Biden Refuses to Sit for Super Bowl Interview, Instead Runs an Ad Complaining That Potato Chip Bags Have Air In Them

Biden complained about "shrinkflation" -- reducing the amount of chips or cookies in a bag, while keeping the package the same size.

Companies are doing this because of Biden's inflation. They can either charge more, which customers hate, or disguise the fact that prices are higher by offering somewhat less product for the same price.

Biden once again pretended that companies are "gouging" customers, taking no responsibility for the inflation he's flooded the country with.

President Biden celebrated Super Bowl Sunday in what many saw as a bizarre and ironic video attacking snack companies for inflation.
Though the president skipped out on the traditional pre-game interview, the White House's X account posted a pre-recorded video of Biden talking about "Shrinkflation."
"While you were Super Bowl shopping, did you notice smaller-than-usual products where the price stays the same? Folks are calling it Shrinkflation and it means companies are giving you less for every dollar you spend. I'm calling on the big consumer brands to put a stop to it," the post read.
In the video, Biden said, "It's Super Bowl Sunday, and if you're anything like me, you like to be surrounded by a snack or two while watching the big game. You know, when buying snacks for the game, you might have noticed one thing: sports drinks bottles are smaller, [a] bag of chips has fewer chips, but they're still charging just as much."

He continued, "As an ice cream lover, what makes me the most angry is that ice cream cartons have actually shrunk in size but not in price. I've had enough of what they call Shrinkflation. It's a rip off. Some companies are trying to pull a fast one by shrinking the products little by little and hoping you won't notice. Give me a break. The American public is tired of being played for suckers. I'm calling on companies to put a stop to this. Let's make sure businesses do the right thing now."
The video and its focus on inflation struck many social media users as ridiculous and ironic considering the Biden administration's track record.
"Imagine how little respect you must have for voters to try this," National Review senior writer Charles C.W. Cooke remarked.
Outkick columnist Mary Katherine Ham commented, "I did not predict leaning into the aging issue with an Andy-Rooney-on-quaaludes rant about how chip bags used to be fuller."

“Super Bowl message” from Joe Biden

pic.twitter.com/eYPRQlnpiX
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 11, 2024

Biden's continuing the gaslighting, telling anyone who will show up to his fundraisers that "costs have fallen."

BIDEN: "Costs have fallen from everything from a gallon of gas to a gallon of milk!"

He's lying. Overall costs are up 17.3% under Biden while gas prices remain ~30% higher than when Biden took office. pic.twitter.com/PS6qdNNx9j
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 12, 2024

Biden, who is non compos mentis, says that Trump is responsible for all of the covid deaths, including the vast majority which took place during Biden's Fake Presidency, because he... didn't do enough to get people vaccinated.

The "vaccine" was announced the day after the election. It became available in April 2021.

Biden just said that "we lost 1 million people dead" from covid because President Trump "did not move on making sure that we dealt with vaccinating the American public." pic.twitter.com/dJ6FH2geJM
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) February 12, 2024

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:09 PM

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1 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 06:10 PM (xcxpd)

2 What about mayonnaise, Joe? Did you look at that too?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 12, 2024 06:11 PM (vDyah)

3 And he's going to campaign this way, I think. Smirks and memes and not actually talking or campaigning. Other people will carry his water, just like in 2020.

He is, after all, just a puppet.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 06:11 PM (xcxpd)

4 he's a total idiot WITHOUT the senility

Posted by: BlackOrchidZ at February 12, 2024 06:11 PM (AcWfM)

5 These are obviously the salient issues of our time.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 12, 2024 06:11 PM (MeG8a)

6 Jeez. The takeover of the education system just keeps on bearing fruit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:11 PM (di6C2)

7 Outkick columnist Mary Katherine Ham commented

Oh, that's where she went? Outkick?

CNN wouldn't take her, I guess.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 12, 2024 06:12 PM (vDyah)

8 I took my husband with me on a quick grocery trip - to Aldi, which is VERY popular now - and he's not the shopper so had no idea. I think we got 6 items and it was $35. he just kept going over the receipt over and over lol

we're empty nesters! what are people with kids doing?!!?

Posted by: BlackOrchidZ at February 12, 2024 06:12 PM (AcWfM)

9 You know who shrinkflation is really impacting?

Jonah Goldberg, that's who.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 12, 2024 06:12 PM (vDyah)

10 7 Outkick columnist Mary Katherine Ham commented

Oh, that's where she went? Outkick?

CNN wouldn't take her, I guess.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 12, 2024 06:12 PM (vDyah)

I feel bad for her. She had a rough hand dealt to her. She used to be pretty hot and pretty pro gun...which is about all I need, honestly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 06:13 PM (xcxpd)

11 Folks are calling it Shrinkflation and it means companies are giving you less for every dollar you spend.

Wait to define Bidenomics, Einstein.

Posted by: t-bird at February 12, 2024 06:13 PM (JzFC4)

12 My taxes went up and all have to show for them is more illegal aliens and wars in places I can't find on a map. Thanks for nothing, Joe.

Posted by: torabora at February 12, 2024 06:13 PM (OUiUM)

13 Bronx shooting said to involve young rappers and nursing students.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 12, 2024 06:13 PM (IG7T0)

14 Problem is far too many people WILL blame the fat cat corporations.

Damn it, why is this Cheetos bag so small? and more expensive?!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 12, 2024 06:14 PM (T/Lqj)

15 I'm calling on companies to put a stop to this. Let's make sure businesses do the right thing now."

Wreckers and saboteurs!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 12, 2024 06:14 PM (vDyah)

16 Back when I snuck across the border on you gringos, you could stick your dick in a jar of mayonnaise for about $1. Now it's double the price. Aye carumba, I made get as well shower with my daughter. It's cheaper.

Posted by: Jose Bidens at February 12, 2024 06:14 PM (YPWGo)

17 shrinkflation is real!

Posted by: Lloyd Austin's penis at February 12, 2024 06:14 PM (v0R5T)

18 I am not sure I would depict biden as lying since he has diminished cognitive awareness. So it is very possible he believes every bit of the crap that spills out of his mouth.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 12, 2024 06:14 PM (PQ4m2)

19 It's probably just as well that FJB's nose doesn't grow like Pinocchio's when he lies.

He'd have a freaking California redwood growing out of his face before he finished one speech.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2024 06:14 PM (BpYfr)

20 I do think the "air in potato chip bags" is a con. The whole "sold by weight, not by volume" is bullshit.

To wit; a 16oz bag of chips that takes up a 96oz bag.... in volume. And sold for $12. All of it air.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 12, 2024 06:15 PM (Q4IgG)

21 I like Ace's decision to use a new color format.

Posted by: Weasel at February 12, 2024 06:15 PM (JwHpX)

22 Vienna sausages are now two to a can!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 12, 2024 06:15 PM (vDyah)

23 The old man desiccated balls on that guy.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2024 06:15 PM (eYF7X)

24 I prefer the red laser eyed kiss up toTay Tay TikTok video Joe did

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2024 06:16 PM (Akjoo)

25 Shrinkflation has been happening for years.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2024 06:16 PM (63Dwl)

26 21 I like Ace's decision to use a new color format.
Posted by: Weasel at February 12, 2024 06:15 PM (JwHpX)

Not just black or white but gray. Very non-binary

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 06:16 PM (xcxpd)

27 Boxflation!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 12, 2024 06:16 PM (2yu8s)

28 I remember when you could spend $4 and get a gallon of ice cream and a new house!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 12, 2024 06:17 PM (vDyah)

29 Outkick columnist Mary Katherine Ham commented

Oh, that's where she went? Outkick?

CNN wouldn't take her, I guess.
Posted by: Cicero

She got ~~fat~~ thick and started to resonate with the cat ladies. All down hill from there.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2024 06:18 PM (eYF7X)

30 To be fair, companies *are* taking advantage of a crisis to increase revenue and profits.

The crisis was created by Biden though.

Markets tend toward perfect competition where profits are slim. Any disruption means they can increase profits without the competition grabbing market from them. You can't really take advantage of an inflation crisis by raising prices, but you can reduce quantity of product per unit. That is like growing market (people need to buy more, and more often.)

Shrinkflation actually increases costs and decreases value to consumer but it happens because it is advantageous to manufacturers and retailers. They get away with it because in a crisis, the old rules no longer apply and competition becomes much less perfect.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 12, 2024 06:18 PM (jvesK)

31 Shrinkflation is real.

They have two choices: charge you what you can't afford at all so you don't buy it anymore and nobody gets anything (inflation), or charge you a little more for a little less so that you can at least afford to partake in the product still if you want to.

It isn't corporate greed. It's commercial desperation as a result of the public private complex's greed.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:19 PM (9UlRk)

32 I like Ace's decision to use a new color format.
Posted by: Weasel at February 12, 2024 06:15 PM (JwHpX)

Not just black or white but gray. Very non-binary
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 06:16 PM (xcxpd)
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Brave and pioneering!

Posted by: Weasel at February 12, 2024 06:19 PM (JwHpX)

33 How can anyone support a man who refuses to take responsibility for anything?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 12, 2024 06:19 PM (zssUw)

34 I do think the "air in potato chip bags" is a con. The whole "sold by weight, not by volume" is bullshit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Not necessarily as you don't want a bag of crumbs after they've been crushed during transport. The air is there, in part, to cushion the chips.

Now you wanna complain about store brand ice cream being 80% air, go ahead.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 06:19 PM (IG4Id)

35 I told my girlfriend all about shrinkflation.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2024 06:19 PM (AJDwy)

36 Biden was a nasty, lying, prick, even before his brain melted into roadkill vomit.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2024 06:20 PM (sAmhv)

37 Biden is a less lucid, more boring version of Grampa Simpson.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 12, 2024 06:20 PM (Y6IkP)

38 Is this the thread to complain about the halftime show featuring an usher?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 06:20 PM (D7oie)

39 Problem is far too many people WILL blame the fat cat corporations.
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Shithead Justin is doing that here despite those fat-cat grocers overwhelmingly donating Liberal.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 12, 2024 06:20 PM (2yu8s)

40 There is famous video from when Putin first was in office and the Russian economy was shit.

He went to supermarket and complained about price of sausages. Blamed the manufacturers ("wreckers!") for high prices.

Just like biden.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 12, 2024 06:21 PM (jvesK)

41
Yes, let's bring attention to your ruinous inflation at the grocery stores and blame it on others.

At this point, I'm thinking his staff is actively sabotaging him and cooking up angry messaging they know he's going to get all excited about.

Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 06:21 PM (j4U/Z)

42 I just watched it. It looks like it was chopped every few seconds to redo until each sentence was good enough.

Posted by: old chick at February 12, 2024 06:21 PM (sOete)

43 If you look closely at the video Biden is wearing an onion on his belt.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 06:21 PM (LkLld)

44 Breaking: Joe Biden tried to run away from the White House. He was in just a pair of shorts, no shirt when he was found, with a candybar wrapper in his pocket, and chocolate around his mouth.

The President was visibly upset, when asked troubled him, said his friend, Spongebob, ate his candy, and further admitted he and Spongebob were going "on the lam" because they stole a balloon... on Free Balloon Day.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 12, 2024 06:21 PM (dGCAG)

45 Biden is a less lucid, more boring version of Grampa Simpson.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 12, 2024 06:20 PM (Y6IkP)
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Maybe he should tie more onions to his belt. I hear that's the style these days.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2024 06:21 PM (BpYfr)

46 Democrats are experts at creating straw men and deflecting.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2024 06:21 PM (AJDwy)

47 38 Is this the thread to complain about the halftime show featuring an usher?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 06:20 PM (D7oie)

Did the House Fall?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:21 PM (xaFKb)

48 awww

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 06:22 PM (xcxpd)

49 Ahahaha. I fucked up the world. And the media says if you disagree you are a maga extremist.
Fucked up president (the worst) and fucked up media

Posted by: Redenzo at February 12, 2024 06:22 PM (V/pbu)

50 Biden's hair looks like a shelf on the back of his head. He's had that look since he came into the Senate. Does he think that makes him look hip or something. I think it look f*cking ridiculous.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2024 06:22 PM (eYF7X)

51 How can anyone support a man who refuses to take responsibility for anything?
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 12, 2024 06:19 PM (zssUw)

Well, it's been working like a charm for a long friggin' time. So why deviate from that?

*looks at clock* Close enough *pours 2 fingers of bourbon*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 12, 2024 06:22 PM (T/Lqj)

52 Butter and sausages
Butter and sausages

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:23 PM (9UlRk)

53 Evening, Weasel.
Nice Gub thread last night. I have to admit I was distracted with sportsball. That was the first SB I’ve watched in years.
I was doing it only to count Tay Tay’ s appearances. I think it was 11.

Posted by: RI Red at February 12, 2024 06:23 PM (fs/Hl)

54 "Give me a break. The American public is tired of being played for suckers. I'm calling on companies to put a stop to this. Let's make sure businesses do the right thing now," Biden said.

Biden offered no solutions or policies to address the practice, did not name any specific companies but several brands were shown in the video, including Gatorade, Doritos, Breyers and Tostitos.

He can call on them all he wants but they are still going to keep on doing it because the companies are owned by the wealthy who don't give a damn about anyone except themselves. It’s time for full on rebellion against these rip offs.

Greed driven, extraction capitalism: Marka, hell yes. USA, USA, USA. at a certain point I refused to buy products even if I can afford them - f*** those greedy assholes!

A tax on excess profits might stop this crap. Biden should know that shame never works in the corporate world. Gotta hit them where it hurts.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 12, 2024 06:23 PM (ycI94)

55 Did the House Fall?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:21 PM (xaFKb)

that's what my bitching is about

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 06:23 PM (D7oie)

56 25 Shrinkflation has been happening for years.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2024 06:16 PM (63Dwl)

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I can't even remember how long ago it was that I noticed orange juice was being sold in 57 oz bottles instead of 64 oz. At least a decade, and probably more.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 12, 2024 06:23 PM (F4bAW)

57 Shrinkflation is so bad, there is even considerable "settling" of cash in the bribe bags. Like 20% more settling. This cannot continue!

Posted by: Scranton Joe at February 12, 2024 06:24 PM (aXxgO)

58 FJB is a bulging, full-to-the-drawstring, vacuum-packed, 33.9-pound bag of grade-A pig shit.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 12, 2024 06:24 PM (wzAuc)

59 >>> How can anyone support a man who refuses to take responsibility for anything?
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 12, 2024 06:19 PM (zssUw)

Obama was responsible for every good thing that ever occurred in the universe but none of the bad things. Put another way; Success has many paddle board buddies but failure is an Obama marriage.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 12, 2024 06:24 PM (Y6IkP)

60 A tax on excess profits might stop this crap. Biden should know that shame never works in the corporate world. Gotta hit them where it hurts.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 12, 2024 06:23 PM (ycI94)

'Excess profits'.

Like 'excess wealth'.

So wery good, comrade.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2024 06:24 PM (AJDwy)

61 Biden can not open his mouth with out puking out a lie.

Posted by: vic at February 12, 2024 06:25 PM (A5THL)

62 He can call on them all he wants but they are still going to keep on doing it because the companies are owned by the wealthy who don't give a damn about anyone except themselves. It’s time for full on rebellion against these rip offs.

This guy must be trolling. Nobody is that dimwitted, right?

Right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 12, 2024 06:25 PM (vDyah)

63 Sniffy Magoo in '22!

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 12, 2024 06:25 PM (z+89e)

64 Obama was responsible for every good thing that ever occurred in the universe but none of the bad things. Put another way; Success has many paddle board buddies but failure is an Obama marriage.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 12, 2024 06:24 PM (Y6IkP)

Whoa.. That was way existencial...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2024 06:25 PM (Akjoo)

65 Yes, let's bring attention to your ruinous inflation at the grocery stores and blame it on others.

At this point, I'm thinking his staff is actively sabotaging him and cooking up angry messaging they know he's going to get all excited about.
Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 06:21 PM (j4U/Z)

Breaking: The President lashed out at the television in the White House today, throwing the remote at the flat screen, shattering it.

He was heard to utter "too many buttons" as he was seen rummaging in a storage closet to retrieve a portable 9" black and white tv, with rabbit ears antenna.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 12, 2024 06:25 PM (dGCAG)

66 >>> I do think the "air in potato chip bags" is a con. The whole "sold by weight, not by volume" is bullshit.

To wit; a 16oz bag of chips that takes up a 96oz bag.... in volume. And sold for $12. All of it air.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 12, 2024 06:15 PM (Q4IgG)

I think the air is mostly for reducing chip breakage in delivery and stocking.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 12, 2024 06:26 PM (Y6IkP)

67 The back of Brandon’s head is decidedly flat. I’m not sure what that means but it’s not good. Maybe he doesn’t have the part of his brain where shame comes from.

Posted by: Blutarski at February 12, 2024 06:26 PM (Fwuhb)

68 You've heard of a "Baker's Dozen?"

Well a "Biden Dozen" is just like that, but better!

Instead of 12 eggs, you get a whopping NINE eggs!

9 > 1 + 2

(No need to check my math. I'm sure this is correct!)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2024 06:26 PM (BpYfr)

69 A tax on profits.

A tax.

On profits.

Ho lee titty fucking balls this guy is a genius. Why aren't we doing this?!?!?@

fuck's aches.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:26 PM (9UlRk)

70 As I always say, if the cost of energy goes up, the cost of everything goes up. Frito Lay exec: "Gee, the cost of growing potatoes, manufacturing potato chips, packaging potato chips, and shipping potato chips has gone up. What will we do?

Posted by: nerdygirl at February 12, 2024 06:26 PM (0Htd1)

71 61 Biden can not open his mouth with out puking out a lie.
Posted by: vic at February 12, 2024 06:25 PM (A5THL)

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I mean, given his memory, as far as he knows, it could be the truth.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 12, 2024 06:26 PM (F4bAW)

72 It's idiotic leftist populism. The big bad companies are out to get us, but I will save you!

And it works on a fair number of people.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2024 06:27 PM (gSZYf)

73 >>51 How can anyone support a man who refuses to take responsibility for anything?
Posted by: Northernlurker

Like giving Big Pharma immunity?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2024 06:27 PM (eYF7X)

74 I once loved Fig Newtons. Then they raised the price. Then they shrunk the size. Then they switched to cheaper ingredients losing their special taste. The last broke me.

I now buy Fig Bars that taste better but not as good as the original but at half the price.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 12, 2024 06:27 PM (Gse2f)

75 So Trump killed one million Americans, Joey? That's your take?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2024 06:27 PM (UjVYr)

76 71 61 Biden can not open his mouth with out puking out a lie.
Posted by: vic at February 12, 2024 06:25 PM (A5THL)

He reads what they write for him

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2024 06:27 PM (Akjoo)

77 The other thing that I do not think is realized by most: this is not a problem (inflation) that can be solved by winning an election. This is permanent, long term damage they are intentionally doing (Hello Lenin.) I am trying to think of a example to compare it to, but all I keep coming up with is intentionally giving your kids a learning disability/drug addiction or throwing open the border to migrants.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:27 PM (di6C2)

78 Tucker was being interviewed in Dubai recently and the host asked him how Putin's lucidity and intelligence would compare to Biden's. Tucker answered "Let me put it this was, if it was a boxing match the referee would call the match..."

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 12, 2024 06:27 PM (MeG8a)

79 Back in my day, chips came in wax paper bags and there was no room for air.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 12, 2024 06:27 PM (jvesK)

80 At this point, I'm thinking his staff is actively sabotaging him
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Maybe. They pay people good money to come up with ideas like this, but the retard vote can only take you so far.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 12, 2024 06:27 PM (woPEM)

81 >>I think the air is mostly for reducing chip breakage in delivery and stocking.

Don't be silly. It's to let the chips breath.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 06:27 PM (LkLld)

82 A tax on excess profits might stop this crap. Biden should know that shame never works in the corporate world. Gotta hit them where it hurts.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 12, 2024 06:23 PM (ycI94)
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Has anyone ever defined "excess profits" in numerical terms? Is a 10% profit margin too much? Or is it based on absolute dollars?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2024 06:28 PM (BpYfr)

83 I would rather have a potato chip in the Oval Office, rather than Joetato.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2024 06:28 PM (ufFY8)

84 I think the air is mostly for reducing chip breakage in delivery and stocking.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 12, 2024 06:26 PM (Y6IkP)

One upside: chip crumbles seem to have improved dramatically.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:28 PM (di6C2)

85 A tax on excess profits might stop this crap. Biden should know that shame never works in the corporate world. Gotta hit them where it hurts.
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Because then they'd never just charge consumers more to make up the difference, especially if there are narrower profit margins as in groceries.

And I'm glad there are no rich Democrats anywhere too!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 12, 2024 06:28 PM (2yu8s)

86 The only real way to get inflation down would be a global economic depression.

Which would be a real kick in the teeth to the 12-16 million illegals the junta has shoveled into the country.

Basically everyone is proper fucked and the effects haven't really been felt, but they will be. And soon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 12, 2024 06:29 PM (XV/Pl)

87 Has anyone ever defined "excess profits" in numerical terms? Is a 10% profit margin too much? Or is it based on absolute dollars?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2024 06:28 PM (BpYfr)

As with everything, it is based on what you feel.

Posted by: Diocletian, with a copy of his Edict on Prices clutched in his hand at February 12, 2024 06:29 PM (di6C2)

88 They should use nitrogen inflation in the chip bags.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2024 06:29 PM (63Dwl)

89 One nutritionist claimed that sugary drinks and junk food were "inelastic" in demand, as in the cost was not an important element in causing consumers to seek cheaper brands, unlike people who can't easily afford Levi 501 jeans so they buy "Wranglers" or "rustlers" instead.

His argument does not match shrinkflation in the real world, if it were true then everything would be the same price and the prices would just jack up.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 06:29 PM (D7oie)

90 , but all I keep coming up with is intentionally giving your kids a learning disability/drug addiction or throwing open the border to migrants.
Posted by: Aetius451AD a

OK, we got the drugs and border.

We need to work on learning disability. No, wait, I think we got that covered too! As a bonus, we make them gay too. we are 4 for 3!!
Yeahh us.

Posted by: Biden Admin. at February 12, 2024 06:29 PM (jvesK)

91 Shrinkflation? Not in my house.

Posted by: Tank Abrams at February 12, 2024 06:30 PM (OZjDX)

92 Basically everyone is proper fucked and the effects haven't really been felt, but they will be. And soon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 12, 2024 06:29 PM (XV/Pl)

This.

Another would be to change the currency- which I am not sure what would happen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:31 PM (di6C2)

93 They should use nitrogen inflation in the chip bags.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2024 06:29 PM (63Dwl)

I use it in my tires and you would not believe the improvement in handling.

I may give argon a try next.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 12, 2024 06:31 PM (vDyah)

94 >>One upside: chip crumbles seem to have improved dramatically.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Unless you shop at WinCo where they must have gorillas working on the receiving docks. Everything is smashed to fine dust.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 12, 2024 06:31 PM (eYF7X)

95
We need to work on learning disability. No, wait, I think we got that covered too! As a bonus, we make them gay too. we are 4 for 3!!
Yeahh us.
Posted by: Biden Admin. at February 12, 2024 06:29 PM (jvesK)

Permanent sterilization? Yep, we have that too.

This is fucking insane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:32 PM (di6C2)

96 72 It's idiotic leftist populism. The big bad companies are out to get us, but I will save you!

And it works on a fair number of people.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2024 06:27 PM (gSZYf)

++++

Yeah, I think so. They want to believe that corporate America is out to screw them at every turn, and then here comes Biden to say it is true after all.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 12, 2024 06:32 PM (7YG60)

97
"The American public is tired of being played for suckers!"

LOLOLOL

Not even close. They fucking love it with a love that will apparently never die.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 12, 2024 06:32 PM (0FoWg)

98 Retards are limitless.

Posted by: Jamaica at February 12, 2024 06:32 PM (IG7T0)

99 The President has noted, pointing at the television when watching MSNBC's Morning Joe, that it is his favorite show.

When asked to elaborate, he says "That Vanna is nice, she's got birthing hips," but further noted "I don't like Alex anymore, he's supposed to tell them to answer in the form of a question!"

Posted by: BurtTC at February 12, 2024 06:33 PM (dGCAG)

100 Joe has always been a narcisstic sociopath with delusions of grandeur. He's a monster. Now he's senile.

He's capable of anything.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 12, 2024 06:33 PM (Gse2f)

101 You stop buying a corporation's shit, the corporation goes away.

You stop buying a Party Member's shit.... you go away.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:33 PM (9UlRk)

102 His argument does not match shrinkflation in the real world, if it were true then everything would be the same price and the prices would just jack up.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 06:29 PM (D7oie)

I meant "everything would stay the same size and the price would just increase" and there wouldn't be a problem with consumers leaving a brand.

I think I will go back to obsessing over lampreys

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 06:34 PM (D7oie)

103 Back in my day, chips came in wax paper bags and there was no room for air.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest

In my day, chips came on at nine. Once a week.

Posted by: Nametag: Joe at February 12, 2024 06:34 PM (hCzfy)

104 A new currency! Perfect! We'll call it the Four Flusher!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 12, 2024 06:34 PM (MeG8a)

105 Has anyone ever defined "excess profits" in numerical terms? Is a 10% profit margin too much? Or is it based on absolute dollars?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2024 06:28 PM (BpYfr)

And they won't.
Just like I used to ask my extremely libtarded friend what a fair income tax rate would be. He would NEVER answer it directly.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2024 06:34 PM (ufFY8)

106 Not even close. They fucking love it with a love that will apparently never die.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 12, 2024 06:32 PM (0FoWg)

"can you believe that game that game was bullshit what you didn't watch the game what the fuck is wrong with you"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:34 PM (9UlRk)

107 They should use nitrogen inflation in the chip bags.
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The Euros say that's an inhumane way to package crisps that should be banned by the ICJ.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 12, 2024 06:34 PM (2yu8s)

108 Charles Chips in the can!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 12, 2024 06:35 PM (63Dwl)

109 97 72 It's idiotic leftist populism. The big bad companies are out to get us, but I will save you!

And it works on a fair number of people.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2024 06:27 PM (gSZYf)

++++

Yeah, I think so. They want to believe that corporate America is out to screw them at every turn, and then here comes Biden to say it is true after all.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 12, 2024 06:32 PM (7YG60)

Commie playbook. When the education system sort of did it's job, people were able to see the problems. And yet the corps keep right on playing along AND supporting this fucker.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:35 PM (di6C2)

110 I learned what profit was from being a ten-year old paper boy. You make money by delivering more than you used. It makes the world better.

So many in America are takers. I'm looking at you Bob Iger,

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 12, 2024 06:36 PM (Gse2f)

111 His brain is suffering from shrinkflation.

Posted by: Legion of Boom at February 12, 2024 06:36 PM (0JWOm)

112 Occasionally I stick my finger in my bellybutton just to see what comes out.

You'd be surprised how much gunk piles up when you're not showering with your daughter on a daily basis.

Posted by: Joke Biden at February 12, 2024 06:36 PM (OZjDX)

113 I think the air is mostly for reducing chip breakage in delivery and stocking.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 12, 2024 06:26 PM (Y6IkP)

They should hire illegals at 25 cents per hour to carefully orient and hand-pack the potato chips into tall cylinders to reduce waste space.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2024 06:36 PM (tkR6S)

114 And they won't.
Just like I used to ask my extremely libtarded friend what a fair income tax rate would be. He would NEVER answer it directly.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2024 06:34 PM (ufFY

Sales tax- and that is the only tax. Perfectly proportional.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:36 PM (di6C2)

115 92 Don't get me wrong. I think a pure Capitalism would be a great idea up to a point. We should try it.
Posted by: Capitalism at February 12, 2024 06:30 PM (IZcBq)

Might be possible if you killed credit cards, the IRS and returned to a cash economy.

Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 06:36 PM (j4U/Z)

116 It shrinkflates?

Posted by: Elaine Benes at February 12, 2024 06:37 PM (KRtlO)

117 107 A new currency! Perfect! We'll call it the Four Flusher!
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 12, 2024 06:34 PM (MeG8a)

We could call it anything we wanted to as long as it was solid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:37 PM (di6C2)

118
Biden denounces the wreckers who cause inflation, and open the southern border. and put shit in his diaper.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 12, 2024 06:37 PM (FOgXL)

119 Clap-Ons used to work with just a snap of the fingers, but now you have to clap really hard, man.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 12, 2024 06:38 PM (woPEM)

120 Yay for President Snax!

Posted by: NoGo Hobo at February 12, 2024 06:38 PM (GSTUc)

121 Wow, that would be the vaccine that other countries are now outlawing, because it not only did not work, but is killing people who don't even get Covid.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:38 PM (xaFKb)

122 The Charles Chips Man used to drive a big box truck and deliver all kinds of goodies back in the day in big old round metal tins.

If he would have tried that air in the can thing he would have gotten an ass whoopin.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 12, 2024 06:38 PM (R/m4+)

123 "To wit; a 16oz bag of chips that takes up a 96oz bag.... in volume. And sold for $12. All of it air."

Just admit that you like your chips crushed into tiny tiny particles.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 12, 2024 06:39 PM (ou9hh)

124 Party size Tostitos is $6. What the fuck.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024 06:39 PM (R4t5M)

125 A replacement currency is already well underway, but none of you will like it.

Posted by: Mark of the Beast, LLC at February 12, 2024 06:39 PM (MeG8a)

126 The problem is that corporate profits are way up.
The left sees this as proof that they are the problem.

It is not just a matter of supply chain/ inflation / etc. squeezing everyone. The problem is that corporations take advantage of any disruption to increase profits. Partly this makes sense by basic economics since disruptions = risk, and require larger profits to compensate.

But partly it is just how the world works. Don't blame the corporations, blame the source of the disruptions -- covid, lockdowns, Gov. pissing away trillions, war in Ukraine, War in M.E., inflation, massive increase in population due to migration,.......

Biden caused these disruptions, which leads to profit taking.

Posted by: Biden Admin. at February 12, 2024 06:39 PM (jvesK)

127 There is no right to any good or service. When you invent one, you reach an absurdity. If you adhere to the absurdity long enough, you reach atrocities.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:40 PM (9UlRk)

128
The original Republican believed in Tariffs.

But they weren't spending a fractional percentage of what the government is looting now.

Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 06:40 PM (j4U/Z)

129 While your footman was cleaning some dog faced pony soldier's poop out of your pants, did you notice your brain shrinking while your diaper stays the same size? Folks are calling it galloping dementia, and it means this cruel world is giving you fewer days for every one you wake up. I'm calling on Big Time to put a stop to it.

As an ice cream lover, what makes me the most angry is that ice cream far too often resembles something else that's always within my trembling grasp, and doesn't taste nearly as sweet! I've had enough of what they call Stinkflation. It's a rip off.

Posted by: Brandon at February 12, 2024 06:40 PM (0FoWg)

130 "They should hire illegals at 25 cents per hour to carefully orient and hand-pack the potato chips into tall cylinders to reduce waste space."

Y'know, we figured out how to do that with machines.

Posted by: Pringles at February 12, 2024 06:40 PM (ou9hh)

131 >>Joe has always been a narcisstic sociopath with delusions of grandeur. He's a monster. Now he's senile.

>>He's capable of anything.

Despite all the cheerleading and flag waving the latest estimate I've heard is that 400,000 Ukrainians have been killed in this idiotic and needless war including a huge part of Ukraine's youth.

Everyone who has pushed this war and lied about what is happening is a monster.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 06:41 PM (LkLld)

132 I'm glad I didn't listen to ol Joe lie to me. I'd of thrown the remote through the tv.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 12, 2024 06:41 PM (W/lyH)

133 Just like I used to ask my extremely libtarded friend what a fair income tax rate would be. He would NEVER answer it directly.
----------
They also never give you a finite amount of money that would make a perfect, fair society/world.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 12, 2024 06:41 PM (2yu8s)

134 At the Super bowl party yesterday, we had to drink every time they showed Swifty.

Very few made it to OT.

In fairness, the game was so boring and the commercials so predictable, everyone was drinking hard anyway.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 12, 2024 06:41 PM (os8zY)

135 118 92 Don't get me wrong. I think a pure Capitalism would be a great idea up to a point. We should try it.
Posted by: Capitalism at February 12, 2024 06:30 PM (IZcBq)

Might be possible if you killed credit cards, the IRS and returned to a cash economy.
Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 06:36 PM (j4U/Z)

An extra 3% inflation has now been baked into the economy by going to a cashless society. Every credit card purchase, even if you pay if off immediately is treated as a loan for the purposes of Fractional Lending.

That means the credit card companies are creating dollars, every time you buy something. This money creation is not something they can control with interest rates... then add in money creation due to government deficit spending.... and you are at 5% inflation, at the very least... forever.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:41 PM (xaFKb)

136 I think they do use Nitrogen to package chips, btw.

Posted by: Biden Admin. at February 12, 2024 06:42 PM (jvesK)

137 Biden's a shit but I want to know how we get rid of Mitch McConnel and his 17 uniparty gopers. They took away 10 months of the repub house's ability to work on a budget and now has gone along with tying a potential Trump presidency into to forever funding of Ukraine.

Posted by: DanMan at February 12, 2024 06:42 PM (8uzBS)

138 Despite all the cheerleading and flag waving the latest estimate I've heard is that 400,000 Ukrainians have been killed in this idiotic and needless war including a huge part of Ukraine's youth.

Everyone who has pushed this war and lied about what is happening is a monster.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 06:41 PM (LkLld)

So, it is kind of like Chinese Lung AIDS.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:42 PM (di6C2)

139 Here's where I remind everyone that 2009 was the first year that sugar started being sold in the grocery stores in 4 lb bags despite being sold in 5 lb bags for pretty much the entirety of the 20th century.

Gosh, I wonder what else started in 2009.

If you don't remember, that's okay. Biden doesn't remember either.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 12, 2024 06:42 PM (wb1YC)

140 >>So, it is kind of like Chinese Lung AIDS.

Pretty much.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 06:43 PM (LkLld)

141 65:He was heard to utter "too many buttons" as he was seen rummaging in a storage closet to retrieve a portable 9" black and white tv, with rabbit ears antenna.
Posted by: BurtTC
-------------------------------------
Analog antenna won't pick up anything. He'll think that all the TV stations are gone and freak out even more. His staff will have to explain to him about the converstion from analog to digital. He won't understand and start shitting himself and screaming.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2024 06:43 PM (sAmhv)

142
Biden, who is non compos mentis...

He's also non compos mantis, which means that Biden looks like a big brilliantined stick-insect with toilet-white fake choppers.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 12, 2024 06:43 PM (nFnyb)

143 Party size Tostitos is $6. What the fuck.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024

***
For someone who remembers during Jimmah Carter's time that you could buy the regular-size bag of Doritos for .69 (yes, sixty-nine *cents*) and a six-pack of second-tier beer for $1.50, this is horrible.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2024 06:43 PM (omVj0)

144 At the Super bowl party yesterday, we had to drink every time they showed Swifty.

Very few made it to OT.

In fairness, the game was so boring and the commercials so predictable, everyone was drinking hard anyway.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 12, 2024 06:41 PM (os8zY)
-----------
Then you did find a place where a war hero could get some lubrication.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 12, 2024 06:43 PM (0gvpA)

145 139 I think they do use Nitrogen to package chips, btw.
Posted by: Biden Admin. at February 12, 2024 06:42 PM (jvesK)

The do, they did it ... 28 years ago when I worked my first quality job in a potato chip plant. Acts to help oxygen from spoiling the chips.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (di6C2)

146 We continue to be the world's laughingstock.
And a soft, bloated target.
Because of these asshats.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (DsA2n)

147 Sales tax- and that is the only tax. Perfectly proportional.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:36 PM (di6C2)

On everything, no exemptions at all.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (xaFKb)

148 36 Biden was a nasty, lying, prick, even before his brain melted into roadkill vomit.
Posted by: Puddleglum

He really is repulsive.

But, "he's a GOOD MAN".

I don't understand how anyone can actually say that with a straight face.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (QDZBH)

149 Remember the most important metric to Democrat and independent idiots in deciding who to vote for is "cares about people like me."

Do you understand what kind of paint-huffing, paste-eating, booger-licking mentally defective wants a president who "cares about them" in a nation of 330 million?

But then, a beer ad from a multinational mega- conglomerate with pickup trucks, American flags, fireworks and blondes used to sell the #1 beer with ease .....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (cSaKW)

150 Everytime Biden does something insane like this rant I'm reminded of Eddie Murphy on SNL saying that George Washington Carver died insane while trying to play a phonographic record with a peanut.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (DgSZ/)

151 Joe has always been a narcisstic sociopath with delusions of grandeur. He's a monster. Now he's senile.

He's capable of anything.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 12, 2024 06:33 PM (Gse2f)

Ole Joe has zero (0) power in the WH or anywhere in government. The powers-that-be that do run it stay hidden as they rule from the darkness.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (BdMk6)

152 133 "They should hire illegals at 25 cents per hour to carefully orient and hand-pack the potato chips into tall cylinders to reduce waste space."
Y'know, we figured out how to do that with machines.
Posted by: Pringles at

THOSE ARE NOT POTATO CHIPS!!!
They are "reconstituted potato snacks!!!"

Posted by: Big Chips at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (jvesK)

153 Kamala is on record telling everyone she wouldn't trust the vaxx because orangemanbad.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 12, 2024 06:46 PM (tT6L1)

154 And they won't.
Just like I used to ask my extremely libtarded friend what a fair income tax rate would be. He would NEVER answer it directly.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2024 06:34 PM (ufFY

The correlation between tax rates and actual percentage of GDP that is collected in taxes is called the Laffer Curve

I can't find a cite, but IIRC the guess from historical data in the US is that the percentage of GDP it is possible to grab is around 17%, any higher and the taxed find ways to evade or just give up producing.

the percentage of taxes includes all the fees, costs, local and state taxes and additional costs. Some economists also try to calculate regulatory costs as well.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 06:46 PM (D7oie)

155 They also never give you a finite amount of money that would make a perfect, fair society/world.
Posted by: andycanuck

Nor the optimal temperature of the 'climate'.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 06:46 PM (IG4Id)

156 "Sales tax- and that is the only tax. Perfectly proportional.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:36 PM (di6C2)

On everything, no exemptions at all.
Posted by: Romeo13 "

They'll complain about not being able to get taxes from private sales and barter, and come up with some kind of grifty scheme that all exchanges of goods or services must be reported to the government.

Otherwise, yes.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 12, 2024 06:46 PM (ou9hh)

157 151 Sales tax- and that is the only tax. Perfectly proportional.

On everything, no exemptions at all.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (xaFKb)

Yep. Oddly, the IRS does not like this job. Why would you need millions of IRS agents then? Or let them stockpile munitions? Or use it against your political enemies?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:46 PM (di6C2)

158 He would NEVER answer it directly.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2024 06:34 PM (ufFY

Because the real answer is: "Nobody should make that much money!"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2024 06:47 PM (gSZYf)

159 I never get tired of laughing at this White House. It's just carny folk all the way down.

Every comedian for the last 20 years at least has been referencing the fact that there's mostly air in a potato chip bag.

What's next for Grandpa StrangerDanger?

"Say, what's going on with airline food?"
- Biden in March

Posted by: Azathoth at February 12, 2024 06:47 PM (wb1YC)

160 Wondering what insanely stupid thing Biden will say in East Palestine.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 12, 2024 06:47 PM (zssUw)

161 They are "reconstituted potato snacks!!!"

I make my own potato chips now. They are tastier and healthier.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 12, 2024 06:47 PM (MeG8a)

162 They are "reconstituted potato snacks!!!"
Posted by: Big Chips at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (jvesK)

Reconstituted penguin snacks are called Pringuins.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2024 06:48 PM (tkR6S)

163 Because the real answer is: "Nobody should make that much money!"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2024 06:47 PM (gSZYf)

"Unless they're a Good Person"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:48 PM (9UlRk)

164 "I did not predict leaning into the aging issue with an Andy-Rooney-on-quaaludes rant about how chip bags used to be fuller."

I don't know who you are Mary Katherine Ham but this was Aceian in it's perfect cruelty.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 12, 2024 06:48 PM (cw9q7)

165 Yep. Oddly, the IRS does not like this job. Why would you need millions of IRS agents then? Or let them stockpile munitions? Or use it against your political enemies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:46 PM (di6C2)

Especially seeing as how a lot of States and localities already do this, so the infrastructure is already in place.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:48 PM (xaFKb)

166 148 I don't think I was drunk, but I may have been over served.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 12, 2024 06:49 PM (os8zY)

167 Reconstituted penguin snacks are called Pringuins.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2024 06:48 PM (tkR6S)

That looks like it should be some kind of Uruguayan insult....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:49 PM (9UlRk)

168 Pringles : Potato Chips :: Folgers Crystals : Coffee

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 12, 2024 06:49 PM (aXxgO)

169 3 And he's going to campaign this way, I think. Smirks and memes and not actually talking or campaigning. Other people will carry his water, just like in 2020.

He is, after all, just a puppet.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 12, 2024 06:11 PM

Can the Trump campaign hire Larry David?

He has a solution for evil puppets!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at February 12, 2024 06:49 PM (HlyYF)

170 I'm sorry I clicked on it..
Captain Bite Me must have mixed up that Monty Python dead parrot skit with reality...

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 12, 2024 06:49 PM (pV3nx)

171 166 They are "reconstituted potato snacks!!!"
Posted by: Big Chips at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (jvesK)

Reconstituted penguin snacks are called Pringuins.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2024 06:48 PM (tkR6S)

If you made a snack out of Taylor Swift?

Pop Tart?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:49 PM (xaFKb)

172 164 Wondering what insanely stupid thing Biden will say in East Palestine.

**

"Glad to be here with all you fine Palestinians. Say, where's this crying wall I hear about on the teevee? I bet that's a hoot."

Posted by: Azathoth at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (wb1YC)

173 But, "he's a GOOD MAN".

I don't understand how anyone can actually say that with a straight face.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (QDZBH)

Because they are stupid. And the ones who aren't stupid are conniving commies who want power and they know they can get it via the drooling, senile idiot.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (gSZYf)

174 Does Joe look more decrepit with every public appearance?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (zssUw)

175 164 Wondering what insanely stupid thing Biden will say in East Palestine.
Posted by: Northernlurker
--------------------------------------------
That he'll continue to pressure Israel to stop there war on them.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (sAmhv)

176 Biden's a shit but I want to know how we get rid of Mitch McConnel and his 17 uniparty gopers. They took away 10 months of the repub house's ability to work on a budget and now has gone along with tying a potential Trump presidency into to forever funding of Ukraine.
Posted by: DanMan at February 12, 2024 06:42 PM (8uzBS)

I don't think their impeachment gambit is going to hold up legally.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (BdMk6)

177 The original Republican believed in Tariffs.

But they weren't spending a fractional percentage of what the government is looting now.
Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 06:40 PM (j4U/Z)

tariffs were also used to dissuade the importation of goods that were cheaper from overseas to promote local manufacturing in the NE, and this screwed over the souther agriculture that used the cheaper equipment from over seas.
in the 1880s there was a lot of screwing each other over on the Tariffs, which is why they proposed income tax, to avoid that sort of partisanship.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (D7oie)

178 If you made a snack out of Taylor Swift?

Pop Tart?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:49 PM (xaFKb)

Ho Ho.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (9UlRk)

179 Biden's handlers aren't very smart. We've not only got shrinkflation, prices are still up even with manufacturers trying to avoid price hikes.

But yeah, let's remind the millions of people watching just how bad things are.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (tT6L1)

180 That looks like it should be some kind of Uruguayan insult....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:49 PM (9UlRk)
Pringuin tu madre!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (0gvpA)

181 I don't know guys. I'm starting to think that maybe ole Joe isn't all there.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 12, 2024 06:51 PM (MGB5H)

182 Northernlurker: "Wondering what insanely stupid thing Biden will say in East Palestine."

"We need a two-city solution."

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 12, 2024 06:51 PM (aXxgO)

183 In a just Society everyone involved with clot shot including Joe Biden would be on trial for crimes against humanity

Posted by: 18-1 at February 12, 2024 06:51 PM (ibTVg)

184 The real raging hypocrisy is that Biden is lashing out at evil corporations, and some of them are, while covering up the fact that he and his garbage family have been making millions selling out this country for years.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 06:51 PM (LkLld)

185 Mary Katherine Ham was hot back in the day.
Are you saying she porked out now?

Say it ain't so!

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 12, 2024 06:51 PM (ufFY8)

186 I did noticed Trump is all about get out the vote this time.
I'm hoping the polls are so full of MAGA supporters that there is no way for the Fuck Twat Dems to cheat in the 2024 election.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 12, 2024 06:51 PM (pV3nx)

187 So Bard College across the river from my city is establishing a reconciliation, and healing center regarding racism. The comments in my local rag are about what you'd think with non leftist basically rolling their eyes, while leftists are saying everybody who doesn't genuflect is a hillbilly, a racist etc. Marxism continues in academia

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 12, 2024 06:52 PM (DgSZ/)

188 "We need a two-city solution."
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 12, 2024 06:51 PM (aXxgO)

"Is shark kosher?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:52 PM (9UlRk)

189 souther agriculture that used the cheaper equipment from over seas.

Um, American farm equipment was being exported to Europe in the 1880s. A handful of UK tractor co's went out of business because of it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 06:53 PM (IG4Id)

190 Guy from Delaware throws shade at corporations...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 12, 2024 06:53 PM (MeG8a)

191 Mary Katherine Hamm will always remain attractive, to me, because she's smart and funny.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 12, 2024 06:53 PM (tT6L1)

192 The problem is that corporate profits are way up.
The left sees this as proof that they are the problem.

Posted by: Biden Admin. at February 12, 2024 06:39 PM (jvesK)

I'm willing to guess that 2 million in profit in 2024 is more like 1 million in profit in 2019. Bidenflation, yo!

Posted by: pookysgirl can do a little math at February 12, 2024 06:53 PM (dtlDP)

193 117 And they won't.
Just like I used to ask my extremely libtarded friend what a fair income tax rate would be. He would NEVER answer it directly.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2024 06:34 PM (ufFY

Sales tax- and that is the only tax. Perfectly proportional.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

You should pay taxes on what you spend. Not
On what you earn. And taxes on second homes and 50k dollar + vehicles and boats and airplanes should Be exorbitant.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 12, 2024 06:53 PM (AW6rC)

194 He can call on them all he wants but they are still going to keep on doing it because the companies are owned by the wealthy who don't give a damn about anyone except themselves. It’s time for full on rebellion against these rip offs.

This guy must be trolling. Nobody is that dimwitted, right?
---
No, they really do live in a reality that thinks Monopoly explains capitalism.
You'd have an easier time explaining physics to a cat than getting them to understand PepsiCo is a worldwide conglomerate with nearly 5,000 owner/shareholders-- and not some 90 year old white man with a handlebar mustache swimming in a vault of gold coins.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2024 06:53 PM (cSaKW)

195 Posted by: Capitalism at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (IZcBq)

You really are stupid.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2024 06:54 PM (gSZYf)

196 tariffs were also used to dissuade the importation of goods that were cheaper from overseas to promote local manufacturing in the NE, and this screwed over the souther agriculture that used the cheaper equipment from over seas.
in the 1880s there was a lot of screwing each other over on the Tariffs, which is why they proposed income tax, to avoid that sort of partisanship.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (D7oie)

ergo, it was not the Tariffs themselves that caused problems, but he micromanagement of the Economy by putting tariffs on individual items, that was the issue.

Just like the micromanagement of the income tax system, is an issue.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:54 PM (xaFKb)

197 An extra 3% inflation has now been baked into the economy by going to a cashless society. Every credit card purchase, even if you pay if off immediately is treated as a loan for the purposes of Fractional Lending.

That means the credit card companies are creating dollars, every time you buy something. This money creation is not something they can control with interest rates... then add in money creation due to government deficit spending.... and you are at 5% inflation, at the very least... forever.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:41 PM (xaFKb)

that is just the processing cost (labor and banking costs), it is in every transaction you make, just the banks bury it in reducing your interest rates. FWIW, gold bullion has a transaction cost too.

The real inflation is from banks (and credit card companies) issuing loans which the borrower pays back plus the transaction costs and the bank's charge for getting the money from the FED system and thge interest the bank takes as profit AND the risk they bear for the borrowers that go bust and can't pay it back.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 06:54 PM (D7oie)

198 189 The real raging hypocrisy is that Biden is lashing out at evil corporations, and some of them are, while covering up the fact that he and his garbage family have been making millions selling out this country for years.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 06:51 PM (LkLld)

It's all fun and games until they are being led to the ditch with everyone else and asking 'WHY?!!?'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:54 PM (di6C2)

199 You'd have an easier time explaining physics to a cat than getting them to understand PepsiCo is a worldwide conglomerate with nearly 5,000 owner/shareholders-- and not some 90 year old white man with a handlebar mustache swimming in a vault of gold coins.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2024 06:53 PM (cSaKW)
-----------
You mean...Uncle Pennybags isn't real?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 12, 2024 06:55 PM (0gvpA)

200 'Excess profits'.

Like 'excess wealth'.

So wery good, comrade.
---
That's why I said "profit to earnings ratio."
Because I'm smart.
I taught at university.
/s/ B. H. OBAMA.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2024 06:56 PM (cSaKW)

201
Meanwhile...

Biden is completely withdrawing from the little bases in Iraq, Jordan and Syria, after pulling off phony air raids in response to having them attacked.

Speculation is that this is a deal that will call off the Iranian attack Houthis from firing at ships in the Red Sea the U.S. cannot protect.

Look for the news reports. They're not there.

Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 06:56 PM (j4U/Z)

202 On everything, no exemptions at all.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (xaFKb)

With the Feral Gov overseeing everything bought. Yay

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 06:56 PM (D7oie)

203 Ole Joe has zero (0) power in the WH or anywhere in government. The powers-that-be that do run it stay hidden as they rule from the darkness.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 12, 2024 06:44 PM (BdMk6)

++++

The reason why he is going off on potato chips.

Posted by: washrivergal at February 12, 2024 06:56 PM (7YG60)

204 192 "We need a two-city solution."
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at February 12, 2024 06:51 PM (aXxgO)

"Is shark kosher?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:52 PM (9UlRk)

Ok, IS shark kosher?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:56 PM (di6C2)

205 194 Guy from Delaware throws shade at corporations...
Posted by: gourmand du jour at February 12, 2024 06:53 PM (MeG8a)

Guy who is multi millionaire, although his only job income has been as a Politician... throws shade at others actually producing products.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:56 PM (xaFKb)

206 Those Ensure bottles are getting smaller ! I got my dick stuck on one the other day !

Posted by: Joe Bitem at February 12, 2024 06:57 PM (NtVYv)

207 From the net:
Shark is not kosher12. According to the Chicago Rabbinical Council, the scales of a fish must be true scales that can be removed without damaging the skin of the fish to be considered kosher. Since the scales of a shark are microscopic, it is not considered kosher2. Other fish that are not kosher include eels, lumpfish, sturgeon, and swordfish2.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:57 PM (di6C2)

208 Biden is pushing the "shrinkflation" meme to cover the fact he has a tiny wiener...

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 12, 2024 06:57 PM (pV3nx)

209 The irony is Big Food is a DNC cash machine and Pedo once again pissed on them.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 12, 2024 06:58 PM (iPilE)

210 Biden is completely withdrawing from the little bases in Iraq, Jordan and Syria, after pulling off phony air raids in response to having them attacked.

Speculation is that this is a deal that will call off the Iranian attack Houthis from firing at ships in the Red Sea the U.S. cannot protect.

Look for the news reports. They're not there.

Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 06:56 PM (j4U/Z)

Not surprised, but we never should have been there in the first place.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 06:58 PM (xaFKb)

211 You'd have an easier time explaining physics to a cat than getting them to understand PepsiCo is a worldwide conglomerate with nearly 5,000 owner/shareholders-- and not some 90 year old white man with a handlebar mustache swimming in a vault of gold coins.

***

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil.
- Eric Hoffer

Posted by: Azathoth at February 12, 2024 06:58 PM (wb1YC)

212 I bought an egg mcmuffin the other day and it looked way smaller than it used to

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 12, 2024 06:58 PM (NtVYv)

213 "Is shark kosher?"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:52 PM (9UlRk)

Ok, IS shark kosher?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:56 PM (di6C2)

Nope. No scales.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2024 06:58 PM (gSZYf)

214 Ham is just another conservathot who got the the thirsty beta orbiters of ConInc to toss cash at her while she banged an Obama staffer. There's a thousand of these broads.

I swear... they should just get together and set up a website to streamline this process. Call it OnlyScams.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 12, 2024 06:58 PM (0FoWg)

215 195 Posted by: Capitalism at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (IZcBq)

You really are stupid.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2024 06:54 PM (gSZYf)

And CBD reveals his TRUE colors!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:59 PM (di6C2)

216 Look for the news reports. They're not there.

Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 06:56 PM (j4U/Z)

The Biden Doctrine: Fuck around playing three cups of pee and grab-assing with the UN until you get your ass shot at, and then say "OK, we'll run away if you promise to stop shooting at us". And then blame it on Trump.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 06:59 PM (9UlRk)

217 And CBD reveals his TRUE colors!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:59 PM (di6C2)

Yes. It's true. My time in Berkeley rotted my brain and I truly believe the labor theory of value!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2024 07:00 PM (gSZYf)

218 That means the credit card companies are creating dollars, every time you buy something. This money creation is not something they can control with interest rates... then add in money creation due to government deficit spending.... and you are at 5% inflation, at the very least... forever.
Posted by: Romeo13

No, only if consumer debt is increasing.
And the natural state of an economy is deflation. The only reason we don't have deflation during non-interesting times is because of money printing.

Posted by: Big Chips at February 12, 2024 07:00 PM (jvesK)

219 Pringuin tu madre!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 12, 2024 06:50 PM (0gvpA)

Pin uno, pin dos, pin tres.
Pin cuatro, pin cinco pin seis.
Pin siete, Pinocho!

De tin marín, de Don Pinque, cucara macara titara fue!

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 07:00 PM (D7oie)

220 No shellfish, ever? You can have oysters, but scallops?! With butter and garlic...

I am so glad I love Jesus right now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 07:00 PM (di6C2)

221 "Despite all the cheerleading and flag waving the latest estimate I've heard is that 400,000 Ukrainians have been killed in this idiotic and needless war including a huge part of Ukraine's youth."

Ukraine's population already skewed old, so this is especially tragic. No young men, no young families no babies. Just old people waiting to die.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 12, 2024 07:02 PM (Gse2f)

222 Um, American farm equipment was being exported to Europe in the 1880s. A handful of UK tractor co's went out of business because of it.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 12, 2024 06:53 PM (IG4Id)

Pre civil war it was that way, post civil war it did go both ways, but the reason for the income tax was supposed to do away with the fights over who's industry would get what protection via tariffs.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 07:02 PM (D7oie)

223 >>Ukraine's population already skewed old, so this is especially tragic. No young men, no young families no babies. Just old people waiting to die.

You talking about Ukraine or this place?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 07:03 PM (LkLld)

224 Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 07:00 PM (di6C2)

Nope. If it comes from the sea it has to swim, have fins, and scales.

I cheat.

A lot.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 12, 2024 07:03 PM (gSZYf)

225 Ham is batshit insane

I have never seen anyone react with so little emotion like she did at her husbands death (who by the way was a fucking libtard)

You would have gotten more emotion out of her if you had told her it was going to rain today

These thots are so fucking WEIRD

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 12, 2024 07:04 PM (VTu1l)

226 The "shrinkflation" meme from the Biden campaign is simply an attempt to convince naive people and dummies that the continuing price increases of packaged foods has not been caused by the continued inflation during Mr. Biden's tenure.

However, Mr. Biden's evil shrinkflation does not explain the ever-continuing cost increases during Mr Biden's tenure of constant-quantity items. Such as a half-gallon of milk or orange juice, a pound of hamburger or ham, a dozen eggs, a pound of apples, potatoes, flour sugar, and so on.

And guess what packaged food are made from? Milk, eggs, apples, potatoes, flour, sugar, and a lot of other raw foods!

As others said, shrinkflation is real, and is a marketing psychology practice. Nothing else. If FJB believes otherwise, he should show us his evidence. He would it he had any. If Joe proved 'shrinkflation' is a malicious, evil tool of 'big brands' to rip-off consumers, parents feeding families would band together, buy rope, and lynch every employee at big brands' companies. Then vote en masse for Joe, who saved them big money every month!

It is nothing buy Biden bullshit. FJB

Posted by: Gref at February 12, 2024 07:04 PM (5fDan)

227 Joe Biden is the Old Man In The Cave but instead of looking out for Americans he tells stories and lies to fuck people over while he goes around molesting innocent children and enriching hisself.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 12, 2024 07:04 PM (R/m4+)

228 The real inflation is from banks (and credit card companies) issuing loans which the borrower pays back plus the transaction costs and the bank's charge for getting the money from the FED system and thge interest the bank takes as profit AND the risk they bear for the borrowers that go bust and can't pay it back.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 06:54 PM (D7oie)

You missed the point. Every Credit card transaction is just that... a credit transaction... thus kicking off fractional lending... so the cashless society moved what would be a normal transaction, to a loan.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 07:04 PM (xaFKb)

229 Any truth to the claim of thinner cream centers to oreos.

Posted by: WisRich at February 12, 2024 07:05 PM (Qgr0I)

230 Man, the Democrat nominating convention this year is gonna be LIT!

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at February 12, 2024 07:05 PM (MB784)

231 All bullshit Party-stated justifications aside, the the income tax was a fever dream for Statists who wanted and got the best tool of social control short of bullets.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 12, 2024 07:06 PM (0FoWg)

232 I still remember the old bags. You used to spit them at the rear seam. They were like a sheet of wax paper with seam in back and closed on the ends, but the rear seam split easier so you would open it up like popcorn bag.

They had printing, but it was not so clear or bright since it was on wax paper.

Posted by: Big Chips at February 12, 2024 07:06 PM (jvesK)

233 And CBD reveals his TRUE colors!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 06:59 PM (di6C2)

Non-Ricardo-ite? Post-Mengerite? Sane?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 07:06 PM (D7oie)

234 President Biden will go down in history for stopping snack makers from downsizing their products. In leu of a sculpted bust on Mount Rushmore HASBRO is introducing a Mr. Potato Head made to look like Joe Biden..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 12, 2024 07:06 PM (pV3nx)

235 You talking about Ukraine or this place?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 07:03 PM (LkLld)

++++
LOL!

Posted by: washrivergal at February 12, 2024 07:07 PM (7YG60)

236 Democrats are experts at creating straw men and deflecting.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2024 06:21 PM

TBF, the Republicans have cornered the market on pouncing and seizing.

Posted by: DNC at February 12, 2024 07:07 PM (82JiD)

237 227
all fine and good, but the "naive people and dummies" wing of the American electorate is immense.

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at February 12, 2024 07:07 PM (MB784)

238 Imagine if Bush, after being outed as a complete nutter, went on the air that night and started bitching about Halliburton's War For Oil and how evil it all was

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 07:07 PM (9UlRk)

239 Posted by: RI Red at February 12, 2024 06:23 PM (fs/Hl)
---
Thanks, Red. Appreciate it. I watched a little of the 4th quarter and it wasn't bad!

Posted by: Weasel at February 12, 2024 07:07 PM (JwHpX)

240 Ham is batshit insane

It settles down if you tame it with a nice glaze before baking.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 12, 2024 07:08 PM (V8he0)

241 235 President Biden will go down in history for stopping snack makers from downsizing their products. In leu of a sculpted bust on Mount Rushmore HASBRO is introducing a Mr. Potato Head made to look like Joe Biden..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 12, 2024 07:06 PM (pV3nx)

With both connected and unconnected earlobes?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 07:08 PM (di6C2)

242 >From the net:
Shark is not kosher

I thought if the critter had claws or antennae, it was not kosher

Posted by: Don Black at February 12, 2024 07:08 PM (geLO8)

243 Non-Ricardo-ite? Post-Mengerite? Sane?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 07:06 PM (D7oie)

Give him a chair

He's got the Webers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 07:08 PM (9UlRk)

244 "You talking about Ukraine or this place?"

We have it too. But we're not killing off every other young man, yet.

I've been saying that Zelensky will fight to last Ukranian soldier and the last American dollar.

Yet our leaders are insisting that we must keep funding this. It's sickening.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 12, 2024 07:09 PM (Gse2f)

245 It settles down if you tame it with a nice glaze before baking.

***********

I must be setting the oven wrong then

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 12, 2024 07:09 PM (VTu1l)

246 Everything that Joe Biden says is a lie.

PERIOD

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 12, 2024 07:09 PM (17s+e)

247 Hey Joe No Shit! My dollars and wallet are shrinking too Captain Obvious !

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 12, 2024 07:10 PM (pV3nx)

248 >>Yet our leaders are insisting that we must keep funding this. It's sickening.

Our bi-partisan foreign policy has been garbage since WWII, right about the time the CIA took it over.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2024 07:11 PM (LkLld)

249 You missed the point. Every Credit card transaction is just that... a credit transaction... thus kicking off fractional lending... so the cashless society moved what would be a normal transaction, to a loan.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 12, 2024 07:04 PM (xaFKb)

You miss the point. In our fiat system inflation is caused by the creation of money without equivalent production of backing wealth, which is the definition of fiat.
your 3% is the cost of handling transactions, which is the labor cost, the infrastructure cost and the cost of having money on hand to clear the credit in the system.
all transactions have a cost, be it your visa card or the bank of Manhattan sending a shipload of gold to the bank of England to clear an imbalance in credit between the two banks in 1920.

the transaction cost is not creating money, it is a fee just like the cost that uber-eats charges you above the cost of your pizza, and for the same reasons.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 07:12 PM (D7oie)

250 My kid is getting a lot of help from the wife and I.
This inflation is on everyones mind. It's killing people
They rent an 3 bdr, 1.5 ba apartment for $1600 per month. Almost 40% of their entire income. I rented the apartment 5 doors down in 1989 for $365. First tennant. They had common rooms and weight rooms. Pool and hot tub. Clean and new.
Place is a dump now and those rooms are apartments. The pool is a mosquito breeding ground and the hot tub went long ago.
I don't see short of hitting the lottery a path for them out of there.
Frigging average house here is around $500,000.
This sucks.

Posted by: Reforger at February 12, 2024 07:12 PM (raJHR)

251
With both connected and unconnected earlobes?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 07:08 PM (di6C2)

Whatever do you mean?

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 12, 2024 07:12 PM (pV3nx)

252 Wreckers and kulaks, what a surprise. It's always the same old playbook with these communist fuckers.

Posted by: Limey at February 12, 2024 07:14 PM (TQmYC)

253
The British Empire and Soviet Union both fell in my lifetime, but nothing rivals the astonishing speed under which America is collapsing.

Posted by: Auspex at February 12, 2024 07:14 PM (j4U/Z)

254 247 Everything that Joe Biden says is a lie.

PERIOD
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 12, 2024 07:09 PM (17s+e)

EXCLAMATION POINT

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2024 07:15 PM (AJDwy)

255 253 Wreckers and kulaks, what a surprise. It's always the same old playbook with these communist fuckers.
Posted by: Limey at February 12, 2024 07:14 PM (TQmYC)

Well, yes. Evil is not really that imaginative.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2024 07:15 PM (di6C2)

256 EXCLAMATION POINT
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 12, 2024 07:15 PM (AJDwy)

COLON

Posted by: Joe Biden's knackered absorbent undergarment at February 12, 2024 07:17 PM (9UlRk)

257 Talking point on Reddit and DU willBe exactly what Biden said.

Posted by: Montec at February 12, 2024 07:17 PM (bWsRe)

258 Special Counsel Hur’s investigation revealed that Biden had a history of mishandling classified documents, dating back to at least 2010, when he misplaced a highly sensitive briefing book in the Hamptons, demonstrating a pattern of carelessness with classified materials contrary to his public stance on responsible document handling.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 12, 2024 07:17 PM (pV3nx)

259 This Firemen says that the dumb bastard was out rescuing hostages when he should have been watching the Super Bowl!

Rep. Jamaal Bowman Ed.D.
@JamaalBowmanNY
While we watched the Super Bowl, Netanyahu launched a wave of attacks and killed innocent civilians in Rafah - a place where many refugees fled for relative safety - despite warnings from Biden.
Netanyahu’s government is unfit to lead anything and cannot receive support.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 12, 2024 07:18 PM (FVME7)

260 Yeah, that ain't a sock i wanna be gallivanting down main street in tomorrow by mistake.....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 07:18 PM (9UlRk)

261 I just read the Joe Bite Me is the country's oldest ever President.

I did not know that!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 12, 2024 07:19 PM (pV3nx)

262 Jamal Bowman is also a DOCTOR? Like Jill? 😂

Posted by: Montec at February 12, 2024 07:19 PM (bWsRe)

263 263 I just read the Joe Bite Me is the country's oldest ever President.

I did not know that!
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 12, 2024 07:19 PM (pV3nx)

Older than BHH? Dang.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 07:20 PM (9UlRk)

264 And Super Bowl Sunday is a Moslem high holiday!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 12, 2024 07:20 PM (2yu8s)

265 Does anyone remember big plastic tokens inside chip bags that you could use for amusement park entry? It might just be a local thing.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 12, 2024 07:20 PM (Y6IkP)

266 Wonder how cruel the puppet controllers are to rebell puppets?
To quickly keep quiet at all costs.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at February 12, 2024 07:20 PM (J8LnB)

267 He was heard to utter "too many buttons" as he was seen rummaging in a storage closet to retrieve a portable 9" black and white tv, with rabbit ears antenna.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 12, 2024 06:25 PM (dGCAG)

Only to not being able to see anything but snow on the screen because there are no analog signals to be had. Joe was last seen yelling at clouds on the Whitehouse lawn.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at February 12, 2024 07:21 PM (iODuv)

268 Hey. Everything I say is a lie. I am not kidding.

Posted by: Joe Biteum at February 12, 2024 07:21 PM (vFG9F)

269 Age isn't all. Another elderly incompetent POTUS.

https://youtu.be/b5wfPlgKFh8

On SNL, Phil Hartmann portrayed Reagan as a buffoon in public, but an evil mastermind in private. Ronnie was actually a closet intellectual (a fan of Hayek ... not that Hayek, the other one).

Reagan dealt with Iran/Iraq by selling arms to both and then getting them into a shooting war with each other. He then used the profits from the Iran sales to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua which got him in trouble with Irangate.

Marine Colonel Oliver North ran the operation but in the Irangate Congressional hearings he said it was totally his own idea, thus shielding Reagan.

They subpoenaed Fawn Hall, Ollie's secretary, to try to undermine his testimony. Draws dropped when this unknown walked into the Congressional hearings. She covered for her boss.

http://tinyurl.com/4sdjj45z

Fawn could have been in a ZZ Top MTV video, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 12, 2024 07:23 PM (Gse2f)

270 268 Wonder how cruel the puppet controllers are to rebell puppets?
To quickly keep quiet at all costs.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at February 12, 2024 07:20 PM (J8LnB)

Pretty quick.

Posted by: Seth at February 12, 2024 07:23 PM (raJHR)

271 nood

Cafe

Posted by: banana Dream at February 12, 2024 07:23 PM (Y6IkP)

272 Some poor jackass is probably in the White House kitchen right now, surrounded by three empty chip bags and one really nicely plump chip bag that isn't quite sealed exactly right, gently sobbing, and wondering what the fuck went wrong with his life.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2024 07:23 PM (9UlRk)

273 Hello others..Nood Cafe

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 12, 2024 07:23 PM (pV3nx)

274 212 I bought an egg mcmuffin the other day and it looked way smaller than it used to
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I stopped buying fast food long ago, but my brother's in the hospital and wanted a burger, so I bought Wendy's last night.

I don't know what that shit is, but it isn't ground beef.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 12, 2024 07:23 PM (woPEM)

275 Speaking of the vaccine: remember that Pfizer claimed that they weren't a part of Project Warp Speed, President Trump's program to expedite a vaccine for the WuFlu.

Either the fix was in and they lied about it to limit any benefit to Trump prior to the election, or they were telling the truth and were not accepting money and whatever through the program. And if not, why not? Did they know something everyone but Fauci did not?

Speaking of which, where has the American Mengele been lately? The God-Science-Emperor has been quiet of late.

Posted by: Another Anon at February 12, 2024 07:23 PM (hwP7U)

276 Yeah. You're being penuried by a fluffy chip bag. These fascist pigs love to tell the most ridiculous lies and make everyone repeat them. The shame is the kink.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 12, 2024 07:24 PM (0FoWg)

277 Reuters, Biden marks one million U.S. COVID deaths after losing political battles
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason
May 12, 20228:02 PM EDTUpdated 2 years ago

YouTube · NBC News
256.5K+ views · 3 years ago
Harris On Vaccine: 'If Donald Trump Tells Us To Take It, I'm Not Taking It.'

Remind them, early & often.

Posted by: L - Now the King of BS can't remember last evening so forget about it at February 12, 2024 07:26 PM (GshMh)

278 My Great Grandmother would never buy swiss cheese because she thought she was being gypped by paying for all the holes. Sounds like Joe Biden, Super Genius, is using the same logic.

Posted by: Socratease at February 12, 2024 07:37 PM (t8Egx)

279 Romeo13, fractional lending is a problem, which historically will cause a business cycle ending in another recession, but in this case today I have been told that the FED has backed all those bad debts by issuing FED loans for the face value of the banks' bad debts but they can't spend it, so on paper they are still solvent.

The problem is the Treasury is issuing debt to cover the deficit spending and creating money that way, which the FED acting as the central bank has to cover as well.

Powell is trying to hit the 2% inflation and is tying language in knots to say he is doing it, but he isn't managing it.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 07:37 PM (D7oie)

280 282 Romeo13, fractional lending is a problem, which historically will cause a business cycle ending in another recession, but in this case today I have been told that the FED has backed all those bad debts by issuing FED loans for the face value of the banks' bad debts but they can't spend it, so on paper they are still solvent.

The problem is the Treasury is issuing debt to cover the deficit spending and creating money that way, which the FED acting as the central bank has to cover as well.

Powell is trying to hit the 2% inflation and is tying language in knots to say he is doing it, but he isn't managing it.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 12, 2024 07:37 PM (D7oie)

This business will get out of control. It will get out of control, and we'll be lucky to live through it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 12, 2024 07:53 PM (S6gqv)

281 66 >>> I do think the "air in potato chip bags" is a con. The whole "sold by weight, not by volume" is bullshit.

To wit; a 16oz bag of chips that takes up a 96oz bag.... in volume. And sold for $12. All of it air.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 12, 2024 06:15 PM (Q4IgG)

I think the air is mostly for reducing chip breakage in delivery and stocking.

Posted by: banana Dream

Easy arguments, but other than keeping the chips from breaking is only a part of it. The other part, is that the "air" in the bags isn't "air" it's pure nitrogen, which, without the presence of various specific elements, and a rather high amount of energy is a borderline noble gas. The Nitrogen doesn't just offer protection from crumbling, but also prevents oxidation and staling of the chip over time while within the bag, until it's opened. Pringles uses the same routine, that's why you hear a wisp of air when you open the tube.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 12, 2024 07:58 PM (e9nOI)

282 Read Shakespeare closely and you find out that Juliet is a nasty little 13 year old.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 12, 2024 07:59 PM (S6gqv)

283 THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE of how inept the Republican party happens to be. It's a golden opportunity to side with the American public and provide cover for the corporations who are scared to death to counter anything stated by the Left for fear of falling out of favor and becoming a target.

Every freaking republican congressman should be on the air explaining inflation and how Biden's comments are ludicrous. It's a winning conversation that will enrage the public and give a forum to a multitude of food manufacturers to state their case.

Instead....silence.

Posted by: Orson at February 12, 2024 08:10 PM (dIske)

284 >>Wondering what insanely stupid thing Biden will say in East Palestine.
Posted by: Northernlurker

I want to talk to the IDF while I'm there.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 12, 2024 08:16 PM (HQ9Sl)

285 Fuck Mudpants and all those around him.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at February 12, 2024 09:14 PM (Yt+m4)

286 I live an hour away from East Palestine. They don't want him there.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 12, 2024 09:59 PM (R4t5M)

287 but why do I have to look at adverts about parasites.... with worms coming out of some chicks feet, etc....every single day????? are you sponsored by worms-b-gone? it was fine for the first three months......but man...... I just get sick and tired of looking at that poor 3rd world womans feet with the protruding parasites...........can't you change it up???????

Posted by: Monica at February 13, 2024 04:44 AM (Tz42o)

288 "Shrinkflation. Yeah. I've had that problem in the bedroom before" - George Costanza.

Posted by: Ray Mota at February 13, 2024 12:26 PM (sw3xv)

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