$5 Gas... It's De-Ja-Vu All Over Again...

[bronconick]

"Independent" "floating" voters that can be found in a coffee shop being interviewed by the New York Times, I presume.

[ScoobyDoo]

There's plenty of socialism when the rich need it. There is none to be seen when the average worker needs it. **** Planet Earth and every Republican on it.

[Swansong]

Most people know that I'm no socialist and I've absolutely voted republican in the past. I may even do so again, some day. But not soon; not until the cancer of trumpism has been eradicated from the party, and not before the social neanderthals have been returned to the dust bin of history.

I know people are mad about inflation and gas prices (and other stuff), and righteously so. But it really galls me when people equalize economic factors almost exclusively out of government control with a ****ing insurrection. These are comparing apples and *******s.

Only one of our current parties - hapless though it may be - is interested in democracy. Until we have another non-fascist option, I know where I'm staying.

[SJHovey]

Hey, cool. Let me know when the Democrats or literally anyone else figures out the messaging to not lose 300 seats in the house. Because you can quote Einstein, wax philosophical, and demand people respect logic, but when it comes down to it, the average person is as dumb as pigeon and has an attention span of a goldfish.

How about this message. Maybe next time, when you want to stand up and tell everyone you are going to "follow the science," you also tell them, "now, in doing so, we are going to spectacularly **** up your economy, the likes of which you've probably never seen before. You won't be able to get products, and those that you can find are going to be much more expensive. Housing prices are going to skyrocket. The supply chain will be gorked, and the transportation industry will be a 78 truck pile up on Interstate 80. But we believe, from a medical standpoint, it's necessary to do that."

Too direct?

[dxmnkd316]

How about this message. Maybe next time, when you want to stand up and tell everyone you are going to "follow the science," you also tell them, "now, in doing so, we are going to spectacularly **** up your economy, the likes of which you've probably never seen before. You won't be able to get products, and those that you can find are going to be much more expensive. Housing prices are going to skyrocket. The supply chain will be gorked, and the transportation industry will be a 78 truck pile up on Interstate 80. But we believe, from a medical standpoint, it's necessary to do that."

Too direct?

"Muh truck costs $150 to fill up!"

[Swansong]

What an unbelievably disingenuous thing to post.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

What an unbelievably disingenuous thing to post.

They are incapable of thinking of anyone but themselves. No such thing as a society

[Kepler]

We've known what they were since they were kids. They're missing a piece. Just remove them from any proximity to power. They will eventually use their weapons on each other and solve the problem for us.

[SJHovey]

"Muh truck costs $150 to fill up!"

Nah. My vehicle is three years old and has less than 15,000 miles on it. I doubt I've put 500 gallons of gas in it during its lifetime. $1/gallon increase in gas costs me less than I spent yesterday on food and alcohol for some B.S. couples shower I'm guess I'm hosting Saturday.

[ScoobyDoo]

How about this message. Maybe next time, when you want to stand up and tell everyone you are going to "follow the science," you also tell them, "now, in doing so, we are going to spectacularly **** up your economy, the likes of which you've probably never seen before. You won't be able to get products, and those that you can find are going to be much more expensive. Housing prices are going to skyrocket. The supply chain will be gorked, and the transportation industry will be a 78 truck pile up on Interstate 80. But we believe, from a medical standpoint, it's necessary to do that."

Too direct?

Good Lord. What in the ****ing hell are you saying here?

[Kepler]

He's saying the Beer Belly Putsch doesn't matter because the Dow is only up 1000 points since Biden took office.

[joecct]

The rich get richer and we're made to serve the oligarchs who really hold the power.

How do you change the paradigm? Or, has nothing has changed since Ur and we're locked into lather, rinse, repeat?

[WeAreNDHockey]

Shockingly saw gas for $4.55/gallon on Cleveland's east side. Two weeks ago the same station was $5.09. Could the crash be coming?

$4 gas in early summer 2008, if not precipitating the wost economic crisis since the Great Depression was certainly a precursor. 6 months later it cost half that (or less in some places) and we were in the midst of the worst economic downturn in nearly a century.

But Janet Yellen isn't seeing a lot of things that are pointing to that, so I am breathing a sigh of relief.

[aparch]

Good Lord. What in the ****ing hell are you saying here?

Only thing missing from that post was a "Honk!"

[SJHovey]

Good Lord. What in the ****ing hell are you saying here?

What I am saying is this.

Let's go back in time, say 27 months. dx was sitting at home, terrified of dying of Covid, and insisting, no demanding that the US economy be toggled off like he was turning off his Playstation.

Now, were there good health reasons, medical reasons, for doing that? Sure, no doubt. But there were also people, including people on this board, suggesting maybe we pump the brakes on that idea. It was suggested that business, industry, the economy, don't work that way. You can't just switch them off, then come back in nine months and expect everything will be normal.

But here we are, 27 months later. We turned off the economy, and now we turned it back on again. We flooded the marketplace with free money, a spigot which has since been turned off (as we knew would have to happen). We told people that they don't have to pay major bills, like for housing, without reminding them that bill would ultimately come due. We frightened people into fleeing the workforce, or convinced them they shouldn't return unless they are paid $50/hour.

Well, those things have consequences. We're now living through them. Unfortunately for Joe and the Democrats, when things go to ****, the person or party in power typically pays the political price, whether it was their fault or not. No sense whining about it. That's the way it is.