#Winning: Inflation Rises More Slowly, Gas Prices Fall, and the Markets Hit All-Time Records<br>A European Economist Admits: "Maybe Trump Has Outsmarted All of Us"

#Winning: Inflation Rises More Slowly, Gas Prices Fall, and the Markets Hit All-Time Records
A European Economist Admits: "Maybe Trump Has Outsmarted All of Us"

The markets soared to record highs on Friday, despite the "predictions" (or partisan rooting interest) of the liberal establishment.

Part of the rally is due to falling, get this, inflation.

U.S. markets surged to fresh record highs Friday as investors responded positively to a trio of developments: easing inflation, the formal end of the Iran-Israel war, and progress on President Trump's tax legislation in Congress.
Key Details:
The S&P 500 closed at a record 6,173.07, with the Dow and Nasdaq also finishing at all-time highs, fueled by strength in tech, energy, and industrial sectors.
New inflation data showed core PCE rose just 0.2% in May, with annual core inflation at 2.7%--supporting Trump's argument that tariffs haven't reignited price pressures.
A U.S.-brokered peace deal officially ended hostilities between Israel and Iran, removing a key global risk and driving oil prices sharply lower.
Diving Deeper:
Wall Street ended the week on a high note Friday, with all three major indexes closing at record levels amid a cascade of favorable developments for the Trump White House and the broader U.S. economy.
The S&P 500 rose 0.52% to 6,173.07, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite followed suit, hitting new peaks. The gains came despite a midday dip sparked by President Trump's announcement that trade negotiations with Canada had been terminated. Markets quickly shrugged off the news, rallying strongly into the close.
Fueling the optimism was the release of new inflation data showing that prices are rising more slowly than anticipated, even after the administration's aggressive use of tariffs. The core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index--a key inflation gauge favored by the Federal Reserve--ticked up just 0.2% in May. On an annual basis, core prices rose 2.7%, while the headline rate stood at 2.3%. Notably, consumer inflation expectations also dropped, with one prominent sentiment survey showing the expected one-year rate falling from 6.6% to 5%.
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As the week closed, the prevailing mood on Wall Street was one of optimism. With inflation cooling, global tensions easing, and economic policy advancing, traders are increasingly betting on a supportive environment for markets heading into the second half of the year.

Gas prices will fall to their lowest level in years for summer driving season.

According to Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy, gas prices are likely on track to reach their lowest levels in several years. If current trends continue, Americans could see the national average dip below $3 per gallon by September.
"This is shaping up to be the cheapest summer since 2021," De Haan said, referencing the COVID-era market conditions that temporarily deflated demand and prices.
Although gas prices ticked up in early June due to the Israel-Iran conflict, the ceasefire between the two nations has helped stabilize global oil markets. That stabilization, De Haan says, should allow for a "slow decline" in prices through the remainder of the summer.

A European economist now reverses his prior dire predictions about Trump's tariff agenda and admits Trump has "outsmarted all of us."

A world-renowned economist has changed his tune on President Donald Trump's tariffs.
Torsten Sløk, a chief economist at Apollo Global Management, posted a new note admitting that his initial reaction to the policy may have been wrong.
'Maybe the administration has outsmarted all of us,' he wrote.
The admission comes just months after Sløk warned the tariffs would be 'painful' and economically destabilizing.
Experts speaking to DailyMail.com warned that Americans should take his note with a grain of salt.
But now, he's framing the President's policy as a clever long-game -- one that invites global negotiation while increasing federal revenue.
In the note, Sløk outlined a potential scenario: the White House could maintain its current tariff rates -- 10 percent on most imports, 30 percent on Chinese goods -- and give trade partners a year to negotiate with the White House.
Extending the current 90-day pause on new tariffs, he argued, would give American companies time to plan ahead and could help stabilize markets.
'This would seem like a victory for the world and yet would produce $400 billion of annual revenue for US taxpayers,' he added.
The timing is key. Trump's 90-day pause on new tariffs, announced in April, is set to expire on July 9.
Without an extension, the tariffs would immediately increase, with billions of dollars worth of products suddenly incurring more taxes.
But if the President extends the pause but keeps tariffs where they are, Sløk says the policy could offer clarity for companies and leverage in negotiations.
Sløk's sudden, tepid support for the tariffs is an about-face. He initially criticized the import taxes, saying they threatened business stability, Wall Street's record highs, and the stability of US treasury bonds.

I love when Europeans tell us that tariffs will cause the US inflation and harm our economy while all the European nations have stiff tariffs to keep out US goods because they believe the tariffs help their economies.

This is how the NYT reports the S&P 500 hitting a record high.
Reminder: you don't hate the Leftist media enough. pic.twitter.com/2GbS1TShQz
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) June 27, 2025

In April Trump said that the stock market would boom. Every CNN show ridiculed him. They had "experts" like Cramer on to tell people to panic.

CNN doesn't correct the record or follow up. They just move on to pushing the next panic. pic.twitter.com/r0uaIkLa2i
— MAZE (@mazemoore) June 27, 2025

Now that inflation has been tamed, Trump wants fed head Powell to reduce the high interest rates he imposed to tame Biden's inflation.

Note that Powell could have, and should have, increased interest rates as soon as Biden proposed his blowout inflationary spending spree. Instead, he waited for years to do so, once inflation was out-of-control and the Biden/Deep State lie that it was "transitory" had been well and truly disproven.

Note he only acted after -- well after -- the damage of Biden's policies was proven.

But now, Powell is saying he wants to keep inflation high because Trump's tariffs will, he claims, cause inflation eventually.

Where was this proactive drive to curb inflation before it takes root when his preferred leftwing "president" Biden was pushing a bonanza of highly-inflationary government spending?

Powell didn’t comment when Dems sent inflation soaring with Covid lockdowns, vaccine mandates, LNG export bans, and massive tax hikes.

But he’s all too happy to attack President Trump’s trade agenda. He’s costing America 100s of billions and should resign. pic.twitter.com/GXPmQBcIPM
— Bernie Moreno (@berniemoreno) June 25, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 02:15 PM

Comments

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1 I didn't nood the others.

May God have pity on them.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 02:16 PM (fV+MH)

2 Tariffs are like a tax (they're more like fees), and that is always deflationary, to some degree. It keeps money out of the market. It doesn't increase the dollars chasing goods.

Tariffs were never inflationary. Ever.

Also, you know what else is deflationary?

1,000,000 people leaving the US in the first 4 months of Trump's term.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO)

3 Powell should resign but he'll be there till the bitter end...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2025 02:17 PM (VE6XX)

4 Nooded, so you don't have to.

Bat people are givers, unlike penguin people.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2025 02:17 PM (0sNs1)

5 A businessman who built million and billion dollar projects in the real world might know more than an economist who lives in the theoretical?

Say it ain't so!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:17 PM (tT6L1)

6 That Trump sure is lucky.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 02:17 PM (i24o9)

7 Jerome Powell seems an Asshoe…

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:18 PM (PCK5/)

8 What is troubling to me is that even people claiming to be experts in economics are baffled by doing what always worked in the past somehow worked again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:18 PM (dfIr7)

9 Also, you know what else is deflationary?

1,000,000 people leaving the US in the first 4 months of Trump's term.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:16 PM (GBKbO)
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I wonder if the incentive of, "Hey, go home then try to come back legally" was an incentive...accompanied by the stick "if you don't you can't if we catch you."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:19 PM (tT6L1)

10 Powell is a political animal, and leftist/borg/whatever. a criminal

and Econ is an art, not in any way a science

so, like women's studies.

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 30, 2025 02:19 PM (Pv3Rg)

11 A European Economist Admits: "Maybe Trump Has Outsmarted All of Us"

A billionaire outsmarts non billionaires in making money. Go figure.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 02:19 PM (LA0fN)

12 When did "honorable" begin to mean "flaming pedo"?

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 02:19 PM (VPwHp)

13 I think Trump's going to take Powell to the proverbial woodshed if he doesn't get his collective shit together and drop interest rates.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (Q4IgG)

14 9 I wonder if the incentive of, "Hey, go home then try to come back legally" was an incentive...accompanied by the stick "if you don't you can't if we catch you."
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:19 PM (tT6L1)

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"Go home and maybe you can apply for asylum. Also, we're denying all asylum claims now."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (GBKbO)

15 Unh-uh! Da maff ain't maffin!
*z-snap and head bobble*

Posted by: Jasmine Ratchet, her eyelashes dragging at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (TbWk/)

16 Too late!

Tariffs already killed us!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (ULPxl)

17 CNN doesn't correct the record or follow up. They just move on to pushing the next panic

Some people may have done some things.
Mistakes may have been made.
If so, it was in the exuberance of the moment.
What difference, at this point, does it make?
Old news.
Time to move on.

Posted by: CNN and The MSM at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (0sNs1)

18 Torsten Sløk,

I think I see the problem here.

Torsty baby, stay in your lane, k?

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (dCxaZ)

19 But but Trump Steaks

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (VPwHp)

20 "Maybe he outsmarted all of us."

No, only the dumbasses.

This is what the rest of us actually voted for. For three times.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (ERYKL)

21 They always take Trump literally, but not seriously.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (jc0TO)

22 10 Powell is a political animal, and leftist/borg/whatever. a criminal

and Econ is an art, not in any way a science

so, like women's studies.
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 30, 2025 02:19 PM (Pv3Rg)

So, full of resentment and Angst??

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (PCK5/)

23 "But now, Powell is saying he wants to keep inflation high because Trump's tariffs will, he claims, cause inflation eventually."

The minutes of the last Fed meeting and Powell's comments might as well have been written by the DNC. All of the NPC duckspeaking drone tropes were in there: inflation "remains elevated," tariffs are bad, risk of stagflation, economy is in fragile state, Russian whores pissed on Trump, etc.

Powell is a hack piece of shit.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (iFTx/)

24 Tariffs were never inflationary. Ever.

I can see why people expected them to be, based on economics in a vacuum and a lack of understanding tariffs or what Trump was doing.

It sounds reasonable: you are raising the expenses on business, and they will just pass that on to the customers, raising prices. Its like when governments raise taxes on business.

The problem is, that's not how the tariffs were implemented, tariffs are not on most goods that Americans purchase regularly, and they were being used mostly as a negotiation tool, not a permanent imposition. Yes, our tariffs on most other countries have gone up, but they also have gone down on us in other countries.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (dfIr7)

25 But now, Powell is saying he wants to keep inflation high because Trump's tariffs will, he claims, cause inflation eventually.

rates

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (jc0TO)

26 I'm starting to think that maybe the experts quoted by the media are wrong about everything.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (Dv3i1)

27 Quick, let's slaughter another 100 million egg-laying hens!!!

Posted by: leftists at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (ULPxl)

28 Too late!

Tariffs already killed us!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (ULPxl)

We got better.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (i24o9)

29 I’m still waiting for the gas price drop here in flyover country. It's been at the same price ($3.19/gal) for the past year.

Posted by: Turn 2 at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (6TlG5)

30 Isn't fed chairman Powell's term over soon?

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (dCxaZ)

31 23 The minutes of the last Fed meeting and Powell's comments might as well have been written by the DNC. All of the NPC duckspeaking drone tropes were in there: inflation "remains elevated," tariffs are bad, risk of stagflation, economy is in fragile state, Russian whores pissed on Trump, etc.

Powell is a hack piece of shit.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (iFTx/)

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And he's outnumbered. 13 fed governors want to cut rates. They just disagree on how much and how soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (GBKbO)

32 Just fire the bastard already!!!

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (PCK5/)

33 "Maybe Trump Has Outsmarted All of Us"

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It wasn't that difficult, really.

Trump did that before lunch (Big Mac & Diet Coke).

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (6ydKt)

34 Now to get the labor participation rate up.

Posted by: Ann at June 30, 2025 02:22 PM (4neFu)

35 I was around when the USA had its last big bout with chronic inflation. It got started in the last year of the Nixon administration, throughout the Ford admin (remember WIN buttons? Whip Inflation Now?), really got juicy in the Carter years, and finally got killed in the first years of the Reagan administration.

If somebody had told me that the Trump administration could strangle Joey Bye-Bye's inflation extravaganza stone dead in 6 months, without the stern measures the Reaganites used (and they were HARSH), I'd have cautioned against extravagant optimism, and I'm a yuge Dreamsicle Mussolini fan.

But here we are.

No wonder the establishment economists are sitting around flapping their mouths with their fingers and going 'wubbita-wubbita-wubbita'. It's all just beyond their ken.

But here we are.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 02:22 PM (Ft5W9)

36 So, full of resentment and Angst??

ha! in Powells case sure!

and lil reich and old krug

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 30, 2025 02:22 PM (Pv3Rg)

37 34 Now to get the labor participation rate up.
Posted by: Ann at June 30, 2025 02:22 PM (4neFu)

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Kicking out tens of millions of illegals is going to have a lot of effects.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)

38 "Maybe he outsmarted all of us."
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Oooh wow, did he say it "humbly"?

See, they will even claim to be dumb or have "missed something" rather than admit they lied.

It's always a lie. Deception is their native tongue.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 02:22 PM (VPwHp)

39 Well, Trump does have those festive little hats that say MAGA.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2025 02:22 PM (mkwGn)

40
ow-ow-OW!

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at June 30, 2025 02:22 PM (5hfjS)

41 30 Isn't fed chairman Powell's term over soon?
Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (dCxaZ)

2026 I believe

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2025 02:22 PM (VE6XX)

42 100%

so now the FED sees policy proposals that havent been enacted and decides to preempt them in case they get passed?

Did he ever do this when Biden suddenly did a trillion dollar student loan forgiveness?

I'm almost of the opinion though that zero inflation would be nice for a while

Posted by: Eldo at June 30, 2025 02:23 PM (kRhM/)

43 Also, you know what else is deflationary?
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Seeing Joy Behar at a nude beach.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2025 02:23 PM (Dv3i1)

44 41 30 Isn't fed chairman Powell's term over soon?
Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (dCxaZ)

2026 I believe
Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2025 02:22 PM (VE6XX)

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Yes.

But Trump does have the power to fire him. I wish he would just do it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:23 PM (GBKbO)

45 Just noticed in the side-bar that Deplorable Jay has passed away. That's so very sad. As a long-time lurker, I really enjoyed his comments and observations at the HQ. He will be sorely missed, as are all the others listed with him. May they all rest in peace!

Posted by: Retired, thank God! at June 30, 2025 02:23 PM (9BIt9)

46 That little twink, Harry Sisson, tweeted a long list of Trump's policies that aren't working. Oddly, it's similar to Ace's list.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 30, 2025 02:23 PM (PMtkd)

47 I love when Europeans tell us that tariffs will cause the US inflation and harm our economy while all the European nations have stiff tariffs to keep out US goods because they believe the tariffs help their economies.

And a lot of them are still suffering from, get this, high inflation.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2025 02:23 PM (6ydKt)

48 Doing something different instead of doing the same pointless thing over and over worked?

Posted by: huerfano at June 30, 2025 02:23 PM (n2swS)

49 My wife had an interview of President Trump on in which he explained, basically, "Look, lower the cost of energy and prices go down." He also went on to make the point the underpinning of our economy is energy and if the cost goes up, prices go up. He also mentioned printing money but he seemed to see that as somewhat secondary to the cost of energy.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:23 PM (tT6L1)

50 29 I’m still waiting for the gas price drop here in flyover country. It's been at the same price ($3.19/gal) for the past year.

neighboring Delaware gas at the pump

and Produce Junction has eggs at 3.75/dozen

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:24 PM (dCxaZ)

51 ***Part of the rally is due to falling, get this, inflation.***
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Jerome Powell, paging Jerome Powell to the red phone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 02:24 PM (Dng1D)

52 Yahoo Finance has 18 stories on its front page. 9 of those have the word Trump in the headline.

Wow.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 02:24 PM (nwGCR)

53 I'm so sad about Jay too

not really much to say. thinking of his family

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 30, 2025 02:24 PM (Pv3Rg)

54 oh pixy didn't like the symbol I used

Delaware gas price is LESS THAN 3 dollars/gallon, 2.89 last time I filled the tank.

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:25 PM (dCxaZ)

55 Just noticed in the side-bar that Deplorable Jay has passed away. That's so very sad. As a long-time lurker, I really enjoyed his comments and observations at the HQ. He will be sorely missed, as are all the others listed with him. May they all rest in peace!

Posted by: Retired, thank God! at June 30, 2025 02:23 PM (9BIt9)

OMG, no!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 02:25 PM (i24o9)

56 50 29 I’m still waiting for the gas price drop here in flyover country. It's been at the same price ($3.19/gal) for the past year.

$4.55 here in NOrCal and it's scheduled to go up 5 to 10 cents tomorrow

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2025 02:25 PM (VE6XX)

57 CNN doesn't correct the record or follow up. They just move on to pushing the next panic

Well they kind of do, in the "but we covered that" technicality. They'll run one segment on it, vaguely, then move on as if nothing happened. Kind of like all those BUT EGGS ARE STILL EXPENSIVE guys two weeks into Trump's presidency.

Its not about the truth for them, its about power. It doesn't matter if what they say is true or not, only that they can gain power back by saying it. Like Schumer's "it worked didn't it?" crack.

If you think truth is relative and there is no right and wrong, lying is just a way of achieving goals.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:25 PM (dfIr7)

58 How did we get word about Jay here, anyway??

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:25 PM (PCK5/)

59 About that NYT headline about all time high SP500....I've seen a lot worse from them.

Posted by: WisRich at June 30, 2025 02:25 PM (G0vdT)

60 "That Trump sure is lucky.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder"

It's just weird. Isn't it?

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 02:25 PM (fV+MH)

61 Gas has been around $3 for me for the last year or so. There’s never much movement.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 02:25 PM (nwGCR)

62 > Jerome Powell seems an Asshoe…

Trump spokesperson Leavitt calls out Jerome Powell over interest rates.

http://tiny.cc/w4co001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 30, 2025 02:25 PM (lIio7)

63 Delaware gas price is LESS THAN 3 dollars/gallon, 2.89 last time I filled the tank.

yeppers I'm only going to the DE pumps

helpful with the new jeep! little guy eats a lot of gas

hoping BBB passes and I can deduct the interest on my new baby!

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 30, 2025 02:26 PM (Pv3Rg)

64 I hope JT is all right and rejoins us someday.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 02:26 PM (77rzZ)

65 Interesting. The financial newspaper my s-i-l reads insists that Trump is destroying both the US and world economies. I saw headlines saying as much this morning.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 30, 2025 02:26 PM (O06w5)

66 Now to get the labor participation rate up.
Posted by: Ann at June 30, 2025 02:22 PM (4neFu)

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Kicking out tens of millions of illegals is going to have a lot of effects.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)
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"Yea, I'll say! Now that Pablo the poolboy is gone, who is gonna eat my pussy for $20??"

-- Buffy Miffing from Hamptons

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 02:26 PM (iFTx/)

67 I love when Europeans tell us that tariffs will cause the US inflation and harm our economy while all the European nations have stiff tariffs to keep out US goods because they believe the tariffs help their economies.

Yeah all the wailing and screeching and claims of trade wars... my brother in Friedman, you guys started the war decades ago, we're only just now fighting back. For a long time the US was willing to absorb your tariffs because we are rich and we were trying to help a little buddy out. But no more.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:27 PM (dfIr7)

68 Gas prices here in Illinois jumped thirty cents a gallon last week (up from $2.99). This blue state has the second highest gas taxes in the country, but that still doesn't explain the sudden jump.

Just another day in paradise, I guess.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 30, 2025 02:27 PM (mNhIh)

69 And, as Vance has amplified, he cut the rates in October, when every economic indicator was worse than now.

But then, Democrats had an election they wanted to win.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 30, 2025 02:27 PM (7n9I3)

70 Who get's to be called "Honorable" and who doesn't.
Is there a rule?

Posted by: Inogame at June 30, 2025 02:27 PM (53oGX)

71 My retirement account is .003 per cent less than the high from January 31, 2025

To the moon, baby! lol

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:27 PM (dCxaZ)

72 28 Too late!

Tariffs already killed us!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (ULPxl)

We got better.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (i24o9)

I've been dead since we pulled out of the Paris Accords. But I keep on shambling though.

Posted by: Just keep on shambling you'll never get old at June 30, 2025 02:28 PM (TbWk/)

73 Interesting. The financial newspaper my s-i-l reads insists that Trump is destroying both the US and world economies. I saw headlines saying as much this morning.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 30, 2025 02:26 PM (O06w5)
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Someone seems to think we should care about what happens to the economies of other countries. No, that's the problem of local governance, not us.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:28 PM (tT6L1)

74 71 My retirement account is .003 per cent less than the high from January 31, 2025

To the moon, baby! lol
Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:27 PM (dCxaZ)

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It's too bad you sold on the dip in April and lost all your money by putting it in put options for May by listening to Jim Cramer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

75
If the Donk commie cocksuckers were smart, they'd have just claimed that the economy is the one area where Trump is smart and effective, but that he's terrible when it comes to everything else. It would be bullshit, of course, but politics-wise it would mean they don't look like a bunch of retards.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2025 02:28 PM (y9nCu)

76 > Maybe Trump Has Outsmarted All of Us

One of Trump's superpowers is having been educated in the before time, when universities were far less infected by leftist dogma. Modern "thought" is so infected with false premises, the smart-set are incapable of reaching the correct conclusions. GIGO.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 30, 2025 02:29 PM (lIio7)

77 Q2 2025 is gonna be something like +3.5% GDP or more.

Then maybe the press will stop talking about the economy completely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

78 helpful with the new jeep! little guy eats a lot of gas

what kind of jeep did you get

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:29 PM (dCxaZ)

79 I think Trump's magic is that he's sober and gives a shit.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 02:29 PM (fV+MH)

80 >>Tariffs already killed us!!!

Too late. I died from Popcorn Lung back in 2018.

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2025 02:29 PM (ASFuz)

81 74
It's too bad you sold on the dip in April and lost all your money by putting it in put options for May by listening to Jim Cramer.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)

Buy low, sell high… facts are stubborn things..

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:29 PM (PCK5/)

82 >>> Just noticed in the side-bar that Deplorable Jay has passed away. That's so very sad. As a long-time lurker, I really enjoyed his comments and observations at the HQ. He will be sorely missed, as are all the others listed with him. May they all rest in peace!
Posted by: Retired, thank God! at June 30, 2025 02:23 PM (9BIt9)

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All those things are true. But in addition, for me it was that he was a true baseball enthusiast (We are a small number). He even complimented me on a seldom used sock of mine (TinkertoEverstoChance). RIP

Posted by: Turn 2 at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (6TlG5)

83 Experts speaking to DailyMail.com warned that Americans should take his note with a grain of salt.
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LOL.

"Experts."

Experts so confident in their predictions, they don't want to be named.

Experts so renowned for their accurate prognostications, they don't need to be named.

Trust the Experts.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (7n9I3)

84 Tomorrow, the dysfunctionally partisans of California will challenge this position when their State's increase of 65 cents per gallon of gas hits. They will be supported by the EV owners who will be enjoying a per mileage charge meant to make up for the loss of tax revenue they used to pay at the pump.

Short version: ICE drivers get higher taxes to make up for the loss of fuel tax revenue of EV owners...who will pay new taxes. California, in a way, is pulling a scam to collect more revenue. And the complacent little retards just sit there and take it....(California Morons excluded from this accusation).

Posted by: Orson at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (dIske)

85 Now that inflation has been tamed, Trump wants fed head Powell to reduce the high interest rates he imposed to tame Biden's inflation.
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Except that never happened, since interest rates are barely off of historic lows.

Which people at point realized was a problem since they couldn't go lower (that is to say, negative), without some fairly obvious repercussions.

In the long term, rates should be at least double where they are now, but people want to pretend they're high only because they're looking at interest on the irresponsible levels of debt that have accumulated.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (zLwRl)

86 79 I think Trump's magic is that he's sober and gives a shit.
Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 02:29 PM (fV+MH)

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He has a long history of business that leads him to preternaturally understand the basic supply and demand curve, something that economists spend years trying to unlearn after their first macroeconomics course as a freshman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)

87 Isn’t California's new gas tax going into effect tomorrow?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (u73oe)

88 21 They always take Trump literally, but not seriously.
Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 02:20 PM (jc0TO)
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That used to be true during Trump 1.0

Now they take Trump 2.0 both literally and seriously.

Posted by: WisRich at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (G0vdT)

89 It's too bad you sold on the dip in April and lost all your money by putting it in put options for May by listening to Jim Cramer.

How does that little troll still have an audience?

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (dCxaZ)

90 If the Donk commie cocksuckers were smart, they'd have just claimed that the economy is the one area where Trump is smart and effective, but that he's terrible when it comes to everything else. It would be bullshit, of course, but politics-wise it would mean they don't look like a bunch of retards.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 30, 2025 02:28 PM (y9nCu)
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The problem is, their base will not stand for anyone they vote for to admit President Trump was right about anything.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (tT6L1)

91 Trump I; The Brick Through The Window Administration
Trump II; The 'Did I Stutter?' Administration
JD Vance; The Teabagging and Mocking Administration

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (Ft5W9)

92 "Maybe Trump Has Outsmarted All of Us"

That's easy enough. All one has to do to outsmart a professional economist is say absolutely nothing, since the economists actively get everything wrong every time. A chimpanzee betting on a roulette wheel would outsmart them.

Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (pMi6S)

93
I didn't nood the others.

May God have pity on them.
Posted by: eleven

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

May God have pity on *you*

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2025 02:31 PM (HuRzZ)

94 91 Trump I; The Brick Through The Window Administration
Trump II; The 'Did I Stutter?' Administration
JD Vance; The Teabagging and Mocking Administration
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (Ft5W9)

=======

Vance should dress up like one of his memes for his inauguration.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

95 what kind of jeep did you get

a wrangler with hard top

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 30, 2025 02:31 PM (Pv3Rg)

96 Buy low, sell high…

*takes notes*

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 02:31 PM (jc0TO)

97 87 Isn’t California's new gas tax going into effect tomorrow?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (u73oe)

Yes....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2025 02:31 PM (VE6XX)

98
June 27 NY Times headline:

S&P 500 Surges Through Trump Turmoil

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The good news is despite him. The bad news is because of him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (HuRzZ)

99 RIP, Deplorable Jay Guevara. You will be missed.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (i24o9)

100 A chimpanzee betting on a roulette wheel would outsmart them.
Posted by: zombie

Roulette wheel? Where?

Posted by: Joe Mannix Wednesday Morning Rant Chimp at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (77rzZ)

101 >>In the long term, rates should be at least double where they are now

God, I wish this sensible take would catch fire and run out of control.

Cutting Rates is nothing but chasing the economic Dragon.

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (ASFuz)

102 Karoline Leavitt reads Trumps letter written to Powell at the presser.

https://tinyurl.com/3ex55jxk

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (NpAcC)

103 No. "European economist" is not a euphemism for "cross dressing cuck". Only a few of my economist friends are cross dressing cucks.

Posted by: Torsten Slok at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (ilm3O)

104 No net neutrality was going to kill me, COVID was going to kill me, Trump was going to kill me, tariffs were going to kill me . I see a trend here

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (eBgDF)

105 helpful with the new jeep! little guy eats a lot of gas
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 30, 2025 02:26 PM

In fairness, it takes energy to heat a little duck incubator.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (0sNs1)

106 97 87 Isn’t California's new gas tax going into effect tomorrow?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (u73oe)

Yes....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2025 02:31 PM (VE6XX)

It’s like their Rulers WANT North Korea…

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:33 PM (PCK5/)

107 "Maybe Trump Has Outsmarted All of Us"

Even that's weak sauce because it suggests that all Trump did was be smarter than the experts. He wasn't smarter than them. They were all just braindead retards. What Trump did wasn't "smart" -- it was basic, common sense Econ 101.

If you're about to shoot yourself in the face, and someone says "hey don't do that," but you shoot yourself anyway, that somebody didn't "outsmart" you. You're just a fucking imbecile.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 02:33 PM (iFTx/)

108 a wrangler with hard top

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 30, 2025 02:31 PM (Pv3Rg)

oh nice

my former boss a millenial, got a charcoal-ish gray model like that

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:33 PM (dCxaZ)

109 "RIP, Deplorable Jay Guevara. You will be missed."

Really sorry to hear this. He was a great guy.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 02:33 PM (Ft5W9)

110 The UN is holding an emergency council meeting on their budget shortfall. Seems it takes 3 trillion annually to run their mob organization, pay for the 5 star hotels and restaurants, escorts, first class air travel, etc. for all of their conferences, and "high level" meetings. With Uncle Sugar cutting off aid money via USAID that was misused so badly, they are in a panic. Good and about time.

Posted by: Cheri at June 30, 2025 02:33 PM (oiNtH)

111 No net neutrality was going to kill me, COVID was going to kill me, Trump was going to kill me, tariffs were going to kill me . I see a trend here
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (eBgDF)

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Meanwhile, the Vaxx is perfectly safe and telling crazy people their crazy is okay because it's "their truth" is not dangerous to the public at all.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:34 PM (tT6L1)

112 hoping BBB passes and I can deduct the interest on my new baby!
Posted by: Black Orchid

What's the interest rate for babies now? When we bought our son from the Gypsies, it was around 15%.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 02:34 PM (77rzZ)

113 The markets soared to record highs on Friday

I don't dare look at my investment values today, lest I get too excited and think it's permanent and real. I know there are ups and downs, and I never get bothered by the downs, because they ALWAYS eventually go back up, for stable long-term growth. I should have the same attitude about the ups.

(Quickly runs off and starts checking on current balanxces. Woo-hoo!)

Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2025 02:34 PM (pMi6S)

114 my former boss a millenial, got a charcoal-ish gray model like that

nice!

it's my empty-nest/midlife crisis car

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 30, 2025 02:34 PM (Pv3Rg)

115 "RIP, Deplorable Jay Guevara. You will be missed."

Really sorry to hear this. He was a great guy.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 02:33 PM (Ft5W9)

He was one of my favorite people here.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 02:34 PM (i24o9)

116 Someone seems to think we should care about what happens to the economies of other countries. No, that's the problem of local governance, not us.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:28 PM (tT6L1)

Well, he has to research financial trends for his job. But he chooses to read the European perspective on US markets. He's big into America-shaming.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 30, 2025 02:34 PM (O06w5)

117 That's easy enough. All one has to do to outsmart a professional economist is say absolutely nothing, since the economists actively get everything wrong every time. A chimpanzee betting on a roulette wheel would outsmart them.
Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (pMi6S)

Reminds me of the Margaritaville episode of South Park and the divination rituals of the US Treasury

Posted by: Where the chicken falls nobody knows at June 30, 2025 02:34 PM (TbWk/)

118 I often wonder about posters who just… disappear..

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:34 PM (PCK5/)

119 102 Karoline Leavitt reads Trumps letter written to Powell at the presser.

https://tinyurl.com/3ex55jxk
Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (NpAcC)
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It starts out "You fargin icehole corksuckin bastage"

Posted by: WisRich at June 30, 2025 02:35 PM (G0vdT)

120 What's the interest rate for babies now? When we bought our son from the Gypsies, it was around 15%.
Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 02:34 PM

Always pay cash.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 02:35 PM (jc0TO)

121 So Jay Powell is both partisan and incompetent.
Shocked, I tell you.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 30, 2025 02:35 PM (QVzW0)

122 119 102 Karoline Leavitt reads Trumps letter written to Powell at the presser.

https://tinyurl.com/3ex55jxk
Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (NpAcC)
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It starts out "You fargin icehole corksuckin bastage"
Posted by: WisRich at June 30, 2025 02:35 PM (G0vdT)

Lol!

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:35 PM (PCK5/)

123 Good people here pass away , but trolls are here forever

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 02:35 PM (eBgDF)

124 "This is how the NYT reports the S&P 500 hitting a record high. Reminder: you don't hate the Leftist media enough."

This is good. I like it. Why? Because the leftwing uniballs know a surging economy will boil their nut in 2026 and especially 2028.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 02:36 PM (iFTx/)

125 Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 30, 2025 02:26 PM (O06w5)

The truth ain't gonna keep people in the Cult Bubble.

There was a question this weekend if the libs were just "wired differently" than "us". The answer is for the most part nope. People do leave leftardism. Many do eventually.

But they have marinated so long in lies that their entire nervous system has been weaponized. We always ask why the media keeps lying even when it's obvious they are lies. This is why.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 02:36 PM (VPwHp)

126 116 One more day. Please pray for us. We are trying to be decent family members.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 30, 2025 02:36 PM (O06w5)

127 4% is a pretty low rate, imo.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2025 02:36 PM (vbXSk)

128 Alar on apples killed me. I've been dead for years.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: duh, winning at June 30, 2025 02:36 PM (AOsQT)

129 I just went to the store and they gave me an experience discount. Sounds a helluva lot better than an old fart discount.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 30, 2025 02:36 PM (5RR+s)

130 Tubal - CBD mentioned in the FWP post yesterday that Jay's wife had contacted him to let him know that Jay had passed.

Posted by: DanMa'am at June 30, 2025 02:37 PM (8uzBS)

131 Hmmm, disappeared Trolls.. I sometimes wonder about MUMR… just, Poof!

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:37 PM (PCK5/)

132 130 Tubal - CBD mentioned in the FWP post yesterday that Jay's wife had contacted him to let him know that Jay had passed.
Posted by: DanMa'am at June 30, 2025 02:37 PM (8uzBS)

Ah… thanks for the info.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:37 PM (PCK5/)

133 The same people that lied to you about all of the negative effects of Biden's policies ....
The same people that, for decades, told you that you had to give up your quality of life, your good job, your home, your car, in sacrifice for "free trade" ...
The same people lying to you now, telling you Trump's polices will hurt you ....

Are the same people that have made billions and trillions off of your suffering for decades.

Experts. Democrats. Globalists.

You: Poorer
Them: Richer

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 30, 2025 02:38 PM (7n9I3)

134 >> 4% is a pretty low rate, imo.

I'd prefer Trump railed on Consumer Rates and threatening to cap them.

Some poor schmucks are still paying 25-30% on CC Debt they racked up during the Inflation and Price spikes.

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2025 02:38 PM (ASFuz)

135 Even in the worst case a Tariff is a voluntary tax. Unless you absolutely need product X from country Y somebody in the supply chain will convert to using a substitute.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 02:39 PM (8avO+)

136 I think Trump's magic is that he's sober and gives a shit

This matters a lot more than I think we all understand. Most, nearly all of the people he's up against are debauched, stoned, and ruined. They take blow in meetings, they molest underage girls in between meetings, and they have staffers handle everything.

An idiot could run circles around people like this

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:39 PM (dfIr7)

137 Good people here pass away, but trolls are here forever
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 02:35 PM (eBgDF)
_________

"Meh"

-- Three Billy Goats Gruff

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 02:39 PM (iFTx/)

138 >>>In the long term, rates should be at least double where they are now, but people want to pretend they're high only because they're looking at interest on the irresponsible levels of debt that have accumulated.
Posted by: Methos
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The deal is that it's part of Trump's plan. What part of Trump's plan has failed? None. One does not question the plan that works more perfectly than any other. - Powell lowers rates or his name is forever a shame to him and his heirs.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 02:39 PM (Dng1D)

139 I just went to the store and they gave me an experience discount. Sounds a helluva lot better than an old fart discount.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 30, 2025 02:36 PM (5RR+s)

Good thing it wasn't the Jerk Store.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 02:39 PM (i24o9)

140 Rep. Moreno tore Jerome Powell a new one in that video.

Powell has definitely gotten out of his lane and claiming he's only talking about "inflation" to hide his criticism of the tariffs says a lot about him and who he's really working for; the big banks and global financial market.

The WEF Crowd doesn't like tariffs, so they'll keep the rates up and get their money in interest payments on the national debt.

Powell can't leave soon enough.
If we had any concept of honor left in this country, among our politicians and bureaucrats, Powell would've resigned after lying about inflation for two years and then having to reverse course all the way to 4.5% Fed Funds Rate when the lies stopped working.

The FFR should be cut by a half or full basis point immediately and help Bessent out on the payments on those huge debt bombs Biden-Yellen left us.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2025 02:39 PM (6ydKt)

141 Just noticed in the side-bar that Deplorable Jay has passed away. That's so very sad. As a long-time lurker, I really enjoyed his comments and observations at the HQ. He will be sorely missed, as are all the others listed with him. May they all rest in peace!
Posted by: Retired, thank God!

Oh, no. I will miss the back and forth with Jay and his posts most of all. Sad. I felt that he was such a big part of the HQ and will miss him.

Posted by: Cheri at June 30, 2025 02:39 PM (oiNtH)

142 The same people lying to you now, telling you Trump's polices will hurt you ....

Are the same people that have made billions and trillions off of your suffering for decades.

Experts. Democrats. Globalists.

You: Poorer
Them: Richer
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 30, 2025 02:38 PM (7n9I3)

And their useful idiots in both parties. They sold their souls for less than a pittance.

Posted by: Spineless weasels at June 30, 2025 02:39 PM (TbWk/)

143 45 Just noticed in the side-bar that Deplorable Jay has passed away. That's so very sad. As a long-time lurker, I really enjoyed his comments and observations at the HQ. He will be sorely missed, as are all the others listed with him. May they all rest in peace!
Posted by: Retired, thank God!

Wowl that's terrible. We've been bantering and jousting for many years (without actually knowing each other in real life). RIP.

Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2025 02:40 PM (pMi6S)

144 > Karoline Leavitt reads Trumps letter written to Powell at the presser.
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This is the "but first" part...

... then comes the firing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 30, 2025 02:40 PM (Q4IgG)

145 The markets soared to record highs on Friday

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So Biden's policies are finally bearing fruit.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 30, 2025 02:40 PM (5RR+s)

146 >>The FFR should be cut by a half or full basis point immediately and help Bessent out on the payments on those huge debt bombs Biden-Yellen left us.

I couldn't disagree more.

Until we tackle the Spending / Budget issues, lowering the rate will do nothing beneficial to the average consumer.

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2025 02:41 PM (ASFuz)

147 I really liked reading what Deplorable Jay had to say. He could be very witty and insightful.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:41 PM (tT6L1)

148 136 I think Trump's magic is that he's sober and gives a shit

This matters a lot more than I think we all understand. ...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Forget not that he is very smart.
Much smarter than any other in politics today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 02:41 PM (Dng1D)

149 "The Honorable..."

I laughed.

But then I stopped laughing... Why "The Honorable", though, honestly? He's just a schmuck with a job. He ain't a judge. He ain't a mayor. Why tack "The Honorable" onto this guy? Fed Chairman has no part in any kind of magisterium or civic pantheon. It's just some job he wheedled his way into.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 02:41 PM (VoAdT)

150 You know what should be mandatory viewing every time anyone tells you to rely upon economic or financial expert predictions?

Matthew McConuaghey's scene in Wolf of Wall Street

Mark Hanna: The name of the game, moving the money from the client's pocket to your pocket *** Number one rule of Wall Street. Nobody - and I don't care if you're Warren Buffet or if you're Jimmy Buffet - nobody knows if a stock is going to go up, down, sideways or in circles. You know what a fugazi is?
Jordan Belfort: Fugayzi, it's a fake.
Mark Hanna: Fugayzi, fugazi. It's a whazy. It's a woozie. It's fairy dust. It doesn't exist. It's never landed. It is no matter. It's not on the elemental chart. It's not fucking real.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 30, 2025 02:41 PM (7n9I3)

151 The UN is holding an emergency council meeting on their budget shortfall. Seems it takes 3 trillion annually to run their mob organization, pay for the 5 star hotels and restaurants, escorts, first class air travel, etc. for all of their conferences, and "high level" meetings. With Uncle Sugar cutting off aid money via USAID that was misused so badly, they are in a panic. Good and about time.
Posted by: Cheri

Here's to hoping they have to to part time, sell the UN building and hold meetings out of the trunk of a 72 Buick.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 02:42 PM (LA0fN)

152 Was Jay sick?

I'm sorry to hear he's gone.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 30, 2025 02:42 PM (PMtkd)

153 Just noticed in the side-bar that Deplorable Jay has passed away. That's so very sad.

I know its inevitable, we're all getting older. We joke about being 29 but some of us are quite elderly and every year pushes us all toward that. Its the worst part about getting old that I kind of knew about but never really understood: all my friends and family are dying around me.

God be with his family and with you all as his friends. This is a good reminder: turn your eyes upon Jesus while you still may, and spend time with the ones you live while you have the opportunity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:42 PM (dfIr7)

154 This is entertaining.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 30, 2025 02:42 PM (1FkCD)

155 So Biden's policies are finally bearing fruit.
__

It is Pride month, after all.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2025 02:42 PM (Dv3i1)

156 One of life's greatest ironies is that we have no accurate idea who's really going to miss us when we're dead until we're dead. But then we're dead so we'll never know who really misses us.

Posted by: Life is cruel that way at June 30, 2025 02:42 PM (TbWk/)

157 Powell is another leftist barnacle who we need to be gone.

He'll really enjoy life more with a nice economics Substack.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2025 02:42 PM (Z5NUn)

158 >>You know what a fugazi is?

WAITING ROOM

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=C3LXkdpHNOQ

Posted by: FUGAZI at June 30, 2025 02:43 PM (ASFuz)

159 "136 I think Trump's magic is that he's sober and gives a shit"

Also that he's already made his fortune and doesn't have to keep grifting like a coke-addled rhesus punching the happy button in the behavioral lab.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 02:43 PM (Ft5W9)

160 Remember if you got less then 10% return per year on your investments under Bidenomics you were losing money because of inflation.

With Trump lowering the increase in inflation to a minimal amount any gains are real gains

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 02:43 PM (t0Rmr)

161 That's easy enough. All one has to do to outsmart a professional economist is say absolutely nothing, since the economists actively get everything wrong every time. A chimpanzee betting on a roulette wheel would outsmart them.
Posted by: zombie at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (pMi6S)

I took Econ 101 under Jimmy Carter. We got to the point where they proved that unemployment and inflation could not exist at the same time and I recategorized it as pseudoscience. Both were at high levels right then, and the teacher didn't even mention it.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 02:43 PM (8avO+)

162 Not too terribly difficult to outsmart our "expert" class. In fact rather easy but that won't stop "experts" from more experting about thing they are always wrong on.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 30, 2025 02:43 PM (17s+e)

163 I know its inevitable, we're all getting older. We joke about being 29 but some of us are quite elderly and every year pushes us all toward that. Its the worst part about getting old that I kind of knew about but never really understood: all my friends and family are dying around me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:42 PM (dfIr7)

The realization which really hit me hard: My wife and I are at an age where it's quite possible only one of us will wake up some morning.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:44 PM (tT6L1)

164 The WA politburo is having none of this lowering of gas prices. New carbon taxes start on July 1. Diesel is now $4.59 (on the rez) and it will increase about .10 a gallon or more.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 02:44 PM (/U5Yz)

165 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:39 PM (dfIr7)

"Debauched, stoned and ruined"

Perfect summation.

Would make a great book title, actually....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 02:44 PM (VoAdT)

166 That trickster Trump! How dare he keep winning!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2025 02:44 PM (nHcc1)

167
"Debauched, stoned and ruined"

Perfect summation.

Would make a great book title, actually....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 02:44 PM (VoAdT)
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Pretty good summary of "Ozymandias."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:45 PM (tT6L1)

168 Here's to hoping they have to to part time, sell the UN building and hold meetings out of the trunk of a 72 Buick.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 02:42 PM (LA0fN)

With peace in the Congo it can now host the UN for the next 50 years.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 02:45 PM (8avO+)

169 Also that he's already made his fortune and doesn't have to keep grifting like a coke-addled rhesus punching the happy button in the behavioral lab.
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 02:43 PM (Ft5W9)

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Oh, you're talking about Pelosi.

That bitch just recently hit the jackpot AGAIN. Imagine that.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 30, 2025 02:45 PM (PMtkd)

170 Forget not that he is very smart.
Much smarter than any other in politics today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 02:41 PM (Dng1D)

He's smart and he's very shrewd. But he doesn't talk like a stuffed shirt member of the Rhodes Debating Society and Yacht Club so, y'know, he's "unpresidential."

Posted by: Stupid people don't know they're stupid at June 30, 2025 02:45 PM (TbWk/)

171 Q2 2025 is gonna be something like +3.5% GDP or more.
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LOL

The Press: The economy is overheating! There is a significant increase in the chance of a major crash in the coming months!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 30, 2025 02:45 PM (7n9I3)

172 RIP, Jay. I’m sorry to hear of his passing. He reminded me of my dad, especially in things I disagreed with, and I looked forward to his comments.

Posted by: Open Channel D at June 30, 2025 02:45 PM (gYnrv)

173 The intent of modern economics is to give the government an excuse to spend more money.

From arguing that printing currency has no effect because thew newly created debt "we owe to ourselves" to claiming any and all government spending has a multiplier effect one can always find an economist to argue giving money to the clients of a politician is a good idea...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 02:45 PM (t0Rmr)

174 The Federal Funds Rate was 0.5 - 0.75% in March of 2020.
Today it is 4.25 - 4.5%.

That is costing the treasury hundred of billions in extra interest payments on the debt this year because Biden and Yellen financed a lot of short-term debt because they believed rates would be going down.

They didn't and now Bessent is left holding the bag.

This isn't just about consumer and commercial loan interest it's about trying to stop the bleeding of wasted money on debt repayment.

That's the main reason Trump wants Powell gone.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2025 02:45 PM (6ydKt)

175 I laughed.

But then I stopped laughing... Why "The Honorable", though, honestly? He's just a schmuck with a job. He ain't a judge. He ain't a mayor. Why tack "The Honorable" onto this guy? Fed Chairman has no part in any kind of magisterium or civic pantheon. It's just some job he wheedled his way into.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
-Emerson

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2025 02:45 PM (Dv3i1)

176 As usual the experts weren't wrong, they were lying.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 02:45 PM (VPwHp)

177 42 100%

so now the FED sees policy proposals that havent been enacted and decides to preempt them in case they get passed?

Did he ever do this when Biden suddenly did a trillion dollar student loan forgiveness?

I'm almost of the opinion though that zero inflation would be nice for a while
Posted by: Eldo at June 30, 2025 02:23 PM (kRhM/)

I've never been on board with the 2% inflation goal... not sure why it's a goal, or considered "healthy"

Posted by: Inogame at June 30, 2025 02:46 PM (53oGX)

178 "136 I think Trump's magic is that he's sober and gives a shit

This matters a lot more than I think we all understand. Most, nearly all of the people he's up against are debauched, stoned, and ruined. They take blow in meetings, they molest underage girls in between meetings, and they have staffers handle everything."

this!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2025 02:46 PM (Z5NUn)

179 163 I know its inevitable, we're all getting older. We joke about being 29 but some of us are quite elderly and every year pushes us all toward that. Its the worst part about getting old that I kind of knew about but never really understood: all my friends and family are dying around me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:42 PM (dfIr7)

The realization which really hit me hard: My wife and I are at an age where it's quite possible only one of us will wake up some morning.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:44 PM (tT6L1)

Love her a lot, appreciate every day with her… God’s greatest gift to us in this world is our loving wife ( or husband, if an ‘ette)…

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:46 PM (PCK5/)

180 Bidenomics: We'll let the insiders know we are going to mandate the clot shot so they can get rich

Trump-nomics: Let's let people keep more of their own money and they will spend it more wisely then we could

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 02:46 PM (t0Rmr)

181 The deal is that it's part of Trump's plan. What part of Trump's plan has failed? None. One does not question the plan that works more perfectly than any other. - Powell lowers rates or his name is forever a shame to him and his heirs.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 30, 2025 02:39 PM (Dng1D)

I guess the question is 'What is the goal of the plan?'. It is widely known that you can fake a better economy in the short term by lowering rates, but sooner or later reality will have it's way.

And you can't reduce forever because once you get to 0, there's no good reason for anyone to invest (including keeping their money in a bank), and the whole system collapses.

If the plan is to put us in the best possible position for the collapse (and the aftermath) by moving as much manufacturing here before it happens, that's something, but I don't think that's what most people supporting Trump think the plan is.

Posted by: Methos at June 30, 2025 02:46 PM (zLwRl)

182 HOLD ON!!!

Jim "Never Right" Cramer was wrong... again. I shan't believe it.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 30, 2025 02:46 PM (17s+e)

183 Forget not that he is very smart.

He is, but some of the people he's up against are very smart too, and they outnumber him significantly. To wax nerd here, as a GM I run my games with 4-6 players. No matter how prepared, clever, and creative I might be, I cannot compete with all of them at once, they'll always out think and out strategize me.

But if they're all stoned and corrupted, and have a worldview that is innately stupid and contradictory?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:46 PM (dfIr7)

184 "we're all getting older"

Just bought a new gas grill to replace the one I got 21 years out of, and it crossed my mind that this could very likely be the last gas grill I buy.

So I bought a really, really nice one.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM (Ft5W9)

185 Doesn't have to keep grifting like a coke-addled rhesus punching the happy button in the behavioral lab
÷=
Comparing politicians to coke addled rhesus monkeys is wrong. Coke addled rhesus monkey have more dignity.

Posted by: NIH researcher at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM (ilm3O)

186 > RIP, Deplorable Jay Guevara. You will be missed.

Oh, no! I'm so sorry to hear he has passed. Condolences to his loved ones.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM (lIio7)

187 "Debauched, stoned and ruined"

I'm pretty much ruined, so sign me up for stoned and debauched.

Posted by: Got to have SOME fun in this bland existence at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM (TbWk/)

188 @EricLDaugh-
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on potentially becoming the Federal Reserve chairman next: "I will do what the president wants."

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM (NpAcC)

189 >>This isn't just about consumer and commercial loan interest it's about trying to stop the bleeding of wasted money on debt repayment.

Be awesome if that was occurring in a Vacuum and would have no downstream repercussions.

It's a Sugar High and in the long term, it only hurts.

Posted by: FUGAZI at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM (ASFuz)

190 Obama: This is as good as the economy gets. What does Trump have a magic wand?

Trump v1.0: economy booms

Biden: If you elect Trump he'll crash the economy

Trump v2.0: economy booms

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM (t0Rmr)

191 Life hack: let the expert class keep thinking they are the expert class, but just do the exact opposite of what they tell the masses to do.

Posted by: Cray Cray at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM (eDsNT)

192 StraightEdgeSockOFF

Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (ASFuz)

193 "we're all getting older"

Just bought a new gas grill to replace the one I got 21 years out of, and it crossed my mind that this could very likely be the last gas grill I buy.

So I bought a really, really nice one.

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM (Ft5W9)

Yeah, I bought a new wheelbarrow thinking the same. Hope the kids enjoy it.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (i24o9)

194 God’s greatest gift to us in this world is our loving pets.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (HTa/G)

195 and yes, RIP Jay Guevara!

so quick, so sudden, makes ya think ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (Z5NUn)

196 This isn't just about consumer and commercial loan interest it's about trying to stop the bleeding of wasted money on debt repayment.
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Trump collects tariffs from China, and Powell keeps rates high in order to send these gains back to China via interest payments. Might want to check his accounts in Cayman.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (Dv3i1)

197 Well.......

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (Zaf4Y)

198 I'll miss Deplorable Jay. Seems like discourse here has suffered with the Horde's losses this year.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (wBaIH)

199 184 "we're all getting older"

Just bought a new gas grill to replace the one I got 21 years out of, and it crossed my mind that this could very likely be the last gas grill I buy.

So I bought a really, really nice one.
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM (Ft5W9)

So not a Big Green Egg… those things are a heart attack waiting to happen when moving around.. small cranes are needed.

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (PCK5/)

200 The realization which really hit me hard: My wife and I are at an age where it's quite possible only one of us will wake up some morning.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

For some of us, that’s already happened.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (nHcc1)

201 Imagine being a world-renowned economist for a major international corporation and being outsmarted by a brash, loud-mouthed, braggart real-estate developer from Queens?

And he didn't even go to the top schools!

And has never had a paper published in a major journal!

Let alone, he doesn't even have a PhD!!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (7n9I3)

202 188 @EricLDaugh-
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on potentially becoming the Federal Reserve chairman next: "I will do what the president wants."
Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM (NpAcC)

Holy crap, are we sure this guy is a Republican?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 02:49 PM (VoAdT)

203 RIP Jay Guevara

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 02:49 PM (t0Rmr)

204 As usual the experts weren't wrong, they were lying.

I am willing to embrace the power of "and" here.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:49 PM (dfIr7)

205 194 God’s greatest gift to us in this world is our loving pets.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (HTa/G)

My wife never chewed up my good gloves…

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:49 PM (PCK5/)

206 Actor Andy Richter: 20 Years from Now People will Use ‘MAGA’ the Way We Use ‘Nazi’ Today

Former Conan O’Brien TV sidekick Andy Richter...

This Hollywood mantra is really getting old.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 02:50 PM (/U5Yz)

207 68 Gas prices here in Illinois jumped thirty cents a gallon last week (up from $2.99). This blue state has the second highest gas taxes in the country, but that still doesn't explain the sudden jump.

Just another day in paradise, I guess.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 30, 2025 02:27 PM (mNhIh)

Not sure, but IL decided to raise the gas tax... it goes into effect tomorrow.

Posted by: Inogame at June 30, 2025 02:50 PM (53oGX)

208 For some of us, that’s already happened.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (nHcc1)
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And I'm truly sorry to hear that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 02:50 PM (tT6L1)

209 206 Actor Andy Richter: 20 Years from Now People will Use ‘MAGA’ the Way We Use ‘Nazi’ Today

Former Conan O’Brien TV sidekick Andy Richter...

This Hollywood mantra is really getting old.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 02:50 PM (/U5Yz)

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Meaning, we'll have moved so far to the right as a nation that MAGA will be considered leftist in comparison?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:50 PM (GBKbO)

210 Actor Andy Richter: 20 Years from Now People will Use ‘MAGA’ the Way We Use ‘Nazi’ Today
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So, no different from today.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 30, 2025 02:51 PM (Dv3i1)

211 CNN doesn't correct the record or follow up. They just move on to pushing the next panic.

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"Trump's Brutal Bogusful Bill will kill at least 1 Billion Children nationwide! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at June 30, 2025 02:51 PM (en0uw)

212 He's smart and he's very shrewd. But he doesn't talk like a stuffed shirt member of the Rhodes Debating Society and Yacht Club so, y'know, he's "unpresidential."
Posted by: Stupid people don't know they're stupid

Trump is better than EF Hutton.
If Trump says, "put your money in your mattress", you'd best listen to him.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 02:51 PM (LA0fN)

213 Just bought a new gas grill to replace the one I got 21 years out of, and it crossed my mind that this could very likely be the last gas grill I buy.

Yeah I have been thinking about that a lot lately. I am only 59, so I might have decades in me, although with my health its unlikely. But I get something and figure... probably not likely to get another one of these again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:51 PM (dfIr7)

214 I really need to see what Paul Krugman the Miniscule thinks about this.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 30, 2025 02:51 PM (kTd/k)

215 205 194 God’s greatest gift to us in this world is our loving pets.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (HTa/G)
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Children are the best.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 30, 2025 02:51 PM (PMtkd)

216 That is costing the treasury hundred of billions in extra interest payments on the debt this year because Biden and Yellen financed a lot of short-term debt because they believed rates would be going down.

They didn't and now Bessent is left holding the bag.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at June 30, 2025 02:45 PM (6ydKt)

They believed no such thing. Its just a scam they used because they then had more money to waste and steal.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 02:51 PM (8avO+)

217 205 194 God’s greatest gift to us in this world is our loving pets.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (HTa/G)

My wife never chewed up my good gloves…
Posted by: tubal

Mine doesn't crap in a sandbox.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 02:51 PM (/U5Yz)

218
"This is shaping up to be the cheapest summer since 2021,"

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Cheapest since 2021. I keep seeing that. What happened in 2021?

/

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 30, 2025 02:52 PM (CzfKa)

219 77 Q2 2025 is gonna be something like +3.5% GDP or more.

Then maybe the press will stop talking about the economy completely.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)

WHAT ABOUT EGGS!

Posted by: MSCNN at June 30, 2025 02:52 PM (53oGX)

220 @159. "Buck" Dharma, I believe you have described the Hunter Biden story

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 02:52 PM (eBgDF)

221 205 194 God’s greatest gift to us in this world is our loving pets.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (HTa/G)

My wife never chewed up my good gloves…
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:49 PM (PCK5/)

She might if you ask nicely.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 30, 2025 02:52 PM (4/BuS)

222 I'm almost of the opinion though that zero inflation would be nice for a while
Posted by: Eldo at June 30, 2025 02:23 PM (kRhM/)

I've never been on board with the 2% inflation goal... not sure why it's a goal, or considered "healthy"
Posted by: Inogame at June 30, 2025 02:46 PM (53oGX)

--

BLUF, it's more of a political decision than an economic one.

With rare exception, unemployment and inflation tend to have an inverse relationship. The idea is that with a somewhat blunt instrument like monetary policy, coupled with the imperfect information we can get on the state of things, it's judged better to minimize unemployment to structural levels and accept the consequent inflation.

I'm skimming over a LOT in the mechanics, and will be ignoring people like LGD who are happy to say as nauseum that I don't know jack shit bc of my degree, but I offer this as a glimpse into the sausage factory.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 30, 2025 02:52 PM (O5Ote)

223 Mine doesn't crap in a sandbox.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 02:51 PM (/U5Yz)
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How about the conjugal bed?

Posted by: Johnny Depp at June 30, 2025 02:52 PM (tT6L1)

224 174, 175, 176, 190, yup.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2025 02:53 PM (Z5NUn)

225
So not a Big Green Egg… those things are a heart attack waiting to happen when moving around.. small cranes are needed.
==
Its on wheels. But forget moving it up and down steps without a crew. Its cast iron. Love mine. Does everything.

Posted by: NIH researcher at June 30, 2025 02:53 PM (ilm3O)

226 Just bought a new gas grill to replace the one I got 21 years out of, and it crossed my mind that this could very likely be the last gas grill I buy.

So I bought a really, really nice one.
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM

Heh. My next roof will certainly outlast me. My next car might.

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 02:53 PM (jc0TO)

227 Obama: This is as good as the economy gets. What does Trump have a magic wand?

Trump v1.0: economy booms

Biden: If you elect Trump he'll crash the economy

Trump v2.0: economy booms
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 02:47 PM (t0Rmr)

The economic evidence clearly shows that Republicans sabotaged the Obama and Biden presidencies. While of course Democrats and the right wing corporate media go along to get along and do their best to make things right. Then they let Dumbledon and his Ukrainian wife Hairy Pooter take the credit for all of it.

DU, probably

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 02:53 PM (VPwHp)

228 Kicking out tens of millions of illegals is going to have a lot of effects.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu
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But we have not written about that in the past. We actually have to analyze and think about the impact of that?

Posted by: legacy media and some economists at June 30, 2025 02:53 PM (2bFN5)

229 Eggs are under 3 bucks here… not great, not terrible… helps to have hens to lay them, I guess…

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:53 PM (PCK5/)

230 Holy crap, are we sure this guy is a Republican?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 02:49 PM (VoA
********
He'd be great.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2025 02:53 PM (NpAcC)

231 Trump is not even a genius.

He's just a reasonably competent business man with "take no BS" instincts. That's it. In the business world, he's one of a thousand.

In politics (local, national, or global), he's one in a million because being even reasonably competent is enough to launch you in the upper echelon of a field mostly comprised of idiot lawyers, glad handers, and good old boys.

Posted by: Shenanigans at June 30, 2025 02:53 PM (qKI0i)

232 also 179 & 194!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (Z5NUn)

233 228 But we have not written about that in the past. We actually have to analyze and think about the impact of that?
Posted by: legacy media and some economists at June 30, 2025 02:53 PM (2bFN5)

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If you had written about it in the past, would you even remember?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

234 Eggs are under 3 bucks here… not great, not terrible… helps to have hens to lay them, I guess…

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:53 PM (PCK5/)

Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (i24o9)

235 123 Good people here pass away , but trolls are here forever
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 02:35 PM (eBgDF)

Ehhh, I sometimes think our trolls are like the Dred Pirate Roberts.

They retire, and hand the reigns over to some one new under the same name

Posted by: browndog musing at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (TTAGa)

236 232 also 179 & 194!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (Z5NUn)

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324!

I can also do numbers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (GBKbO)

237 WHAT ABOUT EGGS!
Posted by: MSCNN at June 30, 2025 02:52 PM (53oGX)

Nevermind eggs, the Iran story and WWIII sure died fast.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (VPwHp)

238 WHAT ABOUT EGGS!

Biden flunkie kills tens of millions of chickens. Prices rise...OBVIOUSLY

The left: The price of eggs/chicken has not gone up you lying racist liars!

Trump gets elected and a few days later...

The left: THE PRICE OF EGGS IS STILL HIGH AND TRUMP IS TO BLAME

The price of eggs goes down slowly after Trump fires the Biden-flukie

The left: See the price of eggs never went up under Biden!!!

Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (t0Rmr)

239 221 205 194 God’s greatest gift to us in this world is our loving pets.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (HTa/G)

My wife never chewed up my good gloves…
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:49 PM (PCK5/)

She might if you ask nicely.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 30, 2025 02:52 PM (4/BuS)

Heh… she HAS chewed my Ass a few times…

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (PCK5/)

240 Can’t the Treasury Secretary fire the Fed Chair?

Posted by: Jmel at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (bVhJi)

241 The realization which really hit me hard: My wife and I are at an age where it's quite possible only one of us will wake up some morning.
Posted by: blake

I've jacked my life insurance and ad&d policies up so high, if I go, my wife will be very wealthy.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (LA0fN)

242 God’s greatest gift to us in this world is our loving pets.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 30, 2025 02:48 PM (HTa/G)

My wife never chewed up my good gloves…
==4
Wish I could say mine never crapped on the floor.

Posted by: Bill Clinton at June 30, 2025 02:55 PM (ilm3O)

243 Actor Andy Richter: 20 Years from Now People will Use ‘MAGA’ the Way We Use ‘Nazi’ Today

Former Conan O’Brien TV sidekick Andy Richter...

This Hollywood mantra is really getting old.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 02:50 PM (/U5Yz)

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Meaning, we'll have moved so far to the right as a nation that MAGA will be considered leftist in comparison?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:50 PM (GBKbO)
______

Who? I thought this was that steroid junkie shitstain actor. But that's a different guy, right?

The timeline is odd. They've been calling Trump a "nazi" from the jump. That would be 2016 -- almost 10 years ago. But we'll have to wait another 20 years before MAGA = Nazi? So 30 years is the ticket!

It's almost like these leftwing pus sores just pull dumb shit out of their oozing pus sores.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

244 The realization which really hit me hard: My wife and I are at an age where it's quite possible only one of us will wake up some morning.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

I hope it's me that goes first. I am tired of grieving.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at June 30, 2025 02:55 PM (Gmq6N)

245
Nevermind eggs, the Iran story and WWIII sure died fast.
Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (VPwHp)

Now they're running with stories that the bombing didn't really totally destroy the nuke program and they'll be back in a couple months...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 30, 2025 02:55 PM (VE6XX)

246 I've jacked my life insurance and ad&d policies up so high, if I go, my wife will be very wealthy.
Posted by: rickb223
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I too sleep with one eye open.

Posted by: scampydog at June 30, 2025 02:56 PM (2bFN5)

247 Jim Cramer... How does that little troll still have an audience?
Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (dCxaZ)

He has a long tradition of existence, to himself and to the community at large.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 30, 2025 02:56 PM (gKWVE)

248 Actor Andy Richter: 20 Years from Now People will Use ‘MAGA’ the Way We Use ‘Nazi’ Today
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You mean libs will call anyone who disagrees with them MAGA?

That scans.

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 02:56 PM (VPwHp)

249 123 Good people here pass away , but trolls are here forever
Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 30, 2025 02:35 PM (eBgDF)

Ehhh, I sometimes think our trolls are like the Dred Pirate Roberts.

They retire, and hand the reigns over to some one new under the same name
Posted by: browndog musing at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (TTAGa)

I think of them as minions in a dormant volcano lab, shifts of them learning the same turns of phrase and a dude in a uniform shooting them from time to time if we ignore them too long.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 02:56 PM (8avO+)

250 O/T but don't care. I am shocked about Jay. I think he was on here last week commenting. This mades me sad, as he was always nice to me and funny.

I looked for a comment quickly but cannot find one.

Will miss you, Jay.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2025 02:56 PM (6PCLE)

251
🤗vmom🤗

Posted by: ... at June 30, 2025 02:57 PM (VPwHp)

252 He’s [Powell's] costing America 100s of billions and should resign.

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Janet Yellen is brain-dead, translucent, near-perfectly spherical, and available!

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at June 30, 2025 02:57 PM (en0uw)

253 ....

Did people have to wait until 1965 to realize that the Nazis were Nazis?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 30, 2025 02:57 PM (VoAdT)

254 243 Who? I thought this was that steroid junkie shitstain actor. But that's a different guy, right?

The timeline is odd. They've been calling Trump a "nazi" from the jump. That would be 2016 -- almost 10 years ago. But we'll have to wait another 20 years before MAGA = Nazi? So 30 years is the ticket!

It's almost like these leftwing pus sores just pull dumb shit out of their oozing pus sores.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 02:55 PM (iFTx/)

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That is, of course, the great irony.

The media institutions have been calling Trump and his voters Nazis for quite literally a decade now. He came down the escalator in 2015. 10 years. A decade.

Pure "You guys are Nazis. We're just trying to have a debate about trannies, and you're being all Nazi about it. Sweet Science, can we please just kill all the Nazis by punching them in the face until they die?"

And yet...here we are. Trump more popular than ever, the GOP more behind him than ever, and the DNC taking out loans to cover operating expenses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)

255 Leave Jim Cramer alone! He produces a lot of carbon dioxide. And poop.

Posted by: the plants at June 30, 2025 02:57 PM (gKWVE)

256 probably right, browndog

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 30, 2025 02:58 PM (Z5NUn)

257 A Hamas simp reposts a video of two Palis getting droned.

Footage from the Israelis shows a drone strike targeting two innocent young Palestinians carrying their tent after being ordered to leave by the Israeli military.

Funny thing though, the video clearly shows two secondary explosions.

http://tiny.cc/s6co001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 30, 2025 02:58 PM (lIio7)

258 But mostly poop.

Posted by: Don't forget at June 30, 2025 02:58 PM (PDyka)

259 255 Leave Jim Cramer alone! He produces a lot of carbon dioxide. And poop.
Posted by: the plants at June 30, 2025 02:57 PM (gKWVE)

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So do shit throwing bonobos, but we don't put them on TV.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

260 Something to ask oneself when you're young enough to do something about it: when I die will I leave anything worthwhile behind? And I don't necessarily mean accumulated wealth.

At this stage I probably won't. But it's something to consider. Sure all lives have inherent worth, but will our lives have meant anything when they end?

Posted by: Morbid motivational at June 30, 2025 02:58 PM (TbWk/)

261 He didn’t even go to top schools!

Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Business. That’s part of Penn State, which is an Ivy League school.

But that doesn’t count! Why? Because Trump!

The real beef they have with him is that he is a class traitor! He sides with us, the little guy. He likes to get to know the workmen on his building projects, he befriends the doorman at building an asks about his wife’s health. He’s not the kind of snob he could have been: he’s for us!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2025 02:59 PM (nHcc1)

262 "One of life's greatest ironies is that we have no accurate idea who's really going to miss us when we're dead until we're dead. But then we're dead so we'll never know who really misses us.
Posted by: Life is cruel that way "

And we're all conscious, but we will never be able to define what consciousness is.

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 02:59 PM (fV+MH)

263 44 30 Isn't fed chairman Powell's term over soon?
Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (dCxaZ)

2026 I believe
Posted by: It's me donna

Scott Bessent stated that the next open seat is 1/26 and Powell’s Chairman seat opens in May. PDT could announce the next Fed Chair (who would take the open seat in Jan) and slide into the Chair seat next spring, although Powell would still be eligible to be on Board until end of 2027.

Posted by: EveR at June 30, 2025 02:59 PM (Z/h4+)

264 255 Leave Jim Cramer alone! He produces a lot of carbon dioxide. And poop.
Posted by: the plants at June 30, 2025 02:57 PM (gKWVE)

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So do shit throwing bonobos, but we don't put them on TV.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

Perhaps we should. The bonobos would give more sensible advice.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 02:59 PM (8avO+)

265
I looked for a comment quickly but cannot find one.

Will miss you, Jay.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2025 02:56 PM (6PCLE)

I'm shocked too. I don't think he posted last week at all.
He will be greatly missed.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 30, 2025 02:59 PM (Y5PQs)

266 : President Trump says he is switching AWAY from AT&T after their equipment totally failed during a massive conference call with nationwide faith leaders.

https://tinyurl.com/28j9bfek

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2025 02:59 PM (NpAcC)

267 Leave Jim Cramer alone! He produces a lot of carbon dioxide. And poop.
Posted by: the plants

I know what plants really need.
-- Harvey Weinstein

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 02:59 PM (77rzZ)

268 264
So do shit throwing bonobos, but we don't put them on TV.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

Perhaps we should. The bonobos would give more sensible advice.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 02:59 PM (8avO+)

=======

"Apes together strong!"
-buy the dip

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

269 I’m still waiting for the gas price drop here in flyover country. It's been at the same price ($3.19/gal) for the past year.
Posted by: Turn 2

I noticed $2.64 at the local gas station yesterday. I'm in a NE suburb of Nashville. It's been pretty stable in the price range for quite a while now. My local Kroger's has dozens of signs in front of the store that trumpet new low prices on 1000 items.

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2025 03:00 PM (lJ0H4)

270 "Actor Andy Richter: 20 Years from Now People will Use ‘MAGA’ the Way We Use ‘Nazi’ Today"

Along with the rest of Hollywood, Andy FINALLY got the taste of Harvey Weinstein out of his mouth, and now he's feeling froggy.

Remember that taste, Andy? Smegma, Brut, and failure?
Got you where you are today, but still...

Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 03:00 PM (Ft5W9)

271 We can't wait until 2026 to get rid of the tool, Powell.

Fire him.

Posted by: Seems Legit at June 30, 2025 03:00 PM (PMtkd)

272 ...

Trump graduated from the Wharton School of Business. That’s part of Penn State, which is an Ivy League school.

...
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at June 30, 2025 02:59 PM (nHcc1)

NOT PENN STATE ...

University of Pennsylvania

Posted by: browndog musing at June 30, 2025 03:00 PM (TTAGa)

273 Heh… she HAS chewed my Ass a few times…
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 02:54 PM (PCK5/)
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Same.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 30, 2025 03:00 PM (tT6L1)

274 Parisian chicks know how to dress well for hot weather. And it's 96 degrees today.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 30, 2025 01:58 PM (L5An7)

Playing catch up, here.... did you follow the rules as a COB, and provide links to the sauce?

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 30, 2025 03:00 PM (QcUc+)

275 "The Federal Funds Rate was 0.5 - 0.75% in March of 2020. Today it is 4.25 - 4.5%."

4.33% in May, 2025. And yeah, zero for Biden, and zero for Barky Obama. Just up a little for Trump 45.

But they'd been lowering rates since 1985 to stimulate and fund their Huge Debt. Doesn't mean Lower Rates are always the answer ... zero rates just pushes people into (often) riskier investment, and inflates stocks.

Inflated stock markets make people feel rich, but the behemoths we created took control ... from the left. Reducing spending (via stopping all the theft and fraud) is better, but not easier I guess. Always have to buy those votes.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2025 03:00 PM (vbXSk)

276 If I were a nice person I'd feel for the poor lefties having to deal with this; for their sorrow, for their tears, for their broken dreams.

But I'm not. I'm loving it.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (od0dV)

277 Most of our trolls are quite old as well. Some have just vanished over time, possibly shuffled off this mortal coil to find out just how wrong they really were.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (dfIr7)

278 O/T but don't care. I am shocked about Jay. I think he was on here last week commenting. This mades me sad, as he was always nice to me and funny.

I looked for a comment quickly but cannot find one.

Will miss you, Jay.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I believe it was soothsayer in JJ's thread said that he believed it was an aneurism.

Literally , a heartbeat changes everything.
That's what took my father in law back in March.

Hug your family tight. Hold onto them for a heartbeat longer.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (LA0fN)

279 I want gas prices to go through the roof! $13.00 a gallon seems right! The Earth is on fire! Ahhhhhhh! Yeah! Oh Yeah!

Posted by: Al Gore, Rubbing One Out at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (HgFW6)

280 269 I noticed $2.64 at the local gas station yesterday. I'm in a NE suburb of Nashville. It's been pretty stable in the price range for quite a while now. My local Kroger's has dozens of signs in front of the store that trumpet new low prices on 1000 items.
Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2025 03:00 PM (lJ0H4)

=====

Pump prices involve a lot of inputs, one of the most important being futures contracts that determine pricing.

Costco does spot pricing, so they see price changes faster.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

281 Penn State is not Ivy League. It's in the Big Ten, sad to say.

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (77rzZ)

282 Stopped at my usual McD's on the way back from Maryland this weekend. Staffed, for the first time in my memory, all by cheerful high school kids working their first summer jobs.

I voted for this.

Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (KtPtl)

283 Scott Bessent stated that the next open seat is 1/26 and Powell’s Chairman seat opens in May. PDT could announce the next Fed Chair (who would take the open seat in Jan) and slide into the Chair seat next spring, although Powell would still be eligible to be on Board until end of 2027.
Posted by: EveR at June 30, 2025 02:59 PM (Z/h4+)

just need to adjust the catering and support staff. Have Powells coffee always cold with an odd taste. Have the light bulbs in his office fail several times a week. delete random e-mails from his inbox.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)

284 277 Most of our trolls are quite old as well. Some have just vanished over time, possibly shuffled off this mortal coil to find out just how wrong they really were.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (dfIr7)

=======

Our trolls these days just want to vote for Vance and eat shit pebbles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

285 A Hamas simp reposts a video of two Palis getting droned.

Footage from the Israelis shows a drone strike targeting two innocent young Palestinians carrying their tent after being ordered to leave by the Israeli military.

Funny thing though, the video clearly shows two secondary explosions.

http://tiny.cc/s6co001
Posted by: bonhomme at June 30, 2025 02:58 PM (lIio7)
______

"Innocent young Palestinians"

1. There are no innocent "Palestinians."

2. How the fuck does this simp know how old the dead terrorists are??

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 03:02 PM (iFTx/)

286 An idiot could run circles around people like this
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 02:39 PM

Especially if one of their legs were shorter than the other one.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 30, 2025 03:02 PM (0sNs1)

287 President Trump says he is switching AWAY from AT&T after their equipment totally failed during a massive conference call with nationwide faith leaders.

https://tinyurl.com/28j9bfek

Posted by: redridinghood at June 30, 2025 02:59 PM (NpAcC)

what is his other choice? Verizon??

bwahahahaha

Mint Mobile maybe

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 03:02 PM (dCxaZ)

288 The real beef they have with him is that he is a class traitor!

Even worse, he makes them look bad by not joining in their coke-fueled kiddy raping parties.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 03:02 PM (dfIr7)

289 287 what is his other choice? Verizon??

bwahahahaha

Mint Mobile maybe
Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 03:02 PM (dCxaZ)

=======

Trump is gonna make inroads with Hollywood by getting Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile a bunch of government contracts!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:02 PM (GBKbO)

290 I've never been on board with the 2% inflation goal... not sure why it's a goal, or considered "healthy"
---
Dirtiest of dirty secrets?

Because state and local governments collapse, Great Depression like collapse, if they ever budget less than 2% growth forever into perpetuity.

See also: CalPers never predicting less than an 8% return.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 30, 2025 03:02 PM (7n9I3)

291 266 : President Trump says he is switching AWAY from AT&T after their equipment totally failed during a massive conference call with nationwide faith leaders.

https://tinyurl.com/28j9bfek
Posted by: redridinghood

DEI strikes again. I worked for AT&T for 27 years and got the F out before the DEI really started taking hold. It's now a company of waste and constant rate hikes.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 03:02 PM (/U5Yz)

292 You know, when Trump told Zelensky he's not holding any cards, guess who Trump was alluding to was holding all of the cards and was kinda speaking past Zelensky to a bigger audience?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2025 03:03 PM (XV/Pl)

293 Even worse, he makes them look bad by not joining in their coke-fueled kiddy raping parties.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 03:02 PM (dfIr7)

Or their weird-ass devil-worshiping "spirit cooking" witch-led shit.

Posted by: Unlike Podesta at June 30, 2025 03:03 PM (TbWk/)

294 just need to adjust the catering and support staff. Have Powells coffee always cold with an odd taste. Have the light bulbs in his office fail several times a week. delete random e-mails from his inbox.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)

Or just re-install those flickering overhead, fluorescent lights.

heh...

Posted by: browndog musing at June 30, 2025 03:03 PM (TTAGa)

295 what is his other choice? Verizon??

bwahahahaha

Mint Mobile maybe
Posted by: kallisto

TeleTrump. Bank it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM (/U5Yz)

296 Even worse, he makes them look bad by not joining in their coke-fueled kiddy raping parties.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I'd say they look bad because of their coke-fueled kiddy raping parties.

Posted by: Somthing Norm McDonald Would Say at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM (Dv3i1)

297 All those things are true. But in addition, for me it was that he was a true baseball enthusiast (We are a small number). He even complimented me on a seldom used sock of mine (TinkertoEverstoChance). RIP
Posted by: Turn 2 at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (6TlG5)

What did you think of Manny Machado letting the infield pop-up drop in front of him to throw out de la Cruz at second?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM (FCbAQ)

298 On Reddit it’s worse than 1930 out there.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM (nwGCR)

299 The DOJ just announced they're charging 324 defendants with health care fraud.

96 of them are doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals.

http://tiny.cc/87co001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM (lIio7)

300 294 just need to adjust the catering and support staff. Have Powells coffee always cold with an odd taste. Have the light bulbs in his office fail several times a week. delete random e-mails from his inbox.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)

Or just re-install those flickering overhead, fluorescent lights.

heh...
Posted by: browndog musing at June 30, 2025 03:03 PM (TTAGa)

And hammering… lots of hammering…

Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM (PCK5/)

301 just need to adjust the catering and support staff. Have Powells coffee always cold with an odd taste. Have the light bulbs in his office fail several times a week. delete random e-mails from his inbox.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (8avO+)

Or just re-install those flickering overhead, fluorescent lights.

heh...
Posted by: browndog musing at June 30, 2025 03:03 PM

How about the trap door into the flame pit?

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM (jc0TO)

302 what is his other choice? Verizon??

Musk Satellite Service

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 03:05 PM (LA0fN)

303 DEI strikes again. I worked for AT&T for 27 years and got the F out before the DEI really started taking hold. It's now a company of waste and constant rate hikes.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 03:02 PM (/U5Yz

To be fair it was a company of waste and constant rate hikes before DEI took hold.

Posted by: Monopolies suck at June 30, 2025 03:05 PM (TbWk/)

304 Trump is gonna make inroads with Hollywood by getting Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile a bunch of government contracts!

don't verizon and at & t own all the cell towers?

we don't have any real choices here, people

Trump should know this

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 03:05 PM (dCxaZ)

305 And on a side note, OSHA 10 should be more aptly named OSHA couple of days.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2025 03:05 PM (XV/Pl)

306 "You know, when Trump told Zelensky he's not holding any cards, guess who Trump was alluding to was holding all of the cards and was kinda speaking past Zelensky to a bigger audience?
Posted by: Thomas Bender"

I'm a bit slow. Can you tell me?

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 03:05 PM (fV+MH)

307 Fed funds rates over the last few decades
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

Posted by: illiniwek at June 30, 2025 03:06 PM (vbXSk)

308 Parisian chicks know how to dress well for hot weather. And it's 96 degrees today.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at June 30, 2025 01:58 PM

===

Playing catch up, here.... did you follow the rules as a COB, and provide links to the sauce?
Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 30, 2025 03:00 PM

https://tinyurl.com/3k7effft

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2025 03:06 PM (0sNs1)

309 TeleTrump. Bank it.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM (/U5Yz)

It will have to be. We are being held hostage by VerizAT&T

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 03:06 PM (dCxaZ)

310 Isn't fed chairman Powell's term over soon?
Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (dCxaZ)
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It's dead Jim.

Posted by: Dr. Leonard McCoy at June 30, 2025 03:06 PM (scdc5)

311 California is paying something close to 100% taxes on gas.

Posted by: torabora at June 30, 2025 03:06 PM (kBHjY)

312 What did you think of Manny Machado letting the infield pop-up drop in front of him to throw out de la Cruz at second?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM (FCbAQ)

High level play.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 03:06 PM (i24o9)

313 And hammering… lots of hammering…
Posted by: tubal

Interesting. Tell me more.
-- Paul Pelosi

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 03:06 PM (77rzZ)

314 How about the trap door into the flame pit?
Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM (jc0TO)

just a suspiciously warm spot under the carpet where your desk chair is.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:06 PM (8avO+)

315 what is his other choice? Verizon??

T mobile

Posted by: Tuna at June 30, 2025 03:06 PM (lJ0H4)

316 Its odd, I remember seeing the same troll names here as on Right Wing News way back in like 2003. Some are not around any more, but its the same small group of really dimwitted leftists. If we could see them in person, I suspect some of us would feel bad for picking on them: old, kinda dumb and insane, unhealthy, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 03:06 PM (dfIr7)

317 "If I were a nice person I'd feel for the poor lefties having to deal with this; for their sorrow, for their tears, for their broken dreams.

But I'm not. I'm loving it.
Posted by: Eeyore"

Right?

Posted by: eleven at June 30, 2025 03:07 PM (fV+MH)

318 don't verizon and at & t own all the cell towers?

Yes and in the most optimum coverage locations. AT&T and other carriers lease tower space which jacks u the cost of their 'service.' Also, Verizon owns most of the final mile carrier to and from the cell sites.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 03:07 PM (/U5Yz)

319 And hammering… lots of hammering…
Posted by: tubal at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM

Would you, perchance, have more information?

Posted by: Paul P. at June 30, 2025 03:08 PM (0sNs1)

320 >>world-renowned economist…Torsten Sløk

Economic expert huh? You don’t say.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 30, 2025 03:08 PM (1U8ba)

321
https://tinyurl.com/3k7effft

Posted by: Duncanthrax

/sarc
You dick!
- Spicoli

Well played and you didn't even sock the Admiral.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at June 30, 2025 03:08 PM (QcUc+)

322 The girl who fell off the Disney ship. Her father dove in after her and both were saved.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 30, 2025 03:08 PM (Iv8wu)

323 Or their weird-ass devil-worshiping "spirit cooking" witch-led shit.

Yeah. This is the stuff we KNOW about. Imagine how much more horrific and ghastly it is behind the scenes. Every rare once in a while you get a glimpse behind the curtain with stuff like the NXIVM cult. Its all around us, and Trump refuses to participate. He knows it all, but does not take part. I suspect that he is getting the DOJ to look into this stuff, too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 03:08 PM (dfIr7)

324 Torsten Sløk

I didn't know Sleestaks could be Norwegian.

Posted by: Land of the losers, huge losers at June 30, 2025 03:09 PM (TbWk/)

325 >>world-renowned economist…Torsten Sløk

Economic expert huh? You don’t say.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 30, 2025 03:08 PM

Money for nothing and your chicks for free.

Posted by: Torsten Sløk at June 30, 2025 03:09 PM (jc0TO)

326 Anmybody know anything about Wes Roley? Known wolf?

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2025 03:09 PM (LHPAg)

327 >>world-renowned economist…Torsten Sløk

Economic expert huh? You don’t say.
Posted by: haffhowershower at June 30, 2025 03:08 PM

Money for nothing and my chicks for free.

Posted by: Torsten Sløk at June 30, 2025 03:09 PM (jc0TO)

328 >>> 299 The DOJ just announced they're charging 324 defendants with health care fraud.

96 of them are doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals.

http://tiny.cc/87co001
Posted by: bonhomme at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM (lIio7)

Would it be wrong to laugh if this includes one or two of the idiots Nurse was trying not to smack earlier?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2025 03:09 PM (ULPxl)

329 328 >>> 299 The DOJ just announced they're charging 324 defendants with health care fraud.

96 of them are doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals.

http://tiny.cc/87co001
Posted by: bonhomme at June 30, 2025 03:04 PM (lIio7)

Would it be wrong to laugh if this includes one or two of the idiots Nurse was trying not to smack earlier?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2025 03:09 PM (ULPxl)

=======

One's gonna be muldoon.

He used ill-gotten gains to study limerick writing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

330 I believe it was soothsayer in JJ's thread said that he believed it was an aneurism.

Literally , a heartbeat changes everything.
That's what took my father in law back in March.

Hug your family tight. Hold onto them for a heartbeat longer.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 03:01 PM (LA0fN)

Thank you. I am very sad about this but in a heartbeat of time he was gone and, I pray, did not suffer. I am sure he's been on recently and that diagnosis explains a lot.

I am loved and love many and am very lucky and thankful in life. I also realize life can change in a second. My husband and I are only young in spirit...yet he still looks the same to me as he did in college.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (6PCLE)

331 326 Anmybody know anything about Wes Roley? Known wolf?
Posted by: Eromero

Looks like a trans fag.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (/U5Yz)

332 Anmybody know anything about Wes Roley? Known wolf?

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2025 03:09 PM (LHPAg)

Room temperature. Someone said MAGA parents, possibly estranged. Some pics on TGP make him look like he was experimenting with the QWERTY lifestyle.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (i24o9)

333 "Actor Andy Richter: 20 Years from Now People will Use ‘MAGA’ the Way We Use ‘Nazi’ Today"

Along with the rest of Hollywood, Andy FINALLY got the taste of Harvey Weinstein out of his mouth, and now he's feeling froggy.

Remember that taste, Andy? Smegma, Brut, and failure?
Got you where you are today, but still...
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 03:00 PM (Ft5W9)

Ace-level cruelty.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (FCbAQ)

334 Now Trump needs to do that thing where you can convert 401k to Roth without penalty.

Just this once

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (dCxaZ)

335
It may be possible to convince Powell to leave his position early. Some problems with his testimony about the Fed's $2.5 billion administrative palace renovation.

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Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), a member of the committee, said Powell’s testimony was inaccurate and unprepared.

“He made a number of factually inaccurate statements to the Committee regarding the Fed’s plush private dining room and elevator, skylights, water features, and roof terrace,” Lummis said in a statement to the news publication.

“This is typical of the mismanagement and ‘don’t bother me’ attitude that Chair Powell has always shown.”

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 30, 2025 03:11 PM (uz6ub)

336 Just like air power transformed WWII, Satellite phone service via Musk & Starlink will transform cell service.

Wife's iPhone 16 gets satellite service out here where my 13 doesn't. Right now, it's just texting in beta mode, but it does work.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 03:11 PM (LA0fN)

337 Room temperature. Someone said MAGA parents, possibly estranged. Some pics on TGP make him look like he was experimenting with the QWERTY lifestyle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (i24o9)

Probably mind poisoned in college.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:12 PM (8avO+)

338 I won't ink In The Living Years again, but... the morale of that song is rock solid. Reach out while you can, especially to the family you have fought with or been hurt by in the past.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 03:12 PM (dfIr7)

339 what is his other choice? Verizon??

There's the Starlink end-around. A bunch of golden Trump Towers (cell towers) might help.

Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2025 03:12 PM (6keFU)

340 339 what is his other choice? Verizon??

There's the Starlink end-around. A bunch of golden Trump Towers (cell towers) might help.

Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2025 03:12 PM (6keFU)

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Telepathy.

Duh.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

341 Remember that taste, Andy? Smegma, Brut, and failure?
Got you where you are today, but still...
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at June 30, 2025 03:00 PM (Ft5W9)

Ace-level cruelty.
Posted by: OneEyedJack

That it is. Beautiful.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 03:12 PM (/U5Yz)

342 Some pics on TGP make him look like he was experimenting with the QWERTY lifestyle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM

Another excellent reason why the Dvorak layout should be made standard.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 30, 2025 03:12 PM (0sNs1)

343 I am loved
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (6PCLE)

This alone makes you lucky. Not everyone is. I'd wager that especially in modern society this puts you in a very fortunate minority.

Posted by: It's not a given at June 30, 2025 03:12 PM (TbWk/)

344 334 Now Trump needs to do that thing where you can convert 401k to Roth without penalty.

Just this once
Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (dCxaZ)

That would be a welcome change...

Posted by: Inogame at June 30, 2025 03:13 PM (53oGX)

345 331 326 Anmybody know anything about Wes Roley? Known wolf?
Posted by: Eromero

Looks like a trans fag.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (/U5Yz)

Face photo looks girlish features. I found some links to this name in Arizona track/field stuff, but that is all. Same age or around 19/20yrs.

I hate it when people who are wanting suicide involve innocent responders or police. Killing firemen coming to stop the fire is a special kind of evil.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2025 03:13 PM (6PCLE)

346 "Actor Andy Richter: 20 Years from Now People will Use ‘MAGA’ the Way We Use ‘Nazi’ Today"

People will use 'Actor' the way we use 'Useless Twat' today.

Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2025 03:13 PM (6keFU)

347 world-renowned economist…Torsten Sløk

Of that isn't a porn name, then there are no such names.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 03:13 PM (LA0fN)

348 Telepathy.

Duh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:12 PM

I said *fine*.

If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand.

Posted by: Women at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (0sNs1)

349 At least some people are now opening saying that the Idaho murderer was trans, with some photo proof. I would keep the 24 Hour Rule in mind, but this seems very plausible.

https://tinyurl.com/yk984umx

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (iFTx/)

350 334 Now Trump needs to do that thing where you can convert 401k to Roth without penalty.

Just this once
Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (dCxaZ)

That would be a welcome change...
Posted by: Inogame at June 30, 2025 03:13 PM (53oGX)

Why one time? You should be able to do it whenever you like. These assholes shouldn't get title to your investment. As long as it rolls over to another deferred savings plan, let em move it.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (8avO+)

351 Torsten Sløk

a) Norwegian folk-metal band
2) Norwegian fermented fish dish
III) Norwegian icebreaker ship
D) Norwegian economist

I would not have guessed "D".

Posted by: mikeski at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (DgGvY)

352 People ~~will~~ use 'Actor' the way we use 'Useless Twat' today.

Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2025 03:13 PM (6keFU)

And Richter is responsible for that.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (i24o9)

353 I hate it when people who are wanting suicide involve innocent responders or police. Killing firemen coming to stop the fire is a special kind of evil.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2025 03:13 PM (6PCLE)

He knows that now. Too late, but....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (0eaVi)

354 347 world-renowned economist…Torsten Sløk

Of that isn't a porn name, then there are no such names.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 03:13 PM (LA0fN)

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The pattern is to take the name of the street you grew up on as your first name and then the name of your first pet.

So, I would be Giant Dick McGee.

Grew up on Giant Dick Lane.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (GBKbO)

355 Now Trump needs to do that thing where you can convert 401k to Roth without penalty.

Wouldn't that be just cashing out without paying tax?

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (jc0TO)

356 343 I am loved
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (6PCLE)

This alone makes you lucky. Not everyone is. I'd wager that especially in modern society this puts you in a very fortunate minority.
Posted by: It's not a given at June 30, 2025 03:12 PM (TbWk/)

More to be thankful for and I will remember this statement. I have been well loved all of my life and reading this makes me both glad (for me) and sad for others. I have never doubted as a child or an old married hag.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (6PCLE)

357 348 Telepathy.

Duh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:12 PM

I said *fine*.

If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand.
Posted by: Women at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (0sNs1)
======

I do get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

358 High level play.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 30, 2025 03:06 PM (i24o9)

No kidding. It wouldn't have been possible for me to do that. It's just too ingrained that if you can catch it, you catch it. Took massive speed off the bases.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (FCbAQ)

359 I said *fine*.

If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand.
Posted by: Women

This translates into "I don't understand what I mean or what I feel, so I cannot explain it"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (dfIr7)

360 At least some people are now opening saying that the Idaho murderer was trans, with some photo proof. I would keep the 24 Hour Rule in mind, but this seems very plausible.

https://tinyurl.com/yk984umx
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (iFTx/)

The Deep ones are expending their assets these days. Not the best tactic to have it kill a couple in Idaho.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (8avO+)

361 Now Trump needs to do that thing where you can convert 401k to Roth without penalty.

Just this once

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 03:10 PM (dCxaZ)

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Even a one-time low flat tax on Taxable --> Roth IRAs would likely generate trillions to the US Treasury for an opening salvo in paying down the National Debt ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Digital Arsonist (former Stochastic Terrorist) at June 30, 2025 03:16 PM (vFbPI)

362 360 The Deep ones are expending their assets these days. Not the best tactic to have it kill a couple in Idaho.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (8avO+)

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The Old Ones > The Deep ones

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

363 Will all this "good" news, the obvious next step is to raise interest rates to keep the economy from overheating.

Posted by: Jerome Powell at June 30, 2025 03:16 PM (wVcYX)

364 I do get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

Actually, tonight you won't.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 03:17 PM (0eaVi)

365 At least some people are now opening saying that the Idaho murderer was trans, with some photo proof. I would keep the 24 Hour Rule in mind, but this seems very plausible.

https://tinyurl.com/yk984umx
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (iFTx/)

The Deep ones are expending their assets these days. Not the best tactic to have it kill a couple in Idaho.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (8avO+)
_____

The FNM is also running pics of his parents wearing MAGA hats, clearly to try to create the impression the kid was MAGA too. But the parents had to take out restraining orders against the kid. He was a leftwing nut.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 03:17 PM (iFTx/)

366 >>> 349 At least some people are now opening saying that the Idaho murderer was trans, with some photo proof. I would keep the 24 Hour Rule in mind, but this seems very plausible.

https://tinyurl.com/yk984umx
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (iFTx/)

Of course xhe has shit trigger discipline.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2025 03:17 PM (ULPxl)

367 359 I said *fine*.

If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand.
Posted by: Women

This translates into "I don't understand what I mean or what I feel, so I cannot explain it"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (dfIr7)

P.S. And you're to blame.

Posted by: Also Women at June 30, 2025 03:17 PM (wVcYX)

368 364 I do get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

Actually, tonight you won't.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 30, 2025 03:17 PM (0eaVi)

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Dolley is pretty sick at the moment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

369 Of that isn't a porn name, then there are no such names.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 30, 2025 03:13 PM (LA0fN)

We did those earlier. Alberta, Quebec, Samsquatchuan etc...

Posted by: Reforger at June 30, 2025 03:18 PM (LgDgc)

370 No kidding. It wouldn't have been possible for me to do that. It's just too ingrained that if you can catch it, you catch it. Took massive speed off the bases.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (FCbAQ)

That sort of thinking used to be prevalent in the earlier days of baseball. Then someone noticed that a lot of WS games were being blown by trying to get a lead runner instead of getting the out and making an error. So they started trying to get the safe out.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:18 PM (8avO+)

371 This translates into "I don't understand what I mean or what I feel, so I cannot explain it"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (dfIr7)

P.S. And you're to blame.
Posted by: Also Women at June 30, 2025 03:17 PM (wVcYX)

That's just a given.

Posted by: The baseline of all such interactions at June 30, 2025 03:19 PM (TbWk/)

372 The Old Ones > The Deep ones
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:16 PM

A saying they taught us in Star Fleet Academy was "There are old Ones, and deep Ones, but there are no old deep Ones."

There was a cadet named Sandeep Ones, though.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 30, 2025 03:19 PM (0sNs1)

373 351 Torsten Sløk

a) Norwegian folk-metal band
2) Norwegian fermented fish dish
III) Norwegian icebreaker ship
D) Norwegian economist

I would not have guessed "D".
Posted by: mikeski at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (DgGvY)
Norewegian Chef.

Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2025 03:19 PM (LHPAg)

374 Speaking of murders in Idaho, what's going on with the case of the Idaho State murders?

Posted by: Bulg at June 30, 2025 03:19 PM (77rzZ)

375 Nood Kamala

Posted by: Open Channel D at June 30, 2025 03:19 PM (gYnrv)

376 I'd forgotten that Air Force One starts with American special forces invading Kazakhstan, kidnapping its president, and then the president gloating about it on TV.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)

377 https://tinyurl.com/yk984umx
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (iFTx/)

Of course xhe has shit trigger discipline.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 30, 2025 03:17 PM (ULPxl)

caution, that might be fake. I know it's rare for anything to be fake on X, but still.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 30, 2025 03:20 PM (uWKK8)

378 If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand.
Posted by: Women at June 30, 2025 03:14 PM (0sNs1)

Hey! Just calm down now!

Posted by: Auspex at June 30, 2025 03:20 PM (j4U/Z)

379 360 The Deep ones are expending their assets these days. Not the best tactic to have it kill a couple in Idaho.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:15 PM (8avO+)

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The Old Ones > The Deep ones
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 30, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

Might be an idea to check the roster in Government for "The Innsmouth Look"

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:20 PM (8avO+)

380 29 I’m still waiting for the gas price drop here in flyover country. It's been at the same price ($3.19/gal) for the past year.

Posted by: Turn 2 at June 30, 2025 02:21 PM (6TlG5)

Just paid 2.53 a gallon at Shell here in Georgia, which is 26 cents cheaper than Kroger which rarely happens and 36 cents cheaper than nearby gas stations. Not sure why Shell was cheaper than everyone else and of course several pumps were closed.

Posted by: Farquad at June 30, 2025 03:20 PM (YkGND)

381 Norewegian Chef.
Posted by: Eromero at June 30, 2025 03:19 PM

Björk?

Posted by: toby928 at June 30, 2025 03:20 PM (jc0TO)

382 @354

>>So, I would be Giant Dick McGee.

I would probably reverse them to get Dakota Holland.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 30, 2025 03:20 PM (XV/Pl)

383 But the parents had to take out restraining orders against the kid. He was a leftwing nut.

The immediate response by the fool left was ITS A MILITIA!!! Because Idaho, and other than potatoes, that's all they know about the state: the 90s militia scare.

Some dumb neo nazi group (BIRM) associated themselves with the event, which has not helped things any.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 03:21 PM (dfIr7)

384 The immediate response by the fool left was ITS A MILITIA!!! Because Idaho, and other than potatoes, that's all they know about the state: the 90s militia scare.

Some dumb neo nazi group (BIRM) associated themselves with the event, which has not helped things any.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 30, 2025 03:21 PM (dfIr7)

you mean the FBI plants?

Posted by: Oldcat at June 30, 2025 03:23 PM (8avO+)

385 People will use 'Actor' the way we use 'Useless Twat' "nasty whore" today.

*back to the original meaning

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2025 03:23 PM (g47mK)

386

that was close!

Posted by: runner at June 30, 2025 03:24 PM (g47mK)

387 In the long term, rates should be at least double where they are now

God, I wish this sensible take would catch fire and run out of control.

Cutting Rates is nothing but chasing the economic Dragon.
Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (ASFuz)

Agree. 5% is a good healthy rate. And make h

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2025 03:26 PM (g8Ew8)

388 In the long term, rates should be at least double where they are now

God, I wish this sensible take would catch fire and run out of control.

Cutting Rates is nothing but chasing the economic Dragon.
Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2025 02:32 PM (ASFuz)

Agree. 5% is a good healthy rate. And make the banks reflect it onto individual savings accounts.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at June 30, 2025 03:27 PM (g8Ew8)

389 89 It's too bad you sold on the dip in April and lost all your money by putting it in put options for May by listening to Jim Cramer.

How does that little troll still have an audience?

Posted by: kallisto at June 30, 2025 02:30 PM (dCxaZ)

Easy, the Jim Kramer index, buy when he says sell and sell when he says buy.

Posted by: Farquad at June 30, 2025 03:33 PM (YkGND)

390 And know we all know why I shorted the hell out of APO.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 30, 2025 03:53 PM (oXJtT)

391 Powell knows these tariffs are not inflationary - they are a form of tax, and will if anything slow the economy, as all taxes have the chance to do. He is refusing to do so for other reasons. I must admit I am a bit disappointed - I could expect him to resist the call as Trump took office - because inflation was out of control. No reason for there couldn't be a small cut in July to get interest rates in line. I'm guessing he is dealing with little dick syndrome because Trump is acting too Trumpian for him to handle it.

Posted by: Black JEM at June 30, 2025 04:06 PM (GZYu7)

392 Suspected shooter in Idaho firefighter ambush identified
Police identified Wess Roley as suspect in calculated brush fire ambush.

I am sure if there was any type of support or connection to Trump that CNN would be blasting it 24/7.......

So probably some left wing kook....

Posted by: Buster Hymand at June 30, 2025 04:19 PM (aKoaI)

393 Trump is just stealing credit for the great Biden/Harris economy that was left to him in January.

CNN said this and so did the ladies on view, so it has to be true !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Buster Hymand at June 30, 2025 04:22 PM (aKoaI)

394 Too bad we can't have those winning gas prices in the mid west. We're still paying the Biden prices anound here, $3.39.9 a gallon for the 87 octane cheap shit.

Posted by: Dave's Not Here, Man at June 30, 2025 05:57 PM (Q1p8k)

395 And the Democrats are moping in their rooms over this all

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 30, 2025 06:04 PM (wGqjj)

396 Your hatred for Europeans is telling. I'm sure that the hatred does not extend to European Americans!

Posted by: Bob Vylan at June 30, 2025 06:31 PM (Pdg5M)

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#Winning: Inflation Rises More Slowly, Gas Prices Fall, and the Markets Hit All-Time Records
A European Economist Admits: "Maybe Trump Has Outsmarted All of Us"