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Inflation Rises "Much More" than Expected; Media Hails Joe Biden's Genius In Finally Curing Americans of Consumerism
Hail the great leader! He brings us political prosperity!
Wholesale inflation rose 0.6% in February, much more than expected The producer price index, which measures pipeline costs for raw, intermediate and finished goods, jumped 0.6% on the month, double the Dow Jones estimate. On a year-over-year basis, the headline index increased 1.6%, the biggest move since September 2023. Two-thirds of the rise in headline PPI came from a 1.2% surge in goods prices, the biggest increase since August 2023, thanks to a 4.4% jump in energy. Retail sales increased 0.6%, less than expected, while weekly jobless claim filings nudged lower to 209,000. Wholesale prices accelerated at a faster-than-expected pace in February, another reminder that inflation remains a troublesome issue for the U.S. economy.This will complicate the Feds' agenda of reducing interest rates to stimulate the economy in order to rig the election for Joe Biden. Fortune: America hit with one-two punch of bad economic news.
The mighty American consumer has shrugged off months, even years of recession predictions from top economists and Wall Street CEOs. Facing the hottest inflation in 40 years, and aggressive interest rate hikes meant to tame it, consumers have managed to continue spending, enabling the economy to remain on solid footing. But this week, a one-two punch of bad economic data has some experts waiting for another uppercut. The second straight weak retail sales report, which included a downward revision of January's sales data, has sparked concerns that consumers are finally showing signs of wear and tear after powering through price increases and rising borrowing costs for roughly two years....Or for Biden. Related: Despite President Confabulation's claims, the company did not reduce the size of Snickers bar because of corporate greed and artificial "shrinkflation." No, the size of the Snickers bar was reduced because the company was attempting to obey Michelle Obama's "Eat Less, Move More" campaign. They tried to deliver a lower-calorie candy by making it smaller, as Michelle Obama demanded.
At the same time, producer price inflation, which tends to lead consumer price inflation, also came in above Wall Street's expectations for the second straight month on Thursday. It's another piece of data that could put investors' dreams of swift, economy-boosting interest rate cuts on hold, particularly with Fed officials being very clear that they don't plan on cutting rates until inflation is well under control. As Quincy Krosby, chief global strategist for LPL Financial, put it: "For the data dependent Fed, this report isn't helpful."
CNN states that the 2 to Go Snickers resealable package includes two smaller snickers bars containing 220 calories each. The move from King size to the 2 to Go package was officially announced in 2012, explaining that the new language and resealable packaging was meant to encourage consumers to share or save the second Snickers bar to eat later. The outlet stated that the confectionery company also said they planned to replace or eliminate all candy bar sizes which contained over 250 calories by the end of 2013. According to NPR, downsizing from the then standard two ounce and 280 calorie Snicker bars to a 250 calorie bar represented an 11 percent shrink.
Advertisement Reason stated that Mars' decision to only sell lower calorie portions of their products was, in part, inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign, which was designed to help combat childhood obesity.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 12:00 PM (bving)
Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 18, 2024 12:00 PM (k6uu5)
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 12:00 PM (bving)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 18, 2024 12:00 PM (8zt8L)
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 12:00 PM (bving)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 12:01 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 18, 2024 12:02 PM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 12:02 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 18, 2024 12:02 PM (8zt8L)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 18, 2024 12:00 PM (8zt8L)
Hire this lady, she could be an economist or something.
https://tinyurl.com/3v97nd5s
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: vic at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (A5THL)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Ian S.
But it was a mostly peaceful bloodbath.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (ufFY8)
I guess it's true what they say. Unless you work for the government, eventually you max out your credit.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (zhLdt)
Here's why....
You know that'll be the spin. It's coming.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
he's almost as reliable as democrat economic news being revised downward a week or more after it's announced...
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (bving)
Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 12:04 PM (IrUIF)
Back in the olden days when inflation went crazy, they would start cutting the federal budget, but nowadays they just roll out another spending program and wonder why inflation continues
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:04 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
He's said he schedules them. So if he has one ready to go ('in the can' so to speak) he can just que it up and let the magic happen and even sleep in.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:04 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: vic at March 18, 2024 12:04 PM (A5THL)
Ending obesity is a good thing for all of us, comrades!
Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 12:04 PM (j4U/Z)
Lol...
-Constantly exponentially increasing supply...
Posted by: Hawkpilot at March 18, 2024 12:04 PM (k6uu5)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 18, 2024 12:05 PM (QNSds)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 12:05 PM (t/2Uw)
I suspect there's an algorithm that analyzes the rate of new comments and decides if a new post is needed.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:05 PM (CsUN+)
Here's why....
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (Q4IgG)
lies, it's almost never the ones you WANT to see sans accoutrements that go sans clothing...
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 12:05 PM (bving)
Hire this lady, she could be an economist or something.
https://tinyurl.com/3v97nd5s
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (di6C2)
Vendor management.
https://tinyurl.com/592294a3
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chuck C at March 18, 2024 12:05 PM (yOPBE)
https://tinyurl.com/3v97nd5s
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (di6C2)
I see inflation.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at March 18, 2024 12:05 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:05 PM (di6C2)
If you figure it out, please to let me know first.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:06 PM (CsUN+)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 18, 2024 12:06 PM (cf/0E)
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They won't. This is a fallacy, and one I don't understand because there are so many easily-remembered counter-examples in recent history.
The Fed loves playing politics and craves stability above all else, but it is not omnipotent. It tries but fails to "manage" the economy fairly regularly and it has a long history of defending the dollar when it has to.
The tech wreck happened just after an election, but started turning over before the election. The Fed couldn't stop it.
The housing bubble popped - and took the entire financial system with it - in an election year.
The capital markets collapsed and the Fed impotently cut interest rates into an unstoppable maelstrom during COVID - in an election year.
The Fed is out of options. There's no point playing the games. The games can only make things worse, and Powell knows it. Late last year, I predicted no more than two desultory (minimum - 0.25%) rate cuts this year, if that. I stand by that. I think zero is more likely. I do think the Fed will try to avoid raising them this year.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:06 PM (HnUIn)
Every country seems to be collapsing right now.
Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 12:06 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Eromero at March 18, 2024 12:06 PM (NxC5+)
Posted by: Archimedes
Or the number of times boobs are mentioned.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 12:07 PM (9yWhg)
And pop the 🍿, since that will be all we can afford.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM
Just wanted to share the icon.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 18, 2024 12:07 PM (RKVpM)
Additionally, we could try to revive our manufacturing sector.
We need an actual increase in goods to deal with the manufactured money OR we need to pull more of that manufactured money out of the system. (That's the raising of rates.)
We can't afford to do the second for long (interest on our massive government debt) and our rulers can't stand seeing the U.S. produce goods.
So we're screwed unless we can install a new government over the massive amounts of fraud our current rulers will commit.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 18, 2024 12:07 PM (N1tpc)
It is now SOP with Democratic Administrations that the official economic statistics are released to look as good as possible, and are quietly revised a few weeks later.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 12:07 PM (YAtuc)
Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 12:07 PM (IrUIF)
Like it's some mighty battle between the people and interest rates.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 18, 2024 12:07 PM (yikga)
Part of the reason is that stocks are being priced in inflated dollars. Some of that will be offset when the underlying economy turns to shut and certain companies will be less profitable.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 18, 2024 12:08 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Auspex
Yep. It's the worldwide war of the "elites" versus the commoners.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 12:08 PM (9yWhg)
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"Signs of wear and tear." Interesting way to put that.
It's "wear and tear" - really just plain old reduction - in credit capacity. The overextension is approaching its limits. When you fall short, charge it. When you can't charge it, cut things out. (both of these happen simultaneously, of course, but the mix matters at the macro level - and the mix is slowly starting to favor cutting rather than charging, mainly because the capacity to charge it is approaching limites)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:08 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:03 PM (zhLdt)
Governments max out their credit, too. Ours is working really hard to find out where that max line is.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 18, 2024 12:08 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:08 PM (k8+WX)
No, it isn't. It is still trying to get back to the pre-pandemic levels. Meanwhile, inflation has devalued all of the stocks so a stock selling $50 pre-pandemic now needs to get to $59 just to break even.
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (991eG)
I'm keeping some money in liquid assets to be ready for it.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (CsUN+)
THAT is what is causing core inflation to rise. You cannot take up to 40% of your economic activity, and have it do nothing except create order (or friction). Governments create no product. they don't make stuff. they don't mine. they don't farm... and we are still creating Dollars out of thing air (deficit spending) to create this Yuge amount, of nothing.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (T+Iwg)
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (6z9Vj)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 18, 2024 12:05 PM (QNSds)
Reported levels of inflation specifically exclude energy and food. Only durable goods count because the inflation rate of that has, historically, been lower so it makes the uniparty look better. That's why the media, et al, are always so confused when people talk about inflation because the normies are affected by all the stuff they pretend doesn't matter.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (zhLdt)
I'm 10000% sure Minx is nowhere near that advanced.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (k8+WX)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (yeEu9)
Posted by: vic at March 18, 2024 12:10 PM (A5THL)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (k8+WX)
GREEDY CORPORATIONS!!1111!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:10 PM (Zz0t1)
I'm keeping some money in liquid assets to be ready for it.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (CsUN+)
Ditto.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 18, 2024 12:10 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 18, 2024 12:10 PM (+CDXK)
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Sort of. The Fed wants to play ball and play politics. But there is only so much it can do.
We need *higher* interest, not lower - but that alone is not a solution. The US government needs to quit spending trillions of dollars a year it does not have. That's directly inflationary. The inflation does not go away until the budget is under control. Like interest rates, that's not the only factor, but it's a big one.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:10 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: steevy at March 18, 2024 12:10 PM (FQmDC)
Having a paid-off house makes a world of difference. Sure, you keep an eye on things, but at least you won't be living out of a cardboard box any time soon.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:10 PM (CsUN+)
Stock up on necessities while you still can.
Four years ago the lockdown began. Remember the run on toilet paper?
Posted by: davidt at March 18, 2024 12:11 PM (SYTee)
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 12:11 PM (2yu8s)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 12:05 PM (t/2Uw)
Even fake money has to go somewhere and the return on stocks is better than that of a bank account.
Supposedly, a bunch of billionaires are taking out large amounts to buy land because they think their deeds will mean something after the fall.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:11 PM (zhLdt)
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It's Lawrence Welk bad news. And a one and a two.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 12:11 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Uniparty at March 18, 2024 12:11 PM (25k9m)
Which is one of the reasons it's curious that Gates/Zuckerberg/etc are pulling money out of the market to accelerate the timeline on their anti-peasant safe rooms.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 12:11 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 18, 2024 12:12 PM (63Dwl)
I'm 10000% sure Minx is nowhere near that advanced.
It's probably an Ewok intern.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:12 PM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:02 PM (Zz0t1)
he's almost as reliable as democrat economic news being revised downward a week or more after it's announced...
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 12:03 P
Ace has the dedciation of a Kamikaze pilot on his fifth mission.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 18, 2024 12:12 PM (QNSds)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 12:12 PM (991eG)
The IRS would be 10x more productive if used to Audit Fed Spending.
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:12 PM (k8+WX)
One of those marvels of economics where $5 will get you $2
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:12 PM (RHGPo)
Might soon be only a PB&J
Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 12:07 PM
Rumors of an Aldi's coming to Phoenixville - in general area of where Tarrytowne used to be on Route 23. You'll get a helluva lot more for you dollar there.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 18, 2024 12:12 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 12:06 PM (j4U/Z)
The entire Western world has been borrowing against their grandchildren's lives while they spent every bit of accumulated capital (physical, social, cultural....) handed down to them for the past couple thousand years.
We live in the absolute most selfish age.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 18, 2024 12:12 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 12:05 PM (t/2Uw)
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The companies that make up the stock market -- publicly-traded companies -- are doing fine. Some sectors are doing great. The last round of quarterly earnings was mostly in-line with expectations, and for some companies they exceeded expectations.
It's the smaller, private companies that are struggling, along with many consumers who don't have stock portfolios or incomes to absorb Biden's sky-high inflation.
As I've been saying for a long time now, the public-traded stock market is not a good indicator of the overall health of the economy. It's more an indicator of how the affluent investor class is doing. And that investor class is doing very good.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 12:13 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 12:06 PM (j4U/Z)
Not every country. -- recently reelected Vlad Putin
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:13 PM (zhLdt)
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:10 PM (CsUN+)
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If you're one of the the quarter (or 40ish percent - there's conflicting data, I suspect because of corporate ownership of houses, but I'm not sure) of homeowners with no mortgage, yes. It's a minority position, but an enviable one.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:13 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 18, 2024 12:13 PM (fKIdX)
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (CsUN+)
Vodka or bourbon?
Posted by: spindrift at March 18, 2024 12:13 PM (OguvZ)
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 12:13 PM (RETyH)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2024 12:13 PM (yeEu9)
“Fear of nuclear war is a trap of self-deterrence. Don't fall for that trap.”
— Estonian PM Kallas
Ukraine must win, Russia must be defeated. Russia delenda est! (i.e. Russia must be destroyed)
--- Edgars Rinkēvičs, President of Latvia
These micro states are going to kill us all, aren't they?
Too bad PM Kallas wasn't around during the Cuban Missile Crisis to explain that we need to get over our inordinate fear of nuclear war.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 12:13 PM (YAtuc)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 12:14 PM (991eG)
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:14 PM (Zz0t1)
On paper.
Try and realize those gains and see what happens.
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:14 PM (k8+WX)
One of those marvels of economics where $5 will get you $2
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:12 PM (RHGPo)
Keynesian economics works. Like taxing the rich.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 18, 2024 12:14 PM (ENQN6)
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (CsUN+)
Vodka or bourbon?
No, I prefer to keep it in something that people actually want: scotch.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:14 PM (CsUN+)
Posted by: Montec at March 18, 2024 12:14 PM (4+s9S)
Wait! That was Biden that said that. And the MSM giddily reported it. (There was no winter of illness and death, BTW.)
Posted by: Ripley at March 18, 2024 12:15 PM (JojsZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:04 PM (di6C2)
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It's not quite that easy. Though he can certainly post them from his phone, roll over, and go back to sleep....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 18, 2024 12:15 PM (4S2yc)
Try and realize those gains and see what happens.
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:14 PM (k8+WX)
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It all comes down to timing, of course.
Trying to catch a falling knife is a great way to slice your fingers off.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:15 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
100%
People don't realize how energy costs affect at each point of the supply chain and have a rippling effect.
Like EV owners, you magically plug in, flip the switch and BAMBO. There's electricity.
Lowering energy costs have a compounding return. Especially for manufacturing industries.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 18, 2024 12:15 PM (JkCto)
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The markets always rinses out retail investors.
But, they're pricing in inflation continues.
1) their portfolio increases
2) retail sells to them to pay to live
3) when it crashes, they will be the only ones with cash to buy
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 18, 2024 12:15 PM (yikga)
Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 12:15 PM (j4U/Z)
not sure who thinks it's famous outside of China
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:15 PM (RHGPo)
"In retrospect, it turns out to have suppressed much that was true and promoted much that was false..."
.. should this get them a 90-day suspension ?
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:15 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:16 PM (k8+WX)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024
I will not survive if interest rates keep going up. I am paying so much more now on my busIness loan. I sound like a broken record, but it’s very scary for me.
Posted by: Piper at March 18, 2024 12:16 PM (ZdaMQ)
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Well, when we're not deplorably pouncing, seizing, and bloodbathing ... we're not really all that bad.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 12:16 PM (RETyH)
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 12:16 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Property Taxes at March 18, 2024 12:17 PM (25k9m)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 18, 2024 12:17 PM (J8LnB)
Posted by: davidt at March 18, 2024 12:11 PM (SYTee)
I remember laughing, initially, that people were buying tons of TP for a respiratory illness. But then the TP didn't get restocked. People are stupid.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:17 PM (zhLdt)
Posted by: Eeyore at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (J8LnB)
Want to solve the National Debt? The US Government owns YUGE tracts of land in the West (note, not the East).... SELL THE FUCKIKNG LAND. Feds and State should not own that land in the first place.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (yeEu9)
The Fed, affected by politics?
Say it ain't so!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (YAtuc)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:17 PM (zhLdt)
Well, yes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (di6C2)
There ought to be a lot of bodies hanging from lampposts by now.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (Q4IgG)
This.
We needed to get to +6.5 and we needed to stay there for at least 4-5 years.
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (k8+WX)
it's not ever really yours
Posted by: Property Taxes at March 18, 2024 12:17 PM (25k9m)
Prop 13 in Calif is really rent control for me.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at March 18, 2024 12:15 PM (JkCto)
I bet 25 cents on a gallon a diesel adds 5 to 10 cents to every bag of flour, apples, or oranges.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 18, 2024 12:19 PM (ENQN6)
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Faster than WHO expected?
We really need the names of these experts. Is there any job they could do? I doubt it.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 18, 2024 12:19 PM (1bNHn)
China's crude oil refining volume at the beginning of this year reached its highest levels ever
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:19 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:09 PM (CsUN+)
Yeah, the trick is to figure out what will be a good investment. Usually commodities and companies that make necessities weather recessions better, if I recall.
And by better, I mean may drop less in value
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 18, 2024 12:19 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2024 12:20 PM (yeEu9)
I will not survive if interest rates keep going up. I am paying so much more now on my busIness loan. I sound like a broken record, but it’s very scary for me.
Posted by: Piper at March 18, 2024 12:16 PM
Imagine a business loan tied to prime and it hit 21% during the Carter years. So I feel your pain.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 18, 2024 12:20 PM (RKVpM)
China's crude oil refining volume at the beginning of this year reached its highest levels ever
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:19 PM (RHGPo)
Yeah, baby.....
*buys more hookers and blow*
Posted by: Hunter Biden at March 18, 2024 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 18, 2024 12:20 PM (5sOEG)
I thought the Feds auctioned off the Mustang Ranch.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 12:20 PM (9yWhg)
"The two companies are in active negotiations to let Apple license Gemini.."
Good Grief !!
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:20 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 12:21 PM (FVME7)
My 7mm is built on a pre-64 70 action that I salvaged from the bed of an old pickup truck.
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:21 PM (k8+WX)
"The two companies are in active negotiations to let Apple license Gemini.."
Good Grief !!
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:20 PM (RHGPo)
Oh, ffs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:21 PM (di6C2)
On paper.
Try and realize those gains and see what happens.
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:14 PM (k8+WX)
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What does that mean? Selling public stock (or any kind of stock) will trigger capital gains taxes, but that is true no matter the state of the market or economy. But other than that, there's no difficulty in realizing those gains. If you like the current stock price, you click "sell" and put in the amount of shares to sell. The transaction takes place not even a second later.
Private, closed-company stock with restrictions on selling and no liquid market is a different animal. But I was talking above about public markets.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 12:22 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (J8LnB)
Shrinkflation or shrinkage?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 18, 2024 12:22 PM (gZ3KO)
Lol: Biden Slams Trump as "Too Old and Mentally Unfit"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 12:21 PM (FVME7)
Them's strong words for a guy running for senate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:22 PM (Zz0t1)
The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said energy firms pulled a surprise 1.5 million barrels of crude from stockpiles during the week ended March 8.
Posted by: rhennigantx at March 18, 2024 12:22 PM (ENQN6)
You'd think countries which share a border with Russia would be wary of mouthing off. It's one thing for France. They've got enough other countries between them and Russia for the elites to escape with all their money before anything bad happens but it's something different for people already in artillery range.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:22 PM (zhLdt)
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The Mooch has always been the poster child behind Snickers.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 12:22 PM (RETyH)
China Working on Giant Rail Gun to Shoot Astronauts Into Space
https://tinyurl.com/9a27z2pf
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:23 PM (CsUN+)
IMO the Marxists want one to collapse capitalism
Posted by: Skip at March 18, 2024 12:23 PM (IrUIF)
This.
We needed to get to +6.5 and we needed to stay there for at least 4-5 years.
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (k8+WX)
Raising interest rates USED to work, because it enticed foreign countries and banks to buy US Debt.
They are not doing that anymore. Now US Debt sits on the balance sheet of the Fed itself... and the Fed gives all profit BACK to the Gov ...
Currently the Fed has a $7.5 Trillion balance sheet, on a $28 Trillion GDP.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 18, 2024 12:23 PM (xaFKb)
Some. Not all. Depends on the duration of your holding.
But, once the selling starts the prices will soften. Add in your Tax burden and you are not going to realize gains anywhere near where they are on Paper.
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:23 PM (k8+WX)
To unlock your phone, please read this article on how blacks built the pyramids to receive your daily social credit
Posted by: iphone at March 18, 2024 12:23 PM (25k9m)
Posted by: Eeyore at March 18, 2024 12:24 PM (1bNHn)
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The Mooch has always been the poster child behind Snickers.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 12:22 PM (RETyH)
Dammit. I always like Snickers.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:24 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Daffy D. at March 18, 2024 12:24 PM (J2vNu)
Additionally, we could try to revive our manufacturing sector.
We need an actual increase in goods to deal with the manufactured money OR we need to pull more of that manufactured money out of the system. (That's the raising of rates.)
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Those new dollars either go to inflation up or to buy created goods.
Nothing in our economy can absorb those dollars but energy or manufacturing.
I'm just glad the idiots have stopped spouting the bs on how they can tame inflation this time just like Volcker did.
Completely ignoring:
1) there's no political will to raise rates
2) the budget was balanced or nearly so
3) the debt--and debt service-- was microscopic compared to today
4) we had many times more domestic manufacturing
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 18, 2024 12:24 PM (yikga)
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Depends. If you have a 2.75% mortgage it’s better to keep paying and do something else with the money.
Posted by: Montec at March 18, 2024 12:24 PM (4+s9S)
Posted by: wth at March 18, 2024 12:24 PM (v0R5T)
https://tinyurl.com/9a27z2pf
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:23 PM (CsUN+)
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Changed the headline to meet my desired ends...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 18, 2024 12:24 PM (4S2yc)
But now they've told a high ranking Party man that they were closely following Party directives, and now he has to shut the fuck up or say the Party was wrong.
Very astute play.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 18, 2024 12:24 PM (0FoWg)
‘ Baltic States, itching for war with Russia: ’
Is the NATO treaty void if a member state attacks another country?
Because, if so, have at it, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia! We’ll hold your coats.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 18, 2024 12:24 PM (jbnUc)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 18, 2024 12:24 PM (J2vNu)
They are not doing that anymore. Now US Debt sits on the balance sheet of the Fed itself... and the Fed gives all profit BACK to the Gov ...
Currently the Fed has a $7.5 Trillion balance sheet, on a $28 Trillion GDP.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 18, 2024 12:23 PM (xaFKb)
IOW…. US dollars are monopoly money
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at March 18, 2024 12:25 PM (gZ3KO)
Almost all are flat and all gains are due to the 5 big tech companies
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 18, 2024 12:25 PM (yikga)
China Working on Giant Rail Gun to Shoot Astronauts Into Space
https://tinyurl.com/9a27z2pf
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:23 PM (CsUN+)
"It's is what we have Uighurs for."
- - - - - Xi Xing Pooh
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)
the Biden economy appears to have avoided that scenario. Instead, we’re experiencing what Paul Krugman called “a better-than-Goldilocks soft landing.” Inflation has dropped from wicked high back down to under control. It has just about reached the Federal Reserve’s target rate of 2% annual price increases over the past few months (a couple of slightly contradictory data points released in mid-February do not reflect a shift in the overall positive trend...). a small amount of inflation is actually better than no inflation at all...
The Biden economy has thus made historic progress in reducing economic inequality. @arindube The Black/white wage differential stopped falling by 1980. Since then, it rose from ~20% to ~24% in 2018. Then it fell, and stands under 16% today, an all time low.
Posted by: Intercepted Daily Kos Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 18, 2024 12:25 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (xaFKb)
Not that your main point is incorrect but Chynah would buy the land.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:25 PM (zhLdt)
Posted by: ... at March 18, 2024 12:25 PM (lI1k+)
Posted by: Hershey Or The Highway at March 18, 2024 12:25 PM (V5BDR)
Finland used to have a policy of being very polite to Russia, while having a large military. (That policy has been modified somewhat.)
The Baltics have tiny militaries, and are now openly calling for war with Russia.
They think that with an American nuclear guarantee, that they can do that without consequence.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 12:25 PM (YAtuc)
I bet Pinochet would have some better ideas on how to use that.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 12:26 PM (Pw5l1)
Posted by: steevy at March 18, 2024 12:26 PM (FQmDC)
Posted by: four seasons at March 18, 2024 12:26 PM (PisyI)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 18,
Ugh. I don’t even want to do that! I am sorry you had to go through it. Now I am very stressed- I am going to down my green juice and go workout before I learn my classes for tonight.
Posted by: Piper at March 18, 2024 12:26 PM (ZdaMQ)
Too bad PM Kallas wasn't around during the Cuban Missile Crisis to explain that we need to get over our inordinate fear of nuclear war.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 12:13 PM
*shifty eyes*
No. Definitely not. Who's spreading this disinformation?
*shifty eyes*
Posted by: Liechtenstein at March 18, 2024 12:27 PM (5sOEG)
Posted by: ... at March 18, 2024 12:27 PM (lI1k+)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2024 12:27 PM (yeEu9)
"The two companies are in active negotiations to let Apple license Gemini.."
Good Grief !!
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:20 PM (RHGPo)
Oh, ffs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:21 PM (di6C2)
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Those Gemini-generated black-faced female lesbian tranny gangbanger images of Jobs and Wozniak inventing the first Apple Computer in a crack house are gonna be Lit AF!
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 12:27 PM (RETyH)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 18, 2024 12:18 PM (xaFKb)
There is a movement afoot to do away with property taxes in Texas. I would be so saddened if I no longer had to pay the government for permission to live in my house.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:27 PM (zhLdt)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:27 PM (k8+WX)
I had one, but paid it off on schedule.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 18, 2024 12:27 PM (CsUN+)
It's like none of three people have met American consumers. Reduce the size, and people will just eat more than one.
Posted by: A family-sized bag of chips is one serving for us Americans at March 18, 2024 12:28 PM (6PgKW)
Those small countries close to Russia are ignoring history.
For the past 71 years it has been a very bad idea to rely on the US of A as an ally.
South Vietnam has entered the char.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2024 12:28 PM (u82oZ)
The capital markets collapsed and the Fed impotently cut interest rates into an unstoppable maelstrom during COVID - in an election year."
Housing bubble ushered in Obama ..
Covid insanity ushered in ... Fake Biden.
Didn't they raise rates before the 2022 election, which ushered in the Dem "wave"?
They are political, and it's a political town, but maybe Powell will consider his reputation just a bit? And maybe he is not in favor of national suicide? idk ... lots of political and big money pressure to lower rates.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (991eG)
Except, they do not own the Land.
They Hold and Administer the Land. Most is held by the States.
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (k8+WX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (FVME7)
This piddling around is all the pain without the benefit.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)
It could be raining.
Posted by: EYEgor at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (k8+WX)
Posted by: four seasons at March 18, 2024 12:26 PM (PisyI)
Mooch has a bigger dick than me!
Posted by: Barry O. at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (EweRc)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (pVWRI)
"The two companies are in active negotiations to let Apple license Gemini.."
Good Grief !!
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:20 PM (RHGPo)
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This will be a good use for Gemini. The woke, offensive, incorrect image generation grabbed the headlines but the rest of it is just as bad. Bad behavior in text, however, requires more effort to assess than bad behavior in images. A picture really is worth a thousand words.
This use case will be text, not images. And Gemini can spread its poison more subtly and with far less context.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: steevy at March 18, 2024 12:30 PM (FQmDC)
Eh, that's overrated.
Posted by: Judge Scott McAfee at March 18, 2024 12:30 PM (CsUN+)
Most Americans are fat asses who need to learn to do with less like good sheeple. Eat 1 or 2 bowls of rice a day. Drink lots of water. Eat a rat now and then for protein. Try not to play with oneself too much, burns calories.
Just let that lil ol belly sag and enjoy yourself!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 18, 2024 12:30 PM (MHhQj)
We are so corrupt that if China owns the West, we will get it back in water fees.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2024 12:30 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: wth at March 18, 2024 12:30 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (991eG)
Mortgage in arrears? Slap hot iron to it!
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 18, 2024 12:30 PM (xaFKb)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (FVME7)
She going to add more dancing fags like she did for Christmas? I mean, nothing says celebrate Jesus Christ like having a bunch of homos prancing about like flamers.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (991eG)
Boob NFTs, Muldoon! We'll make MILLIONS!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:31 PM (di6C2)
Those small countries close to Russia are ignoring history.
For the past 71 years it has been a very bad idea to rely on the US of A as an ally.
South Vietnam has entered the char.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2024 12:28 PM (u82oZ)
*waves cheerfully*
Posted by: Hungary circa 1956 at March 18, 2024 12:31 PM (6PgKW)
Where is Cannibal Bob when we need him?
Oh, right. He is inviting a "friend" for lunch.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2024 12:31 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: wth at March 18, 2024 12:30 PM (v0R5T)
"Welcome to the SPAM shop!!!!"
- - - Lyrics in 2 Live Crew's Trashcan
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 12:31 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: four seasons at March 18, 2024 12:31 PM (PisyI)
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at March 18, 2024 12:31 PM (6IWQu)
Posted by: Comment from 2004 White Civic, Parking Lot, Weed Dispensary, Hudson, MA at March 18, 2024 12:32 PM (qUkBO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:21 PM
Nice. My 308 Target is a 1971 vintage.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 18, 2024 12:32 PM (5sOEG)
http://tiny.cc/1pujxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:32 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: wth at March 18, 2024 12:32 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (FVME7)
She going to add more dancing fags like she did for Christmas? I mean, nothing says celebrate Jesus Christ like having a bunch of homos prancing about like flamers.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)
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I think they should add more Easter Bunnies. As far as the eye can see, when FJB comes out to join the festivities...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 18, 2024 12:32 PM (4S2yc)
We were not allied to you, and your invader had a sphere of influence guarded with hydrogen fusion warheads.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2024 12:32 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 12:29
If interest rates rise more I will need 3 hot irons, not 1.
Posted by: Piper at March 18, 2024 12:33 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at March 18, 2024 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)
There is a video going around neocon Twitter explaining that we don't need to be worried about nuclear war, because if Russia detonates a single nuclear weapon anywhere, we will immediately launch an all-out spasm nuclear strike on Russia. The video lovingly shows hundreds of missiles hitting Russia, with the name of each city struck being listed.
These people are insane.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 12:33 PM (YAtuc)
Posted by: HQ Business Center at March 18, 2024 12:33 PM (6PgKW)
Hey, man, I was sorry to hear your old lady had a bit of a tumble yesterday. But I was glad to find out things were set right by a couple of buff paramedics. Hope the two of you are doing well.
Posted by: Robert at March 18, 2024 12:33 PM (4yuQM)
http://tiny.cc/1pujxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......
a stiff updraft is in order
Posted by: wth at March 18, 2024 12:34 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: wth at March 18, 2024 12:32 PM (v0R5T)
Weep for your salvation.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:34 PM (di6C2)
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But does it have "the thing that goes up" AND the chainsaw attachment?
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 12:34 PM (RETyH)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 18, 2024 12:34 PM (k8kCE)
This is weapons grade cranial rectal inversion stupid ass shit, right there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 12:29 PM (FVME7)
Oh great.
Now Brandon's Intimidation Bunny will pop out of a giant egg-shaped cake naked from the waist down and show us that Love is Love by banging a big tranny bunny up the backhole in the Rose Garden. Then he'll run away with some kid's luggage.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 18, 2024 12:34 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2024 12:34 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Joedolph Biden at March 18, 2024 12:35 PM (17s+e)
We were not allied to you, and your invader had a sphere of influence guarded with hydrogen fusion warheads.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2024 12:32 PM (u82oZ)
And yet the CIA encouraged them to revolt.
Posted by: The whole thing was a US op at March 18, 2024 12:35 PM (6PgKW)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:22 PM (zhLdt)
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Perhaps.
Or perhaps those countries think that reconquest by the Russians - either preemptively or as the result of the decline of their Western benefactors and protectors causing a power vacuum that Russia has historically filled - is inevitable and so they can risk nuclear war *now* with a mega-player on their side to take the hits for them, or risk it *later* without that backstop and less ability to outsource the defense against it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:35 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 12:35 PM (UnA8+)
100% accurate. Stick with low cost, broadly diversified, tax efficient index funds. Buy and hold. And understand why you're doing this so you don't panic when the SHTF.
Posted by: Van Guard at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (qUkBO)
The video:
https://tinyurl.com/2s38j68a
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (YAtuc)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:32 PM (HnUIn)
I hate to go all TJM but...butter face.
3/10
Would still bang because the rest? Yowza!
Posted by: Robert at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (4yuQM)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 12:13 PM
This is very true ...
-- Haiti
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (bving)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:27 PM (k8+WX)
Didn't he win the Nobel Prize for Theoretical Economics With, Apparently, No Application In The Real World?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (zhLdt)
That's...oddly specific.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (K+G4s)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Food For Thought at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 12:16 PM
There are going to be two, possibly three interest rate reductions by the Fed before November.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (QNSds)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (k8+WX)
A 5% interest rate cannot overcome $1 trillion in new debt every 100 days.
I'm also 100% positive that neither Trump nor most Republicans in Congress have any intention of really addressing it either. They want someone else to be the responsible parent that says "no" when they're gone.
Best case scenario would be a Trump Presidency and Republican Congress, and they'll take us to $950 billion in debt every 100 days.
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:37 PM (wMRY8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:38 PM (GBKbO)
We are in for a world of hurt.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 12:38 PM (lTGtQ)
OMG! Not looting!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (FVME7)
What in the name of God is there left to loot?
Savages....been looting since they could crawl.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 18, 2024 12:38 PM (MHhQj)
http://tiny.cc/1pujxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Questionable. Unbangable absent more intel.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
Then we hung them out to be taken over by the Red Army, again.
We accepted refugees. The president did not want to egg the Hungarians on, as he was also fighting the Suez Crisis. He did warn us about the IC.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (u82oZ)
the increased rate is supposed to result in the affect you desire.
When servicing existing debt costs more, expenditures are supposed to retract. Not increase.
So. You are not wrong.
But, you are not entirely correct, either.
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (k8+WX)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (k8kCE)
Posted by: wth at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (v0R5T)
Just commenting to say that your Macron-Seinfled reference mashup last week was inspired. I'm still laughing about it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (KbCG3)
Went to the store to get a couple of things and stopped by the bakery for a couple of dinner rolls. Use to be 50 cents, now they are $2 apiece.
TWO FU*KING DOLLARS!!! For a pissant 2 oz roll.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (W/lyH)
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OMG! Not looting!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM
I was unaware Haiti had anything to loot.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (5sOEG)
http://tiny.cc/1pujxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Questionable. Unbangable absent more intel.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
Here's a fun game: how old is she?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (KbCG3)
Why do I suspect that you don't envision yourself as an "average American" whose purchasing power needs to be reduced.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (zhLdt)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (k8kCE)
They have a good chance at doing that.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (aD39U)
We are in for a world of hurt.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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I have a bad feeling they will do absolutely anything to try and throw this election.
Trump constantly bad mouthed Jay Powell (because he raised interest rates on his watch to curb inflation) you really think Powell won't relish "juicing" markets a little right before the election? What's Trump going to say?
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (wMRY8)
Posted by: Diogenes at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (W/lyH)
Damn you big bread!!!!! Greedy bastards!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)
That's a terrible way to describe your future neighbors.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (YAtuc)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (991eG)
You can have my neighbor's femur when you pry it from my cold, BBQ sauce covered, dead hands.
Posted by: Haitian at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (k8+WX)
Went to the store to get a couple of things and stopped by the bakery for a couple of dinner rolls. Use to be 50 cents, now they are $2 apiece.
TWO FU*KING DOLLARS!!! For a pissant 2 oz roll.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (W/lyH)
That's why I need to charge a toll. If we don't get no tolls, we don't eat no rolls.
Posted by: Little John at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (KbCG3)
The increase in wholesale lies to keep inflation that low is what's most impressive.
Posted by: t-bird at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (PqEri)
Posted by: Senator Psychopath (D-Oceania) at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (qUkBO)
http://tiny.cc/1pujxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Equipped with her own floatation devices.
/Does silicone float in water?
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (RETyH)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (k8+WX)
Best case scenario would be a Trump Presidency and Republican Congress, and they'll take us to $950 billion in debt every 100 days.
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:37 PM
It's literally not addressable. It can't be fixed at this point. We are fast approaching either some serious double-triple digit long term inflation or a complete collapse of the economy with a hard reset. What we have been doing for the past few decades is not sustainable (or fixable).
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (QNSds)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 18, 2024 12:38 PM
This man understands.
Posted by: Mortimer Duke at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (5sOEG)
"Communism will increase wealth and happiness of people."
Communists today:
"You will be made poorer and suffer to save the planet from disasters we've been predicting will happen in a few years for decades."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:42 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Montec at March 18, 2024 12:14 PM (4+s9S)
had too, if you wanted your product in schools...
Posted by: Inogame at March 18, 2024 12:42 PM (53oGX)
Best case scenario would be a Trump Presidency and Republican Congress, and they'll take us to $950 billion in debt every 100 days.
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:37 PM (wMRY
We don't need the parent who says "no".
We need the parent who beats his kids with a 2x4.
Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 12:42 PM (UnA8+)
Candy is easy to cut out. Doesn't matter how small you make it 1 dollar for a fun size which is half the size of a year ago. Lol, they keep creating new even smaller sizes. The micro bar. You open the package and just the smell of candy comes out. $2 dallarz!!!
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at March 18, 2024 12:42 PM (qIJUH)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 18, 2024 12:31 PM (t/2Uw)
I have a good number of individuals company stocks but they're all buy and hold. I don't try to time anything because, as you say, it's a fool's game.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:42 PM (zhLdt)
Our financial advice is light-years better than our relationship advice.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2024 12:34 PM (u82oZ)
Many small fortunes have been made here.
Of course they all started as large fortunes.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 18, 2024 12:42 PM (W/lyH)
It's already in several Samsung phones, so if you have one and lack acceptable melanin levels, good luck.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 12:42 PM (2ocoG)
Went to the store to get a couple of things and stopped by the bakery for a couple of dinner rolls. Use to be 50 cents, now they are $2 apiece.
TWO FU*KING DOLLARS!!! For a pissant 2 oz roll.
Posted by: Diogenes
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A can of Campbell soup is like $2 now, that's like a small step above Ramen noodles.
I truly dont understand how the middle class operates right now. It's just "doom spending" that seems to be overriding it.
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:42 PM (wMRY8)
I was unaware Haiti had anything to loot.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (5sOEG)
Watching the Conan O'Brien "History of Haiti in 2 minutes" the other day, doesn't Haiti have unlimited natural resources? I mean, he told me that both France AND the United States looted the country for all it's worth twice becuase they had tons of money we could just take after importing MILLIONS of slaves from Africa.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)
http://tiny.cc/1pujxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Questionable. Unbangable absent more intel.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
Here's a fun game: how old is she?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (KbCG3)
_________
According to google she's 30 but I'm skeptical
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 12:42 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: pookysgirl, probably a kulak at March 18, 2024 12:43 PM (dtlDP)
-Our trolls
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:43 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (5sOEG)
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There's *always* something to loot.
It is impossible to have so little that somebody else won't want - and try - to take it away by force.
Whether you have a billion dollars, or a mortgage-free retirement home, or just a dime in your pocket or a single grain of rice at the bottom of a burlap sack, there is *someone* who wants to steal it and will find it worth stealing.
If the question is, "a single grain of rice I don't own, or the life of the man who does," there are always people who will value your life far, far less than that single grain of rice.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:43 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (KbCG3)
Hahahaha...I always liked Jerry Stiller. He was a funny guy.
When he worked with his wife back in the day they were hilarious.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 18, 2024 12:43 PM (MHhQj)
Why do I suspect that you don't envision yourself as an "average American" whose purchasing power needs to be reduced.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (zhLdt)
NYC has defied the odds and somehow not gone underwater thanks to climate change.
In that same time, South America has apparently been obliterated. It's just weird how only third-world heck holes seem to suffer the effects of climate change.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 18, 2024 12:43 PM (KbCG3)
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Leaving the corpses in the street prevents the zombies from breaking down the Mortuary doors in order to rifle through their pockets.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 12:43 PM (991eG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:32 PM (HnUIn)
I hate to go all TJM but...butter face.
3/10
Would still bang because the rest? Yowza!
Posted by: Robert at March 18, 2024 12:36 PM (4yuQM)
She's an Outback 5
Posted by: Doof at March 18, 2024 12:43 PM (JunzL)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (KbCG3)
under 47, because normally the age when they look 84...
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 12:44 PM (bving)
Old enough to bleed.
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (k8+WX)
Could also argue she looks old enough to have stopped bleeding.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 18, 2024 12:44 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Robert at March 18, 2024 12:44 PM (4yuQM)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (KbCG3)
Hahahaha...I always liked Jerry Stiller. He was a funny guy.
When he worked with his wife back in the day they were hilarious.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 18, 2024 12:43 PM (MHhQj)
Reading it in his voice had me dying.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 18, 2024 12:44 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at March 18, 2024 12:44 PM (7NKxb)
Posted by: Haitian at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (k8+WX)
We're all out of BBQ sauce.
Posted by: Haiti Food 'N Stuff at March 18, 2024 12:45 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:45 PM (k8+WX)
Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at March 18, 2024 12:44 PM (7NKxb)
For the children.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Mister Scott
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It was addressable, our response to Covid was basically every liberal wish list. And now we cant get back to normal spending level.
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:45 PM (wMRY8)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (k8kCE)
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And with the 3+ million of illegal criminal invaders that makes for 5+ million more unemployed and needing luxurious government benefits... oops I meant 3+ million of illegal criminal invaders. The 2 million Americans will get nothing.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 12:45 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Black market blue tarp reseller at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (5sOEG)
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There's *always* something to loot.
It is impossible to have so little that somebody else won't want - and try - to take it away by force.
Whether you have a billion dollars, or a mortgage-free retirement home, or just a dime in your pocket or a single grain of rice at the bottom of a burlap sack, there is *someone* who wants to steal it and will find it worth stealing.
If the question is, "a single grain of rice I don't own, or the life of the man who does," there are always people who will value your life far, far less than that single grain of rice.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:43 PM (HnUIn)
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There is actually a lot of wealth and nice things to steal in Haiti. There's a class of rich Haitians who live on palatial estates. They just don't live in the inner cities where most of the violence and brutality are taking place. But sooner or later, the savages will run out of things in the city to loot and burn and destroy. Then they'll look elsewhere . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: gourmand du jour, home of the $22 burrito at March 18, 2024 12:44 PM (7NKxb)
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Yeesh.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (DRSnL)
When servicing existing debt costs more, expenditures are supposed to retract. Not increase.
So. You are not wrong.
But, you are not entirely correct, either.
Posted by: garrett
The root cause of our present inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods.
1 TRILLION dollars in new debt...every 100 days. And now, the single biggest line item in the Federal Budget is debt service.
THIS IS A PLAN TO CRASH THE CURRENCY.
This is not a "whoops! wow, how did that happen?"
They want to wreck the dollar, take your IRA's and 401K's, replace them with some worthless government "IOU's" and go to a central bank digital currency. Only it won't necessarily be "central bank", but the BIG FIVE (ie, JP Morgan Chase, Citi, Wells-Fargo, BankofAmerica, Comerica) will institute their own digital system, which won't be up for a vote, but will become (by plan and coordination) the defacto currency.
And that will be end of freedom in America. You will do what you are told and not be "free" to choose.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Robert at March 18, 2024 12:44 PM (4yuQM)
Sid is the byproduct of a family reunion hookup.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (k8+WX)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:42 PM
Conan O'Brien is dumber than a box of very dumb rocks. Hell, even the Haitians gave up on the place after 1802.
Haitian Revolutionaries: Freedom!
*looks around, sees sweet FA*
OK...everyone back to the plantations.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (5sOEG)
http://tiny.cc/1pujxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
If I'm reading you correctly, you're saying "she" has a penis.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (zhLdt)
Also the left: All these evil companies just suddenly decided to raise their prices when Biden started spending money we didn't have.
Also, also the left: And the most important economic issues of the day are the cost of a concert and the size of a snickers bar
Posted by: 18-1 at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (k8+WX)
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Much like Trump's budget cutting budgets, it's not intended to be taken seriously.
It's a political statement for the base.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
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Yes, of course.
But even without that, there would still be looting. There is always something to loot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: RedMindBlue
According to my wife, the two three-word phrases you never want to hear are "Haitian penny stocks" and "German sex farce."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (QNSds)
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Rep David Schweitzer of Arizona has done multiple speeches on this in Congress and available on YouTube. The numbers are horrendous, $95,000 in debt per second. Nobody in Congress apparently cares.
Yet he still wants some bipartisan deficit commission to fix the problem like any of those yahoos are even competent to do that.
He says the bond market will end up dictating to Congress what to do and it won’t be pretty.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (k8kCE)
Posted by: Massachusetts Girl Who Thought Connecticut Was A City in NY (True Story) at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (qUkBO)
A can of Campbell soup is like $2 now, that's like a small step above Ramen noodles.
I truly dont understand how the middle class operates right now. It's just "doom spending" that seems to be overriding it.
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:42 PM
"Chef's Cupboard' tomato soup at Aldi's - at last purchase was .68 cents. Delicious, nutritious, expeditious.
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 12:43 PM (991eG)
......
Also keeps 'em from digging up the cemetaries.
Posted by: wth at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
********
Napalm can have that effect.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (991eG)
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How many Americans today could find Soot Vietnam on a typographical map?
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (VrrwH)
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (MNhXM)
Best case scenario would be a Trump Presidency and Republican Congress, and they'll take us to $950 billion in debt every 100 days.
Posted by: Blago
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The West has been trying to avoid the grim necessity of resetting inflated values since the 1930's. The reason why the Gop nor Trump dealt with government spending in Trump's first term is that the Gop refuses to cut spending and Trump, after his first budget spending cuts was tossed by the Gop dominated Congress, shrugged and said ok.
To rightsize the federal budget will require a lot of shared austerity for it to be politically palatable. You can't cut Social Security unless you get rid of federal welfare payments. You can't get rid of bloated defense budgets without going back to a rightsized defense obligations, and so on.
Basically, the US and most of the West is going to have to crash onto the rocks before some political deals become possible with everyone sharing pain.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 12:48 PM (TPpzE)
Posted by: Clinton Global Initiative at March 18, 2024 12:48 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (RKVpM)
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Extreme intermittent fasting: 1 meal a day.
Saves even more!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:48 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2024 12:49 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Haitian at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (k8+WX)
BBQ Sauce!
You 1%ers. I have to squeeze catsup from old used MacDonalds catsup packets left in the parking lot.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 18, 2024 12:49 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 12:48 PM (TPpzE)
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None of that is important when Russia wants half of the Ukraine!
Spend moar!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (9yWhg)
Search that phrase and this comes up:
What happens when a bus with mostly female passengers strands in a small Bavarian village? Funny stuff, that's what!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (5sOEG)
We left some crumbs.
Posted by: The Clintons at March 18, 2024 12:50 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Jackie Chiles
Fun fact: You can get free water from any restaurant. What a life~!!!!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 18, 2024 12:50 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (9yWhg)
Search that phrase and this comes up:
What happens when a bus with mostly female passengers strands in a small Bavarian village? Funny stuff, that's what!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:49 PM
My imagination actually shut down, protectively, there.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 18, 2024 12:50 PM (5sOEG)
__________
Hans, sex with you is the wurst!
Posted by: Gretchen at March 18, 2024 12:51 PM (lf83v)
The level of cuts needed across the board would be difficult to sell the LIVs on.
So...I think step one has to be hitting benefits that mostly just the left gets AND seizing the property of those that benefited from these ill gotten gains.
Do the reverse of what the left is doing to us and essentially make things so bad revolt seems the logical alternative...then use that revolt to destroy them as a political force.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 18, 2024 12:51 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 12:51 PM (2yu8s)
Posted by: whig
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Trump is worse than any generic GOP member when it comes to spending. He lost all credibility on small government. He was outbidding Democrats on stimulus to try and get reelected. Remember when he was fighting over another $1000 check in the mail AFTER he lost?
He does not care about any of this. He's still way better than the alternative, but that's not saying much.
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:51 PM (wMRY8)
In that same time, South America has apparently been obliterated. It's just weird how only third-world heck holes seem to suffer the effects of climate change.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
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And all of those South Pacific islands that were going to be underwater but have increased their dry land. Truly it is a miracle!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 12:51 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (9yWhg)
Search that phrase and this comes up:
What happens when a bus with mostly female passengers strands in a small Bavarian village? Funny stuff, that's what!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)
I would have guessed that it was a supergroup made up of former members of Kraftwerk and Die Toten Hosen with David Hasselhoff on vocals.
Posted by: Doof at March 18, 2024 12:51 PM (JunzL)
And that will be end of freedom in America. You will do what you are told and not be "free" to choose.
Posted by: A face in the crowd
Financiers are some of the more stupid people in the world because the easiest thing for indebted people to do is to liquidate their creditors historically. See Phillip the Fair of France for example. Russian Revolution is another one. And so on. Because money motivates financiers, they believe everyone is for sale as low class rentboys like they are. That is a bad bet historically. No one other than a committee of intellectuals could ever dream up something as stupid as their new world order.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 12:51 PM (TPpzE)
Posted by: They like being lawless at March 18, 2024 12:51 PM (6PgKW)
Posted by: a Haitian at March 18, 2024 12:52 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 18, 2024 12:52 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (MNhXM)
Whole Foods 365 brand Oat Bread, Whole Wheat bread and regular white bread is 2.99/loaf.
Posted by: kallisto at March 18, 2024 12:52 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
Yes, they have to induce a recession to fix the economy. I just wonder if the illegals aren't being counted in the job losses.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 12:52 PM (lTGtQ)
http://tiny.cc/1pujxz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
______
Questionable. Unbangable absent more intel.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 12:39 PM (iFTx/)
Here's a fun game: how old is she?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 18, 2024 12:40 PM (KbCG3)
Older than her her boobs, I'd bet.
#aftermarket
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 18, 2024 12:53 PM (wtvvX)
So...I think step one has to be hitting benefits that mostly just the left gets AND seizing the property of those that benefited from these ill gotten gains.
Do the reverse of what the left is doing to us and essentially make things so bad revolt seems the logical alternative...then use that revolt to destroy them as a political force.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 18, 2024 12:51 PM (ibTVg)
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Or, stay with me on this, we could start advocating for social security cuts and watch older Republicans go whole hog for Democrats!
"Cut theirs, not mine," the only fiscal conservatism in America with any sizable electorate behind it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:53 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (RKVpM)
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Extreme intermittent fasting: 1 meal a day.
Saves even more!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:48 PM (GBKbO)
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The Venezuelan diet for the win.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 12:53 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I May No Longer Be able To Even at March 18, 2024 12:53 PM (xPJvm)
None of that is important when Russia wants half of the Ukraine!
Spend moar!
The last free and mostly fair election the Ukes had in 2010 has the Eastern half voting for the guy that wanted to maintain good relations with Russia.
Barky removed him via a coup and amusingly in 2019 Lil Z ran as the "let's be friends with Russia candidate" so they voted for him over our stooge...who amusingly Lil Z then tried to imprison...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 18, 2024 12:53 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:53 PM (wMRY8)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 12:54 PM (6z9Vj)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 12:49 PM (Zz0t1)
When Germans have sex, Shit Happens.
Posted by: XTC at March 18, 2024 12:54 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: 18-1
That is actually what the government plans to do to us.
Make things bad enough so that some of the "rams" among the sheep revolt, beat them down HARD, and institute the equivalent of martial law.
No matter what, the country we have known as the United States is coming to an end. Most of us will not live to see something rise from the ashes.
I feel really bad for my sons, that will have to somehow live through this.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at March 18, 2024 12:54 PM (vcOmj)
@gunpolicy 3m
LEGAL ALERT: The Tenth Circuit has denied the New Mexico Governor's motion to stay the preliminary injunction against her public park carry ban, which means the ban cannot be enforced while her appeal continues.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 18, 2024 12:54 PM (IG4Id)
We spent about 2 trillion over 20 years in Iraq , Afghanistan and the Middle East for the WoT.
We spent 6 trillion in the first year on COVID ‘relief’.
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 12:54 PM (MNhXM)
Nah, it's a Rammstein side project.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 12:54 PM (2ocoG)
When we want to hear from a fucking pedophile scumbag, we'll dig you up out of your shallow grave.
Posted by: spindrift at March 18, 2024 12:55 PM (OguvZ)
And all of those South Pacific islands that were going to be underwater but have increased their dry land. Truly it is a miracle!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 12:51 PM (17s+e)
In DC, they're uprooting some of the cherry trees because the sea wall around the Tidal Basin needs to be repaired. The articles admit that the walls were poorly built to begin with and are sinking into the mud but they also can't resist stating that "scientists expect" sea levels to rise up to six feet over the rest of the century.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 18, 2024 12:55 PM (T+Iwg)
He does not care about any of this. He's still way better than the alternative, but that's not saying much.
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:51 PM (wMRY
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Read my comment on Rep Schweitzer who says almost nobody in Congress cares. And he should know because he heads up a Budget subcommittee.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 18, 2024 12:55 PM (k8kCE)
Posted by: Gretchen
Johann: "Hans, how much did you have to pay Gretchen in order to pump her?"
Hans: "Only a nickel."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 12:55 PM (9yWhg)
He does not care about any of this. He's still way better than the alternative, but that's not saying much.
Posted by: Blago
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His original budget was actually quite conservative but Trump would be damned if he would spend his political capital on unfulfilled budget cuts when the supposed green eyeshade Paul Ryan refused to even consider cutting the largesse of the welfare state.
Politics is always the art of the possible and that window for a particular policy waxes and wanes. There is no appetite politically for austerity until the crash happens because quite actually--asset holders are going to get reamed. There is a reason why places with long histories emphasize education and human capital along with gold, silver, etc. because you can take that with you and eat during really bad times.
Investors in land, buildings, stocks, etc. depend on a sound rule of government and sound currency. Bad times kill that.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (TPpzE)
We spent 6 trillion in the first year on COVID ‘relief’.
Posted by: polynikes
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Who was President during the first year of Covid? I forget.
That's why I have to roll my eyes when people say "nobody could do anything about this!!"
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (wMRY8)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 18, 2024 12:55 PM (k8kCE)
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A candidate that Cindy McCain approves of would do it!
Surely!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (GBKbO)
Well, see, that's what I'm trying to address. Twenty odd years of the GOPe talking about balancing the budget by reducing spending on things flippable voters want hasn't worked.
So, indeed let's embrace "cut theirs" and...TBH if I'm looking at some retired factory worker getting SS or some bureaucrat who is processing welfare claims for illegals I can't in good conscience tell the former he is getting a hair cut so the latter can keep his job...
Posted by: 18-1 at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (ibTVg)
I like the detail that he couldn't figure out they were hookers until his pants disappeared.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (2ocoG)
None of that is important when Russia wants half of the Ukraine!
They kill enough Ukrainian males they can take the entire country. Which is why Z should eat a bullet now.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I May No Longer Be able To Even at March 18, 2024 12:53 PM (xPJvm)
Dicke Titten!
https://youtu.be/thJgU9jkdU4
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (6z9Vj)
Posted by: Jackie Chiles at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (RKVpM)
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Extreme intermittent fasting: 1 meal a day.
Saves even more!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:48 PM (GBKbO)
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The Venezuelan diet for the win.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 12:53 PM (17s+e)
I remember, during an African famine around 40(??) years ago, seeing my first Ethiopian restaurant. It was a weird feeling...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (wtvvX)
@gunpolicy 3m
LEGAL ALERT: The Tenth Circuit has denied the New Mexico Governor's motion to stay the preliminary injunction against her public park carry ban, which means the ban cannot be enforced while her appeal continues.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 18, 2024 12:54 PM (IG4Id)
The dark cloud:
SCOTUS refuses to hear appeal of New Mexico man banned from running for office because he was convicted of trespassing on Jan 6.
Not insurrection but trespassing.
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (MNhXM)
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Hot blooded, check it and see
I got a femur, that's a hundred and three!
/Haitian cannibal breaking the century mark in victims.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (991eG)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 18, 2024 12:57 PM (5q0pY)
A California synagogue axed its leadership and is struggling to retain members after leasing its facility to a Muslim group that brought in an anti-Israel speaker who compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:57 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (VrrwH)
It's right over there, next to top coat Korea.
Posted by: Geography genius at March 18, 2024 12:57 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (6z9Vj)
Depends on how long until his masters feed him his ration of shit.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 18, 2024 12:58 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Haitian at March 18, 2024 12:41 PM (k8+WX)
That is not yours! You give that back! AND my skulls!
Posted by: Dr. Klopek at March 18, 2024 12:58 PM (DTX3h)
Same. The only thing I know about Ethiopia and food is starvation and Sally Struthers, so I've never had any interest in Ethiopian restaurants.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 12:58 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (iFTx/)
The aristocracy always believes that they'll be exempt from the troubles they encourage. History suggests they are incorrect.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 12:59 PM (zhLdt)
Same. The only thing I know about Ethiopia and food is starvation and Sally Struthers, so I've never had any interest in Ethiopian restaurants.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 12:58 PM (2ocoG)
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One of my three favorite restaurants in Rome is Ethiopian. The Restaurant Africa. It's really good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:59 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken
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It's Schweikert, and yes, Im familiar with his, I've even had him over at my house for an event. He's a bit odd, but he truly does care about this issue, but he's mostly on his own.
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:59 PM (wMRY8)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 12:59 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at March 18, 2024 12:59 PM (PFYt9)
One of my three favorite restaurants in Rome is Ethiopian. The Restaurant Africa. It's really good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:59 PM (GBKbO)
Too bad they don't have a branch in Ethiopia. Those people might eat.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 01:00 PM (Zz0t1)
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JFC Blago get off your NeverTrumpness it is getting so old and tired... and wrong.
Trump's first budget he sent to the REPUBLICAN CONGRESS, both houses, took a hacksaw to the federal budget. Our most conservative of conservative budget guys, Paul Ryno, proclaimed it dead on arrival.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 01:00 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:57 PM (RHGPo)
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Unexpectedly!
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (MnHeR)
But look for the good news the Haiti Action Group is up to!
clintonfoundation.org /programs/climate-change-disaster-recovery
Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Ian S.
They serve a lot of meals centered around goat. Goat meat is....interesting.
If not eating beef, I do prefer bison. Bison/buffaloe meat is actually very rich and flavorful.
Goat is kind of tough and chewy, mostly.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (vcOmj)
Florida Rep. Cory Mills, who rescued Americans in Afghanistan and Israel, airlifts 23 from Haiti. One is an author that most of you know.
https://tinyurl.com/25h5u6wf
s
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The author is Mitch Albom whom you might remember from such books as The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (FVME7)
Same. The only thing I know about Ethiopia and food is starvation and Sally Struthers, so I've never had any interest in Ethiopian restaurants.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 12:58 PM (2ocoG)
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Ethiopian food is very good, if you can get past that they don't use utensils. They just scoop it up with thin slices of bread using their hands.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (iFTx/)
It's now highly salsa-y.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (wtvvX)
Here's an idea for a North Korean restaurant.
Customers come in where they are put to work in the kitchen for 20 hours without break in harsh and unsanitary conditions. Do well without complaining and you can split a low fat pudding cup with the next five customers.
Posted by: Robert at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (4yuQM)
Posted by: kallisto at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:59 PM (GBKbO)
It would be odd to have a favorite restaurant that wasn't really good.
Posted by: spindrift at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (OguvZ)
Posted by: Dr. Klopek at March 18, 2024 12:58 PM (DTX3h)
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*snort*
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (DRSnL)
And, BTW, I'm not convinced Sid isn't a parody troll, instead of a real one. Too over the top sometimes.
Posted by: Eeyore at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (1bNHn)
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (iFTx/)
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It was always fun. I wanna go back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 01:02 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 18, 2024 12:49 PM (u82oZ)
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Heh.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 01:02 PM (MnHeR)
BREAKING: Barack Obama arrives at Number 10 in UK for an undisclosed private meeting
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 01:02 PM (2yu8s)
Posted by: spindrift at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (OguvZ)
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I do have a favorite fast food place, too: Taco Bell.
It's not very good, but I love it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 01:02 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 01:00 PM (17s+e)
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Then Ryan decided to hand the House over to Pelosi on a silver platter.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 18, 2024 01:02 PM (k8kCE)
Trump's first budget he sent to the REPUBLICAN CONGRESS, both houses, took a hacksaw to the federal budget. Our most conservative of conservative budget guys, Paul Ryno, proclaimed it dead on arrival.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 01:00 PM (17s+e)
Naw man. Trump SUX !!! VOTE BIDEN!!!! For wins.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 01:02 PM (Zz0t1)
It's now highly salsa-y.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (9yWhg)
Addis Abad joke.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 18, 2024 01:03 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 12:48 PM (TPpzE)
I'd be willing to consider a 0.5% cut in the rate of spending increase once half my constituents have starved to death. -- Senator Blowfeld
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 01:03 PM (zhLdt)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 18, 2024 01:02 PM (k8kCE)
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Remember, fighting Republicans in DC is bad because they're the true conservatives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: 18-1
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Social Security is like the one benefit that the government owes people fr forcing them to pay into it and is actually based (somewhat) on what you put in.
Of all the government programs to really go after, SS is the one that should be at the bottom.
We could "fix" SS for another generation with just what we've thrown away on student debt forgiveness and deferrals.
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 01:03 PM (wMRY8)
Of course these same Karens want to mandate a mRNA vax.
F’ing psychopaths.
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 01:03 PM (MNhXM)
Over the weekend there were reports that Trump was on the phone to Speaker Johnson telling him it's vital we send Zelensky a lot of money, and then he gave a speech denouncing DeSantis for no reason.
The best salesman for NeverTrump is Trump.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 01:03 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2024 01:04 PM (yeEu9)
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at March 18
Cabrito is good, but I have the same pain in my heart with it as I do veal. I know, I know.
Posted by: Piper at March 18, 2024 01:04 PM (ZdaMQ)
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JFC Blago get off your NeverTrumpness it is getting so old and tired... and wrong.
Trump's first budget he sent to the REPUBLICAN CONGRESS, both houses, took a hacksaw to the federal budget. Our most conservative of conservative budget guys, Paul Ryno, proclaimed it dead on arrival.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 01:00 PM
Plus the democrats controlled congress when covid hit. Most people seem to forget that it was nancy pelosi that was calling the budget shots at that point. No way was trump going to veto anything that came across his desk in an election year that had the backing of 85% of congress.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 18, 2024 01:04 PM (QNSds)
Anyone saying that Trump in his 4 years in "office" wasn't fiscally conservative enough is simply being a mendacious a**hole.
He was a fiscally conservative as the system would allow him to be.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 18, 2024 01:04 PM (JIdXK)
Posted by: 18-1
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Social Security is the most easily fixed program--move the retirement age up. Disability in a similar fashion to VA--use percentages for payments instead of total or none. Keeps workers in the workforce better than the alternative.
Medicare, general welfare transfer payments, and Medicaid are the largest rapidly growing line items along with ballooning interest and then there is defense. A large proportion of defense spending is for care for its retirees and payroll expenses. Professional armies instead of conscript armies are typically expensive and thus often are smaller than necessary.
For the money we are spending for a particular defense structure, we are overcommitted militarily across the globe and essentially operating on credit for past performances.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 01:04 PM (TPpzE)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 18, 2024 01:04 PM (QNSds)
That what separates the good from the great.
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 01:05 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:51 PM (wMRY
He tried to cut spending and the GOP Congress said no. That's literally the opposite of what you're saying.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 01:06 PM (zhLdt)
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (iFTx/)
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It was always fun. I wanna go back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 01:02 PM (GBKbO)
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Ethiopian and Haitian were very trendy in NYC a while back. The Ethiopian places are still here. The Haitian places are gone.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 18, 2024 01:06 PM (iFTx/)
BREAKING: Barack Obama arrives at Number 10 in UK for an undisclosed private meeting
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 01:02 PM (2yu8s)
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An official "thank you" for organizing the Russia Hoax, and helping to deliver his third term. After this trip, Obama travels to Australia for the same purpose.
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at March 18, 2024 01:06 PM (v6iF3)
Posted by: Mister Scott
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Plus all those Executive Orders like no longer collecting on student loans.
Believe me, I know. Trump had to do what Pelosi and/or Mitch McConnell told him to do. But otherwise, he's totally fighting for us and will buck the Establishment.
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 01:06 PM (wMRY8)
Posted by: Piper
So you need a calfeter after eating veal?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 01:06 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at
Rome has a few Ethiopian places that are really good. There is a hole in the wall place in Richmond, VA that is amazing.
Posted by: Piper at March 18, 2024 01:06 PM (ZdaMQ)
Posted by: Ian S.
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One should always take 'reports' with disdain unless it actually names sources, specifics, etc.
If you are not paying for it--you are the product and that includes Conservative TM media.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 01:07 PM (TPpzE)
Posted by: Ian S.
I love Ethiopian food!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 01:07 PM (FVME7)
BREAKING: North Korea's Kim says Russian voters showed 'unshakeable support' for Putin
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
NEW: Seoul says N Korea has shipped 7,000 arms containers to Russia
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 01:07 PM (2yu8s)
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OH reports... from like the media? Well then I believe that then. ORANGEMAN BAD!!!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 01:07 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2024 01:07 PM (yeEu9)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18
Are you here all week? 😂
Posted by: Piper at March 18, 2024 01:08 PM (ZdaMQ)
Customers come in where they are put to work in the kitchen for 20 hours without break in harsh and unsanitary conditions. Do well without complaining and you can split a low fat pudding cup with the next five customers.
Posted by: Robert at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (4yuQM)
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The stray dog problem in the area would disappear, and customers often see Obama come in for an appetizer.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 01:08 PM (MnHeR)
the other day I happened to see the balance in that account, and I was surprised it had doubled. To just the amount I needed for a new pair of boots! So I cashed it in and got the boots, which I have christened the Crypto Boots.
It's a shame I am such a small time player, it would have been nice to stake a few thousand instead of the mickey rooney amount I bought.
Posted by: kallisto at March 18, 2024 01:08 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 01:08 PM (6z9Vj)
Posted by: SMOD at March 18, 2024 12:57 PM (RHGPo)
Covered by JJ on The Morning Report today.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at March 18, 2024 01:08 PM (iODuv)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 01:09 PM (9yWhg)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 18, 2024 01:09 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: whig
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In a perfect world, I could understand privatizing SS, but it really is dumb politically and is just not a crisis. It's been a weird obsession on our side.
You could raise the age like 1-2 years, raise the cap a small amount on the payroll tax collected, and do a better job with disability fraud and its fixed for the next 50+ years.
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 01:09 PM (wMRY8)
The best salesman for NeverTrump is Trump.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 01:03 PM (2ocoG)
He also is talking about getting a Federal compromise on abortion apparently not realizing the whole point of overturning Roe v Wade was a States Right issue. He has also flipped flopped on Tik Tok.
Trump has 100% of my support over the commies but he’s making it tough.
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 01:09 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2024 01:07 PM (yeEu9)
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We're gonna need more Walmart greeters ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 01:09 PM (MnHeR)
BREAKING: Barack Obama arrives at Number 10 in UK for an undisclosed private meeting
He probably thinks the UK PM looks like his college roommate, if you've seen *that* cursed photo.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 01:09 PM (2ocoG)
It's now highly salsa-y.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at March 18, 2024 01:01 PM (9yWhg)
Addis Abad joke.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at March 18, 2024 01:03 PM (wtvvX)
*golf clap*
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 01:09 PM (bving)
Posted by: garrett at March 18, 2024 12:46 PM (k8+WX)
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Much like Trump's budget cutting budgets, it's not intended to be taken seriously.
It's a political statement for the base.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
Be nice if they actually passed a budget... but they haven't since what 2009?
Posted by: Inogame at March 18, 2024 01:10 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Logic is not his strong suit. Personal animosity toward Trump or one of his policies is more likely.
There is not a fiscal savior that can come down from the clouds and save us. The hard rain of fiscal collapse is gonna fall and it will fall on the virtuous and sinners just the same.
So get to building a boat for you and yours.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 01:10 PM (TPpzE)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding what is best in life with Robert E. Howard at March 18, 2024 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
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Looking back on it I’m sure Ryan and the rest of the Republican Congressional Leadership turned over the House to Pelosi so the House could impeach Trump as part of the effort to hurt Trump’s reelection chances.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at March 18, 2024 01:10 PM (k8kCE)
Posted by: Blago at March 18, 2024 12:56 PM (wMRY
Should we vote for Biden then?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 01:10 PM (zhLdt)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger
Yes, but how was the beetle mush?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 18, 2024 01:10 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Piper
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People might eat less veal if we started calling them cow puppies.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 18, 2024 01:10 PM (991eG)
Posted by: Inogame
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On purpose. Allows pols to slide by with built in spending and deny responsibility by the gaming of budget rules.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 01:11 PM (TPpzE)
Posted by: polynikes at March 18, 2024 01:11 PM (MNhXM)
I have a better idea. No SS or Medicaid for illegals. I am so tired of being told that we have to bump up the retirement age. There are no jobs out the for 70 year olds.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2024 01:07 PM
The average SS check is now in the neighborhood of $1,400/month. The dollars I'm seeing reported as being given to the invaders is twice that.
There are jobs for 70 year olds which roughly pay $1,400 a month.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 18, 2024 01:11 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Not Fat Dumb Ron at March 18, 2024 01:11 PM (nI4xo)
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Say what you will about Sally Struthers, she's clearly done everything she can to fight starvation.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at March 18, 2024 01:12 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I May No Longer Be able To Even at March 18, 2024 01:12 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: andycanuck
Coordinating the November election interference.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 01:12 PM (lTGtQ)
Posted by: Northernlurker at March 18, 2024 01:08 PM (6z9Vj)
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It was better in the original diaper poop scrawlings on his crib.
Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at March 18, 2024 01:13 PM (MnHeR)
Look at California - it is exactly what is happening to Haiti. We just aren't there quite yet.
Posted by: Jake Speed at March 18, 2024 01:13 PM (Vu1jV)
Coordinating the November election interference.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 18, 2024 01:12 PM (lTGtQ)
There's a report out that shows Google interfered in elections over 40 times.
Too bad nothing will happen to them.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at March 18, 2024 01:13 PM (Zz0t1)
So you were also in a German sex farce?
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 01:13 PM (2ocoG)
Today yougov dot com, April 23, 2021:
Global: The pandemic has changed the types of food consumers are buying
FNS (Food and Nutrition Service) USDA Dietary Patterns and Dietary guidelines dot gov, DGA - Dietary Guidelines for Americans, Work Under Way, 2025 Advisory Committee
Frédéric Leroy
@fleroy1974
Preferably no more than 3 new clothing items per year. Who needs clothes in this new Garden of Eden anyway?
European Climate Pact: Our wardrobe in 2030: rented, recycled, regenerative
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Control and "BECAUSE IT IS A MONEY LAUNDERING OPERATION" as posted by rickb223, last thread.
Posted by: L - And they can all x my royal Irish arse at March 18, 2024 01:13 PM (GshMh)
BREAKING: Barack Obama arrives at Number 10 in UK for an undisclosed private meeting
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 01:02 PM (2yu8s)
Rishi Sunak is gay?!?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 01:13 PM (zhLdt)
The best salesman for NeverTrump is Trump.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 01:03 PM (2ocoG)
yeah, i'm going to have to see the raw, unedited tapes with good audio to be able to know what was actually said.
wait, you mean it's not actually taped just heard about?
oh that's TOTALLY trustworthy...
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 01:14 PM (bving)
They interfered on behalf of Our Democracy(tm), so it's fine.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 01:14 PM (2ocoG)
Barry is in London looking to get his autographed speeches video back from Sunak.
Or to ask them to take Harry and Meghan back.
Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 01:14 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: Auspex at March 18, 2024 01:14 PM (j4U/Z)
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They're horning in on the Netflix dough that's meant for him and Big Mike.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 18, 2024 01:15 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 01:03 PM (2ocoG)
1. Reports? From "unnamed sources"?
2. Gonna need a link to speech before I believe anything.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 18, 2024 01:16 PM (zhLdt)
>>Barry is in London looking to get his autographed speeches video back from Sunak.Or to ask them to take Harry and Meghan back.
Or more than likely, Our Shadow President is trying to get the Five Eyes Band Back together for a replay of 2016.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 18, 2024 01:16 PM (JIdXK)
Posted by: SturmToddler at March 18, 2024 01:16 PM (bving)
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Well, Elizabeth doesn't need them anymore to prop up that one wobbly desk in her office.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 01:17 PM (2yu8s)
So you were also in a German sex farce?
Posted by: Ian S. at March 18, 2024 01:13 PM (2ocoG)
No. Absolutely not. (I made sure all the video was destroyed.)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I May No Longer Be able To Even at March 18, 2024 01:17 PM (xPJvm)
There was supposed to be some big announcement out of Briton today. I kinda doubt it has anything to do with O'bama though.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at March 18, 2024 01:17 PM (RKVpM)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
When Social Security was instituted, it did not project that the average person living to 65 would live for another 19.6 years collecting benefits. It projected the average person back then would live for about 5 years collecting benefits.
For a sound program, you either have to raise the retirement age or increase taxes a lot or both.
Medicare is in worse shape. The amount of taxes would require a substantial massive tax increase or curtailment of benefits via caps etc. .
The point is, politically, to fix Social Security and Medicare, you have to also cut/eliminate all the other perks that other groups are getting--federal retirees, and so on. That is the only way to effectively reduce the budget politically if EVERYONE shares the pain.
Posted by: whig at March 18, 2024 01:17 PM (TPpzE)
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And those bastards at X are censoring Trump's 3-hour anti-Meatball speech down to the 19-second clip I saw!
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 01:18 PM (2yu8s)
Posted by: Wally at March 18, 2024 01:18 PM (JPM41)
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There are rumours Chuck is about to or has already snuffed it.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at March 18, 2024 01:19 PM (2yu8s)
If anyone is interested in this line of thinking, come help clean out my closet. I have so many clothes, very nice clothes, that are 1. Not the right size and 2. My work uniform is leggings. I have zero need.
This is after 2 purges and donating to women’s shelters. I shouldn’t really admit this so freely.
Posted by: Piper at March 18, 2024 01:19 PM (ZdaMQ)
oh that's TOTALLY trustworthy...
Trump's "bloodbath" comment is on video and the left STILL is trying to gaslight everyone with a snipped version.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 18, 2024 01:19 PM (Odg76)
Posted by: 2008 is calling at March 18, 2024 01:21 PM (iNp3L)
SS has been struggling since the dem-commiess changed law so all people who had not contributed a dollar to it to get it.
Posted by: vic at March 18, 2024 01:21 PM (A5THL)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 18, 2024 01:22 PM (yeEu9)
Posted by: vic at March 18, 2024 01:22 PM (A5THL)
CNN, 3/8/24 - After dismissing the former president's case last month against retired British intelligence officer Christopher Steele and his company, Orbis Business Intelligence, Judge Karen Steyn has ordered Trump to pay £300,000 ($385,000) to the company, according to court documents
Posted by: L - And they can all x my royal Irish arse at March 18, 2024 01:23 PM (GshMh)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romeor at March 18, 2024 02:17 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting zombies with George A. Romero at March 18, 2024 02:17 PM (GBKbO)
Who is the Parasite Class, one may ask? It is the Government at all levels. Ponder this: 85% or so of the Government workforce should not be there at all and are only there due to unionized featherbedding AFSCME.
How to fix:
1) Eliminate all Federal departments and agencies that are not specified in The Constitution. Fire them en masse and convert their pensions to Social Security.
2) OUTLAW ALL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEE UNIONS.
3) Sell the buildings and equipment of the closed agencies. Sell the vast tracts of land in the West. None of the sales can go to foreigners.
4) Deport all illegal aliens forthwith. If they can't prove that they are here legally, they get deported within a week.
5) Take a long hard look at the welfare roles and make a genuine effort to purge those unworthy.
6) Make every agency that is left after the big purge account for every dollar. . . . .just like the IRS does to us.
Feel free to add to the list
Posted by: Bonecrusher at March 18, 2024 02:33 PM (JNTt1)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 18, 2024 04:35 PM (wGqjj)
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