US economy growth slows to 2% – the worst of the year – thanks to supply chain disasters and rising inflation

Hampered by rising COVID-19 cases and persistent supply shortages, the U.S. economy slowed to a 2% annual rate in the July-September period, the weakest quarterly growth since the recovery from the pandemic recession began last year.

Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department estimated that the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) – its total output of goods and services – declined sharply from the 6%-plus annual growth rates of each of the previous two quarters.

At the same time, though, rising prices, especially for gasoline, food, rent and other staples, are imposing a burden on American consumers and eroding the benefits of higher wages. Inflation has emerged as a threat to the economic recovery and a key concern for the Federal Reserve as it prepares to start withdrawing the emergency aid it provided to the economy after the recession struck last year.

Thursday´s report from the government, the first of three estimates of last quarter´s GDP, showed that consumer spending slowed to an annual growth rate of just 1.6% from July through September, after a robust 12% annual rate in the second quarter.

The government´s estimate Thursday of a 2% annual increase in GDP last quarter was even lower than economists´ forecasts for a significant slowdown in growth. The effects of the delta variant in keeping some people away from restaurants, retail shops and entertainment venues was seen as a drag on growth.

In September, America´s employers added just 194,000 jobs, a second straight sluggish monthly gain and evidence that the pandemic was keeping its grip on the economy, with many companies struggling to fill millions of open jobs.

Obama has 2.2% growth and was praised for it.

The “most popular President ever with 81 million votes” dipped below that with higher inflation.

Gone is the Bill Clinton “it’s the economy, stupid” principle.  The Democrats are all about meager growth and inflation.

And it’s still only the first year of Biden’s first term.  It’s only going to get worse from here.

Kentucky high school is investigated after students appear to give teachers and the principal LAP DANCES during homecoming week festivities

Photos that appear to show students giving teachers and the principal – who is also the mayor of their town – lap dances during a homecoming week ‘man pageant’ have shocked a Kentucky town.

The photos appear to include cheerleaders dressed in Hooters waitress uniforms and carrying what appeared to look like alcohol, as well that purports to show a male student giving school principal Donald ‘Happy’ Mobelini – also the mayor of Hazard – a lap dance. There were allegedly also ‘paddlings’ given out.

That’s enough, I don’t need to read anymore and I’m not posting pictures.

They are in the article if you are curious.

The evidence is clear.

We can skip the trial and go straight to chippering the teachers, principal, and school board.

These city employees think Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine mandate is pure garbage — and they should know!

Sanitation workers outraged over the order to get inoculated against COVID-19 are letting trash pile up across Staten Island and in parts of Brooklyn — and the head of their union said Wednesday that he’s on their side.

The protesting workers are engaging in a rule-book slowdown that includes returning to their garages for things like gloves or gas so collections don’t get finished, sources said.

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A neighbor who identified herself as Julie added, “What the city is doing is unfair.”
“I am coming from Russian federation and this is deja vu,” she said.
“People should not be forced by state to take medicine, because state says, ‘Do this or starve!’ They should be free. That is why I came here 20 years ago.”

Trash is piling up in NYC and sanitation workers blame de Blasio’s vaccine mandate

And while they are about to fire people left and right in states belonging to the COVIDreich, Florida is singing a different tune:

Gov. Ron DeSantis hopes to sign legislation offering $5,000 bonuses to out-of-state police who move to Florida:

“NYPD, Minneapolis, Seattle, if you’re not being treated well, we’ll treat you better here, you can fill important needs for us and we’ll compensate you as a result.” pic.twitter.com/Y7c7ZhA3ma

— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) October 24, 2021

I still believe he won’t run for President just yet, but then again another year of Pederast In Chief may drive the country deeper in economic and societal disarray to the point he may have to step up to the plate.

I call her Walking Meth Mom because she is usually accompanied by a younger female. You can see her ranting to herself as she walks down the road going to the local gas station for smokes and whatever other things she may want.

I love our location in the semi-boonies, but she is a reminder that drug addiction reaches everywhere and anybody and there is no such thing as a 100% safe place. She has not attempted anything, nor her companion or anybody else living in her domicile, but I ain’t leaving anything to chance: Doors are locked, nothing that can lead to temptation is left visible and our place is rigged with cameras.

I am relaxed, but I have not gone to stupid Condition White nor I believe I can anymore.

PS: Neighbors across the street are friendly, so that is an extra bonus. And shooting noises have come from the general direction of their backyards so I breathe even easier if just a small bit.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) — A Murfreesboro pastor and his family are at the center of a shocking machete assault in a grocery store parking lot.

Murfreesboro Police say it happened at the Kroger on S. Church Street. Sunday afternoon, Pastor Jerry Weeden, his wife and their two grandchildren went grocery shopping. As they pulled into a parking spot, there was a shopping cart blocking the way.
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Rev. Weeden pastors Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church in Murfreesboro. He says the suspect quickly became angry as the two had a verbal exchange.

“He got irate,” said Rev. Weeden. “One word led to another and then he proceeds to get out of his car with a machete.”

The interaction continued to get heated. At one point, the suspect pulled out a second, larger machete and even threatened to hit Weeden’s wife, Denise, with his car.

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/i-asked-him-why-was-he-so-angry-murfreesboro-couple-describes-machete-assault-in-kroger-parking-lot/

“Why Miguel you sound like you are afraid of machetes!”

Oh hell yes I am. I have seen twice what they can do and seen the cuts up and personal at a local ER in Caracas. Machetes do not leave nice small cuts, but effing hideous long and deep lacerations. And they have enough mass to cut/crack your skull with much effort.

You have two choices when somebody waves a machete in anger at you: run like hell or be ready to stop him. The Tueller drill for machete is measures in zip codes.

Biden hopes fines on lingering cargo ships ease congestion at major U.S. ports

The Biden administration is hopeful new fines imposed on carriers at the nation’s busiest port complex will abate the intensifying logjam of cargo ships.

The twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced Monday that containers moved by trucks will have nine days before fines start accruing and containers scheduled to move by rail will have three days.

In accordance with these deadlines, carriers will be charged $100 for each lingering container per day starting Nov. 1.

But the problem isn’t the ship’s, it’s the lack of trucks, truckers, yard space to store empty containers, dock space for full containers being offloaded, etc.  The bottleneck is on land but the ships will pay the fine.

This is a restaurant charging you more because the kitchen is slow.

You know that will happen?

Ships will leave and find other ports or just stop coming to the US.

This isn’t a fix, this is compounding a disaster.

Honestly, I want Governors DeSantis and Abbott to send people to Panama to help support canal operations and open the Ports of Miami and Houston to Pacific traffic.

It would take less time to navigate through the Panama canal to Miami than to wait for an open spot in California.

That’s what a leader would do.

Biden is just going to fuck it up.

What is in a Twix?

Chocolate.

Caramel.

Cookie.

Twix are among the kings of Halloween candy, right there next to Snickers and Resee’s peanut butter cups.

They pretty much sell themselves.

So what the fuck is the point of this?

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1453225912015724549

We see no parents.

Just a goth witch and a boy in a dress.

The witch possibility murders another child for pointing out the obvious, boys shouldn’t wear dresses.

For years the media pushed the bullshit story that sick people were putting poison in Halloween candy.

Turns out in 2021 that’s true.  It’s the candy companies and their ad agencies, and the poison is obscene gender ideology.

Knock it the fuck off and just sell me chocolate without the trans-activism.