"Not the World People Are Living In:" James Carville Rejects Biden's Otherwordly Take on the Economy

The economy is withering and shriveling as fast as Joe Biden's dying brain.

Carville is reacting to this disaster-pants Biden interview, in which he insisted the economy had never been better. He explained away voters saying the economy is poor by just saying that "the polls are wrong," and whined that many people hang up the phone before a pollster gets one to do a survey.

Lefties mocked righties for talking about "skewed polls." But now here's the "president" claiming that all polls, all of them, are skewed against him.

Biden just sat there with a slack jaw as Erin Burnett read the actual economic figures to him. As some observed: It's like Biden has been kept in a plastic bubble and this is the first time someone's telling him the real economic data.

Carville says this gaslighting will backfire.

Democratic strategist James Carville criticized President Joe Biden on Thursday over claims that the economy is thriving under his administration.
Job growth may stall in the second half of 2024 as low gross domestic product (GDP) and soaring inflation persist, according to a Monday report by research group The Conference Board. Biden has touted the U.S. economy as booming, but Carville told NewsNation host Chris Cuomo that this is a misguided strategy and he should stop attempting to persuade Americans who are not experiencing what he is claiming.
"I don't think, if people don't feel like they're in a good economy, you can't convince 'em," Carville told Cuomo. "And I think there's a bunch of Ivy League economist academic types that go in and saying, 'sir, this is the best economy we've had since 1969, you have to go out and promote it.' That's not the world people are living in. And at some point, Chris, you know, baseball, you've got to let the ball come to you. You can't charge the ball. And I agree with the critics that this is not the proper messaging.

They then both spun that AKSHUALLY the basic numbers for growth and employment are good, overlooking the fact that the economy was artificially shut down (at Democrat insistence) and all the "growth" and "job gains" are just the very natural consequence of ending the artificial shut-down of the economy.

Oh, and I'm sure you noticed his bullshit claim that inflation under Trump was at 9%.

In fact, it was at... 1.4%.

Even the dirty, traitorous, propaganda unit ABC "News" has to admit that Biden is just lying:

Must be that "stutter" acting up again.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:40 PM

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Posted by: RUReadingthis at May 10, 2024 01:41 PM (aQ25I)

2 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 10, 2024 01:41 PM (8RNuU)

3 last

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

4 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)

5
Carville is subhuman filth. That is all.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 10, 2024 01:42 PM (MoZTd)

6 Carville needs to be trebuchet'd into the Great Barrier Reef.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

7 Biden failing. Who could have seen that coming?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 10, 2024 01:43 PM (j+vrQ)

8 Tying this into the upcoming GAINZZZ!! thread, Planet Fitness will be increasing their membership fee from $10 to $15/month later this summer.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 10, 2024 01:43 PM (a3Q+t)

9 Biden just sat there with a slack jaw as Erin Burnett read the actual economic figures to him. As some observed: It's like Biden has been kept in a plastic bubble and this is the first time someone's telling him the real economic data.
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It's probably more subtle than that. I doubt they're lying to Biden, not exactly. But the negative data probably *are* spun very skillfully to make it look good.

Combine that difference - raw vs. spun - with his mental problems (probably hard to follow the thread or understand the point, but able to pick up on the negative themes), and it's surprising that he didn't just shut down.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 01:43 PM (d04cU)

10 "I don't think, if people don't feel like they're in a good economy, you can't convince 'em," Carville told Cuomo. "And I think there's a bunch of Ivy League economist academic types that go in and saying, 'sir, this is the best economy we've had since 1969, you have to go out and promote it.' That's not the world people are living in.

Worse, it confirms to people that you're an inveterate liar and are not to be trusted. The Godfather isn't the only one who doesn't like his intelligence to be insulted.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 01:43 PM (CsUN+)

11 The more I hear about this Biden guy, the less I like him.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 01:43 PM (fV+MH)

12 I can believe there was a time of 9% inflation during Trump's admin, during the woofloo BS and using the 1980's calculation.

With Brandon I'd bet the 1980's calc would show 10%-15% for the duration.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 10, 2024 01:44 PM (llON8)

13 So who will be the Dems candidate?

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 10, 2024 01:44 PM (j+vrQ)

14 Darn. And I was going to shit on that idiotic suffragette musical which, without any self-awareness whatsoever, demonstrates yet again why the 19th amendment was and continues to be a devastating mistake.

But I guess it ties in with how we have the Brandon administration.

Posted by: It's all of a piece I suppose at May 10, 2024 01:44 PM (Wc83a)

15 Job growth may stall in the second half of 2024 as low gross domestic product (GDP) and soaring inflation persist, according to a Monday report by research group The Conference Board.
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Given that's starting to decline and we're still in the first half, a "stall" would mark a modest improvement.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 01:44 PM (d04cU)

16 Carville is subhuman filth. That is all.

He not only looks like a snake, he is the snake in the Garden of Evil, trying to lure people into sin and darkness.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 01:44 PM (CsUN+)

17 Carvel looks like Gollum

Posted by: It's me donna at May 10, 2024 01:45 PM (Akjoo)

18 Odds on Obaka stumping for Biden increased significantly.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 10, 2024 01:45 PM (IG4Id)

19 Erin Burnett is a One.

Too bad she works at a shitty network.

And doesn't visit me at night.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 10, 2024 01:45 PM (ufFY8)

20 >>> 8 Tying this into the upcoming GAINZZZ!! thread, Planet Fitness will be increasing their membership fee from $10 to $15/month later this summer.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 10, 2024 01:43 PM (a3Q+t)

What a deal! Ladies, you can now pay 50% more to have dudes in dresses in your locker room.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 10, 2024 01:45 PM (llON8)

21
Corporate greed!
Corporate greed!
Corporate greed!
Corporate greed!
Corporate greed!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 10, 2024 01:45 PM (MoZTd)

22 Desperately seeking relevance.

Posted by: James Carville at May 10, 2024 01:45 PM (VGOMa)

23 This stuff will decrease Biden votes and increase Biden ballots.

Posted by: ... at May 10, 2024 01:46 PM (OCZ4p)

24 I see Planet Fatness is adopting the always successful strategy of increasing prices when nobody wants your product. Good luck with that.

Posted by: PabloD at May 10, 2024 01:46 PM (rPlYy)

25 trying to lure people into sin and darkness.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 01:44 PM

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Karl Rove at May 10, 2024 01:46 PM (a3Q+t)

26 I've been saying this for awhile now....

Biden does NOT know what is real. He knows only what other people tell him to say and believes it to be the truth. The doddering dolt is so far gone he literally has no idea what is really happening. He believes what he is saying because he believes what he is told. He understands nothing.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 10, 2024 01:46 PM (4XwPj)

27 The best economy in the worl-DUH.

Posted by: President Old Man Balls at May 10, 2024 01:46 PM (v0R5T)

28 21
Corporate greed!
Corporate greed!
Corporate greed!
Corporate greed!
Corporate greed!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 10, 2024 01:45 PM (MoZTd)

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Biden is too in love with democracy to do anything about it.

The only reasons corporations didn't overdo it for corporate profits under Trump was because they feared his tyranny if they should cross him.

It's obvious: If you hate inflation and big corporations: vote for tyranny. Vote for Trump.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 01:46 PM (GBKbO)

29 Erin Burnett needs a ball gag.

That being said, watch the first 30 seconds of that video and look at Biden's face.

It speaks VOLUMES. Holy SHIT we're so f*cked.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

30 29 That being said, watch the first 30 seconds of that video and look at Biden's face.

It speaks VOLUMES. Holy SHIT we're so f*cked.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)

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He is the Democrat version of a quality candidate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

31 When challenged on his poll performance, any chance Biden will brag again about bringing together the best election fraud team that was ever assembled?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 10, 2024 01:47 PM (gakDF)

32 "I don't think, if people don't feel like they're in a good economy, you can't convince 'em," Carville told Cuomo. "And I think there's a bunch of Ivy League economist academic types that go in and saying, 'sir, this is the best economy we've had since 1969, you have to go out and promote it.' ...
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He's not wrong.

Telling a person who looks around at his conditions and thinks, "this sucks and is getting worse" that he's wrong and that everything is awesome will just get one of three responses, depending on the individual:
1. "You're lying. I have eyes."
2. "That's all well and good, but it sucks *here* and for *me* and that's more important than the general case that might be okay."
3. "Where does it not suck? I want to do better, so where are these booms, and I'll go there and do that?"

The first two are common, and no amount of preaching will change it. The third is less common, but you'd better not be lying if you come across that guy because the game is up immediately if you can't answer.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 01:47 PM (d04cU)

33 James Carville is the type of thing Ben Franklin probably foresaw.

Hell there were Carvilles all throughout history.

Carvilles are the very plague on humanity.

I think the Soros disease is a new variant.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 01:47 PM (fV+MH)

34 32 The third is less common, but you'd better not be lying if you come across that guy because the game is up immediately if you can't answer.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 01:47 PM (d04cU)

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Graduate from Yale and join Skull and Bones.

Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 01:48 PM (GBKbO)

35 Two old battle axes tried to destroy the Magna Carta for Just Stop Oil. So not only the young are stupid.

Posted by: steevy at May 10, 2024 01:48 PM (FQmDC)

36 "You can't charge the ball."

So that's what I've been doing wrong.

Posted by: gp In, gp Out at May 10, 2024 01:48 PM (MvF+J)

37 Tying this into the upcoming GAINZZZ!! thread, Planet Fitness will be increasing their membership fee from $10 to $15/month later this summer.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 10, 2024 01:43 PM (a3Q+t)

Well, you try hiring trannies to flash their wangs around in the ladies' showers for $15 per hour!

Posted by: Planet Fitness at May 10, 2024 01:49 PM (8zz6B)

38 'Ol Snakehead is evil, but not stupid.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 10, 2024 01:49 PM (JMAcK)

39 When a baguette that was $4.99 under Trump is now $5.99 under dumbass, that is only 4% inflation, right????/////
Best economy ever that's what it means when we are making "more" money but can buy less and have more debt....

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 01:49 PM (cDvOu)

40 What else is he going to say. He sure in fuck isn't going to acknowledge the reality.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 10, 2024 01:49 PM (Q33Xs)

41 They then both spun that AKSHUALLY the basic numbers for growth and employment are good, overlooking the fact that the economy was artificially shut down (at Democrat insistence) and all the "growth" and "job gains" are just the very natural consequence of ending the artificial shut-down of the economy.
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Comparisons against February, 2020 through about June 2021 are pointless and dishonest. Employment, wages, inflation, gas prices, whatever.

All comparisons should be against 2019. This used to be the way things worked. Reconversion didn't compare things to the War years, it compared it to the lead-up to the War. The War was exceptional and queered all the data for comparison. The COVID era is no different.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 01:49 PM (d04cU)

42 Wonder how Carville's mental health is?

Going against the narrative may mean he's suicidal and ready to shoot himself in the back 7 times.

Posted by: Stateless at May 10, 2024 01:49 PM (jvJvP)

43 Erin Burnett needs a ball gag.

That being said, watch the first 30 seconds of that video and look at Biden's face.

It speaks VOLUMES. Holy SHIT we're so f*cked.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 01:47 PM (Zz0t1)
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Yep. He is completely OUT OF IT. No comprehension about the question.

Would not be surprised if someone was feeding him a response through an earpiece and he just repeats it verbatim.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 10, 2024 01:49 PM (7fElN)

44 I think the Soros disease is a new variant.
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 01:47 PM (fV+MH)

"long Soros"

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 10, 2024 01:49 PM (ufFY8)

45 Well, the economy may be a rough spot for Biden, but at least he can still count on the Jewish vote.

https://tinyurl.com/7ysbd4wk

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 01:49 PM (CsUN+)

46
Ladies, you can now pay 50% more to have dudes in dresses in your locker room.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 10, 2024 01:45 PM (llON

__________

Not sure why I'd want to go into a women's locker room at the gym to see boys with boobs, tits on a stick. Must come from being part Italian.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 10, 2024 01:50 PM (MoZTd)

47 it is really a lie when the person is senile and not that smart to start with?

Posted by: gnats local 678 at May 10, 2024 01:50 PM (B1FKF)

48 Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 01:49 PM (cDvOu)

How'd the procedure go?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

49 NY Post counts 15 Biden lies in 17 minute interview.

https://shorturl.at/lCIKL

I guess he's cutting back.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 10, 2024 01:50 PM (L/fGl)

50 Wonder how Carville's mental health is?

Going against the narrative may mean he's suicidal and ready to shoot himself in the back 7 times.
Posted by: Stateless at May 10, 2024 01:49 PM (jvJvP)
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Doubt it.

Carville isn't Kalorama, he's Clinton. He's their creature.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 01:50 PM (d04cU)

51 Wait... I was assured by multiple media outlets that this economy is on fire, best in years no thanks to Trump who crapped all over it.

I be conflicted.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 10, 2024 01:50 PM (Q4IgG)

52 The Carvilles ran a leper colony in Louisiana.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 10, 2024 01:50 PM (9yWhg)

53 Erin Burnett is a One.

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She definitely was, and maybe still is.... but she hit the wall pretty hard the last few years.

Posted by: Bigsmith at May 10, 2024 01:51 PM (DE0mc)

54 "'Ol Snakehead is evil, but not stupid. "

No. Unfortunately he has the wisdom of evil.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 01:51 PM (fV+MH)

55 >>Must be that "stutter" acting up again.

He does not stutter, he's never had a stutter, that has got to be one of the biggest gaslights from gaslight media.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 10, 2024 01:51 PM (XV/Pl)

56 Lizard Face can go horsefuck as well.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 10, 2024 01:52 PM (R4t5M)

57 When a baguette that was $4.99 under Trump is now $5.99 under dumbass, that is only 4% inflation, right????

I recently bought a "family" bag of potato chips. I took out a few, and looked in the bag. It was literally a quarter full.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 01:52 PM (CsUN+)

58 38 He's sharp, and he's been all over the world working campaigns. He knows where all the bodies are buried. I find him entertaining to listen to.

Posted by: gp In, gp Out at May 10, 2024 01:52 PM (MvF+J)

59
No. Unfortunately he has the wisdom of evil.
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 01:51 PM (fV+MH)

_________

Wise as a dove, gentle as a serpent.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 10, 2024 01:52 PM (MoZTd)

60 55 >>Must be that "stutter" acting up again.

He does not stutter, he's never had a stutter, that has got to be one of the biggest gaslights from gaslight media.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 10, 2024 01:51 PM (XV/Pl)

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The parties ~~stuttered~~ switched!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

61 'Ol Snakehead is evil, but not stupid.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 10, 2024 01:49 PM (JMAcK)

He's read Machiavelli and lives it. Pity the GOP doesn't have someone to match that.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 10, 2024 01:52 PM (W/lyH)

62 Many leftists are finally admitting that food is getting ridiculously expensive, but they are clinging to the lie that it's all the gReeDY cOrpOrayshunS price gouging.

Remember when you could get a decent meal at a family owned Mexican restaurant for $10 a plate? Near me, it's now closer to $20 a plate.

Three years ago it cost $11 or so for a beef burrito, tater tots, and a drink at Taco Time. Now it's about $14.50 for the same.

McDonald's is around $6.50 for a happy meal and a small drink. Not that long ago an adult could get a decent sized meal for $6.50 at McDonald's.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 10, 2024 01:52 PM (Odg76)

63 I've always thought Erin Burnett was a 1, but never had anything for her as a 'news' person.

Then I saw her interview with Zelenskyy.......Holy CRAP what an embarrassing felatiofest THAT was. I kept waiting for the porn music to start and for her to trop to her knees.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 01:52 PM (Zz0t1)

64 How'd the procedure go?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden
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I'm still numbed up a bit. He said I'd probably sore for up to a week then it could take up to several more weeks before feeling the full benefit so, not sure how I feel yet besides tired and numb.

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 01:53 PM (cDvOu)

65 Wonder if they will continue to let Joe out ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 10, 2024 01:53 PM (Akjoo)

66 >>I think the Soros disease is a new variant.

Ever wonder despite the mountain of evidence that Soros has been corruptly trying to overthrow this country he almost never gets any real media scrutiny?

Posted by: JackStraw at May 10, 2024 01:53 PM (LkLld)

67 53 Erin Burnett is a One.

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She definitely was, and maybe still is.... but she hit the wall pretty hard the last few years.
Posted by: Bigsmith

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Media 'personalities' at the national level rate below Stormy Daniels in truthiness quotient and probably have a very similar notch count.

Posted by: whig at May 10, 2024 01:53 PM (peJ7P)

68 The left WANTS food to be more expensive. They want scarcity.

Posted by: steevy at May 10, 2024 01:53 PM (FQmDC)

69
He does not stutter, he's never had a stutter, that has got to be one of the biggest gaslights from gaslight media.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 10, 2024 01:51 PM (XV/Pl)

"F*CK YOU!!!!!"

- - - - - Jake Tapper

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 01:53 PM (Zz0t1)

70 There are indications that the Russians are preparing an offensive in the Kharkov area.

Mud Season is almost over, and Campaign Season is about to begin.

A possible collapse of Ukraine this summer will be yet another foreign policy disaster that the Biden Administration may have to deal with.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (uxCna)

71 68 The left WANTS food to be more expensive. They want scarcity.
Posted by: steevy at May 10, 2024 01:53 PM (FQmDC)

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"Inflation isn't happening. Biden fixed it. Also, it was neve a thing. Also, it's the fault of corporate greed, not Biden's policies. Also, it's good that inflation is happening because Americans consume too much for the perfect balance of Gaia."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

72 The Republicans are plenty Machiavellian.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (fV+MH)

73 I'm pretty sure that Carville is not the best Dem spokesman. Younger Dems look at him an say *that's a Dem? Eww"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (5S+sK)

74 Burnett was a solid 1 a decade ago.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (R4t5M)

75 >>I recently bought a "family" bag of potato chips. I took out a few, and looked in the bag. It was literally a quarter full.

Nobody ever said how big a family.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (LkLld)

76 My husband has noticed that lots of beers are only 11.2 oz bottles/cans instead of 12 oz. Especially the imported beers.

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 01:55 PM (cDvOu)

77 I'm still numbed up a bit. He said I'd probably sore for up to a week then it could take up to several more weeks before feeling the full benefit so, not sure how I feel yet besides tired and numb.

I was hoping to get an RFA, but the doc said it wouldn't help me. Looks like it's back surgery. Damn.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 01:55 PM (CsUN+)

78 68 The left WANTS food to be more expensive. They want scarcity.
Posted by: steevy at May 10, 2024 01:53 PM (FQmDC)

Nudge Theory.

Posted by: XTC at May 10, 2024 01:55 PM (UnA8+)

79 I'm pretty sure that Carville is not the best Dem spokesman. Younger Dems look at him an say *that's a Dem? Eww"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (5S+sK)

I'm pretty sure the younger generation of everyone looks and says "Who the hell is James Carville?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 01:55 PM (Zz0t1)

80 The most interesting thing about the Biden interview is how both he and Burnett shilled for a Fed rate cut. It's coming, my friends!

I actually thought this interview was one of Biden's most coherent in a while. He had his talking points, and he stuck with them. Yea, it's a low bar to clear, but he cleared it.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 01:55 PM (iFTx/)

81
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ("TCJA") will expire on Dec 31st, 2025.

2025.

Seems far away. But...

2024 is half over.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 10, 2024 01:55 PM (gt1u8)

82 > Telling a person who looks around at his conditions and thinks, "this sucks and is getting worse" that he's wrong and that everything is awesome

They do the exact inverse when the economy is awesome. They tell you, "Sure, you're doing alright, but the poor are having to work three jobs to keep up this mirage of success!"

Leftists eat that crap up.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 10, 2024 01:55 PM (Odg76)

83 70 A possible collapse of Ukraine this summer will be yet another foreign policy disaster that the Biden Administration may have to deal with.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (uxCna)

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That would be fun.

The entire establishment pointing fingers at who did what wrong in the single most important foreign affairs story of this administration 2-4 months before a presidential election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 01:55 PM (GBKbO)

84
I recently bought a "family" bag of potato chips. I took out a few, and looked in the bag. It was literally a quarter full.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 01:52 PM

Well, family size is getting smaller according to statistics. I've noticed they don't even print the number of ounces on some bags of chips.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (RKVpM)

85 I'm pretty sure that Carville is not the best Dem spokesman. Younger Dems look at him an say *that's a Dem? Eww"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (5S+sK)

I'm pretty sure the younger generation of everyone looks and says "Who the hell is James Carville?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 01:55 PM (Zz0t1)
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I think the older generation says that too . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (iFTx/)

86 I'm pretty sure that Carville is not the best Dem spokesman. Younger Dems look at him an say *that's a Dem? Eww"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (5S+sK)
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Carville isn't a Dem spokesman, he's a Clinton Faction spokesman.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (d04cU)

87 86 I'm pretty sure that Carville is not the best Dem spokesman. Younger Dems look at him an say *that's a Dem? Eww"
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (5S+sK)
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Carville isn't a Dem spokesman, he's a Clinton Faction spokesman.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (d04cU)

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And not even he went to see Suffs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

88 Ever wonder despite the mountain of evidence that Soros has been corruptly trying to overthrow this country he almost never gets any real media scrutiny?
Posted by: JackStraw
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His organization, if no longer himself, identifies institutions to destroy but I would not be beyond believing that this info is disseminated before to other oligarchs so they can benefit financially via destruction occurs. If you can know in advance how to trigger a destructive consequence like say destroying the Nord pipelines, then one can benefit quite handsomely in the markets.

Our oligarchs work their evil under the twin banners of kompromat by their deviancy and greed. Just like our legal system, intel community, and Congress does.

Posted by: whig at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (peJ7P)

89 > I recently bought a "family" bag of potato chips. I took out a few, and looked in the bag. It was literally a quarter full.

Products may settle during shipping.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (Odg76)

90
Nudge Theory.
Posted by: XTC at May 10, 2024 01:55 PM (UnA8+)

Know what I mean?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (Zz0t1)

91
Burnett was a solid 1 a decade ago.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

_________

When I was young, lonely and stupid I had a crush on Lynne Russell.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (MoZTd)

92 Joe's brain ain't the only thing withering and shriveling...

That's why I got Hunter on speed dial.

Posted by: Dr. Jill, A No Class Whore at May 10, 2024 01:57 PM (R/m4+)

93 Well, the economy may be a rough spot for Biden, but at least he can still count on the Jewish vote.

https://tinyurl.com/7ysbd4wk
Posted by: Archimedes

Apparently, he's not Nazi enough for the Muslims.

https://shorturl.at/rzBFS

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 10, 2024 01:57 PM (L/fGl)

94 13 So who will be the Dems candidate?
Posted by: Puddinhead at May 10, 2024 01:44 PM (j+vrQ)

________________________

I think the more applicable question is "who will be the Dem. Vice Presidential candidate"?

I have no doubt that Biden will win in 2024. I don't see him serving out the term unless they pull a Feinstein and just pretend he's doing things while literally sitting in a chair drooling. Harris is too stupid and reactionary to be as compliant as Biden.

Posted by: Orson at May 10, 2024 01:57 PM (dIske)

95
If it's just you and the cat, the Family Size is perfect!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (MoZTd)

96 You know, what will actually happen if and when Russia defeats Ukraine? Sure, the Ukrainian leadership will be gone, one way or another, but are the Russians going to eliminate the entire population? No.

The worst that will happen is that the dirty corrupt bullshit the US has been involved in will be exposed, and our Deep State will claim it is Russian disinformation.

At least the few remaining military aged Ukrainian males may survive.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (ufFY8)

97 68 The left WANTS food to be more expensive. They want scarcity.
______

Govt's in most Western European nations are really screwing over the farmers, that will certainly result in scarcity. The sheep in the cities think it wil prevent the world from burning from climate change. They're wrong, but it will burn for other reasons. It's insanity.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (gakDF)

98 While Carville vacillates between Gollum and Wormtongue on the Tolkien scale, he has an attachment to reality that doesn't really fit in well with the Cabal in Power now. He's the kind of guy that fits in with a Clinton willing to pivot to save himself, but not with this weird combination of true believers and total idiots. I wonder how long they'll tolerate him... or how long he'll tolerate them before he does something sinister to further his own faction. Isn't Kremlinology fun?

Posted by: American Hawkman at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (skAOD)

99 I recently bought a "family" bag of potato chips. I took out a few, and looked in the bag. It was literally a quarter full.

Products may settle during shipping.

Yeah, I remember that dodge when the bag was 3/4 full upon opening. Apparently settling has become much more of a problem. I blame sunspots.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (CsUN+)

100
When I was young, lonely and stupid I had a crush on Lynne Russell.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (MoZTd)

Wow. Good on ya. I'm sure that took a lot of courage to admit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (Zz0t1)

101 But not least

Posted by: Braenyard at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (lCWOD)

102 The thing I notice most about Carville, is how there is NO analog to him on the Right

Posted by: Don Black at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (/7KEl)

103 91 Lynne Russell was a solid 1.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (9yWhg)

104 Biden turned the economy around so hard it’s now ass rapeing everybody.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (JTwsP)

105 "When I was young, lonely and stupid I had a crush on Lynne Russell. "

I mean...she had that MILF oh no I shouldn't but ok thing going on.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (fV+MH)

106 My husband has noticed that lots of beers are only 11.2 oz bottles/cans instead of 12 oz. Especially the imported beers.
Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 01:55 PM (cDvOu)
__________

11.2 oz is 33cl. That's the standard size in Europe. But if all of a sudden American beers are 11.2 oz instead of our standard 12 oz, then it's Biden's magic economy again.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (iFTx/)

107 Thought it said REALITY DENTISTRY

Posted by: Braenyard at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (lCWOD)

108 "I don't think, if people don't feel like they're in a good economy, you can't convince 'em," Carville told Cuomo

Who are they supposed to believe? An Ivy League economist or their grocery store receipts?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 10, 2024 01:59 PM (RJiwi)

109 At work we're short almost 200 million on gross revenue - down about 60%

Things are seriously going in the shitter, we're usually pretty reliable in terms of people spending during downturns. To make it worse, leadership drank all the Biden koolaid and embarked a huge expansion about two years ago, which was virtually all pissed right down the drain. I will be mildly surprised if the company even exists in 2-3 years.

"McDonald's is around $6.50 for a happy meal and a small drink. Not that long ago an adult could get a decent sized meal for $6.50 at McDonald's.
Posted by: bonhomme at May 10, 2024 01:52 PM (Odg76)"

Did some travel recently, most fast food totals for a small family trying to order as little as possible are like $60-80.

Posted by: somedood at May 10, 2024 01:59 PM (BW9UA)

110 >>A possible collapse of Ukraine this summer will be yet another foreign policy disaster that the Biden Administration may have to deal with.

Nonsense. The Spring Offensive is poised to break through to Moscow!

Posted by: Salami Ukelele at May 10, 2024 01:59 PM (vHu9s)

111 "You can't charge the ball."

So that's what I've been doing wrong.

Yup. Cash is king.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 10, 2024 01:59 PM (/y8xj)

112 >>His organization, if no longer himself, identifies institutions to destroy but I would not be beyond believing that this info is disseminated before to other oligarchs so they can benefit financially via destruction occurs. If you can know in advance how to trigger a destructive consequence like say destroying the Nord pipelines, then one can benefit quite handsomely in the markets.

Not just other oligarchs. Soros has been working with the CIA to run color revolutions, among other things, for decades. He set up and runs a network of worldwide NGOs that take government money to push government narratives for regime change.

That's where his wealth got turbo charged. It's a lot easier to speculate on currency fluctuations when you are working with a team that causes them.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 10, 2024 01:59 PM (LkLld)

113 When I was young, lonely and stupid I had a crush on Lynne Russell.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (MoZTd)

She was interesting to look at.
Plus, a gun fan.

I liked dumb Robin Meade, too.
She has hit the wall.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 10, 2024 01:59 PM (ufFY8)

114 I see Planet Fatness is adopting the always successful strategy of increasing prices when nobody wants your product. Good luck with that.
Posted by: PabloD at May 10, 2024 01:46 PM (rPlYy)

Considering the gym industry runs on trapping people into making automatic payments then making it difficult to end them, it should actually give them a boost for a while.

Posted by: ... at May 10, 2024 01:59 PM (OCZ4p)

115
Construction jobs, at least in the Northeast, are dead.

Construction is usually the first to go, and the last to come back.

What might happen (my prediction) is the Democrats will pressure the Stupid Republicans to a very stupid fake "stimulus" bill in the next couple of months to artificially "juice" the limping economy/recession and help bail out biden in time for the November steal.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 10, 2024 02:00 PM (gt1u8)

116 "wE jUsT WaNt To GeT mArRiEd~!"

@visegrad24 15m
Drag performer Crystal cancelled her 800-person Eurovision viewing event because of Israel’s participation in the contest.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 10, 2024 02:00 PM (IG4Id)

117 And not even he went to see Suffs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

He's Suffs personified, actually - just the lizard version.

Posted by: Boswell at May 10, 2024 02:00 PM (K+UlC)

118 A possible collapse of Ukraine this summer will be yet another foreign policy disaster that the Biden Administration may have to deal with.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (uxCna)
++++
Anything's possible but based on my proxy for how things are going over there, I expect more stalemate and modest Ukrainian losses.

My proxy is the YouTube sidebar. As of this week, mine is full to the brim again with "Russia's defeat imminent" videos. Every time this has happened in the past, Russia made some gains and then the stalemate continued.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 02:01 PM (d04cU)

119
America Is Back, Baby!

Way Back!

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 10, 2024 02:01 PM (gt1u8)

120
The economy will never be better than it is right now. We need to get used to having less stuff and less money before we drain the earth dry.

Posted by: Sid at May 10, 2024 01:59 PM

Drugs are bad, m'kay?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 10, 2024 02:01 PM (RKVpM)

121 102 The thing I notice most about Carville, is how there is NO analog to him on the Right
Posted by: Don Black at May 10, 2024 01:58 PM (/7KEl)

What about Popeye? I thought he was conservative.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2024 02:01 PM (JTwsP)

122 I see Planet Fatness is adopting the always successful strategy of increasing prices when nobody wants your product. Good luck with that.
Posted by: PabloD

We'll make it up in volume.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 10, 2024 02:01 PM (JkCto)

123 The Right needs some brass knuckles pipe-hittin' motherf***ers

what we have are country club hangers-on

Posted by: Don Black at May 10, 2024 02:01 PM (/7KEl)

124 According to the box of Kraft Mac n' Cheese, I'm a family fo four.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:01 PM (mSufQ)

125 Sid, you ignorant slut......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:01 PM (Zz0t1)

126 >>> Posted by: Sid at May 10, 2024 01:59 PM (oDzRT)

I would say this one has *got* to be a sock, but I know commies really CAN be that retarded.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 10, 2024 02:02 PM (llON8)

127 Posted by: Sid at May 10, 2024 01:59 PM (oDzRT)
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And yet you continue to consume more than your fair share of oxygen...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 10, 2024 02:02 PM (7fElN)

128 Posted by: Sid at May 10, 2024 01:59 PM

=======

1. The economy is great.
2. You're having less.

I suspect your definition of great differs from ours.

Cultist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:02 PM (GBKbO)

129 Seriously.
We're gonna run out of Dinosaur Juice, People!

Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2024 02:02 PM (vHu9s)

130 Good luck Archimedes!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at May 10, 2024 02:02 PM (cv2yY)

131 Speaking of draining things dry, how’s your mom, Sid?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2024 02:02 PM (JTwsP)

132 I've always found Carville to be rather amusing. He seems to be a realist and completely ruthless. He doesn't seem to pretend to be anything other than that either.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 10, 2024 02:02 PM (4XwPj)

133 Also...
Biden keeps shitting on the Japanese. They're one of the places likely to weather this out over the next half century if they can stick to their guns and tell the suicidal-immigration crowd to fuck off.

Ironically this is because a lot of them are racist as fuck. I can respect that though. I may not agree with their relative assessments sometimes or with them looking down their nose at *me*, but if it works for them and keeps working then they have something to point to. What matters isn't why they're keeping their shit together and their culture functional, just that they are. Not that they don't have big challenges but I'd take theirs over ours - which is precisely what the progs are on about when they start screeching about the 50's being terrible (confirmity, expectations, etc). They just want to run through life like overgrown children. Sometimes you need to man the fuck up and shoulder some responsibilities.

Posted by: somedood at May 10, 2024 02:02 PM (BW9UA)

134 Good luck Archimedes!

Thanks. I'm not looking forward to it, but at some point, you have to deal with the problem. I've ignored it as long as I can.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:03 PM (CsUN+)

135 Sid drains cock dry.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 10, 2024 02:03 PM (ufFY8)

136 Your mom drained my balls, Sid.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2024 02:03 PM (JTwsP)

137 The economy will never be better than it is right now. We need to get used to having less stuff and less money before we drain the earth dry.

We kept hearing how things just plain couldn't get as good as they used to be (because reasons) during the Obama years.

Then Trump comes along, and everything's waaay better.

So you'll excuse my skepticism.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:03 PM (mSufQ)

138 Besides James Carville Turning into Gollum

The weekend is coming The weekend is coming

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2024 02:03 PM (bRWyy)

139 According to the box of Kraft Mac n' Cheese, I'm a family fo four.
Posted by: Lance McCormick

No, it says '3 servings'.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 10, 2024 02:03 PM (IG4Id)

140 Speaking of draining things dry, how’s your mom, Sid?

Heh.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:04 PM (CsUN+)

141 Ignoring things as long as you can has always been my ethos.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:04 PM (fV+MH)

142 "A possible collapse of Ukraine this summer will be yet another foreign policy disaster that the Biden Administration may have to deal with.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (uxCna)"

I don't think it likely. There are a lot of spigots that can be opened that the WH has held back on deliberately, since they entire point is to draw this out for years.

Posted by: somedood at May 10, 2024 02:04 PM (BW9UA)

143 70 A possible collapse of Ukraine this summer will be yet another foreign policy disaster that the Biden Administration may have to deal with.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (uxCna)

I would love to see Russian troops burn Kiev to the ground.

Think of all the different ways the idiots on TV will pronounce "Kiev".

A Man Can Dream.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 10, 2024 02:04 PM (R/m4+)

144 Speaking of draining things dry, how’s your mom, Sid?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Getting her stomach pumped.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 10, 2024 02:04 PM (R4t5M)

145 Sid is proof anal babies are a thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:04 PM (Zz0t1)

146 But wait, the multi-millionaires and billionaires tell me the 'comony is doin great for them, so I gotta believe.

Posted by: Son of Dad at May 10, 2024 02:04 PM (8JB5s)

147 James Carville was Gollum out of the womb.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (fV+MH)

148 Also...
Biden keeps shitting on the Japanese. They're one of the places likely to weather this out over the next half century if they can stick to their guns and tell the suicidal-immigration crowd to fuck off.

Ironically this is because a lot of them are racist as fuck. I can respect that though. I may not agree with their relative assessments sometimes or with them looking down their nose at *me*, but if it works for them and keeps working then they have something to point to. What matters isn't why they're keeping their shit together and their culture functional, just that they are. Not that they don't have big challenges but I'd take theirs over ours - which is precisely what the progs are on about when they start screeching about the 50's being terrible (confirmity, expectations, etc). They just want to run through life like overgrown children. Sometimes you need to man the fuck up and shoulder some responsibilities.

And yet...there aren't going to be many of them pretty shortly. If their fertility doesn't improve, they'll disappear altogether.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (CsUN+)

149 A possible collapse of Ukraine this summer will be yet another foreign policy disaster that the Biden Administration may have to deal with.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM (uxCna)
++++
Anything's possible but based on my proxy for how things are going over there, I expect more stalemate and modest Ukrainian losses.

My proxy is the YouTube sidebar. As of this week, mine is full to the brim again with "Russia's defeat imminent" videos. Every time this has happened in the past, Russia made some gains and then the stalemate continued.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 02:01 PM (d04cU)
_________

Russia plays the long game. Plus, I think a rotating stalemate followed by some Russian gains suits them just fine. The longer this war grinds on, the better it is for Russia if you look at the long game. I still think their end game is regime change to get a more Russia-favorable guy in there. I suspect Zelenskyy will eventually be found electrocuted in his bathtub with an Anal Intruder up his ass.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (iFTx/)

150
The weekend is coming The weekend is coming

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2024 02:03 PM

Get your cucumbers in the ground. Mine are flowering already.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (RKVpM)

151 I haven’t had fast food for a long time but I wanted a quick hamburger today so I went to the close by Jack in the Box,

Ordered a big Jack and a small fries. The Big Jack was smaller than a quarter pounder and the small fries were definitely small. $8.50.

Last time for fast food for a long time again.

Posted by: polynikes at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (MNhXM)

152 My husband has noticed that lots of beers are only 11.2 oz bottles/cans instead of 12 oz. Especially the imported beers.
Posted by: lin-duh

If I had to guess. Metric given imported

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (JkCto)

153 Last time I saw Carville he looked even older than Gollum.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (dGCAG)

154 Sid is a parody.

Posted by: ... at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (OCZ4p)

155 America Is Back, Baby!

-
I like big 'conomies and I cannot lie!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (L/fGl)

156 >>Thanks. I'm not looking forward to it, but at some point, you have to deal with the problem. I've ignored it as long as I can.

Most problems are easily solved if you have a good fulcrum and apply pressure with a lever of sufficient length.

...but, look who I am telling?

Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (vHu9s)

157 James Carville was Gollum out of the womb.
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (fV+MH)

When the first words out of your mouth at the birth are ".....what have we done......"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (Zz0t1)

158 >Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 10, 2024 02:02 PM

yes I agree
I have grudging respect for the guy

Posted by: Don Black at May 10, 2024 02:06 PM (/7KEl)

159 139 According to the box of Kraft Mac n' Cheese, I'm a family fo four.
Posted by: Lance McCormick

No, it says '3 servings'.

I haven't actually looked at a box in a while, I just like the joke. (Serving size is one of my pet peeves, but it used to be worse. When I was a kid, a lot of soda would be "2 servings" per can.)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:06 PM (mSufQ)

160 141 It’s never too late to procrastinate!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 10, 2024 02:06 PM (9yWhg)

161 Get your cucumbers in the ground. Mine are flowering already.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (RKVpM)

Is that some kind of sex euphemism?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2024 02:06 PM (dGCAG)

162 160 141 It’s never too late to procrastinate!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 10, 2024 02:06 PM (9yWhg)

======

Eh. I'll do that tomorrow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:06 PM (GBKbO)

163 >>The weekend is coming The weekend is coming

Don't come.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at May 10, 2024 02:06 PM (vHu9s)

164 I'm still numbed up a bit. He said I'd probably sore for up to a week then it could take up to several more weeks before feeling the full benefit so, not sure how I feel yet besides tired and numb.
Posted by: lin-duh
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I've had nerve ablation done several times on my lower back. Take it easy for about a week or so and use ice packs to reduce any pain instead of medications.

Think long and hard before fusion surgery as that can end up in an endless cycle additional fusion surgery.

PT to make and keep your back muscles stronger to compensate from damaged joints is a better long term bet. Water therapy in warm water is especially beneficial if you can find a place that does that and water aerobics are useful if the water is warm. If not, water aerobics can be excruciating because of muscle contraction.

Posted by: whig at May 10, 2024 02:07 PM (peJ7P)

165 Again, the funniest thing Seth McFarlane ever did was the "Ahh! Who opened the Ark of the Covenant?!?" bit on Carville.

Posted by: American Hawkman at May 10, 2024 02:07 PM (skAOD)

166 I really can't wait for Comeback Kid Season. You can set your watch by it.

Posted by: ... at May 10, 2024 02:07 PM (OCZ4p)

167
Remember, the "real" problem is "shrinkflation!"

Greedy cOrPoRaTiOnS!

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 10, 2024 02:07 PM (l3WY5)

168 And yet...there aren't going to be many of them pretty shortly. If their fertility doesn't improve, they'll disappear altogether.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (CsUN+)
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That is arguably the #1 challenge for the Japanese for the foreseeable future and is also part of the reason why they are so hostile to immigration.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 10, 2024 02:07 PM (7fElN)

169 My son was in the French Quarter at a conference with me in New Orleans at the age of about 15 when he saw Carville. His thought was "That guy is really creepy looking."

Posted by: RM at May 10, 2024 02:07 PM (urbih)

170 I haven’t had fast food for a long time but I wanted a quick hamburger today so I went to the close by Jack in the Box,

Ordered a big Jack and a small fries. The Big Jack was smaller than a quarter pounder and the small fries were definitely small. $8.50.

Last time for fast food for a long time again.

It makes no sense to cut back on the product. It's weird, because I assume the largest part of their costs is labor, and unless there's been a recent spike in labor costs, that...never mind.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:07 PM (CsUN+)

171 I haven't actually looked at a box in a while, I just like the joke. (Serving size is one of my pet peeves, but it used to be worse. When I was a kid, a lot of soda would be "2 servings" per can.)
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:06 PM (mSufQ)

The worst are those little pint sized ice cream cartons.

Two servings? Go F yourselves.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2024 02:07 PM (dGCAG)

172 When I was young, lonely and stupid I had a crush on Lynne Russell.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 10, 2024 01:56 PM (MoZTd)

Don't worry, you can always be old, lonely and stupid.

Posted by: Like the rest of us old, lonely, stupid people at May 10, 2024 02:08 PM (Wc83a)

173 Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

Posted by: ... at May 10, 2024 02:08 PM (OCZ4p)

174 I'm bummed I missed the thread on Hillary RODHAM Clinton's Fabulous Feminazi Revue.

I bet that horror show made for a good thread.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 10, 2024 02:08 PM (0FoWg)

175 Why did we become the world’s leading exporter of natural gas under Joe Biden’s admin without even a token of resistance from the left?

Because leftists are dumb as shit and do what they’re told. You have to hand it to Biden, he’s really got those idiots thinking he cares about the “climate”

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 10, 2024 02:08 PM (JTwsP)

176 >And yet...there aren't going to be many of them pretty shortly. If their fertility doesn't improve, they'll disappear altogether.

Posted by: Archimedes
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I think the Japs have forgotten how to do regular man-on-top-get-it-over-with-quick sex

this is revealed in their totally bizarre pr0n themes

Posted by: Don Black at May 10, 2024 02:08 PM (/7KEl)

177 And yet...there aren't going to be many of them pretty shortly. If their fertility doesn't improve, they'll disappear altogether.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (CsUN+)
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That is arguably the #1 challenge for the Japanese for the foreseeable future and is also part of the reason why they are so hostile to immigration.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 10, 2024 02:07 PM (7fElN)
__________

They'll make it up with robot sex dolls

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:08 PM (iFTx/)

178 To think, that if there was no Ross Perot, there would be no Bill Clinton, and by extension no James Carville ...

He would still be at the booth at that county fair, swallowing mice ...

Posted by: browndog shudders at the thought at May 10, 2024 02:09 PM (TTAGa)

179 Thanks whig.

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:09 PM (cDvOu)

180 Srsly, what's going on with all these hard leftoids making these public remarks? Is this morse code to obama to fix things before november?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at May 10, 2024 02:09 PM (ny95y)

181 They'll make it up with robot sex dolls
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:08 PM (iFTx/)
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They need to watch the middle-school hygiene video from Futurama...

"DON'T DATE ROBOTS!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (7fElN)

182 Last time for fast food for a long time again.

At least where I live, "fast casual" is the way to go. Cheaper than a "real" sit-down restaurant (and no tipping) and better than actual fast food.

I should cook more often, but A) I don't like to and 2. I live alone, so it wouldn't save much time.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (mSufQ)

183 >>Think long and hard before fusion surgery as that can end up in an endless cycle additional fusion surgery.

Welcome to my world.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (LkLld)

184 Drag performer Crystal cancelled her 800-person Eurovision viewing event because of Israel’s participation in the contest.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

That'll teach 'em!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (L/fGl)

185 This blonde in red thinks that Carville might actually be a lizard alien:
http://tiny.cc/wrg1yz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (d04cU)

186
this is revealed in their totally bizarre pr0n themes

Posted by: Don Black at May 10, 2024 02:08 PM (/7KEl)

*The Germans fart in their general direction*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

187 According to the box of Kraft Mac n' Cheese, I'm a family fo four.
Posted by: Lance McCormick

Feeds half the people at twice the price. Best economy ever!

Posted by: $1.99 a box? You fucking kidding me? at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (Wc83a)

188 We’ve given Ukraine over 175 billion since the war with Russia started.

We could have built 10 walls on the border with that money.

Posted by: polynikes at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (MNhXM)

189 And yet...there aren't going to be many of them pretty shortly. If their fertility doesn't improve, they'll disappear altogether.

Posted by: Archimedes
---

I think the Japs have forgotten how to do regular man-on-top-get-it-over-with-quick sex

this is revealed in their totally bizarre pr0n themes
Posted by: Don Black at May 10, 2024 02:08 PM (/7KEl)
___________

"Bizarre? Fuck you!"

-- Cthulhu

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (iFTx/)

190
That is arguably the #1 challenge for the Japanese for the foreseeable future and is also part of the reason why they are so hostile to immigration.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 10, 2024 02:07 PM

I've read that the average Japanese home is 500 square feet. Marry, have a couple kids in 500 square feet? Geez, wouldn't be me. Maybe it's an old stat.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (RKVpM)

191 James Carville swallowing mice is my takeaway from this thread.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (fV+MH)

192 The worst are those little pint sized ice cream cartons.

Two servings? Go F yourselves.

Every pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (mSufQ)

193 Think long and hard before fusion surgery as that can end up in an endless cycle additional fusion surgery.

Welcome to my world.

These are useful data points. Please elaborate.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:11 PM (CsUN+)

194 currency fluctuations

Now they're fluct'ing white guys too.

Posted by: DaveA at May 10, 2024 02:11 PM (PMJuY)

195 They just want to run through life like overgrown children. Sometimes you need to man the fuck up and shoulder some responsibilities.
Posted by: somedood at May 10, 2024 02:02 PM (BW9UA)

Blah Blah says that this weekend we are filling up the RV with my social security check and driving to Vegas so we can gamble with his social security check and we might go to the Rolling Stones concert while we are there and hit the In N Out burger for a double with fries on our Harleys after we smoke a few doobies.

Posted by: Harriet And Blah Blah Nyborg, Democrat Boomers Teenagers For Life at May 10, 2024 02:11 PM (R/m4+)

196 190 I've read that the average Japanese home is 500 square feet. Marry, have a couple kids in 500 square feet? Geez, wouldn't be me. Maybe it's an old stat.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (RKVpM)

==========

A lot of people in Tokyo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:12 PM (GBKbO)

197 My son was in the French Quarter at a conference with me in New Orleans at the age of about 15 when he saw Carville. His thought was "That guy is really creepy looking."
Posted by: RM at May 10, 2024 02:07 PM (urbih)

And yet still married to Mary Matalin, a supposed "conservative" who worked for those stalwart conservatives, the Bushies.

It's been a scam for a long time.

Speaking of, what's with Skeletor Coulter telling Vivek she would never have voted for him because he's Indian. Go F yourself, you stupid whore. Or F Bill Maher again. Same difference.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2024 02:12 PM (dGCAG)

198 Anything's possible but based on my proxy for how things are going over there, I expect more stalemate and modest Ukrainian losses.

Possibly - but war has a lot of "gradually, then suddenly" examples.

The Ukes are now drafting people with cancer, people with HIV, and mentally ill people.

Meanwhile, internal political constraints continue to restrict Ukraine's ability to draft Ukrainian-speakers from influential families in the big cities.

They have a problem.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 10, 2024 02:12 PM (uxCna)

199 ABC fact-checking Democrats: There some part of that theater I'm supposed to believe or applaud?

Sorry, I'm all out of stock on trained seals. Try contacting the college journalism programs. Oh, they're all out protesting and getting their arses arrested? Hrm. You might be SOL for a while then.

Maybe the Alex-funded DA's that let Dems off the hook with no charges can help you out.

Wow I've become jaded.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 10, 2024 02:12 PM (O7YUW)

200 185 This blonde in red thinks that Carville might actually be a lizard alien:
http://tiny.cc/wrg1yz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (d04cU)

She looks high maintenance. Like Bugatti-level.

Posted by: $40k for an oil change at May 10, 2024 02:12 PM (Wc83a)

201 This blonde in red thinks that Carville might actually be a lizard alien:
http://tiny.cc/wrg1yz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (d04cU)

I'm willing to bet, when freed, that's a near perfect tit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:12 PM (Zz0t1)

202 Biden is just sad. At some point even his staunch defenders are going to jump off his Earl Scheib painted bandwagon.

Posted by: RM at May 10, 2024 02:12 PM (urbih)

203 "Every pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself."

Fking lol.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:12 PM (fV+MH)

204 I've read that the average Japanese home is 500 square feet. Marry, have a couple kids in 500 square feet? Geez, wouldn't be me. Maybe it's an old stat.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (RKVpM)

==========

A lot of people in Tokyo.

*Manhattan has entered the chat*

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:12 PM (CsUN+)

205 https://www.youtube.com/live/3lfztkLLd4s?feature=shared

Andrea Burkhart covering the Karen Read trial live today.

Looking cute with her hair down.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at May 10, 2024 02:13 PM (ufFY8)

206 James Carville swallowing mice is my takeaway from this thread.
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (fV+MH)

Concur.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 10, 2024 02:13 PM (R4t5M)

207 Every pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (mSufQ)

Every zoo's a petting zoo if you ain't a pussy.

Posted by: Overweening self-confidence at May 10, 2024 02:13 PM (Wc83a)

208 that's what it means when we are making "more" money but can buy less and have more debt....

Though the people had plenty of money,
There was nothing their money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings
Said, "If you don't work, you will die."
--Rudyard Kipling

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at May 10, 2024 02:13 PM (LLJRz)

209 Every pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (mSufQ)

Alas, I think I've gotten to the point where I can't eat pizza anymore. Even thin crust, it's too much for my widdle tummy to handle.

Stupid tummy.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2024 02:14 PM (dGCAG)

210 204 A lot of people in Tokyo.

*Manhattan has entered the chat*
Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:12 PM (CsUN+)

=========

Interesting...Tokyo has about 4 million more people than NYC, but NYC's population density is much higher.

Tokyo: 16,480/sq mi
NYC: 29,302/sq mi

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:14 PM (GBKbO)

211
Every zoo's a petting zoo if you ain't a pussy.
Posted by: Overweening self-confidence at May 10, 2024 02:13 PM (Wc83a)

Tell that to the woman in the ONT video.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

212 Carville might actually be a lizard alien:

Jane Badler >> James Carville

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at May 10, 2024 02:14 PM (ufFY8)

213 I suspect Zelenskyy will eventually be found electrocuted in his bathtub with an Anal Intruder up his ass.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (iFTx/)

Hey! I might try that!

Are Anal Intruders expensive?

Posted by: Bob Kraft at May 10, 2024 02:14 PM (R/m4+)

214 Every pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (mSufQ)

Every zoo's a petting zoo if you ain't a pussy.

Posted by: Overweening self-confidence

I think I'll go for a walk...in the tiger drive through park.

Posted by: Mixing the memes at May 10, 2024 02:14 PM (CsUN+)

215 "Every zoo's a petting zoo if you ain't a pussy. "

dying.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:14 PM (fV+MH)

216 Think long and hard before fusion surgery as that can end up in an endless cycle additional fusion surgery.

Welcome to my world.
Posted by: JackStraw
----
I do already have a 2 level neck fusion. Original neurosurgeon wanted to do 3 levels so I found some dude on the internet to just do 2 levels.

The ablation was for L4-L5-S1 on my left side today and on my right in 3 weeks.

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:15 PM (1yY5C)

217 >>These are useful data points. Please elaborate.'

Avoid spinal fusion surgery as long as possible, make sure you exhaust every other possible option first. It is not a magic bullet and as whig noted above it will possibly if not likely lead to further fusion surgery down the road. To say nothing of the random nerve damage.

Other than that it's great.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 10, 2024 02:15 PM (LkLld)

218 Drag performer Crystal cancelled her 800-person Eurovision viewing event because of Israel’s participation in the contest.

Amusingly, Israel is in the finals, and is leading in the voting to determine the winner.

Apparently a lot of pissed-off Europeans are voting for Israel.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 10, 2024 02:15 PM (uxCna)

219 209 Alas, I think I've gotten to the point where I can't eat pizza anymore. Even thin crust, it's too much for my widdle tummy to handle.

Stupid tummy.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2024 02:14 PM (dGCAG)

========

According to my scale, I'm under 20% body fat now. I haven't been this thin since 2019. Also, I have a fair bit more muscle.

Lunch is the devil!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:15 PM (GBKbO)

220 Every pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (mSufQ)

Every zoo's a petting zoo if you ain't a pussy.
Posted by: Overweening self-confidence at May 10, 2024 02:13 PM (Wc83a)

Every child is willing, if you are surrounded by SS agents.

Posted by: Alzheimer Joe at May 10, 2024 02:15 PM (dGCAG)

221 >>These are useful data points. Please elaborate.

I wasn't completely joking.

Leverage is your enemy after Fusion.

IF your damage is due to age/deterioration not a specific sight trauma, fusion will sign you up for mor fusion.

Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2024 02:15 PM (vHu9s)

222 "He's the kind of guy that fits in with a Clinton willing to pivot to save himself, but not with this weird combination of true believers and total idiots."

Well done. Seriously. I wish I had a dinner party to say it loudly at!

Posted by: Disgusted at May 10, 2024 02:15 PM (Z8Yh2)

223 Maybe it's an old stat.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (RKVpM)

I'll bet it is skewed smaller because of the miniscule apartments in Tokyo, but the definitely do not live in big houses!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 10, 2024 02:16 PM (d9fT1)

224 I do already have a 2 level neck fusion.

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:15 PM (1yY5C)

Here and I thought you were just doing an Ed Sullivan impression.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

225 Biden is just sad. At some point even his staunch defenders are going to jump off his Earl Scheib painted bandwagon.
Posted by: RM at May 10, 2024 02:12 PM (urbih)

Hahahahaha! Earl Scheib!

Hahahahaha!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 10, 2024 02:16 PM (R/m4+)

226 Amusingly, Israel is in the finals, and is leading in the voting to determine the winner.

Apparently a lot of pissed-off Europeans are voting for Israel.

Funny how sometimes people will take something that isn't political, make it political, and then be shocked to find out that everyone else doesn't think the same way they do.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 10, 2024 02:17 PM (/y8xj)

227 I've read that the average Japanese home is 500 square feet. Marry, have a couple kids in 500 square feet? Geez, wouldn't be me. Maybe it's an old stat.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (RKVpM)

==========

A lot of people in Tokyo.

*Manhattan has entered the chat*
Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:12 PM (CsUN+)
___________

The average Japanese home is more than 500 sf. But that includes actual houses. In very densely populated cities like Tokyo, the apartments are small but not as small as you think. About NYC sized, maybe a little smaller. But the kicker is in Tokyo, you may have three generations living in a 500 sf apartment!

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:17 PM (iFTx/)

228 Hey! I might try that!

Are Anal Intruders expensive?
Posted by: Bob Kraft

Just go to pet store.

Posted by: Richard Gere at May 10, 2024 02:17 PM (R4t5M)

229 James Carville swallowing mice is my takeaway from this thread.
Posted by: eleven

I actually "ran into" Carville at O'Hare Airport some years ago, in a book shop in the United Airlines concourse.
He was, at closest, about 5 feet away from me.
He's tall. Really. About 6'4".
And he is not really as creepy looking in person as he is on the TV. But he does definitely put out a kind of "I'm a maniac" vibe.
Yeah, he's kind of a maniac. All those political consultant/experts are. They have a great con, and have made a lot of money pushing bad people into elected office.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at May 10, 2024 02:17 PM (vcOmj)

230 A lot of people in Tokyo.

*Manhattan has entered the chat*

IMO part of the Malthusian death-cult nonsense is that city-dwellers extrapolate the population density where they live across the entire planet.

IIRC the whole population of Earth, with Hong Kong(?) levels of crowding wouldn't fill up Texas.

I'm too lazy to look up the actual thing, and maybe it's bullshit, but the Greater Truth is that there is a lot of sparsely-or-not-at-all habitable land out there, as well as some very very densely-packed areas.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:17 PM (mSufQ)

231 >>I do already have a 2 level neck fusion. Original neurosurgeon wanted to do 3 levels so I found some dude on the internet to just do 2 levels.

I'm going the other direction, start low and move higher.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 10, 2024 02:17 PM (LkLld)

232 sight / site

I opted to laugh at the surgeon who wanted to fuse my back and had an old school disc removal.

16+ years and I am going great.

Everyone I know that had the fusion has had at least one more surgery...if not two.

Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2024 02:17 PM (vHu9s)

233 The worst are those little pint sized ice cream cartons.

Two servings? Go F yourselves.

-
50 years ago, when I was an exchange student in France, my roommate was desperate for ice cream. He coughed up the enormous price for a tiny box of ice cream and, when we opened it at home, Styrofoam packing surrounded an even tinier cube of ice cream.

They're more sophisticated than us.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 10, 2024 02:17 PM (L/fGl)

234 I think I'll go for a walk...in the tiger drive through park.
Posted by: Mixing the memes at May 10, 2024 02:14 PM (CsUN+)

True story, in one of India's tiger reserves, there's a shrine of some sort, and people insist on walking to it.

Generally the tigers are skittish enough to stay away from that many humans, but every now and then, some idiot strays. Or the park rangers are patrolling alone, to make sure some idiot doesn't stray.

And they act like the tigers are the problem.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2024 02:17 PM (dGCAG)

235 Back surgery means you'll be back.

Not happy with my back sitch, but thanks no thanks.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:17 PM (fV+MH)

236 Avoid spinal fusion surgery as long as possible, make sure you exhaust every other possible option first. It is not a magic bullet and as whig noted above it will possibly if not likely lead to further fusion surgery down the road. To say nothing of the random nerve damage.

IF your damage is due to age/deterioration not a specific sight trauma, fusion will sign you up for mor fusion.

F***

Posted by: The Witcher at May 10, 2024 02:18 PM (CsUN+)

237 I've read that the average Japanese home is 500 square feet. Marry, have a couple kids in 500 square feet? Geez, wouldn't be me. Maybe it's an old stat.
Posted by: Divide by Zero
-----
There is a reason they are obsessively clean and organized. They can do more wit 500 sqft then most can in 2000 sqft

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:18 PM (1yY5C)

238 I suspect Zelenskyy will eventually be found electrocuted in his bathtub with an Anal Intruder up his ass.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (iFTx/)

Hey! I might try that!

Are Anal Intruders expensive?
Posted by: Bob Kraft at May 10, 2024 02:14 PM (R/m4+)
________

Cheaper than getting caught on video at a cheap Miami rub-and-tug

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:18 PM (iFTx/)

239 "Inflation isn't happening. Biden fixed it. Also, it was neve a thing. Also, it's the fault of corporate greed, not Biden's policies. Also, it's good that inflation is happening because Americans consume too much for the perfect balance of Gaia."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 01:54 PM

Impressive. Most impressive.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 10, 2024 02:19 PM (a3Q+t)

240 It's tough to come to grips with the thought that the US government hates its citizens as much as China hates theirs, but here we are.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 10, 2024 02:19 PM (wBaIH)

241 Obviously, all this is patient specific.

But, they prefer to do fusions these days. And not because they are the solution to your specific problem.

Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2024 02:19 PM (vHu9s)

242 The average Japanese home is more than 500 sf. But that includes actual houses. In very densely populated cities like Tokyo, the apartments are small but not as small as you think. About NYC sized, maybe a little smaller. But the kicker is in Tokyo, you may have three generations living in a 500 sf apartment!
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:17 PM (iFTx/)

You people are just looking at this the wrong way.

Posted by: Robert Reich at May 10, 2024 02:19 PM (PiwSw)

243

Dude has being a lying asshole his entire life.

Top of his fucking class, beat out Staubach.

I remember when people made fun of Dick Nixon for embellishing.

Hell SNL used to mock Billy Jeff.

This guy says inflation is a billion trillion percent and that bimbo just sits there looking at him.

Where's Sam Donaldson and Rather, stalwarts of journalism doggedly going after the truth.

Where are the FACKCHECKAS.

Nine percent and she just sits there. A business reporter. Amazin.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at May 10, 2024 02:20 PM (et1vG)

244 IF your damage is due to age/deterioration not a specific sight trauma, fusion will sign you up for mor fusion.
Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2024 02:15 PM (vHu9s)

I always held that fusions should only be considered if you have a compression fracture because in my experience in handling WC claims where fusions were done because of back pain, 100% of these claimants had subsequent fusions above or below the level of the first fusion.

Posted by: polynikes at May 10, 2024 02:20 PM (MNhXM)

245 Impeachment articles filed against Biden for withholding Israel aid

Posted by: Don Black at May 10, 2024 02:20 PM (/7KEl)

246 They're more sophisticated than us.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 10, 2024 02:17 PM (L/fGl)

Sure, and they don't eat as much ice cream because it gets in the way of their cigarette smoking, and surrendering to Germany.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 10, 2024 02:20 PM (dGCAG)

247 ]
You people are just looking at this the wrong way.
Posted by: Robert Reich at May 10, 2024 02:19 PM (PiwSw)

From an elevation of more than 3.5 feet?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:20 PM (Zz0t1)

248 >>I always held that fusions should only be considered if you have a compression fracture because in my experience in handling WC claims where fusions were done because of back pain, 100% of these claimants had subsequent fusions above or below the level of the first fusion.

Almost as if Physics is a thing.

Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2024 02:20 PM (vHu9s)

249 238 I suspect Zelenskyy will eventually be found electrocuted in his bathtub with an Anal Intruder up his ass.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:05 PM (iFTx/)

That would be awkward.

Posted by: Zombie David Carradine at May 10, 2024 02:21 PM (PiwSw)

250 Impeachment articles filed against Biden for withholding Israel aid
Posted by: Don Black at May 10, 2024 02:20 PM (/7KEl)

Of all the things he's done in 3 years........

We really are the stupid party.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

251
Every-time I get a slight twinge in my back I get out my big old exercise ball and roll my back on it. Snap, crackle, and pop... good as new.

I like those inversion devices too. Damn shame they did away with the 'rack' 'cause with the right level of torture I'm pretty sure it could stretch out the spine by a couple inches.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 10, 2024 02:21 PM (RKVpM)

252 I've read that the average Japanese home is 500 square feet. Marry, have a couple kids in 500 square feet? Geez, wouldn't be me. Maybe it's an old stat.
Posted by: Divide by Zero
-----
There is a reason they are obsessively clean and organized. They can do more wit 500 sqft then most can in 2000 sqft
Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:18 PM (1yY5C)
________

It's true. I live in Manhattan in a 600 sf place. My kitchen is tiny compared to my brothers', who live in big houses in the suburbs. But you know what? I can cook whatever they can, because I'm much more efficient. My theory is: no matter how big your kitchen is, you will fill it up.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:21 PM (iFTx/)

253 Interesting...Tokyo has about 4 million more people than NYC, but NYC's population density is much higher.

Tokyo: 16,480/sq mi
NYC: 29,302/sq mi

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:14 PM (GBKbO)

But if you compare the metro areas of both, Tokyo's density is much higher!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 10, 2024 02:21 PM (wtvvX)

254 Tin foil hats aren't recommended

"NOAA Forecasts Severe Solar Storm: FIVE CMEs ARE HEADING FOR EARTH"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 10, 2024 02:21 PM (IG4Id)

255 "It's tough to come to grips with the thought that the US government hates its citizens as much as China hates theirs, but here we are."

Yeah whenever I see advancements in US military Tech, I'm like, how will that shit fuck me up?

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:21 PM (fV+MH)

256 Buy three of the roasted chickens at Costco each trip, around $5 each, along with one or two big uncooked roasts, around $40 each, toss in a few small fresh veggies once in a while, and the pup and me eat pretty well for three four weeks. And other than boiling water, or dropping the giant slab of meat in the slow cooker (easiest thing in the kitchen) I don't cook. Boring but gets it done.

Posted by: Son of Dad at May 10, 2024 02:21 PM (8JB5s)

257 "Every pizza is a personal pizza if you believe in yourself."

I believe, and I know, even on my best day, I couldn't do a Giordano's deep dish on my own.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 10, 2024 02:22 PM (RJiwi)

258 The Dems do best when they have Americans at each others' throats, Unfortunately for the Dems, the people of this country have a universal loathing for business as usual in 2024 and a very special dislike for the MSM.

Posted by: mrp at May 10, 2024 02:22 PM (rj6Yv)

259 So, the word has gone out to take down Bidet. It still leaves that slut wife who has the receipts, who won't go down without a fight. Interesting times.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at May 10, 2024 02:22 PM (A2E7p)

260 The average Japanese home is more than 500 sf. But that includes actual houses. In very densely populated cities like Tokyo, the apartments are small but not as small as you think. About NYC sized, maybe a little smaller. But the kicker is in Tokyo, you may have three generations living in a 500 sf apartment!
Posted by: Elric Blade

There is a kind of big ex-patriot Japanese community clustered around the Honda factory complex in Marysville, west of Columbus.
The Japanese love living here, the houses are big, they can have land, the women get to drive (this was years ago, so maybe they allow women to drive in Japan now). The only reason the go back is they want their kids to grow up being "Japanese".
The Japanese, are, by and large, funny people when taken as individuals. In a group, they are very conforming. And I have come to know a lot of Japanese; my company is owned by the Japanese, now.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at May 10, 2024 02:22 PM (vcOmj)

261 I fractured three vertebrae as a teenager.

Still haven't had surgery.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 10, 2024 02:22 PM (uxCna)

262 253 But if you compare the metro areas of both, Tokyo's density is much higher!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 10, 2024 02:21 PM (wtvvX)

========

I kind of assumed that Tokyo was mostly just spread out more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

263 Adjacent Segment Degeneration After Spine Fusion Surgery

The study found that the cumulative incidence of revision surgery was 22.7% at 10 years after the initial fusion. This means that more than 1 in 5 patients who underwent lumbar fusion surgery required a second surgery within 10 years

https://tinyurl.com/ysnjuayh

Sigh.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:22 PM (CsUN+)

264 Tin foil hats aren't recommended

"NOAA Forecasts Severe Solar Storm: FIVE CMEs ARE HEADING FOR EARTH"
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 10, 2024 02:21 PM (IG4Id)

They're even saying this particular event might make the Northern Lights visible from North Texas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

265 >>> 188 We’ve given Ukraine over 175 billion since the war with Russia started.

We could have built 10 walls on the border with that money.
Posted by: polynikes at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (MNhXM)

ewetub led me down a rabbit hole to the 2nd Constantinople wall built during someguy's regency, and which lasted ~1000 years or so. For $175 billion we should have a layered wall like that, with a yuuge canal populated by sharks with lasers on their heads, and trebuchets on the many towers along the wall.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 10, 2024 02:22 PM (llON8)

266 >>Every-time I get a slight twinge in my back I get out my big old exercise ball and roll my back on it. Snap, crackle, and pop... good as new.

Those work great. As do the inversion table.

Core strengthening exercises and good posture help a ton, too.

Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2024 02:23 PM (vHu9s)

267 He's read Machiavelli and lives it. Pity the GOP doesn't have someone to match that.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 10, 2024 01:52 PM

--

mmm, brains.

Posted by: Zombie Lee Atwater at May 10, 2024 02:23 PM (wzAuc)

268 201 This blonde in red thinks that Carville might actually be a lizard alien:
http://tiny.cc/wrg1yz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 10, 2024 02:10 PM (d04cU)

Aw, with the "lizard alien" reference, you missed the perfect chance for a sexy lady from "V"! https://tinyurl.com/5e49fa5b

Morena Baccarin was in the more recent show...not as sexy as she is in Firefly or Deadpool, but still looking pretty nice. The original series was a little before my time, although I'm sure there were some nice ladies from the time...

Posted by: Trap spelled backwards is part. Wait a sec... at May 10, 2024 02:23 PM (ycI94)

269 Darn. And I was going to shit on that idiotic suffragette musical which, without any self-awareness whatsoever, demonstrates yet again why the 19th amendment was and continues to be a devastating mistake.

But I guess it ties in with how we have the Brandon administration.
Posted by: It's all of a piece I suppose at May 10, 2024 01:44 PM (Wc83a)

I mentioned the "Suffs" to my wife at lunch and she immediately said how she never would have questioned the value of the 19th Amendment until she met me and now thinks it was a big mistake.

Also the 26th Amendment as well.

However, I can't imagine our republic repealing either. The successor empire will likely avoid those mistakes, by making sure no one votes.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 10, 2024 02:23 PM (JMAcK)

270 Biden has destroyed the economy for the benefit of his posse. America be damned. According to his Marxist pals there are too many people anyway and all those Christian, straight people need to be eliminated.

Posted by: Fred at May 10, 2024 02:23 PM (bXvrr)

271 I fractured three vertebrae as a teenager.

Still haven't had surgery.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 10, 2024 02:22 PM (uxCna)

I fractured one or two in my early 20's.

It's starting to cause me issues now.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

272 I'm paying more then twice as much for grocery since Biden was installed.

What does that make the inflation rate?

Posted by: 18-1 at May 10, 2024 02:23 PM (ibTVg)

273 Lord of the Rings: Hunt for Gollum has been greenlit.

The character nobody thought we didn't get enough of.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 10, 2024 02:23 PM (cf/0E)

274 Considering it only take a couple of futons. a teapot and a hibachi to furnish a Japanese home not much space is required.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 10, 2024 02:23 PM (Q33Xs)

275 179 Thanks whig.
Posted by: lin-duh
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No problem. I have lower back lumbar stenosis as well as deteriorating disks in the lumbar, thoracic and cervical areas but natural wear and tear is magnified by psoriatic arthritis which I have been fighting for over a decade now.

Archimedes, fusion is something that happens naturally due to wear and tear over the years but if you do it via surgery--it transfers the stress to adjacent joints which then go through arthritic change in an accelerated rate requiring more fusion which affects additional joints and so on.

Your spine is meant by nature to be flexible. When you induce rigid joints, it requires adjustment by the rest of the spine to compensate for the new dynamic load on it. Bad enough when it happens naturally, worse when you accelerate the process to additional joints.

Depending on the problem, there are some less invasive surgerys and now even artificial disk surgery. All of which still require keeping the back muscles as strong as they can be to substitute for a deteriorating back. PT and its stretching exercises can be good for that as well as some water therapy.

Posted by: whig at May 10, 2024 02:24 PM (peJ7P)

276 259 So, the word has gone out to take down Bidet. It still leaves that slut wife who has the receipts, who won't go down without a fight. Interesting times.
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at May 10, 2024 02:22 PM (A2E7p)

Quite.

Posted by: Remember EDKH? at May 10, 2024 02:24 PM (PiwSw)

277 Interesting...Tokyo has about 4 million more people than NYC, but NYC's population density is much higher.

Tokyo: 16,480/sq mi
NYC: 29,302/sq mi

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:14 PM (GBKbO)

But if you compare the metro areas of both, Tokyo's density is much higher!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 10, 2024 02:21 PM (wtvvX)
_________

Tough to compare population densities to NYC because NYC is large and spread out. And a lot of people include in NYC the NYC "metro area," which includes suburbs like Long Island.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

278 >>Posted by: whig at May 10, 2024 02:24 PM (peJ7P)

Preaching Back Truths

Posted by: garrett at May 10, 2024 02:25 PM (vHu9s)

279 “It’s the economy, stupid “
— James Carville

Posted by: Lizzy at May 10, 2024 02:25 PM (Hkcdp)

280 There is a reason they are obsessively clean and organized. They can do more wit 500 sqft then most can in 2000 sqft

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:18 PM (1yY5C)

But they can't prep at all.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 10, 2024 02:25 PM (w6EFb)

281 ewetub led me down a rabbit hole to the 2nd Constantinople wall built during someguy's regency, and which lasted ~1000 years or so.

The walls are still there.

If you take the time period from the construction of the walls until now, more than half that time period was during the Byzantine Empire.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 10, 2024 02:26 PM (uxCna)

282 ewetub led me down a rabbit hole to the 2nd Constantinople wall built during someguy's regency, and which lasted ~1000 years or so. For $175 billion we should have a layered wall like that, with a yuuge canal populated by sharks with lasers on their heads, and trebuchets on the many towers along the wall.

IIRC Constantinople's wall lasted until the Ottoman Turks obtained cannons. And even then, there were times of neglect and catch-up maintenance.

Defensive tech works great until offensive tech gets better.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:26 PM (mSufQ)

283 Re: LOTR remake.

Saw Get the Led Out Zeppelin tribute band last night in Waukegan. My wife bet we'd hear at least one LOTR song. We got two.

Interesting crowd -- more Golden Girls than young groupies.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 10, 2024 02:26 PM (YIxO9)

284 They're even saying this particular event might make the Northern Lights visible from North Texas.
Posted by: Sponge
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When???

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:26 PM (LrpuY)

285 Posted by: whig at May 10, 2024 02:24 PM (peJ7P)

Thanks.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:26 PM (CsUN+)

286 284 They're even saying this particular event might make the Northern Lights visible from North Texas.
Posted by: Sponge
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When???
Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:26 PM (LrpuY)

=======

Probably on a cloudy night.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:26 PM (GBKbO)

287 The stock market is also "not the world people are living in", as it approaches new highs again.

Or maybe markets are adjusting to the inflated currency and the spendthrifts in DC?

Posted by: illiniwek at May 10, 2024 02:27 PM (Cus5s)

288 “It’s the economy, stupid “
— James Carville
Posted by: Lizzy

"It's just that stupid Carville!"
- me

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at May 10, 2024 02:27 PM (vcOmj)

289 The drag performer cancelling because of Israel prevents an opportunity. The IDF should start yelling at Hamas "drag queens love you , you pansies".

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (5S+sK)

290 Does fusion eliminates the flex needed by the back, causing damage?

Posted by: davidt at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (SYTee)

291 In the past year I’ve seem NSM articles providing helpful tips for cutting down on food costs such as “skip breakfast “ and “get rid of your pets.”

What comes after that, one wonders…
*shudders*

Posted by: Lizzy at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (Hkcdp)

292 I'm paying more then twice as much for grocery since Biden was installed.

What does that make the inflation rate?
Posted by: 18-1
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$20, same as in town...

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (LrpuY)

293 Yeah my experience in Texas is that Pee Wee Herman is full of shit.

He was always my rock.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (fV+MH)

294 289 The drag performer cancelling because of Israel prevents an opportunity. The IDF should start yelling at Hamas "drag queens love you , you pansies".
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (5S+sK)

=======

"How much more obvious do we have to make it that we wish to throw them off of our roofs?"
-Hamas

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

295 263 Adjacent Segment Degeneration After Spine Fusion Surgery

The study found that the cumulative incidence of revision surgery was 22.7% at 10 years after the initial fusion. This means that more than 1 in 5 patients who underwent lumbar fusion surgery required a second surgery within 10 years

https://tinyurl.com/ysnjuayh

Sigh.
Posted by: Archimedes
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They left out one additional fact--like your first surgery--the pain and health problems on your new areas to fuse must be great enough to warrant insurance to pay for the new surgery.

So you start a whole new cycle of PT, drugs, ablations/nerveblocks/etc.

Posted by: whig at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (peJ7P)

296 Interestingly (to me), when the doctor I was seeing about a possible RFA told me I probably needed surgery, she recommended a surgeon in her practice. The next words out of her mouth were "he's very conservative, and not at all knife-happy". This was exactly what I needed to hear.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (CsUN+)

297 But if you compare the metro areas of both, Tokyo's density is much higher!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 10, 2024 02:21 PM (wtvvX)
_________

Tough to compare population densities to NYC because NYC is large and spread out. And a lot of people include in NYC the NYC "metro area," which includes suburbs like Long Island.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:25 PM (iFTx/)

I wonder how far you have to go from the middle of Tokyo to get out "into the country"...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 10, 2024 02:29 PM (wtvvX)

298
Impeachment articles filed against Biden for withholding Israel aid
Posted by: Don Black

What a stupidfucking reason to impeach.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 10, 2024 02:29 PM (l3WY5)

299
I told you: Do Not Go Pro-Israel.
Just stay anti-hamas.

But the Stupid Republicans fell for the trap.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 10, 2024 02:30 PM (l3WY5)

300
When we moved into this current home I counted the pulls in the kitchen, something like 45. We only needed maybe 15 of them. Now every cabinet, every drawer, is full of stuff I never use to cook.

Everything I need is in those 15. I think there's some rule about clutter automatically fills the space available.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 10, 2024 02:30 PM (RKVpM)

301 298
Impeachment articles filed against Biden for withholding Israel aid
Posted by: Don Black

What a stupidfucking reason to impeach.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 10, 2024 02:29 PM (l3WY5)

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It's the same reason as one of Trump's impeachments.

It's not mean to pass. It's just failure theater.

Well-crafted theater is better than poorly crafted theater. The duality of the two is a nice touch.

I mean...I'm not upping my donations to the RNC or anything, but it's decent trolling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

302 However, I can't imagine our republic repealing either.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 10, 2024 02:23 PM (JMAcK)

I can. If the Columbia people get their way.

Posted by: ... at May 10, 2024 02:30 PM (OCZ4p)

303 296 Interestingly (to me), when the doctor I was seeing about a possible RFA told me I probably needed surgery, she recommended a surgeon in her practice. The next words out of her mouth were "he's very conservative, and not at all knife-happy". This was exactly what I needed to hear.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (CsUN+)

"In fact, he's actually terrified of them...ever since the incident."

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at May 10, 2024 02:30 PM (KbCG3)

304 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: ZOD at May 10, 2024 02:31 PM (5HQE5)

305 Impeachment articles filed against Biden for withholding Israel aid
Posted by: Don Black

What a stupidfucking reason to impeach.

There's a weird quasi-symmetry with at least one of Trump's impeachenings-- withholding Congressionally-approved aid to a foreign nation.

But, yeah-- This? This is where you make your feeble, flaccid lip-service stand?

Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:31 PM (mSufQ)

306 Back in the mid-2000s or so there was a fan made, "Hunt for Gollum," that was quite good...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H09xnhlCQU

Posted by: davidt at May 10, 2024 02:31 PM (SYTee)

307 I wonder how far you have to go from the middle of Tokyo to get out "into the country"...

Out of the Kanto Plain, I'd imagine. What I can't imagine is if we'd invaded in '46, how the Japs would have defended this area. It's just one big, flat plain. It would have been a literal killing ground.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:31 PM (CsUN+)

308 ----
When???
Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:26 PM (LrpuY)

Supposedly between midnight and 3 or 4 AM tonight.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:31 PM (Zz0t1)

309 I was at the grocery store yesterday. I noticed that a package that used to have 4 "servings" now has 2. And it's probably about 30% more. And the price of beef is off the hook (SWIDT).

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 10, 2024 02:31 PM (Q4IgG)

310
Don't. Do. It. For. Israel.

This is why Republicans are losers. They are so bad at politics.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 10, 2024 02:31 PM (l3WY5)

311 When I handled WC claims just in NY for 7 years I had only one request from a medical provider to do a lumbar fusion.

When I moved to Texas, requesting spinal fusion for back pain was normal operating procedure. It was nothing more than a money grab. There was nothing I could do about it because denials being upheld were very rare. It’s changed a bit after some reform but not much.

Posted by: polynikes at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (MNhXM)

312 The Weekend is here

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (fwDg9)

313 What's awesome about these useless articles of impeachment is it either legitimizes the ones filed against Trump or just looks like dumbshit waateful tit for tat. Either way great job you stupid fucks.

Posted by: ... at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (OCZ4p)

314 Biden pretty much has to be impeached for the Israel denial because it's EXACTLY what they impeached Trump for. Not because it's the best reason to impeach the man; he does more impeachable stuff than that at least six times a day, usually before breakfast, but because of the reciprocity.

Posted by: American Hawkman at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (skAOD)

315 293 Yeah my experience in Texas is that Pee Wee Herman is full of shit.

He was always my rock.
Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (fV+MH)

He always shot straight with me!

Posted by: Person who sat in front of Pee Wee at the movies at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (N39Ws)

316 Does fusion eliminates the flex needed by the back, causing damage?
Posted by: davidt

It actually straightens the back, which is unnatural. Your back has kind of an S-curve to it to better distribute the weight. My cousin had a series of spinal fusion surgeries, and he was in constant pain. He had radical spinal surgery, where the surgeon put in two S-curved steel rods, attached to key vertabrae. It took him months to heal, and he had to learn to walk again. But that was years ago, and now he feels normal and has little pain now.
Back damage and back pain are no joke and can be crippling, which is news to no one here who has had back problems.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (vcOmj)

317 284 They're even saying this particular event might make the Northern Lights visible from North Texas.
Posted by: Sponge
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When???

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:26 PM (LrpuY)

I heard between 10 to midnight EDT tonight (so 9 to 11 Hill Country time)

Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (wtvvX)

318 The more you know . . .

CBS News
@CBSNews
You deserve a treat – and this spring, Mother Nature is providing a seemingly endless supply. Here are some cicada recipes to try.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (L/fGl)

319 In the past year I’ve seem NSM articles providing helpful tips for cutting down on food costs such as “skip breakfast “ and “get rid of your pets.”

What comes after that, one wonders…
*shudders*
Posted by: Lizzy

"Pick the strong child."

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (R4t5M)

320 318 The more you know . . .

CBS News
@CBSNews
You deserve a treat – and this spring, Mother Nature is providing a seemingly endless supply. Here are some cicada recipes to try.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (L/fGl)

=======

"Also, it's a conspiracy theory that we're trying to get you to eat the bugs."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (GBKbO)

321 290 Does fusion eliminates the flex needed by the back, causing damage?
Posted by: davidt

It transfers stress to the flexible spinal joints above and below the fused area. Strong back muscles can compensate somewhat for the problem but the spine was designed to work as a flexible unit and putting an immobile section into it via fusion can cause accelerated wear. Depends on weight, the lifestyle that one leads including occupation, prior tendencies to all sorts of abnormal issues like bone spur growth, inflammatory arthritis, nerve impingement, and so on. There are also some locations in the spine that are far worse than others for fusion to occur either naturally or via surgery.

Posted by: whig at May 10, 2024 02:33 PM (peJ7P)

322 They're even saying this particular event might make the Northern Lights visible from North Texas.
Posted by: Sponge

That would be awesome. Check off a bucket list item and not have to leave home.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 10, 2024 02:33 PM (RJiwi)

323
Tough to compare population densities to NYC because NYC is large and spread out. And a lot of people include in NYC the NYC "metro area," which includes suburbs like Long Island.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:25 PM

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NYC, just the five boroughs, is the same size as Charlotte. (300 sqm). That's dense.

Posted by: Zombie Lee Atwater at May 10, 2024 02:33 PM (wzAuc)

324 ZOD twice in one day?

We're blessed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:33 PM (Zz0t1)

325 Back damage and back pain are no joke and can be crippling, which is news to no one here who has had back problems.

Judging by the defect rate, I think human backs were designed and built by Boeing.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 10, 2024 02:33 PM (CsUN+)

326 I find it funny when people say surgeons are "not knife happy", I mean it's what they do... surgery.

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:33 PM (LrpuY)

327 I feel like Casey Stengel when I see Republicans.

"Can't anyone here play this game?"

What you do is you obstruct from Day 1. You file articles on Day 1 for his dealings with China and Ukraine. You hold up everything. But no... we do this lameass limp wrist crap.

Posted by: ... at May 10, 2024 02:33 PM (OCZ4p)

328 Skip breakfast this morning
2 cups coffee
3 pieces of French Toast
1 apple strudel
3 pieces of bacon

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2024 02:33 PM (fwDg9)

329 What a stupidfucking reason to impeach.

There's a weird quasi-symmetry with at least one of Trump's impeachenings-- withholding Congressionally-approved aid to a foreign nation.

But, yeah-- This? This is where you make your feeble, flaccid lip-service stand?
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:31 PM (mSufQ)

Worked for the Dems, though, didn't it? Impeached Trump for doing the same thing.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 10, 2024 02:34 PM (N39Ws)

330 The Weekend is here
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (fwDg9)

That settles it. Imma goin' get me a beer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 10, 2024 02:34 PM (Zz0t1)

331 In the past year I’ve seem NSM articles providing helpful tips for cutting down on food costs such as “skip breakfast “ and “get rid of your pets.”

What comes after that, one wonders…
*shudders*
Posted by: Lizzy at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (Hkcdp)
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I sometimes envy the rabbits in my yard who have an all-you-can-eat smorgasbord of grass.

Then I remember they are PREY for other animals who want to eat THEM.

Like the 5 cats I have in my house who are not allowed outdoors.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 10, 2024 02:34 PM (7fElN)

332 Who's Joe's Wormtongue?

Posted by: Northernlurker at May 10, 2024 02:34 PM (JLq/1)

333 What's awesome about these useless articles of impeachment is it either legitimizes the ones filed against Trump or just looks like dumbshit waateful tit for tat. Either way great job you stupid fucks.

I've said it before, but IMO the proper response to the bullshit impeachments is to do your own. Keep up the pressure. One fails, file another one. If you actually succeed, impeach Kamala. Keep at it.

But instead, look at how they failed to impeach Mayorkas.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:34 PM (mSufQ)

334 323
Tough to compare population densities to NYC because NYC is large and spread out. And a lot of people include in NYC the NYC "metro area," which includes suburbs like Long Island.
Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:25 PM

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NYC, just the five boroughs, is the same size as Charlotte (300 sqm) and 9 times the population. That's dense.
Posted by: Zombie Lee Atwater at May 10, 2024 02:33 PM (wzAuc)

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dead strategist sock removed.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at May 10, 2024 02:34 PM (wzAuc)

335 The Weekend is here
Posted by: Skip

Is it gonna be warm and dry ?

Posted by: JT at May 10, 2024 02:34 PM (T4tVD)

336 Heh, Skip!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 10, 2024 02:35 PM (Hkcdp)

337 Where is the Independent Special Prosecutor against Biden? Oh yeah we didn't demand one.

Posted by: ... at May 10, 2024 02:35 PM (OCZ4p)

338 291 In the past year I’ve seem NSM articles providing helpful tips for cutting down on food costs such as “skip breakfast “ and “get rid of your pets.”

What comes after that, one wonders…
*shudders*
Posted by: Lizzy at May 10, 2024 02:28 PM (Hkcdp)

Eat your pets.
Set more rat traps.

Posted by: Get used to long pig at May 10, 2024 02:35 PM (Wc83a)

339 327 I feel like Casey Stengel when I see Republicans.

"Can't anyone here play this game?"

What you do is you obstruct from Day 1. You file articles on Day 1 for his dealings with China and Ukraine. You hold up everything. But no... we do this lameass limp wrist crap.
Posted by: ... at May 10, 2024 02:33 PM (OCZ4p)

========

For someone like me who's known how to use the constitutional powers of the House from Day 1 about how to completely dismantle the administrative state, all of Congressional activity amounts to little more than failure theater mixed with graft.

So, this newest batch of failure theater does nothing for me emotionally. I admire the mirror___ of the Trump impeachment, but that's about it. It's still failure theater.

If Republicans were serious, we would have known 2 years ago when they refused all CRs and only passed 1990-level budgets for a core set of administrative agencies. But that didn't happen. Because they're not serious. They haven't been serious for a very, very long time. The 1930s, maybe?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:36 PM (GBKbO)

340 Lunch is the devil!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:15 PM

Lunch wears Prada?

Posted by: Duncanthrax, asking the questions the MSM doesn't ask at May 10, 2024 02:36 PM (a3Q+t)

341 first

Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:36 PM (mSufQ)

342 320 318 The more you know . . .

CBS News
@CBSNews
You deserve a treat – and this spring, Mother Nature is providing a seemingly endless supply. Here are some cicada recipes to try.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (L/fGl)

=======

"Also, it's a conspiracy theory that we're trying to get you to eat the bugs."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (GBKbO)
_____________

Cicadas are aren't bad eating, I have to admit. Like a flavorful potato chip. You find them (rarely) in the USA down south (way down). But in Japan and China they are fairly common.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 10, 2024 02:36 PM (iFTx/)

343 All of it is lies and bullshit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 10, 2024 02:36 PM (R4t5M)

344 "That settles it. Imma goin' get me a beer."

It's amusing watching the latecomers.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:36 PM (fV+MH)

345 Rainy and cool all weekend

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2024 02:36 PM (fwDg9)

346 What's awesome about these useless articles of impeachment is it either legitimizes the ones filed against Trump or just looks like dumbshit waateful tit for tat. Either way great job you stupid fucks.

--

Serious question, knowing that the (D)s would vote to keep Johnson as Speaker.

If the House votes on an amnesty bill in the next few months, will it pass?

My money is on yes. Yes amnesty would pass. And the (D)s would be foolish not to attempt it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 10, 2024 02:36 PM (lllXP)

347 >>> Posted by: ZOD at May 10, 2024 02:31 PM (5HQE5)

I think it's time you whip your lazy aztec boyos into brewing ZOD IMPERIAL STOUT. I'm parched and that sounds delightful.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 10, 2024 02:37 PM (Y6IkP)

348 I've had two fusions too. I'd try everything else first. I had my first one in my 20s, never been the same since.

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 10, 2024 02:37 PM (t3Lnm)

349 Impeaching Biden over withholding foreign aid, as was Trump, needs to be looked at within the context of whether or not GOPe wants to help or hurt Trump.

Posted by: davidt at May 10, 2024 02:37 PM (SYTee)

350 Impeachment articles filed against Biden for withholding Israel aid

==

By the D's ??? No ? Ok...

Posted by: runner at May 10, 2024 02:37 PM (V13WU)

351 But instead, look at how they failed to impeach Mayorkas.
Posted by: Lance McCormick at May 10, 2024 02:34 PM (mSufQ)

They eventually impeached him.

Posted by: polynikes at May 10, 2024 02:37 PM (MNhXM)

352 Tomorrow planned Skip's breakfast
Blueberry pancakes and bacon

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2024 02:37 PM (fwDg9)

353 " first"

This first is the first first of the rest of your life.

Posted by: eleven at May 10, 2024 02:38 PM (fV+MH)

354 278 >>Posted by: whig at May 10, 2024 02:24 PM (peJ7P)

Preaching Back Truths
Posted by: garrett
------
Due to all my medical issues, I live by the rule of holes--when in on, stop digging.

It is always wonderful to hope for a miracle cure via one neat surgical trick or taking a pill, etc.

In medicine, like in life, there is no such thing as a free lunch and you have to weigh the costs versus the benefits and then buy your ticket to the ride. If you decide to do nothing about any of your problems--that is a decision too of sorts.

Posted by: whig at May 10, 2024 02:38 PM (peJ7P)

355 Is a new born fawn meat like veal? Cause I saw a dead one, looked fresh, and actually thought about beat the vultures to it...///

Posted by: lin-duh (sharon's (willow's apprentice) apprentice) at May 10, 2024 02:38 PM (LrpuY)

356 Eat your pets.
Set more rat traps.
Posted by: Get used to long pig at May 10, 2024 02:35 PM (Wc83a)

Roadkill patrols.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 10, 2024 02:38 PM (R4t5M)

357 Rainy and cool all weekend
Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2024 02:36 PM (fwDg9)

Oh...all right .

Posted by: JT at May 10, 2024 02:38 PM (T4tVD)

358 nood

idiots

Posted by: banana Dream at May 10, 2024 02:38 PM (Y6IkP)

359 Today is Friday, but it feels like Monday to me. Prolly because I got back from Montana last night. I worked remotely while there, but it's still got a Monday taint to it. And I will likely be working tomorrow from home.

Been a weird fortnight.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Come Sail Away with me, You guys at May 10, 2024 02:38 PM (xPJvm)

360 F$cking cicada recipes!!

Have any of these people ever experienced a cicada onslaught?!?

The very last thing you think of is “hey, these might be fun to eat!”

I can’t hate these people enough…

Posted by: Lizzy at May 10, 2024 02:39 PM (Hkcdp)

361 But no... we do this lameass limp wrist crap.
Posted by: ... at May 10, 2024 02:33 PM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Lindsay Graham at May 10, 2024 02:39 PM (a3Q+t)

362 328 Skip breakfast this morning
2 cups coffee
3 pieces of French Toast
1 apple strudel
3 pieces of bacon
Posted by: Skip at May 1

I thought at first if you skipped breakfast why did you eat french toast and other things?

Posted by: CaliGirl at May 10, 2024 02:39 PM (t3Lnm)

363 nood

idiots
Posted by: banana Dream at May 10, 2024 02:38 PM (Y6IkP)

You don’t have to be mean about it😀

Posted by: polynikes at May 10, 2024 02:40 PM (MNhXM)

364 I never skip breakfast, and I am hungry in the morning

Posted by: Skip at May 10, 2024 02:42 PM (fwDg9)

365 Shrink-flation. Smash buys the conditioner she uses on sale, bogo, and deep discount coupons type of on sale. One is unopened on the top shelf of the bathroom shelf. Bottle says 16 fluid ounces. It's barely half full, i can see through it. When we bought it, the conditioner inside was splashed aound and coated the interior such that it 'appeared' full. Some settling may occur and your mileage may vary.

Anyone else notice this little way of screwing over the consumer with lotion, shampoo, and conditioner bottles? Thin i'll bring my kubaton medical pencil flashlight grocery shopping this saturday and look at some bottles and check a larger sample size.

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 10, 2024 02:43 PM (MsrgL)

366 If Republicans were serious, we would have known 2 years ago when they refused all CRs and only passed 1990-level budgets for a core set of administrative agencies. But that didn't happen. Because they're not serious. They haven't been serious for a very, very long time. The 1930s, maybe?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

David Mayhew, in his Electoral Connection book claims (and is supported by vast empirical evidence) that you can figure out how a Congress critter acts by simply applying that they all want to win their elections. Cutting spending is less popular than borrowing especially for the Dems and blocs of voters depending on that spending. Raising taxes is less popular than borrowing especially for the GOP due to its donors.

Since the Dems have absorbed a lot of the wealthy in its ranks, its ardor for raising taxes has cooled but replaced by insatiable regulation of everything under the sun. That permits an out for the oligarchs to be excluded behind closed doors. So the Dem coalition is regulate, spend, tax the plebes they don't like, and borrow.

The GOP is not so complicated--it simply spends and borrows and cuts taxes for its donors if it can.

Posted by: whig at May 10, 2024 02:44 PM (peJ7P)

367 >>But instead, look at how they failed to impeach Mayorkas.

They didn't fail. Mayorkas was impeached. The Senate or more accurately Democrats in the Senate voted to not hold a trial.

Posted by: JackStraw at May 10, 2024 02:46 PM (LkLld)

368 Everyone blames Soros, but if you woke the 90 plus year old from being face down in his soup and asked him what X LLC in his group runs put X dollars into which X NGO - he'd mumble "huh?" as green split pea runs down his chin.

This isn't how it works...divisions of US/Euro lefty lawyers and academics hired by multiple Soros company affiliates long since establish to work with Soros legally funded charity foundations, begun long before Soros himself began to drool, funnel funds to NGOs and political lefty groups, throughout the US and Europe. These NGOs and political action folks may trail back to a Soros, but he is as much a rutabaga as Punchy...

To defeat these well-moneyed lefty NGO's and lefty political action groups, states and counties must expose what they do behind their hidden curtain's and match their efforts with $$...not easy if you don't even know who you are battling with in the first place.

Posted by: Boswell at May 10, 2024 02:49 PM (K+UlC)

369 >>"Pick the strong child."
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (R4t5M)

(Shoots cuffs, sniffs gin and tonic, smiles)

Stimmt genau.

Posted by: ZOD at May 10, 2024 03:17 PM (5HQE5)

370 369 >>"Pick the strong child."
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at May 10, 2024 02:32 PM (R4t5M)

(Shoots cuffs, sniffs gin and tonic, smiles)

Stimmt genau.
Posted by: ZOD at May 10, 2024 03:17 PM (5HQE5
Will sire many warriors.

Posted by: Eromero at May 10, 2024 03:22 PM (o2ZRX)

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