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This makes me tear up, and not for happiness or joy.

For the record: libertarianism sucks.

OK, that's fine. Just so you know, it doesn't read like you're kidding until you explain it. But I understand now.

OK, so, for the record, you were the one that went off on oblong for his redhead wearing green comment, calling "bullshit" because ... well, I don't think anyone outside of you is clear on why, but which you did before anyone brought up the lesbian possibility.

Oh wait I get it! Jen Psaki looks like a minor child cartoon character who every thinks is a homosexual! So what does that makes Jen Psaki, amirite! Ahahahahahahahahahahaaaa! Good one?

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The filibuster won’t be eliminated until the Republicans are in the majority in the Senate with a rubber-stamp Republican president. I’m thinking 2025.

Because he cares about actual fairness, balance, and journalism.

pet peeve

History is lousy with examples of an entrenched minority ruling over a majority basically against their will. Just because it’s the 21st century doesn’t mean were beyond the possibility of that happening again. And the current minority here in America is methodically undertaking the process of entrenching themselves by using the system itself to destroy that very system. That’s the first chapter of the autocracy playbook.

Right. There are a few different ways to handle this and it's up to the business owner to make the call that's best for them. Point being, it's not always as simple as, "I'm being forced by the government to pay higher wages, and no way I'm cutting my own comp, so I'll just raise prices to cover the wages increase so my customers pay for the whole bump, which sucks for them but hey, everything will work out nice and neat for me". For many businesses, there's a good chance that they wouldn't be able to pass all, or even some, of the wages increase on to their customers, who may simply flee to cheaper competitors, or buy less, or quit the product altogether. In that case the business would have to absorb at least some of the loss by having only a nominal price increase, or maybe even no increase at all, in a bid to maintain sales volume. #CapitalistBlues

That’s one way. You could also lower prices in order to move product to try increase profit or cut losses through volume.

The 2020 election was the most secure election in American history. https://apnews.com/article/top-officials-elections-most-secure-66f9361084ccbc461e3bbf42861057a5

You're the one who specified milk and bread. I was just asking whether those are the only products you were talking about. Anyway, back to the question: when prices rise, people tend to buy less, or trade down to cheaper alternatives. This is also Economics 101. My question to you is, what happens to the company that raised the prices in the first place when people buy less or buy from someone else? How will they respond?

So we're talking only about milk and bread?

Thanks for the economics 101 lesson. I have a question: What about when employers pay higher wages, raise prices so they can pass it all on to the customers, and customers simply buy less, or stop buying period, because the new prices are too high? What happens then?

Which proves that Biden is dangerous to the entire world and not just 'Murica? 😛

Yep. Unilateral disarmament.

Biden’s not behind the rise in inflation and he’s not at fault for it, but I agree he’s gonna pay for it.

Dopesick on Hulu. It’s a 360 look at the beginning of the opioid addiction crisis from the standpoints of a doctor caught up in prescribing then using, the Sacklers who callously pushed the drug, the people who enabled the push, the DEA working to bring them down and hold them accountable, and the people caught up in the addiction. It sounds like a relentless downer, and it’s true there’s not much levity to balance it out, but there are a lot of strong performances that make it a compelling watch.

Kinda sorta related:

Never forget where this guy spent 4th of July a few years ago:

Of course he wasn’t, and isn’t. It was a joke: people like MTG calling Biden a communist when the Russian leader she reveres was himself a member of the communist party of the loudest communist nation. Get it?