Final Biden Jobs Report Extremely Weak at 143,000 Jobs Added; Democrats Blame Biden's Poor Showing on Trump

Oh, and happy Friday! Boy these weeks are long. The Trump Administration makes so much news I sign off every day knowing I covered half of it (at best) and not feeling that I'm actually done.

Not complaining, mind you.

The latest jobs report confirms what many have warned about for years--the Biden economy was far weaker than it appeared. Job growth slowed in January, with only 143,000 new positions added. In a statement, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the report proves "the necessity of President Trump's pro-growth policies" and reaffirms the administration's commitment to reversing the economic failures of the previous administration.
Key Details:
The U.S. added just 143,000 jobs in January, falling short of the 170,000 economists had expected.
The unemployment rate dropped slightly to 4%, the lowest since May 2024, but hiring remains sluggish.
Wage growth came in stronger than expected, with a 4.1% increase over the past year. While wages rose, inflation concerns persist as the Federal Reserve faces mounting pressure on interest rates.
Diving Deeper:
The Biden administration's economic mismanagement continues to cast a shadow over the country, as Friday's job reportrevealed a sluggish labor market struggling to regain its footing. Reacting to the report, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made it clear that these numbers highlight the damage left behind and why President Trump's economic policies are needed now more than ever.
"Today's jobs report reveals the Biden economy was far worse than anyone thought and underscores the necessity of President Trump's pro-growth policies," Leavitt stated. She pointed to Trump's early executive actions, including his declaration of a national energy emergency and sweeping regulatory cuts, as the foundation for a robust economic turnaround.
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While the mainstream media may attempt to spin this report as a consequence of Trump, the reality is that Americans are still feeling the pain of Biden's policies. With President Trump now working aggressively to reverse course, his administration has made it clear: the era of economic decline is over, and America's comeback is just beginning.

The reporting period ran from mid-December 2024 to January 12 2025 -- in other words, during Biden's "presidency."

That jobs report only includes data through January 12. Since I assume you also can’t read a calendar, Joe Biden was president then.

Kinda hilarious you blame Trump for Biden’s policies, but you spent four years pretending Biden’s economy was amazing while blaming inflation on… https://t.co/uIzWDZwCUE
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) February 7, 2025

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1 !

Posted by: wth at February 07, 2025 01:03 PM (v0R5T)

2 FIRST

SPONGE!

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 07, 2025 01:04 PM (nXhwP)

3 1st

Posted by: GF at February 07, 2025 01:04 PM (zlkNK)

4 well, corgis called...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 07, 2025 01:04 PM (nXhwP)

5 Read too much.

Rookie mistske.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 07, 2025 01:04 PM (KbzAQ)

6 I think it's safe to say that Rep. Darren Soto is a retard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2025 01:04 PM (vYDwg)

7 The reporting period ran from mid-December 2024 to January 12 2025 -- in other words, during Biden's "presidency."

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Why didn't Trump fix the economy when he was president-elect?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

8 They’ve been faking the statistics the last four years. Now they’ll start reporting on how dire things actually are.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 07, 2025 01:05 PM (l3YAf)

9 This will be revised downward, as will "any economic growth" numbers from 2024.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at February 07, 2025 01:05 PM (rUiuV)

10 Seems that having a drooling shambling husk occupying the Big Chair may not be the best thing for a nation's economy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2025 01:06 PM (vYDwg)

11 Willowed:

436 Yeah, lost in the noise is that Musk and his crew are just auditing and reporting to Trump what they find.

The crux of the objection to Musk now seems to be that some people who "blew the whistle" about employment practices at Tesla will now be known to Musk. It's more labored than the octomom.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 07, 2025 01:06 PM (xCA6C)

12 "Well Trump claims he won the 2020 election so he should be responsible for this report."

Posted by: ... at February 07, 2025 01:06 PM (Ja2Pp)

13 >>The Trump Administration makes so much news I sign off every day knowing I covered half of it (at best) and not feeling that I'm actually done.

Have you considered Cocaine?

It might help you stay on top of these things.

Posted by: garrett at February 07, 2025 01:06 PM (9Q8fk)

14 Ds are invested in the idea that people are stupid and cannot think for themselves. This served them well during the 2024 election!

Posted by: runner at February 07, 2025 01:06 PM (g47mK)

15 Also willowed, and apropos:

415 Gee, why doesn't BLS want DOGE to look at the books?

Every single month in 2024 just got revised down in today’s jobs report—by an average of -626k. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the BLS business employment dynamics data and the Philly Fed’s early benchmark suggest even bigger downward revisions coming in the next annual update. Buckle up.

https://is.gd/ag808l
Posted by: Archimedes at February 07, 2025 12:59 PM (xCA6C)

Posted by: Archimedes at February 07, 2025 01:06 PM (xCA6C)

16 Quick, let's lift the cap on H1B's so we can bring in more people to work in high paying high tech jobs at reduced wages!

Learn to ~~code~~ die slowly from fentanyl overdoses, you shitty dumb rednecks.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:06 PM (uCjyK)

17
Everybody knows the job gains for the month are all made in the last 3rd.

Everybody.

Posted by: Axeman at February 07, 2025 01:07 PM (krQz2)

18 From what I hear, there were more jobs gained than that since Jan. 20 just in military enlistmens.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 07, 2025 01:07 PM (KbzAQ)

19 If only Mayor Chestfeeder had been in charge.

Posted by: David Hogg at February 07, 2025 01:07 PM (vYDwg)

20 But hiring is forward looking!1!1

Posted by: Oglebay at February 07, 2025 01:07 PM (MMp6W)

21 Seems that having a drooling shambling husk occupying the Big Chair may not be the best thing for a nation's economy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2025 01:06 PM (vYDwg)

Well then you could have voted for me. It wouldn't have been drool!

Posted by: Kamala at February 07, 2025 01:07 PM (Ja2Pp)

22 The Trump Administration makes so much news I sign off every day knowing I covered half of it (at best) and not feeling that I'm actually done.

Not complaining, mind you.
Posted by: Ace

I need new wheel bearings for the wheelbarrow I haul my schadenboner around in. Two weeks of constant use is burning them up.

Also not complaining.

Posted by: mikeski at February 07, 2025 01:07 PM (DgGvY)

23 @7

>>Why didn't Trump fix the economy when he was president-elect?

The Left: TRUMP, WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT THE PRICE OF EGGS!!!???

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2025 01:07 PM (XV/Pl)

24 13 Have you considered Cocaine?

It might help you stay on top of these things.
Posted by: garrett at February 07, 2025 01:06 PM (9Q8fk)

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Amphetamines!!!!! > Cocaine!!!!!!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

25 Trump's first job numbers are going to be really wonky, with all the government cuts. And the evictions of illegals. I look forward to the press screeching about it all. But it will stabilize.

Posted by: LizLem at February 07, 2025 01:08 PM (gWBY1)

26 Oh, and happy Friday! Boy these weeks are long. The Trump Administration makes so much news I sign off every day knowing I covered half of it (at best) and not feeling that I'm actually done.

Not complaining, mind you.

Have you considered having some people fill in for you in the off hours? You could call them, oh, I don't know, Cobloggers.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 07, 2025 01:08 PM (xCA6C)

27 143k jobs for whom?

Is this more of his ‘foreigners account for 90% of new jobs’ stuff?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2025 01:08 PM (Hkcdp)

28 So many green shoots the FJB regime left for Trump to harvest.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at February 07, 2025 01:08 PM (Vyll1)

29 Labor groups sue to block DOGE from accessing key economic data

The plaintiffs include the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Government Employees, Service Employees International Union and the progressive Economic Policy Institute.

"Absent this Court's intervention, DOGE will have access to highly sensitive data," the court filing says. [ They really don't want anybody else to know the truth of it ]
The plaintiffs specifically cite the prospect of DOGE teams accessing BLS data, which is some of the most closely watched and market-sensitive macroeconomic information in the world. [ that has been complete shit for the last 4 years ]
"A DOGE takeover of the type seen at other agencies could overturn over a century of the BLS's independence and turn it from a reliable source of data across the economy into a far less valuable political mouthpiece," the plaintiffs write. [ I can't stop laughing ]

Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2025 01:08 PM (RHGPo)

30 27 143k jobs for whom?

Is this more of his ‘foreigners account for 90% of new jobs’ stuff?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2025 01:08 PM (Hkcdp)

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The vast majority were government and service jobs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

31 8 They’ve been faking the statistics the last four years. Now they’ll start reporting on how dire things actually are.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 07, 2025 01:05 PM (l3YAf)

I'd imagine they've been faking the statistics for decades depending on what they want to happen.

Right now, they want Trump to fail and to, more importantly, leave their grift alone.

So I suspect we will see terrible news coming out on all fronts for the next 4 years, whether it is true or not.

And we have no way of knowing if it's true.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:08 PM (uCjyK)

32 I wonder how this final jobs report stacks up against all the other job reports during *biden's term?

Seeing as how it probably included whatever "Trump bump" there was after it was obvious he'd won the election. I mean, there was already some positive vibes before Trump actually assumed office.

So maybe the Democrats should shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 07, 2025 01:09 PM (Q4IgG)

33 31 I'd imagine they've been faking the statistics for decades depending on what they want to happen.

Right now, they want Trump to fail and to, more importantly, leave their grift alone.

So I suspect we will see terrible news coming out on all fronts for the next 4 years, whether it is true or not.

And we have no way of knowing if it's true.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:08 PM (uCjyK)

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I remember most labor reports needing upward revisions under Trump's first term.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)

34
Cobloggers.

Posted by: Archimedes

Cow Orkers

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2025 01:09 PM (xG4kz)

35 Dems : like it might have been under Biden, but the billionaires knew Trump was coming so like they didn't hire as many. It's Trump's fault. You MAGAT scum

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 07, 2025 01:09 PM (EUtBO)

36 Good afternoon!!

I am sure Sweet Karoline will sweep the leg of the Media if they bring this up. LOL

Posted by: jmel at February 07, 2025 01:09 PM (bVhJi)

37 The plaintiffs specifically cite the prospect of DOGE teams accessing BLS data, which is some of the most closely watched and market-sensitive macroeconomic information in the world.

Who does the orange juice futures?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (xCA6C)

38 Like a mythical titan, Joe Biden strained his mighty muscles and bent the entire national economy to his will.

Posted by: Paul Krugman at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (vYDwg)

39 There are three branches of our Federal government: judicial, unionized government employees, and NGOs.

The President is really more of a figurehead office from a bygone era, like the British monarch. Ergo, the President has no authority to interfere with the property rights of USAID.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (l3YAf)

40 Who you gonna believe, Elon Musk or Brian Stelter?

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
Open this app [X].
See that it's absolutely bursting with wild falsehoods about government spending.
Maybe that's just how Musk likes it?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl)

41 turn it from a reliable source of data across the economy into a far less valuable political mouthpiece
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I gotta admit I do not miss the very recent times when affronting lies like this seemed to actually matter.

Posted by: ... at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (Ja2Pp)

42

And now is the winter of our discontent.

Posted by: Federal Employees Under The Desks And Behind Closed Doors at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (rj6Yv)

43 39 There are three branches of our Federal government: judicial, unionized government employees, and NGOs.

The President is really more of a figurehead office from a bygone era, like the British monarch. Ergo, the President has no authority to interfere with the property rights of USAID.
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (l3YAf)

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*weeps bitterly but manfully at accuracy*

It's not even satire.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (GBKbO)

44 Why are all the ads I'm getting served here about Islam?

Posted by: XTC at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (sm6Pk)

45
If only Mayor Chestfeeder had been in charge.

Posted by: David Hogg

And his wizened dugs

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2025 01:11 PM (xG4kz)

46 And we have no way of knowing if it's true.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:08 PM (uCjyK)

I can help with that: They will be lying.

Posted by: ... at February 07, 2025 01:11 PM (Ja2Pp)

47 Why didn't Trump fix the economy when he was president-elect?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

Everyone knows Biden wasn't REALLY the President.

And when you think about it, everyone really knew Trump was going to be elected, at least since July, and realistically, throughout most of the time between Jan. '21 and Nov. 24.

So really, it is Trump's economy. He failed.

It's logic.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2025 01:11 PM (fQt19)

48 Does anyone actually believe the government's jobs numbers?

This 'slowed growth' (which will no doubt be revised downwards later-since the people who wrote it know ti was still a (D) term even if dopey congressmen don't) could just be battlespace prep for getting the numbers back to reality now that the adjustment can be blamed on Trump.

Which is to say, we have no real way of knowing the truth at this point.

Posted by: Methos at February 07, 2025 01:11 PM (Dnobf)

49 26 Oh, and happy Friday! Boy these weeks are long. The Trump Administration makes so much news I sign off every day knowing I covered half of it (at best) and not feeling that I'm actually done.

Not complaining, mind you.

Have you considered having some people fill in for you in the off hours? You could call them, oh, I don't know, Cobloggers.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 07, 2025 01:08 PM (xCA6C)
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What for? No one reads content.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2025 01:12 PM (1bNHn)

50 @37

>>Who does the orange juice futures?

I think that's Clarance Beeks gig, reports directly to Randolph and Mortimer Duke if I'm not mistaken.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 07, 2025 01:12 PM (XV/Pl)

51 I remember most labor reports needing upward revisions under Trump's first term.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)

Yes, we know they manipulate the numbers all the time. Under Obama, the headline would be "500,000 jobs gained in September!" then in October, there would be a small correction on page 27 of the newspapers saying "last months job report was devised down by 220,000" or whatever.

With Trump last time, it was the opposite.

But my argument is -- how do we know that any numbers are real? Clearly theyre not above manipulating the numbers to help / hurt the presidents / agendas they have feelings about.

So how can we trust anything they say?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:12 PM (uCjyK)

52 BLS "independent"? Ha, that's hilarious.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 01:12 PM (wD+k/)

53 I noticed that gas prices have jumped since the election. I'm sure as soon as drill baby drill starts that will drop.

Posted by: Frank Barone at February 07, 2025 01:12 PM (+oR7L)

54 Brian Stelter@brianstelter
Open this app [X].
See that it's absolutely bursting with wild falsehoods about government spending.
Maybe that's just how Musk likes it?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl

MIYISINFORMATION!! MIYISINFORMATION!!
CITIZENS ARREST!!!!

Posted by: Gomer Stelter at February 07, 2025 01:12 PM (vYDwg)

55 >>I remember most labor reports needing upward revisions under Trump's first term.

It's always been this way. Revise down for Democrats...Up for Republicans.

But. Quietly. In the lull between scheduled reporting.

Posted by: garrett at February 07, 2025 01:12 PM (9Q8fk)

56 Wage growth came in stronger than expected, with a 4.1% increase over the past year.

In what I expect was a final FU from the Biden administration, in December 2024, OPM approved a 2% pay increase for Federal employees in 2025. In December 2023, they approved a 4.7% pay increase for Feds in 2024.

Posted by: Military Moron at February 07, 2025 01:12 PM (PGQzS)

57
What was it that someone here called Stelter earlier this week?

A (something-cursed) potato hybrid?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 07, 2025 01:13 PM (xG4kz)

58 >>> 40 Who you gonna believe, Elon Musk or Brian Stelter?

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
Open this app [X].
See that it's absolutely bursting with wild falsehoods about government spending.
Maybe that's just how Musk likes it?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl)

How much did Tater get from USAID?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2025 01:13 PM (Vqx30)

59 51 But my argument is -- how do we know that any numbers are real? Clearly theyre not above manipulating the numbers to help / hurt the presidents / agendas they have feelings about.

So how can we trust anything they say?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:12 PM (uCjyK)

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With that kind of partisan history, I don't see any need for an audit of their processes and results.

They're obviously just straight-shootin' nonpartisans who only want the best for America and America will die a horrible death if anyone even questions them.

Leave the BLS alone!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

60 Read yesterday that a "hamlet" wth? in East Hampton had a meeting to discuss the horrors of illegal nannies and gardeners being deported. Who will cut their grass, fix their meals, mind their spawn? They were assured that the hamlet won't cooperate with ICE. We'll see about that!

They hire them knowing they are illegal. While the rest of us, finding lawn companies to cut our grass, check to see if they are legal and carry insurance. We must be cruel people.

Basically they are worried their slaves, not paying taxes for their wages, will be deported. Woe is them.

So there's a few job openings right there for the unemployed USAID workers! Problem solved!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 07, 2025 01:13 PM (gi+MR)

61 39 There are three branches of our Federal government: judicial, unionized government employees, and NGOs.

The President is really more of a figurehead office from a bygone era, like the British monarch. Ergo, the President has no authority to interfere with the property rights of USAID.
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (l3YAf)
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Presidents get to write laws, but only if they are Democrats. Republican Presidents are there to be blamed for all that goes wrong.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2025 01:14 PM (1bNHn)

62
Democrats only need to be smarter than their voters.

And that's a big problem.

Posted by: Axeman at February 07, 2025 01:14 PM (krQz2)

63 n what I expect was a final FU from the Biden administration, in December 2024, OPM approved a 2% pay increase for Federal employees in 2025. In December 2023, they approved a 4.7% pay increase for Feds in 2024.

2% of 0 is ... 0

Posted by: mrp at February 07, 2025 01:14 PM (rj6Yv)

64 They're obviously just straight-shootin' nonpartisans who only want the best for America and America will die a horrible death if anyone even questions them.

Like the dedicated scientists of the CDC.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2025 01:14 PM (vYDwg)

65 This pudgy effeminate asshole makes a living being a clown, has no idea he is a clown, and yet somehow manages to be preposterously wealthy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2025 01:14 PM (VoAdT)

66 With all these government employees being terminated recently, next month's jobs report is gonna be interesting...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2025 01:14 PM (7fElN)

67 USAID/NGO salary: $400k
McMansion in Alexandria, VA: $3.2 million
His and hers Teslas: $180,000

Applying to job at Panda Express management and losing out to an H1b visa holder: Priceless!

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2025 01:15 PM (Hkcdp)

68 40 Who you gonna believe, Elon Musk or Brian Stelter?

Brian Stelter@brianstelter
Open this app [X].
See that it's absolutely bursting with wild falsehoods about government spending.
Maybe that's just how Musk likes it?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (L/fGl)

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Being paid by an NGO, which is funded entirely by government grants, that is several levels deep in a cutout structure is absolutely zero proof that these people are funded by government by a single penny.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

69 16 Quick, let's lift the cap on H1B's so we can bring in more people to work in high paying high tech jobs at reduced wages!

Is it a valid counterargument that there really are NO qualified graduates from US institutions, seeing as how every one was force fed DEI and Grievance studies rather than, you know, actual practical courses?

Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 07, 2025 01:15 PM (F/35S)

70 >>> 67 USAID/NGO salary: $400k
McMansion in Alexandria, VA: $3.2 million
His and hers Teslas: $180,000

Applying to job at Panda Express management and losing out to an H1b visa holder: Priceless!
Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2025 01:15 PM (Hkcdp)

I can't wait until some of these losers start missing car or mortgage payments.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2025 01:16 PM (Vqx30)

71 However, the next jobs report will show massive ball growth. Big. Yuge.

Posted by: Big McLargehuge at February 07, 2025 01:16 PM (Ybyk2)

72
Like, I would hate to suffer through a Mazie Hirono election ad.

What do they say? "Not quite as dumb as a brick! (Paid for by Hirono for Senate)"

Posted by: Axeman at February 07, 2025 01:16 PM (krQz2)

73 55 >>I remember most labor reports needing upward revisions under Trump's first term.

It's always been this way. Revise down for Democrats...Up for Republicans.

But. Quietly. In the lull between scheduled reporting.
Posted by: garrett at February 07, 2025 01:12 PM (9Q8fk)

It will be interesting to see how they do it. If deportations and self deportations really get going, that means more job openings. Then we will get to hear about 'underemployment' and the trials of being overqualified for your job.

It's all a shell game. Not for the first time, I wish I had a magic crystal ball to just ask and be able to see what the fuck is actually going on.

'Crystal Ball, show me the Las Vegas shooting and all important events leading up to it.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2025 01:16 PM (bss/y)

74 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

US Atty for DC
@EagleEdMartin
issues statement to
@elonmusk
pledging inquiry into threats made against DOGE employees:

"If people are discovered to have broken the law…we will investigate them and we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable."

https://tinyurl.com/2sau4843

Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2025 01:16 PM (NpAcC)

75 And now is the winter of our discontent.
Posted by: Federal Employees Under The Desks And Behind Closed Doors at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (rj6Yv)

Or as Red Green and Harold would say, "The Winter of Our Discount Tent".

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 07, 2025 01:17 PM (/HDaX)

76 Oh dear! Tater is upset he’s lost the narrative!

(Insert Animal House clip of Kevin Bacon melting down as chaos erupts during the parade.)

Posted by: Lizzy at February 07, 2025 01:17 PM (Hkcdp)

77 Will be refreshing to get accurate info for a change. Can't wait for the revisions UP, ha ha.

Posted by: Max Power at February 07, 2025 01:17 PM (Hucnr)

78 Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford has some interesting options for pronouns when signing up for her campaign events.

https://is.gd/tlhYlq

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Big Pronoun is making its play.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 07, 2025 01:17 PM (L/fGl)

79 So I suspect we will see terrible news coming out on all fronts for the next 4 years, whether it is true or not.

And we have no way of knowing if it's true.
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Maybe not 4 years.

At some point, surely Trump will have fired enough of them to get back to some semblance of honesty. Just not right away.

Posted by: Methos at February 07, 2025 01:17 PM (Dnobf)

80 Supposedly Trump will sign an executive order pushing for plastic straws to come back vs the paper ones.

And Elon Musk will pay out of pocket for five Super Bowl ads exposing the waste that DOGE has found.

That's how to do it! The winning is never tiring.

Posted by: LizLem at February 07, 2025 01:18 PM (gWBY1)

81 Oh, and we've joked about extraditing Fraudci to OMG Russia or somewhere else. I saw a comment elseblog pointing out that maybe another country will request extradition of some USAID NPCs for general shenanigans within their borders and would OrangeManBad refuse such a request...?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2025 01:18 PM (Vqx30)

82 Basically they are worried their slaves, not paying taxes for their wages, will be deported. Woe is them.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 07, 2025 01:13 PM (gi+MR)

Yeah, NY has hamlets. Anyways, the Hamptons are where the rich NYC people have their summer homes.

But on that note, my girlfriend has a side hustle where she ends up interacting with a lot of very wealthy people in the NYC / Hamptons world. Names you'd have heard of.

One of her clients 4 year old kids was telling her she was so worried that her nanny would be kicked out of the country.

When my girlfriend told me that, I laughed out loud. These people own a mansion in Sag Harbor, has to be worth $15 million + plus a 3-story penthouse in the upper east side, probably worth about the same.

And yet they are hiring illegals for their domestic staff? I mean, cmon!

AND they're telling their young children about it and acting like they're the victims here? "What shall we do if the third shift nanny gets deported?! It's a travesty!"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:18 PM (uCjyK)

83 80 And Elon Musk will pay out of pocket for five Super Bowl ads exposing the waste that DOGE has found.

That's how to do it! The winning is never tiring.
Posted by: LizLem at February 07, 2025 01:18 PM (gWBY1)

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Hadn't heard of that one yet.

That's going to have an effect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:18 PM (GBKbO)

84
Who's Biden?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 07, 2025 01:18 PM (dxSpM)

85 So i guess no more six figure subscriptions for government employees to Tater Pro, then, huh?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2025 01:19 PM (VoAdT)

86 "Absent this Court's intervention, DOGE will have access to highly sensitive data," the court filing says. . . . .
Posted by: SMOD

Wait - government employees will have access to government data?

Zounds!!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 07, 2025 01:19 PM (WXNFJ)

87 69 16 Quick, let's lift the cap on H1B's so we can bring in more people to work in high paying high tech jobs at reduced wages!

Is it a valid counterargument that there really are NO qualified graduates from US institutions, seeing as how every one was force fed DEI and Grievance studies rather than, you know, actual practical courses?
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 07, 2025 01:15 PM (F/35S)

There are lots of qualified Americans. And H1Bs mostly suck. A lot of them just end up spouting DEI bs because it benefits them as minorities and has become ubiquitous corpo-speak.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at February 07, 2025 01:19 PM (l3YAf)

88 She seems nice.

https://x.com/i/status/1887870468230635593

Noora Shalash, Director of Government Affairs for CAIR-Kentucky.

Posted by: spypeach at February 07, 2025 01:19 PM (UuB/1)

89 I really do have trouble understanding why Tater ever got a job. Do they really need fawning fanboys around the office? It's not as if he has the looks to be a catamite.

Same thing for Raddatz and Bash. Why did anyone ever hire them?

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (1bNHn)

90 How long before they adjust this to be even fewer?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (2VST1)

91 Seems that having a drooling shambling husk occupying the Big Chair may not be the best thing for a nation's economy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2025 01:06 PM (vYDwg)

You mean more of the Chocolate Jesus' attempt to dismantle or destroy everything American. Biden didn't do shit.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (g8Ew8)

92 >>> 74 Western Lensman
@WesternLensman

US Atty for DC
@EagleEdMartin
issues statement to
@elonmusk
pledging inquiry into threats made against DOGE employees:

"If people are discovered to have broken the law…we will investigate them and we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable."

https://tinyurl.com/2sau4843
Posted by: redridinghood at February 07, 2025 01:16 PM (NpAcC)

Good.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (Vqx30)

93 The DOGE layoffs are going to play hell in the DC suburbs. All those leftist school boards pushing DEI, trannie stuff and arresting parents are going to be unemployed. And people won't hire them. Cue the Nelson Muntz chorus

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (EUtBO)

94 BREAKING: ...

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don’t work.
BACK TO PLASTIC! Feb 07, 2025

Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (RHGPo)

95 "Every single month in 2024 just got revised down in today’s jobs report—by an average of -626k."

Not 626K, just 626. All the changes were just 500-800/month.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 07, 2025 01:21 PM (Cus5s)

96 Like, I would hate to suffer through a Mazie Hirono election ad.

What do they say? "Not quite as dumb as a brick! (Paid for by Hirono for Senate)"

Only if you mean "dumb" in the sense of "mute." Otherwise, not even close to true. Actually, the first sense isn't true either since she can't STFU.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 07, 2025 01:21 PM (/y8xj)

97 How anyone can keep up on this administration is a amazing thing

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2025 01:21 PM (fwDg9)

98 To be fair, the jobs report during Trump's first month will probably be pretty bad, too.

After all, how many hundreds of thousands of government employees are going to be out of a job and on unemployment?

Posted by: Another Anon at February 07, 2025 01:21 PM (QNMaY)

99 How long before they adjust this to be even fewer?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (2VST1)
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They adjusted one quarter to negative growth.

Posted by: Axeman at February 07, 2025 01:21 PM (krQz2)

100 End of the earth? Ermagerd, Elon's a flat erfer!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 07, 2025 01:21 PM (VoAdT)

101 Read yesterday that a "hamlet" wth? in East Hampton had a meeting to discuss the horrors of illegal nannies and gardeners being deported.
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"Is this a mower I see before me?"

Oh no wait that was Macbeth. I really should have paid attention in school.

Posted by: ... at February 07, 2025 01:21 PM (Ja2Pp)

102 89 I really do have trouble understanding why Tater ever got a job. Do they really need fawning fanboys around the office? It's not as if he has the looks to be a catamite.

Those thighs are super creamy.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at February 07, 2025 01:21 PM (xx7Ke)

103 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don’t work.
BACK TO PLASTIC! Feb 07, 2025
Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (RHGPo)

Doesn't Trump know that there's already a CONTINENT-SIZED mass of plastic floating around in the middle of the ocean???

CONTINENT-SIZED PEEPLE!!!!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2025 01:22 PM (vYDwg)

104 To be fair, the jobs report during Trump's first month will probably be pretty bad, too.

After all, how many hundreds of thousands of government employees are going to be out of a job and on unemployment?
Posted by: Another Anon at February 07, 2025 01:21 PM (QNMaY)
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Also, he's lost Biden's illegal-alien-job base. Where 90% of the jobs were going.

Posted by: Axeman at February 07, 2025 01:22 PM (krQz2)

105 >>> 89 I really do have trouble understanding why Tater ever got a job. Do they really need fawning fanboys around the office? It's not as if he has the looks to be a catamite.

Same thing for Raddatz and Bash. Why did anyone ever hire them?
Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (1bNHn)

Because we're paying for it.

Your tax dollars at "work"!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2025 01:22 PM (Vqx30)

106 A Russian singer accused of donating to the Ukraine army and calling President Vladimir Putin an “idiot” fell to his death from a window this week — just moments after authorities raided his apartment. Vadim Stroykin, 58, plunged to his death from the 10th floor of his St. Petersburg apartment building on Wednesday after cops came to interrogate him about the alleged donations and other claims of extremism, local news outlet Fontanka reported.

Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2025 01:22 PM (RHGPo)

107 Likelihood Fed will lower rates in March meeting 8% down from 15%.
I think Trump wants lower rates. If they don't lower rates it will be interesting.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 07, 2025 01:22 PM (lCWOD)

108 Well, I'm sure as hell out of a job.

Posted by: DOCTOR Jill at February 07, 2025 01:22 PM (DobEs)

109 Christmas, Day 19

Just loving every single thing so far. Can't wait to have dinner next Friday with a couple of Democrat couples so I can glory in the whining.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 07, 2025 01:23 PM (5jT0N)

110 93 The DOGE layoffs are going to play hell in the DC suburbs. All those leftist school boards pushing DEI, trannie stuff and arresting parents are going to be unemployed. And people won't hire them. Cue the Nelson Muntz chorus
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (EUtBO)

We can plant crops in Loudoun County and have them work the fields. I think berries grow well there.

Posted by: Roy at February 07, 2025 01:23 PM (z+ik4)

111 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don’t work.
BACK TO PLASTIC! Feb 07, 2025
Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (RHGPo)
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It's both sad and stupid that President Trump even has to address this issue via EO.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2025 01:23 PM (7fElN)

112 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don’t work.
BACK TO PLASTIC! Feb 07, 2025
Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (RHGPo)

And the week after, gas hookups and stoves!!

Posted by: ... at February 07, 2025 01:23 PM (Ja2Pp)

113 95 "Every single month in 2024 just got revised down in today’s jobs report—by an average of -626k."

Not 626K, just 626. All the changes were just 500-800/month.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 07, 2025 01:21 PM (Cus5s)

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No, it's K.

The numbers are on total employment, not the monthly employment changes.

https://x.com/kushibo/status/
1887929236520059124

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

114 Bring back plastic straws!!

Posted by: runner at February 07, 2025 01:23 PM (g47mK)

115 Is it a valid counterargument that there really are NO qualified graduates from US institutions, seeing as how every one was force fed DEI and Grievance studies rather than, you know, actual practical courses?
Posted by: But I'm a Hero, the media says so at February 07, 2025 01:15 PM (F/35S)

No, that is entirely bullshit.

Also, who set up this system? Who designed these bullshit degrees with endless student loans and the fake degrees? Why, the very same people now shitting on the Americans who followed the rules and went to those colleges and got pounded with massive loans and now claim they need to hire people from the third world, who, trust me, have far worse education than Americans.

To save $20k a year in salary on Americans, they would rather destroy the country. Outsource manufacturing, import people to do the blue and white collar jobs. Then what? What about the hundreds of millions of people who actually fucking live here and have lived here for generations, paying taxes, fighting in wars, dealing with all of the daily bullshit we deal with? Fuck 'em? So that MSFT's stock can go up slightly in the short term?

That doesn't seem like a good system to me.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:23 PM (uCjyK)

116 Can someone fucking explain to me how the blue fuck unemployment rate goes down when 50 bajillion people are applying for ghost jobs that dont exist

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 07, 2025 01:23 PM (HYKHz)

117 >>Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
I will be signing an Executive Order next week ending the ridiculous Biden push for Paper Straws, which don’t work.
BACK TO PLASTIC! Feb 07, 2025

Suck it Turtles.

Suck it through a Plastic Straw!

Posted by: garrett at February 07, 2025 01:23 PM (9Q8fk)

118 The first few weeks here remind me of a girl I dated in college who was a complete nymphomaniac. I couldn't keep up.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 07, 2025 01:23 PM (ewjUl)

119 Maryland is already concerned these layoffs will not only impact their tax revenue, but it will drive people away from the state as they seek new employment. Same for NOVA.

These second and third order effects have a high potential to ultimately change the electorate.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (uSWvs)

120 80 And Elon Musk will pay out of pocket for five Super Bowl ads exposing the waste that DOGE has found.
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Speaking of, wasn't here yesterday but did the return of Carl Jr's bikini-babe burger model ad get discussed?

Winning!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (LxER7)

121 A Russian singer accused of donating to the Ukraine army and calling President Vladimir Putin an “idiot” fell to his death from a window this week — just moments after authorities raided his apartment. Vadim Stroykin, 58, plunged to his death from the 10th floor of his St. Petersburg apartment building on Wednesday after cops came to interrogate him about the alleged donations and other claims of extremism, local news outlet Fontanka reported.

I think someone really needs to look into Russian window-building practices. They seem to be very dangerous.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (xCA6C)

122 *still nothing, NOTHING about suspension and elimination of the ridiculous DST !

me sad

Posted by: runner at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (g47mK)

123 *sees box labeled “You need to send all of your dumb redneck jobs producing actual things overseas, so your people will be blessed with high-paying high-education service jobs”*

*looks inside*

*”You need to bring all of the foreigners into your country because you’re all a bunch of uneducated rednecks who are too stupid to work all of these service jobs”*

🤔

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (l3YAf)

124 Trumps freeze on foreign aid has hit the Jesuit Refugee Service, one of the biggest players in mass immigration in Ireland/EU. Yesterday they announced that all of their work across the globe has been stopped!

... Oh, happy day (oh, happy day)

Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (RHGPo)

125 >>Is it a valid counterargument that there really are NO qualified graduates from US institutions

Because backyard Universities in India are producing qualified graduates.

Posted by: garrett at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (9Q8fk)

126 I really do have trouble understanding why Tater ever got a job.
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He ran some influential web site in the 90s, I think.

Posted by: Axeman at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (krQz2)

127 >>> 116 Can someone fucking explain to me how the blue fuck unemployment rate goes down when 50 bajillion people are applying for ghost jobs that dont exist
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at February 07, 2025 01:23 PM (HYKHz)

Because according to feralgov, if you give up and stop applying for jobs, you are no longer unemployed.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (Vqx30)

128 122 *still nothing, NOTHING about suspension and elimination of the ridiculous DST !

me sad
Posted by: runner at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (g47mK)

=======

It was Rubio's baby a couple of Congresses ago.

Probably no one cares enough to carry the torch anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

129 Oooh I can't wait to see the Factcheck on Super Bowl ads.

Posted by: ... at February 07, 2025 01:25 PM (Ja2Pp)

130 They already revised last year's numbers down by over a million in November, and will have to revise down another million.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 07, 2025 01:25 PM (lTGtQ)

131 82...
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:18 PM (uCjyK)
_______

My brother still lives and works on LI. He often works on rich NYers' summer homes. I keep telling him to leave, but he loves the LI beaches too much. And the weather. But he tells me similar things.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2025 01:25 PM (1bNHn)

132 Supposedly Trump will sign an executive order pushing for plastic straws to come back vs the paper ones.

And Elon Musk will pay out of pocket for five Super Bowl ads exposing the waste that DOGE has found.

That's how to do it! The winning is never tiring.
Posted by: LizLem at February 07, 2025 01:18 PM (gWBY1)

Prediction: Those five ads will live for as long as the Republic exists.

Posted by: mrp at February 07, 2025 01:25 PM (rj6Yv)

133 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:23 PM

CNN called. They are wondering if you're related to that Big Balls guy over at DOGE?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 07, 2025 01:25 PM (ewjUl)

134 He's a radical, I tell ya!

https://is.gd/vjYSkG

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Trump will sign an EO legalizing plastic straws.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 07, 2025 01:25 PM (L/fGl)

135 132 Prediction: Those five ads will live for as long as the Republic exists.
Posted by: mrp at February 07, 2025 01:25 PM (rj6Yv)

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I just hope they're funny and memeable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:25 PM (GBKbO)

136 Trump is shoveling sand into the gears of the DC-NGO axis.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 07, 2025 01:25 PM (vYDwg)

137 >>> 124 Trumps freeze on foreign aid has hit the Jesuit Refugee Service, one of the biggest players in mass immigration in Ireland/EU. Yesterday they announced that all of their work across the globe has been stopped!

... Oh, happy day (oh, happy day)
Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (RHGPo)

SEE! PEOPLE WILL DIE!!!!!

Posted by: leftists at February 07, 2025 01:25 PM (Vqx30)

138 "And Elon Musk will pay out of pocket for five Super Bowl ads exposing the waste that DOGE has found.

That's how to do it! The winning is never tiring.
Posted by: LizLem at February 07, 2025 01:18 PM (gWBY1)
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Hadn't heard of that one yet.

That's going to have an effect.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman "

I heard Trump says he is going to pay for the White House ballroom himself.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (vFG9F)

139 "While the mainstream media may attempt to spin this report as a consequence of Trump, "

Fools. It takes a couple of miles for an aircraft carrier to turn around and Trump turned this down in two weeks? Really?
Even if he did it wouldn't be felt on the street for a month or so.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (lCWOD)

140 t was Rubio's baby a couple of Congresses ago.

Probably no one cares enough to carry the torch anymore.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

the President promised!

Posted by: runner at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (g47mK)

141 I think someone really needs to look into Russian window-building practices. They seem to be very dangerous.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (xCA6C)

Look, you can call Putin a thug, but if Hillary Clinton fell out of a window would you really be sad?

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (l3YAf)

142 140 the President promised!
Posted by: runner at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (g47mK)

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Still need to repass it through both chambers of Congress.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

143 Not 626K, just 626. All the changes were just 500-800/month.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 07, 2025 01:21 PM (Cus5s)

That caption shows that the numbers are in thousands. The as-revised column is hundreds of thousands, aka millions.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (xCA6C)

144 We never got into the paper straw thing here… was this a state thing?

Posted by: tubal at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (PCK5/)

145 Look, you can call Putin a thug, but if Hillary Clinton fell out of a window would you really be sad?
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (l3YAf)
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Only if she landed on my car.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (7fElN)

146 Trumps freeze on foreign aid has hit the Jesuit Refugee Service, one of the biggest players in mass immigration in Ireland/EU. Yesterday they announced that all of their work across the globe has been stopped!

... Oh, happy day (oh, happy day)
Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (RHGPo)

SEE! PEOPLE WILL DIE!!!!!
Posted by: leftists

The Catholic Church could pick up the slack.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (fUDLX)

147 90 How long before they adjust this to be even fewer?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 01:20 PM (2VST1)
_______
How long before we hear that Trump's economy is really Biden's? Just as SCOAMF said of Trump's first one.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (1bNHn)

148 I see one leftist talking point it that firing government employees will raise the unemployment rate and hurt the economy.

But...government workers draw salaries from taxes places on the economy and for the most part generate no, or in some cases, negative value out of their labor.

And we have a pretty clear historical record on this - the economy would get along fine with half, or less, as many federal workers.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (t0Rmr)

149 It seems that with Biden's jobs mainly coming from government positions and illegal aliens, throwing people out of government jobs and closing the border, might work--for a time--against Trump.

But, we'll see.

Posted by: Axeman at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (krQz2)

150 And Elon Musk will pay out of pocket for five Super Bowl ads exposing the waste that DOGE has found.

That's how to do it! The winning is never tiring.
Posted by: LizLem at February 07, 2025 01:18 PM

He's really doing that and they are airing them? My Schadenboner needs a vacation and my boxers need some Flex Seal!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 07, 2025 01:27 PM (ewjUl)

151 Derek Saul covers the market for Forbes which is owned by the CCP.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 07, 2025 01:27 PM (lCWOD)

152 146 The Catholic Church could pick up the slack.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (fUDLX)

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What does the Catholic Church have to do with the Jesuits?

#NoTrueCatholics

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:27 PM (GBKbO)

153 >>> 121 A Russian singer accused of donating to the Ukraine army and calling President Vladimir Putin an “idiot” fell to his death from a window this week — just moments after authorities raided his apartment. Vadim Stroykin, 58, plunged to his death from the 10th floor of his St. Petersburg apartment building on Wednesday after cops came to interrogate him about the alleged donations and other claims of extremism, local news outlet Fontanka reported.
==
I think someone really needs to look into Russian window-building practices. They seem to be very dangerous.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 07, 2025 01:24 PM (xCA6C)

Is faulty window install. We fine construction company 10 rubles for code wiolation.

Posted by: St. Petersburg Building Code Inspector at February 07, 2025 01:27 PM (Vqx30)

154 Trumps freeze on foreign aid has hit the Jesuit Refugee Service, one of the biggest players in mass immigration in Ireland/EU. Yesterday they announced that all of their work across the globe has been stopped!

Remember how one of the arguments from the left was that there was no way to stop the migrant invasions...apparently not paying them to come though is a perfectly valid answer...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:27 PM (t0Rmr)

155 > Read yesterday that a "hamlet" wth? in East Hampton had a meeting to discuss the horrors of illegal nannies and gardeners being deported.

To deport or not to deport
Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outraged Democrats
Or to take arms against a sea of Americans and by opposing reduce them.

Posted by: bonhomme at February 07, 2025 01:28 PM (Odg76)

156 I really do have trouble understanding why Tater ever got a job.

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Couldn't be looks, personality, or competence. Maybe it was because he would or say anything like a $2 whore.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 07, 2025 01:28 PM (L/fGl)

157 >> Trumps freeze on foreign aid has hit the Jesuit Refugee Service, one of the biggest players in mass immigration in Ireland/EU. Yesterday they announced that all of their work across the globe has been stopped!

Now where are we going to procure young boys??

Posted by: Jesuits at February 07, 2025 01:28 PM (l3YAf)

158
There are two camps:

Camp 1 - This is happening because the Left fought Trump so hard.

Camp 2 - The Left fought Trump so hard because they didn't want this to happen.

Posted by: ... at February 07, 2025 01:28 PM (Ja2Pp)

159 Putin can toss ‘em all from a window for all I care… none of my damned business…

Posted by: tubal at February 07, 2025 01:28 PM (PCK5/)

160 Doesn't Trump know that there's already a CONTINENT-SIZED mass of plastic floating around in the middle of the ocean???

CONTINENT-SIZED PEEPLE!!!!

Yet we never get to see pictures of it. Weird, huh?

Posted by: Oddbob at February 07, 2025 01:28 PM (/y8xj)

161 148 And we have a pretty clear historical record on this - the economy would get along fine with half, or less, as many federal workers.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM (t0Rmr)

========

I suspect the unemployment rate is going to spike up, but it will also be revised up from previous years.

So weird.

But, government numbers are no more than agitprop anymore. They're not convincing in and of themselves. They're convincing if they align with people's experiences of the economy.

That perception is much bigger. And if things get cheaper, rents go down because of mass deportations, and job openings start taking native born Americans again, the perception is going to be...persuasive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:29 PM (GBKbO)

162 There are two camps:

Camp 1 - This is happening because the Left fought Trump so hard.

Camp 2 - The Left fought Trump so hard because they didn't want this to happen.
Posted by: ... at February 07, 2025 01:28 PM (Ja2Pp)

Both camps are right.

Camp C, yo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 07, 2025 01:29 PM (bss/y)

163 There are lots of qualified Americans. And H1Bs mostly suck. A lot of them just end up spouting DEI bs because it benefits them as minorities and has become ubiquitous corpo-speak.
Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at February 07, 2025 01:19 PM (l3YAf)

100% this. They show up on various visas to get a job that they will only get because they check DEI boxes and will work for cheaper. Many of them come from India, which has a literal caste system, and immediately start crying racism.

They get in to positions of power and only hire people from India from their caste. Look at any picture of teams of people at Microsoft. Does that look like it reflects the racial composure of America? Zero black people, maybe half wife people (many of whom are women in bullshit HR jobs), and the rest Indian or Asian.

And by all accounts they are inferior employees who suck at their jobs, routinely lie and cheat and most of they committed visa fraud and lied on their job applications by fabricating a resume that everyone knows is fake but it's all a wink and a nod.

And for all of this, big tech gets to pay them slightly less than they would pay an American college grad. So shareholders are happy.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:29 PM (uCjyK)

164 $2.9 billion of the ~$4+ billion that funds Catholic Charities comes from the US government.

Let that sink in and remember their mission for the last four years has been to assist the illegal immigrant invasion.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 07, 2025 01:29 PM (uSWvs)

165 A Russian singer accused of donating to the Ukraine army

Does the Uke army have an OnlyFans account or something where you can just donate to them?

And if this guy really did so, I mean what's that term for when you help a foreign country your own country is at war with? Oh yeah...treason.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:29 PM (t0Rmr)

166 I really do have trouble understanding why Tater ever got a job.

A question I have long wondered about. My guess is that because he had a fair following on social media, and I think the CNN leadership believed that he was some kind of kewl new media leader and the kids would love him.

Also, I strongly suspect that we will find out that some of these guys were being promoted and funded by our own government.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 01:30 PM (2VST1)

167 Doesn't Trump know that there's already a CONTINENT-SIZED mass of plastic floating around in the middle of the ocean???
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He probably does. And he probably also knows that most of it is from China and India.

Posted by: Axeman at February 07, 2025 01:30 PM (krQz2)

168 Jesuit refugees ...

Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) sounds like a more promising donation choice for Catholics.

Posted by: mrp at February 07, 2025 01:30 PM (rj6Yv)

169 >>>150 And Elon Musk will pay out of pocket for five Super Bowl ads exposing the waste that DOGE has found.

That's how to do it! The winning is never tiring.
Posted by: LizLem
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Our great great grand fathers witnessed pro-American big money, until now it hasn't happened. We are truly witnessing and part of a revival.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 07, 2025 01:30 PM (lCWOD)

170 They thought the stroke and their puny human medical treatments killed me. But they did not. I survived, and I grow stronger every day. My hulking mutant pilots me through your halls of power, and his hirsute bride returns to service my turgid brain tentacle once again. Behold it and tremble.

Posted by: Fetterman's Neck Kuato at February 07, 2025 01:31 PM (0l8OY)

171 ot:Trump's announcement to take over land in Gaza?

Only if we re-commission an Iowa-class for the ski tow boat.

Posted by: DaveA at February 07, 2025 01:31 PM (FhXTo)

172 Read yesterday that a "hamlet" wth? in East Hampton had a meeting to discuss the horrors of illegal nannies and gardeners being deported.

I ended up on a mailing list for working moms in the bright blue town I lived in a few years ago. Most of the posts were about how to avoid paying taxes for the "undocumented" nannies they all employed.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:32 PM (t0Rmr)

173 Trump must be having a ball right now….

Posted by: tubal at February 07, 2025 01:32 PM (PCK5/)

174 Trump wants to take over rare earths (whatever those are) in Ukraine. Time to pay, bitch!

Posted by: runner at February 07, 2025 01:32 PM (g47mK)

175 I see one leftist talking point it that firing government employees will raise the unemployment rate and hurt the economy.
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Hey! I think I see the problem there! It begins with the idea that *marxists* ever gave a single damn about the economy before! And it continues with their near-insta-grab of supply and demand curves! Since when did those evil bastards ever acknowledge that economic actions create market re-actions???

Fuck them, and the horse they used YOUR money to purchase and ride in on.

Posted by: Crusader at February 07, 2025 01:32 PM (azSra)

176 Rare Earth… not a bad band…

Posted by: tubal at February 07, 2025 01:33 PM (PCK5/)

177 TJM, the Super Bowl DOGE ads might be wishful thinking. But if they rehire the team Shannan used to do her ads, they'd knock it out of the park!

Elon: firing beurocrats, then watching them drive away in cars he sold them

Posted by: LizLem at February 07, 2025 01:33 PM (gWBY1)

178 The Trump Administration makes so much news I sign off every day knowing I covered half of it (at best) and not feeling that I'm actually done.

No mere mortal blogger could keep up with the Golden Scalp Weasel. It's a good thing you have Morons.

Posted by: DaveA at February 07, 2025 01:33 PM (FhXTo)

179 Doesn't Trump know that there's already a CONTINENT-SIZED mass of plastic floating around in the middle of the ocean???
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Atlantis rises again from the depths, ready to rule the known world!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 07, 2025 01:33 PM (Dv3i1)

180 It seems that with Biden's jobs mainly coming from government positions and illegal aliens, throwing people out of government jobs and closing the border, might work--for a time--against Trump.

But, we'll see.
Posted by: Axeman at February 07, 2025 01:26 PM

I thought of that as well. It's going to hurt for a while, but so be it. The price of draining the swamp. During Mud pants regime it seemed like goobermint jobs was the only gainz on the reports. But we can't all work for the govt. and I guess they need to learn to code.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 07, 2025 01:33 PM (ewjUl)

181 "Doesn't Trump know that there's already a CONTINENT-SIZED mass of plastic floating around in the middle of the ocean???"

Get some old Navy ships, some big nets, hire some ex-USAID employees, and start rounding that stuff up for recycling.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2025 01:33 PM (vFG9F)

182 CNN called. They are wondering if you're related to that Big Balls guy over at DOGE?
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My favorite part is how they re-ran part of the Russia Collusion fraud, the "server in Trump Tower communicated with a Russian bank over 2,000 times!" part.

Somehow, this Indian is now a Russian Agent! because his LLC registered some domains from Russia?

Russiaaaaa!!
Puuuutiiiinnn!!!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 07, 2025 01:33 PM (6T4RJ)

183 This is 2025. WTF can't a file name contain any of the following characters: \ / ; * > or |

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 01:33 PM (fUDLX)

184 Honestly, we Morons should form an Ace of Spades Charitable Group What Does Charitable Things and get on the gravy train. We'd be millionaires!

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 07, 2025 01:34 PM (Wg6v7)

185 Trumps freeze on foreign aid has hit the Jesuit Refugee Service, one of the biggest players in mass immigration in Ireland/EU. Yesterday they announced that all of their work across the globe has been stopped!
Posted by: SMOD

The Catholic Church could pick up the slack.
Posted by: rickb223

Nope. Won't happen anymore - monster, delicious panic at our Regional Catholic Charities board meeting the other day. The gravy train is over my friends.

(Our local CC board quit funding illegals long ago.)

Posted by: Tonypete at February 07, 2025 01:34 PM (WXNFJ)

186
Learn to coal.

Posted by: West Virginia Employment Commission at February 07, 2025 01:34 PM (DobEs)

187 Why are all the ads I'm getting served here about Islam?
Posted by: XTC at February 07, 2025 01:10 PM (sm6Pk)

Ads?

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 07, 2025 01:34 PM (iODuv)

188 My brother still lives and works on LI. He often works on rich NYers' summer homes. I keep telling him to leave, but he loves the LI beaches too much. And the weather. But he tells me similar things.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 07, 2025 01:25 PM (1bNHn)

I shit on LI a lot, but if I were very wealthy, I too would own a home in the Hamptons. It really is beautiful.

But I would not hire fucking illegal immigrants for my domestic staff. It's unbelievable.

You drive around out there and it's half incredibly wealthy white people and half hispanic people driving 30 year old beat up, probably uninsured cars, going to work for the incredibly wealthy white people.

It's so ... gross. I feel like I'm in the antebellum south. There's an entire class of Unpeople doing all of the work. Because they're slightly cheaper than hiring US citizens.

Arrest one or two of these multi millionaires hiring illegals and I think things would change real quickly out there though.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:34 PM (uCjyK)

189 There are two camps:

Posted by: ... at February 07, 2025 01:28 PM (Ja2Pp)
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Welcome to the camp, I guess you all know why we're here

Posted by: Axeman at February 07, 2025 01:34 PM (krQz2)

190 All but five of those jobs went to illegal alien Invaders.

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 01:34 PM (pJWq2)

191 Build a floating recycling center right next to the plastic continent and start mining.

Posted by: fd at February 07, 2025 01:34 PM (vFG9F)

192 Looks like Zuck lied about FB not doing independent fact checks anymore.

Shocker, I know.

Posted by: McLurkerson at February 07, 2025 01:35 PM (4lIqr)

193 Federal employees should not be allowed to unionize.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 07, 2025 01:36 PM (+QAIw)

194 153 >>> 121 A Russian singer accused of donating to the Ukraine army and calling President Vladimir Putin an “idiot” fell to his death from a window this week —
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Putin never said that Russia is a democracy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 07, 2025 01:36 PM (lCWOD)

195 >>> Oooh I can't wait to see the Factcheck on Super Bowl ads.

Fact check: frogs can't actually say bud-wise-er! Cowboys don't actually herd wild cats!

(Thinking of a few of my fave Super Bowl ads from years past)

Posted by: LizLem at February 07, 2025 01:36 PM (gWBY1)

196 193 Federal employees should not be allowed to unionize.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 07, 2025 01:36 PM (+QAIw)

Or breed.

Posted by: tubal at February 07, 2025 01:36 PM (PCK5/)

197 This is 2025. WTF can't a file name contain any of the following characters: \ / ; * > or |

Why do you need a file name longer than 8 characters anyway?

Posted by: MSDOS at February 07, 2025 01:36 PM (/y8xj)

198 Oh, for the good old days when it was only China getting access to US citizens' highly confidential data.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at February 07, 2025 01:36 PM (lg881)

199 Tennis Legend and Lifelong Democrat Martina Navratilova Rips Her Own Party for Being Blatant Failureswhere.

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What was your first clue?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 07, 2025 01:36 PM (L/fGl)

200 Chaos and division are bad for business.

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You left out the adjectives "thieving, grifting, and treasonous" before "business."

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 01:37 PM (pJWq2)

201 You drive around out there and it's half incredibly wealthy white people and half hispanic people driving 30 year old beat up, probably uninsured cars, going to work for the incredibly wealthy white people.

The Atlantic or some lefty mag like that published an article a few years ago that basically what 3rd generation feminism had done was get American women to hire Latin Americans to take care of their kids so they could climb the corporate ladder. And...it wasn't wrong.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:37 PM (t0Rmr)

202 As someone living in realville (I miss Rush) I expected things on the personal economic front would probably get worse before Trumps reforms could start making them better.

I must say that the blitz by Trump and team and especially the DOGE folks is so entertaining that I don't mind; but I am fortunate to have not been barely scraping by.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 07, 2025 01:37 PM (CKOCg)

203 I ended up on a mailing list for working moms in the bright blue town I lived in a few years ago. Most of the posts were about how to avoid paying taxes for the "undocumented" nannies they all employed.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:32 PM (t0Rmr)

I think we need to start very publicly arresting these animals who believe they are entitled to indentured servant labor.

Wouldn't take many arrests. Then, hey, shocker, they can hire American nannies to watch their kids. Unfortunately, yes, that means following US Employment laws, including collecting taxes, paying overtime, providing workers comp insurance, being open to potential lawsuits for all of their (inevitable) labor law violations etc. etc.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:37 PM (uCjyK)

204 199 Tennis Legend and Lifelong Democrat Martina Navratilova Rips Her Own Party for Being Blatant Failureswhere.

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What was your first clue?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 07, 2025 01:36 PM (L/fGl)

Homelier version of Rowling… still hard Left.

Posted by: tubal at February 07, 2025 01:37 PM (PCK5/)

205 A Russian singer accused of donating to the Ukraine army

Does the Uke army have an OnlyFans account or something where you can just donate to them?

And if this guy really did so, I mean what's that term for when you help a foreign country your own country is at war with? Oh yeah...treason.
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I earnestly believe that although the "western" model of civilization has been under attack since its inception, that the attacks sped and broadened after roughly half of our country during Clinton's 2nd term made the direct choice to choose "party" over *principles*. Once that divide was crossed and God chose not to strike them with lightning that very instant, they began to convince themselves that "anything goes, so long as I get what I want".

That, in my mind, was a significant turning point to where we ended up in 2025, but nationally and abroad (since the World tends to follow our dictates).

Posted by: Crusader at February 07, 2025 01:37 PM (azSra)

206 Too bad American entertainers don't understand it's to their benefit to remain entertainers and stfu.
They were once relegated to the crazies and they my be again.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 07, 2025 01:38 PM (lCWOD)

207 A Russian singer accused of donating to the Ukraine army and calling President Vladimir Putin an “idiot” fell to his death from a window this week —

No one will accuse him of not hitting the low notes anymore.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 07, 2025 01:38 PM (WXNFJ)

208 Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) sounds like a more promising donation choice for Catholics.
Posted by: mrp at February 07, 2025 01:30 PM (rj6Yv)

I volunteer and give directly to Catholic-run charities in my area. Small orgs with one or two part-time directors, direct involvement, no money going thousands of miles away to pad some Bishop’s bank account or become part of a commie slush fund run by non-Christians,

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 07, 2025 01:38 PM (l3YAf)

209 199 Tennis Legend and Lifelong Democrat Martina Navratilova Rips Her Own Party for Being Blatant Failureswhere.

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What was your first clue?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 07, 2025 01:36 PM (L/fGl)

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Seriously.

It's 2009. Democrats have a literal supermajority in the Senate for a few months in the summer.

They have a solid majority in the House.

They have the presidency.

What do they work on? Gun control? Immigration? Outlawing creationism in schools?

No, a giant sop to the Medical Insurance industry.

That was 16 years ago. You people need to catch up. The Democrat Party has been primarily concerned with graft for a long time

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:38 PM (GBKbO)

210 Build a floating recycling center right next to the plastic continent and start mining.
Posted by: fd at February 07, 2025 01:34 PM (vFG9F)
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Reminds me of The Simpsons episode where Mr. Burns takes the plastic rings from packs of soda cans, turns them into a net, and proceeds to harvest massive amounts of marine life for fun and profit (mostly profit).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2025 01:38 PM (7fElN)

211 Harry,

H1Bs don't get into management. At all.

And if you look at the STEM classes where people are learning technology, they don't look like Norman Rockwell paining either. Things are changing.

We need to stay competitive to survive and sometime you have to make compromises to do that.

I don't see a lot of coders standing on street corners.

Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2025 01:39 PM (QB+5g)

212 Fact check: frogs can't actually say bud-wise-er! Cowboys don't actually herd wild cats!

(Thinking of a few of my fave Super Bowl ads from years past)
Posted by: LizLem

Clydesdales kneeling in honor of the Twin Towers.
Baby Clydesdale stepping into the hitch traces and thinking he's pulling it while the adults are secretly pushing from behind.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 01:39 PM (fUDLX)

213 Looks like Zuck lied about FB not doing independent fact checks anymore.

Shocker, I know.

I ran across a post telling people to go damage the tires of INS vehicles so they couldn't arrest illegals. I reported it as a "call to violence" and none apparently that's a-ok on zuck's facebook.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:39 PM (t0Rmr)

214 The plaintiffs include the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Government Employees, Service Employees International Union and the progressive Economic Policy Institute.
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Really enjoying the courts that went out of their way to contrive absurd excuses to dismiss the 2020 election cases for lack of jurisdiction are suddenly bending over backwards, performing circus feats of unheard logical contortions to find jurisdiction and standing now.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 07, 2025 01:39 PM (6T4RJ)

215 Mad-wigged Maxine is up in the DOGE security guards face yelling at him in front of the DOE building. LOL More of this please.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 07, 2025 01:39 PM (/U5Yz)

216 Why are all the ads I'm getting served here about Islam?
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Ads?

Brave blocks most* ads for me but the ones I really miss were the ones where they glued pinto beans to some dude's neck and then scrapped them off with a popsicle stick. I totally would have bought that product if I could have figured out what it was.

* except, oddly enough, King Harv; it's good to be the king

Posted by: Oddbob at February 07, 2025 01:40 PM (/y8xj)

217 Does the Uke army have an OnlyFans account or something where you can just donate to them?

I am confused how exactly that works yeah LOL but if he did, yes its treason. Pushing him out a window seems like a dumb way to handle it, but Putin is a mob boss, not a president.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 01:40 PM (2VST1)

218 124 Trumps freeze on foreign aid has hit the Jesuit Refugee Service, one of the biggest players in mass immigration in Ireland/EU. Yesterday they announced that all of their work across the globe has been stopped!
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Why do Jesuits hate Christian Western civilization so much that they want to destroy it with unfettered immigration from the largely Muslim, 3rd world?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 07, 2025 01:40 PM (Dv3i1)

219 Mad-wigged Maxine is up in the DOGE security guards face yelling at him in front of the DOE building. LOL More of this please.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Sounds insurrection-y.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 01:41 PM (fUDLX)

220 217 Does the Uke army have an OnlyFans account or something where you can just donate to them?

I am confused how exactly that works yeah LOL but if he did, yes its treason. Pushing him out a window seems like a dumb way to handle it, but Putin is a mob boss, not a president.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 01:40 PM (2VST1)

So they ought to get a clue… do NOT mess with him…

Posted by: tubal at February 07, 2025 01:41 PM (PCK5/)

221 Wouldn't take many arrests. Then, hey, shocker, they can hire American nannies to watch their kids. Unfortunately, yes, that means following US Employment laws, including collecting taxes, paying overtime, providing workers comp insurance, being open to potential lawsuits for all of their (inevitable) labor law violations etc. etc.

That reminds me of one post I saw where apparently an American woman had found out one of these working moms needed a nanny and talked with her about it. The working mom was *raging* that the American woman had asked for $20/h. Now again keep in mind that was at the time the left was going bonkers about demanding "living wages"

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:42 PM (t0Rmr)

222 218 124 Trumps freeze on foreign aid has hit the Jesuit Refugee Service, one of the biggest players in mass immigration in Ireland/EU. Yesterday they announced that all of their work across the globe has been stopped!
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Why do Jesuits hate Christian Western civilization so much that they want to destroy it with unfettered immigration from the largely Muslim, 3rd world?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Jesuit = communist.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 07, 2025 01:42 PM (/U5Yz)

223 I'd imagine they've been faking the statistics for decades depending on what they want to happen.
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Trump should order they retroactively revise the CPI to the 1980's calculation basket.

Jumping inflation under Biden from 4% to 13%.

And letting Trump then claim even greater reductions over the next 4 years; instead of say, 4% to 3% under the old, it'll be 13% to 5% under the actual.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 07, 2025 01:42 PM (6T4RJ)

224 Why are all the ads I'm getting served here about Islam?

Mine is for a see through panty and bra set. Hmmm...(deletes cookies)

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 07, 2025 01:42 PM (ewjUl)

225 Eight characters ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: The 1980s at February 07, 2025 01:42 PM (DobEs)

226 This is 2025. WTF can't a file name contain any of the following characters: \ / ; * > or |
Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 01:33 PM (fUDLX)

Linux lets you use anything but a forward slash and a NUL byte.

Which is actually kinda dumb, because it lets you create filenames that mess everything up and are very hard to rename or delete.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 07, 2025 01:43 PM (l3YAf)

227 There are two camps:

Camp 1 - This is happening because the Left fought Trump so hard.

Camp 2 - The Left fought Trump so hard because they didn't want this to happen.
Posted by: ... at February 07, 2025 01:28 PM (Ja2Pp)

Camp 3 - CRY HARDER BITCHEZ!!!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2025 01:43 PM (wyMQY)

228 223 Jumping inflation under Biden from 4% to 13%.

And letting Trump then claim even greater reductions over the next 4 years; instead of say, 4% to 3% under the old, it'll be 13% to 5% under the actual.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 07, 2025 01:42 PM (6T4RJ)

=======

I've had this thought.

But first...demand reapportionment of the House based on the Census' corrected count.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

229 Looks like Zuck lied about FB not doing independent fact checks anymore.

Yeah he lied about being helplessly forced by the mean ol' government to censor and suppress news stories, too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 01:43 PM (2VST1)

230 H1Bs don't get into management. At all.

And if you look at the STEM classes where people are learning technology, they don't look like Norman Rockwell paining either. Things are changing.

We need to stay competitive to survive and sometime you have to make compromises to do that.

I don't see a lot of coders standing on street corners.
Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2025 01:39 PM (QB+5g)

You are wrong on many levels.

First off, H1B is the foothold for most of these people. O1 visas are also used for the same thing.

There are many many unemployed coders in the US. I know several professionally, and at least one personally.

There is not some natural reason why our colleges are filling so many slots with foreign students. It's because foreign students pay full boat tuition.

And the people we are importing are, almost to a person, less qualified and make Americans companies less competitive than if they hired Americans to do those jobs.

But really most importantly -- in your mind, what is a country? A shared culture, language, peoples? Or just a piece of land where we barely co-exist?

1/2

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:44 PM (uCjyK)

231 BTW, all that shit floating around in the ocean is from all the third world shit holes.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 07, 2025 01:44 PM (ewjUl)

232 >>> 228

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I've had this thought.

But first...demand reapportionment of the House based on the Census' corrected count.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:43 PM (GBKbO)

DO IT DONNY TWO SCOOPS!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2025 01:44 PM (Vqx30)

233 Considering that Biden's biggest contributions to the economy during his entire term were the CHIPS Act (probably not his idea) and driving like a demented old maniac around a tarmac in a Ford Lightning truck wearing those Ray-Ban Aviators and a shit-eating grin,... this news doesn't surprise me.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 07, 2025 01:44 PM (6ydKt)

234 Maxine Waters is the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services committee. Let that sink in

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 07, 2025 01:44 PM (EUtBO)

235 Why are all the ads I'm getting served here about Islam?

I was getting a ton of Islam ads/groups posted to my farcebook feed last year. I assume someone in the Muslim world paid Zuck a bunch of money.

So what did our Muslims friends have to say?

1) Israel was killing Palis for literally no reason
2) The brave Palis were killing all sorts of Israelis because they are evil infidels occupying Muslim holy lands
3) The Israelis aren't even the original Jews, they are just a bunch of Khazars.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:44 PM (t0Rmr)

236 132 Prediction: Those five ads will live for as long as the Republic exists.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE ORANGEMAN BAD IS GOING TO DESTROY THE REPUBLIC

Posted by: ben roethlisberger at February 07, 2025 01:44 PM (oY6Yp)

237 Speaking of, wasn't here yesterday but did the return of Carl Jr's bikini-babe burger model ad get discussed?

Winning!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

It was discussed, but I don't think seeing it again is going to hurt anything! https://tinyurl.com/8c5r8nd4

I have to admit, though, this ad isn't quite as hot as some of the earlier ones...but it's a great start in the right direction. Also, it's Hardees around here, so Carl's Jr. also sounds weird to me.

Fuck you, I'm eating

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 07, 2025 01:44 PM (JCZqz)

238 231 BTW, all that shit floating around in the ocean is from all the third world shit holes.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Indonesia is a floating garbage dump.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 07, 2025 01:45 PM (/U5Yz)

239 Mad-wigged Maxine is up in the DOGE security guards face yelling at him in front of the DOE building. LOL More of this please.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 07, 2025 01:39 PM

Someone asked yesterday here. When she dies is the wig actually just the host?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 07, 2025 01:46 PM (ewjUl)

240 237 Speaking of, wasn't here yesterday but did the return of Carl Jr's bikini-babe burger model ad get discussed?

Winning!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

It was discussed, but I don't think seeing it again is going to hurt anything! https://tinyurl.com/8c5r8nd4

we'll know we're winning when the nfl tries to lure us back by once again showing us pointy elbows whenever there's a pause in the action

Posted by: anachronda at February 07, 2025 01:46 PM (oY6Yp)

241 224 Why are all the ads I'm getting served here about Islam?

Mine is for a see through panty and bra set. Hmmm...(deletes cookies)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 07, 2025 01:42 PM (ewjUl)

Mine is for a "wedding dress" that no daughter of mine would be allowed to wear EVAH.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 07, 2025 01:46 PM (LxER7)

242 BTW, all that shit floating around in the ocean is from all the third world shit holes.

A fair amount is stuff US environmentalists sent to China to recycle. Plastic recycling is horrible so China just dumped it in the ocean

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:46 PM (t0Rmr)

243 2/2
Because if the answer is we need to replace American employees with employees from the third world to "stay competitive" (which, again, I wholly disagree with you on this premise), then maybe it's better to not stay competitive and let China import the entire third world to make them the leading superpower in the world. Since obviously that is how it works.

Because the alternative is a never-ending supply of people willing to undercut American wages, who have turned american companies in to companies that are not run by americans, dont employ americans, dont pay much in taxes in america, but get all the benefits and protections of being an american company, while the american middle class withers away and dies.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:46 PM (uCjyK)

244
Putin is a KGB trained thug and killer, not a brilliant 4-D chess grand master.

Zelinsky being a crooked grifter who hasn't stood for scheduled elections doesn't change that fact.

Posted by: Auspex at February 07, 2025 01:47 PM (j4U/Z)

245 Mad-wigged Maxine is up in the DOGE security guards face yelling at him in front of the DOE building. LOL More of this please.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Sounds insurrection-y.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 01:41 PM (fUDLX)

Sounds like she needs her meds adjusted.

Posted by: mrp at February 07, 2025 01:47 PM (rj6Yv)

246 Mine is for a "wedding dress" that no daughter of mine would be allowed to wear EVAH.

Hey bro could you share the link?

Posted by: Kanye West at February 07, 2025 01:47 PM (t0Rmr)

247 245 Mad-wigged Maxine is up in the DOGE security guards face yelling at him in front of the DOE building. LOL More of this please.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

She's gonna have a stroke... I hope...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 07, 2025 01:47 PM (VE6XX)

248 all that shit floating around in the ocean is from all the third world shit holes.

99.9% yeah. Cruise ships dump a ton of crap out in the oceans too. The way I understand it is that there's no actual "floating island of trash the size of [hysterical huge item]" in the ocean. Its an estimate of the total amount of crap in the ocean and then combining it as if it somehow congealed in one spot.

There are probably some places with a convection or currents that combine a bunch of stuff into an area, but not these "the size of Hawaii!!" claims.

And that picture of the turtle with a straw in its nose like an extra from Miami Vice gives me strong "chasing lemmings off a cliff with the helicopter" vibe.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 01:47 PM (2VST1)

249 Laundering Admiral Akbar posts ought to carry some sort of penalty.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 07, 2025 01:47 PM (Dv3i1)

250 Hawaiian judges will stop doge every chance they get.

It all depends on appellate courts and scotus. They will decide the fate of the country.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 07, 2025 01:48 PM (A1UYC)

251 >> H1Bs don't get into management. At all.

I’ve seem it happen.

>> And if you look at the STEM classes where people are learning technology, they don't look like Norman Rockwell paining either. Things are changing.

Lot’s of foreign students who are trying to get into our tech industry. They’ll hold work visas soon enough.

>> We need to stay competitive to survive and sometime you have to make compromises to do that.

They’re not competitive; most of them are deadweight. I had to keep our H1Bs away from anything important because they’d inevitably break it.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 07, 2025 01:48 PM (l3YAf)

252 @228 if you think the Dems have lost their marbles with DOGE , an attempt to change the districts based upon a change in reapportionment would be insanity on steroids and human growth hormone.
Do it Trump , do it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 07, 2025 01:48 PM (EUtBO)

253 The only ad I see is King Harv.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 07, 2025 01:48 PM (KWujZ)

254 It would be epic if Mad Max stroked out in one of here tirades

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2025 01:48 PM (fwDg9)

255 Maxine Waters is the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services committee. Let that sink in
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I'd bet donuts-to-dollars that Maxine couldn't count the pages in a coloring book and get it right on the 1st attempt.

But by all means, put this prime example of a "fundamentally non-serious" choice on the Financial Services committee.

Posted by: Crusader at February 07, 2025 01:48 PM (azSra)

256 She's gonna have a stroke... I hope...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 07, 2025 01:47 PM (VE6XX)

She's calling her donors and they're askin' "Where's my check?"

Posted by: mrp at February 07, 2025 01:49 PM (rj6Yv)

257 “It all depends on appellate courts and scotus. They will decide the fate of the country.”

Posted by: Federalist #404 at February 07, 2025 01:49 PM (l3YAf)

258 Dan Bongino
@dbongino

Hear me out.
I’m sitting here in my office enjoying every delicious moment of this “Big Balls” story.
I’m enjoying it because it’s a near perfect example of how the reflexively anti-Trump media is still confused as to who’s in charge now.
These communist clowns still think they’re in charge of what news to isolate, polarize and weaponize. But, they’re not. Not even close. Between Trump’s massive megaphone and this enormous army of MAGA content creators and influencers we have the power to take a media story like “Big Balls” and make it a hilarious rallying cry where the media IS THE JOKE.
Old school media still hasn’t caught up. They’re still living in the Cronkite era. It’s so satisfying to watch.

Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2025 01:49 PM (RHGPo)

259 Linux lets you use anything but a forward slash and a NUL byte.

Which is actually kinda dumb, because it lets you create filenames that mess everything up and are very hard to rename or delete.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

But yet, you can do a wildcard search with *

So the computer recognizes *.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 07, 2025 01:49 PM (fUDLX)

260 225 Eight characters ought to be enough for anybody.

luxury! six plus two is enough for everything

Posted by: os/8 at February 07, 2025 01:49 PM (oY6Yp)

261 Speaking of, wasn't here yesterday but did the return of Carl Jr's bikini-babe burger model ad get discussed?

Supposedly beer companies are going to be running cute girl ads for beer in the Stupor Bowl this year.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 01:49 PM (2VST1)

262 244
Putin is a KGB trained thug and killer, not a brilliant 4-D chess grand master.

Zelinsky being a crooked grifter who hasn't stood for scheduled elections doesn't change that fact.
Posted by: Auspex at February 07, 2025 01:47 PM (j4U/Z)

How about they are both bad news and we have no business dealing with them?

Posted by: tubal at February 07, 2025 01:49 PM (PCK5/)

263 It's all about the money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 07, 2025 01:49 PM (lCWOD)

264 "Doesn't Trump know that there's already a CONTINENT-SIZED mass of plastic floating around in the middle of the ocean???"

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I like how the left makes it out to be like this giant mass of plastic almost thick enough to walk on.

When, in reality, it's more like, you could be at the center and count 2, maybe 3 pieces of plastic within eye shot.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 07, 2025 01:50 PM (6T4RJ)

265 252 @228 if you think the Dems have lost their marbles with DOGE , an attempt to change the districts based upon a change in reapportionment would be insanity on steroids and human growth hormone.
Do it Trump , do it
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 07, 2025 01:48 PM (EUtBO)

=======

The Census under Biden admitted that they screwed up. They put out an article about it describing their boo-boos.

It was outright fraud.

Wonder why we can't get a decent majority in the House? That's why.

A 2030 census where illegals aren't counted, the 2020 "errors" are fixed, and the Great Migration is fully taken into account will be a massive earthquake in American politics.

It's probably the most important event in federal politics in the next 10 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 07, 2025 01:50 PM (GBKbO)

266 Hawaiian judges will stop doge every chance they get.

It all depends on appellate courts and scotus. They will decide the fate of the country.
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Nah, the more of Trump's people take over the various departments and the longer they have in power, the more pointless Hawaiian judges' roles will become. You can't lock DOGE out if the head of the department keeps unlocking the door when they arrive.

Posted by: Crusader at February 07, 2025 01:50 PM (azSra)

267 “Big Balls” “Big Balls” “Big Balls”

Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2025 01:50 PM (RHGPo)

268 Posted by: Crusader at February 07, 2025 01:48 PM (azSra)

I'm old enough to remember when the saying was "I'd bet dollars to donuts". because donuts were 3 or 4 for a dollar.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 07, 2025 01:50 PM (CKOCg)

269 Trump's honeymoon looks like the Mongol siege of Baghdad in Jan. 1258. Glorious, if you're on the winning side. Let's go, Brandon.

Posted by: Malcolm Kirkpatrick at February 07, 2025 01:50 PM (fgkXD)

270 This insane woman is the Director of Government Affairs for CAIR Kentucky. She saw a man who was wearing traditional Jewish clothing and became enraged. A man films her and she has to be held back to prevent her from attacking the man filming all while she verbally accosts him and vomits anti-Semitic trash.

http://tiny.cc/2m79001

Posted by: bonhomme at February 07, 2025 01:50 PM (Odg76)

271 Which is actually kinda dumb, because it lets you create filenames that mess everything up and are very hard to rename or delete.

The philosophy behind that is super libertarian: make everything so free it can go horribly wrong because free is better than utility. Maybe they're right, but its challenging for normal people to use.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 01:51 PM (2VST1)

272 I would think there are reasons that your known personally coder can't find a job beyond the fact that there are H1Bs filling out the ranks of Jr. and Associate level.

Do you work in a technical field? Are you constantly under pressure constantly to deliver a quality product with a smaller staff than required?

Do Americans have to look like you?

Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2025 01:51 PM (QB+5g)

273 How about they are both bad news and we have no business dealing with them?
Posted by: tubal at February 07, 2025 01:49 PM (PCK5/)

wait, let's not be hasty, I want those rare minerals !

Posted by: runner at February 07, 2025 01:51 PM (g47mK)

274 >>> 262 244
Putin is a KGB trained thug and killer, not a brilliant 4-D chess grand master.

Zelinsky being a crooked grifter who hasn't stood for scheduled elections doesn't change that fact.
Posted by: Auspex at February 07, 2025 01:47 PM (j4U/Z)

How about they are both bad news and we have no business dealing with them?
Posted by: tubal at February 07, 2025 01:49 PM (PCK5/)

I wonder if USAID was funding OMG Russia too, and both countries were only receiving about 2% (like Haiti) of what supposedly went to them.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2025 01:51 PM (Vqx30)

275 Bacon and eggs are good.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 07, 2025 01:51 PM (KWujZ)

276 Supposedly beer companies are going to be running cute girl ads for beer in the Stupor Bowl this year.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I don't understand? No one reached out to me!

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at February 07, 2025 01:51 PM (JCZqz)

277 Supposedly beer companies are going to be running cute girl ads for beer in the Stupor Bowl this year.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 01:49 PM (2VST1)

Bud Light has one with Shane Gillis that makes fun of gay and stupid commercials it used to make. Still never giving Bud a dime as long as I live. But they are trying to atone, kinda.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 07, 2025 01:52 PM (A1UYC)

278 267 “Big Balls” “Big Balls” “Big Balls”
Posted by: SMOD at February 07, 2025 01:50 PM (RHGPo)

I read the kid is 19...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 07, 2025 01:52 PM (VE6XX)

279 249 Laundering Admiral Akbar posts ought to carry some sort of penalty.

i saw laundering admiral akbar open for waiving mexican flags on the streets just the other day

Posted by: anachronda at February 07, 2025 01:52 PM (oY6Yp)

280 He's a radical, I tell ya!

https://is.gd/vjYSkG

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Trump will sign an EO legalizing plastic straws.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 07, 2025 01:25 PM (L/fGl)

Which reminded me, I lost my metal straws in the move.

Must buy more.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 07, 2025 01:52 PM (feq9a)

281 Because if the answer is we need to replace American employees with employees from the third world to "stay competitive" (which, again, I wholly disagree with you on this premise), then maybe it's better to not stay competitive and let China import the entire third world to make them the leading superpower in the world. Since obviously that is how it works.

Because the alternative is a never-ending supply of people willing to undercut American wages, who have turned american companies in to companies that are not run by americans, dont employ americans, dont pay much in taxes in america, but get all the benefits and protections of being an american company, while the american middle class withers away and dies.
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BRAVO!

Posted by: Crusader at February 07, 2025 01:52 PM (azSra)

282 Why do Jesuits hate Christian Western civilization so much that they want to destroy it with unfettered immigration from the largely Muslim, 3rd world?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Jesuit = communist.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 07, 2025 01:42 PM (/U5Yz)

The left constantly blathers about separation of church and state...yet... funnels tax money to a religious organization?

How the hell does that make sense?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 07, 2025 01:52 PM (QAkQ3)

283 They’re not competitive; most of them are deadweight. I had to keep our H1Bs away from anything important because they’d inevitably break it.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 07, 2025 01:48 PM (l3YAf)

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Our experience (the wifey, me, and friends) in the software development industry a couple of decades ago: not only do they break it, but then we get called in to inevitably fix it.

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 01:52 PM (oQYy3)

284 "Doesn't Trump know that there's already a CONTINENT-SIZED mass of plastic floating around in the middle of the ocean???"

Get some old Navy ships, some big nets, hire some ex-USAID employees, and start rounding that stuff up for recycling.
Posted by: fd

https://theoceancleanup.com/

Some Dutch teenager started this about 10-ish years ago.

But the ex-USAID guys might work cheaper!!!

Posted by: Adriane Wot Sez Oy Vey! Way too Much These Days . . . at February 07, 2025 01:52 PM (tcomi)

285 We need to stay competitive to survive and sometime you have to make compromises to do that.

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Like what? Be specific, please. Because I'm not willing to force Americans to compete against indentured servants and pretend everything is business as usual.

For the record, it's my position that there are likely not even ten jobs in America that someone from a country without indoor plumbing would be better trained and more qualified for, but it's mostly just a matter of not wanting to pay the employee or have the indentured servitude / deportation threat hanging over their 80+ hour week if they get uppity.

Conveniently the govt has been actively working against hiring white men at the same time a caste system has been literally put in place around the nation. That's not an insult or a joke. The caste system is alive and well in hiring, promoting, etc.

https://tinyurl.com/32bn6zzm

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 07, 2025 01:53 PM (Rsgsz)

286 Big Balls and Al Green yelling about Dirty Deeds.

Dems singing AC/DC karaoke

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 07, 2025 01:53 PM (EUtBO)

287 Fuck them with a team of Clydesdales.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 07, 2025 01:53 PM (KWujZ)

288 Atlantis rises again from the depths, ready to rule the known world!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 07, 2025 01:33 PM (Dv3i1)

That would be Craplantis.

Actually I am very deeply concerned about a huge island of garbage in the middle of the sea. But enough about England.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 07, 2025 01:54 PM (wyMQY)

289 I'm old enough to remember when the saying was "I'd bet dollars to donuts". because donuts were 3 or 4 for a dollar.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 07, 2025 01:50 PM (CKOCg)
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A student group was selling donuts outside the library where I work (but do not work for).

The price? $2 / donut.

Of course, this was a fundraising activity, so I expect a fair amount of markup.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 07, 2025 01:54 PM (7fElN)

290 Carl’s Jr has a commercial with hot blonde with cleavage eating a massive bacon burger then driving off in a muscle car. This the company that in 2017 announced it would end “mYsoGiNiStic ads.

Boobs. Bacon. Gas guzzling muscle car.

‘’Murica is back.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 07, 2025 01:54 PM (A1UYC)

291 Supposedly beer companies are going to be running cute girl ads for beer in the Stupor Bowl this year.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Carl's Jr. brought back their burger hottie too. Great times.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 07, 2025 01:54 PM (/U5Yz)

292 Look, I have such a bug up my ass about immigration because I watch it first hand. I have a client that is a small'ish immigration law firm.

I'm not involved in the actual immigration work, but obviously lawyers talk.

I'm telling you, the rampant fraud is out of control.

AND the most frustrating part to me is I work with / know a lot of these people who came here as white collar immigrants. They talk about us the same way Vivek does. "Americans are stupid, fat, lazy, they don't work hard" etc. etc. so they won't hire Americans, they call all white people racist, they hate our country, our culture, and everything about it. They think America is just one big scam land and their goal in life is to get a piece of that scam money for themselves and their families.

To me, this is by far the biggest medium term threat our country faces. The government admits that over 15% of people living in the US right now were not born here. Obviously the number is much higher when we count illegals.

What happens when they all start voting? And their kids start voting?

Do you think they will vote the same way they did back home, or will they vote like Americans?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 01:54 PM (uCjyK)

293 >>Supposedly beer companies are going to be running cute girl ads for beer in the Stupor Bowl this year.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I noticed that the Shane Gillis Bud Light ads are very pale in their casting.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 07, 2025 01:55 PM (eb5mD)

294 Which reminded me, I lost my metal straws in the move.

Must buy more.
Posted by: BurtTC

(Scribbles furiously) It must be code for illegal bolts or suppressors!!!

Posted by: Old Biden ATF holdout at February 07, 2025 01:55 PM (JCZqz)

295 288 I thought you were talking about Puerto Rico.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 07, 2025 01:55 PM (KWujZ)

296 If they are on the payroll for 8 months, we have some time before they show up as unemployed.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 07, 2025 01:56 PM (EV2jz)

297 I'm old enough to remember when the saying was "I'd bet dollars to donuts". because donuts were 3 or 4 for a dollar.

People have been posting images of fast food prices from before Biden-flation to farcebook, either receipts or pictures of drive through menus and there is a continuous stream of lefties arguing they are all lies/altered/manipulated.

But yeah it is amazing how much cheaper food was before Biden destroyed the currency

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:56 PM (t0Rmr)

298 calling President Vladimir Putin an “idiot” fell to his death from a window

Defenestration is still due process in Russia.

Posted by: DaveA at February 07, 2025 01:57 PM (FhXTo)

299 Weird how firing tens of thousands for refusing the clot shot was A-OK with the left.

But fired for laundering money? That’s unconstitutional.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 07, 2025 01:57 PM (A1UYC)

300 Does the 8 months of pay disqualliffy them from unemployment benefits?

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 07, 2025 01:57 PM (KWujZ)

301 231 BTW, all that shit floating around in the ocean is from all the third world shit holes.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Indonesia is a floating garbage dump.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 07, 2025 01:45 PM (/U5Yz)

Don’t forget this gem:

1) The plastics industry invented the recycling logo to trick Americans into thinking plastics were more eco-friendly than they are, when in fact most can’t be recycled at all.

2) The left insisted we all recycle plastics.

3) Recycling plastics is uneconomical so eventually we just started paying China to “recycle” for us.

4) “Oh, hey, where did this large trash pile in the middle of the Pacific come from??”

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 07, 2025 01:57 PM (l3YAf)

302 Putin sings:

This is my country
A big country
Land that I love*

*don't fuck with it defenestration's more than a word

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 07, 2025 01:57 PM (lCWOD)

303 I noticed that the Shane Gillis Bud Light ads are very pale in their casting.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 07, 2025 01:55 PM (eb5mD)

We'll post Malone has so much ink he might not be white anymore. Maybe that counts for the quota.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 07, 2025 01:58 PM (MGB5H)

304 I would tell these judges Go find a army to stop me

Posted by: Skip at February 07, 2025 01:58 PM (fwDg9)

305 AND the most frustrating part to me is I work with / know a lot of these people who came here as white collar immigrants. They talk about us the same way Vivek does. "Americans are stupid, fat, lazy, they don't work hard" etc. etc.

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The absurd action is thinking that this isn't a coordinated effort by their home nation to slowly gain a foothold and eventually dominance of the U.S.

People who think "oh, we need them here to do really crappy coding jobs that Americans then have to constantly go back and fix" are missing the geopolitical side of the entire thing.

This is an invasion, no different than what's happening with the cartels and the illegals. Just a different approach.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 07, 2025 01:59 PM (Rsgsz)

306 1) The plastics industry invented the recycling logo to trick Americans into thinking plastics were more eco-friendly than they are, when in fact most can’t be recycled at all.

I miss glass bottles and hoard them whenever I can! those are useful forever basically

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 07, 2025 01:59 PM (Pv3Rg)

307 "No, it's K. The numbers are on total employment, not the monthly employment changes."

Oh, yeah, the footnote says numbers are in thousands. my bad

Posted by: illiniwek at February 07, 2025 01:59 PM (Cus5s)

308 I would tell these judges Go find a army to stop me
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Or put a team of "top people" together to prepare a study on how to most efficiently comply with the order. Have them meet quarterly.

Posted by: Crusader at February 07, 2025 01:59 PM (azSra)

309 "I have Big Balls and I cannot lie. . . "

-- Our Glorious Donald

Posted by: Tonypete at February 07, 2025 01:59 PM (WXNFJ)

310 But yeah it is amazing how much cheaper food was before Biden destroyed the currency

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Inflation is only 3% so long as you don't count the stuff everyone needs to consume daily.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 07, 2025 02:00 PM (Rsgsz)

311 >>> 272 I would think there are reasons that your known personally coder can't find a job beyond the fact that there are H1Bs filling out the ranks of Jr. and Associate level.

Do you work in a technical field? Are you constantly under pressure constantly to deliver a quality product with a smaller staff than required?

Do Americans have to look like you?
Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2025 01:51 PM (QB+5g)

Why yes, pawn, as a matter of fact, I have worked in a technical field at various companies for *decades*, and yes, I am familiar with the pressure of quality vs staffing.

Yes, overall H1Bs have a negative effect, because (like many things our so-called elites do) there are too fcking many of them and most are brought in for the wrong reasons (not who they look like - how cheap they are, for starters).

... although maybe it's not H1Bs that are causing difficulty for the example coder in question - maybe that person refused to get the clot shot.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2025 02:00 PM (Vqx30)

312 >> They think America is just one big scam land and their goal in life is to get a piece of that scam money for themselves and their families.

This. 1000% this.

And remember, Vivek is a billionaire because of a pharma rug-pull. He’s just an unusually successful call center scammer.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 07, 2025 02:00 PM (l3YAf)

313 What happens when they all start voting? And their kids start voting?

One town I lived in went from middle class American, to upper middle class/lower upper class Indian and it was funny to watch it happen in slow motion. After a certain point most of the new restaurants were Indian, we got "antiracism" groups that complained about the treatment of the (literally) one black family in town but were all staffed by Indians and on and on. I watched a significant percentage of the townies, who had been there for generations, taxed out of the family home...

Oh and the town went from 60-40 dem (I live in a blue area) to 90-10 dem.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 02:01 PM (t0Rmr)

314 I would think there are reasons that your known personally coder can't find a job beyond the fact that there are H1Bs filling out the ranks of Jr. and Associate level.

Do you work in a technical field? Are you constantly under pressure constantly to deliver a quality product with a smaller staff than required?

Do Americans have to look like you?
Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2025 01:51 PM (QB+5g)

I am a lawyer in a niche area of the law, so I will not say more and dox myself.

But suffice to say my job means I'm involved with a lot of tech companies and as such, I'm heavily involved with the firms who do the immigration paperwork for the tech companies on behalf of the people they hire from the third world and those peoples families.

As far as does an American have to look like me? I know where you're going with this, but let me turn it around: what does it mean to be an American?

If you get two feet on american soil you're now an american? Is that the rule?

Or are we going to live in the real world where a country is a group of people with similar ethnic backgrounds, languages, cultural history, etc?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 02:01 PM (uCjyK)

315 Unless you get a good recommendation from a friend or relative of yours about illegals who had worked for them, why would you risk hiring an illegal to clean your house or God forbid be a nanny to your kid? How would you know that the illegal wasn't the girlfriend of some gang member who would rob you blind or kidnap your kid?. Just to save some money I'm not hiring an American whose references you can check? These wealthy people are nuts if they're doing this.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025 02:01 PM (PKPQP)

316
Inflation is only 3% so long as you don't count the stuff everyone needs to consume daily.

In the last 10 years I've bought one TV and 2 phones, but official government stats say these purchases are more important then my weekly grocery trips.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 02:02 PM (t0Rmr)

317 Meant "just to save some money but not hiring an American."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025 02:02 PM (PKPQP)

318 Unless you get a good recommendation from a friend or relative of yours about illegals who had worked for them, why would you risk hiring an illegal to clean your house or God forbid be a nanny to your kid? How would you know that the illegal wasn't the girlfriend of some gang member who would rob you blind or kidnap your kid?. Just to save some money I'm not hiring an American whose references you can check? These wealthy people are nuts if they're doing this.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025 02:01 PM (PKPQP)

This is how those Chilean gangs are casing th athletes houses they rob when the team goes on the road.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 07, 2025 02:03 PM (MGB5H)

319 ... although maybe it's not H1Bs that are causing difficulty for the example coder in question - maybe that person refused to get the clot shot.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 07, 2025 02:00 PM (Vqx30)

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Or he's "overqualified" and dares to expect a salary congruent with his education and work experience & knowledge.

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 02:03 PM (sLgq/)

320 I would tell these judges Go find a army to stop me

I'd just say "your opinion is noted" because of separation of powers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 02:04 PM (2VST1)

321 Unless you get a good recommendation from a friend or relative of yours about illegals who had worked for them, why would you risk hiring an illegal to clean your house or God forbid be a nanny to your kid?

Oh I have the actual answer to this, again from that working moms mailing list

1) They are way cheaper than Americans
2) They are submissive in a way Americans are not - they don't ask for time off, they don't call out sick, they don't disagree when you tell them how you want something done

Its like the leftist girlboss dream

Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 02:04 PM (t0Rmr)

322 315 Unless you get a good recommendation from a friend or relative of yours about illegals who had worked for them, why would you risk hiring an illegal to clean your house or God forbid be a nanny to your kid? How would you know that the illegal wasn't the girlfriend of some gang member who would rob you blind or kidnap your kid?. Just to save some money I'm not hiring an American whose references you can check? These wealthy people are nuts if they're doing this.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025 02:01 PM (PKPQP)

They have cameras.

But yeah, you don't know who you're hiring. The same if you hire an American citizen.

But the truth of the matter is -- most central american people are very nice, sweet, trustworthy people. Very few are actual gang bangers or street criminals.

This is nothing about them personally. They just need to go home.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 02:04 PM (uCjyK)

323 Under Carter we had Stagflation.

Under Biden we had Fagstlation.

Posted by: zombie at February 07, 2025 02:04 PM (pMi6S)

324 And remember, Vivek is a billionaire because of a pharma rug-pull. He’s just an unusually successful call center scammer.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 07, 2025 02:00 PM (l3YAf)

Hmm. Interesting.

I expect this language that smells like overt bigotry is actually well thought out reasoning based on the individual situation, and not, say, overt bigotry.
I await your supporting argument.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 07, 2025 02:04 PM (D7oie)

325 However, the next jobs report will show massive ball growth. Big. Yuge.
Posted by: Big McLargehuge at February 07, 2025 01:16 PM (Ybyk2)

With any luck, the decreases in government and affiliated NGO employment will be offset by gains in productive jobs, leading to mostly neutral jobs reports.
I wouldn't bet on a yuuuuge bump in the near future.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 07, 2025 02:05 PM (FCbAQ)

326 Our experience (the wifey, me, and friends) in the software development industry a couple of decades ago: not only do they break it, but then we get called in to inevitably fix it.
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 01:52 PM (oQYy3)

Yep. A project that would take me an afternoon alone would take a dozen H1Bs two weeks and would be unusable dreck.

One of the most useful non-tech lessons I learned in Silicon Valley is that H1Bs/offshore coders don’t care if you actually use their code. Just send them the reqs, write the code yourself and never deploy their trash to prod.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 07, 2025 02:05 PM (l3YAf)

327 Biden's economic numbers are to DEI for.

Posted by: zombie at February 07, 2025 02:05 PM (pMi6S)

328 321

Oh I have the actual answer to this, again from that working moms mailing list

1) They are way cheaper than Americans
2) They are submissive in a way Americans are not - they don't ask for time off, they don't call out sick, they don't disagree when you tell them how you want something done

Its like the leftist girlboss dream
Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 02:04 PM (t0Rmr)

I thinkyou have hit on a huge part of this phenomenon.. kudos.

Posted by: tubal at February 07, 2025 02:05 PM (PCK5/)

329 Hmmm... So, Judges are now seeing cases saying DOGE must be stopped because it will be a catastrophe for foreigners... which... last I checked, is not against the law..

But a matter of Policy. It's time to ignore these courts... and if it creates a crises? Well... looks like we are already in one created by Rouge Judges.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 07, 2025 02:05 PM (QAkQ3)

330 Or he's "overqualified" and dares to expect a salary congruent with his education and work experience & knowledge.
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 02:03 PM (sLgq/)

My friend? Yeah, closer to this.

But the open secret is the big tech companies are just not hiring white men. DEI / visas / non-americans work cheaper/ caste-based hiring decisions by the Indians in decision making positions...

Smaller companies still hire American programmers, but there is a much bigger supply of American programmers than there is demand.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 02:06 PM (uCjyK)

331 Who could have guessed that intentionally crippling the economy would hurt the economy?

Posted by: zombie at February 07, 2025 02:07 PM (pMi6S)

332 Japanese Businessmen like Karaoke.
I don't know about hookers...
Just sayin..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 07, 2025 02:07 PM (jQ+5q)

333 Some people just love to shove other people around… seems a very Democrat thing.

Posted by: tubal at February 07, 2025 02:07 PM (PCK5/)

334 Rogue judges. Unless they are wearing makeup.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 07, 2025 02:07 PM (KWujZ)

335 On the entertainment front. We just got forwarded a NASA memo. "SUBJECT: Initial Guidance Regarding Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism
and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Executive Order".

Personally, this 'ette thinks that the only defense women need from "GEI" or in general is keeping mentally ill trannies out of the ladies rooms. I cringe whenever I hear feminazi drivel about typical promotion practices hinder women because we are not good at self promotion yada yada. But I am enjoying the destruction of DEI, lordy I hated that BS.

Posted by: PaleRider at February 07, 2025 02:07 PM (CKOCg)

336 One of the most useful non-tech lessons I learned in Silicon Valley is that H1Bs/offshore coders don’t care if you actually use their code. Just send them the reqs, write the code yourself and never deploy their trash to prod.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 07, 2025 02:05 PM (l3YAf)

Look at India or China. Look at their companies, their institutions, their infrastructure.

It's cultural. Everyone assumes everyone around them is also scamming / lying / cheating / doing shit work, and if you're not doing that, you're a schmuck.

And if you get called out for not working, the company is racist.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 02:08 PM (uCjyK)

337 Under Biden we had Fagstlation.
Posted by: zombie at February 07, 2025 02:04 PM (pMi6S)

Flagilation

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 07, 2025 02:08 PM (jQ+5q)

338 Its important to remember the ESG thing: it pressured companies to not hire white men because then more loans and guarantees were available... and apparently USAID money as well

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 02:08 PM (2VST1)

339 334 Rogue judges. Unless they are wearing makeup.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Rouge judges?

Posted by: zombie at February 07, 2025 02:08 PM (pMi6S)

340 Hmmm... So, Judges are now seeing cases saying DOGE must be stopped because it will be a catastrophe for foreigners... which... last I checked, is not against the law..

But a matter of Policy. It's time to ignore these courts... and if it creates a crises? Well... looks like we are already in one created by Rouge Judges.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 07, 2025 02:05 PM (QAkQ3)

Maybe it's time for Congress to address matters like re-districting and lifetime tenure.

Posted by: mrp at February 07, 2025 02:08 PM (rj6Yv)

341 But a matter of Policy. It's time to ignore these courts... and if it creates a crises? Well... looks like we are already in one created by Rouge Judges.
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I recommend Mauve Judges.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 07, 2025 02:08 PM (Wg6v7)

342 Or are we going to live in the real world where a country is a group of people with similar ethnic backgrounds, languages, cultural history, etc?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 02:01 PM (uCjyK)

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I used to listen to the radio talk show host Michael Savage when he started out as a local fill-in host out of San Fransicko back in the early 90s -- and even back then his mantra was: "BORDERS, LANGUAGE, CULTURE!"

Unsurprisingly, he subsequently took credit for Trump winning the 2016 election.

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 02:09 PM (sLgq/)

343 338 Its important to remember the ESG thing: it pressured companies to not hire white men because then more loans and guarantees were available... and apparently USAID money as well
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 07, 2025 02:08 PM (2VST1)

And every major investment bank (who are ultimately the ones who run corporate america) required that a company hit ESG goals or they would yank all funding from them.

Companies said "shit, we need to go from 5% minority to 25% minority in 2 years or we lose 25% of our stock price over night? Done!"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 02:09 PM (uCjyK)

344 I remember when all the bad things were attributable to Richard Nixon, then Reagan, then Bush The Dead And then Bush The Living and now it's all Trumps fault.

Good Times, good times.

Posted by: Old Fart Boomer at February 07, 2025 02:10 PM (R/m4+)

345 These wealthy people are nuts if they're doing this.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025 02:01 PM (PKPQP)

depends, I am a bilingual in Spanish and I spent a lot of time working with and around legal green card holders, and illegals. Some are decent folk, and hard working, and are here because of the violence and economic oppression they had "back home" and some are criminals, and druggies, and violent. Like you would no doubt say, the value of the person is in the person, not the label.

Lots of times you wind up hiring on recommendation, anyways, someone has a cousin or a friend, or a guy they used to work with.
But you know, I used to work in a welding shop too, and some of those bastards are the same, and the sweetest guy there was an ex-meth head who did time and realized he liked his family better than petty crime and jail time. We all got hired because or recommendations, or skills, or because the boss was willing to take a risk.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 07, 2025 02:10 PM (D7oie)

346 It is hilarious to see and hear the wig weavers go off about the funds being cut off spouting things like it hurts school children ect.. I will hand it to the Dems they are world class lying shape shifters..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 07, 2025 02:11 PM (jQ+5q)

347 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 07, 2025 02:11 PM (GYt5+)

348 Remember, this is still going to be revised down.

And as for the price of eggs, it would be hilarious if Trump makes a trade deal with South American countries for eggs until this flu situation clears up.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 07, 2025 02:11 PM (n7h9X)

349 Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 02:04 PM (uCjyK)

I was not suggesting they were all bad. In this distant patst when I worked full time, I have had someone look after my pre school age kid once or twice a week PT. She was recommended by someone I knew. I have also had someone clean my house. She was related to someone in my congregation and I knew her. I would not trust someone I didn't have a connection with in some way for those jobs

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025 02:11 PM (42Vb+)

350 Unless you get a good recommendation from a friend or relative of yours about illegals who had worked for them, why would you risk hiring an illegal to clean your house or God forbid be a nanny to your kid? How would you know that the illegal wasn't the girlfriend of some gang member who would rob you blind or kidnap your kid?. Just to save some money I'm not hiring an American whose references you can check? These wealthy people are nuts if they're doing this.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025 02:01 PM (PKPQP)
____________

You can get illegals through hiring agencies. It's big business. Most of the nannies and domestic workers are hired this way. Who knows how thorough the vetting is, but in theory any red flags should be found.

The agencies gets its vig. It's still much cheaper than hiring Americans to do the work, and the workers are much more compliant. They really really really need these jobs.

Remember, it wasn't long ago that mothers trusted 12-year-old girls in the neighborhood to babysit their kids.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 07, 2025 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

351 And to people calling this an invasion, that's not really the right word.

The "elites" in this country decided they didn't like the people who lived here for various reasons and that they were going to punish them and replace them with new people. Not just in the US, but in every western country. Preferably people who are used to corruption and ineffective government and have no concept of small government / individualism / etc. and won't say anything.

I don't know if there is a word for that. I don't think it's been tried before.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 02:12 PM (uCjyK)

352 And every major investment bank (who are ultimately the ones who run corporate america) required that a company hit ESG goals or they would yank all funding from them.

Companies said "shit, we need to go from 5% minority to 25% minority in 2 years or we lose 25% of our stock price over night? Done!"

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 02:09 PM (uCjyK)

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* Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street have entered the chat *

Make Stockholder Class Action Lawsuits Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 02:12 PM (1foVs)

353 Generalizing replacing American workers with H1Bs is just hyperbole.

H1Bs (as designed) are hired in specific work areas where companies demonstrated that there were less American or Green Card holders available to do the job.

The program has been badly abused and needs a complete overhaul. I agree hands down but the concept is sound.

I am hoping this can happen because we are in a race with the Chinese for technical domination. Right now we are 5-10 ahead but they are catching up.

Are you willing to gamble your grandkids future just because you don't like foreigners.

I've seen more seriously FU situations in technical situations caused by good-old-boy, church buddy, cousin, looks good in a sweater reasons aside not to mention hubris and elitism than anything else.

How many H1Bs are there in the US currently?

Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2025 02:12 PM (QB+5g)

354 344 I remember when all the bad things were attributable to Richard Nixon, then Reagan, then Bush The Dead And then Bush The Living and now it's all Trumps fault.

Good Times, good times.
Posted by: Old Fart Boomer

I especially remember when Nixon started the Vietnam War back in '63 and escalated it in '65. Bastard!

Posted by: zombie at February 07, 2025 02:12 PM (pMi6S)

355 As I remember, it depends on your final day of work. If you get a payout and are let go, you can file. But if they are paying, you are still on payroll with a final date in the future, you can't get it till the enda date.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 07, 2025 02:12 PM (EV2jz)

356

EM' DISPICABLE FOADDY-SEBUN!11!1!

Posted by: Al Greens' eye bags at February 07, 2025 02:18 PM (EFZgU)

357 They’re not competitive; most of them are deadweight. I had to keep our H1Bs away from anything important because they’d inevitably break it.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 07, 2025 01:48 PM (l3YAf)

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Our experience (the wifey, me, and friends) in the software development industry a couple of decades ago: not only do they break it, but then we get called in to inevitably fix it.
Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 01:52 PM (oQYy3)

If you find a good one, well he's working 2 jobs and if the other one takes off he's AWOL, or he quits to find his own stable and the company in India will just lie about why progress has stopped for as long as the checks come.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 07, 2025 02:18 PM (n7h9X)

358 Are you willing to gamble your grandkids future just because you don't like foreigners.

Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2025 02:12 PM (QB+5g)

I am not willing to gamble my grandkids future, which is why we need to stop this massive influx of foreigners.

It's really that simple.

As far as the fear mongering about China -- interesting that they're able to do so well without a massive influx of third world immigrants to their country. Maybe we should take a closer look at how they're able to pull that off and replicate that.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 02:19 PM (uCjyK)

359 The "elites" in this country decided they didn't like the people who lived here for various reasons and that they were going to punish them and replace them with new people. Not just in the US, but in every western country. Preferably people who are used to corruption and ineffective government and have no concept of small government / individualism / etc. and won't say anything.

I don't know if there is a word for that. I don't think it's been tried before.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 02:12 PM (uCjyK)

Empires in the past would often settle groups in distant provinces in hopes they would assimilate there or if not that be smaller and easier to put down troubles. Also help eliminate problems if they have allies across the border to move them 500 miles away.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 07, 2025 02:22 PM (n7h9X)

360 And to people calling this an invasion, that's not really the right word.

The "elites" in this country decided they didn't like the people who lived here for various reasons and that they were going to punish them and replace them with new people. Not just in the US, but in every western country. Preferably people who are used to corruption and ineffective government and have no concept of small government / individualism / etc. and won't say anything.

I don't know if there is a word for that. I don't think it's been tried before.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 07, 2025 02:12 PM (uCjyK)

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Usurpation? Supplanting? Supercession?

/Great Replacement ~~Theory~~ Fact?

Posted by: ShainS -- Behold the Initiation of Trump's 'Operation Crossfire Boomerang' at February 07, 2025 02:23 PM (J32dL)

361 The agencies gets its vig. It's still much cheaper than hiring Americans to do the work, and the workers are much more compliant. They really really really need these jobs.

Remember, it wasn't long ago that mothers trusted 12-year-old girls in the neighborhood to babysit their kids.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 07, 2025 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

It also helps that a lot of grads of supposedly decent colleges can't program for shit and won't tell you either.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 07, 2025 02:24 PM (n7h9X)

362 Interestingly enough, during the 1930s and 1940s government unemployment figures did not count

Farmers
Ranchers
Government including Military, Post Office, et al

And it reached 25%

Government statistics are queer as a $3 bill, and have been since the 1970s, along with pretty much everything else

Posted by: Common Tater at February 07, 2025 02:27 PM (FihSa)

363 "Maybe we should take a closer look at how they're able to pull that off and replicate that."

Where were you when it was time for your son or daughter to do there math homework?

All these anecdotal stories are cute.

BTW, there are 65,000 H1Bs total, independent of what they do in the US.

What am I saying? I'm on a blog where people are proud to hate math.

Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2025 02:30 PM (QB+5g)

364 Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 07, 2025 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

Probably because the mothers actually knew the 12 year old and her parents.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 07, 2025 02:30 PM (42Vb+)

365 A Russian singer accused of donating to the Ukraine army

Does the Uke army have an OnlyFans account or something where you can just donate to them?

And if this guy really did so, I mean what's that term for when you help a foreign country your own country is at war with? Oh yeah...treason.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 07, 2025 01:29 PM (t0Rmr)

Buy me a Coffee is a site you can send money with that extends even into Russia, or used to be.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 07, 2025 02:35 PM (n7h9X)

366 They say they should be let in because they’re not dangerous people, or thieves, or robbers.

Bullshit on that. All of them were for putting Donald Trump in prison, censorship, forcing injections on people, destroying their lives when they refused. All of those are dangerous to body and liberty, the Constitution and the law. As for the thieves and robbers part, the comedy hits just keep on coming. How many of those shits that were in front of that door became or will soon become millionaires because of their public office? 100% is a good opening estimate.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at February 07, 2025 02:40 PM (Q8Bj8)

367 BTW, since DOGE is looking at the numbers that no one in DC cares to see.....hmmm....H1Bs are hauling away less than 0.0004 percent of the total wages in the US.

Huge problem.

Posted by: pawn at February 07, 2025 02:46 PM (QB+5g)

368 ...far weaker than it appeared...

Far weaker than the MSM pretended it was, in order to influence the election.

Posted by: Half Dozen at February 07, 2025 02:52 PM (uVHlT)

369 Disband the Dept of Labor. Four years of pure BS is more than enough to eliminate it for cause.

Posted by: TJ Jackson at February 07, 2025 04:08 PM (bXvrr)

370 The Democrat Jackass is still the words stupidist Political Animal most other Donkeys however are Intelligent

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 07, 2025 04:54 PM (wGqjj)

371 Every single month in 2024 just got revised down in today’s jobs report—by an average of -626k."
Not 626K, just 626. All the changes were just 500-800/month.
Posted by: illiniwek
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Another government shill heard from.
Read the note at the top of the chart. "All numbers are by the thousands."
Like a chart dealing with total US employment is going to note 500 employees a month.
Idiot.

Posted by: buddhaha at February 07, 2025 09:40 PM (sDxdS)

372 Here's a weird "anomaly" (i.e., evidene that BLS can't keeps its falsehoods straight) -- The payrolls report shows 143K jobs added in January, and the Household survey used to determine the unemployment rate shows total employment increasing by an off-the-charts (not kidding) 2.2 MILLION ... in ONE MONTH.

Posted by: Litany Of Lies at February 07, 2025 10:33 PM (KI4ls)

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