Category Archives: Economics for Dummies

Rocco Rossi forgets to include Madame Guillotine in his New Year’s toast

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Sabina Becker

Now really. What kind of unpardonable oversight is this? Not surprisingly, the Internet roasted him for it until he was forced to eat a little crow: The president of Ontario’s Chamber of Commerce, Rocco Rossi, has apologized for a New … Continue reading →

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Bernie battles Bezos…and WINS!

Posted on October 2, 2018 by Sabina Becker

This is fantastic news, but it should only be the first of many such victories. And it won’t happen unless everybody gets in on the fight for fair and living wages. Today Amazon; tomorrow, EVERYWHERE.

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How dumb is Donnie, really?

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Uh…pretty damn dumb, actually: I’m not sure how one goes about breeding tanning beds, much less inbreeding them. But I do know that when you get someone as dumb about money as Donnie is into power, you end up with … Continue reading →

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Fascist idiots burn shoes for nothing

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Sabina Becker

These people. Ye Gods. They are SO stupid. If it weren’t for all the privilege they’re soaking in (as Jeff Waldorf points out so neatly above), they’d literally die of their own idiocy. I mean, just LOOK at these clowns: … Continue reading →

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While global warming rages something fierce, hell freezes over

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Yes, that’s right, folks…the IMF has admitted it made a mistake! How often does THIS happen? The report by the IMF’s Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) goes above the head of the managing director, Christine Lagarde. It answers solely to the … Continue reading →

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Economics for Dummies: Why millennials aren’t buying houses or diamonds, in a nutshell

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Sabina Becker

When this is all too emblematic of the “good” jobs on offer, is it any wonder that they can’t pay their student loans back, either? (Special extra bonus points for spotting the extreme irony herein.)

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Quotable: Hunter S. Thompson on demagogues

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Hmmm, who does this remind YOU of?

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Todd Starnes, hypocritical turdpile

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Oh, you think I’m exaggerating? Listen to this and see for yourself: Yeah, that’s right…the sack of shit behind the FUX Snooze radio desk actually said that. Meanwhile, by way of contrast, here’s what he said about a much less … Continue reading →

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These fucking scumbags, though.

Posted on June 19, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Well, you know what they say about scum…it floats. And these slimeballs are the topmost layer on a very turbid pond of crapaganda. I know from turbid ponds of crap. When I was six, seven years old, my family’s house … Continue reading →

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Tomi Lahren self-pwns…over and over and over again.

Posted on May 15, 2018 by Sabina Becker

Oh, how sorry I feel for this professionally peeved little idiot. Not only has her own genealogy come back to haunt her (bigly), she’s done other dumb things too in the name of hating on undocumented immigration. Namely, this: Yup, … Continue reading →