Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Come on, man.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

T R E 4 5 O N

No one could have predicted…

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Open Thread: Praise Our Economic Wins, And Beware of the GOP Talibandits

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TALIBANDITS!


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  5. 5.

    Sure Lurkalot

    During a longer than normal wait for curbside groceries, I was half listening to an NPR segment about inflation and higher wages. There was some chatter that while personal service industries are lagging, people are gobbling up durable goods with their income gains like there’s no tomorrow. Then, the conversation turned to record corporate profits and one commentator pointed out that many companies have raised prices simply because they can.

    I was shocked, I tells you. Never thought I’d hear that on NPR.

  6. 6.

    zhena gogolia

    Oops hubby usually pours my wine but he’s exercising so I did it myself. I seem to have overpoured a bit. How terrible ?

  9. 9.

    NorthLeft12

    There is a tweet from Media Matters that highlights the Fox News anticipation of a very poor jobs report. They could not contain their excitement at the potential bad news.
    Why do these people hate America so much?

    Yes, that was a rhetorical question.

  22. 22.

    gene108

    Edit: In response to Meadows talking about job growth during 2020.

    One of the biggest reasons there was any kind of recovery after the mass layoffs, when COVID spread in March 2020, is the Democratic controlled House got the CARES Act passed and signed into law before the end of March.

    Things were becoming so fucking terrible so fast, even a McConnell led Senate jumped on board to pass legislation that wasn’t just tax cuts for the rich.

    I wish someone – the print media, on the cable news networks, in academia, or other places like think tanks – would acknowledge how much House Democrats response differs from Congressional Republicans, when a Democratic President is faced with a challenge.

    House Democrats could’ve just treated the record unemployment as a PR battle, like Republicans treat everything, and let things go to pieces hoping blame goes to Republicans, who controlled  the Presidency and Senate.

    The fact most low information voters are not made aware of this is another in the long lists of failures of our elites to inform the public.

  23. 23.

    Roger Moore

    @debbie:

    The problem is that they’re trying to get something out as quickly as possible, and the speed often comes at the expense of accuracy.  It would be great if they could be accurate and fast, but it’s not happening.  The other problem is that the media is terrible about reporting on the revisions.  It’s the classic problem of the flawed report being on the front page and the correction buried somewhere nobody sees it.  They need to do something like roll the corrections in with the head-line number (“Combined with revisions to November and December, that means BLS is reporting X new jobs in this report”), or at least give them equal prominence with the headline number for this month.

  24. 24.

    Steeplejack

    The governor moves among his people. (Video.)

    While promoting his plan to eliminate grocery taxes, a customer strongly expressed disapproval over a maskless Youngkin.

    “Governor, where is your mask?”

    “We’re all making choices today.”

    “Yeah, look around you, governor, you’re in Alexandria. Read the room, buddy!”
    @wusa pic.twitter.com/zNkgFXppVs

    — Matthew Torres (@News_MTorres) February 3, 2022

  27. 27.

    debbie

    @cain:

    I think part of that is because it’s winter.

    I know my grocery bills have increased. Except milk, that’s still $1.59 for a half-gallon.

  30. 30.

    Pennsylvanian

    @cain: me too. I usually just get what I want at the grocery store because we are very fortunate, and food and beverage have been our main refuge during the pandemic. But the totals at the register are noticeably higher even for low awareness consumers on price increases.

    Time to set up that recurring donation to the food bank. If one has four or fives mouths to feed it would definitely be putting a dent, especially since the child tax payments stopped.

  33. 33.

    Sure Lurkalot

    @Pennsylvanian: Same here…groceries and wine are my major outflows these days.

    I got $100 worth of groceries today and noticed a few items being more expensive…mostly meats. Still, overall, it was a lot of food…like 30 items.

  36. 36.

    stinger

    @zhena gogolia: Oops hubby usually pours my wine but he’s exercising so I did it myself. I seem to have overpoured a bit.

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: That’s awful! But you can’t waste it.

    @Baud: The only thing you can do now is drink it so you can try again with an empty glass.

    And be careful not to underpour, either. You’ve got to get it RIGHT.

    No matter how many bottles it takes.

  37. 37.

    Kay

    William E. Spriggs
    @WSpriggs
    10h
    A good sign for the labor market is that Black labor force participation (which is the most sensitive to actual firm hiring) has reversed its recent decline and bounced back to equal white labor force participation. #JobsReport
    @AFLCIO

  41. 41.

    senyordave

    If Starbucks finds that demand for their products is relatively inelastic, why shouldn’t they raise prices?  If this were milk producers I would care, but nobody has to have a vanilla latte.

  42. 42.

    SFAW

    @zhena gogolia:

    Oops hubby usually pours my wine but he’s exercising so I did it myself. I seem to have overpoured a bit.

    As long as you didn’t spill any, it’s all good.

  43. 43.

    SFAW

    Some years ago — maybe five, maybe more, not sure — profits for gasoline/petrol companies skyrocketed. Interestingly enough, the amount of driving didn’t have a commensurate rise. I wonder how that happened, is a puzzlement.

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