Economy Adds 119,000 Jobs Even When Deliberately Sabotaged by Democrats, Doubling Expectations

This report is from September. The Democrats hadn't yet shut the government down -- that started October 1 -- but everyone understood they were going to shut it down. The Democrats created uncertainty and fear, which is always bad for economic growth. People don't like to take out loans and take chances on new businesses or new construction when the future looks dicey.

The U.S. economy added 119,000 jobs in September, according to a Labor Department report released Thursday.
The release of the report was delayed by the roughly 40-day government shutdown that shuttered federal agencies.
The number of jobs exceeded Wall Street expectations, according to CNBC.

In fact, the eXpErTs had predicted less than half that.

Employers across the U.S. added 119,000 jobs in September, marking a pickup after previous employment data had shown a slowdown in hiring. The report marks the first official job tally since the government shutdown ended last week, ending a six-week blackout on labor data.

Economists had forecast payroll gains of 50,000 jobs in September, according to a poll by FactSet.
The unemployment rate rose 4.4% in September, up from 4.3% in August and the highest level since Oct. 2021. With robust job growth in September, that suggests more people are re-entering the workforce to search for a job, economists said.

119,000 jobs in a month still isn't good, but given the strains the Democrats are putting on the economy, it's okay.

And also, I should admit, Trump is putting strains on the economy, too, with an uncertain trade environment due to frequent tariff saber-rattling and an uncertain labor environment with millions of illegals -- who took jobs from Americans -- being deported. Both of these moves will have long-term payoffs but in the short term they're weighing the economy down, and I'm starting to get worried about how much time we have left before the midterms to have a good economy the public actually acknowledges as good.

Some good news:

Townhall.com
@townhallcom
ECONOMIC GAINS:
--119,000 NEW JOBS jobs added in Sept. (Double expectations)
--19,000 Construction jobs added in Sept.
--Nearly ALL Jobs going to AMERICANS not Foreign Born Workers.
--Wages UP 3.8%
"This is a REVERSAL of the failed Biden Era."
More of this

Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
BREAKING: In a jaw-dropping win, 2.57 MILLION native-born Americans gained jobs since President Trump assumed office...
...and over 1 million migrants LOST employment.
In total, 1.23 million foreigners left the labor force.
Nature is healing, folks. Big time.

There are some numbers that hint that the economy may experience its second Trump Boom:

ATL Fed: not only is GDP currently estimated to have grown 4.2% for Q3 but the gain is primarily driven by big increases in private spending and private investment, not gov't: pic.twitter.com/pGoJx0Qzuv
— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) November 19, 2025

That would be huge if true.

The forward-looking manufacturer sentiment (the orders they expect to fill in the next year) is higher than it's been in a year:

PHL Fed: general manufacturing activity declines only marginally in Nov after a steep drop in Oct, held back by new orders and shipments putting in lowest readings since Apr, but expected activity in the future zoomed higher, putting in highest reading in a year: pic.twitter.com/0N5y3gf4SG
— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) November 20, 2025

And this is the best September ever for jobs for Americans.

What a concept, that the American economy should advantage Americans.

This was the best Sep ever for number of native-born Americans w/ jobs, growing 3.2 million more over previous 12 months than the change in number of jobs among foreign-born workers: pic.twitter.com/ERkXtSeXjH
— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) November 20, 2025

Bessent: "I'm very optimistic about the first, second, and accelerating into the third quarter in terms of growth." pic.twitter.com/w3pGNYeKTI
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) November 21, 2025

Hello everyone. It's Friday, and it couldn't come at a better time.

What are your weekend plans?

My plans are exciting: returning crap I got from Amazon that turned out to be crap.

Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM

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1 Hi Ace!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 12:12 PM (ExV1e)

2 Door Dash is hiring.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (NwnyJ)

3 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

4 Centered!

Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (NcvvS)

5 I informed the previous thread.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (ExV1e)

6 FIRST WITH THE FLASH OF THE BLADE

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

7 CENTERED!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

8 Good afternoon Ace and everyone
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (R2A/0)

9 I was slightly reluctant as someone called "nood ace."

Don't want to see that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (Zz0t1)

10 Better spin up another virus!

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:13 PM (zcxpP)

11 Good afternoon. This is a middle-of-the-road comment.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (1Nv0l)

12 Ace is feeling very centered in his own knowing.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (gpah0)

13 --Nearly ALL Jobs going to AMERICANS not Foreign Born Workers.

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"I'll take 'Something we never saw during The AutoPen Empire years' for $64 trillion, Alex!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (+mTgD)

14 This is not safe.

Someone is going to have a head-on collision if we keep this up.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (1Nv0l)

15 [joke about text format that won't make sense in a few minutes]

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (zcxpP)

16 Jobs going to Americans too, I understand. Good.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (PCK5/)

17 Well good. News we can all get aligned on.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (xcxpd)

18 All I know about job numbers is when a Democrat is in the White House the numbers are unexpectedly higher than expected (later revised downward), and when a Republican is low, the jobs are all shitty and are really second jobs (like DoorDash) for people who can't make ends meet due to the terrible economy (and the numbers are later revised upward).

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (j0t2N)

19 Also boobs

( . ) ( . )

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (xcxpd)

20 nice

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (xcxpd)

21 The real number is probably 250k

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (zcxpP)

22 [joke about text format that won't make sense in a few minutes]
Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:14 PM (zcxpP)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (DRSnL)

23 A you imagine if Door Dash and Uber collapse because they can’t find drivers?

Posted by: Accomack at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (uCgDi)

24 awww

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (xcxpd)

25 Fun while it lasted.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (NcvvS)

26 1
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Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (1Nv0l)

27
But what if I want to stay home in my rent free apartment and smoke grass, Man?

This is actually very bad news.

Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (Y8DZL)

28 darn it!

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (1Nv0l)

29 And it should always be remembered:

The assumption of 150,000 per month as basely good is based on the assumption of a certain population growth.

We are literally in population retraction now with so much out-migration.

Even, on net, is outrageously good. 113,000 positive is amazeballs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

30 Jobs going to Americans also means money spent here. Instead of Pedro sending a wad of cash to Mexico or wherever on a monthly basis.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (NwnyJ)

31
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Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (1Nv0l)

32 This place. Never change, HQ.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (PCK5/)

33 Even with the Fed trying to tamp down on the economy, we still see growth.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (N1tpc)

34 It's the load reload crash part of my day

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (uQzkA)

35 >>Don't want to see that.

And yet you still got a comment up here before I did.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (NcvvS)

36 33 Even with the Fed trying to tamp down on the economy, we still see growth.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (N1tpc)

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The Fed cares about the bond market, not the economy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

37 What, are all economists Paul Krugman?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

38 I don't get it.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (DRSnL)

I set em up, you knock em down.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:18 PM (zcxpP)

39 I'm very much for America First trade policies, I do wish Trump was less chaotic in the way he applied them.

I would just focus on China and getting that scalp first before say Japan.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (eIzlH)

40 22 I don't get it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:15 PM (DRSnL)

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hey

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

41 Willowed: Other Gen Z customers told The Post that food was currently the one thing on which they were willing to spare no expense.

“If you asked me to buy a sweater for $150, no — but if you asked me to spend $150 on snacks, absolutely,” Mary Laitan, 26, explained.

Fuck these people. I have no sympathy when they whine and complain that they can't afford a house.

I think that speaks to a different and deeper problem - People who see no point in getting expensive durable goods possibly because they figure those can be taken from them at any time. (Because they were, in school, during these kids' formative years)

It's the perfect attitude for surviving communism.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (a+4eV)

42 oh wow, coulda been first but read the content AND called the otters...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (nXhwP)

43 People don't like to take out loans and take chances on new businesses or new construction when the future looks dicey.

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I study AI science, I love my grasses
I got a crazy teacher, he wears smart glasses
Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing all right, they only give A's
The future's so bright, I gotta wear braids
I gotta read Spades

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (+mTgD)

44
hey
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

It sucks when someone steals your schtick, doesn't it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

45 Great news for Americans.

Bad news for Democrats.

Yippee 🥳

Posted by: Czech Chick at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (vK/Ja)

46 Ok, back to normal programming.

Markets going cray-cray the last couple of days. NVDA beats and reports earnings larger than the GDP of most medium-sized countries, yet the markets sold off.

People say it's overleveraged bitcoin whales getting margin calls. I'm not convinced.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (1Nv0l)

47 "There are some numbers that hint that the economy may experience it's second Trump Boom."

It already is. Despite the drumbeat of leftwing doomsaying ops -- too many of which our own people are falling for -- the economy is already much better under Trump.

Inflation and interest rates are down (that fuckstick Powell notwithstanding), almost all positive metrics are up, the markets (401k, etc) are near all-time highs, more Americans are getting better jobs, and I think it's the rare person who can't say they liked 2024 better than 2025.

Is there more work to do? Yes, of course. Things can always be made better. But we are definitely headed in the right direction. We can't fall for the saboteurs, cocksuckers, and faggots telling us otherwise.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

48 I'm starting to get worried about how much time we have left before the midterms to have a good economy the public actually acknowledges as good.

Not enough.

This kind of data will never be absorbed by most voters. But they will continue to be very aware of their much reduced buying power due to inflation.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (wKJf5)

49 hey
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

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Hey

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (DRSnL)

50 oh wow, coulda been first but read the content AND called the otters...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (nXhwP)

You're a good person.

Not like us shallow f*ckers that give two shits as long as they're first.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (Zz0t1)

51 "and I think it's the rare person who can't say they liked 2025 better than 2024."

Duh.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (iFTx/)

52
Hey
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (DRSnL)

Straw.

Grass is cheaper.

Save your money.

Buy some reefer.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (Zz0t1)

53 oh wow, coulda been first but read the content AND called the otters...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler

And you missed out on the wild start to the party.

Let that be a lesson to you.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (1Nv0l)

54 It sucks when someone steals your schtick, doesn't it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

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It was an homage.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (DRSnL)

55 49 hey
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

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Hey
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (DRSnL

Hay??

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (PCK5/)

56 ... and I'm starting to get worried about how much time we have left before the midterms to have a good economy the public actually acknowledges as good.

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Maybe a good patriotic ass-kicking in Venezuela just before the mid-terms?

/Make Maduro Morte Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (+mTgD)

57 What are your weekend plans?

Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM

I have a worship service with the lovely people at the senior care center tomorrow.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (ELdpA)

58 57 What are your weekend plans?

Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM

I have a worship service with the lovely people at the senior care center tomorrow.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (ELdpA)

Playing with the new puppy.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)

59 44
hey
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

It sucks when someone steals your schtick, doesn't it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

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Especially when you did it first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

60 Playing with the new puppy.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)

Congrats!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (xcxpd)

61 My plans are exciting: returning crap I got from Amazon that turned out to be crap.

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* Harbor Freight has entered the post *

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (+mTgD)

62 Playing with the new puppy.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)

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Oooh fun! Mine is going to be a year old next week.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:25 PM (DRSnL)

63 Hello everyone. It's Friday, and it couldn't come at a better time.

What are your weekend plans?

My plans are exciting: returning crap I got from Amazon that turned out to be crap.

Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM

Getting my haircut tomorrow.....which is usually followed by a trip to Hooters for food and copious amounts of beverage. But might not be partaking in the 2nd part of that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)

64 60 Playing with the new puppy.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)

Congrats!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (xcxpd

He's working hard a getting me trained.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:25 PM (PCK5/)

65
Especially when you did it first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

Right?

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:25 PM (Zz0t1)

66 "What are your weekend plans?"

Chewing bubblegum and kicking ass. And I'm just about out of bubblegum.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:25 PM (iFTx/)

67 What are your weekend plans?

Posted by: Ace

I'm buying a new washing machine this afternoon. That’s right. Life in the fast lane.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (L/fGl)

68 Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)

Congratulations on your new pup? What breed of dog is it ,or is it mixed?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ELdpA)

69 Yankee Doodle went to town
Riding on a pony
He stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni.

Yankee Doodle, keep it up
Yankee Doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (2J/Lj)

70 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)

71 What are your weekend plans?

My plans are exciting: returning crap I got from Amazon that turned out to be crap.

Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM
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Grading student projects...On the one hand, we are finishing up the second major project. But then they need to be graded, which is not much fun.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (RnixX)

72 Playing with the new puppy.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)

Congrats!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (xcxpd

He's working hard a getting me trained.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:25 PM (PCK5/)

They do that.
Cherish this time, take lots of photos and videos. Trust me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (xcxpd)

73 What are your weekend plans?

Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM

I have a worship service with the lovely people at the senior care center tomorrow.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (ELdpA)

Playing with the new puppy.
Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)
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Is that what they're calling it nowadays?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

74 68 Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:23 PM (PCK5/)

Congratulations on your new pup? What breed of dog is it ,or is it mixed?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ELdpA)

Standard poodle. Brown and white.

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (PCK5/)

75 70 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)

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Congrats on the retirement!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

76 70 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)

Congrats man and glad to see you again

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (xcxpd)

77 .
But, butt, me TwitVvhore feed told me yesterday that "The Economy" has LOST jobs since tRump stole the reins of power from President SnifTer.

Posted by: Marooned at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (kt8QE)

78 > Markets going cray-cray the last couple of days. NVDA beats and reports earnings larger than the GDP of most medium-sized countries, yet the markets sold off.

I have a little side account of $30K I've been options trading on. At first I was doing amazing. On track for 32% growth. Then a couple of weeks ago it all went to crap. I'm down nearly $3K. I haven't sold anything, so I haven't banked the loss.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (Yp6az)

79 * Harbor Freight has entered the post *
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:24 PM (+mTgD)

To be fair, the only stuff I had to return to Harbor Freight was an engine that I mistakenly bought a returned unit at a discount, then swapped for another returned unit.....I did end up getting a brand new one at the original discounted price for my troubles.

Win in my book. And it works pretty damn good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

80 The first time I had a washing machine was when I was 37. Before that we took things to the laundry mat.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:27 PM (ELdpA)

81 A number of you like to laugh and hiss at me, imitating certain sounds, but when I'm the next Governor of California, we'll see who's emitting gas!

Posted by: Eric Swalwell (D-CA & Cuck-CCP) at November 21, 2025 12:28 PM (0sNs1)

82 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)

Congrats!!!!

Now move somewhere safe.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:28 PM (Zz0t1)

83 Wyatt Earp!!!! Huzzah!

Posted by: tubal at November 21, 2025 12:28 PM (PCK5/)

84 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)

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That is fantastic news!

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:29 PM (DRSnL)

85 Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)

Congratulations and nice to see you posting again!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 21, 2025 12:29 PM (ELdpA)

86 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM

Who's gonna look after Diego?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 21, 2025 12:29 PM (0sNs1)

87 It sucks when someone steals your schtick, doesn't it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (Zz0t1)

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I've submitted applications to the he U.S. Copyright AND United States Patent and Trademark Offices (USPTO) to both copyright and trademark my schtick.

/Both were denied ... but that was pre-Trump and -DOGE -- so maybe I should try again?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:29 PM (+mTgD)

88 84 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)

Congrats !

Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 12:29 PM (VE6XX)

89 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
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Congrats!

Posted by: SMH at God's mercy at November 21, 2025 12:30 PM (22p5n)

90 Imma put up Christmas decorations and the tree this weekend.

And do my food shopping for Thanksgiving. I’m providing carbs. Cornbread sausage dressing, mashed potatoes, creamy polenta and gravy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 21, 2025 12:30 PM (W2Pud)

91 Ok, back to normal programming.

Markets going cray-cray the last couple of days. NVDA beats and reports earnings larger than the GDP of most medium-sized countries, yet the markets sold off.

People say it's overleveraged bitcoin whales getting margin calls. I'm not convinced.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (1Nv0l)
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1. Markets are fake and gay
2. Lotsa profit-taking after a big run, with the end of the year looming.
3. NVDA's top line was boffo, but investors aren't sure what to make of how it got there (financing most of its customers' purchases, the vast majority of sales to only a few customers, etc).
4. Markets are fake and gay

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

92 What are your weekend plans?

Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM

Oh, mine are the best.

Enduring a toothache until I see the dentist on Monday.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (vGPXM)

93 Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB

Excellent. Congratulations on making it out in one piece. Are you planning to leave Philadelphia?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (BI5O2)

94 I haven't sold anything, so I haven't banked the loss.
Posted by: bonhomme

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Time is not your friend if they're options.

But good choice to trade a small side account. I did that with options for a while. Gave it up. Spreads are bad. It's hard to be profitable.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (1Nv0l)

95 > It sucks when someone steals your schtick, doesn't it.

Stealing schticks is my schtick!

Check out my Ozempic body.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (Yp6az)

96 Every puppy is going to be new, by definition, if you stop and think about it.
——

Bulg, are you here? Wondering how your “orientation” at the Post Office went.

Posted by: Common Tater at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (j92eC)

97 Interesting that this good news jobs post came after the one about all the black market jobs that avoid taxes

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (jyOtU)

98 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)

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But more importantly, are you gone forever from Philadelphia proper?

/Congrats, Wyatt -- speaking as a fellow Prescottonian, I loved you and Doc in "Tombstone!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (+mTgD)

99 Is there more work to do? Yes, of course. Things can always be made better. But we are definitely headed in the right direction. We can't fall for the saboteurs, cocksuckers, and faggots telling us otherwise.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

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Cut, jib, newsletter.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:32 PM (Do64S)

100 >>What are your weekend plans?

Giving my neighbor across the street - a real life Gladys Kravitz -- something to gossip about.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025 12:32 PM (Y1sOo)

101 The 'unexpected' that is good news.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 12:32 PM (3630A)

102 > Time is not your friend if they're options.

I sold puts. I'm going to get assigned and have to hold for a while. By design I only do options on stocks that are worth having, so I'm not too sad.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 12:33 PM (Yp6az)

103 70 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)

Awesome! Congrats!

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 12:33 PM (gpah0)

104 Less than 7 days before Turkey day!

Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 12:34 PM (q177U)

105 Congrats Wyatt.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 12:34 PM (3630A)

106 My weekend plans are using my new thermal optic to find the pigs that are tearing up my yard so my husband can dispatch them.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (gpah0)

107 I don’t know why but I picture Wyatt Earp as Mel Gibson’s character in Lethal Weapon…. Or maybe since at retirement (congrats) the Danny Glover character…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (xT8gx)

108 The best part of these jobs numbers, besides they went to actual Americans, is the low number of Gov. jobs.. That used to be the largest number...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (VE6XX)

109 98 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB

Congrats! My old man retired from PPD in the 90's, and I have a couple of cousins on the force.

My dad always told me, "unless you "REALLY want to do it, don't follow in my footsteps". And I didn't.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (Do64S)

110 100k of those jobs are Door Dash

( reading comments now to see if a repeat snark)

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (KDPiq)

111 I do think the analogy that it will be similar to Reagan is probably on the money.

1982, the elections were brutal for the GOP because there was still so much economic anxiety. By 1984, it was maybe the best economy ever recorded.

I will say, people right now don't feel good about things like they did in Trump's first term, pre-Covid.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (eIzlH)

112 People say it's overleveraged bitcoin whales getting margin calls. I'm not convinced.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:20 PM (1Nv0l)

Bitcoin whales spout bullshit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 12:36 PM (npFr7)

113 The Danny Glover character got a bomb in the toilet.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 12:36 PM (3630A)

114 What are your weekend plans?

Posted by: Ace

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I'm going to catch some fish-eating fish.

Posted by: Pescapescatarian at November 21, 2025 12:36 PM (1Nv0l)

115
My dad always told me, "unless you "REALLY want to do it, don't follow in my footsteps". And I didn't.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (Do64S)

All the cops I know tell young people to be a fireman instead of a cop, everyone loves the firemen.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 12:36 PM (gpah0)

116 Less than 7 days before Turkey day!
Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 12:34 PM (q177U)

With Doordash, every day can be Turkey Day.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:37 PM (vGPXM)

117 The Danny Glover character got a bomb in the toilet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 12:36 PM (3630A)
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If all you eat is food from Door Dash, that's gonna happen once in a while.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 21, 2025 12:37 PM (RnixX)

118 It was an homage.
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:22 PM (DRSnL)

Wiseacre

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:37 PM (zcxpP)

119 Thanks all. I miss you guys and gals.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (ZRzmB)

120 We are going home to help my father blow up beaver dams.

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (uQzkA)

121 It's a long way to go for the midterms and of course "events will happen" by then, but my current outlook is repubs getting hammered if prices on almost everything stay where they are. Housing, insurance and food all seem to be way out of whack.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (n5tGW)

122 Thanksgiving week is probably my favorite week of the year. I run every Saturday morning but I’ll go a bit longer tomorrow for a full 13.1…. Then lots of football watching through next weekend as the college football regular season wraps up with rivalry games like the Iron Bowl (next weekend)… of course I’ll gourge myself on Thanksgiving Day!

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (xT8gx)

123 It was an homage.
Posted by: Jordan61

What I learned the other day. You sometimes see French classical music pieces entitled "Tombeau." For example, Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel. "Tombeau" actually means "tombstone" but when used to name a piece, it means a memorial or homage to the subject, here composer François Couperin.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (L/fGl)

124 119 Thanks all. I miss you guys and gals.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (ZRzmB)

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Except that one guy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

125 Thanks all. Really. I love it here.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (ZRzmB)

126

Im going to spend the entire weekend reflecting on my white supremacy and how it affects black women, pacifically Jazmine Crockett and Michelle Obama.

And I'm also going to take some magic mushrooms too.

Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (och2J)

127 There's a reason the Dems are so desperate to hold on to the Fed; it's really their last tool to sabotage the economy to boost the Dems.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (HXT0k)

128 I will say, people right now don't feel good about things like they did in Trump's first term, pre-Covid.
Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 12:35 PM (eIzlH)

Because that took 2+ years and it's not even been one yet.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (zcxpP)

129 Jobs. It's a three letter word.

Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (v0R5T)

130 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:26 PM (ZRzmB)

Congratulations, Wyatt! I know you have been looking forward to this for a long time. Retirement is good.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (npFr7)

131 >>What are your weekend plans?

Giving my neighbor across the street - a real life Gladys Kravitz -- something to gossip about.

Posted by: one hour sober at November 21, 2025 12:32 PM (Y1sOo)

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We had a male version of Gladys across the street growing up as a kid.

We nicknamed him "Inspector Detector" ... and God forbid the football or baseball you were playing with landed in his yard (all the small homes in our neighborhood had giant plate-glass windows facing the street)!

He eventually surrounded it with a chain-linked fence, which only made it funner as we'd hop over it as needed, and he'd come flying out of his home cursing at us ... never not funny.

One day years later, when I was in high school, he knocked on the door and had a bunch of old toys from his adult son who'd recently passed away -- and wanted to give them to me and my two brothers.

We declined, just out of spite ... which makes me sad in hindsight at our immature & childish gracelessness (and surprised that our mother didn't scold us for having done so). Ah, good and especially BAD memories -- "like tears in rain."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (+mTgD)

132 So all good to very good news on the economy. Won't get more than 5 seconds of this on corporate-democrat propagandist news. Will get tens of minutes about Trump redacting Epstein release and how very, very bad ICE is for our illegal invade...ahhh patriotic future brain surgeons and rocket scientists.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (xvV+O)

133 124 119 Thanks all. I miss you guys and gals.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (ZRzmB)

=====

Except that one guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah... None of us like him...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (VE6XX)

134 Kirsche got a couple of DoorDash deliverers when she was expecting just one. They both spoke bad English with a Spanish accent as they asked Kirsche for directions.

Kirsche said she reported them to ICE.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (3630A)

135 Bitcoin whales spout bullshit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

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Bitcoin barely trades. It's extremely susceptible to massive drawdowns.

There's a cycle that's been repeated several times now over the years: 10x runup, followed by 70%-90% drawdown.

I'm tempted to buy some on the next major drawdown. Of course, that will guarantee that this time there is no runup and it finally goes to zero.

(where it belongs)

Posted by: Pescapescatarian at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (1Nv0l)

136 that comment was by a carnivore

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (1Nv0l)

137 Oh… and college wrestling (my favorite sports watch) is underway… two matches on TV this weekend… can’t miss those

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (xT8gx)

138 I have a little thought experiment for anyone out there who doubts the country and economy are improving and headed in the right direction:

Imagine if Trump lost in 2020. We have President Dickrider and VP Dicksmoker. All of Biden's disastrous policies are not only still in place, but amplified.

Do you think you'd be better off in that scenario? [Vomits] Or with Trump 2.0? [Gets erection]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

139 >>>Excellent. Congratulations on making it out in one piece. Are you planning to leave Philadelphia?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I was asked if I could work at the MET in Center City. I'd be an usher and the money is pretty good.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (ZRzmB)

140 All the cops I know tell young people to be a fireman instead of a cop, everyone loves the firemen.
Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 12:36 PM (gpah0)

I knew a guy who wanted to suicide by cop. So he called 911, and then sent the fire department. No cops.

In his frustration, he took a few shots at the firetruck.

That got the cops to show up. Who didn't shoot him.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:41 PM (vGPXM)

141 It's a long way to go for the midterms and of course "events will happen" by then, but my current outlook is repubs getting hammered if prices on almost everything stay where they are. Housing, insurance and food all seem to be way out of whack.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk

==

I think people had too high of expectations. The reality is, you can almost never "fix" inflation after its happened. You just can control future inflation.

Sure there are specific products that aren't being inflated because of monetary policy (like eggs) but the reality is, prices arent going back to pre Covid after printing several trillion dollars so everyone could stay at home and not work.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 12:41 PM (eIzlH)

142
I foresee a day 50 years from now when the uploaded consciousness of Elon Musk sees the Optimus robots doing all the jobs for humankind and decides, screw it, I'm turning 'em all off.

Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:41 PM (Y8DZL)

143 So all good to very good news on the economy. Won't get more than 5 seconds of this on corporate-democrat propagandist news. Will get tens of minutes about Trump redacting Epstein release and how very, very bad ICE is for our illegal invade...ahhh patriotic future brain surgeons and rocket scientists.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (xvV+O)

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"You left out how DRUMPHFFFFF is targeting US Senators and CongressCritters for assassination and no reason with DARTH DEATH THREATS, h8r! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:41 PM (+mTgD)

144 First Thanksgiving in my new abode. Unfortunately it will just be another day since I'm not going to have usual Thanksgiving dinner at my friend's family home. Will play golf in the morning though.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 21, 2025 12:42 PM (KDPiq)

145 Employed (Thousands) Sept 24 161,802 Jul 25 163,106 A 25 163,394 Sept 25 163,645

So 1.8 M more working since Sept 24.

That is real improvement.

PS thx ace

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 21, 2025 12:42 PM (gbOdA)

146 138 Do you think you'd be better off in that scenario? [Vomits] Or with Trump 2.0? [Gets erection]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

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The lack of real swing seats in Congress, the overall Senate map, and the probable diminishment of Dem spending is going to make 2026...muted.

Turnout v turnout. We'll see.

Normal political gravity dictates Dems gaining in the House and maybe the Senate. We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

147 I’m kinda enjoying ICE rolling up on these job sites, and the illegal go running like cockroaches when you turn on the lights. The only thing it lacks is some Benny Hill music.

Oh, and BTW they should be fining the construction companies into bankruptcy.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 21, 2025 12:42 PM (pXXpD)

148 Hey that could be a movie. Retired cop as usher as terrorists take the elites hostage at the MET.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 21, 2025 12:43 PM (3630A)

149 “If you asked me to buy a sweater for $150, no — but if you asked me to spend $150 on snacks, absolutely,” Mary Laitan, 26, explained.

Oh honey, bless your heart. Here, sit down a minute and let me help you understand. You pay $150 for a sweater. That's probably a decent quality sweater that you can wear repeatedly. And if you hand wash, lay it flat to dry, that thing could last for years even if you wear it once every week. Now you're not gonna be wearing a sweater in late spring, summer, or early fall so let's just figure you wear it once a week for six month out of the year. That means you could, with proper care, get at least three years of wear from that. When it starts looking a bit faded or has snags, well trim the snags and dye the sweater. That gets you a bit more wear. By that time it may be getting pretty shabby, but there are good parts you can use. The body of the sweater could be a nice purse. The sleeves could become gloves or mittens. You could turn it in to a cozy pillow. There are many ways to reuse a sweater.
You spend $150 on snacks..Your gonna get fat, none of your clothes will fit and you will have to buy a whole new wardrobe with very little money.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 12:43 PM (2J/Lj)

150 I foresee a day 50 years from now when the uploaded consciousness of Elon Musk sees the Optimus robots doing all the jobs for humankind and decides, screw it, I'm turning 'em all off.

Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:41 PM (Y8DZL)

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He and the uploaded consciousness of Trump will still be friends ... on Mars of course.

/Over/under on how many children Elon will have sired by then? The line opens at 250 ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:43 PM (+mTgD)

151 lol No. We’re in a recession
- msm

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 12:43 PM (/AUU2)

152 people think price-level = inflation

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:44 PM (1Nv0l)

153 > And I'm also going to take some magic mushrooms too.

Our front yard grows amanita muscaria. I just cleared out a dozen this week. No psilocybin, but they're hallucinogenic. No, I haven't tried them.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 12:44 PM (Yp6az)

154 Afternoon, Ace.

How'd your sausages turn out yesterday?

Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 12:44 PM (77rzZ)

155 =====

Except that one guy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

I'm right here......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

156 Yeah... None of us like him...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (VE6XX)

That dude took my shtick.

Posted by: ... at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (zcxpP)

157 Uploaded Consciousness #1 and Uploaded Consciousness #2 walk into an uploaded bar...

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (1Nv0l)

158 Do you think you'd be better off in that scenario? [Vomits] Or with Trump 2.0? [Gets erection]

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

=======

The lack of real swing seats in Congress, the overall Senate map, and the probable diminishment of Dem spending is going to make 2026...muted.

Turnout v turnout. We'll see.

Normal political gravity dictates Dems gaining in the House and maybe the Senate. We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)
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I'm not making any predictions on 2026. I am worried for all the reasons I have said before. But the actual country/economy and where it's headed isn't one of them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iFTx/)

159
"What are your weekend plans?"

Chewing bubblegum and kicking ass.

And I'm all out of ass.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iJfKG)

160 Hey, Wyatt Earp. Good to see you.

Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (77rzZ)

161 How'd your sausages turn out yesterday?
Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 12:44 PM (77rzZ)

That's an awfully personal question.

Let the man have some privacy.

Love is love.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:46 PM (vGPXM)

162 What are your weekend plans?
.......

Going to go see my granddaughter's dance recital.
She's 6.

Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 12:46 PM (v0R5T)

163 120 We are going home to help my father blow up beaver dams.
Posted by: NCKate

For real I hope, not a dirty metaphor.

They are destructive little bastards.

Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:46 PM (Y8DZL)

164 And I'm all out of ass.
Posted by: naturalfake

*sobs*
-- Brie Larson

Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 12:46 PM (77rzZ)

165 >>> I will say, people right now don't feel good about things like they did in Trump's first term, pre-Covid.

I'm worried we have been kicking the economic can down the road for many decades. When will we pay the price?

Posted by: Max Power at November 21, 2025 12:46 PM (q177U)

166 "What are your weekend plans?"

Chewing bubblegum and kicking ass.

And I'm all out of ass.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iJfKG)
________

BBL?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

167 158 I'm not making any predictions on 2026. I am worried for all the reasons I have said before. But the actual country/economy and where it's headed isn't one of them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iFTx/)

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But the NYT will message!

Just like how they messaged that the Biden economy was great!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

168 How'd your sausages turn out yesterday?
Posted by: Bulg
.....

He seems to still be alive.

Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (v0R5T)

169 Musk says no one’s gonna have to work 10-20 years from now due to AI and robots doing all the grunt work…. I think that might be the dumbest thing any genius (and he is genuinely a true genius) has ever said….

If it does happen (fat chance) I’ll be truly pissed because I can retire in about 10 years… right in time to the point where NO ONE has to work. Are you kidding me?? Bad timing….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (xT8gx)

170
"You left out how DRUMPHFFFFF is targeting US Senators and CongressCritters for assassination and no reason with DARTH DEATH THREATS, h8r! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!"

---

When I logged into the PC this morning, I was greeted by at least 3 stories about how Trump is trying to kill these Congresscritters, and now they have to be protected 24/7 by the Capitol Police from MAGA vigilantes.

They really do live a retarded bizarro world.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (Do64S)

171 119 Thanks all. I miss you guys and gals.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:38 PM (ZRzmB)

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Except that one guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

*side eyes*

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (wVcYX)

172 Our front yard grows amanita muscaria. I just cleared out a dozen this week. No psilocybin, but they're hallucinogenic. No, I haven't tried them.
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 12:44 PM (Yp6az)

Eat too much, and you will have visions of the underside of the lawn.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (npFr7)

173 Sounds like everybody is doing something fun. I'm doing my usual: grocery shopping, cleaning, and recharging for next week.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (DRSnL)

174 "They were just re-stating the law!!!!!"

So was Trump. :shrugs:

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (Do64S)

175 What are your weekend plans?

Posted by: Ace at 12:12 PM

Oh, mine are the best.

Enduring a toothache until I see the dentist on Monday.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:31 PM (vGPXM)

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Sorry to hear that, Burt -- ugh!

If ever there was an excuse to drink heavily ...

/I got an abscess when I was 16 and have never been in so much pain. My Irish grandmother tried to knock me out (feeding me "hot toddies" with much whiskey, and I'd never had alcohol before) so I could at least sleep through the night before going to a dentist the next morning. Had zero effect.

While the dentist was performing a root canal (even after giving me laughing gas), my mom said people in the waiting room were terrified by my screams. And, as if on cue, I vomited on the poor dentist ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (+mTgD)

176 He seems to still be alive.
Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (v0R5T)

Seems

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (vGPXM)

177 Speaking of ass, are there any states where one can buy a taser?

Got a hot date tonight.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (EyfuW)

178 Basically it goes like this.

An item was $100 in 2020. In 2024 it was $200. Now it’s $205. But people are still screaming that prices are too high and Trump isn’t doing anything about it.

In reality Trump has slashed inflation down to 2.5% with wage growth at 3.8%. Which is pretty fucking amazing. But for the average LIV still thinks fuck Trump everything is so expensive.

There’s no way to change this perception because when it comes to economics most people are clueless how it works.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 12:50 PM (/AUU2)

179 ...if prices on almost everything stay where they are. Housing, insurance and food all seem to be way out of whack.
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I think its a matter of perspective. Prices are much more reasonable than they were under Biden, and they'd more ridiculous still if we hadn't found a way to overcome the cheat. Gas is $2.40 a gallon here, and the grocery stores actually have "end cap displays" where prices are slashed--they stopped even pretending to have those under Biden because practically NOTHING was ever on sale!

Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 12:50 PM (TN0g+)

180 Except that one guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

*side eyes*
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (wVcYX)

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Now if he'd said "Except that one sock" ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:51 PM (+mTgD)

181 I'm not making any predictions on 2026. I am worried for all the reasons I have said before. But the actual country/economy and where it's headed isn't one of them.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iFTx/)

=====

But the NYT will message!

Just like how they messaged that the Biden economy was great!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
____

True, except nobody really bought that rap, or else Trump wouldn't have fisted the whore. I'm more worried about our own people doomsaying and depressing turnout. There seems to be too much of that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:51 PM (iFTx/)

182
A lot of the Musk future sounds eerily similar to a utopian political philosophy of the past century.

Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:51 PM (Y8DZL)

183 Booze seems to have mostly escaped the inflation for some reason.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 12:52 PM (XvL8K)

184 Musk says no one’s gonna have to work 10-20 years from now due to AI and robots doing all the grunt work…. I think that might be the dumbest thing any genius (and he is genuinely a true genius) has ever said….

If it does happen (fat chance) I’ll be truly pissed because I can retire in about 10 years… right in time to the point where NO ONE has to work. Are you kidding me?? Bad timing….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

===

It's a dumb prediction.

I do though think a lot of white collar jobs, specifically in fields that women seem to dominate (laptop class) are going to be decimated by AI.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 12:52 PM (eIzlH)

185 When I logged into the PC this morning, I was greeted by at least 3 stories about how Trump is trying to kill these Congresscritters, and now they have to be protected 24/7 by the Capitol Police from MAGA vigilantes.
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You'd have to have a heart made of stone not to laugh!

Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 12:52 PM (TN0g+)

186 Sorry to hear that, Burt -- ugh!

If ever there was an excuse to drink heavily ...

/I got an abscess when I was 16 and have never been in so much pain. My Irish grandmother tried to knock me out (feeding me "hot toddies" with much whiskey, and I'd never had alcohol before) so I could at least sleep through the night before going to a dentist the next morning. Had zero effect.

While the dentist was performing a root canal (even after giving me laughing gas), my mom said people in the waiting room were terrified by my screams. And, as if on cue, I vomited on the poor dentist ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (+mTgD)

I bought a bottle of JD last year. More than half of it is still here.

I thought about taking a swig. Instead I just ate some ice cream.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:52 PM (vGPXM)

187 Spent the morning gathering feasting supplies at 2 stores. Native English shoppers and staff were scarce.

Traffic was the usual dodge 'em cars.

Home base feels really good.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (wVcYX)

188 I was asked if I could work at the MET in Center City. I'd be an usher and the money is pretty good.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:40 PM (ZRzmB)
~~~~~

Good for you. Go for it!
I've got a couple of retired NYPD friends doing security and making boo-koo bucks with lots of flexibility.

Posted by: IrishEi at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (3ImbR)

189 Actually got into a argument with a "friend" the other day on this topic.

When I offhandedly made a joke about how expensive the items on the menu of a San Francisco restaurant were, he said, "Tramp's tariffs are nosediving the economy." (He often repeats garbage word-salad liberal talking points no matter how irrelevant or incorrect they are.)

I replied, "Well, it's more because there is now a $22 minimum wage for restaurant workers here, and restaurant owners themselves directly cite that as the sole cause of the need for menu price increases -- not the cost of imported cheese, or whatever."

He snapped back, "Deporting low-wage immigrants is driving up costs. Trump's policies will cause a global depression, according to the experts."

I said, basically -- economists don't know what they're talking about. They consistently get every production wrong.

His final conversation-ending comeback was, "Billions of people will be plunged into poverty due to Trump."

I decided to just stop arguing with him. Waste of time.

Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (oraVG)

190 Booze seems to have mostly escaped the inflation for some reason.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Yes, I've noticed that, too. My particular brand of vodka actually seems to have gone down in price.

Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (77rzZ)

191 >Hey, Wyatt Earp. Good to see you.
Posted by: Bulg

Thanks

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 12:54 PM (ZRzmB)

192 My health insurance is increasing 5.2% from 2025 to 2026. Not horrible but still higher than what my raise will be next year. I expect it to be 3-4%.

It’s things like this that people see and get upset over. And blame the party in charge for.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 12:54 PM (/AUU2)

193 189
He snapped back, "Deporting low-wage immigrants is driving up costs. Trump's policies will cause a global depression, according to the experts."

I said, basically -- economists don't know what they're talking about. They consistently get every production wrong.

His final conversation-ending comeback was, "Billions of people will be plunged into poverty due to Trump."

I decided to just stop arguing with him. Waste of time.

Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (oraVG)

======

"So, you're saying that having a slave underclass is good?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

194 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (lYngK)

195 We also have a black vulture/calves problem that needs sorting after the beavers are dealt with.

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (uQzkA)

196 Tramp's tariffs = Trump's tariffs

Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (oraVG)

197 "What are your weekend plans?"

Chewing bubblegum and kicking ass.

And I'm all out of ass.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iJfKG)
________

BBL?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

Barbecued Buffalo Lungs?

Well, I don't see how that helps.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (iJfKG)

198 Thanks
Posted by: Wyatt Earp

Good to have you back.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (QtIaX)

199 "So, you're saying that having a slave underclass is good?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

*Allison Mack has entered the chat*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (xcxpd)

200 Durring Biden's 4 years he averaged 200000 new jobs per montha

Mostly gov. jobs

Posted by: It's me donna at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (VE6XX)

201
No drinking for me, doctor's orders.

An investigation of medical malpractice is long overdue in this country.

Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (Y8DZL)

202 When I offhandedly made a joke about how expensive the items on the menu of a San Francisco restaurant were, he said, "Tramp's tariffs are nosediving the economy." (He often repeats garbage word-salad liberal talking points no matter how irrelevant or incorrect they are.)

His final conversation-ending comeback was, "Billions of people will be plunged into poverty due to Trump."

I decided to just stop arguing with him. Waste of time.
Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (oraVG)
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I don't argue with liberals for this reason. But it would be interesting to know this guy's response if you simply asked him "what is a tariff?" Odds that he doesn't know? 90% or more.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

203 Musk says no one’s gonna have to work 10-20 years from now due to AI and robots doing all the grunt work…. I think that might be the dumbest thing any genius (and he is genuinely a true genius) has ever said….

If it does happen (fat chance) I’ll be truly pissed because I can retire in about 10 years… right in time to the point where NO ONE has to work. Are you kidding me?? Bad timing….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 21, 2025 12:48 PM (xT8gx)

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For 45 years I've been joking: "They're going to go to the four-day work week the week after I retire."

I'm presently an independent contractor for the VA and will be retiring next year sometime, and virtually all VA employees now in the Medical Centers and Clinics are on four-day work weeks with usually either Fridays or Mondays off.

I still don't see AI and/or Robots replacing most blue collar jobs, and the thought of autonomous-driving big rigs scares the shit out of me.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (+mTgD)

204 Musk says no one’s gonna have to work 10-20 years from now due to AI and robots doing all the grunt work….

I'm not worried about losing my job. AI will be smart enough to figure out how to rig elections and SNAP programs such that robots never have to work again.

Posted by: t-bird at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (BvTxf)

205 Markets going cray-cray the last couple of days. NVDA beats and reports earnings larger than the GDP of most medium-sized countries, yet the markets sold off.

My gut feeling is the market's being manipulated to go with the DNCIA's new push of trying to get the Purple Revolution started among the military. (Can't Prince's estate sue?)

Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (2ocoG)

206 Posted by: Wyatt Earp

Good to have you back.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (QtIaX)

Indeed. Indubitably, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (wVcYX)

207 "So, you're saying that having a slave underclass is good?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Democrats ARE the party of slavery.
Always has been. Always will be.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (QtIaX)

208 202 I don't argue with liberals for this reason. But it would be interesting to know this guy's response if you simply asked him "what is a tariff?" Odds that he doesn't know? 90% or more.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

======

"90% of our food isn't imported. How do tariffs affect grocery prices if 90% of our good comes from America?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

209 1
1 1
1 2 1
1 3 3 1
1 4 6 4 1
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 21, 2025 12:17 PM (1Nv0l)

Pascal's Triangle. It's a beautiful thing. Why it's showing up here and now, though, is anybody's guess.

Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (hOOi9)

210 Booze seems to have mostly escaped the inflation for some reason.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Demand for booze has fallen off a cliff in the past 5 years which coincided with Bidenflation.

The yuutes aren’t into drinking. They see it as unhealthy. Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.

Basic economics 101 stuff. Supply low, price low.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (/AUU2)

211 "What are your weekend plans?"

Chewing bubblegum and kicking ass.

And I'm all out of ass.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 12:45 PM (iJfKG)
________

BBL?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

Barbecued Buffalo Lungs?

Well, I don't see how that helps.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (iJfKG)
____

Brazilian Butt Lift

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 12:58 PM (iFTx/)

212 Weekend plans. 900am sat. Watch the BEST SHOW ON TV COLLEGE GAMEDAY on ESPN. Then Dvr 6 or 8college football games. Watch 3 or 4 on sat. The rest on sunday. No gambling commercials. no commercials at all. Fast forward!

But also going to see my kid in high school performance of CLUE tonight and tomorrow night.

Posted by: Typical moron at November 21, 2025 12:58 PM (b2UQ7)

213 Musk says no one’s gonna have to work 10-20 years from now due to AI and robots doing all the grunt work….

Story of my f'n life. I'll be 73 in 10 years. I'll have quit working before the robots start.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 12:58 PM (QtIaX)

214 No drinking for me, doctor's orders.

An investigation of medical malpractice is long overdue in this country.
Posted by: Auspex at November 21, 2025 12:56 PM (Y8DZL)

First they took away our oxy. Now they want to take away our booze.

I'm surprised there aren't more doctor lynchings in this country.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (oKoyV)

215 177 Speaking of ass, are there any states where one can buy a taser?

Got a hot date tonight.
Posted by: thug dolphin at November 21, 2025 12:49 PM (EyfuW)

Taser is legal in most states

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (xcxpd)

216 Ugh.
Demand low, price low.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (/AUU2)

217 Now ... when it says GDP grew 4.2% in Q3, that's one of those annualized numbers, right? So it's really more like 1% (which is a good number).

Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (hOOi9)

218 194... Finally the truth!!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (AQh0C)

219 No drinking for me, doctor's orders.

An investigation of medical malpractice is long overdue in this country.
Posted by: Auspex
_________

There was a Johns Hopkins study a few years ago that claimed medical errors were the third leading cause of death at 250K per year.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (XvL8K)

220 I see the stock market is up today, presumably on this news...but wasn't this info available yesterday as well where the stock market was down.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (sKqQm)

221 Tramp's tariffs = Trump's tariffs

Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (oraVG)

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A good name for a bio-pic of Melania and Donald?

"Lady And The Trump."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (+mTgD)

222 The yuutes aren’t into drinking. They see it as unhealthy.

Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.

Talk about unhealthy.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 01:00 PM (QtIaX)

223 "90% of our food isn't imported. How do tariffs affect grocery prices if 90% of our good comes from America?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

Because reasons , racist.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:00 PM (/AUU2)

224 The yuutes aren’t into drinking. They see it as unhealthy.

Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.

Talk about unhealthy.
Posted by: rickb223

They are yuutes after all hence kinda stupid. 😂

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:00 PM (/AUU2)

225 There was a Johns Hopkins study a few years ago that claimed medical errors were the third leading cause of death at 250K per year.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (XvL8K)

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Yep, I remember and cite that occasionally.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:00 PM (+mTgD)

226 Do the Hire-A-Protester jobs count as a job created? And does it count as one for each individual protest each individual scab attends?

Posted by: Another Anon at November 21, 2025 01:01 PM (4h45B)

227 43 People don't like to take out loans and take chances on new businesses or new construction when the future looks dicey.

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I study AI science, I love my grasses
I got a crazy teacher, he wears smart glasses
Things are going great, and they're only getting better

I'm doing all right, they only give A's
The future's so bright, I gotta wear braids
I gotta read Spades
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe
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Hehehe.. Very nice.

And thanks for the ear worm.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at November 21, 2025 01:01 PM (VkY89)

228 Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.

Some of them might be smoking cigars.

This is probably an improvement over getting blitzed on the usual frat party fare.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 01:01 PM (a+4eV)

229 There are some numbers that hint that the economy may experience its second Trump Boom:
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I am planning for it. Positioning for 2026 boomage.

Posted by: scampydog at November 21, 2025 01:01 PM (2bFN5)

230 Weekend plans include flying home tomorrow, and spending Sunday trying to get back to a normal schedule.

Posted by: PabloD at November 21, 2025 01:02 PM (YV58v)

231 Maybe all the weed smoking is the reason the brains are broken

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 01:02 PM (uQzkA)

232 If I had to point to the one metric that I think could make people feel better about the cost of living, it would be housing affordability.

I know some people here that live in more rural areas dont see it, but in the suburbs and more dense areas, if you didn't get in a house pre-Covid, people feel locked out of home ownership forever.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (eIzlH)

233 Musk says no one’s gonna have to work 10-20 years from now due to AI and robots doing all the grunt work

I listened to that entire Rogan episode to find out why there was a low-level Redditor campaign to try and make people not listen to it, and yeah, he flat out says illegal immigration is done deliberately by Democrats to help throw elections.

I don't think AI's gonna replace as many jobs as he thinks, at least not as it currently exists.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

234 The yuutes aren’t into drinking. They see it as unhealthy.

Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.

Talk about unhealthy.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 21, 2025 01:00 PM (QtIaX)

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Never smoked anything, but I've heard also that the potency of marijuana has increased something like 30-40 times what it was in the 60s.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (+mTgD)

235 Taser is legal in most states
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (xcxpd)

I thought those Berna guns you hear advertised were tasers. Nope, turns out they are non-lethal projectiles.

I had considered getting one, just in case the ex shows back up, but hell, if I'm going to fire projectiles I might as well just use the 45.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (oKoyV)

236 I am planning for it. Positioning for 2026 boomage.

The largest determinate of the 2026 elections will be how voters feel about the economy the summer/fall before.

Trump is hopefully focused on this...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:04 PM (sKqQm)

237 I don't mind people stealing my tropes.

Posted by: that guy that at November 21, 2025 01:04 PM (aMY3+)

238 Gallup did a poll that found only 54% of adults drink on a regular basis. The lowest percentage since they started tracking this in the 1940s. The number was in the 60s and even 70s consistently up until around 2020 when it plunged.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:04 PM (/AUU2)

239 he flat out says illegal immigration is done deliberately by Democrats to help throw elections.

40M people give you a lot of votes to play around with.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

240 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp

Hurray!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 21, 2025 01:05 PM (AQh0C)

241 Booze seems to have mostly escaped the inflation for some reason.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Demand for booze has fallen off a cliff in the past 5 years which coincided with Bidenflation.

The yuutes aren’t into drinking. They see it as unhealthy. Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.

Basic economics 101 stuff. Supply low, price low.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 12:57 PM (/AUU2)
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That plus the big booze boom in 201x resulted in massive over-stocks. The distributors are sitting on warehouses full of booze. Way more supply than demand.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:05 PM (iFTx/)

242 13 --Nearly ALL Jobs going to AMERICANS not Foreign Born Workers.

My mother is foreign born. What did she do to piss you off?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (6KcYW)

243 I used to drink socially when I'd go out but since COVID I don't go out nearly as much.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (sKqQm)

244 241 That plus the big booze boom in 201x resulted in massive over-stocks. The distributors are sitting on warehouses full of booze. Way more supply than demand.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:05 PM (iFTx/)

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Except Blanton's.

All that shit gets sent to Japan.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

245 The yuutes aren’t into drinking. They see it as unhealthy.

Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.

I forget where I saw/heard it, but someone pointed out recently that if you want to be a totalitarian dictator, it's a lot easier if a lot of people are smoking weed.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (2ocoG)

246 Except Blanton's.

All that shit gets sent to Japan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)

Tell me about it.

We get about 1 bottle a month in at my liquor store. It's all I can do not to camp outside the door.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (xcxpd)

247 Gallup did a poll that found only 54% of adults drink on a regular basis. The lowest percentage since they started tracking this in the 1940s. The number was in the 60s and even 70s consistently up until around 2020 when it plunged.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:04 PM

I wonder if they are including the various beer and malt liquor products. My MiL sucks down margarita flavored malt beverages but would tell you she doesn't drink much.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (jc0TO)

248 If AI/robotics do take most jobs it will yield a really odd economic landscape because it will never take all jobs.

So if say 10% of the populace works and the other 90% screw around all day long you aren't going to have a positive dynamic...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (sKqQm)

249 One would think if millions are leaving the US for a variety of reasons (self deportation) , that would make unemployment go down considerably.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (eIzlH)

250 I don't think AI's gonna replace as many jobs as he thinks, at least not as it currently exists.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (2ocoG)

AI was useless when it was time for me to fix my toilet.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:08 PM (6KcYW)

251 Plus they smoke way more weed than previous generations.

Talk about unhealthy.
Posted by: rickb223

They are yuutes after all hence kinda stupid. 😂
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Most of them use gummies or other edible versions of weed.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at November 21, 2025 01:08 PM (2J/Lj)

252 Booze seems to have mostly escaped the inflation for some reason.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

My friend owns a brewery in Baltimore. He says that young people aren't socially drinking like generations past.

Everyone is struggling to sell booze now.

Posted by: Defenestratus at November 21, 2025 01:08 PM (uuASd)

253 Taser is legal in most states
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 12:59 PM (xcxpd)

I thought those Berna guns you hear advertised were tasers. Nope, turns out they are non-lethal projectiles.

I had considered getting one, just in case the ex shows back up, but hell, if I'm going to fire projectiles I might as well just use the 45.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:03 PM (oKoyV)

I'm not sure what the use case for those things or the pepper ball guns are for civilians. If I feel threatened, I have a gun. If I'm annoyed, I have bear spray.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (xcxpd)

254 >Good to have you back.
Posted by: rickb223

Thanks.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (ZRzmB)

255 246 Tell me about it.

We get about 1 bottle a month in at my liquor store. It's all I can do not to camp outside the door.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (xcxpd)

=====

My sister lives in Louisville, works for a Congressman, and she got a secret word that someone she knows might "have a line" on some Blanton's.

Would I like a bottle for Christmas.

"Sure. Just pay primary market prices. Don't spend $250 on it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)

256 AI was useless when it was time for me to fix my toilet.

Elon did specifically say it won't touch blue-collar jobs, or "anything where you're actually working with atoms", as he put it.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (2ocoG)

257 I don't get the smoking thing.

Drinking liquid, whether water or vodka, is a natural and necessary action.

But why the hell did anyone come up with the idea of breathing in hot smoke?

Makes no sense to me.

Posted by: Bulg at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (77rzZ)

258 30 Jobs going to Americans also means money spent here. Instead of Pedro sending a wad of cash to Mexico or wherever on a monthly basis.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 21, 2025 12:16 PM (NwnyJ)

If Pedro is a legal immigrant and he is sending money to Mexico I don’t see a problem.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (6KcYW)

259 Booze: This is [hic] an outrage! We will not [hic] stand for this [hic] who here in this bar is with me???

Pot: Like, dude, like, this sucks. Like someone should like do something about like this outrage. [Blinks]. And like why am I talking to myself in my basement?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (sKqQm)

260 Fricking tags.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (2ocoG)

261 Seems like the Trump boom is taking it's time. Weren't we hearing about all kinds of investment from abroad, in conjunction with trade deals? Aren't we supposed to be transitioning to moving manufacturing jobs back to the US?

Instead, what I'm hearing about is how every decent paying job in America is being given to Indians (the ones actually in India).

I hear that tech colleges are put out because engineering students transfer out, to other majors because it's too damn hard, but I also hear that employment in STEM in general is in the toilet.

Somebody make sense of it...

Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (hOOi9)

262 Good luck keeping a robot busy.

Posted by: wth at November 21, 2025 01:10 PM (v0R5T)

263 > Gallup did a poll that found only 54% of adults drink on a regular basis.

This is one of those situations where all the real information is hidden in the definitions. What's a regular basis for the purpose of this poll? 1x per week? 3x per week? 5x per week? How much per sitting?

Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:10 PM (Yp6az)

264 That plus the big booze boom in 201x resulted in massive over-stocks. The distributors are sitting on warehouses full of booze. Way more supply than demand.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:05 PM (iFTx/)

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Except Blanton's.

All that shit gets sent to Japan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)
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Most of the glut is in the upper-middle market and below. The high-end stuff is still in demand, although even that is changing. I'm seeing sales on stuff like Mac 18, 25, and 30 that I never saw before in all my years of buying booze.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

265 My teenage kids have no interest in drinking. They tried it said this is shit. Lol. I’ve always had the attitude with my kids of if I know you’ll do whatever you want I can’t stop you. just don’t be stupid about it and never get in a car with someone drunk. I told the. The same about weed. I did it your mom did it, but again be smart about it. Don’t overdo it.

My wife and I I have a very open relationship with them about everything. Make it something forbidden kids will do it to be rebellious. Make it seem like it’s no big deal that rebelliousness goes away.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (/AUU2)

266 Damned if I don't need a drink. Thought that funeral would NEVER end!

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (Gwy3q)

267 One would think if millions are leaving the US for a variety of reasons (self deportation) , that would make unemployment go down considerably.
Posted by: Leupold

There's something hinky (big surprise) with how they calculate unemployment statistics - something like they don't count people as unemployed if they don't have a job and they aren't looking for work, which is like not counting food and gas in the core inflation numbers, to my mind - so I wouldn't necessarily take as gospel any numbers purported to be an official "unemployment rate".

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (a+4eV)

268 239 he flat out says illegal immigration is done deliberately by Democrats to help throw elections.

40M people give you a lot of votes to play around with.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:05 PM (sKqQm)

Yeah, but there is far more of us.

Posted by: The Dead at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (6KcYW)

269
My friend owns a brewery in Baltimore. He says that young people aren't socially drinking like generations past.

Everyone is struggling to sell booze now.
Posted by: Defenestratus at November 21, 2025 01:08 PM (uuASd)

The wine grape guys are going broke and people are selling their vineyards. I used to side eye winemakers that didn't have their own vineyard and I've changed my mind, they're the smart ones.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (jPh2t)

270 264 Most of the glut is in the upper-middle market and below. The high-end stuff is still in demand, although even that is changing. I'm seeing sales on stuff like Mac 18, 25, and 30 that I never saw before in all my years of buying booze.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

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A Mac 30 would make a good consolation gift to those who recently lost jobs...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

271 But why the hell did anyone come up with the idea of breathing in hot smoke?

Didn't the Indians come up with it? Kind of like how Spanish allegedly had no word for cannibalism before the explorers met the tribes.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (2ocoG)

272 I'm not sure what the use case for those things or the pepper ball guns are for civilians. If I feel threatened, I have a gun. If I'm annoyed, I have bear spray.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (xcxpd)

Agreed.

Don't break into my house. I'm not afraid, I just don't want to have to clean up all your blood.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (oKoyV)

273 Gallup did a poll that found only 54% of adults drink on a regular basis. The lowest percentage since they started tracking this in the 1940s. The number was in the 60s and even 70s consistently up until around 2020 when it plunged.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:04 PM (/AUU2)

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Ironically (?), I only drank a little wine and beer before 2020.

That year, I brought home a bottle of Scotch (chronic insomnia as a result of the "Summer of Love" insanity and finally The Stolen Election) -- and have been drinking hard liquor ever since (and no, the insomnia has not abated).

Have always struggled with anxiety and depression, despite having been extremely blessed in many ways ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (+mTgD)

274 His final conversation-ending comeback was, "Billions of people will be plunged into poverty due to Trump."

I decided to just stop arguing with him. Waste of time.
Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (oraVG)
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I don't argue with liberals for this reason. But it would be interesting to know this guy's response if you simply asked him "what is a tariff?" Odds that he doesn't know? 90% or more.
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Nobody argues with liberals. They just categorically deny the truth by asserting ridiculous lies.
For example: Billions in poverty? There are only 350 million people in the US. These newly impoverished billion live where? China perhaps? They arent arguing at all. they are signalling tbat they are in group -- and virtue signaling with fake empathy for the poor or whatever.

Posted by: Typical moron at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (b2UQ7)

275 I've got a bottle of Blanton's. Not sure that I like it all that much. Pretty happy with Makers and Old Grand Dad. then I am very happy with Larceny. Blanton's has a Sulphur back taste.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (Wg6v7)

276 You ever wonder about the first guy who made risotto?

"This rice needs more time. Now more butter. Now more time. Now more butter. Now more time. Now...more butter."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

277 261 Seems like the Trump boom is taking it's time. Weren't we hearing about all kinds of investment from abroad, in conjunction with trade deals? Aren't we supposed to be transitioning to moving manufacturing jobs back to the US (also known as The Only Jobs That Matter)?

Instead, what I'm hearing about is how every decent paying job in America is being given to Indians (the ones actually in India).

I hear that tech colleges are put out because engineering students transfer out, to other majors because it's too damn hard, but I also hear that employment in STEM in general is in the toilet.

Somebody make sense of it...
Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 01:09 PM (hOOi9)

It took what, two years for Reagan’s reforms to take hold?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (6KcYW)

278 Guy in the grocery store starts chatting with me, and says the tariffs are killing him, making everything he’s buying unaffordable. I glance at his cart, he has lettuce from California. Apples from Washington State. And a few other food products all made in the USA. I asked him how tariffs on imported goods had an effect on, say, California lettuce? Guy just looks at his feet.

People are buying the bs and don’t even take two seconds to reason or at least understand the impact of tariffs. I told him it’s more likely the giant food companies got used to the huge margins they were getting during COVID and don’t want to let it go. On that we at least agreed.

Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (yHNFN)

279
I forget where I saw/heard it, but someone pointed out recently that if you want to be a totalitarian dictator, it's a lot easier if a lot of people are smoking weed.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 21, 2025 01:07 PM (2ocoG)

Soma.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (npFr7)

280 275 I've got a bottle of Blanton's. Not sure that I like it all that much. Pretty happy with Makers and Old Grand Dad. then I am very happy with Larceny. Blanton's has a Sulphur back taste.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (Wg6v7)

Are you within 500 miles of Seattle? I will take that nasty thing off your hands...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (xcxpd)

281 Most of the glut is in the upper-middle market and below. The high-end stuff is still in demand, although even that is changing. I'm seeing sales on stuff like Mac 18, 25, and 30 that I never saw before in all my years of buying booze.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:10 PM (iFTx/)

=======

A Mac 30 would make a good consolation gift to those who recently lost jobs...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)
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$4200 on sale!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (iFTx/)

282 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (lYngK)

283 If young people are drinking less, it's probably a good thing. I'm a casual beer drinker, I'm not going to pretend it's all upside.

The weed stuff concerns me as i will never get on board with someone regularly smoking weed being the same as having a couple beers.

I knew a once normal, upstanding guy that basically can't function now without a huge amount of marijuana every day. last person I'd suspect going down this road.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (eIzlH)

284 275 I've got a bottle of Blanton's. Not sure that I like it all that much. Pretty happy with Makers and Old Grand Dad. then I am very happy with Larceny. Blanton's has a Sulphur back taste.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (Wg6v7)

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It's a fine bourbon, amped up in popularity because of the unique bottle shape and its rareness.

I want all 8 bottles to arrange in a row with the horsies making the full gallop.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

285 Instead, what I'm hearing about is how every decent paying job in America is being given to Indians (the ones actually in India).

I can work a whole day 8 to 5 and never speak to another American except my boss.

Posted by: Defenestratus at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (uuASd)

286 Love the bar chart btw. Look at net of exports. Where they were and where they are now. Hmmmmm i wonder how that happened!!!!!

Posted by: Typical moron at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (b2UQ7)

287 My weekend plans are to expand the perimeter road, generally clean up the rest of the property before winter sets in, and prep for a whole lot of interior work this winter.

Mostly painting and trim and molding work.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (XV/Pl)

288 274 His final conversation-ending comeback was, "Billions of people will be plunged into poverty due to Trump."

I decided to just stop arguing with him. Waste of time.
Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:53 PM (oraVG)

The PRC has that record. Mao killed all the rich people, just as he wants, and boom, close to a billion Chinese went to extreme penury.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (6KcYW)

289 A Mac 30 would make a good consolation gift to those who recently lost jobs...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

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Except that one guy.

Sláinte!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (+mTgD)

290 Shut up, Dunce.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (jc0TO)

291 281 $4200 on sale!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (iFTx/)

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That's practically free!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

292 Seems like the Trump boom is taking it's time. Weren't we hearing about all kinds of investment from abroad, in conjunction with trade deals? Aren't we supposed to be transitioning to moving manufacturing jobs back to the US?

—

All that investment from abroad is vaporware. You have these big announcements like 100B invested by such and such company . Except if you read the fine print it’s “up to” $100B. And over 20 years. And only if all these metrics are met. And even if some of it actually does happen it takes years to get that going. You don’t just snap your fingers and build a factory. Shit the permitting alone can take multiple years.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (/AUU2)

293 282: thanks for the usual vomit of propaganda.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (6KcYW)

294 While all good news, I see Carolina real estate market is softening. Pricing is softening, we're over built and houses are either harder to sell or being taken off the market.

This is good news. The investment banks are taking a hit and perhaps homes and rent will be more affordable for younger people.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 21, 2025 01:15 PM (wBaIH)

295 > My wife and I I have a very open relationship with them

Giggity.

Posted by: Quagmire at November 21, 2025 01:15 PM (Yp6az)

296 The PRC has that record. Mao killed all the rich people, just as he wants, and boom, close to a billion Chinese went to extreme penury.
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Pol Pot murdered and starved about 25% of the country of Cambodia in 4 short years.

Posted by: Crusader at November 21, 2025 01:15 PM (TN0g+)

297 I’m fully prepared to watch Democrats shutdown the government again on January 30. They know it’s the only thing they can do to inflict more pain on the people and slow the recovery, which is poised to perfectly coincide with the midterms.

Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 01:15 PM (yHNFN)

298 A Mac 30 would make a good consolation gift to those who recently lost jobs...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Don't waste your money getting a gift for someone who is about to be deported!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 21, 2025 01:16 PM (AQh0C)

299 280 275 I've got a bottle of Blanton's. Not sure that I like it all that much. Pretty happy with Makers and Old Grand Dad. then I am very happy with Larceny. Blanton's has a Sulphur back taste.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (Wg6v7)

Are you within 500 miles of Seattle? I will take that nasty thing off your hands...
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I'd have to sell it to you. What are the Seattle Tariffs like?

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:16 PM (Wg6v7)

300 Tariffs are not inflationary any more than taxes are. They just reallocate who gets part of your purchasing power.
Inflation is caused by changes in the availability of money. Easy money means higher inflation, money printing means higher inflation.

Oh, and GE is building a factory to manufacture washing machines in Kentucky.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (rbvCR)

301 267 One would think if millions are leaving the US for a variety of reasons (self deportation) , that would make unemployment go down considerably.
Posted by: Leupold

There's something hinky (big surprise) with how they calculate unemployment statistics - something like they don't count people as unemployed if they don't have a job and they aren't looking for work, which is like not counting food and gas in the core inflation numbers, to my mind - so I wouldn't necessarily take as gospel any numbers purported to be an official "unemployment rate".
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (a+4eV)

Good points. But there's also that the ones leaving could include many who are either NOT working, or in the underground economy.

Also, 4% used to be considered "full employment" didn't it? But I had the impression that finding a job is an uphill battle these days. "Make it make sense."

Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (hOOi9)

302 297 I’m fully prepared to watch Democrats shutdown the government again on January 30. They know it’s the only thing they can do to inflict more pain on the people and slow the recovery, which is poised to perfectly coincide with the midterms.

Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 01:15 PM (yHNFN)

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Shutting down the government doesn't slow the economy.

It speeds it up.

Fewer regulators getting in the way.

All that suffers is the topline numbers, maybe, because government spending is considered a net positive to the economy when it should be considered a net negative.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

303
Don't break into my house. I'm not afraid, I just don't want to have to clean up all your blood.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (oKoyV)

If you were consistent you should let anyone who breaks into your house do as he or she will damn well please as you do nothing but pout and whine. Doesn’t defending your house with deadly force, or saying you will, make you a murderer?

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (6KcYW)

304 130 I am now an re-retired police detective. I'm gone for ever for the Philadelphia Police Department.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
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We checked your old site a couple of weeks ago to see if we could catch up with you there.
Glad you are OK. Hope to see you more often around here. Don't think I'm going to make it to the Met. It'll be a lot better than the old job. Get to stay for the show if you want to.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (ykITP)

305 Love the bar chart btw. Look at net of exports. Where they were and where they are now. Hmmmmm i wonder how that happened!!!!!

Posted by: Typical moron at November 21, 2025 01:13 PM (b2UQ7)

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I was assured that billions world-wide were all going to die owing to Trump's Turrble Tariffs!

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (+mTgD)

306 Hope they aren't the Energy Star ones, those are not fun

Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (rbvCR)

307 >>While all good news, I see Carolina real estate market is softening. Pricing is softening, we're over built and houses are either harder to sell or being taken off the market.

People see the Democrat governor, places like Charlotte, and are starting to bypass NC for other places. It’s not completely fair when you look at the legislature, but red people moving from blue states don’t want to get stuck on shitty state again.

Posted by: That Guy at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (yHNFN)

308 189 Actually got into a argument with a "friend" the other day on this topic.

When I offhandedly made a joke about how expensive the items on the menu of a San Francisco restaurant were, he said, "Tramp's tariffs are nosediving the economy." (He often repeats garbage word-salad liberal talking points no matter how irrelevant or incorrect they are.)
_____

Laugh and say "Your political statements are so wildly off base from reality, they always make me laugh! Thanks for brightening my day!"

Posted by: Chuck Martel at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (Dv3i1)

309 I've got a bottle of Blanton's. Not sure that I like it all that much. Pretty happy with Makers and Old Grand Dad. then I am very happy with Larceny. Blanton's has a Sulphur back taste.
Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:12 PM (Wg6v7)
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Yea, I'm not the biggest fan. Tastes like any other BT product. I think the cool packaging and slick PR hype is what drives its mythos. I'm not a big bourbon drinker, though, so YMMV.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (iFTx/)

310 How many of y'all at 12 or 13 were beating up crackheads?

http://tiny.cc/ryfv001

Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (Yp6az)

311
All that investment from abroad is vaporware. You have these big announcements like 100B invested by such and such company . Except if you read the fine print it’s “up to” $100B. And over 20 years. And only if all these metrics are met. And even if some of it actually does happen it takes years to get that going. You don’t just snap your fingers and build a factory. Shit the permitting alone can take multiple years.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

==

It's all bullshit and world leaders know this is what Trump really wants is theses kinds of headlines, so they cut deals like this but it never will happen.

There's zero enforcability, it takes years to open a factory, Trump will no longer be President by then ,etc.

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:18 PM (eIzlH)

312 Nood.

Posted by: Nazdar at November 21, 2025 01:18 PM (NcvvS)

313 Doesn’t defending your house with deadly force, or saying you will, make you a murderer?
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (6KcYW)
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Differs from state to state.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 21, 2025 01:18 PM (ykITP)

314 NOOD

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (DRSnL)

315 Nood NY Self defense

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (a+4eV)

316 wife and I I have a very open relationship with them

Giggity.
Posted by: Quagmire

Walked right into that didnt I? Haha.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (/AUU2)

317 But I had the impression that finding a job is an uphill battle these days. "Make it make sense."
Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM

Making six figures working from home right out of college with your humanities degree is proving more elusive than previously.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (jc0TO)

318 I want all 8 bottles to arrange in a row with the horsies making the full gallop.
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Well, TJM, I might be headed to Concord in the near future. If you really want it I could swing by.

Posted by: Pudinhead at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (Wg6v7)

319 People see the Democrat governor, places like Charlotte, and are starting to bypass NC for other places. It’s not completely fair when you look at the legislature, but red people moving from blue states don’t want to get stuck on shitty state again.
Posted by: That Guy

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I've heard Ashveille has become a real shithole. Lots of homeless, etc

Posted by: Leupold at November 21, 2025 01:19 PM (eIzlH)

320 My mother is foreign born. What did she do to piss you off?
Posted by: Cow Demon at November 21, 2025 01:06 PM (6KcYW)

She had you.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 21, 2025 01:20 PM (oKoyV)

321 Oh, and GE is building a factory to manufacture washing machines in Kentucky.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (rbvCR)

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Will they walk and talk like Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 21, 2025 01:20 PM (+mTgD)

322 Tramp's tariffs = Trump's tariffs

Posted by: zombie at November 21, 2025 12:55 PM (oraVG)

I was thinking that there was an overproduction of tramps here in the US and restricting the flow from overseas would be good for the domestic market

Posted by: Kindltot at November 21, 2025 01:20 PM (rbvCR)

323 GE has always had a factory in Kentucky. Called Appliance Park. Massive place.

Posted by: NCKate at November 21, 2025 01:21 PM (uQzkA)

324 How many of y'all at 12 or 13 were beating up crackheads?

http://tiny.cc/ryfv001
Posted by: bonhomme at November 21, 2025 01:17 PM (Yp6az)

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What language is that? It's unreadable.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 21, 2025 01:21 PM (DRSnL)

325
"This rice needs more time. Now more butter. Now more time. Now more butter. Now more time. Now...more butter.
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That is Not how you make risotto.

It additions of hot stock. Also white wine either in beginning or at the end. How much butter do you go through anyway???

Posted by: Chef Boyardee at November 21, 2025 01:22 PM (b2UQ7)

326 All that investment from abroad is vaporware. You have these big announcements like 100B invested by such and such company . Except if you read the fine print it’s “up to” $100B. And over 20 years. And only if all these metrics are met. And even if some of it actually does happen it takes years to get that going. You don’t just snap your fingers and build a factory. Shit the permitting alone can take multiple years.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 21, 2025 01:14 PM (/AUU2)

I might have known. But, that being said, Trump seems to actually WANT that investment, doesn't have a lot of time to kill, and doesn't seem like someone who would be OK with such "vaporware".

Posted by: MrExcitement at November 21, 2025 01:23 PM (hOOi9)

327 Where can I get a Moped on the cheap?

Posted by: FORMER USAID EMPLOYEE at November 21, 2025 01:23 PM (IByKi)

328 Tariffs are deflationary. At the levels they are set they are only slightly so, but if anything they will bring inflation down because they are reducing the number of new dollars Uncle Sugar has to print

Posted by: 18-1 at November 21, 2025 01:23 PM (sKqQm)

329 but--?

Catturd ™
@catturd2
Nov 20
Panicans hardest hit.

Polymarket
@Polymarket
Nov 20
BREAKING: U.S. unemployment rate blows past expectations, soaring to the highest level in years.

Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 01:45 PM (RuTUS)

330 267 There's something hinky (big surprise) with how they calculate unemployment statistics - something like they don't count people as unemployed if they don't have a job and they aren't looking for work, which is like not counting food and gas in the core inflation numbers, to my mind - so I wouldn't necessarily take as gospel any numbers purported to be an official "unemployment rate".
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 21, 2025 01:11 PM (a+4eV)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at November 21, 2025 01:47 PM (RuTUS)

331 If you want to get an idea of how Musk sees the future, read the Culture novels by Ian Banks. He's an obvious fan, borrowing the booster retrieval names from some of the Mind characters presented there.

They are set in a post-scarcity utopia where these advanced beings called Minds pretty much run everything but keep people around to make things interesting.

I really enjoy them.

Posted by: pawn at November 21, 2025 02:17 PM (sPsWv)

332 Returning copy/paste public domain books? That shirts that look almost like the shirt I ordered are my main Amazon send backs. They don't even ask you to return the crap copy/paste stuff sometimes. They know how bad it is.

Posted by: Ben at November 21, 2025 02:25 PM (QJAp9)

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