Calling them buffoons is an insult to buffoons.

In case you missed it, since Q2 GDP numbers are coming out this week, last Thursday the white house decided they would release their own definition of what is considered a recession, don't believe your lying eyes folks.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea...y-is-in-a-recession/

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How Do Economists Determine Whether the Economy Is in a Recession?
JULY 21, 2022
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What is a recession? While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business cycle. Instead, both official determinations of recessions and economists’ assessment of economic activity are based on a holistic look at the data—including the labor market, consumer and business spending, industrial production, and incomes. Based on these data, it is unlikely that the decline in GDP in the first quarter of this year—even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter—indicates a recession.

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee—the official recession scorekeeper—defines a recession as “a significant decline in economic activity that is spread across the economy and that lasts more than a few months.” The variables the committee typically tracks include real personal income minus government transfers, employment, various forms of real consumer spending, and industrial production. Notably, there are no fixed rules or thresholds that trigger a determination of decline, although the committee does note that in recent decades, they have given more weight to real personal income less transfers and payroll employment.

Also, because the committee depends on government statistics that are reported at various lags, it cannot officially designate a recession until after it starts.[1] So how might the NBER committee assess the health of the economy?

More at link.

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Originally posted by sigalert:
Unbelievable. This can't be a mistake.

Physician, heal thyself

From 7/7

^ I saw that video Para, with Joey clapping before the cue…Jesus, that guy is gone. His wife should be horse whipped for allowing him to continue pretending and denying the obvious dementia

Yep, the Biden regime is desperate to try and tell us that we aren’t headed for recession.

Can you believe the absolute BALLS on these people to proudly boast they’ve “lowered” gas prices 50 cents when it was BIDEN who doubled the GD prices in the first place?

Hadn't seen the air clapping video before. Wow, just wow! That coupled with the clown above talking about Joey cleaning his plate is just beyond absurd. But at least there are no mean tweets....

The Biden administration wants to provide temporary identification cards to illegal immigrants who are awaiting final decisions on their cases, Axios reported.

Biden Admin Seeking ID Cards for Illegal Immigrants

What's the purpose?
Officials are considering a pilot program that would help immigrants access housing, health care, transportation and other benefits, two government sources told Axios.

The program also would encourage more frequent communication with law enforcement throughout the legal process, the sources added.

Oh, I see ...

The card will contain a photo, biographic identifiers, and "cutting-edge security features" to the mutual benefit of the government and noncitizens, Axios reported.

Oh! Now I get it.
Top men will be involved and another $10 million spent on a futzed program.

Can't wait for November.
In fact, wake me up after November 6th ...

--chris

FBI Sabotaged Hunter Biden Evidence To Derail Investigation: Whistleblowers

https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...gation-whistleblower

Several FBI whistleblowers say that the agency's probe into Hunter Biden was internally sabotaged during the 2020 election in order to derail the investigation, after agents wrongfully deemed verified evidence as "disinformation" to ignore.

According to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), agents investigating Hunter "opened an assessment which was used by an FBI headquarters team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease," adding that his office received "a significant number of protected communications from highly credible whistleblowers" regarding the investigation.

Grassley added that "verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation," according to the Washington Examiner.

FBI supervisory intelligence agent Brian Auten opened in August 2020 the assessment that was later used by the agency, according to the disclosures. One of the whistleblowers claimed the FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Washington field office, Timothy Thibault, shut down a line of inquiry into Hunter Biden in October 2020 despite some of the details being known to be true at the time.

A whistleblower also said Thibault “ordered closed” an “avenue of additional derogatory Hunter Biden reporting," according to Grassley, even though “all of the reporting was either verified or verifiable via criminal search warrants.” The senator said Thibault “ordered the matter closed without providing a valid reason as required” and that FBI officials “subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future,” according to the disclosures.

The whistleblowers say investigators from FBI headquarters were "in communication with FBI agents responsible for the Hunter Biden information targeted by Mr. Auten's assessment," and that their findings on whether the claims were in fact disinformation were placed "in a restricted access sub-file" in September 2020, according to Grassley, who added that the disclosures "appear to indicate that there was a scheme in place among certain FBI officials to undermine derogatory information connected to Hunter Biden by falsely suggesting it was disinformation."

Grassley summarized the new allegations in a Monday letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.

The Examiner notes that FBI agent Auten was involved in the Trump-Russia investigation, including interviewing Christopher Steele's primary source, Igor Danchenko.

According to Grassley, the "volume and consistency" of the allegations regarding the handling of the Hunter Biden probe "substantiate their credibility."

The assessment by Auten in August 2020 was opened the same month Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) received a briefing from the FBI “that purportedly related to our Biden investigation and a briefing for which the contents were later leaked in order to paint the investigation in a false light,” Grassley said. The senator said Senate Democrats asked for a briefing in July 2020 “from the very same FBI HQ team that discredited the derogatory Hunter Biden information.”

The FBI inquiry into Hunter Biden reportedly began as a tax investigation, then expanded into a scrutiny of potential money-laundering and foreign lobbying; the DOJ has declined to hand over investigative details. -Washington Examiner

Thibault, the FBI agent who allegedly quashed the Hunter probe, may have violated the Hatch act in 2020 after making posts on social media which were critical of then-president Donald Trump and former AG William Barr.

Also notable - Hunter had the numbers of several FBI agents in his iCloud contacts.

Joe Biden, top Democrats, and virtually the entire mainstream media dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop story as Russian disinformation when bombshell allegations from the New York Post emerged weeks before the 2020 election. In March 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report claiming that figures tied to Russian intelligence promoted "misleading or unsubstantiated allegations" about Joe Biden.

The numbers of leftist traitors that are willing to ignore the crimes of the Biden Crime Syndicate just so their party can retain power is both disgusting and disheartening.

Fucking clowns. God, these people embarrass me. This is what the world sees of us now:

White House economic adviser says U.S. better off than countries ‘facing famine’

They’ve got to be panicking about some sort of official recession announcement and its result on the midterms.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Fucking clowns. God, these people embarrass me. This is what the world sees of us now:

White House economic adviser says U.S. better off than countries ‘facing famine’

And the dipshits on the left will be parroting this tripe just like the “my Covid would have been more severe without the vaccine” nonsense. Leftist liberals are truly mentally ill.

And if America gets to the hunger part, the White House will then proclaim that Americans are better off than souls in Hell.

The WH has changed the definition of a recession - no longer two consecutive quarters of declines.

If you change the definition the recession doesn’t happen

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
The WH has changed the definition of a recession - no longer two consecutive quarters of declines.

If you change the definition the recession doesn’t happen

You can call 'fire' something else too, but people still know its bad. There is no escaping reality for the retard administration.

Saw a great point today about the WH trying to redefine what a recession is:

They changed the definition of a woman, they changed the definition of vaccine, they changed the definition of marriage. Why stop there? If you can control words you can control everything. Black is white, war is peace, poor is rich…. On and on.

The only problem with all that nonsense for Uncah Ho is that sooner or later even the donkeys will figure out that all this redefinition of words is horseshit - and it'll probably happen at the most embarrassing moment, when they're trying to defend the bullshit and discover its actually indefensible.