A good sign that most people are in fact clown-ass dipshits (whether on the right or the left) is that their opinion on the health of economy undergoes a 180 degree shift the minute someone of the opposite political party become president. And that is with no changes in the economy itself, of course.
Critical thinking altogether lacking. How do people live like that?
We are planning now what electronics and imported stuff we are going to buy in the next few weeks and months because those sorts of goods are going to get radically more expensive soon or just become unavailable altogether.
So get your gettin’ on from the gettin’ place, people. Soon all of that will be much more expensive or just not available at all, depending on the exact timing of tariffs and war.
Laughing at all these explanations that Trump won because someone called Latinos “Latinx” or some shit like that. Or DEI. Or that we let a trans girl play field hockey or whatever.
No. It was inflation and the gaslighting around it. That’s it, that’s all.
And the US is fucked for a generation because of it, thanks to us electing Trump. And the world, too.
Inflation pain helped secure Trump win but his policies mean higher prices.
The pain of inflation and Americans being lied to about it was 80% of the reason Trump won, if not more. Trump actually won’t do jack shit to help with this (quite the opposite), but the Dems largely caused this through their arrogance and inaction.
Trump’s initiatives will lead to higher prices and very likely a crashed economy, but the average voter is not very smart and not very analytical so they are just lashing out like an incel. And will do about as much good.
Because of Trump, war with China around 2027 is extremely likely. We will get clobbered.
Soon it’ll be a good time to start buying whatever electronics or gadgets you want, as they will become unavailable or absurdly expensive in that timeframe and for quite a few years thereafter.
A large share of the responsibility for the Democrats losing the election is on the Dems themselves since they and their myrmidons spent more than three years gaslighting people about inflation. It was almost a religious quest for them. This certainly pissed me off and I barely give a fuck what anything costs. For someone where a price increase actually has consequences, this must’ve been actively infuriating.
“Don’t believe your lying eyes and your declining bank balance” is not a winning proposition. Now they and all of us are going to pay for that 3+ years of pettifogging and obliviousness.
And the sad thing is, it was all an unforced error. Clowns like Paul Krugman and all the others spent so many unnecessary hours writing a vast number of articles about how the rising cost of goods and services is all in your head and that no, those shelves aren’t empty — why, they are quite full in my Park Slope supermarket, how could they be empty anywhere?!?!? They could have just not done that. But no, they had to get those jabs in at the basket of deplorables who could no longer fill their baskets.
In large part, the Democrats did this to themselves. And they deserve much vitriol for that.
We are cookin’ with plasma now. What the hell happened?
Seems reasonable to me; she’s one of the most popular people in the world. Her time is extremely valuable. If you want it, you gots to pay. That’s just how it is. I’d probably charge even more to limit the events I was obligated to do.
If you have a fully-paid-off house that you do not view as an investment, house prices are irrelevant to you. As long as this house still works for living in, I do not give a single fuck about how much it is worth or its Zestimate.
Just so much noise.
Well of course. The whole PE strategy is to place strategic buys to raise comps and thus cause prices to rise in the entire area.
This is why the economists who say things like, “The investors don’t buy that many houses so they can have no effect on prices!” are so very, very wrong. I mean, prices are set on the margin and that is even more true of house prices. That’s basic economics there so you know there must be some other agenda going on there to even make such an unbaked claim.
If you gave me $20 million dollars, I could cause prices to rise 20-30% in a chosen neighborhood and stay elevated for years — more than enough to recoup that money.
Why is that not obvious to everyone else? This is just how you do it if you’re in that business.
Well that’s one way to do it.
WFH explains probably 60-80% of that. So of course doofclowns want to roll it back. They just can’t stand losing a little power over the peons.
Without NIMBYism, in the US we’d all be something like 30% richer.
And that fact pisses me off.
For a very large, developed economy, the US is fuckin’ rocking it.
Did the quality of fast food take a huge hit?
For sure it did. Post-pandemic it’s quite a lot worse in general. There are a variety of reasons for this, I suspect. Among them is that fast food companies started using lower-quality (thus cheaper) ingredients to attempt to ameliorate the effects of wholesale inflation. Also, I’m guessing the ubiquity of delivery apps divorced direct feedback on food quality from the experience of its consumption so there are fewer complaints that make it to anyone who notices or cares.
It’s not just fast food, though. Food quality even at middle- and high-end restaurants has nose-dived too. Recently, I got lobster ravioli with fresh crab at a local mid-end restaurant. It was nearly $40 for just the entrée. The dish had nearly no actual seafood in it, was otherwise entirely mediocre and the portion size was also extremely small.
When I pay that much for something, I expect it to be better than what I can make at home. That wasn’t even close. I could’ve whipped up something similar but tastier in 30-ish minutes.
So this decline in quality is occurring in every tier of restaurant.