Rants and Raves

[PeteAppleSeed]

Here are some accomplishments:

1. Gas prices up over 30%.

2. My IRA grew -5% in the past month (yes, negative 5%.

3. I am getting a 5. 9% pay raise due to inflation instead of growth.

4. More COVID deaths in 2021 than in 2020.

Shall I continue?

I'm not a political person at all, I have no party.

But let me offer just some harmless opinions.

Gas prices are OPEC / supply and demand, not old Joe.

Your IRA is a whole lot of factors in the market, many independent companies, in several countries sometimes and even your fund manager, not Joe.

Your pay raise is an affair between your employer and you, in regards to your particular industry only, not Joe.

COVID deaths are higher but analysts say this is caused mainly due to the politicization of the pandemic. Not Joe.

Back when Donald was president I didn't blame everything on him and I don't blame everything on Joe either.

That would be a cop out. Its easy to blame the current mandatary for everything.

All leaders do good and bad things but they do not control everything.

It is also very easy and dangerous to fall into cognitive bias when you're purposely trying to find info to support your preexisting beliefs.

And before anyone snaps back at me please please please read the last statement carefully.

"It is also very easy and dangerous to fall into cognitive bias when you're purposely trying to find info to support your preexisting beliefs."

[Sgt Lurker]

Here are some accomplishments:

1. Gas prices up over 30%.

2. My IRA grew -5% in the past month (yes, negative 5%.

3. I am getting a 5. 9% pay raise due to inflation instead of growth.

4. More COVID deaths in 2021 than in 2020.

Shall I continue?

[RedneckStud]

Inflation in the US is a reaction to Biden's money policies not European money policy. When Reagan took over from Carter inflation and interest rates went down almost over night.

You're smoking something really good. Care to share? You need to read up on monetary policy and lag time.

I was selling real estate in 1988 and remember mortgages going for abot 17%. No. , interest rates did not drop almost overnight.

[ComTech42]

So, if inflation here is Biden's fault, why is inflation also spiking in Europe?

From The NY Times:

"There's lots more if you go to today's Times.

Inflation in the US is a reaction to Biden's money policies not European money policy. When Reagan took over from Carter inflation and interest rates went down almost over night.

[HobbyMan51]

So, if inflation here is Biden's fault, why is inflation also spiking in Europe?

From The NY Times:

"There's lots more if you go to today's Times.

Lots more propaganda from the print version of CNN, both of which are the mouthpieces of the anarchist ideologues of the Left and both of which lie with impunity. I'm saying this for the benefit of the common-sensers on this blog, not you. You proved which side you are on a long time ago. You will respond, of course, and I will allow you to believe that you got the last word so that you may feel all warm and fuzzy about yourself as you and others like you lead this country to hell.

[Niteluvr]

He posted it.

Then quote it.

[Aaron Hamlet]

How did you decide that Bullett is 78? Methinks he told me his age not too long ago, but it was no where near 78 years old.

He posted it

[Gatka]

I honestly can't believe why 'all are still going at it with each other.

[Niteluvr]

You're 78 years old and suffer from preexisting conditions. You are in the highest risk group for China Virus fatalities. You're fully clot shotted and clot boosted and thought you were protected. Now you're learning you're not. Railing against the facts won't help you. It will only hurt by weakening your already frail immune system further. Data coming from northern states will soon show up in the southern states as temps drop. Be careful.

99% of 65+ senior citizens in Maine have had at least one clot shot. 63% have had 2 clot shots and clot booster. Yet hospitalizations of seniors in Maine for China virus are at record highs and are up 902% since July.

How did you decide that Bullett is 78? Methinks he told me his age not too long ago, but it was no where near 78 years old.

[NuGuy36]

Does anyone remember when the two liberal assholes berated me about inflation, saying it was good and not a problem. Well gas jumped over 6% in November alone. They resorted to insults and name calling. Well seem I was right and they were full of nonesense.

So, if inflation here is Biden's fault, why is inflation also spiking in Europe?

From The NY Times:

"PARIS — The European Central Bank’s top task is to keep inflation at bay. But as the cost of everything from gas to food has soared to record highs, the bank’s employees are joining workers across Europe in demanding something rarely seen in recent years: a hefty wage increase.

“It seems like a paradox, but the E.C.B. isn’t protecting its own staff against inflation,” said Carlos Bowles, an economist at the central bank and vice president of IPSO, an employee trade union. Workers are pressing for a raise of at least 5 percent to keep up with a historic inflationary surge set off by the end of pandemic lockdowns. The bank says it won’t budge from a planned a 1.3 percent increase.

That simply won’t offset inflation’s pain, said Mr. Bowles, whose union represents 20 percent of the bank’s employees. “Workers shouldn’t have to take a hit when prices rise so much,” he said.
Inflation, relatively quiet for nearly a decade in Europe, has suddenly flared in labor contract talks as a run-up in prices that started in spring courses through the economy and everyday life.
From Spain to Sweden, workers and organized labor are increasingly demanding wages that keep up with inflation, which last month reached 4.90 percent, a record high for the eurozone.

Austrian metalworkers wrested a 3.6 percent pay raise for 2022. Irish employers said they expect to have to lift wages by at least 3 percent next year. Workers at Tesco supermarkets in Britain won a 5.5 percent raise after threatening to strike around Christmas. And in Germany, where the European Central Bank has its headquarters, the new government raised the minimum wage by a whopping 25 percent, to 12 euros (about $13.60) an hour.

"There's lots more if you go to today's Times.

[Clicker]

You wouldn't know a fact if you saw one. No matter how hard you try, you can't even estimate my age to within 3 years. To date, there have been 796.764 (and counting) COVID-related deaths in the USA There have been 3 blamed on blood clots. (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/12/cdc-...d-vaccine.html) and yet you insist on calling the vaccines the "clot shot. " I was being overly kind by calling you a mere buffoon. You are a danger to yourself and others. Daily, you make it harder and harder for me to care about your welfare, but your lack of concern for others is disgraceful.

You have forced me into taking action to block your posts, as I don't wish to see your drivel ant more.

Thank you Bullett64, I'm encouraged by the fact there are still decent people like you.

[Bullett64]

You're 78 years old and suffer from preexisting conditions.

You wouldn't know a fact if you saw one. No matter how hard you try, you can't even estimate my age to within 3 years. To date, there have been 796.764 (and counting) COVID-related deaths in the USA There have been 3 blamed on blood clots. (https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/12/cdc-...d-vaccine.html) and yet you insist on calling the vaccines the "clot shot. " I was being overly kind by calling you a mere buffoon. You are a danger to yourself and others. Daily, you make it harder and harder for me to care about your welfare, but your lack of concern for others is disgraceful.

You have forced me into taking action to block your posts, as I don't wish to see your drivel ant more.

[ARegularGuy]

You should read the cdc info! Your link offers the evidence that supports the claims that the vaccines are safe and effective and details the rarity of complications.

ARG.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...se-events.html

He was 72, played tennis religiously both singles and on a team on a league, ran regularly, and was in great health! When you assume you risk making an ass out of you and Me! There are perfectly healthy men and women who die from the shot but no one wishes to acknowledge it. Go read what is on the CDC, Walgreens, CVS, and other such sites for the warnings about each and every brand of shot for this chinavirus.

[Clicker]

I asked you how the truly ignorant can possibly see true ignorance. Or for that matter, see true genius or even mediocrity. I asked if you can see that and surmised you couldn't. Now those who can't will instead grasp after shiny objects. Your ignorance doesn't allow you to see true value or true ignorance so you're in a perpetual state of seeking immediate gratification by grasping for those shiny objects or by changing a subject matter which provides the same sort of immediate gratification. Can you see that manifest itself daily in your own life? You can't can you? Do you know why? Of course you don't. That's the point.

You have no point, other than the one on your head. Try wearing a hat!

[Aaron Hamlet]

Just as clear as day.

I asked you how the truly ignorant can possibly see true ignorance. Or for that matter, see true genius or even mediocrity. I asked if you can see that and surmised you couldn't. Now those who can't will instead grasp after shiny objects. Your ignorance doesn't allow you to see true value or true ignorance so you're in a perpetual state of seeking immediate gratification by grasping for those shiny objects or by changing a subject matter which provides the same sort of immediate gratification. Can you see that manifest itself daily in your own life? You can't can you? Do you know why? Of course you don't. That's the point.