Paul Krugman: There Is No Recession and If There Is, It Doesn't Matter.<br>Also, The Economy Is Great and Any Thought to the Contrary Is Just Caused by a Biased Media Out to Get Biden.

Paul Krugman: There Is No Recession and If There Is, It Doesn't Matter.
Also, The Economy Is Great and Any Thought to the Contrary Is Just Caused by a Biased Media Out to Get Biden.

It's sad when great minds slide into dementia.

It's also sad to see it happen to Paul Krugman.

New York Times columnist and economist Paul Krugman joined CNN's Brian Stelter on Sunday and asserted the U.S. was not in a recession and that the term did not matter.
"Are we in a recession and does the term matter?" Stelter asked.
Krugman responded, "No we aren't, and no it doesn't."

It doesn't matter if we're in a recession or not -- at least under a Democrat president, because there are more important leftwing priorities being satisfied.

"None of the usual criteria that real experts use says we're in a recession right now. And what does it matter? You know, the state of the economy is what it is. Jobs are abundant although maybe the job market is weakening. Inflation is high, although maybe inflation is coming down. What does it matter whether you use the 'r' world or not?" he said.
Krugman said the debate around defining a recession was "vitriolic."

"I've never seen anything as bad as this, the determination of a lot of people to say it's a recession is above and beyond anything I've ever seen," Krugman said, adding that partisanship was driving the debate.
The New York Times columnist suggested people "want" the "Biden recession." "Never mind the fact that you know, it in fact is not a recession in any technical sense," he continued.
Two straight quarters of negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth has typically been the technical definition of a recession.
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"There's been a kind of negativity bias in coverage. The press should be giving people -- people have their own personal experience. And if you ask people how are you doing, they're pretty upbeat," Krugman claimed, adding that some will complain about gas prices. "If you ask people how is your financial situation, it's pretty favorable. If you ask them how is the economy, oh, it's terrible. That's a media failing. Somehow we're failing to convey the realities of what's going on to people."

The sheeple aren't believing our lies. We have to shout our lies louder so the sheeple will believe.

Note that Paul Krugman was just pressured by the New York Times Editorial Board to confess an error he'd made -- all editorialists were told to do this -- and he admitted he was wrong to repeatedly deny that inflation was a threat.

Although he spent half of his column arguing why the people who were right about inflation were really wrong because their logic was all wrong and his was perfect and flawless. Even though, you know, they got it right and he got it wrong.

"I was wrong but for the right reasons, and you were right but for the wrong reasons!"

F*ck you, you malignant meglomaniacal dwarf.

Days after admitting (begrudgingly) his last gigantic error, he announced the roll-out of his New Gigantic Error:

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman expressed confidence that there "won't be" a recession just days after he offered a mea culpa for wrongly dismissing inflation concerns.
In his piece Tuesday attempting to explain what a recession is, Krugman began by acknowledging "there's a pretty good chance" that data set to be released on Thursday will show the GDP had shrunk for two consecutive quarters, which has long been an indicator of a recession.
Well, Krugman took a preemptive swipe at the "breathless commentary" that will erupt declaring a recession, telling readers "we won't be."

"That's not how recessions are defined; more important, it's not how they should be defined," Krugman wrote. "It's possible that the people who actually decide whether we're in a recession... will eventually declare that a recession began in the United States in the first half of this year, although that's unlikely given other economic data."

The Nobel Prize-winning economist went on to say it would be "foolish" to declare a recession solely based on Thursday's findings despite the extremely high correlation with multiple consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth.

"And what difference would a recession call make, anyway?" Krugman wondered. "What should matter is the state of the economy -- which is complicated -- not the particular word we use to describe it."

Ah. It's "complicated" under Democrat presidents.

Krugman has not thought it was a "complicated" to judge an economy as bad or recessionary under Republicans. He's a hyperpartisan lunatic, not an economist.

There is a hundred year precedent for defining two quarters of negative growth a recession, but we're now in Year Zero so YOLO!

The latest economic doublespeak from the Biden administration is a stern warning to not believe your lying eyes. President Joe Biden, who said Thursday, "That doesn't sound like recession to me," seems to want us to believe the economy is in far better shape than the stark reality right in front of our faces.
But it's hard to ignore the latest gross domestic product data from the Department of Commerce, which shows the economy contracted in both the first and second quarters of this year, indicating that the nation is in recession.
This comes as no surprise to millions of American families who have been struggling just to buy groceries and gasoline. Real incomes--incomes adjusted for inflation--have steadily declined under the Biden administration over 6%. Meanwhile, monthly savings are down 75% and household debt has increased by $1.3 trillion.
All the while, the White House and loyal Biden sycophants throughout the government have tried to redefine the word "recession" in such a way that the newspeak version of the word coincidentally excludes the current economic contraction. The verbal gymnastics it is taking to do so would make George Orwell's Ministry of Truth quite proud.
This is despite a 100-year precedent that every time the economy has contracted for two consecutive quarters, those occurrences have all been considered recessions. In the past 75 years, whenever inflation has been above 4% and unemployment below 4%, a recession has followed within the next two years.

There is N O T H I N G - u h Paul Krugman claims that is not completely determined by his totalizing political rage:

It's time to start deplatforming these filthy Russian-Propaganda-Spewing Recession Deniars.

CNN's @brianstelter: "Can we dispense with the recession debate? Are we in a recession, and does the term matter?

Former Enron adviser @PaulKrugman: "No, we aren’t and no, it doesn’t." pic.twitter.com/jgioebaJZO
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 31, 2022

Glad to see he's looking fit and vigorous.

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald
Watching them so brazenly re-define how they have always used "recession," and then Paul Krugman adding it doesn't matter if we're in one or not (it doesn't matter for him), all to protect the Biden WH, is a new level of audacity no matter how low your opinion of them already is.

This is worth the watch: These redefinitions are not designed to persuade or even to be believed by those pushing them, but are simply shibboleths and quickie Loyalty Oaths to The Regime.

Astute analysis from @AuronMacintyre.

Those who are willing to go along with the Orwellian redefining of #Recession are signaling their allegiance to the regime and are effectively signing a loyalty pledge. pic.twitter.com/jOxTRhzsG3
— THE News Rundown (@News_Rundown) July 30, 2022

Similar observation from Victoria Taft: "It has been overt and in-your-face. Biden’s people attempted to re-frame ideas and concepts and change the norms of what has been true over time. It's the same thing the Left has done with the definition of woman, marriage, parents, and recession."

That link via Stephen Green at Instapundit.

From Kyle Mann of the Babylon Bee:

Posted by: Ace at 02:19 PM

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1 Undernood?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 01, 2022 02:16 PM (5pTK/)

2 Groovy!

Though, what do I tell the otters, err, others?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 01, 2022 02:16 PM (5pTK/)

3 undernood?

Posted by: High Plains Deplorable at August 01, 2022 02:16 PM (gSLIe)

4 @number 1. Jinx!

Posted by: High Plains Deplorable at August 01, 2022 02:17 PM (gSLIe)

5 Undernood announced. Awaiting for frivolous commenting to begin!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 01, 2022 02:18 PM (5pTK/)

6 Krugman looks like a garden Gnome or a troll

Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2022 02:18 PM (bs+z0)

7 CNN's @brianstelter: "Can we dispense with the recession debate? Are we in a recession, and does the term matter?

Former Enron adviser @PaulKrugman: "No, we aren't and no, it doesn't."

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Definitions don't matter? Then just let us call it a recession since it doesn't matter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 01, 2022 02:19 PM (LvTSG)

8 You buy Krugman, he stays bought.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2022 02:19 PM (V6f9+)

9 Krugman looks like a wan guinea pig that's been through too many experiments

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 01, 2022 02:19 PM (gbzeC)

10 Is this the Top Secret Underpost?

Posted by: rd at August 01, 2022 02:19 PM (Z32m1)

11 Ah, Krugman, never change your little tiny left wing shill heart.

"Lived experience" is now the criteria rather than data.

Bless his heart.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 01, 2022 02:19 PM (5pTK/)

12 This is all gas lighting. May as well convince us that a person with a penis and dangly bits is a woman.
Oh, wait...

Posted by: gourmand du jour, 61 and foggy at August 01, 2022 02:19 PM (jTmQV)

13 I'll repost here as it is a really good interview:

This Jordan Peterson interview of Michael Yon is really good, but long.

https://youtu.be/R7gAEkzIgvw

He says they are displacing the NL farmers to build a high tech city that is between NL, Germany and another country that escapes me right now.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at August 01, 2022 02:19 PM (5HBd1)

14 This is worth the watch: These redefinitions are not designed to persuade or even to be believed by those pushing them, but are simply shibboleths and quickie Loyalty Oaths to The Regime.

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Also, not helping the media retain any persuasive power with the average persynx.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 01, 2022 02:20 PM (LvTSG)

15 7 CNN's @brianstelter: "Can we dispense with the recession debate? Are we in a recession, and does the term matter?

Pay no attention to that recession behind the curtain.. Look... Squirrel !

Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2022 02:20 PM (bs+z0)

16 So, I'm pretty sure that Dr. Mabuse is alive and well and having a good laugh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at August 01, 2022 02:20 PM (LvTSG)

17 45% of independent restaurants couldn't make July's rent

looks like even the legit Covid help money has ran out

Posted by: Pompeo at August 01, 2022 02:20 PM (us2H3)

18 Recessions only matter to poor and working people. Overpaid political commentators and government bureaucrats will be just fine.

Posted by: huerfano at August 01, 2022 02:21 PM (dTFZY)

19
Slightly Altered Post Title:

Paul Krugman: There Is No Recession and If There Is, It Doesn't Matter. Also, The Economy Is Great and Any Thought to the Contrary Is Just Caused by a Biased Media Out to Get Biden. Also, it's imperative we pass biden's "anti-inflation" bill into law immediately.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 01, 2022 02:21 PM (JtOZc)

20 That's "Former Enron Adviser Paul Krugman" to you!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 01, 2022 02:21 PM (906pl)

21 Didn't the Kruginator just say that this inflation was the worst he's ever seen?

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at August 01, 2022 02:21 PM (3AD8C)

22 Grogu?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 01, 2022 02:21 PM (b2nrj)

23 now, why is smelling scrunt going to the East ??

Posted by: REDACTED at August 01, 2022 02:21 PM (us2H3)

24 Paul Krugman - unindicted co-conspirator for the failed company ENRON.

Can't forget that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2022 02:21 PM (RSzuR)

25 You know things are f*cked when it's the so-called economists themselves saying "Whatever, it's all just a bunch of made up numbers anyway".

"In the long run, they're all retards."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2022 02:21 PM (/EuRN)

26
A washed out pig/man hybrid living on borrowed time at a doomed network interviews a retarded, elderly Harry Potter impersonator about things neither understand.

This. Is. CNN.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 02:22 PM (IXpV7)

27 It's great to hear the few neighbors in his gated community that are still on speaking terms with Paul aren't having any economic issues. On a side note, it looks like the Monkeypox has hit Paul HARD.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 01, 2022 02:22 PM (HmZuC)

28 Paul Krugman has always been a no talent a**clown.

Even the thing he won a Noble Prize for was stupid and trivial.

He's no Hayek, that's for damn sure.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2022 02:22 PM (XEDUw)

29 So that's what Krugman looks like...

If smegma had a face.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:22 PM (E6Dy9)

30 Anyone here still on the Ukraine train?

@Breaking911 1m

BREAKING: Biden Admin. sending additional $550 million to Ukraine.

Posted by: Eric Holder at August 01, 2022 02:22 PM (IEa8U)

31 Obligatory: Brian Stelter is a Sex Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qqendp1kLE

Posted by: Augustine at August 01, 2022 02:22 PM (BDZWU)

32 Paul Krugman is insightful although maybe he is just a retard.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2022 02:22 PM (ftFVW)

33 We need to have some sort of 'Office of the Censor' or 'Office of the Auditor' that does stuff like that. There has to be some kind of watcher over the watchmen.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2022 02:17 PM (V6f9+)

They should dress like M Bison. Including the cape.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 01, 2022 02:22 PM (44ww/)

34 Krugman is actually stupid. Never has he been a brilliant mind. His predictions are always the opposite of the outcome or reality. Krugman: Sun to rise in West tomorrow.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2022 02:22 PM (GwxCX)

35 Krugman Under-Nood was Seredipitously Cruel.

Top Page Krugman is not nearly as Cruel.

Posted by: VDH at August 01, 2022 02:23 PM (DMG9N)

36 And what's a grogu?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:23 PM (E6Dy9)

37 13 I'll repost here as it is a really good interview:

This Jordan Peterson interview of Michael Yon is really good, but long.

https://youtu.be/R7gAEkzIgvw

He says they are displacing the NL farmers to build a high tech city that is between NL, Germany and another country that escapes me right now.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at August 01, 2022 02:19 PM (5HBd1)

Belgium?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 01, 2022 02:23 PM (b2nrj)

38 I'll repost here as it is a really good interview:

This Jordan Peterson interview of Michael Yon is really good, but long.

https://youtu.be/R7gAEkzIgvw

He says they are displacing the NL farmers to build a high tech city that is between NL, Germany and another country that escapes me right now.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at August 01, 2022 02:19 PM (5HBd1)

Farmlands get a lot cheaper when Farmers cannot grow crops on them. After the right people buy them? Laws and Regulations can get changed after the right people own them.

Posted by: rd at August 01, 2022 02:23 PM (Z32m1)

39 18 Recessions only matter to poor and working people. Overpaid political commentators and government bureaucrats will be just fine.
Posted by: huerfano at August 01, 2022 02:21 PM (dTFZY)

Had that fight on another board this morning. Dude was convinced everything was fine b/c he's fine and can take VIP tours of Disney. Of course, he was so stupid, he didn't understand the difference between nominal and real wages, so I think he's not the money earner in the family, if they even have one and aren't really on inherited/generational wealth...

Posted by: Nova local at August 01, 2022 02:23 PM (exHjb)

40 well alright then.

doing my part for inflation...

*scans one bottle of cheap wine ~~MD2020~~, puts $30 bottle of good stuff in the basket*

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at August 01, 2022 02:23 PM (MrZQl)

41 They should dress like M Bison. Including the cape.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 01, 2022 02:22 PM (44ww/)

Can I be the Aedile?

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at August 01, 2022 02:23 PM (/EuRN)

42 How does the human shaped potato still have a job?

Posted by: steevy at August 01, 2022 02:23 PM (NMHe5)

43 He's no Hayek, that's for damn sure.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 01, 2022 02:22 PM (XEDUw)

...and that's when the murders started...

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 01, 2022 02:23 PM (44ww/)

44 I think 99% of what these assholes say is nothing more than a loyalty pledge

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 01, 2022 02:23 PM (iFTx/)

45 It just doesn't matter. That's what my cat told me.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at August 01, 2022 02:24 PM (4I/2K)

46 Ace, you should add Krugman’s quotes on how the stock market will never recover from Trump being elected. This guy has the reverse Midas touch.

Posted by: Tofer732 at August 01, 2022 02:24 PM (imVto)

47 How does the human shaped potato still have a job?
Posted by: steevy
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He may not after next week.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:24 PM (E6Dy9)

48 No comment from Thousand Millimeter Reich?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2022 02:24 PM (RSzuR)

49 Wait! Krugman is part of that "biased media out to get Biden" Or has quit his gig at the far right-wing NYT and go to a more Biden friendly outfit?

Posted by: Ripley at August 01, 2022 02:24 PM (MxEKc)

50 The Green New Economy is recession-proof.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at August 01, 2022 02:25 PM (3Or4S)

51 If I hear anymore about chef's kisses, I'll testify Allahpundit was in here tossing cobb salads.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 01, 2022 02:25 PM (0ocXn)

52 It just doesn't matter. That's what my cat told me.

Posted by: Paul Krugman

I don't trust the cat. What the doormouse said is a different story. You should remember that.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 01, 2022 02:25 PM (/NCI4)

53 @ SMH - gorgu is the name of baby yoda from the groomer+ mandalorian series.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at August 01, 2022 02:25 PM (MrZQl)

54 THE DWARF KRUGMAN ISN'T SLIPPING INTO DEMENTIA. HE HAS AND ALWAYS WILL BE A HARDCORE LEFTIST.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 01, 2022 02:26 PM (u4CEu)

55 There is no war in Ba Sing Se.

Posted by: Augustine at August 01, 2022 02:26 PM (BDZWU)

56 >>>No comment from Thousand Millimeter Reich?

Somebody put his phone on top of the kitchen counter.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 01, 2022 02:26 PM (HmZuC)

57 Krugman looks like he uses tongue when he does a chef's kiss

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2022 02:26 PM (/EuRN)

58 Nineteen Eighty-Four is not the Left's instruction manual. It's their Bible.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 01, 2022 02:26 PM (rghSL)

59 Jim Cramer said there is no Recession either.

Believe The Experts Comrades!

Believe The Experts!

Posted by: rd at August 01, 2022 02:26 PM (Z32m1)

60 Krugman is a really good economic indicator: do the opposite of what he recommends and claims and you will rarely do wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:26 PM (Ivdso)

61
Paul Krugman looks like the Kurt Eichenwald of Harry Potters.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 02:26 PM (IXpV7)

62 By the way, I looked up the status of that ATF guy's case against the Columbus PD and looks like they are still taking depositions.

Posted by: bluebell at August 01, 2022 02:27 PM (aeePL)

63 I'll testify Allahpundit was in here tossing cobb salads.
Posted by: Dr. Bone
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Why would he be tossing your cobb salad?

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:27 PM (E6Dy9)

64 groomer+ Apt name for Paramount+ who have gone all out with the " Pride" shit

Posted by: steevy at August 01, 2022 02:27 PM (NMHe5)

65 And what's a grogu?
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:23 PM

Obligatory.

20 bucks, same as in town.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2022 02:27 PM (4p7Em)

66 36 And what's a grogu?
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:23 PM (E6Dy9)

A young, whatever the heck Yoda was. Character on a Disney+ Star Wars show. Grogu was his name. They called him baby Yoda, but he wasn't Yoda.

I have no idea what the species is called. Some nerd will probably tell us.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 01, 2022 02:27 PM (UuD2k)

67 SMH - gorgu is the name of baby yoda from the groomer+ mandalorian series.
Posted by: BifBewalsk
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Oh.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:27 PM (E6Dy9)

68 I see that Krugman has fully transitioned into a middle aged lesbian.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 01, 2022 02:28 PM (u4CEu)

69 Why would it matter to him? Sure he is well off

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2022 02:28 PM (k8B25)

70 By the way, I looked up the status of that ATF guy's case against the Columbus PD and looks like they are still taking depositions.
Posted by: bluebell at August 01, 2022 02:27 PM (aeePL)
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I guess, "Do you know who I am?" didn't quite work like it was supposed to with Columbus police.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 01, 2022 02:28 PM (5pTK/)

71 Your posts are being deleted and you are going to Facebook jail for posting the definition of recession.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2022 02:28 PM (inRxW)

72 Dear deep state, you like me and my cheating mouth.?

Yes

No

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 01, 2022 02:28 PM (b+OAI)

73 30 Anyone here still on the Ukraine train?

@Breaking911 1m

BREAKING: Biden Admin. sending additional $550 million to Ukraine.
Posted by: Eric Holder at August 01, 2022 02:22 PM (IEa8U)

40 billion there, 6 billion here, and a half billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 01, 2022 02:28 PM (Rl7KJ)

74 Isn't there going to be a chocolate candy shortage for Halloween?

Yeah everyone is going to remember that come Election Day

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2022 02:28 PM (RSzuR)

75 At some point when there was discussion of "privatizing Social Security" Krugman went on a big tirade about how stocks were the worst investment EVAR and I thought then, well, okay, how do you have your money invested?

That's what I want to know. Where does Krugman have his money.

Posted by: blaster at August 01, 2022 02:29 PM (jXzQN)

76 Paul Krugman: Trump will bring global recession

11/9/2016

https://tinyurl.com/2smudy76

Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2022 02:29 PM (ZLI7S)

77 The DC insiders love recession, high gas prices, everything related.
It keeps us smelly deplorables in our place and off the freeways.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, 61 and foggy at August 01, 2022 02:29 PM (jTmQV)

78 "The Nobel Prize-winning economist went on to say it would be "foolish" to declare a recession solely based on Thursday's findings despite the extremely high correlation with multiple consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth."
Krugman did not win a Nobel Prize. Ever. He won the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, in memory of Alfred Nobel.

Posted by: Roland F Hirsch at August 01, 2022 02:29 PM (oMkPq)

79 It just doesn't matter. That's what my cat told me.
Posted by: Paul Krugman at August 01, 2022 02:24 PM

I told you that years ago.

Posted by: Tripper at August 01, 2022 02:29 PM (4p7Em)

80 Keep us posted, bluebell.

Hopefully, the guy who swatted the feeb is still breathing free air.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:29 PM (E6Dy9)

81 74 Isn't there going to be a chocolate candy shortage for Halloween?

Yeah everyone is going to remember that come Election Day
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2022 02:28 PM (RSzuR)

The chocolate rations have been increased to zero!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 01, 2022 02:29 PM (UuD2k)

82 Apparently the Manchin Build a Recession better bill has been looked at by people who can actually read and count and it will raise taxes on everyone.Manchin is either stupid about what he agreed to support or a liar or both.

Posted by: Jen the original at August 01, 2022 02:29 PM (HTJKx)

83 There are "all in" on "this isn't technically a recession", I do think though it helps conservatives.

Every day people are starting to see the gas lighting is becoming absurd and if they'll lie about this, they'll lie about Covid, election fraud, inflation etc.

Posted by: Blago at August 01, 2022 02:29 PM (PwNLq)

84 Where's Thomas Friedman's Cab Driver when you need him?

Posted by: garrett at August 01, 2022 02:30 PM (DMG9N)

85 "It's sad when great minds slide into dementia.

It's also sad to see it happen to Paul Krugman."

This assumes facts not in evidence. There is no proof that Paul Krugman as a great mind. There is no proof he has a mind.

Posted by: Penfold at August 01, 2022 02:30 PM (Fbt5B)

86 Paul Krugman is to economics what Neil deGrasse Tyson is to science.

Posted by: Ripley at August 01, 2022 02:30 PM (MxEKc)

87 I have a pedigree, you must believe me

Posted by: Shaun powder King at August 01, 2022 02:30 PM (M+Lyo)

88 One in ten thousand economists is a beautiful thing. The rest are just fucktards.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 01, 2022 02:30 PM (0ocXn)

89 Hopefully, the guy who swatted the feeb is still breathing free air.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:29 PM (E6Dy9)
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In all of this, I've seen no further mention of the gun owner who called in the PD. It seems he was overtaken by events, as it were.

Posted by: bluebell at August 01, 2022 02:30 PM (aeePL)

90 "There's been a kind of negativity bias in coverage. The press should be giving people -- people have their own personal experience. And if you ask people how are you doing, they're pretty upbeat," Krugman claimed, adding that some will complain about gas prices. "If you ask people how is your financial situation, it's pretty favorable. If you ask them how is the economy, oh, it's terrible. That's a media failing. Somehow we're failing to convey the realities of what's going on to people."
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Do we live on different planets? Two things:
1. My personal situation may be okay (in fact, it is), but I also have the ability to understand that my personal situation is not all that there is, and the economy is suffering a lot more than I am, for now - and that I will suffer, too, if it it continues.
2. Where did he do his "man on the street" interview? Because in my area, a lot of people are hurting, especially those earning under $60k. Those people are getting skull-fucked and no amount of ivory tower pontificating will change that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2022 02:31 PM (WWh8n)

91 That could be it. I had heard they were displacing the farmers to build housing for immigrants but this was the first time I've heard of this "super city". It's from WEF, of course

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at August 01, 2022 02:31 PM (5HBd1)

92 Isn't there going to be a chocolate candy shortage for Halloween?

Yeah everyone is going to remember that come Election Day

Posted by: Anna Puma
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Still a baby formula shortage.
Still hundreds of ships that a clogged outside of US ports.
Still super high gas prices
Still huge food inflation.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 01, 2022 02:31 PM (u4CEu)

93 Where's Thomas Friedman's Cab Driver when you need him?

His Uber fare killed him for some Tik Tok upvotes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2022 02:31 PM (RSzuR)

94 74 Isn't there going to be a chocolate candy shortage for Halloween?

Yeah everyone is going to remember that come Election Day
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2022 02:28 PM (RSzuR)

If they eff with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups the burning times are here.

Posted by: blaster at August 01, 2022 02:31 PM (jXzQN)

95 I guess, "Do you know who I am?" didn't quite work like it was supposed to with Columbus police.
Posted by: blake
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Just a hunch, but I doubt that has much pull anywhere in this situation.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:31 PM (E6Dy9)

96 Nobel winning economist is to Krugman what Former POW was to John McCain.

Always got to be sure to bring that up immediately as a way to deflect any potential criticism.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at August 01, 2022 02:31 PM (QRdjz)

97 GHWB's 'worst economy in 50 years' was WAAY better than this shit we got right now-

also: 'economic experts' should drown in lakes of blood

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 02:31 PM (geLO8)

98 60 Krugman is a really good economic indicator: do the opposite of what he recommends and claims and you will rarely do wrong.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:26 PM (Ivdso)
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I'm with you. Krugman is nothing but a Democrat hack posing as an economist.

Posted by: WisRich at August 01, 2022 02:31 PM (G0vdT)

99 A point I've been making for months if not a year -- which many here don't agree with -- is that traditional methods of describing economics and economies are no longer relevant. We can use the term "recession" and argue back and forth what the criteria should be. And yes, some people will feel the effects. But most won't.

As I've been saying, CV19 solidified a sea change in business realignment that had begun at least a decade earlier. Many companies and their employees and shareholders did phenomenally well the last few years and continue to do so. Look at the markets. I've been assured for years now that a 1920s crash was inevitable. The markets are doing fine. Many people are making a lot of money. Some crap companies got killed, sure. But the majority are doing fine or better than fine. Earnings season has been promising.

Who then is getting hurt by inflation and the recession? It's basically the professional middle class, which has been a shrinking demographic for decades. Trades and blue-collar middle class are doing well. Strong demand for their work. Upper and "investor" class are killing it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (iFTx/)

100 Where's Thomas Friedman's Cab Driver when you need him?
Posted by: garrett at August 01, 2022 02:30 PM (DMG9N)
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The non-recession hit him hard. He is now a barista.

Posted by: bluebell at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (aeePL)

101 We're in The Great Transition period, and everyone who is a member of the cult is going to lie as much as they can to get it off the ground.

They know this thing is capable of being strangled in the crib, so much needs to be done for it to "work" for them.

Now, if it does, and millions of people are thrown into abject poverty (and dying from same), that's when it's too late. The time to kill this is now. They know it, so they'll lie about everything, even when the truth is staring right at them. The way to fight it at this point is not to argue the point, but to point out what monsters they are for trying to kill the American Experiment (and millions of Americans).

Posted by: BurtTC at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (NWBBy)

102 >>Still a baby formula shortage.
Still hundreds of ships that a clogged outside of US ports.
Still super high gas prices
>>Still huge food inflation.

You forgot the wide open Southern Border.

Posted by: garrett at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (DMG9N)

103 egregore > grogu

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (44ww/)

104 Isn't there going to be a chocolate candy shortage for Halloween?
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Hershey.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (E6Dy9)

105 I mean, I can't think of a stronger political message to run on than "You're Suffering Doesn't Matter", can you?

Yeesh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (/EuRN)

106
Baby Yoda is my slave name. Just because a bunch of fairies in lip gloss pass you around like currency while your parents stack up your paychecks doesn't mean you have to accept their made-up name for you.

#GreenLivesMatter #TheForceIsButtsex

Posted by: Grogu X at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (IXpV7)

107 And partisanship? You betcha. One party - the ruling party - has decided to change classical definitions for political purposes and then got pissed when they got called onto the carpet for that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (WWh8n)

108 Paul Krugman adding it doesn't matter if we're in one or not (it doesn't matter for him)

That's the bottom line. It doesn't matter to him how the economy is doing. It doesn't matter to anyone who subscribes to the NYT online. Recession, no recession, nothing changes for them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (Ivdso)

109 Only making it worse! How could it be worse? Recession, recession, recession!

Posted by: Stoning victim at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (ftFVW)

110 "BREAKING: Biden Admin. sending additional $550 million to Ukraine.
Posted by: Eric Holder"

I doubt any of it will trickle down to their military effort. That's just walking around money for the oligarchs anymore.

Posted by: Ripley at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (MxEKc)

111 It's also an assertion of authority.

*they* are the experts, and *they* make the decisions about what these words mean. I think guys like this fuzzy numbers pustule get annoyed that non-nobel-laureates would question his determinations.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (6IaPF)

112 I was struck over the weekend by a realization. Our masters have dishonestly pitted Science against Christianity for some time now in some locked in battle, elevating Science in the process. Before that, Science was correctly considered just another pathway to discover God.

Although religion can and will obviously be corrupted, the Word is the Word... and until every copy of It is destroyed, ancient and otherwise, It is there to be seen and interpreted by any human that wants to.

As we have been subjected to for a couple years and experienced even with this "recession" garbage, Science can be redefined, dressed up, torn down and hidden by those in power. Sometimes with just the click of a button. And your old outdated books won't help you. You can wake up tomorrow and Science has changed. Sometimes according to reality, and many times according only to the political will and whim of a terrorizer.

The Bible tells us there are men and there are women. The Word is the Word {cue song lyric quips}. They are not equal.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (UlZCQ)

113 Keep it simple

Just drown any economic expert who works for Democrats.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (RSzuR)

114 By the way, I looked up the status of that ATF guy's case against the Columbus PD and looks like they are still taking depositions.
Posted by: bluebell at August 01, 2022 02:27 PM (aeePL)
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I guess, "Do you know who I am?" didn't quite work like it was supposed to with Columbus police.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 01, 2022 02:28 PM (5pTK/)

Imagine being on the Jury? I would probably be kicked off after I fell out of my chair laughing when he said, "My Wife's Pregnant!" on video.

Posted by: rd at August 01, 2022 02:33 PM (Z32m1)

115 Krugman is a corrupt and deranged dwarf.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 02:33 PM (VdGjU)

116
Still a baby formula shortage.
Still hundreds of ships that a clogged outside of US ports.
Still super high gas prices
Still huge food inflation.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 01, 2022 02:31 PM (u4CEu)

Exactly.. From what I hear the baby formula shortage has gotten even worse... The media just chooses to hide that ,much like they are hiding Biden in the WH with "covid"

Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2022 02:33 PM (bs+z0)

117 One of my few friends or acquaintances that is a Dem is named O'Brien. He's degreed and is an auditor but is a dumbass otherwise. Every time someone calls his name I laugh to myself.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM (rghSL)

118 I'm with you. Krugman is nothing but a Democrat hack posing as an economist

Krugman is almost always not just wrong on the economy and other topics, but the opposite of right. He said the internet was a passing phase, he advised ENRON on how to avoid paying the government, he claimed the economy would crash under Trump, and boom under Obama.

Bet on the opposite of ANYTHING he says and you're going to do just fine.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM (Ivdso)

119 Krugman is an idiot. He won one of three Nobels handed out for "not being George W Bush". Al Gore and Hussein Obama won the other two.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM (vcv8B)

120 WSJ headline "US Economy Transitions to Slower Growth as Inflation Weighs on Consumers". Definitely slower growth, some might say negative.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM (b2nrj)

121 Isn't there going to be a chocolate candy shortage for Halloween?

Are you telling me that our chocolate ration will not be increased from 30 grams to 25?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM (u4CEu)

122 Why anyone gives this clown ant credence is beyond me. He couldn't predict the direction of a sunrise. CNN, NYT LOLGF.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM (GwxCX)

123 I have no idea what the species is called. Some nerd will probably tell us.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 01, 2022 02:27 PM

According to surviving 20th and 21st Century Terran records, Star Wars creator George Lucas chose to keep the name and background of Yoda's species a mystery. Yoda's Databank entries on StarWars.com list his species as "Unknown."

However, in the documentary "From Puppets to Pixels," available on the DVD bonus disc of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, Lucas joked that Yoda was "the illegitimate child of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy."

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM (a3Q+t)

124 Krugman is a corrupt and deranged dwarf.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 02:33 PM (VdGjU)

The correct term is midget. We are trying to insult him right?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM (rghSL)

125 None of the usual criteria that real experts use says we're in a recession right now.

If you say that two consecutive quarters of negative GNP growth is a recession, you should be put in a camp, Comrade.

Posted by: The Media! at August 01, 2022 02:35 PM (I2/tG)

126 Still a baby formula shortage.
Still hundreds of ships that a clogged outside of US ports.
Still super high gas prices
Still huge food inflation.
Posted by: Jukin
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Don't forget a possible RR workers strike in the near future.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:35 PM (E6Dy9)

127 >Paul Krugman adding it doesn't matter if we're in one or not (it doesn't matter for him)

Internet sez Krugman's salary is about $80K/year

plus books, speeches, birthday parties, etc
so yeah, recession doesn't hurt him

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 02:35 PM (geLO8)

128

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 01, 2022 02:35 PM (SWi3y)

129 What are the odds Krugman has frequent flyer mile rewards for Air Epstein?

Posted by: Beartooth at August 01, 2022 02:35 PM (+ksY7)

130 What puzzles me is why they resist the labeling of their handiwork as a "Recession". Its like their protestations against acknowledging the existence of God.

They are screaming a lot over something they don't believe.

And still, their Cloward/Piven strategery is something they boast about as they label it simply as a "Transition". Maybe they don't like the "R" word because they really want to have their fruits labeled as "Depression" because that is what they really want and are trying to achieve.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at August 01, 2022 02:35 PM (3hSHB)

131 As long as there isn't famine in the United States, we're not in a recession.

Posted by: The Media! at August 01, 2022 02:35 PM (I2/tG)

132 Bet on the opposite of ANYTHING he says and you're going to do just fine.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM

This.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2022 02:35 PM (GwxCX)

133 There's no such word as recession
there can be no recession
Have a banana

Posted by: Braenyard at August 01, 2022 02:35 PM (pgzfR)

134 Isn't there going to be a chocolate candy shortage for Halloween?
___

Hershey.
Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (E6Dy9)

I have not seen Milky Way Miniatures since last Halloween. Milky Way Fun Size? Yes. Miniatures? No.

Posted by: rd at August 01, 2022 02:35 PM (Z32m1)

135 They've also redefined the terms pandemic and vaccine.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 01, 2022 02:35 PM (xFipv)

136 I am certain Krugman knjows that almost everything he writes is bullcrap, but that's not important to him. He's not paid six figures a year to write the truth or valid economic theory. He's paid to act a role, to be a certain voice for leftists to rely on and be comforted by.

Its like taking the job of being a cop in a TV show and reading lines. Are you a cop? Nah. Do you believe any of the lines you say? Nah. But it doesn't matter, your job is to say the lines. That's Krugman.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:36 PM (Ivdso)

137 Memepolice 👮‍♀️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDcPGB0j_a0

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:36 PM (E6Dy9)

138 I always suspect the Senator or Congressmen hold out who eventually gives in gets special handouts to their district or state

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2022 02:36 PM (k8B25)

139 135 They've also redefined the terms pandemic and vaccine.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 01, 2022 02:35 PM (xFipv)

And President

Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2022 02:36 PM (bs+z0)

140 The correct term is midget. We are trying to insult him right?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM (rghSL)

Midget is more insulting than dwarf?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 02:36 PM (VdGjU)

141 Dog Dick Gnats > Paul Krugman

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 01, 2022 02:36 PM (7Ovsk)

142 So, people who say it's a recession should be censored because the debate is too vitriolic, right? After all, it's for their own good.

Posted by: PG at August 01, 2022 02:37 PM (84jHt)

143 Bet on the opposite of ANYTHING he says and you're going to do just fine.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM (Ivdso)
______________________________

That's my take for just about everything any "economist" ever told me

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 01, 2022 02:37 PM (iFTx/)

144 What did Krugman win his Nobel for, anyway? I know it was Economics, but what was his particular contribution?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2022 02:37 PM (J28lB)

145 Internet sez Krugman's salary is about $80K/year

NYT pays him six figures. 80k a year is barely enough to afford an apartment in Manhattan.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:37 PM (Ivdso)

146 Krugman is a corrupt and deranged dwarf.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 02:33 PM

As a fellow professor, I must say that seems harsh.

Posted by: Robert Reich at August 01, 2022 02:37 PM (a3Q+t)

147 Politico: US Economy is Transitioning from a Recession to a Depression.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 01, 2022 02:37 PM (u4CEu)

148 Actual headline in the Economist magazine:

The silver linings of a recession
Lower inflation and greener energy are worth the price of a short downturn

Posted by: The Media! at August 01, 2022 02:37 PM (I2/tG)

149 We can't have a recession, we are dealing with rampant inflation!

Posted by: Welcome to Jimmy Carter 2.0 at August 01, 2022 02:37 PM (Z32m1)

150 >Although he spent half of his column arguing why the people who were right about inflation were really wrong because their logic was all wrong and his was perfect and flawless. Even though, you know, they got it right and he got it wrong.

Ah, the Scott Adams mRNA Defense.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 01, 2022 02:38 PM (BSREw)

151 What did Krugman win his Nobel for, anyway? I know it was Economics, but what was his particular contribution?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Being a leftist mouthpiece.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2022 02:38 PM (ftFVW)

152 >Midget is more insulting than dwarf?

Posted by: N.L. Urker

I always go with 'sawed-off runt'

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 02:38 PM (geLO8)

153 To lighten the mood a bit, four of CyberJapan's dancers decide to play Twister. Including Kaede.

https://youtu.be/BXZFTS4DFK0

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2022 02:38 PM (RSzuR)

154 We can't have a recession, we are dealing with rampant inflation!
Posted by: Welcome to Jimmy Carter 2.0 at August 01, 2022 02:37 PM (Z32m1)
++++
Heh. Is anyone making that argument this time? Didn't the 1970s disabuse people of Keynes' great error?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2022 02:38 PM (WWh8n)

155 What did Krugman win his Nobel for, anyway? I know it was Economics, but what was his particular contribution?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Being a leftist mouthpiece.
___

See Obama.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at August 01, 2022 02:38 PM (E6Dy9)

156 This guy has got to be a pedo.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (uia9V)

157
What did Krugman win his Nobel for, anyway? I know it was Economics, but what was his particular contribution?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2022 02:37 PM (J28lB)

I don't know, but I'd guess it boiled down to "whatever large governments and wealthy financiers do to make themselves bigger and richer is totally awesome and good for muh 'conomiez."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (IXpV7)

158 152 >Midget is more insulting than dwarf?

Posted by: N.L. Urker

I always go with 'sawed-off runt'
Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 02:38 PM (geLO

For now, I think they want "little person" which I think sounds demeaning, too, but what do I know...

Posted by: Nova local at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (exHjb)

159 What did Krugman win his Nobel for, anyway? I know it was Economics, but what was his particular contribution?

Krugman was a decent economist when he was young, but decided that there was more money and fame in being a political hack.

He won his Nobel for being anti-Bush.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (I2/tG)

160 >What did Krugman win his Nobel for, anyway? I know it was Economics, but what was his particular contribution?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

it's probably as simple as telling the right people what they want to hear

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (geLO8)

161 Internet sez Krugman's salary is about $80K/year

Posted by: DB

Was about to dispute this but I see he's retired. He has a position with CUNY, and they don't pay. His Princeton pension is likely way bigger than his CUNY salary.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (vcv8B)

162 I suppose you could argue that we're not in a recession for the month of July, unless there is a monthly GDP # that I'm not aware of, how would we know for sure? But both the last two quarters have declining GDP, so those two quarters were "receding" i.e. "ceding back" economic gains from previous periods. So it meets the short-hand economic definition and the more general definition of recession.

But, we're not in a famine! (though ask the babies missing their formula about that)

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (fs1hN)

163 The correct term is midget. We are trying to insult him right?
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM (rghSL)

Midget is more insulting than dwarf?
Posted by: N.L. Urker

stunted, half grown retard for the win.

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (MrZQl)

164 In an odd way, R for Recession vs. D for Depression is extremely instructive.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (UlZCQ)

165 Krugman's real clients are getting rich.

That's the point.

All of this looting is to make some people richer. At your expense.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (ESjRY)

166 There's no recession and it's all Trump's fault.

Posted by: The Short-Sighted Paul Krugman at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (Jg92y)

167 >>This guy has got to be a pedo.

He and John Podesta regularly share a Pizza.

Posted by: garrett at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (DMG9N)

168 >For now, I think they want "little person" which I think sounds demeaning, too, but what do I know...

Posted by: Nova local

I despise euphemisms
call a thing what it is

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (geLO8)

169 Midget is more insulting than dwarf?

Posted by: N.L. Urker

I always go with 'sawed-off runt'
Posted by: DB

Out of the way, Peck!

Posted by: Madmartigan at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (ftFVW)

170 We've never had an economy this good before. The idea that we're in a Recession is laughable.

Once BBB gets going, everyone's lives will improve. Unfortunately, even most of yours.

Posted by: Sid at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (qpfaN)

171 Jack Clugman > Paul Krugman

Posted by: Shaun powder King at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (M+Lyo)

172 Hey! You got recession in my inflation.

No, you got inflation in my recession!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (u4CEu)

173 144 What did Krugman win his Nobel for, anyway? I know it was Economics, but what was his particular contribution?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2022 02:37 PM (J28lB)
__________________

It was complete and absolute bullshit. You can google it for details. I'm not saying he was wrong, but his conclusions were so obvious any idiot would have known it. It's like winning a Nobel prize for determining that a dude in a Lambo cruising South Beach has a better chance of picking up one of Mannix's busty babes than a homeless bum picking lint out of his monkeypox at the end of a dark alley.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (iFTx/)

174 Just don't call anyone a pencil neck geek, ok?

Posted by: Adam Schiff (D-CA) at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (a3Q+t)

175 Does Krugman come up with this horseshit on his own or does he get messages from the DNC?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (VdGjU)

176 For now, I think they want "little person" which I think sounds demeaning

Yeah I don't get that. Dwarf is badass; it has connotations of carrying an axe and fighting orcs. Little Person sounds condescending and infantilizing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (Ivdso)

177 Just wait until Russia completely turns off the Natural Gas, Europe freezes in the dark, the Famines hit in March 2023, and inflation goes hog wild.

That Depression will be discounted too.

Posted by: Welcome to Jimmy Carter 2.0 at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (Z32m1)

178 Doesn't the style book mandate the use of "former Enron executive" Paul Krugman?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (hSA03)

179 I'm Not Deaad Yet!

Posted by: US Economy at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (DMG9N)

180 Posted by: Elric Blade at August 01, 2022 02:32 PM (iFTx

Today it's all smoke and mirrors mainly because of the too big to fail theory. We are still subject to a perfect storm though. The weather is making its appearance for that.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 01, 2022 02:41 PM (rghSL)

181 >>>Krugman is a corrupt and deranged dwarf.

>If we put Krugman up against Dr. Fauci in a dwarf-tossing contest, where do you place your money?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 01, 2022 02:41 PM (0ocXn)

182 Midget is more insulting than dwarf?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 02:36 PM (VdGjU)

I think a midget is a small person whose body and head and extremities are all in proportion like a full sized adult whereby a dwarf has an enlarged head and extremities and a fat tick like body.

However, a dwarf's genitals will be normal sized whereby a midget's will be smallish like the rest of their bodies.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 01, 2022 02:41 PM (7Ovsk)

183 You're all wrong. Paul Krugman is a gnome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3pFFPSlW4

Posted by: Augustine at August 01, 2022 02:41 PM (BDZWU)

184 Jack Clugman > Paul Krugman

I mean, marginally? But Klugman was a jackass too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:41 PM (Ivdso)

185 And President

Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2022 02:36 PM (bs+z0)

Oh donna.... sometimes, just sometimes....

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2022 02:41 PM (UlZCQ)

186 They've also redefined the terms pandemic and vaccine.

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Should have included redefining "SCIENCE!" to be the rat-fuck face Faucistein..

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 01, 2022 02:41 PM (xFipv)

187 Oh poor Simple Stupid Sid who is very simple and very stupid.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 01, 2022 02:41 PM (u4CEu)

188 Still a baby formula shortage.
Still hundreds of ships that a clogged outside of US ports.
Still super high gas prices
Still huge food inflation.
Posted by: Jukin

Also -
Still sending weapons and ammo to Ukraine to sustain Brandon's "as long as it takes" war.

Posted by: Gref at August 01, 2022 02:41 PM (AMIL/)

189 Just what DID Krugman do to earn a Nobel Prize?

Because since Enron he has been incompetent and a hack.

Enron was 2001, so it's literally been 20+ yrs that he's been an idiot.

Posted by: Scott_T at August 01, 2022 02:41 PM (2waQ7)

190 This assclown stated on election night 2016 the markets would crash worldwide and Recession.

LOL!! There are no words to describe the cuntiness

Posted by: Common Tater at August 01, 2022 02:42 PM (sWgBr)

191 ? Sid is seriously deranged.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 01, 2022 02:42 PM (5pTK/)

192 The constant with all these "malignant dwarfs", like Krugman, is they have been making up crap nonstop for decades to fit the current narrative in vogue and then, in Krugman's case, as a reward he gets his prostrate fingered by other adoring "malignant dwarfs." The difference now is FJB has so utterly screwed up everything, the prostrate maintenance team is pissed off and is no longer giving Krugman the usual. This has left Krugman so sad he has stopped brushing his teeth and wearing clean underwear. He needs to boost he testosterone blockers if he ever is going to feel normal again.

Posted by: Lost In Space at August 01, 2022 02:42 PM (FF+On)

193 Holy Crikey I googled Dead Fox News Contributors to write a joke about Paul Krugman....
I got good news and I got bad news...

Fox News Dead Dude List:
Charles SourKrauthammer
Big Bad Bob Bekel
Alan Cuomo Colmes
Pat Caddell
Bob Massi

Posted by: Bring out yer dead/Commenter What Got a Shirt at August 01, 2022 02:42 PM (CJAql)

194 Look, I'm not sure how long this "How Stupid Do I Think Our Viewers Are?" game has been going on within the MSM, but I'm shocked at the quality of entrants they keep producing.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 01, 2022 02:42 PM (KbCG3)

195 What weighs more: A pound of feathers or a pound of Paul Krugman's brain?

Posted by: Nonapod at August 01, 2022 02:42 PM (K4vtd)

196 Oh Sid, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 01, 2022 02:42 PM (Rl7KJ)

197
Just because you stop breathing, and your heart stops beating doesn't mean you're dead.

Posted by: Dr Paul Krugman at August 01, 2022 02:42 PM (+oR7L)

198 What did Krugman win his Nobel for, anyway? I know it was Economics, but what was his particular contribution?

It would be funny if his contribution contained the definition of a recession.

Posted by: t-bird at August 01, 2022 02:42 PM (ugV9/)

199 Sid is just too over the top to be plausible as even a troll.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:43 PM (Ivdso)

200 Midget is more insulting than dwarf?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 02:36 PM (VdGjU)

Ask Jerry Jones.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 01, 2022 02:43 PM (rghSL)

201 If we put Krugman up against Dr. Fauci in a dwarf-tossing contest, where do you place your money?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 01, 2022 02:41 PM

As the tossers or the tossees?

If the tossees, I suspect people around here would be more motivated to toss Fauci.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 01, 2022 02:43 PM (a3Q+t)

202 Krugman is an idiot. He won one of three Nobels handed out for "not being George W Bush". Al Gore and Hussein Obama won the other two.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 01, 2022 02:34 PM (vcv8B)

Krugman is neither smart nor stupid. He is merely, much like Tony Fauci, the guy who goes on teevee to spout the lies of the regime, with his credentials as the only thing of value he carries.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 01, 2022 02:43 PM (NWBBy)

203 However, a dwarf's genitals will be normal sized whereby a midget's will be smallish like the rest of their bodies.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy a
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They never have a problem getting a chick.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 01, 2022 02:43 PM (pgzfR)

204 144 What did Krugman win his Nobel for, anyway? I know it was Economics, but what was his particular contribution?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2022 02:37 PM (J28lB)

New Trade Theory, primarily that countries should/could subsidize industries to reach economies of scale that then made them the efficient providers. It's a rehashing of mercantilist theory that's weaker than arguments about length of supply chain and conflict disrupting trade.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 01, 2022 02:43 PM (b2nrj)

205 Near as I can figure out, the way to win the Not-a-Real-Nobel-Prize in Economics is to never be right about anything. Ever.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 01, 2022 02:43 PM (bW8dp)

206 Robert Reich and Paul Krugman in a remake of Terror of Tiny Town

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2022 02:44 PM (RSzuR)

207 Midget is more insulting than dwarf?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 02:36 PM (VdGjU)

On serious note Yes. They still call the condition dwarfism.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 01, 2022 02:44 PM (rghSL)

208 This guy has got to be a pedo.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (uia9V)
++++
THAT WAS HACKERS!

Posted by: Paul Krugman at August 01, 2022 02:44 PM (WWh8n)

209 74 Isn't there going to be a chocolate candy shortage for Halloween?

Yeah everyone is going to remember that come Election Day

we need a manhattan-project level of effort to produce enough circus peanuts to fill the gap.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at August 01, 2022 02:44 PM (xQZqb)

210 What did Krugman win his Nobel for, anyway? I know it was Economics, but what was his particular contribution?

He proved the advantages of big agglomerations (there's some synergy when things are close together). So it was about economic geography.

But the real reason was because he was a widely read New York Times columnist during the Iraq war, opposed to Bush.

Posted by: PG at August 01, 2022 02:44 PM (84jHt)

211 144 What did Krugman win his Nobel for, anyway? I know it was Economics, but what was his particular contribution?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

He was awarded it principally for not be G.W.Bush. He devoted thousands of column miles to attacking Bush, which the Swedish commies approved of. Al Gore and Obama were given Nobels on the same basis.

As for economics, he is known for developing a theoretical model of trade proving the bleeding obvious: countries benefit from trade because they gain economies of scale in their own areas of expertise. I kid you not.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 01, 2022 02:44 PM (vcv8B)

212 158 152 >Midget is more insulting than dwarf?
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No. Midgets are proportional. Dwaves have misshapen heads and sausage fingers. Kind of icky.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2022 02:44 PM (uia9V)

213 New Trade Theory, primarily that countries should/could subsidize industries to reach economies of scale that then made them the efficient providers.

------

So... dumping? How Asian of him.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 02:44 PM (IXpV7)

214 Did Krugman leave reality or did reality leave him?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (VdGjU)

215 197
Just because you stop breathing, and your heart stops beating doesn't mean you're dead.
Posted by: Dr Paul Krugman at August 01, 2022 02:42 PM (+oR7L)

Technically correct. What if this condition lasts for 2 quarters?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (fs1hN)

216 I recall a Bloom County cartoon from mumblemumble years ago in which the Giant Purple Snorklewhacker introduced Binkley to his nightmare for the evening: two economists in the same room, discussing the economy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (4p7Em)

217 "There is no war in Ba Sing Se."

I got that reference!

Posted by: quarkstud at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (B+Z8S)

218 Energy/inflation.food costs at 40 year highs, supply chain problems, crop yield problems, household debts increasing, savings being depleted...but yet, best economy evar!

Posted by: Thrawn at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (Rl7KJ)

219 Doesn't the style book mandate the use of "former Enron executive" Paul Krugman?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM (hSA03)

Correct.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (89T5c)

220 Why is everybody always picking on me?

Posted by: Sid at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (a3Q+t)

221 Krugman and Fauci, garden gnomes of death.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (CecP5)

222 Just what DID Krugman do to earn a Nobel Prize? Posted by: Scott_T

Twice what The Lightbringer did for his?

Posted by: Lost In Space at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (FF+On)

223 wiki, grain od salt:

Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (informally the Nobel Prize in Economics), the sole recipient for 2008. This prize includes an award of about $1.4 million and was given to Krugman for his work associated with New Trade Theory and the New Economic Geography.[89] In the words of the prize committee, "By having integrated economies of scale into explicit general equilibrium models, Paul Krugman has deepened our understanding of the determinants of trade and the location of economic activity."[90]

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (geLO8)

224 Is Economics a science and does it matter?

Posted by: t-bird at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (dzeUe)

225 197
Just because you stop breathing, and your heart stops beating doesn't mean you're dead.
Posted by: Dr Paul Krugman at August 01, 2022 02:42 PM (+oR7L)

That's only dead, not dead-dead, completely-dead, or Dead-Forever.

Posted by: Thrawn at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (Rl7KJ)

226 >>However, a dwarf's genitals will be normal sized whereby a midget's will be smallish like the rest of their bodies.

What about their sperm?

Are Midget Sperm Midget Sized?

Posted by: garrett at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (DMG9N)

227 Seriously, the "Nobel Prize" in Economics isn't one. It's a fake award instituted in 1968.

It's actually the "Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (bW8dp)

228 Ask Jerry Jones.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 01, 2022 02:43 PM (rghSL)
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His little buddy is in heaven throwing rocks at the idiots.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (pgzfR)

229 we need a manhattan-project level of effort to produce enough circus peanuts to fill the gap.
Posted by: kulak anachronda

Sorry, Timmy, all we've got is boiled ants. Here, take two packs.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (ftFVW)

230 >>>Midget is more insulting than dwarf?

>I've always tried to be beneficent by saying 'get out of the way you little prick.'

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (0ocXn)

231 184 Jack Clugman > Paul Krugman

I mean, marginally? But Klugman was a jackass too.

indeed. everyone knows it was robert ito that was the *true* star of quincy, m.e.

Posted by: kulak anachronda at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (xQZqb)

232 So... dumping? How Asian of him.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 02:44 PM (IXpV7)
++++
You don't get the big Yen and Renminbi otherwise!

Posted by: Paul Krugman at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (WWh8n)

233 Did Krugman leave reality or did reality leave him?
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (VdGjU)
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Krugman parted ways with reality so long ago, it's sort of hard to judge.

Quite a few years ago, Krugman admitted his predictions tended to miss, by quite a lot.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (5pTK/)

234 The fact that they are saying everything is great since we aren't in a famine tells me they are planning a famine.
Most famines are the result of human manipulations.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, 61 and foggy at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (jTmQV)

235 >>>It's sad when great minds slide into dementia.

Child porn is a helluva drug.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (U3uv2)

236 >>> 222 Just what DID Krugman do to earn a Nobel Prize? Posted by: Scott_T

Twice what The Lightbringer did for his?
Posted by: Lost In Space at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (FF+On)

2 * 0 = 0

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 01, 2022 02:47 PM (llON8)

237 It's going to be really fun watching them try to spin 3 quarters of negative GDP growth as not being a recession.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 01, 2022 02:47 PM (Y5qcH)

238 By the way, I looked up the status of that ATF guy's case against the Columbus PD and looks like they are still taking depositions.
Posted by: bluebell at August 01, 2022 02:27 PM (aeePL)

I don't think he has a leg to stand on. Until he finally relinquished his ID, he was just some random asshole resisting arrest.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2022 02:47 PM (hSA03)

239 226 >>However, a dwarf's genitals will be normal sized whereby a midget's will be smallish like the rest of their bodies.

What about their sperm?

Are Midget Sperm Midget Sized?
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Midget sperm are like tiny missiles of goo.

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2022 02:47 PM (uia9V)

240 Just what DID Krugman do to earn a Nobel Prize?

If I have seen farther than others it is because I used a step-stool...

Posted by: Paul Krugman at August 01, 2022 02:48 PM (Jg92y)

241 >>> 229 we need a manhattan-project level of effort to produce enough circus peanuts to fill the gap.
Posted by: kulak anachronda

Sorry, Timmy, all we've got is boiled ants. Here, take two packs.
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (ftFVW)

Can I give you these circus peanuts as trade?

Posted by: Timmy at August 01, 2022 02:48 PM (llON8)

242 >>>Watching them so brazenly re-define how they have always used "recession," and then Paul Krugman adding it doesn't matter if we're in one or not (it doesn't matter for him), all to protect the Biden WH, is a new level of audacity no matter how low your opinion of them already is.

They wouldn't do it if it did not work on at least 30% of the population.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at August 01, 2022 02:48 PM (U3uv2)

243 Sid has got to be a sock for a regular.

No one could be that obviously clueless.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2022 02:48 PM (4p7Em)

244
It's going to be really fun watching them try to spin 3 quarters of negative GDP growth as not being a recession.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 01, 2022 02:47 PM (Y5qc

Dude... my wife comes home crying from the grocery store.

Nobody believes any of this is ok, as it is. Krugman's barking at the moon, homie.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 02:48 PM (IXpV7)

245 Biden boom ? Well he's right there... Since Joe was installed as president the economy has certainly blown up.. And I don't mean that in a good way

Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2022 02:48 PM (bs+z0)

246 sounds like Krugman figured out that people who live near each other tend to establish commerce with each other

where's my prize

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 02:48 PM (geLO8)

247 Tom Woods and Robert Murphy had a podcast called Contra Krugman, where they basically tore Krugman to shreds for his articles to promote economics education.

They eventually gave up because they got busy with other projects, and because they got tired of the contrafactual stupidity and the continual contradictions.

I had a GF who was taking an Econ 101 that used Krugman's textbook. In talking about market efficiency he pointed out that government intervention in the economy was an inefficiency, but it promoted things the government thought were important. I mean he just came out and said it.
Pissed me off, I wanted to know when it was my turn to "be inefficient" about things I wanted.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2022 02:48 PM (xhaym)

248 If being in a recession doesn’t matter, why are the Omni-present Overlords of The Facebook out to enforce the gnu definition

Posted by: Neo at August 01, 2022 02:48 PM (RHGPo)

249 What a shmuck.

Posted by: jewells45 at August 01, 2022 02:49 PM (nxdel)

250 >>> 234 The fact that they are saying everything is great since we aren't in a famine tells me they are planning a famine.
Most famines are the result of human manipulations.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, 61 and foggy at August 01, 2022 02:46 PM (jTmQV)

In modern times? Find one that ISN'T from government stupidity or malice (and it's more often the latter).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 01, 2022 02:49 PM (llON8)

251 You know who else didn't have a recession?

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2022 02:49 PM (UlZCQ)

252 The non-recession hit him hard. He is now a barista.
Posted by: bluebell

I have a problem with a noun ending in A being male.

Another thing I blame on Starbucks.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 01, 2022 02:49 PM (XQFx4)

253 I wonder how much financial damage Krugman has done because people believe him.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 02:49 PM (VdGjU)

254 [Inserts 1,000,000 posts/articles/interviews postulating immediate catastrophic doom with women and minorities hardest hit, produced by Krugman during Republican administrations]

Posted by: Sharkman at August 01, 2022 02:49 PM (FKjug)

255 Can I give you these circus peanuts as trade?
Posted by: Timmy at August 01, 2022 02:48 PM (llON

TIMMAH!!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 01, 2022 02:49 PM (906pl)

256 So, when does DR. Jill get her Nobel?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (J28lB)

257 Can I give you these circus peanuts as trade?
Posted by: Timmy

Um, no.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (ftFVW)

258 This busty brunette in black and white wouldn't believe Paul Krugman if he told her that the sun rises in the east:
https://is.gd/vZQwoJ

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (WWh8n)

259 They wouldn't do it if it did not work on at least 30% of the population.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at August 01, 2022 02:48 PM (U3uv2)

Hope. They hope they will work on 30%
They are probably also hoping that it won't matter by the time that group starts figuring it out.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (xhaym)

260 Robert Reich and Paul Krugman in a remake of Terror of Tiny Town
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 01, 2022 02:44 PM

Tagline: He's an angry elf....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (4p7Em)

261 Huh. Just watched a trailer for some new Disney Star Wars series for the fall called "Andor". It seems to be some sort of Rebellion origin story and it looks way too insurrectiony for me to even believe it.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (cupoy)

262 Krugman is a corrupt and deranged dwarf.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 02:33 PM

As a fellow professor, I must say that seems harsh.
Posted by: Robert Reich

Robert Reich is such a runt that achondroplastic dwarves are veritable giants.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (StBu4)

263 213 New Trade Theory, primarily that countries should/could subsidize industries to reach economies of scale that then made them the efficient providers.

------

So... dumping? How Asian of him.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 02:44 PM (IXpV7)

Yeah that's the Chinese steel industry basically. The theory seems dubious since if the economies of scale thing is apparent to the state, wouldn't it be apparent to investors? Might be harder to round up capital, but if it were profitable on its own I don't think much pressure would be needed.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (b2nrj)

264 A Recession: It's Not Happening and It's A Damn Good Thing It Is

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (UlZCQ)

265 237 It's going to be really fun watching them try to spin 3 quarters of negative GDP growth as not being a recession.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 01, 2022 02:47 PM (Y5qcH)
_________________

TWO quarters are a recession, not THREE. Three quarters of negative growth just proves that were on the right path to transition.
-'Real Expert' Economist

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (fs1hN)

266 If there is a candy shortage on Halloween I will try my best not to buy any so as to let the kids get their share.

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (k8B25)

267 No. Midgets are proportional. Dwaves have misshapen heads and sausage fingers. Kind of icky.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2022 02:44 PM (uia9V

I guess you didn't get the memo from the Little People organizations. Midget is like using the N word.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (rghSL)

268 baristx

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2022 02:51 PM (J28lB)

269 I have a problem with a noun ending in A being male.

Another thing I blame on Starbucks.
Posted by: Bandersnatch

The correct term is "baristx"

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 01, 2022 02:51 PM (vcv8B)

270 Meanwhile, back at the White House, Resident Joe hears the siren song of his one true love

https://tinyurl.com/jju7f6as

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 01, 2022 02:51 PM (xFKgx)

271 Are Midget Sperm Midget Sized?
--------------
Midget sperm are like tiny missiles of goo.
Posted by: Puddinhead

How does one come to know this? I am hoping it is not from personal experience. Well, unless you are a non birthing midget. In that case I this line of inquiry is aborted.

Posted by: Lost In Space at August 01, 2022 02:51 PM (FF+On)

272 For now, I think they want "little person" which I think sounds demeaning, too, but what do I know...

Posted by: Nova local

I despise euphemisms
call a thing what it is
Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 02:40 PM

dwarven fucker?

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2022 02:51 PM (ENBF0)

273
Speaking of that ATF Shit...

There's a book title "The Cops Are Robbers."

It's about corrupt cops. Someone told me it was good.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 01, 2022 02:51 PM (JtOZc)

274 snappity snap snap

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 01, 2022 02:51 PM (vcv8B)

275 "does the term matter?"

Liberal Powers That Be: No, and in fact, we're going to focus our undivided attention on proving to you how little it matters to us.

Posted by: Simple Stevo at August 01, 2022 02:51 PM (SOV+T)

276 The solution for Krugman is simple, btw. Elf on a shelf. In this case, we'll use an ice shelf. He can come back when Global Warming melts it all.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 01, 2022 02:52 PM (cupoy)

277 258 This busty brunette in black and white wouldn't believe Paul Krugman if he told her that the sun rises in the east:
https://is.gd/vZQwoJ
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (WWh8n)
_________

Cruella DeVille, the Instagram Years

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 01, 2022 02:52 PM (fs1hN)

278 Robert Reich is hilariously tiny, he's even smaller than Ben Shapiro.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:52 PM (Ivdso)

279 He's a hyperpartisan lunatic, not an economist.
-----------

This is what we call in the trade "a distinction without a difference".

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2022 02:52 PM (UlZCQ)

280
Can't call them "coloreds" and "fruits," anymore, either.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 01, 2022 02:53 PM (JtOZc)

281 I have a problem with a noun ending in A being male.

You better stay away from Italy then.

Andrea = Andrew

artista += artist

SBUX built its brand on being Fauxtalian though so fvck them too

culturally appropriating biatches

Posted by: kallisto at August 01, 2022 02:53 PM (dCxaZ)

282 I have a problem with a noun ending in A being male.

Eh, its Italian, what do you want? They are like the Japanese, needing a vowel at the end of every word

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:53 PM (Ivdso)

283 It isn't a real recession until you start seeing broken windows.

Posted by: Paul "Little kids" Krugman at August 01, 2022 02:53 PM (xFKgx)

284 Look what they are doing with fertilizer shortage, the limits on nitrogen usage and limits on food animals. Look at the billionaires purchasing farm land and leaving it fallow. Yep, they want a famine.
Plan accordingly.

Posted by: gourmand du jour, 61 and foggy at August 01, 2022 02:53 PM (jTmQV)

285 Cruella DeVille, the Instagram Years
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 01, 2022 02:52 PM

After the Dalmatian fiasco, she turned to Only Fans. Sad, really.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2022 02:53 PM (4p7Em)

286 Dwarves actually do useful things. Like mining.

Krugman is a midget. Among men.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 01, 2022 02:54 PM (vcv8B)

287 Robert Reich is hilariously tiny, he's even smaller than Ben Shapiro.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

We're getting into dangerous territory here. *glares*

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2022 02:54 PM (ftFVW)

288 This guy has got to be a pedo.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2022 02:39 PM (uia9V)

What people need to remember is, Epstein had a huge townhouse in NYC, and a massive ranch in New Mexico.

Not only that, but Epstein was likely just the most public of the people doing what he did. I'm sure Krugman has had his predilections satisfied by the group.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 01, 2022 02:54 PM (NWBBy)

289
Do you know who is Not mort?

Claudia Cardinale.

She's not mort.

Still acting, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 01, 2022 02:54 PM (JtOZc)

290 People who vote to run your life that you wouldn't let pack your groceries past and present:

Henry pig face Waxman
Jerry hold my pants up Nadler
Gregory Thug life fanny/fredy hearings Meeks
Hank The island will tip over from overpopulation Johnson
Alex we dont need no steenking Fedex jobs Cortez
Richard stolen valor Blumenthal...

Posted by: Just fer kicks/Commenter What Got a Shirt at August 01, 2022 02:54 PM (CJAql)

291 Can't call them "coloreds" and "fruits," anymore, either.

"...and I took that personally."
--an Orange

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:54 PM (Ivdso)

292 Speaking of that ATF Shit... There's a book title "The Cops Are Robbers." It's about corrupt cops. Someone told me it was good. Posted by: Soothsayer's

Are you saying this book is like a Chilton's manual for cops?

Posted by: Lost In Space at August 01, 2022 02:54 PM (FF+On)

293 We're getting into dangerous territory here. *glares*

Nah, when girls are itty its cute. When guys are its just sad.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:54 PM (Ivdso)

294 I guess you didn't get the memo from the Little People organizations. Midget is like using the N word.
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WTF is Little People Organziation? Oompa Loompas?

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2022 02:55 PM (uia9V)

295 Robert Reich is hilariously tiny, he's even smaller than Ben Shapiro.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

We're getting into dangerous territory here. *glares*
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2022 02:54 PM

*pats bench*

Come sit by me.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2022 02:55 PM (4p7Em)

296
Yes, next they'll have to rename cities such as San Antonio to San Antonx.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 01, 2022 02:55 PM (JtOZc)

297 Can't call them "coloreds" and "fruits," anymore, either.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 01, 2022 02:53 PM (JtOZc)

When the sun goes down and the tides goes out,
The Darkies gather round and they all begin to shout,
Hey! Hey! Uncle Fudd, slap your big black feet on the Mississippi mud...

Posted by: General Steele, MASH 4077 at August 01, 2022 02:56 PM (7Ovsk)

298 Btw, Krugman is a lot like Potato in that their promo pics are, shall we say, OPTIMISTIC compared to what they really look like. Compare Krugman's pics used on his bylines to what he looks like in the video. The pics make him look regal compared to the pale, frail, much-older-looking pathetic shrew in the video.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 01, 2022 02:56 PM (iFTx/)

299 >>>242 >>>Watching them so brazenly re-define how they have always used "recession,"
------------------

There is a clip from yesterday saying, Carter embargoed the word - recession - and they referred to it as the banana economy.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 01, 2022 02:56 PM (pgzfR)

300 short people
ya gotta pick 'em up just to say hello

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 02:56 PM (geLO8)

301 Midget being bad is so last week, they are now blasting Beyonce and Lizzo for using the word spazz. I got tree fiddy says the ones complaining aren't even spazzes

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 01, 2022 02:56 PM (sRUs0)

302 Robert Reich is hilariously tiny, he's even smaller than Ben Shapiro.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:52 PM (Ivdso)

---------

That's Robert "Miguelito Loveless" Reich -- another Ace classic ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at August 01, 2022 02:56 PM (epL7G)

303 284 Look what they are doing with fertilizer shortage, the limits on nitrogen usage and limits on food animals. Look at the billionaires purchasing farm land and leaving it fallow. Yep, they want a famine.
Plan accordingly.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, 61 and foggy at August 01, 2022 02:53 PM (jTmQV)

To be fair, the first winter will do most of the heavy lifting.

Posted by: The Elites at August 01, 2022 02:56 PM (cupoy)

304 If there is a candy shortage on Halloween I will try my best not to buy any so as to let the kids get their share.
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (k8B25)

Not me. I buy it up. Will store it right next to my stash of baby formula.

What, I haven't had a baby around for more than two decades! It's an investment. In the future.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 01, 2022 02:57 PM (NWBBy)

305 Dwarves actually do useful things. Like mining. Krugman is a midget. Among men. Posted by: quantum mechanic

Is it too late to note that Krugman is a midget amongst dwarves?

Posted by: Lost In Space at August 01, 2022 02:57 PM (FF+On)

306 "Halfling" is right out.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 01, 2022 02:57 PM (44ww/)

307 This busty brunette in black and white wouldn't believe Paul Krugman if he told her that the sun rises in the east:
https://is.gd/vZQwoJ

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2022 02:50 PM (WWh8n)

Holy cow!

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at August 01, 2022 02:57 PM (U3uv2)

308 WTF is Little People Organziation? Oompa Loompas?
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2022 02:55 PM (uia9

LPA

Little People of America

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 01, 2022 02:57 PM (rghSL)

309 Robert Reich is hilariously tiny, he's even smaller than Ben Shapiro.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

We're getting into dangerous territory here. *glares*
Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2022 02:54 PMNah,

when girls are itty its cute. When guys are its just sad.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Unless that little guy is a really good jockey.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 01, 2022 02:58 PM (StBu4)

310 what is 297 doing
get that shit out of here

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 02:58 PM (geLO8)

311 Sid is seriously deranged.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing(5pTK/) at August 01, 2022 02:42 PM (5pTK/)

Monkeypox lesions on his frontal lobes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2022 02:58 PM (ZJj64)

312 Darn work, keeping me away from the comments section.

I watched that vid of the ATF agent and the cops, and at first I was not sure what was going on. It looked like the *homeowner* was being wrestled down and tased by the cops, and I couldn't imagine why AoS people would applaud that. But the guy was an *ATF agent* who, off-camera, demanded to see the homeowner's guns -- and the homeowner called the local cops on him. Right?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 01, 2022 02:58 PM (txdEq)

313 Little Americans

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 01, 2022 02:58 PM (vcv8B)

314 289 Saw a video on YT a few years ago that was a scene from some movie (a Western, I guess) in which Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte Bardot had a knockdown, drag-out fight. I’m not gonna lie — it was fun to watch. Don’t remember the name of it, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2022 02:58 PM (J28lB)

315 I hate to say it, but Paul Krugman is right. Both Reality and Basic Economics have been out to get Biden since his career in politics began.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM (gacPx)

316 "Look, Winston. How many recessions am I holding up?"

Posted by: O'Brien at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM (qpX6U)

317 286 Dwarves actually do useful things. Like mining.
===

They're not bad at crafting either. See Nauglimir, Narsil, Angrist, Dragon helm of Dor-lomin, etc.

Posted by: Augustine at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM (BDZWU)

318 I don't know what's so elusive about baby formula.

Man + Woman + Barry White = Baby.

Easy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM (/EuRN)

319 I really liked the reality series Little People, Big World. Probably one of the longest running reality shows.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM (rghSL)

320 I'm not a long time subscriber but I've never seen Krugman in the pages of the WSJ. Alan Blinder & Jason Furman, partisan hacks with a unblemished history of getting everything wrong, yes. Krugman, no.

Posted by: aelfheld at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM (Zy9Yy)

321 "Making the Most of the Coming Biden Boom"

Didn't New York do a PSA already?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM (ynpvh)

322 Short people have no reason.. Short people have no reason to live

Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM (bs+z0)

323 But the guy was an *ATF agent* who, off-camera, demanded to see the homeowner's guns -- and the homeowner called the local cops on him. Right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yep. Had no warrant. No legal reason to see the homeowner's guns.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM (inRxW)

324 I don't know what's so elusive about baby formula.

Man + Woman + Barry White = Baby.

Easy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM

*snort*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2022 03:00 PM (4p7Em)

325 Candy will be an effective bartering item when the hard times come.

Posted by: Augustine at August 01, 2022 03:00 PM (BDZWU)

326 It's sad when great minds slide into dementia.

It's also sad to see it happen to Paul Krugman.
.........

Why?

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2022 03:00 PM (v0R5T)

327 I have a problem with a noun ending in A being male.

Spanish words from Greek that end in A are male.
you use the El article in front of word that start with A because otherwise one would tempted to say L'artista, and they don't do that Italian crap.

Oh, and there is no masculine version of "Recepcionista"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2022 03:00 PM (xhaym)

328 and the homeowner called the local cops on him. Right?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yes, the homeowner called the cops and reported a guy at his door impersonating a cop.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 01, 2022 03:00 PM (StBu4)

329 Short people have no reason.. Short people have no reason to live
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM

*narrows eyes*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2022 03:00 PM (4p7Em)

330 I don't believe Hershey's claim that candy might be in short supply for Halloween. It has all the marks of 100% bullshit.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 01, 2022 03:00 PM (sWM8x)

331 318 I don't know what's so elusive about baby formula.

Man + Woman + Barry White = Baby.

Easy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM (/EuRN)

I think we decided a while back that it should be called baby chow.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 01, 2022 03:01 PM (Y5qcH)

332 The midget/xwarf/little person idiot seems to be getting shrill. Has he been getting pushback?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 03:01 PM (VdGjU)

333 I don't know what's so elusive about baby formula.

Man + Woman + Barry White = Baby.

Easy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM (/EuRN)

No no no! You have that all wrong.

It's Step 1: Put baby in blender. Step 2: Set to "frappe." Step 3: Drink.

Posted by: G. Reynolds at August 01, 2022 03:01 PM (NWBBy)

334 OT/ but do any of you think they are keeping Biden in with "covid" so as not be embarrassed by him being snubbed by Dems running for office ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2022 03:01 PM (bs+z0)

335 > who, off-camera, demanded to see the homeowner's guns -- and the homeowner called the local cops on him. Right?

More or less. Homeowner was a woman (I believe the guns belonged to her husband, who wasn't home). Agent had no warrant, no uniform, and showed no ID.

Woman refused to let him in and called the cops, saying that an unidentified armed man claiming to be a law enforcement officer was attempting to enter her home.

Local cops knew they didn't have an officer there, and responded accordingly.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 01, 2022 03:01 PM (bW8dp)

336 Holy cow!
Posted by: Comrade flounder,
----------------

Waist training and lippo, can't beat it.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 01, 2022 03:02 PM (pgzfR)

337 Why is everybody always picking on me?
Posted by: Sid at August 01, 2022 02:45 PM (a3Q+t)
++++
:: channels Sponge ::

You asked for it:
https://youtu.be/EaGKxAgCguU

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2022 03:02 PM (WWh8n)

338 It's Step 1: Put baby in blender. Step 2: Set to "frappe." Step 3: Drink.
Posted by: G. Reynolds at August 01, 2022 03:01 PM (NWBBy)

Don't shake the baby.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2022 03:02 PM (/EuRN)

339 @261 Just watched a trailer for some new Disney Star Wars series for the fall called "Andor". It seems to be some sort of Rebellion origin story and it looks way too insurrectiony for me to even believe it.

----

It's a background story for the male lead in Rogue One - aka the last Star Wars movie that still has a good reputation with the public.

Posted by: junior at August 01, 2022 03:02 PM (9ROm9)

340 > I hate to say it, but Paul Krugman is right. Both Reality and Basic Economics have been out to get Biden since his career in politics began.

Don't forget the bike fall. That one was mine.

Posted by: The Laws of Physics at August 01, 2022 03:03 PM (bW8dp)

341 OT/ but do any of you think they are keeping Biden in with "covid" so as not be embarrassed by him being snubbed by Dems running for office ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2022 03:01 PM (bs+z0)

I think they just want to hide him as much as possible.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:03 PM (DRSnL)

342 Why would it matter to him? Sure he is well off
Posted by: Skip
---------
"Are we in a recession and does the term matter?" Stelter asked.

Krugman responded, "No we aren't, and no it doesn't...well...not to me."

[Edited]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2022 03:03 PM (FJCnW)

343 But Enron stock! It's a guarantee!

Posted by: P Krugmunn at August 01, 2022 03:03 PM (GwxCX)

344 I don't believe Hershey's claim that candy might be in short supply for Halloween. It has all the marks of 100% bullshit.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 01, 2022 03:00 PM (sWM8x)

When your business model is largely based on slave labor, I suspect it's not all that hard for the regime to get you to play ball.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 01, 2022 03:03 PM (NWBBy)

345 But when it is Trump, recessions can be only 2 months long .. so they were already changing definitions.

"in June 2020 the NBER said the U.S. economy's expansion peaked in February 2020, falling into a recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic the next month. The economic expansion dating from June 2009 had lasted 128 months, surpassing the 120-month expansion from 1991 to 2001 as the longest stretch of uninterrupted growth in U.S. history.
In July 2021, the NBER concluded the recession that followed was the shortest on record at two months, with economic activity bottoming in April 2020."

https://tinyurl.com/2p8476fw

Posted by: illiniwek at August 01, 2022 03:04 PM (Cus5s)

346 I think even those with an FFL3 with an ATF agent on the front porch might be tempted to 1. ask for ID 2. call ATF office and 3. call local PD to confirm identity.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at August 01, 2022 03:04 PM (mCh4j)

347 Nah, when girls are itty its cute. When guys are its just sad.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:54 PM (Ivdso)

Short, cute, pissed off Indonesian women are like being treed by a Pekinese.
(I miss that lady)

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2022 03:04 PM (xhaym)

348 Define "short."

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 01, 2022 03:04 PM (Tjd07)

349
biden did not fall off the bike
we are not in a recession
gas prices are low
domestic oil production is at record highs

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 01, 2022 03:04 PM (JtOZc)

350 I think they just want to hide him as much as possible.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:03 PM

Yep, he should only be allowed visitors and snack time in the White Nursing House.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2022 03:05 PM (GwxCX)

351
I never could decide whether Bob Dylan or Barry White did a better "Lay, Lady, Lay." Both are really good, if really different.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 03:05 PM (IXpV7)

352 > OT/ but do any of you think they are keeping Biden in with "covid" so as not be embarrassed by him being snubbed by Dems running for office ?

Posted by: It's me donna

my theory is that his dementia is accelerating exponentially and they need some time to experiment on him with different drug cocktails and elixirs-

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 03:05 PM (geLO8)

353 Nah, when girls are itty its cute. When guys are its just sad.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 02:54 PM (Ivdso)

Fun size!

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:06 PM (DRSnL)

354 my theory is that his dementia is accelerating exponentially and they need some time to experiment on him with different drug cocktails and elixirs-
Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 03:05 PM (geLO

Expodentially.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 01, 2022 03:06 PM (Y5qcH)

355 biden did not fall off the bike
we are not in a recession
gas prices are low
domestic oil production is at record highs
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 01, 2022 03:04 PM (JtOZc)
++++
People love the government
The government is here to help
We are a nation of laws

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2022 03:06 PM (WWh8n)

356 I could take a nap

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2022 03:06 PM (k8B25)

357 318 I don't know what's so elusive about baby formula.

Man + Woman + Barry White = Baby.

Easy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2022 02:59 PM (/EuRN)

People have trouble defining Woman these days.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 01, 2022 03:06 PM (b2nrj)

358 We're finally starting to "never recover" from the recession Krugman predicted upon Trump's election.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 01, 2022 03:06 PM (6iBin)

359
my theory is that his dementia is accelerating exponentially and they need some time to experiment on him with different drug cocktails and elixirs-
Posted by: DB

But, all the pResident's stupidity is making it easier for his body double.
(And Jill appreciates the double as well.)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 01, 2022 03:07 PM (StBu4)

360
Wrong. I'm wrong. That was Isaac Hayes. Not Barry White.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 03:07 PM (IXpV7)

361 RMBS, Prayers are sent for your sister and her family.

Posted by: Mrs. JTB at August 01, 2022 03:07 PM (7EjX1)

362 my theory is that his dementia is accelerating exponentially and they need some time to experiment on him with different drug cocktails and elixirs-
Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 03:05 PM (geLO

++++
That's a distinct possibility. It's also possible that he just came off of an international trip and they threw him right into another appearance with no time to rest and Biden *needs* his rest. We saw that during the Afghan withdrawal debacle, where he appeared several times in one week and got worse and worse with each appearance. They failed to rest him, and it went terribly sideways on him.

Neither (or both) of those would surprise me.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2022 03:07 PM (WWh8n)

363
It's a background story for the male lead in Rogue One - aka the last Star Wars movie that still has a good reputation with the public.
Posted by: junior at August 01, 2022 03:02 PM (9ROm9)

Does it explain his out-REGGUS ach-CENT, you silly king-gah?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 01, 2022 03:07 PM (906pl)

364 They're not bad at crafting either. See Nauglimir, Narsil, Angrist, Dragon helm of Dor-lomin, etc.

Dwarves made Mjolnir as well

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 03:08 PM (Ivdso)

365 I think they just want to hide him as much as possible.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:03 PM
==

I think because when asked about the recession, the corrupt old pedophile will twist off on the questioner. Demonstrating that he IS mentally unstable.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 01, 2022 03:08 PM (u4CEu)

366 Trailer for Devotion the story of Jesse Brown (Jonathan Majors - last man in San fanciso, kang in the MCU) and Tom Hudner (Glenn Powell - hangman in top gun:maverick) naval aviators in the Korean War. Hudner would go on the win the Medal of Honor.

https://tinyurl.com/3953dx6v

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2022 03:08 PM (MGB5H)

367 > People have trouble defining Woman these days.

Yeah, but those people aren't reproducing, as a rule.

If a "transman" does happen to get a baby in her man-uterus, I'm betting that instant abortion occurs.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 01, 2022 03:08 PM (bW8dp)

368 Define "short."
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 01, 2022 03:04 PM

As documented in the lamentably underappreciated cinematic classic Wagons East, the world record is 3 1/2 inches.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 01, 2022 03:08 PM (a3Q+t)

369 RMBS, Prayers are sent for your sister and her family.
Posted by: Mrs. JTB at August 01, 2022 03:07 PM

Thank you, Mrs. JTB!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 01, 2022 03:09 PM (4p7Em)

370 Regarding the discussion of self-checkout kiosks: I drive out of my way to a Walmart that actually has 1 or 2 checkout cashiers in the early morning. Like many of you, I resent

1) being forced to do the labor for the store without getting paid, or a discount on my goods;
2) being forced to use a credit or debit card (at some WMs the self-checkouts won't take cash)
3) being forced to look at myself in the damned camera screen. I know, they're filming me all the time in the store. But I hate the in-your-face attitude of it.
4) The cashiers are faster than I am. They have experience with the scanning. I fumble, have a hard time bagging things, etc.
Short form: NO THANKS

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 01, 2022 03:09 PM (txdEq)

371 I've always liked petite women but I seem to attract tall women.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 03:09 PM (VdGjU)

372 So in the middle of all this economic data is the little nugget that household debt increased 1.2 trillion, which means that a significant % of families are getting by on increased debt.
What will the numbers look like when they get maxed out?

Truly terrible.
Another quarter, or 6 months from now it'll be rather clear, but as long as the fat piggies get their grift trough filled with more deficit spending, it's all good

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 01, 2022 03:09 PM (MFphb)

373 Short, cute, pissed off Indonesian women are like being treed by a Pekinese.
(I miss that lady)
Posted by: Kindltot
-------------------------

Unless she has a knife.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 01, 2022 03:09 PM (pgzfR)

374
Isaac Hayes version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg73dAf3ubc

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 03:09 PM (IXpV7)

375 >>> 330 I don't believe Hershey's claim that candy might be in short supply for Halloween. It has all the marks of 100% bullshit.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 01, 2022 03:00 PM (sWM8x)

It will be in short supply for *you* people.

Posted by: Liz Cheney at August 01, 2022 03:09 PM (llON8)

376 People love the government
The government is here to help
We are a nation of laws
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Non birthing people can have babies
There are 72 genders
Update: There are 86 genders

Posted by: Lost In Space at August 01, 2022 03:09 PM (FF+On)

377 biden did not fall off the bike
we are not in a recession
gas prices are low
domestic oil production is at record highs
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 01, 2022 03:04 PM (JtOZc)
.......

the border is secure
Zelenskyy is a hero

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2022 03:10 PM (v0R5T)

378 OT/ but do any of you think they are keeping Biden in with "covid" so as not be embarrassed by him being snubbed by Dems running for office ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2022 03:01 PM (bs+z0)

I don't think it's possible for any of us to really know what's going on with him.

All I know is, if they suddenly announce he's dead, we'll know they negotiated with Team Kummala, and decided this was the best deal they were gonna get.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 01, 2022 03:10 PM (NWBBy)

379 This stuff is brazen, but that ultimately makes it mostly inconsequential to the relevant point. Is the economy doing well?

"Ah, well, inflation is running at near-on double digits and measured GDP growth over the last half year is less than zero, BUT thankfully this does not meet the previous definition of recession that we changed last week by application of social pressure upon assorted status-conscious 'experts' ... I am sorry what did you ask?" simply isn't a very good answer to the real question.

Posted by: Match Checksout at August 01, 2022 03:10 PM (IK4m/)

380 Son's new girlfriend is not fun size. She spent the night for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and tried to sneak out in the morning without us seeing her. I told him later, "dude, tell your girlfriend she's not sneaking out of ANYWHERE. She's six feet tall."

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:10 PM (DRSnL)

381 Liz Cheney probably has substantial wealth invested in a company feverishly developing meat-based chocolate.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2022 03:11 PM (/EuRN)

382 I could take a nap
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2022 03:06 PM (k8B25)
.......

I WILL take a nap.

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2022 03:11 PM (v0R5T)

383 > They're not bad at crafting either. See Nauglimir, Narsil, Angrist, Dragon helm of Dor-lomin, etc.

> Dwarves made Mjolnir as well

And the Ring of the Nibelung.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 01, 2022 03:11 PM (bW8dp)

384 was there ever a time in this country's history when- for just a brief moment- everything was fine? No internal strife, no wars, people had jobs and homes and food? The president wasn't an idiot and people trusted public institutions?

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 03:11 PM (geLO8)

385 >>> 376 People love the government
The government is here to help
We are a nation of laws
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Non birthing people can have babies
There are 72 genders
Update: There are 86 genders
Posted by: Lost In Space at August 01, 2022 03:09 PM (FF+On)

There have always been 105 genders, Comrade

Posted by: leftists at August 01, 2022 03:11 PM (llON8)

386

How small could you make a midget submarine for midgets?

Small enough to operate in the sewers, so they could nuke the POC trannygators?

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at August 01, 2022 03:11 PM (U26n1)

387 They want to construct a parallel universe and force you to live in it. There is no actual "living" in it, of course, but that's the point.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 01, 2022 03:11 PM (H8QX8)

388 Pelosi is headed to Taiwan on Wednesday, where she will stay overnight. The USN is prepping for China's response.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 01, 2022 03:11 PM (xFKgx)

389 I've always liked petite women but I seem to attract tall women.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 03:09 PM (VdGjU)

It's mere physics. Your gravitational pull will attract a variety of them, but the tall ones seem to repel the smaller ones with their own gravity.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 01, 2022 03:12 PM (NWBBy)

390 She's six feet tall."
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:10 PM (DRSnL)

shame on you for shortening all the doorways...

Posted by: Inogame, non alius regit at August 01, 2022 03:12 PM (53oGX)

391 I'm going to reset the definition of inflation with the tip of my cock and see if Krugman handle this crisis.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 01, 2022 03:12 PM (0ocXn)

392 For some reason, short women with large breasts are sexier to me than tall women with large breasts. Don’t know why.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2022 03:12 PM (J28lB)

393 I could take a nap
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2022 03:06 PM (k8B25)

Locks door of carpet shop; just in case.

Posted by: Achmed at August 01, 2022 03:12 PM (ZJj64)

394 OT/ but do any of you think they are keeping Biden in with "covid" so as not be embarrassed by him being snubbed by Dems running for office ?

Posted by: It's me donna

my theory is that his dementia is accelerating exponentially and they need some time to experiment on him with different drug cocktails and elixirs-
Posted by: DB

And Hillary is being stingy with the Necronomicon.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 01, 2022 03:12 PM (gacPx)

395 "They failed to rest him, and it went terribly sideways on him." Posted by: Joe Mannix

yeah, imo he could last a few more years, slow decline, but he can still read the prompter fairly well. They have to keep him away from open commentary, but even that he manages to regurgitate old talking points. ... still doubtful he runs in 2024, but so much changes at the current pace of their coup and active war against the people.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 01, 2022 03:12 PM (Cus5s)

396 ..."And if you ask people how are you doing, they're pretty upbeat,"...

And if you ask people how much they paid for their car, you would find that cars cost $5000 less than you would expect, looking at the sales data...

And if you ask how people are doing at their jobs, you would find out that almost everybody is on a management track, and raises are being handed out like candy at Hallowe'en.

And if you ask men about their physical ... ahem ... characteristics, you would get wildly inaccurate data.

The rule in my family is that it is taken as a given that we are all crushing it, in every aspect, at all times. That saves us the trouble of having to brag.

Posted by: Gridlock at August 01, 2022 03:12 PM (ggvN8)

397 was there ever a time in this country's history when- for just a brief moment- everything was fine? No internal strife, no wars, people had jobs and homes and food? The president wasn't an idiot and people trusted public institutions?
Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 03:11 PM (geLO

1959?

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 01, 2022 03:12 PM (H8QX8)

398 Small enough to operate in the sewers, so they could nuke the POC trannygators?
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at August 01, 2022 03:11 PM

If they can avoid the fatbergs.

Posted by: S.S. Titanic at August 01, 2022 03:13 PM (a3Q+t)

399
Robert Reich is hilariously tiny, he's even smaller than Ben Shapiro.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I'm not saying that he has gossamer wings and curly-toed shoes ... but he has gossamer wings and curly-toed shoes.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 01, 2022 03:13 PM (0BcGu)

400 OT/ but do any of you think they are keeping Biden in with "covid" so as not be embarrassed by him being snubbed by Dems running for office ?

It's because every time he's been out in public recently it's been a humiliating disaster.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 01, 2022 03:13 PM (ZGrMX)

401 392 For some reason, short women with large breasts are sexier to me than tall women with large breasts. Don’t know why.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2022 03:12 PM (J28lB)

Bosoms are often better looking from a higher perspective.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2022 03:13 PM (/EuRN)

402 It's time to start deplatforming these filthy Russian-Propaganda-Spewing Recession Deniars

Putin doesn't have cancer, Russia has a capable military that will take whatever parts of Ukraine it chooses, sanctions won't destroy Russia, and Russian hookers did not piss on Donald Trump, but did steal a drugged out Hunter Biden's laptop.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 01, 2022 03:13 PM (/HvPV)

403 was there ever a time in this country's history when- for just a brief moment- everything was fine? No internal strife, no wars, people had jobs and homes and food? The president wasn't an idiot and people trusted public institutions?
Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022p/i]

***
Late '50s -- early '60s?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 01, 2022 03:14 PM (txdEq)

404

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 01, 2022 03:14 PM (txdEq)

405 @380 Jordan61-Six feet tall!?! How tall is your son? Depending on how much she weighs and how tall your son is, the fun might be the challenge. A woman built like that would be like conquering Mount Everest every night!

Posted by: JROD at August 01, 2022 03:14 PM (0jZnq)

406 Greasy Spud topped with a fungus covered gnome.

Posted by: Wonkish Rogue at August 01, 2022 03:14 PM (qvpzJ)

407 Joe Biden stars in: Back to the Basement

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 01, 2022 03:14 PM (M+Lyo)

408 >>> 402 It's time to start deplatforming these filthy Russian-Propaganda-Spewing Recession Deniars

Putin doesn't have cancer, Russia has a capable military that will take whatever parts of Ukraine it chooses, sanctions won't destroy Russia, and Russian hookers did not piss on Donald Trump, but did steal a drugged out Hunter Biden's laptop.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 01, 2022 03:13 PM (/HvPV)

REEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Posted by: leftists at August 01, 2022 03:14 PM (llON8)

409 They really need to stop using 20 year old photos of Paul. And he needs to get rid of his 20 year old avatar as well.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at August 01, 2022 03:14 PM (zB/T/)

410 Well there we are. A state were we find Baghdad Bob, Pravda, and the Tijuana News Gazette more reliable.

Posted by: Cheri at August 01, 2022 03:14 PM (oiNtH)

411
The Bob Dylan version (before he started singing like shit on purpose):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhzEsb2tNbI

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 03:14 PM (IXpV7)

412 There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
Posted by: Augustine at August 01, 2022 02:26 PM (BDZWU)

Correct.

Posted by: I Am Judy at August 01, 2022 03:15 PM (AbL8c)

413 I like tall women too. I mean I pretty much like 'em all except Trigglypuffs

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 03:15 PM (Ivdso)

414 The president wasn't an idiot and people trusted public institutions?
Posted by: DB

Unless you were in the military, the Federal government was largely irrelevant in the beginning.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 01, 2022 03:15 PM (vcv8B)

415 Pelosi is headed to Taiwan on Wednesday, where she will stay overnight. The USN is prepping for China's response.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I am hoping the Chicom equivalent of the SEALS kidnap her and ransom her off to 4Chan crowd.

Posted by: Lost In Space at August 01, 2022 03:15 PM (FF+On)

416 No such thing as too rich or too skinny.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2022 03:15 PM (rD0QW)

417 Pelosi is headed to Taiwan on Wednesday, where she will GET DRUNK AND stay overnight.

minor fix

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2022 03:16 PM (v0R5T)

418 Monkeypox lesions on his frontal lobes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

this is from getting skull fucked in basic.

*zombie R. Lee. Ermy smiles*

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (MrZQl) - at August 01, 2022 03:16 PM (MrZQl)

419 The Bob Dylan version (before he started singing like shit on purpose):

He still sings well once in a while, a couple songs off Oh Mercy he sang pretty normal. I don't know why he does that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 03:17 PM (Ivdso)

420 For some reason, short women with large breasts are sexier to me than tall women with large breasts. Don’t know why.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2022 03:12 PM (J28lB)

Something something... easier to set your beer down.*

*Trying to modify an old joke... seems to need work.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 01, 2022 03:17 PM (NWBBy)

421 >>> 415 Pelosi is headed to Taiwan on Wednesday, where she will stay overnight. The USN is prepping for China's response.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I am hoping the Chicom equivalent of the SEALS kidnap her and ransom her off to 4Chan crowd.
Posted by: Lost In Space at August 01, 2022 03:15 PM (FF+On)

Fck no.

Posted by: CCP special forces at August 01, 2022 03:17 PM (llON8)

422
Whoa!

It turns out Ministry did a version of "Lay Lady Lay," as well, lol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npeYMJIbY8o

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 03:17 PM (IXpV7)

423 Putin doesn't have cancer, Russia has a capable military that will take whatever parts of Ukraine it chooses, sanctions won't destroy Russia, and Russian hookers did not piss on Donald Trump, but did steal a drugged out Hunter Biden's laptop.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 01, 2022 03:13 PM (/HvPV)

REEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Posted by: leftists at August 01, 2022 03:14 PM (llON

REEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Posted by: GOP Establishment / Defense Contractors at August 01, 2022 03:17 PM (fs1hN)

424 I am hoping the Chicom equivalent of the SEALS kidnap her and ransom her off to 4Chan crowd.
Posted by: Lost In Space at August

She has a future as a PLA comfort woman.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 03:17 PM (VdGjU)

425 409 They really need to stop using 20 year old photos of Paul. And he needs to get rid of his 20 year old avatar as well.

????!!?!?!??????????????????!!!!?!

Posted by: Cat Litter Lady Conservative WaPo 4 Life homes at August 01, 2022 03:17 PM (qvpzJ)

426 from National Review today: "Arizona Republicans Should Reject Kari Lake"

no stronger endorsement for Lake in my eyes

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at August 01, 2022 03:18 PM (V6W16)

427 No such thing as too rich or too skinny.

"I beg to differ"
--prisoner A2956J4 in Auschwitz

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 03:18 PM (Ivdso)

428 392 For some reason, short women with large breasts are sexier to me than tall women with large breasts. Don’t know why.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2022 03:12 PM (J28lB)

Because if they are tall, there is a good chance they are a man.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at August 01, 2022 03:18 PM (sI15f)

429 For some reason, short women with large breasts are sexier to me than tall women with large breasts. Don’t know why.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 01, 2022

***
I can agree, as long as both women are trim otherwise. See Kelly Stables of Two and a Half Men, opposed to Katy Mixon of the same show.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 01, 2022 03:18 PM (txdEq)

430 Pelosi is headed to Taiwan on Wednesday,

Hmm.

I've seen conflicting reports.

I thought she issued a statement that it was a misunderstanding and that she was going to "Tie One On" Wednesday and people misheard her.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at August 01, 2022 03:18 PM (/HvPV)

431 380 Son's new girlfriend is not fun size. She spent the night for the first time a couple of weeks ago, and tried to sneak out in the morning without us seeing her. I told him later, "dude, tell your girlfriend she's not sneaking out of ANYWHERE. She's six feet tall."
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:10 PM (DRSnL)

HA!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at August 01, 2022 03:18 PM (BgMrQ)

432 Unless she has a knife.
Posted by: Braenyard at August 01, 2022 03:09 PM (pgzfR)

When they are yelling they haven't started being stabbity yet

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2022 03:18 PM (xhaym)

433 I for one am getting tired of China and their shit

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 03:18 PM (geLO8)

434 Well there we are. A state were we find Baghdad Bob, Pravda, and the Tijuana News Gazette more reliable.
Posted by: Cheri
-----

For decades, I've found Radio Havana more reliable than NPR.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2022 03:19 PM (4t6Xc)

435 the return to my default postion

I hate everyone and everything

nice to snuggle up to

Posted by: REDACTED at August 01, 2022 03:19 PM (us2H3)

436
Pelosi is headed to Taiwan on Wednesday, where she will stay overnight.

I hope that her aircrew is instructed to undertake no heroic measures, but instead bail out to save their selves and let her and the aircraft auger into the South China Sea.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at August 01, 2022 03:19 PM (0BcGu)

437 She has a future as a PLA comfort woman.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 03:17 PM (VdGjU)

PLA soldiers must be mighty damned uncomfortable, then.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2022 03:19 PM (ZJj64)

438 Jordan61-Six feet tall!?! How tall is your son? Depending on how much she weighs and how tall your son is, the fun might be the challenge. A woman built like that would be like conquering Mount Everest every night!
Posted by: JROD at August 01, 2022 03:14 PM (0jZnq)

He's about 5'10", and weighs about 135. She probably weighs about 125, if I had to guess. Their kids would look like praying mantises.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:19 PM (DRSnL)

439 yeah, the Holocaust is never funny

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 03:20 PM (geLO8)

440 gas prices are low

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at August 01, 2022 03:04 PM (JtOZc)

Karine J-P took another victory lap today saying gas prices have now steadily declined for almost 7 weeks!

When gas prices go back up, I expect they'll say, "Well, the price is only a few cents more than last week! Winning!"

They play a relativism game on everything. Gas price increases since Brandon took office don't matter, it only matters how much they go down from the latest peak. Now that they think they've normalized $4 gas, all they will talk about is day to day price reductions, or how tiny last week's price increase was relative to the price a month ago.

Moving the goal posts is all they really do. Has anyone seen the "plans" they claim they are executing to bring gas prices down, to increase the supply of baby formula, and to reduce inflation? Yet the lapdog media never asks for a copy of any of the plans. We're being played in the ultimate rigged game.

Posted by: Gref at August 01, 2022 03:20 PM (AMIL/)

441 My editor gets worse every day. Hmm, fucking AI.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 01, 2022 03:20 PM (0ocXn)

442 For some reason, short women with large breasts are sexier to me than tall women with large breasts. Don’t know why.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

It's an optical illusion.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at August 01, 2022 03:20 PM (vcv8B)

443
As I've said before, it would be less of a problem for Bai-Den's poll numbers if these idiots would just say "Yes, it's a recession. Recessions are inevitable, and a normal part of the economic cycle. What's important now is to work together to get through the downturn."

But nooooooo...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 01, 2022 03:20 PM (n+4am)

444 426 from National Review today: "Arizona Republicans Should Reject Kari Lake"

Oh FFS. What hopeless idiots.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 01, 2022 03:20 PM (H8QX8)

445 416 No such thing as too rich or too skinny.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2022 03:15 PM (rD0QW)

Rachel Corrie begs to differ.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 01, 2022 03:20 PM (/EuRN)

446
He still sings well once in a while, a couple songs off Oh Mercy he sang pretty normal. I don't know why he does that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 03:17 PM (Ivdso

Same thing as with Picasso. "I'm good at this, but only good. Not great. If I do it like crap on purpose, it's avante-garde and trendy bien pensant midwits pay a lot for that."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2022 03:21 PM (IXpV7)

447 The only two people worse than Nancy in succession would be Schiff and Jeffries. Pray China's military sucks.

Posted by: Indignatio Vindacatorem at August 01, 2022 03:21 PM (3cXDs)

448 Maybe the simulation is now for "deranged drunk to start nuclear WWIII"?

Posted by: Thrawn at August 01, 2022 03:21 PM (Rl7KJ)

449 >>> 444 426 from National Review today: "Arizona Republicans Should Reject Kari Lake"

Oh FFS. What hopeless idiots.
Posted by: Ordinary American at August 01, 2022 03:20 PM (H8QX

True, but they're also (relatively) well-paid grifting fakes which is why they're spewing this BS.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 01, 2022 03:22 PM (llON8)

450 >>these idiots would just say "Yes, it's a recession. Recessions are inevitable, and a normal part of the economic cycle. What's important now is to work together to get through the downturn."

that's heresy for a Democrat

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 03:22 PM (geLO8)

451 from National Review today: "Arizona Republicans Should Reject Kari Lake"

no stronger endorsement for Lake in my eyes

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at August 01, 2022 03:18 PM (V6W16)

What if they know that, and they expect their endorsement to backfire, thus leading to her victory, and that really means she IS a Gope nevertrumper???

Posted by: BurtTC at August 01, 2022 03:22 PM (NWBBy)

452 Same thing as with Picasso. "I'm good at this, but only good. Not great. If I do it like crap on purpose, it's avante-garde and trendy bien pensant midwits pay a lot for that.

Yeah he was a solid painter before he went stupid. Its kind of sad, but I expect you're right. We'd have never heard of Picasso if he had not started painting like a dull 5 year old.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 03:22 PM (Ivdso)

453 So, Biden is our third black President?

Posted by: Holy Crap at August 01, 2022 03:22 PM (glGDV)

454 He's about 5'10", and weighs about 135. She probably weighs about 125, if I had to guess. Their kids would look like praying mantises.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:19 PM (DRSnL)

I'm 6' and the wife is 5'10" Our daughter is only 5'7". She got struck by lightning when she was 7 and it effected her growth plates. They ended up closing earlier that normal.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 01, 2022 03:23 PM (OgrpQ)

455 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at August 01, 2022 03:23 PM (jSmPs)

456 What the hell is Nanzi doing over there, anyway?

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:23 PM (DRSnL)

457 > from National Review today: "Arizona Republicans Should Reject Kari Lake"

does she have the wrong monocle and spats?

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 03:23 PM (geLO8)

458 I have know idea who he's talking to. Ask anyone about their finances they'll tell you about how inflation has made things real tight. Ask anyone about gas, they'll say they are happy it came down but it's still so expensive that it's seriously hurting their budget. In a little while when home values drop due to housing market cooling due to high mortgage rates, you're going to be eating at the return on families biggest investment. And if the economic downturn does turn into rising unemployment and looks to be headed that way, it's gonna be ugly.

Posted by: mikethemoose at August 01, 2022 03:23 PM (T/vhV)

459 The Bob Dylan version (before he started singing like shit on purpose):

He still sings well once in a while, a couple songs off Oh Mercy he sang pretty normal. I don't know why he does that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I guess I need to do some research. I just thought he was a shitty singer in general.

Posted by: She Hobbit at August 01, 2022 03:23 PM (ftFVW)

460 416 No such thing as too rich or too skinny.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 01, 2022 03:15 PM (rD0QW)
.......

There's Kat Timpf.

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2022 03:23 PM (v0R5T)

461 The thing that has a always struck me about Krugman is the fear in his eyes. It's always there. When I pointed it out, my brother suggested he's never gotten over what happened on the 3rd grade playground. That seems plausible.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 01, 2022 03:23 PM (TgBWG)

462 WTF is Little People Organziation? Oompa Loompas?
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2022 02:55 PM (uia9

LPA

Little People of America
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Surprised it's not a Guild, really.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 01, 2022 03:24 PM (M9XmQ)

463 453 So, Biden is our third black President?
------------------
Biden is Obama Unchained!

Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2022 03:24 PM (uia9V)

464 What if they know that, and they expect their endorsement to backfire, thus leading to her victory, and that really means she IS a Gope nevertrumper???

I don't think the current staff of National Review can play any dimensional chess.

Posted by: Ian S. at August 01, 2022 03:24 PM (ZGrMX)

465 Nanzi going to Tawain is Kabuki theater

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at August 01, 2022 03:24 PM (mCh4j)

466 What the hell is Nanzi doing over there, anyway?
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:23 PM (DRSnL)
.......

That was my first question.

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2022 03:24 PM (v0R5T)

467 I guess I need to do some research. I just thought he was a shitty singer in general.

Dylan never had a great voice but he could sing a lot better than the creaky crap he does on most of his stuff.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 03:24 PM (Ivdso)

468 >What the hell is Nanzi doing over there, anyway?

Posted by: Jordan61

my theory, it's one of 2 things

1) grift
2) save her party's electoral prospects

Posted by: DB at August 01, 2022 03:24 PM (geLO8)

469 What the hell is Nanzi doing over there, anyway?
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:23 PM (DRSnL)
........

There must be sacks of cash involved.

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2022 03:25 PM (v0R5T)

470 I'm 6' and the wife is 5'10" Our daughter is only 5'7". She got struck by lightning when she was 7 and it effected her growth plates. They ended up closing earlier that normal.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 01, 2022 03:23 PM (OgrpQ)

My word. Is she really fast?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at August 01, 2022 03:25 PM (VdGjU)

471 Yes to number 2; Nanzi is so brave! Grift is a given

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at August 01, 2022 03:25 PM (mCh4j)

472 from National Review today: "Arizona Republicans Should Reject Kari Lake"

no stronger endorsement for Lake in my eyes
---
And anyone who can get Megan McCain to take time out of her dad's funeral to curse them is good too

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 01, 2022 03:25 PM (6iBin)

473 443
As I've said before, it would be less of a problem for Bai-Den's poll numbers if these idiots would just say "Yes, it's a recession. Recessions are inevitable, and a normal part of the economic cycle. What's important now is to work together to get through the downturn."

But nooooooo...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 01, 2022 03:20 PM (n+4am)

That would put some responsibility for the recession on their shoulders. As they see it. The Junta, and the Dem-Media Complex as a whole, only accepts responsibility for good news. Bad news is always due to the evil forces arrayed against the valiant forces of good represented by Brandon!

Posted by: Gref at August 01, 2022 03:26 PM (AMIL/)

474 It's Joey's backyard and campaign headquarters so when Philly newspapers write headlines such as, "Hate to admit it. Actually, Biden won't, but we're in a recession," there's a problem.

Also, reportedly, if Joe resumes school loan repayments in September, after a two-year pandemic freeze, there will be a nationwide debt strike.

Demands/suggestions include that the government needs to make public college free or very inexpensive; provide forgiveness for the debts of a generation sold a bill of goods regarding higher education, and make trade school or other opportunities free and readily available to the millions not interested in college life.

Posted by: Lola at August 01, 2022 03:27 PM (NIYa7)

475 FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S NOOD

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at August 01, 2022 03:27 PM (yikp0)

476 Somehow the last line in Krugman's statement got left out, but that's easily fixed. Here it is:

"Me so horny! Go with you long time!"

Posted by: mnw at August 01, 2022 03:28 PM (NLIak)

477 469 What the hell is Nanzi doing over there, anyway?
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 01, 2022 03:23 PM (DRSnL)
........

There must be sacks of cash involved.

Posted by: wth at August 01, 2022 03:25 PM (v0R5T)

Christmas shopping. No joke. Nanzi knows she will be very busy from Labor day to the end of this year.

Posted by: Gref at August 01, 2022 03:29 PM (AMIL/)

478 What the hell is Nanzi doing over there, anyway?
Posted by: Jordan61

Her husband needs to know who to short in the Chinese computer chip industry.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 01, 2022 03:29 PM (gacPx)

479 Ace, didn't you post something on Krugman where he was driving around in a cab? Satirical.

Could you repost that?

Posted by: LiveFreeOrDie at August 01, 2022 03:32 PM (Z4oqp)

480 My word. Is she really fast?

Reminds me of Mitch Hedburg's joke about superpowers. He said he got struck by lightning once and got the superpower to lie on the ground twitching and sh***ing himself.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 01, 2022 03:39 PM (Ivdso)

481 Does Paulie understand that the 3rd quarter GDP numbers come out before the election?

Cuz he's going to look quite stupid if that also comes up a cropper. Though he has mastered that 'look' over the last 25 years.

Posted by: East Bay Jay at August 01, 2022 03:45 PM (DePyg)

482 And what difference would a recession call make, anyway?"

What difference, at this point, does it make?!

When a progressive screws up it doesn't make any difference, except to the dead and suffering, which of course, aren't the progressive decision makers.

This has been "Sociopaths, On Parade"

Posted by: We're from the government and we're to help. at August 01, 2022 03:46 PM (lDf7I)

483 Maybe it's me, but every time I see Krugman's name in print, he's busy being wrong.

Posted by: Naked, sitting in a sensory deprivation room, smoking crack. at August 01, 2022 03:55 PM (qOBOT)

484 Chiming in here regarding Krugman. Isn't he the economist that has written several articles about how awesome China's political and economic systems are? And that he wanted to suck Xi's dick? I may have mis-heard that last part.

Posted by: Matticus Finch at August 01, 2022 04:23 PM (mENHL)

485 The New York Times has been a Leftists Propaganda rag since 1932 and the infamous Walter Duranty was Stalin's Chief Propagandist's in America

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Paul Krugman: There Is No Recession and If There Is, It Doesn't Matter.
Also, The Economy Is Great and Any Thought to the Contrary Is Just Caused by a Biased Media Out to Get Biden.