Swing and a miss, strike one!
Part of learning to be a single Hot Man Meat object is remembering the art of asking out (or in) a female. Of course, that assumes the existence of datable females, a real challenge in a place where the dating pool is barely a puddle. Imagine my delight when I happened to meet one of the townsfolk who was bright, personable, widowed, and older than the half my age + 7 rule, albeit barely. I made it a point to run into her again, and asked her over for dinner. “That’s very nice of you, but I’m not interested.” She paused for a moment, then added, “Would you like my mother’s number?”
Birthdays today include a guy who wasn’t a sailor but was Navier than anyone else; SP’s spirit animal; an artist whose work should have been thrown away; a lion among men who was never short on lays; an exemplar of the creepy genius; the guy I have to blame for my old RX-7; an interesting pianist who somehow gave up credit to Milt Buckner; a failed MLB player who became the First Gentleman of Canada, sorta; the spirit animal of Cedric Bouchard; a woman who wanted you to jerk off but was difficult to jerk off to; a guy who truly led his best life; a guy who, when he sings Danny Boy, you’d better applaud or he’ll punch you out; The Spy Who Loved Me; a quarterback badly in need of an arm and vowels; and an asymmetrical woman whose job was easy as pie.
Let’s do Links.
So the big-name newspapers aren’t horrifically corrupt.
Hypersonic Guided Ceramic Frangible Projectiles are the latest thing in wedding destruction.
Way to lean into the stereotype, guys.
This is far too rational to ever be taken seriously.
Old Guy Music is a ’70s classic. Deal.
“and older than the half my age + 7 rule”
So not your type?
“older than the half my age + 7 rule, albeit barely.”
I’m starting to think your role as a windowless van driving internet pervert is all an act.
“You think that persona is funny. It’s not.” – SP
SP was a treasure, but strong disagree. There is nothing more horrific than child abuse, and the worst things in human experience are the first things that should be joked about.
For instance: What breaks when you give it to a toddler? Their pelvis.
*winces*
So did she.
I may have to go find something else to do before this turns into a dead baby joke thread. I’m not sure which ranks higher on the “so inappropriate folks have to laugh” scale given some I’ve heard over the years.
Not my thing — so y’all do y’all and all.
Are the jokes appropriate if the baby isn’t dead yet?
I take child molestation very seriously. It’s not something you toy with.
“Would you like my mother’s number?”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ded.
Right? It’s like a sit-com plot point.
Be ready the next time, OMWC — “Why, do you have Daddy issues and need me to be your stepfather?”
“Do you need your mother’s permission?”
OMWC gets laid or a slap with that one.
Sorry OMWC. That is funny though. Did it echo in your head foe a minute?
“fines for excessive methane leakage”
Brrrrrrrrrrt!!
Inflation Reduction Act may have little impact on inflation.
Duh. None of their shit works as advertised.
Advertisement is just to get the suckers to buy their product. The product doesn’t have to work as advertised.
No money back guarantee either
We should start lobbying for a “Make the Federal Reserve Permanent” and “Secure the future of the Intelligence Community” set of legislation….
There are many things they do to alleviate upward pressure on prices and yet not a single one gets through. Eventually you gotta assume it’s on purpose.
Don’t let a crisis go to waste.
I disagree, I think it will increase inflation- there is so much extra spending, and the people they’re trying to tax will just evade or raise their own prices.
Name them all.
They have no issue naming anyone and everyone they’re investigating.
This. I’m still disappointed nobody ever took action based on the fliers McVeigh would hand out at gun shows with Lon Horiuchi’s address.
I’m sure Stephen Hatfill and Bruce Ivins(were he still alive) would have a few words to say about it.
To say nothing of Richard Jewell.
Randy Weaver just died not too long ago. Made me sad.
“Breitbart Slammed for Doxxing FBI Agents Involved in Mar-a-Lago Raid”
Fuck ‘em: participate in political witch hunt bullshit and enjoy the consequences. The degree to which the left has embraced the national security and law enforcement state over the past six years is just astounding.
Speaking truth to power got boring. Just become the power and you can speak all you want.
Apparently so much so that SP’s party was held during said spirit animal’s/SW OH heroine’s annual festival. Which means we’ve all missed it, doggone it!
Don’t forget Greenville also claims Lowell Thomas.
You can find the archives in exciting Poughkeepsie.
I’m trying to imagine you trying to get excited about Jocelyn Elders.
It’s not pretty and I think I’ll stop now.
Oof. Uncalled for tbh.
The dating world is merciless.
Stories like that combined with terrible shyness have spared me a lot of grief by not trying, but also cost me a lot of regret for not trying.
Serious answer: if you understand that it’s a numbers game and you don’t take it personally, it’s no big deal. It’s not terribly different than doing sales, as callous as that sounds.
I understand it intellectually, I just can’t ever seem to make it stick in my gut, where my fucked up fight or flight response lives. Also not that strongly motivated. I’ve been a loner since I have living memories. With my immediate family now all gone now that could change though, I suppose.
Yeah, internalizing it is damn hard. For some people it comes easier than for others.
It’s not terribly different than doing sales, as callous as that sounds.
Eventually you realize nobody’s buying.
Or golf, swing away till you get it in the hole.
XD
Seems to be a particularly crass morning today..
Indeed. As a creature of delicate sensibilities, I have now completely lost all capacity to even. ::places back of hand to forehead, swoons::
It only takes one
I honestly have no idea how I got lucky enough to get my wife interested in me in the first place and can’t imagine trying again if (God forbid) it became an issue.
Finally I have a retort.
“Oh.. Oh I’m sorry I thought you were my age.”
If this is what NPR is pouring into the heads of the hive mind, no wonder they can’t be helped. That set will never stop with the endless rounds of everything that has proven to accomplish exactly nothing.
Try hanging out in the vegetable aisle of the supermarket.
I thought that’s where all the faculty wives were just trying to pick up frat boys. He’d be harshing their vibe.
“vegetables are sensual. People are sensuous”
I prefer my women conscious and brain-active.
What’s the hardest part of a vegetable to eat? The wheelchair.
See?
/Cancels today’s picnic plans with local friends
Not a fan of Luks? I’ll take him over most modern stuff.
Still not up to the gold standard of Leroy Niemann though.
I like Luks’s work quite a bit. The joke was a reference to the label he used to describe his school of art.
I obviously haven’t finished my coffee.
I’m still trying to figure out what the Linux Unified Key Setup has to do with art.
Soni says, “If you are concerned about having an infection and you have symptoms, you should take two tests 48 hours apart. If you do not have symptoms, you should take three tests, one every 48 hours. That’s it.”
“Oh, please, let me be one of the Chosen Ones.”
So fucking stupid.
I’m not concerned, one way or another. Let those concerned be concerned, they’ll soon tell me (you). Covid is the new grandchild to brag about, of which you had no involvement in the origin.
Please be positive so I can have a COVID war story.
“Take one test every hour until you get a positive and immediately report it to the authorities.”
She paused for a moment, then added, “Would you like my mother’s number?”
Is her mom hot?
Tres Translation Bot:
“How many stone is she?”
FIFY
Will confirm that Kroger’s chocolate/chocolate chip muffins are slap.
Actually, the best place to hang out in the supermarket during the summer is the frozen food aisle. Some of them could put your eye out.
Some real glass cutters there?
I knew what it was before I clicked. Genius.
“Should have voted for Ron Paul”
“SHUT UP LARRY!”
🤣🤣
Hot buns one way or the other.
“My buns are hotter” is better than “My cucumber is bigger”?
“Do you have any daughters?”
How much for your women?
Once on a family vacation to Seattle, my dad booked our hotel from the then-novel worldwide web, and let’s just say the photos and website were not a perfect reflection of the reality of the location or quality of the hotel. There was this wino and his… companion of ambiguous gender hanging out near the parking lot accosting travelers. So when they get to us, my dad nonchalantly breaks into a perfect Belushi impression that until that precise moment had never been heard by the family before and asks him “How for the little girl? How much for your women?”
Legit ouch!
I have been perusing the cars for sale ads, lately. There seems to be a giant gaping hole in the market; there are hardly any ’80s or ’90s vehicles. I wonder why that is.
No I don’t. Fuck you, Obama.
The people who would normally be buying the 80s and 90s vehicles had to pay for the used cars from the 00s.
Fuck Obama indeed
Why aren’t you buying an EV? Why do you hate Gaia?
Constitution Class computer panels left off for OMWC.
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castle?
I should have got it in 1. Much more common than opening I went with.
I only know
onetwo six-letter chess words (just remembered bishop).tag fail 🙁
Chessle is opening moves, not words.
Each block is a move, not a letter. Try to get opening 3 moves (6 total, 3 white, 3 black). Answers are book openings, not just random moves.
I see.
I’m not that into chess. I can play, sometimes I even win, but I don’t know any of the formal names, nor can I point to a square based on the grid notation.
So I’ve lost that game before even starting.
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The Virginia IG released their report on this year’s snowpocalypse: 2022 I-95 Snow Incident of January 3-4 Performance Audit
The IG identified multiple problems.
People are just cogs in the machine. The road is what is important.
The whole idea of “dating” is horrifying. I have never been successful at it. Fortunately, I don’t mind being alone.
Now and then, I find myself in a situation where I can slowly over time (weeks, months) erode a woman’s defenses and insinuate myself into her consciousness. My charm may not be obvious, at first contact, but it grows on them. I am insidious.
My charm may not be obvious, at first contact, but it grows on them.
That’s not charm, it’s lichens.
If he’s really good it turns into lovens.
Also why Ive always been a fan of sluts. Slutty women seem to be the 1 group that’s ok with the idea of me sticking my dick in them .
I’m guessing the mother was half your age plus 4.
President Joe Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act. Its title raises a tantalizing question: Will the measure actually tame the price spikes that have inflicted hardships on American households?
The suspense is killing me.
If not they can redefine terms.
The top men have it all figured out:
If Powell really wants to bring inflation to as low as 2 per cent, it increasingly looks as though the Fed will have to destroy jobs.
It’s a comedy of errors.
https://www.ft.com/content/a28d7978-0916-42c6-9aa1-e7b7870d0684?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9
The Fed has said as much.
It was making me mad, and made it just so obvious the extent to which the Fed is run for the benefit of those who already have money and power. Everything was fine with them until wages started going up.
Price inflation in every other market is tolerable or even good (e.g. stocks) but the one thing that actually gives wealth to the lower -to-middle class? terrible.
They’ll destroy the 2nd and 3rd jobs people picked up to make ends meet and expand government jobs. The exact opposite of what needs doing. I get your and but don’t get “angry” at the mad dog for biting. It’s what he does.
“don’t get “angry” at the mad dog for biting. It’s what he does.”
Good advice, from the perspective that there is absolutely nothing I can do to end the fed. /stoic
I guess enough people have forgotten about the 1970s that we can pretend the Phillips curve is still valid.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Biden himself, in speaking of the legislation’s effect on inflation, has cautiously referred to potentially lower prices in individual categories rather than to lower inflation as a whole. This week, the president said the bill would “bring down the cost of prescription drugs, health insurance premiums and energy costs.”
Price controls are the cure for inflation. All respectable economists agree.
Just like the ACA on the first two.
Right?
Right?
Silicone Saturday providing motivation for OMWC’s companionship project.
https://archive.ph/D4ouR
“Inflation Reduction Act may have little impact on inflation”
If by “may have little impact” they mean “make it a lot worse” then they’re spot on.
Is it Trump’s goal to troll the left into posting thin blue line flags on their Twitter bios? That would be priceless.
Ds still hate non-federal police. They can’t be relied on to enforce party policies.
Ahem, Portland.
The attack on Salman Rushdie is an attack on us all
The poor bastard will probably die from the injuries, but even if he doesn’t, that’s a tough row to hoe at 75.
On the one hand, it’s immeasurably deplorable and cowardly. For those of us in the west, where even the most serious Christian fundamentalists could scarcely be called Christians by first century standards, it’s difficult to get your head around murdering someone over a book they wrote a decade before you were born. On the other hand, that kind of zealous brutality in the face of the west’s self-immolation will probably lead to Islamic dominance of world politics in the 22nd century. The only thing we have going for us that might head it off is that internecine violence is the only thing Islam likes better than conquest.
I’ll decide what is an attack on me. Thank you.
Meh, I considered nitpicking the headline too, but thought better of it. If you’re going to collectivize, collectivizing civilization in contrast to barbarism is as good as point as any.
It’s the same thing as “Attack on Trump is an attack on you!”
Nope. Convince me, don’t collectivize me. I’ll probably agree to help, but not by that tactic.
“The desire for clean, abundant and cheap energy for the global population
The desire to reduce vulnerability to extreme weather and climate events
Concerns about rising atmospheric concentrations on CO2 and its impact on the climate”
Considering that #2 has conclusively been shown to not have any basis on reality and the impact of #3 is extremely tenuous, I’d say #1 is the only goal that matters. Further, we have already realized the goal in #1 with nuclear power, we just refuse to use it. Dumbass human shit.
“”The man who was killed in a police shootout after attacking an FBI field office in Ohio was a Navy veteran who once had top-secret clearance, and had been under FBI investigation for months, according to new reports.
Ricky Walter Shiffer Jr, 42, died on Thursday after trying to breach the field office in Cincinnati with a nail gun and brandishing an AR-15-style rifle when police pursued and cornered him.
Shiffer’s posts on Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform suggest that he undertook the doomed attack in revenge for the FBI’s raid and search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence earlier this week.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11107933/FBI-office-gunman-Navy-veteran-whod-Bureaus-radar-months.html
Under investigation for months, motivated this week.
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It seems to me like Sienna Miller has had a 40 year old face since she was 20, despite her impressive physique.
Margot Robbie’s cheek bones should be bronzed.
A thoroughly dangerous man
The pro-Trump gunman who was shot dead by Ohio police Thursday after he attacked the FBI’s Cincinnati field office with a nail gun was a Navy veteran with top-secret clearance who served on submarines and apparently had a need for speed, records and sources revealed Friday.
“I have a lead foot,” Ricky Walter Shiffer told a Minnesota police officer after he was caught going 50 mph in a 30 mph zone in his red Ford Mustang, according to a speeding ticket obtained by NBC News in collaboration with The Fargo Forum newspaper.
That was in February 2004 and Shiffer was living in St. Cloud, Minnesota, according to the ticket — one of several he accumulated before and after he was discharged from the Navy in 2003.
In recent months, Shiffer had been living in Omaha, Nebraska, and was on the FBI’s radar after they learned he had been at the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
This is why we must purge our armed forces of those who do not love and trust their rightful government.
We need a federal traffic ticket registry so we can catch these people!
We need common sense nail-gun control.
Seriously though, this guy was ex-military, guessing he wasn’t exactly serious about causing damage with a nail gun of all things.,.
He also had that notorious weapon of war, the AR-15.
Swell. Now we’re going to be subjected to background checks at Lowe’s and Home Depot. 🙄
“…with a nail gun”
I bet the compressor was unwieldy.
Wear that little battery powered Ryobi one on your back.Then you would be an UNSTOPPABLE ANNOYANCE MACHINE.
He might have been using a .22 powered nail gun though, with the safety removed. Hmm….
Ask an expert
Barbara F. Walter, a political science professor at the University of California at San Diego who specializes in political violence, warned in an April op-ed for the New Republic that over the past six years “all of the warning signs for civil war have emerged in the United States, and they have emerged at a surprisingly fast rate.”
Walter, who has done extensive research on civil wars, expanded on this in an interview with The Washington Post last month. Like other scholars looking at these issues, Walter said the US isn’t heading toward a conflict akin to the fight between the North and South.
“When people think about civil war, they think about the first civil war. And in their mind, that’s what a second one would look like. And, of course, that’s not the case at all,” Walter told the Post. “What we’re heading toward is an insurgency, which is a form of a civil war. That is the 21st-century version of a civil war, especially in countries with powerful governments and powerful militaries, which is what the United States is.”
Walter went on to say that an insurgency is “more decentralized” and tends to be a fight between multiple groups. “They use unconventional tactics. They target infrastructure. They target civilians. They use domestic terror and guerrilla warfare. Hit-and-run raids and bombs,” she said.
Right-wing extremists have been known to look to “The Turner Diaries,” a novel that’s been referred to as the bible of the far right, for a blueprint on how to take down a powerful government like the US, Walter said. The book, which is revered by white nationalist groups, tells the fictional tale of a civil war against the US government.
No spiffy uniforms? No tanks? No besieged cities? What a gyp.
That sounds exactly like January 6th and nothing at all like setting a federal building on fire with people trapped inside or dragging an immigrant limo driver out of his vehicle, beating the shit out of him, and setting it on fire because your candidate lost an election.
I seem to recall a faction operating exactly like that openly for the past several years…
Antifa is just an idea. Report to the reeducation camp. Big Brother Loves You.
Beschloss said in a social media post on Thursday that “if any kind of civil war faces Americans (may God forbid), it is unlikely to be two armies fighting over one paramount issue (slavery), as in 1861-1865, but sporadic, mounting bursts of violence against our federal government as it tries to enforce rule of law.”
“Those people aren’t patriots. They’re hooligans. Anarchists. Mutineers. Traitors. We must wipe them out.”
“Why do you make me hit you like that, baby?”
The Feds are going give rule-of-law a try? That would be something different.
Yeah, that’s rich.
Must censor harder
Posts on Truth Social in which users call for civil war and advocate for violence against the FBI remained online Friday, some of them days after they were originally posted, according to a search by NBC News.
Truth Social, the Twitter-like social media platform backed by former President Donald Trump’s media and technology company, was thrust into the national spotlight Thursday after it was found that Ricky Shiffer, the man who attempted to break into an Ohio FBI building with a nail gun while armed with a rifle, had posted violent threats against the FBI on the platform.
Shiffer’s profile was no longer publicly available as of Thursday night, but posts from other users that contained similar vitriol were still visible Friday.
A preview of a Musk-owned Twatter? An unrestricted reign of domestic terror.
Posts on Truth Social in which users call for civil war and advocate for violence against the FBI remained online Friday, some of them days after they were originally posted, according to a search by NBC News.
Now do Antifa.
Vitriol directed at the FBI from Trump supporters has continued to percolate, with Truth Social offering fertile ground. As of Friday afternoon, four of the top eight hashtags displayed on Truth Social were critical of the FBI, including #EndTheFBI, #DefundTheFBI and #FBIcorruption.
Oh
my
GOD!
“Vitriol directed at” proves that words are hate.
Vitriol (oil of) = sulfuric acid, so evidently English has been metaphorizing (?) the term for some time.
The irony here is lost on progressives. When those hashtags were #EndMinneapolisPD #DefundThePolice and #MinneapolisPDCorruption, the media was glorifying the bravery of progressive activists for standing up to the corrupt police. Now, that the “vitriol” is against their team’s federally sanctioned mob squad, NOW it’s hate speech that should be taken down.
How many people and police officers died during BLM riots again?
Truth Social’s lax moderation — its moderation FAQ says the app seeks to create a free speech haven in the social media sphere and encourages your unencumbered free expression — combined with its Trump-focused fan base have made it a hotbed for content that would typically be taken down on other platforms.
Huh. Not only does NBC acknowledge the suppression of the political speech of “right wing” citizens by liberal-run social media platforms, it encourages it.
We should make social media a government regulated public utility, and put a stop to wild west anything-goes incendiary political speech.
It’s not happening!
OK, it’s happening, but it’s not what you think!
It’s happening, and that’s a good thing! <– You are here
Imagine my delight when I happened to meet one of the townsfolk who was bright, personable, widowed, and older than the half my age + 7 rule, albeit barely. I made it a point to run into her again, and asked her over for dinner. “That’s very nice of you, but I’m not interested.” She paused for a moment, then added, “Would you like my mother’s number?”
Ouch. Sorry. But if the mom is interested, maybe you should consider that.
Schumer called the $4 million appropriation “great news for Allegany County” and one of the largest single investments by the federal government in Alfred University’s research work.
I’m surprised he knows where Allegany County is. It’s a bit far from New York City.
Economic analyses of the proposal suggest that the answer is likely no — not anytime soon, anyway.
That’s like saying water is wet.
Commentators soon took to Twitter to accuse Breitbart, an outlet previously managed by former Trump adviser Steve Bannon, of doxxing—the practice of identifying a person or releasing personal information about them, often with the aim of enabling targeted harassment. Some also accused Trump of leaking the warrant to Breitbart in hopes of targeting the agents.
They’re government employees who were doing their job. I don’t see how this is doxxing.
It’s particularly grating coming from the iF YOu hAvE NOtHinG tO HidE yOu hAVe noThINg To FeAr! brigade.
How do you expect our noble self-sacrificing public servants to defend freedom and democracy if they can’t do so in complete secrecy??
Leaking the warrant? How? Is it a state secret?
Interesting that accusation should come a week after concerted efforts to goad Trump into releasing it, and then Garland grandstanding that he was going to do so to “defend the FBI”.
Every warrent should be a matter of public record, available for anyone to view unredacted.
Especially if it’s supposedly regarding national security.
he attacked the FBI’s Cincinnati field office with a nail gun
Was he trying to nail the door shut, so they couldn’t go out and do their dirty deeds?
It’s a good thing Martin Luther only had old fashioned hand tools at Wittenberg
(I know the story’s apocryphal, inevitable pedant)
Is it really even possible to attack someone with a nail gun? Seems like an odd detail.
Not when the damn phone keeps ringing
Bravo. That also shows the effective distance. Air or .22, the nail will quickly tumble and slow down to be an annoyance after ten yards.
Old Guy Music is good.
Good morning, Old Man!
Ouch – that’s gonna leave a mark. The half-my-age-plus-seven threshold is still too young. 34.5 sounds fun to look at, but not so fun to be around.
Old Guy Music is a ’70s classic. Deal.
Love it.
Did she show you a pic of Mom, or social-media profile?
Sounds like a particular movie plot that escapes me (no, not The Graduate).
Its an odd art piece, but perhaps you’re thinking of the classic “I want to cum inside your mom” ?
*Yeah, NSFW
That was an Ingmar Bergman, right?
Mmm… No, I don’t think so.
It’s awkward at first but everyone lives happily ever after, I remember that much.
Something’s Gotta Give, maybe?
Never saw that one. If it’s important it will come back to me.
You didn’t miss anything, although the plot fits to a T.
Throw Momma from the Train?
The night was humid…
Mom is probably in sixties, which can be quite the GMILF age. They don’t swell, they don’t tell, and they are grateful as hell.
As a woman, I go with the “twice my age minus 40” formula.
/furiously does the math and finds he’s too old
So is it over or under that qualifies?
*crosses fingers*
29 x 2 – 40 = 18
At my age (and with my other…qualities,) were it an issue for me, I think I’d eschew all age restrictions above “legal consent.” (Standards wouldn’t quite be down to “has pulse, will have me” level, but I hope I don’t have to find out…)
*this only applies to my current age. Next year I’ll have to come up with a new formula
Your early 20s must have been… interesting.
Meant as a reply to KK.
I didn’t expect to walk as far as I did. I stepped out the door with a mind of “I’ll just walk to the river.” When I reached the river I went “I don’t like this view, I’ll try the other side of the island” there it was “Maybe the corner of the main street” Which I turned down without a though, with a vague idea of sitting on a bench in a park further down the river. I didn’t even stop there and just kept walking.
No, I don’t know how far I walked.
You and Forest Gump.
“Inflation act wordplay
It took less than a day for the political Left and most of the media to forget the name of the Inflation Reduction Act. That is, after pushing said act for weeks and after it was rebranded as a shell of Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
There were no main headlines jumping off the front page of D.C. and New York newspapers about a historic bill to address the No. 1 current concern of the public, which is inflation. There were, however, several media outlets running with the bill’s pet spending issues right up until its passage. These were issues that the Democratic Party tried to minimize or ignore altogether.
NPR reported the legislative victory for Biden as “Democrats pull off climate, health and tax bill in weekend,” not realizing why the bill wasn’t titled the climate, health, and tax bill three months out from a midterm election. ABC News declared the passing of the “climate and tax bill.” CBS News ran with the same framing in a headline, stating, “Senate passes Democrats’ sweeping climate, health and tax bill, delivering a win for Biden.” CNN cribbed the same headline, calling it a “sweeping health care and climate bill.”
This sleight of hand gives the entire game away. It illustrates the legislation’s massive new spending at a moment of the highest inflation levels seen in 40 years. It’s about what the media and the Biden administration want people to focus on. The bill is not projected to reduce inflation. It’s also highly unlikely that this bill is going to save Democrats from a massive red wave in the November midterm elections.
However, by framing this as a climate and healthcare fix bill, Democrats gain at least some red meat to toss to a disenchanted base.
But look no further than the New York Times’s Paul Krugman to give things away. On Monday, Krugman pondered , “Did Democrats Just Save Civilization?” Never short on his taste for the theatrical, Krugman pontificated that this is “mainly a climate change bill with a side helping of health reform.” Apparently, Krugman thinks that the hiring of 80,000 new IRS agents to enforce audit laws are actually being sent out to install solar panels. It’s odd that a supposedly reputable and recognizable economist with Krugman’s platform isn’t actually cheering inflation reduction, the title of the bill, but rather praising unaffordable electric vehicle subsidies for the wealthy.
The reason for this rhetorical magic trick is that Democrats and their media allies know that this legislation will likely add to inflation shortly before an election. But simply changing the language of the bill and praising the things the media like isn’t going to fool anyone. At least not when they look inside their wallet!”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/inflation-act-wordplay
“How Democrats’ surprise climate and health care bill came together after months of setbacks and reversals”
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1558446670798635010
“Wait a second! I thought it was a bill to reduce inflation, you know, that issue more Americans are presently concerned with than all other issues.”
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/1558469075868827651
The local network news shows are still pushing “Inflation Reduction Act” and highlighting a 15% minimum tax on those dastardly corporations. I remember when they all used “Don’t Say Gay” act regarding Florida, even though that was fabricated. Is GOP too stupid to come up with a catchy phrase (“Throw Gasoline on Inflation Act”)? Probably yes. The last meme they had that caught on was Palin’s “Death Panels” name for Obamacare.