I can’t comprehend that the average new car price is over $50,000. I mean, I’ve bought new cars before, and not the cheapest ones, but I’ve never even LOOKED at something over $40,000. You can get a good new car for under $30k, and a very good one for under $40k. Why the actual fuck would somewhere around HALF of Americans be spending over $50k? We spent $36k for our brand new SUV two years ago, and it wasn't even the base model.
That said, I do get that if most people are spending $35k and a few are spending $95k it skews the numbers. But seriously, folks…what does $60k or $70k or more get you?!?
In re: PAB talking about getting credit cards to lower their rates to 10% for a year -- gee, I bet if he had a government department that was designed to help consumers with just that sort of thing, and it was staffed with capable people, he might could get that done.
"...But if you tell entitled, selfish, and/or undereducated people that they are superior to Barack Obama and Kamala Harris, they will cheer while you take their jobs and health insurance, shoot their neighbors in the face, rape their kids and pick their pockets, apparently...."
"Is the war in Venezuela to distract from the war in Ukraine to distract from the DHS war at home to distract from the Epstein Files to distract from The Groceries? It is a Zen koan!"
Thank you. This koan is so much better than my traditional one for meditating: the sound of one hand clapping.
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"Now, according to the Trump [sic] Labor Department’s own jobs data published Friday"
IDK, but ever since the BLS cooked the books trying to make the Cantaloupe Codpiece look like he knows what he's doing I tend to discount, bigly, any stats coming from the gubmint... with the exception of the number of fishing boats blown up and innocent people... sorry, I mean narcoterrorists from Venezuela, murdered on them.
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"Because weak jobs means no interest rate hike, which means rich people can still borrow from Peter to pay Paul leverage their assets on the cheap."
* Weak job numbers are all part of the plan for those born with a silver spoon under their nostrils so they can have access to a ZIRP again.
* The 1%ers don't have to steal from Peter to put more cash in their pockets: they've got the federal gubmint pulling a reverse Robin Hood: stealing from the poor to give to the morbidly rich.
* IMO, the Chinese have a better way of putting it when it comes to saying of robbing Peter to pay Paul; especially given the assholes will tear down the country if it means an extra 0.5% increase in net worth:
> "拆掉东墙来修理西墙" "Chāi diào dōng qiáng lái xiūlǐ xī qiáng" "Tear down the east wall to repair the west wall"
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"is even trying to peddle fake-gold watches to suckers"
People are saying that the Corrupt Coral Coward can, on occasion, be found in Times Square selling "Rollex"s when not dealing Three Card Monty or playing the Shell Game.
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"Ban large investors other than his best friends, that we could believe."
Besides the Tangerine Twink's Good Buddies from Lollypop Park* he'll also not stop any mega-real estate speculators who cut him in for a taste of the action.
(IDK if it still holds, but when I was on the road as a salesperson in the early 1970s the expression was applied to people hanging out in men's rooms at truck stops offering blowjobs for money.)
Effective January 10, 2026, I, as Someone With Maybe More Than Half a Functioning Brain, am calling for the Yammering Yam to Shut The Fuck Up. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
That prating ass, whoever he is, at the end of the Fox Business segment was lamenting how a lot of manufacturing jobs are going unfilled.
Will it ever occur to him that a lot of people who would love nothing more than to fill them, and be allowed to do so in peace, are now being hunted down, abducted and deported?
is it a problem that we can't trust any numbers coming from the federal government? the DOW doesn't seem to care but I believe a reckoning is coming. but maybe not.
OT So the Male Sheeps from Low Sangeleeze are 10 point favs against the Black n' Blu Felines
at Charlotte. One could say Matty boy is gonna be all serial and all ready and shit to play the footgame. Or the bookies needed more $$ from NC folks to balance their books.
While Shine is a goodun' to have, it's tough to get the $$ from it, Prohibition being gone and all.
But when the cows come home, should have been a good game.
I have recurring typo issues when posting on the phone. Frustrating, as when posting on the phone I can't go back and edit, have to delete and re-post.
substack.com/@heathernn1?
I can’t comprehend that the average new car price is over $50,000. I mean, I’ve bought new cars before, and not the cheapest ones, but I’ve never even LOOKED at something over $40,000. You can get a good new car for under $30k, and a very good one for under $40k. Why the actual fuck would somewhere around HALF of Americans be spending over $50k? We spent $36k for our brand new SUV two years ago, and it wasn't even the base model.
That said, I do get that if most people are spending $35k and a few are spending $95k it skews the numbers. But seriously, folks…what does $60k or $70k or more get you?!?
A pickup. The most popular vehicle sold by the big three.
Can’t say I’ve ever price checked, but seriously? The vehicle of the salt-of-the-earth working man costs more than his annual salary?!?
They start at about 50 grand unless you get the tradesman version which is minimal and runs about 30, yeah.
Trump and Nutlick will continue to rearrange the cuck-chairs on the Titanic.
In re: PAB talking about getting credit cards to lower their rates to 10% for a year -- gee, I bet if he had a government department that was designed to help consumers with just that sort of thing, and it was staffed with capable people, he might could get that done.
Too bad something like that doesn't exist.
…any more.
I suggest we abandon the bromide about history / repeating, etc and replace it with "People Will Never Fucking Learn".
"...But if you tell entitled, selfish, and/or undereducated people that they are superior to Barack Obama and Kamala Harris, they will cheer while you take their jobs and health insurance, shoot their neighbors in the face, rape their kids and pick their pockets, apparently...."
Well said.
"Is the war in Venezuela to distract from the war in Ukraine to distract from the DHS war at home to distract from the Epstein Files to distract from The Groceries? It is a Zen koan!"
Thank you. This koan is so much better than my traditional one for meditating: the sound of one hand clapping.
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"Now, according to the Trump [sic] Labor Department’s own jobs data published Friday"
IDK, but ever since the BLS cooked the books trying to make the Cantaloupe Codpiece look like he knows what he's doing I tend to discount, bigly, any stats coming from the gubmint... with the exception of the number of fishing boats blown up and innocent people... sorry, I mean narcoterrorists from Venezuela, murdered on them.
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"Because weak jobs means no interest rate hike, which means rich people can still borrow from Peter to pay Paul leverage their assets on the cheap."
* Weak job numbers are all part of the plan for those born with a silver spoon under their nostrils so they can have access to a ZIRP again.
* The 1%ers don't have to steal from Peter to put more cash in their pockets: they've got the federal gubmint pulling a reverse Robin Hood: stealing from the poor to give to the morbidly rich.
* IMO, the Chinese have a better way of putting it when it comes to saying of robbing Peter to pay Paul; especially given the assholes will tear down the country if it means an extra 0.5% increase in net worth:
> "拆掉东墙来修理西墙" "Chāi diào dōng qiáng lái xiūlǐ xī qiáng" "Tear down the east wall to repair the west wall"
-----
"is even trying to peddle fake-gold watches to suckers"
People are saying that the Corrupt Coral Coward can, on occasion, be found in Times Square selling "Rollex"s when not dealing Three Card Monty or playing the Shell Game.
-----
"Ban large investors other than his best friends, that we could believe."
Besides the Tangerine Twink's Good Buddies from Lollypop Park* he'll also not stop any mega-real estate speculators who cut him in for a taste of the action.
(IDK if it still holds, but when I was on the road as a salesperson in the early 1970s the expression was applied to people hanging out in men's rooms at truck stops offering blowjobs for money.)
fnord
Trump is on record recently calling "AFFORDABILITY!" a Democrat hoax.
Like the sign outside the bar,
FREE BEER
tomorrow
Or the sign outside a meeting hall:
Time Travelers International members sign up here for last week's meeting.
fnord
What did we want? Time travel!
When do we want it? It's irrelevant!
Daylight Savings Clock Fuckery fixes that problem twice a year.
Wait, what??
That 'Epstein' stuff is still a thing??
Biden messing with the job market again, huh?
Obama and Hillary unavailable due to libtard carpooling issues
WHAR SOROS CHECKS???
𝐸𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝐽𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦 20, 2026, 𝐼, 𝑎𝑠 𝑃𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑚 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑝 𝑜𝑛 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝐼𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑅𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 10%. 𝐶𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐽𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑦 20𝑡ℎ 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑠𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝐴𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟.
Effective January 10, 2026, I, as Someone With Maybe More Than Half a Functioning Brain, am calling for the Yammering Yam to Shut The Fuck Up. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
“Now back to whatever note Liddle Marco handed me”
Debt jubilees became so common in rome that soon pretty much every contract had a clause excepting them from jubilees.
Well, I will give him "historic".
*histrionic
That prating ass, whoever he is, at the end of the Fox Business segment was lamenting how a lot of manufacturing jobs are going unfilled.
Will it ever occur to him that a lot of people who would love nothing more than to fill them, and be allowed to do so in peace, are now being hunted down, abducted and deported?
is it a problem that we can't trust any numbers coming from the federal government? the DOW doesn't seem to care but I believe a reckoning is coming. but maybe not.
The last time the bottom fell out right after he left office.
Pump and Dump Strategy doesn't care....
All Pump and Dump needs is news. Good, Bad, True, Lies, doesn't matter.
OT So the Male Sheeps from Low Sangeleeze are 10 point favs against the Black n' Blu Felines
at Charlotte. One could say Matty boy is gonna be all serial and all ready and shit to play the footgame. Or the bookies needed more $$ from NC folks to balance their books.
While Shine is a goodun' to have, it's tough to get the $$ from it, Prohibition being gone and all.
But when the cows come home, should have been a good game.
Ya'all. (spits missing pontoon.)
I just read through a few of my non-comments.
Sorry about those typos. I am a bit amped up at the moment and not as attentive to careful proof-reading as I should be.
“I just Kant”
I never really studied philosophy, but surely, if they're non-comments, they haven't happened? Therefore, any typos cannot exist.
I am, therefore I typo.
I read that as "I am therefore a typo" and thought ah, another Zen kuan!
I have recurring typo issues when posting on the phone. Frustrating, as when posting on the phone I can't go back and edit, have to delete and re-post.
The typos convey your emotions. Don't worry.
The quality of your commentary FAR surpasses any need for proofreading!