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THE MORNING RANT: About that “Bad” Jobs Report Last Week: Private-Sector Jobs Increased, Government Jobs Decreased
The unemployment rate fell to 4.1% as labor force participation continued to slide.Yes, “labor force participation” by non-citizens decreased. But the unemployment rate keeps falling as actual U.S. citizens gain employment. Buried in this Bloomberg piece is another interesting number:
Private-sector payrolls rose by 30,000 for a second month…So to be clear, private-sector employers are not actually shedding jobs, it’s government that is shedding jobs. As reported by NBC, the Bureau of Labor Statistics ”showed a 5,000 payroll gain in the manufacturing sector in July and an additional 22,000 roles in construction.” This CNBC piece further explains that ”The main reason for the red headline number was a loss of 53,000 government workers.” The math works, and I’m not terribly bothered by this math: 53,000 displaced government workers were mostly offset by 30,000 new private sector jobs, resulting in a net loss of 23,000. I’d like to see continued momentum in both of these inputs – more reductions in government employment and accelerating private-sector job creation. To be clear, I don’t wish economic harm to those displaced government workers. I’d like for them to find gainful employment in the private sector. I’m going to repeat myself on the political significance of reducing government employment. All of those “Reagan conservatives” in legacy media who incessantly state that “Trump is not a true conservative” spent decades promoting “smaller government.” Suckers like me contributed money and bought subscriptions, believing they meant it. They didn’t. Trump is now doing what Conservatism, Inc. pretended to advocate for, and now all those “Reagan conservatives” are allying with Democrats and the left to protect the government behemoth from Trump. Here are a few more headlines about who is losing their jobs in the “Trump economy”: “U.S. Employers Told to Dismiss Thousands of Immigrant Workers” [NY Times – 7/10/2026] “Federal workforce shrank 10% in Trump’s first year back in office” [Pew Research – 3/13/2026] “Employers Fear Labor Shortage as Many Immigrants Lose Protected Status” [NY Times – 7/26/2026] “Laid-off H-1B workers return to India, face lower pay as Big Tech expands GCCs” [The American Bazaar – 7/09/2026] “Is the American Dream fading? Inside the ‘reverse migration’ of Indian techies from US” [Firstpost – 8/034/2026] This is why Trump was elected. We need to be careful not to get swayed by headlines that conflate foreigners and government workers losing their jobs with what is going on regarding private-sector hiring of U.S. citizens. There is good news on that front, and it’s getting better. [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
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Sponge!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 10, 2026 11:00 AM (VbzrQ)
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Corgis called
Posted by: rickb223 at August 10, 2026 11:01 AM (VbzrQ)
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Yonder Horde
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2026 11:01 AM (2Cry5)
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New thread smell! yAy!
Posted by: NR Pax at August 10, 2026 11:02 AM (OPGS/)
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Unexpectedly!
Posted by: ShainS at August 10, 2026 11:03 AM (+n6Zq)
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Good.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 10, 2026 11:03 AM (wOO3z)
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Oh Noes, Gov't Jobs Lost...so anyway...
Posted by: jim (in San Diego) at August 10, 2026 11:03 AM (l3cgK)
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Fewer government employees is a good thing.
Posted by: Bulg at August 10, 2026 11:04 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Hillary! Dark Horse Candidate 2028 at August 10, 2026 11:04 AM (+ELp2)
Posted by: man at August 10, 2026 11:04 AM (cGjQu)
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Great news. We can't recover unless we dislodge more of the parasite on the economy.
MOAR firings. More. Until the government is small enough to fit in the capital building.
MOAR firings. More. Until the government is small enough to fit in the capital building.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 10, 2026 11:06 AM (zjgNU)
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Jobs report was also good in the sense it cooled off rate hike fears.
I personally am sick of the power these Fed hack pricks have on the economy in particular and the country in general. Reading tea leaves and fine print on every fucking fart they squirt out.
Fuck these people. But alas, this is where we are. A few unelected, unresponsive, unpunishable hacks are in charge of 100s of trillions of dollars of market value.
I personally am sick of the power these Fed hack pricks have on the economy in particular and the country in general. Reading tea leaves and fine print on every fucking fart they squirt out.
Fuck these people. But alas, this is where we are. A few unelected, unresponsive, unpunishable hacks are in charge of 100s of trillions of dollars of market value.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 10, 2026 11:07 AM (iFTx/)
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“Federal workforce shrank 10% in Trump’s first year back in office” [Pew Research – 3/13/2026]
Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those numbers up.
Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those numbers up.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 10, 2026 11:08 AM (zjgNU)
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All of those “Reagan conservatives” in legacy media who incessantly state that “Trump is not a true conservative” spent decades promoting “smaller government.” Suckers like me contributed money and bought subscriptions, believing they meant it. They didn’t. Trump is now doing what Conservatism, Inc. pretended to advocate for, and now all those “Reagan conservatives” are allying with Democrats and the left to protect the government behemoth from Trump.
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Leftover from the New Deal where GOP reflexively kow towed to the bureaucratic class in practice while excoriating them in speeches.
This is what Faux News and most of Conservative Media TM does. Any of them could have done what Nick Shirley did years and years ago. Same with O'Keefe. They didn't. That tells you who they are--the junior partners in Uniparty that don't want to upset the senior partners aka the Democrats.
So they fart through their mouths on TV constantly about principles while taking it up the wazoo in practice but making bank from peddling their ass. And that is the Washington General GOPe, controlled opposition.
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Leftover from the New Deal where GOP reflexively kow towed to the bureaucratic class in practice while excoriating them in speeches.
This is what Faux News and most of Conservative Media TM does. Any of them could have done what Nick Shirley did years and years ago. Same with O'Keefe. They didn't. That tells you who they are--the junior partners in Uniparty that don't want to upset the senior partners aka the Democrats.
So they fart through their mouths on TV constantly about principles while taking it up the wazoo in practice but making bank from peddling their ass. And that is the Washington General GOPe, controlled opposition.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:09 AM (E4rtv)
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> The federal workforce shrank by 10.3% in 2025, or a net of nearly 238,000 workers, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of recently published government data.
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So, I presume the numbers being batted around do not include the uniformed armed services. 238K government drones out of work is probably about right for the number who are/were at/past retirement age.
I know the claims these were younger employees, but I'm doubting that claim. The ones near retirement have incentives.
Meh... it's a start.
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So, I presume the numbers being batted around do not include the uniformed armed services. 238K government drones out of work is probably about right for the number who are/were at/past retirement age.
I know the claims these were younger employees, but I'm doubting that claim. The ones near retirement have incentives.
Meh... it's a start.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2026 11:10 AM (2Cry5)
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Yay, Buck is here to deliver us from the Gay Beach Plague! And brings us good news of gummint leeches dropping like flies.
Posted by: A Twofer! at August 10, 2026 11:10 AM (JM9I6)
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12 Jobs report was also good in the sense it cooled off rate hike fears.
I personally am sick of the power these Fed hack pricks have on the economy in particular and the country in general. Reading tea leaves and fine print on every fucking fart they squirt out.
Fuck these people. But alas, this is where we are. A few unelected, unresponsive, unpunishable hacks are in charge of 100s of trillions of dollars of market value.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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The Fed exists to protect the bankers, not the American people and to finance our government deficit.
I personally am sick of the power these Fed hack pricks have on the economy in particular and the country in general. Reading tea leaves and fine print on every fucking fart they squirt out.
Fuck these people. But alas, this is where we are. A few unelected, unresponsive, unpunishable hacks are in charge of 100s of trillions of dollars of market value.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
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The Fed exists to protect the bankers, not the American people and to finance our government deficit.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:11 AM (E4rtv)
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I'm curious about what happens to govt spending numbers after a material exodus of govt employees. I assume the budgeted amount still gets spent, but pays out to NGOs who will soon sponge up the displaced workers.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 10, 2026 11:11 AM (Dv3i1)
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Each government worker consumes rather than produces. This alone improves economic productivity.
Each one who moves to the private sector further increases the productivity gain.
Each one who moves to the private sector further increases the productivity gain.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2026 11:13 AM (JvZF+)
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Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those numbers up.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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Takes Congress to do it. Unless Trump crossed the Rubicon and becomes Caesar, we are stuck with the form of the Republic that allow judges to stop things while the GOPe in Congress secretly approve.
Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those numbers up.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian
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Takes Congress to do it. Unless Trump crossed the Rubicon and becomes Caesar, we are stuck with the form of the Republic that allow judges to stop things while the GOPe in Congress secretly approve.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:13 AM (E4rtv)
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This alone = loss of a government job
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2026 11:14 AM (JvZF+)
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Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Took a peek at the art today. Glad I slept in.
Goes looking for coffee.
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Took a peek at the art today. Glad I slept in.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2026 11:14 AM (2WIwB)
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And that is the Washington General GOPe, controlled opposition.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:09 AM (E4rtv)
And what happens when the controlled opponent comes up against a magically transformed D party...?
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:09 AM (E4rtv)
And what happens when the controlled opponent comes up against a magically transformed D party...?
Posted by: ... at August 10, 2026 11:14 AM (YXnK3)
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I’d like for them to find gainful employment in the private sector.
*insert Ray Stantz Ghostbusters clip here*
I’d like for them to find gainful employment in the private sector.
*insert Ray Stantz Ghostbusters clip here*
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 10, 2026 11:15 AM (iqcvy)
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“Government is just the things we do together”
Exactly! Like say (pull one out of the hat at random) …. Pol Pot! and the amazing Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia.
Exactly! Like say (pull one out of the hat at random) …. Pol Pot! and the amazing Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 10, 2026 11:15 AM (3ElP1)
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Shut down the H-1B program 100% and lets see what happens. Worth a try.
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2026 11:16 AM (Jr5Lq)
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And that is the Washington General GOPe, controlled opposition.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:09 AM (E4rtv)
And what happens when the controlled opponent comes up against a magically transformed D party...?
Posted by: ...
Menshevik, meet Bolshevik.
Bolshevik, Menshev...um...damn. Not gonna get the stains out there.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:09 AM (E4rtv)
And what happens when the controlled opponent comes up against a magically transformed D party...?
Posted by: ...
Menshevik, meet Bolshevik.
Bolshevik, Menshev...um...damn. Not gonna get the stains out there.
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at August 10, 2026 11:17 AM (OUMaO)
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18 I'm curious about what happens to govt spending numbers after a material exodus of govt employees. I assume the budgeted amount still gets spent, but pays out to NGOs who will soon sponge up the displaced workers.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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It's down but federal salaries/benefits are just a rounding error in the federal budget compared with Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. And that is where the easy pickings to eliminate fraud exist.
Frankly, we would get a better class of Congress critters if we took them off the private grift dole and actually paid them in consequence to their business decisions on the budget. Deficit--they don't get paid, Surplus, they get a big wad of cash. Ban all other outside income for them and their family.
I think Millei is trying that out in Argentina. It would take constitutional amendments here which simply are not going to happen.
Posted by: Chuck Martel
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It's down but federal salaries/benefits are just a rounding error in the federal budget compared with Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. And that is where the easy pickings to eliminate fraud exist.
Frankly, we would get a better class of Congress critters if we took them off the private grift dole and actually paid them in consequence to their business decisions on the budget. Deficit--they don't get paid, Surplus, they get a big wad of cash. Ban all other outside income for them and their family.
I think Millei is trying that out in Argentina. It would take constitutional amendments here which simply are not going to happen.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:17 AM (E4rtv)
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Horrible video footage emerging from Colombia earthquake. Tough to even imagine.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 10, 2026 11:17 AM (3ElP1)
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>>I'm curious about what happens to govt spending numbers after a material exodus of govt employees. I assume the budgeted amount still gets spent, but pays out to NGOs who will soon sponge up the displaced workers.
The Vance led fraud task force has already uncovered more than $230 billion in fraud from government spending and he claimed that was a conservative estimate. Also stopped another $56 billion in fraud that was set to go out the door. And they are only 6 months into the process.
Sooner or later that is going to add up to real money.
The Vance led fraud task force has already uncovered more than $230 billion in fraud from government spending and he claimed that was a conservative estimate. Also stopped another $56 billion in fraud that was set to go out the door. And they are only 6 months into the process.
Sooner or later that is going to add up to real money.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2026 11:17 AM (viF8m)
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The Fed employment graph up top bothers me. I do much better with Venn Diagrams.
Posted by: VP Emerita at August 10, 2026 11:19 AM (JM9I6)
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OT, but Columbia had the latest winning ticket in the 2026 Earthquake Lottery.
Would it be inappropriate to hope that California gets at least a minor temblor that exposes, once again, the incompetence of Newsom and the one-party rules of that once Golden State?
Not wishing death upon our countrymen, but the nation needs to see just how dysfunctional Newsom and his Leftists have become in responding to issues.
If it spares us the possibility that Newsom could ever occupy the WH, a few billions in infrastructure damage might be worth it.
Would it be inappropriate to hope that California gets at least a minor temblor that exposes, once again, the incompetence of Newsom and the one-party rules of that once Golden State?
Not wishing death upon our countrymen, but the nation needs to see just how dysfunctional Newsom and his Leftists have become in responding to issues.
If it spares us the possibility that Newsom could ever occupy the WH, a few billions in infrastructure damage might be worth it.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at August 10, 2026 11:19 AM (MNCvZ)
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Frankly, we would get a better class of Congress critters if we took them off the private grift dole and actually paid them in consequence to their business decisions on the budget.
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Yes. Also, make them live with Social Security, Medicare, the stupid "Affordable" Health Care exchanges, FINRA's insider trading rules. A whole host of regulations for thee and not for me. It's criminal what they get away with.
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Yes. Also, make them live with Social Security, Medicare, the stupid "Affordable" Health Care exchanges, FINRA's insider trading rules. A whole host of regulations for thee and not for me. It's criminal what they get away with.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 10, 2026 11:20 AM (Dv3i1)
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33 Hear, hear!
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2026 11:21 AM (Jr5Lq)
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Congress is busy taking a Five week summer vacation.
Seems like it was only a few weeks ago they were taking their spring vacation. Sorry asses.
Seems like it was only a few weeks ago they were taking their spring vacation. Sorry asses.
Posted by: Case at August 10, 2026 11:22 AM (fV9m3)
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30k new private sector jobs is not something to celebrate either.
Let’s play the “what if roles were reversed” game. Biden or Obama jobs report shows 30k net new private sector jobs. Would you be saying great job Mr President?
Let’s play the “what if roles were reversed” game. Biden or Obama jobs report shows 30k net new private sector jobs. Would you be saying great job Mr President?
Posted by: Be Honest at August 10, 2026 11:22 AM (qDa2L)
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And what happens when the controlled opponent comes up against a magically transformed D party...?
Posted by: ...
Bolsheviks in Russia were successful for one specific reason--the floundering WWI response by Russia and soldiers wanted to live. Those peasant soldiers turned around (some of them anyway) and served as the core for the asshole Bolsheviks to win over the Mensheviks.
By contrast, the color revolutions are more like coups than revolutions simply displacing the political opponents at the top while shoving their people in.
The French Revolution is more to the desire of the left in the US aka Jacobins. They believe in crashing the system will end up with them on top in the ensuing fight. And that was primarily an urban centered revolt, not the peasantry.
Not clear how that will work when the peasantry outside the cities in the US actually have a lot of firearms whereas peasants in France had no such thing. As the Anabaptist radicals found out in Reformation Germany--cities are death traps liable for sieges if you don't have field armies to keep them from being cut off.
Posted by: ...
Bolsheviks in Russia were successful for one specific reason--the floundering WWI response by Russia and soldiers wanted to live. Those peasant soldiers turned around (some of them anyway) and served as the core for the asshole Bolsheviks to win over the Mensheviks.
By contrast, the color revolutions are more like coups than revolutions simply displacing the political opponents at the top while shoving their people in.
The French Revolution is more to the desire of the left in the US aka Jacobins. They believe in crashing the system will end up with them on top in the ensuing fight. And that was primarily an urban centered revolt, not the peasantry.
Not clear how that will work when the peasantry outside the cities in the US actually have a lot of firearms whereas peasants in France had no such thing. As the Anabaptist radicals found out in Reformation Germany--cities are death traps liable for sieges if you don't have field armies to keep them from being cut off.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:22 AM (E4rtv)
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Let's enjoy the good news while we can. I sometimes get the feeling that it's not going to last past a year or two.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2026 11:24 AM (g8Ew8)
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I don't think there are that many Reagan conservatives who oppose Trump. Just my intuition, but the view may be skewed by prominent Reagan conservatives becoming anti-Trump. The vast majority of Regan conservatives probably love what Trump is doing. Some of the higher placed politicians or pundits may have become anti-Trump to gain social status, get more contributions, or to keep their jobs.
Posted by: Dave at August 10, 2026 11:25 AM (sbsMc)
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Then there's the confusing part: If a gov't civilian goes to a gov't contractor position because he wants to work from home... does that new position get counted (wrongly) as private-sector?
Posted by: RandomDave (if you can spare a bit, please click) at August 10, 2026 11:25 AM (aJQbY)
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I remember 2017-2019 locally we had Help Wanted signs everywhere. Whatever we were doing back then, maybe try that.
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2026 11:26 AM (Jr5Lq)
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>>Horrible video footage emerging from Colombia earthquake
Wild video of the church partially collapsing. People standing on the corner across the street watching/videoing while electrical lines are shaking above their heads. Yikes.
Wild video of the church partially collapsing. People standing on the corner across the street watching/videoing while electrical lines are shaking above their heads. Yikes.
Posted by: one hour sober at August 10, 2026 11:26 AM (J4Dwc)
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I'll say it again:
If illegal immigrants are "doing the jobs Americans won't do" how come the jobless rate isn't skyrocketing?
Anywhere from 2 to 6 million illegals have left in the last 2 years.
Yet ....
And why is the "number of Americans finding jobs" almost exactly equal to "foreign born workers who lost jobs?"
If illegal immigrants are "doing the jobs Americans won't do" how come the jobless rate isn't skyrocketing?
Anywhere from 2 to 6 million illegals have left in the last 2 years.
Yet ....
And why is the "number of Americans finding jobs" almost exactly equal to "foreign born workers who lost jobs?"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 10, 2026 11:27 AM (3cUTc)
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What do you call "a loss of 53,000 government workers"?
An ADEQUATE start. Do better, PDJT and Company.
What do you call "a loss of 53,000 government workers"?
An ADEQUATE start. Do better, PDJT and Company.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 10, 2026 11:27 AM (s9VOe)
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39 I don't think there are that many Reagan conservatives who oppose Trump. Just my intuition, but the view may be skewed by prominent Reagan conservatives becoming anti-Trump. The vast majority of Regan conservatives probably love what Trump is doing. Some of the higher placed politicians or pundits may have become anti-Trump to gain social status, get more contributions, or to keep their jobs.
Posted by: Dave
I think the author is referring to those in DC that keep referring to themselves as Reagan Republicans that are principled in comparison with the uncouth Trump. So you get endless crap from them about style, language, and manners-civility, while they promote the Democrat agenda.
The real core of the Reagan administration are all dead--these are the minor functionaries that stayed in DC and became GOPe in using Reagan to ward off accusations of not being conservative. They hide in plain sight that way.
Posted by: Dave
I think the author is referring to those in DC that keep referring to themselves as Reagan Republicans that are principled in comparison with the uncouth Trump. So you get endless crap from them about style, language, and manners-civility, while they promote the Democrat agenda.
The real core of the Reagan administration are all dead--these are the minor functionaries that stayed in DC and became GOPe in using Reagan to ward off accusations of not being conservative. They hide in plain sight that way.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:27 AM (E4rtv)
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38 Let's enjoy the good news while we can. I sometimes get the feeling that it's not going to last past a year or two.
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I will. But I'm trying to work out a best time to retire. Outside of who is running the country, the next couple of years I should be preparing to execute on a retirement plan. If the Dems get back in, I have a fear they'll quickly confiscate everything I've saved up for decades in order to pay for housing all the new illegal migrants they will bring in and then I'll wish I kept my job to pay for food, utilities and property taxes.
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I will. But I'm trying to work out a best time to retire. Outside of who is running the country, the next couple of years I should be preparing to execute on a retirement plan. If the Dems get back in, I have a fear they'll quickly confiscate everything I've saved up for decades in order to pay for housing all the new illegal migrants they will bring in and then I'll wish I kept my job to pay for food, utilities and property taxes.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 10, 2026 11:28 AM (Dv3i1)
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41 I remember 2017-2019 locally we had Help Wanted signs everywhere. Whatever we were doing back then, maybe try that.
Posted by: gp
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We had cheaper interest rates 2017-19 and that is why Trump had it with Powell and the Dems, they are making the deficit worse by keeping interest rates high plus it is preventing a certain level of business investment as the interest rates currently don't warrant investing.
Posted by: gp
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We had cheaper interest rates 2017-19 and that is why Trump had it with Powell and the Dems, they are making the deficit worse by keeping interest rates high plus it is preventing a certain level of business investment as the interest rates currently don't warrant investing.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:29 AM (E4rtv)
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The vast majority of Regan conservatives probably love what Trump is doing
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Reagan had some serious obstacles in that era, make no mistake. But the situation is far different today, and by necessity, requires a far different approach.
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Reagan had some serious obstacles in that era, make no mistake. But the situation is far different today, and by necessity, requires a far different approach.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 10, 2026 11:30 AM (3ElP1)
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An ADEQUATE start. Do better, PDJT and Company.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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Congress has to do it. Not Trump.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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Congress has to do it. Not Trump.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)
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If the Dems get back in, I have a fear they'll quickly confiscate everything I've saved up for decades
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They'll toss you an IOU and say it was never your money in the first place. Congratulations, you're now a "billionaire".
If the Dems get back in, I have a fear they'll quickly confiscate everything I've saved up for decades
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They'll toss you an IOU and say it was never your money in the first place. Congratulations, you're now a "billionaire".
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2026 11:34 AM (O0L8i)
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"I'm trying to work out a best time to retire."
If you've got a good job now, hang onto it if you can. Expect AI-fueled firings, and a resurgence of inflation to pay for the war and increased debt payments. Expect the do-almost-nothing Republican Congress to be replaced by a destroy-everything Dem Congress. Prepare for the worst, hope for something better than Bad.
If you've got a good job now, hang onto it if you can. Expect AI-fueled firings, and a resurgence of inflation to pay for the war and increased debt payments. Expect the do-almost-nothing Republican Congress to be replaced by a destroy-everything Dem Congress. Prepare for the worst, hope for something better than Bad.
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2026 11:34 AM (Jr5Lq)
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It can be lunch time
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2026 11:34 AM (nKNa5)
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They believe in crashing the system will end up with them on top in the ensuing fight"
Heh. History shows again and again...
Heh. History shows again and again...
Posted by: man at August 10, 2026 11:34 AM (cGjQu)
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The media are entirely in the bag for the Democrat opposition, but even they can't hide the good news completely!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 10, 2026 11:35 AM (l4RKn)
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We also need a bloodbath in the NGO employment sector.... and yesterday.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 10, 2026 11:36 AM (xvV+O)
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The Apoxeclipse is my retirement plan.
Posted by: Reforger at August 10, 2026 11:37 AM (NRR8r)
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RE: Jeanine Pirro
A Trump prosecutor losing cases in DC is expected.
The best would do the same. LAWFARE. Take everyone of them to court and make it cost them. One said, 'the four days in jail were the most horrible in my life...the roaches and rats'. Good glad you enjoyed your stay.
She's giving the Dem Clan grief and that's good.
She needs to calm her tits and make up with the boss.
A Trump prosecutor losing cases in DC is expected.
The best would do the same. LAWFARE. Take everyone of them to court and make it cost them. One said, 'the four days in jail were the most horrible in my life...the roaches and rats'. Good glad you enjoyed your stay.
She's giving the Dem Clan grief and that's good.
She needs to calm her tits and make up with the boss.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2026 11:37 AM (Pee1E)
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>>If the Dems get back in, I have a fear they'll quickly confiscate everything I've saved up for decades in order to pay for housing all the new illegal migrants they will bring in and then I'll wish I kept my job to pay for food, utilities and property taxes.
I don't think we spend enough time really looking at the Democrat Party and the changes that are happening to the election process. The DNC has always been a powerhouse when it came to funding. Now, it is basically broke and had to put up their DC HQ as collateral for a loan.
USAID is basically dead. ActBlue is under investigation and a shell of what it was. And the party is in a civil war because they let communists and islamists into their "big tent" and now they are taking over.
They have no real platform other than hating Trump and us. All of their woke idiocy is dying and even they are running away from lots of it. And sooner or later we are going to get voter ID and even more election integrity stuff. Even Democrats want it.
Where we are today is nothing like even 4 years ago.
I don't think we spend enough time really looking at the Democrat Party and the changes that are happening to the election process. The DNC has always been a powerhouse when it came to funding. Now, it is basically broke and had to put up their DC HQ as collateral for a loan.
USAID is basically dead. ActBlue is under investigation and a shell of what it was. And the party is in a civil war because they let communists and islamists into their "big tent" and now they are taking over.
They have no real platform other than hating Trump and us. All of their woke idiocy is dying and even they are running away from lots of it. And sooner or later we are going to get voter ID and even more election integrity stuff. Even Democrats want it.
Where we are today is nothing like even 4 years ago.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2026 11:37 AM (viF8m)
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The media are entirely in the bag for the Democrat opposition, but even they can't hide the good news completely!"
Much travel this summer. People are out and about, airports are packed, vacation areas booming...
Folks are refusing to play distress
Much travel this summer. People are out and about, airports are packed, vacation areas booming...
Folks are refusing to play distress
Posted by: man at August 10, 2026 11:37 AM (cGjQu)
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An ADEQUATE start. Do better, PDJT and Company.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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Congress has to do it. Not Trump.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)
If congress refuses to act, then the first dem prez will rescind everything Trump has done on the first day. We will have to learn to live in misery.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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Congress has to do it. Not Trump.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:32 AM (E4rtv)
If congress refuses to act, then the first dem prez will rescind everything Trump has done on the first day. We will have to learn to live in misery.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 10, 2026 11:37 AM (g8Ew8)
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>> An ADEQUATE start. Do better, PDJT and Company.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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Congress has to do it. Not Trump.
Posted by: whig
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If Congress could only muster enough budget cutting to strip 238K federal jobs, they're not working hard enough.
I'll pretend to be surprised.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot:
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Congress has to do it. Not Trump.
Posted by: whig
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If Congress could only muster enough budget cutting to strip 238K federal jobs, they're not working hard enough.
I'll pretend to be surprised.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2026 11:38 AM (2Cry5)
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"I'm trying to work out a best time to retire."
Looks like January 2028 for me. Two years before I wanted to.
Looks like January 2028 for me. Two years before I wanted to.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 10, 2026 11:38 AM (VbzrQ)
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@46
Inflation kills savings. Your saved money is worth less. I understand your worries.
Inflation kills savings. Your saved money is worth less. I understand your worries.
Posted by: Case at August 10, 2026 11:38 AM (fV9m3)
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Let’s play the “what if roles were reversed” game. Biden or Obama jobs report shows 30k net new private sector jobs. Would you be saying great job Mr President?
Posted by: Be Honest at August 10, 2026 11:22 AM (qDa2L)
Well, since they are Democrats, I would assume they were lying. Like you.
Posted by: Be Honest at August 10, 2026 11:22 AM (qDa2L)
Well, since they are Democrats, I would assume they were lying. Like you.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2026 11:38 AM (1z8ji)
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(pull one out of the hat at random) …. Pol Pot! and the amazing Khmer Rouge government in Cambodia.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 10, 2026 11:15 AM (3ElP1)
Not *so* random. The Democratic Republic of Kampuchea was the one perfect counterexample when people say "communism hasn't been tried".
As zombie pointed out, communism is the utopian end-state. Marx himself would agree that to be a "communist" was like a Christian staying his kingdom is not of this world. So when "communists" take over they don't institute communism - because they can't. Instead they institute a dictatorship of the proletariat. Usually calling it "democracy".
Saloth Sar and his boys just skipped over that step and did the perfect utopia immediately.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 10, 2026 11:15 AM (3ElP1)
Not *so* random. The Democratic Republic of Kampuchea was the one perfect counterexample when people say "communism hasn't been tried".
As zombie pointed out, communism is the utopian end-state. Marx himself would agree that to be a "communist" was like a Christian staying his kingdom is not of this world. So when "communists" take over they don't institute communism - because they can't. Instead they institute a dictatorship of the proletariat. Usually calling it "democracy".
Saloth Sar and his boys just skipped over that step and did the perfect utopia immediately.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 10, 2026 11:40 AM (88C+u)
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"We had cheaper interest rates 2017-19 ... the interest rates currently don't warrant investing."
You're probably right, but Dear Lord I despise debt.
You're probably right, but Dear Lord I despise debt.
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2026 11:40 AM (Jr5Lq)
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Reagan had some serious obstacles in that era, make no mistake. But the situation is far different today, and by necessity, requires a far different approach.
Posted by: Common Tater
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As someone who lived through that era and spent part of it on Capitol Hill during the early Reagan years, the problem was the same. The New Deal and ensuing Cold War warped the GOP party--they resolved to never cut back on the welfare state but to fight Communists abroad and in the US. Reagan was the first GOP president actually talking about rolling back government--Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford didn't nor would have Dewey done it in 1948. The GOP became progressive at home (always had a progressive wing since the founding of it) and used Communism/Socialism as their rallying call.
So when Reagan sought to reverse big government, he had to fight his own party to obtain even minuscule gains and his second term became a series of compromises leading the Bushes and a return to big government--kindler, gentler Thousand Points of Light crapola rather than Reaganism. Most of those calling themselves Reaganites are actually Bush Republicans--concerned with form and process, not actually performance.
Posted by: Common Tater
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As someone who lived through that era and spent part of it on Capitol Hill during the early Reagan years, the problem was the same. The New Deal and ensuing Cold War warped the GOP party--they resolved to never cut back on the welfare state but to fight Communists abroad and in the US. Reagan was the first GOP president actually talking about rolling back government--Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford didn't nor would have Dewey done it in 1948. The GOP became progressive at home (always had a progressive wing since the founding of it) and used Communism/Socialism as their rallying call.
So when Reagan sought to reverse big government, he had to fight his own party to obtain even minuscule gains and his second term became a series of compromises leading the Bushes and a return to big government--kindler, gentler Thousand Points of Light crapola rather than Reaganism. Most of those calling themselves Reaganites are actually Bush Republicans--concerned with form and process, not actually performance.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)
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If Congress could only muster enough budget cutting to strip 238K federal jobs, they're not working hard enough.
I'll pretend to be surprised.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Those are the government jobs that service their donor class via programs, grants, etc. That is why GOPe doesn't want to defund and remove useless government workers--they are the critical link in the administrative state favoring political donors over the people.
I'll pretend to be surprised.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Those are the government jobs that service their donor class via programs, grants, etc. That is why GOPe doesn't want to defund and remove useless government workers--they are the critical link in the administrative state favoring political donors over the people.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:43 AM (E4rtv)
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and his second term became a series of compromises leading the Bushes and a return to big government--kindler, gentler Thousand Points of Light crapola rather than Reaganism. Most of those calling themselves Reaganites are actually Bush Republicans--concerned with form and process, not actually performance.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)
I always thought the dementia was starting to bite early 1986. A lot of bullshit libtard bills passed Congress and the Republican Senate that year, which got autopenned. Resulting in the not-so-Republican 1987-8 Senate.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)
I always thought the dementia was starting to bite early 1986. A lot of bullshit libtard bills passed Congress and the Republican Senate that year, which got autopenned. Resulting in the not-so-Republican 1987-8 Senate.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 10, 2026 11:43 AM (88C+u)
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The vast majority of Regan conservatives probably love what Trump is doing
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Doing, yes. Saying, no.
There's still a chunk who consider him to be "not our people" because he said pussy.
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Doing, yes. Saying, no.
There's still a chunk who consider him to be "not our people" because he said pussy.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2026 11:44 AM (XvL8K)
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They have no real platform other than hating Trump and us. All of their woke idiocy is dying and even they are running away from lots of it. And sooner or later we are going to get voter ID and even more election integrity stuff. Even Democrats want it.
Where we are today is nothing like even 4 years ago.
Posted by: JackStraw
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True, we forget the good now compared with the past and worry about the future. Worry has a place in formulating concrete plans for SHTF but it should not become where you take counsel in your fears as Patton would say to roll up and do nothing and support nothing.
Where we are today is nothing like even 4 years ago.
Posted by: JackStraw
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True, we forget the good now compared with the past and worry about the future. Worry has a place in formulating concrete plans for SHTF but it should not become where you take counsel in your fears as Patton would say to roll up and do nothing and support nothing.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:46 AM (E4rtv)
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Like: you know how the ER is now the primary-care physician for every drugged-out hobo and Quiche-speaking illegal alien? That's the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA). April 1986. Thank a Republican.
Posted by: 88C+u at August 10, 2026 11:46 AM (88C+u)
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The second term curse is genuinely a thing, not sure exactly why - have theories, surprise - but it is.
I expected Trump of all people to survive and blow past it. The media will say he failed no matter what and Iran *may* be helping, depending on Trump's reasons and intentions.
Other than that the term is fine. The biggest obstacle right now is the feckless testicless bastard traitor GOP.
I expected Trump of all people to survive and blow past it. The media will say he failed no matter what and Iran *may* be helping, depending on Trump's reasons and intentions.
Other than that the term is fine. The biggest obstacle right now is the feckless testicless bastard traitor GOP.
Posted by: ... at August 10, 2026 11:47 AM (YXnK3)
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Most of those calling themselves Reaganites are actually Bush Republicans--concerned with form and process, not actually performance.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)
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Yep. I cringe every time I hear "constitutional scholar & lawyer" Hugh Hewitt -- proud advocate of "Birthright Citizenship" -- call himself a "Reagan Republican."
* insert jerkoff motion here *
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)
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Yep. I cringe every time I hear "constitutional scholar & lawyer" Hugh Hewitt -- proud advocate of "Birthright Citizenship" -- call himself a "Reagan Republican."
* insert jerkoff motion here *
Posted by: ShainS at August 10, 2026 11:47 AM (+n6Zq)
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I always thought the dementia was starting to bite early 1986. A lot of bullshit libtard bills passed Congress and the Republican Senate that year, which got autopenned. Resulting in the not-so-Republican 1987-8 Senate.
Posted by: 88C+u
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Democrats won the Senate in 86 elections and so we returned to a all Democrat Congress until 1994. And whatever reform impulses that G. Bush might have had were dead on arrival. Even the fall of the Berlin Wall had Bush obsessed with worrying about the disorder in Eastern Europe and neglecting to tell his peeps like Glaspie in Kuwait not to tell Saddam it was okay to invade Kuwait.
Posted by: 88C+u
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Democrats won the Senate in 86 elections and so we returned to a all Democrat Congress until 1994. And whatever reform impulses that G. Bush might have had were dead on arrival. Even the fall of the Berlin Wall had Bush obsessed with worrying about the disorder in Eastern Europe and neglecting to tell his peeps like Glaspie in Kuwait not to tell Saddam it was okay to invade Kuwait.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:48 AM (E4rtv)
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Concservatism was always treated by Republicans as a marketing strategy, not a governing philosophy.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 10, 2026 11:48 AM (gqfZb)
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Posted by: ShainS at August 10, 2026 11:47 AM (+n6Zq)
"I was a footsoldier in the Reagan Revolution." -traitorous cumstain McCain
"I was a footsoldier in the Reagan Revolution." -traitorous cumstain McCain
Posted by: ... at August 10, 2026 11:48 AM (YXnK3)
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Hewitt is a silver cuck gasbag.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 10, 2026 11:50 AM (h6CE+)
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Look at second terms going back to Nixon. It's almost bizarre.
Posted by: ... at August 10, 2026 11:50 AM (YXnK3)
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Thx Buck. A decrease of 53k in government employees is always a good thing. Less possibilities for oppression and/or stupidity
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 10, 2026 11:50 AM (0Oolu)
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And my perspective is someone who dislikes Trump, but recognizes there is no real alternative.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 10, 2026 11:50 AM (gqfZb)
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There's still a chunk who consider him to be "not our people" because he said pussy.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Never mind that those demented genetic accidents would have been giggling like drunken Japanese schoolgirls if Clinton had said it.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Never mind that those demented genetic accidents would have been giggling like drunken Japanese schoolgirls if Clinton had said it.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 10, 2026 11:51 AM (OPGS/)
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Yep. I cringe every time I hear "constitutional scholar & lawyer" Hugh Hewitt -- proud advocate of "Birthright Citizenship" -- call himself a "Reagan Republican."
* insert jerkoff motion here *
Posted by: ShainS
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Hewitt was a minor functionary--he was a deputy director for about six months at the OMB just before the Bush administration. And exactly the type of Bush GOP type that uses Reagan's name to advance Bush GOP policies. Birthright citizenship is an example of the gentler kinder Cold War approach--if we welcome the world that the world will welcome us back crapola.
Never like the guy, slimeball Conservative Media TM type poseur, and about as much a warrior as a bowl full of jelly.
* insert jerkoff motion here *
Posted by: ShainS
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Hewitt was a minor functionary--he was a deputy director for about six months at the OMB just before the Bush administration. And exactly the type of Bush GOP type that uses Reagan's name to advance Bush GOP policies. Birthright citizenship is an example of the gentler kinder Cold War approach--if we welcome the world that the world will welcome us back crapola.
Never like the guy, slimeball Conservative Media TM type poseur, and about as much a warrior as a bowl full of jelly.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:51 AM (E4rtv)
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This CNBC piece further explains that ”The main reason for the red headline number was a loss of 53,000 government workers.”
Oh, no, they're removing bloated ticks from the body public!
Oh, no, they're removing bloated ticks from the body public!
Posted by: t-bird at August 10, 2026 11:51 AM (kIFVO)
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Always funny when the trolls pretend to speak with decent grammar
Posted by: ... at August 10, 2026 11:51 AM (YXnK3)
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77 Posted by: ShainS at August 10, 2026 11:47 AM (+n6Zq)
"I was a footsoldier in the Reagan Revolution." -traitorous cumstain McCain
Posted by: ... at August 10, 2026 11:48 AM (YXnK3)Pres
But he fragged President Trump. Just like Cornyn, Tillis, Collins, and on and on....
"I was a footsoldier in the Reagan Revolution." -traitorous cumstain McCain
Posted by: ... at August 10, 2026 11:48 AM (YXnK3)Pres
But he fragged President Trump. Just like Cornyn, Tillis, Collins, and on and on....
Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2026 11:51 AM (LHPAg)
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I will. But I'm trying to work out a best time to retire. Outside of who is running the country, the next couple of years I should be preparing to execute on a retirement plan. If the Dems get back in, I have a fear they'll quickly confiscate everything I've saved up for decades in order to pay for housing all the new illegal migrants they will bring in and then I'll wish I kept my job to pay for food, utilities and property taxes.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 10, 2026 11:28 AM
The wife and I are seriously discussing how we can drain our 401k as fast as possible without increasing our overall federal tax bill or increasing our medicare part b premium.
Because at some point in the near future democrats are going to be back in power and they are not going to leave all of that 401k money just sitting there unused.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 10, 2026 11:28 AM
The wife and I are seriously discussing how we can drain our 401k as fast as possible without increasing our overall federal tax bill or increasing our medicare part b premium.
Because at some point in the near future democrats are going to be back in power and they are not going to leave all of that 401k money just sitting there unused.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 10, 2026 11:52 AM (cpFbA)
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The vast majority of Regan conservatives probably love what Trump is doing
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Doing, yes. Saying, no.
There's still a chunk who consider him to be "not our people" because he said pussy.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Pussy pussy pussy pussy. Nope. Not here.
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Doing, yes. Saying, no.
There's still a chunk who consider him to be "not our people" because he said pussy.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Pussy pussy pussy pussy. Nope. Not here.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 10, 2026 11:53 AM (VbzrQ)
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I first heard and saw Hugh Hewitt in my SoCal days where he was a talking head on California PBS… the “reasonable enlightened” conservative…. Sigh
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 10, 2026 11:53 AM (yZ6uc)
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85 Always funny when the trolls pretend to speak with decent grammar
Posted by: ...
"Yeah, we have a couple of regular trolls here. Ace took pity on the poor little critters and we morons chipped in to buy them dictionaries. Have to keep getting them new ones because they keep eating them."
Posted by: ...
"Yeah, we have a couple of regular trolls here. Ace took pity on the poor little critters and we morons chipped in to buy them dictionaries. Have to keep getting them new ones because they keep eating them."
Posted by: NR Pax at August 10, 2026 11:54 AM (OPGS/)
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76 Concservatism was always treated by Republicans as a marketing strategy, not a governing philosophy.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Reagan made it unpopular for GOP types in the primary to oppose him so they simply adopted the label to call themselves Reagan Republicans while actually going back the same old moderate gentler kinder, slower surrender to the Democrats. The ones that are left alive were never the warriors but the minor functionaries like Hugh Hewitt that adopt ed the name as protective coloration. He is the typical cuck Republican in service to corporate blob donors and globalists, not the American people as Reagan was.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Reagan made it unpopular for GOP types in the primary to oppose him so they simply adopted the label to call themselves Reagan Republicans while actually going back the same old moderate gentler kinder, slower surrender to the Democrats. The ones that are left alive were never the warriors but the minor functionaries like Hugh Hewitt that adopt ed the name as protective coloration. He is the typical cuck Republican in service to corporate blob donors and globalists, not the American people as Reagan was.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:54 AM (E4rtv)
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There's still a chunk who consider him to be "not our people" because he said pussy.
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They took it personally
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They took it personally
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 10, 2026 11:54 AM (gqfZb)
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They have no real platform other than hating Trump and us. All of their woke idiocy is dying and even they are running away from lots of it. And sooner or later we are going to get voter ID and even more election integrity stuff. Even Democrats want it.
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I think there is no bigger tell that they know they are losing than how much they are embracing the diametrically opposed "liberal socialism" and radical islam.
Not because they are compatible but because those have the energy (and bodies) their own governance lacks.
Esp. re: islam.
It'd be like the Nazis starting the war as against Russia then desperately seeking to ally with them as the US planes fly unimpeded over Berlin.
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I think there is no bigger tell that they know they are losing than how much they are embracing the diametrically opposed "liberal socialism" and radical islam.
Not because they are compatible but because those have the energy (and bodies) their own governance lacks.
Esp. re: islam.
It'd be like the Nazis starting the war as against Russia then desperately seeking to ally with them as the US planes fly unimpeded over Berlin.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 10, 2026 11:55 AM (3cUTc)
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"I was a footsoldier in the Reagan Revolution."
Yeah, we know. Imagine a Redcoat trying to remain in Colonial America using a similar line.
Yeah, we know. Imagine a Redcoat trying to remain in Colonial America using a similar line.
Posted by: t-bird at August 10, 2026 11:55 AM (kIFVO)
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The current state of the Democrat Party:
All men are rapists.
Except the muslims raping me right now.
And the illegal immigrants who raped me last week.
But, other than them, all men are rapists.
All men are rapists.
Except the muslims raping me right now.
And the illegal immigrants who raped me last week.
But, other than them, all men are rapists.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 10, 2026 11:56 AM (3cUTc)
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87 I will. But I'm trying to work out a best time to retire. Outside of who is running the country, the next couple of years I should be preparing to execute on a retirement plan. If the Dems get back in, I have a fear they'll quickly confiscate everything I've saved up for decades in order to pay for housing all the new illegal migrants they will bring in and then I'll wish I kept my job to pay for food, utilities and property taxes.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 10, 2026 11:28 AM
The wife and I are seriously discussing how we can drain our 401k as fast as possible without increasing our overall federal tax bill or increasing our medicare part b premium.
Because at some point in the near future democrats are going to be back in power and they are not going to leave all of that 401k money just sitting there unused.
Posted by: Mister Scott
What could go Possibly wrong? The World Safe For Socialism; where Everything is Owned by Everyone and enjoyed by NONE.
SOLUTION: JD/mELON have to throw-down against cTHIEL and the accelerationalist, who, like Harry Lime at the top of the ferris wheel wouldn't be bothered one jot if one of those dots down there (you) stop moving...
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 10, 2026 11:28 AM
The wife and I are seriously discussing how we can drain our 401k as fast as possible without increasing our overall federal tax bill or increasing our medicare part b premium.
Because at some point in the near future democrats are going to be back in power and they are not going to leave all of that 401k money just sitting there unused.
Posted by: Mister Scott
What could go Possibly wrong? The World Safe For Socialism; where Everything is Owned by Everyone and enjoyed by NONE.
SOLUTION: JD/mELON have to throw-down against cTHIEL and the accelerationalist, who, like Harry Lime at the top of the ferris wheel wouldn't be bothered one jot if one of those dots down there (you) stop moving...
Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at August 10, 2026 11:56 AM (X3zjp)
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Heather Cox Richardson is a historian whose main function is to describe how ickey Republicans actually are. Yet she describes herself as a "Lincoln" Republican. I'm sure Abe would have thought the world of her
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 10, 2026 11:58 AM (0Oolu)
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There's still a chunk who consider him to be "not our people" because he said pussy.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
And they are equally bankrupt--GWB was asked what he and his father talked about on the golf course--the answer was pussy. GHWB own wife admitting in print that the late NYT hit on pappy Bush was accurate--he was banging a government secretary driving Babs to despair.
Most of these pecksniffs do it for political points--not actual morality. They are as fake and gay as Jim Bakker and Tammie Faye. And they do it to undermine any chance for real reform--that would cost their corporate puppet masters bucks if it happened. None of those mega corps are interested in the least in free enterprise--they instead want their side deals and grifting left alone and they pay protection money to pols to do it for them.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
And they are equally bankrupt--GWB was asked what he and his father talked about on the golf course--the answer was pussy. GHWB own wife admitting in print that the late NYT hit on pappy Bush was accurate--he was banging a government secretary driving Babs to despair.
Most of these pecksniffs do it for political points--not actual morality. They are as fake and gay as Jim Bakker and Tammie Faye. And they do it to undermine any chance for real reform--that would cost their corporate puppet masters bucks if it happened. None of those mega corps are interested in the least in free enterprise--they instead want their side deals and grifting left alone and they pay protection money to pols to do it for them.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:58 AM (E4rtv)
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I don't even count government job as jobs.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 10, 2026 11:59 AM (9CZQg)
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Seasonal losses? Regular summer school breaks and being amplified by the government's seasonal adjustment math rather than permanent mass layoffs.
Reportedly, while core state government administrative roles tend to stay stable, education components within local and state definitions heavily distort the monthly totals. The wider cooling in the labor market also reflects tighter municipal budgets as pandemic-era federal relief funds fully phase out.
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Federal non-military employment: ~2.66 million workers (down from a recent peak of roughly 2.31 million to 3 million depending on "inclusion metrics" prior to 2025).
A cumulative reduction of over 350,000 jobs (nearly 12%) since early 2025 through buyouts, attrition, and policy changes. (Most were clearly able to retire and were hanging around to see the offers that always appear for the higher grade levels when there's a change of administration. I've heard the next bigger group retiring under FERS will be around January.)
Remember, O & Joe radically changed Federal civil service and Biden stacked the agencies with bodies.
If construction, agriculture, manufacturing numbers are decent, Yay.
Reportedly, while core state government administrative roles tend to stay stable, education components within local and state definitions heavily distort the monthly totals. The wider cooling in the labor market also reflects tighter municipal budgets as pandemic-era federal relief funds fully phase out.
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Federal non-military employment: ~2.66 million workers (down from a recent peak of roughly 2.31 million to 3 million depending on "inclusion metrics" prior to 2025).
A cumulative reduction of over 350,000 jobs (nearly 12%) since early 2025 through buyouts, attrition, and policy changes. (Most were clearly able to retire and were hanging around to see the offers that always appear for the higher grade levels when there's a change of administration. I've heard the next bigger group retiring under FERS will be around January.)
Remember, O & Joe radically changed Federal civil service and Biden stacked the agencies with bodies.
If construction, agriculture, manufacturing numbers are decent, Yay.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 10, 2026 11:59 AM (NFX2v)
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97 Heather Cox Richardson is a historian whose main function is to describe how ickey Republicans actually are. Yet she describes herself as a "Lincoln" Republican. I'm sure Abe would have thought the world of her
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Lincoln had his own problem with a cabal of assholes in his own cabinet that thought they should have been president instead of him. And this Heather Cox creature is simply another one that strips the historical context and claims Lincoln's legacy as her own. GOPe version of False Valor.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
Lincoln had his own problem with a cabal of assholes in his own cabinet that thought they should have been president instead of him. And this Heather Cox creature is simply another one that strips the historical context and claims Lincoln's legacy as her own. GOPe version of False Valor.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 12:00 PM (E4rtv)
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And they are equally bankrupt--GWB was asked what he and his father talked about on the golf course--the answer was pussy.
I cannot even imagine having that sort of conversation with my father. Admittedly, since he cheated on every woman he married - except, possibly, the last one since he was so old - he was more familiar with that body part than I but, still.
I cannot even imagine having that sort of conversation with my father. Admittedly, since he cheated on every woman he married - except, possibly, the last one since he was so old - he was more familiar with that body part than I but, still.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 10, 2026 12:01 PM (ExV1e)
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The wife and I are seriously discussing how we can drain our 401k as fast as possible without increasing our overall federal tax bill or increasing our medicare part b premium.
Posted by: Mister Scott
I did after 59 & 1/2. In service withdrawal without the huge penalty. Did it in small enough increments that it didn't hit the tax side too bad.
That's what fixed up the old house to sell yo be able yo move up here. Yeah, it hurt, but doesn't leave the dems much to get their hands on.
Posted by: Mister Scott
I did after 59 & 1/2. In service withdrawal without the huge penalty. Did it in small enough increments that it didn't hit the tax side too bad.
That's what fixed up the old house to sell yo be able yo move up here. Yeah, it hurt, but doesn't leave the dems much to get their hands on.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 10, 2026 12:01 PM (VbzrQ)
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I don't even count government job as jobs.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 10, 2026 11:59 AM (9CZQg)
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A government job is an anti-job because it takes yet five more private sector employees to pay taxes to pay that government salary and bennies.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 10, 2026 11:59 AM (9CZQg)
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A government job is an anti-job because it takes yet five more private sector employees to pay taxes to pay that government salary and bennies.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2026 12:02 PM (JvZF+)
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>>>USAID is basically dead. ActBlue is under investigation and a shell of what it was. And the party is in a civil war because they let communists and islamists into their "big tent" and now they are taking over.
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This is something 'average Joe' needs to re-learn. It was common knowledge at one time but thanks to the education system it's been eliminated from memory.
These pests, vermin, if allowed to exist will insinuate and consume every vulnerable brain. At one time teachers and school systems drummed this into heads full of mush (Better Dead than Red) but this vermin has taken over education leadership.
It's time to re-educate America's soft middle.
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This is something 'average Joe' needs to re-learn. It was common knowledge at one time but thanks to the education system it's been eliminated from memory.
These pests, vermin, if allowed to exist will insinuate and consume every vulnerable brain. At one time teachers and school systems drummed this into heads full of mush (Better Dead than Red) but this vermin has taken over education leadership.
It's time to re-educate America's soft middle.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2026 12:02 PM (Pee1E)
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Trying to catch up but its back to work time
Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2026 12:02 PM (L8DX7)
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Trump speaks plainly. He doesn't devolve into "politispeak" like some politicians. It's like they can't speak English. They do it on purpose because they'd rather not have the unwashed masses understand their sole reason for existing is to grift.
They try to tell us their jobs, the situation, the work is just so far beyond our ability to comprehend.
Trump cuts through that. The politicians and their donor class hate it. Hate him for doing it.
They try to tell us their jobs, the situation, the work is just so far beyond our ability to comprehend.
Trump cuts through that. The politicians and their donor class hate it. Hate him for doing it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2026 12:03 PM (2Cry5)
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You notice that Buck claims "solid gains" in construction.. 5000 is far from a solid gain. There were 8,348,000 construction workers in June. Adding 5000 is neither a solid nor significant gain
Posted by: Paul
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You fail to account for net migration. Any gain at all in construction likely means some multiple of the number is jobs going to US citizens, and a corresponding loss among those self deporting.
Posted by: Paul
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You fail to account for net migration. Any gain at all in construction likely means some multiple of the number is jobs going to US citizens, and a corresponding loss among those self deporting.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2026 12:03 PM (XvL8K)
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67 As someone who lived through that era and spent part of it on Capitol Hill during the early Reagan years, the problem was the same.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)
There’s a gal in the neighborhood who was a page (or whatever they call them) in the first Reagan admin. She’s got a couple of pics of her and Reagan in the house as well as a framed autographed poster of him over her fireplace. Reagan wasn’t perfect, but my first ever vote was for him in the 1976 TX GOP primary as a college freshman.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 11:41 AM (E4rtv)
There’s a gal in the neighborhood who was a page (or whatever they call them) in the first Reagan admin. She’s got a couple of pics of her and Reagan in the house as well as a framed autographed poster of him over her fireplace. Reagan wasn’t perfect, but my first ever vote was for him in the 1976 TX GOP primary as a college freshman.
Posted by: TxAnn at August 10, 2026 12:05 PM (SjAWL)
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You fail to account for net migration. Any gain at all in construction likely means some multiple of the number is jobs going to US citizens, and a corresponding loss among those self deporting.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2026 12:03 PM (XvL8K)
Further, putting aside data centers, one would assume that builders can read the numbers as well and might be hesitant to add headcount when there might not be any building to be done.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 10, 2026 12:03 PM (XvL8K)
Further, putting aside data centers, one would assume that builders can read the numbers as well and might be hesitant to add headcount when there might not be any building to be done.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 10, 2026 12:05 PM (ExV1e)
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My industry is kind of hurting right now. Not if you look at the Wall St. numbers - but vast swathes of the workforce are getting farmed out to India, Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
So many colleagues are now in the unemployment line and are unusually unable to find gainful employment.
So many colleagues are now in the unemployment line and are unusually unable to find gainful employment.
Posted by: Defenestratus at August 10, 2026 12:06 PM (WYStd)
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You fail to account for net migration. Any gain at all in construction likely means some multiple of the number is jobs going to US citizens, and a corresponding loss among those self deporting.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Reversal of the Biden years and reported separately. Biden's jobs went to illegals and H1Bs, Trump has been causing job losses to those categories but an increase in US citizens being hired.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Reversal of the Biden years and reported separately. Biden's jobs went to illegals and H1Bs, Trump has been causing job losses to those categories but an increase in US citizens being hired.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 12:07 PM (E4rtv)
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1.7 mn immigrant jobs vanish in latest US data—Indians face new employment risk
Latest US jobs report shows 1.7 mn immigrant workers—many Indians—fall off payrolls as native hiring rises, underscoring visa curbs and fresh job fears in America
1.3 Million US Born workers got a job in the same 18 months since Jan 25.
Latest US jobs report shows 1.7 mn immigrant workers—many Indians—fall off payrolls as native hiring rises, underscoring visa curbs and fresh job fears in America
1.3 Million US Born workers got a job in the same 18 months since Jan 25.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 10, 2026 12:07 PM (/+uur)
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Inflation kills savings. Your saved money is worth less.
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Not just savings. Investments. They are denominated in dollars, after all. Roughly cut in half every 20 years, and that's if they somehow maintain the laughable 2 per cent "target rate". This is criminal.
To add insult to injury, one may well owe tax on the "capital gains" which is merely a nominal increase in the numbers.
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Not just savings. Investments. They are denominated in dollars, after all. Roughly cut in half every 20 years, and that's if they somehow maintain the laughable 2 per cent "target rate". This is criminal.
To add insult to injury, one may well owe tax on the "capital gains" which is merely a nominal increase in the numbers.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 10, 2026 12:09 PM (qPpEt)
Posted by: Jordan Sullivan at August 10, 2026 12:10 PM (+IsEU)
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99 I don't even count government job as jobs.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 10, 2026 11:59 AM (9CZQg
I don't even count.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at August 10, 2026 11:59 AM (9CZQg
I don't even count.
Posted by: Innumerate MFer at August 10, 2026 12:11 PM (AHnba)
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Iran releases first video of new Ayatollah since war began
He was take off to a farm so he has room to run and romp and play.
He was take off to a farm so he has room to run and romp and play.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 10, 2026 12:11 PM (/+uur)
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There’s a gal in the neighborhood who was a page (or whatever they call them) in the first Reagan admin. She’s got a couple of pics of her and Reagan in the house as well as a framed autographed poster of him over her fireplace. Reagan wasn’t perfect, but my first ever vote was for him in the 1976 TX GOP primary as a college freshman.
Posted by: TxAnn
Reagan, like Trump in his first term, was beset by GOPe traitors harkening back to the Nixon-Ford administration. He had to fill a lot of jobs and could only put some of his people in charge. He also wanted Paul Laxalt as VP but was forced to accept Bush to avoid a fight at the convention on the floor--people forget that GOPe tried to force Gerald Ford in as VP but co-president in fact on Reagan. He accepted Bush as VP in order to quell that rebellion.
The professional corporate wing of the GOP hates populism with a passion because it interferes with making a buck for them, their friends, and their donors by any means possible.
That is the weakness of democracy and as they become wealthy and powerful, you get the slimeballs that seek to divert money to themselves and cronies and seize power to do so.
Posted by: TxAnn
Reagan, like Trump in his first term, was beset by GOPe traitors harkening back to the Nixon-Ford administration. He had to fill a lot of jobs and could only put some of his people in charge. He also wanted Paul Laxalt as VP but was forced to accept Bush to avoid a fight at the convention on the floor--people forget that GOPe tried to force Gerald Ford in as VP but co-president in fact on Reagan. He accepted Bush as VP in order to quell that rebellion.
The professional corporate wing of the GOP hates populism with a passion because it interferes with making a buck for them, their friends, and their donors by any means possible.
That is the weakness of democracy and as they become wealthy and powerful, you get the slimeballs that seek to divert money to themselves and cronies and seize power to do so.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 12:12 PM (E4rtv)
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Iran releases first video of new Ayatollah since war began
He was take off to a farm so he has room to run and romp and play.
Posted by: r hennigantx
He had his fill of goats.
He was take off to a farm so he has room to run and romp and play.
Posted by: r hennigantx
He had his fill of goats.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 10, 2026 12:13 PM (h6CE+)
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A government job is an anti-job because it takes yet five more private sector employees to pay taxes to pay that government salary and bennies.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2026 12:02 PM (JvZF+)
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Much more than that as each government job actually decreases private sector jobs through regulation. in kalifornia in the early 2000s, if every 3 people hired 1 was government and 1 was for meeting new regulations from government hire. So only 1 person was actually making the private sector work out of 3 hires.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2026 12:02 PM (JvZF+)
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Much more than that as each government job actually decreases private sector jobs through regulation. in kalifornia in the early 2000s, if every 3 people hired 1 was government and 1 was for meeting new regulations from government hire. So only 1 person was actually making the private sector work out of 3 hires.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at August 10, 2026 12:13 PM (xvV+O)
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107 Trump speaks plainly. He doesn't devolve into "politispeak" like some politicians. It's like they can't speak English. They do it on purpose because they'd rather not have the unwashed masses understand their sole reason for existing is to grift.
They try to tell us their jobs, the situation, the work is just so far beyond our ability to comprehend.
Trump cuts through that. The politicians and their donor class hate it. Hate him for doing it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Pretty much.
They try to tell us their jobs, the situation, the work is just so far beyond our ability to comprehend.
Trump cuts through that. The politicians and their donor class hate it. Hate him for doing it.
Posted by: Martini Farmer
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Pretty much.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 12:14 PM (E4rtv)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2026 12:14 PM (JvZF+)
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 10, 2026 12:16 PM (/+uur)
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How many of Biden's "jobs" work makework USAID funded "jobs"
Posted by: ... at August 10, 2026 12:16 PM (YXnK3)
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"All of those “Reagan conservatives” in legacy media who incessantly state that “Trump is not a true conservative” spent decades promoting “smaller government.” Suckers like me contributed money and bought subscriptions, believing they meant it. They didn’t. Trump is now doing what Conservatism, Inc. pretended to advocate for, and now all those “Reagan conservatives” are allying with Democrats and the left to protect the government behemoth from Trump."
Truer words were never spoken, Buck. I spent 30 years supporting the conservative-industrial complex with my dollars and attention. Pretty much to an institution they have failed - with the exception of publications like Tyrell's American Spectator.
Truer words were never spoken, Buck. I spent 30 years supporting the conservative-industrial complex with my dollars and attention. Pretty much to an institution they have failed - with the exception of publications like Tyrell's American Spectator.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 10, 2026 12:16 PM (0CU3H)
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Whig - yes, the problem is the same. It's just a whole lot worse.
What I mean, Reagan was the model of civility and decorum.
What has being nice gotten anybody in this arrangement?
It requires a different approach now. It required a different approach then, too, but. Mr. Trump understands this implicitly.
He really is a nice guy, believe it or not. He's a sweetheart. I bet he even knows all about what fork to use and the social graces. None of the clowns he is up against are worth treating with civility, now are they?
What I mean, Reagan was the model of civility and decorum.
What has being nice gotten anybody in this arrangement?
It requires a different approach now. It required a different approach then, too, but. Mr. Trump understands this implicitly.
He really is a nice guy, believe it or not. He's a sweetheart. I bet he even knows all about what fork to use and the social graces. None of the clowns he is up against are worth treating with civility, now are they?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 10, 2026 12:16 PM (qPpEt)
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Iran is treating President Trump like he's President Gunsel.
Stop being a gunsel, and nuke them already.
Stop being a gunsel, and nuke them already.
Posted by: Use of the word "Gunsel" at August 10, 2026 12:16 PM (F1rMs)
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The troll is so tiresome
Posted by: It's me donna at August 10, 2026 12:19 PM (FtULh)
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nood
Posted by: gp at August 10, 2026 12:19 PM (Jr5Lq)
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I cannot even imagine having that sort of conversation with my father. Admittedly, since he cheated on every woman he married - except, possibly, the last one since he was so old - he was more familiar with that body part than I but, still.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
The point was that Trump was engaged in a private conversation as was Bush and his father on the golf course--and this was reported in the GWB years as prezzie. Yet the pecksniffs ignore that and excoriate Trump. And Trump's comment was more that fame and wealth lead at least some women into doing anything to be adjacent to it. In contrast, the Bush's comments dealt with sexual attraction to individuals. It is a fine distinction but one is describing how the world works--the other is lust.
I saw it on Capitol Hill and in politics, in academia, etc.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
The point was that Trump was engaged in a private conversation as was Bush and his father on the golf course--and this was reported in the GWB years as prezzie. Yet the pecksniffs ignore that and excoriate Trump. And Trump's comment was more that fame and wealth lead at least some women into doing anything to be adjacent to it. In contrast, the Bush's comments dealt with sexual attraction to individuals. It is a fine distinction but one is describing how the world works--the other is lust.
I saw it on Capitol Hill and in politics, in academia, etc.
Posted by: whig at August 10, 2026 12:19 PM (E4rtv)
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124 How many of Biden's "jobs" work makework USAID funded "jobs"
Posted by: ... at August 10, 2026 12:16 PM (YXnK3)
I saw a number that had NGOs at having spent about $12.5 Trillion since the Obama years.
About a Third of our deficit.
Posted by: ... at August 10, 2026 12:16 PM (YXnK3)
I saw a number that had NGOs at having spent about $12.5 Trillion since the Obama years.
About a Third of our deficit.
Posted by: r hennigantx at August 10, 2026 12:20 PM (/+uur)
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stop quoting trolls
Posted by: alpine_beer at August 10, 2026 12:20 PM (van9r)
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126 Whig - yes, the problem is the same. It's just a whole lot worse.
What I mean, Reagan was the model of civility and decorum.
What has being nice gotten anybody in this arrangement?
It requires a different approach now. It required a different approach then, too, but. Mr. Trump understands this implicitly.
He really is a nice guy, believe it or not. He's a sweetheart. I bet he even knows all about what fork to use and the social graces. None of the clowns he is up against are worth treating with civility, now are they?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 10, 2026 12:16 PM (qPpEt)
While I have big, big problems with Reagan - most of the issues that we're dealing with now are because of his failures in addressing them at the time - immigration, Iran, affirmative action (thanks, S.D. O'Connor!), etc., he was the absolute best that we could have had at the time. It was truly a different DC back then, and Ronaldus Magnus was sui generis for his time. Trump could not really be the POTUS he is today without him (and us) noticing where Reagan fell short. He's indeed standing on the shoulders of a giant.
What I mean, Reagan was the model of civility and decorum.
What has being nice gotten anybody in this arrangement?
It requires a different approach now. It required a different approach then, too, but. Mr. Trump understands this implicitly.
He really is a nice guy, believe it or not. He's a sweetheart. I bet he even knows all about what fork to use and the social graces. None of the clowns he is up against are worth treating with civility, now are they?
Posted by: Common Tater at August 10, 2026 12:16 PM (qPpEt)
While I have big, big problems with Reagan - most of the issues that we're dealing with now are because of his failures in addressing them at the time - immigration, Iran, affirmative action (thanks, S.D. O'Connor!), etc., he was the absolute best that we could have had at the time. It was truly a different DC back then, and Ronaldus Magnus was sui generis for his time. Trump could not really be the POTUS he is today without him (and us) noticing where Reagan fell short. He's indeed standing on the shoulders of a giant.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 10, 2026 12:21 PM (0CU3H)
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Good in the medium run, yes. But the short run it's still a decrease in disposable income in the market, until the economy adjusts.
Posted by: Axeman at August 10, 2026 12:23 PM (Fi81e)
135
That’s Quechuan speaking illegal!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2026 12:24 PM (DsDRo)
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122 He accepted Bush as VP in order to quell that rebellion.
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The Wimp Factor
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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He wouldn't have won if he didn't take Bush.
They would have seen to it.
They told him.
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The Wimp Factor
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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He wouldn't have won if he didn't take Bush.
They would have seen to it.
They told him.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 10, 2026 12:24 PM (Pee1E)
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The "Peace Dividend" was one of the significant causes of the 92 recession. When forts closed, some towns lost their "town factory".
Posted by: Axeman at August 10, 2026 12:25 PM (Fi81e)
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If you are desparate enough to start draining your 401 k, at least do a Roth IRA conversion.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 10, 2026 12:43 PM (bX16E)
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124 How many of Biden's "jobs" work makework USAID funded "jobs"
Posted by: ...
Or created new, crazy programs in the Veterans Administration in lieu of fixing the frigging agency so it actually serves our veterans as it has been mandated to do.
Ridiculous.
Posted by: ...
Or created new, crazy programs in the Veterans Administration in lieu of fixing the frigging agency so it actually serves our veterans as it has been mandated to do.
Ridiculous.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 10, 2026 12:44 PM (NFX2v)
140
First comment in prob a decade...
The jobs numbers have been awful. No amount of "shifting thru the data" is going to solve that. I have never known so many people out of work and they've been out of work for a long time.
Trump's management of the economy has been a masterclass in mismanagement.
Govt ownership of companies? Raising taxes (sorry, tariffs) on businesses and consumers?
Are we really surprised job growth is stagnant (at best).
The jobs numbers have been awful. No amount of "shifting thru the data" is going to solve that. I have never known so many people out of work and they've been out of work for a long time.
Trump's management of the economy has been a masterclass in mismanagement.
Govt ownership of companies? Raising taxes (sorry, tariffs) on businesses and consumers?
Are we really surprised job growth is stagnant (at best).
Posted by: Pedro at August 10, 2026 01:54 PM (WWUTy)
141
Despite non-citizens leaving the job market, unemployment continues to fall
Posted by: Fox Butterfield at August 10, 2026 02:11 PM (4NO2D)
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Your piece should be posted everywhere possible. Especially places like Bloomberg and the WSJ, who know what's going on but pretend the sky is falling. If only.
Nice work, Buck.
Nice work, Buck.
Posted by: boatbuilder at August 10, 2026 02:56 PM (uCKpg)
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All this is happening with a lower population due to deportations.
It isn't possible that the government was hiring illegal immigrants, is it?
It isn't possible that the government was hiring illegal immigrants, is it?
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