happy Birthday AtC!

*pumps Cheerwine into USB port*

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 26, 2022 02:27 PM (PiwSw)

251 240 and, it's going to hit the 90s for the next several days in Seattle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlUH40ZEYZo
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (W2Pud)

The 90's was the best decade for Seattle.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 02:27 PM (Y5qcH)

252 *up. Bag it up.

Stupid song reference fail.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 02:27 PM (XvPQV)

253 I want to go to a Nippon League baseball game.

I want to go all...night...long...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:27 PM (LvTSG)

254 Keep my cow's eyes outta yo mouf!

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (VJsqe)

255 Hey, any other of you Morons here get a little turned on by Fauci's soft, perfectly-manicured hands?

Posted by: SSBN 656(G) at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (5AVMW)

256 I don't know what Reed Galen is smoking, but I'd sure like some of it right now.

That's some industrial-grade shit, for sure.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (Xrfse)

257 I keep waiting for young people raised on reading dystopias saved by THE CHOSEN GIRL to notice how similar the situation and government is to those books today.

"Gee, Bristol, isn't the Biden Administration just like the ruling class in Hunger Games, down to the weird looking people?"

"OMG Uqueesha, maybe I'm the Chosen One!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (Ivdso)

258
I, also, would like to bag it. No diggity.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 02:26 PM (XvPQV)

N* do ya work here, no diggity, come bag my stuff.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)

259 Who remembers FUNemployment and STAYcations? DNC PR firms must not have found a variant of the word "Recession" that focus grouped well, so they just redefined it.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (BJKQV)

260 >>I try to entertain the Horde and all I hear is complaints. Geez Louise people...

https://youtu.be/Vfm1WnLKJlo
Posted by: Anna Puma

I liked it. The girl is, how you say, very flexible.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (m7R0k)

261 247 The administration is scared to admit that which anyone with a functioning brain already knows: We're in a recession.

I don't think it really matters what the White House says or doesn't say, because Joe and Jane Average American darn well know what's happened to the price of gasoline and groceries.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at July 26, 2022 02:27 PM (5pTK/)

===========

It will affect their partisans and certain subsets of LIVs.

"We're not in a recession. The WH says we're not."

Outside of them, though, it won't matter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (LvTSG)

262 We promise we're not close to doing that thing in your mouth again.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (89T5c)

263 The current administration does not "technically" have a severe lack of intelligence or foresight.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (w9Wax)

264 240 and, it's going to hit the 90s for the next several days in Seattle.

It is 100 degrees here right now and has hit 100 about the last 10 days. So quit yer bitchin.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (QSjkU)

265 So AtC is finally 29?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (2urLC)

266 Groundhog Day was a terrific movie about a guy re-living the same day over and over, who once he realized there were no consequences to his behavior, began acting out in more extreme and odd ways.

Given that our elites never face any consequences, it stands to reason that they continue to act out more brazenly than ever before.

To which I say, Groundhog Day was not an instruction manual.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 26, 2022 02:29 PM (KbCG3)

267 265 So AtC is finally 29?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (2urLC)

========

Almost.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:29 PM (LvTSG)

268 Victory Tits FTW.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

269 265 So AtC is finally 29?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (2urLC)

She's just short of 29

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 02:29 PM (XvPQV)

270 214 So when it happens for the third and fourth quarters too, will that be enough?

Posted by: andycanuck
--------------------
The problem with this administration is that We the People are simply not following the script. So they lurch from crises to crises with scrambled ad hoc attempts to 'win' the news cycle. These are millenials staffing the place that learned politics by watching West Wing and they simply do not understand why the dogs (the public) are not eating the shitty dog food.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 02:29 PM (CXr4y)

271 Gaia is doing better, which previous administrations did not take into account. And illegals.

Posted by: Ripley at July 26, 2022 02:29 PM (MxEKc)

272
It is 100 degrees here right now and has hit 100 about the last 10 days. So quit yer bitchin.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (QSjkU)

Then a cold front comes through and knocks it down to 99 this weekend.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:30 PM (Zz0t1)

273 The 90's was the best decade for Seattle.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

You're not wrong. It was a really great time. Lots of good music, hellacious parties and people weren't uber progressive assholes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2022 02:30 PM (WQvQz)

274 100 degrees? How can you be so sure, are you all meteorologists or something?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 26, 2022 02:30 PM (OalnH)

275 Yellin looks like Biden appointed the lunch lady from the local elementary school to his cabinet.

That would have been the wiser choice.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 26, 2022 02:30 PM (Xrfse)

276 So AtC is finally 29?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (2urLC)

She's just short of 29
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 02:29 PM (XvPQV)

I see what you did there.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 02:30 PM (ZGrMX)

277 So AtC is finally 29?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (2urLC)

Centimeters.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 02:30 PM (U3uv2)

278 "President Biden is a decent human being who exhibits the qualities we should cherish in a President: he's a strong leader with clear moral standards
_________

Yeah, old Slow Joe has always been a real paragon of virtue. And he has clear moral standards: clearly non-existent.

He was nearly expelled from law school for cheating. He had an affair (which he spent the next 50 years lying about and blackmailing his kids to lie about) with a married campaign worker. He knowingly and falsely accused an innocent truck driver of driving drunk and killing his wife and baby. He spent his entire "public service" career illegally selling the influence of his public offices and doing illegal favors for "donors" to his family grift operation. He took showers with his young daughter. He raised drug-addled, whore-mongering, low-life son Hunter, and drafted him into the family crime business . . . .

And that's just for starters.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 26, 2022 02:30 PM (MvHI3)

279 Recession deniers.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 02:30 PM (Y5qcH)

280 Its only 87 here, but its supposed to hit 100 by 4:00. Was 99 yesterday. Thank God and Mr Carrier for the air conditioner.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:30 PM (Ivdso)

281 These aren't the economic numbers you're looking for *waves fingers* They're for sale, if you want them... *waves fingers again*

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Jedi Economic Advisor at July 26, 2022 02:30 PM (PiwSw)

282 Japan executes man who killed 7 people in Tokyo street rampage in 2008
https://tinyurl.com/3rtffkuw

Japan on Tuesday executed a man convicted of killing seven people in a truck ramming and stabbing rampage in Tokyo's popular Akihabara electronics district in 2008, the justice ministry said.

Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa told reporters that Tomohiro Kato was hanged at the Tokyo detention center earlier Tuesday.

Japan is one of the few developed countries to retain the death penalty, and public support for capital punishment remains high despite international criticism.

Executions are carried out by hanging, generally long after sentencing. More than 100 people are currently on death row in Japan. International advocacy groups have denounced the Japanese system, under which death row inmates can wait for their executions for many years in solitary confinement and are only told of their impending death a few hours ahead of time.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 26, 2022 02:31 PM (MFZ8i)

283 273 The 90's was the best decade for Seattle.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

-------
I showed up there in 91 and left in 99. Great timing. I wish I had held onto my house though. It's worth a shit-ton more now!

Posted by: 496 at July 26, 2022 02:31 PM (VJsqe)

284 You'll know it's a Recession when Twitter bans the use of the word. Kind of how you know who the Groomers are.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 26, 2022 02:31 PM (HQ6iz)

285 and, it's going to hit the 90s for the next several days in Seattle.

It is 100 degrees here right now and has hit 100 about the last 10 days. So quit yer bitchin.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 02:28 PM (QSjkU)

On the east side of the state they're calling it an "extreme serious heat event" which cracks me up.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 02:32 PM (DRSnL)

286 266 Groundhog Day was a terrific movie about a guy re-living the same day over and over, who once he realized there were no consequences to his behavior, began acting out in more extreme and odd ways.

Given that our elites never face any consequences, it stands to reason that they continue to act out more brazenly than ever before.

To which I say, Groundhog Day was not an instruction manual.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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You left out the second part where Phil redeems himself because he actually learned that screwing other people over does not actually make one happy in the long run. Only being kind to others and useful to society does.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 02:32 PM (CXr4y)

287 It was a really great time. Lots of good music, hellacious parties and people weren't uber progressive assholes.

The Kid and Two Martinez Lunch at The Kingdome with Dave Niehaus announcing, Almost Live on the air, it was a great time to be in Seattle

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:32 PM (Ivdso)

288 I spent the last 4 days in the heat all day swinging a pick and shovel and moving rocks. So tell me it's hot outside.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 02:32 PM (QSjkU)

289 We're going our best "Georgia in the summer" imitation, here. We had a nice series of rainstorms come through, raising the humidity to grotesque levels, and, now, time to turn up the heat.

Yay us!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at July 26, 2022 02:32 PM (5pTK/)

290 Seattle changed during the 90s, and that accelerated in the years after.

But yeah, 1999 was peak Seattle.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 26, 2022 02:33 PM (XvPQV)

291
Executions are carried out by hanging, generally long after sentencing. More than 100 people are currently on death row in Japan. International advocacy groups have denounced the Japanese system, under which death row inmates can wait for their executions for many years in solitary confinement and are only told of their impending death a few hours ahead of time.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 26, 2022 02:31 PM (MFZ8i)

*develops more respect for Japan*

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

292 When the 2020 lockdown caused two months of negative, GDP, not even one quarter, and was called a recession because an election was coming up and a republican was in office, they lost all credibility.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 02:33 PM (lTGtQ)

293 257 I keep waiting for young people raised on reading dystopias saved by THE CHOSEN GIRL to notice how similar the situation and government is to those books today.

"Gee, Bristol, isn't the Biden Administration just like the ruling class in Hunger Games, down to the weird looking people?"
_____________

Weird looking people, isn't that the truth. I can imagine a meme to show this, but I have not the skills.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 26, 2022 02:33 PM (fs1hN)

294 278 "President Biden is a decent human being who exhibits the qualities we should cherish in a President: he's a strong leader with clear moral standards
_________

Yeah, old Slow Joe has always been a real paragon of virtue. And he has clear moral standards: clearly non-existent.

He was nearly expelled from law school for cheating. He had an affair (which he spent the next 50 years lying about and blackmailing his kids to lie about) with a married campaign worker. He knowingly and falsely accused an innocent truck driver of driving drunk and killing his wife and baby. He spent his entire "public service" career illegally selling the influence of his public offices and doing illegal favors for "donors" to his family grift operation. He took showers with his young daughter. He raised drug-addled, whore-mongering, low-life son Hunter, and drafted him into the family crime business . . . .

And that's just for starters.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB
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Stan's minions luv them some inversion of good and evil in their purty talk.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 02:33 PM (CXr4y)

295 Heh: I interned for a State Senator in 1990. They were inserting an emergency spending freeze in the MO Constitution that kicked in when a recession hit. He asked me what the def. of a recession was, so I called my dad, a broker and economics major. "It's defined as 2 or more quarters of "negative growth" in the GDP."
That language is now in the MO Constitution.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at July 26, 2022 02:33 PM (7Fj9P)

296 Executions are carried out by hanging, generally long after sentencing. More than 100 people are currently on death row in Japan. International advocacy groups have denounced the Japanese system, under which death row inmates can wait for their executions for many years in solitary confinement and are only told of their impending death a few hours ahead of time.

They're told of their impending death at the time of sentencing. Any time between is a bonus.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at July 26, 2022 02:34 PM (Bd6X8)

297 The 90's was the best decade for Seattle.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

You're not wrong. It was a really great time. Lots of good music, hellacious parties and people weren't uber progressive assholes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 26, 2022 02:30 PM (WQvQz)

It got better once Ed Murray discovered a homeless emergency when he got caught with his hand in the cookie jar named Delvonn Heckard.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 02:34 PM (U3uv2)

298 BREAKING: Joepedo Junta Celebrates New Unemployment Low of 0.001% After Redefining Unemployment to Include Only Transgenders. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 26, 2022 02:34 PM (zkqkL)

299 We've been in a depression since we went into a pandemic lockdown. Just like we've been engaged in WWIII. Make no mistake, the southern border is a planned invasion.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 26, 2022 02:34 PM (0ocXn)

300 Groundhog Day is one of my favorite movies.

Jonah Goldberg actually did a good write-up of it in NR back in the day.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:34 PM (2urLC)

301 I don't think it really matters what the White House says or doesn't say, because Joe and Jane Average American darn well know what's happened to the price of gasoline and groceries.

And if they're anything like the nickelfuckers here in MA, they blame it on the producers. Smaller boxes? Smaller portions? Higher prices? Big Business taking advantage of the working stiff to line their greedy pockets.

You cannot imagine how brainwashed the majority of Americans are until you visit New England.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 02:34 PM (AW0uW)

302
On the east side of the state they're calling it an "extreme serious heat event" which cracks me up.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 02:32 PM (DR

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Remember like 10 years ago when weather was either cold or hot? Now wry few weeks there is a warning about cold or heat or rain or whatever. They name snowstorms now too FFS.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at July 26, 2022 02:34 PM (OalnH)

303 It is 100 degrees here right now and has hit 100 about the last 10 days. So quit yer bitchin.
Posted by: Xipe Totec

North Texas has been over 100 every day since May 28, I believe.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (lTGtQ)

304 It's 88 on our lil' island right now. Supposed to hit 90 by 4:00.

We have a thing to go to this evening, outside. But it's on the water, so there's that.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (ptqGC)

305 The heat plus lugging stone for a retaining wall let me know that I'm not a spring chicken anymore.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (89T5c)

306 I spent the last 4 days in the heat all day swinging a pick and shovel and moving rocks. So tell me it's hot outside.

Posted by: Xipe Totec

(Whispers) so hot...

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (PPufO)

307 "President Biden is a decent human being who exhibits the qualities we should cherish in a President: he's a strong leader with clear moral standards and empathizes with Americans for the challenges they face every day," Lincoln Project cofounder Reed Galen said. "President Biden shows what American greatness looks like."

He forcefingered an intern against her will, you fucks.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

308 17% Buttplug
16% Biden
10% Warren
10% Newsom
9% Klobuchar
8% Sanders
6% Harris
5% AOC
3% Clinton
3% Abrams
2% Booker
1% Whitmer
1% Murphy

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (RHGPo)

309 Good news bad news Akira-san. The good news is the prison is serving a special dinner tonight for all the inmates. The bad news...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Jedi Economic Advisor at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (PiwSw)

310 301 You cannot imagine how brainwashed the majority of Americans are until you visit New England.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 02:34 PM (AW0uW)

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I think your assumption that the average New Englander represents the average American may be incorrect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (LvTSG)

311
North Texas has been over 100 every day since May 28, I believe.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (lTGtQ)

And it's been over 40 days since we've had measurable rain.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

312 Jonah Goldberg actually did a good write-up of it in NR back in the day.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Wonder who he cribbed it from.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 02:36 PM (CXr4y)

313 275 Yellin looks like Biden appointed the lunch lady from the local elementary school to his cabinet.

That would have been the wiser choice.
__________

A far wiser choice.

At least the lunch lady would have had some understanding of real-world economics, which is more than that shameless hack Yellen has exhibited.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 26, 2022 02:36 PM (MvHI3)

314 We'll see a lot more "cracks" in the unemployment figures by October.

Posted by: mrp at July 26, 2022 02:36 PM (6eRlp)

315 You'll know it's a Recession when Twitter bans the use of the word. Kind of how you know who the Groomers are.

Ironically, that's a reliable barometer.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 26, 2022 02:36 PM (Xrfse)

316 And it's been over 40 days since we've had measurable rain.

Posted by: Sponge

Yes, given up on the grass, now trying to save the trees and shrubs in my yard.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 02:37 PM (lTGtQ)

317 This new language thing could be fun!

- Technically, officer, my standing over these two dead hobos, with a mallet in my hand and blood spatters all around, doesn't fit the definition of "murder." Crisis averted!

- Technically, dear, my being testicles-deep in your sister while I thought you were out of town is not "adultery" since it's all in the family. No harm, no foul!

Posted by: red speck at July 26, 2022 02:37 PM (gS3OW)

318 And it's been over 40 days since we've had measurable rain.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)
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Wait, wut? We live in the middle of a desert and we've had more rain than TX?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at July 26, 2022 02:37 PM (5pTK/)

319 Not to be a pedantic asshoe, but isn't the term "negative growth", all by itself, a perversion of clear and descriptive language?

Posted by: Pedantic Asshoe at July 26, 2022 02:37 PM (6WCwE)

320 On the east side of the state they're calling it an "extreme serious heat event" which cracks me up.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 02:32 PM (DRSnL)

Baseball tonight!

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 02:37 PM (U3uv2)

321 Jonah Goldberg actually did a good write-up of it in NR back in the day.

Goldberg wrote pretty decently pre-Obama. Or at least he was copying from better quality writers back then.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (ZGrMX)

322 And when the drought breaks in TX, you get rain like a cow pissing on a rock.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (89T5c)

323 Going by my long standing credo:

"Nothing is true until it is officially denied".

We've had by now, hundreds of examples of this, and it never stops.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, partly cloudy clearing in the afternoon at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (jTmQV)

324 You can bet Fauci uses a bidet.

Posted by: torabora at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (Y274z)

325 190 BTW, who cut Yellen's hair? She looks the kid from the Dutch Boy Paint Can
Posted by: Marcus T at July 26, 2022 02:20 PM (vBMpQ)
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Paint by number.

Now it's all beginning to make cents.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (odVni)

326 We've been in a depression since we went into a pandemic lockdown. Just like we've been engaged in WWIII. Make no mistake, the southern border is a planned invasion.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 26, 2022 02:34 PM (0ocXn)

It was reported today that there are ONE MILLION GOTAWAYS roaming around the US now.

I'm sure they're all upstanding people who mean us no harm.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (ptqGC)

327 So this Recession "Identifies" as a Booming Economy? Good to know.

Posted by: Paladin at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (KX5Wh)

328 I think your assumption that the average New Englander represents the average American may be incorrect.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (LvTSG)

My assumption is that the economic mentality of the average New Englander is the mentality of at least 50% of this country.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (AW0uW)

329 I think your assumption that the average New Englander represents the average American may be incorrect.

Yeah that's like going to a Texas MoMe and thinking that's how the average American thinks. Its somewhere in between, with most Americans just not giving a crap about politics or current events.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (Ivdso)

330 Keep in mind, fully 30% of the population-- some 90 million people-- will accept this lie as the truth:
We are not in a recession because the Democrats say we are not.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (wa4LO)

331 315 You'll know it's a Recession when Twitter bans the use of the word. Kind of how you know who the Groomers are.

Ironically, that's a reliable barometer.

Posted by: Notorious BFD
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I was amused when Argentina legally banned private measures of inflation to be disseminated. It is as if we are hurtling down the highway showering the interstate with parts from a failing jalopy. Most of us can see the highway below where the floorboards have rusted through.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (CXr4y)

332 He's objectively either mentally incapable of interpreting reality, or bought and paid for. Maybe both.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 26, 2022 02:39 PM (H8QX8)

333 These are the people who believe one hurricane "proves" global warming, but 2 straight quarters of crappy economic numbers? No biggie.

Posted by: Wally at July 26, 2022 02:39 PM (FJYfm)

334 Goldberg wrote pretty decently pre-Obama. Or at least he was copying from better quality writers back then.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (ZGrMX)
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The first string writers caught onto Jonah's game, and, after he was called out, well, the pool of talent Jonah could draw from dried up.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at July 26, 2022 02:39 PM (5pTK/)

335 This isn't going to work and I would argue even attempting to pretend there's not an economic crisis hurts Biden and Democrats even more.

Part of the reason Republicans were trounced in 2008 (and Bush left with some of the worst polling in Presidential history) was his economic team pretending there wasn't a crisis. "Fundamentals of the economy are strong etc."

Posted by: Blago at July 26, 2022 02:40 PM (1K0db)

336 Lets consider a moment how the New York Times seriously and in a non-satirical article promoted EATING PEOPLE

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:40 PM (Ivdso)

337 17% Buttplug
16% Biden
10% Warren

The Buttplug / Pocahontas ticket would do great with minorities. Highly recommended!

Posted by: Squid at July 26, 2022 02:40 PM (dfTsU)

338 Reed Galen, that is.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 26, 2022 02:40 PM (H8QX8)

339 You can bet Fauci uses a bidet.

To rinse his teeth after brushing.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at July 26, 2022 02:40 PM (Bd6X8)

340 278
And that's just for starters.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 26, 2022 02:30 PM (MvHI3)
______

People don't live in the same reality. Most people here know these things you listed. People living in the media propaganda bubble have no idea. They also think Trump grabbed women by the pssy, said nzi's were good people etc.

It's one thing if you are a LIV and are barely connected to what's happening in the political world. Entirely inexcusable though if you are in the news business. Simplest explanation, he's a disgusting liar.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 26, 2022 02:40 PM (fs1hN)

341 Be nice if Doucy and other reporters keeping asking Joe about the recession just to see him get dementia angry. He might have a real break one of these days as the pressure builds.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2022 02:41 PM (ZLI7S)

342 It's so hot and dry here the damn ticks and chiggers have gone underground. Can't say I miss them.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 02:41 PM (QSjkU)

343 It was negative growth! I was in the pool!!
-- George Costanza

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 26, 2022 02:41 PM (yikp0)

344 235 I'd be nice if these Korean girls could actually dance . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

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OH MY GIRL, Dun Dun Dance
youtube.com/watch?v=xvH0Bc6HUW4

Of note, they have more muscle mass than David Hogg

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 26, 2022 02:41 PM (MFZ8i)

345 And it's been over 40 days since we've had measurable rain.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

Fun fact: Western Oregon typically gets no rain between mid June and early October.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 26, 2022 02:41 PM (u9Awk)

346 Baseball tonight!
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 02:37 PM (U3uv2)

During a serious extreme heat event?!

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 02:41 PM (DRSnL)

347 There! Are! Four! Lights!

Posted by: Darth Randall at July 26, 2022 02:41 PM (zL564)

348 So you dumb mooks never heard of a "holistic approach to the data"?

Sheesh.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (guGkK)

349 319 Not to be a pedantic asshoe, but isn't the term "negative growth", all by itself, a perversion of clear and descriptive language?
Posted by: Pedantic Asshoe

"Two consecutive quarters of shrinkage" doesn't sound serious enough.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (vcv8B)

350 This isn't going to work and I would argue even attempting to pretend there's not an economic crisis hurts Biden and Democrats even more.

I don't expect it to last long. The Biden Administration has tried like 5 different ways to fight the bad public perception they have regarding the economy, changing every few weeks.

Its like they're all sitting around the bong in their dorm room jamming for ideas and writing them down on a whiteboard.

OK Putin Economy didn't work, cross that one off.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (Ivdso)

351 It will become an official recession if the red wave materializes. The blame can be cast on the filthy republicans blocking Brandon's agenda.

Posted by: Fool Otto at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (DB16e)

352 295 Heh: I interned for a State Senator in 1990. They were inserting an emergency spending freeze in the MO Constitution that kicked in when a recession hit. He asked me what the def. of a recession was, so I called my dad, a broker and economics major. "It's defined as 2 or more quarters of "negative growth" in the GDP."
That language is now in the MO Constitution.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin
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Good for you. That is more accomplishment than any GOP member of Congress or the Senate have done in recent memory.

Posted by: whig at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (CXr4y)

353 294 278 "President Biden is a decent human being who exhibits the qualities we should cherish in a President: he's a strong leader with clear moral standards

Has anyone ever provided a for instance of Biden doing something decent, even one?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (eGTCV)

354 It was reported today that there are ONE MILLION GOTAWAYS roaming around the US now.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:38 PM (ptqGC)

That sounds really, really low.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (DRSnL)

355 It's so hot and dry here the damn ticks and chiggers have gone underground. Can't say I miss them.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 26, 2022 02:41 PM (QSjkU)

I'll be the first to say it.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (IYno0)

356 350 Its like they're all sitting around the bong in their dorm room jamming for ideas and writing them down on a whiteboard.

OK Putin Economy didn't work, cross that one off.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (Ivdso)

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And they keep changing tactics every other day because they're confident in the steal, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:43 PM (LvTSG)

357 AtC, even though you are not here, and we don't chat, and I am throwing this out into the Ether- Happy Birthday!!🎂🎂

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 02:43 PM (Vr12I)

358 112 there is no 100 post rule in my posts, I crap out 9 of these a day, you don't have to stay on topic in my threads, ever
Posted by: ace at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (B3oWe)

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So, Star Trek...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven a

Star Wars?

Posted by: runner at July 26, 2022 02:43 PM (5gyQ/)

359 Lets consider a moment how the New York Times seriously and in a non-satirical article promoted EATING PEOPLE
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:40 PM (Ivdso)

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Well, they probably cribbed the idea from me.

Posted by: Jonathan Swift at July 26, 2022 02:43 PM (5pTK/)

360 5% AOC

Try not to use her branding. Call her Ocasio or Cortez.

Posted by: spindrift at July 26, 2022 02:43 PM (h5TKJ)

361 Janet Yellen reminds me of the psychologist/marriage counselor in the Ozark series.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 26, 2022 02:43 PM (Qhnrt)

362 That Presidential poll is a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham!

Posted by: Warren Wilhelm at July 26, 2022 02:43 PM (PiwSw)

363 It will become an official recession if the red wave materializes. The blame can be cast on the filthy republicans blocking Brandon's agenda.
Posted by: Fool Otto at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (DB16e)

The thing is that we all know that is what will actually happen. 100%

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 26, 2022 02:44 PM (AiZBA)

364 358 112 there is no 100 post rule in my posts, I crap out 9 of these a day, you don't have to stay on topic in my threads, ever
Posted by: ace at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (B3oWe)

So, Star Trek...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven a
Star Wars?
Posted by: runner at July 26, 2022 02:43 PM (5gyQ/)

Prometheus.

Posted by: kraken at July 26, 2022 02:44 PM (Vr12I)

365 They've changed the meaning of "recession" just like they changed the meaning of "vaccine." Everything is mutable according to need and expediency.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 26, 2022 02:44 PM (H8QX8)

366 Has anyone ever provided a for instance of Biden doing something decent, even one?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (eGTCV)

3 words for you, Fat:
Corn. Pop.

Posted by: Slow Joe Biden at July 26, 2022 02:44 PM (FJYfm)

367 Groundhog Day is one of my favorite movies.

Jonah Goldberg actually did a good write-up of it in NR back in the day.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:34 PM (2urLC)

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"The Groundhog As Both MacGuffin and Sandwich."

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (zkqkL)

368 Well, they probably cribbed the idea from me.
Posted by: Jonathan Swift

It honestly would not surprise me if they read "A Modest Proposal" and took it seriously.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (Ivdso)

369 "Two consecutive quarters of shrinkage" doesn't sound serious enough.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (vcv8B)

I was in the pool! I was in the pool!

Posted by: George Costanza at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (PiwSw)

370 311
North Texas has been over 100 every day since May 28, I believe.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (lTGtQ)

What?? No way! Are they passing out t-shirts like they did back in 1980???

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (tQL7r)

371 Try not to use her branding. Call her Ocasio or Cortez.
Posted by: spindrift at July 26, 2022 02:43 PM (h5TKJ)

Donkey Chompers is best

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (M+Lyo)

372 2024: Bill Kristol Says Democrats Should Recruit John Legend (Not Kamala) to Replace Biden — ‘Our Version’ of Zelensky.

.. what's so wrong with Joe Biden .. for a Democrat

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (RHGPo)

373 Yellen looks like a character from Rugrats.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (44ww/)

374 It will become an official recession if the red wave materializes. The blame can be cast on the filthy republicans blocking Brandon's agenda.
Posted by: Fool Otto at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (DB16e)

Isn't he already doing that?

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (DRSnL)

375 A recession is an economic situation. If Biden claims that this only exists when he, and by extension, the government says so, then he is basically claiming that the government is the one in control of the economy. Not that it exists as a force, like gravity or the tides. It's a government-controlled economy.

Yeah, he's a Fascist, alright.

Posted by: Another Anon at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (x8Ov3)

376 I crap out 9 of these a day,
Posted by: ace at July 26, 2022 02:12 PM (B3oWe)
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Dammit! You have any idea how much that makes my work suffer in comparison to yours?

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (5pTK/)

377 When is a door not a door?

When it's ajar.

When is a recession not a recession?

When there's a Democrat in the WH.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (IYno0)

378 Most of us can see the highway below where the floorboards have rusted through.

Fred Flintstone, 2022.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (Xrfse)

379 The Eagles

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (2urLC)

380 At 12:44pm, where I live it is 67 degrees Fahrenheit.

Supposed to hit 72 today, but I don't know if it will make it.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (RLLZj)

381 ISPs will be okay because we now subsidize internet service. We can't find anyone to hire though.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 26, 2022 02:46 PM (5HBd1)

382 I don't know.

It's a big, obvious example of the powers that be lying to the people.

It should be highlighted repeatedly. If they're lying to the people about this (and it's obvious that they are), what else are they lying about?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:17 PM (LvTSG)

All of it.

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at July 26, 2022 02:46 PM (53oGX)

383 It honestly would not surprise me if they read "A Modest Proposal" and took it seriously.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (Ivdso)
----------------

Satire completely escapes these people. I mean, these are the same people who "fact check" the Babylon Bee.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at July 26, 2022 02:47 PM (5pTK/)

384 It will become an official recession if the red wave materializes. The blame can be cast on the filthy republicans blocking Brandon's agenda.

Its more than likely that this is the plan, to delay saying the R word until Republicans take congress then try to blame it all on them. I mean, they already have "if my BBB plan had passed everyone would be using hundreds for toilet paper!" (which is probably true, but not in the way they would mean it).

The problem is: people blame the president for the economy. Its not fair, it makes no sense in many cases, but its the bottom line. Congress is not blamed for the economy by the average voter.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:47 PM (Ivdso)

385 Most of Biden's Cabinet looks like the staff of a small New England college

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 02:47 PM (RHGPo)

386 Has anyone ever provided a for instance of Biden doing something decent, even one?
__________

There was probably at least one day when he worked as a senator when he didn't shove his fingers up the hoohah of a staffer.

Does that count?

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 26, 2022 02:48 PM (MvHI3)

387 "contraction" is a better term than "negative growth" but the government loves this kind of crap like "advancing toward the rear".

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:48 PM (Ivdso)

388 >>> 345 And it's been over 40 days since we've had measurable rain.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

Fun fact: Western Oregon typically gets no rain between mid June and early October.
Posted by: Beartooth at July 26, 2022 02:41 PM (u9Awk)

Yeah, that's more like CO than TX. I found a claim on the UNL drought monitor website (which I should have printed or something) that the January-June rainfall in the state overall was the lowest since 1895.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2022 02:48 PM (llON8)

389 384 The problem is: people blame the president for the economy. Its not fair, it makes no sense in many cases, but its the bottom line. Congress is not blamed for the economy by the average voter.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:47 PM (Ivdso)

========

"The party in power" is the party that controls the White House.

Efforts to blame an oppositional Congress for larger problems across the country never seem to work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 02:48 PM (LvTSG)

390 379 The Eagles

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM

The band ? or the football team ?

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 02:48 PM (RHGPo)

391 Maybe Cannibal Bob ghostwrote the NYT article.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (2urLC)

392 It will become an official recession if the red wave materializes. The blame can be cast on the filthy republicans blocking Brandon's agenda.

Posted by: Fool Otto at July 26, 2022 02:42 PM (DB16e)

--------

It'll be billed as The Great Pre-Reset Depression.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (zkqkL)

393 Most of Biden's Cabinet looks like the staff of a small New England college
Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 02:47 PM (RHGPo)

More like a New England village in a Stepen King novel that I never read.

Posted by: mrp at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (6eRlp)

394 Try not to use her branding. Call her Ocasio or Cortez.
Posted by: spindrift at July 26, 2022 02:43 PM (h5TKJ)

Donkey Chompers is best
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM

Some Moron called her "Occasional Cortex" and ever since, I have to pause before saying her name correctly.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (/+bwe)

395 Omg. She actually said these exact words.

@disclosetv - 48m

NOW -- Kamala Harris: "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (ptqGC)

396 '...assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look...'
----------

'Holistic'

[Bullshit Warning light on the instrument panel begins to flicker]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (Xnr/7)

397 Has anyone ever provided a for instance of Biden doing something decent, even one?

He appeared to give money to a stunt bum on camera to show during a political campaign.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (Ivdso)

398 The problem is: people blame the president for the economy. Its not fair, it makes no sense in many cases, but its the bottom line. Congress is not blamed for the economy by the average voter.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
___

Yep, and its also usually the policies from several years ago that actually effect the economy. Clinton's policies had jack shit to do with the 90's being boom times.

We'd of course be better off if Trump had won, but much of this current inflation/stagflation/labor shortages, etc is what was done for the Covid panic stimulus that Trump signed into law.

Posted by: Blago at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (1K0db)

399 I got nothing.

LEFT

Posted by: blindbutch at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (gE1E/)

400 Has anyone ever provided a for instance of Biden doing something decent, even one?

Lindsey Graham has assured us that he a wonderful man.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (44ww/)

401 Happy Birthday AtC !
Posted by: JT at July 26, 2022 02:24 PM

Wait...it's AtC's birfday?

*pushes All The Lemon Squares through the USB port*

*follows up with All The Vodka*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (RkC6l)

402 You bet the word "Recession" will be bandied about freely, if the GOP takes the House and Senate.

It remains to be seen if the GOP will fight fire with fire.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (5pTK/)

403 383 It honestly would not surprise me if they read "A Modest Proposal" and took it seriously.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (Ivdso)

Can you imagine the op-eds Swift would write today?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 26, 2022 02:50 PM (PiwSw)

404 > Efforts to blame an oppositional Congress for larger problems across the country never seem to work.
_____________

Except when you have an extremely compliant media to do your bidding.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2022 02:50 PM (BFigT)

405 387 the government loves this kind of crap like "advancing toward the rear".
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:48 PM (Ivdso)

"I love it too!"

-- Pete Bootyjuice

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 02:50 PM (iFTx/)

406 Congratulations, the Economic Growth has increased -.4% this month.

Please attend the next January 6th Two Minute Hate.

That is all.

Posted by: Ministry of Truth at July 26, 2022 02:50 PM (j40lz)

407 It's not a recession recession...

Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 26, 2022 02:50 PM (bs+z0)

408 390 Interpret it as you will. I meant the band, but if the team will generate more discussion, you can use that as well.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:51 PM (2urLC)

409 We have until January, 2023 to worry about that.

Posted by: mrp at July 26, 2022 02:51 PM (6eRlp)

410 Laughing at the video of the California teacher who got attacked by the monk seal in Hawaii. Apparently, the woman got too close to the pup and the seal thought she was trying to groom him.

https://tinyurl.com/ruxm2p6s

Posted by: Marcus T at July 26, 2022 02:51 PM (vBMpQ)

411 >>>It will become an official recession if the red wave materializes. The blame can be cast on the filthy republicans blocking Brandon's agenda.

>Yup. Republicans have been thwarting his policies and dividing American while the Great Uniter is attempting to save the World! Then we'll be told that half of America is scum, because that's what crazy senators do, and then we'll be scolded to do better.

America sucks and we can be better.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 26, 2022 02:51 PM (0ocXn)

412 I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (ptqGC)

Why would the table be wearing a blue suit? Is it afraid of catching monkeypox from her sore-ridden cock gobbler?

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 02:51 PM (IYno0)

413 >>> 395 Omg. She actually said these exact words.

@disclosetv - 48m

NOW -- Kamala Harris: "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (ptqGC)

But did she acknowledge the tribes who used to live on the land where she was sitting? NO???

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Posted by: leftists at July 26, 2022 02:51 PM (llON8)

414 395 Omg. She actually said these exact words.

@disclosetv - 48m

NOW -- Kamala Harris: "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (ptqGC)
_____________

To people not immersed in the insanity of the trans-cult, this sounds like a crazy person speaking. Good.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 26, 2022 02:51 PM (fs1hN)

415 "Just transitioning my money fascists!"

My money's pronoun used to be "mine" -- now it is "ours" and "theirs".

Posted by: illiniwek at July 26, 2022 02:52 PM (Cus5s)

416 Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 26, 2022 02:51 PM (fs1hN)
One can only hope

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 26, 2022 02:52 PM (AFyCq)

417 Baseball tonight!
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 26, 2022 02:37 PM

Baseball tomorrow, comedy tonight!

Posted by: Pseudolus at July 26, 2022 02:52 PM (RkC6l)

418 Additional terms The Junta will soon re-define to make Joe appear less of a loser

Senile
Baby Formula Shortage
Owned by China
Gasoline and Diesel Price Increases
Corrupt
Extremely Partisan
Inflation

Posted by: Gref at July 26, 2022 02:52 PM (AMIL/)

419 Has anyone ever provided a for instance of Biden doing something decent, even one?
-------

He is an example of a fine father.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 26, 2022 02:52 PM (A+/mw)

420 Regarding falling gas prices: yeah, filling my truck is only $75, rather than $85. Never mind I was spending only $45 to fill my truck just a few months ago.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at July 26, 2022 02:53 PM (5pTK/)

421
He is an example of a fine father.

...and a responsible parent.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 26, 2022 02:53 PM (A+/mw)

422 410 Laughing at the video of the California teacher who got attacked by the monk seal in Hawaii. Apparently, the woman got too close to the pup and the seal thought she was trying to groom him.
__________

A California teacher?

She probably was.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 26, 2022 02:53 PM (MvHI3)

423 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 26, 2022 02:52 PM (A+/mw)

Wat.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 26, 2022 02:54 PM (AFyCq)

424 Posted by: JackStraw at July 26, 2022 02:19 PM (ZLI7S)

As an unarticulate moron when it comes to numbers, recessions, etc, etc, I look at prices.
We are in what I would call a recession.
I had some pretty good pay raises the last couple of
years.
I can't tell after I balance the checkbook.
If this is hurting me and I notice, most all middleclass is feeling this too.

Posted by: Bosk at July 26, 2022 02:54 PM (v4L7Y)

425 344 235 I'd be nice if these Korean girls could actually dance . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

---------------
OH MY GIRL, Dun Dun Dance
youtube.com/watch?v=xvH0Bc6HUW4

Of note, they have more muscle mass than David Hogg
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 26, 2022 02:41 PM (MFZ8i)
_________________________

OMG that's terrible. But in fairness, truly good dancers are rare, as is truly good dance choreography.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 02:54 PM (iFTx/)

426 that Trump signed into law.

Posted by: Blago at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (1K0db)

*That was passed 526-9 in an election year that Trump signed into law.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 02:54 PM (IYno0)

427 NOW -- Kamala Harris: "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (ptqGC)

If we can get it on the teleprompter, I'm sure we can get Joe to say "I am Elmer J. Fudd, Millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht."

Posted by: Wally at July 26, 2022 02:54 PM (FJYfm)

428 395 Omg. She actually said these exact words.

@disclosetv - 48m

NOW -- Kamala Harris: "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."
Posted by: Jane D'oh

That's deep, man. It's like Elmo morphed into Col. Kurtz.

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2022 02:54 PM (sAmhv)

429 Bill Kristol Says Democrats Should Recruit John Legend (Not Kamala) to Replace Biden — ‘Our Version’ of Zelensky.

I didn't know Zelensky had been castrated by his wife like Legend has.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 02:54 PM (ZGrMX)

430 210 https://tinyurl.com/2h2jxswn

OT

A story from Not the Bee. A young couple livin' their Best Life but The Man didn't appreciate it. The Po-Po got them, eventually. After some time had passed. The FBI looks 'great' in all of this.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (sAmhv)

I definitely want to see this made into a movie.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at July 26, 2022 02:54 PM (8C7+r)

431 Most of Biden's Cabinet looks like the staff ~~of a small New England college~~ at the Mos Eisley Cantina.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 26, 2022 02:55 PM (Xrfse)

432 It's 88 on our lil' island right now. Supposed to hit 90 by 4:00.

We have a thing to go to this evening, outside. But it's on the water, so there's that.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:35 PM (ptqGC)

It that trend continues, the water will be boiling by tomorrow.

Posted by: Ultimate MAGA G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2022 02:55 PM (yQpMk)

433 To people not immersed in the insanity of the trans-cult, this sounds like a crazy person speaking. Good.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

She is crazy. We are in such good hands.

Posted by: Infidel at July 26, 2022 02:55 PM (mn1Pi)

434 And while they are in denial, homesteaders on the internet are following reports of the culling of cattle due to high feed prices. They expect high prices for food next year.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 26, 2022 02:55 PM (5HBd1)

435 If half a year of falling economic output isn't. Recession what the F* is it?

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 26, 2022 02:56 PM (Gs7m+)

436 Ron Wyden Floats Increased IRS Audits to Fund Enhanced Obamacare Subsidies

.. should start with the Biden family, then 100 Senators and 425 Representatives

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 02:56 PM (RHGPo)

437 Try not to use her branding. Call her Ocasio or Cortez.
Posted by: spindrift at July 26, 2022 02:43 PM (h5TKJ)

Donkey Chompers is best
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2022 02:45 PM (M+Lyo)

***

Is Sugar Tits right out?

Posted by: Hunter Biden at July 26, 2022 02:56 PM (flINI)

438 Kamala Harris: "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."
_________

Sorry, but I cannot accept her assertion that she is a woman until I see her credentials as a biologist.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--FJB at July 26, 2022 02:56 PM (MvHI3)

439 Omg. She actually said these exact words.

@disclosetv - 48m

NOW -- Kamala Harris: "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM
_____________

To people not immersed in the insanity of the trans-cult, this sounds like a crazy person speaking. Good.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 26, 2022 02:51 PM

What is the point of the last part?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 26, 2022 02:56 PM (/+bwe)

440 To people not immersed in the insanity of the trans-cult, this sounds like a crazy person speaking. Good.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

She is crazy. We are in such good hands.

Posted by: Infidel at July 26, 2022 02:55 PM (mn1Pi)

Presidential material. God help us.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:56 PM (ptqGC)

441 Regarding falling gas prices: yeah, filling my truck is only $75, rather than $85. Never mind I was spending only $45 to fill my truck just a few months ago.

Our "betters" are boiling the proverbial frog.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 26, 2022 02:56 PM (Xrfse)

442 Has anyone ever provided a for instance of Biden doing something decent, even one?

He did come out in favor of "Right to Repair". That's it. That's all I've got.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com - Email for morons. at July 26, 2022 02:56 PM (Bd6X8)

443 Most of Biden's Cabinet looks like the staff of a small New England college
Posted by: SMOD

In my mind's eye it's the lineup at the cantina in Star Wars.

Posted by: Pedantic Asshoe at July 26, 2022 02:57 PM (6WCwE)

444 A blue suit...

of color.

Posted by: ... at July 26, 2022 02:57 PM (IYno0)

445 So we are back to Humpty Dumpty saying what words mean

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 26, 2022 02:57 PM (gtAB/)

446 That's deep, man. It's like Elmo morphed into Col. Kurtz.

Sesame Street apparently just announced that Elmo is going to dedicate his life to fighting racism.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 02:57 PM (ZGrMX)

447 But did she acknowledge the tribes who used to live on the land where she was sitting? NO???

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Posted by: leftists at July 26, 2022 02:51 PM (llON

They pulled that shit at my grandkids summer theater show. Some guy in front said loudly, "What about the Covis people? Why didn't you mention that the Umpaca tuty fruity tribe took their land?

Posted by: Beartooth at July 26, 2022 02:57 PM (u9Awk)

448 I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit.

"Is she a biologist or something???"
--Ketanji Brown Jackson

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:57 PM (Ivdso)

449 They aren't lying to US. We are dead to them, or better said, a problem not yet managed successfully.

They're lying to themselves, and the purpose is simply to set the rules for remaining in the Inner Party.

To remain, you will speak only of holistic recessions.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 26, 2022 02:58 PM (rjdJW)

450 You have to look at the economic numbers holistically to decide if there's a recession. Just like we do to keep the Yellow Menace numbers down.

Posted by: Harvard Admissions Officer at July 26, 2022 02:58 PM (uxDfc)

451 The same people that can't tell you what a women is, can't tell you what a recession is, can't tell what dementia is, and they were the ones counting the ballots so...

Posted by: OhNoNotTheBees at July 26, 2022 02:58 PM (O8sQ4)

452 Gas here is down over a dollar a gallon.. Of course it was $6.89

Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 26, 2022 02:58 PM (bs+z0)

453 Regarding falling gas prices: yeah, filling my truck is only $75, rather than $85. Never mind I was spending only $45 to fill my truck just a few months ago.

Yeah but you don't NEED a truck. You really need an electric truck. Or a car. Because I know what you need.

Posted by: Troll Hard with a vengeance at July 26, 2022 02:58 PM (q8Oe1)

454 Most of Biden's Cabinet looks like the staff of a small New England college at the Mos Eisley Cantina.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
---------

That pic of Levine and whatever/whoever that other thing is, would cause earlier generations to assume that the carney was in town.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 26, 2022 02:58 PM (4t6Xc)

455 "Kamala Harris: "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."
Posted by: Jane D'oh"

How does she know she is a woman? is she a biologist?

Posted by: Ripley at July 26, 2022 02:58 PM (MxEKc)

456 What is the point of the last part?
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 26, 2022 02:56 PM (/+bwe)

Suit colors are a social construct. A suit should not be assigned a color at creation, but should instead be allowed to define itself as having a color, or two colors, or no colors at all.

Posted by: 29Victor at July 26, 2022 02:58 PM (BJKQV)

457 Cost me $118 to fill up versus $133 on 6/26.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at July 26, 2022 02:58 PM (5HBd1)

458 Kurt is a colonel? No wonder the military’s f’ed up.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 02:58 PM (2urLC)

459 Covis = Clovis

Posted by: Beartooth at July 26, 2022 02:58 PM (u9Awk)

460 What is the point of the last part?

Describing yourself for blind viewers is the latest in liberal performativeness.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 02:59 PM (ZGrMX)

461 Posted by: Ultimate MAGA G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2022 02:55 PM (yQpMk)

I’d be more worried about it tipping over.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at July 26, 2022 02:59 PM (AFyCq)

462 >>> To people not immersed in the insanity of the trans-cult, this sounds like a crazy person speaking. Good.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 26, 2022 02:51 PM

What is the point of the last part?
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 26, 2022 02:56 PM (/+bwe)

To acknowledge the Visually Impaired.

But she didn't acknowledge the native owners!!!!

Posted by: leftists at July 26, 2022 02:59 PM (llON8)

463 The Fly Girls were good dancers

https://youtu.be/bR4enz485_Q?t=74

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:59 PM (Ivdso)

464 He has a 45-year accident-free record as a long-haul trucker.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at July 26, 2022 03:00 PM (w9Wax)

465 Gas here is down over a dollar a gallon

"The president cannot control gas prices, its all Putin's fault!!!"
--leftists

"OMG The president drove down gas prices by a dollar, that's sticking it to the fat cat big oil tycoons!!!"
--also leftists

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 03:01 PM (Ivdso)

466 Describing yourself for blind viewers is the latest in liberal performativeness.

I'd also like to note that this is especially dumb because people who are blind generally have no idea what a woman or a blue dress or a table look like.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 03:01 PM (ZGrMX)

467 I am SMOD .. my pronouns are Anemone/Synecdoche

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 03:01 PM (RHGPo)

468 What is the point of the last part?
Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 26, 2022 02:56 PM (/+bwe)
______________

Maybe it's for the blind people who are unlucky enough to have tuned in. Though if that's so, I think she should be a lot more descriptive.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 26, 2022 03:02 PM (fs1hN)

469 Kamala's speeches sound like a teacher talking to 1st graders. Either she thinks her audience is made up of barely-sentient waterheads or she is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 03:02 PM (Ivdso)

470 Describing yourself for blind viewers is the latest in liberal performativeness.

what about for the color blind? check your color privilege

Posted by: brak at July 26, 2022 03:02 PM (j5Tg0)

471 454 Most of Biden's Cabinet looks like the staff of a small New England college at the Mos Eisley Cantina.
Posted by: Notorious BFD
---------

That pic of Levine and whatever/whoever that other thing is, would cause earlier generations to assume that the carney was in town.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,

Babylon DC is a Carnival of Malignant Evil so...

Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2022 03:02 PM (sAmhv)

472 *gestures hypnotically*

"This is not the recession you're looking for"

*Trips on flowing robes, facedown in Bantha shit*

Posted by: Joe-bi Wan Kenobi at July 26, 2022 03:02 PM (U8kyA)

473 Shuckin' and Jivin' the fartclam.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

474 At this point, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho would be a better leader....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 26, 2022 03:02 PM (PiwSw)

475 President Harris: "Before we begin this meeting, Mr. Putin, please tell us your pronouns and describe what you're wearing."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 03:03 PM (ptqGC)

476 If I'm ever put in a position to where I have to declare a pronoun, I'm going with Cthulhu.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at July 26, 2022 03:03 PM (5pTK/)

477 That's racisst.

Posted by: Karine Jean-Pierre Van Damme at July 26, 2022 03:03 PM (v0R5T)

478 Suit colors are a social construct. A suit should not be assigned a color at creation, but should instead be allowed to define itself as having a color, or two colors, or no colors at all.
Posted by: 29Victor at July 26, 2022 02:58 PM

This sounds like "person of no color" which my classmates and I coined when we first heard "person of color" and thought it was a modern work-around on the racist "coloreds." (I think our first impression was right tbh.)

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 26, 2022 03:03 PM (/+bwe)

479 It's 88 on our lil' island right now. Supposed to hit 90 by 4:00.
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Hold it...rising seas haven't washed over the island yet? Have all of the swells had to flee Daufuskie?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 26, 2022 03:03 PM (4t6Xc)

480 Presidential material. God help us.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

I've been praying, hard.

Posted by: Infidel at July 26, 2022 03:03 PM (mn1Pi)

481 floccinaucinihilipilification has earned the unofficial title of the longest non-technical word in the English language. It simply means the act or habit of estimating something as worthless.

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 03:03 PM (RHGPo)

482 What does the King of the Franks have to do with indigenous peoples?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 03:03 PM (2urLC)

483 That's not a blue dress, it's a white dress!

Posted by: Half the Internet at July 26, 2022 03:04 PM (w9Wax)

484 The Fly Girls were good dancers

https://youtu.be/bR4enz485_Q?t=74
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:59 PM (Ivdso)

Wife says one of them was J Ho.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

485 floccinaucinihilipilification has earned the unofficial title of the longest non-technical word in the English language

Yeah the longest overall word is some ludicrous chemical with like 67 letters.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 03:05 PM (Ivdso)

486 475 President Harris: "Before we begin this meeting, Mr. Putin, please tell us your pronouns and describe what you're wearing."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 03:03 PM (ptqGC)
____________

My pronouns are "I will crush you idiots" and I'm wearing the skinned carcasses of my enemies.
-Vlad the Terrible

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 26, 2022 03:05 PM (fs1hN)

487 The Weber has gone cold today

Posted by: REDACTED at July 26, 2022 03:05 PM (us2H3)

488
"Recession? It's not a recession till WE say it's a recession! Was it a recession when the Germans bombed the Federal Reserve?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2022 03:05 PM (JVuoD)

489 Kamala Harris: worst phone sex operator....... ever.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2022 03:05 PM (BFigT)

490 Sesame Street apparently just announced that Elmo is going to dedicate his life to fighting racism.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 02:57 PM (ZGrMX)

Bert has come out as a transman.

Posted by: Ultimate MAGA G'rump928(c) at July 26, 2022 03:05 PM (yQpMk)

491 Funcession!

Posted by: wth at July 26, 2022 03:05 PM (v0R5T)

492 477 That's racisst.
Posted by: Karine Jean-Pierre Van Damme

THIS IS WORST THAN WATERGATE!!!

Posted by: Carl everything is worse than Watergate Bernstein at July 26, 2022 03:05 PM (sAmhv)

493 A story from Not the Bee. A young couple livin' their Best Life but The Man didn't appreciate it. The Po-Po got them, eventually. After some time had passed. The FBI looks 'great' in all of this.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 26, 2022 02:23 PM (sAmhv)

That is a story of total incompetence from the criminals to the police.

Posted by: WiNO - Amish Vampires in Space at July 26, 2022 03:05 PM (EpDzw)

494
Why are highways getting removed? Cuz racism of course. And no I am not kidding. In cities like Syracuse NY they are spending billions of dollars to remove interstates that run through the city in the name of equity.

And a couple of years after the highways are removed, they'll start caterwauling about how those evil Republicans took out the highways so that black and brown people couldn't drive to racisty racist white areas.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 26, 2022 03:06 PM (n+4am)

495 At this point, President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho would be a better leader....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 26, 2022 03:02 PM (PiwSw)

HEY! Muchas Gracias, ese!!

Posted by: Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho at July 26, 2022 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

496 Why don't we ever see Heels Up in a dress? I am guessing that those legs look like a 1975 Rand McNally Road Atlas

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 26, 2022 03:06 PM (flINI)

497 If the economy contracts by a percent or two while the value of your cash has contracted by 9.1% (yeah, right), well, you're way ahead, aren't you? This is a BOOM economy!

Posted by: The White House at July 26, 2022 03:06 PM (Jg92y)

498 "Recession? It's not a recession till WE say it's a recession! Was it a recession when the Germans bombed the Federal Reserve?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2022 03:05 PM (JVuoD)

You mean "Was it a recession when the Chinese bribed the Federal Reserve?"

Posted by: WiNO - Amish Vampires in Space at July 26, 2022 03:06 PM (EpDzw)

499 Wife says one of them was J Ho.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

She is correct.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (DRSnL)

500 I'm dull. Currently watching an old Wagon Train ep. with Ronnie Raygun.

Posted by: Infidel at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (mn1Pi)

501 Joe Biden starring in " Say Anything"

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (M+Lyo)

502 This shit is exactly like declaring that the chocolate ration has been "increased" from 30 grams to 25.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (f0ykX)

503 I need a job, badly even, prayer would be appreciated.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (eGTCV)

504 So what difference does it make that she identifies as she her... Is someone gonna address her as she her ?Wouldn't those be used when speaking about her not speaking to her ?

Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (bs+z0)

505 463 The Fly Girls were good dancers

https://youtu.be/bR4enz485_Q?t=74
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 02:59 PM (Ivdso)
_______________________

Not bad. That style of "jumpy" dance is easier to do, but they all had rhythm and were in sync. Can't say that about those Korean girls. Look at J-Lo then and tell me she hasn't had $200k of work done. Doesn't even look like the same person.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (iFTx/)

506 Maybe it's for the blind people who are unlucky enough to have tuned in. Though if that's so, I think she should be a lot more descriptive.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 26, 2022 03:02 PM

Holy crap! That's so dumb! The whole point of audio for the visually impaired is that there is story-related action.

If lefties really want to be trendy, they should be like this:

"I am a woman in a blue dress, sitting at a table, when an old man walks in, comes over to me, and sniffs my hair in a way that makes me and everyone but him awkward."

I would gladly tune into her speech for a visualization like that!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 26, 2022 03:08 PM (/+bwe)

507
She is correct.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (DRSnL)

I just told her "The bacon wench says you're correct."

Posted by: Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho at July 26, 2022 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

508 "Regarding falling gas prices: yeah, filling my truck is only $75, rather than $85. Never mind I was spending only $45 to fill my truck just a few months ago."

Just wait until the SPR starts sucking air.

https://tinyurl.com/bdzypany

Posted by: Roland THTG at July 26, 2022 03:08 PM (j40lz)

509 damn sock....

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

510 Why are highways getting removed? Cuz racism of course. And no I am not kidding. In cities like Syracuse NY they are spending billions of dollars to remove interstates that run through the city in the name of equity.

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They are spending billion of dollars to "study" the removal of highways. They won't actually do a f'ing thing. Just funnel money to their supporters.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 03:08 PM (UuD2k)

511 >>> 475 President Harris: "Before we begin this meeting, Mr. Putin, please tell us your pronouns and describe what you're wearing."
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 03:03 PM (ptqGC)

First you will blow me.

Posted by: Vlad Poo Tin at July 26, 2022 03:08 PM (llON8)

512 This is all fucked in the head.

I am glad I don't listen to the MFM. I turned on public radio for about two minutes. I caught the last part of some gas rationing story (found JJ's link later), then the local weather (which is fine), THEN, some story about some woman who had some emergency with her pregnancy, and OMG, this abortion ban from SCOTUS is causing so much confusion at the state level that this bitch had some sort of problem.
I got to my destination and shut it off mid-sentence.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 26, 2022 03:09 PM (ufFY8)

513 499 Wife says one of them was J Ho.
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

She is correct.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (DRSnL)
_____________________

She's explicitly introduced in that video. She musta had $200k of work done since then. Doesn't even look like the same person.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

514 Well I just got back from Costco and the stuff I bought last month has gone up a dollar or 2 dollars

Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 26, 2022 03:09 PM (bs+z0)

515 And no I am not kidding. In cities like Syracuse NY they are spending billions of dollars to remove interstates that run through the city in the name of equity.

Its one of those really old long-standing myths that highways were deliberately put down in poor parts of town to divide families and make it hard for poor people to communicate. I mean everyone has a freaking smartphone now, but the myth has been pushed by black activists and commie crap-stirrers for 70 years now.

Hint: they were laid down in poor parts of town because the rich people didn't want a highway in their part, they didn't think about or give a single damn who was cut off from whom.

And besides, there are many ways to get around the cut off effect other than "rip the highway out". The real goal here is to increase congestion and reduce individual liberty and travel. They want driving to suck as much as possible so that people stop using internal combustion engines and rely on public transportation instead.

And the interstate system was in part to be able to move supplies and land jets in the USA in case of invasion, which obviously our enemies prefer we did not have. So bonus for China.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 03:09 PM (Ivdso)

516 Why don't we ever see Heels Up in a dress? I am guessing that those legs look like a 1975 Rand McNally Road Atlas
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 26, 2022 03:06 PM (flINI)

I call them trail marks.

Posted by: Willie Brown at July 26, 2022 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

517 Even as a kid you just KNEW something wasn't altogether right with Bert and Ernie.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 26, 2022 03:09 PM (flINI)

518 Posted by: N.L. Urker

You got them.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 26, 2022 03:09 PM (StBu4)

519 Stop! You're just pumping mud!

Posted by: Just the Punchline at July 26, 2022 03:09 PM (yQpMk)

520 Why are highways getting removed? Cuz racism of course. And no I am not kidding. In cities like Syracuse NY they are spending billions of dollars to remove interstates that run through the city in the name of equity.

And a couple of years after the highways are removed, they'll start caterwauling about how those evil Republicans took out the highways so that black and brown people couldn't drive to racisty racist white areas.

Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 26, 2022 03:06 PM

Because Boston shouldn't be the only city to spend $22 billion to drive an elevated expressway underground.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 26, 2022 03:10 PM (RkC6l)

521 Added to my list NL, God speed.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 26, 2022 03:10 PM (oWBc3)

522 514 Well I just got back from Costco and the stuff I bought last month has gone up a dollar or 2 dollars
Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 26, 2022 03:09 PM (bs+z0)

Oops, still have my sock from this morning

Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 26, 2022 03:10 PM (bs+z0)

523 Stop! You're just pumping mud!
Posted by: Just the Punchline at July 26, 2022 03:09 PM (yQpMk)

Spit it out, Willie! It's asshole!!!

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

524 Kamala Harris: worst phone sex operator....... ever.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 26, 2022 03:05 PM (BFigT)
......

Yeah, I don't like people giggling when I've got a boner.

Posted by: wth at July 26, 2022 03:11 PM (v0R5T)

525 She's explicitly introduced in that video.

Posted by: Elric Blade at July 26, 2022 03:09 PM (iFTx/)

Whoops, I didn't watch the video because I'm at work.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 03:11 PM (DRSnL)

526 NOW -- Kamala Harris: "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 02:49 PM (ptqGC)

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"That blue suit identifies as trans-muave, you're not a suit biologist, and you disrespected it by not telling us it's pronouns, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 26, 2022 03:11 PM (NPPbl)

527 I need a job, badly even, prayer would be appreciated.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (eGTCV)

Consider it done.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

528 am guessing that those legs look like a 1975 Rand McNally Road Atlas
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

What does this mean?

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 26, 2022 03:11 PM (tQL7r)

529 493-So not only were the con artists, but they also weren't in the running for best parents of the year leaving their three teenagers this note:

While I am writing this our tears are dripping on our breakfast table. Without saying too much, we both love you more than anything in this world... We will be together again one day. This is not a goodbye but a brief break from each other.

I can understand why it's helpful to have breaks from kids. That's one of the reasons it's good for kids to have a job, but my heartstrings are not moved by this tale of parental woe and love.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2022 03:12 PM (fL5aK)

530 Kamala Harris: "I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."

Madagascar is assembling it's forces because EVERYONE knows America can be had right now.

We're lead by unserious blithering idiots.

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)

531 Woke phonesex

https://tinyurl.com/2mzmwsz7

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 03:12 PM (Ivdso)

532 I just told her "The bacon wench says you're correct."
Posted by: Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho at July 26, 2022 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm sure that cuts about as much ice with her as it does with my husband. "Don't you know who I am?!" never works on him.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 03:12 PM (DRSnL)

533 Prayers up, N. L. Urker. 🙏🙏

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 26, 2022 03:12 PM (ptqGC)

534 New Zealand has gone Full MiniTrue (remove the space):

https://twitter.com/i/status/
1551560843434684416

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 26, 2022 03:12 PM (PiwSw)

535 I need a job, badly even, prayer would be appreciated.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (eGTCV)

Of course, I'll pray.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2022 03:13 PM (fL5aK)

536 The latest Christmas tree from the Senate

What they wanted:
$52 billion in financial incentives to the semiconductor industry

What they got:
$52 billion in financial incentives to the semiconductor industry
$80 billion in increased funding to universities through the National Science Foundation (NSF)
$50 billion in funding for research at the Department of Energy (DOE)
$1.5 billion to spur mobile broadband development
The legislation also has a 25 percent investment tax credit for investments in semiconductor manufacturing

Posted by: SMOD at July 26, 2022 03:13 PM (RHGPo)

537 I'm sure that cuts about as much ice with her as it does with my husband. "Don't you know who I am?!" never works on him.

lol

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 26, 2022 03:13 PM (Xrfse)

538 535 I need a job, badly even, prayer would be appreciated.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (eGTCV)

Prayers for you

Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 26, 2022 03:13 PM (bs+z0)

539 I need a job, badly even, prayer would be appreciated.

Up and away.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 26, 2022 03:14 PM (Xrfse)

540 I need a job, badly even, prayer would be appreciated.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (eGTCV)

Done.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 03:14 PM (DRSnL)

541 You will eat the bugs!

Posted by: Pope Francis at July 26, 2022 03:14 PM (q8Oe1)

542 "Don't you know who I am?!" never works on him.

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I always ask them if they know who I am. If they say no, then I say, "Good, then you won't be able to tell the police."

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 26, 2022 03:14 PM (UuD2k)

543 Prayers for you
Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 26, 2022 03:13 PM (bs+z0)

***

Heh

Posted by: THE Reverend Fred Phelps at July 26, 2022 03:15 PM (flINI)

544 We need a sign-language person to tell us the scent of everything and everyone, for the benefit of those who lost their sense of smell.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2022 03:15 PM (44ww/)

545 New Zealand has gone Full MiniTrue (remove the space)

when you elect a Karen as PM...

Posted by: brak at July 26, 2022 03:15 PM (j5Tg0)

546 Prayers up N. L. Urker . May the Almighty provide the right place at the right salary imminently.

Posted by: Moki at July 26, 2022 03:17 PM (JrN/x)

547 I am glad I don't listen to the MFM.

If "MSM" is now "Men having Sex with Men", does that mean "MFM" is now "Men Fucking Men"?

Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 03:17 PM (ZGrMX)

548 *sniffs droid*

*shits robes*

Posted by: Joe-bi Wan Kenobi at July 26, 2022 03:17 PM (U8kyA)

549 503 I need a job, badly even, prayer would be appreciated.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM

Lord Jesus, please attend to the employment need of Your Servant N.L. Urker, whose real name and heart you know. May he find employment now and a better situation in the near future. We ask in Your Holy Name. Amen.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 26, 2022 03:17 PM (/+bwe)

550 Two quarters of negative GDP growth is not a recession unless Trump or a Republican is POTUS........

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at July 26, 2022 03:17 PM (R+nZe)

551 I hope Pelosi labels this "funcession" and the Dems continue to deny the dismal state of the economy right through to the mid-terms.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 26, 2022 03:18 PM (sWM8x)

552 >>> 503 I need a job, badly even, prayer would be appreciated.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, there are chickens in my trench at July 26, 2022 03:07 PM (eGTCV)

Of course.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 26, 2022 03:18 PM (llON8)

553 Apparently Weber fired their CEO after reporting (unexpectedly!) bad Q2 earnings. OK, I guess taking the fall is part of the job description but how much influence does a CEO really have over whether or not people decide to buy a BBQ grill? As far as I know, they didn't refocus their marketing towards trannies and fat chicks like Victoria's Secret or welcome druggies and bums into their stores like Starbucks. What would a different CEO have done differently to sell more grills when people can't afford meat to grill?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 26, 2022 03:18 PM (nfrXX)

554 New Zealand politicians tend to move their eyes from person to person in the front row, in a way that seems forced. What's worse is the angry-scold vibe they have been giving off when they talk.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 26, 2022 03:18 PM (44ww/)

555 When the looting starts America will have a FREEcession!!!!

Posted by: 29Victor at July 26, 2022 03:18 PM (BJKQV)

556 For those keeping track, the new number of total jobs filled is now 151.98 million. That puts the US a little over a half-million jobs shy of the February 2020 figure of 152.504 million jobs filled, the last full month before the pandemic shutdowns destroyed 22 million jobs in April and May of the same year.
++++
Yup. But the rate is lower. Gotta love that shrinking participation rate!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2022 03:19 PM (WWh8n)

557 To VP Harris............

My preferred pronouns are BLOW and ME !!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at July 26, 2022 03:19 PM (R+nZe)

558 If two negatives make a positive, shouldn’t we be seeing positive growth now?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 26, 2022 03:19 PM (2urLC)

559 If "MSM" is now "Men having Sex with Men", does that mean "MFM" is now "Men Fucking Men"?
Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 03:17 PM (ZGrMX)

Works for me.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 03:19 PM (DRSnL)

560 @townhallcom
KJP: "Economic indicators...do not show that we are in a recession or even a pre-recession."
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Pre-recession. Love it.

Welcome to 2-5 years of "pre-recession" followed by growth!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2022 03:20 PM (WWh8n)

561 557 To VP Harris............

My preferred pronouns are BLOW and ME !!!!
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at July 26, 2022 03:19 PM (R+nZe)
-

Blue on blue.

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 26, 2022 03:20 PM (odVni)

562 I mean the whole thing is preposterous but

$1.5 billion to spur mobile broadband development

Want to spur mobile broadband? Tell the FCC to quit screwing with Elon.

Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at July 26, 2022 03:20 PM (uxDfc)

563 "Men Fucking Men"?
Posted by: Ian S. at July 26, 2022 03:17 PM (ZGrMX)

Works for me.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 03:19 PM (DRSnL)

I'll look at you differently now.......

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

564 What would a different CEO have done differently to sell more grills when people can't afford meat to grill?

Posted by: Oddbob

A creative CEO would have been putting out commercials with long pig recipes, given the economic outlook.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 03:20 PM (lTGtQ)

565 Most normal people if they need a break from their kids, tell them, "There's frozen meals in the freezer. We're going out for dinner and a movie." But gone for a year?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2022 03:20 PM (fL5aK)

566 By the time this bunch of fuckwads are done we'll be 6 months into a full blown depression.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 26, 2022 03:21 PM (6M5Hw)

567 This busty brunette in a skin-tight dress is horrified at gas prices in Biden's "pre-recession" America and is quite fearful about what "declared recession" prices are going to look like:
https://is.gd/gBVoNm

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2022 03:21 PM (WWh8n)

568 When the looting starts America will have a FREEcession!!!!
Posted by: 29Victor at July 26, 2022 03:18 PM (BJKQV)
.......

That only occurs when you have two or more consecutive quarters of raping and pillaging.

Posted by: wth at July 26, 2022 03:22 PM (v0R5T)

569 What would a different CEO have done differently to sell more grills when people can't afford meat to grill?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 26, 2022 03:18 PM (nfrXX)

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Sell insect air fryers.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 26, 2022 03:22 PM (NPPbl)

570 Want to spur mobile broadband? Tell the FCC to quit screwing with Elon.
Posted by: motionview, a National Divorcee at July 26, 2022 03:20 PM (uxDfc)
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But that's the wrong kind of broadband. They want big, state-controlled, expensive broadband full of kickbacks and controls.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2022 03:22 PM (WWh8n)

571 I'll look at you differently now.......
Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

LOL, you know what I meant!

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 03:22 PM (DRSnL)

572 "528 am guessing that those legs look like a 1975 Rand McNally Road Atlas
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

What does this mean?"

Vericose veins, all blue/purple on calves from knee to ankle.

Posted by: Scott_T at July 26, 2022 03:22 PM (2waQ7)

573 By the time this bunch of fuckwads are done we'll be 6 months into a full blown depression.

Posted by: Ben Had

Based on how fast the numbers are falling, we're heading that way already. But that means they won't be gone for over two years.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 03:23 PM (lTGtQ)

574
LOL, you know what I meant!
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 26, 2022 03:22 PM (DRSnL)

😝

Posted by: Sponge - RIP Dave in Texas at July 26, 2022 03:23 PM (Zz0t1)

575 NY subway vigilante (maybe Batman) nood

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 26, 2022 03:23 PM (LvTSG)

576 Many prayers going out for NL Urker.

Posted by: Infidel at July 26, 2022 03:23 PM (mn1Pi)

577 Just picked up the mail. There was flyer from Country First Michigan urging me to vote in the Republican primary to "Defend Democracy" and "Vote Against Extremists." Its website prominently features a quote from that stalwart of decency, Adam Kinzinger.

I'm going to vote for the most extreme Republican who's running.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 26, 2022 03:24 PM (/+bwe)

578 This busty brunette in a skin-tight dress is horrified at gas prices in Biden's "pre-recession" America and is quite fearful about what "declared recession" prices are going to look like:
https://is.gd/gBVoNm
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 26, 2022 03:21 PM (WWh8n)
........

She better bend over and check her tire pressures.

Posted by: wth at July 26, 2022 03:24 PM (v0R5T)

579 >> New Zealand has gone Full MiniTrue

I heard that clip on the radio yesterday. We, the govt, are the sole source of truth and facts. Ignore everyone but us. We are the sole source of Truth.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 26, 2022 03:27 PM (Mzdiz)

580 "So it is that simple.

Except Brandon doesn't want it to be."
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It's a complicated world for Joey B.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 26, 2022 03:27 PM (Wj/z9)

581 We, the govt, are the sole source of truth and facts. Ignore everyone but us. We are the sole source of Truth.

"Lets vote for more of this!!!!"
--New Zealanders

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 26, 2022 03:28 PM (Ivdso)

582
Ever since the Great Depression, people have been scared to use the D word. That's when "recession" came into vogue, to avoid the D word.

There is no real official definition of the D word, but some candidates are:

1) 10% cumulative drop in real GDP.

2) 2 years of negative growth.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 26, 2022 03:30 PM (Mzdiz)

583 Vericose veins, all blue/purple on calves from knee to ankle.
Posted by: Scott_T at July 26, 2022 03:22 PM (2waQ7)

Yes, thank you! My husband 'splained it to me. Kind of like Ricky to Lucy.

Posted by: Prime Sister at July 26, 2022 03:31 PM (tQL7r)

584 They played the recession is good card too early.

Posted by: Ron at July 26, 2022 03:32 PM (AtKtr)

585 Eff you Texas!

Posted by: La Nina 2022 at July 26, 2022 03:34 PM (M3hSG)

586 These people trying to redefine a recession are the same people who can't tell you what a woman is, tell you that anyone can be whatever sex they want to be, and have a man wearing a dress as a federal health official.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 26, 2022 02:07 PM (lTGtQ)

So you are saying the economy *identifies* as a recession?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 26, 2022 05:59 PM (eoQWY)

587 hahaha...what? you thought they were maybe going to admit their policies suck?

Posted by: ontoiran at July 27, 2022 03:57 AM (nsLiT)

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Biden's White House: Who's to Say What a Recession Is? Well, We Are. We Say What a Recession Is. And We Say This Isn't One, So Stuff It.

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Biden's White House: Who's to Say What a Recession Is? Well, We Are. We Say What a Recession Is.
And We Say This Isn't One, So Stuff It.