Biden: The Economy's "On the Right Track," "That Doesn't Sound Like a Recession to Me"

The gruesome gaslighter announced that America is "on the right path," because he's on hardcore drugs and doesn't have any idea what the f*** he's saying any more:

Coming off of last year's historic economic growth -- and regaining all the private sector jobs lost during the pandemic crisis -- it's no surprise that the economy is slowing down as the Federal Reserve acts to bring down inflation. But even as we face historic global challenges, we are on the right path and we will come through this transition stronger and more secure. Our job market remains historically strong, with unemployment at 3.6% and more than 1 million jobs created in the second quarter alone. Consumer spending is continuing to grow. Earlier this week, I met with the Chairman of SK Group from Korea, just one of the companies investing more than $200 billion in American manufacturing since I took office, powering a historic recovery in American manufacturing.
My economic plan is focused on bringing inflation down, without giving up all the economic gains we have made. Congress has an historic chance to do that by passing the CHIPS and Science Act and Inflation Reduction Act without delay.

We did not, in fact, regain all the jobs lost during the pandemic. And they were lost due to the demands of Biden's leftwing government cronies, to which Trump reluctantly bowed.

The Sage of Scranton, the Pride of NeverTrump.

Joe Mannix had this briefing for us, mostly drawn from his Morning Report:

From what I put on the MR based on a really cursory read:
Personal consumption expenditure is up 1.0%, but goods (physical stuff) are down 4.4% and private investment is down a staggering 13.5%. The only increases were in services spending (read: things like medical and child care, education, etc.) and intellectual property investment (probably mostly in big tech). Exports were up slightly. Gross all-in private investment is down by 2.73% and the inventory draw-down after the gigantic build-up in Q4 of last year (that pushed the entire GDP print positive due to its scale) continues, with inventories posting -2.01%. Investment in non-residential structures (stores, factories, office buildings, etc.) fell by 11.7% and residential structures (houses, apartment buildings, etc.) fell by 14%.
Declining real spending in the physical economy, declining investment, declining inventories and reduced construction and fixed asset investment while inflation continues and the average joe's credit cards are nearly maxed out isn't exactly a rosy "things are better than the top-line GDP print indicates" story.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

This WaPo "journalist" seems to agree there's no hidden good news here:

Heather Long
@byHeatherLong
The most worrying part of the GDP report today is the slowdown in consumer & biz spending.
* Big drop in consumer spending on goods that was barely offset by a modest rise in services spending.
* Big drop in business investment

I saw a market analyst say on Twitter that Wall Streeters aren't waiting for the NEBR to officially declare a recession -- they're pulling their money out.

Of course, the honest, decent man promised to us by NeverTrump then spoke to the public and lied some more:

Joe Biden continues to lie to the American people:

“We're not in a recession.” pic.twitter.com/t2rXYB4a4D
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 28, 2022

"That doesn't sound like a recession to me."

Biden takes ZERO questions on the day that Q2 GDP showed that America has entered a recession. pic.twitter.com/BipE8GK1Yn
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) July 28, 2022

The Wall Street Journal was one of the few media outlets which retained any credibility today:

Two straight records of declining output is a common definition of a recession. U.S. GDP shrank at a 1.6% rate in the first quarter.

Even if AP, Bloomberg, CNBC, and all the rest want to carry Biden's water and argue about the Exciting New Definition of a recession, they could, at least, report the common definition of a recession, as the Wall Street Journal did.

But they did not. It has now, 1984-style, been purged from all prior news archives.

An AP "journalist" argued that if you ignore the 9.1% inflation, which meaninglessly inflated the number of dollars in the economy, hey, you know, the economy actually grew.

I mean, it grew in inflated, debased dollar terms.

Josh Boak
@joshboak
Inflation matters a lot when thinking about GDP--exclude it from the Q2 figures and the economy grew at a 7.8% annual rate.
The fact that nominal growth was wiped out entirely by inflation helps to explain why voters are so angry and unhappy.

Remember, "journalists" do not take sides, wing-nuts!

Biden's go-to economic spinner told us yesterday that we should be grateful for the economic wonders Biden hath given us, for, unlike in some other countries, at least we're not facing a famine.

Yet.

"Well, look, I think that our -- our economy is more resilient to the -- to the types of challenges that we've faced. For example, you know, with respect to food, we're a net exporter of agricultural commodities. And, obviously, the high prices are hitting Americans very hard, but...in a way, that is different from some places that are facing famine, for example."
Yes, he actually said that.

FACEPALM: White House economic adviser Brian Deese says that things are great because America isn’t experiencing famine like other countries.

pic.twitter.com/sFFnSpWaoL
— Margolis & Cox (@MargolisandCox) July 27, 2022

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Posted by: Ace at 05:28 PM

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1 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 28, 2022 05:28 PM (Do5/p)

2 FJB and the 10% he rode in on.

Posted by: Cosda at July 28, 2022 05:28 PM (wZBA0)

3 Who are you going to believe, President Potatohead or your own lyin' eyes?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:29 PM (guGkK)

4 "and regaining all the private sector jobs lost during the pandemic crisis

I think they mean all the jobs destroyed by the govt induced panic.

Posted by: Ripley at July 28, 2022 05:29 PM (MxEKc)

5 They do love the Big Lie

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 28, 2022 05:30 PM (V6f9+)

6
"you aren't starving, so STFU!!"

-Biden Regime.

Posted by: portlandon at July 28, 2022 05:30 PM (+oR7L)

7 Someone here wrote this several months ago and I agree:
Whoever legitimately voted for this, I hope they starve to death first.

Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2022 05:30 PM (bVhJi)

8
Nothing to see here. Move along. Please, disperse!

Posted by: lt Frank Dreben at July 28, 2022 05:30 PM (+oR7L)

9 We need a more holisitic approach to defining a Biden Recession.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:31 PM (guGkK)

10 Deese?

Nuts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2022 05:31 PM (6FeV1)

11 It's not a recession. It's a depression.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at July 28, 2022 05:31 PM (zB/T/)

12
"Your bank account, 401K are lying to you. You're doing just fine."

-Biden Regime

Posted by: portlandon at July 28, 2022 05:31 PM (+oR7L)

13 That's gotta wear ya down after a while, lying like that all day, every day...

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 05:32 PM (jTmQV)

14 We've come a long way is such a short time, from Mumbles declaring he'd take responsibility for everything as POTUS to well just be happy we're not having a famine.

Posted by: jhawk90 at July 28, 2022 05:32 PM (7E7WL)

15
Joe Biden: Nobody is getting laid off

Hunter: Did somebody say laid?

Posted by: portlandon at July 28, 2022 05:33 PM (+oR7L)

16 So we are a big agricultural exporter and now we will attack that industry. And next year we can have that famine they want.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2022 05:33 PM (YynYJ)

17 An AP "journalist" argued that if you ignore the 9.1% inflation, which meaninglessly inflated the number of dollars in the economy, hey, you know, the economy actually grew

Bannon had a guy on the War Room who pointed out that if they used the method to determine inflation as in the 1970's, we're high double digits. Like 18%

Argentina look out!!!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 28, 2022 05:33 PM (TJjL2)

18 People starving to death is the old way of defining a famine. That metric will no longer apply here.

Posted by: Ripley at July 28, 2022 05:33 PM (MxEKc)

19 "7 Someone here wrote this several months ago and I agree:
Whoever legitimately voted for this, I hope they starve to death first."
I********
If you voted for Biden/Harris I hope you are bankrupted, end up homeless and die starving with covid under a condemned overpass bridge because that's what you voted for.

Posted by: Cosda at July 28, 2022 05:34 PM (wZBA0)

20 So if there’s no recession why do our rulers claim the need to pass spending bills to defeat a recession. Their argument not mine.

Posted by: 7man at July 28, 2022 05:34 PM (qwO6y)

21 Old and Busted: "I feel your pain."

New Hotness: "You have no pain, stop complaining you ingrate!"

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:34 PM (llXky)

22 >>>That's gotta wear ya down after a while, lying like that all day, every day...

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 05:32 PM (jTmQV)

Have you seen him?

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 28, 2022 05:34 PM (QYPq3)

23 I still want to know about these 8k checks everyone got from the government that he was riffing on about.

Posted by: jhawk90 at July 28, 2022 05:34 PM (7E7WL)

24 Where is the "this is and OP and everything is gay" guy?
This is where he comes in.
And maybe a Ben Rothlisburger rant.

Posted by: Bosk at July 28, 2022 05:34 PM (v4L7Y)

25 Brandon has always been a lying thug. I think I was 12 when he entered the senate.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 28, 2022 05:34 PM (TJjL2)

26 No famine, yet...

Of course plenty of food deserts in the USA as I'm told by the Left.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 28, 2022 05:34 PM (cMXNt)

27 My economic plan is focused on bringing inflation down, without giving up all the economic gains we have made.

I ... um, what economic gains would those be? A portion of the people who lost their jobs under the Wuhan Flu panic getting work back?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 05:35 PM (Ivdso)

28 Someone here wrote this several months ago and I agree:
Whoever legitimately voted for this, I hope they starve to death first.

Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2022 05:30 PM (bVhJi)
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Unlikely, given their morbid obesity.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:35 PM (llXky)

29 There is a real sub-story here.... things SHOULD be fine. The economy wants to get going again. There's no fundamental business reason why everything should be screwed up right now. It's entirely a result of feckless or malevolent governance, suffocating productivity.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2022 05:35 PM (6FeV1)

30 That doesn't sound like a famine to me.

Posted by: future FJB at July 28, 2022 05:35 PM (llON8)

31 "you aren't starving, so STFU!!"
-Biden Regime

You plagiarized that from me. You'll be hearing from my lawyers!

Posted by: Kim Jong-un at July 28, 2022 05:35 PM (a3Q+t)

32 Oh yeah, Joe looks like he already died about a month ago. We are seeing some kind of CGI version of him, a non-blinking version.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 05:36 PM (jTmQV)

33 There is no mass hunger, and if there is is transitory.

Posted by: Ripley at July 28, 2022 05:36 PM (MxEKc)

34 Damn Trump for this inflation he left Biden!

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 05:36 PM (krQz2)

35 "Well, look, I think that our -- our economy is more resilient to the -- to the types of challenges that we've faced.

He was about to say "recession" right there, but managed to stop himself.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 05:36 PM (Ivdso)

36
Miss me yet?

Posted by: $1.98 per gallon gas at July 28, 2022 05:36 PM (+oR7L)

37 Speaking of (not so) obscure 80s songs, this one is more apt than most:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OyBtMPqpNY

Posted by: BurtTC at July 28, 2022 05:36 PM (NWBBy)

38 Well I feel better

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 28, 2022 05:37 PM (geLO8)

39 I just saw a salamander in a top hat.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at July 28, 2022 05:37 PM (6zcSr)

40 The admin says: we will not comment on Fed action regarding rate hikes. Also he says the Fed is in charge of monetary policy. And trying to bring down inflation.

IOW: when economy crashes due to inflation/ rate hikes, don't blame us.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 28, 2022 05:37 PM (cUWlp)

41 >>>I just saw a salamander in a top hat.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at July 28, 2022 05:37 PM (6zcSr)

Noted.

Posted by: DEA at July 28, 2022 05:38 PM (QYPq3)

42
My Mother used to drive us to inflation, and she'd turn on the windshield wipers and the recession would smear all over the windshield. No joke. God willing.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 28, 2022 05:38 PM (+oR7L)

43 Have you seen him?
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 28, 2022 05:34 PM

Actually, it's "Have you seen her".

Posted by: The Chi-Lites at July 28, 2022 05:38 PM (a3Q+t)

44 "Biden: He Kept Us Out of Famine"

If that doesn't inspire you, what will?
No, seriously. I'm asking what will, cuz we're kinda desperate.

Posted by: Biden Campaign at July 28, 2022 05:38 PM (FJYfm)

45 Brandon has always been a lying thug. I think I was 12 when he entered the senate.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 28, 2022 05:34 PM (TJjL2)

Brandon was elected to the Senate the year that Mr. Coffee introduced the drip coffeemaker, obsolescing the trusty stovetop percolator once and for all. Just for reference.

IOW... If you used a drip coffeemaker as a child, you can't remember a time without this corrupt, fossilized pervert in the FedGov.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2022 05:38 PM (Zhwz2)

46 I just saw a salamander in a top hat.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga

And Joe Manchin is massively embiggening him. Yeah, he's a Republican in name only.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 28, 2022 05:39 PM (TJjL2)

47 Speaking of (not so) obscure 80s songs, this one is more apt than most

I loved it in Wayne's World where they start singing along with this then tail off because nobody but Stipe even knows anything but a few of the first lines and the chorus.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 05:39 PM (Ivdso)

48 Joe Mannix touched on the key to watch - always- inventories.

Declining inventories? Like broad spectrum, wholesale inventories across hundreds of industries? Yeah, you mean those inventories?

Run....run and hide. Because that is the final arbiter of bad times...high costs, no jobs, and crushing economic times....

Posted by: Boswell at July 28, 2022 05:40 PM (+Cgut)

49 In the clip where Joe proudly talks up how great the economy before walking off without taking any questions, the sign-language interpreter, whether she means to or not, makes the most appropriate face in response to this farce.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 28, 2022 05:40 PM (fs1hN)

50 Why can't Joe just shut down inflation?

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 05:40 PM (krQz2)

51 Corollary to the George Costanza rule. It's not a lie if you're out of touch with reality.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 05:40 PM (FVME7)

52 Declining inventories? Like broad spectrum, wholesale inventories across hundreds of industries? Yeah, you mean those inventories?

"Just in time ordering is the most brilliant economic idea since the bank loan!"
--Every CEO at once

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 05:41 PM (Ivdso)

53 >>> 50 Why can't Joe just shut down inflation?
Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 05:40 PM (krQz2)

I did it! Just like I shut down covid!!

Posted by: future FJB at July 28, 2022 05:41 PM (llON8)

54 Supply creates its own demand.

Demand does NOT create its own supply.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2022 05:41 PM (6FeV1)

55 Just imagine all of the additional economic gains FJB could babble on about if he had gotten all of his jab mandates over the finish line.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at July 28, 2022 05:41 PM (TNyrE)

56
I'm going to appoint a bipartisan presidential council, to find out why recession is caused by Republicans, racists, far right wingers, and President Trump who was, no joke, making this economy flounder from Florida.

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 28, 2022 05:41 PM (+oR7L)

57 Listening to a Wealthion discussion about the world economy. He thinks the EU will go back to coal, like China and India did. He said it's the cheapest way to generate electricity. He also said the EU can't fight a war on two fronts- against both Putin and climate change.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2022 05:41 PM (YynYJ)

58 FJB beat cancer and COVID in a single week so he'll get us out of this mess too.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:41 PM (guGkK)

59 All the Big Media Big Brains seem to have forgotten the mantra when a Republican is President and the economy tanks but unemployment is low. "Unemployment is a lagging indicator so it doesn't count!" Oh, that is right. A Dem is in the White House Rest Home and Senior Center. So everything is peachy and everything that came before doesn't matter.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)) at July 28, 2022 05:42 PM (l7Kbv)

60 I have a feeling that the real Joe Biden is in a hospital bed strung up with tubes like an ant in a spiderweb, and his doubles are out doing the face to face stuff. I mean some of them its not even really close.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 05:42 PM (Ivdso)

61 Brandon was elected to the Senate the year that Mr. Coffee introduced the drip coffeemaker, obsolescing the trusty stovetop percolator once and for all. Just for reference.

_____________

On the stove? Where in the heck did you put the little plastic cup with the magic coffee inside?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 28, 2022 05:42 PM (fs1hN)

62 Biden: The Economy's "On the Right Track,"

So was the "Agony of Defeat" ski jumper.

Posted by: t-bird at July 28, 2022 05:42 PM (Q14hI)

63 Thread appropriate 80s tune:

https://tinyurl.com/2rja88tz

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 28, 2022 05:42 PM (es0Dj)

64 Let's see...pestilence, check! Famine up next.

A pox on all your orgies.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 28, 2022 05:42 PM (Mzdiz)

65 And the Manchin/Schumer trillion dollar wishcasting bomb, and the drooler in chief's likely student loan forgiveness bomb, and so on. Can't wait for Biden to get Pelosi to cave to China on her Taiwan vacay. We are living through being given an atomic wedgie.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at July 28, 2022 05:42 PM (oWBc3)

66 >>>Supply creates its own demand.

You don't Say?

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 28, 2022 05:42 PM (xPl2J)

67 I loved it in Wayne's World where they start singing along with this then tail off because nobody but Stipe even knows anything but a few of the first lines and the chorus.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 05:39 PM (Ivdso)

It is, of course, known that REM was better when they couldn't be understood, and the clearer his vocals got, the worse they got.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 28, 2022 05:42 PM (NWBBy)

68 "There are no American tanks in Baghdad."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:42 PM (guGkK)

69 >>> 57 Listening to a Wealthion discussion about the world economy. He thinks the EU will go back to coal, like China and India did. He said it's the cheapest way to generate electricity. He also said the EU can't fight a war on two fronts- against both Putin and climate change.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2022 05:41 PM (YynYJ)

WEF, greentards hardest hit...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 05:43 PM (llON8)

70 You don't Say?
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 28, 2022 05:42 PM (xPl2J)

Haaaaaaaaaaa

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2022 05:43 PM (6FeV1)

71 Listening to a Wealthion discussion about the world economy. He thinks the EU will go back to coal, like China and India did. He said it's the cheapest way to generate electricity. He also said the EU can't fight a war on two fronts- against both Putin and climate change.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2022 05:41 PM (YynYJ)
---
Saw a German media site saying Ukraine is sacking its military leadership.

I guess they were winning too much, or something.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:43 PM (llXky)

72 So, the low-inflation but 3, 4, 5 or 6% growth of Reagan and Trump were WORSE economies than today?

"The Great Depression--at 24% inflation-- was actually the best economy in US history" was not the hot take I expected.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2022 05:43 PM (EEBAX)

73 The daily mindfucks are going to get much worse.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 05:43 PM (89T5c)

74 "My notecard says there is no recession and I'm going with that."

-- FJB

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (guGkK)

75
There is so much spinning going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arpidGq8SlA

Posted by: portlandon at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (+oR7L)

76 During funsession I'm going to learn guitar! Who's with me!

Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (VKp0a)

77 It is, of course, known that REM was better when they couldn't be understood, and the clearer his vocals got, the worse they got.

Yeah those early albums where it sounded like he was recorded live in a room adjacent tot he one the band was in are great but I do like the later stuff too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (Ivdso)

78 I think that a recession is usually correlated with an increase in inventories.

It seems like a thin basis for declaring it's not quite a recession-recession yet. But if I remember my freshman Econ, inventories is one indicator of a recession.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (krQz2)

79 I guess they were winning too much, or something.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:43 PM (llXky)

They probably asked for a raise.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (6FeV1)

80 Old and busted: We are post law.

New hotness: We are post facts.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (U3uv2)

81 F these people. Went to the grocery store. Prices up almost double and selection is horrible.

Posted by: Infidel at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (mn1Pi)

82 But all you have to do
Is look at me to know
That every word is true
Don't cry for me Argentina

Posted by: wth at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (v0R5T)

83 We do not have a federal government, we have an Onion skit that goes on for years.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (eJn7u)

84 33 There is no mass hunger, and if there is is transitory.
________________

The Holodomor was transitory, in effect.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 28, 2022 05:45 PM (fs1hN)

85 During funsession I'm going to learn guitar! Who's with me!

Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (VKp0a) \

Bass guitar, after the house is finished.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 05:45 PM (U3uv2)

86 The liberal world order will not accept a famine.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2022 05:45 PM (63Dwl)

87 Ok Karen

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 05:45 PM (dscaa)

88 It's a pretty good Wealthion. He says the EU is most at risk:

https://youtu.be/YiM1fYZq0T8

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2022 05:45 PM (YynYJ)

89 F these people. Went to the grocery store. Prices up almost double and selection is horrible.
Posted by: Infidel at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (mn1Pi)

Enjoy it. Two years from now we'll look back on this as the Golden Age.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:45 PM (guGkK)

90 "Just in time ordering is the most brilliant economic idea since the bank loan!"
--Every CEO at once
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 05:41 PM (Ivdso)

Yeah, gotta love JIT! Just like "team management" - Wall Street consulting Ivy League firms' ideas that idiots like Mayor Pete spout endlessly that actually destroyed time honored organizational methods and companies that bought into them.

Posted by: Boswell at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (+Cgut)

91
One thing that annoys me about Puddingbrain's administration is that they could have just said "yeah, it's a recession, which is a normal part of the economic cycle, so let's work through it"

Saying it like that wouldn't have been any worse for his poll numbers, but nooooooooo...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (n+4am)

92 at least we're not desperate enough to eat bugs

Posted by: kulak anachronda, looking on the bright side at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (v3pYe)

93 >>> 79 I guess they were winning too much, or something.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:43 PM (llXky)

They probably asked for a raise.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (6FeV1)

We only asked for more COVID days off this year and next!

Posted by: Ukrainian Military Leadership at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (llON8)

94 Everybody is gonna be singing the blues soon enough. This government is determined to blow up the world economy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (Ivdso)

95 BTW, when it happens, not having anything to eat will not constitute a famine.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (eJn7u)

96 It seems like a thin basis for declaring it's not quite a recession-recession yet. But if I remember my freshman Econ, inventories is one indicator of a recession.
_____________

Supply chain causing low inventories. Nothing to worry about. Unless it is something to worry about.

Posted by: Economist at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (fs1hN)

97 Phew.
Good thing they passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
Or we'd be in big trouble.

Posted by: wth at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (v0R5T)

98 F these people. Went to the grocery store. Prices up almost double and selection is horrible.
Posted by: Infidel at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (mn1Pi)

No choices in the grocery store? It's like I won the election!

Posted by: Bernie Sanders at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (FJYfm)

99 90 "Just in time ordering is the most brilliant economic idea since the bank loan!"
--Every CEO at once
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 05:41 PM (Ivdso)

Yeah, gotta love JIT! Just like "team management" - Wall Street consulting Ivy League firms' ideas that idiots like Mayor Pete spout endlessly that actually destroyed time honored organizational methods and companies that bought into them.

now do agile

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (v3pYe)

100 Enjoy it. Two years from now we'll look back on this as the Golden Age.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:45 PM

Second look at planting a vegetable garden.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (L6lyg)

101 We are living through being given an atomic wedgie.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem

I came to political enlightenment during Carter's presidency. I knew nothing, but knew things were horrible and unnecessarily so.

Brandon Shambles is actually worse.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 28, 2022 05:47 PM (TJjL2)

102 >>>I guess they were winning too much, or something.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:43 PM (llXky)

We have increased your victory rations to -30% territory.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 28, 2022 05:47 PM (QYPq3)

103 FU Joe Biden... and you too Joe Manchin.
F all the Democrats.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 05:47 PM (NpAcC)

104 "Eat your bugs. People are starving in other countries!"

Posted by: t-bird at July 28, 2022 05:47 PM (Q14hI)

105 The gaslighting is part of the kink.

Also, apparently, now I have to retcon the Cardiacs into my timeline.

Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 05:47 PM (6TxNR)

106 I put "donkey roman senator" to jog my memory (it was a horse) and Mitt Romney's site was listed on the front page.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 28, 2022 05:47 PM (44ww/)

107 Inflation Retardation Bill

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 05:47 PM (89T5c)

108
It's only famine if the upper crust are reduced being forced to only purchase American foods.

Posted by: portlandon at July 28, 2022 05:47 PM (+oR7L)

109 "My notecard says there is no recession and I'm going with that."

-- FJB
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (guGkK)
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YOU do not see a recession.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 05:47 PM (krQz2)

110 >>> 97 Phew.
Good thing they passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
Or we'd be in big trouble.
Posted by: wth at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (v0R5T)

We're going to pass the 2023 Famine Reduction Act to help American families.

Posted by: future FJB at July 28, 2022 05:48 PM (llON8)

111 ..Someone here wrote this several months ago and I agree: Whoever legitimately voted for this, I hope they starve to death first. Posted by: Jmel at July 28, 2022 05:30 PM (bVhJi) ~~ ---Unlikely, given their morbid obesity. Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:35 PM (llXky)

They can't make themselves useful, but we can make good use of them, nonetheless.

By plowing them under in the fields.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2022 05:48 PM (tkOps)

112 TPTB are never ever ever gonna come to terms with the fact that The Deplorables rebuked them.

They will crash the whole world before they look at themselves.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 28, 2022 05:48 PM (8AONa)

113 I noticed a news article calling bums VENDORS now. As in , a street vendor was arrested after stealing a bicycle.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 28, 2022 05:48 PM (VKp0a)

114 holy sheep the Team Biden Kids are a bunch of utter idiots. wow. Brian Deese is actually scary-stupid.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 28, 2022 05:48 PM (w0NJk)

115 BTW, when it happens, not having anything to eat will not constitute a famine.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (eJn7u)

And it will only be transitory.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:48 PM (guGkK)

116 they could have just said "yeah, it's a recession, which is a normal part of the economic cycle, so let's work through it"

Hell if he said that I would actually respect the man somewhat. Its the right response to a recession: yep, this sucks, but we'll get through it, no need to go crazy. Happens every decade or two and we'll ride it out and be better on the far side.

But NOOOOOOO...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 05:48 PM (Ivdso)

117 I just saw a salamander in a top hat.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable, now with ultra maga at July 28, 2022 05:37 PM (6zcSr)

He's pimpin'. Preddit.

https://tinyurl.com/3pwpybp4

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 05:48 PM (U3uv2)

118 During funsession I'm going to learn guitar! Who's with me!

Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 28, 2022 05:44 PM (VKp0a) \
.......

I could learn the ukulele.
In honor of Ben Stiller's hero Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Posted by: wth at July 28, 2022 05:48 PM (v0R5T)

119 "Eat your bugs. People are starving in other countries!"
Posted by: t-bird at July 28, 2022 05:47 PM (Q14hI)
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Just like emergency rooms were overflowing in some other country somewhere when Covid hit.

Trust me. Just trust me.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (krQz2)

120 In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to cooperate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. --Theodore Dalrymple

Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (6TxNR)

121 "Second look at planting a vegetable garden."

My relations started one on a small lot they own. Not much acreage, but they surmounted that by planting vegetables on tall trellises. They sent me a picture of my niece harvesting tomatoes and cucumbers from an 8 foot ladder. Melons and squash at ground level.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (jTmQV)

122 ShadowStats 1980 calculation of inflation is 17%.

Take that out and the economy grew at 16% last quarter.

Suck wingnuts, Biden Built Back Better!

With this current sell-off of beef, prices will skyrocket just in time for winter. Some of you gonna learn what meat extender and Hamburger Helper are all about.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (EEBAX)

123 Women go crazy 'bout a sharp dressed salamander.

Posted by: wth at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (v0R5T)

124 113 I noticed a news article calling bums VENDORS now. As in , a street vendor was arrested after stealing a bicycle.
Posted by: Jimco Industries at July 28, 2022 05:48 PM (VKp0a)

In Baltimore, Windshield Cleaning Consultants

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (PiwSw)

125 They will crash the whole world before they look at themselves.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 28, 2022 05:48 PM (8AONa)
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Pretty much.

Thing is, I think this is good. I know Ace gets worked up over the lies, but if you want to destroy a regime, you want it to tell transparently obvious lies because then everything else becomes suspect.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (llXky)

126 Just reimagine "recession"!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (dzJhQ)

127 Joe Biden: Evil, Criminal, Liar, Delusional, Retarded, Stupid.
And NeverTrump's "finest hour."

Posted by: Democrats: Raping The Children We Cannot Kill Since 1973! at July 28, 2022 05:50 PM (jV+aN)

128 now do agile

Posted by: kulak anachronda

====

"We have no idea how to do it right the first time, so let's screw up faster!"

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 28, 2022 05:50 PM (8AONa)

129 BTW, when it happens, not having anything to eat will not constitute a famine.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (eJn7u)

Ima culturally appropriate some dark continent cuisine choices.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 05:50 PM (U3uv2)

130 >>> 120 In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to cooperate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. --Theodore Dalrymple
Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (6TxNR)

We are beautiful womyn.

Posted by: Bruce Jenner, Will Thomas, Richard Levine, etc at July 28, 2022 05:50 PM (llON8)

131 Bannon had a guy on the War Room who pointed out that if they used the method to determine inflation as in the 1970's, we're high double digits. Like 18%
Argentina look out!!!
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 28, 2022 05:33 PM (TJjL2)

Argentina's inflation rate is officially 64% so we really are doing much much better.

El Salvador's is 7.79% but they are Dollarized and use Bitcoin

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 05:50 PM (xhaym)

132 BTW, when it happens, not having anything to eat will not constitute a famine.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (eJn7u)
........

It will be a FunFamine.

Posted by: wth at July 28, 2022 05:50 PM (v0R5T)

133 Vegetable gardens aren't allowed in California because they require water, which we don't have any of.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:50 PM (guGkK)

134 113 I noticed a news article calling bums VENDORS now. As in , a street vendor was arrested after stealing a bicycle.
____________

Vendor? What do they sell? $20 handies, $25 if they don't look at you during the delivery of the service?

Posted by: Economist at July 28, 2022 05:51 PM (fs1hN)

135 With this current sell-off of beef, prices will skyrocket just in time for winter. Some of you gonna learn what meat extender and Hamburger Helper are all about.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (EEBAX)
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Planning on ramping up my stockpiling.

Need a few more pounds of rice, too.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:51 PM (llXky)

136 Another point of reference: one of my earliest political memories was Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. disgracing America, Delaware and himself in the Thomas confirmation hearings. I was eight. I'm a middle aged man now, and he'd been a Senator for almost 20 years by then.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 28, 2022 05:51 PM (Zhwz2)

137 Army to train up recruits – to become recruits

https://valorguardians.com/blog/?p=128390

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 28, 2022 05:51 PM (zYA/b)

138 Admiral Doctor Rachel Levine is a woman and we're on the right track.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 05:51 PM (FVME7)

139 This disaster was inevitable after the First 2 weeks of the Biden Administration. His Executive Actions destroying Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries, Opening the Border, Afghanistan, and COVID Lockdowns and Mandates made this inevitable.

And It Will Get Worse!

Posted by: rd at July 28, 2022 05:51 PM (Z32m1)

140 Listening to a Wealthion discussion about the world economy. He thinks the EU will go back to coal, like China and India did. He said it's the cheapest way to generate electricity. He also said the EU can't fight a war on two fronts- against both Putin and ~~climate change~~ the WEF.

That one is a no-brainer. Either they have mass famine and death this winter or slap together some quick and dirty power generators that require the least infrastructure.

Can't you nukes because we forgot how to make them. Can't burn trees because there aren't enough. Can't go hydro because the all the dams that the Malthusians allow to stay up are in place and no way to build new reservoirs. Can't go natural gas for all of the obvious reasons, including Mass Death of the population being more acceptable than sucking up to Russia and Gazprom.

We know solar and wind will never work for a myriad of reasons explained so many times. All that is left is coal, and the cheap crap that is easy to dig out of the ground and incinerate and only needs barges and railroads to move.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 05:52 PM (3hSHB)

141 Given the obesity epidemic, they'll call the famine a good health campaign. While somehow managing to praise Lizzo for her body positivity.

Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 05:52 PM (6TxNR)

142 Nothing but real tomato ketchup on my Helper

Posted by: DB - still gaining acceptance at July 28, 2022 05:52 PM (geLO8)

143

Tis better to be unexpectedly anally impregnated by Enhydra lutris, than not to be!

Posted by: Marine Biologist Hamlet at July 28, 2022 05:52 PM (7DYli)

144 They can't make themselves useful, but we can make good use of them, nonetheless.

By plowing them under in the fields.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 28, 2022 05:4

That's a rerrible thing to say!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 05:52 PM (89T5c)

145 Choco Taco is discontinued.

And dipshit says everything is going just swimmingly?

F'n Choco Taco, dude!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 28, 2022 05:52 PM (1n+EO)

146 141 Given the obesity epidemic, they'll call the famine a good health campaign. While somehow managing to praise Lizzo for her body positivity.

i will outlive you all!

Posted by: trigglypuff at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (v3pYe)

147 And It Will Get Worse!

Posted by: rd at July 28, 2022 05:51 PM (Z32m1)

Of course it will. Providing solutions is not the plan.

Destruction is the goal.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (U3uv2)

148 Did he blink when he lied ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (bs+z0)

149 At some point you think well surely someone is going to point out that the Emperor is naked and yet the world keeps disappointing us.

Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (6TxNR)

150 Trivia bit re: the Naked Gun "Nothing to See Here!" clip:

Bob Herron, who played the evil Dr. Alfred what got blowed up in the fireworks factory, just passed away last October at age 97.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (ZSK0i)

151 To assent to obvious lies is to cooperate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. --Theodore Dalrymple
Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (6TxNR)

Reminds me of Solzhenitsyn’s essay Live Not by Lies.

Posted by: 7man at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (qwO6y)

152 You will not be starving until our experts tell you are.

So, until then, cut it out.

Posted by: White House Board of Deciding Stuff at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (krQz2)

153 116 they could have just said "yeah, it's a recession, which is a normal part of the economic cycle, so let's work through it"

Hell if he said that I would actually respect the man somewhat. Its the right response to a recession: yep, this sucks, but we'll get through it, no need to go crazy. Happens every decade or two and we'll ride it out and be better on the far side.

_______________

It's probably because he's doing it on purpose that he can't say that. Wait that can't be it, he has no shame.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (fs1hN)

154 There is a real sub-story here.... things SHOULD be fine. The economy wants to get going again. There's no fundamental business reason why everything should be screwed up right now. It's entirely a result of feckless or malevolent governance, suffocating productivity.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 28, 2022 05:35 PM (6FeV1)

Deficit spending leading to central bank printing (or interest rate fiddling) combined with suffocating levels of irrational and capricious regulations.
That will kill an economy and shovel the remains into the pockets of those that make and enforce the rules.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (xhaym)

155 >>>i will outlive you all!

Posted by: trigglypuff at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (v3pYe)

Only to live a life of dead inside. Congratulations.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 28, 2022 05:54 PM (QYPq3)

156 In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.

Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (6TxNR)
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That's great if you've got the Red Army with 35 divisions of battle-hardened troops occupying a country.

But if your police forces are under 50 percent strength and demoralized while your military is too busy holding struggle sessions to train, you might have a problem with enforcement.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:54 PM (llXky)

157 It's not a recession. It's a transition.

As in, transition to poverty.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:54 PM (guGkK)

158 The elite are in a mad rush to print money, shovel it out of cargo planes while skimming as much as they can, buy land before it all (dollar) collapses, and ..... profit!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 28, 2022 05:54 PM (jgKs/)

159 My erection is on the right track.

Posted by: David French at July 28, 2022 05:54 PM (m7R0k)

160 They send the vegetable out to jam his bony finger in our eyes and we're expected to accept it. Those fuckers. They'll get away with it too.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 05:54 PM (flINI)

161 When some Ivy League consulting firm brought in the idea of "team management" and sold it to corporate as the next 'hot thing" - a buddy of mine leaned over at the initial corporate intro and whispered to me: "Team Management? They mean Team Chaos, don't they...?"

He was so right - the company ran it out nation-wide and after most projects stalled or ran way over budget with no accountability, corporate dumped the concept after six months.

Posted by: Boswell at July 28, 2022 05:54 PM (+Cgut)

162 Second look at planting a vegetable garden.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at July 28, 2022 05:46 PM (L6lyg)

Coming to the party a bit late, are ya?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 28, 2022 05:54 PM (Mzdiz)

163 151 To assent to obvious lies is to cooperate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. --Theodore Dalrymple
Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 05:49 PM (6TxNR)

Reminds me of Solzhenitsyn’s essay Live Not by Lies.
Posted by: 7man at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (qwO6y)
_________________

*nods head*
True dat

Posted by: Media at July 28, 2022 05:54 PM (fs1hN)

164 Ace, or any COBs, what are the rules about posting a Gofundeme or similar request for someone?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2022 05:55 PM (RkC6l)

165 You will not be starving until our experts tell you are.

So, until then, cut it out.

Posted by: White House Board of Deciding Stuff at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (krQz2)

lol

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 05:55 PM (U3uv2)

166 >>> 140
==
That one is a no-brainer. Either they have mass famine and death this winter or slap together some quick and dirty power generators that require the least infrastructure.

Can't you nukes because we forgot how to make them. Can't burn trees because there aren't enough. Can't go hydro because the all the dams that the Malthusians allow to stay up are in place and no way to build new reservoirs. Can't go natural gas for all of the obvious reasons, including Mass Death of the population being more acceptable than sucking up to Russia and Gazprom.

We know solar and wind will never work for a myriad of reasons explained so many times. All that is left is coal, and the cheap crap that is easy to dig out of the ground and incinerate and only needs barges and railroads to move.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 05:52 PM (3hSHB)

I'm a bit surprised they haven't gone "yolo" and pushed forward. Do these retards think nobody is going to notice things falling apart the next time they try this?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 05:55 PM (llON8)

167
My God about nominal GDP. The entire notion of GDP is to track *real* economic output. Not nominal, dollar denominated output.

I mean, that's the entire point of it all. Simple example. Say last year I sold $100 of widgets. This year, I sold $150 of widgets. But the price of a widget doubled.

I sold less widgets this year than last, even though the dollar amount was greater. The point of real GDP is to track the actual widgets and stuff, not their dollar value.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at July 28, 2022 05:55 PM (Mzdiz)

168 (and we're hardly out of the woods now...)

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 05:55 PM (llON8)

169 Of course it will. Providing solutions is not the plan.

Destruction is the goal.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (U3uv2)
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I'm looking forward to the college faculty being herded out to labor in the fields.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:55 PM (llXky)

170 I had to explain to someone on another board that inflation and recession can and have happened at the same time. Sigh!

In good news, I apparently hit Aldi's this morning when they had another clearance on their meat section, so my spouse got his lunch ramen protein (their all-free ground pork) for $2.19/lb and I aldo got their all-free chicken breast for $1.99/lb. 14lbs of protein later (8 pork, 6 chicken - I wish they had more chicken), and I probably have 2 dinners (but 4 weeks of lunch for the spouse, since he's the only one who does the ramen meat add when he has his air dried ramen)...

Posted by: Nova local at July 28, 2022 05:55 PM (exHjb)

171 But if your police forces are under 50 percent strength and demoralized while your military is too busy holding struggle sessions to train, you might have a problem with enforcement.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:54 PM (llXky)

How many news outlets have challenged the "two quarters of shrinking GDP is not a recession" gambit?

They don't have a problem with enforcement.

Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 05:55 PM (6TxNR)

172 If you f-cktards would just give us all your money and then kill yourselves, we could go back to coal right now!

Posted by: WEF at July 28, 2022 05:56 PM (qL44C)

173 Choco Taco is discontinued.
And dipshit says everything is going just swimmingly?

Chaco Taco: Was I a good dessert?
Grim Reaper: No.
Chaco Taco: 😢
Grim Reaper: I was told you were the best dessert.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2022 05:56 PM (inRxW)

174 The ultimate goal in 1984 was not to get people to SAY 2+2=5, but to have them to BELIEVE it. This is exactly what is going on now.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 05:56 PM (Vr12I)

175 "Brian Deese is actually scary-stupid."

He's the Yale Law grad who said that we must make sacrifices for the good of the Liberal World Order.

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 28, 2022 05:56 PM (i0slg)

176 Biden's answers now are straight out of Monty Python.

"Well it looks like the recession has started."
"No it hasn't."
Two quarters of negative growth, that's a recession.
"No it isn't."

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2022 05:56 PM (r46W7)

177 Hey Joe.. I wouldn't be using words like "track" when we are heading for a train wreck

Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2022 05:56 PM (bs+z0)

178 @75

>>There is so much spinning going on.

I would say she doesn't even actually get to 45 degrees.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 28, 2022 05:57 PM (7UiJe)

179 >>>i will outlive you all!

Posted by: trigglypuff at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (v3pYe)
.......

only if you quit twerking. Burns too many calories.

Posted by: wth at July 28, 2022 05:57 PM (v0R5T)

180 r>>>sell-off of beef

Can it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 28, 2022 05:57 PM (jgKs/)

181 The Dignity Canals will be a thing.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 05:57 PM (89T5c)

182 Coming to the party a bit late, are ya?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 28, 2022 05:54 PM (Mzdiz)
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Depending on where, maybe. Also, 'hoop houses' are a thing and if there is sufficient sunlight, they work year round. Discount greenhouses.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:57 PM (llXky)

183
This is almost as bad as when Hostess Twinkies and cupcakes were discontinued. Almost.

Posted by: portlandon at July 28, 2022 05:57 PM (+oR7L)

184 Biden hasn't participated in the American economy for 50 years, why should he care how it's doing?

Posted by: 29Victor at July 28, 2022 05:57 PM (BJKQV)

185 no need to worry about food because there won't be any water drink with it.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (OqjtX)

186 Complain all you want, but the Inflation Fighting Package is set to pass so we should be seeing relief any day now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (guGkK)

187 >>> 169 Of course it will. Providing solutions is not the plan.

Destruction is the goal.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 05:53 PM (U3uv2)
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I'm looking forward to the college faculty being herded out to labor in the fields.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:55 PM (llXky)

Can we vote on who goes first? I want whattsherface "I need some muscle over here" to be in the first wave.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (llON8)

188 Never heard of " Choco Taco" before it being mentioned here. I guess I lead a sad, stunted cultural life.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (Vr12I)

189 >>>sell-off of beef

Can it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 28, 2022 05:57 PM (jgKs/)

This. Don't look now, but the shelves are still full of quart jars, lids, and rings.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (U3uv2)

190 Ahhhh, the sweet smell of flop sweat and panic from the Biden crowd.

Posted by: Mikey NTH The Outrage Outlet is Stocked With Vexation and Ire. at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (s+u6b)

191 They send the vegetable out to jam his bony finger in our eyes and we're expected to accept it. Those fuckers. They'll get away with it too.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

I honestly think they should lock him in the basement again. I really think his poll number would rise if nobody ever saw this dunce.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (TJjL2)

192 The ultimate goal in 1984 was not to get people to SAY 2+2=5, but to have them to BELIEVE it. This is exactly what is going on now.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 05:56 PM (Vr12I)
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But they don't. No one does, not even the people saying it. That's what makes it so comical.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (llXky)

193 TPTB are never ever ever gonna come to terms with the fact that The Deplorables rebuked them.

They will crash the whole world before they look at themselves.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at July 28, 2022 05:48 PM (8AONa)

The Deplorables rebuked them *because* this is what they had in store for us all along. They telegraphed it from 2008 on. Trump managed to delay it long enough for some people to wake up to what's actually going on.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (dscaa)

194 Bass guitar, after the house is finished.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 05:45 PM

Hopefully with some bandmates, because they say when it comes to bass guitar, solo is no bueno.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (a3Q+t)

195 "Brian Deese is actually scary-stupid."

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Deese? Nuts.

Posted by: White House Board of Deciding Stuff at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (krQz2)

196 Michael Stipe when he had hair REM > Michael Stipe bald REM.

Posted by: moron apprentice at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (bW3p6)

197 >>> 171
==
How many news outlets have challenged the "two quarters of shrinking GDP is not a recession" gambit?

They don't have a problem with enforcement.
Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 05:55 PM (6TxNR)

That's not enforcement - pod people gotta pod.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (llON8)

198 "On the Right Track,"

Why do I see headlights coming at us in this tunnel?

Posted by: wth at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (v0R5T)

199 186 Complain all you want, but the Inflation Fighting Package is set to pass so we should be seeing relief any day now.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (guGkK)

My favorite part was when Joe said this bill was gonna give us energy security.. Seriously ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (bs+z0)

200 Can we vote on who goes first? I want whattsherface "I need some muscle over here" to be in the first wave.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (llON

And bike lock pussy.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (U3uv2)

201 Can we vote on who goes first? I want whattsherface "I need some muscle over here" to be in the first wave.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (llON

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She'll be on canal duty.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (llXky)

202 We are tirning our trees into wood pellets to ship to Germany. For some reason, when I heard they were burning wood, I thought they were burning their own trees.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (YynYJ)

203 185 no need to worry about food because there won't be any water drink with it.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (OqjtX)

Live by a lake with a life straw. My one townhome advantage.

Posted by: Nova local at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (exHjb)

204 170 I had to explain to someone on another board that inflation and recession can and have happened at the same time. Sigh!"

I really hate having to live through this idiotic academic argument for the second time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (r46W7)

205
We have no food in our way
and God makes no mistakes.
We're on the right track, baby.
Poverty is okay.

Don't hide yourself in regret.
Just love yourself, and you're set.
We're on the right track, baby.
Poverty is okay.

Posted by: Lady Gaga (now performing for the Federal Government) at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (uWF4x)

206 I feel like at this point my stocks are going down with the ship. Most are in mutual funds, but my individual stocks are at such lows already due to this brainless f*ckwit.

Should have invested in AceCoin.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (ph/WS)

207 My mom bought a box of "Choco Tacos" once.

Once.

*sniffs

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2022 06:00 PM (BFigT)

208 "Brian Deese is actually scary-stupid."

He's the Yale Law grad who said that we must make sacrifices for the good of the Liberal World Order.

ok so he's evil

but still, not a quick mind on him for being Yale Law and all that

surprisingly dim

btw the Choco Taco got nixed b/c it was somehow racist

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 28, 2022 06:00 PM (w0NJk)

209
Women go crazy 'bout a sharp dressed salamander.
Posted by: wth

https://youtu.be/aVZUVeMtYXc

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 28, 2022 06:00 PM (63Dwl)

210 Hopefully with some bandmates, because they say when it comes to bass guitar, solo is no bueno.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (a3Q+t)

Gotta learn to play before thinking about bandmates and their foolish ideas.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 06:00 PM (U3uv2)

211 Of course if inflation is understated (and it is), then contraction is even worse than the official number. And you thought there would be less propaganda with the internet.

Posted by: Eddie Baby at July 28, 2022 06:00 PM (wpJDK)

212 Breakfast taco > Choco taco

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:00 PM (guGkK)

213 And I bet a lot of that investment that isn't happening is from the fuel industry saying, no, not gonna invest in our own destruction.

Posted by: Ultra pj at July 28, 2022 06:01 PM (G1dq6)

214 There are two considerations:

1) they would not lie about this if it wasn't important (they fear getting crushed at the polls)

2) they are lying about it because they can get away with it (they have no fear of the polls)

Which is the case?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2022 06:01 PM (EEBAX)

215 It's going to be like Naked and Afraid on a national scale.

Posted by: wth at July 28, 2022 06:01 PM (v0R5T)

216 Was it demented RoboJoe or demented failing health Joe that made the statements?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 28, 2022 06:01 PM (m7R0k)

217 The ultimate goal in 1984 was not to get people to SAY 2+2=5, but to have them to BELIEVE it. This is exactly what is going on now.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 05:56 PM (Vr12I)

Hmm. I think the point is just to make you say it. They don't truly GAF what you think as long as you submit. In fact if you bend the knee against your own will and sense, all the better. You are their slave.

But it's a sticky subject because they really would prefer you die.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:02 PM (dscaa)

218 Pink Taco > Breakfast taco > Choco taco

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 28, 2022 06:02 PM (m7R0k)

219 Grocery store grocery heists the next big thing?

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:02 PM (Vr12I)

220 >>> 189 >>>sell-off of beef

Can it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 28, 2022 05:57 PM (jgKs/)

This. Don't look now, but the shelves are still full of quart jars, lids, and rings.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 05:58 PM (U3uv2)

Yes.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 06:02 PM (llON8)

221 "Hey, it could be worse."

- Brian Deese

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 28, 2022 06:02 PM (4enNW)

222 211 Of course if inflation is understated (and it is), then contraction is even worse than the official number. And you thought there would be less propaganda with the internet.
Posted by: Eddie Baby at July 28, 2022 06:00 PM (wpJDK)

It's why they tried desparately to keep the inflation number understated, so maybe they could eke out a .1% non-recession. When that didn't work, they were left with the definition change. But you know there was acres of arm twisting and over/under statement everywhere...and it was still a recession.

Posted by: Nova local at July 28, 2022 06:02 PM (exHjb)

223 Another sign things are going great; the price of my cigars has gone up, AND they're out of stock.

Posted by: Weasel at July 28, 2022 06:03 PM (0IeYL)

224 Old and busted: Snakes On a Plane

New and cool: Snakes In the White House

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 06:03 PM (FVME7)

225 You know how I keep saying they are just rubbing our noses in it?

They are just rubbing our noses in it.

Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 06:03 PM (6TxNR)

226 Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 28, 2022 06:01 PM (EEBAX)

I truly don't think it's about the polls at all. They just get off on waving their crusty monkeypox dick in your face.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:04 PM (dscaa)

227 hahahahahaha

Swalwell looks like he's up to no good. Fang Fang kinda no good.

https://tinyurl.com/mr2xhw8n

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 28, 2022 06:04 PM (ptqGC)

228 >>> 225 You know how I keep saying they are just rubbing our noses in it?

They are just rubbing our noses in it.
Posted by: blaster at July 28, 2022 06:03 PM (6TxNR)

Stan and his asshoes love showing their ass.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 06:04 PM (llON8)

229 Grocery store grocery heists the next big thing?
Posted by: kraken

The trucks will never make it to the stores. Heisted enroute. More time to unload.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2022 06:04 PM (inRxW)

230 Bofa Dees.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 28, 2022 06:04 PM (ZLI7S)

231 I just think it would amaze some to find out how many people could be conditioned into believing 2+2=5. They make excellent Bownshirts - or Antifa.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:04 PM (Vr12I)

232 225
226

FFS get your own material, blaster.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:05 PM (dscaa)

233 I'd never seen or heard of a "choco taco" until they announced its removal but they look tasty. being lactose intolerant and very negatively affected by caffeine I pretty much have to leave ice cream chocolate stuff way alone these days so it doesn't matter much to me if something gets canceled.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 06:05 PM (Ivdso)

234 >>> 231 I just think it would amaze some to find out how many people could be conditioned into believing 2+2=5. They make excellent Bownshirts - or Antifa.
Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:04 PM (Vr12I)

Masks do TOO work!

Posted by: Karen #52609543781 at July 28, 2022 06:05 PM (llON8)

235 Oh FFS.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2022 06:05 PM (diceA)

236 Another sign things are going great; the price of my cigars has gone up, AND they're out of stock.
Posted by: Weasel at July 28, 2022 06:03 PM

Crisis, Baldrick! Crisis!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2022 06:05 PM (RkC6l)

237 "Choco Taco is discontinued. "

I never even heard of them until today, and I want one soooo bad.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 28, 2022 06:05 PM (Mzdiz)

238 Trump = best economy. Ever

Biden = worst economy. Ever.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2022 06:05 PM (ESjRY)

239 Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Florida teacher makes students shout "queer!" in protest of the parental rights in education bill

https://tinyurl.com/y9hmr8zc

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 06:05 PM (NpAcC)

240 I just think it would amaze some to find out how many people could be conditioned into believing 2+2=5.

I would have said not a chance years ago but I mean over half the country still thinks masks saved us from a certain doom and the "vaccine" saves you from the Wuhan Flu.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 06:06 PM (Ivdso)

241 FACEPALM: White House economic adviser Brian Deese says that things are great because America isn’t experiencing famine like other countries.

-------

They're working on delivering that warp speed.

EQUITY bitchez! Putting America in its third-world place since the BlightBringer in November 2008 ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 28, 2022 06:06 PM (zO2Ol)

242 229 Grocery store grocery heists the next big thing?

we've had several at our local Whole Foods already

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 28, 2022 06:06 PM (w0NJk)

243 Eating chocotacos, aka back holes, is one of the ways to get monkeypox.

Posted by: The more you know at July 28, 2022 06:06 PM (ESjRY)

244 just think it would amaze some to find out how many people could be conditioned into believing 2+2=5. They make excellent Bownshirts - or Antifa.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:04 PM (Vr12I)

This is absolutely true. The psyop ruse they've been running since COOF especially is about rooting out the weak and weaponizing them against the strong.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:06 PM (dscaa)

245 When the last jobs numbers came out an economist explained that the "new" jobs were people taking second and even third jobs to survive

Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2022 06:06 PM (bs+z0)

246 "Hey, it could be worse."

- Brian Deese
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at July 28, 2022 06:02 PM (4enNW)

It could be raining

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 28, 2022 06:06 PM (Irn0L)

247 Another sign things are going great; the price of my cigars has gone up, AND they're out of stock.
Posted by: Weasel at July 28, 2022 06:03 PM

Crisis, Baldrick! Crisis!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2022 06:05 PM (RkC6l)
----
I'm declaring Condition Yellow.

Posted by: Weasel at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (0IeYL)

248 Biden did not have COVID.

I tested positive on July 3rd and I'm still testing positive.

I call bullshit.

Posted by: mpfs at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (Ybzqi)

249 >>> 237 "Choco Taco is discontinued. "

I never even heard of them until today, and I want one soooo bad.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 28, 2022 06:05 PM (Mzdiz)

Wikipedia says it had reduced fat ice cream. WTF kind of commie plot is that?! I bet there's a copycat recipe out there with better ingredients...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (llON8)

250 Trump years: BUT MUH COLLISION!

Biden years: Hey we aren't having a famine, yet, so why are you complaining?

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (ESjRY)

251 Another sign things are going great; the price of my cigars has gone up, AND they're out of stock.
Posted by: Weasel at July 28, 2022 06:03 PM

"Lucky for you we're out of stock because if we had 'em you couldn't afford 'em."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (guGkK)

252 Another sign things are going great; the price of my cigars has gone up, AND they're out of stock.

Posted by: Weasel at July 28, 2022 06:03 PM (0IeYL)

Add in the coming famine and you will be a svelte non-smoker!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (TTg1o)

253 AC is out in the living area of the house.

Just great. Repairman is here trying to figure out why.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (ptqGC)

254 There are two considerations:

1) they would not lie about this if it wasn't important (they fear getting crushed at the polls)

2) they are lying about it because they can get away with it (they have no fear of the polls)

3) They lie because they enjoy lying.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (3hSHB)

255 Biden wears Blinders and Rose Colored Glasses
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 28, 2022 06:06 PM

And Depends

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (RkC6l)

256 She'll be on canal duty.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:59 PM (llXky)
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That sounds hot.

Posted by: Hope Solo at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (krQz2)

257 Laste economic report I saw showed that rural people are using 90% of their pay to just survive.

"All is going as I have planned it"
--Klaus Schwab

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 06:08 PM (Ivdso)

258 I never even heard of them until today, and I want one soooo bad.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 28, 2022 06:05 PM (Mzdiz)

My understanding is they haven't been that good for quite some time. My wife likes that stuff. I tried one and eh.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:08 PM (dscaa)

259 Coming to the party a bit late, are ya?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 28, 2022 05:54 PM (Mzdiz)

Be nice, and remember to give gardening tips when asked.
Remember, if your neighbors have food to guard they won't immediately try to steal yours.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 06:08 PM (xhaym)

260 "Choco Taco is discontinued. "

I see a business opportunity.

Posted by: Choco Fartclam at July 28, 2022 06:08 PM (sn5EN)

261 248 Biden did not have COVID.

I tested positive on July 3rd and I'm still testing positive.

I call bullshit.
Posted by: mpfs at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (Ybzqi)

You are probably right.. They needed him out of sight and when they did let him back out he gave that bizarre no blinking spliced speech... Look for a "relapse" soon...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2022 06:08 PM (bs+z0)

262 I had a baby in 1981. Was working in a lumber mill. It was bad, but not this bad.

Posted by: Infidel at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (mn1Pi)

263 Low fat ice cream is low fat fat, right? How does that work?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (guGkK)

264 There are two considerations:

1) they would not lie about this if it wasn't important (they fear getting crushed at the polls)

2) they are lying about it because they can get away with it (they have no fear of the polls)

3) They lie because they enjoy lying.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (3hSHB)
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4) They are soulless
5) All of the above

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (krQz2)

265 AC is out in the living area of the house.

Just great. Repairman is here trying to figure out why.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

Probably because a part isn't working.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (inRxW)

266 >>> 254
==
3) They lie because they enjoy lying.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (3hSHB)

Their daddy is proud of them.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (llON8)

267 Shampocalypse.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (diceA)

268 > Another sign things are going great; the price of my cigars has gone up, AND they're out of stock.

Posted by: Weasel
_____________

Preach it brother. Right about now a hacienda in Nicaragua is looking pretty sweet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (BFigT)

269
As a kid in the early 80's, I remember seeing the people going in and out of the local VFW hall on Wednesdays. They all came out with a cardboard box. I asked my mother, and she said "It's the free government food for the poor people in town". I was always so worried we'd have to get our food there someday. But the Reagan years brought about prosperity and we never had to.

I told me great aunt about what I'd seen (who was 80+ at the time) and she told us stories of this large farm out of town owned by the county that was called "the poor house". Families would work out there in the fields harvesting, canning food, chores and they'd get to eat the food and take some home, but the rest of the harvest was split up and delivered to the old poor and physically disabled around the communities and church kitchens to distribute. I remember her scoffing at people just showing up and getting food in a box. "Poor used to have to work for food, or go to the church for help."

The depression era poor and famine nowadays would be unlike anything we've seen. With swarms of illegals using up so many resources, it will be a disaster for all.

Posted by: portlandon at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (+oR7L)

270 Choco Taco was not always reduced fat ice cream. It used to have a shit ton of calories. Sad.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (89T5c)

271 I had a baby in 1981. Was working in a lumber mill.

I bet it surprised the hell out of your co-workers.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (guGkK)

272 My understanding is they haven't been that good for quite some time. My wife likes that stuff. I tried one and eh.
Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:08 PM (dscaa)
==-

They should taste better than they do.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (dzJhQ)

273 265 AC is out in the living area of the house.

Just great. Repairman is here trying to figure out why.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

Probably because a part isn't working.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (inRxW)

Nargles.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (Vr12I)

274 Low fat ice cream is low fat fat, right? How does that work?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (guGkK)
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Saw dust has 0 fat.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (krQz2)

275 If we keep raising the deficit, spending half on stimulating the economy, and half to pay down the deficit, while the Fed raises interest rates to counter the inflation from all the spending...it'll work out perfectly! When economic advisors present multiple options to choose from, I say "yes".

Posted by: Biden Economic Adviser, Senator Joe Manchin at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (NCgXW)

276 I see a business opportunity.
Posted by: Choco Fartclam

Someone beat you to it

https://tinyurl.com/ytu62ep2

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (Ivdso)

277 263 Low fat ice cream is low fat fat, right? How does that work?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (guGkK)

In my experience, it doesn't.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (diceA)

278 253 AC is out in the living area of the house.

Just great. Repairman is here trying to figure out why.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (ptqGC)

similar situation here, except it's hot water. yesterday evening a hot water pipe split open in the crawl space under the house (VERY hard to get to) so it's cold water showers until I can get someone under there.

but at least none of the water coming out of the lines is even close to "cold" right now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (r46W7)

279 Hershey’s Chocolates Warns Of Halloween, Christmas Candy Shortage

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (xPl2J)

280 Probably because a part isn't working.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM

Rickb223Johnson is right!

Posted by: RMBS Johnson at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (RkC6l)

281 274 Low fat ice cream is low fat fat, right? How does that work?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (guGkK)
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Saw dust has 0 fat.

neither does melamine

Posted by: china at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (v3pYe)

282 #192: I believe 2+2=5 as deeply as any Inner Party member does.

Posted by: Mikey NTH The Outrage Outlet is Stocked With Vexation and Ire. at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (s+u6b)

283 Low Fat Ice Cream = antifreeze, soy byproducts, and sawdust bleached and softened in whey.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (Ivdso)

284 "Someone beat you to it
https://tinyurl.com/ytu62ep2
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor a"

Aw shit.

Posted by: Choco Fartclam at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (sn5EN)

285 Hershey’s Chocolates Warns Of Halloween, Christmas Candy Shortage

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (xPl2J)

Fuckin' Net Neutrality

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (dscaa)

286 >>Hershey’s Chocolates Warns Of Halloween, Christmas Candy Shortage

Chocolate Rations are UP!

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (9kGvh)

287 A little WWIII will get your mind off the recession.

Xi Warns Biden Over Pelosi's Taiwan Visit: Play With Fire, Get Burned

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (FVME7)

288 >>> 253 AC is out in the living area of the house.

Just great. Repairman is here trying to figure out why.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (ptqGC)

Did you tell Mr. D'oh NOT to stand in the sink?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (llON8)

289 I see a business opportunity.
Posted by: Choco Fartclam

Someone beat you to it

https://tinyurl.com/ytu62ep2

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (Ivdso)

WTF?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (U3uv2)

290 Biden did not have COVID.

I tested positive on July 3rd and I'm still testing positive.

I call bullshit.
Posted by: mpfs at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (Ybzqi)

You are probably right.. They needed him out of sight and when they did let him back out he gave that bizarre no blinking spliced speech... Look for a "relapse" soon...
Posted by: It's me donna

He is a shambling chemistry set that has gone full biden.

I wonder if they already passed the point where they dose him to show 'proof of life' with him dying in office as a bonus.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 28, 2022 06:12 PM (cY9wR)

291 265 AC is out in the living area of the house.

Just great. Repairman is here trying to figure out why.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

Probably because a part isn't working.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (inRxW)

https://tinyurl.com/3j6uk8sc

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2022 06:12 PM (diceA)

292 I'm a bit surprised they haven't gone "yolo" and pushed forward. Do these retards think nobody is going to notice things falling apart the next time they try this?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 05:55 PM (llON

I don't know if they have enough guards to keep a starving, enraged population from tearing them apart. Sri Lanka and Holland are scary, and there is a history of that sort of thing. They might be restrained by their security people advising they have an escape vehicle and some safe destination in mind.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 06:12 PM (xhaym)

293 286 >>Hershey’s Chocolates Warns Of Halloween, Christmas Candy Shortage

Chocolate Rations are UP!
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (9kGvh)

I wonder if they bothered to explain why?

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:12 PM (Vr12I)

294 Hershey’s Chocolates Warns Of Halloween, Christmas Candy Shortage
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 28, 2022 06:10 PM (xPl2J)
---
The War on Christmas continues.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 06:12 PM (krQz2)

295 Xi Warns Biden Over Pelosi's Taiwan Visit: Play With Fire, Get Burned
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (FVME7)

Maybe we won't have to worry about food....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 28, 2022 06:12 PM (bs+z0)

296 We have a couple of years of stored food preps unlike most ignorant lazy people. It's going to be a challenge to look destitute and emaciated when out in public.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 28, 2022 06:12 PM (m7R0k)

297 had a baby in 1981. Was working in a lumber mill.

I bet it surprised the hell out of your co-workers.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:09 PM (guGkK)

They weren't board.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 06:12 PM (89T5c)

298 Chocolate Rations are UP!

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (9kGvh)

In hindsight that was on a tee

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:13 PM (dscaa)

299 This is why "It's the economy, stupid" is the gold standard of political advice.

America doesn't pay nearly enough attention to most things, but it knows how much milk and fuel and hamburger and cars and baseballs cost, and they cost a lot more now...a lot more than the Biden junta is saying.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2022 06:13 PM (TTg1o)

300 "Hershey’s Chocolates Warns Of Halloween, Christmas Candy Shortage"

Seems to be plenty of these. https://tinyurl.com/ytu62ep2

Posted by: Choco Fartclam at July 28, 2022 06:13 PM (sn5EN)

301 >>>>Hershey’s ...

is one of the original woke companies. I hope they fucking fail.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 28, 2022 06:14 PM (m7R0k)

302 >>I don't know if they have enough guards to keep a starving, enraged population from tearing them apart.

They never do.
History is overflowing with examples for them.
When the Mob comes for you, it's usually lights out.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 06:14 PM (9kGvh)

303 Chocolate Rations are UP!

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (9kGvh)

In hindsight that was on a tee

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:13 PM (dscaa)

Speaking of chocolate hindsights. @276.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 06:14 PM (U3uv2)

304 287 A little WWIII will get your mind off the recession.

Xi Warns Biden Over Pelosi's Taiwan Visit: Play With Fire, Get Burned
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (FVME7)

I would absolutely love seeing the Chinese figuring out a way to shoot down Pelosi's plane.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2022 06:14 PM (r46W7)

305 I'm doublehappy hearing my chocolate ration is increased from 30g to 20g. Everyone be doublehappy with uniparty and miniplenty.

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 28, 2022 06:14 PM (T/vhV)

306 #279: A chocolate shortage? For thousands of women that will be the last straw.

Posted by: Mikey NTH The Outrage Outlet is Stocked With Vexation and Ire. at July 28, 2022 06:14 PM (s+u6b)

307 Cicero (@cicero43)

Smart ass. Had been there a long time. When I couldn't pull off the line anymore, I got the 'sorta' cush job of feeding the dryers. Six weeks off and back to the grind.

Posted by: Infidel at July 28, 2022 06:14 PM (mn1Pi)

308 A week or so ago was watching Fox Business and they had an idiot on saying that people were spending more on fast food, so inflation wasn't an issue.

Prices went up. People spent more for the same goods. Total spent went up, as you would would expect with inflation.

Need to look at burgers sold not revenue from burgers sold.

As it is now, there is a slim difference between the prices at at typical fast food place and Red Robin or Olive Garden. People will expect more quality for the money they spend and fast food will lose its competitive advantage. I can already pull in and get food to my car from a sit down restaurant.

Posted by: wodun at July 28, 2022 06:14 PM (lFga6)

309 Biden did not have COVID.

I tested positive on July 3rd and I'm still testing positive.

Posted by: mpfs at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (Ybzqi)
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Maybe you're just a more positive person?

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 06:15 PM (krQz2)

310 Joe could use a little shooting war to get people's attitudes adjusted.

Damn Hoi Polloi

Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 06:15 PM (PY/t0)

311 I wonder if they bothered to explain why?

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:12 PM (Vr12I)

Part of the Hershey Highway had to shut down due to monkeypox.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:15 PM (dscaa)

312 >>> 290 Biden did not have COVID.
I tested positive on July 3rd and I'm still testing positive.
I call bullshit.
Posted by: mpfs at July 28, 2022 06:07 PM (Ybzqi)

You are probably right.. They needed him out of sight and when they did let him back out he gave that bizarre no blinking spliced speech... Look for a "relapse" soon...
Posted by: It's me donna

He is a shambling chemistry set that has gone full biden.
I wonder if they already passed the point where they dose him to show 'proof of life' with him dying in office as a bonus.
Posted by: Blue Hen at July 28, 2022 06:12 PM (cY9wR)

I want to see Weekend At Joey's in which DOCTOR Jill and commie-la have to work together to "animate" FJB so that Mayor Pete, Hillzebub etc don't get ideas about taking his place.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 06:15 PM (llON8)

313 214 There are two considerations:

1) they would not lie about this if it wasn't important (they fear getting crushed at the polls)

2) they are lying about it because they can get away with it (they have no fear of the polls)

Which is the case?

healing power of "and"?

Posted by: kulak anachronda at July 28, 2022 06:15 PM (v3pYe)

314 Damn Hoi Polloi
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 28, 2022 06:15 PM

Ahoy, Polloi!

Posted by: Spaulding at July 28, 2022 06:15 PM (RkC6l)

315
Recession + Inflation = Stagflation.
Stagflation + MOAR trillion dollar tax & spend bills = Depression.
Depression + Intentially-Induced Famine = Starveflation.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (zO2Ol)

316
"The economy's on the right track!

Chuffa-chuffa-chuffa woo-woo!"

-- Engineer Joey

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (pNxlR)

317 You are probably right.. They needed him out of sight and when they did let him back out he gave that bizarre no blinking spliced speech... Look for a "relapse" soon...
Posted by: It's me donna

He is a shambling chemistry set that has gone full biden.

I wonder if they already passed the point where they dose him to show 'proof of life' with him dying in office as a bonus.
Posted by: Blue Hen

Somebody at the WH is going to fuck up and dose him wrong.

Then ... Enter Kamala! I know, everyone has.

Posted by: mpfs at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (Ybzqi)

318 Hershey's excuses sound like they came right out of the White House:

Hershey Chief Executive Officer Michele Buck told Reuters that the coming shortage will be caused in part by the Russian-Ukraine war impacting cocoa, edible oil, and other ingredients, while other issues stemming from the economic disruption during COVID are also to blame.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (xPl2J)

319 Joe could use a little shooting war to get people's attitudes adjusted.

It worked for the Great Depression.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (guGkK)

320 286 >>Hershey’s Chocolates Warns Of Halloween, Christmas Candy Shortage

Chocolate Rations are UP!
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM

Queer and Black Folx most affected!

Posted by: MSM SJW activist at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (NCgXW)

321 299 This is why "It's the economy, stupid" is the gold standard of political advice.

America doesn't pay nearly enough attention to most things, but it knows how much milk and fuel and hamburger and cars and baseballs cost, and they cost a lot more now...a lot more than the Biden junta is saying.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 28, 2022 06:13 PM (TTg1o)

On the money comment. They are screwing around with the one thing that even the dullest lackwit can understand. This makes me believe that they are readying their ultimate power play - no more elections for some contrived reason.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (Vr12I)

322 310 Joe could use a little shooting war to get people's attitudes adjusted.

workin' on it

Posted by: zelensky at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (v3pYe)

323 I would absolutely love seeing the Chinese figuring out a way to shoot down Pelosi's plane.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Blame it on Taiwan. Nobody will care.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (inRxW)

324 Depending on where, maybe. Also, 'hoop houses' are a thing and if there is sufficient sunlight, they work year round. Discount greenhouses.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:57 PM (llXky)

I made one in 2020 out of filbert whips and the plastic sheeting a mattress came in. It was not the easiest thing to build, but it kept my swiss chard alive through the winter, and I could eat off the chard.
I would suggest getting PVC pipes and decent plastic ahead of time
Lots of info on YouTube

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 06:17 PM (xhaym)

325 Ahoy, Polloi!
Posted by: Spaulding

You want to party?

Posted by: Rick Wilson at July 28, 2022 06:17 PM (m7R0k)

326 t out of the White House:

Hershey Chief Executive Officer Michele Buck told Reuters that the coming shortage will be caused in part by the Russian-Ukraine war impacting cocoa, edible oil, and other ingredients, while other issues stemming from the economic disruption during COVID are also to blame.
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (xPl2J)

That is some brazen bullshit right there!

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:17 PM (Vr12I)

327 293 286 >>Hershey’s Chocolates Warns Of Halloween, Christmas Candy Shortage

Chocolate Rations are UP!
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (9kGvh)

I wonder if they bothered to explain why?
Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:12 PM (Vr12I)

Did a tour in OH this summer at a chocolate place who makes many of the "big boys" seasonal candies (b/c they are specialty shaped, so for example, you Halloween Twix are at this place, not Mars). They were still a single shift business when they used to be 3 shifts pre-Covid (aka 24 hours). Partly b/c they couldn't find employees, partly b/c they couldn't afford any more employees after 2020 downsizing. So, yeah...the economy's working great!

Posted by: Nova local at July 28, 2022 06:17 PM (exHjb)

328 >> I would absolutely love seeing the Chinese figuring out a way to shoot down Pelosi's plane.

I'd even be cool with us shooting it down and merely BLAMING the Chinese.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 06:17 PM (9kGvh)

329 Recession + Inflation = Stagflation.
Stagflation + MOAR trillion dollar tax & spend bills = Depression.
Depression + Intentially-Induced Famine = Starveflation.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (zO2Ol)

Starveflation + energy shortage = Attack of the Lamposts.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 06:17 PM (U3uv2)

330 The one metric (unemployment) they try to use as a fig leaf is also a sham. Labor participation is at its lowest since 1948.

Because being a Fat Lazy Turd With Anxiety Issues apparently now counts as a compensable disability.

Posted by: Zek at July 28, 2022 06:18 PM (OzNIz)

331 Ahoy, Polloi!
Posted by: Spaulding

You want to party?
Posted by: Rick Wilson at July 28, 2022 06:17 PM

Sure. I got some really great shit...bought it off a Negro.

Posted by: Spaulding at July 28, 2022 06:18 PM (RkC6l)

332 What the fuck does Ukraine have to do with cocoa?

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 28, 2022 06:18 PM (xPl2J)

333 >>>This makes me believe that they are readying their ultimate power play - no more elections for some contrived reason.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (Vr12I)

It's the only logical explanation for the actions they are taking.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 28, 2022 06:18 PM (QYPq3)

334 What war since the invention of the long bow, hasn't been a shooting war?

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 06:19 PM (krQz2)

335 >>So, yeah...the economy's working great!

Thanks for your support, Comrade!

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 28, 2022 06:19 PM (9kGvh)

336 332 What the fuck does Ukraine have to do with cocoa?
Posted by: Mark1971 at July 28, 2022 06:18 PM (xPl2J)

Maybe fertilizer? I dunno. IIRC, most of the cocoa comes from south america.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2022 06:19 PM (diceA)

337 PUTIN STOLE MY CHOCOLATE!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 06:19 PM (FVME7)

338 I'm not worried about Halloween because I have a bunch of jelly and ketchup packets to hand out to the kiddies.

Posted by: fd at July 28, 2022 06:19 PM (sn5EN)

339 >>> 304 287 A little WWIII will get your mind off the recession.

Xi Warns Biden Over Pelosi's Taiwan Visit: Play With Fire, Get Burned
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (FVME7)

I would absolutely love seeing the Chinese figuring out a way to shoot down Pelosi's plane.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2022 06:14 PM (r46W7)

We no see your jet.

Posted by: CHYna at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (llON8)

340 In my world the PLANAF (their air force) shoots down Pelosi's plane and we don't do squat nor acknowledge it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (BFigT)

341 Hershey Chief Executive Officer Michele Buck told Reuters that the coming shortage will be caused in part by the Russian-Ukraine war impacting cocoa, edible oil, and other ingredients, while other issues stemming from the economic disruption during COVID are also to blame.
Posted by: Mark1971

Because so much cocoa, oil & other ingredients come out of Ukraine.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (inRxW)

342 On the good news front, Karen's Restaurant, a local establishment just opened last year, has closed. Seems people weren't interested in being told what to eat.

Posted by: Caliban at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (HgGBT)

343 Hershey’s Chocolates Warns Of Halloween, Christmas Candy Shortage

Considering:
1. consumer confidence is cratering
2People are already cutting back AND maxing out credit

This is like the officers of RMS Titanic worrying about a shortage of deck chairs.

Posted by: Blue Hen at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (cY9wR)

344 >>What the fuck does Ukraine have to do with cocoa?

Only that the finest Cocoa in the World comes from the plains of Ukraine.

Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (9kGvh)

345 We may joke about it sometimes, but as we always say here at AoS - violence is never the answer.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (dscaa)

346 334 What war since the invention of the long bow, hasn't been a shooting war?
Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 06:19 PM (krQz2)

Romans and others also employed slingers. Baelric? B something. Lead shot. Not fun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (diceA)

347 In the 1970s my parents were so broke they took all the money from sister and my piggy banks

Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (eEpW/)

348 @248 Biden did not have COVID.

I tested positive on July 3rd and I'm still testing positive.

I call bullshit.

----

My co-worker (who's a lefty) noted yesterday that Biden got over his COVID awfully fast. Only thing I could suggest is that they didn't catch it until late in the cycle. My co-worker actually speculated that they might have lied about him being sick. But I can't think of a reason why they would have lied about that.

Posted by: junior at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (Y65bf)

349 Those aren't tracks. Those are skidmarks.

Posted by: Anotheranon at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (8Ze5j)

350 If I like their costume I'll throw in a packet of sugar.

Posted by: fd at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (sn5EN)

351 I'm not worried about Halloween because I have a bunch of jelly and ketchup packets to hand out to the kiddies.

Posted by: fd at July 28, 2022 06:19 PM (sn5EN)

Isn't it hard putting razor blades in those?

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 28, 2022 06:21 PM (xPl2J)

352 This makes me believe that they are readying their ultimate power play - no more elections for some contrived reason.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (Vr12I)
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Aren't elections mostly a state issue? Especially midterms? What happens if a state doesn't want to play along with cancelling elections?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 06:21 PM (K5n5d)

353 In Re: Pelosi going to Taiwan.

Good. Let the ChiComs yell, they don't get to dictate to us. Recently they sent 4 Demands to Australia and Australia politely told them to go fornicate with themselves. The Wolf Warrior crap started with Xi and may it continue to isolate China.

Posted by: Mikey NTH The Outrage Outlet is Stocked With Vexation and Ire. at July 28, 2022 06:21 PM (s+u6b)

354 Sundowner means the Biden economy is on the right track, probably still pulling in Yen by the bucket load

Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2022 06:21 PM (k8B25)

355 I'm not worried about Halloween because I have a bunch of jelly and ketchup packets to hand out to the kiddies.
Posted by: fd at July 28, 2022 06:19 PM (sn5EN)
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*Gut laugh*

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 06:21 PM (krQz2)

356 I'm not worried about Halloween because I have a bunch of jelly and ketchup packets to hand out to the kiddies.
Posted by: fd

Flaming hot Taco Bell sauce packets.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2022 06:22 PM (inRxW)

357 It's the only logical explanation for the actions they are taking.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 28, 2022 06:18 PM (QYPq3)

Or perhaps there's no real opposition party and national elections are therefore almost totally a load of horseshit.

Maybe. Never know.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:22 PM (dscaa)

358 >>> 324 Depending on where, maybe. Also, 'hoop houses' are a thing and if there is sufficient sunlight, they work year round. Discount greenhouses.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at July 28, 2022 05:57 PM (llXky)

I made one in 2020 out of filbert whips and the plastic sheeting a mattress came in. It was not the easiest thing to build, but it kept my swiss chard alive through the winter, and I could eat off the chard.
I would suggest getting PVC pipes and decent plastic ahead of time
Lots of info on YouTube
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 06:17 PM (xhaym)

Got any recommendations for insect netting? Bleeping grasshoppers are munching on my little pecans trees.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 06:22 PM (llON8)

359 Why is Nancy running her own foreign policy by flying into Taiwan. To what end?

Posted by: Ignoramus at July 28, 2022 06:22 PM (i0slg)

360 3 ingredient ice cream from Hillbilly Housewife. I haven't tried it yet

https://youtu.be/csR1Hlpw3qs

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2022 06:22 PM (YynYJ)

361 I might support bugs for protein ... for the welfare state. Instead of government cheese, government bugs. Incentive to move into the productive class.

But illegals have more rights than citizens, so they get it all for free ... as long as we are still well fed, room for another 50 million illegals. Stop your belly-achin'.

Posted by: illiniwek at July 28, 2022 06:22 PM (Cus5s)

362 In the 1970s my parents were so broke they took all the money from sister and my piggy banks
Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA

I was eye balling the change machine at the store today. I have a bunch of it in a 5 gal water bottle.

Posted by: Infidel at July 28, 2022 06:22 PM (mn1Pi)

363 Only that the finest Cocoa in the World comes from the plains of Ukraine.
Posted by: garrett at July 28, 2022 06:20 PM (9kGvh)

Winter Cocoa is tricky to grow, but that's why it's so exclusive and delicious.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:23 PM (guGkK)

364 You got your chocolate in my truffle butter !

Posted by: Jussie Smollett at July 28, 2022 06:23 PM (m7R0k)

365 Aren't elections mostly a state issue? Especially midterms? What happens if a state doesn't want to play along with cancelling elections?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 06:21 PM (K5n5d)
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They've tried twice now to take them "national".

Because nobody in Washington ever heard the term "single point of failure".

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 06:23 PM (krQz2)

366 Two weeks after the Midterms, they'll declare that a recession has officially started and blame it on the Republicans.

Posted by: Surfperch at July 28, 2022 06:23 PM (/4vtq)

367 "...To what end?"
Pillage of assets.
Same as here.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 06:23 PM (jTmQV)

368 Use cattle panels. They are stiff wire panels and two will make a decent sized greenhouse.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2022 06:23 PM (YynYJ)

369 Sundowner means the Biden economy is on the right track, probably still pulling in Yen by the bucket load

Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2022 06:21 PM (k8B25)

They mean to destroy the petro-energy based economy and replace it with unicorn farts and skittles (e.g., mass starvation and economic disruption) to transition to their GND utopia. This is that "right track."

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 28, 2022 06:23 PM (U3uv2)

370 352 This makes me believe that they are readying their ultimate power play - no more elections for some contrived reason.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (Vr12I)
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Aren't elections mostly a state issue? Especially midterms? What happens if a state doesn't want to play along with cancelling elections?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 06:21 PM (K5n5d)

Find a National Emergency. Do not recognize state elections, as being in violation of that National Emergency act. Sounds extreme, but they are.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:23 PM (Vr12I)

371 Buy cigars and ammo!

Posted by: Weasel at July 28, 2022 06:24 PM (0IeYL)

372 Flaming hot Taco Bell sauce packets.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2022 06:22 PM (inRxW)

Wasabi.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 28, 2022 06:24 PM (89T5c)

373 >>>Or perhaps there's no real opposition party and national elections are therefore almost totally a load of horseshit.

Maybe. Never know.

Posted by: ... at July 28, 2022 06:22 PM (dscaa)

I was including the supposed opposition party in that scenario.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at July 28, 2022 06:24 PM (QYPq3)

374 I'm not worried about Halloween because I have a bunch of jelly and ketchup packets to hand out to the kiddies.
Posted by: fd

Flaming hot Taco Bell sauce packets.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 28, 2022 06:22 PM (inRxW)

One year I planned badly and was forced to hand out my entire supply of frozen bean burritos.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:24 PM (guGkK)

375 "Buy cigars and ammo!
Posted by: Weasel"

Maybe a post on loading your own cigars?

Posted by: fd at July 28, 2022 06:24 PM (sn5EN)

376 Junior,

He gets tested on a regular basis. That's why I call bullshit.

FJB was going off the rails in the middle east and the when he got back. Remember the cancer bit?

I bet they need to up the meds because he's hit the wall and the dishes aren't working anymore.

Posted by: mpfs at July 28, 2022 06:24 PM (Ybzqi)

377 Biden analyzes the economy.

https://bit.ly/3PXHxl0

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 06:25 PM (FVME7)

378 @304 I would absolutely love seeing the Chinese figuring out a way to shoot down Pelosi's plane.

----

An accident involving one of their pilots flying dangerously close to her plane (something they've been doing to Royal Canadian Aif Force surveillance planes in international airspace recently), misjudging the distance, and...

Something like that actually happened right after Dubya took office, as you might recall.

Posted by: junior at July 28, 2022 06:25 PM (Y65bf)

379 No candy for Halloween? Well, when they show up at the door I'll just say you'll get NOTHING and like it! Welcome to the new world order ya little fuckers.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 28, 2022 06:25 PM (nxdel)

380 I might support bugs for protein ... for the welfare state. Instead of government cheese, government bugs. Incentive to move into the productive class.

But illegals have more rights than citizens, so they get it all for free ... as long as we are still well fed, room for another 50 million illegals. Stop your belly-achin'.
Posted by: illiniwek at July 28, 2022 06:22 PM (Cus5s)
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As much as I like to joke about it. I would actually eat bugs if they tasted good.

However, they also want to kill off cattle ranching, and that means no steak--or absurd prices for them.

I'll eat bugs, if I can have an occasional steak.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 06:25 PM (krQz2)

381 Since there was talk of The Exorcist III, I am in the middle of watching it.

The grandfather clock stops in the rectory and George C Scott doesn't blink an eye? WTF?

Still, creepy so far...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 28, 2022 06:25 PM (ufFY8)

382 Give em cicadas and meal worms for Halloween.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:26 PM (Vr12I)

383 "Buy cigars and ammo!
Posted by: Weasel"

Maybe a post on loading your own cigars?

Posted by: fd at July 28, 2022 06:24 PM (sn5EN)

1. Get a couple of Nicaraguans and dress them up like Cubans.

. . .

3. Profit!

Posted by: Kramer at July 28, 2022 06:26 PM (U3uv2)

384 Dishes = doses

My bad

Posted by: mpfs at July 28, 2022 06:27 PM (Ybzqi)

385 Well, when they show up at the door I'll just say you'll get NOTHING and like it!

You can't just go from door to door trying to bilk people out of candy!

Posted by: Larry David at July 28, 2022 06:27 PM (ufFY8)

386 Yahoo news: Justice Alito taunts Boris Johnson and Prince Harry for opposing his Roe ruling, saying outgoing PM 'paid the price'

https://tinyurl.com/yjuhy487

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 06:27 PM (NpAcC)

387 315
Recession + Inflation = Stagflation.
Stagflation + MOAR trillion dollar tax & spend bills = Depression.
Depression + Intentially-Induced Famine = Starveflation.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM

Starveflation + skyrocketing energy prices= WEF wonderland (feudalism masquerading as socialism)

Posted by: Economic Assessment at July 28, 2022 06:27 PM (NCgXW)

388 359 Why is Nancy running her own foreign policy by flying into Taiwan. To what end?
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 28, 2022 06:22 PM (i0slg)

There's a lot of chip manufacturers there, and Hubby Pelosi got some real good tips as to who's price was about to really pop. I'm sure she has a few suitcases full of greenbacks she's got to hand out personally.

You can tell it has nothing to do with politics by the way she refuses to talk about it and also refuses to back down. This is some personal bookkeeping.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2022 06:27 PM (trdmm)

389 "At least we're not experiencing famine" is not something I ever thought I'd hear as an official response from our federal gov't.

Posted by: Lady in Black at July 28, 2022 06:27 PM (sVtYq)

390 "the CHIPS and Science Act "

He will sign it in front of the Museum of Science and Trucking.

Posted by: gp In A Vat at July 28, 2022 06:27 PM (qpX6U)

391 Give em cicadas and meal worms for Halloween.

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:26 PM (Vr12I)

While wearing a Klaus Schwab costume.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 28, 2022 06:27 PM (xPl2J)

392 Give em cicadas and meal worms for Halloween.
Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:26 PM (Vr12I)

"Welcome to serfdom, kid."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:27 PM (guGkK)

393 Give em cicadas and meal worms for Halloween.
Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:26 PM (Vr12I)

"Welcome to serfdom, kid."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:27 PM (guGkK)
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Blackrock says "hi".

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 06:28 PM (krQz2)

394 I saw a bittersweet video of a teeny girl who wants to taste the food mommy is eating "wasabi!" she pleads. mom finally gives the little tyke a tiny bit as a taste and the little girl sits a moment concentrating then in a tiny voice said "help"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 06:28 PM (Ivdso)

395 For Christmas, carve the kids and grandkids a new pair of Sunday Sabots!

Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:30 PM (Vr12I)

396 Recession? What do you mean they are redefining recession!?

Forget it Jake, it's Bidentown.

Posted by: mpfs at July 28, 2022 06:30 PM (Ybzqi)

397 "White House economic adviser Brian Deese says that things are great because America isn’t experiencing famine like other countries."

No "food insecurity?" No "food deserts?" No tenements with kids who have only lead paint chips to eat? Now THIS is a new kind of Democrat: one who doesn't complain about hunger in America. Take a picture before he spontaneously combusts.

Posted by: gp In A Vat at July 28, 2022 06:30 PM (qpX6U)

398 He is a shambling chemistry set that has gone full biden.
I wonder if they already passed the point where they dose him to show 'proof of life' with him dying in office as a bonus.
Posted by: Blue Hen
Somebody at the WH is going to fuck up and dose him wrong.
Then ... Enter Kamala! I know, everyone has.
Posted by: mpfs at July 28, 2022 06:16 PM (Ybzqi)

Might be waiting for Congress to dismiss so they can recess appoint who the Junta prefers as Veep

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2022 06:30 PM (xhaym)

399 https://www.thequint.com/china has a crisis brewing-will-it-be-the-final-straw for global economy
https://tinyurl.com/2xf8c84v

Very interesting

Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2022 06:30 PM (k8B25)

400 The Dems just bleed off more support by pretending there's not a problem.

You can't support someone fixing something if they keep pretending its not real.

If I were Biden's team, I'd be saying we have big economic issues from coming out of Covid and we have a plan to get back on track.

Posted by: Blago at July 28, 2022 06:30 PM (PwNLq)

401 New and Improved Serfdom will be improved.

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 06:31 PM (krQz2)

402 Now that Deese has comforted us with his words regarding famine, we'll have one for certain.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 06:31 PM (jTmQV)

403 Food stamps exist so that grocery stores make money. That's why you can use them for prepared foods. It was originally commodities. Not sure if Indians (feather not dot) still get them. Grains, canned meat, cheese and butter plus a cookbook on how to use the food. That's probably the boxes of food they were handing out.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 28, 2022 06:31 PM (YynYJ)

404 I hand out condoms to the little bastards.

Posted by: Frank Barone at July 28, 2022 06:31 PM (m7R0k)

405 #359: Members of Congress may go on fact finding trips to places of legislative concern, i.e., places that receive US money. And Taiwan does, military aid, and that is appropriate to a legislative concern.

Posted by: Mikey NTH The Outrage Outlet is Stocked With Vexation and Ire. at July 28, 2022 06:32 PM (s+u6b)

406 389 "At least we're not experiencing famine" is not something I ever thought I'd hear as an official response from our federal gov't.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 28, 2022 06:27 PM (sVtYq)

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Their planned famine isn't scheduled until the 3rd quarter.

Posted by: jc at July 28, 2022 06:32 PM (N1WXz)

407 Helena Handbasket, you can spray those trees to keep the grass hoppers off. Rancherbob can give you the name of the spray.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2022 06:32 PM (OqjtX)

408 Find a National Emergency. Do not recognize state elections, as being in violation of that National Emergency act. Sounds extreme, but they are.
Posted by: kraken at July 28, 2022 06:23 PM (Vr12I)

From our history - Cromwell only took over as Dictator after the "Long Parliament" placed themselves in power and refused to hold any new elections for 12 years or so. They were notoriously corrupt, and most people were quite happy to see Cromwell finally use his Army to turn them out and place himself in sole command.

pf course he never held any elections either.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2022 06:33 PM (trdmm)

409 If I were Biden's team, I'd be saying we have big economic issues from coming out of Covid and we have a plan to get back on track.

Posted by: Blago at July 28, 2022 06:30 PM (PwNLq)

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That would require a little imagination. They have none.

Posted by: jc at July 28, 2022 06:33 PM (N1WXz)

410 You can buy dried crickets at the Asian market....
or PetsMart.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 28, 2022 06:34 PM (NpAcC)

411 Overall the Biden Administration's response is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect from a bunch of angry college girls who thought they had it all figured out and everything is going horribly wrong instead and they can't blame anyone else for it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 06:36 PM (Ivdso)

412 >>> 407 Helena Handbasket, you can spray those trees to keep the grass hoppers off. Rancherbob can give you the name of the spray.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2022 06:32 PM (OqjtX)

Thanks!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 28, 2022 06:36 PM (llON8)

413 Aren't elections mostly a state issue? Especially midterms? What happens if a state doesn't want to play along with cancelling elections?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 28, 2022 06:21 PM (K5n5d)
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I did it once, and I'll do it again, to protect all Ohioans from the scourge of monkey-pox and all the close, intimate contact that occurs naturally in our voting sites all across this great state of Ohio.

Posted by: Gov. DeWine (Squish-OH) at July 28, 2022 06:37 PM (fs1hN)

414 by the end of next year, 50% of the small restaurants will be gone

it's the first thing people pull in on, esp if it concerns any traveling

put your cover on and buy bullets

Posted by: REDACTED at July 28, 2022 06:37 PM (us2H3)

415 @400 If I were Biden's team, I'd be saying we have big economic issues from coming out of Covid and we have a plan to get back on track.

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I suspect part of the problem is that there's effectively no one running the administration. As a result, each bureaucracy is trying to head off in a different direction. Implementing an economic fix would require getting the different departments to fall in line. But that requires more than a cobweb head at the top of the org chart

Posted by: junior at July 28, 2022 06:37 PM (Y65bf)

416 287 A little WWIII will get your mind off the recession.

Xi Warns Biden Over Pelosi's Taiwan Visit: Play With Fire, Get Burned
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Is the Summer of Our Discontent n at July 28, 2022 06:11 PM (FVME7

This how the CCP always reacts with threats of violence. They know other way. Doesn't matter the situation the response is to threaten. It's either a Chinese cultural trait or small dicks. I'd say small dicks

Posted by: Beartooth at July 28, 2022 06:37 PM (+ksY7)

417 Overall the Biden Administration's response is exactly the kind of thing you'd expect from a bunch of angry college girls who thought they had it all figured out and everything is going horribly wrong instead and they can't blame anyone else for it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 06:36 PM (Ivdso)

The management of The Fyre Festival just called the WH to say, WTF???

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2022 06:38 PM (guGkK)

418 Capital. It's a pretty good idea.

The more the state admits you own, the less it makes it feel like the state owns you.

Imagine if the State one morning told you that your toothbrush was property of the state and the state wasn't so happy with letting you use it right now?

What about the bed you sleep on? They've put bigger suck-ups to the government in your bed.

Not to mention that "better citizens" are using the car you've been driving to work.

Seems that even anti-capital societies get by by the illusion of "property".

Posted by: Axeman at July 28, 2022 06:39 PM (krQz2)

419 by the end of next year, 50% of the small restaurants will be gone

Almost every restaurant is staying open based on food deliveries and people blaming Doordash for a hamburger costing $15. Eventually all that Covid Cash and all the other money will dry up, and those cards will be maxed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 06:39 PM (Ivdso)

420 When my youngest was about 4 he wanted to try one of the red grapes (cherry tomatoes) I had on my plate. I said ok and he popped one in his mouth and bit down. The look of disappointment and horror on his face when he tasted tomato and not grape was priceless.

I like to think he learned a valuable life lesson.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at July 28, 2022 06:39 PM (DV/rv)

421 #415: That has long been my theory of the Biden Administration - every group has been running lose with no one able to rein them in and set priorities.

Posted by: Mikey NTH The Outrage Outlet is Stocked With Vexation and Ire. at July 28, 2022 06:40 PM (s+u6b)

422 I like to think he learned a valuable life lesson.

Yeah, don't trust dad.

I am seriously looking at pulling all my money out of the really nice credit union nearby that has great policies and stuffing it in my sock drawer. I mean its not like I have a lot but still :/ I gotta really bad feeling.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 28, 2022 06:40 PM (Ivdso)

423 Nood

Posted by: NCKate at July 28, 2022 06:40 PM (2oJif)

424 Nood everyone!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 28, 2022 06:41 PM (fs1hN)

425 Fuck yeah, there is a ton of nutritional value in dried mesquite leaves! I have a veritable bonanza.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 28, 2022 06:43 PM (OqjtX)

426 Hey I did tell him exactly what blue cheese was. "It's stinky French cheese" I said. He wanted to try it anyway. Put him off salads for years.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at July 28, 2022 06:46 PM (DV/rv)

427 I must be one of the few people on the planet who does not like chocolate.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 28, 2022 06:49 PM (flINI)

428 That's gotta wear ya down after a while, lying like that all day, every day...
Posted by: gourmand du jour, geting hungry at July 28, 2022 05:32 PM (jTmQV)

When they lie they but speak their native tongue.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 28, 2022 06:51 PM (yQpMk)

429 The only pertinent question for these assholes is the following:

"When was the last instance of the economy shrinking in 2 straight quarters that WAS NOT a recession ?"

I'm about 99% sure the answer is: NEVER

Posted by: deadrody at July 28, 2022 06:55 PM (SnywI)

430 Joe's brain is deep in recession.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 28, 2022 06:59 PM (eGTCV)

431 This is NOT a recession. It may be lots of things: a liar, a pervert, a recession, but it is NOT a pornstar!

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