TimHauck

Goalpost moving, thanks for admitting you were wrong

I could definitely see this as a motivation for Musk. Maybe also trying to get Trump posting on x again.

Already happened. But again, I don’t have an issue with Musk being an advisor

It is different. Musk has more businesses than just twitter, sounds like they want his advice as a successful businessman not as the owner of twitter. But he’ll probably suggest the government fire 50% of their employees or something. Will kill the economy, but should help inflation.

Agree with most of this, although I honestly wouldn’t blame Trump for much of the inflation. It started during his term but was mostly the result of Covid and the resulting strain on supply. His stimulus was more necessary for the immediate aftermath of Covid, Biden’s arguably was not. But your last 2 paragraphs are spot on. I work in the food industry and generally speaking I think the cost increases in 2022ish were real, however many costs have since come down but companies are a lot less willing to reduce prices than raise them. Many are however starting to run more sales and stuff like that so the overall cost to consumers is coming down or staying the same at worst (talking more specifically of groceries). @Engorgeous George, curious why you think we’ll see an uptick in inflation? I’d be surprised to see it go up much, but yes it doesn’t really seem to be coming down. I’d say the reason for that is that there is still high demand. I don’t think there’s much risk for stagflation though if unemployment increases. If that happens then demand will decrease and prices will be forced to decrease as well.

It’s a fact there was extra unemployment. It’s not a fact that that contributed to staffing shortages in any measurable way

Biden’s stimulus made inflation worse because it gave people more money to spend and created more demand for goods and services, which was already spiking when everything opened up after the height of covid. I think the “paying people not to work” trope is overblown however or else the staffing shortages should have ended when those payments ended but they didn’t. The biggest factor as it relates to restaurants in particular IMO was the pandemic made people realize they didn’t want to work in restaurants anymore. So they had to pay people more to attract workers which gets passed to consumers in the food prices.

Yes and no. It could’ve been ready sooner but lib doctors convinced them to make the trial longer

Do you think the current economy is “the worst in the lower classes’ lifetime”?

You’re right that people weren’t making that claim in this thread specifically, but it is done often in the Covid thread, mostly by @lod001 and @lickin_starfish. The usual suspects on social media did try blaming the vax however, which was also called out earlier in the thread (not by me I’ll point out) but you’re probably also right that no one should read social media. After @jerryskids suggested it was a cardiac issue, that kinda opened the door for one of the 2 aforementioned posters (or others) to make the claim, so I shared that he likely wasn’t even vaxx’ed to give evidence to try to rule it out before that happened.

No he wasn’t. He claimed he would take it if it got FDA approved which it did. So maybe he took it, but then again digby said he’d take it if it got FDA approved too…

How is Trump fast tracking it not Trump’s fault (if there is anything to be at fault for)? GC logic at it again… Biden would of course be at fault for mandating it though

I never said far

Are you Mooney?

Except 2008-2010 when it was worse for even more people

“Influencers” claiming to be doctors with 13k followers wishing death on Bill Gates, nothing to see here

Weird, the only mention I see of this story is from righties (yes that includes Timcast and @RaiderHaters Revenge) No hate from any of these folks:

My phone doesn’t let me search for threads started without putting words to search for

In the middle of the season?

Liberals are supposedly mad about something according to righties Righties are mad that liberals are supposedly mad Rinse, repeat

No I agree with your first paragraph. My point was I don’t think those airport bathrooms were created because of “demands” from trans folks. Never really thought about how I define trans because unlike the Geek Club I don’t really think about trannies much at all. I’m not sure I’d say they’d need to get the surgery to be called trans, maybe at least be on some sort of hormone medication.

At least this guy acknowledges that it was Covid (and the huge increase in demand that followed the vaccines being available and everyone wanting to do things again) that really caused many of the supply and labor shortages starting in 2021. Even in 2020, many restaurant workers realized their jobs could be lost easily and switched fields, others had finally had enough of dealing with sh1tty people.

Sounds like we agree. I’ll admit I don’t follow polling numbers of trans folks, but if I had to bet, most would say they just want to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with, and not require new all gender bathrooms

Speak of the devil…

Congrats on finding a recommendation from a university for all gender bathrooms. But this seems like a chicken or the egg situation. If these requests are actually “widespread,” they’re likely driven by claims of trannies being harassed. Which is ironic because that’s what righties seem to be afraid of happening to them or their kids. No one needs to “love” anything about public restrooms. But I don’t think allowing trannies to use the bathroom they identify with is a big deal since they’ll always be in a stall unless they start installing urinals in womens only bathrooms. Locker rooms however are a different story.