Despite Inflation Still Raging, Fed Chairman Powell Slashes Interest Rates by a Big Half Point

He has given up on fighting inflation, and in fact is now putting us on the path for more inflation, to forestall the Biden-Harris Recession by a couple of months until we're safely past the election.

As I always say, cutting interest rates puts more money into the economy, which further devalues our already-devalued dollars. It is inherently inflationary. The market is already flooded with cheap dollars, reducing the value of all of them. This floods the market with more cheap dollars, reducing their value still further.

The only way this can be justified is that if there's a big recession on the way that is even worse than runaway inflation.

But Powell won't admit that's the case. That would damage the Biden-Harris lie that the economy is booming, baby!

The other way this can be justified is if you're a Deep State Democrat looking to rig another election.

Looks like the Federal Reserve doesn't like the latest jobs reports any better than others do -- at least others outside the White House. In an 11-1 vote, the Fed cut its lending rate by 50 basis points rather than the usual 25, pushing it back down to between 4.45-5.0%. That matches up with expectations over the last few days by economists hoping that the Fed would take more aggressive action to prevent a collapse in job creation.
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This won't be the last action from the Fed this year, and we could see another full 100 basis points cut before next summer:

[WSJ:]
Eleven of 12 Fed voters backed the cut, which will bring the benchmark federal-funds rate to a range between 4.75% and 5%. Quarterly projections released Wednesday showed a narrow majority of officials penciled in cuts that would lower rates by at least a quarter point each at meetings in November and December.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell's decision to trim rates by a larger amount than most analysts anticipated until just a few days ago moved the central bank unwaveringly into a new phase of its inflation battle: It is now trying to prevent past rate increases, which last year took borrowing costs to a two-decade high, from further weakening the U.S. labor market.
"The committee has gained greater confidence that inflation is moving sustainably toward 2%, and judges that the risks to achieving its employment and inflation goals are roughly in balance," the Fed said in its policy statement Wednesday. The rate cut reflected both "the progress on inflation and the balance of risks."

Update: The ignorant DEI hire Kamala Harris claims that flooding the market with even more cheap dollars is anti-inflationary.

The US Federal Reserve cut its key lending rate by half a percentage-point Wednesday in its first reduction since the Covid pandemic, sharply lowering borrowing costs just before November's presidential election.
The Fed's decision will affect the rates at which commercial banks lend to consumers and businesses, bringing down the cost of borrowing on everything from mortgages to credit cards.
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris praised the move while emphasizing her commitment to fighting inflation.
"While this announcement is welcome news for Americans who have borne the brunt of high prices, my focus is on the work ahead to keep bringing prices down," the Vice President said in a statement.

Interest rate hikes wring some cheap dollars out of the economy, thus making each remaining dollar worth more, thus reducing inflation. Interest rate cuts do the exact opposite.

But she majored in Sucking Dick of Her Boss. What do you expect of her?

Posted by: Ace at 04:41 PM

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1 in the hood, g

Posted by: meatwad at September 18, 2024 04:41 PM (e8ste)

2 They redefined "recession" so we can never have another one.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2024 04:42 PM (63Dwl)

3 The UN just said "don't weaponize civilian institutions fore election gain, like the Fed!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 18, 2024 04:42 PM (2ai0l)

4 We gotta give Willie’s side piece a push

Stand what I’m sayin

Posted by: Redenzo at September 18, 2024 04:42 PM (V/pbu)

5 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:42 PM (Zz0t1)

6 "Thanks!"
-- Kamala

Posted by: Lizzy at September 18, 2024 04:43 PM (Pijte)

7 Damn...the way that looked, I thought we were going to be grays again. We were almost greys.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:43 PM (Zz0t1)

8 Where is one of our paid retards to tell us inflation has been crushed, I say CRUSHED???

Posted by: Helena Cesta de Mano at September 18, 2024 04:44 PM (FnneF)

9 The important thing here is OS/2 and everything you wanted to know about it:

https://youtu.be/X3DZJ_LD7F4

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 18, 2024 04:44 PM (CgVac)

10 Econ 101 Text books: The government spending money it doesn't have causes inflation

The left: Set the printing presses to warp speed Mr Sulu

The FNM: Where did all this inflation come from? I guess its just bad luck.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 04:44 PM (oZhjI)

11
You know what this does to credit card rates?

NOTHING.

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 04:44 PM (2y6mw)

How. . .

. . . unexpected!!

Yeeeaaaaaaaaghhhhhhh!!!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 18, 2024 04:44 PM (Pijte)

13 Funny the market ended down

Posted by: It's me donna at September 18, 2024 04:44 PM (IyPmt)

14 Tell me again why all the trading partners are moving away from basing their contracts in USD.
Be succinct.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (2tn4k)

15 I was expecting a quarter point for the past little while. The yield curve is falling. Every week, I see it go down. The Fed is a fast-follower. It was increasingly likely that it would cut, since the Treasury market already cut and the Fed must follow.

Half a point is more than I expected, and is probably the Fed overcorrecting to try to claim leadership.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (HnUIn)

16 I'm convinced that the Fed just does random shit because they don't know any more about how to prevent a recession or goose the economy than I do, and I know nothing.

Posted by: huerfano at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (VGOMa)

17 He has given up on fighting inflation, and in fact is now putting us on the path for more inflation, to forestall the Biden-Harris Recession by a couple of months until we're safely past the election.

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[As I said earlier today:] And an in-kind campaign contribution to Kommie-la.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Democrat Party is a Domestic Terrorist Organization at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (JDUvv)

18 >>> 7 Damn...the way that looked, I thought we were going to be grays again. We were almost greys.
Posted by: Esponja - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:43 PM (Zz0t1)

Which one?

Posted by: Helena Cesta de Mano at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (FnneF)

19 It sure feels like a recession, normal Americans know the truth.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (6IAhu)

20 Go long on Weimar Wheelbarrows. .

Posted by: Voter theater. at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (FCPbW)

21 Basically they are going to try to goose the economy with refi's, auto purchases and money sloshing through the sluices.

We're f**ked no matter what but it looks like they want one last hurrah before the spinning plates start crashing to the ground.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (XV/Pl)

22 They are expecting Trump to win. They don't cate if inflation is sky high after inauguration.

Or if Que Mala wins, they will lie about inflation and if we notice, then we're racists.

And also it's good that there's inflation. Only a fascist would disagree.

Posted by: Just Lily at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (cJhQ2)

23 How many quatloos does that work out to?

Posted by: Eromero at September 18, 2024 04:46 PM (LHPAg)

24 The important thing here is OS/2 and everything you wanted to know about it:

https://youtu.be/X3DZJ_LD7F4

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 18, 2024 04:44 PM (CgVac)

Before moving to WinFrame back in the late 90's, I worked with an app that ran on Citrix's OS/2 on Compaq DX-2 66 Mhz servers.

F*CK that stuff was SLLLOOOOOWWWWWWW.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:46 PM (Zz0t1)

25 Best economy ever, Jack!

"It's called, Biden-omics" (says Kameltoe in her southern slang)

Posted by: Jay in PA at September 18, 2024 04:46 PM (i7Q7S)

26
Stock Market, today, nonplussed.

Unplussed?

Whatever the word. Wall Street wasn't impressed.

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 04:46 PM (2y6mw)

27 Hasn't early voting already started in some states? Little late there, Jerry.

Posted by: Duke Lowellriguez at September 18, 2024 04:46 PM (2UnvF)

28 The left: Prices have not gone up and there is no inflation . Anyone that claims they have is a rightwing Russian bot

Also the left: Prices and inflation are up because of Trump

Also, also the left: Of course prices have gone up. That's because the Biden-conomy is so good. You should really thank him and Harris

Also, also, also the left: Of course prices have gone up. Every company in America became greedy right when we started printing all that money!

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 04:46 PM (oZhjI)

29
Which one?
Posted by: Helena Cesta de Mano at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (FnneF)

The bottom of the post made it look like Ace forgot to close a tag.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (Zz0t1)

30 Guess we're gonna have to get used to calling others "Comrade"

Posted by: meh at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (yjRHe)

31 The only way this can be justified is that if there's a big recession on the way that is even worse than runaway inflation.

But Powell won't admit that's the case. That would damage the Biden-Harris lie that the economy is booming, baby!
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The Treasury ticker tape indicated a cut was coming. A cut came. It is too big and will likely be undone (or half undone) in December, comfortably after the election.

The Fed took a cut that has already happened and followed suit bigger. Half of the cut is already part of the price of Treasuries, and has been for a little bit now. All interest rates are downstream from the Treasury rates. This has now formalized what already happened in the UST market.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (HnUIn)

32 Probably a lot of the non-standard indicators like the yield curve and the fact that things are eerily like 2007.

It is going to get bumpy. Also a lot of things like fuel and oil and banking are going to get uncontrolled after the election. If Trump wins it will be to disrupt the US, if Kamala wins it will be the "mandate to do all the things"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (D7oie)

33
So let's mortgage rates go down a little.

That will only jack up house prices more, right?

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (2y6mw)

34 The financial system is all bullshit. The only question is whether the lack of value is exposed by high interest rates leading to bankruptcies and bank failures (which primarily punishes the irresponsible) or runaway inflation until the dollar is devalued sufficiently to much the worth of the society's possessions (which punishes everyone, but primarily less wealthy people).

Obviously the people making the decision look after their own without regard to the citizenry.

Posted by: Methos at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (Dnobf)

35 CBD and Sefton:

CJN-Speaks-S7E13 was the last file name. How did you actually record this?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (IG4Id)

36 23 How many quatloos does that work out to?

we talkin' '60s star trek quatloos or modern inflated quatloos?

Posted by: anachronda at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (sGtp+)

37 If this benefits the millionaires and billionaires, you got your reason why it was done.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (CgVac)

38 Basically they are going to try to goose the economy with refi's, auto purchases and money sloshing through the sluices.

We're f**ked no matter what but it looks like they want one last hurrah before the spinning plates start crashing to the ground.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Buy shelf stable food and ammo.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (XTEnH)

39 Party like it’s 1925 Germany!!!
Woo hoo.

Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (Y/tQ+)

40 26
Stock Market, today, nonplussed.

Unplussed?

Whatever the word. Wall Street wasn't impressed.
Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 04:46 PM (2y6mw)

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Or they'd been expecting it for weeks and it was already baked in the cake.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

41 oh gosh

it just doesn't matter

we are fooked

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (s3qiR)

42 Too little, too late… they’re just flailing now.

Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (PCK5/)

43 Nevermind

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (IG4Id)

44 How many quatloos does that work out to?
Posted by: Eromero at September 18, 2024 04:46 PM (LHPAg)

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Twenty, same as in town.

Posted by: Duke Lowellriguez at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (2UnvF)

45 Fling the borders wide open. Stymie every trade with preposterous regulations. Tax the piss out of anything that moves.

Then tell me you're printing more fake money because you're worried about "labor rates".

Go shove a Taiwanese pager up your ass and beep yourself.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (nPLkK)

46 The deep state or as I like to call it, the regular state.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (LCr8f)

47 Willowed:

One of the simplest rules of war - anything your opponent does to your people is not off the table in return.

Hitler didn't use chem weapons in WWII* because he was afraid the allies would respond in kind

This notion that the US or Israel have to follow a book of rules or it is a war crime whereas their enemies can literally rape and torture your people is absurd.

*He did actually use them in one instance where Russian troops were holed up in an old mine and they dumped poison gas into it

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 04:42 PM (oZhjI)

I will ask what are the "laws" regarding fighting terrorists again? Are *they* abiding by any?

What is it, the law of getting your own people maimed, mutilated and wiped off the planet?

Fuck that noise with the Space Needle, we weren't put on this earth to submit to bloodthirsty cave faggots.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (LCr8f)

Posted by: Comrado Floundero, Demon de la Disinformacion at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (i24o9)

48 We had "Funemployment" in the Obama years, I suspect we'll see the emergence of "Joyflation" during a possible Harris administration.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (ssz2a)

49 "The economy is so great, it needs an crisis-level rate cut 2 months before the election"

-Zerohedge

Posted by: Jay in PA at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (i7Q7S)

50
CJN-Speaks-S7E13 was the last file name. How did you actually record this?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (IG4Id)

Mr. Microphone and a cassette deck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (Zz0t1)

51 That will only jack up house prices more, right?

Young leftists: Immigration is a right! You have to let those people move here!

Also young leftists: Why is housing so expensive?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (oZhjI)

52 I hate to admit this, given that I'm on this site almost every day and considering myself very well versed in politics, but...

I have never understood what any of this means.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (KbCG3)

53
Did any of the non-cuck Fed governors publicly oppose this stupid move?

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (2y6mw)

54 Interesting, huh? Well, they're not exactly furries . . .

https://is.gd/pZlOku

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 18, 2024 04:49 PM (92ACR)

55 They redefined "recession" so we can never have another one.

Until a Republican is in office.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 18, 2024 04:49 PM (uxCna)

56 So let's mortgage rates go down a little.

That will only jack up house prices more, right?
Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (2y6mw)
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Yes. Interest rates are a major part of house prices, because most people don't buy houses. Most people buy a monthly payment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 18, 2024 04:49 PM (HnUIn)

57 The government can't pay the interest on the debt is the reason for the rate cut. Anything else they say is just more bullshit

Posted by: Ben Had at September 18, 2024 04:49 PM (I1GXe)

58 Isn't this just going to sabotage things for Trump if he's elected? There's no way to fix this without a lot of pain, no?

Posted by: Turn 2 at September 18, 2024 04:49 PM (JfxgE)

59 The usual suspects will lie it's the greatest economy ever regardless, so why bother to degrade the dollar more?

Oh yeah to pay on our unpayable debt with more funny money.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 18, 2024 04:49 PM (wBaIH)

60 If they wanted to juice the economy for the election should have done this 3 months ago. It’s too late to have an impact.

He did this to placate Wall St. and it’s just the start. Wall St wants ZIRP and they will get it.

Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 04:49 PM (Y/tQ+)

61 52 I hate to admit this, given that I'm on this site almost every day and considering myself very well versed in politics, but...

I have never understood what any of this means.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (KbCG3)

No one does, because it is senseless activity now, not reality based.

Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 04:50 PM (PCK5/)

62 Hitler didn't use chem weapons in WWII* because he was afraid the allies would respond in kind

My response, also willowed:

He'd been gassed and WWI, and, yes, he was terrified of the stuff from his personal experience.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 18, 2024 04:50 PM (v6JzV)

63 Three times 1/2 point drop.
9-11 attack.
Housing crash in’08.
Covid amping the economy.

Now bidenomics disaster

Posted by: Redenzo at September 18, 2024 04:50 PM (V/pbu)

64 Isn't this just going to sabotage things for Trump if he's elected? There's no way to fix this without a lot of pain, no?
Posted by: Turn 2 at September 18, 2024 04:49 PM (JfxgE)

He's welcome to try by firing everyone on day 1.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)

65 Hitler didn't use chem weapons in WWII* because he was afraid the allies would respond in kind
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You know I must really have some fucked up definition of what a chemical weapon is.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 04:50 PM (LCr8f)

66 @33

>>That will only jack up house prices more, right?

Not initially, but eventually.

Remember, everything is best viewed as a series of inflating and deflating bubbles.

You put too much air into it too fast or exceed the elasticity of the balloon, you get a pop.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 18, 2024 04:50 PM (XV/Pl)

67 The government can't pay the interest on the debt is the reason for the rate cut. Anything else they say is just more bullshit
Posted by: Ben Had at September 18, 2024 04:49 PM (I1GXe)

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Bingo!

Posted by: Jordan Sesenta y Uno at September 18, 2024 04:50 PM (DRSnL)

68 I'm not gonna be the guy who says this is gonna backfire, because the institutions have battle planned this up to and beyond election day, just like they would OVERLORD except now done by malevolent retards...but, this may backfire.

This would be a financial irritant to retirees on fixed incomes who depend on CD/savings, as well as any sentient being who understand that inflation is persistent arising from the period of prolonged too low interest rates.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 18, 2024 04:50 PM (YIxO9)

69 We pay almost as much interest on the debt as we pay for the military. And soon interest will surpass military spending.

Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 04:50 PM (Y/tQ+)

70 And regarding the uneven application of "rules" of war:

If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I'll kill you. And I don't like nobody touching me.

Posted by: Comrado Floundero, Demon de la Disinformacion at September 18, 2024 04:51 PM (i24o9)

71 I hate to admit this, given that I'm on this site almost every day and considering myself very well versed in politics, but...

I have never understood what any of this means.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Me neither. I understand Russian verbs of motion better than this gobbledegook.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 18, 2024 04:51 PM (v6JzV)

72
Jamala herself predicted a recession in 2025.
Her own words. She said we will be in a recession next year.

She was, of course, implying that that would happen if the president won, but...

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 04:51 PM (2y6mw)

73 Fuck that noise with the Space Needle, we weren't put on this earth to submit to bloodthirsty cave faggots.

I was rather amused to see the left crowing about Ukraine dumping WP on Russian soldiers taking cover in a small stand of trees* because a few years ago when the US military used WP for cover smoke the left claimed it was a war crime and wanted to throw US soldiers in prison for it...

*supposedly who knows what is in the woods the video shows

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 04:51 PM (oZhjI)

74 Mr. Microphone and a cassette deck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM

Hey good looking, we'll be back to pick you up later!

Yea, I doubt that line worked. Kinda kindappy.

Posted by: Minnfidel at September 18, 2024 04:51 PM (4p0Xq)

75 My guess is they know they're gonna lose and are making it harder on Trump to revitalize the economy. Trump's Recession/Depression is very much like Nixon's War.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 18, 2024 04:51 PM (W3T6M)

76 58 Isn't this just going to sabotage things for Trump if he's elected? There's no way to fix this without a lot of pain, no?
Posted by: Turn 2 at September 18, 2024 04:49 PM (JfxgE)

He's got the same "magic wand" he did in 2016.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2024 04:51 PM (nPLkK)

77 I'm convinced that the Fed just does random shit because they don't know any more about how to prevent a recession or goose the economy than I do, and I know nothing.

Posted by: huerfano at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (VGOMa)

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There's something to this, especially with the modern competency crisis idiots in power.

There are numerous variables at play -- many of which can be somewhat controlled.

For example: Trump's energy policy vs. the Green New Steal commies' -- and Trump's intuitive understanding that Economic Security == National Security.

Trillions of dollars are at stake ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Democrat Party is a Domestic Terrorist Organization at September 18, 2024 04:51 PM (75F3j)

78 Chyrons here from AP originally predicted a 0.25% drop. They now read:

U.S. Federal Reserve cuts benchmark interest rate by a half point, more than most economists predicted.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 18, 2024 04:51 PM (CEzQx)

79 You asked for miracles, Kamala, I give you the Federal Reserve!

Apologies to Die Hard paraphrasing.

Posted by: Stale, Pale, and Male at September 18, 2024 04:51 PM (Kritg)

80 >>But she majored in Sucking Dick of Her Boss.

And Graduated Cum Laude

Posted by: Willie Brown at September 18, 2024 04:51 PM (i+/BD)

81 Young leftists: Immigration is a right! You have to let those people move here!

Also young leftists: Why is housing so expensive?
Posted by: 18-1

Yo! Kids! Did you get your $25k first time homebuyer cash? The wetbacks did.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (XTEnH)

82 Feel the joy!!

"The Teamsters announced on Wednesday that they will not endorse any candidate for president after a shocking internal poll found that more than half of Teamsters members back former President Donald Trump in the upcoming election.

One of the largest unions in the country which endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, the Teamsters found that 58% of members polled back Trump vs. 31% for Harris.

This marks the first time since 1996 that the union hasn't endorsed a candidate."

Posted by: Jay in PA at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (i7Q7S)

83 48 We had "Funemployment" in the Obama years, I suspect we'll see the emergence of "Joyflation" during a possible Harris administration.
Posted by: Alec Leamas at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (ssz2a)

I recall Pelosi telling us it was a good thing people were out of work. It freed them to explore themselves. If you like to paint, you can now paint all day, you're homeless and starving but you find your bliss.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (6IAhu)

84 And the drop in the markets today underlie that.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (YIxO9)

85 They probably are trying to avoid stagflation.

Remember the days when the deficit was under a trillion dollars?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (PDf99)

86 I have never understood what any of this means.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (KbCG3)

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Neither do I.

Posted by: Jerome Powell at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (2UnvF)

87 Didja see this? Kamala has produced Trump' latest ad.

https://is.gd/wo0d8w

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (92ACR)

88 Refinancing will get a kick.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (W3T6M)

89 36 23 How many quatloos does that work out to?

we talkin' '60s star trek quatloos or modern inflated quatloos?
Posted by: anachronda at September 18, 2024 04:47 PM (sGtp+)
I guess either one. I have to go to town.

Posted by: Eromero at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (LHPAg)

90 >>Posted by: Redenzo at September 18, 2024 04:50 PM (V/pbu)

History is about to bust a Rhyme.

Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2024 04:53 PM (i+/BD)

91
He's welcome to try by firing everyone on day 1.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:50 PM (Zz0t1)

Maybe he'll start with the Fed.

Posted by: Just Lily at September 18, 2024 04:53 PM (cJhQ2)

92 Oil independence would be awesome, but better would be self-sufficiency.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 18, 2024 04:53 PM (PDf99)

93 >>Neither do I.
Posted by: Jerome Powell at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (2UnvF)

This place really is great.

Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2024 04:53 PM (i+/BD)

94 We had "Funemployment" in the Obama years, I suspect we'll see the emergence of "Joyflation" during a possible Harris administration.
Posted by: Alec Leamas

Next Utopoverty!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 18, 2024 04:54 PM (92ACR)

95 Americans: There are too many illegals here. They are killing our kids, eating our pets, and spending our tax dollars

Kamala: Did you know Trump is gonna send all those people home?!?

Americans: Wait is this a Trump or Harris ad?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 04:54 PM (oZhjI)

96 82 One of the largest unions in the country which endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 election, the Teamsters found that 58% of members polled back Trump vs. 31% for Harris.

This marks the first time since 1996 that the union hasn't endorsed a candidate."
Posted by: Jay in PA at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (i7Q7S)

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Back of the envelope math says it should represent a 450,000 vote swing for Trump. It's a 35% move in Trump's favor out of 1.3 million members.

That's not a small number, especially if there are large pockets in places like Pennsylvania.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 18, 2024 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

97 86 I have never understood what any of this means.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (KbCG3)

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Neither do I.
Posted by: Jerome Powell at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (2UnvF)

Threadwinner identified.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 18, 2024 04:54 PM (KbCG3)

98 Gold just hit 5,000 year highs. Last time gold was this high, the Hebrews were on pyramid duty.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 18, 2024 04:54 PM (YIxO9)

99 86 I have never understood what any of this means.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (KbCG3)

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Neither do I.
Posted by: Jerome Powell at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (2UnvF)

Pass the gin.

Posted by: William Powell, the Thin Man at September 18, 2024 04:54 PM (PDf99)

100 So, did Somedood flounce in the last thread?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM (v6JzV)

101
This place really is great.
Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2024 04:53 PM (i+/BD)

There's no place like it anywhere else on the net.

Mostly because software packages are usually updated more than once a millennium.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)

102 Just stick the rate at 5% and leave it there. It serves as a baseline for profitability and everyone can plan far into the future knowing the score.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM (PSopn)

103 Trump fights like a leftist and it drives them bonkers.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM (LCr8f)

104 December 2024: The Fed today announced a 75 basis point increase in its lending rate, citing the "irrational exuberance" of the 50-state Donald Trump election victory. Fed Chairman Powell said, "As soon as the polls closed, inflation came roaring back and we have to protect the US Dollar from the crazy policies of this MadOrangeMan."

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM (Aqu9a)

105 Neither do I.
Posted by: Jerome Powell at September 18, 2024 04:52 PM (2UnvF)

MATH IS HARD!

Posted by: Barbie and most of the staff at the Treasury at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM (oZhjI)

106 In the coming hours near Beirut, the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah Security Forces will conducted a Controlled Detonation of Thousands of Wireless Devices which are believed to have been Compromised by Israel, including Pagers, Radios, Cell Phones, Smart Devices, Watches, Clickers, and Headsets.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM (uxCna)

107 We were oil independent just a few short years ago. The economy hummed along. Can’t have that, it seems.

Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM (PCK5/)

108
Remember before Biden's "election" that every single Democrat was touting their New Modern Monetary Theory that-

the Fed could print as much money as it wanted and it would have no inflationary effect on the dollar.

Welp, here we are. The real world has demonstrated inflation out the wazoo, but like with Global Warming, they ignore reality and follow their lunatic theory.

OUT: Milton Friedman

IN: Democrat Destruction of the Economy With Out of Control Inflation

Nut Kicks and Cunt Punts all around for the Fed, if you please.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (eDfFs)

109 100 So, did Somedood flounce in the last thread?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM (v6JzV)

Was it an epic flounce?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (PDf99)

110 We were oil independent just a few short years ago. The economy hummed along. Can’t have that, it seems.
Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM (PCK5/)

ENERGY independent.

We were net exporters of oil AND natural gas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

111 75 My guess is they know they're gonna lose and are making it harder on Trump to revitalize the economy. Trump's Recession/Depression is very much like Nixon's War.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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Killing a lot of regulations by executive orders and rulemaking will help. For example, SpaceX is fighting a running battle with the FCC over launching its satellites due to the FCC claiming it has the power to regulate space junk.

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (SI97o)

112
There's more than one way to create inflation. The present inflation is due to massive deficit spending by the government, not an overheated economy. The interest rate cut won't affect inflation because it doesn't address the cause.

The other thing the government has been doing is interfering with economy in ways that decrease economic output. (Free money created out of nothing and given to dickheads) + (fewer goods available) = inflation. Both contribute.

Cutting the deficit spending and increasing economic activity will both lower inflation.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (xPNeT)

113 Did I see someone socking boulder terlit hobo last thread?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (PDf99)

114 107 We were oil independent just a few short years ago. The economy hummed along. Can’t have that, it seems.
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We don't deserve nice things. Its not like we own the country or anything.

Posted by: Pudinhead at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (W3T6M)

115 >>There's no place like it anywhere else on the net.

>>Mostly because software packages are usually updated more than once a millennium.

We would all sacrifice much of our Fortunes and Lives to return to the 90s...

Ace is just doing his part.

Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (i+/BD)

116 Hitler didn't use chem weapons in WWII* because he was afraid the allies would respond in kind

My response, also willowed:

He'd been gassed and WWI, and, yes, he was terrified of the stuff from his personal experience.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Buddy had no problems using Zyklon B against innocent civilians.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (XTEnH)

117 New York Post @nypost Sep 18
Billionaire hedge funder John Paulson says he’ll yank his money from market if Kamala Harris wins election trib.al/5ZJTiNv

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (CEzQx)

118 Did I see someone socking boulder terlit hobo last thread?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (PDf99)

I did see that nick.......but I didn't see any flouncing. Maybe I just missed it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

119 52 I hate to admit this, given that I'm on this site almost every day and considering myself very well versed in politics, but...

I have never understood what any of this means.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM (KbCG3)

I feel the same way. I understand a little but when you guys start talking about Treasury rates, I have no idea what any of that means.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (6IAhu)

120 111 Killing a lot of regulations by executive orders and rulemaking will help. For example, SpaceX is fighting a running battle with the FCC over launching its satellites due to the FCC claiming it has the power to regulate space junk.
Posted by: whig at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (SI97o)

========

"90% of the federal register is out of alignment with Loper, untethered from the original intent of statute. It is all repealed right now."
-A man can dream

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

121 Young leftists: Immigration is a right! You have to let those people move here!

Also young leftists: Why is housing so expensive?
Posted by: 18-1

It’s cuz corporate greed and BlackRock dude. And in now way due to policies of people you continually vote for..
- msm

Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (Y/tQ+)

122 The only way to stop Harris-flation is to stop Harris-spending

So either give the reins to Trump or prepare to pay 2X or more for your groceries in 2028...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (oZhjI)

123 Posted by: William Powell, the Thin Man

W. Powell: "How many bars have I been kicked out of, Mrs. Charles?

M. Loy: "Why, that would be all of them, Mr. Charles."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (v6JzV)

124 110 We were oil independent just a few short years ago. The economy hummed along. Can’t have that, it seems.
Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM (PCK5/)

ENERGY independent.

We were net exporters of oil AND natural gas.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

Okay, okay… sheesh Sponge!! Why you hate me??

Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (PCK5/)

125 @amuse 8m
Trump on Gutfeld to night!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 18, 2024 04:58 PM (IG4Id)

126 >>There's more than one way to create inflation. The present inflation is due to massive deficit spending by the government, not an overheated economy. The interest rate cut won't affect inflation because it doesn't address the cause.

And take a look at how much money that has been earmarked as 'spent' that has yet to actually hit the street.

Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2024 04:58 PM (i+/BD)

127 I will say I don't want to see somedood, a moron in good standing, go.

We need different opinions in here or we look like fucking fairies. And I refuse to be a fairy on Wednesdays.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 04:58 PM (LCr8f)

128 Trump: magic wand

Kamala: broomstick

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 18, 2024 04:58 PM (92ACR)

129 112
There's more than one way to create inflation. The present inflation is due to massive deficit spending by the government, not an overheated economy. The interest rate cut won't affect inflation because it doesn't address the cause.

The other thing the government has been doing is interfering with economy in ways that decrease economic output. (Free money created out of nothing and given to dickheads) + (fewer goods available) = inflation. Both contribute.

Cutting the deficit spending and increasing economic activity will both lower inflation.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (xPNeT)

I do want to add that I understand this concept.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 18, 2024 04:58 PM (6IAhu)

130
We would all sacrifice much of our Fortunes and Lives to return to the 90s...

Ace is just doing his part.
Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (i+/BD)

The point you make is valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:58 PM (Zz0t1)

131 They hiked Trump's at a lower number.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - remember when women's jobs were valuable and had meaning? at September 18, 2024 04:58 PM (LxCKX)

132 It’s cuz corporate greed and BlackRock dude. And in now way due to policies of people you continually vote for..

Occasionally I'll point out to young LIVs that their favored politicians are also Bezos/Gates/Cuban/etc's favored politicians. But...I'm sure those pols will listen to you more then them right? I mean you give them millions each election cycle too?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 04:58 PM (oZhjI)

133 107 We were oil independent just a few short years ago. The economy hummed along. Can’t have that, it seems.
Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM

Net energy exporter, first time in 50 years, fall of 2019. Such an important milestone, Forbes had an article addressing it, October 2019..

Posted by: EveR at September 18, 2024 04:59 PM (MUpk6)

134 96 - "That's not a small number, especially if there are large pockets in places like Pennsylvania."

=========

I hope. You don't see a lot of Harris signs where I am.
It seems that the reality on the ground here in PA is Trump is up 2% (which is really 4) and she can't get any traction.

If the people in the "T" - From Erie to Scranton then straight down the middle of the state - vote as enthusiastically as expected, and he holds steady in the low 40-percentages in the suburbs, it is over for Kameltoe. They will be able to call it around midnight.

Posted by: Jay in PA at September 18, 2024 04:59 PM (i7Q7S)

135 I will say I don't want to see somedood, a moron in good standing, go.

We need different opinions in here or we look like fucking fairies. And I refuse to be a fairy on Wednesdays.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 04:58 PM (LCr8f)

Agreed.

Posted by: Comrado Floundero, Demon de la Disinformacion at September 18, 2024 04:59 PM (i24o9)

136 54

At its core, lower rates means more money in the economy. The more you have of something the less it’s worth. That’s why inflation is. The dollar is worth less you need more dollars to buy the same thing today you needed yesterday.

Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 04:59 PM (Y/tQ+)

137
Okay, okay… sheesh Sponge!! Why you hate me??
Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (PCK5/)

No hate. Just passing along what little knowledge that exists in my head.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:59 PM (Zz0t1)

138 W. Powell: "How many bars have I been kicked out of, Mrs. Charles?

M. Loy: "Why, that would be all of them, Mr. Charles."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (v6JzV)

Reminder, Myrna Loy:

https://tinyurl.com/2csfherv

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 18, 2024 04:59 PM (PDf99)

139 Gold just hit 5,000 year highs. Last time gold was this high, the Hebrews were on pyramid duty.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 18, 2024 04:54 PM

They're ready, they're on pager duty.

Posted by: Minnfidel at September 18, 2024 04:59 PM (4p0Xq)

140 All 4 years, Trump blasted Powell for hiking interest rates under his Presidency, so not surprised this is a bit of payback for Powell.

If Trump does get elected, he will jawbone lower interest rates his entire 2nd term.

We have a fiscal problem, not (just) a monetary problem. As long as we're going a trillion dollars in new debt every 100 days, inflation will keep raging.

Posted by: Blago at September 18, 2024 05:00 PM (wMRY8)

141 "There's more than one way to create inflation. The present inflation is due to massive deficit spending by the government"

=====

Milton Friedman isn't in charge anymore, Jack!!!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at September 18, 2024 05:00 PM (i7Q7S)

142 Buddy had no problems using Zyklon B against innocent civilians.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (XTEnH)

Errr... thank you. You know I love you 18-1 so I think this is a terminology issue but still.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 05:00 PM (LCr8f)

143 The absolute stupidity of this administration is staggering.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 18, 2024 05:00 PM (W/lyH)

144 134 If the people in the "T" - From Erie to Scranton then straight down the middle of the state - vote as enthusiastically as expected, and he holds steady in the low 40-percentages in the suburbs, it is over for Kameltoe. They will be able to call it around midnight.
Posted by: Jay in PA at September 18, 2024 04:59 PM (i7Q7S)

=======

The rulings on dates on ballots, signature verification, and the news of the audit on illegal immigrants with driver's licenses potentially being on the voter rolls is...interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going full throttle with Tony Scott at September 18, 2024 05:00 PM (GBKbO)

145 I'm not gonna be the guy who says this is gonna backfire, because the institutions have battle planned this up to and beyond election day, just like they would OVERLORD except now done by malevolent retards...but, this may backfire.

This would be a financial irritant to retirees on fixed incomes who depend on CD/savings, as well as any sentient being who understand that inflation is persistent arising from the period of prolonged too low interest rates.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 18, 2024 04:50 PM (YIxO9)

Honestly, at this point lowering the rate does nobody any good (except me, when I sign my new home loan, it'll be lower than it was a couple weeks ago when I first pre-qualified).

Even short term gains, it's too late to help the current administration/Democrat Party.

So... I'm in the camp that believes this is a stink bomb they're lighting, that will go off in the first few months of Trump's presidency. When inflation will cause price hikes all over the place.

It's an F-you to him, worse than Team Clinton taking all the W's off the keyboards before they left in '01.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2024 05:00 PM (dGCAG)

146 We were oil independent just a few short years ago. The economy hummed along. Can’t have that, it seems.
Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM

But the mean tweets!!!

Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 05:00 PM (Y/tQ+)

147 137
Okay, okay… sheesh Sponge!! Why you hate me??
Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (PCK5/)

No hate. Just passing along what little knowledge that exists in my head.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:59 PM (Zz0t1)

I might have been kidding (checks… yep, just kidding bro’

Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 05:00 PM (PCK5/)

148 there was this guy who prophesied the first assassination attempt on DJT

he was pretty accurate as far as timing, and said the bullet would hit his head, but that he would survive

he would go on to be elected POTUS but then have to preside over a terrible recession

Posted by: kallisto at September 18, 2024 05:01 PM (dCxaZ)

149 I might have been kidding (checks… yep, just kidding bro’
Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 05:00 PM (PCK5/)

Well, I would HOPE SO!!!!

*flounces to get a beer*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:01 PM (Zz0t1)

150 Whip Inflation Now

Posted by: Braenyard at September 18, 2024 05:01 PM (PS4T+)

151 Errr... thank you. You know I love you 18-1 so I think this is a terminology issue but still.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 05:00 PM (LCr8f)

The point was that they were not used against an enemy that could defend itself, likely partly out of fear that they would suffer the same in return as in WWI.

Posted by: Comrado Floundero, Demon de la Disinformacion at September 18, 2024 05:01 PM (i24o9)

152 In the coming hours near Beirut, the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah Security Forces will conducted a Controlled Detonation of Thousands of Wireless Devices which are believed to have been Compromised by Israel, including Pagers, Radios, Cell Phones, Smart Devices, Watches, Clickers, and Headsets.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

And then they will replace everything from the Israeli House of Devices. 😂😂😂

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 18, 2024 05:01 PM (XTEnH)

153
But the mean tweets!!!
Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 05:00 PM (Y/tQ+)

I miss mean tweets.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:01 PM (Zz0t1)

154
I will say I don't want to see somedood, a moron in good standing, go.

We need different opinions in here or we look like fucking fairies. And I refuse to be a fairy on Wednesdays.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 04:58 PM (LCr8f)

Agreed.

I concur.

Sometimes this place is like the mirror___ of DU.

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:01 PM (2y6mw)

155 Billionaire hedge funder John Paulson says he’ll yank his money from market if Kamala Harris wins election trib.al/5ZJTiNv
Posted by: andycanuck

_____

I could see a lot of Boomers in retirement coming to the same conclusion and just cashing out.

Probably smart if you only have maybe 15 years left. Just hide out in fixed income or gold.

Posted by: Blago at September 18, 2024 05:02 PM (wMRY8)

156 >>So... I'm in the camp that believes this is a stink bomb they're lighting, that will go off in the first few months of Trump's presidency. When inflation will cause price hikes all over the place.

Q1-Q2 2025 and the Bubble is gonna go Pop.

Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2024 05:02 PM (i+/BD)

157 >>> 127 I will say I don't want to see somedood, a moron in good standing, go.

We need different opinions in here or we look like fucking fairies. And I refuse to be a fairy on Wednesdays.
Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 04:58 PM (LCr8f)

I don't think somedood was being a dumbass like 'Bach in Black', but instead was being, hmm, rather naive about who might use the Israeli's latest action against them or anyone else.

If the bad guys CAN do it (*any* "it"), they WILL.

Posted by: Helena Cesta de Mano at September 18, 2024 05:02 PM (FnneF)

158 Inflation benefits those with hard assets.
Who owns hard assets? The ruling class.
That’s what this is all about, not an election.

Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 05:02 PM (Y/tQ+)

159 Net energy exporter, first time in 50 years, fall of 2019. Such an important milestone, Forbes had an article addressing it, October 2019..

Posted by: EveR at September 18, 2024 04:59 PM (MUpk6)

Forbes knew what was coming. Or they knew something was coming.

Note all the media coverage saying Trump was unstoppable before the Harris Elevation Op hit.

They were similarly "optimistic" about Trump in late 2019. It's not a coincidence.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 05:02 PM (LCr8f)

160 Reminder, Myrna Loy:

https://tinyurl.com/2csfherv
Posted by: Aetius451AD

What a cutie. Not much of a rack, but still a very feminine cutie.

Jimmy Stewart once supposedly said that "Any man who doesn't want to marry Myrna Loy should have his head examined."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 18, 2024 05:02 PM (v6JzV)

161
I missed a flounce?

Dang!

What set that off?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 18, 2024 05:03 PM (eDfFs)

162 Interest rate hikes wring some cheap dollars out of the economy, thus making each remaining dollar worth more, thus reducing inflation. Interest rate cuts do the exact opposite.

???

Posted by: Janet Yellen at September 18, 2024 05:03 PM (v0R5T)

163 Sometimes I wish we had a candidate who could really explain why this is just going to lead to more woes in more than just superlatives and it's effect on himself. Ah well... Reagan is not coming back...

Posted by: Defenestratus at September 18, 2024 05:03 PM (rv5sc)

164 No one needs to go from around here… hell we let the trolls hang around… remember MUMR???

Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 05:03 PM (PCK5/)

165 A Fed Governor named Michelle Bowman dissented from this decision to cut the rate. This is the first Governor dissent since 2005.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2024 05:03 PM (Odg76)

166 This is home. This is Mean Tweets.

The ONLY one I know....

Posted by: David Lee Roth at September 18, 2024 05:03 PM (Zz0t1)

167 Buddy had no problems using Zyklon B against innocent civilians.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM (XTEnH)

Errr... thank you. You know I love you 18-1 so I think this is a terminology issue but still.
Posted by: ...

That was supposed to say, but he.
Maybe the Jews can make Siri explode

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 18, 2024 05:04 PM (XTEnH)

168 We would all sacrifice much of our Fortunes and Lives to return to the 90s...

Ace is just doing his part.
Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2024 04:56 PM

Yea, but do you know how long it takes to download pron on dial up? C'mon man!

Posted by: Minnfidel at September 18, 2024 05:04 PM (4p0Xq)

169 The point was that they were not used against an enemy that could defend itself, likely partly out of fear that they would suffer the same in return as in WWI.
Posted by: Comrado Floundero, Demon de la Disinformacion at September 18, 2024 05:01 PM (i24o9)

I understood the point, I just think it could have been made more elegantly. Which is not something I ever say about 18-1 which is probably the biggest reason I said it.

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 05:04 PM (LCr8f)

170 Who's up for $100 Big Macs?

Posted by: Stateless at September 18, 2024 05:04 PM (jvJvP)

171 I will say I don't want to see somedood, a moron in good standing, go.

Me either... He had a point about this maybe being overkill, but I have to admit I enjoyed it... I doubt many civilians were harmed... Also we don't know everything that went boom and we can't believe what Hezbollah says

Posted by: It's me donna at September 18, 2024 05:04 PM (IyPmt)

172 "There's more than one way to create inflation. The present inflation is due to massive deficit spending by the government"

BUNKUM

Posted by: Janet Yellen at September 18, 2024 05:04 PM (v0R5T)

173 As far as anybody saying the Israelis were out of line for using pager bombs, what do you think Hezbollah would do if they had the same capability?

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (vFG9F)

174 Taking money out if Kumswala wins is dumb. Stocks will do fine with her because she is a puppet of the deep state which is itself in bed with the money class. Stock prices will be protected at all costs.

Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (Y/tQ+)

175 That was supposed to say, but he.
Maybe the Jews can make Siri explode
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 18, 2024 05:04 PM (XTEnH)

LMAO I didn't even notice. I thought you were being colloquial and informal. With Hitler. 🤣

Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (LCr8f)

176
And then they will replace everything from the Israeli House of Devices. 😂😂😂
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 18, 2024 05:01 PM (XTEnH)

"C'mon down to Schimel's House of Gadgets and take advantage of these explosive deals!!!"

Posted by: David Lee Roth at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (Zz0t1)

177 @166 great album. Angry, angry album.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (YIxO9)

178 >>Yea, but do you know how long it takes to download pron on dial up? C'mon man!

There's always scrambled public access tv signals to watch while your modem heats up.

Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (i+/BD)

179
Where's the "line" with us with Israel or anyone?

Because if there is no "line" we are as bad the the Other Side. Somedood made good points worth considering.

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (2y6mw)

180 Strike one.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (Zz0t1)

181 Posted by: ... at September 18, 2024 05:04 PM (LCr8f)

I understand.

Posted by: Comrado Floundero, Demon de la Disinformacion at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (i24o9)

182 A Fed Governor named Michelle Bowman dissented from this decision to cut the rate. This is the first Governor dissent since 2005.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2024 05:03 PM (Odg76)

She wanted a bigger rate cut? Or none at all?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (Aqu9a)

183 I'm sure that this was done to help Harris and the DC imperial city. Strangely the Dow ended up down over 100 today. I think the market is realizing that there are a lot of other problems with this economy and even a .5 won't help

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (O8bOp)

184 161
I missed a flounce?

Dang!

What set that off?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 18, 2024 05:03 PM (eDfFs)

Somedood is disappointed in us and our lack of concern over the ethical implications of Israel blowing up Hamas electronics.

For the record, I think Somedood is mostly wrong but I don't want him gone. Leaven makes the bread rise.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (xcxpd)

185 >>>So... I'm in the camp that believes this is a stink bomb they're lighting, that will go off in the first few months of Trump's presidency. When inflation will cause price hikes all over the place.
...
Posted by: BurtTC
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Less than a month ago I saw and heard Trump say they were going to have to lower interest rates.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 18, 2024 05:06 PM (PS4T+)

186 Whoever wins, there's going to be a bad recession.

I just think they have probably engineered it to where it wont hit hard until after the election.

I think most retirees were enjoying finally getting a "normal" interest rate on savings, even if inflation was raging. I couldn't imagine being out of the workforce and having to have all my money in the stock market to find any rate of return. Just a lot of risk.

Posted by: Blago at September 18, 2024 05:06 PM (wMRY8)

187 Hey Janet Yellen is commenting! Welcome, retard!

Posted by: wth at September 18, 2024 05:06 PM (v0R5T)

188 The only way to stop Harris-flation is to stop Harris-spending

So either give the reins to Trump or prepare to pay 2X or more for your groceries in 2028...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (oZhjI)

--------------

If they succeed at "The Steal 2: Election Fraud Boogaloo," we'll be lucky if by 2028: all domestic food production hasn't been banned; all carbon energy production hasn't been banned; all food for the ruling caste isn't imported from Haiti; and the rest of us haven't been slowly starved to death.

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- The Democrat Party is a Domestic Terrorist Organization at September 18, 2024 05:06 PM (bkFVP)

189 Errr... thank you. You know I love you 18-1 so I think this is a terminology issue but still.

This actually came up as some FNM kerfuffle years ago. The Holocaust is not an example of using chemical weapons. Sorry, its just not in any sense people use the term.

The Holocaust was the German National Socialist murdering their own and captive foreign populations - democide and of course in regards to Jews and Slavs genocide.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 05:06 PM (oZhjI)

190 "Because if there is no "line" we are as bad the the Other Side."

We agree!

Posted by: The GOP at September 18, 2024 05:06 PM (vFG9F)

191 And then they will replace everything from the Israeli House of Devices.

Babylon Bee:

Hezbollah Starting To Think They Shouldn't Have Gotten Pagers From Levi Goldbraumstein's Pager Emporium

There are reports that Hezbollah's elite Radwan unit has been crippled, along with many of its members.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 18, 2024 05:07 PM (uxCna)

192 Who's up for $100 Big Macs?
Posted by: Stateless at September 18, 2024 05:04 PM (jvJvP)

"Wait, that's not what you're paying now?"

- - - - - - Californians

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:07 PM (Zz0t1)

193 178 >>Yea, but do you know how long it takes to download pron on dial up? C'mon man!

There's always scrambled public access tv signals to watch while your modem heats up.
Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (i+/BD)

Dudes, stahp, you're giving me a nostalgiaboner.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2024 05:07 PM (nPLkK)

194 74 Mr. Microphone and a cassette deck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:48 PM

Hey good looking, we'll be back to pick you up later!

Yea, I doubt that line worked. Kinda kindappy.
Posted by: Minnfidel at September 18, 2024 04:51 PM (4p0Xq)

Dammit Minnfidel you beat me to it!

Posted by: haffhowershower at September 18, 2024 05:07 PM (NMT5x)

195 > She wanted a bigger rate cut? Or none at all?

She wanted a smaller rate cut.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2024 05:07 PM (Odg76)

196 Well, yeah, Hitler had no problem with using chem warfare on the Jews, obviously.

Even Himmler, IIRC, almost lost his lunch while watching Jews being butchered in cold blood.

But the rules were different for the Herrenvolk.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 18, 2024 05:07 PM (v6JzV)

197 182 A Fed Governor named Michelle Bowman dissented from this decision to cut the rate. This is the first Governor dissent since 2005.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2024 05:03 PM (Odg76)

She wanted a bigger rate cut? Or none at all?
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (Aqu9a)

She wanted .25.

Posted by: Nova Local at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (exHjb)

198 Somedood putting forward a moral point is my take… that usually sparks some disagreement.. (See-Mannix/Fen)…

Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (PCK5/)

199 Oh Kamala,
Put that dick back in your mouth and let the grown ups talk.

Posted by: enfermera ratched at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (cnePD)

200 Whoever wins, there's going to be a bad recession.

Same problem Reagan had - Carter juiced the economy to win the election, and Reagan had to clean up afterwards.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (uxCna)

201 "There's more than one way to create inflation. The present inflation is due to massive deficit spending by the government"

BUNKUM
Posted by: Janet Yellen at September 18, 2024 05:04 PM (v0R5T)

Kitten, try jellin'. You're overwrought. Hysterical, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (Aqu9a)

202 >>Somedood is disappointed in us and our lack of concern over the ethical implications of Israel blowing up Hamas electronics.

Dammit - did you tell him we were about to make expresso?

Posted by: Boswell at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (V7158)

203 Jimmy Stewart once supposedly said that "Any man who doesn't want to marry Myrna Loy should have his head examined."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 18, 2024 05:02 PM (v6JzV)

"And, and..you know, when I-I say marry, I, gosh, mean 'marry', if you know wha-what I mean."

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (DlVGn)

204 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris praised the move while emphasizing her commitment to fighting inflation.
_________________

If you cut off her head she wouldn't be any dumber.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (YqDXo)

205
This is literally the opposite of what Paul Volker did in 1981.

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (2y6mw)

206 only way to stop Harris-flation is to stop Harris-spending

So either give the reins to Trump or prepare to pay 2X or more for your groceries in 2028...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (oZhjI)

Trump didn’t cut spending. In fact he went ona. Spending spree during his 4 years. As did Obama and Bush. Nobody ever cuts spending.

Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (Y/tQ+)

207 It would be fascinating to hear what accent Que Mala would use to talk about the economy - retardix?

Posted by: Cheri at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (oiNtH)

208 Tell me again why all the trading partners are moving away from basing their contracts in USD.
Be succinct.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at September 18, 2024 04:45 PM (2tn4k)

This reason, and the fact that we tried to break Russia at the start of the war by banning the country from trading in dollars.

..speaking about weaponizing civilian things, that's another one.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:09 PM (n7h9X)

209 A bull in Spain managed to tear a guy a new one during one of their asinine bull running events.

http://tiny.cc/mikmzz

Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2024 05:09 PM (Odg76)

210
"And, and..you know, when I-I say marry, I, gosh, mean 'marry', if you know wha-what I mean."
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (DlVGn)

Looking up at you with those big eyes while going down.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:09 PM (Zz0t1)

211 In the coming hours near Beirut, the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah Security Forces will conducted a Controlled Detonation of Thousands of Wireless Devices which are believed to have been Compromised by Israel, including Pagers, Radios, Cell Phones, Smart Devices, Watches, Clickers, and Headsets.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM

--

Here's hoping all those devices are geolocated and a big crowd comes out for the show.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at September 18, 2024 05:09 PM (gdmjx)

212 Usually the Fed moves in 25 basis point increments, 50 basis points is more of a "we're terrified where the labor market is going" move.

Is the average voter going to be able to figure that out? No.

Money printer go Brrrr!

Posted by: Blago at September 18, 2024 05:09 PM (wMRY8)

213 "Federal" "Reserve" "Bank" is not federal, it has no reserves and is not a bank.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at September 18, 2024 05:09 PM (PWI4f)

214 153 I miss mean tweets.

median tweets > mean tweets

Posted by: anachronda at September 18, 2024 05:10 PM (sGtp+)

215 Unleash the DOGE on the Federal government and RFK Jr on the medical establishment. See what some cuts there can do.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at September 18, 2024 05:10 PM (MpVUb)

216 This reason, and the fact that we tried to break Russia at the start of the war by banning the country from trading in dollars.

And announcing that we intended to confiscate Russia's dollar reserves, and hand the money to Ukraine.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 18, 2024 05:10 PM (uxCna)

217 A bull in Spain managed to tear a guy a new one during one of their asinine bull running events.

http://tiny.cc/mikmzz
Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2024 05:09 PM (Odg76)

I mean, it's almost like he said "come here bull! Here's my asshole! Make my day!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:10 PM (Zz0t1)

218 Also we don't know everything that went boom and we can't believe what Hezbollah says
Posted by: It's me donna at September 18, 2024 05:04 PM (IyPmt)

This. I understand, however, how unsettling it is to think holy smokes, what if this happened here? To me? To my family? That is an easy dark hole to go down. As noted, this crew really isn’t known for its honesty and integrity, and the collateral damage would be far less than lobbing a bomb. Collateral damage is awful, which is why war should always be the last resort, not the first.

Hopefully he doesn’t leave, and hopefully he realizes no one here is going to celebrate the death of children. We aren’t them.

Posted by: Piper at September 18, 2024 05:10 PM (p4NUW)

219 There are an awful lot of conservatives who somehow convinced themselves that civilization means making our rapists as comfortable as possible. That kind of David Frenchian horseshit deserves nothing but contempt and ridicule. Even effete uppercrust weirdo William F. Buckley, Jr. understoofd that sometimes you have to punch a faggot in the mouth. Flounce away, I say.

Posted by: divine spark of divinity and shit at September 18, 2024 05:10 PM (Ytx9T)

220 F*CK that stuff was SLLLOOOOOWWWWWWW.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 04:46 PM (Zz0t1)

probably not the OS/2 doing the slowness.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:11 PM (n7h9X)

221 " In the coming hours near Beirut, the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah Security Forces will conducted a Controlled Detonation of Thousands of Wireless Devices which are believed to have been Compromised by Israel, including Pagers, Radios, Cell Phones, Smart Devices, Watches, Clickers, and Headsets.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM"

Don't forget your TVs and computers. And power and water treatment plants. They might blow up too.

Posted by: Welcome to the Stone Age at September 18, 2024 05:11 PM (vFG9F)

222 median tweets > mean tweets
Posted by: anachronda at September 18, 2024 05:10 PM (sGtp+)
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mode tweets >>> median tweets > mean tweets

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at September 18, 2024 05:11 PM (VdhcA)

223 The market would have been happy with .25. The bigger cut scares them. The market is going to take a nose dive and that isn't going to help kumala.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 18, 2024 05:11 PM (I1GXe)

224
Trump didn’t cut spending. In fact he went ona. Spending spree during his 4 years. As did Obama and Bush. Nobody ever cuts spending.
Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (Y/tQ+)

Well, this time he's asked Musk to come in and do a budgetary audit........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:11 PM (Zz0t1)

225 Powell and his cohorts are padding madly in their 12 ft dingy up the face of a 60 ft wave. " Pull harder me lads!!!! Pull harder! There are calmer seas just over the crest."

Wonder how much of the bottle of Macallan he has downed so far today?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 18, 2024 05:12 PM (f+zED)

226 206 only way to stop Harris-flation is to stop Harris-spending

So either give the reins to Trump or prepare to pay 2X or more for your groceries in 2028...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 04:57 PM (oZhjI)

Trump didn’t cut spending. In fact he went ona. Spending spree during his 4 years. As did Obama and Bush. Nobody ever cuts spending.
Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (Y/tQ+)

Trump did grow the economy by cutting regs that juiced private industry...

Posted by: Nova Local at September 18, 2024 05:12 PM (exHjb)

227 Tucker found video of Kamalala announcing her intention to send government agents into the homes of legal gun owners to verify they are in compliance with storage requirements.

http://tiny.cc/2jkmzz

Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2024 05:12 PM (Odg76)

228 "And, and..you know, when I-I say marry, I, gosh, mean 'marry', if you know wha-what I mean."
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (DlVGn)

Looking up at you with those big eyes while going down.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:09 PM (Zz0t1)

She looked at me with big brown eyes
And said
"You ain't seen nothing yet

B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-n-nothing yet
Here's somethin' that you're never gonna forget
B-b-b-baby, you just ain't seen n-n-n-nothing yet
Nothing yet, you ain't been around" (that's what she told me)

Posted by: Jimmy Stewart at September 18, 2024 05:12 PM (Aqu9a)

229 Hopefully he doesn’t leave, and hopefully he realizes no one here is going to celebrate the death of children. We aren’t them.
Posted by: Piper at September 18, 2024 05:10 PM (p4NUW)

I do. I'm not going to expect anyone else to, or berate them for being a bit more human and sane than I am. But I well and truly do not care about a single rugfucker death over there anymore, regardless of age.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2024 05:12 PM (nPLkK)

230 OT, SMOD is taunting us again:
https://shorturl.at/9Ykbr
h/t Insty

Posted by: Helena Cesta de Mano at September 18, 2024 05:12 PM (FnneF)

231 Monetary policy is not going to fix this problem… no magic bullet this time round.

Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 05:12 PM (PCK5/)

232 If the Missile Battery is a Target;
The guy who loads the missiles is a target.
The guy who carries / transports the missiles is a target.
The guy who makes the missiles is a target.
The guy who feeds the guy who makes the missiles and the guy who carries / transports the missiles and the guy who loads the missiles is a target.
...

Hezbolah issued the Pagers to its Fighters.

somedood is wrong.

Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2024 05:13 PM (i+/BD)

233 Hey Janet Yellen is commenting! Welcome, retard!

Posted by: wth at September 18, 2024 05:06 PM (v0R5T)

---------------

Janet Yellen is the Kamala Harris of Kim Jong Uns.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Democrat Party is a Domestic Terrorist Organization at September 18, 2024 05:13 PM (67cnY)

234 *suddenly sees new (to me) meaning in old lyrics*

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 18, 2024 05:13 PM (DlVGn)

235 "Tucker found video of Kamalala announcing her intention to send government agents into the homes of legal gun owners to verify they are in compliance with storage requirements.

===============

TRUMP IS A FASCIST!!!!!

Posted by: Jay in PA at September 18, 2024 05:13 PM (i7Q7S)

236
probably not the OS/2 doing the slowness.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:11 PM (n7h9X)

It wasn't.......the green screen terminals connecting to a Digiboard running the DB/6 app on a DX-2 66 Server or the Datapoint terminals connected via ArcNet to a similar server........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:13 PM (Zz0t1)

237 Cavuto was very upset with the head of the Teamsters for not endorsing Harris.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2024 05:14 PM (63Dwl)

238 It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't. Should an act of Congress dissolve the FED...then the commercial banks would, essentially rule the money supply. And, let's face it...in today's compromised corporate world, the Banks running things is likely a worse scenario than a handful of partisan know it alls. The banks have already shown they are willing to negate accounts based on politics. There needs to be a non-partisan alternative of true economists in place of the FED, but that's a pipe dream. Every institution is eventually compromised.

Posted by: Orson at September 18, 2024 05:14 PM (dIske)

239 But she majored in Sucking Dick of Her Boss. What do you expect of her?

Posted by: Ace at 04:41 PM

Anal?

Posted by: Willie Brown at September 18, 2024 05:14 PM (+oR7L)

240 I missed a flounce?

Dang!

What set that off?

Posted by: naturalfake at September 18, 2024 05:03 PM (eDfFs)

Somedood is disappointed in us and our lack of concern over the ethical implications of Israel blowing up Hamas electronics.

For the record, I think Somedood is mostly wrong but I don't want him gone. Leaven makes the bread rise.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at September 18, 2024 05:05 PM (xcxpd)

That hardly seems flounce worthy or flounce inducing.

A "meh" upon you all!!!

If the Israelis were setting up bombs in Teddy Bears and Barbies, I would agree with somedood.

But, the a-holes set off this farrago by murdering infants in front of their parents and raping women to death.

You start a war like that, an existential war, almost any and all weapons will be used. I'm surprised the Israelis showed so much self-control frankly.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 18, 2024 05:14 PM (eDfFs)

241 Hopefully he doesn’t leave, and hopefully he realizes no one here is going to celebrate the death of children. We aren’t them.
Posted by: Piper

-

HARRIS / WALZ 2024

KEEP ABORTION SAFE AND SUPER RARE!!!

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024 05:14 PM (d+Q1U)

242 Well Bulgar, if you were at the UofM during the Reagan admin, then I'm sure we staggered by each other coming in/out of Dooleys, Ricks, Good Time Charleys/the Count or V Bell at least once or twice.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at September 18, 2024 05:14 PM (Wg6v7)

243 I think we should have both of our candidates for president explain the rate cut, what it means, and how it affects the economy. In public, no notes, with questions asked from a randomly selected audience.

Posted by: Piper at September 18, 2024 05:14 PM (p4NUW)

244 237 Cavuto was very upset with the head of the Teamsters for not endorsing Harris.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2024 05:14 PM (63Dwl)

Big Head Neal and his Wokesters…

Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 05:15 PM (PCK5/)

245
This tells me the Fed isn't worried that the economy is about to stall. It tells me the Fed knows the economy has already stalled.

The biden-harris recession. We're soaking in it. This quarter.

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:15 PM (2y6mw)

246 But she majored in Sucking Dick of Her Boss. What do you expect of her?

Posted by: Ace at 04:41 PM

Anal?
Posted by: Willie Brown

-

Speaking of, there's been an increase in colon cancer among the young.

One hypothesis is the normalization of homosexual acts that have been normalized, romanticized, and replicated throughout the sexually active heterosexual communities.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024 05:16 PM (d+Q1U)

247 Kamalala announcing her intention to send government agents into the homes of legal gun owners to verify they are in compliance with storage requirements.

http://tiny.cc/2jkmzz
Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2024 05:12 PM (Odg76)

Um, nope. The body count starts there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:16 PM (Zz0t1)

248 I think we should have both of our candidates for president explain the rate cut, what it means, and how it affects the economy. In public, no notes, with questions asked from a randomly selected audience.

Blinks

Cackles

You know I was raised in a middle class household. And middle class people are important. Along with our first responders. And nurses.

Did I mention I'm black.

Blinks

Uh...next question.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 18, 2024 05:16 PM (oZhjI)

249 There is a way Hezbo and Hamas can keep their shit from blowing up and sometimes taking out innocents.

Posted by: fd at September 18, 2024 05:16 PM (vFG9F)

250 She wanted a smaller rate cut.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2024 05:07 PM (Odg76)

She wanted .25.
Posted by: Nova Local at September 18, 2024 05:08 PM (exHjb)

Just one (out of 12) Fed Governors who doesn't have their head fully inserted. WASTF

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2024 05:16 PM (Aqu9a)

251 Gee whiz. If you can't take blowback about your opinion, why are you commenting on the internet?

Stand your ground like an adult.

Posted by: Just Lily at September 18, 2024 05:16 PM (cJhQ2)

252 Rates go down that means prices go down. It's all going down. Duhhhhhh.

Posted by: leftists at September 18, 2024 05:16 PM (c41vs)

253 Sodomy is related to colon cancer?? Did not know that.

Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 05:17 PM (PCK5/)

254 Cavuto was very upset with the head of the Teamsters for not endorsing Harris.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 18, 2024 05:14 PM (63Dwl)

Where's a debilitating medical emergency when you need one.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:17 PM (Zz0t1)

255 Gee whiz. If you can't take blowback about your opinion, why are you commenting on the internet?

Stand your ground like an adult.
Posted by: Just Lily

-

Maybe a reddit visitor, where badthink is downvoted and will eventually disappear.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024 05:17 PM (d+Q1U)

256 > The biden-harris recession. We're soaking in it. This quarter.
-------
If the Democrats pull off another steal (fair chance) it'll be the "Harris-Walz" depression.

But that's good, and here's why....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 18, 2024 05:17 PM (Q4IgG)

257 >>>Kamalala announcing her intention to send government agents into the homes of legal gun owners to verify they are in compliance with storage requirements.

It's a tough road to ho, but she is the right one for the job.

Posted by: Comrado Floundero, Demon de la Disinformacion at September 18, 2024 05:17 PM (i24o9)

258 >>>Hopefully he doesn’t leave, and hopefully he realizes no one here is going to celebrate the death of children. We aren’t them.
Posted by: Piper
----------------------

I do skip around but I haven't seen anyone celebrating of kids dying. I hope that hasn't happened. I agree with you that he should understand that and think he should come to terms with the facts of life.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 18, 2024 05:17 PM (PS4T+)

259 Couple of things Trump can do right off the bat:

1 Unleash the energy sector
2 Veto the first CR that comes across his desk

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 18, 2024 05:17 PM (2UnvF)

260
Lower interest rates
Print more dollars

This recipe sounds familiar....

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:18 PM (2y6mw)

261 Sodomy is related to colon cancer?? Did not know that.
Posted by: tubal

-

That plus the MRNA shot illnesses and cancers?

We're in for fun times ahead.

But it's fine, the earf is overpopulated. Or something.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024 05:18 PM (d+Q1U)

262 Speaking of, there's been an increase in colon cancer among the young.

One hypothesis is the normalization of homosexual acts that have been normalized, romanticized, and replicated throughout the sexually active heterosexual communities.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024

I've read about the high number of colorectal cancer among younger generations. I imagine that has something to do with it.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 18, 2024 05:18 PM (+oR7L)

263 I've been pretty much assuming for a while now that The Plan was to auger everything into the ground as hard as possible, hand the keys over to Trump, and start bleating "Look at how bad Trump's America is!" on day -1.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2024 05:18 PM (nPLkK)

264 Caputo's > Cavuto

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 18, 2024 05:18 PM (YIxO9)

265 136 54

At its core, lower rates means more money in the economy. The more you have of something the less it’s worth. That’s why inflation is. The dollar is worth less you need more dollars to buy the same thing today you needed yesterday.
Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 04:59 PM (Y/tQ+)
WW II production cost of 1911 pistol? $15. M1 Garand? $85. There's your inflation, the dollar ain't woth shit.

Posted by: Eromero at September 18, 2024 05:18 PM (LHPAg)

266 One hypothesis is the normalization of homosexual acts that have been normalized, romanticized, and replicated throughout the sexually active heterosexual communities.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024 05:16 PM (d+Q1U)

I don't know that we can blame gays for that. Straight porn has been gaga for anal for a very, very long time.

Posted by: so I've been told, by trusted sources, I wouldn't know, of course at September 18, 2024 05:19 PM (Ytx9T)

267 >Kamalala announcing her intention to send government agents into the homes of legal gun owners to verify they are in compliance with storage requirements

Grumbles online
Complies
Don't forget to donate!
We'll get them next time.

Posted by: NRA at September 18, 2024 05:19 PM (c41vs)

268 People dying from futtbuckin' isn't a problem.

It's a solution.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2024 05:19 PM (nPLkK)

269 I've read about the high number of colorectal cancer among younger generations. I imagine that has something to do with it.
Posted by: Frank Barone
-

I saw something about adding HPV to the mix, too. And apparently some insane number of sexually active people have that. Something like 75%+

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024 05:19 PM (d+Q1U)

270 Sodomy is related to colon cancer?? Did not know that.
Posted by: tubal

Someone should sue the What What In the Butt songwriter/singer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:19 PM (Zz0t1)

271 221 " In the coming hours near Beirut, the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah Security Forces will conducted a Controlled Detonation of Thousands of Wireless Devices which are believed to have been Compromised by Israel, including Pagers, Radios, Cell Phones, Smart Devices, Watches, Clickers, and Headsets.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM"

Don't forget your TVs and computers. And power and water treatment plants. They might blow up too.
Posted by: Welcome to the Stone Age at September 18, 2024 05:11 PM (vFG9F)

Don't blow me up, I'm still safe to use.

Posted by: Clap On! Clap Off! The Clapper at September 18, 2024 05:19 PM (NMT5x)

272 I don't know that we can blame gays for that. Straight porn has been gaga for anal for a very, very long time.

All I can say is thank God Willie didn't have access to pron back then!

Posted by: Kamala Harris at September 18, 2024 05:19 PM (oZhjI)

273 Well Bulgar, if you were at the UofM during the Reagan admin, then I'm sure we staggered by each other coming in/out of Dooleys, Ricks, Good Time Charleys/the Count or V Bell at least once or twice.
Posted by: actually inside the beltway

Maybe we did!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 18, 2024 05:20 PM (v6JzV)

274 We were oil independent just a few short years ago. The economy hummed along. Can’t have that, it seems.
Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 04:55 PM (PCK5/)

We always have used some Russian oil to mix with other oils to hit some chemical goals. We embargoed buying that, so now we buy from middlemen who pay a high price from Russia and mark it up and ship it back across the world to us again.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:20 PM (n7h9X)

275 >>>One hypothesis is the normalization of homosexual acts that have been normalized, romanticized, and replicated throughout the sexually active heterosexual communities.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie
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And taught in primary/secondary schools.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 18, 2024 05:20 PM (PS4T+)

276 Warai, spot on.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 18, 2024 05:20 PM (I1GXe)

277 SnP and DOW spiked to new highs right after rate cut, but then traded lower all day and closed negative. Nasdaq had same pattern but is like 5% below all time highs.

Some say "markets" are rolling over, and their is real weakness in "the economy", maybe worse than a recession. Have to hide that and "Save Our Democracy" tm, so maybe Powell does another 50 before the election? idk

Posted by: illiniwek at September 18, 2024 05:20 PM (Cus5s)

278 Where's the "line" with us with Israel or anyone?

Because if there is no "line" we are as bad the the Other Side. Somedood made good points worth considering.

Posted by: Soothsayer:

Personal line? Or as a nation?
As a nation, we'll probably keep fighting with one hand tied behind our backs.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 18, 2024 05:20 PM (XTEnH)

279 Romanticizing the Buttsexx.

...what, like light some candles?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 18, 2024 05:20 PM (i+/BD)

280 Tucker found video of Kamalala announcing her intention to send government agents into the homes of legal gun owners to verify they are in compliance with storage requirements.

http://tiny.cc/2jkmzz

Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2024 05:12 PM (Odg76)

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That's allowed by the Improbable Clause of the Constitution.

It's dead, Jim ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Democrat Party is a Domestic Terrorist Organization at September 18, 2024 05:21 PM (67cnY)

281 One hypothesis is the normalization of homosexual acts that have been normalized, romanticized, and replicated throughout the sexually active heterosexual communities.
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I don't know that we can blame gays for that. Straight porn has been gaga for anal for a very, very long time.

Posted by: so I've been told, by trusted sources, I wouldn't know, of course

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Sure, but normal people don't regularly consume porn.

Homosexuality was normalized in the 80s, and now it's everywhere. Movies, commercials, etc. One has to assume womens magazines and internet articles are full of that crap, too.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024 05:21 PM (d+Q1U)

282
This lady explains how stupid anal penetration is:

https://youtu.be/bajAoKiwmvU?si=Hed2vkb4mQb5-BSi

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:21 PM (2y6mw)

283 >>> The ignorant DEI hire Kamala Harris claims that flooding the market with even more cheap dollars is anti-inflationary.

An old engineer I knew said,
- Most people are ignorant, don't know everything, but can learn most.
- Some people are dumb and learn slow, but can learn some things.
- Then there are the stupid. They refuse to learn.

Kamalala is dumb and stupid, thus forever ignorant.*

* Except the ways of the throat

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 18, 2024 05:21 PM (/lPRQ)

284 I would assume the colon cancer thing is related to STDs? I vaguely recall this came up in the debate on Gardisil so I would assume letting Johnny Rotten in the backdoor and giving you an STD there increases the risk of cancer down the road...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 18, 2024 05:21 PM (oZhjI)

285 Don’t want to talk about much, but anal sex seems like a really really nasty business, and pretty damned cruel to boot…

Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 05:21 PM (PCK5/)

286 Speaking of Spanish.....wife and I went to a local Mexican restaurant last week and I ordered the Tacos al Carbon.

Waiter looks at me and laughs. "Funny story. Lady ordered that plate yesterday and called it 'Tacos al Cabrón.'"

I laughed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:21 PM (Zz0t1)

287 Kamalala announcing her intention to send government agents into the homes of legal gun owners to verify they are in compliance with storage requirements.

They'll get a boot stored in the ass.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 18, 2024 05:22 PM (vqGhi)

288 Didn't help QueMala's campaign much as the stock market shrugged off this stupid, stupid rate cut.

Who is up for even higher inflation? I know I am.... not.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 18, 2024 05:22 PM (17s+e)

289 Sure, but normal people don't regularly consume porn

Yeah, I don't think that's true at all. Porn has been normalized by widespread internet access.

Posted by: so I've been told, by trusted sources, I wouldn't know, of course at September 18, 2024 05:22 PM (Ytx9T)

290 I think it was The Daily Mail that said there are some links between the popularity of plant based diets and the rise in colon cancer.

Posted by: Just Lily at September 18, 2024 05:22 PM (cJhQ2)

291 >>> 216 This reason, and the fact that we tried to break Russia at the start of the war by banning the country from trading in dollars.
==
And announcing that we intended to confiscate Russia's dollar reserves, and hand the money to Ukraine.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 18, 2024 05:10 PM (uxCna)

Poo Tin STILL has not had his military confiscate even a single yacht belonging to one of "our" oligarchs.

Slacker!!!

Posted by: Helena Cesta de Mano at September 18, 2024 05:22 PM (FnneF)

292 Real conservatives only have missionary position sex with the lights off and strictly for procreation purposes.

Posted by: let's keep it vanilla at September 18, 2024 05:22 PM (c41vs)

293
Fags do it.

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:22 PM (2y6mw)

294 They'll get a boot stored in the ass.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 18, 2024 05:22 PM (vqGhi)

and then ass-boot cancer.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2024 05:23 PM (nPLkK)

295 >> I would assume the colon cancer thing is related to STDs? I vaguely recall this came up in the debate on Gardisil so I would assume letting Johnny Rotten in the backdoor and giving you an STD there increases the risk of cancer down the road...

what, like the Hershey Highway?

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 18, 2024 05:23 PM (i+/BD)

296 This tells me the Fed isn't worried that the economy is about to stall. It tells me the Fed knows the economy has already stalled.

The biden-harris recession. We're soaking in it. This quarter.
Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:15 PM (2y6mw)

Think depression. Covid was a recession and this is down from there.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:23 PM (n7h9X)

297 Because if there is no "line" we are as bad the the Other Side. Somedood made good points worth considering.

Posted by: Soothsayer:

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My line is the intentional targeting of civilians. Since Israel isn't doing that, my line has not been crossed.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 18, 2024 05:24 PM (2UnvF)

298 80,000 Israelis can not return to their homes in Northern Israel
because of hezbollah targeting civilians.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 18, 2024 05:24 PM (I1GXe)

299 Don’t want to talk about much, but anal sex seems like a really really nasty business, and pretty damned cruel to boot…
Posted by: tubal
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There's no such thing as anal sex. It can't happen any more than a man can have sex with a splintered log or a watermelon.

It's not sex. Allowing gays to pretend it was? That was a mistake.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024 05:24 PM (d+Q1U)

300 286. Grilled or goat, tomato tomato

Posted by: Piper at September 18, 2024 05:24 PM (p4NUW)

301 Hmmm. Ethics of blowing up terrorists...

I am reminded of Dennis Miller:
'Some people say that executing murderers make us no better than they are. We bring ourselves down to their level and then they WIN. I say 'Well, at least they won't be there for the award ceremony.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 18, 2024 05:24 PM (PDf99)

302 Fags do it.
Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:22 PM (2y6mw)

And they claim they found 2 penguins doing it, so it's A NATURAL OCCURANCE AND THEY'RE BORN THAT WAY.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:25 PM (Zz0t1)

303 Romanticizing the Buttsexx.

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Reboot of "Romancing the Stones." [A good name for Kommie-la's autobiography.]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Democrat Party is a Domestic Terrorist Organization at September 18, 2024 05:25 PM (67cnY)

304 Sure, but normal people don't regularly consume porn

Yeah, I don't think that's true at all. Porn has been normalized by widespread internet access.
Posted by: so I've been told, by trusted sources, I wouldn't know, of course

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Oh, absolutely. And, like I said, that's not normal.

That was my point.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024 05:25 PM (d+Q1U)

305 >>My line is the intentional targeting of civilians. Since Israel isn't doing that, my line has not been crossed.

They let Hezbollah choose who got the bombs. They handed them out to their own fighters and support personnel.

Posted by: garrett at September 18, 2024 05:25 PM (i+/BD)

306 I'm reminded of the fine, upstanding young lady that was used as a human shield for her drug dealing boyfriend.

It was a shame that it happened, but the drug dealer is responsible.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024 05:26 PM (d+Q1U)

307 to simplify: gov't runs huge deficits, sells t bills to banks which can hold them as reserves (as required and set by the fed res system) instead of cash. fed red sys buys tbills from banks, now banks have reserves at the fed. how does the fed res pay for the t bills? simple bookkeeping, they add the tbills they bought as assets to their books and add iou reserves to banks as a liability. basically that is where the new money comes from.

also the frs can lower the reserve requirements which lets tha banks lend more money.

i think that's it anyway and i majored in economics, but of course in those days it was all basically keynesian crap.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 18, 2024 05:26 PM (CWTWj)

308 Rectum?? It nearly killed him!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 18, 2024 05:26 PM (CEzQx)

309 Leaving atrocities unpunished by unapologetic and brutal reprisal does not somehow keep you safe from "sinking to their level". It sinks you far below their level.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2024 05:26 PM (nPLkK)

310 And announcing that we intended to confiscate Russia's dollar reserves, and hand the money to Ukraine.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 18, 2024 05:10 PM (uxCna)

Poo Tin STILL has not had his military confiscate even a single yacht belonging to one of "our" oligarchs.

Slacker!!!
Posted by: Helena Cesta de Mano at September 18, 2024 05:22 PM (FnneF)

I have heard speculation that one of the hole cards Putin has in reserve if the US/UK start firing missiles of theirs into Russia proper that confiscating the large holdings of British Petroleum in the Russian arctic.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:26 PM (n7h9X)

311 Leaving atrocities unpunished by unapologetic and brutal reprisal does not somehow keep you safe from "sinking to their level". It sinks you far below their level.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

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How about giving the group billions of dollars and job/academic preferences after their riots and murders?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024 05:27 PM (d+Q1U)

312 This tells me the Fed isn't worried that the economy is about to stall. It tells me the Fed knows the economy has already stalled.

The biden-harris recession. We're soaking in it. This quarter.
Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:15 PM (2y6mw)

One guy I was reading last week said that there will neither be a soft landing or a hard landing,

instead the Fed will try to just float along keeping the economy going by lowering rates whenever things slow down.

This looks a lot like "The Float".

Of course, that means folks on fixed incomes like retirees are fucked.

Learn to rob banks, Gramps!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 18, 2024 05:27 PM (eDfFs)

313 290 I think it was The Daily Mail that said there are some links between the popularity of plant based diets and the rise in colon cancer.
Posted by: Just Lily at September

That is interesting. I would like to read that as part of a healthy colon is appropriate fiber. Did they like it to protein deficits? Or deficits in general as many people who go vegan really don’t get appropriate nutrients? It’s a lot of work to be vegan and get everything you need because we are omnivores.

Posted by: Piper at September 18, 2024 05:28 PM (p4NUW)

314 "Tucker found video of Kamalala announcing her intention to send government agents into the homes of legal gun owners to verify they are in compliance with storage requirements.

Storage Requirements?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 18, 2024 05:28 PM (/lPRQ)

315 And they claim they found 2 penguins doing it, so it's A NATURAL OCCURANCE AND THEY'RE BORN THAT WAY.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:25 PM (Zz0t1)

You are way behind the times. Now they are NOT born that way they are in the wrong body and have to be cut and hormoned up for life just in case.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:28 PM (n7h9X)

316 Because if there is no "line" we are as bad the the Other Side. Somedood made good points worth considering.

Posted by: Soothsayer:

This is hilariously off base. If you can't see innumerable differences between Islamic countries and Westernized ones, no one is going to be able to help you. Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose in an existential war. Ruthlessly fighting to win is reasonable. We've done far worse in terms of collateral casualties in wars where our existence was not at stake.

Posted by: moral handwringing has a pretty high cost in lives too at September 18, 2024 05:29 PM (Ytx9T)

317 How many kids died on 9/11? 10/7? The multitude of suicide bombings or mass shootings by islhamic terrorists over the last 30 years?

I'm supposed to worry about the children of Hezbollah being blown up with their parents?

*peers at jar of f*cks*

*notices the limited supply*

*doesn't uncork the bottle*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:29 PM (Zz0t1)

318 Why does the fed care about the fake jobs reports coming out of this administration?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 18, 2024 05:29 PM (QNSds)

319 You are way behind the times. Now they are NOT born that way they are in the wrong body and have to be cut and hormoned up for life just in case.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:28 PM (n7h9X)

Shit.

No wonder I'm drinking........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:29 PM (Zz0t1)

320 280 Tucker found video of Kamalala announcing her intention to send government agents into the homes of legal gun owners to verify they are in compliance with storage requirements.

http://tiny.cc/2jkmzz

Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2024 05:12 PM (Odg76)
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Ya-Whoooo, that's what SS was saying yesterday.
https://tinyurl.com/3a93ejsp

Posted by: Braenyard at September 18, 2024 05:29 PM (PS4T+)

321
Do you like pooches?
Do you like German pooches?

Senator JD Vance and his companion sat down with Tucker. Video will premier at 6pm.

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:29 PM (2y6mw)

322 re 304: haven't looked at internet porn in like ten years, already had lots and it all got too dangerous with ransomware.

i once got a pop-up telling me that my computer had been locked up by the justice dept for looking at porn, this was like 14 years ago. just crapware, just turned the pc off and on again.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 18, 2024 05:29 PM (CWTWj)

323 >>> 310
==
I have heard speculation that one of the hole cards Putin has in reserve if the US/UK start firing missiles of theirs into Russia proper that confiscating the large holdings of British Petroleum in the Russian arctic.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:26 PM (n7h9X)

Interesting, I didn't know the UK had such a vulnerability. They are alleged to have been the big pushers and supporters of the Kursk invasion.

Posted by: Helena Cesta de Mano at September 18, 2024 05:29 PM (FnneF)

324 80,000 Israelis can not return to their homes in Northern Israel
because of hezbollah targeting civilians.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 18, 2024 05:24 PM (I1GXe)

Another way of saying that is, Israel is in an active, undeclared war with Hezbollah, and they are not capable of keeping 80,000 of their citizens safe from enemy action.

Posted by: BurtTC at September 18, 2024 05:29 PM (dGCAG)

325 > They let Hezbollah choose who got the bombs. They handed them out to their own fighters and support personnel.

Yes. Some people are acting as if Israel sent these pagers to Best Buy in hopes that a few would make it into Hezbollah hands. This was an order by Hezbollah for Hezbollah.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 18, 2024 05:30 PM (Odg76)

326 309 Leaving atrocities unpunished by unapologetic and brutal reprisal does not somehow keep you safe from "sinking to their level". It sinks you far below their level.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2024 05:26 PM (nPLkK)

It invites it. Oct 7 happened because they did not really fear Israel.

I actually think Israel should have been more weapons free. Swift. Brutal. Uncompromising. Just.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 18, 2024 05:30 PM (PDf99)

327 And they claim they found 2 penguins doing it, so it's A NATURAL OCCURANCE AND THEY'RE BORN THAT WAY.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:25 PM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, and I once saw a muscovy duck hold another duck's head underwater with it's beak and rail the poor thing so hard you could hear the thumps, and didn't stop until it was bleeding all over the place.

I saw a year old buck in my back yard try to plow its own mother and get a headbutt for its efforts.

Appeal to Nature is not the argument they think it is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2024 05:30 PM (nPLkK)

328 also the frs can lower the reserve requirements which lets tha banks lend more money.

i think that's it anyway and i majored in economics, but of course in those days it was all basically keynesian crap.
Posted by: gnats local 678
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"As announced on March 15, 2020, the Board reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective March 26, 2020. This action eliminated reserve requirements for all depository institutions."

To explain this, Fed uses 'ample reserves' marker now https://tinyurl.com/mrx4rt6p

Posted by: whig at September 18, 2024 05:30 PM (SI97o)

329 Some people say that executing murderers make us no better than they are. We bring ourselves down to their level and then they WIN. I say 'Well, at least they won't be there for the award ceremony.'
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 18, 2024 05:24 PM (PDf99)

No recidivism problems

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:30 PM (n7h9X)

330 Trump did grow the economy by cutting regs that juiced private industry...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 18, 2024 05:12 PM (exHjb)

He did. But he also happily spent like a drunken Obama.

Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 05:31 PM (Y/tQ+)

331 Those frankenmeats might have something to do with colon cancer. Eat meat or eat veggies but not fake meat.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 18, 2024 05:31 PM (KAi1n)

332 I have heard speculation that one of the hole cards Putin has in reserve if the US/UK start firing missiles of theirs into Russia proper that confiscating the large holdings of British Petroleum in the Russian arctic.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:26 PM (n7h9X)

I saw that movie. Ice Station Zebra.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 18, 2024 05:32 PM (Aqu9a)

333 Microplastics will be the next big health scare, bank onit.

Posted by: tubal at September 18, 2024 05:32 PM (PCK5/)

334 298 80,000 Israelis can not return to their homes in Northern Israel
because of hezbollah targeting civilians.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 18, 2024 05:24 PM (I1GXe)
This is why they fight.

Posted by: Eromero at September 18, 2024 05:33 PM (LHPAg)

335 Microplastics will be the next big health scare, bank onit.
Posted by: tubal

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That one is hilarious because it's all because of recycling.

I love it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Power without responsibility destroys society at September 18, 2024 05:33 PM (d+Q1U)

336 331 Those frankenmeats might have something to do with colon cancer. Eat meat or eat veggies but not fake meat.
Posted by: SFGoth at September 18, 2024 05:31 PM (KAi1n)

But see my guess is that the number of people is still quite small who eat the impossible/tofurkey/etc as a % of population.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 18, 2024 05:33 PM (PDf99)

337 317 I'm supposed to worry about the children of Hezbollah being blown up with their parents?

*peers at jar of f*cks*

*notices the limited supply*

*doesn't uncork the bottle*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Don’t conflate understanding the nature of it with celebrating it. We can understand the it’s unavoidable, especially when that side uses children as shields, while also acknowledging its ugly.

Posted by: Piper at September 18, 2024 05:33 PM (p4NUW)

338
Most of Trump's "spending" was Republicans conning him into signing CR's because it would help their 2018 reelection campaigns.

They told him they'd cut spending after the midterms. Then they told him they'd cut spending after the 2020 election.

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:34 PM (2y6mw)

339 Piper.

Here it is. Actually. I believe that at least part of it is because nutrients in animal products counteract the toxins plants naturally produce to keep from being eaten.

https://tinyurl.com/yc26z9u7

Posted by: Just Lily at September 18, 2024 05:34 PM (cJhQ2)

340 All the pearl-clutching and panty-bunching about a successful, tightly targeted military operation against a brutal enemy is for fags.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 18, 2024 05:34 PM (RIvkX)

341 80,000 Israelis can not return to their homes in Northern Israel
because of hezbollah targeting civilians.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 18, 2024 05:24 PM (I1GXe)

Another way of saying that is, Israel is in an active, undeclared war with Hezbollah, and they are not capable of keeping 80,000 of their citizens safe from enemy action.
Posted by: BurtTC

No. It's because Israel is not allowed to.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at September 18, 2024 05:34 PM (XTEnH)

342 I started to explain to my family exactly what this "plant based meat" stuff is at dinner the other day, not even in a sensationalistic or haranguing mode, just a matter of fact "hey that's fascinating" sort of way... and I could tell the tables around us were losing their appetites.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2024 05:34 PM (nPLkK)

343 "Don’t conflate understanding the nature of it with celebrating it. We can understand the it’s unavoidable, especially when that side uses children as shields, while also acknowledging its ugly."

whoopie. also behar

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 18, 2024 05:34 PM (CWTWj)

344
NOOOOD

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:34 PM (2y6mw)

345 Gun safes, trigger locks, etc., essentially making gun ownership useless.

Posted by: SFGoth at September 18, 2024 05:34 PM (KAi1n)

346 tubal, that was one of the lead stories on the radio this morning

Posted by: Ben Had at September 18, 2024 05:35 PM (I1GXe)

347 Seems this needs to make a resurgence.

https://youtu.be/nRXLBNZFrwU

Please note the images starting during the break starting at 2:35 to 3:16............

Their children aren't like YOUR children.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 18, 2024 05:35 PM (Zz0t1)

348 >>> 337
==
Don't conflate understanding the nature of it with celebrating it. We can understand the it's unavoidable, especially when that side uses children as shields, while also acknowledging it's ugly.
Posted by: Piper at September 18, 2024 05:33 PM (p4NUW)

This.

Posted by: Helena Cesta de Mano at September 18, 2024 05:35 PM (FnneF)

349 as a real estate guy, trump learned to depend on borrowing, but he must have known you gotta start paying back sooner or later. i'm sure there were experts who told him it's ok when the gov't does it. deficits might have come down if not for all the covid stuff.

also trump would borrow to buy property with value, not to hand out money to voters

Posted by: gnats local 678 at September 18, 2024 05:37 PM (CWTWj)

350 Interesting, I didn't know the UK had such a vulnerability. They are alleged to have been the big pushers and supporters of the Kursk invasion.
Posted by: Helena Cesta de Mano at September 18, 2024 05:29 PM (FnneF)

yeah, it had that "Afrika Corps" look to it - lets take all our tanks and swirl around in a forest where nobody is and draw nice RED ARROWS on the map until the serious troopers in reserve come into play and shell us to bits.

I am also sure that there has been a gentlemen's agreement to leave the points north of Kharkov alone for both sides since the retirement from Kiev two years ago. Remember in the previous two 'incursions' Kiev used the farcical "Russian deserters" cover and the US pulled them back pretty quick after generating some headlines.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:37 PM (n7h9X)

351 Do imported Haitians get paid "reparations"?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 18, 2024 05:38 PM (vqGhi)

352 308 Rectum?? It nearly killed him!
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 18, 2024 05:26 PM (CEzQx)

*types*

*deletes*

*types again*

Ugh, I hate to be THAT guy, especially to andycanuck.

I've been told that it's...Rectum hell, killed 'em!

Posted by: Clap On! Clap Off! The Clapper at September 18, 2024 05:38 PM (NMT5x)

353 In fairness - Powell is screwed. The economy is stalling, all the data is showing it, he knows if he doesn't do something it will hit the mountain. I am surprised they did a full half point - but that just tells me that the economy is actually much worse than we thought. Scary times. Powell is trying to avoid the first 18 months of Reagan's term. I'd be shocked if he thinks this will help Harris, nor do I think he cares. What he is attempting has never been successfully done. Biden's monetary policy has but him in real bad place.

Posted by: Black JEM at September 18, 2024 05:40 PM (GZYu7)

354 I started to explain to my family exactly what this "plant based meat" stuff is at dinner the other day, not even in a sensationalistic or haranguing mode, just a matter of fact "hey that's fascinating" sort of way... and I could tell the tables around us were losing their appetites.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 18, 2024 05:34 PM (nPLkK)

When I was a kid in elementary school they had soy burgers. They weren't burgers and you could hardly eat them.

I even like things like Indian food that are vegetarian and tasty, tho I like some chicken or pork in there even more.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:40 PM (n7h9X)

355 Please note the images starting during the break starting at 2:35 to 3:16............

FAFO, homie.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 18, 2024 05:41 PM (vqGhi)

356 Nood about...
DC_Draino @DC_Draino 2h
Teamsters preferred Biden over Trump 44% to 36%

But they prefer Trump over Kamala 59%-34%

This is seismic

Democrats are finally losing the unions

And with that goes huge campaign donations and massive voting support in rust belt states

Team Kamala is freaking out right now

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 18, 2024 05:41 PM (CEzQx)

357 pork in there even more.

Anal?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 18, 2024 05:42 PM (vqGhi)

358 Doing the Evelyn Woodhead sped redding of the comments and I see 2 discussions going on. Anal sex and the economy. I am going to assume they are connected.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 18, 2024 05:42 PM (f+zED)

359 Most of Trump's "spending" was Republicans conning him into signing CR's because it would help their 2018 reelection campaigns.

They told him they'd cut spending after the midterms. Then they told him they'd cut spending after the 2020 election.

Posted by: Soothsayer: at September 18, 2024 05:34 PM (2y6mw)

You can say about Biden then. He only spent what congress gave him.

Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 05:42 PM (Y/tQ+)

360 In fairness - Powell is screwed. The economy is stalling, all the data is showing it, he knows if he doesn't do something it will hit the mountain. I am surprised they did a full half point - but that just tells me that the economy is actually much worse than we thought. Scary times. Powell is trying to avoid the first 18 months of Reagan's term. I'd be shocked if he thinks this will help Harris, nor do I think he cares. What he is attempting has never been successfully done. Biden's monetary policy has but him in real bad place.
Posted by: Black JEM at September 18, 2024 05:40 PM (GZYu7)

He also does not have the natural demand that using dollars in trade by convenience creates, or soon won't have nearly as much of it. I have heard a few times we send negotiators to beg China not to dump too many dollars too fast.....while planning a war with China, economic or shooting. Such idiots.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:43 PM (n7h9X)

361 Straight porn has been gaga for anal for a very, very long time.

It's still gay, regardless of the sexes of the participants.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 18, 2024 05:43 PM (hB7mE)

362 pork in there even more.

Anal?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at September 18, 2024 05:42 PM (vqGhi)

some of it gets there in the end.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:44 PM (n7h9X)

363 I hope trump can do something about immigration and keep us out of Ukraine. But I don’t expect a cent to be cut from the feral budget with him there. I’m under no illusions we’re going to suddenly get our fiscal house in order.

Posted by: News Update at September 18, 2024 05:45 PM (Y/tQ+)

364 Straight porn has been gaga for anal for a very, very long time.

It's still gay, regardless of the sexes of the participants.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at September 18, 2024 05:43 PM (hB7mE)

I have read that the technical explanation for that is "Legs are not transparent"

Posted by: Oldcat at September 18, 2024 05:45 PM (n7h9X)

365 It invites it. Oct 7 happened because they did not really fear Israel.

I actually think Israel should have been more weapons free. Swift. Brutal. Uncompromising. Just.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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They should force them all into Egypt and let Sisi sort it out. Period. They hate Israel, they want to annihilate the Jew; let them live with their muslim brothers that they may stew together.
They have no place in Israel.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 18, 2024 05:53 PM (PS4T+)

366 Teamsters were originally truck drivers, yes? You mean blue collar workers prefer a man *(Trump) who has had to work with all kinds of blue collar workers and who as President during a pretty robust economy to a woman who has never run a business? Gee, that's a surprise!/s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 18, 2024 05:59 PM (dTTBf)

367 Whoops; Posted wrong place. Sorry.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 18, 2024 06:00 PM (dTTBf)

368 Why does the fed care about the fake jobs reports coming out of this administration?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at September 18, 2024 05:29 PM (QNSds)

Maybe they're reacting because they know the real numbers.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 18, 2024 06:06 PM (FCbAQ)

369 Anyone who has a mortgage or carries other debt eants more cheap dollars
That would be most Americans

Posted by: Paul at September 18, 2024 06:11 PM (U1TO6)

370 Transfer union is 94% male
What result would be expected

Posted by: Paul at September 18, 2024 06:17 PM (U1TO6)

371 )) Are you single tonight? A lot of hot girls waiting for you -- www.Nu21.eu

Posted by: Tenna at September 18, 2024 06:56 PM (+NzPf)

372 There is one more reason that this might make sense, even though it's not the FED's fucking job, is if they predict a win by trump, massive deregulation, and an actual production boom VERY EARLY into the next fiscal season.

But that's for the MARKETS to gamble, NOT the Fed. The FED should be a FOLLOWER of investor sentiment, not a leader.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at September 19, 2024 05:12 AM (XKj0h)

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