November 3, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, TEW said: If you dig around, you'll notice energy costs are up almost 25%, meat is up 10%... overall, inflation is over 5%. That's really high by recent historical standards. It doesn't matter to normal people if their dollar now gets them 2 Euros this year vs 1 euro last year. What matters in tangible terms is their dollar buys half the amount of gas for their car and half the amount of bacon for breakfast. If energy is up 25% (from depressed levels, mind you) how is it that their purchasing power has been halved? Same for meat being up 10% but bacon somehow costing twice as much as last year. I know you trumpbots were bad at math, but wow. Wow x4.
November 3, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, Toastrel said: I know that vaccinated people having milder cases and not dying in large numbers of a disease that has claimed 5 million worldwide, is too information for some to process. There's like math and stuff. Yeah just too information for me to handle.
November 3, 20214 yr 36 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: If energy is up 25% (from depressed levels, mind you) how is it that their purchasing power has been halved? Same for meat being up 10% but bacon somehow costing twice as much as last year. I know you trumpbots were bad at math, but wow. Wow x4. Dude, it's an example. A simple exercise to demonstrate the concept since he referenced DXY which has absolutely nothing to do with inflation but rather exchange rates.
November 3, 20214 yr 7 minutes ago, TEW said: Dude, it's an example. A simple exercise to demonstrate the concept since he referenced DXY which has absolutely nothing to do with inflation but rather exchange rates. You literally started off the sentence with, "if you dig around..." but now suddenly it's just an example? With elite math skills like those, it's no wonder why you thought Trump was 90th percentile
November 3, 20214 yr 13 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: You literally started off the sentence with, "if you dig around..." but now suddenly it's just an example? With elite math skills like those, it's no wonder why you thought Trump was 90th percentile Jesus this dude is pathetic.
November 3, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, TEW said: To be fair, "the average Joe" has very little money (aside from retirement savings) invested in the market and inflation is pummeling purchasing power. The average person in this country is feeling the crunch. You can say it's their own fault, and I'd largely agree, but the fact remains that most people will not see it this way. If you're making ~$65K a year but gas, housing, food, etc is all skyrocketing, you're feeling the pain. What's interesting is this is normally something that the left would be sensitive towards, that their strength was ostensibly in empathizing with the poor and working class, but it seems as if they've largely abandoned this pretense. Biden made some remark towards this regarding gas prices when pressed on the issue at the climate conference, but it doesn't seem as if this is much of a concern to the left at large. I suppose this reflects his age. He spent his career in a time when issues like this were major talking points for the Democratic Party. Dem politicians literally talk about poor and lower middle class issues all day. On top of that, they champion issues like raising the minimum wage and free childcare, issues that directly improve the lives of the lower classes. Meanwhile, Republicans position on helping the poor is "a rising tide lifts all boats”, which is exactly what happens with a booming stock market. Any conservative should be praising a hot market as a result that has massively positive implications for the poor (which, of course, is exactly what Republicans did during the Trump years).
November 3, 20214 yr Meanwhile, in moronland, making a vaccine better with less side-effects, is not a good thing.
November 3, 20214 yr 39 minutes ago, TEW said: Dude, it's an example. A simple exercise to demonstrate the concept since he referenced DXY which has absolutely nothing to do with inflation but rather exchange rates. I wasn't responding to a post about inflation. I was responding to a post about "a weakened dollar".
November 3, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Meanwhile, in moronland, making a vaccine better with less side-effects, is not a good thing. I literally said it was good, Admiral Alzheimer's.
November 3, 20214 yr And buying power ought to be compared to pre-pandemic levels. Baselining to a period that was in the midst of the pandemic is not a good take, unless your goal is to generate eye grabbing headlines.
November 3, 20214 yr Just booked two appts for my kids next Wednesday to get their shots. F'ing finally!
November 3, 20214 yr 33 minutes ago, Kz! said: Oh that's good. Tromethamine is in all versions of the Pfizer vaccine. They didn't add anything. It's an acid stabilizer.
November 3, 20214 yr 17 minutes ago, JohnSnowsHair said: I wasn't responding to a post about inflation. I was responding to a post about "a weakened dollar". Yes, weakened against what? He wasn't talking about exchange rates. He was talking about "average Joes." For average Joes, the dollar has weakened against consumer products.
November 3, 20214 yr 51 minutes ago, VanHammersly said: Dem politicians literally talk about poor and lower middle class issues all day. On top of that, they champion issues like raising the minimum wage and free childcare, issues that directly improve the lives of the lower classes. Meanwhile, Republicans position on helping the poor is "a rising tide lifts all boats”, which is exactly what happens with a booming stock market. Any conservative should be praising a hot market as a result that has massively positive implications for the poor (which, of course, is exactly what Republicans did during the Trump years). This. The idea that republicans somehow care about regular working people is laughable. They find hot button issues like masks , abortions, and gay people to dupe people into voting for the best interests of corporations and their political cronies. Considering the intelligence level of the "conservative" posts I read in CVON, is unsurprising that its so easy for them.
November 3, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, VanHammersly said: Dem politicians literally talk about poor and lower middle class issues all day. On top of that, they champion issues like raising the minimum wage and free childcare, issues that directly improve the lives of the lower classes. Meanwhile, Republicans position on helping the poor is "a rising tide lifts all boats”, which is exactly what happens with a booming stock market. Any conservative should be praising a hot market as a result that has massively positive implications for the poor (which, of course, is exactly what Republicans did during the Trump years). They literally don't, and Virginia is a perfect example. They spend their time race hustling and focusing on whacko special interests like LGBTQ and environmental insanity. Unsurprisingly, soccer moms didn't want their children taught they were evil because of their skin before they got raped in a school bathroom by a tranny all while they were forced to spend $100 to fill up their gas tank because Democrats don't understand economics.
November 3, 20214 yr 23 minutes ago, Gannan said: This. The idea that republicans somehow care about regular working people is laughable. They find hot button issues like masks , abortions, and gay people to dupe people into voting for the best interests of corporations and their political cronies. Considering the intelligence level of the "conservative" posts I read in CVON, is unsurprising that its so easy for them. No one said the GOP cares about regular working people. But Democrats at least used to pretend to give a sh**. They've given that up for woke insanity.
November 3, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, TEW said: They literally don't, and Virginia is a perfect example. They spend their time race hustling and focusing on whacko special interests like LGBTQ and environmental insanity. Unsurprisingly, soccer moms didn't want their children taught they were evil because of their skin before they got raped in a school bathroom by a tranny all while they were forced to spend $100 to fill up their gas tank because Democrats don't understand economics. What was Youngkin doing? Oh right, race hustling, but the kind you like.
November 3, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, Toastrel said: What was Youngkin doing? Oh right, race hustling, but the kind you like. Seethe, Alzheimer's, seethe.
November 3, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, Toastrel said: What was Youngkin doing? Oh right, race hustling, but the kind you like. No.
November 3, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, TEW said: No one said the GOP cares about regular working people. But Democrats at least used to pretend to give a sh**. They've given that up for woke insanity. Fair enough. I definitely agree that "defund the police" and "let boys use the girls bathroom" are losers. Phil Murphy's decriminalization of underage drinking in NJ has to be the dumbest move of them all.
November 3, 20214 yr 14 minutes ago, TEW said: They literally don't, and Virginia is a perfect example. They spend their time race hustling and focusing on whacko special interests like LGBTQ and environmental insanity. Unsurprisingly, soccer moms didn't want their children taught they were evil because of their skin before they got raped in a school bathroom by a tranny all while they were forced to spend $100 to fill up their gas tank because Democrats don't understand economics. Yes, they literally do. You just don’t see it because Fox doesn’t play it on repeat like they do with the woke stupidity. I agree that Dems need to never mention the woke garbage (unless it’s to condemn it) because it’s an obvious trap but to act like Dems don’t both talk about and push for policies that directly help the poor is a right wing fantasy. And, back to my original point, a booming stock market and abundant job market is a great thing for the vast majority of Americans.
November 3, 20214 yr Just now, VanHammersly said: Yes, they literally do. You just don’t see it because Fox doesn’t play it on repeat like they do with the woke stupidity. I agree that Dems need to never mention the woke garbage (unless it’s to condemn it) because it’s an obvious trap but to act like Dems don’t both talk about and push for policies that directly help the poor is a right wing fantasy. And, back to my original point, a booming stock market and abundant job market is a great thing for the vast majority of Americans. Dude, I live a few minutes drive from NOVA and I don't watch FNC (or any other cable news for that matter -- if I'm watching TV its sports or cinema). He is a microcosm of the current Democrat Party. Woke politics dominate everything they do now. Everything. And people Fing hate it. Of course it gets air play. You have school boards covering up a serial rapist because of a mental illness that Democrats have turned into a political crusade.
November 3, 20214 yr This could be a problem. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/sars-cov-2-seems-to-readily-jump-to-deer-spread-among-them/
November 3, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, Talkingbirds said: This could be a problem. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/sars-cov-2-seems-to-readily-jump-to-deer-spread-among-them/ Yep. Was suspected for a while, but as more animal reservoirs harboring this are found, the chances for eradication go down and the higher the chances for increased mutations. Then again, delta's emergence basically squashed both of those hopes already, so additional animal reservoirs have only a marginally additive effect.
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