The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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karadekoolaid said:
I consider all politicians to be on a level somewhere below cockroaches and earthworms. However, if I were a Machiavellian Conservative, I´d say:
"Right! Let´s call for an election! We´ve got the Ukraine crisis, the world recession crisis, and the backlash from Covid and the Brexit thing. Put the opposition in. They can blame us for a year or so, then they`re on their own."
Thus, you would be considered "honest" and thinking of the nation, rather than your scrappy little political party. And then, if the (current) opposition did OK, fine. If they didn´t, you can blame them for 4 totally unrelated events that a political party would have had to face, regardless of their political leaning, and which did not depend on them. No-one predicted Brexit, Covid, Ukraine or the world recession.
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We are not in a recession, here. Inflation is high, but unemployment is good.

I just filled my sister's car with gasoline/petrol, and it was $3.15 a gallon (a gallon is 3.8 liters), so we are not getting hit like Europe is for energy.

With national elections a few weeks away, conservatives are calling the economy a train wreck, but it really isn't.

CD
 
I find that the media likes to exaggerate the general state of things. We have a war close to home, an energy crisis, soaring inflation, and yet the news say the same stuff they've been saying for the last 10 years. Life is terrible, prices are rising, houses are over priced, people are being driven out of the cities due to raising housing costs, salaries are low, etc etc. I don't watch the news but follow some news channels online, and the headlines have always been the same. And I'm not generally pessimistic about the state of the world, I do think we're in a troubled spot right now and I am worried, but I think the last few years have been remarkably good. They were peaceful, stable years. Young people complain about employment and house costs and etc but we all have cars (well I don't 😂) and iphones and we buy new clothes and we eat out every day, but in our parents generation it was commom for people to be hungry and start working at 12 to help the family or live in thw countryside in houses with no bathrooms and eating only one meal per day. Things are shifting, but we've had it much better than the previous generation.

I heard a social commenter talking about a statistics the other day, that there were 80 people murdered last year here in Portugal, yet there are news channels that cover homicides every day. That's how the media twists the news so theh can make people scared.
 
caseydog said:
We are not in a recession, here. Inflation is high, but unemployment is good.

I just filled my sister's car with gasoline/petrol, and it was $3.15 a gallon (a gallon is 3.8 liters), so we are not getting hit like Europe is for energy.

With national elections a few weeks away, conservatives are calling the economy a train wreck, but it really isn't.

CD
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Our gas prices are going way up again. Almost $4.00/gal.
 
It is a baseball frenzy in Houston right now. If the Houston Astros beat the NY Yankees today, they will go to the World Series... again. Everyone who works at the airport is wearing some kind of Astros shirt.

CD
 
kaneohegirlinaz said:
Funny, caseydog DH & I are just now discussing whether or not to go back to BWW to watch the Phillies V Padres ...
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The Astros spanked the Yankees today, but i forgot it is a best of seven series. The Astros are now up three games to zero on the Yanks. They need one more win today to go to the World Series.

CD
 
TastyReuben said:
Gas here (regular, lowest priced) is $3.78/gal.
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Prices here yesterday.....

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There is currently a government cap on Diesel.
 
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