Price Gauging

[jrt_ms1995]

This drives me wild. Okay, Carmella, it's not "price gauging", it's price gouging.

And then rather than correct it in future speeches/reports, they just keep saying it. Trying to make fetch happen. "I can call it 'gauging' if I want :hmpf: "

Like when they write "dinning" rather than "dining" or "lead" instead of "led"; language change by repeated mistake. In 5 years we'll all be gauging out our eyes to aboyd the cite of Lizzy on stauge in a b'kini!

 

[Kyle]

Like when they write "dinning" rather than "dining" or "lead" instead of "led"; language change by repeated mistake. In 5 years we'll all be gauging out our eyes to aboyd the cite of Lizzy on stauge in a b'kini!

Wait! That doesn't happen now?

 

[BOP]

But are they REALLY?

I still think EVERY vote for "not Trump" has always been about - NOT being Trump.

Who honest to God - LIKED HIllary?
Who could name ANYTHING - that Joe intended to actually accomplish and could say I'm voting for the guy who's gonna do this and this -?

Right now, they're feeling "joy" - because the Democratic Party was tweaking the machine to give them - OMG - Biden - again.
And they are SO DAMNED HAPPY -it's not the buffoon who falls down, craps his pants and has no idea what he's saying next.
They actually GET to vote for someone who isn't either an evil witch or a brain-dead cadaver.

Someone brought this up the other night on TV - it is ALWAYS in the best interest of media - to keep an election - close. As long as it is RIGHT DOWN TO THE WIRE - they have YOU, watching them, reading them, clued into them - because if it's a bona fide blowout, they don't matter.

AND - since they're lefties - they have to also make sure their guy wins. Yeah, close - but their guy wins. So, the relationship with Kamala.

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I really don't think the public is stupid enough to NOT NOTICE she's been in charge of all the failed stuff from Biden's administration - she doesn't get to say hey the border is messed up and I'm gonna fix it - and at the same time say, it's doing great. She doesn't get to say the economy is bad and people are suffering - AND that it's doing fine.

But I think they see Trump as rolling out some horrific version of Project 2025 or some such. They're saying he's going for a federal ban on abortion when he has clearly made his position as against that. They're lying their asses off - and the press is covering for them.

I wish I had a nickel for every pundit and member of Congress or Biden's administration criticizing Trump for something on Project 2025. It's not his, and evidently openly saying, not me, not my ideas just isn't enough.

Maybe the right should print Little Red Books and claim Kamala is a determined Communist - because you know - sauce for the goose.

I do think the public at large is stupid enough to buy what the left is selling, and why Politico did a freak-out over JD tying Kumbrella to the Biden-Harris regime. Administration. Whatever.

But you're right; she's not Trump. They could run the late, great Hank the cat, former senatorial candidate in Virginia a few years back (Hank came in 3rd, in a field of 3), and as long as he's not Trump, people will vote for him. Or her, as the case may be.

As I said this morning, women have historically not voted for a woman candidate for President.

Well, times have changed, and maybe that disinclination has changed as well.

But historically, women understand other women, and they don't like them, to paraphrase that font of wisdom, Al Bundy. They don't want an emotionally unstable woman with access to the nuclear football, or acting as not only the figurehead for the United States, but also potentially making or breaking treaties with friends and/or alllies.

 

[BOP]

:fixed:

Severe...selective...same-same, in their case.

 

[LightRoasted]

For your consideration ...

BTW, class, it's gouge or gouging, not "gauging"

 

[SamSpade]

Like when they write "dinning" rather than "dining" or "lead" instead of "led"; language change by repeated mistake. In 5 years we'll all be gauging out our eyes to aboyd the cite of Lizzy on stauge in a b'kini!

The past tense of lead (to lead someone, a verb) IS led - the metal which is a homophone, is lead - a noun.
(EDIT - I just realized I read that backward - you were correcting the misuse of "lead" as past tense of lead).
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Not sure where I saw this, but it was
- how do you rate Lizzo? Oh, she's a 10, definitely a 10!
Really? you remind me of her.
(Slap) I can't believe you said that.

The very definition of doublethink - the ability to rate Lizzo a 10 and still be greatly offended that a person you just declared a perfect beauty, you find it grossly offended to be compared to.
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I titled this thread gauging precisely for the same reason people shouted Let's Go Brandon - because the left can excuse repeatedly that which they clearly know otherwise - that it is price GOUGING and "gauging" doesn't even make sense.

I originally thought she simply misread the teleprompter. But when she repeated it, I realized, for a talking point she surely had rehearsed, - she's just seriously stupid.

 

[PrchJrkr]

The past tense of lead (to lead someone, a verb) IS led - the metal which is a homophone, is lead - a noun.
(EDIT - I just realized I read that backward - you were correcting the misuse of "lead" as past tense of lead).
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Not sure where I saw this, but it was
- how do you rate Lizzo? Oh, she's a 10, definitely a 10!
Really? you remind me of her.
(Slap) I can't believe you said that.

The very definition of doublethink - the ability to rate Lizzo a 10 and still be greatly offended that a person you just declared a perfect beauty, you find it grossly offended to be compared to.
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I titled this thread gauging precisely for the same reason people shouted Let's Go Brandon - because the left can excuse repeatedly that which they clearly know otherwise - that it is price GOUGING and "gauging" doesn't even make sense.

I originally thought she simply misread the teleprompter. But when she repeated it, I realized, for a talking point she surely had rehearsed, - she's just seriously stupid.

Yeah, that's who I want running the country, a DEI idiot. It truly amazes and saddens me that 1/2 the population of this great country are so stupid that they would vote for this ignorant opportunist to lead our nation. There simply is no reason to think she has the brain power to operate a can opener, much less run our nation's government.

 

[SamSpade]

Yeah, that's who I want running the country, a DEI idiot. It truly amazes and saddens me that 1/2 the population of this great country are so stupid that they would vote for this ignorant opportunist to lead our nation. There simply is no reason to think she has the brain power to operate a can opener, much less run our nation's government.

I keep looking back the election of Ronald Reagan. Ok, by any standard, he did beat the hell out of Carter.

But 41% of the nation - STILL WANTED MORE of Jimmy Carter. I cannot recall a worse time in our country, when we weren't even at war.
Gas lines, Iran, interest rates, gas PRICES, inflation, unemployment - and 35 MILLION PEOPLE picked him anyway.

EVEN IF the election this year is fair - there are still millions who buy the idea that Trump will destroy the country - that SOMEHOW, Kamala had nothing to do with the past four years. That people can actually say, with a straight face, Joe Biden was the best President this nation has EVER HAD, although unable to point to an accomplishment that merits that affirmation. My own daughter is convinced - from her friends - of pretty much every made up story about Trump, all from gleanings of Project 2025, which despite efforts to link him to it - he's gone on record repeatedly saying, he's not going to do that, and if you want to know what he WILL DO, go to his site and read his Agenda 47 (which even has one or two things that alarm ME).

To be honest though - I didn't vote for Reagan. In retrospect - he may be the best one, in my lifetime. And he did things I didn't like or respect, but he did amazing things as well. And he didn't hide from the public. And dammit, the bullet DIDN'T MISS HIM and he still survived it.