I find it hilarious that anyone in the leftist media would be opining about things that "aren't in the lexicon about how regular people talk."
This is such an important point, I think it would be best if we unpack the propositions and interrogate the various syllogisms for their significance to Black and Brown bodies while at the same time being mindful of the impact of cisheteronormativity on our dialogue and the need for safe spaces during this social justice-centered engagement. Let's also not forget to acknowledge the impact of colonialism on whatever physical space we happen to be occupying while dialoguing.
I do that sometimes, especially in my fiction writing. I write something, then I pen it again in a similar manner, then punctuate it with what I have already said twice already.
That is the truth, my second and third passes usually involve removing sentences. Although I sometimes will also add two more paragraphs only to go back and remove a few sentences...and then add more.
THE MOST CONCISE thing I’ve seen in forever is Ted Nugent answering some reporter who asked whether he thought the people who complied are stupid. He said, “Yes. Baaa. BaaaaaAAAAH, BAAAHHHH. Baaaaah!” It was hilarious.
That's fair. Reading from top to bottom and left to right is a Euro-centric way of thinking. We need to further reading equity, in which words may appear in any order the writer wishes. The audience must then put themselves into the shoes of the writer to understand the passage. This improves empathy while also ensuring no meaningful dialogue!
I remember when I was told (can't remember who but I know it wasn't from the internet because I was in high school and that was late eighties) that was the longest word in the English language. I have never seen it used before tho! Kudos!
every living creature has their very own boobs. ... but I usually use this word as an adjective, so to BE a boob is not so special. There are boobs everyyyyywhere
Reminds me of the old Steve Martin bit they would play sometimes on MTV. "Boobs" is directly referenced there. Also, I can't imagine this video being aired today. I believe they would think too many of these things are "problematic"
You know, I like to use long complicated links as a form of overcompensation. I don't want to get into what the overcompensation is for, but I think you understand. Run on sentences, redundant words, and polysymbolic links are all a trend that leads to shortfalls in other areas.
So many great words have been lost to us, so many changed in their meaning. "Punk" was a prostitute. "Slut" was just an untidy woman, with no sexual connotation.
I diff to beggar. In the old hearth furnaces for making iron the slut was a gash in the sand that the molten metal poured into then smaller gashes and shapes spread off from that called pigs, where we get the term pig iron. (Trivia from my blacksmithing past).
I'm familiar with pig iron, having done a lot of technical theatre in the past. In the fly gallery we used pig iron counterweights. They were heavy, heavier and heaviest. A guest director had driven everyone mad for weeks, so we created a pig made of styrofoam, painted it perfectly - brick red, complete with marks, scars and blotches of paint, and took to carrying it around, sweating as we did, waiting for the right moment. It came. In front of everybody director dude made some snide comment about how he'd done his share of lifting pigs, but was now beyond it. But he knew he could still lift them, etc. "Oh yeah? Here!" and the pig, lifted as if it weighed thirty pounds, was chucked at his, uh, front. He screamed and leapt aside like a girl seeing a mouse. The styrofoam pig bounced harmlessly beside him. Utter humiliation. Cast and crew fell to the floor, weeping with laughter. Moral: Don't piss off a techie.
slut/gash. Interesting etymology. Thanks! But nevertheless it did have another meaning. Shakespeare's "foul, sluttish hairs" have made a few schoolchildren giggle over the centuries.
This makes me think they need to remake "My Fair Lady," but with someone "normal" learning to speak like an elite leftist. It could be a mash up of Trading Places and Pygmalion, but it definitely needs to be a musical. Instead of "My Fair Lady" It should be called something like "Zy Color Challenged Birthing Person"
You know what the perfect thing is for flash flooding, droughts, or any inclement weather; the vaccine.Nothing solves a natural disaster or occurrence in nature like an experimental chemical. So effective you need one every six months!
Ok, fine. A friend of ours introduced us years ago to jalapeno poppers. The first time I made them was the first time I had ever handled jalapenos. Needles to say, I didn't wear gloves and those suckers aren't just spicy to your tongue! I had to pee really bad and washed my hands really, really good but..... that shit doesn't was off with soap! By the end of it my hands were burning, my booty was burning and pretty much everything in between! 😅 The poppers were delicious though!
*shudder*... itsca good thing you threw boobs in there at least, because it was hard to stop the fantasy of punching you in the throat until thst shook me out of it...
Well I for one am grateful for this nonsensical gibberish, you find out right away if the person is worth one more minute of your precious time. By their fruits ye shall know them...and by their words, too.
As someone who works in academia, many people do this because they are essentially forced to in order to keep their jobs. Like so many other things these days .....
Yeah inflation. I’d never heard it before except everyday back in the 70’s. Like high waisted jeans and bell bottoms, these nasty things have a way of making the rounds again. That’s why it’s important to be a keen scholar of history because inflation has featured in many noteworthy geopolitical events. The condescension is next level here, Joy, and on a side note I’d embrace your natural hair if I were you. The blond reeks of cultural appropriation and the Swedes are more restless these days.
That explains it: I was born in 71 in Mexico and I feel I always knew about inflation. It was just a matter of degrees: losing three zeros in our currency was a sign that it was really bad….
This is so embarrassing and condescending. How (insert cuss words, the really big ones) stupid does she think the public is? I could just cry. I am 63 years old. Shit.
I am building up a big cry. A tear here and there, it just won’t come out. A hug to you Ryan, going to curl up with the mutt for dog kisses, it helps, somewhat.
Can confirm that they do, since I tried that on our old dogs.
The male was happy enough to work hard, including 50km marches where he carried his own food (dried ox liver), but when practicing commands and such, he performed worse the smaller the treat got. When I increased the size, he immediately was on his best behaviour again.
His female mate was a case study in too smart: when training her to fetch by throwing a stick - you know, the normal way to do it - for her to run off and find in the underbrush, she'd simply saunter off to the closest stick and fetch that one instead, looking smug as F.
She's seen people repeat her drivel for awhile now. Imagine saying something on the news then have it repeated to her almost verbatim. Has to boost her ego. No doubt she has been redefining what "safe and effective" mean as well as "secure and honest."
For while now, it has seemed like my paychecks weren't going as far as they used to and that the price of everything increased. But I didn't know what it was until I was taught the word. And what I witnessed magically existed because I could name it. If I never learned the word, everything would be fine. Darn knowledge!!!
Well... technically inflation should be the increase in all prices and so wages would be increasing along with the cost of goods. Cost of living can just represent things like housing, food, etc. You could split them apart like that, although it makes the last two years look even worse, so it would be a bad argument for Pelosi!
(I want to point out that I dislike this modern, or later half of the 20th century, definition of inflation as "a general increase in the price level". I vastly prefer the previous definition of an "increase in the amount of money in the market relative to the amount of other goods". But then, I am possibly the youngest old man.)
Yes. In the modern day, we should separate out (real) monetary inflation and price inflation. (Although both are bad for Biden ATM, making this a really dumb statement from Nancy.)
We're coming off massive monetary inflation and compounding it with bad policies that drive up price inflation as well.
When speaking of inflation, I think it’s best to do it in two different terms: Monetary inflation, which is a rise in the money supply (the DuckTales scenario), and price inflation, which is a rise in prices. Though intertwined, these things are quite different.
First, monetary inflation. This is a pretty basic measurement. How many dollars are floating around out there? ....monetary inflation has been increasing and accelerating since Nixon went ‘full fiat’ in the 1970s. Since then, the number of dollars in the system has been doubling about every 11 years, with covid rapidly accelerating that trend.
Price inflation is often related to and affected by monetary inflation, though MANY additional factors impact price inflation. A shortage of goods, additional cost of links in the supply chain, rising labor costs, and additional regulations all negatively affect price inflation. On the other side of the equation, improved efficiency, cheaper materials, reduced regulations, or increased automation tend to drive prices down (though rarely enough to actually see price decreases).
Agreed. I think the way they measure inflation (just price of a basket of goods) is very misleading, since many products have gotten much cheaper in real terms, that is to say, requiring fewer resources than they did. Don Boudreaux used to do a series on that, going through the Sears catalogue from the 70's and looking at how many hours an average worker had to work to afford the (lower quality usually) goods then compared to now. It seems to me that with productivity increases like those we see in terms of working to afford X, yet small inflation, the money supply has been expanding very much more rapidly than people realize.
The question then becomes what is going on with all that money supply increase? Where is it coming from? Who is benefitting? Who gets it first?
Right around then many government aligned economists seem to say "Well, let's just look at the price level."
It's much easier to tinker with the numbers when there's all sorts of 'adjustments' you need to make before presenting the 'official' inflation number. Hell, CPI excludes food and gas!!!
Comparing the price of things in work hours and then also comparing different jobs/careers is the way we did it in home economics when I was still in compulsory school.
I guess if fat people like me can refer to ourselves as "body positive" we can completely ignore what it means to "get bigger" No, no, it's not inflation...I am merely undertall.
I'm 6'4" on one side, so it will be hard to prove I am vertically challenged. But you can always claim that you are undertall. I think for my weight to be normal for my size I would have to be 8'2" tall.
This is in the same category as: "black people don't have access to ANY BUSINESSES/LIBRARIES/SCHOOLS THAT COULD MAKE COPIES LET ALONE A HOME PRINTER/SCANNER THING so they can't get drivers licensees photocopied so they can't vote because they for some reason have to leave their ID's--if they even figured out how to get one! I mean come on, that's a real tough-y!--at home because now that they've been redisctricted into oblivion they are traumatized by fear that the white supremacists with ooooooooh guns watching the polling places are going to rob them....[etc etc]" argument.
Every liberal argument boils down to this: you are uneducated, I am not, therefore I should be making the decisions because you do not understand the enormous complexities involved. Try it on any policy position (The Science; Ukraine; climate change...)--it's always the bottom line.
Nope. She’s that dumb and condescending. She means she never thinks about it at all, and neither do her friends on Twitter and Instagram, so it must be that “no one” does.
I find it hilarious that anyone in the leftist media would be opining about things that "aren't in the lexicon about how regular people talk."
This is such an important point, I think it would be best if we unpack the propositions and interrogate the various syllogisms for their significance to Black and Brown bodies while at the same time being mindful of the impact of cisheteronormativity on our dialogue and the need for safe spaces during this social justice-centered engagement. Let's also not forget to acknowledge the impact of colonialism on whatever physical space we happen to be occupying while dialoguing.
Antidisestablishmentarianism.
Boobs.
I'm so much more satisfied with this than anything productive I could have been doing today.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Made my day!!!!!
im looking forward to your surgical recovery, it'll be wild here
The drugs will totally 10X my creativity.
hopefully not 10X your itchy butt tho
This is more satisfying because at least I’m laughing and not crying as usual
Por que no los dos?
Excellent!
As well you should be. I know I LOL'd.
I think I detect a hint of sarcasm here which could very well be hate speech. After all, sarcasm is implied disagreement, which is hate.
as masters of sarcasm you just suggested the entire country of England is hateful, you might be right tho
Just caught a fleeting notion the stub of your last sentence would fare much better on its glorious own, w/o the dead weight of preceding word train 😝
I do that sometimes, especially in my fiction writing. I write something, then I pen it again in a similar manner, then punctuate it with what I have already said twice already.
Mark Twain is said to have once said ↓↓ 😉
🗨 I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one.
THIS! It’s far more difficult for
some of
us (Ok, me) to be succinct. concise than to just type as I think, freewheeling. And yes, someone taught me those big words, Joy Reid.
💬 It’s far more difficult [...] to be succinct. concise
Sure it’s readers’ job to be more than happy at the receiving end of outsourced sweat of brow! 🤸
That is the truth, my second and third passes usually involve removing sentences. Although I sometimes will also add two more paragraphs only to go back and remove a few sentences...and then add more.
Ditto! (How’s that for concise?)
Twitter is the
most difficult— especially when deeply angered.
THE MOST CONCISE thing I’ve seen in forever is Ted Nugent answering some reporter who asked whether he thought the people who complied are stupid. He said, “Yes. Baaa. BaaaaaAAAAH, BAAAHHHH. Baaaaah!” It was hilarious.
Yes. Amongst writers there is a thing called "the shitty first draft", to quote Anne Lamott. We might as well play in it.
Keen observation, us busy playin' in shitty 1st draft! 👌
~~
Though however on minor point... Excuse me? Anne? How 'bout Ernest? 😇 Hemingway id est.
🗨 The first draft of anything is shit.
🗨 I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.
I know I like to think that my s don't stank, but lean a little bit closer cause roses really smell like poo pooooo.
Grrr....where is your land acknowledgement, you mouthpiece of the established patriarchy?!?!?!?
That was the last sentence of the paragraph. I'm not using oldspeak like you and the other MAGA spies.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GO AT THE BEGINNING OR YOU'RE NOT REALLY AN ALLY.
I reject your white supremacist model of linear time.
That's fair. Reading from top to bottom and left to right is a Euro-centric way of thinking. We need to further reading equity, in which words may appear in any order the writer wishes. The audience must then put themselves into the shoes of the writer to understand the passage. This improves empathy while also ensuring no meaningful dialogue!
IF YOU DON'T SHOUT THE WORD EMPATHY YOU DONT HAVE IT YOU DARK TRIAD SOCIOPATH
Just like certain bloke Fetterman practises to fair success. Oops, differently-colour-abled. Success, I mean. Uhh huh.
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ETA Talk about a perfect metaphor! 😂😢 → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq73H5NvHrg
So you're saying that Yoda is the model of lexiconidal equity?
Yer killin' me 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
You forgot "tyrannical" to go along with "patriarchy."
LOL I honestly thought that I didn't. Clearly the doublespeak isn't engrained enough yet!
I love the patriarchy. Seriously! The « evil 🙄 » patriarchy gave my (7) kids and me our life!
And I love the birthing persons as they, whatever gender they may be, gave us children, or rather birthed persons.
"Persons" ? Per-offspring please. Such language only perpetuates the patriarchy.
You say true. So we also need to change "birthing person" as well. to birthing parent?
I remember when I was told (can't remember who but I know it wasn't from the internet because I was in high school and that was late eighties) that was the longest word in the English language. I have never seen it used before tho! Kudos!
Yeah, "boobs" really is a great word. I hope it makes a comeback.
every living creature has their very own boobs. ... but I usually use this word as an adjective, so to BE a boob is not so special. There are boobs everyyyyywhere
Boobs are great, for everyone, and so are silly words.
"I have nipples Greg, can you milk me?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXI21S4ZWJU
For many years I loved 'boob-headed'. Too bad that fell out of my active lexicon. Time to bring it back, maybe.
Thank you!
Holy Modal Rounders, The - Boobs A Lot - 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0qDW9shiD8
Yes! Muchas gracias.
Omg! Stop 😂😂😂😭😭
Reminds me of the old Steve Martin bit they would play sometimes on MTV. "Boobs" is directly referenced there. Also, I can't imagine this video being aired today. I believe they would think too many of these things are "problematic"
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=steve+martin+i+believe+video&atb=v314-1&iax=videos&ia=videos&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DDF7d-HdjBvE
My volunteering at language policing transitions smoothly into the domain of ungodly links 😂
See, fify → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF7d-HdjBvE
You know, I like to use long complicated links as a form of overcompensation. I don't want to get into what the overcompensation is for, but I think you understand. Run on sentences, redundant words, and polysymbolic links are all a trend that leads to shortfalls in other areas.
I particularly hate that word.
Unfortunate.
It was longer than supercalifragilistic expialidocious?
I think this is only a real word in the realms Mary Poppins inhabits.
It makes me think that Joy Reid is not crystal clear on the subject of inflation.
Not bad, not bad at all, but you forgot to acknowledge the stolen land you occupy, the outfit you're wearing, and your pronouns. Do better.
Gutter, I don't have words, the tears are flowing.
I never dreamed you were such a racist. I'm literally shaking.
"cisheteronormativity" I am sending, with your permission, to Disney.
For Mary Poppins 3.
I didn't invent that word, like, at all.
Long live sesquipedalian prose!
And boobs if I’m being honest.
Fun fact! "Bubbies" as a word for a woman's breast goes back to 1690!
So many great words have been lost to us, so many changed in their meaning. "Punk" was a prostitute. "Slut" was just an untidy woman, with no sexual connotation.
Off you go...
I diff to beggar. In the old hearth furnaces for making iron the slut was a gash in the sand that the molten metal poured into then smaller gashes and shapes spread off from that called pigs, where we get the term pig iron. (Trivia from my blacksmithing past).
I'm familiar with pig iron, having done a lot of technical theatre in the past. In the fly gallery we used pig iron counterweights. They were heavy, heavier and heaviest. A guest director had driven everyone mad for weeks, so we created a pig made of styrofoam, painted it perfectly - brick red, complete with marks, scars and blotches of paint, and took to carrying it around, sweating as we did, waiting for the right moment. It came. In front of everybody director dude made some snide comment about how he'd done his share of lifting pigs, but was now beyond it. But he knew he could still lift them, etc. "Oh yeah? Here!" and the pig, lifted as if it weighed thirty pounds, was chucked at his, uh, front. He screamed and leapt aside like a girl seeing a mouse. The styrofoam pig bounced harmlessly beside him. Utter humiliation. Cast and crew fell to the floor, weeping with laughter. Moral: Don't piss off a techie.
That is wonderful!
slut/gash. Interesting etymology. Thanks! But nevertheless it did have another meaning. Shakespeare's "foul, sluttish hairs" have made a few schoolchildren giggle over the centuries.
I accept the mission to see that it is used regularly.
Your stunning fluency in ya-know-whose-speak despatched me pondering along the vexillological & botanical lines gato helpfully suggested 😟🙃
This makes me think they need to remake "My Fair Lady," but with someone "normal" learning to speak like an elite leftist. It could be a mash up of Trading Places and Pygmalion, but it definitely needs to be a musical. Instead of "My Fair Lady" It should be called something like "Zy Color Challenged Birthing Person"
The new lyrics to "The Rain in Spain"-bit oughta be amazing then.
"The sex I feel is that which has appeal" or something.
You would have to rewrite the part where Higgins tells Eliza that the only safe subjects to talk about are "the weather, and everyone's health".
Well, even health would be suspect. Your health is private unless it refers to your vaccination status, then everyone needs to know that.
Exactly. Health is now a total trigger word. And weather??? Don't get me started, Greta!
You know what the perfect thing is for flash flooding, droughts, or any inclement weather; the vaccine.Nothing solves a natural disaster or occurrence in nature like an experimental chemical. So effective you need one every six months!
but, whether weather is a safe subject now >>> CLIMATE CHANGE!
Exactly.
Of course you are speaking extemporaneously.
im sure thats racist or sexist or dumbest or something
Or a microaggression of some description.
I think you just committed cultural appropriation. You triggered me with your microaggressions. That was just violent speech.
I once walked out of CVS with gut medicine without paying for it. They charged me with Culturelle Appropriation.
No, I just committed YOUR MOM.
Brilliant......yup ‘normal people talk’
Also, point of personal privilege, my butt is itchy.
"These pretzels are making me thirsty."
lololololol you are awesome
Don't laugh at my suffering, you literal Nazi.
My advice, do not handle our hot peppers if your butt itches. That is all
That sounds like advice with a story to it?
A story we NEED to hear!
Ok, fine. A friend of ours introduced us years ago to jalapeno poppers. The first time I made them was the first time I had ever handled jalapenos. Needles to say, I didn't wear gloves and those suckers aren't just spicy to your tongue! I had to pee really bad and washed my hands really, really good but..... that shit doesn't was off with soap! By the end of it my hands were burning, my booty was burning and pretty much everything in between! 😅 The poppers were delicious though!
😂
*shudder*... itsca good thing you threw boobs in there at least, because it was hard to stop the fantasy of punching you in the throat until thst shook me out of it...
I did it to stop me from punching myself in the throat first.
😂🤣😂
Girl...if I had a daughter, I'd want her to be like you. 😁
"I don't feel no ways tahred" of reading your comments, Gutter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-H9BOIYhgc
"...from where I started from..." ~ brilliant, Hillary.
Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a Kaiser blade.
You don't want to question the genius.
Exhibit #1 proving gato's law of free speech: hand the idiots a microphone in the town square and grab some popcorn.
(No word yet about people suddenly using words such as 'equity', 'gender-affirming', or 'white supremacy'.)
🎯🎯🎯
Anyone who speaks or writes the words "cisgender", "communities of color", or "Latinx" with a straight face is simply not worth taking seriously.
Well I for one am grateful for this nonsensical gibberish, you find out right away if the person is worth one more minute of your precious time. By their fruits ye shall know them...and by their words, too.
It's like the people who are still wearing a mask.
I promise to stay (much more than) 6 feet away!
As someone who works in academia, many people do this because they are essentially forced to in order to keep their jobs. Like so many other things these days .....
Video makes this even better, harder to claim, "I WAS HACKED!!". Oh, by the same person, Joy Reid, shocking!!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joy-reid-blog-post-hacking_n_5ae0ae7ee4b02baed1b593b6
"It wasn't me" -- Shaggy
Too bad that doesn't work in the long run. Speaking from experience, after attending one of my college buddy's 5th wedding in July.
Yeah inflation. I’d never heard it before except everyday back in the 70’s. Like high waisted jeans and bell bottoms, these nasty things have a way of making the rounds again. That’s why it’s important to be a keen scholar of history because inflation has featured in many noteworthy geopolitical events. The condescension is next level here, Joy, and on a side note I’d embrace your natural hair if I were you. The blond reeks of cultural appropriation and the Swedes are more restless these days.
"The blond reeks of cultural appropriation and the Swedes are more restless these days."
As a swede I approve of this message.
As a turnip, I feel discriminated against and marginalized.
We'll have the kohl-rabbi out-victiming us both if we're not careful.
Or the blackroot.
Are we getting to the root of it, you think?
Should be a core subject in grade school.
We must find a way to stem the hate.
That explains it: I was born in 71 in Mexico and I feel I always knew about inflation. It was just a matter of degrees: losing three zeros in our currency was a sign that it was really bad….
Lol. Perfect.
Hey, I was born in 71 as well!
Maybe it’s just an age thing, as others have said in the comments, everyone knew about inflation in the 70s and 80s 🤷🏽
Yup, from 1976 to 1980, it feels like inflation was all anyone ever talked about. I was a tiny child and I knew what it meant.
Nice!
Like seller financed loans...
Lololol
Joy Reid is the antidote for anyone who may feel even slightly envious of those with an Ivy League education.
This is so embarrassing and condescending. How (insert cuss words, the really big ones) stupid does she think the public is? I could just cry. I am 63 years old. Shit.
Let it out Pbr.
Makes me feel better
I am building up a big cry. A tear here and there, it just won’t come out. A hug to you Ryan, going to curl up with the mutt for dog kisses, it helps, somewhat.
Well a dog is far smarter than that fool.
Made me smile. I just.can’t.believe.This.
Dog, the rescue, has been acting funny the last week. Really skittish. Afraid, kind of wondering if she knows something I don’t know.
It's amazing how they will pick up on fear and anxiety that we aren't even aware we are feeling. She's worried about the election.
And I don't even like dogs.
Lol. I love dogs and cats.
Pretty sure they could figure out if they got smaller treats and had to work harder for them, that something was wrong!.....:]
Can confirm that they do, since I tried that on our old dogs.
The male was happy enough to work hard, including 50km marches where he carried his own food (dried ox liver), but when practicing commands and such, he performed worse the smaller the treat got. When I increased the size, he immediately was on his best behaviour again.
His female mate was a case study in too smart: when training her to fetch by throwing a stick - you know, the normal way to do it - for her to run off and find in the underbrush, she'd simply saunter off to the closest stick and fetch that one instead, looking smug as F.
She's seen people repeat her drivel for awhile now. Imagine saying something on the news then have it repeated to her almost verbatim. Has to boost her ego. No doubt she has been redefining what "safe and effective" mean as well as "secure and honest."
Jimmy -
It must be "easy" living like an oblivious idiot.
The hilarious thing is that she thinks she's smarter than the likes of us. I think my cat is smarter than her.
For while now, it has seemed like my paychecks weren't going as far as they used to and that the price of everything increased. But I didn't know what it was until I was taught the word. And what I witnessed magically existed because I could name it. If I never learned the word, everything would be fine. Darn knowledge!!!
That's basically it. Nancy Pelosi says they need to change the topic from inflation to cost of living:
https://vimeo.com/763235457
I'd be very interested in seeing the mental gymnastics that somehow separate inflation from cost of living.
Well... technically inflation should be the increase in all prices and so wages would be increasing along with the cost of goods. Cost of living can just represent things like housing, food, etc. You could split them apart like that, although it makes the last two years look even worse, so it would be a bad argument for Pelosi!
(I want to point out that I dislike this modern, or later half of the 20th century, definition of inflation as "a general increase in the price level". I vastly prefer the previous definition of an "increase in the amount of money in the market relative to the amount of other goods". But then, I am possibly the youngest old man.)
Yes. In the modern day, we should separate out (real) monetary inflation and price inflation. (Although both are bad for Biden ATM, making this a really dumb statement from Nancy.)
We're coming off massive monetary inflation and compounding it with bad policies that drive up price inflation as well.
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https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/inflation-and-you
When speaking of inflation, I think it’s best to do it in two different terms: Monetary inflation, which is a rise in the money supply (the DuckTales scenario), and price inflation, which is a rise in prices. Though intertwined, these things are quite different.
First, monetary inflation. This is a pretty basic measurement. How many dollars are floating around out there? ....monetary inflation has been increasing and accelerating since Nixon went ‘full fiat’ in the 1970s. Since then, the number of dollars in the system has been doubling about every 11 years, with covid rapidly accelerating that trend.
Price inflation is often related to and affected by monetary inflation, though MANY additional factors impact price inflation. A shortage of goods, additional cost of links in the supply chain, rising labor costs, and additional regulations all negatively affect price inflation. On the other side of the equation, improved efficiency, cheaper materials, reduced regulations, or increased automation tend to drive prices down (though rarely enough to actually see price decreases).
Agreed. I think the way they measure inflation (just price of a basket of goods) is very misleading, since many products have gotten much cheaper in real terms, that is to say, requiring fewer resources than they did. Don Boudreaux used to do a series on that, going through the Sears catalogue from the 70's and looking at how many hours an average worker had to work to afford the (lower quality usually) goods then compared to now. It seems to me that with productivity increases like those we see in terms of working to afford X, yet small inflation, the money supply has been expanding very much more rapidly than people realize.
The question then becomes what is going on with all that money supply increase? Where is it coming from? Who is benefitting? Who gets it first?
Right around then many government aligned economists seem to say "Well, let's just look at the price level."
It's much easier to tinker with the numbers when there's all sorts of 'adjustments' you need to make before presenting the 'official' inflation number. Hell, CPI excludes food and gas!!!
Comparing the price of things in work hours and then also comparing different jobs/careers is the way we did it in home economics when I was still in compulsory school.
I have the recipe right here:
Ingredients
.5 oz Tequila
.5 oz Vodka
.5 oz Rum
.5 oz Gin
.5 oz Blue Curaçao
2 oz Sweet and Sour Mix
6 oz Lemon Lime Soda (Sprite or 7UP)
1 Lemon Wedge (Garnish)
1 Maraschino Cherry (Garnish)
Ice
Instructions
Add Ice Tequila, Vodka, Rum, Gin, Blue Curaçao, and Sweet and Sour Mix to Cocktail Shaker
Shake Until Ingredients are Mixed (10-15 Seconds)
Add Ice to Glass
Strain Drink into Glass
Top with Lemon Lime Soda
Garnish with Lemon Wedge and Maraschino Cherry
When life gives you lemons, add vodka.
Sounds like Fire Island Iced Tea.
Has the left forgotten that they pushed through the "Inflation Reduction Act"???
OH that explains why it had nothing to do with inflation!
Exactly!! We smart cats had to teach it to them!! :))
i feel stupider for listening to her.... i think i figured out their plan.
The only difference between these clowns and the old Versailles gang is merely the wigs.
Epic
I always wondered what I was doing putting air into my tires...
I guess if fat people like me can refer to ourselves as "body positive" we can completely ignore what it means to "get bigger" No, no, it's not inflation...I am merely undertall.
Vertically challenged?
I'm 6'4" on one side, so it will be hard to prove I am vertically challenged. But you can always claim that you are undertall. I think for my weight to be normal for my size I would have to be 8'2" tall.
Be patient, they're working on it. https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-patients-and-visitors/find-a-program-or-service/penn-orthoplastic-limb-salvage-center/limb-lengthening/get-taller-with-penn-medicine/the-taller-procedure This process appears in a fantasy novel I am at work on, where increased height is a reward given you by the government. It is painless and you gain status. If you are a criminal or enemy of the state, you are made shorter, in a very painful procedure.
Me not know what you said, me not get teached the words yet. Please send a Republican.
Oooh, you used a 4-syllable word at the end! You're getting smarter by the minute. 🤣🤣
In their defense, people under the age of 40 have never experienced inflation like us old timers did in the 70’s and 80’s.
I was thinking the same. I learned about inflation in school in the 80's, when they actually taught stuff.
This is in the same category as: "black people don't have access to ANY BUSINESSES/LIBRARIES/SCHOOLS THAT COULD MAKE COPIES LET ALONE A HOME PRINTER/SCANNER THING so they can't get drivers licensees photocopied so they can't vote because they for some reason have to leave their ID's--if they even figured out how to get one! I mean come on, that's a real tough-y!--at home because now that they've been redisctricted into oblivion they are traumatized by fear that the white supremacists with ooooooooh guns watching the polling places are going to rob them....[etc etc]" argument.
Every liberal argument boils down to this: you are uneducated, I am not, therefore I should be making the decisions because you do not understand the enormous complexities involved. Try it on any policy position (The Science; Ukraine; climate change...)--it's always the bottom line.
Amen to this. Once you see the pattern you can’t unsee it.
I'm sorry I can't get past her thick shoulders compared to her skinny, weird neck. Everything else is "blah, blah, blah."
Learning is such sweet sorrow.
Sorrow, not “sorry”. Dam autocorrect!
Nope. She’s that dumb and condescending. She means she never thinks about it at all, and neither do her friends on Twitter and Instagram, so it must be that “no one” does.
It's a banana, Michael. What can it cost? $10?
Fantastic reference
I don't have time for this.