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Average with mortgage: $2,675

Average with rent: $2,436

Here's why I win. And incidentally, Second, this is why I'm not talking about ME when I'm talking about American's hurting.
$4,194.
That is my monthly Social Security


Not my point, and nobody cares.

My first point was that if nothing changes I won't even get $800 a month by the time I'm 62 and I could easily live off of that.

My second point is that Twitter isn't the Real World and most of the people who vote Democrat aren't in either of our financial positions and don't give one single shit about Russia or Ukraine or any other bullshit excuse about why they can't even live paycheck to paycheck anymore after a year of Biden* being in office.

Not only do they want answers why they're hurting. They want solutions. And all the current regime has to offer is excuses.

Democrats are done. Enjoy the next 7 months while they last.
Politics, especially switching back and forth randomly between Democrats and Republicans, WILL NEVER FIX WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE LIVES OF THESE VOTERS. What the voters need is to fix their own lives. I have no idea where in hell people in the western democracies got the idea that dramatically switching political support will fix their lives.

I'll give you a real short story about how to actually fix your own life. Nobody in my family has ever voted, except for me. Neither father, mother, or sisters voted. None of them ever cared about politics during their entire lives. I was the only stupid one who followed politics and political belief caused me to volunteer for Vietnam, long after it was obvious the war was lost. I was 18 in 1970. Vietnam was a huge mistake for me that put me in the hospital. What about the rest of the family?

My father was a Burger King manager. My mother worked for him. We lived in a crappy apartment in Pasadena Texas. Those apartments at 3030 Lafferty Rd, Pasadena, TX 77502 are still standing. My parents didn't own a house until my father retired. He bought the house with cash and he and my mother lived in it until they died. That house sold for $116,030.54 on June 25, 2013. I still have an image of the cashiers check. When my mother died in May 2013, her estate was worth $2.3 million. It was all in certificates of deposit, not one piece of stock. The only stocks they ever owned, they lost money on.

My sisters are a school teacher, who just retired at 71 years old, and a nurse, 65. They are both multi-millionaires and it wasn't from inheritance. Their houses are okay looking, but you'd never know how much money they had by looking at their houses. Their husbands? One is a Trump voter who isn't worth a damn, and hasn't had a job in decades, and other is even more worthless. Typical Texan husbands, in other words.

To sum up: my parents worked at Burger King, not great jobs, but very commonplace jobs. The children worked as a teacher, a nurse, and me an engineer, all very commonplace jobs that anyone could have today. All of us are unimaginably rich compared to Americans who think voting for Trump will turn their lives around and give them the American Dream.

There are literally millions of jobs available in nursing, teaching, engineering, even at Burger King, so instead of voting and bitching that Trump or Biden have not fixed your life, go fix it yourself.

I should mention the failures in my family: Every Trump voting cousin has never done well in life. They have always lived beyond their paychecks. And the $millions I have loaned out at 0% interest or just gave away, none of the money to relatives, has never done a bit of good that I can see because those people, same as my Trump voting cousins, also live far better than they ought to based on their incomes. The high price of gasoline is NOT the cause of these people's financial and personal problems. Their troubled lives are caused by the ideas in their heads. Even in death, my parents saved money by being cremated rather than the fancy funerals, caskets, monuments, wakes my relatives have, which put their offspring into debt.

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Saturday, April 9, 2022 8:53 PM

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Average with mortgage: $2,675

Average with rent: $2,436

Here's why I win. And incidentally, Second, this is why I'm not talking about ME when I'm talking about American's hurting.
$4,194.
That is my monthly Social Security


Not my point, and nobody cares.

My first point was that if nothing changes I won't even get $800 a month by the time I'm 62 and I could easily live off of that.

My second point is that Twitter isn't the Real World and most of the people who vote Democrat aren't in either of our financial positions and don't give one single shit about Russia or Ukraine or any other bullshit excuse about why they can't even live paycheck to paycheck anymore after a year of Biden* being in office.

Not only do they want answers why they're hurting. They want solutions. And all the current regime has to offer is excuses.

Democrats are done. Enjoy the next 7 months while they last.
Politics, especially switching back and forth randomly between Democrats and Republicans, WILL NEVER FIX WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE LIVES OF THESE VOTERS. What the voters need is to fix their own lives.


I'm actually not going to argue that point, because I agree 100% with that.

You and I may have very different financial positions and levels of potential income, but I don't worry one second more in a day about my future than you do. I've got everything I could ever need and living is cheap. I taught myself how to do that when I didn't need to, and it would have to get a hell of a lot worse than it is now for me to ever worry about anything again.


You are still missing my point though. None of that matters. The voters are never going to stop doing this. They're never going to fix their own lives. They're always going to look for somebody else to give them things and somebody else to blame their problems on. And Democrats are going to be voted out in November.

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I have no idea where in hell people in the western democracies got the idea that dramatically switching political support will fix their lives.


How about from the Politicians themselves. That's what they tell us every single day. And despite the fact that they've never once delivered on a single campaign promise the electorate falls for it every time.

It's been my experience that since the year 2000 this country has been going down the shit tubes. The only actual break from that was four years of Trump, but the Legacy Media wouldn't allow that to happen, so here we are again. In one single year the Establishment managed to make up for the 4 lost years that they were going to be dicking all of us into oblivion and cramming 5 full years of that pain in only 13 months.

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I'll give you a real short story about how to actually fix your own life.


I don't need your advice, dude. My life is fine.

If it weren't for house repairs that are only upping the value of my largest asset, my yearly living expenses are less than two months of the average American's. And those graphs didn't even include things like student loan debt and credit card debt or Bridezilla mega-wedding debt, which make my situation even better than it looks above. Probably by a very large margin.

I've been semi-retired since 32. I'll never be rich, but I don't even care to be. Learning how to fix stuff and do everything on my own gives me plenty to do and gives me a whole lot more fulfillment than sitting around on my ass binge watching Netflix in my retirement. I'd be a fat lazy piece of shit if I were rich right now. How do I know that? Because even though I wasn't ever rich, I was lacking in discipline and spent all that free time nearly drinking my formerly fat lazy piece of shit ass to death and I lived to tell about it.




I enjoy having obstacles to overcome. What I don't enjoy is somebody driving in the van ahead of me and dumping them out in the middle of the freeway. That's what Biden's inflation is doing. One of these days I'm going to end up having to work for somebody else again because he's destroying the value of the dollars I meticulously saved.

What a dick.


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Sunday, April 10, 2022 7:36 AM

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Politico: A sour and angry America poised to punish Dems this fall
Biden and his top advisers know that the window to change the economic narrative through executive action is rapidly closing.

https://archive.ph/IuNHv#selection-761.1-765.125

Well... The poll they cited is obviously bullshit and the Administration and the large number of vulnerable Democrat politicians are fools if they're buying it.

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The survey offered some reason for optimism for Democrats, given that a majority of Americans don’t blame Biden for the higher gas prices. The numbers also generally break down along partisan lines in most polling, with Republicans more likely to blame the president for economic problems. People also mostly still feel confident in their own personal finances even as they worry about other people and the national picture, the survey said.


That means they're only polling rich white Democrats.

Not a good move. There's not enough of them to matter.

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And they worry a lot.


Yes. That is all that rich, white, virtue-signalling millennial Democrats are good at doing. We are well aware of the young college "educated" white Democrats and their 1st world problems by now.



Keep lying to yourselves about all of this at your own peril and then make up a bunch of lies about why Trump is President for four more years through the mid-20's because you couldn't figure that out twice.

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You are still missing my point though. None of that matters. The voters are never going to stop doing this. They're never going to fix their own lives. They're always going to look for somebody else to give them things and somebody else to blame their problems on. And Democrats are going to be voted out in November.

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I have no idea where in hell people in the western democracies got the idea that dramatically switching political support will fix their lives.


How about from the Politicians themselves. That's what they tell us every single day. And despite the fact that they've never once delivered on a single campaign promise the electorate falls for it every time.

It's been my experience that since the year 2000 this country has been going down the shit tubes. The only actual break from that was four years of Trump, but the Legacy Media wouldn't allow that to happen, so here we are again. In one single year the Establishment managed to make up for the 4 lost years that they were going to be dicking all of us into oblivion and cramming 5 full years of that pain in only 13 months.
Three real problems, all involving money and inflation:

1) Health care costs are too high. Democrats have a plan that will fix the problem but every Republican votes against plus one Democrat, Joe Lieberman, also votes against.

2) Billionaires aren’t paying their taxes. Over a trillion dollars per year are not being collected. Democrats have a plan to hire more tax auditors for the wealthy but every Republican votes against plus one Democrat.

3) Gasoline prices are too high. Democrats have a plan to switch over to electric cars (electricity costs 25% per mile compared to 100% per mile for gasoline) and save the planet from CO2. Every Republican votes against plus one Democrat, Joe Manchin.

Three problems, but no solutions. The voters decide that both political parties are to blame for this sad state and in the next election the opposite party will get their vote.

This is the kind stupidity by voters that leaves problems forever unsolved. I have seen this same kind of stupidity on construction projects. The right solution is always to find out which few people in your construction crew are screwing things up. The wrong solution, but conceptually easy, is to fire everybody and hire a new crew, which leaves the whole project stalled. You need to find out who in the crew should be fired, but if you have little understanding of what a competent crew does, then firing everybody seems like the only solution. Voters are like construction managers who fire everybody – the dumbest imaginable “solution” to very real problems.

I’ve noticed that most voters aren’t any better at solving personal financial problems then they are solving political problems. Most voters use the same overly simplified mental shortcuts for all problems. Those shortcuts leave them frustrated because they can’t figure out why their problems persist. It never crosses their minds for very long that their problems are not completely out in the world, but half of their problem is inside their own heads. Nobody but themselves can fix that half hidden in the darkness of their minds. But once that half is fixed, the other half, out in the sunlight of the real world, is easy to see what is wrong and, sometimes, easy to fix. Some fix such as spend less money or find a better paying job or desist from doing that thing which annoys the hell out of your boss and coworkers.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022 7:16 AM

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Markups.org https://markups.org/ is a crowdsourced website out to shame dealerships that ask for absurd markups for cars.

The price of a Jeep Wrangler was doubled by one dealer last year, and a Kia Forte had $7,000 tacked on. Automakers are feuding with dealers over markups.

Automakers, with the exception of Tesla and a few similar startups, don’t set the final prices for the cars. They set the prices they charge third-party dealerships, but a dealership can then get greedy and overcharge for it. The greed must be Biden’s fault! Vote Republican to fix this! Just kidding. Sorry to tell you, but that’s not how greedy Capitalism works.

The company that builds a car has limited ability to step in when a dealership overcharges for it. Ford has threatened to stop sending popular models to dealers that engage in questionable markups. General Motors has done the same.

Subaru, ever the love company, has tried gently requesting that its dealerships keep prices reasonable. It has expressed fatherly disappointment in those that don’t.

But there’s another party with some ability to push back at markups – buyers. That effort has apparently begun.

Markups.org https://markups.org/ is a crowdsourced website out to shame dealerships that ask for absurd markups for cars.

The builders of the site remain anonymous. In the About Us section of the site, they say they started the effort because of the markups some dealerships were taking on high-performance truck models like the Ram TRX and Ford F-150 Raptor.

Users reporting dealerships for marking up everything from Kia Forte sedans (an alleged $7,000 dealer adjustment at a Nevada dealership) to an Audi RS 6 Avant (a $75,000 markup reported in West Palm Beach, Florida).

The effort is small for now, but it’s the first sign we’ve seen of buyers organizing resistance to the new wave of markups.

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/car-price-vigilantes-crowdsourced-effort-
pushes-back-at-dealer-markups/

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022 7:35 AM

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Three real problems, all involving money and inflation:

1) Health care costs are too high. Democrats have a plan that will fix the problem but every Republican votes against plus one Democrat, Joe Lieberman, also votes against.


Health insurance caused this problem. Health insurance is, and always was, a Ponzi Scheme.

As expensive as dentures were to pay for out of pocket, they're at least still affordable and reasonable since medicare/medicaid doesn't cover them and most insurance policies through jobs would not cover more than 10 or 15% of the cost. The dental industry itself is a real-world example about how prices on health services don't rise when insurance was never involved. They can only afford to charge what people could ever possibly hope to pay off.

If the Dental industry had been covered with Medicare/Medicaid back in the 80's, those $3000.00 dentures would have been $40,000.00 today.

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2) Billionaires aren’t paying their taxes. Over a trillion dollars per year are not being collected. Democrats have a plan to hire more tax auditors for the wealthy but every Republican votes against plus one Democrat.


Billionaires don't pay any taxes. This is a problem. A lack of tax auditors isn't the problem.

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3) Gasoline prices are too high. Democrats have a plan to switch over to electric cars (electricity costs 25% per mile compared to 100% per mile for gasoline) and save the planet from CO2. Every Republican votes against plus one Democrat, Joe Manchin.


Nobody wants electric cars. That isn't going to solve anything.

Electricity isn't magic. Just because you tree-hugging dummies don't actually see any smoke coming out of a stack when you plug something in doesn't mean we're not burning shit to power your rides.

Mining the minerals necessary to build the batteries that weigh as much as the rest of the car comes with a gigantic carbon footprint, and that's not talking at all about disposing of them.

Your wind and solar dreams are just dreams. They can make a nice supplement to Nuclear, but until you bring Nuclear power back to the table, we're going to keep burning coal and natural gas for power, and your overpriced electric cars aren't going to save anyone any money or save the world.

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Three problems, but no solutions. The voters decide that both political parties are to blame for this sad state and in the next election the opposite party will get their vote.


That's right. NO solutions. One party pretends there isn't any problems. The other party runs on nonsensical non-solutions.

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This is the kind stupidity by voters that leaves problems forever unsolved. I have seen this same kind of stupidity on construction projects. The right solution is always to find out which few people in your construction crew are screwing things up. The wrong solution, but conceptually easy, is to fire everybody and hire a new crew, which leaves the whole project stalled. You need to find out who in the crew should be fired, but if you have little understanding of what a competent crew does, then firing everybody seems like the only solution. Voters are like construction managers who fire everybody – the dumbest imaginable “solution” to very real problems.


Nobody fires everybody. When in recent history could you even give an example of this happening?

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I’ve noticed that most voters aren’t any better at solving personal financial problems then they are solving political problems. Most voters use the same overly simplified mental shortcuts for all problems. Those shortcuts leave them frustrated because they can’t figure out why their problems persist. It never crosses their minds for very long that their problems are not completely out in the world, but half of their problem is inside their own heads. Nobody but themselves can fix that half hidden in the darkness of their minds. But once that half is fixed, the other half, out in the sunlight of the real world, is easy to see what is wrong and, sometimes, easy to fix. Some fix such as spend less money or find a better paying job or desist from doing that thing which annoys the hell out of your boss and coworkers.


Nobody here believes that you've got it figured out.

You're still the same old terrible person you always were. A completely static character written to motivate others to improve themselves and not be like you. You're the lesson of the fables. The punchline of the jokes.



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Tuesday, April 12, 2022 1:25 PM

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Health insurance caused this problem. Health insurance is, and always was, a Ponzi Scheme. . . . followed by whole encyclopedia of nonsense from 6ix which ends:

Nobody here believes that you've got it figured out.

You're still the same old terrible person you always were. A completely static character written to motivate others to improve themselves and not be like you. You're the lesson of the fables. The punchline of the jokes.
You won't be going to the doctor, will you? Good luck living to 65.

6ix, in only a few hundred words, which I've heard the same deeply held beliefs from many other Trump voters, you have explained why Trump voters have insurmountable problems in their lives that no government can ever fix, even the Second-Coming -- Hallelujah! -- of Donald Trump.

Meanwhile, the real explanation for inflation in fewer words:

I was told that if we increase taxes it will cause prices to increase. And if we increase the minimum wage, it will cause prices to increase. We have done neither of these things and prices have increased. I can't help but feel rich people are going to increase prices no matter what, and are just teeing up excuses.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2022 7:46 PM

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For future reference, I'll save you the time...

I don't read any of your bullshit past the first sentence or two.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022 8:25 AM

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Just another day of Americans feeling the financial pain of the Biden* administration and Democrat's policies.

Countdown to the Democrat Party's irrelevance.

Tick Tock, Tick Tock



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How is AriZona Iced Tea still 99 cents as inflation soars? - Answer: the owner is NOT greedy.

Gas is nearly six bucks a gallon. Groceries are 8% higher than last year. Dollar stores: now dollar-and-a-quarter stores.

But a giant, 23-ounce can of AriZona iced tea still costs 99 cents, the same price it has been since it hit the market 30 years ago. Today, that’s cheaper than most bottled water, 20-ounce sodas, iced teas and canned coffees on the market. If you could fill your car up with cans of AriZona Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey, it would be cheaper than L.A. gas by nearly 40 cents a gallon.

How does AriZona pull this off while everything else goes up? The price of aluminum has doubled in the last 18 months. The price of high fructose corn syrup has tripled since 2000. Gas prices are pumping up delivery costs. One 1992 dollar, adjusted for inflation, is worth two 2022 dollars. But the 99-cent Big AZ Can, as the company calls it, persists.

The short answer: the company is making less money. The big cans are still profitable, but for the moment, they’re much less so than a few years ago.

Don Vultaggio, the 70-year-old, 6-foot-8 founder and chairman of the company, is choosing to take a haircut in order to keep the price flat and cans moving.

“I’m committed to that 99 cent price — when things go against you, you tighten your belt,” Vultaggio said on a Zoom call in early April from his headquarters on Long Island, N.Y. Even though his costs are higher, “I don’t want to do what the bread guys and the gas guys and everybody else are doing,” Vultaggio said. “Consumers don’t need another price increase from a rich guy like me.”

He has the power to make a call like that because AriZona is one of the few independent private companies remaining in the consolidated world of nonalcoholic packaged beverages, a market dominated by PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, and Keurig Dr Pepper, which owns Snapple.

Vultaggio, a Brooklyn native with the accent to prove it, got the idea for the tea company when he was running his route as a beer distributor in Manhattan. He noticed that people were drinking Snapple, even though it was freezing outside. He decided to get into the iced tea business then and there.

Today, he co-owns the company in its entirety with his sons, Spencer and Wesley, who serve as chief marketing officer and chief creative officer, respectively, and joined him on the call. Forbes puts their combined net worth at over $4 billion, all from AriZona, placing them among the thousand richest people in the world. (If they wanted to be in the top 500, they would have raised the prices, following the example of every other greedy Capitalist who seizes opportunities to gouge customers.)

AriZona’s 30-year run at 99 cents is exceptional, but the record for longest-holding beverage price still goes to Coca-Cola, which held the cost of a 6.5-ounce bottle at five cents for more than 70 years, from 1886 to 1959. There was so much five-cent price advertising and so many vending machines that only accepted nickels that it took decades before Coca-Cola could break the nickel’s spell. The end result, however, was a world-spanning soft drink empire geared toward volume, not margins.

More at https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-04-12/az-iced-tea-inflatio
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022 4:58 PM

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And it doesn't matter.

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022 7:19 PM

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Thinking about inflation leads to more inflation

Inflationary psychology is when:
1. Consumers speed up purchases or seek higher salaries because they believe prices will rise in the future
2. Businesses raise prices in anticipation that costs will go up in the future

In his 1971 State of the Union, Richard Nixon noted that inflationary psychology had “gripped our nation so tightly for so long.”

Nixon tried to stop inflationary psychology by instituting wage and price controls, but his plan failed. His successor, Gerald Ford, organized the Whip Inflation Now campaign, urging disciplined spending habits and personal savings. That didn’t work, either.

This cycle of inflation, which started in 1965, didn’t end until the early ’80s, when then-Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker increased interest rates from ~10% to ~20%, crashing the economy into a recession in the process.

“Every administration thought they had power to end inflation but they really didn’t,” Curtin said. “And I think now you can see that same sense of overconfidence in the ability of the government to control inflation.”

https://thehustle.co/why-thinking-about-inflation-leads-to-more-inflat
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Wednesday, April 13, 2022 7:27 PM

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Maybe we can convert cars to run on Arizona Iced Tea.

It's a better idea than Electric Cars, anyhow.

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Saturday, April 16, 2022 7:21 PM

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This thread title just seems weird.

Everybody else spells it Bidenflation.

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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 9:55 PM

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It's Biden's fault! Or not, since this happened in Germany today: The price of goods leaving German factories has passed an eye-watering milestone.

German annual producer price inflation topped 30% in March, the country’s Federal Statistics Office said on Wednesday. That’s its highest level since the agency began collecting data 73 years ago.

The biggest culprit? Energy prices, which rose nearly 84% from the same month last year.

“Mainly responsible for the high rise of energy prices were the strong price increases of natural gas… which was up 144.8% on March 2021,” the statistics office said in a statement.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/economy/germany-inflation-producer-pric
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Wednesday, April 20, 2022 10:39 PM

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No.

It's Biden*'s fault.


Using another extreme Leftist Government that is in lock step with US Democrat cancer to prove your nonsense would be ill advised going forward.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No.

It's Biden*'s fault.


Using another extreme Leftist Government that is in lock step with US Democrat cancer to prove your nonsense would be ill advised going forward.
You remind me why you have almost no money. There are two sides to every transaction involving money and if you don't understand both sides, you are gonna get screwed in that transaction. It is absolutely clear that most Americans do NOT understand the rich person on the other side of transactions. That works to the profitable advantage of the other side, the rich man's side. But when it is two poor men making a deal, both are likely to end up worse than they were before the deal. Poor men make bad deals without being aware of how much better they could have done with some accurate knowledge of the other side in the deal.

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Thursday, April 21, 2022 9:02 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
No.

It's Biden*'s fault.


Using another extreme Leftist Government that is in lock step with US Democrat cancer to prove your nonsense would be ill advised going forward.
You remind me why you have almost no money. There are two sides to every transaction involving money and if you don't understand both sides, you are gonna get screwed in that transaction. It is absolutely clear that most Americans do NOT understand the rich person on the other side of transactions. That works to the profitable advantage of the other side, the rich man's side. But when it is two poor men making a deal, both are likely to end up worse than they were before the deal. Poor men make bad deals without being aware of how much better they could have done with some accurate knowledge of the other side in the deal.

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


Don't bother using my financial position to win any arguments either.

I've got more than enough money.

If our country ran a budget like I do, we'd cancel out the national debt and the entire world would be indebted to us in 20 years.



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Friday, May 6, 2022 10:34 AM

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ConocoPhillips’ profits soared in the first three months of the year, driven by high crude prices, record production and two key acquisitions in the Permian Basin. But mostly because customers were gouged at the gas pump so blame Biden.

ConocoPhillips, one of the world’s biggest independent oil and gas companies, said its profits increased nearly six times from same period a year earlier, surging to $5.8 billion from $1 billion in the first quarter of 2021. Revenues nearly doubled to $19.3 billion from $10.6 billion in 2021.

“We’re running well, and with very strong financial performance,” CEO Ryan Lance told investors in Thursday’s quarterly earnings call. “Now building on two very successful Permian transactions, we have truly transformed ConocoPhillips.” Not said: We will continue gouging our customers so long as they have money for gasoline. People who vote for Trump cannot understand this simple business strategy, instead believing that it must be Biden's fault, not ConocoPhillips operating to extract the maximum dollars per tank of gasoline.

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Friday, May 6, 2022 11:54 AM

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Uh huh.

Democrats have the House, the Senate and the Presidency*.

What are they doing about it?

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022 10:15 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Uh huh.

Democrats have the House, the Senate and the Presidency*.

What are they doing about it?
I'll give you an example where prices for electricity increased 100% this year. Nothing can be done about it, mostly because business wants to raise its prices and Democrats can't stop that unless at least 10 GOP Senators cooperate. Zero cooperate.

There is a company called MP2 Energy, a Shell Energy North America Subsidiary. www.mp2energy.com

Last year, for 100% green energy, MP2 charged 10.5 cents per kilowatt-hour. This year, for the same 12 month contract, MP2 charges 20.7 cents per kilowatt-hour, if you buy only 500 kWh per month.

For a 60 month contract the cost is 14.1 cents per kilowatt-hour, if you buy only 500kWh per month. That is a relative bargain of only a 40% increase this year in price compared to last year's 12 month contract.

Remember, this is green energy. Shell Oil can't justify the 100% price increase because of the Ukraine War increasing oil and natural gas prices since this power is NOT made with fossil fuels.

The wind and sun power are free, Free, FREE, but Shell realized that they could double their electric prices and Congress can't stop them. I am thankful that Shell didn't triple their prices for energy. Shell is selling the CHEAPEST electricity in Texas, cheaper than fossil fuel electricity. In Texas legislature, the Democrats wanted limits on electric prices, but the Republicans called that Communism, therefore no limits in Texas other than take all the money. Business can't raise prices higher once it has taken all the money.

You can check out the prices for all Texas electric sellers here:
http://www.powertochoose.org/en-us/Plan/Results#

Use zip-code 77520 for Baytown. Use MP2 to see the prices for only Shell.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022 1:03 PM

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If companies are squarely to blame for the price we're paying right now, why don't they always raise the prices 10 or 20% every year?

Unless you can answer that question, you have no argument.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2022 1:34 PM

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If companies are squarely to blame for the price we're paying right now, why don't they always raise the prices 10 or 20% every year?

Unless you can answer that question, you have no argument.
Are you aware that about 50% of Americans have exactly 0 net worth? It is zero for them because all their money has been taken away from them by price increases. It has always been 50% of the population has zero net worth. Here is an article from 2014: https://www.marketplace.org/2014/04/21/about-half-america-has-zero-net
-wealth/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States


The richest Americans, and the bottom 50%, are all buying the same old gasoline and electricity and natural gas for the exact same prices. Everybody in America knows that businesses cannot have two different prices for these commodities, a high price for the rich and a low price for the poor. If the companies tried to have different prices, the politicians would catch hell from the voters. That is what limits how high prices can go. There can not be 10%-20% price increases each year because the people who are poorest can not pay it. They are already paying as much as they can afford. Businesses can't raise prices higher than what the poorest 50% of population can pay. Right now businesses are taking every last penny from the poorest 50%, who have no net worth.

Temporarily, the poorest 50% of Americans received extra money from the Federal government. Business instantly pounced on the money, taking it away from the poorest 50% of Americans by raising price for everybody, rich and poor. If business got too greedy, raising prices 20% every damn year, life would collapse for the poorest 50%. That collapse is the only thing limiting the greed of businesses.

Here is a real example of ridiculous price increases that business can get away with, but not attract attention from politicians. It happened today:

Wholesale power prices hit $5K per megawatt hour in Harris Co. Blame congested transmission lines. May 10, 2022, Updated: May 10, 2022 11:30 a.m.

Wholesale power in Harris County jumped as high as $5,500 per megawatt-hour, compared with prices that typically average about $30. This was a wonderful opportunity for the electric generating businesses to steal a bunch of money without getting noticed by politicians. It was a quick in-and-out robbery.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220510170510/https://www.houstonchronicl
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022 8:40 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
If companies are squarely to blame for the price we're paying right now, why don't they always raise the prices 10 or 20% every year?

Unless you can answer that question, you have no argument.
Are you aware that about 50% of Americans have exactly 0 net worth? It is zero for them because all their money has been taken away from them by price increases. It has always been 50% of the population has zero net worth. Here is an article from 2014: https://www.marketplace.org/2014/04/21/about-half-america-has-zero-net
-wealth/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons

The richest Americans, and the bottom 50%, are all buying the same old gasoline and electricity and natural gas for the exact same prices. Everybody in America knows that businesses cannot have two different prices for these commodities, a high price for the rich and a low price for the poor. If the companies tried to have different prices, the politicians would catch hell from the voters. That is what limits how high prices can go. There can not be 10%-20% price increases each year because the people who are poorest can not pay it. They are already paying as much as they can afford. Businesses can't raise prices higher than what the poorest 50% of population can pay. Right now businesses are taking every last penny from the poorest 50%, who have no net worth.

Temporarily, the poorest 50% of Americans received extra money from the Federal government. Business instantly pounced on the money, taking it away from the poorest 50% of Americans by raising price for everybody, rich and poor. If business got too greedy, raising prices 20% every damn year, life would collapse for the poorest 50%. That collapse is the only thing limiting the greed of businesses.

Here is a real example of ridiculous price increases that business can get away with, but not attract attention from politicians. It happened today:

Wholesale power prices hit $5K per megawatt hour in Harris Co. Blame congested transmission lines. May 10, 2022, Updated: May 10, 2022 11:30 a.m.

Wholesale power in Harris County jumped as high as $5,500 per megawatt-hour, compared with prices that typically average about $30. This was a wonderful opportunity for the electric generating businesses to steal a bunch of money without getting noticed by politicians. It was a quick in-and-out robbery.

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Yup.

All you're doing here is making my argument I made years ago that raising the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour would just lead to higher prices for everything and negate any "gains" people were making at their jobs.

Incidentally, at most places the starting pay HAS increased to $15.00 or close to it right now, which is just one more reason that everything is going to shit when everything bad that could possibly happen is all happening at once.



What people aren't talking about yet though is the REALLY SINISTER part of this whole equation...

1. The Standard Deduction isn't going to increase with inflation. So now that people in the bottom 50% are making "more" money to buy the same amount or less goods then they could 2 years ago, they're going to be taxed at a higher percentage of their income from their state, local and Federal government every April going forward.

2. Thresholds for programs like SNAP, TANF and Medicaid and EIC aren't going to increase with inflation either. So now that people in the bottom 20% are making "more" money to buy the same amount or less goods than they did 2 years ago, many of them are going to be phased out of food stamps, health care and the earned income credit that kept countless kids from gangbanging because their single mom's almost non-existent income will no longer be doubled with earned income credit in April.


You think rioting is bad now? Think car jackings, muggings and murder increases are bad now?

We ain't seen nothing yet.


Our country is about to fall apart.


Storm's coming.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2022 8:05 AM

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You think rioting is bad now? Think car jackings, muggings and murder increases are bad now?

We ain't seen nothing yet.


Our country is about to fall apart.


Storm's coming.
All over the Capitalist world, with the exception of a few countries with governments that force most large companies to have employee unions, the company owns the job, not the employee. That is why at least half of all employees are poorly treated and paid. If companies were forced by employee unions to negotiate with employees, instead of instantly firing them, wages would rise. That wouldn't keep the new combination of employees plus capitalists from gouging the company's customers, but it would be a start toward giving customers some control over how high prices can go. Employee unions might be slightly sympathetic toward customers when Capitalists aren't in the least.

The example of electric prices in Texas shows how crazy the price setting has gotten thanks to Capitalists being given by State government total control over electric prices. There was once a system, which I remember well because it wasn't that long ago, where the State stopped electric companies from gouging their customers. What happened is that the old form of control remained in place, but the new commissioners in charge of prices raised the upper limit that prices can change on a daily basis from about 200% above average prices to 10,000% of average electric prices. That is the same as having no limits. But frequently, the electric prices for a day are hitting that upper limit of 10,000% because of "shortages" deliberately created by electric companies. It is completely crazy and the electric companies deny doing what they are doing, but they still do it anyway.

Rules and Laws of Public Utility Commission of Texas
https://www.puc.texas.gov/agency/rulesnlaws/Default.aspx
The Law has not changed in Texas, but the commissioners have been changed. These new people have no respect for the old laws and have found sneaky ways to give the regulated industries control over everything substantial, while the commissioners give the outward appearance of keeping the old laws functioning.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2022 9:07 AM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

You think rioting is bad now? Think car jackings, muggings and murder increases are bad now?

We ain't seen nothing yet.


Our country is about to fall apart.


Storm's coming.
All over the Capitalist world, with the exception of a few countries with governments that force most large companies to have employee unions, the company owns the job, not the employee. That is why at least half of all employees are poorly treated and paid. If companies were forced by employee unions to negotiate with employees, instead of instantly firing them, wages would rise. That wouldn't keep the new combination of employees plus capitalists from gouging the company's customers, but it would be a start toward giving customers some control over how high prices can go. Employee unions might be slightly sympathetic toward customers when Capitalists aren't in the least.

The example of electric prices in Texas shows how crazy the price setting has gotten thanks to Capitalists being given by State government total control over electric prices. There was once a system, which I remember well because it wasn't that long ago, where the State stopped electric companies from gouging their customers. What happened is that the old form of control remained in place, but the new commissioners in charge of prices raised the upper limit that prices can change on a daily basis from about 200% above average prices to 10,000% of average electric prices. That is the same as having no limits. But frequently, the electric prices for a day are hitting that upper limit of 10,000% because of "shortages" deliberately created by electric companies. It is completely crazy and the electric companies deny doing what they are doing, but they still do it anyway.

Rules and Laws of Public Utility Commission of Texas
https://www.puc.texas.gov/agency/rulesnlaws/Default.aspx
The Law has not changed in Texas, but the commissioners have been changed. These new people have no respect for the old laws and have found sneaky ways to give the regulated industries control over everything substantial, while the commissioners give the outward appearance of keeping the old laws functioning.

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




If any of what you say is true here, than why waste time forcing a vote on Abortion in the Senate?

Force a vote on this. Today. And make sure CNN and MSNBC cover it non-stop while your Democrats put everyone on record.

Fucking do something already, Democrats, or die in November.


Those are your only two options. Pawning blame on everyone but yourselves is not an option.

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Wednesday, May 11, 2022 8:22 PM

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If any of what you say is true here, than why waste time forcing a vote on Abortion in the Senate?

Force a vote on this. Today. And make sure CNN and MSNBC cover it non-stop while your Democrats put everyone on record.

Fucking do something already, Democrats, or die in November.


Those are your only two options. Pawning blame on everyone but yourselves is not an option.
Today, the Senate voted on a bill making abortion legal. It failed because the Republicans opposed it. A month from now, most voters will blame the Democrats, complaining that the Democrats didn't try harder because Senator Manchin of W Virginia didn't vote for it. All the other Republicans didn't vote for it, but the Democrats will get at least half of the blame.

On controlling inflation, exactly the same thing would happen, but it would be Manchin and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona who wouldn't vote for it. The bill would be a thousand pages long, unlike the relatively short abortion bill. There would be plenty for demagogues to the misconstrue. In that case, because two Democrats didn't vote for controlling inflation, American voters would, once again just like abortion, place twice as much blame on the Democrats. The Democrats did not try hard enough is the only thing the voters will remember. They won't remember that no Republicans voted to control inflation.

Tooting my own horn too loud, I remember these simple things exactly how they happen, which is the main reason why I am in the top 1% and why the people who are confused and/or unfocused about who did what to whom are in the bottom 90% of wealth.

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/11/1097980529/senate-to-vote-on-a-bill-tha
t-codifies-abortion-protections-but-it-will-likely-f

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Thursday, May 12, 2022 1:58 AM

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Today, the Senate voted on a bill making abortion legal.


CORRECTION: Today the Senate voted against a law on the FEDERAL LEVEL and relinquished that right to the States where it properly belongs.

I'm no fan of a FEDERAL government ban on weed either, but it looks like even if those cowards will never come around and give up that control the states have taken it upon themselves to legalize it.

Meanwhile, nobody is making any laws making Abortion illegal on the federal level. It will be up to the voters to decide what happens with this on a state by state basis.

Hopefully nobody on the extremes of either side outright ban in every single situation or allow you to murder babies after they are born, but let's not kid ourselves. This is exactly what is going to happen in several Republican and Democrat controlled states, because everybody went fucking wack job after 2 years of Covid lockdowns.

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It failed because the Republicans opposed it. A month from now, most voters will blame the Democrats, complaining that the Democrats didn't try harder because Senator Manchin of W Virginia didn't vote for it. All the other Republicans didn't vote for it, but the Democrats will get at least half of the blame.

On controlling inflation, exactly the same thing would happen, but it would be Manchin and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona who wouldn't vote for it. The bill would be a thousand pages long, unlike the relatively short abortion bill. There would be plenty for demagogues to the misconstrue. In that case, because two Democrats didn't vote for controlling inflation, American voters would, once again just like abortion, place twice as much blame on the Democrats. The Democrats did not try hard enough is the only thing the voters will remember. They won't remember that no Republicans voted to control inflation.


It was always going to fail, dummy. It was never put to a vote with the intention to pass it. It was simply putting everyone on record where they stood on the issue.

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Tooting my own horn too loud, I remember these simple things exactly how they happen, which is the main reason why I am in the top 1% and why the people who are confused and/or unfocused about who did what to whom are in the bottom 90% of wealth.


You're an idiot and a liar, and we've heard that bullshit line every day for the last 5 years.

Nobody cares.



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Thursday, May 12, 2022 11:20 AM

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Inflation and All New Firefly comics.

These are downloaded, not paper versions:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=all+new+firefly

Prices are $2.99, $3.99, $4.99
I think there is a trend.
It must be Biden's fault. Or the price of oil. Or the Ukraine/Russia War.

Or maybe not.

What about the paper versions of All New Firefly comics?
https://www.tfaw.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=All+new+firefly

Prices are $2.99, $3.49, $4.49
I'm seeing another trend.

Then there are the free versions of All New Firefly comics:
http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=20&tid=64992




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Thursday, May 12, 2022 11:51 PM

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Buying a digital print of a comic makes even less sense to me than buying an NFT.

The fact that this is even a thing just signals that there are still way too many people with too much money in their pockets.


At least you can eat the paper version. It's not going to have any nutritional value outside of fiber, but it can quell the hunger pangs when you're starving because what Democrats did.

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Buying a digital print of a comic makes even less sense to me than buying an NFT.

The fact that this is even a thing just signals that there are still way too many people with too much money in their pockets.


At least you can eat the paper version. It's not going to have any nutritional value outside of fiber, but it can quell the hunger pangs when you're starving because what Democrats did.
Once upon a time, movies were sold on video tape and everybody sent their Kodachrome off to the photo lab for color slides that are inserted into a carousel. Nowadays, people just don't want to fill up their house with shelves of slides and video tapes. Same thing happened to comic books. There are people who collect paper comics -- the Simpson's Comic Book Guy, owner of the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop. He collects comics because his father is a stamp collector, but who needs stamps for email?

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Friday, May 13, 2022 1:55 AM

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I understand why idiots do it.

Problem One: There is ZERO resale value to digital content.

Problem Two: You're not actually purchasing that thing. You're purchasing one personal digital right to a copy of that thing. If your hard drive goes, there is no guaranty at all that the thing you bought will still be available to re-download in the future. The company you bought it from could go under. They could decide that they don't want to carry it any more. They could lose the rights themselves to keep it on their server. They might go woke and decide that something contained in the product is problematic and remove it from their server.

I'm sure that some services already keep your digital copy of your thing on the cloud rather than even allowing you to download it to your computer, which means they could take it away from you at any moment's notice for any of the reasons stated above, and you never even had the opportunity to back it up. Even if you get your money back in this scenario of digital book burning, it's something you'd never have to worry about if you had a physical copy of something.


This is all especially a problem with Comic Books. The main draw for them is the collectibility. Once NFTs crash and burn nobody is ever going to look at digital goods as a worthwhile investment.

Especially not when they can all be so immediately pirated, as you have shown they can above.

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Friday, May 13, 2022 10:32 AM

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Remember kids...

Any time that Second wants to come in here and claim that the inflation that's ravaging our economy isn't the direct result of Democrat Policy and the Biden* Administration specifically that this is EXACTLY THE REVERSE of what they did in this celebratory Tweet from the White House that is just about 6 weeks shy of it's 1st Birthday.



I hope you saved that $0.16 on last year's cookout and invested it wisely.



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Saturday, May 14, 2022 11:05 PM

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I keep hearing that lumber prices are going to come down, and I've even seen videos where people are going to the stores and showing drops in OSB and other materials.

Standard 8ft 2x4 framing lumber has been stuck at $6.70 each around these parts for over a month now with no drop in sight.


Raise that rate again tomorrow, FED. And then again next weekend and every weekend after that until this inflation madness ends.


It's high time that the savers stop being forced to subsidize the people with no impulse control.

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Remember kids...
Republicans block bill to stop price gouging at the pump as gas hits new record high

Take a walk through U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers‘ tweets and you’ll find complaint after complaint about the price of gas. Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers, Republican of Washington, is the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee but opposes legislation to stop oil and gas companies from price gouging consumers.

Rep. McMorris Rodgers on Monday claimed that making it illegal for oil companies to price gouge is “socialism,” something that’s done in places like “Soviet Russia,” not in America.

"The promise of America is free enterprise, not socialism, not government price controls,” she claimed, as she complained about the price of gas, which just hit a new record high.

The bill would not set price caps as some Republicans suggest, rather, it would empower the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate if oil and gas companies are price gouging consumers.

Republicans on the powerful House Rules Committee on Monday blocked the bill, H.R. 7688, the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act from advancing. The GOP, thanks to McMorris Rodgers, is now calling the legislation the “Socialist Energy Price Fixing Act.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has said he will bring the bill to a vote on the floor if it passes the House. It would require 60 votes to avoid a GOP filibuster, and therefore is not expected to pass.

More at https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/gop-gas-bill/

The text of H.R. 7688, the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act can be read at
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7688/text


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Wednesday, May 18, 2022 7:31 AM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Remember kids...
Republicans block bill to stop price gouging at the pump as gas hits new record high

Take a walk through U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers‘ tweets and you’ll find complaint after complaint about the price of gas. Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers, Republican of Washington, is the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee but opposes legislation to stop oil and gas companies from price gouging consumers.

Rep. McMorris Rodgers on Monday claimed that making it illegal for oil companies to price gouge is “socialism,” something that’s done in places like “Soviet Russia,” not in America.

"The promise of America is free enterprise, not socialism, not government price controls,” she claimed, as she complained about the price of gas, which just hit a new record high.

The bill would not set price caps as some Republicans suggest, rather, it would empower the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate if oil and gas companies are price gouging consumers.

Republicans on the powerful House Rules Committee on Monday blocked the bill, H.R. 7688, the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act from advancing. The GOP, thanks to McMorris Rodgers, is now calling the legislation the “Socialist Energy Price Fixing Act.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has said he will bring the bill to a vote on the floor if it passes the House. It would require 60 votes to avoid a GOP filibuster, and therefore is not expected to pass.

More at https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/gop-gas-bill/

The text of H.R. 7688, the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act can be read at
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/7688/text


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What's Venezuela's cash worth right now?

Gas prices are high because Biden* policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela

Fuck your socialism, retard.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

What's Venezuela's cash worth right now?

Gas prices are high because Biden* policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela

Fuck your socialism, retard.
Along the Houston Ship Channel, which refines billions of barrels of gasoline per year, it has always been good that people like you don't understand that refineries set their own prices, not the President. Awful things might happen to gasoline refinery CEOs if the public understood what the CEOs were doing to the public. But the public never understands, which is great for the CEOs.

Over in England, the public noticed the American CEOs are taking the money, but not in America, where the public believes Biden is taking their money:

Oil companies’ profits soared to $174 billion as US gas prices rose
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/06/oil-companies-profits
-exxon-chevron-shell-exclusive

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022 8:28 AM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

What's Venezuela's cash worth right now?

Gas prices are high because Biden* policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Venezuela

Fuck your socialism, retard.
Along the Houston Ship Channel, which refines billions of barrels of gasoline per year, it has always been good that people like you don't understand that refineries set their own prices, not the President. Awful things might happen to gasoline refinery CEOs if the public understood what the CEOs were doing to the public. But the public never understands, which is great for the CEOs.

Over in England, the public noticed the American CEOs are taking the money, but not in America, where the public believes Biden is taking their money:

Oil companies’ profits soared to $174 billion as US gas prices rose
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/dec/06/oil-companies-profits
-exxon-chevron-shell-exclusive

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


Dude. Enough with the same bullshit rhetoric.

Of course Joe Biden* doesn't set the price tag on oil... directly.

The poisonous Green policy that Democrats enact, on top of two years of mandated shutdowns of the world by Leftists and the breakdown of the Six Sigma'd manufacturing and shipping that resulted from it and near-record high inflation caused by Democrats DOES.



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Dude. Enough with the same bullshit rhetoric.

Of course Joe Biden* doesn't set the price tag on oil... directly.

The poisonous Green policy that Democrats enact, on top of two years of mandated shutdowns of the world by Leftists and the breakdown of the Six Sigma'd manufacturing and shipping that resulted from it and near-record high inflation caused by Democrats DOES.
6ix, you know nothing at all about how prices are set.

2 wild charts show how Big Oil profits are skyrocketing as prices at the pump rise

But as inflation continues to erode Americans' finances, oil giants are catching flak. Some lawmakers have called on the firms to prioritize affordability over shareholder returns. House Democrats Carolyn Maloney and Ro Khanna urged the CEOs of ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, and Chevron in April to cancel plans for stock buybacks and dividends and instead focus on lowering prices. More recently, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio alleged the companies are solely focused on earnings and hiding behind an excuse of rising operating costs.

"They're not raising prices to cover their costs — they're raising prices to pad their profits," he said in a May 11 tweet.

Concerns about oil-sector price gouging even made their way to the White House. The Biden administration called on Congress in late March to charge oil producers for untapped wells and leased public lands not being used for oil production. Companies "aren't doing their part" and are choosing "extraordinary profits" over "investment to help with supply," President Joe Biden said.

More at https://www.businessinsider.com/gas-prices-oil-company-profits-skyrock
eting-energy-sector-earnings-charts-2022-5

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022 9:36 PM

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6ix, you know nothing at all about how prices are set.


I know you are, but what am I?

Shut up, idiot.

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6ix, you know nothing at all about how prices are set.


I know you are, but what am I?

Shut up, idiot.
6ix, what do these 3 countries have in common?

1) Mexico annual inflation at 21-year high
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-annual-inflation-rate-wa
s-745-march-above-expectations-2022-04-07/

2) Canada's inflation rate inches up again, to new 31-year high of 6.8%
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-inflation-april-1.6457520

3) New Zealand's Annual inflation hits a three-decade high at 5.9 percent
https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/annual-inflation-hits-a-three-decade-hi
gh-at-5-9-percent

What do these 3 countries have in common? Biden is not the President and Capitalists run those countries.

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Wednesday, May 18, 2022 11:31 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
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Originally posted by second:
6ix, you know nothing at all about how prices are set.


I know you are, but what am I?

Shut up, idiot.
6ix, what do these 3 countries have in common?

1) Mexico annual inflation at 21-year high
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-annual-inflation-rate-wa
s-745-march-above-expectations-2022-04-07/

2) Canada's inflation rate inches up again, to new 31-year high of 6.8%
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-inflation-april-1.6457520

3) New Zealand's Annual inflation hits a three-decade high at 5.9 percent
https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/annual-inflation-hits-a-three-decade-hi
gh-at-5-9-percent

What do these 3 countries have in common? Biden is not the President and Capitalists run those countries.

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Even your dipshit "journalists" at Vox aren't on board with your bullshit anymore, bud.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2022/05/17/democrats_worsened_inflat
ion_the_question_is_how_much_569885.html



P.S. What else do Mexico, Canada and New Zealand have in common?

They have zero military budget and wouldn't even exist without America.

Your argument sucks. The rest of the world would be pirates, slave traders, the weak and the dead if we didn't remotely micromanage everybody else and pick and choose who gets favored status.

Their economies are a sham, and once our money printers stop going brrrrr their economy will look like Venezuela's too.

We're on the brink of the Dark Ages. Remember the good times.

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P.S. What else do Mexico, Canada and New Zealand have in common?

They have zero military budget and wouldn't even exist without America.

Your argument sucks. The rest of the world would be pirates, slave traders, the weak and the dead if we didn't remotely micromanage everybody else and pick and choose who gets favored status.

Their economies are a sham, and once our money printers stop going brrrrr their economy will look like Venezuela's too.

We're on the brink of the Dark Ages. Remember the good times.
6ix, please explain why UK inflation jumps to 40-year high of 9%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/uk-inflation-jumps-to-40-year-high-of-
9percent-as-food-and-energy-prices-spiral.html

Biden is not the UK's President, but Capitalists make all important decisions in the UK, not Prime Minister Boris. And UK has nukes, subs to deliver the nukes, missiles, Armies, the whole shebang, just like the USA. And the Capitalists operating out of London are micromanaging the world, too.

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Thursday, May 19, 2022 7:26 AM

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P.S. What else do Mexico, Canada and New Zealand have in common?

They have zero military budget and wouldn't even exist without America.

Your argument sucks. The rest of the world would be pirates, slave traders, the weak and the dead if we didn't remotely micromanage everybody else and pick and choose who gets favored status.

Their economies are a sham, and once our money printers stop going brrrrr their economy will look like Venezuela's too.

We're on the brink of the Dark Ages. Remember the good times.
6ix, please explain why UK inflation jumps to 40-year high of 9%.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/18/uk-inflation-jumps-to-40-year-high-of-
9percent-as-food-and-energy-prices-spiral.html

Biden is not the UK's President, but Capitalists make all important decisions in the UK, not Prime Minister Boris. And UK has nukes, subs to deliver the nukes, missiles, Armies, the whole shebang, just like the USA. And the Capitalists operating out of London are micromanaging the world, too.

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1. We're all buying oil from the same sources when we're not producing our own. UK's prices are higher because of Biden* too.

2. We're all funding a fake war half a world away because of Biden*.

3. We're all facing manufacturing issues, shipping issues and inflation because for decades the Leftist globalists made us a global economy where almost nobody aside from Russia is independently able to provide for their citizens.

4. UK doesn't pay shit for their military compared to the US. Nobody in the world comes close.

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1. We're all buying oil from the same sources when we're not producing our own. UK's prices are higher because of Biden* too.
The price of oil is almost the same everywhere: https://oilprice.com/oil-price-charts/#prices

Same prices but for different oil wells distributed all over the world. The Capitalists that own those wells could, if they wanted to make less money, have price differences of 20 to 1, where Saudi Arabia sells for $2.50 per barrel and Canada sells for $50, but they don't because setting the prices all the same, except for transportation & refining cost, will make them the most money. There are a few oil producing countries controlled by dictators and kings selling very cheap gasoline only to their citizens, but to the rest of the world their oil is the same price as Canada's because that makes the most money for the dictator or king.

If you are committed to the falsehood that Biden controls gasoline prices in America (directly or indirectly), you cannot understand how prices are truly decided by people who are NOT Presidents of any country and have far more control over the world than any government leader will ever have. This needs to be said: their idea of "control" is making the most money possible and that is incompatible with any government leader's goals.

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1. We're all buying oil from the same sources when we're not producing our own. UK's prices are higher because of Biden* too.
The price of oil is almost the same everywhere:


No shit, genius.

That's not even part of the debate.

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Could not be the fault of greedy landlords.

The national median rent was $1,827 a month in April, up 16.7% from a year ago, according to a report from Realtor.com. Rent has been steadily increasing since early last year. If recent trends continue, the report projects the typical rent could be more than $2,000 a month by August.

Vote for Landlord Trump because he will lower rent especially for you. He's not greedy. He loves you as a person, not just your money.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/homes/us-rents-april/index.html

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Could not be the fault of greedy landlords.

The national median rent was $1,827 a month in April, up 16.7% from a year ago, according to a report from Realtor.com. Rent has been steadily increasing since early last year. If recent trends continue, the report projects the typical rent could be more than $2,000 a month by August.

Vote for Landlord Trump because he will lower rent especially for you. He's not greedy. He loves you as a person, not just your money.


Not me. I don't rent. I also don't have a mortgage.

Or a car payment. Or student loan debt. Or credit card debt. Or a cell phone bill. Or a home phone bill. Yada, yada, yada...



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Xi’s worst mistake was doubling down on his zero-COVID policy.

The continuing lockdowns have had disastrous consequences, pushing the Chinese economy into a free fall since March. In April, the nationwide highway logistics index, which measures road haulage across China, dropped to 70% of its level one year ago. For Shanghai alone, the highway logistics index has dropped to 17% of its year-earlier level. With over 80% of total freight volume carried by trucks in China, these numbers point to a near-collapse of domestic commercial shipping.

Moreover, the Caixin Composite PMI index, which uses data collected from some 400 companies to track private-sector business trends in China – including sales, new orders, employment, inventories, and prices – fell to 37.2, from 43.9 in March. When the PMI’s value is below 50, the economy is shrinking. China’s steeply declining economic activity is bound to have global consequences but, at least thus far, preparations for this have been scant.

These negative results will continue to gather momentum until Xi reverses course. The damage will be so great that it will affect the global economy. With the disruption of supply chains, global inflation is liable to turn into global depression.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/davos-address-open-society-a
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Xi’s worst mistake was doubling down on his zero-COVID policy.

The continuing lockdowns have had disastrous consequences, pushing the Chinese economy into a free fall since March. In April, the nationwide highway logistics index, which measures road haulage across China, dropped to 70% of its level one year ago. For Shanghai alone, the highway logistics index has dropped to 17% of its year-earlier level. With over 80% of total freight volume carried by trucks in China, these numbers point to a near-collapse of domestic commercial shipping.

Moreover, the Caixin Composite PMI index, which uses data collected from some 400 companies to track private-sector business trends in China – including sales, new orders, employment, inventories, and prices – fell to 37.2, from 43.9 in March. When the PMI’s value is below 50, the economy is shrinking. China’s steeply declining economic activity is bound to have global consequences but, at least thus far, preparations for this have been scant.

These negative results will continue to gather momentum until Xi reverses course. The damage will be so great that it will affect the global economy. With the disruption of supply chains, global inflation is liable to turn into global depression.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/davos-address-open-society-a
gainst-russia-china-by-george-soros-2022-05

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LOL...

You'll sit in judgement of Xi in May of 2022 after the last two years Democrats put us all through, huh?

Get fucked.

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