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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    TL; DR

    If you practice reading, you'll get better at it. Good luck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Geeko Sportivo View Post
    Biden still jogs, works out, and rides his bicycle at every chance.

    Can you see Trump ever doing anything except sitting on his fat ass- unless he is standing up at one of his clown show/Shit Show Trump speeches running his BIG FAT MOUTH- OR DRIVING ACROSS THE GREENS IN HIS GOLF CART BECAUSE HE CAN'T EVEN WALK THE DISTANCE OF A GOLF GREEN!

    I gotta call the bullshit on that one.

    Biden jogging from the podium at a rally with his huge crowd of supporters just before the election:





    More people go to small High School pep rallies and there's more enthusiasm at them.
    Last edited by Matt Dillon; 05-18-2022 at 03:28 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mina View Post
    What you misperceive as deflection is what others recognize as a specific response. You asked about my particular situation, then when I answered, you insisted you don't care about my situation. Do you see how that might come across as, well, a bit unhinged?



    It looks like it's up from 8.3% when I last checked, but not a whole lot:

    https://www.bls.gov/cpi/

    Click on "food" in the chart, then hover over "food at home." It's been 10.8% in the last 12 months. Click on that and you'll see components vary quite a bit. Fruits and vegetables are up 7.8% in that time, while meat is up 14.3%




    Which indicator, specifically, are you referring to?



    Some will get passed through to the consumer. Some could come out of executive pay, dividends, or capital gains. But this goes to the point I was making. How much that bargaining power is worth to you depends a lot on your position. When you work for a living, like I do, that's one of the most important considerations in your prosperity level. If, on the other hand, you're an elderly person living off Social Security, or anyone else who lives on welfare, then the bargaining power has no value to you, since you're not actually bargaining for your services, and all that matters is the price of what you buy with those government checks.



    From when, exactly? See here:

    https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/

    Using a pretty generic S&P 500 index fund as a proxy, if you bought in January 2021 (the month Biden took office), and dividends were reinvested (as they are in a 401k), then you'd be up 10.055% right now. Factoring in inflation, you'd still be positive right now, but not by a lot.



    One of the great things about the Biden era has been the huge improvement in America's image under his leadership. Trump was seen around the world as a clown. Biden is respected. Now of course, the wingnut provincials out in the American sticks assume that foreigners laugh at Biden, since that's what they do, and that's what Fox News assures them others do. But there are actual polls that track this stuff. We know that the percentage of people abroad who have confidence in the US president doing the right thing regarding world affairs has soared from just 17%, under Trump, to 75%, under Biden, while those with no confidence fell from 83% to 22%:

    https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2...rump-to-biden/

    Fox News won't tell you about those things, nor will you learn about them sitting around griping with other rubes at the local diner, which is why it's important to break out of the echo chamber to get some fresh air, from time to time.



    What makes you think that? The NBER declares recessions and hasn't done so, yet. Possibly they will in the future and will back-date it, but with sub-4% unemployment, right now, it sure doesn't look like anything else they've ever called a recession in American history.




    The old-fashioned definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of GDP shrinkage. It remains to be seen whether the economy will be down in second quarter, but the latest estimate is 2.4% up, by the Fed, and a little more bullish than that using the Blue Chip consensus:

    https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow



    As a reminder, our last president inherited a strong and growing economy and left a nation in absolute free-fall, despite being handed huge interest rate cuts by the Fed, to try to stimulate the economy, and despite Congress trying to stimulate growth with massive increases in the budget deficit. By comparison, since Biden took office the Fed has raised interest rates and the deficit is down, too, yet we had the strongest year of GDP growth in almost 40 years in 2021, and after a slightly weak first quarter in 2022, it looks like things are growing again. What kind of idiot WOULDN'T think the current president is doing a better job?
    One example food, we can continue with the increased price of literally everything we touch put I suspect you will deny that is happening.

    World food prices are up 30% in a year

    https://thekrazycouponlady.com/tips/...ng-meat-prices

    Explaining to someone who has lost touch with reality is very difficult so, let's stop and say look at the polls with respect to Brandon. With all the positive things you say he has accomplished, surely his popularity is hovering around 60%, right?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mina View Post
    If you practice reading, you'll get better at it. Good luck.
    If you practice writing something worth a fuck, somebody might care.

    I read in the top 1%

    I do happen to have a good bullshit filter, as well.

    You strike me as being FOS or perpetually attending.

    Your long-winded screeds are much ado about nothing.

    "Oh! The job growth!"

    There are less jobs and businesses now than before the Coronavirus shutdowns, and more expenses, with no end to the rising expenses in sight, and shortage of products and goods

    happening everywhere.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lionfish View Post
    With all the positive things you say he has accomplished, surely his popularity is hovering around 60%, right?
    Of course not. Approval polls have very little to do with the quality of leadership. In fact, for Democrats, those things are often inverted. For example, in Bill Clinton's first two years, when he was actually accomplishing huge positive things for the American people, his poll numbers slid badly -- dipping as low as 37%. Later, during the impeachment, his approval ratings soared, even though he wasn't accomplishing much beyond just pissing off the Republicans, at that point. By the time he left office, he was the most popular outgoing president in the history of polling, even though his last major policy accomplishments were years behind him.

    Obama followed a somewhat similar course. Early on, when he was doing great things like pushing through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, and getting the Affordable Care Act passed, his approval ratings were nose-diving to around 38%. That bounced back later.

    Basically, what's happening with Democratic presidents is that early on, when they have the legislative help to get things done, the right hates them for doing so much and the left hates them for not doing even more. Later, though, when the Republicans have the power to fuck the country up again, people start to judge the Democrats not relative to some Platonic Ideal of the perfect president, but rather compared to the assholes in Congress, and so they look pretty good.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    If you practice writing something worth a fuck, somebody might care.

    I read in the top 1%
    Yeah: just the headline. Hahahahaha.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mina View Post
    Yeah: just the headline. Hahahahaha.

    Last edited by Matt Dillon; 05-18-2022 at 05:11 PM.

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    Diesel, Gas Prices Break National Records for 3rd Straight Day
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/20...-straight-day/
    Quote Originally Posted by Doc Dutch View Post
    Agreed. Shooting angry Trumpers should be a national pastime.
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    Only conclusion. Going to a Christian school causes you to be a mass murderer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lionfish View Post
    Diesel, Gas Prices Break National Records for 3rd Straight Day
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/20...-straight-day/
    Highest gas and diesel prices ever and some people think everything is just fine.

    Food and product shortages, this is going to be bad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt Dillon View Post
    Highest gas and diesel prices ever and some people think everything is just fine.

    Food and product shortages, this is going to be bad.
    In leftie land there are three camps,
    The stubborn
    The ignorant
    The dreamers
    None of those will admit they were better off with Trump in office. Earlier I listed nearly a dozen points that are worse now than during the Trump administration. His/her/alphabets response was "jobs are great". I will let you pick the category that particular individual falls into.
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    Agreed. Shooting angry Trumpers should be a national pastime.
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    Only conclusion. Going to a Christian school causes you to be a mass murderer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lionfish View Post
    In leftie land there are three camps,
    The stubborn
    The ignorant
    The dreamers
    None of those will admit they were better off with Trump in office. Earlier I listed nearly a dozen points that are worse now than during the Trump administration. His/her/alphabets response was "jobs are great". I will let you pick the category that particular individual falls into.
    If I was trying to look at the bright side of things; Well, people are still driving around and going to work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lionfish View Post
    In leftie land there are three camps,
    The stubborn
    The ignorant
    The dreamers
    None of those will admit they were better off with Trump in office. Earlier I listed nearly a dozen points that are worse now than during the Trump administration. His/her/alphabets response was "jobs are great". I will let you pick the category that particular individual falls into.
    More like:

    The dogmatic fanatics
    The lunatics and the insane
    The delusional

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    Not that it matters for 1100 days. He's the big cheese no matter what.
    No. The man running the teleprompter is. The man behind the Chief Puppet installed (not elected) is Obama.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Doc Dutch View Post
    Agreed. Shooting angry Trumpers should be a national pastime.
    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Only conclusion. Going to a Christian school causes you to be a mass murderer.

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    Masked outside walking down the stairs but then takes it off to talk to his greeters. What a fraud this fool has become.


    Quote Originally Posted by Doc Dutch View Post
    Agreed. Shooting angry Trumpers should be a national pastime.
    Quote Originally Posted by BidenPresident View Post
    Only conclusion. Going to a Christian school causes you to be a mass murderer.

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