Recent Comments

1. 11 days ago on Grand Avenue

   I suspect you already know that “toilet”, “loo”, or almost any other term for the place where bodily waste is deposited is a euphemism or slang term.

   Toilet’s meaning is to groom / dress oneself. (Might as well call it "the place one goes to powder one’s nose”.)

   Loo is most likely from the French phrase “gardez l’eau,” which translates to “watch out for the water.”

   In English, there is no proper term for that place/device. The euphemism “Toilet” was merely pressed into service to function as a proper name for the device.

   I suspect there isn’t a language does not use slang or euphemism when referring to that subject.

2. 27 days ago on Dog Eat Doug

   It’s part of the “Staying Alive” lyrics:

   Whether you’re a brother or whether you’re a mother

   You’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive

   Feel the city breakin’ and everybody shakin’

   And we’re stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive

   Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive

   Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin’ alive

3. about 2 months ago on Prickly City

   The ‘insane’ inflation was, and is, world wide.

   Not something that America could do on it’s own.

   Much of which was due to the Covid-caused supply chain breakdown.

   Here in the States, Trump made it worse, because of the critical first few months after Covid reached our shores, Trump ignored it and trusted Xi_Jinping to deal with it over there.

   Here in the States, about 50% of the inflation was a corporate (many of which are multi-nationals) business decision to raise prices because of the belief that people wouldn’t notice because of everything else going on.

   While Biden’s policies may have somewhat exacerbated inflation here in America, it did so without causing a recession / depression in this country.

   Compared to the other “Western Nations”, we did far better.

   But that is looking at the past.

   Trump’s 2025 policies are guaranteed to Make Inflation Great Again!

4. about 2 months ago on Prickly City

   So… You would prefer Trump’s ‘Pro-inflation’ policies?

   (Repost)

   Trump’s proposed 2025 policies literally will Make Inflation Great Again.

   ~

   Step 1: Reduce the value of the U.S. dollar

   ✁

   Yet even if one supports Lighthizer’s priorities and proposals, an inescapable fact remains: A plan to devalue the dollar is — quite literally — a plan to make products more expensive for American consumers.

   .

   Step 2: Apply a 10 percent tariff on all foreign imports

   ✁ ✁ In practice, this would almost certainly mean that US consumers would pay roughly 10 percent more on all the foreign-made cars, electronics, toys, and other goods that they purchase.

   .

   Step 3: Enact massive, deficit-financed tax cuts

   If you increase Americans’ post-tax incomes by hundreds of billions of dollars, they will suddenly be able to dramatically boost their purchases of goods and services.

   If the economy’s capacity to produce goods and services does not increase at the same pace, then demand will outrun supply and consumers will bid up prices.

   .

   Step 4: Shrink the American labor force

   As scholars at the Brookings Institution noted last fall, the upsurge in immigration since the pandemic is one major reason why the US managed to bring inflation down without suffering a recession: Foreign-born workers increased the economy’s productive capacity, helping supply to catch up with rising consumer demand.

   Conversely, if America abruptly deported all undocumented workers, labor shortages would devastate myriad industries, from housing to agriculture to the care economy, and prices would soar.

   ~

   Trump’s team keeps promising to increase inflation

   Vox

5. 2 months ago on Prickly City

   Trump’s proposed 2025 policies literally will Make Inflation Great Again.

   And the President does not need Congressional approval for tariffs.

   ~

   Step 1: Reduce the value of the U.S. dollar

   ✁

   Yet even if one supports Lighthizer’s priorities and proposals, an inescapable fact remains: A plan to devalue the dollar is — quite literally — a plan to make products more expensive for American consumers.

   .

   Step 2: Apply a 10 percent tariff on all foreign imports

   ✁ In practice, this would almost certainly mean that US consumers would pay roughly 10 percent more on all the foreign-made cars, electronics, toys, and other goods that they purchase.

   .

   Step 3: Enact massive, deficit-financed tax cuts

   If you increase Americans’ post-tax incomes by hundreds of billions of dollars, they will suddenly be able to dramatically boost their purchases of goods and services.

   If the economy’s capacity to produce goods and services does not increase at the same pace, then demand will outrun supply and consumers will bid up prices.

   .

   Step 4: Shrink the American labor force

   As scholars at the Brookings Institution noted last fall, the upsurge in immigration since the pandemic is one major reason why the US managed to bring inflation down without suffering a recession: Foreign-born workers increased the economy’s productive capacity, helping supply to catch up with rising consumer demand.

   Conversely, if America abruptly deported all undocumented workers, labor shortages would devastate myriad industries, from housing to agriculture to the care economy, and prices would soar.

   ~

   Trump’s team keeps promising to increase inflation

   Vox

6. 2 months ago on Prickly City

   June 9, 2023:

   Within minutes of Trump’s indictment, supporters lit up social media platforms with violent threats and calls for civil war.

   In what is becoming a now all-too-familiar trend, former President Donald Trump’s far-right supporters have threatened civil war after news broke Thursday that the former president was indicted for allegedly taking classified documents from the White House without permission.

   ~

   ‘We Need to Start Killing’: Trump’s Far-Right Supporters Are Threatening Civil War

   Vice

7. 2 months ago on Reality Check

   Unrefined olive oil.

   (I refuse to speculate regarding Popeye’s girlfriend.)

8. 2 months ago on Prickly City

   “We” don’t pick the President, either. We vote for delegates from each State that later elect the President. It’s called the Electoral College.

   …And in a similar process, both the Democratic Party and Republican Party vote for Delegates that elect their respective choices as Presidential Nominees at their conventions.

   The Dems’ convention is scheduled in August.

9. 3 months ago on Barney & Clyde

   The “Royal We”. Also shown with the phrase: “L’ÉTAT, C’EST MOI”

10. 3 months ago on Prickly City

    Along that line. . .

    ~

    Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, the latest move from a GOP-dominated Legislature pushing a conservative agenda under a new governor.

    The legislation that Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed into law on Wednesday requires a poster-sized display of the Ten Commandments in “large, easily readable font” in all public classrooms, from kindergarten to state-funded universities.

    ~

    Louisiana becomes first state to require that Ten Commandments be displayed in public classrooms

    CBS News