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But I was told we lived in an economic hellscape where the living envy the dead.
9:23 AM · Oct 4, 2024
This is a GREAT jobs report right before the election! Couldn't have asked for better!
Link to tweet
ClimateHawk
(344 posts)Thats down from 2.5% in August. We should know the data next week. Things are looking good!
oasis
(51,766 posts)WSHazel
(283 posts)Jobs are up. Real wages are up. Stock market is up. Why take a chance on radical change?
central scrutinizer
(12,441 posts)Deport the agricultural, construction and factory workers, start a tariff war and see what happens to prices, jobs, and the economy.
barbtries
(29,939 posts)short, succinct and every word true. may i steal for fb? i will attribute
Kid Berwyn
(18,297 posts)Again.
getagrip_already
(17,526 posts)And dozens of other growth areas!
Martin Eden
(13,554 posts)Economic hellscape wouldn't be the only disaster of another Trump presidency. Ukraine and our allies would be abandoned. Polluters would be in charge of the EPA. Our Justice Department would become a tool of revenge for a depraved dictator. Women would be shoved towards the Handmaid's Tale, and Democracy would end.
Clouds Passing
(2,672 posts)P25 would be not only be an economic hellscape but a hellscape for all sentient beings on this planet.
Wounded Bear
(60,806 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,997 posts)Bev54
(11,935 posts)Have they realized that dems are better at economy, at law and order, at foreign relations and pretty much everything else in government? Do they look back at the idiots they have elected, like Reagan, GW and Trump? Has it hit them yet that they have been played for years and the only way they ever got a republican elected is through cheating, for many years now? If it is just because of Trump and they go back, they have learned nothing.
littlemissmartypants
(25,839 posts)The worst contrarians on the planet.
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llmart
(16,331 posts)And we all know what they mean when they say "those people".
Probatim
(3,040 posts)A reality driven by corporate media, hate radio, their insular bubbles, and generally, a lack of curiosity about the world around them.
durablend
(8,013 posts)Bev54
(11,935 posts)and have been for 8 years touting democratic values. Some of them have actually registered as dems but many are still republicans, hoping to get their party back. My question to them is what really are your values? The cheating that republicans have done over the last 40 or more years is out in public, now more than ever before, and I don't understand how they can go back to that. They still revere Reagan, which astounds me, he was a mess.
Botany
(72,641 posts)If we had a legitimate media that wasnt on the whole kissing GOP ass and told the truth
Harris/Walz would win by 30 points.
Go Dark Brandon.
wolfie001
(3,824 posts)If you look at dump's rallies and the interviews with his cult, those obviously economically distressed individuals are unemployable. 45-67 years old. Appears they've never purchased dental floss and maybe never heard of it (never listened to Frank Zappa ). Looks like they have zero plans of ever reentering the job market no matter who's in the WH.
littlemissmartypants
(25,839 posts)This morning?? And not post any research numbers to back it up? We have scientists and statisticians among our clan.
It's going to take more than calling on the lord Zappa to get my vote here.
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wolfie001
(3,824 posts)Anyone rooting for donald dump and his policies is a hypocrite if they're receiving gov't bennies. He wants to eliminate them. Hello? Also, I did my "own" research by looking at their faces. I guess it's a special skill I have. I only charge a fee of $500/hr if you'd like to hire. Quite the bargain.
Backseat Driver
(4,637 posts)Be kind and grateful, stay healthy, be frugal yet generous with what you have, and learn all you can.
When we fight, American democracy wins!
wolfie001
(3,824 posts)They are repulsive people though. Their whole lives are centered on hate. Hard for me to resolve that. They make a big target on themselves to be mocked and ridiculed. I'll try to be a little more kind in the future. Thanks
Hekate
(95,203 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(116,349 posts)What about the poor billionaires?
zorbasd
(252 posts)just because, only tax cuts they should get if they create US manufacturing jobs with their money.
LiberalArkie
(16,642 posts)So much gouging
Jack Valentino
(1,497 posts)The Kroger-brand generics didn't go up very much....
although things with corn seem to have risen a little more than their potato chips.
calimary
(84,573 posts)Cuz they were hoping for bad news - which they could then parlay into votes for Republicans.
Renew Deal
(83,050 posts)Which is actually pretty funny
liberal N proud
(60,971 posts)The MAGA has been operating a massive propaganda machine to match that of Russia. It may even be using the Russian machine.
It has been going on since trump ran for office the first time.
Upthevibe
(9,233 posts)andym
(5,722 posts)so this news will not be considered real by them. They have fallen down a rabbit hole. The danger is that they influence their acquaintances.
moondust
(20,506 posts)It's what he does.
19 times Trump called jobs numbers fake before they made him look good
A few:
Sep. 7, 2012
Unemployment rate only dropped because more people are out of labor force & have stopped looking for work. Not a real recovery, phony numbers
Oct. 19, 2012
"7.8% unemployment number is a complete fraud as evidenced by the jobless claims number released yesterday. Real unemployment is at least 15%
Aug. 11, 2013
We can rev up this economy like it should be, not with false numbers like 7.4 percent unemployment. But with real numbers.
May 31, 2014
Unemployment is a totally phony number.
June 16, 2015
Our real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to 20 percent. Don't believe the 5.6. Don't believe it.
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More at link.
RAB910
(3,955 posts)mnmoderatedem
(3,846 posts)The ACA will cause the rationing of our healthcare system, and healthcare will be all but inaccessible to most.
Obama will crash the stock market.
Romney famously said the unemployment rate will never get below 8% under Obama, and he boasted he will get it to 6% if elected. The unemployment rate when Obama left office? 4.7%
You'd think their predictions would come true once in a while, just by happenstance.
Beartracks
(13,617 posts)But like cult members who's dire predictions of the end of the world are perpetually wrong, the cognitive dissonance of Republican voters is inexplicably reality-proof.
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Aussie105
(6,447 posts)The average (D) person:
Well, things are looking up!
Not perfect, with conflict around the world, global warming and storms and stuff, but mostly things are ok for me.
The average (R) person:
You think?
With Trump in the White House, I'd have a better job, nicer house, wars would stop overnight, and storms would just disappear!
Gas would be 30c/gallon, and . . . blah, blah, blah!
Perspective is everything!
So is being in touch with reality!
johnnyfins
(1,470 posts)A flight plan out of CONUS.