Uncle Joe

[jfish26]

I look forward to your "looks like I was wrong" post.

I can't tell what my favorite part of all of this is. I'm leaning toward the hilariously wrong suggestion that, if this was a worked shoot, it would be the NFL pulling the strings and making Taylor Swift dance.

No kidding. The more likely conspiracy if there was one would be that Taylor Swift is taking advantage of the eyes on NFL football to turn the "Summer of Taylor Swift" into the "Decade of Taylor Swift", not the other way around.

This is exactly what I thought was happening. And it very well may yet be.

If this is fake - and god damn, if it is, I respect Taylor’s commitment to the bit - it’s 100% Taylor’s doing. Not the NFL’s, and certainly not, uh, Joe Biden’s.

[KUTradition]

no words…

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/p ... 56829/amp/

[jfish26]

I look forward to your "looks like I was wrong" post.

I can't tell what my favorite part of all of this is. I'm leaning toward the hilariously wrong suggestion that, if this was a worked shoot, it would be the NFL pulling the strings and making Taylor Swift dance.

you all are missing the biggest piece

this shit is global…it’s a global cabal. Swift’s effect on the global economy is all manufactured. i’m sure if you were able to find vinyls of her albums, and then track down the retro record players to play them backwards, the truth would reveal itself

Are you sitting down?

Ok. I'll let you in on THE TRUTH.

If you go to a store, and you grab a Taylor Swift album, and take it to the register, they will scan with a red laser a super secret black and white symbol on the back of the package. The clerk - he might look like a $12/hour high school kid, but really he's part of the MACHINE - will then be given a special code number via secure electronic transmission (although it will appear to sheeple like you that this is just a popup on a $79 computer monitor).

The clerk-agent will then say the special code number out loud, and you can authenticate it against the number displayed to you (probably in dot-matrix green-on-black).

And it is here you may act.

Quickly, before anyone catches on, you may give the clerk-agent United States currency in at least the amount of the special code number. (You can also use electronic or digital payment tools, but that is highly insecure and involves a whole other thing pertaining to the Knights of Columbus or the Knights Templar or Boogie Nights, who knows, best not to find out).

Anyway, I got distracted.

Once the agent-clerk confirms receipt of your contribution, you - yes, YOU - will be permitted to leave the store with the album. You can listen to it, at your leisure. You may even give it or lend it to someone else, or forget it exists entirely. Perhaps it becomes a frisbee or a clay pigeon, who knows.

It does not matter what you do with the album, because your role in the subterfuge has ended. You are but a cog in the wheel.

For you see, completely blind to you, Taylor Swift and many many many other co-conspirators (including, for his small part, our agent-clerk friend!) entered into complex, shadowy arrangements - no, you may not see them - that set forth precisely how the funds you handed over would be divided among the cabal. You might THINK you acquired a country-folk-pop record album for your personal enjoyment, but what you REALLY did is further enrich the ruling class. You bought Taylor Swift four (4) grains of sand for her ninth (9th) private beach. On which she has sex with Travis Kelce, while Roger Goodell holds guns to their heads for some reason.

The truth is all right there in front of you. Finding it merely requires doing your own research - or having a savvy guide like me.

[TDub]

I can't tell what my favorite part of all of this is. I'm leaning toward the hilariously wrong suggestion that, if this was a worked shoot, it would be the NFL pulling the strings and making Taylor Swift dance.

you all are missing the biggest piece

this shit is global…it’s a global cabal. Swift’s effect on the global economy is all manufactured. i’m sure if you were able to find vinyls of her albums, and then track down the retro record players to play them backwards, the truth would reveal itself

Are you sitting down?

Ok. I'll let you in on THE TRUTH.

If you go to a store, and you grab a Taylor Swift album, and take it to the register, they will scan with a red laser a super secret black and white symbol on the back of the package. The clerk - he might look like a $12/hour high school kid, but really he's part of the MACHINE - will then be given a special code number via secure electronic transmission (although it will appear to sheeple like you that this is just a popup on a $79 computer monitor).

The clerk-agent will then say the special code number out loud, and you can authenticate it against the number displayed to you (probably in dot-matrix green-on-black).

And it is here you may act.

Quickly, before anyone catches on, you may give the clerk-agent United States currency in at least the amount of the special code number. (You can also use electronic or digital payment tools, but that is highly insecure and involves a whole other thing pertaining to the Knights of Columbus or the Knights Templar or Boogie Nights, who knows, best not to find out).

Anyway, I got distracted.

Once the agent-clerk confirms receipt of your contribution, you - yes, YOU - will be permitted to leave the store with the album. You can listen to it, at your leisure. You may even give it or lend it to someone else, or forget it exists entirely. Perhaps it becomes a frisbee or a clay pigeon, who knows.

It does not matter what you do with the album, because your role in the subterfuge has ended. You are but a cog in the wheel.

For you see, completely blind to you, Taylor Swift and many many many other co-conspirators (including, for his small part, our agent-clerk friend!) entered into complex, shadowy arrangements - no, you may not see them - that set forth precisely how the funds you handed over would be divided among the cabal. You might THINK you acquired a country-folk-pop record album for your personal enjoyment, but what you REALLY did is further enrich the ruling class. You bought Taylor Swift four (4) grains of sand for her ninth (9th) private beach. On which she has sex with Travis Kelce, while Roger Goodell holds guns to their heads for some reason.

The truth is all right there in front of you. Finding it merely requires doing your own research - or having a savvy guide like me.

this made me miss going to record, tape and cd stores and actually buying an album and listening all the way thru, hearing songs never on the radio, hidden tracks, getting the flow ofnthe album from ens to end, instead of everything being made for streaming.

[KUTradition]

I can't tell what my favorite part of all of this is. I'm leaning toward the hilariously wrong suggestion that, if this was a worked shoot, it would be the NFL pulling the strings and making Taylor Swift dance.

you all are missing the biggest piece

this shit is global…it’s a global cabal. Swift’s effect on the global economy is all manufactured. i’m sure if you were able to find vinyls of her albums, and then track down the retro record players to play them backwards, the truth would reveal itself

Are you sitting down?

Ok. I'll let you in on THE TRUTH.

If you go to a store, and you grab a Taylor Swift album, and take it to the register, they will scan with a red laser a super secret black and white symbol on the back of the package. The clerk - he might look like a $12/hour high school kid, but really he's part of the MACHINE - will then be given a special code number via secure electronic transmission (although it will appear to sheeple like you that this is just a popup on a $79 computer monitor).

The clerk-agent will then say the special code number out loud, and you can authenticate it against the number displayed to you (probably in dot-matrix green-on-black).

And it is here you may act.

Quickly, before anyone catches on, you may give the clerk-agent United States currency in at least the amount of the special code number. (You can also use electronic or digital payment tools, but that is highly insecure and involves a whole other thing pertaining to the Knights of Columbus or the Knights Templar or Boogie Nights, who knows, best not to find out).

Anyway, I got distracted.

Once the agent-clerk confirms receipt of your contribution, you - yes, YOU - will be permitted to leave the store with the album. You can listen to it, at your leisure. You may even give it or lend it to someone else, or forget it exists entirely. Perhaps it becomes a frisbee or a clay pigeon, who knows.

It does not matter what you do with the album, because your role in the subterfuge has ended. You are but a cog in the wheel.

For you see, completely blind to you, Taylor Swift and many many many other co-conspirators (including, for his small part, our agent-clerk friend!) entered into complex, shadowy arrangements - no, you may not see them - that set forth precisely how the funds you handed over would be divided among the cabal. You might THINK you acquired a country-folk-pop record album for your personal enjoyment, but what you REALLY did is further enrich the ruling class. You bought Taylor Swift four (4) grains of sand for her ninth (9th) private beach. On which she has sex with Travis Kelce, while Roger Goodell holds guns to their heads for some reason.

The truth is all right there in front of you. Finding it merely requires doing your own research - or having a savvy guide like me.

it only everyone were so blessed

[twocoach]

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so impactful and pathetic.

[jfish26]

This would be hilarious if it wasn't so impactful and pathetic.

Same sentiment as in the immigration thread: for a country that has "gone to hell," our citizens sure have ample time, money and freedom to create elaborate, byzantine, layered make-believe worlds.

[japhy]

I can't tell what my favorite part of all of this is. I'm leaning toward the hilariously wrong suggestion that, if this was a worked shoot, it would be the NFL pulling the strings and making Taylor Swift dance.

you all are missing the biggest piece

this shit is global…it’s a global cabal. Swift’s effect on the global economy is all manufactured. i’m sure if you were able to find vinyls of her albums, and then track down the retro record players to play them backwards, the truth would reveal itself

Are you sitting down?

Ok. I'll let you in on THE TRUTH.

If you go to a store, and you grab a Taylor Swift album, and take it to the register, they will scan with a red laser a super secret black and white symbol on the back of the package. The clerk - he might look like a $12/hour high school kid, but really he's part of the MACHINE - will then be given a special code number via secure electronic transmission (although it will appear to sheeple like you that this is just a popup on a $79 computer monitor).

The clerk-agent will then say the special code number out loud, and you can authenticate it against the number displayed to you (probably in dot-matrix green-on-black).

And it is here you may act.

Quickly, before anyone catches on, you may give the clerk-agent United States currency in at least the amount of the special code number. (You can also use electronic or digital payment tools, but that is highly insecure and involves a whole other thing pertaining to the Knights of Columbus or the Knights Templar or Boogie Nights, who knows, best not to find out).

Anyway, I got distracted.

Once the agent-clerk confirms receipt of your contribution, you - yes, YOU - will be permitted to leave the store with the album. You can listen to it, at your leisure. You may even give it or lend it to someone else, or forget it exists entirely. Perhaps it becomes a frisbee or a clay pigeon, who knows.

It does not matter what you do with the album, because your role in the subterfuge has ended. You are but a cog in the wheel.

For you see, completely blind to you, Taylor Swift and many many many other co-conspirators (including, for his small part, our agent-clerk friend!) entered into complex, shadowy arrangements - no, you may not see them - that set forth precisely how the funds you handed over would be divided among the cabal. You might THINK you acquired a country-folk-pop record album for your personal enjoyment, but what you REALLY did is further enrich the ruling class. You bought Taylor Swift four (4) grains of sand for her ninth (9th) private beach. On which she has sex with Travis Kelce, while Roger Goodell holds guns to their heads for some reason.

The truth is all right there in front of you. Finding it merely requires doing your own research - or having a savvy guide like me.

You show real promise, if only sQuirt and Señor Randall had such gift.

[DCHawk1]

Our President, Joe Biden, being a decent human being. That might sound like a low bar, and something we could take for granted, but sadly, not after the Trump Presidency.

(It was part of my job to deliver bad news to families and loved ones, and I can tell you, it...is...not...easy. At all. It's gut-wrenching.
But Joe Biden, does it well.)

President Biden this week called the family of 24-year-old daughter, Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, who died in a weekend drone attack on U.S. service members in Jordan. Biden offered words of comfort and support to the family.

Biden consoles family of fallen soldier in emotional phone cal

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status ... 5380597246

[DeletedUser]

Our President, Joe Biden, being a decent human being. That might sound like a low bar, and something we could take for granted, but sadly, not after the Trump Presidency.

(It was part of my job to deliver bad news to families and loved ones, and I can tell you, it...is...not...easy. At all. It's gut-wrenching.
But Joe Biden, does it well.)

President Biden this week called the family of 24-year-old daughter, Spc. Kennedy Ladon Sanders, who died in a weekend drone attack on U.S. service members in Jordan. Biden offered words of comfort and support to the family.

Biden consoles family of fallen soldier in emotional phone cal

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status ... 5380597246

Minor details.

[Shirley]

"My son spent a year in Iraq, that's how I lost him"

Good catch!

That's painfully Biden.

Of course, he attributes his son's fatal brain cancer to being exposed to the burn pits in Iraq, but you knew that.

[DCHawk1]

That's not what he means. That's not what he's said before. He either thinks Beus died in Iraq or he's lying about it.

But you knew that.

[Shirley]

Speaking of things I "knew"...

There was no formal training in med school about how to go about these sorts of interactions with patient's families. I remember wondering why there wasn't as I got closer to being finished and it hadn't happened. And while Biden wasn't exactly breaking the news to the parents/family like I had to do, I'm sure it felt somewhere near the same.

I've always had the gift of gab. "You should have either been a litigator, or owned a bar. You can talk to anyone." I'm never at a loss for words. Talking is probably among the things I do best in life. I can't speak for Biden, but I know that during every one of these encounters I found myself grasping for something, anything to say. And I can still remember how it felt like my head was spinning after each and every one.

That was only one of three family's Biden had to contact.


Personally, I'd be loath to judge someone under such circumstances.

[Sparko]

you all are missing the biggest piece

this shit is global…it’s a global cabal. Swift’s effect on the global economy is all manufactured. i’m sure if you were able to find vinyls of her albums, and then track down the retro record players to play them backwards, the truth would reveal itself

Are you sitting down?

Ok. I'll let you in on THE TRUTH.

If you go to a store, and you grab a Taylor Swift album, and take it to the register, they will scan with a red laser a super secret black and white symbol on the back of the package. The clerk - he might look like a $12/hour high school kid, but really he's part of the MACHINE - will then be given a special code number via secure electronic transmission (although it will appear to sheeple like you that this is just a popup on a $79 computer monitor).

The clerk-agent will then say the special code number out loud, and you can authenticate it against the number displayed to you (probably in dot-matrix green-on-black).

And it is here you may act.

Quickly, before anyone catches on, you may give the clerk-agent United States currency in at least the amount of the special code number. (You can also use electronic or digital payment tools, but that is highly insecure and involves a whole other thing pertaining to the Knights of Columbus or the Knights Templar or Boogie Nights, who knows, best not to find out).

Anyway, I got distracted.

Once the agent-clerk confirms receipt of your contribution, you - yes, YOU - will be permitted to leave the store with the album. You can listen to it, at your leisure. You may even give it or lend it to someone else, or forget it exists entirely. Perhaps it becomes a frisbee or a clay pigeon, who knows.

It does not matter what you do with the album, because your role in the subterfuge has ended. You are but a cog in the wheel.

For you see, completely blind to you, Taylor Swift and many many many other co-conspirators (including, for his small part, our agent-clerk friend!) entered into complex, shadowy arrangements - no, you may not see them - that set forth precisely how the funds you handed over would be divided among the cabal. You might THINK you acquired a country-folk-pop record album for your personal enjoyment, but what you REALLY did is further enrich the ruling class. You bought Taylor Swift four (4) grains of sand for her ninth (9th) private beach. On which she has sex with Travis Kelce, while Roger Goodell holds guns to their heads for some reason.

The truth is all right there in front of you. Finding it merely requires doing your own research - or having a savvy guide like me.

this made me miss going to record, tape and cd stores and actually buying an album and listening all the way thru, hearing songs never on the radio, hidden tracks, getting the flow ofnthe album from ens to end, instead of everything being made for streaming.

R.I.P. Kiefs

[DCHawk1]

Personally, I'd be loath to judge someone under such circumstances.

And if those were the only circumstances under which he's made that claim, I wouldn't give it a second thought.

[Shirley]

It was estimated that the number of new jobs created in January would be ~ 200,000.
Instead, Biden's economy added 353,000 jobs in January, and the number of jobs created in both Nov and Dec were revised up. In addition, wages have grown faster than inflation by > 1.0% over the last year. And, not only that, productivity is increasing. Increasing productivity in the economy is HUGE*:

Economist Dean Baker: "In spite of the blowout job numbers, the index of aggregate hours FELL by 0.3 percent in January -- consistent with a strong productivity growth story."

(Anyone want fries with that?)

Thanks, President Biden!

From twitter:

Wages are going up. And both Dec and Nov job numbers got revised up. Job market is hot.

Hourly wages came in at 4.5% vs 4.1% expected.

353K JOBS VS <200K EXPECTED
MASSIVE BEAT AGAIN
UNEMPLOYMENT HOLDS AT 3.7%
DECEMBER & NOVEMBER NUMBERS REVISED UP
THE AMERICAN LABOR MARKET ROLLS INTO 2024 KICKING BUTT AND TAKING NAMES



*Productivity is a measure of efficiency. It measures how well a person completes a task or how well participants in the economy change inputs to outputs. For instance, it measures how efficiently people execute a task using their physical labor or how well a business can use its resources to move products from the production line to the market.

The level of productivity is the most fundamental factor that determines the standard of living. Raising it allows people to get what they want faster or more in the same amount of time. Supply rises with productivity, which decreases real prices and increases real wages.

...An increase in physical productivity causes a corresponding increase in the value of labor, which raises wages. That is why employers look for education and on-the-job training. Knowledge and experience increase the human capital of the workers and make them more productive.

[...]

[twocoach]

Headed the right direction, I'll take it.

[Sparko]

Because the labor market is heating up at a time boomers will retire or vaccinationlessly die off, immigration to the U.S. is a net positive that Russia and China lack.

[zsn]

Not to underestimate the value stimulus induced by Keynesian economics of Trump injecting $$$$ through his lawyers (the ones he actually pays) and fines ($88.3M and counting).

[Shirley]