"Oh, get out of here. Fuck you guys. You assholes can’t handle good news, can you?"
This is the key to McCain's Law as well, where there can not be any news that's good for Democrats.
No matter what, the Democrats are doing it wrong. This kind of job report under the President Klan Robe maladministration was celebrated with positive headlines and analysis.
The Republican company I work for was doling out huge doses of good news the other day. One of the bigwigs likes to stop by and say "you should all vote for people who are more fiscally responsible." I always want to say "so probably not a good idea to vote for budget busting Republicans, then"? Fucker always likes to say "both sides spend too much money." BULLSHIT - Dems spend money fixing economic problems that Republicans caused.
Tax and spend is more fiscally responsible than borrow and spend. Spending on creating (infrastructure) gets a better return on investment than spending on destroying (military).
I was watching a video on why "everyone is saying they can't find employees but nobody can find a job either." There's still a systematic mismatch between the wages being offered and what people are willing to work for. There's also a lot of "ghost jobs" where the same job is advertised in 20 different cities because it is a remote position, so it's being counted multiple times. Or the company advertises for a job they have no intention of hiring, just to keep an eye on what kind of applicants they are getting for the future. Or the company already knows who they are going to hire, but has to get a certain number of applications before they can start interviews and ultimately hire the person they wanted to promote internally. (This happens a lot in government.)
Still, unemployment hovering under 4% is good news, no matter how the doomers will try to spin it.
Ha! We must live in similar areas. My area has tourism, medical jobs, and manufacturing.
The one good thing is that a lot of the new manufacturing in my state is going into areas that aren't as high priced. Rents and housing prices are very high anywhere close to downtown, but out in the sticks you can still find a house for under $300K.
Unemployment rate has been between 3.4 and 3.9 percent in '22 and '23, latest at 3.7 percent. Better couple of years than any under Trump, Obama, Either Bush, Clinton, Reagan, That Peanut Farmer Dude, or Ford. First year of Nixon was comparable, but later it worsened on his watch.
"(Loyal Wonkette readers will know I’ve finally snapped when I start writing these monthly employment pieces entirely in the voice of an imaginary cat economist.)"
We only know he's imaginary because you say he is.
"An appeals court has largely upheld the gag order against former President Donald Trump in the federal election subversion case, saying he can be barred from talking about witnesses as well as prosecutors, the court staff and their family members." –https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/08/politics/federal-appeals-courts/index.html
The court *will* allow Trump to make bad jokes and veiled threats about Jack Smith.
No, no, no, he'd enjoy that too much and doesn't deserve it! A spider gag (variation on dental Whitehead gag) with a nice aged rag used to clean up cat shit :D
I seriously want Biden to put all his mathematicians and statisticians to work for a speech that shows that corporations trying to basically bully the economy after it was recovering from Covid shot up inflation, and there was basically fuck all he could do about it, except what he actually did with the IRA.
Should I be worried that AI now wants to write my eBay descriptions for me? I'm kinda in this whole thing, because I'm the asshole who is invested in Nvidia.
I love the Brady Bunch block of sad faces as Bartiromo has to spit out good economic news.
"Oh, get out of here. Fuck you guys. You assholes can’t handle good news, can you?"
This is the key to McCain's Law as well, where there can not be any news that's good for Democrats.
No matter what, the Democrats are doing it wrong. This kind of job report under the President Klan Robe maladministration was celebrated with positive headlines and analysis.
But this is great news-- for John McCain!
How many times did we hear "unemployment is the lowest it's been in 40 years"? while Trump was POTUS? The media would never shut up about it.
The Republican company I work for was doling out huge doses of good news the other day. One of the bigwigs likes to stop by and say "you should all vote for people who are more fiscally responsible." I always want to say "so probably not a good idea to vote for budget busting Republicans, then"? Fucker always likes to say "both sides spend too much money." BULLSHIT - Dems spend money fixing economic problems that Republicans caused.
Tax and spend is more fiscally responsible than borrow and spend. Spending on creating (infrastructure) gets a better return on investment than spending on destroying (military).
Unreal. That Rethug deserves *paragraphs redacted*
I was watching a video on why "everyone is saying they can't find employees but nobody can find a job either." There's still a systematic mismatch between the wages being offered and what people are willing to work for. There's also a lot of "ghost jobs" where the same job is advertised in 20 different cities because it is a remote position, so it's being counted multiple times. Or the company advertises for a job they have no intention of hiring, just to keep an eye on what kind of applicants they are getting for the future. Or the company already knows who they are going to hire, but has to get a certain number of applications before they can start interviews and ultimately hire the person they wanted to promote internally. (This happens a lot in government.)
Still, unemployment hovering under 4% is good news, no matter how the doomers will try to spin it.
In my area, if you've got a pulse, you can find a job.
Pretty much the same here. If you can find a place to live that you can afford, finding a job isn't a problem.
Ha! We must live in similar areas. My area has tourism, medical jobs, and manufacturing.
The one good thing is that a lot of the new manufacturing in my state is going into areas that aren't as high priced. Rents and housing prices are very high anywhere close to downtown, but out in the sticks you can still find a house for under $300K.
Unemployment rate has been between 3.4 and 3.9 percent in '22 and '23, latest at 3.7 percent. Better couple of years than any under Trump, Obama, Either Bush, Clinton, Reagan, That Peanut Farmer Dude, or Ford. First year of Nixon was comparable, but later it worsened on his watch.
Old handsome Joe gets things done.
In the summer of '69 those were the best days of my life...
Professor Prettypaws, our imaginary economist cat
You can always tell when Dok is writing
Why do they keep taking about the cash from the pandemic relief. That ended almost 3 years ago
I've seen some arguments that one reason people feel like things are worse now is that everyone's spent whatever they saved from that extra money.
Yes. This is a big part of the issue The loss of the child credit is another
Yeah, but I invested my $1200 in crypto, and made $12 million dollars...before it all collapsed and I now have $12.
I donated mine to several local and nationwide charities who feed poor people. I'd like to think my return on investment was greater.
" Bartiromo added, “Joe LaVorgna, you’ve been saying this, the economy is a lot stronger than anybody understands.”
The GOP hates to hear that going into an election year.
The good news for the GQP is that most voters think the economy is terrible.
*Kent Brockman voice*
“Is it time to panic?”
On the cue of the general manager, who carefully monitors the ratings in real time.
"(Loyal Wonkette readers will know I’ve finally snapped when I start writing these monthly employment pieces entirely in the voice of an imaginary cat economist.)"
We only know he's imaginary because you say he is.
He insists he isn't imaginary at all, so you have a point.
Oh no! More good news for America which is, of course, bad news for the GQP.
OT: Appeals court to Trump: STFU!
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"An appeals court has largely upheld the gag order against former President Donald Trump in the federal election subversion case, saying he can be barred from talking about witnesses as well as prosecutors, the court staff and their family members." –https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/08/politics/federal-appeals-courts/index.html
The court *will* allow Trump to make bad jokes and veiled threats about Jack Smith.
I still say the only solution is to LOCK HIM UP and gag him permanently.
Duct tape and an old sock works
No, no, no, he'd enjoy that too much and doesn't deserve it! A spider gag (variation on dental Whitehead gag) with a nice aged rag used to clean up cat shit :D
But keeping him from shit-posting threats to witnesses and prosecutors is eLeCtIoN iNtErFeReNcE!!1!11
You can accuse me speciesism, but I refuse to employee cats as accountants.
I had a standard poodle I used to babysit for, and I would totally have let him do my taxes. That dude was SMART.
They aren't to be trusted with an abacus, that's for sure.
All our jobs are going to be replaced with CatGPT anyway.
You think cats are bad at accounting, dogs are even worse. They'll just eat the spreadsheets.
But dogs at least are less prone to embezzlement
They can be pretty calculating
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My little chupacabra will lie and pretend he's peeing just so he can hang out and sniff longer. Ass.
I seriously want Biden to put all his mathematicians and statisticians to work for a speech that shows that corporations trying to basically bully the economy after it was recovering from Covid shot up inflation, and there was basically fuck all he could do about it, except what he actually did with the IRA.
(They should have found a better name.)
That would only have a chance of working if the average American believed in mathematics.
or listened to anything longer than ninety seconds
>>the unemployment rate fell despite signs of a weakening economy.<<
The latter part of this sentence has even less proof than non-alcoholic near beer.
As usual, you scintillate.
As said, folks just want to blame Dems, especially when they are fixing problems from the previous GOP administration
Seriously, what part of the economy is weakening?
The part where the rich get richer and the poor get sh*t?
Should I be worried that AI now wants to write my eBay descriptions for me? I'm kinda in this whole thing, because I'm the asshole who is invested in Nvidia.