Media in Grim Funk as Much-Heralded Trump Recession Continues Not Arriving<br>Update: Americans Fill the New Jobs While Illegals Lose Theirs

Media in Grim Funk as Much-Heralded Trump Recession Continues Not Arriving
Update: Americans Fill the New Jobs While Illegals Lose Theirs

147,000 jobs created in June, beating expectations. It's not huge job growth, but it's steady and it's better than what the doomsayers in the media and in the banks keep wishcasting.

The unemployment rate also fell to 4.1%. I remember the media insisting the economy was doing great under Biden because unemployment was 4.6%. Any chance the media will apply the same rule here?

Even better: Real wages increased and inflation remains low.

For the fourth consecutive month, the U.S. economy under President Trump has outperformed expectations--adding 147,000 jobs in June and pushing unemployment down to 4.1%.
Key Details:
The Department of Labor reported Thursday that 147,000 jobs were added in June, exceeding economists' forecasts of 110,000. Unemployment fell to 4.1%, defying predictions of a rise to 4.3%.
Revisions to prior months also boosted job totals. April's job creation was revised upward by 11,000 to 158,000, and May gained an additional 5,000, bringing that month's total to 144,000.
Wages continued to climb, with average hourly earnings up 0.2% in June and 3.7% over the past year--well above the current inflation rate. Private-sector production and nonsupervisory workers saw even stronger growth at 0.3%.
Diving Deeper:
The U.S. labor market remains resilient, as employers added 147,000 new jobs in June--far surpassing expectations and bringing fresh momentum to a workforce shaped by President Trump's trade and tax policy agenda. The June report from the Department of Labor, released Thursday, showed not only stronger monthly job growth but also a drop in the unemployment rate to 4.1%, despite forecasts calling for a slight increase.
Economists had been bracing for signs of a slowdown, especially following the rollout of Trump administration tariffs aimed at strengthening domestic industries. Instead, job gains were broad-based and upward revisions to April and May added another 16,000 positions to the employment tally.
Private employers were responsible for 74,000 of the new positions, while the public sector contributed another 73,000. Within the federal workforce, employment shrank by 7,000--underscoring the Trump administration's stated effort to rein in government bloat.
...
Wage growth continued at a healthy pace, with average hourly earnings rising 0.2% in June and 3.7% over the past year--figures that outstrip inflation and reinforce optimism about workers' real purchasing power. Non-supervisory and production employees in the private sector saw a stronger 0.3% monthly gain.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt touted the report on Thursday morning, noting on X that this marks "the FOURTH month in a row" of beating job expectations, and emphasizing that "American-born workers have accounted for ALL of the job gains since President Trump took office." She added, "The economy is BOOMING again and it will only get better when the One, Big Beautiful Bill is passed and implemented!"

Even better:

Wokeness
@EndWokeness
Most important data from June:
🟢 830k new jobs for native-born
🔴 348K jobs lost for foreign-born
🟢 437k gain of new full-time jobs
🔴 367k loss of old part-time jobs
Major reversal of the Biden era

Thanks to Aetius451AD. Other commenters pointed out that the jobs went mostly to actual Americans.

I saw a video of a black guy saying he saw, in his neighborhood, black guys doing landscaping work. Obviously, those jobs have been taken by illegals for decades.

🚨 LMAO! Experts IN SHAMBLES over today's job's report, CNN is shocked

"147K jobs! Well ahead of expectations! ... we were expecting a slowdown, we did not get that!"

“Every single time we expect it to run out of steam, it just keeps going and going!"pic.twitter.com/5mGSeTA5kx
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 3, 2025

When I said "media doomsayers," I wasn't exaggerating:

CNN’s Berman pained to tell his audience: Predictions of job losses, inflation due to tariff policy have been wrong:

“That doom just hasn’t happened yet." pic.twitter.com/tmyXFRRmY2
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 3, 2025

Meanwhile the Democrats are melting down about the Big Beautiful Bill forcing the able-bodied childless adults Obama allowed to claim Medicaid to at least get a job in exchange for their taxpayer-provided benefits.

Hakeem Jeffries thinks he's Spartacus.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took control of the House floor early Thursday with a marathon speech to stall a final vote on President Trump's nearly 900-page Big Beautiful Bill. Jeffries has said he'll take "my sweet time."
Key Details:
Jeffries began speaking at 4:53 a.m. under the "magic minute" rule, which lets party leaders speak without time limits. As of midmorning, he had passed the four-hour mark.
The nearly 900-page bill includes major Trump priorities, including tax cuts, energy reforms, and spending reductions. GOP leaders gave just 30 minutes per committee for debate.
Jeffries used his time to read letters from constituents about federal programs like Medicaid, claiming the cuts would cost lives.

BBB: Secretary Bessent, “I’m not going to take firefighting advice from an arsonist. The Democrats had the majorities. They blew out the budget. They had tons of wasteful spending, and we inherited a mess.” pic.twitter.com/qAAlmL1fIi
— @amuse (@amuse) July 3, 2025

This entitled princess cries that she had to take a plane back to DC to do her f***ing job.

Just got back to DC after flying over night because Donald Trump is forcing a vote on his devastating budget proposal.

It’s hard to hold back the tears when trying to articulate how bad this bill truly is and what it will do to families and communities across this country.… pic.twitter.com/ofrRHtEMxD
— U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen (@RepPettersen) July 2, 2025

Democrats don't want jobs-- they only want paychecks. They just do not want to work at all. They want to sit in the office and play with their phones and start company slack-chats in which they rant about their extremist cultish politics all day.

They think that work is beneath them. They think they're all unrecognized Nobles.

Posted by: Ace at 12:00 PM

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Posted by: RUReadingthis at July 03, 2025 12:02 PM (aQ25I)

2 Mornin' Ace

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:02 PM (T4A2M)

3 "hasn't happened yet"

We must at least credit them for optimism.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at July 03, 2025 12:02 PM (okun6)

4 Dayum.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 03, 2025 12:03 PM (wjP5W)

5 Great jobs report. Likelihood of rate cut in July went down.

The native born vs foreign born employment numbers were very good although I'm still trying to figure out what the 500k delta represents.

Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:03 PM (G0vdT)

6 Hola!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at July 03, 2025 12:03 PM (4f5Rs)

7 Hola, amigos!

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 03, 2025 12:03 PM (rF2iL)

8 I saw a graphic that said native born rose by 400k+ while foreign born dropped by 300k+.

So, growth, but also realignment.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:04 PM (bss/y)

9 I still think these government economic offices should be absolutely forbidden from making predictions.

Report the actual numbers only, please.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 03, 2025 12:04 PM (a+4eV)

10 Still not tired of winning.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 03, 2025 12:04 PM (N1DT3)

11 Oh, her name is Brittany, because of course it is.

Prototypical AWFL

Posted by: one hour sober at July 03, 2025 12:05 PM (Y1sOo)

12 Looks like Jeffries is going for longest boring speech record.

Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:05 PM (G0vdT)

13 This was the graphic over at Insty:

https://tinyurl.com/huffjxf4

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:06 PM (bss/y)

14 >>It’s hard to hold back the tears

We should totes put Women in charge of everything, tho.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:06 PM (T4A2M)

15 Note the revisions for April and May added jobs. Not a lot, but up instead of the regular downward revisions of fake Biden jobs.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 03, 2025 12:06 PM (QqW4y)

16 Also in the jobs report. Native-born Americans were the ones actually getting jobs, while the foreign-born (read: ILLEGALS) actually lost jobs.

Trump is doing exactly what he promised.

Trump actually cares about Americans and wants them to succeed.

HOPEFULLY some Republicans might see that it's in their best interest to copy him.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 03, 2025 12:06 PM (N1DT3)

17 Report the actual numbers only, please.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 03, 2025 12:04 PM (a+4eV)

Yeah. Keep your opinions out of my facts.

Posted by: Reforger at July 03, 2025 12:06 PM (SJnNf)

18 >>>Media in Grim Funk as Much-Heralded Trump Recession Continues Not Arriving

Enemies of the people, someone said.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 12:06 PM (i24o9)

19 The Tariffs Alone Have Killed Billions!

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:07 PM (kU4R9)

20 We want the funk.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:07 PM (VPwHp)

21 Democrats don't want jobs-- they only want paychecks. They just do not want to work at all. They want to sit in the office and play with their phones and start company slack-chats in which they rant about their extremist cultish politics all day.

They think that work is beneath them. They think they're all unrecognized Nobles.

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I keep finding this fascinating because early communistic propaganda was all about the glory of work setting one free.

Over the past century, it's morphed into, "Write poetry no one wants on the government dime. In fact, don't even write the poetry. Just collect the government dime."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:07 PM (GBKbO)

22 Numbers are great. What's even greater is thinking about all the people in this country whose lives are improving.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at July 03, 2025 12:07 PM (ERYKL)

23 The stock market just keeps going up in a cartoonish way.

Like where the arrow breaks out of the graph.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:07 PM (fV+MH)

24 One of my CNN-watching relatives, who will be moonlighting this quarter as a professor, plans to tell his students how difficult it will be for them to find jobs in the next few years. I hope his students remember his statements, find good jobs in the next few years, and then start to question whether the left ever tells the truth.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 03, 2025 12:07 PM (rF2iL)

25 They think that work is beneath them. They think they're all unrecognized Nobles.

Posted by: Ace at 12:00 PM

Nomenklatura, ace. The Named Ones. You saw this during Covid (which was their wet dream.) All the 'help' masked while they got to show their faces like real people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:07 PM (bss/y)

26 Meanwhile, a guy in Seattle who normally talks about how cheap solar power is, identifies the only source of economic wealth in the United States:

Maybe the blue cities, which generate all the cultural & economic value in this country, should just spend all that value they create on themselves, and make cities real nice, and let the rural areas that hate & shit on cities every day fend for themselves. What a thought.

Farming? Mining? Logging? Pfft!

These activities don't really add economic value, compared to working for a nonprofit in Seattle.

https://tinyurl.com/3wsjxzza

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2025 12:08 PM (xTIDn)

27 >> We want the funk.

MFSL announced a 2x45 rpm Re-Issue of Mothership Connection, this week.
Pre-Orders are Live.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:08 PM (T4A2M)

28 147,000 jobs created in June, beating expectations.

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That would have been reported as 1,147,000 jobs saved or created during DogEater's Reign of Error.

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:08 PM (kU4R9)

29 The place suffering from the highest increase in "F"unemployment is... the region around dee cee.

Oh no!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 12:09 PM (ULPxl)

30 LOL: nightclub drive by shooting in Chicago. Apparently a rap album debut party got hit. Fourteen peeps (homies?) hospitalized.

Global music quality improves slightly.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 03, 2025 12:09 PM (ufFY8)

31 "Spartacus", indeed! More like Sparkle-Puss.

Posted by: Paco at July 03, 2025 12:09 PM (mADJX)

32 20 We want the funk.
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:07 PM (VPwHp)

We want to go to a gathering of the funk. A 'Town' if you will. And we all should go there. Perhaps someone might take us.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:09 PM (bss/y)

33 It�s hard to hold back the tears when trying to articulate how bad this bill truly is and what it will do to families and communities across this country.�
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I always marvel at how the Left with their sloganeering very rarely actually says ANYTHING.

They don't. Look at what Biden ran on, what Kamala ran on. We assume correctly it's "communism" but they don't SAY anything.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:09 PM (VPwHp)

34 147,000 jobs created in June, beating expectations.

And this occurred while a million illegals voluntarily departed the United States.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2025 12:09 PM (xTIDn)

35 "Economists had been bracing for signs of a slowdown ...."

You know who are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet? "Economists." It's not even a real job. It's a phony propaganda mill to pimp for whichever side you favor. Or who is writing you the biggest check. Or who's poolboy is best fucking your wife.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

36 26 Maybe the blue cities, which generate all the cultural & economic value in this country, should just spend all that value they create on themselves, and make cities real nice, and let the rural areas that hate & shit on cities every day fend for themselves. What a thought.

Farming? Mining? Logging? Pfft!

These activities don't really add economic value, compared to working for a nonprofit in Seattle.

https://tinyurl.com/3wsjxzza
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2025 12:08 PM (xTIDn)

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Yes. They must do this.

They must ignore rural areas completely and let them govern themselves.

It's a great idea. Completely original with no possible preceding thought on the subject in history. He's a genius and should be lauded for this view.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:10 PM (GBKbO)

37 Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:08 PM (T4A2M)

Ooooh

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:10 PM (VPwHp)

38 She...had to take a RED EYE!!! Oh, the humanity. I wonder if she had to *shudders* ride economy. Have you no pity?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 12:10 PM (Riz8t)

39 "Economists had been bracing for signs of a slowdown, especially following the rollout of Trump administration tariffs aimed at strengthening domestic industries."

They're never gonna give up their tariff delusional obsession, are they? Trump will be long out of office and they're still be whining about tariffs.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:10 PM (iFTx/)

40 LMAO! Experts IN SHAMBLES over today's job's report, CNN is shocked

"147K jobs! Well ahead of expectations! ... we were expecting a slowdown, we did not get that!"

“Every single time we expect it to run out of steam, it just keeps going and going!"

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"THE TRUMP ECONOMIC BOOM IS MERELY TRANSITORY!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:10 PM (kU4R9)

41 Trump is doing exactly what he promised.

Trump actually cares about Americans and wants them to succeed.

HOPEFULLY some Republicans might see that it's in their best interest to copy him.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 03, 2025 12:06 PM (N1DT3)

Let's recall the Trump's personal fortune has gone down since he entered politics. No way in Hell that the GOP copies his attitude.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:10 PM (ExV1e)

42 BB: Secretary Bessent, �I�m not going to take firefighting advice from an arsonist. The Democrats had the majorities. They blew out the budget. They had tons of wasteful spending, and we inherited a mess

==

👍 like!

Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 12:11 PM (g47mK)

43 38 She...had to take a RED EYE!!! Oh, the humanity. I wonder if she had to *shudders* ride economy. Have you no pity?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 12:10 PM (Riz8t)

She had to rub shoulders with a fat guy in his sweats?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:11 PM (bss/y)

44 >>> 14 It's hard to hold back the tears
==
We should totes put Women in charge of everything, tho.
Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:06 PM (T4A2M)

Put an 'Ette in charge. Stupid commie bints think they're sad now...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 12:11 PM (ULPxl)

45 It's been over 6 hours now for Jeffries convincing Republicans they should unanimously vote for the bill.
Best argument so far:
Hakeem Jeffries Says: "deportation machine will be unleashed on steroids" if Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill passes.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 03, 2025 12:11 PM (t/2Uw)

46 "Economists had been bracing for signs of a slowdown ...."

You know who are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet? "Economists." It's not even a real job. It's a phony propaganda mill to pimp for whichever side you favor. Or who is writing you the biggest check. Or who's poolboy is best fucking your wife.

AOC has an economics degree. QED.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 12:11 PM (Riz8t)

47 LOL: nightclub drive by shooting in Chicago. Apparently a rap album debut party got hit. Fourteen peeps (homies?) hospitalized.

Global music quality improves slightly.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 03, 2025 12:09 PM (ufFY

_______

"Ha! Not so fast, homie"

-- Bob Vylan

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:11 PM (iFTx/)

48 The Tariffs Alone Have Killed Billions!
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:07 PM (kU4R9)

With as many people as Trump's policies have killed, you'd think that the WEF would have him as their eternal Persyn of the Year.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:11 PM (ExV1e)

49 “That doom just hasn’t happened yet."

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The forecast calls for: ~~Pain~~ Pre-Doom.

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:12 PM (kU4R9)

50 LOL: nightclub drive by shooting in Chicago. Apparently a rap album debut party got hit. Fourteen peeps (homies?) hospitalized.

Local news story.

Most mass shootings occur in big blue cities, but are ignored, because the shooter is the wrong skin color.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2025 12:12 PM (xTIDn)

51 Not all good news. Government employment is up and manufacturing employment is down. The "trade deficit" also increased vs the previous month. Most other signs seem to be positive.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at July 03, 2025 12:12 PM (P7Iz+)

52 Let's recall the Trump's personal fortune has gone down since he entered politics. No way in Hell that the GOP copies his attitude.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:10 PM (ExV1e)
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He's making up some of those losses with digital currency investments.

Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:12 PM (G0vdT)

53 Hakeem Jeffries Says: "deportation machine will be unleashed on steroids" if Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill passes.

It.Moved.

Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 12:12 PM (jc0TO)

54 45 It's been over 6 hours now for Jeffries convincing Republicans they should unanimously vote for the bill.
Best argument so far:
Hakeem Jeffries Says: "deportation machine will be unleashed on steroids" if Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill passes.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 03, 2025 12:11 PM (t/2Uw)

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I remember commenters saying that all of our other problems follow from our immigration problems.

They should be pretty happy with this bill, I think.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:12 PM (GBKbO)

55 "This entitled princess cries that she had to take a plane back to DC to do her f***ing job"

Breaks my heart. Members of congress fly first class, which I have only done once or twice. I would hardly call it burden.

Posted by: Ripley at July 03, 2025 12:12 PM (GUOwU)

56 49 “That doom just hasn’t happened yet."

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The forecast calls for: Pain Pre-Doom.
Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:12 PM (kU4R9)

Monty would be ashamed of these retards.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:12 PM (bss/y)

57 My cock is already hard for the Vance tariffs.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:12 PM (fV+MH)

58 >>Ooooh
Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:10 PM (VPwHp)

Also...
ORG Records is releasing ALL of the Westbound Records Funkadelic LPs.

The first one is up for preorder in 33 and 2x45 formats.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:13 PM (T4A2M)

59 Its so bad Obama expects deaths to go down by 3000%.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:13 PM (VPwHp)

60 Even BETTER:

Americans born here gained almost 500K jobs and foreign born lost 350K full time jobs.

Similar ratios for part time.

Suck it donks and globalist commies.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 03, 2025 12:13 PM (17s+e)

61 Another important thing about this job growth, even if it isn't huge, is that *none* of it's going to illegals.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 03, 2025 12:13 PM (lFFaq)

62 53 Hakeem Jeffries Says: "deportation machine will be unleashed on steroids" if Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill passes.

Wish I could vote for the BBB.. For that part alone

Posted by: It's me donna at July 03, 2025 12:13 PM (VE6XX)

63 She had to rub shoulders with a fat guy in his sweats?!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:11 PM

The ~~smell~~ horror ... the horror.

Posted by: Colonel Kurz at July 03, 2025 12:13 PM (0sNs1)

64 60 Even BETTER:

Americans born here gained almost 500K jobs and foreign born lost 350K full time jobs.

Similar ratios for part time.

Suck it donks and globalist commies.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 03, 2025 12:13 PM (17s+e)

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I just see it as further evidence that there's a very large self-deportation effort happening right now below the radar.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

65
U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen
@RepPettersen

Just got back to DC after flying over night because Donald Trump is forcing a vote on his devastating budget proposal.

It’s hard to hold back the tears when trying to articulate how bad this bill truly is and what it will do to families and communities across this country.

----------------

"When will you realize ...
Somalia waits for you."

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:13 PM (kU4R9)

66 60 Even BETTER:

Americans born here gained almost 500K jobs and foreign born lost 350K full time jobs.

Similar ratios for part time.

Suck it donks and globalist commies.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 03, 2025 12:13 PM (17s+e)

Yes !

Posted by: It's me donna at July 03, 2025 12:14 PM (VE6XX)

67 is pettersen the one who brings her newborn to the house floor all the time?…despite there being a nursery there?

Posted by: cherries in season at July 03, 2025 12:14 PM (yKg/+)

68 >>> 43 38 She...had to take a RED EYE!!! Oh, the humanity. I wonder if she had to *shudders* ride economy. Have you no pity?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 12:10 PM (Riz8t)

She had to rub shoulders with a fat guy in his sweats?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:11 PM (bss/y)

Doesn't she work with Nadler anyway?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 12:14 PM (ULPxl)

69 Best argument so far:
Hakeem Jeffries Says: "deportation machine will be unleashed on steroids" if Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill passes.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 03, 2025 12:11 PM (t/2Uw)
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You don't have to sell me Hakeem, I'm already in favor of the bill.

Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:14 PM (G0vdT)

70 Democrats ..."They think that work is beneath them. They think they're all unrecognized Nobles."

Aint that the truth. Describes my brother's stepson and DiL to a T. Couldn't be fussed to get a useful college degree but think they are too good for starter level jobs.

And depending on how extravagant they get, they may get away with that mindset. Brother inherited farmland that he sold and I suspect the layabouts are enjoying most of that money. Or the layabouts may hit a wall in their 50s. I just remind myself that it is not my circus, although now that I inherited this house I need to make a will and leave it to a charity to make sure greedy state of Colorado or greedy layabout inlaws don't get the modest bonanza when I die. Was simpler before, the RA has desginated beneficiaries, no will needed.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 03, 2025 12:14 PM (CKOCg)

71 Democrats don't want jobs-- they only want paychecks.

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This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Big Mike Obama at July 03, 2025 12:14 PM (kU4R9)

72 Best argument so far:
Hakeem Jeffries Says: "deportation machine will be unleashed on steroids" if Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill passes.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Promises, promises...

If only it weren't a lying Dem claiming this.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 03, 2025 12:15 PM (a+4eV)

73 But the Experts predicted!!!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 03, 2025 12:15 PM (1KSDN)

74 I just see it as further evidence that there's a very large self-deportation effort happening right now below the radar.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

Would you like to be sent to Alligator Alcatraz ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 03, 2025 12:15 PM (VE6XX)

75 "Yah know, I was on the fence about the BBB, but Hakeem's speech just convinced me."

-- said no Congresscritter, ever

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 03, 2025 12:15 PM (0sNs1)

76 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
And happy early Friday

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2025 12:15 PM (+qU29)

77
McJobs!

(although I gather only illegals get McJobs nowadays)

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2025 12:16 PM (/HVsR)

78 75 "Yah know, I was on the fence about the BBB, but Hakeem's speech just convinced me."

-- said no Congresscritter, ever
Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 03, 2025 12:15 PM (0sNs1)

=====

Vance says that a Congresscritter texted him exactly that.

In support of the bill, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

79 I find it interesting that during the Biden administration the job numbers were always revised downward and now they’re being revised upward. Looks like the president is going to have to have the BLS investigated because I’m sure it’s not a coincidence.

Posted by: Knowledge Economy Dipsh!t at July 03, 2025 12:16 PM (J4BK5)

80 Did you guys see the Chancellor crying on the floor in the UK. So weird.

And Starmer just left her. You know damn well Trump would have turned and told her to take a few minutes.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:16 PM (VPwHp)

81 Hakeem is doing a better job at convincing us that this Bill is a bill that must be passed than any of the Republicans have.

now I want to see it passed just so that I can see Hakeem cry.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 12:16 PM (uWKK8)

82 I actually do not want the funk.

The funk is the problem.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:16 PM (fV+MH)

83 .All those 147,000 jobs went to Americans. Government employees decreased even though the ones that chose voluntary ae still technically on the payroll so more to come.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 03, 2025 12:16 PM (t/2Uw)

84 4.1% is worse than 4.6% unemployment because it means more people are slaving away for the Man under the reign of the Orange Fuhrer!!!!!

Posted by: This is CNN at July 03, 2025 12:17 PM (ohhLJ)

85 is pettersen the one who brings her newborn to the house floor all the time?…despite there being a nursery there?

Posted by: cherries in season at July 03, 2025 12:14 PM (yKg/+)

--------------

I thought that was Pete Bootygag and his chest-feeder.

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:17 PM (kU4R9)

86 I assume Paul Krugman is right on this stamping his wee feet

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 03, 2025 12:17 PM (DjjUA)

87 The other day I saw three teenage ginger boys weed eating a public sidewalk. Almost brought tears to my eyes.

Posted by: Martin Tell at July 03, 2025 12:17 PM (sFNX2)

88 I sometimes cry on my way to work.

Just kidding, I'm not a fucking bint.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 03, 2025 12:17 PM (ftFVW)

89 In other news:

Former gaming news site Kotaku has been sold for cash.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2025 12:17 PM (SSLjk)

90 I saw a video of a black guy saying he saw, in his neighborhood, black guys doing landscaping work. Obviously, those jobs have been taken by illegals for decades.
________
Aren't those black guys guilty or cultural appropriation?

Posted by: Eeyore at July 03, 2025 12:17 PM (od0dV)

91 >>> 83 .All those 147,000 jobs went to Americans. Government employees decreased even though the ones that chose voluntary ae still technically on the payroll so more to come.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 03, 2025 12:16 PM (t/2Uw)

Millions will starve!

REEEEEEE!!!!!

Posted by: This... is XiNN at July 03, 2025 12:18 PM (ULPxl)

92 >>The funk is the problem.

Sounds like someone had the Roof torn off their Suckah.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:18 PM (T4A2M)

93 Current,y 50 democrats in the chamber and not a single Republican.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 03, 2025 12:18 PM (t/2Uw)

94 Democrats don't want jobs-- they only want paychecks. They just do not want to work at all. They want to sit in the office and play with their phones and start company slack-chats in which they rant about their extremist cultish politics all day.

They think that work is beneath them. They think they're all unrecognized Nobles.
----
The same can be said about the GOPe. If anything, they're worse because they don't even want the illusion of power. They just want to say "they tried."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 03, 2025 12:18 PM (7fElN)

95 Comrades, COMRADES!! What few McJobs are left in GLORIOUS Peoples Democratic Republic of Kalifornia pay $25/hr!!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 03, 2025 12:18 PM (17s+e)

96 83 .All those 147,000 jobs went to Americans. Government employees decreased even though the ones that chose voluntary ae still technically on the payroll so more to come.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 03, 2025 12:16 PM (t/2Uw)

======

State and local government increased by about 70K (supposedly mostly education related which I take as a seasonal effect of prepping for next school year). Federal government jobs decreased by 7K.

It should also be noted that people who took the early retirement offers from the first couple of months of Trump's term are still counted as employed because they're still receiving severance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

97
I sometimes cry on my way to work.

Just kidding, I'm not a fucking bint.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 03, 2025 12:17 PM (ftFVW)

_________

On the next episode of "Women Blubbering in Cars"...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2025 12:19 PM (/HVsR)

98 The funk is the problem.
Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:16 PM (fV+MH)

I agree. We gonna turn this mother out.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:19 PM (VPwHp)

99 I will miss the mournful sound of the Mexican bagpipes at 6 in the morning.

Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 12:19 PM (jc0TO)

100 >>> 88 I sometimes cry on my way to work.

Just kidding, I'm not a fucking bint.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 03, 2025 12:17 PM (ftFVW)

LOL

Posted by: This... is XiNN at July 03, 2025 12:19 PM (ULPxl)

101 Did you guys see the Chancellor crying on the floor in the UK. So weird.
===

I hope Farage told her to "Calm down."

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 03, 2025 12:19 PM (17s+e)

102 I sometimes cry on my way to work.

Just kidding, I'm not a f***ing bint.

Moistened or otherwise.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 12:19 PM (Riz8t)

103 "This entitled princess cries that she had to take a plane back to DC to do her f***ing job."

This comment to this pasty twat's liberal tears is funny:

https://tinyurl.com/2rsasacf

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

104 Whoops, sock fail!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (ULPxl)

105 Funny:
https://tinyurl.com/3uwv2srb

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (t/2Uw)

106 The economic reports mirror those of Trump's first term in this key element: He brings *optimism* to those who work for a living, and to those who own and run the companies that employ them.

Both groups know that for at least the next couple of years the man sitting in the Oval Office isn't actively attempting to destroy this country. That allows both groups the ability to breathe, and think, and plan...and buy things, and employ people.

Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (TN0g+)

107 >>> 90 I saw a video of a black guy saying he saw, in his neighborhood, black guys doing landscaping work. Obviously, those jobs have been taken by illegals for decades.
________
Aren't those black guys guilty or cultural appropriation?
Posted by: Eeyore at July 03, 2025 12:17 PM (od0dV)

I think it's ok as long as they don't use leaf blowers.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (ULPxl)

108 If this keeps up, the press is going to have to report on how well Trump's policies are for the American people.

Then I woke up....

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (Vfq+S)

109 "Sounds like someone had the Roof torn off their Suckah.
Posted by: garrett"

I would respond to this if I knew how!!!!!!!

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (fV+MH)

110 "Employees must cease crying before returning to work"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (D7oie)

111
I hope Farage told her to "Calm down."
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 03, 2025 12:19 PM (17s+e)

__________

It's OK, sweetie. You have yourself a nice cry while us men get to work.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (/HVsR)

112 This comment to this pasty twat's liberal tears is funny:

https://tinyurl.com/2rsasacf
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

Funny. And sadly true

Posted by: It's me donna at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (VE6XX)

113 We want to go to a gathering of the funk. A 'Town' if you will. And we all should go there. Perhaps someone might take us.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

https://tinyurl.com/22457nsw

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (ftFVW)

114 That would have been reported as 1,147,000 jobs saved or created during DogEater's Reign of Error.
---
It was actually expanded to "saved, created or funded" when even the fake "saved" category wasn't juicing the numbers enough.

So they had to start counting fake jobs twice: Once as "saved" and another as "funded"

And were still having to deploy "unexpectedly" regularly.

To say nothing of the downward revisions months later.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 03, 2025 12:21 PM (1KSDN)

115 The DC suburb of Montgomery Co. just banned gas leafblowers and other yard equipment. This should be interesting.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

116 Jeffries has a little over 1 hour left for records speech. That's going to be a painful hour.

Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:21 PM (G0vdT)

117 147,000 jobs created in June, beating expectations.

And this occurred while a million illegals voluntarily departed the United States.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2025 12:09 PM (xTIDn)

In some cases, because.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (ExV1e)

118 The problem is that all the bad retail food establishments serving it are closing.

No more funk'a deli icks.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (0sNs1)

119 I have to say ...

... the BBB must be really good -- certainly better than the doomcasters have been doomcasting -- if the Democraps are this insanely against it. Know your friend by the reaction of your enemy.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

120 >>> 115 The DC suburb of Montgomery Co. just banned gas leafblowers and other yard equipment. This should be interesting.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

HA HA!

... wait I thought they wanted to *keep* their underpaid "undocumented" employees???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (ULPxl)

121 I keep finding this fascinating because early communistic propaganda was all about the glory of work setting one free.

The Nazis agreed with them: "Arbeit Macht Frei"

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (Da7Vv)

122 >>I would respond to this if I knew how!!!!!!!
Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (fV+MH)

Do not Pass Go.

Do not Collect $200.

Go straight to Spotify and Download 'Mothership Connection'.

Lose your Next Turn.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (T4A2M)

123 Am I a bad person though, if I want my Mexican food cooked by actual Mexicans? Just asking...

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (MZ+PY)

124 I probably heard of this idea in the comment section here, so not my idea, but bears repeating -

Put tariffs on H1B and make these anti-US companies look for workers from the country that made it possible for them to exist.

‘Why H-1B requests?’ Microsoft layoffs spark strong reactions; questions around foreign hirings
Link to Hindustan Times (of all places)
https://tinyurl.com/33wshrfs

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (Dv3i1)

125 "I sometimes cry on my way to work.

Just kidding, I'm not a fucking bint.
Posted by: She Hobbi"

I lurve you.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (fV+MH)

126 I would respond to this if I knew how!!!!!!!
Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (fV+MH)

You could try "owww!"

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (VPwHp)

127 Indirect confirmation that at least 1 million illegals have self-deported?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 03, 2025 12:23 PM (1KSDN)

128 In case anyone missed it the first dozen times I posted it, tariffs are deflationary, not inflationary.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 03, 2025 12:23 PM (Vfq+S)

129 115 The DC suburb of Montgomery Co. just banned gas leafblowers and other yard equipment. This should be interesting.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

how very racist of them to ban Mexican musical instruments like that!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 12:23 PM (uWKK8)

130 Is there a new Bureau of Leaf Blower Enforcement.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:23 PM (Iv8wu)

131 "When will you realize ...
Somalia waits for you."
Posted by: ShainS
=====
Cool Billy Joel reference.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:23 PM (ctrM5)

132 119 I have to say ...

... the BBB must be really good -- certainly better than the doomcasters have been doomcasting -- if the Democraps are this insanely against it. Know your friend by the reaction of your enemy.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

=====

Eh. This is always a terrible metric.

Large increases in ICE funding. First welfare reform in 20 years. Ending the CR process.

It's got good stuff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

133 How irrelevant are the Democrats in the legislature? They vote lockstep. They do not deal. They do not negotiate for things that would benefit their dwindling constituency.

All they got is unconstitutional, anti-democratic lawfare, media histrionics and violence.

And yet here we are.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 03, 2025 12:23 PM (wBaIH)

134 115 The DC suburb of Montgomery Co. just banned gas leafblowers
==

For once I agree with MoCo. Need to ban all leafblowers though.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at July 03, 2025 12:24 PM (eb5mD)

135 I have to say ...

... the BBB must be really good -- certainly better than the doomcasters have been doomcasting -- if the Democraps are this insanely against it. Know your friend by the reaction of your enemy.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

=====

Eh. This is always a terrible metric.

Large increases in ICE funding. First welfare reform in 20 years. Ending the CR process.

It's got good stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)
___________

A terrible metric that ... works?

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

136 Put an 'Ette in charge. Stupid commie bints think they're sad now...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 12:11 PM (ULPxl)

F**kin' A.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at July 03, 2025 12:24 PM (h7ZuX)

137 127 Indirect confirmation that at least 1 million illegals have self-deported?
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 03, 2025 12:23 PM (1KSDN)

======

A month ago, BLS was saying that the employed foreign born population was down by 750,000 while the Census's monthly survey was saying that the foreign born population was down by 1 million.

I think it's just evidence that more are leaving beyond that one million.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

138 from Aetius451AD's link:

Wokeness
@EndWokeness

Most important data from June:

830k new jobs for native-born
348K jobs lost for foreign-born

437k gain of new full-time jobs
367k loss of old part-time jobs

Major reversal of the Biden era

Posted by: ace at July 03, 2025 12:25 PM (KRtlO)

139 The DC suburb of Montgomery Co. just banned gas leafblowers and other yard equipment. This should be interesting.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 12:21 PM (Riz8t)

If I were in the landscaping racket, I would so be building Diesel-powered leaf blowers, with straight pipes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2025 12:25 PM (SMy0Z)

140 Am I a bad person though, if I want my Mexican food cooked by actual Mexicans? Just asking...
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (MZ+PY)

and now discuss sea food, hamburgers, steak, italian food, sushi, Chinese food, or that French restaurant.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2025 12:25 PM (D7oie)

141

JD Vance
@JDVance
GOP Congressman just texted me:

“I was undecided on the bill but then I watched Hakeem Jeffries performance and now I’m a firm yes.”

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 03, 2025 12:25 PM (t/2Uw)

142 123 Am I a bad person though, if I want my Mexican food cooked by actual Mexicans? Just asking...
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM (MZ+PY)

Not My neighbors.... Our neighbors are the nicest people but the Missus can't cook.. They often bring stuff over when they have a party and yuck.. First Hispanic I know who can't cook...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 03, 2025 12:25 PM (VE6XX)

143 We want to go to a gathering of the funk. A 'Town' if you will. And we all should go there. Perhaps someone might take us.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

https://tinyurl.com/22457nsw
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 03, 2025 12:20 PM (ftFVW)

-------------

Lipps, Inc. FTW!

/"Don't forget to bring a towel!" (Wifey and I still say this or some variation regularly ...)

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:25 PM (kU4R9)

144
Is there a new Bureau of Leaf Blower Enforcement.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:23 PM (Iv8wu)

_________

The director gets paid $174,000 a year.

Me? I wanted to be in charge of enforcing nuclear-free proclamations in blue cities 40 years ago.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2025 12:25 PM (/HVsR)

145 “That doom just hasn’t happened yet."

Keep hoping, Berman, you America hating bitch.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2025 12:26 PM (0Htd1)

146 It's hard to hold back the tears when trying to articulate how bad this bill truly is and what it will do to families and communities across this country.

pic.twitter.com/ofrRHtEMxD

-- U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen (@RepPettersen) July 2, 2025

Has she bothered to articulate what exactly is in the bill that will supposedly harm "families and communities across the country"?

I would guess not. I would guess she has not even read the bill and has no idea what is in it and is just putting out social media rants based on talking points that were given to her.

As every single member of Congress does. I doubt there is anyone in either party who has bothered to read the bill. I doubt there is hardly any media member or social media member who has bothered to read the bill.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 03, 2025 12:26 PM (P5BPp)

147 Am I a bad person though, if I want my Mexican food cooked by actual Mexicans? Just asking...
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

It's probably not been cooked by Mexicanos for a decade or two. Also, it's not that hard to make it yourself, cabron.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 12:26 PM (mlg/3)

148
https://tinyurl.com/2k6wcbbd

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

149
>>Media in Grim Funk as Much-Heralded Trump Recession Continues Not Arriving

================

ace, you haven't lost a thing. You gave me my first laugh of the day, as always.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 03, 2025 12:26 PM (Rrsaq)

150 I shan't download Mothership Connection.

shan not.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:26 PM (fV+MH)

151 The director gets paid $174,000 a year.

Home much does the Diversity Officer make?

Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 12:26 PM (jc0TO)

152 119 I have to say ...

... the BBB must be really good -- certainly better than the doomcasters have been doomcasting -- if the Democraps are this insanely against it. Know your friend by the reaction of your enemy.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade
======
All appropriation and tax bills are shit shows but the major thrust is that the debt ceiling debate will be taken off the table until after the midterms AND that massive resources available for deportations (that serve to pull native Americans off welfare and into jobs will continue). More busy butts, less yutes shooting up the cities. That in turn lessens mandatory entitlement spending and welfare.

The best social program in the world is a job.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:26 PM (ctrM5)

153 Just kidding, I'm not a fucking bint.
Posted by: She Hobbi"

That's hot.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 03, 2025 12:26 PM (ufFY8)

154 I actually do not want the funk.

The funk is the problem.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:16 PM (fV+MH)

I've had the funk for about a month now. It's time for stronger antibiotics.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 12:27 PM (i24o9)

155 "This entitled princess cries that she had to take a plane back to DC to do her f***ing job."

This comment to this pasty twat's liberal tears is funny:

https://tinyurl.com/2rsasacf

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

--------------

Future Coroner's Report Conclusion on Western Civilization:

"Death By AWFL."

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:27 PM (kU4R9)

156 Am I a bad person though, if I want my Mexican food cooked by actual Mexicans? Just asking...

A few years ago, a "reporter" in Portland, who specializes in organizing boycotts of non-Woke businesses, successfully shut down a taco stand, because the proprietors were two white blue-eyed women.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2025 12:27 PM (xTIDn)

157 135 A terrible metric that ... works?
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

======

Blind, stupid partisanship makes them oppose anything.

There's good stuff in it, but the reaction would be the same if it didn't. Just go back to 2018.

https://is.gd/87puKS

"“The Republican continuing resolution serves only to continue the anxiety in the lives of DREAMers, veterans, children and working families across America,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). “It had been our hope not only to improve the quality of this bill but to add the DREAM Act to it, which enjoys strong bipartisan support from the American people.”"

Just because Jeffries is a whinier bitch than Pelosi, I don't think it proves anything.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

158 I've had the funk for about a month now. It's time for stronger antibiotics.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 12:27 PM

Lume.

Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 12:27 PM (jc0TO)

159 ~~Democrats~~ Politicians don't want jobs -- they only want paychecks. They just do not want to work at all. They want to sit in the office and play with their phones and start company slack-chats in which they rant about their extremist cultish politics all day.

They think that work is beneath them. They think they're all unrecognized Nobles.

Fixed.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 03, 2025 12:27 PM (P5BPp)

160 The DC suburb of Montgomery Co. just banned gas leafblowers
==

For once I agree with MoCo. Need to ban all leafblowers though.

I wonder what the hit on power and durability is to go full battery-operated. I'll bet it's big.

I bought a battery-operated handheld model last year and I love it. It's so much easier to just go blow off the deck, or whatever. However, it's still quite noisy, and is in no way a substitute for my big gas model.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 03, 2025 12:27 PM (Riz8t)

161 Mexican food cooked by Italians is optimal.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:27 PM (fV+MH)

162
Hakeem Jeffries Says: "deportation machine will be unleashed on steroids" if Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill passes.
==

I really , really hope so!

Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 12:28 PM (g47mK)

163 If I were in the landscaping racket, I would so be building Diesel-powered leaf blowers, with straight pipes.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2025 12:25 PM (SMy0Z)
---

A friend of mine bought a hit and miss generator for camping. He fires it up only when annoying "camping" people runt their generator all day long.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 03, 2025 12:28 PM (17s+e)

164 Revisions to prior months also boosted job totals. April's job creation was revised upward by 11,000 to 158,000, and May gained an additional 5,000, bringing that month's total to 144,000.
---
Democrat Presidents' results are almost always revised downward and Republican results are almost always revised upward.

Posted by: Axeman at July 03, 2025 12:28 PM (Q4cxx)

165 Seriously though, I think the only cuisine that is made by the ethnicity is Vietnamese.

well, and the Salvadoran joint that does pupusas.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2025 12:28 PM (D7oie)

166 152 All appropriation and tax bills are shit shows but the major thrust is that the debt ceiling debate will be taken off the table until after the midterms AND that massive resources available for deportations (that serve to pull native Americans off welfare and into jobs will continue). More busy butts, less yutes shooting up the cities. That in turn lessens mandatory entitlement spending and welfare.

The best social program in the world is a job.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:26 PM (ctrM5)

=====

I'm really hoping Congress follows through on another reconciliation bill before the end of the fiscal year, this one untied to tax cuts which need to be "paid for" allowing for more straight cuts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:28 PM (GBKbO)

167 Am I a bad person though, if I want my Mexican food cooked by actual Mexicans? Just asking...
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder
======
A lot of that is actually Tex Mex in the US. Same as most Chinese food is Americanized here.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:28 PM (ctrM5)

168 "
If I were in the landscaping racket, I would so be building Diesel-powered leaf blowers, with straight pipes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon "

Heh. Kerosene jet engine powered.

Posted by: fd at July 03, 2025 12:29 PM (yJaz2)

169 did not read all the comments, but ...did anyone ask the obvious about Hakeem's 6 hour moment ? Adult Diapers questions ?

Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 12:29 PM (g47mK)

170 Eh. This is always a terrible metric.
.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah I mean we must remember Democrats said John McCain was the most conservativey conservative to ever Hitler a Trump.

One lib Karen I know said *Nikki Haley* is "scarier" than Trump and she thinks Trump is an evil racist pedophile.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:29 PM (VPwHp)

171 >>Seriously though, I think the only cuisine that is made by the ethnicity is Vietnamese.

My local Chinese place is owned by an actual Chinese family that are Based as Fuck.

If you want to find them, they are at work or at the Range.

Good people.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:29 PM (T4A2M)

172 This comment to this pasty twat's liberal tears is funny:

https://tinyurl.com/2rsasacf
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:19 PM (iFTx/)

Did anyone respond with, "The House is in session. Why did you have to return?"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:29 PM (ExV1e)

173 I know, they should put a bunch of staffer in the front row in from of him - drinking water.

Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 12:30 PM (g47mK)

174 Maybe the blue cities, which generate all the cultural & economic value in this country, should just spend all that value they create on themselves, and make cities real nice, and let the rural areas that hate & shit on cities every day fend for themselves. What a thought.

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Yeah! Who needs food anyway?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 03, 2025 12:30 PM (L/fGl)

175 "Company slack chats.". Brilliant

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 03, 2025 12:30 PM (QSrLX)

176 U. S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen LOL,
The idea of congresspersons crying makes me smile .

MWA, HA, HA.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2025 12:30 PM (0Htd1)

177 Democrat Presidents' results are almost always revised downward and Republican results are almost always revised upward.

Saint Obama was the guy who completely politicized Federal economic statistics.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2025 12:30 PM (xTIDn)

178 169 did not read all the comments, but ...did anyone ask the obvious about Hakeem's 6 hour moment ? Adult Diapers questions ?
Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 12:29 PM (g47mK)
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I feel bad for the person who has to sit right behind him.

Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:30 PM (G0vdT)

179 While people focus on Ironshart being another dismal failure for Marvel, there are other problems in the offering.

First being Marvel comic sales being down. Second could be a real killer of the whole industry.

Diamond Distributors which supplies comic stores with merchandise has filed for bankruptcy and sold to someone never heard of.

Now the likes Dynamite Comics is suing Diamond to recover a million dollars or they won't meet payroll next week.

Where it will get even more entertaining is what the new owners are trying to do. Sell off what is in the warehouses at a bargain price to generate some cash. There is one catch, a lot of the merchandise was on consignment to Diamond.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2025 12:30 PM (SSLjk)

180 My local Chinese place is owned by an actual Chinese family that are Based as Fuck.

If you want to find them, they are at work or at the Range.

Good people.
Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:29 PM (T4A2M)

where are they from, and how long have they been here in the US?

Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 12:30 PM (g47mK)

181 @123

>>Am I a bad person though, if I want my Mexican food cooked by actual Mexicans? Just asking...

If we're talking Mole Pablano or authentic Tamales with masa dough, then you're going to need a Mexican Abuela, everything else if fungible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 12:30 PM (XV/Pl)

182
And it's bad, bad Hakeem Black
The baddest man with the whole damned crack
Badder than old King Kong
And meaner than a funkyard dog

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:30 PM (kU4R9)

183
Heh. Kerosene jet engine powered.
Posted by: fd at July 03, 2025 12:29 PM (yJaz2)

________

Resid oil for maximum pollution.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2025 12:31 PM (/HVsR)

184 Hakeem Jeffries Says: "deportation machine will be unleashed on steroids" if Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill passes.
==

I really , really hope so!
Posted by: runner

Dollar Tree Obama usually steps in a pile.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 03, 2025 12:31 PM (tg5bM)

185 If I were in the landscaping racket, I would so be building Diesel-powered leaf blowers, with straight pipes.

Senor, there is a tradeoff between power and time spent listening to the leafblower racket. I can use the old model DeWalt. I'll need about 45 minutes to do your yard. However, with the new diesel-operated F5 model, I can do it in 2 minutes. I can't guarantee that your house will still be standing, though.

Posted by: Manuel Labor at July 03, 2025 12:31 PM (Riz8t)

186 and now discuss sea food, hamburgers, steak, italian food, sushi, Chinese food, or that French restaurant.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2025 12:25 PM (D7oie)

I draw the line at the French. Deport them all.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at July 03, 2025 12:31 PM (MZ+PY)

187 One lib Karen I know said *Nikki Haley* is "scarier" than Trump and she thinks Trump is an evil racist pedophile.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:29 PM (VPwHp)
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Evidence indicates that would be a democrat.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 03, 2025 12:31 PM (17s+e)

188
>>Economists had been bracing for signs of a slowdown

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Good abs workout.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 03, 2025 12:32 PM (Rrsaq)

189 Our Chinese restaurant folk just got back from their month long trip back to Canton and reopened the place. They do this every year. Honoring the ancestors I guess.

Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 12:32 PM (jc0TO)

190 A friend of mine bought a hit and miss generator for camping. He fires it up only when annoying "camping" people runt their generator all day long.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 03, 2025 12:28 PM (17s+e)

I love those things. There is a yearly steam up for engines at Brooks, in Oregon towards the end of the summer, and there are all sorts of people who bring those hit-and miss engines there. They are indestructible. And loud.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2025 12:32 PM (D7oie)

191 Yeah 147k jobs isn't terrific but is better than predicted and a lot better than nearly all of Biden's job numbers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 12:32 PM (dfIr7)

192 >>where are they from, and how long have they been here in the US?

This is gonna blow your mind...

China.

25-30 years or so?

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:32 PM (T4A2M)

193 Yeah 147k jobs isn't terrific but is better than predicted and a lot better than nearly all of Biden's job numbers.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 12:32 PM (dfIr7)
__________

Slow and steady will win this race

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:33 PM (iFTx/)

194 > Democrats don't want jobs-- they only want paychecks. They just do not want to work at all.
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Sounds like they're just like the illegals here.

Deport all Democrats.

M ake
A merica
D emocrat
F ree

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2025 12:33 PM (Q4IgG)

195 Put tariffs on H1B and make these anti-US companies look for workers from the country that made it possible for them to exist.

Require the H1B hires be paid at least 10% more than any non-H1B employee. After all, these are once-in-a-lifetime hires that MSoft needs almost 7000 of.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:33 PM (ExV1e)

196 Let’s see if the market goes down because stronger employment than expectations means a lower chance of a Fed rate cut.

Alternatively it could go up because strong employment means better “fundamentals”.

It could go either way.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 03, 2025 12:33 PM (vOq4N)

197 Labor Force Participation: The labor force participation rate fell, with 234,000 more people not in the labor force, bringing the total to 1.8 million who had not looked for work in the past four weeks. Approximately 6.5 million people not in the labor force still wanted jobs. Long-term unemployment (27+ weeks) accounted for 23.3% of the unemployed.

ADP Report Discrepancy: The ADP National Employment Report, released July 2, 2025, reported a private sector job loss of 33,000, contrasting sharply with the BLS's 74,000 private sector job gain. ADP highlighted losses in professional/business services (-56,000) and health/education (-52,000), offset by gains in goods-producing sectors (+32,000). This discrepancy underscores ADP's inconsistent track record in predicting BLS figures.

Grok: https://bit.ly/44uv9BN

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 03, 2025 12:33 PM (P5BPp)

198 >>If we're talking Mole Pablano or authentic Tamales with masa dough, then you're going to need a Mexican Abuela, everything else if fungible.

Mole is awesome...when they bother to actually make it themselves.

Green Mole is mind blowingly good.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:33 PM (T4A2M)

199 Ironshart
===

Comrade Puma, I shall be liberating that from you for my use.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 03, 2025 12:33 PM (17s+e)

200 French food is butter.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:33 PM (fV+MH)

201 I'm really hoping Congress follows through on another reconciliation bill before the end of the fiscal year, this one untied to tax cuts which need to be "paid for" allowing for more straight cuts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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That was why Trump wanted One Big Bill while the US Senate wanted two. From what I understand, you get two reconciliation bills per Congress in the Senate according to the Budget Act of 1974/senate rules.

The current spending reconciliation bill takes care of taxes, debt ceiling, etc. through this Congress.

That leaves the next reconciliation bill to directly address the deficit and return to regular order starting in for the next fiscal year in Oct 2025.

In between you get rescission bills which cannot be filibustered since the US will no longer be under CRs when the current bill passes.

House has already passed one such and Johnson should have less problems doing more rescission bills going forward. The question then becomes Thune and the Senate disposition of these. Rescission bills will strike at the heart of the DC establishment and wealth.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:34 PM (ctrM5)

202 Now imagine if the spending bill hadn't been larded up!

A stable and growing economy coupled with real spending cuts is a recipe for success.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 03, 2025 12:34 PM (L5An7)

203 Who doesn't need lifetime entry level coders?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:34 PM (Iv8wu)

204 My local Chinese place is owned by an actual Chinese family that are Based as Fuck.

If you want to find them, they are at work or at the Range.

Good people.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:29 PM (T4A2M)

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Make Rooftop Koreans Great Again!

/One of our State Reps is A Great American who arrived as a young teenage "Boat Person" from Vietnam in the 70s (back when achieving The American Dream was still possible ... and might be again owing to Trump)

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:34 PM (kU4R9)

205 You couldn't do it in modern colleges but it would be a good doctoral thesis in economics to examine the positive effects of eliminating illegal immigrants on the economy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 12:34 PM (dfIr7)

206 Why is Hakeem trying to sell us the BBB? I thought he was against it? What's not to like about more deportations?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 03, 2025 12:35 PM (tT6L1)

207 Home much does the Diversity Officer make?
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 12:26 PM (jc0TO)

Three goats and two pounds of assorted shells per month.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:36 PM (ExV1e)

208 It's hard to hold back the tears when trying to articulate how bad this bill truly is and what it will do to families and communities across this country

-- U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen

Specifically, what she means is that democrats are going to lose about 30 seats in the house, once illegals aren't able to be used to inflate population numbers for representation.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 03, 2025 12:36 PM (Vfq+S)

209 US Department of Disentegration.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:36 PM (Iv8wu)

210 Propane powered leaf-blowers with a switch that turns them into flamethrowers.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2025 12:36 PM (SSLjk)

211 22 Numbers are great. What's even greater is thinking about all the people in this country whose lives are improving.

thank you! yes! improving here!

all three kids working making money and they like the people they work with and can converse with them, which is nice

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:36 PM (Pv3Rg)

212 More:

Private Sector: Added 74,000 jobs, below the expected 100,000 to 115,000, marking the smallest monthly gain since October 2024. Excluding healthcare and education, private payrolls grew by only 23,000, well below the 12-month average of 50,000.

Manufacturing: Lost 7,000 jobs, aligning with expectations of a decline.

Layoffs and Jobless Claims: Initial unemployment claims for the week ending June 28 fell to 233,000, down 4,000 from the prior week and below the expected 240,000. Continuing claims remained high at 1.964 million, indicating challenges for the unemployed in finding new work. Layoff announcements in June totaled 47,999, a 49% decline from May, though year-to-date layoffs were elevated, partly due to 288,628 cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency initiative.

Demographic Trends: Native-born employment rose by 2,079,000 in 2025, while foreign-born employment fell by 543,000. This shift was highlighted in some analyses as a notable trend.

Grok: https://bit.ly/44uv9BN

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 03, 2025 12:36 PM (P5BPp)

213 This is gonna blow your mind...

China.

25-30 years or so?
Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:32 PM (T4A2M)

*sigh, everyone is a comedian...

where from in China ? Hong Kong? Shanghai?

Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 12:36 PM (g47mK)

214 Who doesn't need lifetime entry level coders?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:34 PM (Iv8wu)

---------------

OUT: "There's an App for that."
IN: "There's a Bot for that." -- AI

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:37 PM (kU4R9)

215 Require the H1B hires be paid at least 10% more than any non-H1B employee. After all, these are once-in-a-lifetime hires that MSoft needs almost 7000 of.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

That 10% should be 25% and it should go to the states for trade school funding or funding lawsuits against H1B violators.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 12:37 PM (mlg/3)

216 @198

>>Green Mole is mind blowingly good.

I'm kind of partial to Mexican, Spanish and Caribbean food.

I've gotten fish tacos from a shack in Venice Beach that have warped my senses.

Tamales made proper are incredible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 12:37 PM (XV/Pl)

217 196 Let’s see if the market goes down because stronger employment than expectations means a lower chance of a Fed rate cut.

Alternatively it could go up because strong employment means better “fundamentals”.

It could go either way.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken

Humphrey Hawkins gives the Fed two mandates--one is to maximize employment and the other to cut inflation. But, a virtuous spiral can result in higher labor costs from increased employment yet relatively tame inflation for now. That is because as a reserve currency, the US exports the inflation to the producing countries while gathering a tariff that diminishes those effects in the US. Plus, it lowers the non productive expenses on entitlements from reduced welfare spending, etc.

What Trump is essentially doing is similar to policy prescriptions that the IMF used to impose on other countries. Remove the bloated government employees, produce more than you consume, and set your financial house in order.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:37 PM (ctrM5)

218 That was why Trump wanted One Big Bill while the US Senate wanted two. From what I understand, you get two reconciliation bills per Congress in the Senate according to the Budget Act of 1974/senate rules.

thanks for the rundown whig!

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:37 PM (Pv3Rg)

219 oops

sorry I got all excited

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:38 PM (Pv3Rg)

220 We're headed for 45,000 bisches.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:38 PM (fV+MH)

221 Jukin

Steal away, that's how I found it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2025 12:38 PM (SSLjk)

222 Inflation remains low ! And so does the price of eggs !

Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 12:38 PM (g47mK)

223 That 10% should be 25% and it should go to the states for trade school funding or funding lawsuits against H1B violators.

I like this

also no intermediaries for H1B

find them yourselves, don't use contracting companies

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:39 PM (Pv3Rg)

224 Tape tests for all Government Employees.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:39 PM (Iv8wu)

225 I've gotten fish tacos from a shack in Venice Beach that have warped my senses.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Was that place next to the trap house or the medical weed shop?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 12:39 PM (mlg/3)

226 Maybe the blue cities, which generate all the cultural & economic value in this country, should just spend all that value they create on themselves, and make cities real nice, and let the rural areas that hate & shit on cities every day fend for themselves. What a thought.

What are they planning to eat? Rats?

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2025 12:39 PM (0Htd1)

227 Joey Cheesedick is crying that Trump is destroying all of his hard work.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 03, 2025 12:39 PM (/U5Yz)

228 Ever notice how most (all) politicians who are desperate to remain relevant will spend hours on end talking to an empty room about nothing? Or buck their party and go against the flow while making grand proclamations about nothing?

It's almost like.... theater.

I vacillate between hating them and the media the most.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2025 12:39 PM (Q4IgG)

229 >>>Hakeem Jeffries thinks he's Spartacus.

Someone elsewhere referred to him as Dollar Store Obama.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 12:40 PM (i24o9)

230 Also, tamales are just dry, stuffed grit pockets.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 12:40 PM (mlg/3)

231 Oil is down 1%.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:40 PM (Iv8wu)

232 What Trump is essentially doing is similar to policy prescriptions that the IMF used to impose on other countries. Remove the bloated government employees, produce more than you consume, and set your financial house in order.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:37 PM (ctrM5)

Did you hear Sec Bessent mention that he thought the Fed had too much to do with banking regulations, and maybe the Fed board has too much on their plate?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2025 12:40 PM (D7oie)

233 228 Ever notice how most (all) politicians who are desperate to remain relevant will spend hours on end talking to an empty room about nothing? Or buck their party and go against the flow while making grand proclamations about nothing?

It's almost like.... theater.

I vacillate between hating them and the media the most.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2025 12:39 PM (Q4IgG)

=======

Look! I have one job on this lousy ship, it's *stupid*, but I'm gonna do it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

234 Did you hear Sec Bessent mention that he thought the Fed had too much to do with banking regulations, and maybe the Fed board has too much on their plate?

my God I love this man

he's AMAZING

first Gay President? yeah? (buchanan doesn't count)

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:41 PM (Pv3Rg)

235 @225

>>Was that place next to the trap house or the medical weed shop?

This was many years ago before California turned into a complete sh*thole.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 12:41 PM (XV/Pl)

236 Specifically, what she means is that democrats are going to lose about 30 seats in the house, once illegals aren't able to be used to inflate population numbers for representation.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
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More than that, a lot of fed government spending is tied to state populations and less illegal families mean that blue state gubmint and ngo worker demand will go down in areas like healthcare, education, and welfare.

Virtuous cycle starts.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:41 PM (ctrM5)

237 Pretty sure they are Cantonese.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:41 PM (T4A2M)

238 231 Oil is down 1%.

just the start

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:41 PM (Pv3Rg)

239 "Media in Grim Funk..."

Oh, no!

Anyway...

Posted by: Most people at July 03, 2025 12:41 PM (WeCH6)

240 Also, tamales are just dry, stuffed grit pockets.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 03, 2025 12:40 PM (mlg/3)
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If your tamale deal doesn't resemble a drug deal going down in a bad neighborhood, you're probably getting inferior tamales.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 03, 2025 12:41 PM (tT6L1)

241 Trump is destroying a lot of hard dicks.

That's why they hate him.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (fV+MH)

242 More than that, a lot of fed government spending is tied to state populations and less illegal families mean that blue state gubmint and ngo worker demand will go down in areas like healthcare, education, and welfare.

fewer illegal families

and RIGHT ON! great points

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (Pv3Rg)

243 You couldn't do it in modern colleges but it would be a good doctoral thesis in economics to examine the positive effects of eliminating illegal immigrants on the economy.
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Econ 101, use supply and demand curves and you don't even have to name names.

Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (TN0g+)

244 You couldn't do it in modern colleges but it would be a good doctoral thesis in economics to examine the positive effects of eliminating illegal immigrants on the economy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 12:34 PM (dfIr7)

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Teenagers are able to get jobs and earn money again?

What a concept ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (kU4R9)

245 Put tariffs on H1B and make these anti-US companies look for workers from the country that made it possible for them to exist.

‘Why H-1B requests?’ Microsoft layoffs spark strong reactions; questions around foreign hirings

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 03, 2025 12:22 PM

That will likely just drive companies to do what the auto industry has been doing with their engineering workforce over the past 5 years... outsource to BCCs (Best Cost Countries).

Stellantis specifically has done this over the past 4 years since the FCA-PSA merger. Pushed out thousands of local engineers and managers and outsourced 50-75% of engineering work to cheap labor "engineers" in India, Mexico and people from India living in Canada. Paying them 1/3 to 1/2 of what was paid to direct employee engineers.

My group of 75 within my department of hundreds has 9 local engineers and 66 outsourced cheap labor "engineers". 88% of the group. 5 years ago, it was 100% local engineers.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (P5BPp)

246 Am I a bad person though, if I want my Mexican food cooked by actual Mexicans? Just asking...
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder

Yes. Do you insist that your Italian food be cooed by Italians? or that Irish soda bread be made by Irish Colleens? But if the Mexicans are legal, have at it, if they're not and you know that, I hope they haul you off with them.

Posted by: night lifted at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (FZn/N)

247 241 Trump is destroying a lot of hard dicks.

correct

now it's RFK's turn

do eet

DO EET

ban them! ban the ads!

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (Pv3Rg)

248 Who is Cantonese?

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (fV+MH)

249 243 You couldn't do it in modern colleges but it would be a good doctoral thesis in economics to examine the positive effects of eliminating illegal immigrants on the economy.
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Econ 101, use supply and demand curves and you don't even have to name names.
Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (TN0g+)

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The entire western world has been addicted to the idea that importin impoverished, uneducated third worlders makes the GDP line go up.

I genuinely don't know how they came to this conclusion. At all.

But it's a driving force of so many policy prescriptions over the past 30 years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

250 Did you hear Sec Bessent mention that he thought the Fed had too much to do with banking regulations, and maybe the Fed board has too much on their plate?
Posted by: Kindltot
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Nope but not surprised. Bessent is reasserting US Treasury powers instead of ceding those permanently to the Fed.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:43 PM (ctrM5)

251 Specifically, what she means is that democrats are going to lose about 30 seats in the house, once illegals aren't able to be used to inflate population numbers for representation.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 03, 2025 12:36 PM (Vfq+S)

If a Democrat wins the WH in 2028, the Census Bureau will just accidentally overcount blue areas and undercount red areas again. Oopsie.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:43 PM (ExV1e)

252 3 It�s hard to hold back the tears when trying to articulate how bad this bill truly is and what it will do to families and communities across this country.�
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I always marvel at how the Left with their sloganeering very rarely actually says ANYTHING.

They don't. Look at what Biden ran on, what Kamala ran on. We assume correctly it's "communism" but they don't SAY anything.
===•

They never give specific examples. If they do, they are emotional trigger generalizations with no explanation such as “millions will lose health insurance.”

Yes, but what is never mentioned is the fact that those millions are illegal aliens receiving things to which they are not entitled.

Everything is an emotional manipulation and extortion with them.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 03, 2025 12:43 PM (+K1xO)

253 And we still have plenty of fresh produce on the shelves!

Posted by: Your local grocery store at July 03, 2025 12:43 PM (WeCH6)

254 Ever notice how most (all) politicians who are desperate to remain relevant will spend hours on end talking to an empty room about nothing? Or buck their party and go against the flow while making grand proclamations about nothing?

It's almost like.... theater.

I vacillate between hating them and the media the most.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2025 12:39 PM (Q4IgG)

Had a Liberal Arts Div O who somehow qualified for as a nuke officer (Surface Warfare loser). The guy would talk and talk about nothing (about whatever issue of the day), people's eyes would gloss over, and he'd finally recognize that he'd been droning on about nothing, turn beet red, then quickly move on. Total respect mah authority douchebag.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 12:44 PM (i24o9)

255 Before I head out, a warning.

The new Prime series Heads of State is really really bad. Didn't make it even half way through the first episode. The US President character is a buffoon needing to be saved by the smart practical PM of GB. The situation they land in (a pun) is completely ridiculous. That was when I'd had enough.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 03, 2025 12:44 PM (t/2Uw)

256 first Gay President? yeah? (buchanan doesn't count)
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:41 PM

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Barry Soetoro at July 03, 2025 12:44 PM (jc0TO)

257 If one of the other Congressmen accidentally Bear Sprayed Hakeem, would he stop talking? Or would all of that crying and screaming just go into the record. I say we find out.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 03, 2025 12:44 PM (Da7Vv)

258 Who will pick the letteuce?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:44 PM (Iv8wu)

259 238 231 Oil is down 1%.

just the start
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:41 PM (Pv3Rg)

This is the thing about oil prices that so many *never* understand; when it's actually quite simple. Restrict production and provoke wars in the middle east, they will always go up. Wind down wars in the middle east and all production to be boosted, prices will *always* go down.
(and in current events, what Trump just did in Iran was to *End* a 40 year war, not start one)

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 12:44 PM (uWKK8)

260 Who is Cantonese?

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (fV+MH)

I think I am turning Cantonese.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM (i24o9)

261 Why would anyone want to talk for six hours straight and why would anyone listen to them.?

Also if I didn’t already have a crush on Pete Hegseth I would have one on Scott Bessent except that he’s gay.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM (2GCMq)

262 Now imagine if the spending bill hadn't been larded up!

Yeah. Its not like I don't sympathize with people who want to cut spending and avoid the ridiculously gargantuan spending cap. I agree its an ugly pile of junk and waste. But the other parts of it are good, like not ending tax cuts (effectively increasing taxes massively), and the funding for ICE.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM (dfIr7)

263 If one of the other Congressmen accidentally Bear Sprayed Hakeem, would he stop talking? Or would all of that crying and screaming just go into the record. I say we find out.
Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at July 03, 2025 12:44 PM (Da7Vv)

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Seconded.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM (tT6L1)

264 Please Brittany

Show us on this doll where the Big Bad Bill touched you,

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM (SSLjk)

265 >>Everything is an emotional manipulation and extortion with them.

Well. They are women.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM (T4A2M)

266 What Trump is essentially doing is similar to policy prescriptions that the IMF used to impose on other countries. Remove the bloated government employees, produce more than you consume, and set your financial house in order.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:37 PM (ctrM5)

——-

We are getting a real time lesson into whether Smoot Hawley and tariffs caused the Great Depression.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM (vOq4N)

267 I've had the funk for about a month now. It's time for stronger antibiotics.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 12:27 PM (i24o9)

I told you that girl at the truck stop was not a good idea.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM (bss/y)

268 At one time Gregg Jeffries was the next Ted Williams.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:46 PM (VPwHp)

269 That 10% should be 25% and it should go to the states for trade school funding or funding lawsuits against H1B violators.

How about H1B holders cannot account for more than 0.001% of total corporate headcount.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:46 PM (ExV1e)

270 Who is Cantonese?
Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (fV+MH)

I thought he was a Time Lord?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2025 12:46 PM (SMy0Z)

271 Our Chinese restaurant folk just got back from their month long trip back to Canton and reopened the place. They do this every year. Honoring the ancestors I guess.
Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 12:32 PM (jc0TO)

Or sucking up to Xi and the CCP. I hope they came here just for money and didn't sell some sob story about running for their lives! It's amazing how many Chinese immigrants say how it was "unsafe" for them, yet visit for an extended period annually. If they're the lying type, ice them out.

Posted by: night lifted at July 03, 2025 12:46 PM (FZn/N)

272 Sometimes you gotta step back from the cynicism and think "our em-effin' media really is rooting for me to suffer so they can blame it on a president they don't like, in the hopes it'll help a future tyrant win power"

But I don't recommend it, because it'll spawn dark fantasies about lampposts n' such. Suffice it to say, the media is damn lucky we don't hate them as much as they truly deserve.

Posted by: weew at July 03, 2025 12:46 PM (EaEMG)

273 You go now.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:46 PM (Iv8wu)

274 266 We are getting a real time lesson into whether Smoot Hawley and tariffs caused the Great Depression.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM (vOq4N)

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I remember Milton Friedman arguing it was fed policy that caused it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

275 Who is Cantonese?
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They're the ones who manage the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 12:46 PM (TN0g+)

276 This'll fix everything!

WHO Pushes for 50% Tax Increase on Sugar, Alcohol and Tobacco

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 03, 2025 12:46 PM (L/fGl)

277 *Yes. Do you insist that your Italian food be cooed by Italians? or that Irish soda bread be made by Irish Colleens?*

I thought Donna Chang was a Chinese woman!!

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at July 03, 2025 12:46 PM (WeCH6)

278 I told you that girl at the truck stop was not a good idea.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM (bss/y)

Some things you just have to learn for yourself.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 12:46 PM (i24o9)

279 265 >>Everything is an emotional manipulation and extortion with them.

Well. They are women.
Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM (T4A2M)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE!

Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at July 03, 2025 12:46 PM (bss/y)

280 How about H1B holders cannot account for more than 0.001% of total corporate headcount.

ooh I have another - foreign student caps in US colleges. really low cap for state schools, maybe they go to 5% for private

1% for state schools, and must be full pay

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:47 PM (Pv3Rg)

281 "I think I am turning Cantonese.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder"

Do you really think so?

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:47 PM (fV+MH)

282 "Revisions to prior months also boosted job totals. April's job creation was revised upward by 11,000 to 158,000, and May gained an additional 5,000, bringing that month's total to 144,000."

It's funny. I don't remember many upward revisions during Biden's tenure.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2025 12:47 PM (0CU3H)

283 40 long minutes left for Jeffries to get record.

Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (G0vdT)

284 Who is Cantonese?

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (fV+MH)

I think I am turning Cantonese.
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You really think so?

Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (TN0g+)

285 243 You couldn't do it in modern colleges but it would be a good doctoral thesis in economics to examine the positive effects of eliminating illegal immigrants on the economy.
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Econ 101, use supply and demand curves and you don't even have to name names.
Posted by: Crusader
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I seem to remember such a research monograph based on a guy's dissertation that made the author radioactive (mebbe published at Heritage Foundation) during Trump's first term. Guy got let go and Heritage dissassociated itself from him becuz its donors loved cheap labor.

I think former Senator DeMint still ran the Heritage at that point instead of the later DEI hire that pushed them leftwards.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (ctrM5)

286 >>> 226 Maybe the blue cities, which generate all the cultural & economic value in this country, should just spend all that value they create on themselves, and make cities real nice, and let the rural areas that hate & shit on cities every day fend for themselves. What a thought.
==
What are they planning to eat? Rats?
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2025 12:39 PM (0Htd1)

We have restaurants and grocery stores, you know.

Posted by: Proud Blue City EXPERT! at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (ULPxl)

287 first Gay President? yeah? (buchanan doesn't count)
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:41 PM (Pv3Rg)

Bessent couldn't get elected in a million years for the same reason DeSantis won't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (ExV1e)

288 People from Hong Kong speak Cantonese.

Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (g47mK)

289 Stop putting women in charge.

Posted by: Like Brittany at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (WeCH6)

290 You couldn't do it in modern colleges but it would be a good doctoral thesis in economics to examine the positive effects of eliminating illegal immigrants on the economy.
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Econ 101, use supply and demand curves and you don't even have to name names.
Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 12:42 PM (TN0g+)

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The entire western world has been addicted to the idea that importin impoverished, uneducated third worlders makes the GDP line go up.

I genuinely don't know how they came to this conclusion. At all.

But it's a driving force of so many policy prescriptions over the past 30 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)
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True, but I'm not sure if they really believe that, or it's just an excuse to do what they want to do already (or are getting paid to want to do). Illegal immigration is such a racket to so many different industries and interest groups that anything they say about how it benefits normal Americans is 100% suspect. I believe not a word of it.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (iFTx/)

291 272 Sometimes you gotta step back from the cynicism and think "our em-effin' media really is rooting for me to suffer so they can blame it on a president they don't like, in the hopes it'll help a future tyrant win power"

well you're right weew
but its not just the media
in my case it's my own family?
it's all my neighbors?
it's the creatives I work with?
it's a whole hell of a lot of people.

kinda scary

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (Pv3Rg)

292 Oil is down 1%.

just the start

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:41 PM (Pv3Rg)

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Trump will refill the The National Strategic Petroleum Reserve when the cost is minimal again.

And then he'll build a National Strategic Small Modular (Nuclear) Reactor (SMR) Reserve to power our future AI Server Farm Overlords ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Designate The Democrat Party A Domestic Terrorist Organization at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (kU4R9)

293 258 Who will pick the letteuce?
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:44 PM (Iv8wu)

Go to a local farm and pic the shit yourself, or grow it in the back yard like my darling old girl does, and no she doesn't need wetbacks to pick it and neither do you.

Posted by: night lifted at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (FZn/N)

294 278 I told you that girl at the truck stop was not a good idea.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM (bss/y)

Some things you just have to learn for yourself.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder
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Truck stop sushi?

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (ctrM5)

295 I think I am turning Cantonese.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 12:45 PM

You really think so?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM (Wnv9h)

296 Stop putting Leftists in charge.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM (SSLjk)

297 Unh-uh! Da maff ain't maffin! And dat bitch Melania's old busted ass wadn't no Tyra Banks!

*z-snap and head bobble*

Posted by: Jasmine Ratchet, her eyelashes dragging at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM (TbWk/)

298 Media tears are golden nectar!

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM (gxokI)

299 We have restaurants and grocery stores, you know.
Posted by: Proud Blue City EXPERT! at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (ULPxl)

But you grow fuck all, and the libs can starve for all I care.

Posted by: night lifted at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM (FZn/N)

300 40 long minutes left for Jeffries to get record.
Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (G0vdT)

Be funny if he baffed out from a heart attack just minutes short of the record.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM (SMy0Z)

301 I honestly don't remember a single Grim Funk Railroad song.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM (DjjUA)

302 I don't think I've seen a decent TV show since maybe 2017? It all ended in 2015 officially when the libs decided we weren't allowed to have entertainment anymore but there was a few stragglers.

But honestly TV is beyond unwatchable now. Every show is an allegory for how you're a racist sexist homopohobe and perverted godless dummy commies are "the real heroes" and also the world isn't worth living in except under prescriptive commie care.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM (VPwHp)

303 Who will pick the letteuce?
Posted by: Boss Moss

Won't somebody think of the bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM (L/fGl)

304 Go to a local farm and pic the shit yourself, or grow it in the back yard like my darling old girl does, and no she doesn't need wetbacks to pick it and neither do you.

lettuce is super easy to grow even I can do it and I can do it year round even! water culture and a leanto greenhouse for larger varietals

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:50 PM (Pv3Rg)

305 "People from Hong Kong speak Cantonese.
Posted by: runner "

They think they do.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 12:50 PM (fV+MH)

306 Truck stop sushi?
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (ctrM5)

Nah, I'm betting dutch-irish.

Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at July 03, 2025 12:50 PM (bss/y)

307 202 Now imagine if the spending bill hadn't been larded up!

A stable and growing economy coupled with real spending cuts is a recipe for success.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 03, 2025 12:34 PM (L5An7)

I think that if Trump can get through 2025 with his agenda intact, we'll have a lot more room in 2026 to put a chainsaw to gov't. With a winning economy, the American people will give him the whip hand to keep the wins coming.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2025 12:50 PM (0CU3H)

308 This'll fix everything!

WHO Pushes for 50% Tax Increase on Sugar, Alcohol and Tobacco
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I think the WHO just volunteered to be the next recipient of President Trump's "Thank you for your attention to this matter" post.

Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 12:50 PM (TN0g+)

309 Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (Pv3Rg)

Psy ops are a thing.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:50 PM (VPwHp)

310 300 40 long minutes left for Jeffries to get record.
Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (G0vdT)

Not sure that's a record I'd want....

Posted by: It's me donna at July 03, 2025 12:51 PM (VE6XX)

311 Won't somebody think of the bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM

I wasn't until now. Thanks a freakin lot.

Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 12:51 PM (jc0TO)

312 and English !

Posted by: runner at July 03, 2025 12:51 PM (g47mK)

313
This media funk post needs a soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4nOHdUntyM

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 03, 2025 12:51 PM (y9nCu)

314 Now imagine if the spending bill hadn't been larded up!

I'm imagining... I'm imagining... Ah! It wouldn't have passed. Cool exercise.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:51 PM (ExV1e)

315
ooh I have another - foreign student caps in US colleges. really low cap for state schools, maybe they go to 5% for private

1% for state schools, and must be full pay
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:47 PM (Pv3Rg)

Yes! We don't need their students at all. Especially the free shit army from illegal providing lands. If they bitch, chuck out their ambassadors

Posted by: night lifted at July 03, 2025 12:51 PM (FZn/N)

316 Nobody watches TV anymore.

Posted by: Welcome to 2025 at July 03, 2025 12:52 PM (WeCH6)

317 Please Brittany

Show us on this doll where the Big Bad Bill touched you,
Posted by: Anna Puma

LOL! Now Anna, don't be so hard on the poor dear, she had to fly, hasn't slept, and has to do her job while also posting a video whining. That's like digging ditches under the hot sun or something.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2025 12:52 PM (oiNtH)

318 310 300 40 long minutes left for Jeffries to get record.
Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:48 PM (G0vdT)

Not sure that's a record I'd want....
Posted by: It's me donna at July 03, 2025 12:51 PM (VE6XX)

Maybe they can wheel in an old phone booth and see how many of them fit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:52 PM (bss/y)

319 Declaration of war against WHO for infringing on US soverignty.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:52 PM (Iv8wu)

320 "PEOPLE WILL DIE!"
"Death comes for us all. You're not special."

Posted by: NR Pax at July 03, 2025 12:52 PM (jjoN6)

321 Won't somebody think of the poor Congressmen who just want to go home to their families. I Hope Jeffries doesn't keep this going until after midnight. I don't know how I'll sleep if I know a single Congressmen is suffering tonight.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:52 PM (VPwHp)

322 Maybe they can wheel in an old phone booth and see how many of them fit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:52 PM (bss/y)

Or a VW bug

Posted by: It's me donna at July 03, 2025 12:52 PM (VE6XX)

323 True fact: it was a close but rigged vote that made Mandarin the official language of China over the more common Cantonese.

Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 12:52 PM (jc0TO)

324 I saw an item this morning that Zelensky is planning to insult Trump and Vance again today. Bold move, Cotton.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 03, 2025 12:53 PM (QZThv)

325 The entire western world has been addicted to the idea that importin impoverished, uneducated third worlders makes the GDP line go up.

I genuinely don't know how they came to this conclusion. At all.

But it's a driving force of so many policy prescriptions over the past 30 years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Because the upper class/investor class benefit as seen by income distributions from the 1970's onward. Middle and lower classes, not so much.

The US GDP has improved substantially but those who could have the surplus to invest or were vested with stock options on the ground floor of companies that skyrocketed made bank.

Enshittification was the fate for the hoi polloi.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:53 PM (ctrM5)

326 >>> 308 This'll fix everything!

WHO Pushes for 50% Tax Increase on Sugar, Alcohol and Tobacco
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I think the WHO just volunteered to be the next recipient of President Trump's "Thank you for your attention to this matter" post.
Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 12:50 PM (TN0g+)

I certainly hope so.

*looks for popcorn*

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 12:53 PM (ULPxl)

327 aw Biden was whining at the Nat'l Model UN

those poor kids

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:54 PM (Pv3Rg)

328 307 I think that if Trump can get through 2025 with his agenda intact, we'll have a lot more room in 2026 to put a chainsaw to gov't. With a winning economy, the American people will give him the whip hand to keep the wins coming.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2025 12:50 PM (0CU3H)

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With this signed by Trump, Congress can now pass rescission bills with bare majorities and one more reconciliation bill with bare majorities before the end of the fiscal year next October.

Lots of time to just cut stuff.

House has passed one rescission bill which the Senate said it wouldn't take up until the OBBB was passed. And I imagine the intraparty drama over it will be different. Like, Paul and Massie should vote for all the rescissions.

So, we'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:54 PM (GBKbO)

329 Imagine if Jeffries keeps everyone there for weeks and it becomes Thunderdome. Again that would be truly awful.

Posted by: ... at July 03, 2025 12:54 PM (VPwHp)

330 At one time Gregg Jeffries was the next Ted Williams.
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His production resembled George Brett's for a few years...sort of.

Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 12:54 PM (TN0g+)

331 Is Hakeem the Dream trying to rob Corey Booker of the prestige for longest retarded filibuster?

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:54 PM (T4A2M)

332 324 I saw an item this morning that Zelensky is planning to insult Trump and Vance again today. Bold move, Cotton.
Posted by: Ian S.
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I want him to keep doing it so it kills any domestic support for Ukrainian funding from the US.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:54 PM (ctrM5)

333 Grim Funk is my favorite Parliament/Death Metal mashup band.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at July 03, 2025 12:54 PM (xcxpd)

334 Like, Paul and Massie should vote for all the rescissions

won't it be funny when they don't

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (Pv3Rg)

335 319 Declaration of war against WHO for infringing on US soverignty.
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:52 PM (Iv8wu)

Ah you mean Gates' group. As for war, invasion is an act of war and Scheinbaum's government is talking reconquista. If she moos that out again, take her government down by all means needed

Posted by: night lifted at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (FZn/N)

336 The hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne.

Posted by: He stood up to The Man and gave him what for at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (TbWk/)

337 Wasn't thw WHO bought off by the Chinese?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (Iv8wu)

338 Won't somebody think of the bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM (L/fGl)

In a pinch you can to without the lettuce. Or tomato... or mayo... or bread, for that matter. A platter a bacon and a friendly wench is all that you really need.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (ExV1e)

339 316 Nobody watches TV anymore.
Posted by: Welcome to 2025 at July 03, 2025 12:52 PM (WeCH6)

And especially not network news, or cable news. Even when you add in Fox, which has as many viewers now as all of those other outlets combined, you still come up with a number that says that less than 5% of the country today regularly watches any news shows. We obsess about what they say because we're mostly political junkies here, but the entire industry has become a giant self licking ice cream cone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (uWKK8)

340 Jeffries says SCOTUS is corrupt.

Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (G0vdT)

341 I think that if Trump can get through 2025 with his agenda intact, we'll have a lot more room in 2026 to put a chainsaw to gov't. With a winning economy, the American people will give him the whip hand to keep the wins coming.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

I think that this is a large part of the problem with Musk. He wanted a chainsaw now with a total amputation of wasteful government spending but unfortunately, that's not how our political climate works. Trump & team knows that and has take wins as they come and keep at it for the next 4 years.

Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (oiNtH)

342 334 Like, Paul and Massie should vote for all the rescissions

won't it be funny when they don't
Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (Pv3Rg)

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I think Paul will.

And there was a report that Massie was groveling to Trump late last night as Trump was in a House antechamber whipping for the vote on the rules. "Please stop attacking me, and I'll vote for the bill," stuff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

343 301 I honestly don't remember a single Grim Funk Railroad song.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM (DjjUA)

Mean Mistreater, which is obviously about Trump.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (PiwSw)

344 While people focus on Ironshart being another dismal failure for Marvel, there are other problems in the offering.

First being Marvel comic sales being down. Second could be a real killer of the whole industry.

Diamond Distributors which supplies comic stores with merchandise has filed for bankruptcy and sold to someone never heard of.

Now the likes Dynamite Comics is suing Diamond to recover a million dollars or they won't meet payroll next week.

Where it will get even more entertaining is what the new owners are trying to do. Sell off what is in the warehouses at a bargain price to generate some cash. There is one catch, a lot of the merchandise was on consignment to Diamond.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2025 12:30 PM (SSLjk)

Meanwhile, the Manga section at the local Barnes and Noble appears to be the most popular section in the store...

I wonder why

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 03, 2025 12:56 PM (N1DT3)

345 Women's fault!

German women told to stop groping disabled Arab boys to address problem of sexual assault at public pools

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 03, 2025 12:56 PM (L/fGl)

346 >>> 338 Won't somebody think of the bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 03, 2025 12:49 PM (L/fGl)

In a pinch you can to without the lettuce. Or tomato... or mayo... or bread, for that matter. A platter a bacon and a friendly wench is all that you really need.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (ExV1e)

Say, have I mentioned that this year will be the *tenth* TX MoMee???

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 12:56 PM (ULPxl)

347 340 Jeffries says SCOTUS is corrupt.
Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (G0vdT)

Well, he's not exactly wrong...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 03, 2025 12:56 PM (bss/y)

348 Truck stop sushi?
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The Tubes appearance on Second City TV was pretty awesome.

Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 12:56 PM (TN0g+)

349 Jeffries says SCOTUS is corrupt.
Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM

Welcome to the party, pal.

Posted by: toby928 at July 03, 2025 12:56 PM (jc0TO)

350 @316

>>Nobody watches TV anymore.

Last show I actively tried to watch was Gotham, which debuted in 2014, it started off good but quickly devolved into a lesbian grooming storyline with Fish Mooney trying to get in the pants of an minor underling.

Immediately stopped watching it and have not watched an episodic programming ever since.

So that's over a decade since I've actively watched anything on TV.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 03, 2025 12:56 PM (XV/Pl)

351 I think that this is a large part of the problem with Musk. He wanted a chainsaw now with a total amputation of wasteful government spending but unfortunately, that's not how our political climate works. Trump & team knows that and has take wins as they come and keep at it for the next 4 years.

you give him too much credit

he wanted the green $$ he benefits from to stay in the US budget

that's all this was about

Posted by: Black Orchid at July 03, 2025 12:57 PM (Pv3Rg)

352 332 324 I saw an item this morning that Zelensky is planning to insult Trump and Vance again today. Bold move, Cotton.
Posted by: Ian S.
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I want him to keep doing it so it kills any domestic support for Ukrainian funding from the US.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:54 PM (ctrM5)

Everything Zelensky does tells me that's not a real war over there. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I know what it isn't.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 03, 2025 12:57 PM (uWKK8)

353 292 Oil is down 1%.

just the start

Posted by: Black Orchid
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Commodity prices thrive on high inflation as an investment vehicle--not so much in low inflation.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:57 PM (ctrM5)

354 "I've just finished my Opening Statement...."

Posted by: Hakeem at July 03, 2025 12:58 PM (VPwHp)

355 “That doom just hasn’t happened yet."

Why isn't reality conforming to my narrative?

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 03, 2025 12:58 PM (B9Prs)

356 The US GDP has improved substantially but those who could have the surplus to invest or were vested with stock options on the ground floor of companies that skyrocketed made bank.

Enshittification was the fate for the hoi polloi.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:53 PM (ctrM5)

Correctomundo. They don't want a thriving, economically mobile middle class. Lenin was very clear about this and they've been carrying on his legacy as best they can ever since.

Posted by: Politburo motherfuckers at July 03, 2025 12:58 PM (TbWk/)

357 Jeffries says SCOTUS is corrupt.
Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (G0vdT)

Well, it has KBJ, and Sotomayor, Kagan, and Roberts on it, so, yeah.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2025 12:58 PM (SMy0Z)

358 Because the upper class/investor class benefit as seen by income distributions from the 1970's onward. Middle and lower classes, not so much.

The US GDP has improved substantially but those who could have the surplus to invest or were vested with stock options on the ground floor of companies that skyrocketed made bank.

Enshittification was the fate for the hoi polloi.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 12:53 PM (ctrM5)

———

I don’t think most conservatives understand how much wealth has been transferred to the top few percent over the last 40 years.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 03, 2025 12:59 PM (vOq4N)

359 I think that this is a large part of the problem with Musk. He wanted a chainsaw now with a total amputation of wasteful government spending but unfortunately, that's not how our political climate works. Trump & team knows that and has take wins as they come and keep at it for the next 4 years.
Posted by: Cheri at July 03, 2025 12:55 PM (oiNtH)

Lots of folks in the comments were the same. All the cuts, right now, in a bill that'd never pass.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:59 PM (ExV1e)

360 I suspect Jeffries wants to keep the bullshit flowing until the financial markets close.

Posted by: mrp at July 03, 2025 12:59 PM (rj6Yv)

361 >>Everything Zelensky does tells me that's not a real war over there.

The fact that Ukraine is still a Country is how you can tell that Russia isn't seriously going to war.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 12:59 PM (T4A2M)

362 Our local MeTV affiliate was down for repairs for 96 hours.

I had no idea what to watch, as everything available was enshitified modern crap.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 03, 2025 12:59 PM (a1415)

363 The last great show on network television was "The Unit". It lasted 4 glorious seasons *AND* managed to have the story-arc come to a masterful finale in its final episode.

Posted by: Crusader at July 03, 2025 12:59 PM (TN0g+)

364 359 Lots of folks in the comments were the same. All the cuts, right now, in a bill that'd never pass.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:59 PM (ExV1e)

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Just kill it and get another CR.

That'll fix things.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)

365 MeTv is westerns?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 03, 2025 01:00 PM (Iv8wu)

366 "But wait.... there's more!!!"

Posted by: Hakeem at July 03, 2025 01:00 PM (VPwHp)

367 Everything Zelensky does tells me that's not a real war over there. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I know what it isn't.

We all know exactly what it is: money laundering and off-shore banking for the entire world's alleged elites (except for Putin and Xi).

Posted by: Ian S. at July 03, 2025 01:00 PM (QZThv)

368 "I've just finished my Opening Statement...."
Posted by: Hakeem at July 03, 2025 12:58 PM (VPwHp)

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"The answer is ...4?"

Posted by: Thornton Melon at July 03, 2025 01:00 PM (tT6L1)

369 Congress is in session so why are you not in the chambers working bitch?!?!?

Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 03, 2025 01:00 PM (RJSYQ)

370 Everything Zelensky does tells me that's not a real war over there. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I know what it isn't.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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For the poor sobs fighting and dying over there, it is a war. For the leaders, not so much. A drug addled puppet leading his country into continuing a war where all he can do is lose means that someone else is calling the shots. Probably Euroland and some elements like Pompeo, Pence, and other mincing Deep State traitors to teh US.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 01:00 PM (ctrM5)

371 It’s hard to hold back the tears when trying to articulate how bad this bill truly is and what it will do to families and communities across this country.

---

This is the kind of reaction that all leaders aspire to.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 03, 2025 01:01 PM (WfZMN)

372
"I've just finished my Opening Statement...."
Posted by: Hakeem at July 03, 2025 12:58 PM (VPwHp)

That's all? Call me when he can keep every speech going for 18+ hours.

Posted by: Zombie Fidel Castro at July 03, 2025 01:01 PM (y9nCu)

373 > This entitled princess cries that she had to take a plane back to DC to do her f***ing job.

This is the chick who keeps bringing her baby to meetings so she can complain about not having enough support, despite having a husband back home, right?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 03, 2025 01:01 PM (lIio7)

374 365 MeTv is westerns?
Posted by: Boss Moss
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Some and some old Viacom series at night. Hogans Heroes, Green Acres, etc.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 01:01 PM (ctrM5)

375 Now imagine if the spending bill hadn't been larded up!

A stable and growing economy coupled with real spending cuts is a recipe for success.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 03, 2025 12:34 PM (L5An7)

I think that if Trump can get through 2025 with his agenda intact, we'll have a lot more room in 2026 to put a chainsaw to gov't. With a winning economy, the American people will give him the whip hand to keep the wins coming.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2025 12:50 PM (0CU3H)
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I agree, but I also don't think the American people are the issue. The American people are already screaming to gut the government. The problem is entrenched special interests, corrupt politicians who know who they're paymasters are, and Deep State scumbags.

Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

376 371 It’s hard to hold back the tears when trying to articulate how bad this bill truly is and what it will do to families and communities across this country.

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This is the kind of reaction that all leaders aspire to.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at July 03, 2025 01:01 PM (WfZMN)

Right.. I am Woman hear me... Cry...

Posted by: It's me donna at July 03, 2025 01:02 PM (VE6XX)

377 and some elements like Pompeo, Pence, and other mincing Deep State traitors to teh US.
Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 01:00 PM (ctrM5)

Don't forget to include Obama, and ValJar, and Victoria Nuland, and a cast of thousands.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2025 01:02 PM (SMy0Z)

378 Everything Zelensky does tells me that's not a real war over there. I'm not exactly sure what it is, but I know what it isn't.

We all know exactly what it is: money laundering and off-shore banking for the entire world's alleged elites (except for Putin and Xi).
Posted by: Ian S. at July 03, 2025 01:00 PM (QZThv)
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What the PTB don't like about this war: People have finally noticed politicians are getting rich off of body counts.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at July 03, 2025 01:02 PM (tT6L1)

379 The US GDP has improved substantially but those who could have the surplus to invest or were vested with stock options on the ground floor of companies that skyrocketed made bank.

In fairness, I saw a lot of the people who lived around me... people who could have chosen to have a surplus to invest... but every year there was a new car, a couple expensive vacations, the continual remodeling of the house, etc.

I'll admit that the rules are stacked against the normies but sometimes they fuck themselves.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 01:02 PM (ExV1e)

380 The black men doing landscaping jobs: fantastic.
Bye bye illegal Juan!

Posted by: The Man from Athens at July 03, 2025 01:02 PM (RJSYQ)

381 I suspect Jeffries wants to keep the bullshit flowing until the financial markets close.
Posted by: mrp at July 03, 2025 12:59 PM (rj6Yv)

Maybe. Everything is up at the moment, though. Seems counter-productive.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 01:04 PM (ExV1e)

382 375 I agree, but I also don't think the American people are the issue. The American people are already screaming to gut the government. The problem is entrenched special interests, corrupt politicians who know who they're paymasters are, and Deep State scumbags.
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 03, 2025 01:02 PM (iFTx/)

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I think the American people's opinions on government spending have still gone no further than "cut theirs, not mine."

What's potentially changed is the idea that "theirs" is a whole lot bigger than thought along with a president unwilling to bow to "theirs".

Ultimately, the American people just want to feel comfortable and fed and vote largely based on that.

The midterms will be based on economic conditions not how much was or was not cut in the OBBB or about how many toes we dip into war in the Middle East.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 03, 2025 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

383 Democrats don't want jobs-- they only want paychecks. They just do not want to work at all. They want to sit in the office and play with their phones and start company slack-chats in which they rant about their extremist cultish politics all day.

They think that work is beneath them. They think they're all unrecognized Nobles.

Posted by: Ace at 12:00 PM

Sounds like Twitter before it was purchased by Mr. Elon Musk.

Posted by: mrp at July 03, 2025 01:04 PM (rj6Yv)

384 Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what your country can do for me!
- The Z Man

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 03, 2025 01:04 PM (L/fGl)

385 Jeffries into the church revival portion of his speech.

Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 01:04 PM (G0vdT)

386 >>>It’s hard to hold back the tears when trying to articulate how bad this bill truly is and what it will do to families and communities across this country.

The lamentations of their women.

Thanks, Trump!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 03, 2025 01:05 PM (i24o9)

387 For the poor sobs fighting and dying over there, it is a war. For the leaders, not so much.

It's a return to the old ways.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 01:05 PM (ExV1e)

388 I still wish Elon and team could have continued taking a axe to government waste

Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2025 01:05 PM (+qU29)

389 364 359 Lots of folks in the comments were the same. All the cuts, right now, in a bill that'd never pass.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 12:59 PM (ExV1e)

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Just kill it and get another CR.

That'll fix things.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Some confused the debt limit ceiling being raised with actual new debt. Some wanted items that can't be considered under reconciliation and then demanded that the Senate effectively nuke the filibuster to do what they want, some bitched about the new deductions for tips, Social Security, overtime--too much or too little, etc.

And I honestly think some of it was fake crap by drive by nics with no past posts. Seen that on other websites.

The sad truth is every appropriations bill is larded with shit to get passed--they are all shit sandwiches since the Continental Congress days. So, what you do as a leader is minimize the destructive shit, maximize the good stuff, and pass the bill. Governance rather than posturing about what can never be.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 01:06 PM (ctrM5)

390 Brittney Peterson bitching about doing her job, on the taxpayer's dime is perfectly on point for the Democrats.

She needs her Xeet to be repeated daily. And mocked.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2025 01:06 PM (Q4IgG)

391 >>the continual remodeling of the house, etc.

Often, this will be a better investment than ANY other.

Home is already the largest investment most people have and there is a much better Tax outcome from treating your home as such.

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 01:06 PM (T4A2M)

392 The black men doing landscaping jobs: fantastic.
Bye bye illegal Juan!
Posted by: The Man from Athens

Send him to Juantanamo!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 03, 2025 01:06 PM (L/fGl)

393 I suspect Jeffries wants to keep the bullshit flowing until the financial markets close.
Posted by: mrp at July 03, 2025 12:59 PM (rj6Yv)
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They all (dems) want it to end. 5 minutes after he gets the record, they start the vote.

Posted by: WisRich at July 03, 2025 01:06 PM (G0vdT)

394 >>> 388 I still wish Elon and team could have continued taking a axe to government waste
Posted by: Skip at July 03, 2025 01:05 PM (+qU29)

Pretty sure DOGE is still auditing, since some of the puffed-up commie judges had been throwing TROs at them up until recently.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 01:06 PM (ULPxl)

395 German women told to stop groping disabled Arab boys to address problem of sexual assault at public pools
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Reinforcing muslim immigrant beliefs that Western women will do anything ti have sex with them.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 03, 2025 01:06 PM (t78Bt)

396 >>It’s hard to hold back the tears

Simply Red, Standing By

Posted by: garrett at July 03, 2025 01:06 PM (T4A2M)

397 I don’t think most conservatives understand how much wealth has been transferred to the top few percent over the last 40 years.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 03, 2025

I think every Righty knows. Most are seriously pissed off about it. A large minority of them think it's exactly what should be happening, and unsurprisingly, many of those are wealthy people with a lot of influence . Therein lies the problem the GOP has had since Golden Escalator Day.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at July 03, 2025 01:07 PM (BI5O2)

398 Nood. Journo loses their mind and tells the truth.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 01:07 PM (ExV1e)

399 Maybe. Everything is up at the moment, though. Seems counter-productive.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 01:04 PM (ExV1e)

It's been reported that Republican "fence-sitters" are now appalled by Mr. Jeffries' antics and are ready, willing, and able to vote in the affirmative for the MegaMAGA bill.

Posted by: mrp at July 03, 2025 01:07 PM (rj6Yv)

400 NOOD

twatlantic

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 01:07 PM (ULPxl)

401 Nood.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 03, 2025 01:07 PM (lIio7)

402 We all know exactly what it is: money laundering and off-shore banking for the entire world's alleged elites (except for Putin and Xi).
Posted by: Ian S. at July 03, 2025 01:00 PM (QZThv)

Time to send the Ukranians home, the ones here spend most of their time yacking about how we need to send soldiers. Send them home

Posted by: night lifted at July 03, 2025 01:07 PM (FZn/N)

403 I still wish Elon and team could have continued taking a axe to government waste

DOGE is still working without him there. But the issue is going to be what you can get through Congress. BBB has some very important cuts, but it's obviously far from the whole enchilada. That's OK though, the Marxists got us into this mess incrementally so we can get out of it incrementally.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 03, 2025 01:07 PM (QZThv)

404 best line in the US unemployment report: "Federal government jobs continued to decline."

Posted by: Jeff Carter (@pointsnfigures1) at July 03, 2025 01:08 PM (8qMs2)

405 They think they're all unrecognized Nobles.
.....

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS !

Posted by: wth at July 03, 2025 01:08 PM (UjdFS)

406 Right.. I am Woman hear me... Cry...
___

No woman; no cry

Posted by: Bob M. at July 03, 2025 01:08 PM (t78Bt)

407 Off, corrupt homosexual sadist sock.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2025 01:08 PM (BI5O2)

408 If real Americans were actually “filling the jobs” wouldn’t reported labor force participation stayed even (or even risen)? It fell by 329,000. Another alarming metric that points to “filling the job” narrative being potentially false is that those who were unemployed and didn’t seek a job in the last month also grew quite substantially, more so than the actual job gains (+234,000 mom/1.8M total now).

If you go by household survey as a more accurate gauge of job creation (+93,000), state/local gov’t jobs #’s and gov’t workers still on severance likely the only reason it’s a positive number.

That manufacturing jobs also declined.. it’s not all roses.

Posted by: The Letter J at July 03, 2025 01:08 PM (rdF17)

409 For the poor sobs fighting and dying over there, it is a war. For the leaders, not so much.

It's a return to the old ways.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 03, 2025 01:05 PM (ExV1e)

Echoes of WW1 in which the retarded inbred aristocratic toffs could be arsed to get out of bed before 10am to read a critical diplomatic communique that might have halted the whole goddamn thing before it started.

Posted by: War pigs at July 03, 2025 01:08 PM (TbWk/)

410 388 I still wish Elon and team could have continued taking a axe to government waste
Posted by: Skip
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They are. Big Balls is working as the DOGE rep at Social Security. That is the epicenter of fake SSN and fraudulent multiple individuals using the same SSN. Having an SSN unlocks a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse in Soc. Security, Medicare, and other government programs.

Reducing government employees help as more of them take the buyouts and leave by October, reducing idiotic wasteful spending propping up that clown in Ukraine, and so on will help.

Musk was always the figurehead and initiator of DOGE but never the end goal of it.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 01:09 PM (ctrM5)

411 Well? We're WAITING!

NOOOOOD

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 03, 2025 01:10 PM (ULPxl)

412 Echoes of WW1 in which the retarded inbred aristocratic toffs could be arsed to get out of bed before 10am to read a critical diplomatic communique that might have halted the whole goddamn thing before it started.
Posted by: War pigs
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Not really. Germany was most likely intending to go to war anyway which released post war German government documents and interviews supported.

The world had several crises that nearly led to Germany doing so in French dominated Morocco twice before backing down.

Posted by: whig at July 03, 2025 01:11 PM (ctrM5)

413 "And especially not network news, or cable news. Even when you add in Fox, which has as many viewers now as all of those other outlets combined, you still come up with a number that says that less than 5% of the country today regularly watches any news shows. We obsess about what they say because we're mostly political junkies here, but the entire industry has become a giant self licking ice cream cone.
Posted by: Tom Servo"

This.

Ace needs to fart on these 5 % people for my clicks.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 01:13 PM (fV+MH)

414 I also like it when Ace farts on Disney.

Posted by: eleven at July 03, 2025 01:14 PM (fV+MH)

415 "Democrats are melting down about the Big Beautiful Bill forcing the able-bodied childless adults Obama allowed to claim Medicaid to at least get a job in exchange for their taxpayer-provided benefits."

By the way, this WAS the law under Clinton and the Democrats. For years. And there wasn't really any issues or problems with it. Obama changed it. And that created all sorts of problems.

I don't really know what their argument is here. That work is...bad? A waste of time?

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 03, 2025 02:22 PM (D1vbu)

416 Well looky there, more Americans doing jobs that Americans supposedly don't want to do.

Posted by: Tracy at July 03, 2025 03:56 PM (xbo5+)

417 I don't want foreign-born jobs to go down if they're legally in the country, I just think native born citizens should get priority.

Posted by: Jim S. at July 03, 2025 04:29 PM (d4Ds1)

418 M.S. Media Bottom Feeders are never happy unless the Dem-O-Rats are in Charge

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 03, 2025 06:10 PM (wGqjj)

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