The Ministry of Truth thread

#601
#601
Grand Vol said:
It's hilarious that this thread was specifically dedicated to something that has happened under Biden and Democrats and Republicans alike consider it to be a really bad idea (most of them), yet somehow it turned into a "But Trump!" thread.

It's been 15 months since he was in office. You'd think some of you would have moved on by now.
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They don't have anything else. There are no accomplishments by this circus they installed. They're angry. And they should be. They got suckered. If I were that gullible is be angry too.
 
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VolinWayne said:
Biden’s Disinformation Chief: Parents Concerned About Critical Race Theory Are ‘Disinformers’ Nina Jankowicz: Republicans Exposing Critical Race Theory Are 'Disinformers'

The Biden administration’s new disinformation chief says that parents who are upset about critical race theory (CRT) making its way into public school classrooms are “disinformers” who “weaponize” the issue “for profit.”
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“Critical race theory has become one of those hot-button issues that the Republicans and other disinformers, who are engaged in disinformation for profit, frankly, … have seized on,” she said in a video of the event that has recently regained attention.
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- Mary Poppins
 
#603
#603
SpaceCoastVol said:
When you call people names, you lose the argument. 'Boot lickers', invalidates any point you might have had.
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I've won a lot of arguments on here then... including some with you. LOL.

... and boot-licker is a pejorative term for sycophants. It's not like calling someone an all-purpose insulting name, such as moron or libtard, irrelevant to the discussion.
 
#605
#605
BowlBrother85 said:
I've won a lot of arguments on here then... including some with you. LOL.

... and boot-licker is a pejorative term for sycophants. It's not like calling someone an all-purpose insulting name, such as moron or libtard, irrelevant to the discussion.
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Whatever helps you sleep Chief
 
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#607
#607
BowlBrother85 said:
I didn't say anything stupid.

Oil doesn't drive the price of every single good in the U.S market. That is what I said, and it is accurate. You deliberately misrepresented what I had said.
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OK. What isn't affected by the price of oil? And why/how is it not impacted?

Edit: Crap, Hutch, the very next post and you had to ask the same question.
 
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#608
Orangeslice13 said:
Traditional conservative values and Republicans don’t line up in any way.
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Yeah, and that's the only thing keeping it from being a 100% dem show. Nobody can win on a pure conservative platform when bribing voters is a national agenda. Conservatism went away long ago when the first guy put out handouts for votes. It was gone at least by the time FDR left office and maybe before. The loss of fiscal conservatism is simply a republic's institutional manifestation of the treasury implosion theory by Alexander Fraser Tytler - the parallel to when the people in a democracy get their hands in the treasury.
 
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#609
AM64 said:
OK. What isn't affected by the price of oil? And why/how is it not impacted?

Edit: Crap, Hutch, the very next post and you had to ask the same question.
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I assume that you do realize that some consumer goods and services are fixed-price, correct?

Fixed Price : a price set for a good or service that is not subject to bargaining. The price may be fixed because the seller has set it, or because the price is regulated by the authorities under price controls.

This is Econ 101... I guess you took Home Ec. instead?
 
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#610
BowlBrother85 said:
I assume that you do realize that some consumer goods and services are fixed-price, correct?

Fixed Price : a price set for a good or service that is not subject to bargaining. The price may be fixed because the seller has set it, or because the price is regulated by the authorities under price controls.

This is Econ 101... I guess you took Home Ec. instead?
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Ok, I have to know what goods or services are fixed price?
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I assume that you do realize that some consumer goods and services are fixed-price, correct?

Fixed Price : a price set for a good or service that is not subject to bargaining. The price may be fixed because the seller has set it, or because the price is regulated by the authorities under price controls.

This is Econ 101... I guess you took Home Ec. instead?
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Can you give an example of one such item?
 
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#616
BowlBrother85 said:
Insulin.
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Yep that is one now that the .gov has mandated it. Not due to any market forces.

I will feel sorry for the diabetics when insulin is in short supply. Which is what is going to happen with the price fix placed on it.

Edit: I looked it up, the cap on insulin cost hasn't passed the senate yet so BB was wrong. Also the legislation isn't a cap on what can be charged, it is a cap on the co-pay amount. Insurers would only be able to charge a $35 co-pay or 25% of the cost of the negotiated price for a 30 day supply. So in other words insulin prices would still fluctuate with the market and the taxpayers and insurance policy holders get stuck with the bill.
 
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#618
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Insulin
 
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#621
hog88 said:
Ok, I have to know what goods or services are fixed price?
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If you’ve bought in advance and with a loan, you have a fixed price while the value of the dollar is being eroded. This is about the only benefit I see during inflation. If you’re highly leveraged, you can come out smelling like roses. There may be some others, but this one is the most obvious.

You don’t have to be an economist to figure out any goods or services that cannot adjust their prices when their costs go up probably won’t be in business much longer. Unless they are propped up by the government.
 
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AM64 said:
When shippers charge a fuel surtax on all products, do you think there are exemptions? The customer may only see the copay, but as Hog says somebody will pay increased costs because manufacturing and transportation will be affected by fuel price increases.
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Aren't we talking about what the consumer pays? It's what I was talking about, anyway..
 
#624
#624
DC_Vol said:
Like gas? Or food? Or rent? Or clothing?
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LOL. You guys seem oddly desperate for a win here. I don't really care about this. There is a pathetic element to this.... however, fixed price contracts do exist. Not every good traded in the US market has variable pricing tied to the price of oil. That is a fact.
 
#625
#625
BowlBrother85 said:
LOL. You guys seem oddly desperate for a win here. I don't really care about this. There is a pathetic element to this.... however, fixed price contracts do exist. Not every good traded in the US market has variable pricing tied to the price of oil. That is a fact.
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So.... you have a couple of examples then....

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