Posted on 12/16/2021 3:27:09 AM PST by Kaslin
Most of you whippersnappers were not even Planned Parenthood targets back when inflation was last a thing. It was the late-seventies, which you people associate with funky clothing and disco music. Most of us who lived through that miserable decade associate it with economic malaise, notably including massive inflation and 18% interest rates.
Yeah, think about 18% interest, all you folks with an adjustable rate loan. You’re spoiled by cheap money and low inflation. You are about to learn a lesson in economics. See, when Uncle Sucker prints lots of money and there are fewer things to buy, you get inflation. Prices rise. And your standard of living falls.
Despite the economic insights of Joe Biden and his cast of mutants, there’s no changing it. And no, inflation is not evidence that all is well. That’s like a leper saying “Well, now that my big toe fell off, there’s less stuff to be infected. I’m cured!”
You are already seeing the results of the flood of fiat money wished into being by a liberal Congress. We have not gone full Weimar yet, but if they pass this BBB thing, life will be a cabaret.
If you have a car right now, good for you. It’s worth a lot more than it was six months ago. You can sell it and maybe make a profit. I scored by buying out a lease for a price set pre-inflation three years earlier – you should have seen the dealer wince. But if you need a new or used car, uh oh. Between the supply chain problems getting new vehicles (the manufacturers can’t get parts to build them, and once they do there’s the nightmare of moving what cars they do have to the dealers) plus the shortage of old ones to sell used, it’s a nightmare.
Obviously, Trump is to blame. Plus, insurrectionists and transphobes.
Anyway, you pull up to the pump and, here in California, it’s at least $5 a gallon. My fine European touring sedan takes $80 to fill up. I don’t commute that far, which is nice. But if you do, uh oh. Now, our desiccated old pervert of a president was crowing last week about how great it is that prices have gone down a whopping $.07 in the last few weeks. Putting aside that his assertion of prices dropping is bullSchiff, gas went gone up a buck and a half over the last year.
Why? Well, when you shut down pipelines and oil exploration to appease the angry weather goddess worshipped by pagans in Manhattan and Santa Monica, you get less oil. Less supply, same or more demand – it’s not hard. We could increase the supply, but maybe he figures that this is just what they’ll expect. When that freak staggered into office, we were energy independent. Now he’s begging sheiks to pump up the pumping volume. The indignity of America groveling is a feature to the America-hating jerks who Americans sort of elected to run America.
Head into the meat department and the ground beef you use to make cheeseburgers, like a real American, is twice as expensive as it was. Rib-eye and New York cuts are astronomical. Pretty soon, we’ll all be paying $1,000 for a wheelbarrow to cart our cash to the Safeway.
Again, the people who rule you and who hate you love this. Inflation is a punishment for you existing. You should not be driving – free people drive. Nor should you be eating food you like – that’s a prerogative of free people too. To deny you the ability to do these things is part of the point. You must be conditioned to accept less, to take what you are given – by them. You know, your masters.
COVID conditioning is part of it too. They want you to learn to accept arbitrary rules. If the rules make no sense – if they contradict what you were told a week before – that’s even better. The idea is to train you to submit to them, to accept less and to accept their commands, regardless of how ridiculous they are.
Now, our leftist enemy is arrogant and ignorant, and that’s a bad combo. Leftists talk only to each other in their blue bubbles, egged on by MSNBCNN, come to a commie consensus, and proceed. But they ignore the rest of us. After all, we’re sheep meant to obey – and to be sheared.
The problem is, at least for now and outside of big blue cities, we normal people still get to vote. And we are angry – very, very angry. Inflation is devastating our families. It’s not such a big problem when your diversity consulting gig pays you mega-bucks, but for people just getting by – especially after the same ruling caste screwed up the economy panicking over the pandemic – inflation is devastating. And the polls show voters are steamed even though the legacy media obediently tries to push the narrative that all is swell.
A 6.8% inflation rate is a 6.8% tax on every single dollar, with no deductions or loopholes. And the real rate not even 6.8%. That’s the phony baloney Consumer Price Index that is designed to hide the real inflation rate. Housing costs went up something like 30%, and math, which is now racist for some reason, teaches that 30% is a lot more than 6.8%.
The Democrats are salivating at paying off their deadbeat constituents with the “Build Back Better” boondoggle. It’s about as popular as toe fungus – in Joe Manchin’s West Virginia, the vast majority of voters strongly disapprove, and Joe Manchin is key to getting the bare minimum to pass it. While other senators know that this inflation-fueling atrocity means that that they will get creamed next November, only Manchin (and to some extent Kristin Sinema) are standing up against it. The fact that its ridiculous gimmicks (like assuming its new social programs will end in three years) hide an additional $3 trillion on top of the ~$2 trillion official price tag only makes it worse. Manchin knows his state, and his state knows that inflation is going to crush its citizens.
If Manchin holds strong, he’ll be doing his garbage party a huge favor. Inflation will have a huge effect on the next election. It will mean spectacular deflation in terms of Democrat officeholders. It just might not leave much of a country for the GOP to govern.
I remember the Jimmy Carter days with gas lines and intrest rates over 10%. It is like deja vu all over again.
I don’t think Joe Manchin is the key to anything. Isn’t he more like the last to cave?
Fellow Americans, I hate to say, I told you so....but I have told you over and over again, a vote cast for Democrats, Joe Biden, VP, Kamala, Harris, House Majority Leader, Nancy Pelosi, Senate Leader, Chuck Schumer and any Democrat is a vote cast to destroy the American Republic!!!
In just eleven short months Joe Biden and company have brought our once great nation down to the gutter in so many negative ways, one cannot not list them all!!!
Democrat, Joe Biden is an empty suit, a “ZERO”, a buffoon, an enemy of the state!!! China rules his every move.
All I can say once again is, American brothers and sisters wake up....”Impeach Joe Biden” period!!! For goodness sake, can you not see he is taking you, your family, your dearly loved ones, the country.....down into the garbage can of forever failure!!! Dump Biden and his cronies like right now!!! Case Closed!!!
Reminds me of the old Weimar Republic tale of inflation woe.
A woman gathers what’s left of the family’s life savings, stacks the cash into a wheelbarrow and off to do today’s grocery shopping. Half way there she gets robbed! The robber grabs the cash, dumps it on the ground and runs off with the wheelbarrow. Maybe next year, just stuff your money in a backpack to buy milk and bread. No point risking a good wheelbarrow.
The pendulum swings back and forth. To conservate to liberal. It’s getting more concentrated now though.
Yeah, I’m waiting for his oval office address wearing a cardigan, and telling us to drive 55.
Biden is an arrogant worm, Manchin enjoys seeing him crawl.
All of us here see all of this.
But we are few, and the enemy is many.
Still: RESIST
The spot on truth. Getting people to DO something about this, though, is nearly impossible.
Biden’s Dementia Act is getting old....handy to keep troublesome questions away.
If he really had dementia, he’d act that way when answering questions.
He’s a mean, calculating little man with 50 years in Congress, running as a former carnival barker. He knows all the dodges.
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Bidens a practiced con man......a thoroughly corrupt, career Pol w/ no fear of we, the people.
During the 1960's an economist named Arthur Okun created or coined the phrase "Economic Discomfort Index". During Jimmy Carter's reign, Ronald Reagan renamed it the "Misery Index". The misery index, for those too young to remember, was the sum of two figures - Inflation and Unemployment. In 1979 and 1980 the index was over 19%. Thanks Jimmah!
Pre-COVID, in 2019, it was about 5.5%. It went over 13% during the 2020 COVID period, but when Biden took office, it was down to 7.7%, and falling. The latest figure I've seen published is for June 2021 at 11.29% and rising. If the real inflation number were used in the calculation, it would be even worse.
Thanks Brandon...
Chris Wallace is the jerk with the smirk.
Truer words were never said, but electing Republicans for Congress is just voting for assistant Democrats.
The Biden administration message to the public is that the solution to inflation is to quit buying things.
What a way to stop economic growth!
All those businesses that struggle to stay in business will have no option but to succumb to government largesse. Didn’t Biden learn anything at all from Venezuela? Build Back Better will do nothing but hasten the collapse. Is that their goal?
Democrats never, ever studied economy. Or if they did, they never learned from it.
What is wrong with these people?
Sorry, but We had a Democratic speaker of the house from 1955 to 1995
Tipp O’Neill
A great money situation right now is to be a Democrat with an access hold on part of the $3.5 trillion that McConnell just bent over for.
Who cares about inflation then?
We all have a choice. Either exercise our conscience in suffering or swim in a river of dollars.
The greatest threat is not inflation, it is the federalization of elections which just yesterday was reactivated as a priority by Marxists in government. Because without a vote that counts, you will lose freedom and without freedom, you lose everything.
I bought a tie that had WIN buttons printed all over it. Inspired by Jerry Ford's "Whip Inflation Now" campaign.
Another of my ties had American flags on it.
I still have those ties. They're very wide, as befits 1970s ties.
An example: AOC has a degree in economics from Boston University but she remains a socialist.
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