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Biden: Look Fat, the Recession That We're Totally Not In Right Now Will be a "Slight Recession"
Another Inflation Gauge Shows Accelerating Inflation; Wages Fall

Inflation plus falling wages and flatlining economic activity -- hm, what did we used to call that?

Stagflation, was it?

The Producer Price Index, the report of what producers receive for their goods, hit a new record level.

This measure is slightly different than the Consumer Price Index, which measures what consumers pay for goods, but it's two different samplings attempting to measure the same thing, prices of consumer goods. It's like the difference between estimating average American salaries by surveying workers themselves, versus surveying employers for what they're paying workers. Due to incomplete information and differences in who gets surveyed, these reports will sometimes disagree with each other, somewhat.

The PPI just posted a record.

Headline PPI inflation showed prices increasing 0.4 percent in September, double the 0.2 percent economists predicted for a 12-month increase of 8.5 percent, a rate that also surpassed Wall Street estimates.

Expectedly is the new unexpectedly.

What's more, the month-over-month number shows that cost increases are accelerating for producers, with final demand services advancing 0.4 percent in September after increasing 0.3 percent in August.


The Consumer Price Index also rose 0.4% in September -- also, get this, exceeding Very Smart (Left-Leaning) Wall Streeters' expectations.

The consumer price index increased 0.4% for the month, more than the 0.3% Dow Jones estimate, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. On a 12-month basis, so-called headline inflation was up 8.2%, off its peak around 9% in June but still hovering near the highest levels since the early 1980s.

Although gas prices dropped 4.9% -- due to the fact that we're in a recession, and therefore there is less of a demand for fuel -- there was such a huge increase in the prices of other goods that the Core CPI was actually higher, at 0.6%.

Excluding volatile food and energy prices, core CPI was even higher for the month, accelerating 0.6% against the Dow Jones estimate for a 0.4% increase. Core inflation was up 6.6% from a year ago, the biggest 12-month gain since August 1982.

Food prices were way up again:

Another large jump in food prices boosted the headline number. The food index rose 0.8% for the month, the same as August, and was up 11.2% from a year ago.

Oh, and energy prices are moving up again, of course.

Analysts quoted in that story note that the Fed will probably continue hiking the interest rate by 0.75% increments until inflation stops "exceeding analyst expectations." I wonder why the goal is to get it to stop exceeding analyst expectations, rather than just... stopping. I genuinely don't know and the article doesn't say.

"The Federal Reserve has made it very clear they're committed to price stability, they're committed to reducing the inflationary pressures," said Michelle Meyer, chief U.S. economist at the Mastercard Economics Institute. "The more inflation comes in above expectations, the more they’re going to have to prove that commitment, which means higher interest rates and cooling in the underlying economy."

Do they mean above the usual expectations in the 2-3% inflation target range?

Not only did prices rise, but wages shrunk. Again.

The rising costs meant more bad news for workers, whose average hourly earnings declined 0.1% for the month on an inflation-adjusted basis and are off 3% from a year ago, according to a separate BLS release.

Expect a welter of Propaganda Media articles about how living with less affords us all an opportunity to Look Inside and Close to Home for meaning and purpose. Do we really need to live such materialistic lives?!, the extraordinarily shallow, materialistic, self-obsessed, and status-seeking media will scold us.

Not a bad sentiment, but... weird how we only see these Silver Linings articles with Democrat Disaster "Presidents."

Feast your eyes on these eye-watering price increases, via Ed Morrissey:

yan Struyk
@ryanstruyk
Annual inflation via BLS just out:

42.9% airline fares
33.1% utility gas
30.5% eggs
18.2% gasoline
17.2% chicken
15.7% coffee
15.2% milk
14.7% bread
10.1% furniture
9.2% vegetables
8.2% all items
8.2% fruit
8.1% ham
7.6% women apparel
7.2% used cars
6.7% rent
3.7% men apparel

Via Hot Air, this collection of horrified reactions by Wall Streeters to the news-- with a special emphasis on how bad they feel for their beloved Democrat Party.


Andrew Brenner, head of international fixed-income at NatAlliance Securities.

"Horrible CPI number... what will the Fed to do on interest rates: Will they go 100 basis?"

That is, a full 1.0% interest rate hike, instead of the 0.75% hikes they've been doing, to avoid the Scare Factor of a 1.0% hike.


Jim Caron. Morgan Stanley Investment Management.

"It is brutal... I do think that prices will start to moderate -- I thought that this would already be happening at this point," he tells Bloomberg TV. The issue now is that inflation has moved from the goods sector and has permeated into the services sector."

Chris Antsey, Bloomberg senior editor

"For Democrats, this is a disaster. Today's is the final CPI report ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm election. You can bet that Republicans will be hitting this hard -- worst inflation in four decades."

Republicans, Pounce!


Dennis DeBusschere, founder of 22V Research,

"This was clearly a bad number. It's just broad-based inflation. Is what it is.... Need much more goods disinflation to offset the high sticky parts of core."

Goods disinflation is, I gather from context, puncturing the inflation balloon by offsetting the inflation due to having too many bills floating around by creating more goods to match up with those bills.

Like, for example, opening up the oil spigots and tapping the billions of dollars worth of petroleum beneath the US?

Nah. Too simple. Also, Greta Thunberg would be cross with us.

Seth Carpenter, chief global economist at Morgan Stanley,

"That this was clearly a shock for markets. If ever there's a time for people who do economic forecasting to be humbled, this is it."

Actually that time was back in 2006 but you do you.

No wonder Biden's threatening the Saudis.

It's all coming apart now.

Posted by: Ace at 05:12 PM




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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 13, 2022 05:12 PM (Zz0t1)

2 What recession?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 05:12 PM (bVYXr)

3 Biden is Top. Man.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 13, 2022 05:12 PM (Zz0t1)

4 I am feeling depressed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 13, 2022 05:13 PM (dNqv+)

5 Biden is asshoe

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 13, 2022 05:13 PM (2xlV3)

6 Tomorrow should have some fireworks, if the BoE sticks to their guns.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at October 13, 2022 05:14 PM (QYPq3)

7 That anti pig thread was FIRE!

Posted by: Derek Chauvin's Prison Romance at October 13, 2022 05:14 PM (a9OXe)

8 It's like we're in a decaying orbit around Tank Abrams...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at October 13, 2022 05:14 PM (ynpvh)

9 "Name a president in recent history that has gotten as much done as I have in the first two years."

If by "done" you mean "fucking up everything", I think you're the tops, Joe!

Posted by: Colonel Travis at October 13, 2022 05:14 PM (RG7Wy)

10 so the Brooks trial-Brooks is now saying that the gofundme set up for the victims of his motor attack shows "something"....

He is trying to ask how much money was raised by the victims....

Insane- judge is doing backflips to accommodate the clown.

Every time one of his asshat specious objections is denied he asks "grounds?"

Posted by: sven at October 13, 2022 05:14 PM (Lzpvj)

11 I am happy to not be in the game anymore. All your working stiffs have my sympathy.


And thanks for the 8.7% SS COLA.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:14 PM (yQpMk)

12 If by "done" you mean "fucking up everything", I think you're the tops, Joe!
Posted by: Colonel Travis

Just call him Hurricane Biden

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 13, 2022 05:15 PM (2xlV3)

13 I see Joeys Vegetables have increased 9.5 percent. That puts him up to 90 percent Vegetable

Posted by: Joe Bitem at October 13, 2022 05:15 PM (M+Lyo)

14 Regarding Biden and police...
The people screaming "YOU BETTER COMPLY" have clearly never bought into governance by consent.

They're wannabe dictators...vote harder daddy...while they stand to the side with ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY.

No disrespect. Just absolutely the way it is. F..k them
All.

Posted by: Derek Chauvin's Prison Romance at October 13, 2022 05:16 PM (a9OXe)

15 Eggs here went from $3.95/doz to $4.95 in a month.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:16 PM (yQpMk)

16 "Just the tip" of a recession. I promise.

Posted by: dfbaskwill at October 13, 2022 05:16 PM (5fXPq)

17 hiya

Posted by: JT at October 13, 2022 05:16 PM (T4tVD)

18 In my book, Joe is in the running for the biggest fuck up in U.S. history.

Posted by: Archer at October 13, 2022 05:16 PM (gmo/4)

19 42.9% airline fares
33.1% utility gas
30.5% eggs
18.2% gasoline
17.2% chicken

Is it still $20 same as in town ?

Posted by: Joe Bitem at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (M+Lyo)

20 Let me say what everyone is thinking:

It is going to be a DEPRESSION. A man made, policy driven Depression.

Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (Z32m1)

21 >>>That is, a full 1.0% interest rate hike, instead of the 0.75% hikes they've been doing, to avoid the Scare Factor of a 1.0% hike.

Eh, they're going to get too much political pressure and pivot. 50 points max...

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (QYPq3)

22 Just heard a rumor that the local library board decided that next (or maybe next next) year they won't close on Good Friday.
Woker and woker they go.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (2xlV3)

23 actually where i am outside nyc the only two things that haven't gone up in price since mushbrains became pres are bus fare and half pints of vodka. I noticed this week that dollar tree is starting to sell some things like frozen 22 oz boxes of chicken fingers and stuff like that for 4 or 5 dollars.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (kFrCu)

24 Biden has always been a very stupid man. Now he is a very stupid man with dementia.
F.J.B.

Posted by: Cosda at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (W92Lr)

25 It's all coming apart now.

Pretty much.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (Xrfse)

26 Oh look! Jake is sucking Brandon's ass again.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (QSLiO)

27 > You may not like what I've got done but the vast majority of the American people like what I've gotten done.

Sure thing, Dopey. That's why your approval ratings are massively underwater. Because the "vast majority" approve of you. Moron.



Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (bW8dp)

28 Inflation plus falling wages and flatlining economic activity -- hm, what did we used to call that?
---
funflation-funemployment.

Posted by: Axeman at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (krQz2)

29 These dumb fucks.
Just a slight recession.
And the 30% hit my 401 took was just a slight correction.
Fuck you Brandon.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 13, 2022 05:18 PM (anj39)

30 20 Let me say what everyone is thinking:

It is going to be a DEPRESSION. A man made, policy driven Depression.
Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (Z32m1)

Just like the first one.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 13, 2022 05:18 PM (dNqv+)

31 Chris Antsey, Bloomberg senior editor

"For Democrats, this is a disaster. Today's is the final CPI report ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm election. You can bet that Republicans will be hitting this hard -- worst inflation in four decades."


yeah, i bet.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 13, 2022 05:18 PM (kFrCu)

32 Pull my finger.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Hand at October 13, 2022 05:18 PM (yQpMk)

33 Good Afternoon!
I always thought that the Wrath of God against America would be in the form of nuclear weapons, an earthquake at the San Andreas fault, or the eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera. Something massive...not a demented, pedophile, brain-damaged buffoon.

Posted by: jmel at October 13, 2022 05:18 PM (bVhJi)

34 funpression.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 13, 2022 05:18 PM (dNqv+)

35 If they're claiming we're in a recession, we're in a depression.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 13, 2022 05:18 PM (V6f9+)

36 The thing that hits us the most is the cost of eggs. Between the wife and I with two dogs we eat an enormous amount of eggs. Eggs are hands down the most digestible and efficient protein you can feed a dog and we have eggs at least 3-4 times a week. It is getting very expensive.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 05:18 PM (bVYXr)

37 G'rump928(c) is cancelled.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at October 13, 2022 05:18 PM (QYPq3)

38 Jimmy Carter can die happy.

James Earl Carter Jr., is no longer the worst US President in our history.

Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (Z32m1)

39 When a Democrat is President we're not in a recession until the White House says we're in a recession.

Nice to know.

Posted by: Axeman at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (krQz2)

40 14 Posted by: Derek Chauvin's Prison Romance at October 13, 2022 05:16 PM (a9OXe)

Right the key to a better America is allowing Trigglypuff, Garner and everyone to be the hall monitors.

Posted by: sven at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (Lzpvj)

41 On the one hand, I have more than enough "stuff" to last the rest of my life...Still need to pay off my house, though.

But I also need to eat. More and more of my earnings are going towards just the bare necessities for survival...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (YIVH2)

42 7.6% women apparel
3.7% men apparel
Posted by: Ace


Shit, even inflation is sexist.

Posted by: mikeski at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (P1f+c)

43 Employment is down too, that was the only single positive economic indicator the Biden administration had, so they pointed to it constantly.

I remember the Carter years. I remember the alternate days to fill your car based on the last number in your license plate. I remember the food lines. I remember walking down every business street in town just trying to get someone to give me an application to TRY to get a job. I remember double digit inflation.

This all feels really damned familiar. But its even worse this time around because there's no massive American work ethic momentum, no business freedom, and the president keeps doing worse and worse things to compound the effect.

And unlike the great depression, there isn't a family farm to go back home to. There isn't a backup plan. This time its going to be worse, much worse. I fear we are the precipice of a far, far worse collapse, globally.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (Ivdso)

44 stag-fun-tion.

Posted by: Axeman at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (krQz2)

45 Lenin: "We will grind the bourgeoisie between the twin stones of inflation and taxation."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Semi-Fascist at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (YqDXo)

46 re 30: been saying that for weeks. oh well, time to stock up on rotting fruit.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 13, 2022 05:20 PM (kFrCu)

47 42.9% airline fares
33.1% utility gas
30.5% eggs
18.2% gasoline
17.2% chicken
15.7% coffee
15.2% milk
14.7% bread


I hope you don't have any airline stock. Also, I hope you like a cold house and don't eat.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 13, 2022 05:20 PM (lTGtQ)

48 These fucking lefty marxist commie fuckers of everything except real women project EVERYTHING

The crashed the economy, destroyed the value of money and now theyre warning if the GOP returns to power the GOP will... crash the economy

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Rescuing Sexy Russian Women Before They Get Drafted at October 13, 2022 05:20 PM (VTu1l)

49 The scary thing is I think he really believes this. Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary Biden seems to think he's smart and doing a great job.

Biden: "Name a president in recent history that has gotten as much done as I have in the first two years. Not a joke. You may not like what I"ve got done but the vast majority of the American people like what I've gotten done."

Posted by: JackStraw at October 13, 2022 05:20 PM (ZLI7S)

50 Brandon shuts off sales to the Saudis.
Saudis shut off the Red Sea.
Inflation goes to 25%
Depression by Christmas.
World explodes.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 13, 2022 05:20 PM (anj39)

51 45 Lenin: "We will grind the bourgeoisie between the twin stones of inflation and taxation."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Semi-Fascist at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (YqDXo)

*types* *deletes*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 13, 2022 05:20 PM (dNqv+)

52 And thanks for the 8.7% SS COLA.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:14 PM (yQpMk)

Somebody's gotta enjoy it.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (yHsuS)

53 Hyperinflation AND a depression.

Obama really was right about Biden

Posted by: 18-1 at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (ESjRY)

54 Germany just released a video telling people to close their windows and doors tightly and make sure they are efficient with heating because it is going to be a cold winter. In just 2 years we've gone back 100 years in time. This is going to acellerate.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (Ivdso)

55 15.7% coffee

*********

I was ok with paying out my ass for gas until I saw this

FJB

Posted by: Mister Coffee Pot at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (VTu1l)

56 Worst. President. Ever.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (Zz0t1)

57 46 re 30: been saying that for weeks. oh well, time to stock up on rotting fruit.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 13, 2022 05:20 PM (kFrCu)

Maybe some of us can get jobs doing travel guides. Wait, no one will have gas. Walking tours?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (dNqv+)

58 I guess I will be getting chickens to roam the property next year. I will need to build a substantial coop because we have a few foxes and coyotes, along with a butt load of raccoons in our neighborhood.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (yQpMk)

59 >>>Shit, even inflation is sexist.

Posted by: mikeski at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (P1f+c)

Wrong! It's misogynistic. Stop inflationsplaning!

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (QYPq3)

60 53 Hyperinflation AND a depression.

Obama really was right about Biden
Posted by: 18-1 at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (ESjRY)

Except this is intentional.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (dNqv+)

61 Pro tip: rabbits are easy to raise, don't stink very much if you keep the pens cleared out, and are way quieter than chickens. Easier than chickens to raise by stealth if you live in an area where the zoning or the HOA forbids livestock.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (bW8dp)

62 Even Biden doesn't believe his own BS.

"It'll be just a slight recession" is the new "just the tip honey, I promise."

Posted by: WisRich at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (G0vdT)

63 We'll just have to cheat harder in the mid-terms.

Posted by: DNC at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (g4dyq)

64 Jimmy Carter can die happy.

James Earl Carter Jr., is no longer the worst US President in our history.
Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (Z32m1)
____________

"Hold my beer." - Kamala Sutra

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Semi-Fascist at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (YqDXo)

65 Look, fat.
*points at Fetterman's lump*

Posted by: Joey Fingerbang at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (v0R5T)

66 This is what happens when you allow an election to be stolen.

By an America hating idiot.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (lTGtQ)

67 Biden has always been a very stupid man. Now he is a very stupid man with dementia.
F.J.B.
Posted by: Cosda at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (W92Lr)


The stupidity is not the problem. Th dementia is not the problem. The fact that F. Joe Biden is President of the United States IS THE PROBLEM!

Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (Z32m1)

68 i don't really know how people like Jake Tapper can look in the mirror.

Posted by: maybe he's a vampire at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (IaE+e)

69 I wonder why the goal is to get it to stop exceeding analyst expectations, rather than just... stopping. I genuinely don't know and the article doesn't say.

Posted by: Ace

Because half the battle is eliminating the uncertainty of inflation. If we get a few quarters of consistent numbers that are predictable, then the markets and business will be more able to do long-term planning. And that is good for the economy.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (XIJ/X)

70 Shit, even inflation is sexist.

Posted by: mikeski at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (P1f+c)

I lolled at that, too.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (yHsuS)

71 58 I guess I will be getting chickens to roam the property next year. I will need to build a substantial coop because we have a few foxes and coyotes, along with a butt load of raccoons in our neighborhood.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (yQpMk)

If you catch and crucify a dozen or so, it might warn off the rest. Take the Roman approach. We're doing everything else they did.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (dNqv+)

72 61 Pro tip: rabbits are easy to raise, don't stink very much if you keep the pens cleared out, and are way quieter than chickens. Easier than chickens to raise by stealth if you live in an area where the zoning or the HOA forbids livestock.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (bW8dp)

How are the eggs?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (V6f9+)

73 and Brandon's lost the handle
the train it won't stop going
no way to slow down..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (yQpMk)

74 I am happy to not be in the game anymore. All your working stiffs have my sympathy.
___

You can keep your sympathy.

Posted by: SMH at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (6UfI+)

75
James Earl Carter Jr., is no longer the worst US President in our history.
Posted by: rd

We would have been satisfied if he had just beat Jimmy a little bit.
Brandon didn't have to do a 87 yard run, spike the ball, and do a 15 minute endzone dance.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (QSLiO)

76 Ebola. Ebiden. Catchy.

Posted by: Holy Crap at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (5LWKD)

77 Something massive...not a demented, pedophile, brain-damaged buffoon.
Posted by: jmel at October 13, 2022 05:18 PM (bVhJi)

^^How far we have fallen. **hangs head***

Posted by: Iris at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (NaH5I)

78 If there's such a thing as a punchable voice, then that would belong to Janet Yellen.

Posted by: Zek [engaging in mockery and not a terroristic threat] at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (fsV7e)

79 At the rate they are going, a Depression might be a best case scenario.

I dunno what comes after a Depression, after the last one it was WWII.

Posted by: Just Lily at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (VFRLW)

80 Afternoon.

Here's an amusing bit from HotGas.

David Strom: Nobody wishing the US Navy a happy birthday knows what a US Navy ship looks like

https://tinyurl.com/2p9c58y2

Posted by: Robert at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (DRjsn)

81 The scary thing is I think he really believes this. Despite mountains of evidence to the contrary Biden seems to think he's smart and doing a great job.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 13, 2022 05:20 PM (ZLI7S)
---
Joe has practiced apathy his entire career. He doesn't have to believe it. He just does not care at all whether what he says is true or not.

Conservatives have a hope of their words trying to represent reality. Words from Dems only seem to represent a perception they want to push for power. (Thus fulfilling Foucault, because they have lowered their ceilings due to Foucault's pessimism).

Posted by: Axeman at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (krQz2)

82 "Name a president in recent history that has gotten as much done as I have in the first two years. Not a joke."
________

I signed lots of bills worth a hunert trillion, trillion-billion, look, Putin's on the ropes, man! What more do you want!
- The Frail Dark Brandon

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (fs1hN)

83 Generally speaking the president gets unfair credit or blame for the economy, because if they are doing their job right and constitutionally, they have pretty limited impact on how the economy goes. So people get elected for great economies they had little to no impact on (see Clinton), or thrown out of office for a terrible economy they didn't cause (see Hoover).

But this time? President Biden is specifically and deliberately doing things that are extremely harmful to the economy in a really obvious way. I mean even Keynes is rolling over in his grave at what is being done here.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:24 PM (Ivdso)

84 54 Germany just released a video telling people to close their windows and doors tightly and make sure they are efficient with heating because it is going to be a cold winter. In just 2 years we've gone back 100 years in time. This is going to acellerate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (Ivdso)

You know what Germany needs? More windmills and solar panels, that's the ticket!

Posted by: Thrawn at October 13, 2022 05:24 PM (Rl7KJ)

85 > How are the eggs?

Small, and good if you like chocolate.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:24 PM (bW8dp)

86 In my book, Joe is in the running for the biggest fuck up in U.S. history.
Posted by: Archer at October 13, 2022 05:16 PM (gmo/4)



Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today I wish, he would just go away... When I came home last night at three The man was waiting there for me
But when I looked around the hall there wasn't anyone at all! Go away, go away, don't you sniff those kids no more!
Go away, go away, and please don't slam the door.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 13, 2022 05:24 PM (xhaym)

87 I am happy to not be in the game anymore. All your working stiffs have my sympathy.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:14 PM (yQpMk)


Most of my working life, my goal has been to put aside enough money to be able to retire just a bit early. Since I got married a while ago, the wife and I have invested almost 50% of our income.

We drive cars for 10+ years. We use electronics until they die. No expensive vacations.

We finally reached the goal I had set. She retired and I was set to do so in a few years. A few years before I was eligible to take social security (even the lowest version of it).

In the last 2 months I've watched 10% of my net worth go poof. Sometimes I feel like a stupid ass for trying to have something.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:24 PM (zhLdt)

88 At the rate they are going, a Depression might be a best case scenario.

Global civilizational collapse. As in, the next generation will know and have less than this one. They will be confused by how these big buildings were built.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:25 PM (Ivdso)

89 The stupidity is not the problem. Th dementia is not the problem. The fact that F. Joe Biden is President of the United States IS THE PROBLEM!
******
The people who voted for and stole the election for tht stupid f--k, Brandon, are also a problem.

Posted by: Cosda at October 13, 2022 05:25 PM (W92Lr)

90 In my book, Joe is in the running for the biggest fuck up in U.S. history.
Posted by: Archer at October 13, 2022 05:16 PM (gmo/4)
.........

C'mon man...81 million votes!

Posted by: wth at October 13, 2022 05:25 PM (v0R5T)

91 It is going to be a DEPRESSION. A man made, policy driven Depression.
Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (Z32m1)


Furthermore, it's going to be a worldwide depression. Guess how we'll finally get out of it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (zhLdt)

92 Germany just released a video telling people to close their windows and doors tightly and make sure they are efficient with heating because it is going to be a cold winter. In just 2 years we've gone back 100 years in time. This is going to acellerate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (Ivdso)


Lots of mostly old and some young people are going to die in Europe, literally Freezing in the Dark.

Africa and Asia are going to see famines and revolutions.

Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (Z32m1)

93 The late, great Jerry Pournelle used to say that a Dark Age wasn't when you stopped doing stuff, it was when you forgot how the stuff was ever done in the first place.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (bW8dp)

94 Biden/Harris 2024!

Posted by: James Earl Carter at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (XIJ/X)

95 "Hold my beer." - Kamala Sutra

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Semi-Fascist at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (YqDXo)

"I hereby appoint Stacey Abrams to be my vice president"

Posted by: Prez Kamala at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (g4dyq)

96 I'm old enough to remember that when Tr(i)ump's "drill baby drill" cause gas prices to decline, leftoid mouthpieces claimed that it was a sign of recession.

Posted by: Marooned at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (w6hJ9)

97 >>Germany just released a video telling people to close their windows and doors tightly and make sure they are efficient with heating because it is going to be a cold winter. In just 2 years we've gone back 100 years in time. This is going to acellerate.


Flooble-Box Technology is their only hope.

Posted by: garrett at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (dVZZ7)

98 you guys are all wet. What's going on is, according to Robert Reich, that American businesses suddenly got greedy and mean. Sure, it's at the same time they're going DIE ESG and woke and anti-white and proghey everything but they're still evil and greedy. now.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (OuH7W)

99 Pro tip: rabbits are easy to raise, don't stink very much if you keep the pens cleared out, and are way quieter than chickens.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia


* waves *

Posted by: rabbit starvation at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (P1f+c)

100 52 And thanks for the 8.7% SS COLA.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:14 PM (yQpMk)

Way better wage increase than what most middle class workers are getting...and their healthcare is going up, not done.

Families are getting killed this year...not literally yet, but it's only been 21 months of Joe...

Posted by: Nova local at October 13, 2022 05:27 PM (exHjb)

101 Because half the battle is eliminating the uncertainty of inflation. If we get a few quarters of consistent numbers that are predictable, then the markets and business will be more able to do long-term planning. And that is good for the economy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (XIJ/X)
_____________

Exactly. Also wringing out inflationary expectations holds down wages and prices that would rise in anticipation of advancing inflation.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Semi-Fascist at October 13, 2022 05:27 PM (YqDXo)

102 I want a goat, because goats are cool. Sadly, though, we're not quite close enough to the burning times just yet for this semi-rural but 'civilized' neighborhood to be okay with me having a goat.

Posted by: CppThis at October 13, 2022 05:27 PM (UewuT)

103 Furthermore, it's going to be a worldwide depression. Guess how we'll finally get out of it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (zhLdt)



Barron Trump inherits the Iron Throne?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:27 PM (yQpMk)

104
And thanks for the 8.7% SS COLA.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:14 PM


While actual productive people were lucky to get half that? Oh wait, I'm forgetting the massive rent increases in cities that forced landlords to not collect rent. Yeah, no down-the-road issue there.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 13, 2022 05:27 PM (y3pKJ)

105 At the rate they are going, a Depression might be a best case scenario.

Global civilizational collapse. As in, the next generation will know and have less than this one. They will be confused by how these big buildings were built.
==
Fallout 3.

Posted by: its like a dry run at October 13, 2022 05:27 PM (o0S+F)

106 >>Africa and Asia are going to see famines and revolutions.


In our Spring, yeah...gonna be a good time to be a Fly in Somalia.

Posted by: garrett at October 13, 2022 05:27 PM (dVZZ7)

107 it is interesting though because with a democrat president the bad news is fully concealed and hidden and their lies are fully broadcast by the merged corporate/police state mix...

It makes me wonder when the actually called the great depression the great depression.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 13, 2022 05:27 PM (OuH7W)

108 But stagflation is a completely different word from recession!

Posted by: blaster at October 13, 2022 05:27 PM (pwExq)

109 At the rate they are going, a Depression might be a best case scenario.

I dunno what comes after a Depression, after the last one it was WWII.
Posted by: Just Lily at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (VFRLW)
***

Could make a good case for an accelerated balkanization of America.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 13, 2022 05:27 PM (anj39)

110 So Alec "bullets" Baldwin has settled out of court with the family of the woman he murdered on the set of Rust. No word, months later, if he's ever going to actually be charged with anything. The police spokesman said "We're just hoping that if we delay long enough everyone will forget about it and we can just let it drop."

OK I made up that last bit. If ACE can do it, so can I.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:28 PM (Ivdso)

111 I wouldn't worry about the global economic collapse, the race riots will get you all first

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 13, 2022 05:28 PM (OuH7W)

112 you guys are all wet. What's going on is, according to Robert Reich, that American businesses suddenly got greedy and mean.
_____________

So they're coming up short?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Semi-Fascist at October 13, 2022 05:28 PM (YqDXo)

113 Hundreds of thousands are going to die this winter, as a direct result of government malfeasance. I should hope several governments are overturned.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 13, 2022 05:28 PM (lTGtQ)

114 Way better wage increase than what most middle class workers are getting...and their healthcare is going up, not done.

Posted by: Nova local at October 13, 2022 05:27 PM (exHjb)


^ this

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 13, 2022 05:28 PM (DRSnL)

115 As has been noted, nothing is really going to change until January 21st 2025, so let's pray we still have a country worth fighting over by then.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 13, 2022 05:28 PM (up/3i)

116 > * waves *
Posted by: rabbit starvation

Well, no one said that was the ONLY thing you should eat.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:28 PM (bW8dp)

117 You're all just upset with Biden because of his stutter. Just admit it.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at October 13, 2022 05:28 PM (aXxgO)

118 I want a goat, because goats are cool. Sadly, though, we're not quite close enough to the burning times just yet for this semi-rural but 'civilized' neighborhood to be okay with me having a goat.
==
went to a spanish restaurant last night. They had roasted goat on the menu.

Posted by: I was like hmmm. Maybe next time at October 13, 2022 05:28 PM (o0S+F)

119 93 The late, great Jerry Pournelle used to say that a Dark Age wasn't when you stopped doing stuff, it was when you forgot how the stuff was ever done in the first place.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (bW8dp)


Jerry Pournelle was a silly man. Everyone knows that food magically spawns at the store!

Posted by: Millennials at October 13, 2022 05:28 PM (UewuT)

120 And he ain't done yet!

Posted by: Ben Had at October 13, 2022 05:29 PM (oye+h)

121 > While actual productive people were lucky to get half that?

People getting the SS increase were "actual productive people" for their entire lives.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:29 PM (bW8dp)

122 Harsh to say but the pain must increase before the majority of the population revolts.

We're not even close yet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at October 13, 2022 05:29 PM (BFigT)

123 The last three years I worked I averaged 2% wage increases each year.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:29 PM (yQpMk)

124 ace just wants to date Biden!

Posted by: blaster at October 13, 2022 05:29 PM (pwExq)

125 I want a goat, because goats are cool.

Goats are great. Plus a nanny can give you enough milk for a family every day. I don't like the taste of goat milk, but its there. One or two hens will give you plenty of eggs, too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:29 PM (Ivdso)

126 93 The late, great Jerry Pournelle used to say that a Dark Age wasn't when you stopped doing stuff, it was when you forgot how the stuff was ever done in the first place.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (bW8dp)
______________

Those Greek homos steal everything!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Semi-Fascist at October 13, 2022 05:30 PM (YqDXo)

127 110 So Alec "bullets" Baldwin has settled out of court with the family of the woman he murdered on the set of Rust. No word, months later, if he's ever going to actually be charged with anything. The police spokesman said "We're just hoping that if we delay long enough everyone will forget about it and we can just let it drop."

OK I made up that last bit. If ACE can do it, so can I.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:28 PM (Ivdso)

It is the typical celebrity rich person play - Kobe did it, too...although he had to pay off his victim and wife at the time...

Posted by: Nova local at October 13, 2022 05:30 PM (exHjb)

128 We had goats on our farm. Be careful what you wish for.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 13, 2022 05:30 PM (ZLI7S)

129 Germany just released a video telling people to close their windows and doors tightly and make sure they are efficient with heating because it is going to be a cold winter. In just 2 years we've gone back 100 years in time. This is going to acellerate.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:21 PM (Ivdso)


Will Europe learn from this? Will they finally grow up and stop pretending that the world will work the way they want if only they're irrational enough?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:31 PM (zhLdt)

130 Explain to me why red states need Fed permission to extract oil and gas?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 13, 2022 05:31 PM (2xlV3)

131 Global civilizational collapse. As in, the next generation will know and have less than this one. They will be confused by how these big buildings were built.
==
Fallout 3.
==
So if you are going to have to live Fallout 3, what's your starter gun? Rifle, shotty? Close quarter weapon?

Posted by: matching tomahawks at October 13, 2022 05:31 PM (b5Dsh)

132 {i]We had goats on our farm. Be careful what you wish for.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 13, 2022 05:30 PM (ZLI7S)

But the kids are so cute.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 13, 2022 05:32 PM (AiZBA)

133 Hundreds of thousands are going to die this winter, as a direct result of government malfeasance. I should hope several governments are overturned.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 13, 2022 05:28 PM (lTGtQ)


With prejudice.
The difference between today and the Carter years is social media. Rumors, BS, and half-truths will fly faster than hypersonic missiles. Rent-a-mobs will make a Nicolae Ceaușescu event easy.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 13, 2022 05:32 PM (anj39)

134 Will Europe learn from this? Will they finally grow up and stop pretending that the world will work the way they want if only they're irrational enough?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:31 PM (zhLdt)
____________

We reject your reality, and substitute our own!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Semi-Fascist at October 13, 2022 05:32 PM (YqDXo)

135 "We didn’t understand that it's a fairly low fatality rate and that it's a disease mainly in the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that."
--Bill Gates on the Wuhan Flu, now

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:32 PM (Ivdso)

136 > Explain to me why red states need Fed permission to extract oil and gas?

They shouldn't.

I'm looking forward to a Supreme Court case that bitchslaps the mockery lefties have made out of the Commerce Clause.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:32 PM (bW8dp)

137 People getting the SS increase were "actual productive people" for their entire lives.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:29 PM (bW8dp)


I don't think that's necessarily true anymore.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 13, 2022 05:32 PM (DRSnL)

138 All the markets were up over 2% today for some reason.

Posted by: Mark1971 at October 13, 2022 05:32 PM (xPl2J)

139 It is going to be a DEPRESSION. A man made, policy driven Depression.
Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (Z32m1)


Recessions are caused by the collapse of business cycles.
Business cycles are caused by the central banks making credit and cash more available in the economy than would otherwise be available if borrowers only had to work with the money already present and circulating. The extra money causes malinvestment because the easy money hides the actual needs and wants of the market economy. The collapse comes when the money supply is no longer expanding fast enough to sustain the boom or when the multiple malinvestments poison the entire system and prevent needed activity from happening (everyone is buying beanie babies instead of raising pigs for bacon, say)

Depressions happen when the government and its central bank intervene to prevent a recession and keep at it because they think by one quick trick, once they hit on it, they can change reality and make everyone wealthy again.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (xhaym)

140 Goats are great. Plus a nanny can give you enough milk for a family every day. I don't like the taste of goat milk, but its there. 

..

Bull milk is pretty good.

Posted by: It's me, Pete at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (NqPPj)

141 It is going to be a DEPRESSION. A man made, policy driven Depression.
Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (Z32m1)

Furthermore, it's going to be a worldwide depression. Guess how we'll finally get out of it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland


The Wise Leaders of the World Economic Forum will step out of the shadows to lead the Peoples of the World to a New Brighter Tomorrow under the Forceful, but Enlightened Leadership of the WEF.

Some self destructive liberties and freedoms will have to be curtailed, but that is necessary for good governance of all the people on this planet by the selected leaders of the WEF.

Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (Z32m1)

142 Chickens are amazingly task specific in their varieties. Girl928 has layers and meat chickens. The layer crap an egg nearly every day of their adult lives with no rooster present. While the meat chickens grow so fast that they are the size of the layers in 3 months and literally outgrow their feather coverage.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (yQpMk)

143
Goats are great. Plus a nanny can give you enough milk for a family every day. I don't like the taste of goat milk, but its there. One or two hens will give you plenty of eggs, too.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:29 PM (Ivdso)

Nanny goats tend to have twins or triplets, which ensures both the milk production, and two to three sources of meat. Unless you have to raise a rejected baby goat in the house, which makes it a little harder to make cabrito.

Posted by: Moki at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (JrN/x)

144 Cool Brooks just went full SovCit...

tried breaking out "Wisconsin cannot as an entity do x"

awesome, this is lit.

Posted by: sven at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (Lzpvj)

145 And thanks for the 8.7% SS COLA.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:14 PM

While actual productive people were lucky to get half that? Oh wait, I'm forgetting the massive rent increases in cities that forced landlords to not collect rent. Yeah, no down-the-road issue there.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 13, 2022 05:27 PM


Remember nearly 95% of Social Security recipients vote.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (bVYXr)

146 "We didn’t understand that it's a fairly low fatality rate and that it's a disease mainly in the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that."
--Bill Gates on the Wuhan Flu, now
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:32 PM (Ivdso)


Heh heh. "We" That's funny.

Posted by: Wally at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (FJYfm)

147 No good reason for todays ZooM in the markets ... except "children playing in the street" maybe. (stolen line) Or perhaps short covering ... a couple big down days (on the rumor), so sell the news?

From a chart perspective the down trend is fully intact, and we were due for a little bounce for a week or so.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (Cus5s)

148 Goats are great. Plus a nanny can give you enough milk for a family every day. I don't like the taste of goat milk, but its there.

..

Bull milk is pretty good.
Posted by: It's me, Pete at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (NqPPj)



It's a bit ... err .. thick.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (yQpMk)

149 Goats are great. Plus a nanny can give you enough milk for a family every day. I don't like the taste of goat milk, but its there. One or two hens will give you plenty of eggs, too.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


Meat goats 🐐. Not dairy goats. I have two meat goat farms down the road. Free lawnmowing and at the end of the season? Cabrito.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2022 05:34 PM (JNT5L)

150 "but the vast majority of the American people like what I've gotten done."

Well, that would certainly explain why his approval rating remains stuck in the 30s. You know, majority and all that.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at October 13, 2022 05:34 PM (TU8Tj)

151 Airline fares top the list.

Who got the most government slush money in the pre-war days for COVID.

Airlines.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 05:34 PM (eoQWY)

152 Explain to me why red states need Fed permission to extract oil and gas?

https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/Federal_lands

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:34 PM (Ivdso)

153 Look how Tapper looks away when raisong the slightest criticism, like it hurts or he fears disappointing fjb, but then looks him in the eye as he softens the blow with a compliment.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at October 13, 2022 05:34 PM (amhYy)

154 Explain to me why red states need Fed permission to extract oil and gas?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 13, 2022 05:31 PM


Because we say they can't......

Posted by: Environmental Protection Agency at October 13, 2022 05:34 PM (bVYXr)

155 This whole man-made stagflation/energy issue is a depopulation move writ large.

Who gets killed the most in this - working class families.

They have 1 income to pay for more than 1 person...in fact, they normally have at least 3, and possibly 6-7-8 people they pay for with one income.

And they get no pay increases, at least not ones that come close to even the stated inflation rate.

So, what do they do? They do not much, but get less healthy and probably die early from the stress (so they never get SS/Medicare). But they do stop having any more kids, and their current kids learn the lesson to NOT have kids, and thus you reduce the "surplus population" in a very rapid way...

Posted by: Nova local at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (exHjb)

156 Some self destructive liberties and freedoms will have to be curtailed, but that is necessary for good governance of all the people on this planet by the selected leaders of the WEF.
Posted by: rd
===
Congratulations citizen. Your social credit score is improved allowing you one extra ounce of government cheese per week. Keep up the good work!

Posted by: Klaus Schwab at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (b5Dsh)

157 Lots of mostly old and some young people are going to die in Europe, literally Freezing in the Dark.

Africa and Asia are going to see famines and revolutions.
Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:26 PM (Z32m1)


Define "irony": the establishment's actions to get rid of Trump and restore the old order, bring about the very chaos and destruction that sweeps away all the old institutions.

Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (wmDcS)

158 'People getting the SS increase were "actual productive people" for their entire lives.'

If there were no SS, I'd still be productive. But since I can live off SS, don't feel much like working. Guilt-ridden and lazy, mea culpa. Thanks FDR for making it possible.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (24fqN)

159 Chris Antsey, Bloomberg senior editor: "For Democrats, this is a disaster. Today's is the final CPI report ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm election..."

Look, Hack Dunce. This inflation is bad for EVERYONE. We get the hard-on youse guys have for the DNC, and protecting it is your modus operandi, but this remains a punishing universal tax particularly on the meat and potatoes people in middle America who bear the brunt of horrible policies.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (aXxgO)

160 >>>6 Tomorrow should have some fireworks, if the BoE sticks to their guns.

Can you fill me in, what is this?

Posted by: ace at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (C1Zwz)

161 I'll drop this sock here

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (AiZBA)

162 He is about to be removed again, and the judge is about to sanction him....

"Prove that it is fribilous!"

Posted by: sven at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (Lzpvj)

163 Will Europe learn from this? Will they finally grow up and stop pretending that the world will work the way they want if only they're irrational enough?
________________

So the climate 'emergency' is finally coming. Ironic that everything that the Euro's did to forestall it, actually were the things that caused it. I don't expect the average Euro citizen/subject to understand this, instead they will double down on 'green' policies.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (fs1hN)

164 They are right, it's not a recession- It's a fucking pre-depression.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (oye+h)

165 "but the vast majority of the American people like what I've gotten done."

he said that?

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (OuH7W)

166
People getting the SS increase were "actual productive people" for their entire lives.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:29 PM


I know, as an employer I paid my share and then matched every penny of every one of my employees SS and Medicare 'contributions'. But as a SS recipient I'm embarrassed by that number when I think the COL that actual employees *may* receive.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (y3pKJ)

167 I mean he should be death penalties so I guess at this point this is his version of going to the theater....

wow a contempt charge probably.

Posted by: sven at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (Lzpvj)

168 Genius!

The Post Millennial@TPostMillennial
Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell Brooks is asking for his case to be dismissed because the victims are not present in court.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Smarter Than Lumpy Fetterman! at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (FVME7)

169 142 Chickens are amazingly task specific in their varieties. Girl928 has layers and meat chickens. The layer crap an egg nearly every day of their adult lives with no rooster present. While the meat chickens grow so fast that they are the size of the layers in 3 months and literally outgrow their feather coverage.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (yQpMk)


Do you happen to know what breeds of chickens she has? The place we are thinking of moving to allows 4 hens 1500 square feet of back yard space.

Posted by: Moki at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (JrN/x)

170 at 17.2% chicken we're paying a lot more for all the birds he's fucked so far.

Do we count the couch in
10.1% furniture
or
3.7% men apparel


Posted by: DaveA at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (FhXTo)

171 So, what do they do? They do not much, but get less healthy and probably die early from the stress (so they never get SS/Medicare). But they do stop having any more kids, and their current kids learn the lesson to NOT have kids, and thus you reduce the "surplus population" in a very rapid way...

Posted by: Nova local at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (exHjb)

WEF: "It's easier to have a Great Reset if we only have to 'peacefully lord' over 500,000,000 people than over 8 billion."

Posted by: Thrawn at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (Rl7KJ)

172 People getting the SS increase were "actual productive people" for their entire lives.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:29 PM (bW8dp)

I don't think that's necessarily true anymore.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 13, 2022 05:32 PM


It is true for every person that I know drawing social security.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (bVYXr)

173 It is going to be a DEPRESSION. A man made, policy driven Depression.
Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (Z32m1)

Furthermore, it's going to be a worldwide depression. Guess how we'll finally get out of it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland
***

When the Hollywood elites and others billionaires all head for their reclusive homes in New Zealand, the time is near.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (anj39)

174 > I don't think that's necessarily true anymore.

Yeah, it is. No work credits, no SS.

There are other programs, like SSDI and SSI that are often confused with SS, but they're actually completely separate (they do use the SS Administration's IT infrastructure and such, but the programs are not the same).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:37 PM (bW8dp)

175 he said that?

Yeah I am torn between "he's so bubbled and stupid he believes this is true" and "he lies so much just crap pours out of his mouth he knows is false but doesn't care".

Maybe both.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:37 PM (Ivdso)

176 Neighbors sell eggs. They are good and I don't mind when they jump over the fence. The chickens.

Glad I locked in my mortg. with the CU at 2.9% last year.

Posted by: Infidel at October 13, 2022 05:37 PM (Ur3ox)

177 Define "irony": the establishment's actions to get rid of Trump and restore the old order, bring about the very chaos and destruction that sweeps away all the old institutions.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (wmDcS)


This too is the definition of history.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at October 13, 2022 05:37 PM (AiZBA)

178 Bloomberg senior editor: "For Democrats, this is a disaster. Today's is the final CPI report ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm election..."
==
Numbnuts. This is a disaster for people who buy food, gas, clothing.

When you are a business reporter and you think the economic news is primarily POLITICAL you suck at your job.

Posted by: Klaus Schwab at October 13, 2022 05:38 PM (VIZUy)

179 3.7% men apparel


So better get those tighty-whiteys now eh?
Or go commando.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 13, 2022 05:38 PM (anj39)

180 How are the eggs?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at October 13, 2022 05:23 PM (V6f9+)

Pretty good every Easter!

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 05:38 PM (eoQWY)

181 Gas is back up to $4 here in se Pa

Posted by: Skip at October 13, 2022 05:38 PM (xhxe8)

182 168 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Smarter Than Lumpy Fetterman! at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (FVME7)

Yup

He started yelling about the case not being real, and the Fox feed muted him...

hilarious...this is the funniest thing since Darth brandon declaring there is no recession.

Posted by: sven at October 13, 2022 05:38 PM (Lzpvj)

183 When the Hollywood elites and others billionaires all head for their reclusive homes in New Zealand, the time is near.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (anj39)
______________

Then we nuke New Zealand. Problem solved.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Semi-Fascist at October 13, 2022 05:39 PM (YqDXo)

184 There is a bit of a house buying surge right now as people are trying to lock in mortgage rates before they go up even more. That might be tweaking economic numbers some.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:39 PM (Ivdso)

185 Recession and depression happen when the president and his government shut down productive industries such as the energy industry. This leads to the slow down one shut down of the rest of the economy. Quite simple really that even a mentally challenged kid like Greta Thundberg can understand it. She gave Germans approval to continue to use their nuclear power stations.

Why it is up to Greta Thundberg to approve is a sign of total degeneracy in Europe. I don't think Europe can be saved.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at October 13, 2022 05:39 PM (3JfbU)

186 "but the vast majority of the American people like what I've gotten done."

-
Everywhere he goes, all he hears is, "Let's go Brandon!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Smarter Than Lumpy Fetterman! at October 13, 2022 05:39 PM (FVME7)

187 Looks like Brandon's economy will pull the life support from the small businesses that barely survived the lockdown.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 13, 2022 05:39 PM (5pTK/)

188 "he said that?"

He doesn't know what he's saying, and if he did, he wouldn't care anyway. It all pays the same.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at October 13, 2022 05:39 PM (24fqN)

189 In fairness, Dimon has had enough with esg

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 05:39 PM (PUXju)

190 Lenin: "We will grind the bourgeoisie between the twin stones of inflation and taxation."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Semi-Fascist at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (YqDXo)

Stalin ended up doing the grinding, you damn monster.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 05:39 PM (eoQWY)

191 156 Some self destructive liberties and freedoms will have to be curtailed, but that is necessary for good governance of all the people on this planet by the selected leaders of the WEF.
Posted by: rd


A lot of self destructive leaders of the WEF will have to be curtailed.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2022 05:40 PM (JNT5L)

192 Explain to me why red states need Fed permission to extract oil and gas?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 13, 2022 05:31 PM (2xlV3)


Because the Feds have a monopoly on the use of force.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 13, 2022 05:40 PM (xhaym)

193 We're getting some home repair work done, its a very old house. Prices are, um, damn things have gone up a lot in the last few years for just basic stuff like plumbing and electrical.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:40 PM (Ivdso)

194 42 7.6% women apparel
3.7% men apparel
Posted by: Ace

Shit, even inflation is sexist.
Posted by: mikeski at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM

But more importantly, it's racist, too!
17.2% chicken
15.2% milk

Posted by: Racial Grievance Industry at October 13, 2022 05:40 PM (muFmq)

195 Meanwhile, megabucks corps will get even larger and more voracious.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 13, 2022 05:40 PM (5pTK/)

196 There are other programs, like SSDI and SSI that are often confused with SS, but they're actually completely separate (they do use the SS Administration's IT infrastructure and such, but the programs are not the same).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 05:37 PM (bW8dp)

But they get the same 8.7% and fall under the SS banner, right?

Posted by: Nova local at October 13, 2022 05:40 PM (exHjb)

197 Stagflation, not staflation

Posted by: Bill R. at October 13, 2022 05:40 PM (wzzJf)

198 I wonder why the goal is to get it to stop exceeding analyst expectations, rather than just... stopping. I genuinely don't know and the article doesn't say.
Posted by: Ace
Because half the battle is eliminating the uncertainty of inflation. If we get a few quarters of consistent numbers that are predictable, then the markets and business will be more able to do long-term planning. And that is good for the economy.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 13, 2022 05:22 PM (XIJ/X)


For that to happen, the "experts" would have to stop wish casting the economic news and bending it to try and favor the Democrats.

My guess is after the election we'll begin to see that.

And, if the Reps take both the House and Senate with a strong majority, then we'll see a mini-boom in the market.

That is assuming that the Turtle actually gives a fuck about America and does what needs to be done. We could actually see some relief from inflation. The over/under on this part isn't good. Cuz the Turtle licks the feet of his Chinese Masters.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 13, 2022 05:40 PM (KLPy8)

199 "We didn’t understand that it's a fairly low fatality rate and that it's a disease mainly in the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that."
--Bill Gates on the Wuhan Flu, now
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:32 PM (Ivdso)


And we didn't understand that despite being the smartest people in the history of people and the fact that there was a cruise ship, literally the greatest experiment which could exist, which showed that it was basically the flu. We didn't understand that because it was so very, very important for you to get the jab. And that was important because, well, frankly there are too many of you. -- Oberführer Bill Gates

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:41 PM (zhLdt)

200 Millennials: "Jerry Pournelle was a silly man. Everyone knows that food magically spawns at the store!"

Exactly.

Posted by: Eloi at October 13, 2022 05:41 PM (aXxgO)

201 We're not up to Carter-level suffering yet, at least not here in the Rust Belt (20+% unemployment in 1980.) But I have faith that we can get there.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at October 13, 2022 05:41 PM (24fqN)

202 Democrats' plan, if the GOP takes one or both houses in the midterms (as expected), is to blame any bad economic news from then until the 2024 election on the Republicans. That's why they're trying to keep a lid on things (like gas prices and a recession) until the midterms. "See how much worse things got after the Republicans took the House/Senate?"

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at October 13, 2022 05:41 PM (1gif2)

203 Explain to me why red states need Fed permission to extract oil and gas?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 13, 2022 05:31

In fairness, it is fed land so

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 05:41 PM (PUXju)

204 "The recession is not happening, and it's good that it is!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 13, 2022 05:41 PM (8Skhk)

205 179 3.7% men apparel


So better get those tighty-whiteys now eh?
Or go commando.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 13, 2022 05:38 PM (anj39)

Men almost always pick food over clothes...women, not quite as often...thus, the differing price increases on clothes...

Posted by: Nova local at October 13, 2022 05:42 PM (exHjb)

206 >>>Can you fill me in, what is this?

Posted by: ace at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (C1Zwz)

Bank of England has been propping up their gilts because the pensions funds were getting margin calls. Their pension system was about to collapse (more than once in the last couple weeks). BoE says they are ending that program starting tomorrow.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at October 13, 2022 05:42 PM (QYPq3)

207 Then we nuke New Zealand. Problem solved.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Semi-Fascist at October 13, 2022 05:39 PM (YqDXo)


So...news letter?

Posted by: Diogenes at October 13, 2022 05:42 PM (anj39)

208 We're not up to Carter-level suffering yet, at least not here in the Rust Belt (20+% unemployment in 1980.) But I have faith that we can get there.
Posted by: F

In fairness, that is because everybody moved out

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 05:42 PM (PUXju)

209 199 Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:41 PM (zhLdt)

Now eat your bugs...

//William Gates Nutritionist, Doctor, and Sexual Counselor

Posted by: sven at October 13, 2022 05:42 PM (Lzpvj)

210 Boomers will be the last gen to receive SS.

Just the way it is.

Posted by: SMH at October 13, 2022 05:42 PM (6UfI+)

211 Because we say they can't......
Posted by: Environmental Protection Agency

Fuck. You.
How many divisions do you have? If a state wants to drill and you say nope! How are you going to enforce that? A strongly worded letter? Fines? Any decent governor would laugh as he threw your letter in the trash and say fuck your fines, we aren't paying. Then what? Sue the state? so? Again, fuck you!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (Wy1BU)

212 Bank of England has been propping up their gilts
........

Is that like girding their loins?

Posted by: wth at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (v0R5T)

213 >Hundreds of thousands are going to die this winter, as a direct result of government malfeasance.

are we talking the shot here or lack of heat?

Posted by: Fool Otto at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (DB16e)

214 Biden: "Name a president in recent history that has gotten as much done as I have in the first two years.

So true, draconian crackdowns, jailed innocent people, abrogation of our Constitutional rights, elimination of jobs, companies bankrupt, golden economy wrecked.

Yes, Joey, you've accomplished more than any other consecutive two year presidency.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (NlLwm)

215 >>Democrats' plan, if the GOP takes one or both houses in the midterms (as expected), is to blame any bad economic news from then until the 2024 election on the Republicans.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

People might be dumb but they aren't stupid. They can see what's going on right now and who is in charge. They're pretty good and lying and spin but even they aren't that good.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (ZLI7S)

216 Lying incompetent senile white house resident can now add "delusional" to his descriptors.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (5pTK/)

217 When I bought my house in 2000, mortg rates were like 8%.

couple years later down in the fives

eventually down in the 3s.


Weird now that I think about it. Seems manufactured.

Posted by: I'm no economist but why? at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (Vtzw8)

218 You meant to write "staGflation" there near the beginning, Ace

Posted by: Grammar Naaazi at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (FPuSC)

219 Explain to me why red states need Fed permission to extract oil and gas?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 13, 2022 05:31

In fairness, it is fed land so
Posted by: Y5
___

So how much of Texas is owned by the feds?

Posted by: SMH at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (6UfI+)

220 Right the key to a better America is allowing Trigglypuff, Garner and everyone to be the hall monitors.
Posted by: sven at October 13, 2022 05:19 PM (Lzpvj)

----

Thats right. Force people to be responsible for their own security instead of pretending that you provide protection.

Posted by: Derek Chauvin's Prison Romance at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (w8LS5)

221 The problem is that there's a lag between policy and economic reaction. Stuff the left is ramming through right now is going to be felt months from now. It takes a couple quarters for whatever momentum has been built up to be affected, negatively at least. Increasing costs on businesses, reducing efficiency of distribution and transportation, reducing the value of the dollar, etc. That takes a while to hit.

So even if by some miracle that economically sane people take over congress and turn around policy, ramming it past Biden's veto pen, we won't really see things turn around for a while.

Having someone super business friendly take office over a caustic destructive force like Obama had an immediate effect for Trump but still took months to really turn around the economic numbers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (Ivdso)

222 In fairness, when we get rid of pensions and ss everybody is going to be better off

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (PUXju)

223 Merle's "If We Make it Through December" was a solid, well-though out plan compared to the idiots running the show now

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (Zf0+a)

224 >> Can you fill me in, what is this?

He's probably talking about this:

https://tinyurl.com/2p5ny7b6

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (Mzdiz)

225 Then we nuke New Zealand. Problem solved.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara - Semi-Fascist at October 13, 2022

"Nuke Zealand"

Posted by: Beto Ochoa at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (dzZCL)

226 Remember nearly 95% of Social Security recipients vote.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 05:33 PM (bVYXr)

More like 106%, but who's counting!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (XIJ/X)

227 Expectedly is the new unexpectedly.

when you lest expect it, expect it.

Posted by: arnold horshack at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (oY6Yp)

228 Boomers will be the last gen to receive SS.

Just the way it is.
Posted by: SMH at October 13, 2022 05:42 PM (6UfI+)

I never once, even as a kid expected to see a dime of SS.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (eoQWY)

229 I would like a meat goat.

Posted by: Sandra Flook at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (Xrfse)

230 Define "irony": the establishment's actions to get rid of Trump and restore the old order, bring about the very chaos and destruction that sweeps away all the old institutions.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at October 13, 2022 05:35 PM (wmDcS)


You cannot "sweep away all the old institutions". You'd need jets and nuclear weapons. -- some old guy.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (zhLdt)

231 Stagflation, not staflation
Posted by: Bill R. at October 13, 2022 05:40
-------
To be fair, the g key is right next to the f key.

Posted by: olddog in mo at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (ju2Fy)

232 Biden: "Name a president in recent history that has gotten as much done as I have in the first two years.
==
Leading the league in swat raids on right to lifer's . . .

Posted by: its the joker is president at October 13, 2022 05:45 PM (Vtzw8)

233 "When I bought my house in 2000, mortg rates were like 8%."

In 1987, mine was 18%. I paid it off quickly.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at October 13, 2022 05:45 PM (24fqN)

234 We're not up to Carter-level suffering yet, at least not here in the Rust Belt (20+% unemployment in 1980.) But I have faith that we can get there.
Posted by: F


When the first gas rationing starts, the shit will get ugly. This generation doesn't not have the tolerance we did in the 70's. And our generation won't put up with it again.
Buy ammo.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 13, 2022 05:45 PM (anj39)

235 There won't be a recession and if there is one it will be transitory.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 13, 2022 05:45 PM (63Dwl)

236 I never once, even as a kid expected to see a dime of SS.
Posted by: Oldcat
___

Neither did I.

Posted by: SMH at October 13, 2022 05:45 PM (6UfI+)

237 Genius!

The Post Millennial@TPostMillennial
Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell Brooks is asking for his case to be dismissed because the victims are not present in court.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Smarter Than Lumpy Fetterman! at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (FVME7)


Except for the fact that I want to see him staked out on a road for the families of the victims to run over?

This could be humorous, in a pathetic, dark, twisted way.

Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:45 PM (Z32m1)

238 Do you happen to know what breeds of chickens she has? The place we are thinking of moving to allows 4 hens 1500 square feet of back yard space.
Posted by: Moki


The last city that I lived in, had a rule for bidding farm animals in the city limits. That lasted until a lot of Hispanics moved in. You could hear chickens and roosters all up and down the block. The city was too afraid to go after them because it would appear like they were picking on minorities.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2022 05:45 PM (JNT5L)

239 Because the Feds have a monopoly on the use of force.
______________

Well, we just commandeered this here land for the great state of Idaho, per uh, eminent domain. We got a lot of uses planned for this here dirt, and you and your queer ass and your tough guy fed pansies gonna hafta move along, or my boys will make you move along. Don't start none, won't be none. *spits tobacco juice at foot of BLM officer*
- Idaho National Guard Commander

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 13, 2022 05:45 PM (fs1hN)

240 "Look here, Jack! If Republicans win in November, inflation is going up!"

Posted by: Joe Biden, Noted Economist at October 13, 2022 05:46 PM (FPuSC)

241 198 For that to happen, the "experts" would have to stop wish casting the economic news and bending it to try and favor the Democrats.

My guess is after the election we'll begin to see that.

And, if the Reps take both the House and Senate with a strong majority, then we'll see a mini-boom in the market.

That is assuming that the Turtle actually gives a fuck about America and does what needs to be done. We could actually see some relief from inflation. The over/under on this part isn't good. Cuz the Turtle licks the feet of his Chinese Masters.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 13, 2022 05:40 PM (KLPy

What the hell can the Republicans do even if they capture both the House and the Senate? They can hold hearings (which will be twisted by the media to make the GOP look crazy no matter what they say) They can't pass legislation unless Biden signs it (which he won't do if it's a GOP-led bill). About the best thing they can do is block more bad laws from passing. But the damage on that front is already done.

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at October 13, 2022 05:46 PM (1gif2)

242 "We" That's funny.

Maybe he has a spider in his pocket.

This dude is acting like he's a policy control guy, part of the CDC or something

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:46 PM (Ivdso)

243 More like 106%, but who's counting!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (XIJ/X)


Ahem....

Posted by: Dominion Ballot Counters at October 13, 2022 05:46 PM (anj39)

244 They are right, it's not a recession- It's a fucking pre-depression.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (oye+h)


If we get in early enough can we get one of the better depressions, or is everyone stuck with the crappy dented ones?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:46 PM (zhLdt)

245 But the price of Cockroaches as food is down by 5% compared to last year. So that is good news and we are on the way to recovery by 2035. So, sit down and STFU up or Harris will cackle you to death !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at October 13, 2022 05:46 PM (X++p7)

246 These dumb ass Wall St. economists are surprised inflation hasn't gone down?
We still have negative real interest rates, and until that changes, inflation stays up.

Posted by: clutch at October 13, 2022 05:46 PM (9UmRs)

247
The BoE had to do a little mini-QE again, after the gilts shit the bed. This was bad for pension funds.

The reason the gilts shit the bed was the last budget proposals. "Unfunded tax cuts" by the Truss govt. The bond market didn't like that budget.

The BoE is sort of playing chicken with the govt. about that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (Mzdiz)

248 About the best thing they can do is block more bad laws from passing. But the damage on that front is already done.
Posted by: Rusty Trawler at October 13, 2022 05:46 PM (1gif2)

If the Dems win the Congress for 2 more years, you ain't seen nothin yet...

Posted by: Nova local at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (exHjb)

249 Stagflation, not staflation
Posted by: Bill R. at October 13, 2022 05:40
-------
To be fair, the g key is right next to the f key.
Posted by: olddog in mo at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (ju2Fy)


Stafflation is what happens in healthy parasitic bureaucracies.

Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (Z32m1)

250 There is a bit of a house buying surge right now as people are trying to lock in mortgage rates before they go up even more. That might be tweaking economic numbers some.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:39 PM


The red hot housing market here in my rural NE Texas area has pretty much collapsed. Six months ago if you listed a house there was a cash bidding war on it and it was sold within a few days of listing. Our neighbors bought an older house for $90,000 five years ago and sold it for $199,000 cash four months ago. Now houses are sitting there for months without an offer and people are pulling them off the market.


I am hoping my assessment drops dramatically next April.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (bVYXr)

251 Do you happen to know what breeds of chickens she has? The place we are thinking of moving to allows 4 hens 1500 square feet of back yard space.
Posted by: Moki at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (JrN/x)



I texted her and she says the layers are Golden Comets. But then she goes off talking about "red sex link" and something about red females and yellow males.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (yQpMk)

252 "Boomers will be the last gen to receive SS."

These entitlements grow the natl debt. It's theft from future generations, for Good Times Now. (Assuming the debt isn't just defaulted at some point, because why not?)

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (24fqN)

253 What is it with Brandon's "not a joke" line? How would we have thought it was a joke in the first place?

Posted by: SC Math Teacher at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (7oke5)

254 I'm fairness, income tax, ss, affirmative actio , thay are evil, better without

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (PUXju)

255 Meanwhile, megabucks corps will get even larger and more voracious.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 13, 2022 05:40 PM (5pTK/)

---------

Just wait 'til The Junta bans independent contracting nationwide. That giant sucking sound we'll be hearing is tens of millions more losing jobs and small businesses shuttered (including yours truly). And in the middle of a high-inflation recession no less ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (FpuhH)

256 220 Posted by: Derek Chauvin's Prison Romance at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (w8LS5)

The answer is accountability and removal of blanket sovereign immunity for all levels of government official...

it would fix a lot of shit.

Posted by: sven at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (Lzpvj)

257 They'll have heat in Europe and France may make out like a bandit. This past week Macron has turned on 6 previously shut down nuclear reactors.
Western Europe's harbors are full of ships laden with LNG.
Italy had made deals with four African oil producing nations.

This will be an expensive winter for Germany.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (NlLwm)

258 213 >Hundreds of thousands are going to die this winter, as a direct result of government malfeasance.

are we talking the shot here or lack of heat?


healing power of "and"?

Posted by: stochastic kulak anachronda at October 13, 2022 05:48 PM (oY6Yp)

259 It is going to be a DEPRESSION. A man made, policy driven Depression.
Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (Z32m1)

Every modern economy is based on ENERGY. If you destroy the means of producing energy, without even any PLAN to replace it, you destroy the economy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 13, 2022 05:48 PM (oHd/0)

260 HO-LEE-CHIT !!!!
Ok, perusing the RCP evening drops and see this:
"A Three Point Plan To Fix the Democrats and Their Coalition" by Ruy Teixeira
Yes, the same guy that wrote "The Emerging Democratic Majority" back in the Dubya years arguing that "demographics = destiny".
Even THIS GUY understands that the current Dem coalition is toxic.

Link to article: https://tinyurl.com/34u33ezu

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at October 13, 2022 05:48 PM (SEa82)

261 The BoE had to do a little mini-QE again, after the gilts shit the bed. This was bad for pension funds.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (Mzdiz)

I heard that England and EU have long since passed the point of no return with QE, it no longer has any effect.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 05:48 PM (eoQWY)

262 When the Hollywood elites and others billionaires all head for their reclusive homes in New Zealand, the time is near.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (anj39)


Imagine the looks on their faces when they discover that concentrating in NZ didn't make them safe, it made them easy to find.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:48 PM (zhLdt)

263 If the Dems win the Congress for 2 more years, you ain't seen nothin yet...
Posted by: Nova local
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*eyeroll*

Posted by: SMH at October 13, 2022 05:48 PM (6UfI+)

264
In fairness, it is fed land so
Posted by: Y5


How did the feds get the land in the first place? That land was inside state borders with that state was admitted to the union but has no claim over any land except maybe DC

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2022 05:48 PM (JNT5L)

265 In fairness, it is funny how destitute Britain is

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 05:48 PM (PUXju)

266 Hey man it is not so bad in the US.... Inflation in South Sudan is 5000%.......... Anyway Trump lied to me about how bad the economy was and now we must tighten our belts to fix the Trump Depression....

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 13, 2022 05:49 PM (X++p7)

267 It is going to be a DEPRESSION. A man made, policy driven Depression.
Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (Z32m1)

It has been a depression for at least a year, maybe 2.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 05:49 PM (eoQWY)

268 Nicholas Fondacaro@NickFondacaro
Whoopi defends Fetterman's refusal to release his medical records and suggests they should wait until January, 2 months after the election.

-
Well, Whoopsie relates to people with bad brains.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now Smarter Than Lumpy Fetterman! at October 13, 2022 05:49 PM (FVME7)

269 Look - under my plan, I'm creating the most billionaires in world history. Once we're done transitioning the economy from male to female, as God intended, and my son Beau died in Iraq and Afghanistan by the way, then $1B will be worth $1000 and that's something you can take to the bank!

Posted by: Not A Joke, Just A Joe at October 13, 2022 05:49 PM (FPuSC)

270 Vote for us and we will only spend 98% as much.
- gop

Posted by: Joe XiDen at October 13, 2022 05:49 PM (AZeyU)

271 (Assuming the debt isn't just defaulted at some point, because why not?)
Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (24fqN)

That is one way to fix entitlements...as seeing as politicians have tried to inflate our debt, rather than tackle it, I'm sure we'll hear all about "not sacrificing future generations for the choices we made today" when we do a managed default, only paying 10 cents on the dollar...

Posted by: Nova local at October 13, 2022 05:49 PM (exHjb)

272 The billionaires planning to escape to New Zealand haven't checked out the native population. They don't play around with cheer leaders and mascots before sports games, they launch into a haka (war dance). Check it out on YouTube.

What's more, Māoris are a sizeable percentage of the population so there are a lot of them per square mile.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at October 13, 2022 05:49 PM (3JfbU)

273 ___

So how much of Texas is owned by the feds?
Posted by: SMH
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Schmarty.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 13, 2022 05:49 PM (NlLwm)

274 I wonder who is having the pro life people arrested? I think Biden doesn't GAF, so it must be someone else in his coterie

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 13, 2022 05:50 PM (2xlV3)

275
I texted her and she says the layers are Golden Comets. But then she goes off talking about "red sex link" and something about red females and yellow males.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (yQpMk)

I'll have to look that up, please tell your daughter thanks!

We had aracaunas when I was growing up - the ones that laid colored eggs. They'd sit in your lap and nudge you to pet them.

Posted by: Moki at October 13, 2022 05:50 PM (JrN/x)

276 "I'm fairness, income tax, ss, affirmative actio , thay are evil, better without"

I read Bastiat's "The Law" last weekend. He covers it well. Wish we had people as smart as him around these days.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at October 13, 2022 05:50 PM (24fqN)

277 It is going to be a DEPRESSION. A man made, policy driven Depression.
Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:17 PM (Z32m1)


And not a fun one like the 1930's. Oh no, much, much worse.

Posted by: Archer at October 13, 2022 05:50 PM (gmo/4)

278 I heard that England and EU have long since passed the point of no return with QE, it no longer has any effect.

Unfortunately for the UK, being a financial hub has been their only real claim to power since the empire collapsed. If they lose that, they become a net importer third world country like Spain, because they have no real industry to speak of. Even their crappy overrated pop band sector has collapsed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:50 PM (Ivdso)

279 When you are a business reporter and you think the economic news is primarily POLITICAL you suck at your job.
Posted by: Klaus Schwab at October 13, 2022 05:38 PM (VIZUy)


Given that the politics caused the economics, I can't say that they're wrong. Are you planning on continuing with that sock? I'd be embarrassed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:50 PM (zhLdt)

280 If the Feds control 50% or more of a state, is it a sovereign state? Shouldn't it be a territory?

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at October 13, 2022 05:50 PM (5HBd1)

281 They are right, it's not a recession- It's a fucking pre-depression.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 13, 2022 05:36 PM (oye+h)
If we get in early enough can we get one of the better depressions, or is everyone stuck with the crappy dented ones?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland


I might be able to get you the top bunk near the stove in the homeless shelter and a barely dented gruel bowl. Better bring your own spoon though.

Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:50 PM (Z32m1)

282 The fed has reregulated drilling and fracking
Producers are restricted from producing

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 13, 2022 05:51 PM (NlLwm)

283 Wish we had people as smart as him around these days.

"I was aborted"
--The Next Bastiat

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:51 PM (Ivdso)

284 Cheap a abundant energy would help here. When was the last time we were energy independent.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at October 13, 2022 05:51 PM (ZMPCu)

285 What's more, Māoris are a sizeable percentage of the population so there are a lot of them per square mile.
______________

Yes, we have our gardeners and maids already selected from this population. Maoris, you say they are called? What does it matter.
-Globalist Bolt-hole Planning Commission

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 13, 2022 05:52 PM (fs1hN)

286 In fairness, britain is mexico without the hot, slutty women and nice beaches.

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 05:52 PM (PUXju)

287 284 Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at October 13, 2022 05:51 PM (ZMPCu)

2020

Posted by: sven at October 13, 2022 05:52 PM (Lzpvj)

288 7.6% women apparel
7.2% used cars
6.7% rent
3.7% men apparel

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0.01% crocs

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 13, 2022 05:52 PM (FpuhH)

289 When was the last time we were energy independent.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at October 13, 2022 05:51 PM (ZMPCu)



When mean tweets were in

Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 13, 2022 05:52 PM (Irn0L)

290 Every modern economy is based on ENERGY. If you destroy the means of producing energy, without even any PLAN to replace it, you destroy the economy.

And there you have it.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 13, 2022 05:52 PM (Xrfse)

291 How did the feds get the land in the first place? That land was inside state borders with that state was admitted to the union but has no claim over any land except maybe DC
Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2022 05:48 PM (JNT5L)

back in the day, a state would get land grants at 'birth' to help fund the government and both would cash in selling lands to citizens aside from things required to operate the nation - the odd fort or military camp here or there. So pretty soon aside from some parks neither government had a lot of land.

Somewhere around 1900 that went out of fashion at least for the feds and huge tracts of the west are just held for no reason. These should be sold off, especially in places where the land would be valuable.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 05:52 PM (eoQWY)

292 Now you too can get STAFFlation by investing in a little blue pill

Posted by: Bob Dole knows Bob Dole at October 13, 2022 05:52 PM (FPuSC)

293 So how much of Texas is owned by the feds?
Posted by: SMH at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (6UfI+)
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It's very little, not even 2%

Posted by: Colonel Travis at October 13, 2022 05:52 PM (RG7Wy)

294 >>Cheap a abundant energy would help here. When was the last time we were energy independent.

2 years ago.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 13, 2022 05:53 PM (ZLI7S)

295 In fairness, britain is mexico without the hot, slutty women and nice beaches.
Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 05:52 PM (PUXju)

and the salsa, both kinds.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 05:53 PM (eoQWY)

296 202 Democrats' plan, if the GOP takes one or both houses in the midterms (as expected), is to blame any bad economic news from then until the 2024 election on the Republicans.

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as opposed to what?

I mean, I see biden tweeting sad talking points about how the gop voted against cutting the deficit by $1.46 when he means the Inflation Reduction Act ... in 10 years ... does some hoppty doo.

that'll move the chains

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 13, 2022 05:53 PM (OuH7W)

297 So how much of Texas is owned by the feds?

- Land owned by federal government: 1.9% (3.2 million of 168.2 million acres)
- Land owned by agency: NPS (37.3%), FS (23.4%), DOD (21.1%), FWS (17.8%), BLM (0.4%)
- Percent change since 1990: +21.9%

And, as much as I admire the man, blame Teddy Roosevelt for seizing state lands. The courts allowed him to as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:53 PM (Ivdso)

298 I love recess!

Posted by: Joe Biden commenting on The Recession at October 13, 2022 05:53 PM (ppBhU)

299 G'rump, the Golden comet is a cross between a Rhode Island Red and a White leghorn for the purpose of laying eggs. Since they only weigh about 4 pounds, they aren't great for meat - it's like a cornish game hen size.

Thanks again!

Posted by: Moki at October 13, 2022 05:53 PM (JrN/x)

300 Christopher R Taylor: "Having someone super business friendly take office over a caustic destructive force like Obama had an immediate effect for Trump but still took months to really turn around the economic numbers."

Yeah, the Reagan Years redux.

Recovery from Carter required continued pain until Reagan's policies could repair damage and develop. There was a lot of hostility toward Reagan in his early term... until "magic" happened. What we experienced first was pain, but there was at least hope sprinkled in.

So my main concern is that we have similar/worse pain post-Biden Cabal but the loss of hope because the WEF and Uniparty apparatus is so much more powerful and all-encompassing now. We kind of need a world economic collapse of sufficient magnitude to fracture the current power bases in multiple countries.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at October 13, 2022 05:53 PM (aXxgO)

301 What is the term for an intentional and pre-planned economic down fall?

What we are experiencing is an economic Holodomor.

Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 13, 2022 05:54 PM (NlLwm)

302 Later gang.
I gotta go buy more bier.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 13, 2022 05:54 PM (anj39)

303 Bank of England has been propping up their gilts because the pensions funds were getting margin calls. Their pension system was about to collapse (more than once in the last couple weeks). BoE says they are ending that program starting tomorrow.
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at October 13, 2022 05:42 PM (QYPq3)


This will cause the Tories to get voted out in the next election, as is right and proper, but they'll be replaced by Labour, because the UK electorate is as stupid as the US electorate.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:54 PM (zhLdt)

304
That is assuming that the Turtle actually gives a fuck about America and does what needs to be done. We could actually see some relief from inflation. The over/under on this part isn't good. Cuz the Turtle licks the feet of his Chinese Masters.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 13, 2022 05:40 PM (KLPy


Inflation is solved by stopping the pumping of the money supply, and the people who own the money tree don't like the prospect of not being rich.

The other solution is to reduce the regulatory burden, and the people who enforce the regulations like having the whip hand, and won't give it up without a struggle.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 13, 2022 05:54 PM (xhaym)

305 sex link chickens have different coloration for males vs females. Leghorns are the classic egg layers. Cornish are the classic meat chickens. You could do a dual purpose like Rhode Island Red, Buff Orpingtons or Barred Rocks.

Lots of breeds of chickens.

https://tinyurl.com/yeypzvf5

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at October 13, 2022 05:54 PM (5HBd1)

306 What's more, Māoris are a sizeable percentage of the population so there are a lot of them per square mile.
Posted by: President Select Decaf


They are so large, that you could have four people per square mile, and have most of that square mile covered.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2022 05:54 PM (JNT5L)

307 Since the Presidency was stolen in 2020 by a cabal of evil people and Americans didn't do anything about it, we deserve this economic storm.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 13, 2022 05:55 PM (cMXNt)

308 In fairness, britain is mexico without the hot, slutty women and nice beaches.

"I say, old bean, what about snaggly-teeth women and mushy peas?"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:55 PM (Ivdso)

309 "Horrible CPI number... what will the Fed to do on interest rates: Will they go 100 basis?"

///

oh I guess those numbers got released today which is why the ...everything...dropped.

I need to get my puts in,

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 13, 2022 05:55 PM (OuH7W)

310 The billionaires planning to escape to New Zealand haven't checked out the native population. They don't play around with cheer leaders and mascots before sports games, they launch into a haka (war dance). Check it out on YouTube.

What's more, Māoris are a sizeable percentage of the population so there are a lot of them per square mile.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at October 13, 2022 05:49 PM


They do not fvck around and the Germans in the Western Desert during WWII were terrified of them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 05:55 PM (bVYXr)

311 Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (ZLI7S)


Genius remark from Mike Tyson.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:55 PM (zhLdt)

312 Cheap a abundant energy would help here. When was the last time we were energy independent.

Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at October 13, 2022 05:51 PM (ZMPCu)

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Reagan used that strategy as well to help restore the economy to a healthy state in the wake of Biden's hero Jimmah

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 13, 2022 05:56 PM (VlLnx)

313 Since they only weigh about 4 pounds, they aren't great for meat - it's like a cornish game hen size.

Thanks again!
Posted by: Moki at October 13, 2022 05:53 PM (JrN/x)

Had a discussion with my kids about difference between a "fryer" and a "roaster" when getting a whole chicken from the grocery store...

-SLV

Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at October 13, 2022 05:56 PM (SEa82)

314 So how much of Texas is owned by the feds?
Posted by: SMH at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (6UfI+)


Very little. I think the issue in Texas is the banks.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:56 PM (zhLdt)

315 GET HIM THE EFFFFF OUT OF THERE....NOW!

(that should be the only message I hear from both sides of the aisle.)

Posted by: Orson at October 13, 2022 05:56 PM (jiElx)

316 And, as much as I admire the man, blame Teddy Roosevelt for seizing state lands. The courts allowed him to as well.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:53 PM (Ivdso)

Well for actual governmental purposes, that's fine, like for Forts and the like. Not for elk or whatever, and the wildfires in CA show governments can't be trusted with land.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 05:57 PM (eoQWY)

317 but still took months to really turn around

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yeah, there were tons of dipshit bluecheck tweets in March 2017 like "uhhh..no stock market didn't go up..see trump wrong" and in March 2021 like "uhh see trump wrong, stocks still ok."

yeah give it a few months, bro.

Posted by: sockamster, Aos ShowRunner at October 13, 2022 05:57 PM (OuH7W)

318 >>The billionaires planning to escape to New Zealand haven't checked out the native population. They don't play around with cheer leaders and mascots before sports games, they launch into a haka (war dance). Check it out on YouTube.

I was impressed by New Zealand until I watched them get locked down tighter than we were for 2 years because a Witmer type demanded it.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 13, 2022 05:57 PM (ZLI7S)

319 notsothoreau, may I ask how your move via the uhaul pods went?

Posted by: Moki at October 13, 2022 05:57 PM (JrN/x)

320 I think Nevada is the one most owned by the Feds, maybe 60-70%? The western states tend to have a sizeable chunk under the control of the Feds. The eastern states not so much.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at October 13, 2022 05:57 PM (5HBd1)

321 It is getting very expensive.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 05:18 PM (bVYXr)

For sure. Eggs are a main ingredient in our dogs' food, too. Used to be the cheap protein. Now it's more expensive than the chicken.

Posted by: April--dash my lace wigs! at October 13, 2022 05:58 PM (OX9vb)

322 Genius remark from Mike Tyson.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:55 PM (zhLdt)
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I gotta admit, I didn't much care for Tyson when he was boxing, but, he's grown on me post boxing career.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 13, 2022 05:58 PM (5pTK/)

323 In fairness, when we get rid of pensions and ss everybody is going to be better off
Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (PUXju)


I concur. Save your own money. It's portable, you know how much you have, and, hopefully, the need for it to exist keeps your electoral stupidity somewhat muted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:58 PM (zhLdt)

324 Oh, is it, now?

The false claim about his ancestry isn't the only time the GOP candidate said he was of Cherokee descent. In fact, he's said it multiple times, including at four campaigns in May, per HuffPost. However, this is the first time he has gone as far as to say his family member was a "full-blood" Cherokee.

This is also not the first time Herschel's comments have cast doubt on his ability to be honest.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 13, 2022 05:59 PM (glSEb)

325 This will cause the Tories to get voted out in the next election, as is right and proper, but they'll be replaced by Labour, because the UK electorate is as stupid as the US electorate.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:54 PM (zhLdt)

Labor is SO stupid though they might race Tories into the loss column like they did with Theresa May. They definitely need some new parties there, the old ones are broke.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 05:59 PM (eoQWY)

326 How many divisions do you have? If a state wants to drill and you say nope! How are you going to enforce that? A strongly worded letter? Fines? Any decent governor would laugh as he threw your letter in the trash and say fuck your fines, we aren't paying. Then what? Sue the state? so? Again, fuck you!
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at October 13, 2022 05:43 PM (Wy1BU)


Any oil drilling company needs a large logistics trail and banking services.
None of the support companies want to be barred from working in the field, and BoA just closed Catturd's account because he says things they politically disagree with. In the end, that is the problem. Will Chevron want to buy oil that will be claimed to be stolen? They would lose everything.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 13, 2022 05:59 PM (xhaym)

327 The billionaires planning to escape to New Zealand haven't checked out the native population. They don't play around with cheer leaders and mascots before sports games, they launch into a haka (war dance). Check it out on YouTube.

What's more, Māoris are a sizeable percentage of the population so there are a lot of them per square mile.
Posted by: President Select Decaf at October 13, 2022 05:49 PM (3JfbU)


Who do those over bred under brained idiots think they have guarding their "Secure End of the World Get-away Bunkers?"

It is not family. It is not loyalists. It is some minimum wage schlub with their own family, and more loyalty to the guy that fills out the schedule for the guard rosters.

Two years after the Fall: Where are Bill and Melissa Gates? We ain't seen 'em! We been holding this compound for them for years, after the troubles we moved our Families in while we waited for the Gates's to show up.

Glad to hear things are looking up though!

Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 05:59 PM (Z32m1)

328 I’M RIGHT HERE, MOKI!

Posted by: RI Red at October 13, 2022 05:59 PM (+5YjI)

329 Posted by: Rusty Trawler at October 13, 2022 05:46 PM (1gif2)

It depends.

If it's a true wipeout election, then the surviving Dims may be of a mind to over-ride some Biden vetoes and go along with the Reps.

A smart and ruthless Speaker of the House and Senate Leader could make these things happen with the right pressure.

But, McCarthey's a limp dish rag and the Turtle considers himself above the petty concerns and lives of his fellow citizens. So...not much there.

But, pure optimism, will fuel a miniboom, assuming the Reps win big.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 13, 2022 05:59 PM (KLPy8)

330
I gotta admit, I didn't much care for Tyson when he was boxing, but, he's grown on me post boxing career.


In fairness, when he quit boxing he went back and finished seventh grade

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 05:59 PM (PUXju)

331 The experts are always caught by surprise.

Posted by: That NLurker guy at October 13, 2022 05:59 PM (eGTCV)

332 I know someone who tells fantastic lies. It makes him "folksy".

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Christian Nationalist, Defiant! at October 13, 2022 05:59 PM (glSEb)

333 Reagan used that strategy as well to help restore the economy to a healthy state in the wake of Biden's hero Jimmah

*

It's weird to think about Reagan serving first, then Carter doing his thing to destroy it.

On purpose.

Posted by: Brought to you by Pfizer at October 13, 2022 06:00 PM (/yCfV)

334 How did the feds get the land in the first place? That land was inside state borders with that state was admitted to the union but has no claim over any land except maybe DC
Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2022 05:48 PM (JNT5L)

45% of land in Calif is owned by the FED Gov... other State owned lands are managed by BLS.

US Gov inherited all land NOT under private ownership when Calif became a State.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 13, 2022 06:00 PM (oHd/0)

335 I never once, even as a kid expected to see a dime of SS.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 05:44 PM (eoQWY)


My financial advisor always thought I was nuts to require him to calculate my retirement outlook assuming no SS.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 06:00 PM (zhLdt)

336 There's a great video on YouTube that was put out this week by the Academy of Ideas that pointed out how great empires always inflate their currency before they collapse.

It's impossible not to see the rhythm in all that to today

Posted by: Deseret Rebel at October 13, 2022 06:00 PM (FPuSC)

337 I still like the DU take the other day that, "raising interest rates is what causes inflation."

That's some neutron star dense stupidity.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 13, 2022 06:01 PM (Zf0+a)

338 Thirty minutes of Angela Lansbury swimming for her man:
youtube.com/watch?v=GBwWjabIEX0

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at October 13, 2022 06:01 PM (24fqN)

339 Damn. Just keep the gas below $5 in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas until after the 22nd and then it can all go to shit.

Posted by: fd at October 13, 2022 06:01 PM (sn5EN)

340 The actual move of the U-Boxes was okay. Dealing with U-haul, not so much. I was on the phone with them again today. First, they put someone else's u-box on my account. They had to look at the security cam footage before they believed me. I added a third u-box and all made it to the same location. Had someone pick them up, bring them here, unload and return.

But they didn't close my contract. One of the boxes went to CT and I was charged a storage fee. It's taken a week to get it sorted out and I withhold judgment until I see my money back in my account. If you aren't sure how much stuff you need to move, it is likely the easiest way to do it as you can add more boxes as needed. Pods didn't come out to this part of the country and U-Pack would have been delivered a lot farther out. And the U-boxes can be stored, as the charges show.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at October 13, 2022 06:01 PM (5HBd1)

341 Government land belongs to we the people.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at October 13, 2022 06:02 PM (5pTK/)

342 "I never once, even as a kid expected to see a dime of SS."

I expected the whole world to blow up before I got old. I suck at predictions.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at October 13, 2022 06:02 PM (24fqN)

343 I gotta admit, I didn't much care for Tyson when he was boxing, but, he's grown on me post boxing career.

He was born in the wrong epoch. In 1200 BC he would have been a conqueror king. Today he's an out of place barbarian warrior.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 06:02 PM (Ivdso)

344 They definitely need some new parties there, the old ones are broke.

Sounds familiar, eh?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at October 13, 2022 06:02 PM (Xrfse)

345 Most mountain states have over 60% of their land controlled by the Feds. Utah is somewhere crazy around 70% last I checked. To be fair much of the state is barren desert but still, there needs to be a constitutional amendment to limit how much land the Feds can take/purchase. Keep it below 10% in my view

Posted by: Deseret Rebel at October 13, 2022 06:02 PM (FPuSC)

346 328 I’M RIGHT HERE, MOKI!
Posted by: RI Red at October 13, 2022 05:59 PM (+5YjI)

lol

Posted by: Moki at October 13, 2022 06:03 PM (JrN/x)

347 There's a great video on YouTube that was put out this week by the Academy of Ideas that pointed out how great empires always inflate their currency before they collapse.

It's impossible not to see the rhythm in all that to today

Posted by: Deseret Rebel at October 13, 2022 06:00 PM


Rome did that intentionally even going so far as to debase the actual currency itself year after year. It just pushed the inevitable down the road a couple of decades.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 06:03 PM (bVYXr)

348 That's some neutron star dense stupidity.

Almost every day the left proves Reagan right, when he said "The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 06:03 PM (Ivdso)

349 "I expected the whole world to blow up before I got old. I suck at predictions.
Posted by: For gp"

We know how you feel. Anyway, if the nukes don't get us, the climate will.

Posted by: The Experts at October 13, 2022 06:04 PM (sn5EN)

350 Damn. Just keep the gas below $5 in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas until after the 22nd and then it can all go to shit.
Posted by: fd at October 13, 2022 06:01 PM (sn5EN)
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Add MO and OK to the list...(I assume these are states you will need to drive through for TXMOME?)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 13, 2022 06:04 PM (K5n5d)

351 HONK!

Posted by: Honkler the Clown at October 13, 2022 06:04 PM (PNDGT)

352 In fairness, when he quit boxing he went back and finished seventh grade
Posted by: Y5


And became a double naught spy!

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2022 06:04 PM (JNT5L)

353 am hoping my assessment drops dramatically next April.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (bVYXr)

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LOL!

*Local tax assessors

Posted by: Just Lily at October 13, 2022 06:04 PM (RLLZj)

354
And became a double naught spy!
Posted by: r


Nice

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (PUXju)

355 >> "raising interest rates is what causes inflation."

Some UN agency put out something the other day calling for central banks to stop raising rates. The way to handle inflation is....price controls!

Yep, that's the way to handle inflation on top of supply problems right there. Geniuses, they are.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (Mzdiz)

356 You can't get rid of the safety net without people having a lot of kids. And it's interesting you would say to just keep your money, after hearing from so many folks today with an evaporating 401k

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (5HBd1)

357 I sure hope that Biden's slight recession isn't anything like his approved slight incursion of Ukrainian territory by Russia. His definition of slight is, shall we say, debatable.

Posted by: Texas Zombie at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (WvB2j)

358 Joe Biden: “If Republicans Win, Inflation Is Going to Get Worse. It’s That Simple”

He knows inflation is going to be with us into 2023 and is just getting his excuse ready.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (NpAcC)

359 Eastern states were formed under the Constitution
Western states were formed under Lincoln federalism.



Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (NlLwm)

360 Inflation is too much money in circulation chasing too few goods. It can only be caused by a government since only government can print money.

Posted by: Archer at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (gmo/4)

361 Cheap a abundant energy would help here. When was the last time we were energy independent.
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at October 13, 2022 05:51 PM (ZMPCu)


About a month after F. Joe Biden was sworn in.

Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (Z32m1)

362 Most mountain states have over 60% of their land controlled by the Feds. Utah is somewhere crazy around 70% last I checked. To be fair much of the state is barren desert but still, there needs to be a constitutional amendment to limit how much land the Feds can take/purchase. Keep it below 10% in my view
Posted by: Deseret Rebel at October 13, 2022 06:02 PM (FPuSC)

They should be made to put parts of that up for sale regularly, aside from things acutally in use or in planning. Free enterprise might find a use for the most worthless land - hunting parties, that airport used for storing aircraft for parts, many things.

They can always buy it back if they come up with a use at a good profit to the owner.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (eoQWY)

363 the markets rallied big today. go figure

Posted by: jb at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (MFMP+)

364 Thanks notsothoreau. We've used u-haul trailers for moves, but this would be the first time with a u-box. I'll have to compare prices between pods and uhaul before we make our final decision. I'm so sorry they jacked up your account - you would think they could keep track of things better?!

So how are you settling in? Are you enjoying the new home?

Posted by: Moki at October 13, 2022 06:06 PM (JrN/x)

365 So the SC today via Justice Thomas will not stay the 11th circuit decision to prevent the special master in the DOJ vs Trump Mar a Lago case from viewing classified documents the FBI removed. Conservative lawyers are saying it was the right decision from a procedural viewpoint as to the law.

Posted by: Jen the original at October 13, 2022 06:06 PM (Hnh20)

366 Imagine the looks on their faces when they discover that concentrating in NZ didn't make them safe, it made them easy to find.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 05:48 PM (zhLdt)


I was always afraid of being in a fruit cellar, because if someone dropped a load of sand over the door, there was no way out unless you could dig through a wall or the roof.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 13, 2022 06:06 PM (xhaym)

367 The answer is accountability and removal of blanket sovereign immunity for all levels of government official...

it would fix a lot of shit.
Posted by: sven at October 13, 2022 05:47

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Agree

Posted by: Derek Chauvin's Prison Romance at October 13, 2022 06:06 PM (uyba+)

368 "(I assume these are states you will need to drive through for TXMOME?)"

Nope. It will be I-20 a lot of the way for me. I'm figuring 150 gallons at $5 for my fuel budget of $750.

Posted by: The Experts at October 13, 2022 06:07 PM (sn5EN)

369 In fairness. If you are going to use containers go with pods or abf, however, if you do not have to self move do not

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 06:07 PM (PUXju)

370 Biden is fucking delusional.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at October 13, 2022 06:07 PM (+DS2f)

371 Some UN agency put out something the other day calling for central banks to stop raising rates. The way to handle inflation is....price controls!

Yep, that's the way to handle inflation on top of supply problems right there. Geniuses, they are.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (Mzdiz)

That's the main reason the Saudis and other OPEC countries cut supply. The US is trying to fix the price of Russian Oil to bail them out for their failed sanctions. Any oil producer can see that as a gun pointed right at their own heads, to be forced to sell at a loss while the US sits on huge reserves for later.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 06:07 PM (eoQWY)

372 Damn. Off stupid sock.

Posted by: fd at October 13, 2022 06:08 PM (sn5EN)

373 341 Government land belongs to we the people.
__________

And as your representatives, we will decide how we will make money off of this land. Thanks!
-Congress and their remoras

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 13, 2022 06:08 PM (fs1hN)

374 How are the other major countries doing?

We know Europe is about to literally freeze up.

Has anyone looked into the Chinese Communist realty bubble and their banking wobbles lately?

Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 06:08 PM (Z32m1)

375
We're running into a problem. Central bank tightening with fiscal irresponsibility. Here, that's Fed tightnening, but Congress still continuing the deficit spending. High rates throw the economy into recession, and Congress makes it up for it by throwing more deficit spending.

That won't work. The Fed published a paper about this. This perverse situation can actually make inflation worse. Well, asset prices will collapse, but commodities will shoot the moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at October 13, 2022 06:08 PM (Mzdiz)

376 Just found out an interesting thing.... seems that because of the way they count the unemployment numbers... Illegals are not counted at all.

So... that 2 to 3 million illegals that just came in? Don't count... nor do the ones who have been here for years.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 13, 2022 06:08 PM (oHd/0)

377 government official...

it would fix a lot of shit.

Posted by: s

In fairness, just get rid of gov pensins

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 06:09 PM (PUXju)

378 Inflation is always a monetary phenomenon.

Milton Friedman

Posted by: Archer at October 13, 2022 06:09 PM (gmo/4)

379 Eastern states were formed under the Constitution
Western states were formed under Lincoln federalism.



Posted by: Braenyard, _ want nuremberg trials? badger your congressman at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM


West Virginia was formed from an illegal vote in 1861 that was blatantly unconstitutional but nobody said a word and lincoln turned a blind eye to the "new" state and welcomed them into the Union.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 06:09 PM (bVYXr)

380 There's a great video on YouTube that was put out this week by the Academy of Ideas that pointed out how great empires always inflate their currency before they collapse.

It's impossible not to see the rhythm in all that to today

Posted by: Deseret Rebel at October 13, 2022 06:00 PM (FPuSC)
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Crazy sexual mores and gender confusion tend to as well. Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 13, 2022 06:09 PM (yPtPR)

381 Girl928 is continuing to text me an entire treatise on raising chickens, including checking the baby chicks for pasty butt.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 06:09 PM (yQpMk)

382 "I was aborted"
--The Next Bastiat
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 13, 2022 05:51 PM (Ivdso)


Sadly, this is probably true.

Maybe someone should tell the Democrats that the person who was going to invent the technology to replace fossil fuels got aborted.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at October 13, 2022 06:10 PM (zhLdt)

383 NOODLES

Posted by: Skip nood advisor at October 13, 2022 06:11 PM (xhxe8)

384 How did the feds get the land in the first place? That land was inside state borders with that state was admitted to the union but has no claim over any land except maybe DC
Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2022 05:48 PM (JNT5L)


The Feds generally claimed to land on annexation, and in the west had a process of donation land claims. Unclaimed lands, forests and the like could be claimed for mineral rights, some were granted to railroads (the crater of Mt. St. Helens may still belong to the Pacific-Norther RR) and a lot were sold to the timber companies.
The timber companies had a bad habit of letting cut over land be taken back for taxes, so the feds just kept them and started selling off timber rights while keeping the land "in trust"
Then they started turning them into wilderness areas and keeping everyone out because of Bambi and other meaningful works of ecological research.

It is long and complicated and everyone thought they were getting free lunches

Posted by: Kindltot at October 13, 2022 06:11 PM (xhaym)

385 Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (eoQWY)

Its interesting to note that all the BIG Forest fires? All Colorado and further West. Why? East coast is NOT Fed land... and it seems the BIG fires are all on Fed Land.

Its almost like if someone actually owns land, they take care of it...

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 13, 2022 06:12 PM (oHd/0)

386 Has anyone looked into the Chinese Communist realty bubble and their banking wobbles lately?
Posted by: rd at October 13, 2022 06:08 PM (Z32m1)

There are a few YT channels that watch china. Serpentza and Laowy86 are good, lived there for years and have families but had to flee China a few years back.

Demographic collapse is going to hit Europe (especially So Europe) and China badly and soon. Russia and East Europe seem to be trying to recover by subsidizing large families, and rejecting western ideas that contribute to it.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 06:12 PM (eoQWY)

387 Girl928 is continuing to text me an entire treatise on raising chickens, including checking the baby chicks for pasty butt.
Posted by: G'rump928


I am just going to have to go buy the book at tractor supply or Amazon.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 13, 2022 06:12 PM (JNT5L)

388 I am trying to unpack it all. I didn't move a lot of furniture and I need bookcases. The big problem out here is that you can't find anyone to hire for stuff. I need someone to haul some stuff to the dump and someone to fix my central heat. It's proving elusive.

I will say that so far, I haven't found anything that was broken. You want any of these self pack boxes to be crammed full so that nothing shifts around. That's why the smaller u-box worked better for me. I just wish they had smarter people running the local stores. Everyone I talked to at their customer service has been good, very helpful and friendly. And I'm happy I bought this place. I like the town and my neighbors. I like my old, slightly run down house that is as old as me. I gotta figure out how to put in a garden next year.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at October 13, 2022 06:12 PM (5HBd1)

389 In fairness, just get rid of gov pensins

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 06:09 PM


So I work for the Federal government for 25 years and pay into my pension and you just want it to go away?


Seems a bit harsh.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 06:13 PM (bVYXr)

390 Jim Bridger told tall tales.

Shambling Zombie Joes tells lies.

There is a difference.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Waiting for Something, Anything at October 13, 2022 06:13 PM (xPJvm)

391 Its almost like if someone actually owns land, they take care of it...
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 13, 2022 06:12 PM (oHd/0)

Especially when the negligent owner buys into counterproductive "green" strategies that are the reverse of what real ecology says is the right way to manage land.

Many biomes need fires every so often to be healthy.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 06:13 PM (eoQWY)

392 I am declaring November Fight Bad Breath Month. Bad Breath is a National Security risk and must be contained. I am also issuing a Executive Order declaring bad Breath a Felony with possible prison timer based on the 3 strikes and your out program. No questions at this time.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 13, 2022 06:14 PM (X++p7)

393 The answer is accountability and removal of blanket sovereign immunity for all levels of government official...

Posted by: sven at October 13, 2022 05:47 PM (Lzpvj)

Fuck that shit. How am I going to beat up drunk HS kids and harass people for talking back to me?

Posted by: Your friendly neighborhood policeman (in body armor in a Humvee) at October 13, 2022 06:14 PM (XIJ/X)

394 I work for the Federal government for 25 years and pay into my pension and you just want it to go away?


Seems a bit harsh.
Posted by: M


In fairness, go back and think about that some more

Posted by: Y5 at October 13, 2022 06:14 PM (PUXju)

395 > Utah is somewhere crazy around 70% last I checked.

If you count only federal ownership, Nevada is the highest, with 80.89%.

If you count both federal and state ownership, Alaska is the highest, with 89.22% being publicly owned.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 13, 2022 06:14 PM (bW8dp)

396 Its interesting to note that all the BIG Forest fires? All Colorado and further West. Why? East coast is NOT Fed land... and it seems the BIG fires are all on Fed Land.

To be fair, somewhat, the west is more arid than your random east coast patch of land.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 06:15 PM (eoQWY)

397 Another quote from Mike Tyson

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.”

Posted by: Joe Bitem at October 13, 2022 06:15 PM (M+Lyo)

398 So, just to recap - Our whole US economic situation has fallen into an open manhole, thus winding up at the bottom of a drunken hobo recession fuck pile, all of whom are sporting yuge Saudi endorsed clown boners...

Is that about right?

Posted by: Boswell at October 13, 2022 06:15 PM (+Cgut)

399 I don't know the percentage, but Wyoming is well over 50% fed. I have no clue about state lands.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Waiting for Something, Anything at October 13, 2022 06:16 PM (xPJvm)

400 Here's the thing - to kill of this type of inflation last time it came around, the fed had to increase interest rates to around...16%. That was with inflation at 13%.

We are currently at 3.15% interest rate, and inflation at around 9%. That means interest needs to go to around 11-12% to choke this shit off. That will cause a massive recession that will last 2-3 years.

The dems know this and will put off this reckoning as long as humanly possible. But once inflation is unleashed, it is really hard to stop. The only other tools : They could cut spending substantially (fat chance), or they could drill like crazy to increase energy supplies and reduce that source of inflation (fat chance). So, with Biden in the white house, we'll see a 2 year slow ratcheting up of rates to 11-12%. Inflation, during all that time will keep coming.

Next 2-3 years are going to be a nightmare. We are all about to get a lot poorer.





Posted by: Inspector Kemp at October 13, 2022 06:17 PM (+DS2f)

401 Next 2-3 years are going to be a nightmare. We are all about to get a lot poorer.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at October 13, 2022 06:17 PM (+DS2f)

Hard to argue your point.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 13, 2022 06:19 PM (XIJ/X)

402 West Virginia was formed from an illegal vote in 1861 that was blatantly unconstitutional but nobody said a word and lincoln turned a blind eye to the "new" state and welcomed them into the Union.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at October 13, 2022 06:09 PM (bVYXr)

considering the way the state of Virginia had gerrymandered the state to exclude the interior from being able to get a majority despite having some 60 pct of the voters AND that they were in armed rebellion, I think they were wise to just extract them into a new state.

Same should be done for upstate NY, downstate IL, and most of CA.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 06:19 PM (eoQWY)

403 Just found out an interesting thing.... seems that because of the way they count the unemployment numbers... Illegals are not counted at all.

So... that 2 to 3 million illegals that just came in? Don't count... nor do the ones who have been here for years.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 13, 2022 06:08 PM (oHd/0)
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But they must be counted (without being identified as such) for the US Census.

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 13, 2022 06:21 PM (PDARR)

404 They could cut spending substantially (fat chance), or they could drill like crazy to increase energy supplies and reduce that source of inflation (fat chance). So, with Biden in the white house, we'll see a 2 year slow ratcheting up of rates to 11-12%. Inflation, during all that time will keep coming.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at October 13, 2022 06:17 PM (+DS2f)

What they really need to do is cut the size of government and the dole. Each person fired would become at least of some economic use instead of a parasite on the economic activity we have. No pensions, this is an emergency.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 06:22 PM (eoQWY)

405 They should be made to put parts of that up for sale regularly, aside from things acutally in use or in planning. Posted by: Oldcat at October 13, 2022 06:05 PM (eoQWY)

I'd scrap the Forest Service and the BLM - give the land to the states to sell or lease as they see fit. I live in a state where a LOT of the country gets a say in how we use our land, and we're pretty sick of it.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at October 13, 2022 06:22 PM (+DS2f)

406 For the 18th month in a row, price inflation has outpaced wage inflation, as our purchasing power continues to dwindle. Unexpectedly.

Posted by: ShainS -- Triple-Jabbed & Quad-Boosted with the Biden Hurricane-22 Vaccine at October 13, 2022 06:24 PM (PDARR)

407 Now that I have managed to live long enough to be 29, I can say I have never seen another executive administration as hostile and detrimental to the American public as the current one. Saying it is a failed administration doesn't do it justice. It is a complete and total disaster which is accelerating in the carnage it is causing to the nation. I am not an economist so I might hold some deplorable ideas about the state of the economy, but I hold we are at the beginning of a recession that is going to be deep, hard and long whose effects while not erased until years after FJB is long out of office. I am even beginning to think we will be lucky to get out of this with nothing worse than a mild economic depression. A few more fuckups by FJB and we just might get to party like it's the 1930s all over again. I thought I would never say this, but I would trade Jimmy Carter for FJB in nano second.

Posted by: Lost In Space at October 13, 2022 06:24 PM (3rD2r)

408 Off topic, but I just have to mention how much I enjoyed the podcast today. JJ, CDB, and Dave are doing a great job on these. Thanks.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 13, 2022 06:31 PM (sWM8x)

409 Dow was through the roof today.

Posted by: E. A. Blair at October 13, 2022 06:39 PM (+xjfh)

410 I saw a figure recently to the effect that half this country is unoccupied. Slowed me down a little bit.

Posted by: yoeman at October 13, 2022 06:46 PM (BYNHj)

411 And I can tell you for sure the price of senators snd congressmen has also gone way up.

Posted by: El Chapo at October 13, 2022 07:29 PM (dMtzC)

412 Dow was through the roof today.
Posted by: E. A. Blair at October 13, 2022 06:39 PM (+xjfh)



It was up 2.8% today, which puts it back to Oct. 6th, if it does fall again tomorrow.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 07:44 PM (yQpMk)

413 doesn't

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 13, 2022 07:44 PM (yQpMk)

414 You missed something important, Ace, in the difference between PPI and CPI: PPI includes products that the consumer doesn't buy directly.

So PPI counts the guy who makes car engines, windshields, doors, axles, the assembly machines on the factory floor, and the computers that run them
CPI just counts the price of the car.

The PPI usually precedes the CPI - up or down.

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