QOTD -- "The Last Of Our Concerns"

 

“It would hurt consumers and we’d have to think about if that continued what we would have to do about that.  But that’s the like, really the last of our concerns right now because we’re very confident that this thing is going ahead of schedule.”  -- ever-smirking shitgibbon Kevin Hassett, National Economic Council Director on CNBC, commenting on the impact of the Malignant Fascist's Operation Epic Epstein Fury would have on consumers should it continue over time, a quote that should be in every Democratic candidate's ads this year.  With gas prices up 27% since Operation Epic Epstein Fury Folly began.  The ripple effect is already taking place throughout the economy, and thanks to the MF's steady hand stewardship a recession is now "a serious threat." But, we're certain Hassett and the Epstein class he and the rest of his cult leader's regime represent will be just fine, thank you.

BONUS:  Meanwhile Democrats want to make sure oil company windfall profits end up in those same consumers' pockets.

(Photo:  via CBS News.com)

Trump's Economic/ Eugenics Advisor Says Quiet Part Loud

Kevin Hassett, the allegedly humanoid economic advisor to the sociopath Donald "I Don't Take Responsibility At All" Trump, had this surprising not surprising thing to say Sunday about reopening the economy:

“Our capital stock hasn’t been destroyed, our human capital stock is ready to get back to work, so there are lots of reasons to believe that we can get going way faster than we have in previous crises.”

This smug melon head is fine with people  human beings "human capital stock" heading back into work spaces coronavirus petri dishes to get the economy heading in the right direction for Trump.  What's a few hundred thousand more unnecessary infections and thousands more deaths if you can get the cogs back working and making profits for the Republican donor class?!  And it's actually a lie that "our human capital stock is ready to get back to work";  millions of workers are concerned about being forced back into unsafe working conditions at the same time, tellingly, Trump and the Republican Senate are trying to immunize employers from lawsuits.  Consumers are also hesitant about going into places of business when they feel the "re- opening" has come too soon. But the allegedly humanoid economic advisor wouldn't care about those inconvenient details.

And about that term he used:

The term “human stock” has long been associated with eugenics, a discredited pseudoscience that enjoyed some mainstream credibility in the early 20th century. Many of its adherents, who believed that selective breeding was a self-evident way to better the human race, argued for limiting or cutting off the reproductive capacity of those showing “undesirable” traits.

A reasonable observation:

When you don’t think of them as “people,” you’re probably also doing the economics wrong. https://t.co/wmAlCV6rxj

— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) May 26, 2020

  
Speaking of eugenics,

Trump praised Henry Ford, who had a documented history of anti-Semitism, for having 'good bloodlines' pic.twitter.com/UzXysP9gwa

— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 23, 2020

This "thinking" is a feature, not a bug, with these people human capital stock.