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Starbucks: "we are forced to raise prices due to inflation and supply-chain issues"

Also Starbucks: "our profit just went up 31% and we gave our CEO a 39% raise to $20.4 million"

Companies are doing a great job rebranding corporate greed as "inflation"

https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1488726631493550085

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Next time you hear about "supply chains" and "inflation" causing rising gas prices, keep in mind:

Exxon just posted a $8.9 billion profit and is giving it all to shareholders and executives via a stock buyback.

We have a corporate greed problem, not an inflation problem

https://twitter.com/DanPriceSeattle/status/1488632447495516163

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Yeah. Joey and Miss Merkel are an incredible team.

At least they're both bringing in unprecedented levels of illegal citizens into their countries to share the poverty.

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Median and average net worth by education level in the U.S.
Median Average
$20,780 $137,580 No high school diploma
$73,890 $304,590 High school diploma
$89,280 $374,010 Some college
$308,800 $1,516,910 College degree

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Biden*'s energy policy is directly to blame for the energy costs today.

Until you accept and admit that, we've got nothing further to discuss.

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Man I'm awesome.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/02/11/biden_inflation_sho
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A lot of people don't have families, Joe*.

Take care of the gas and food prices. That helps everyone.

Fuck child care.

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My SINGLE MOTHER bought her first 3 BEDROOM HOUSE in 1988 when she was only 23 years old. She worked for a GM factory. House cost $77,000. Only 3x her annual income. Today that house is currently listed for $950,000.

I'm a crime scene photographer and manage criminal evidence to be presented in major court cases, it would cost me 11x my annual income to buy my childhood home a single mother factory worker bought alone only 30 years ago. – https://imgur.com/gallery/D5FELSc

You might think that the system is rigged in favor of the greedy sellers, and you would be right.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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And none of that makes my last post any less true.

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And none of that makes my last post any less true.

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As time has gone on, the people who rent out property or sell real estate have steadily gotten greedier and greedier, but they were always greedy, just not as much as in the last year. Since 6ix hasn't bought but one house in an entire life, you are probably unaware of how much worse greedy American home sellers have gotten. By the way, the President has no control over how greedy an American can be. It is strictly a matter of self-control, or lack of.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

You just go on pretending that all of the bubbles that keep popping around us aren't because of our "leadership".

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You just go on pretending that all of the bubbles that keep popping around us aren't because of our "leadership".

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I would agree with you if "leadership" means corporations. If you are confused enough to believe that America's "leadership" are politicians than I don't agree with you.

There has never been a CEO in America that is as weak as even the strongest President. CEOs can do anything, and they don't need anybody's permission.

On the other hand, Trump couldn't do even one damn thing without the cooperation of dozens of staff. There was plenty of talk about the Deep State thwarting Trump. It wasn't Deep State. It was ordinary people who talk to Trump everyday that ignored his orders. There has NEVER been a CEO that would tolerate for a week the kind of disobedient crap from subordinates that even a President has to live with 24/7 and year after year. Lesser politicians have to tolerate even more disobedience than a President because they don't have the simple power every CEO has to instantaneously fire employees and change rules on a whim. Politicians can't fire other politicians, which is why government doesn't function well. Politicians can't change the rules, either.

With the freedom that CEOs have, and that politicians never had, corporations can raise their prices until they have emptied their customers' bank accounts. 6ix has a pretty good counter-strategy: don't buy. The CEOs can't cheat 6ix out of his money.

If companies were REALLY 'forced to raise prices' because of inflation they would have been 'forced to lower prices’ after Trump gave them $1.9 TRILLION in tax cuts. But they didn't — they raised prices then, too!

Corporations are excellent at flat out lying about what they do.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Our politicians are owned.

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I'm calling your explanation a bunch of bullshit. American politicians are gossipy high school students. They aren't ready, and never will be, to take on adult responsibility. The politicians aren't owned; they are weaklings ignored by the adults, the CEOs, because the politicians are frightened by the CEOs of America and frightened by voters and limited by all the high school rules of politics.

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Our politicians are owned.

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I'm calling your explanation a bunch of bullshit. American politicians are gossipy high school students. They aren't ready, and never will be, to take on adult responsibility. The politicians aren't owned; they are weaklings ignored by the adults, the CEOs, because the politicians are frightened by the CEOs of America and frightened by voters and limited by all the high school rules of politics.

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A little bit of Column A. A little bit of Column B.

Find me more than 10 politicians on either side who don't have more assets than they should ever conceivably have given their paychecks.

I won't be holding my breath for that one.

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Our politicians are owned.

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I'm calling your explanation a bunch of bullshit. American politicians are gossipy high school students. They aren't ready, and never will be, to take on adult responsibility. The politicians aren't owned; they are weaklings ignored by the adults, the CEOs, because the politicians are frightened by the CEOs of America and frightened by voters and limited by all the high school rules of politics.

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A little bit of Column A. A little bit of Column B.

Find me more than 10 politicians on either side who don't have more assets than they should ever conceivably have given their paychecks.

I won't be holding my breath for that one.

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I've got more money than you could ever conceive from just my paychecks.

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Rents Reach ‘Insane’ Levels Across US With No End in Sight
(It is not insane. There is a well understood logic to price inflation.)

Krystal Guerra’s Miami apartment has a tiny kitchen, cracked tiles, warped cabinets, no dishwasher and hardly any storage space.

But Guerra was fine with the apartment’s shortcomings. It was all part of being a 32-year-old graduate student in South Florida, she reasoned, and she was happy to live there for a few more years as she finished her marketing degree.

That was until a new owner bought the property and told her he was raising the rent from $1,550 to $1,950, a 26% increase that Guerra said meant her rent would account for the majority of her take-home pay from the University of Miami.

“I thought that was insane,” said Guerra, who decided to move out. “Am I supposed to stop paying for everything else I have going on in my life just so I can pay rent? That’s unsustainable.”

https://timesnewsexpress.com/news/newsusa/dallas/rents-reach-insane-le
vels-across-us-with-no-end-in-sight-2/

This is how Capitalism works: Buy a property. Raise the Rent. Renters leave that can't pay. This eternal price increase continues as long as enough renters have money. Only when renters run out of money do prices stop increasing. Maybe prices fall a little, but usually property owners have a good understanding of how much money is out there so that rents don't overshoot than are forced to drop. Property owners try avoiding year-to-year rental income drop because it looks bad on their accounting books to the next owner, especially in the 3 years before reselling their rental property to that next owner. That potential new owner might decide not to buy because rental income isn't increasing at a steady pace.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Donna Brazile is a piece of shit that should be sharing a prison cell with Wolf Blitzer and Hillary Clinton, but this is hilarious.

Donna Brazile: President Biden Has To Talk Honestly About Covid, Crime, Inflation; "A Pound Of Bacon Is Almost $9, Jesus"

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/02/20/donna_brazile_biden
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Little Caesars just raised prices by a dollar. Their Hot-N-Ready pizzas have been at a set price of $5 for more than 20 years until now. Chicken wings were $6.

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Little Caesars just raised prices by a dollar. Their Hot-N-Ready pizzas have been at a set price of $5 for more than 20 years until now. Chicken wings were $6.

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This post illustrates how simple minded you are.

Are you incapable of juggling more than a single thought at once, or is everything you do in life based off of single issues?

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Should have filled up this morning...

It was $4.25 at 3PM today. An entire quarter raise in a single day on top of record Indiana prices.

Go Joe*!

You're so fuckin' done dude.

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Should have filled up this morning...

It was $4.25 at 3PM today. An entire quarter raise in a single day on top of record Indiana prices.

Go Joe*!

You're so fuckin' done dude.

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$12.92 per gallon non-premium and
$12.97 per gallon diesel... Damn you Biden!!
Oh wait, I live in Norway

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/ta5wmi/1292_per_ga
llon_nonpremium_and_1297_per_gallon/

I think $12.92 is too high. Elsewhere I see a price of only $10.194 per gallon in Norway.
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Norway/gasoline_prices/

To compare US prices to other countries:
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/#hl48

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Should have filled up this morning...

It was $4.25 at 3PM today. An entire quarter raise in a single day on top of record Indiana prices.

Go Joe*!

You're so fuckin' done dude.

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$12.92 per gallon non-premium and
$12.97 per gallon diesel... Damn you Biden!!
Oh wait, I live in Norway

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/ta5wmi/1292_per_ga
llon_nonpremium_and_1297_per_gallon/

I think $12.92 is too high. Elsewhere I see a price of only $10.194 per gallon in Norway.
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Norway/gasoline_prices/

To compare US prices to other countries:
https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/#hl48

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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That doesn't mean anything out of context.

In our own country, $4.25 per gallon can mean VERY different things depending on where in the country you're talking about.

People living the high life on the coasts aren't going to be hurt like people living at or below the poverty line. The people who were already taking out Payday loans every time an emergency came up.

And somebody living rural who has to drive a long way to their job is going to pay a hell of a lot more just to keep making money at their job than somebody who lives in the city.

I don't know what people in Norway make. Maybe they should have something to offer and get those prices down. What the hell is wrong with them for paying that much.



Bottom line is if you're somebody in America right now virtue signalling that everyone should be happy to pay more at the pump for somebody else's freedom when all you're really doing is funding the neo-con/neo-lib war machine, you obviously were born with a sliver spoon up your asshole and you can go right ahead and bounce on it.

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6ix, what do you want? A separate price at the pump depending on your income? Poor people pay a dollar and as your income rises the price peaks at twenty?

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6ix, what do you want? A separate price at the pump depending on your income? Poor people pay a dollar and as your income rises the price peaks at twenty?

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It doesn't matter what I want. But now that you mention it, I bet there'd be a lot less rich white Liberals virtue signalling about all of this if they were paying $20 per gallon.


At the end of the day, you can give as many excuses as you want to for all of this, but it's not going to matter when people vote in November. The gas prices were around $2.30 when Biden took office and they're $4.00 now (with some predicting it will be $5.00 to $6.00 by summer time). Enhanced unemployment benefits ended long ago. The eviction moratorium is up. Groceries just keep getting pricier along with everything else money can buy. All of that happened after Biden* took office, no matter who's fault anybody thinks that it is.

What your average voter is going to think is that the Biden* administration is speed-running the collapse of the economy, and the way that people vote is going to reflect their dissatisfaction with it no matter how many times Steven Colbert says that you should pay it and feel good about it.

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