The woman Trump fired serves at the discretion and pleasure of the president. Like all fed Bureau heads, she can be fired for any and no reason by the president.
I’m also finding it amusing that you are defending a rank partisan who gave the public falsified info month after month. It was a disservice to America. She lied for a living, to serve a corrupt Biden and his horrible economy, so spare me your fake outrage. Her firing is completely legal, constitutional, and long overdue.
“Don’t forget that today’s massive downward benchmark revision (2nd largest on record) is on top of the existing downward revision to the initial monthly jobs report figures – btwn all the revisions, job growth for the 12-month period was wildly overestimated almost 1.2 million:”
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But suddenly when Trump takes office, her numbers swing the other way. Still fake, still wrong, and still for partisan reasons.
Funny too, because I’ve been telling you about her crap work product for months now, how her estimates always were revised down when the numbers came in. It was fraud, and it’s well documented.
Now I’m old enough to remember when not giving illegals jobs, and cutting govt workers was considered a good thing by conservative Rs. You know, in the old days, like last year.
But now TDS has changed that too.
Some say the new numbers are bad, but upon closer inspection, it’s what we’ve been asking for.
Jobs for citizens is up, jobs for illegal invaders are down.
Also down, the bloated bureaucracy that is our federal govt.
These used to be considered a good thing, but now Orange Man Bad, and yall lose your damn minds.
“What’s missed in the jobs report is that the jobs lost are foreign-born and government workers, while native-born workers continue to make exceptional gains & real wage growth under Trump.”
“MASS EXODUS: 154,000 Deep Staters have taken Trump’s buyouts to leave the federal government so far.
Trump is coming at the Swamp from every direction. And it’s working. This is the biggest civil service downsizing in history. Here’s what it means 🧵”
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“2/ The “Deferred Resignation Program” gave bureaucrats 8 months of paid leave if they resigned.
Critics called it wasteful. But it’s saving taxpayers $20+ billion per year. And it’s gotten the Deep Staters to fire themselves.
Trump’s plan wasn’t just efficient—it was brutal.”
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“3/ OPM Director Scott Kupor put it bluntly:
“The Deferred Resignation Program was a practical, humane, and voluntary option to accelerate workforce transitions in a system that desperately needed movement.”
Translation: Trump finally broke the permanent bureaucracy.”
“Recall, that starting back in in 2023 we warned that virtually all the job creation since 2018 had gone to foreign-born workers, which as Wall Street subsequently reported, was mostly illegal aliens.”
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“Which brings us to today when the one aspect of today’s jobs report which got zero mentions, was perhaps also the most important one: namely the ongoing purge of all illegal workers from the payrolls.
As shown in the chart below, in July, the number of foreign born workers tumbled by 467K. It wasn’t just July though: as shown below, foreign-born workers (which, again, are mostly illegal aliens) have declined four months in a row…”
“Liesman “no evidence jobs numbers are politicized”
Well, there was the whole 1 million downward job revision in August 2024, three weeks before the Fed cut rates 50bps two months before the 2024 election to get Kamala elected.
“Many of our released hostages confirmed it wasn’t just Hamas. Our hostages were held in private homes, UN shelters , schools and hospitals. Palestinian doctors, journalists, mothers, fathers and children all participated in keeping them captives. They were spit on, humiliated, dehumanized and tortured -not just by Hamas but by Palestinian civilians. Palestinian society is broken. It’s time you recognize this John.”
“Today’s jobs report is a consequence of the illegal alien labor purge: foreign-born workers down 4 months in a row, down 1.5 million since April. Native-born workers up 383K in July”
“Despite disappointing headline, this jobs report was best Jul ever for employment among native-born Americans, up 2 million Y/Y and annual growth 2.2 million faster than among foreign-born workers; native-born American employment is now 1.8 million above pre-pandemic level:”
“Wrong. She was fired after consistently getting it WRONG. 7ou don’t get to be this bad at your job and keep it.
She was missing the mark for more than a year by HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS. Unacceptable.Policy makers look to these reports to inform decisions (like rate cuts by the fed).
We need accuracy, and President Trump will restore competency and accuracy to this critical agency.”
“President Trump has announced he will continue to donate his $400,000 annual presidential salary. Additionally, he has personally funded new flagpoles for the White House and covered the costs of the multimillion-dollar ballroom renovation.”
“The downward revisions to nonfarm payrolls were matched by upward revisions to hourly and weekly earnings; inflation-adjusted weekly paychecks in Jul were 1.4% higher than in Jan of this year, partially reversing the losses from the prior 4 years:”
“The BLS bureaucrat was consistently making huge corrections months later to the numbers she produced.
What was Trump’s proper response to her poor performance that had a measurable effect on the economy and may have influenced the feds failure to drop interest rates. In light of her undisputed failure to perform competently – unless your argument is that making massive corrections much later is just fine – why would Trump be obligated to continue to tolerate it?
Is there a special rule that says Trump must tolerate and incompetent bureaucrat simply because her incompetence hurt his administration? What’s the rule here? If you don’t think Trump should fire her, what action should he take in light of her continued failures?
“Does anyone else find it incredibly sketchy that two prior month’s jobs numbers were revised downward by 90%? Has anything like that ever happened before? How do you miss 2 months in a row by 90%?
Why do I feel like there may be some leftist rats inside the BLS?”
“BREAKING: The US Senate is about to convene to move forward with confirming JEANINE PIRRO as Trump’s U.S. Attorney for DC, and a flurry of other nominees.
Thank God for the decent and knowing agent who saw this for what it was, an attempt to cover their crimes, and they squirreled the evidence away instead.
“OBSTRUCTION: Comey, McCabe and Wray literally covered up the truth about the corrupt Trump-Russia investigation: “The cover-up was so bad,” says Senate Judiciary Chair Grassley, “that some of these documents, emails and thumbdrives were in burn bags” hidden in an FBI safe room”
“Went into Gaza today & observed humanitarian food program by US launched GHF. Hamas hates GHF b/c it gets food to ppl w/o it being looted by Hamas. Over 100 MILLION meals served in 2 months.”
Hmmm. So what we’re saying is Trump can’t even secure a trade deal with our closest most innocuous neighbor? That doesn’t sound like ‘winning’ to me….but I’m willing to be proved wrong.
Its obvious Trump fired the messenger. If she reported more positive statistics, she would not have been fired. And you do have to worry, if everything is at the pleasure of the president…..
Gov’t stats are crap shoot at best especially preliminary statistics. Revision happens constantly. This is normal not incompetence.
Similar to the not so positive inflation numbers, pro Trump supporters are mining the data looking for something positive. Apparently if you take out immigrants and government workers, the numbers get better. But I thought her numbers were trash?? Can’t have it both ways.
Since ICE is only deported illegals who are either criminals or leeching off the system, or so we are told, deportations shouldn’t affect the labour statistics. Or are they deporting legal immigrants who have jobs? Can’t have it both ways. Illegal aliens and immigrants are not the same.
Government layoffs do affect statistics but in a country the size of the US, how much effect does 154 000 have on the labour statistics. There are 163 million people employed in the US. Gov’t layoffs are then less than a tenth of a percent of employment.
In most cases, these are probably older bureaucrats who have been waiting for incentive to retire. Hardly the deep state.
Everybody loves to hate on gov’t red tape and inefficiency but in many cases government bureaucracy is quite lean in comparison to the private sector (esp Finance, Insurance and Real Estate). The gov’t sector throughout the western world but esp the Anglo-American world has been extremely lean since the 80s. And without the state regulation of the “commons” will disappear — environment, consumer protection, transportation, infrastructure, etc. Nothing left to protect citizens from corporations who are richer and more powerful than ever. Leaving Musk, Bezos, Gates, etc in charge is problematic for the bottom 90s%.
The Trump assassination attempts have become conspiratorial fodder on the left. Sealing evidence will only increase the perception that both attempts were faked and were created to generate sympathy and shore up support for Trump (for the record, I don’t buy it)
Trump doesn’t need a salary — he’s making millions in crypto….
Paving over a rose garden to put up flag poles should be an unforgivable sin. I don’t care about the where and the who — never pave over a rose garden
An ornamental ballroom with a gold inlay ….. a modern Versailles. Nothing like dancing in luxury while cutting health care etc to sharpen the guillotines.
“And unlike Congressional interns, they’re not being molested by their bosses.”
That’s an odd comment given the continued buzz over the Epstein files. Even Grok AI (the same AI used in DofD and DOGE) has said leaving children with Trump is ill-advised. Given Trump being held liable for sexual assault, his own admission of underage voyeurism and testimony from various girls, perhaps the less said about Trump and interns the better for Trump supporters.
His comments in Scotland where he said he didn’t have the ‘privilege” of going to Epstein’s island and he broke his decade long friendship with Epstein when Epstein “stole” one of his employees (a 16 year old girl) have increased speculation and the simple creepiness factor. Now Bloomberg reports that the FBI under directions from the DOJ has redacted Trump’s name from the Epstein files.
“After spending nearly 10 years screaming that the Hillary Clinton-funded Steele dossier somehow proved Trump colluded with Russia, corrupt corporate media are now trying to claim there was never an operation to frame Trump as a Russian agent.
They can’t refute any of the new evidence, so their response is to claim the entire last decade never happened. Shocking levels of dishonesty.”
lol. I would never reference our President in the same sentence I use the words ‘petty dictator’ unless I meant it. I voted for Trump for MORE peace, not less. ‘Take it or leave it’ is not a negotiation. And yes, we all have to deal with the consequences.
Reveling in humiliating another country? Disgusting.
For that matter, humiliating anyone, as well as reveling in it, is disgusting. It’s a form of bullying, and not a good look on the one doing it. As in the case with the U.S. vs. Canada, it is usually a big, strong kid bulling a smaller, weaker kid. That’s not strength, it’s merely bullying, even if it gets you what you want.
Reason is not TDS, but deep down, you know that AJ. Follow the facts not the emotion.
I saw two headlines on Breitbart yesterday that proclaimed that jobs for ‘native born’ Americans was up, while jobs for the ‘foreign born’ in America was down. Now those headlines quickly disappeared, but I have to wonder what they are trying to say. Are we now discriminating between citizens that are born here and those who have been naturalized?? I am concerned where this movement is headed. I’m concerned about where you are headed, AJ. And I say that as a friend.
This is the kind of ‘news’ I like to see; it’s long and in depth. Lt Col Daniel Davis is referring to the nuclear standoff that appears to be taking place right now between US and Russia.
I haven’t really followed the trade negotiations. The August 1 deadline was Trump’s deadline not Canada’s. Thus if there was any pressure it was self-inflicted by Trump. Over 90% of Canada-US trade is covered by the current trade agreement which doesn’t expire until next year so there’s very little pressure on Canada to settle. In the meantime, we’ve increased trade with both the EU and China. Carney is in for the long haul. For a politician, he seems unimpressed with popularity rankings. As a neo-liberal banker, he doesn’t have my support but his critics are more interested in mockery than legitimate issues.
The Trump admin seems intent on destroying the North American auto sector. They’re losing money and car prices are costing thousands of dollars more. By taxing raw materials and auto parts, Trump has increased costs for cars assembled in North America. You don’t bring manufacturing back if you tax raw materials and supplies you can’t get here.
For example, there’s a shortage of copper in the US. Even if you increase mining for copper, you still need to refine it and there isn’t a single refinery in the US. It’s likely you would have to ship the copper to China, refine it and then have it taxed on the way back. This increases the cost to wire cars and houses. In order to bring back manufacturing, you tax manufactured imports not raw materials needed by your own manufacturers.
Paleo-conservatives have long advocated the use of tariffs as the principle source of gov’t income. This would allow for the decrease and eventual abolishing of income tax, shifting the tax burden from the wealthy to the consumer. Since many of the tariffs imposed are across the board and yielded without a long term manufacturing strategy, I’m increasingly thinking this is the Trump admin’s plan.
The tariff strategy they should be using, to follow the manufacturing strategy of East Asian countries in the past, should be targeted and emphasis foreign manufactured products – not raw materials.
Hamas was elected only once and they were elected because the voters correctly viewed the PLO as corrupt. Hamas also ran an efficient free health care system parallel to the PLO state health care which was extremely corrupt and required bribes. This was over two decades ago.
The testimony of Israeli hostages vary, probably on their own political viewpoints. The hostages released early in the conflict were mostly positive about their captors. As the conflict dragged on and conditions became worse, its reasonable to think the conditions became worse for the hostages.
Hamas control of Gaza is problematic as is any state governed by terrorists. However, if Syria (or indeed, Israel itself) has shown us anything, it’s that terrorists can be rehabilitated to become politically acceptable. It does take time, though not as much as I would have thought.
its a strange world; the Republicans are now in favour of a strong central government overriding state rights and appear to favour the right to wear masks even if its possible the wearer may commit crimes. Meanwhile Democrats advocate state rights and minimising the use of masks.
Meanwhile in the Russia hoax world, Grassley seems to thingk documents can be stored in a burn bag for 10 years…. a burn bag should be burned ASAP not stored somewhere.
And then there’s Trump sending nuclear subs (or nuclear armed subs) to the Russian coast because somebody something that upset him. Running a government and a military according to the whims of a 79 year old with a sensitive ego is probably not a good idea.
AJ — just be nice to others, there’s no need to waste energy otherwise. Being nice should be the default setting.
Politics doesn’t require big boy or girl pants. I find the comment strange in that Trump is actually quite sensitive to supposed slights to his name and constantly ligating anything that hurts his feelings — if anyone needs to suck it up its him.
” European Marxist installed as a petty dictator in Canada.”
He’s a neoliberal banker who was elected prime minister to a minority government. He has a lot less power than Trump or Stramer for that matter. He’s in a slightly precarious position and his staying power depends on the disunity of the opposition and the fact two opposition parties are essentially leaderless. For the record he’s born in Canada but has lived in both the UK and the US — not sure how that makes him European. And again he’s a neoliberal banker — ie right of center. Probably somewhere between Clinton and Bush Sr.
Trade between Canada and the US is mutually beneficial and natural (geography and economics run north-south while borders run east-west). Both sides will lose out if a deal isn’t made and making it personal as the Trump admin invariably does just makes it harder to negotiate. This of course goes back to my statement of Trump’s sensitivity.
And as Debra points out, not being able to make a deal with a country regularly described as the boy scout of the world is more on the US and Trump then it is on Canada. The perception that sends around the world is not favourable to the US. Whether we are boy scouts is debatable – but the p.r. damage when you can’t work with Canada is very real.
Debra — one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter. If ISIS can suddenly be legitimate, Hamas should be a walk in the park. The only thing preventing a legitimisation of Hamas is Israel. They need a bogeyman or an excuse.
To some extent that’s true, but not entirely. And the devil is in the details as they say. I don’t have a pat opinion on the solution. I’m not that wise. But I am quite certain that Israel is not ‘doing God’s work’ in Gaza as some evangelicals have claimed.
WASHINGTON—Stating that “It has treated me very unfairly,” on Friday Donald J. Trump fired his bathroom scale.
“I told it to lower my weight to 215 and it refused,” he said. “It’s as bad as Jerome Powell.”
Claiming that the bathroom accessory was “rigged by Biden,” Trump said that he had ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute the scale for treason.
I’m concerned for you, as at every opportunity you come down on the side of lying leftists.
I’m also concerned how ya’ll keep wanting to side with the terrorists who raped and murdered women and children on Oct 7th, and with illegal invaders who have no right to be here.
Discernment seems lacking. You trust the media, and then clam up and get defensive when called on it and shown they’re lying.
Truth matters, or it should, but time and again ya’ll ignore it and go to your safe space, where Orange Man Is Always Bad.
IF there is real evidence and not just circumstantial lawfare material, then prosecute him. Let’s not lock him up before the trial, because, well, due process and that pesky constitution and all. ;–)
AJ – I can’t speak for Debra or others who are concerned (like those who have left the news thread or even the whole blog), but for me, the concern is not so much about your politics as it is your attitude. Political situations and views come and go, but how we express our views to those with whom we disagree indicates our heart attitudes, which can grow softer or harder throughout the years.
The Bible speaks quite a lot about our hearts and attitudes and how we treat others. Here are two pieces of scripture that came up in my morning Bible reading within the last couple of days:
~ “Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering;bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.” ~ Colossians 3:12-15
~ “Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.” ~ Colossians 4:5-6
AJ, I expect someone I support to respect my support enough not to lie to me. Absolutely NOTHING is Trump’s fault according to him. Not the economy. Not the inability to end our funding of the 2 major wars we are involved in. Not the behavior of ICE. And much more. And worse, his most fervent supporters seem to favor name-calling rather than critical thinking, diplomacy or debate, in order to stay in sync with him. Excuse me if I don’t fall in line. I’ll agree with him, and you, when I think y’all are right, and when you’re not, I’ll often speak up. It’s called dialogue. As far as I’m concerned, we don’t have to agree to have a meaningful relationship.
PS I always wear my big girl pants, and my faux pearls are exactly where I choose to put them, thank you very much. ;–)
Re: “I’m concerned for you, as at every opportunity you come down on the side of lying leftists.
I’m also concerned how ya’ll keep wanting to side with the terrorists who raped and murdered women and children on Oct 7th, and with illegal invaders who have no right to be here.”
As I have said on other occasions, you seem to put those of us with whom you disagree in a box and assume all the views and such in that box apply to each one of us, and not recognize the nuances in our views. (For example, one can disagree with Israel on a topic without siding with Hamas.) But that makes it far easier to dismiss us.
I think I found the article NJ read. It’s headline is nothing like it was when I saw it—they changed it, but I think it’s the same article. NJ can correct me if it’s not what she’s referring to.
On Friday’s “CNN News Central, White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Stephen Miran said that one factor in the jobs numbers is that there was uncertainty around tariffs and the reconciliation bill, but the tariff uncertainty is “resolved in large part.”
Miran stated, “Look, this jobs report isn’t ideal. There’s no way around that. But, nevertheless, I think that the downward revisions reflect a couple of anomalous factors. First of all, about 60% of the downward revision is due to quirks of the seasonal adjustment process. Then, on top of that, there’s the fact that the president created about — in the household survey, since the president took office, he created about 2.5 million jobs for Americans, whereas, he’s — whereas, we’ve eliminated about a million jobs for foreign-born workers. That’s a result of our strong immigration policy, of our strong border policy, keeping America safe. And, eventually, the outflow of foreign workers in this data [was] bound to show up in the establishment survey, as they finally did this morning, too. Finally, we’ve been hearing a lot about uncertainty over the last few months, but that’s all resolved now. We’re creating trade deals left and right that have unlocked enormous new potential for the American economy. The tariff uncertainty is fading away. Tariff rates are settling in. The one big, beautiful bill is now law. There’s no more uncertainty over the tax bill either, over, potentially, the biggest tax hike in American history. And, on top of that, there are such strong, powerful incentives in the one big, beautiful bill for investment, things like full expensing on investment in equipment, in R&D, on new factory structures. These are huge. So, it’s all going to get much, much better from here.”
While specifically addressing the June numbers, he said, “I attribute it to the combination of the three things that I described before. About 40% of that is due to seasonal adjustment quirks around teachers. Some of it is due to declining foreign-born employment, even as we created more American-born employment, and that is going to net out in a way that you see ultimately reflected in the data like that. And then, finally, there’s the uncertainty, right? Don’t forget, we were in the midst of restructuring the global trading system in a way that hasn’t been done in decades. The president is standing up for American workers and American firms for the first time in decades. And, of course, that was going to induce some uncertainty. It induced some volatility in financial markets. And we can see, it induces some volatility in economic data too. But that uncertainty is resolved. The tariff rates are set. The one big, beautiful bill is law. It’s going to get better from here.”
This headline is good news, but when you dig in one discovers it may just be semantics (and that’s the charitable description). With Stephen Miller still in charge, change is doubtful, but hopefully a slower more methodical approach could be coming. One can hope anyway.
“Stephen Miller was unequivocal: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would seek to arrest 3,000 or more immigrants per day, a staggering target that he said was necessary to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day and President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every day,” the senior White House adviser told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in May.
But when federal judges pressed for details about that figure last week, the administration denied any such quota existed. The contradiction came in a lawsuit that alleged the intense pressure to rack up arrests had led ICE to conduct illegal sweeps in Los Angeles.
It’s not the only case that has featured the 3,000-arrest-per-day target as a crucial piece of evidence that the administration’s single-minded drive to rack up arrests may have prompted immigration authorities to cut corners or break the law….”
And in Gaza, more death. This is happening while Israel repeats the lie that the only people starving in Gaza are the hostages. They must end this war or lose American aid altogether.
The Federalist published this yesterday. It’s a short article about an interview with Justice Kavanaugh regarding the separation of powers. At least we’re starting to look at the topic of the the increasing power of the Presidency.
upreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identified a foundational issue impacting America’s separation of powers during a rare sit-down interview on Thursday.
“John Thune (R-SD) just announced he will BLOCK President Trump from making ANY Recess Appointments after he recesses the Senate tonight for a month vacation!”
Trump isn’t hoarding anything; he holds merely what constitution gave him, stating: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”
THE executive power. . . SHALL BE. . . VESTED in A PRESIDENT.
“I keep hearing whispers that Trump is acting like a “tyrant” but this is sloppy and ahistorical thinking. The powers he is using and the orders he is issuing are mostly aimed at government power: guaranteeing free speech, stopping legal privileging, stopping spending and hiring and regulating, and even stopping the use of government power to use demographics to manipulate elections.
This is what the president is SUPPOSED to do according to the Constitution. He is supposed to be the manager of executive agencies. That no one has done this so aggressively in 100-plus years just shows you how lame have been the people elected to this position.”
“Fox News’ @JoeConchaTV: “I agree with President Trump firing the labour stats official. Forget the last two months – during the Biden era, 45 of 48 months were revised downwards after the fact. Something has to be done. If you’re wrong almost every time for four years, I’m sorry, you’re gone!”
That is what I thought. I remember everyone saying the numbers were baked to make Biden look good, but always revised down the next month. So they are not ” rigged” as Trump falsely claimed. He can fire who he wants, but making patently false claims of victimization to his volatile base is one reason I’m looking forward to the end of his presidency.
“For the FIRST TIME IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY,@LeaderJohnThune BLOCKS a President from making ANY recess appointments!
🔴 Reagan: 240
🔴 Bush Sr: 77
🔵 Clinton: 139
🔴 Bush Jr: 171
🔵 Obama: 32
🔴 Trump: 0″
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And that zero includes 0 in his first term. Once again the frauds in Congress are not playing by the rules and attempting to limit a president’s constitutionally granted authority. The BS about ” well the Senate can do that” is precedent written out of thin air by Harry Reid. It’s a parliamentary maneuver they made up. Just stop.
Just wondering if all the words on this thread were turned into prayers what difference it could make. Manna from heaven to feed children in Gaza? We will never know.
But God knows. He knows many of the things here have been prayed over. Manna from heaven probably tastes like the flour guarded behind chain linked fence to the hungry. Hoping and praying for an end to the madness and hard heartedness that war brings.
Here’s something we can all be glad for I think. Israel may finally be getting close to where the hostages are held. The end of the war could come sooner than expected.
Wandering Views 
Debra,
The woman Trump fired serves at the discretion and pleasure of the president. Like all fed Bureau heads, she can be fired for any and no reason by the president.
I’m also finding it amusing that you are defending a rank partisan who gave the public falsified info month after month. It was a disservice to America. She lied for a living, to serve a corrupt Biden and his horrible economy, so spare me your fake outrage. Her firing is completely legal, constitutional, and long overdue.
Your TDS is effecting your brain.
https://x.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1826290040374243821?t=5dxRvOR14oBhtESiZi1ybg&s=19
“Don’t forget that today’s massive downward benchmark revision (2nd largest on record) is on top of the existing downward revision to the initial monthly jobs report figures – btwn all the revisions, job growth for the 12-month period was wildly overestimated almost 1.2 million:”
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But suddenly when Trump takes office, her numbers swing the other way. Still fake, still wrong, and still for partisan reasons.
Surprise, surprise…
March jobs revised: 185K ➡️ 120K (-65k)
April jobs revised: 177K ➡️ 147K (-30k)
13 of the L16 have been revised lower.”
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Her work product was trash. Good riddance.
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Funny too, because I’ve been telling you about her crap work product for months now, how her estimates always were revised down when the numbers came in. It was fraud, and it’s well documented.
Now I’m old enough to remember when not giving illegals jobs, and cutting govt workers was considered a good thing by conservative Rs. You know, in the old days, like last year.
But now TDS has changed that too.
Some say the new numbers are bad, but upon closer inspection, it’s what we’ve been asking for.
Jobs for citizens is up, jobs for illegal invaders are down.
Also down, the bloated bureaucracy that is our federal govt.
These used to be considered a good thing, but now Orange Man Bad, and yall lose your damn minds.
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1951271637858341022?t=WV4CgQoowGAf6YrgIpbmPA&s=19
“Federal workers down 6th month in a row”
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https://x.com/barnes_law/status/1951270822661726342?t=D_ODgFMBGF4OJqefHaY3eg&s=19
“What’s missed in the jobs report is that the jobs lost are foreign-born and government workers, while native-born workers continue to make exceptional gains & real wage growth under Trump.”
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Bye-bye, and good riddance. Sometimes, with the right carrot and stick, the partisans out themselves.
https://x.com/RodDMartin/status/1951333827307036763?t=q7knnLVNcHCSfTn4Q4k2yA&s=19
“MASS EXODUS: 154,000 Deep Staters have taken Trump’s buyouts to leave the federal government so far.
Trump is coming at the Swamp from every direction. And it’s working. This is the biggest civil service downsizing in history. Here’s what it means 🧵”
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“2/ The “Deferred Resignation Program” gave bureaucrats 8 months of paid leave if they resigned.
Critics called it wasteful. But it’s saving taxpayers $20+ billion per year. And it’s gotten the Deep Staters to fire themselves.
Trump’s plan wasn’t just efficient—it was brutal.”
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“3/ OPM Director Scott Kupor put it bluntly:
“The Deferred Resignation Program was a practical, humane, and voluntary option to accelerate workforce transitions in a system that desperately needed movement.”
Translation: Trump finally broke the permanent bureaucracy.”
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Click it and read on….
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“Judge Cannon SEALS evidence in Trump assassination case involving Ryan Routh, citing “exceptionally grave damages to U.S. National Security.”
What in the hell is being hidden?”
https://x.com/Beard_Vet/status/1951439777443795081?t=U6ukkbOw04XjG-2LdfuZdA&s=19
What they’re hiding is that he either worked for the Ukrainians or the CIA.
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Purge more. I don’t care if the job numbers are going down as long as jobs for illegals is what is dropping, and it is.
While at the same time, even when the job numbers dipped due to removing illegals from the job market, citizen jobs still rose, as did their wages..
This is what I voted for.
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1951352269871480926?t=23Vjqf-A2ZPLI7SfE0uNdw&s=19
“The Untold Story In Today’s Jobs Report: The Unprecedented Purge Of Illegal Alien Workers”
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https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/untold-story-todays-jobs-report-unprecedented-purge-illegal-alien-workers
“Recall, that starting back in in 2023 we warned that virtually all the job creation since 2018 had gone to foreign-born workers, which as Wall Street subsequently reported, was mostly illegal aliens.”
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“Which brings us to today when the one aspect of today’s jobs report which got zero mentions, was perhaps also the most important one: namely the ongoing purge of all illegal workers from the payrolls.
As shown in the chart below, in July, the number of foreign born workers tumbled by 467K. It wasn’t just July though: as shown below, foreign-born workers (which, again, are mostly illegal aliens) have declined four months in a row…”
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“Liesman “no evidence jobs numbers are politicized”
Well, there was the whole 1 million downward job revision in August 2024, three weeks before the Fed cut rates 50bps two months before the 2024 election to get Kamala elected.
But aside from that”
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1951348798875431073?t=LXkySrkVBQNfR5xp3OjfvQ&s=19
Good riddance to the partisan fraud behind it all.
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The entirety of Palestinian society is infected with hate. Hamas gets elected, because the majority of citizens agree with them.
https://x.com/MichalSabra/status/1951088983427146169?t=o05mPuT1ZJOUvw29uiFY6w&s=19
“Many of our released hostages confirmed it wasn’t just Hamas. Our hostages were held in private homes, UN shelters , schools and hospitals. Palestinian doctors, journalists, mothers, fathers and children all participated in keeping them captives. They were spit on, humiliated, dehumanized and tortured -not just by Hamas but by Palestinian civilians. Palestinian society is broken. It’s time you recognize this John.”
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“Today’s jobs report is a consequence of the illegal alien labor purge: foreign-born workers down 4 months in a row, down 1.5 million since April. Native-born workers up 383K in July”
https://x.com/zerohedge/status/1951273383594779011?t=nPW6B2UTlkEAwUSwB1Ta3Q&s=19
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“Despite disappointing headline, this jobs report was best Jul ever for employment among native-born Americans, up 2 million Y/Y and annual growth 2.2 million faster than among foreign-born workers; native-born American employment is now 1.8 million above pre-pandemic level:”
https://x.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1951280025073856907?t=1w1OmFEJluNfUuDeg-XoKg&s=19
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“Wrong. She was fired after consistently getting it WRONG. 7ou don’t get to be this bad at your job and keep it.
She was missing the mark for more than a year by HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF JOBS. Unacceptable.Policy makers look to these reports to inform decisions (like rate cuts by the fed).
We need accuracy, and President Trump will restore competency and accuracy to this critical agency.”
https://x.com/TayFromCA/status/1951376713151324252?t=yzO4GEI6_446dXGe5b-9oA&s=19
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The bureaucracy rages, because that’s all their impotent selves can do.
https://x.com/RodDMartin/status/1951300769052819603?t=iBOOJ5EBcN7GHWppz7QLiw&s=19
“TRUMP IS SLASHING FEDERAL REGULATIONS AT A 10:1 RATE. HE WANTS TO CUT HALF BY 2026
Biden built a bureaucratic cage.Trump is setting America free.
And now he’s using AI to cut HALF of all federal regulations by 2026.
The Deep State is getting dismantled.🧵 Thread:”
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“2/ Trump promised to eliminate 10 regulations for every new one.
He’s doing it.
This isn’t a tweak. It’s a takedown.
🔻 Biden’s EV mandates? Scrapped.
🔻 Obama’s Wall Street red tape? Shredded.
🔻 Agencies? Defunded, downsized, or even shut down.”
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“3/ Under Biden, Deep State bureaucrats imposed 200,000+ rules on Americans.
Trump is gutting their power, their budgets…and their entire regulatory scheme.
Savings to the U.S. economy? Trillions of dollars.”
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“4/ Meet the new weapon: the DOGE AI Deregulation Tool
Elon Musk’s Department of Governmental Efficiency built software to target and delete outdated, redundant, and conflicting rules.
Think: Regulation weed-whacker on turbo.”
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Some president’s, like the last fraud, use their position for personal gain and wealth building.
Others are more about service to America.
Trump is the latter.
https://x.com/TRUMP_ARMY_/status/1951350275119202722?t=4Nvb1TqlywGnBt14O4bX_A&s=19
“President Trump has announced he will continue to donate his $400,000 annual presidential salary. Additionally, he has personally funded new flagpoles for the White House and covered the costs of the multimillion-dollar ballroom renovation.”
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All with private, not taxpayer, money.
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“The downward revisions to nonfarm payrolls were matched by upward revisions to hourly and weekly earnings; inflation-adjusted weekly paychecks in Jul were 1.4% higher than in Jan of this year, partially reversing the losses from the prior 4 years:”
https://x.com/RealEJAntoni/status/1951306637550956642?t=qMnoZHmyWH7UnLkAftpbWA&s=19
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Correct!
https://x.com/JDVance/status/1951327028667380208?t=g6tKALUz94-nCJejLo2zJQ&s=19
“I was told 6 months ago that Americans losing jobs and the foreign-born gaining jobs was an irreversible demographic fact.
Turns out you just needed a new president and a new immigration policy.”
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Huh.
What a nice gesture.
And unlike Congressional interns, they’re not being molested by their bosses.
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1951390379867087291?t=2IFM_YBphd70XkUtFcSCQQ&s=19
“Before boarding Marine One, President Trump took the time to speak to EVERY SINGLE White House intern on the South Lawn
These are mostly students, and they’ll NEVER forget this moment. “
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🙂 Cool weather in August
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“The BLS bureaucrat was consistently making huge corrections months later to the numbers she produced.
What was Trump’s proper response to her poor performance that had a measurable effect on the economy and may have influenced the feds failure to drop interest rates. In light of her undisputed failure to perform competently – unless your argument is that making massive corrections much later is just fine – why would Trump be obligated to continue to tolerate it?
Is there a special rule that says Trump must tolerate and incompetent bureaucrat simply because her incompetence hurt his administration? What’s the rule here? If you don’t think Trump should fire her, what action should he take in light of her continued failures?
https://x.com/KurtSchlichter/status/1951629357727776999?t=meaMNi_5b3i_QLNezKufNQ&s=19
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Because there are….
https://x.com/mitchellvii/status/1951376614429958600?t=zvuLzu8JCrkriQzHRzohAw&s=19
“Does anyone else find it incredibly sketchy that two prior month’s jobs numbers were revised downward by 90%? Has anything like that ever happened before? How do you miss 2 months in a row by 90%?
Why do I feel like there may be some leftist rats inside the BLS?”
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About time they do their jobs.
https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1951634962664349997?t=uhXHqtwPAPfFdR_RtHTDig&s=19
“BREAKING: The US Senate is about to convene to move forward with confirming JEANINE PIRRO as Trump’s U.S. Attorney for DC, and a flurry of other nominees.
The Senate is staying and voting this weekend”
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Thank God for the decent and knowing agent who saw this for what it was, an attempt to cover their crimes, and they squirreled the evidence away instead.
https://x.com/paulsperry_/status/1951319374138069352?t=iiaMO-8y8Iv715ZaiOl9cQ&s=19
“OBSTRUCTION: Comey, McCabe and Wray literally covered up the truth about the corrupt Trump-Russia investigation: “The cover-up was so bad,” says Senate Judiciary Chair Grassley, “that some of these documents, emails and thumbdrives were in burn bags” hidden in an FBI safe room”
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“Went into Gaza today & observed humanitarian food program by US launched GHF. Hamas hates GHF b/c it gets food to ppl w/o it being looted by Hamas. Over 100 MILLION meals served in 2 months.”
https://x.com/GovMikeHuckabee/status/1951237379588767897?t=h53iR4dIkfMUSDnwvaEurg&s=19
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https://x.com/WashTimes/status/1951293836694626321?t=CTtLtXKm0ay1zSe9rbgf9A&s=19
“Trump pushes for food in Gaza, sends Witkoff, Huckabee to the region”
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Check mate.
Your move Cali…..
https://x.com/Bubblebathgirl/status/1951305639139099012?t=08zOWFdT3LUDxW-VqKG_hg&s=19
“Border Czar Tom Homan responds to Los Angeles ruling that ICE can’t wear masks, except for doing medical procedures:
“Good luck with that. We’re going to keep doing what we’re doing.”
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“Mike Pompeo wasn’t “one of us.” He was a mole.
James O’Keefe reports Pompeo—Trump’s own CIA Director—secretly gave Adam Schiff access to raw intel at Langley to help overthrow @realDonaldTrump.
He also hid John Brennan’s handwritten notes confirming Obama’s treachery from the public.
Pompeo didn’t just stab Trump in the back, he handed the Deep State the knife.
The GOP is still crawling with snakes like him. Clean house.”
https://x.com/RevolverNewsUSA/status/1951640469944803608?t=L5WuyWPNVYHTqp0a9q_Kng&s=19
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“Let’s piece the last 24 hours together in Canada-US trade talks
Carney tried to wait out the clock and pressure Trump into a last minute deal…..THEN
Trump ignored Carney’s phone calls
and EVERYONE ignored Leblanc’s delegation in Washington
What an absolute dumpster fire.”
https://x.com/Tablesalt13/status/1951458544823242860?t=4kKLZ8BMUi3QxoY6C0DVZQ&s=19
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Elbows up!
https://x.com/mrsunshinebaby/status/1951460003107483823?t=RNGXuJvuQLlMPhIH8Z_GvA&s=19
“Canada has been SHUT OUT from negotiations with Trump.
Nobody showed up to talk to Canadian representatives.
Keep those elbows nice and high”
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“CARNEY’S TEAM HUMILIATED IN D.C. — NOT A SINGLE MEETING SECURED
🔴 Mark Carney’s Canadian trade delegation just left Washington in utter embarrassment.
🗣️ They came for high-level talks — and no one in the TRUMP admin would meet with them.
🔴 Not State. Not Commerce. Not even staffers.
THIS ISN’T DIPLOMACY — IT’S A GLOBAL SNUB
WHAT THIS MEANS:
⚠️ Canada just got frozen out of critical trade talks.
⚠️ The U.S. sent a clear message: Carney has no pull.
⚠️ For a man groomed for global leadership — this is a crushing blow.
💥 When Washington won’t even shake your hand, you’re not negotiating — you’re begging.
CARNEY’S GLOBAL IMAGE IS UNRAVELLING IN REAL TIME “
https://x.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1951558091947880742?t=7gioA3cAQYm5IfgzOc0QnA&s=19
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Hmmm. So what we’re saying is Trump can’t even secure a trade deal with our closest most innocuous neighbor? That doesn’t sound like ‘winning’ to me….but I’m willing to be proved wrong.
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Its obvious Trump fired the messenger. If she reported more positive statistics, she would not have been fired. And you do have to worry, if everything is at the pleasure of the president…..
Gov’t stats are crap shoot at best especially preliminary statistics. Revision happens constantly. This is normal not incompetence.
Similar to the not so positive inflation numbers, pro Trump supporters are mining the data looking for something positive. Apparently if you take out immigrants and government workers, the numbers get better. But I thought her numbers were trash?? Can’t have it both ways.
Since ICE is only deported illegals who are either criminals or leeching off the system, or so we are told, deportations shouldn’t affect the labour statistics. Or are they deporting legal immigrants who have jobs? Can’t have it both ways. Illegal aliens and immigrants are not the same.
hrw
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I was thinking the same thing. But don’t go confusing us with reason. MAGA can’t handle that I’m afraid.
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Government layoffs do affect statistics but in a country the size of the US, how much effect does 154 000 have on the labour statistics. There are 163 million people employed in the US. Gov’t layoffs are then less than a tenth of a percent of employment.
In most cases, these are probably older bureaucrats who have been waiting for incentive to retire. Hardly the deep state.
Everybody loves to hate on gov’t red tape and inefficiency but in many cases government bureaucracy is quite lean in comparison to the private sector (esp Finance, Insurance and Real Estate). The gov’t sector throughout the western world but esp the Anglo-American world has been extremely lean since the 80s. And without the state regulation of the “commons” will disappear — environment, consumer protection, transportation, infrastructure, etc. Nothing left to protect citizens from corporations who are richer and more powerful than ever. Leaving Musk, Bezos, Gates, etc in charge is problematic for the bottom 90s%.
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The Trump assassination attempts have become conspiratorial fodder on the left. Sealing evidence will only increase the perception that both attempts were faked and were created to generate sympathy and shore up support for Trump (for the record, I don’t buy it)
Trump doesn’t need a salary — he’s making millions in crypto….
Paving over a rose garden to put up flag poles should be an unforgivable sin. I don’t care about the where and the who — never pave over a rose garden
An ornamental ballroom with a gold inlay ….. a modern Versailles. Nothing like dancing in luxury while cutting health care etc to sharpen the guillotines.
“And unlike Congressional interns, they’re not being molested by their bosses.”
That’s an odd comment given the continued buzz over the Epstein files. Even Grok AI (the same AI used in DofD and DOGE) has said leaving children with Trump is ill-advised. Given Trump being held liable for sexual assault, his own admission of underage voyeurism and testimony from various girls, perhaps the less said about Trump and interns the better for Trump supporters.
His comments in Scotland where he said he didn’t have the ‘privilege” of going to Epstein’s island and he broke his decade long friendship with Epstein when Epstein “stole” one of his employees (a 16 year old girl) have increased speculation and the simple creepiness factor. Now Bloomberg reports that the FBI under directions from the DOJ has redacted Trump’s name from the Epstein files.
hrw
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Siri, why do people hate the media?
https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1951664662556070228?t=7Wu4ubGaHnPPzToZ3_N6UA&s=19
“After spending nearly 10 years screaming that the Hillary Clinton-funded Steele dossier somehow proved Trump colluded with Russia, corrupt corporate media are now trying to claim there was never an operation to frame Trump as a Russian agent.
They can’t refute any of the new evidence, so their response is to claim the entire last decade never happened. Shocking levels of dishonesty.”
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Debra,
No, what he wouldn’t do is knuckle under to a European Marxist installed as a petty dictator in Canada.
And why would he, when Canada has nothing to bargain with? He takes the terms offered, or he deals with the consequences.
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lol. I would never reference our President in the same sentence I use the words ‘petty dictator’ unless I meant it. I voted for Trump for MORE peace, not less. ‘Take it or leave it’ is not a negotiation. And yes, we all have to deal with the consequences.
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Reveling in humiliating another country? Disgusting.
For that matter, humiliating anyone, as well as reveling in it, is disgusting. It’s a form of bullying, and not a good look on the one doing it. As in the case with the U.S. vs. Canada, it is usually a big, strong kid bulling a smaller, weaker kid. That’s not strength, it’s merely bullying, even if it gets you what you want.
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So evidence of her ineptitude and partisanship are irrelevant now?
I expect that from HRW and Kizzie, but it surprises me from you.
But I forgot, your TDS is entering the advanced stages now. Sad.
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Reason is not TDS, but deep down, you know that AJ. Follow the facts not the emotion.
I saw two headlines on Breitbart yesterday that proclaimed that jobs for ‘native born’ Americans was up, while jobs for the ‘foreign born’ in America was down. Now those headlines quickly disappeared, but I have to wonder what they are trying to say. Are we now discriminating between citizens that are born here and those who have been naturalized?? I am concerned where this movement is headed. I’m concerned about where you are headed, AJ. And I say that as a friend.
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Oh get over it Kizzie.
Politics requires you put on your big girl pants, or sit and clutch your pearls quietly. That crap doesn’t work anymore.
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Re: 12:29 – Why bring up my name in that? You make a lot of assumptions based on putting us in boxes.
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Re: 12:31 – What the world does and revels in is one thing. What Christians do and revel in should be quite different.
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This is the kind of ‘news’ I like to see; it’s long and in depth. Lt Col Daniel Davis is referring to the nuclear standoff that appears to be taking place right now between US and Russia.
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I haven’t really followed the trade negotiations. The August 1 deadline was Trump’s deadline not Canada’s. Thus if there was any pressure it was self-inflicted by Trump. Over 90% of Canada-US trade is covered by the current trade agreement which doesn’t expire until next year so there’s very little pressure on Canada to settle. In the meantime, we’ve increased trade with both the EU and China. Carney is in for the long haul. For a politician, he seems unimpressed with popularity rankings. As a neo-liberal banker, he doesn’t have my support but his critics are more interested in mockery than legitimate issues.
The Trump admin seems intent on destroying the North American auto sector. They’re losing money and car prices are costing thousands of dollars more. By taxing raw materials and auto parts, Trump has increased costs for cars assembled in North America. You don’t bring manufacturing back if you tax raw materials and supplies you can’t get here.
For example, there’s a shortage of copper in the US. Even if you increase mining for copper, you still need to refine it and there isn’t a single refinery in the US. It’s likely you would have to ship the copper to China, refine it and then have it taxed on the way back. This increases the cost to wire cars and houses. In order to bring back manufacturing, you tax manufactured imports not raw materials needed by your own manufacturers.
Paleo-conservatives have long advocated the use of tariffs as the principle source of gov’t income. This would allow for the decrease and eventual abolishing of income tax, shifting the tax burden from the wealthy to the consumer. Since many of the tariffs imposed are across the board and yielded without a long term manufacturing strategy, I’m increasingly thinking this is the Trump admin’s plan.
The tariff strategy they should be using, to follow the manufacturing strategy of East Asian countries in the past, should be targeted and emphasis foreign manufactured products – not raw materials.
hrw
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And when I watch something, I don’t need to agree with all of it, but it’s important that it be a credible and intelligent source.
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Hamas was elected only once and they were elected because the voters correctly viewed the PLO as corrupt. Hamas also ran an efficient free health care system parallel to the PLO state health care which was extremely corrupt and required bribes. This was over two decades ago.
The testimony of Israeli hostages vary, probably on their own political viewpoints. The hostages released early in the conflict were mostly positive about their captors. As the conflict dragged on and conditions became worse, its reasonable to think the conditions became worse for the hostages.
hrw
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Hamas control of Gaza is problematic as is any state governed by terrorists. However, if Syria (or indeed, Israel itself) has shown us anything, it’s that terrorists can be rehabilitated to become politically acceptable. It does take time, though not as much as I would have thought.
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its a strange world; the Republicans are now in favour of a strong central government overriding state rights and appear to favour the right to wear masks even if its possible the wearer may commit crimes. Meanwhile Democrats advocate state rights and minimising the use of masks.
Meanwhile in the Russia hoax world, Grassley seems to thingk documents can be stored in a burn bag for 10 years…. a burn bag should be burned ASAP not stored somewhere.
And then there’s Trump sending nuclear subs (or nuclear armed subs) to the Russian coast because somebody something that upset him. Running a government and a military according to the whims of a 79 year old with a sensitive ego is probably not a good idea.
hrw
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AJ — just be nice to others, there’s no need to waste energy otherwise. Being nice should be the default setting.
Politics doesn’t require big boy or girl pants. I find the comment strange in that Trump is actually quite sensitive to supposed slights to his name and constantly ligating anything that hurts his feelings — if anyone needs to suck it up its him.
” European Marxist installed as a petty dictator in Canada.”
He’s a neoliberal banker who was elected prime minister to a minority government. He has a lot less power than Trump or Stramer for that matter. He’s in a slightly precarious position and his staying power depends on the disunity of the opposition and the fact two opposition parties are essentially leaderless. For the record he’s born in Canada but has lived in both the UK and the US — not sure how that makes him European. And again he’s a neoliberal banker — ie right of center. Probably somewhere between Clinton and Bush Sr.
Trade between Canada and the US is mutually beneficial and natural (geography and economics run north-south while borders run east-west). Both sides will lose out if a deal isn’t made and making it personal as the Trump admin invariably does just makes it harder to negotiate. This of course goes back to my statement of Trump’s sensitivity.
And as Debra points out, not being able to make a deal with a country regularly described as the boy scout of the world is more on the US and Trump then it is on Canada. The perception that sends around the world is not favourable to the US. Whether we are boy scouts is debatable – but the p.r. damage when you can’t work with Canada is very real.
hrw
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Debra — one person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter. If ISIS can suddenly be legitimate, Hamas should be a walk in the park. The only thing preventing a legitimisation of Hamas is Israel. They need a bogeyman or an excuse.
hrw
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To some extent that’s true, but not entirely. And the devil is in the details as they say. I don’t have a pat opinion on the solution. I’m not that wise. But I am quite certain that Israel is not ‘doing God’s work’ in Gaza as some evangelicals have claimed.
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From Andy Borowitz;
WASHINGTON—Stating that “It has treated me very unfairly,” on Friday Donald J. Trump fired his bathroom scale.
“I told it to lower my weight to 215 and it refused,” he said. “It’s as bad as Jerome Powell.”
Claiming that the bathroom accessory was “rigged by Biden,” Trump said that he had ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute the scale for treason.
hrw
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Re: “I’m concerned about where you are headed, AJ. And I say that as a friend.”
Debra is not alone in that concern.
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Someone believes Hamas should be legitimized?? A terrorist organization is being held back because of Israel. Gosh I hope I’m reading that wrong??
Hamas should be a walk in the park. The only thing preventing a legitimisation of Hamas is Israel.
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It’s called….
Say it with me now….
The bully pulpit.
But ya’ll knew that. You just hate that Trump has it.
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You’re concerned for me?
I’m concerned for you, as at every opportunity you come down on the side of lying leftists.
I’m also concerned how ya’ll keep wanting to side with the terrorists who raped and murdered women and children on Oct 7th, and with illegal invaders who have no right to be here.
Discernment seems lacking. You trust the media, and then clam up and get defensive when called on it and shown they’re lying.
Truth matters, or it should, but time and again ya’ll ignore it and go to your safe space, where Orange Man Is Always Bad.
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The Breitbart article has not disappeared … I just read it this afternoon…
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Can you link it because I can’t find it. Thanks.
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It was an article with 2 orange headlines and I don’t see either of the headlines on the site. Did they change the headline?
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“JUST IN: Former FBI Director Christopher Wray has been criminally referred to the DOJ for lying to Congress and OBSTRUCTION
Wray testified that the FBI DIDN’T label Catholics as “potential domestic threats,” but over a dozen memos prove that was a LIE!
PERJURY. Lock him up!”
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1951720704279261456?t=_9TJPEtcJxTlu8RO_4fbBA&s=19
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IF there is real evidence and not just circumstantial lawfare material, then prosecute him. Let’s not lock him up before the trial, because, well, due process and that pesky constitution and all. ;–)
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AJ – I can’t speak for Debra or others who are concerned (like those who have left the news thread or even the whole blog), but for me, the concern is not so much about your politics as it is your attitude. Political situations and views come and go, but how we express our views to those with whom we disagree indicates our heart attitudes, which can grow softer or harder throughout the years.
The Bible speaks quite a lot about our hearts and attitudes and how we treat others. Here are two pieces of scripture that came up in my morning Bible reading within the last couple of days:
~ “Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.” ~ Colossians 3:12-15
~ “Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time. Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.” ~ Colossians 4:5-6
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AJ, I expect someone I support to respect my support enough not to lie to me. Absolutely NOTHING is Trump’s fault according to him. Not the economy. Not the inability to end our funding of the 2 major wars we are involved in. Not the behavior of ICE. And much more. And worse, his most fervent supporters seem to favor name-calling rather than critical thinking, diplomacy or debate, in order to stay in sync with him. Excuse me if I don’t fall in line. I’ll agree with him, and you, when I think y’all are right, and when you’re not, I’ll often speak up. It’s called dialogue. As far as I’m concerned, we don’t have to agree to have a meaningful relationship.
PS I always wear my big girl pants, and my faux pearls are exactly where I choose to put them, thank you very much. ;–)
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Re: “I’m concerned for you, as at every opportunity you come down on the side of lying leftists.
I’m also concerned how ya’ll keep wanting to side with the terrorists who raped and murdered women and children on Oct 7th, and with illegal invaders who have no right to be here.”
As I have said on other occasions, you seem to put those of us with whom you disagree in a box and assume all the views and such in that box apply to each one of us, and not recognize the nuances in our views. (For example, one can disagree with Israel on a topic without siding with Hamas.) But that makes it far easier to dismiss us.
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I think I found the article NJ read. It’s headline is nothing like it was when I saw it—they changed it, but I think it’s the same article. NJ can correct me if it’s not what she’s referring to.
On Friday’s “CNN News Central, White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Stephen Miran said that one factor in the jobs numbers is that there was uncertainty around tariffs and the reconciliation bill, but the tariff uncertainty is “resolved in large part.”
Miran stated, “Look, this jobs report isn’t ideal. There’s no way around that. But, nevertheless, I think that the downward revisions reflect a couple of anomalous factors. First of all, about 60% of the downward revision is due to quirks of the seasonal adjustment process. Then, on top of that, there’s the fact that the president created about — in the household survey, since the president took office, he created about 2.5 million jobs for Americans, whereas, he’s — whereas, we’ve eliminated about a million jobs for foreign-born workers. That’s a result of our strong immigration policy, of our strong border policy, keeping America safe. And, eventually, the outflow of foreign workers in this data [was] bound to show up in the establishment survey, as they finally did this morning, too. Finally, we’ve been hearing a lot about uncertainty over the last few months, but that’s all resolved now. We’re creating trade deals left and right that have unlocked enormous new potential for the American economy. The tariff uncertainty is fading away. Tariff rates are settling in. The one big, beautiful bill is now law. There’s no more uncertainty over the tax bill either, over, potentially, the biggest tax hike in American history. And, on top of that, there are such strong, powerful incentives in the one big, beautiful bill for investment, things like full expensing on investment in equipment, in R&D, on new factory structures. These are huge. So, it’s all going to get much, much better from here.”
While specifically addressing the June numbers, he said, “I attribute it to the combination of the three things that I described before. About 40% of that is due to seasonal adjustment quirks around teachers. Some of it is due to declining foreign-born employment, even as we created more American-born employment, and that is going to net out in a way that you see ultimately reflected in the data like that. And then, finally, there’s the uncertainty, right? Don’t forget, we were in the midst of restructuring the global trading system in a way that hasn’t been done in decades. The president is standing up for American workers and American firms for the first time in decades. And, of course, that was going to induce some uncertainty. It induced some volatility in financial markets. And we can see, it induces some volatility in economic data too. But that uncertainty is resolved. The tariff rates are set. The one big, beautiful bill is law. It’s going to get better from here.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/02/white-house-uncertainty-from-tariffs-tax-bill-a-factor-in-jobs-numbers/
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This headline is good news, but when you dig in one discovers it may just be semantics (and that’s the charitable description). With Stephen Miller still in charge, change is doubtful, but hopefully a slower more methodical approach could be coming. One can hope anyway.
“Stephen Miller was unequivocal: Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers would seek to arrest 3,000 or more immigrants per day, a staggering target that he said was necessary to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
“Under President Trump’s leadership, we are looking to set a goal of a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day and President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number up higher each and every day,” the senior White House adviser told Fox News’ Sean Hannity in May.
But when federal judges pressed for details about that figure last week, the administration denied any such quota existed. The contradiction came in a lawsuit that alleged the intense pressure to rack up arrests had led ICE to conduct illegal sweeps in Los Angeles.
It’s not the only case that has featured the 3,000-arrest-per-day target as a crucial piece of evidence that the administration’s single-minded drive to rack up arrests may have prompted immigration authorities to cut corners or break the law….”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/03/white-house-doj-immigration-quota-mismatch-00490406
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And in Gaza, more death. This is happening while Israel repeats the lie that the only people starving in Gaza are the hostages. They must end this war or lose American aid altogether.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/02/nx-s1-5490943/gaza-palestinians-deaths-food-aid
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The Federalist published this yesterday. It’s a short article about an interview with Justice Kavanaugh regarding the separation of powers. At least we’re starting to look at the topic of the the increasing power of the Presidency.
upreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh identified a foundational issue impacting America’s separation of powers during a rare sit-down interview on Thursday.
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Sorry, I thought I picked up the link.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/01/justice-kavanaugh-highlights-separation-of-powers-issue-congress-keeps-making-worse/
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#USELESSGOP
President Trump has been in office for 7 months, and our useless R controlled Senate has still not confirmed the majority of his appointments.
Instead, they’re on vacation and heading to a foreign country instead.
This isn’t how it’s supposed to work, and ya’ll know it, but excuse it because your TDS is rotting your brain.
https://x.com/OcrazioCornPop/status/1951798784373281138?t=7LtQ8ELDUaALGiGE4qs0pQ&s=19
“John Thune (R-SD) just announced he will BLOCK President Trump from making ANY Recess Appointments after he recesses the Senate tonight for a month vacation!”
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https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1951805985808376012?t=8JBCYlWJTP8ASWm7gIwghg&s=19
“Schumer had HUGE leverage over Thune tonight because a Congressional delegation is scheduled to go OVERSEAS tomorrow“
Dems know they have us backed in a corner,” a GOP Senate staffer tells me
INSANE
These people are ONCE AGAIN prioritizing foreign nations over ours”
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Correct!
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1951970382413459706?t=ALuufmvhbJl2Oo9bZkYEPA&s=19
“January 17, 2017. Putin is asked about the Trump-Russia Steele dossier.
Putin: People who push these kind of hoaxes are worse than prostitutes and have no moral limitations.
He was talking about people like Comey, Brennan, Hillary, Obama. He was right.”
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Traitors to the left of me, traitorous clowns to the right….
https://x.com/TheMagaKing2_0/status/1951844240788525111?t=M-FmZ2J2BQU1WmZVg4mBDw&s=19
“The only party in history to block itsown president from making recess appointments is the GOP.
2020: McConnell blocked Trump.
2025: Thune blocked Trump.
All under the pretext of “Senate tradition” but we all know it’s to stop Trump. There are Judas traitors among us. And they wear red.”
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Thanking God for slowing down this runaway train. Perhaps wisdom can catch up and put us on a better track. In spite of the name calling.
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Oh nooooos!
Settle down pearl clutchers.
https://x.com/ProfMJCleveland/status/1895325645691056537?t=blrb77lxxQN7cz9Cw3w1jw&s=19
OMgosh…💀💀💀
“Hoarding of executive power.”
Trump isn’t hoarding anything; he holds merely what constitution gave him, stating: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”
THE executive power. . . SHALL BE. . . VESTED in A PRESIDENT.
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“I keep hearing whispers that Trump is acting like a “tyrant” but this is sloppy and ahistorical thinking. The powers he is using and the orders he is issuing are mostly aimed at government power: guaranteeing free speech, stopping legal privileging, stopping spending and hiring and regulating, and even stopping the use of government power to use demographics to manipulate elections.
This is what the president is SUPPOSED to do according to the Constitution. He is supposed to be the manager of executive agencies. That no one has done this so aggressively in 100-plus years just shows you how lame have been the people elected to this position.”
https://x.com/jeffreyatucker/status/1885721246530240619?t=MowIIF6RQXNXL3r29KsmTg&s=19
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“Fox News’ @JoeConchaTV: “I agree with President Trump firing the labour stats official. Forget the last two months – during the Biden era, 45 of 48 months were revised downwards after the fact. Something has to be done. If you’re wrong almost every time for four years, I’m sorry, you’re gone!”
https://x.com/TVNewsNow/status/1951771097202139626?t=_VcanA7aK4SJUP8AWnKsRg&s=19
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That is what I thought. I remember everyone saying the numbers were baked to make Biden look good, but always revised down the next month. So they are not ” rigged” as Trump falsely claimed. He can fire who he wants, but making patently false claims of victimization to his volatile base is one reason I’m looking forward to the end of his presidency.
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But muh norms they whine, while once again shattering them……
This is BS.
https://x.com/OcrazioCornPop/status/1952057193966313518?t=zldW59p0_kgbh53erUs0eg&s=19
“For the FIRST TIME IN MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY,@LeaderJohnThune BLOCKS a President from making ANY recess appointments!
🔴 Reagan: 240
🔴 Bush Sr: 77
🔵 Clinton: 139
🔴 Bush Jr: 171
🔵 Obama: 32
🔴 Trump: 0″
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And that zero includes 0 in his first term. Once again the frauds in Congress are not playing by the rules and attempting to limit a president’s constitutionally granted authority. The BS about ” well the Senate can do that” is precedent written out of thin air by Harry Reid. It’s a parliamentary maneuver they made up. Just stop.
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~ “This isn’t how it’s supposed to work, and ya’ll know it, but excuse it because your TDS is rotting your brain.” ~
Wow.
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Heavens to Betsy, is that AJ I see clutching his pearls? That is not a good look on you dear. Messed up on sooo many levels. :–)
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Just wondering if all the words on this thread were turned into prayers what difference it could make. Manna from heaven to feed children in Gaza? We will never know.
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But God knows. He knows many of the things here have been prayed over. Manna from heaven probably tastes like the flour guarded behind chain linked fence to the hungry. Hoping and praying for an end to the madness and hard heartedness that war brings.
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Here’s something we can all be glad for I think. Israel may finally be getting close to where the hostages are held. The end of the war could come sooner than expected.
https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2025/08/03/idf-hamas-battalion-in-northern-gaza-surrenders/
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Janice – I pray over and about many news stories. I would imagine that many Christians do. (At least, I hope so.)
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