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    When more than half of the “created” jobs are taken by newly arrived illegal aliens..

    Those greedflators sure do luv their cheap labor.. legal (asylum seekers) or not..

    job creation for those already here is well below native population growth requirements. Which is how you get fewer people in the labor force.

    Now we’re told the boomers, the “me” generation, are “forced” to retire..

    those bonzo buttlickers just can’t get a break.

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    – Geez Garfield.

    No gunplay at any of the Seattle prep school graduation ceremonies. Merely laughter, smiles, and sunshine to mark the occasions of diplomas awarded to hundreds of overachieving young people, who will go on to create the technology that eliminates the future jobs performed by Queen YLB’s freshly educated, fucked kids.

    Congratulations to the 2024 graduates of Seattle Prep, Holy Names, and Lakeside.

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    From Heather Long, an Editorial Board member at WaPo, here’s the data comparing employment in May 2024 to employment in May 2023. (That’s YoY, not MoM.)

    That’s fewer than 400,000 more employed over one year. Like, 32,000 more employed per month.

    Meanwhile, the number of unemployed increased by more than 500,000 and the population not in the labor force over that same one year period increased by more than 700,000.

    Hey, don’t look at me. Look at Bezos. He owns the rag.

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    In Virginia, Trump has tied Biden in a new poll.

    If you go to the poll with all five candidates, Biden ekes out a one-point advantage.

    Virginia is a battleground state in 2024.. Meaning Trump will take the Rust Belt and the Sun Belt.

    And the presidency.

  5. 5

    – What fucking dipshits would vandalize a pride crosswalk?

    What fucking dipshits would vandalize a Starbucks? A Hillel center?

  6. 6

    The US economy needs to create at least 150,000 jobs each month to keep up with population growth. We’ve known that for years.

    The number of employed persons increased by only 32,000 per month in the last year, while the number of unemployed increased by more than 40,000 per month in the last year, and the nation’s working population fell by nearly 60,000 per month. See @ 3

    So, what about all of the “new jobs” BLS says were created? Where are they?

    They’re held by people who already have one job. So that they can deal with the effects of Bidenflation and continue to feed their families.

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    the population not in the labor force over that same one year period increased by more than 700,000.

    yawwwwwn…

    2024 will be a record-breaking year for retirement in the U.S., with an average of 11,000 Americans a day expected to celebrate their 65th birthday from now until December.

    Approximately 4.1 million Americans are poised to turn 65 this year and every year through 2027, according to a report from the Alliance for Lifetime Income. Dubbed by experts as “peak 65” or the “silver tsunami,” the figure represents the largest surge of retirement-age Americans in history.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/retirement-medicare-401k-what-to-know-peak-65/

    And yes, the pandemic is credited with accelerating boomer retirement decisions.

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    The unemployment rate rose for all racial groups except for white Americans in May.

    Now we’re told all the “illegal aliens” taking Virginia’s jobs are white..

    who knew…

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    Trump is tripling his 2024 black support compared with 2020.

    Under the leadership of the mentally ill whacko “allies” YE and David Hilliard..

    kreepshit’s great black hopes of 2024 to avoid an IRS audit.

    Yours truly remembers when its great Hispanic hope was Martinez of NM.. heh..

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    @ 7

    HA’s unserious twat, Queen YLB, claims that the labor force participation rate is falling because more older people are choosing to retire.

    Here’s the problem with that:

    The labor force participation rate for 65-plus population in May 2023 was 23.3%.

    That rate in May 2024 was 23.7%.

    Here’s my source, which is the St. Louis Fed.

    In other words, ya dumb cunt Queen YLB, older people are working longer because Bidenflation has made it more difficult for them to make it on a retiree’s income.

    In other words, ya dumb cunt Queen YLB, since older people are contributing more to the labor force participation rate but the overall rate is declining, the rest of the work force is in decline.

    Bidenflation touches all. Today it teaches dumb cunt Queen YLB to check data over the past year when attempting to refute an assertion pertaining to employment over the past year, rather than try to explain something by predictions pertaining to future years.

    Queen YLB makes Darryl facepalm.

  14. 14

    Since Queen YLB’s so interested in future employment numbers, perhaps she can game out for us what the unemployment rate will be for black men in October 2024, and how that will affect the black vote on November 5th.

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    @13 At what age did you start getting low 4 figure once a month SS checks again?

    We all know Mary Kay musta started at 70..

    Mo’ munee that way…

    Long may she live..

    However, according to you this is fantastic for the kids:

    https://incendar.com/baby_boomer_deathclock.php

    How many in the time it took to write this?

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    older people are working longer because

    the “me” generation pissed their munee away boozin’ it at all the vip rooms.

    shit adds up over time..

  17. 17

    touches all.

    At HA, Hunter’s dick pics “touch” kreepshit only..

    knock, knock, knock…

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    @ 16

    I take this as dumb twat Queen YLB’s acknowledgement that her attempted explanation @ 7 for the falling labor force participation rate was total bullshit.

    She’s a cowardly little bitch who can’t bring herself to acknowledge a stronger argument. Queen YLB does her best work either on her knees or when hiding safely behind someone else.

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    When more than half of the “created” jobs are taken by newly arrived illegal aliens..
    >> Every one from ceo to housewife who hires an illegal gets at least a year in jail in a for profit prison and a fine of a years income. A felon like trump.

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    Biggest loser: Advanced Alzheimer’s sufferer Joe Biden.

    Researchers plan to retract landmark Alzheimer’s paper containing doctored images
    Senior author acknowledges manipulated figures in study tying a form of amyloid protein to memory impairment

    Authors of a landmark Alzheimer’s disease research paper published in Nature in 2006 have agreed to retract the study in response to allegations of image manipulation. University of Minnesota (UMN) Twin Cities neuroscientist Karen Ashe, the paper’s senior author, acknowledged in a post on the journal discussion site PubPeer that the paper contains doctored images. The study has been cited nearly 2500 times, and would be the most cited paper ever to be retracted, according to Retraction Watch data.

    Just imagine all of the drugs thrown at Biden in an attempt to dissolve the amyloid destroying his brain, only to learn that 1) it’s not amyloid, after all 2) the drugs themselves did more damage to his neuroaxonal myelin stores than the disease could have done.

    Would certainly explain the marked acceleration of Biden’s cognitive decline in the past several months.

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    Nothing to see here.

    Supreme Court justices have received nearly $5 million in gifts since the early 2000s, and one justice in particular, Justice Clarence Thomas, accounts for nearly all of it.

    Data released Thursday by watchdog group Fix the Court unveils a list of gifts justices have received since January 2004. The dataset was released ahead of an expected release of the justices’ financial disclosure reports Friday.

    Thomas, nominated to the high court by former President George H.W. Bush, made headlines last year after an investigation found he had taken dozens of trips paid for by separate billionaire friends.

    According to the data compiled by Fix the Court, since 2004, Thomas has accepted $4,042,286, or 193 gifts. The group reported that, for Thomas, there’s an additional 126 “likely but not confirmed gifts.”

    Of the nearly 200 gifts, the group said Thomas only reported 27 of the gifts on his financial disclosures.

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    Glad all that summer nonsense is over. My kids got to eat the last couple months. Maybe I should vote.

    The Covid pandemic provided a real-time experiment of a strengthened social safety net, in which several anti-poverty programs were bolstered and benefits increased. One such program, called Pandemic EBT, provided a voucher for families to purchase groceries while children were unable to attend school in person, helping them to obtain the nutrition they would otherwise get through free school meals and lifting millions of children out of hunger.

    In late 2022, Congress approved a similar, permanent program on a bipartisan basis. Called SUN Bucks, or Summer EBT, the program begins this month and provides families with $40 per child per month in grocery benefits over the summer, or $120 in total, when they don’t have access to free lunches at school.

    Thirty-seven states, five territories, and the District of Columbia will participate in the program. But 13 states, all led by Republican governors, have opted out of the program, depriving millions of low-income kids. Several of these states have also declined to expand Medicaid, increasing the burden on households too poor to afford health care or basic groceries.

    Most kids school year ends this week or next.

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    @ 22

    … several anti-poverty programs were bolstered and benefits increased. One such program, called Pandemic EBT, provided a voucher for families to purchase groceries …

    Someone is curiously unaware of this week’s events. We’ll start with some background:

    Federal authorities charged 47 people in Minnesota with conspiracy and other counts on Tuesday in what they called the largest fraud scheme yet to take advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic by stealing $250 million from a federal program that provides meals to low-income children.

    That’s 47 of Ilhan Omar’s best Somali campaign supporters.

    But wait, there’s more!

    New York Times
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/us/jury-bribe…
    Juror in Charity Fraud Case Received Bag With $120,000 – The …
    WEB3 days ago · June 3, 2024 Updated 7:44 p.m. ET. On the eve of the closing day of a federal fraud trial in Minneapolis, a woman drove up in a Mazda to a juror’s home holding a Hallmark gift bag emblazoned …

    All of which culminated (so far) in this:

    Global web icon
    Hiiraan Online
    https://hiiraan.com/news4/2024/Jun/196589/fbi…
    FBI raids defendant’s home in Feeding Our Future fraud case amid …
    WEB1 day ago · The raid comes on the heels of a bribery attempt that shocked the court. On Sunday night, a Somali woman allegedly delivered a gift bag containing $120,000 in cash …

    So yes, please tell us more about why GOP governors were concerned about this program and took a pass on it.

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    Because DC plans do not have the same age-based incentive to retire early that DB plans do and because the loss of generous DB plans has potentially caused a negative wealth effect, workers are increasingly motivated to work past the FRA…

    Why are older workers remaining in the labor force longer nowadays? According to Coile, when both the shift to DC pension plans and the changes in Social Security are considered, the ITAX has fallen since 1980 to around 20 percentage points for older workers ages 65–69 (inclusive). In other words, these changes to Social Security and pensions incite older workers to remain in the labor force longer. Once again, workers under 65 years old were found to be unaffected.

    https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2019/beyond-bls/why-are-older-people-working-longer.htm

    Straight from the BLS… Nothin’ there about ‘flayshun kreepshit.

    401-k’s have sucked.. who knew?

    Yawwwwnn.. your ‘flayshun bs is just more silly babble…

    The only thing you’re “serious” about is your babbling here at HA to calm your IRS audit fears. Whatever floats ya kreepee one.

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    Dumb cunt’s gonna dumb cunt.

    Briahna Joy Gray rolls eyes at October 7 survivor, gets fired from ‘The Hill’
    Gray’s dismissal came shortly after the interview went viral, where she disrespected rape victims of October 7.

    It’s hard not to read anything written by Queen YLB without rolling one’s eyes. Or @ 13 facepalming.

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    why GOP governors were concerned about this program and took a pass on it.

    Indeed:

    “I don’t believe in welfare,” Republican Gov. Jim Pillen said of declining a federal program that would feed food-insecure children in the summer of 2024.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nebraska-governor-reject-summer-electronic-benefits-transfer-children-federal-program_n_65906194e4b0cd3cf0e57a6c

    But then:

    Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen appears to have had a change of heart, confirming Monday that the state will now accept $18 million in federal funds to feed an estimated 150,000 at-risk children this summer.

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2024/02/13/nebraska-18-million-dollars-summer-electronic-benefits-program-kids/72572273007/

    Awwww.. how compassionate of that klownservatic… GWB, John Kasich give him some brownie points.

  27. 27

    Dumb cunt’s gonna dumb cunt.

    bleach blonde bad built butch body calms your fears of IRS audit with each rant for the cameras..

    heh..

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    Can you believe it folks. The Russia hoax fake election thing went so deep the deep state, and deeper than my friends who took the submarine deep state, now I’m supposed to pay for that Steele the election dossier that Hilary “Lock her up” Clinton knew about and they even paid for.

    Donald Trump is in breach of a British High Court order to pay £300,000 in legal costs to the former spy who compiled a salacious dossier alleging Russian interference in the 2016 US election.

    Sky News can reveal Trump has failed to comply with the costs order with Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who compiled the infamous document.

    Trump was ordered to pay costs in February after the High Court threw out his attempt to sue Mr Steele’s company Orbis Business Intelligence.

    The former president claimed the report, which included unsubstantiated allegations of bribery and that he used sex workers while on a trip to Moscow, contained inaccuracies and breached his rights under the Data Protection Act.

    (Does his best British Accent which actually sounds like a Texan doing a Mexican) “How much is a pound anyway. $300K is like chump change to a swell like me but I won’t pay. I can’t pay. I can’t get a bond. I’m proud to be a deadbeat on two continents.”

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    @ 24

    That was quick. From @ 7 “the participation rate is lower because older Americans are retiring” at 9:03 a.m. to “older American’s aren’t retiring because they can’t afford to” at 10:25 a.m.

    YLB completely reversed herself in 82 minutes. No explanation why she reversed herself, of course, as that would mean admitting her initial claim was bullshit.

    So I’ll point it out because Queen YLB’s too much of a cowardly twat to do it herself.

    The other thing I’ll point out is that Queen YLB referenced a July 2019 article and pointed out that there is absolutely no mention of Bidenflation in it. Again, a 2019 article:

    https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2019/beyond-bls/why-are-older-people-working-longer.htm

    Straight from the BLS… Nothin’ there about ‘flayshun kreepshit.

    I’d like to thank Queen YLB for pointing out that the Trump years were free of inflation. Inflation didn’t become a thing until shortly after Joe Biden took office.

    Another Darryl facepalm caused by Queen YLB, and it’s barely mid-morning.

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    @23

    Cool Cool. Leaving aside that those governors made the decision well before your “news” was known…

    Federal Funds to be distributed DIRECTLY to state run agencies like WIC and SNAP to provide funds is just like a private entity.

    Whaddabout!

    Protect the KIDS!

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    @29 So delaying retirement was a thing during drumpf.. pre-pandemic…

    yawwwn.. who knew?

    Oh and that labor participation rate back in 2019… kreepshit babbles:

    The labor force participation rate for 65-plus population in May 2023 was 23.3%.

    That rate in May 2024 was 23.7%.

    So let’s turn back the clock to 2018 / 2019.

    July 2018 lfpr for 65-plus was.. drum roll..

    24.3

    July 2019 lfpr for 65-plus was.. drum roll

    25.3..

    ooops…. orange shit economy touched everything.. even pre-pandemic.. who knew..

    facepalm!

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    The only thing kreepshit is “serious” about is using HA to calm its anxiety over an impending IRS audit and finally paying for its tax cheating sins.

    Cheaper than handfuls of Xanax..

    An oldster has to watch its pennies. Make that low 4 figure once a month SS check stretch.

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    If that was in a book, Texas would ban it.

    I don’t like saying the word Bullshit in front of these beautiful children, so I won’t say it

    Trump, at Dream City Church, a Turning Points USA funded church and school. Crowd begins chanting “Bullshit”

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    @ 31

    In 2019 the economy was firing on all cylinders and jobs were plentiful. Real jobs, not PT gigs supplementing income to offset Bidenflation.

    More real jobs means more people working means the labor force participation rate went up in 2019.

    The overall labor force participation rate went up from 62.7 in January 2017 to 63.3 in December 2019, and the unemployment rate went down from 4.8% in January 2017 to 3.5% in December 2019.

    Until the pandemic the Trump economy was job growth and low unemployment.

    Pointing out the higher labor participation rate in 2019, Queen YLB, only points out that there were good jobs to be had in 2019, and people took advantage of it. At the end of 2019 unemployment had fallen 1.3% from the last Obama month and the labor participation rate had grown 0.6% from the last Obama month.

    Now there are fake jobs and people are bailing from the labor force.

    But I’d like to thank you, Queen YLB, for pointing out the strength of the pre-pandemic Trump economy. Darryl certainly appreciates you for your in-kind contribution to the Trump 2024 campaign.

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    Did you all hear the one about my White House Chief of Staff getting arraigned today for trying to steal an election while I’m here in France commemorating World War II Veterans?

    Of course you didn’t.

    I understand that a guy who did do that kind of thing was in Arizona yesterday and could stop by the court to support his guy in his time of need.

    This Veteran came up to me yesterday with tears in his eyes and shook my hand. I could make up a story here about how grateful he was to finally shake the hand of his favorite president wrongfully convicted of fake crimes but instead I just thanked him for his service and for being here today. He owes me nothing but I owe him a debt I can’t pay.

  36. 36

    Oh lookee.. kreepshit now moving the goal posts from over 65.. Guess that didn’t work..

    facepalm! your fellow klownservatics feel bad for ya, kreepah..

    Pointing out the higher labor participation rate in 2019.. there were good jobs to be had in 2019

    BIG YAWN.. And it still leaves out all the “me” generation whose retirement was only accelerated by the pandemic..

    leading to today… and the still krappy prospects for American retirement due to defined contribution.

    Babbles tiny improvements over the record of the Black guy.. Another big yawn..

    Real jobs, not PT gigs

    Oh wow how bad for Uber and Doordash was the orange guy.. Guess those outfits had to compensate their workers better. ‘flayshun! (rolls eyes)

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    @ 35

    Q: What do POS Joe Biden and POS Hunter Biden have in common?

    A: I owe him a debt I can’t pay. They each owe huge debts and are unable to pay them.

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    @ 36

    … the still krappy prospects for American retirement due to defined contribution.

    Queen YLB, yet again demanding free money from others so that she doesn’t have to put anything away herself. Such a silly cunt is our precious Queen YLB.

  39. 39

    Say, did anyone hear that the POS Hunter Biden laptop is real and that there was no manipulation of its contents?

    ’cause I haven’t heard QoS McHillbilly weigh in on that at all.

  40. 40

    @37

    I paid my debt. It’s in the court record now.

    You really want to go down the route of unpaid debts with your guy.

    The five Bankruptcies guy?

    he report found hundreds of liens, judgments and at least 60 lawsuits against Trump and his businesses alleging that he has not fully paid workers for their labor and in some instances refused to pay commissions for his own lawyers and real estate brokers.

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    demanding free money from others

    Notice it lost the argument about over 65 labor participation..

    BIGLY…

    It desperately moved goal posts.. And now it sinks into ad hominem.. s’ok kreepshit.. we understand..

    how cowardly of ya.. your fellow klownservatics are embarrassed for you.

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    3.5 percent unemployment is

    firing on all cylinders.

    Got it. 🙄

    This is why it’s so pointless to debate the Village Idiot.

    Every claim is made in bad faith. He reserves the prerogative to redefine his terms without notice or comment. And the minute he’s exposed he shifts to Cat Litter Boxes and paranoid lunacy.

    He’s the actual human embodiment of a “steaming pant-load”.

  43. 43

    @39

    That again? Yes the laptop exists.

    Shame Rudy made anything found on the hard drive “reasonable doubt” isn’t it.

    What’s fun is if Prosecutors ask, “Is this the laptop”, a sticker less MacBook without being booted up and actually looked at leads on cross to, “Are you always able to determine just by sight one MacBook from another. I’m not expert but they are all brushed chrome with an embossed Apple logo. Are you not making an assumption and citing it as fact?” (The prosecutor is bringing it physically out as a show piece.)

  44. 44

    As it turns out they WERE out to get him.

    CNN
    —
    Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages over his lies about the 2012 school massacre.

    The seismic move paves the way for a future in which Jones no longer owns Infowars, the influential conspiracy empire he founded in the late 1990s. Over the years, Jones has not only used the media company to poison the public discourse with vile lies and conspiracy theories, but also to enrich himself to the tune of millions of dollars.

  45. 45

    43,
    Weiss must either embrace the thing and stake his case on it, or admit that he and his office were mockingly and clumsily duped by a flatulent drunk who dyes his hair with shoe polish.

    He’ll take his chances with the jury.

  46. 46

    So kreepshit was all so big on Heather Long from the WAPO.. Here’s another one of her tweets:

    Male prime-age labor force participation is basically back to pre-pandemic levels. That’s encouraging to see.

    But it just never recovered from the 2007-09 Great Recession.

    (“Prime age” = ages 25 to 54 in gov’t data)

    https://x.com/byHeatherLong/status/1799090828373274707

    Now who’s at fault for 2007.. A certain empty suit that kreepshit voted for twice..

    Butt, butt, butt (channeling teh babblin’ butthole) whadabout teh black guy???

    What about drumpf? According to kreepshit, teh orange asswipe fixed everything. And how could it not.. Orange guy was driven to undo everything teh black guy did cuz’ black guy made jokes about orange guy.

    Ok and fair enough.. what about Biden???

    uhhh.. that’s simple.. shit can’t get done when D’s and R’s are clawing at each other. Can only squeak stuff through (ppaca, IRA) or come together on one or two things (semicondutors, infrastructure) every 4 – 8 years.

    And that sucks.

  47. 47

    Anyone who reads this will necessarily conclude that Aileen Cannon was unqualified for a federal judgeship, and should not have been appointed or confirmed.

  48. 48

    46,
    She calls out 2007-2009, but if you look at the data going all the way back, she’s really just arbitrarilly cherry picking something to focus on for which she can offer no basis (like the Village Idiot).

    It’s a long term trend that prime age male labor force participation begins falling in the early 1970s and falls about ten percent through about 2015 then begins recovering before Trump blows up the labor force with COVID mismanagement.

    A bunch of things at work. Breaking up unions, stripping out laws that protect collective bargaining, workers older than 54 staying in the workforce longer once DB plans are replaced with DC plans, and of course women moving into the workforce in massive numbers. The last one is the significant one. With twice as many householders seeking full time work roles begin to change and periods of unemployment or itinerant employment become more frequent and more prolonged. Which is to be expected. And not necesarrilly a bad thing either.

    Again, with 55-64 it’s also a long term trend, with the rate rising steadily from the mid eighties (Raygun) to today. Retirement financial uncertainty driven partly by Republican/plutocrat hostility to organized labor and DB pensions but in particular by skyrocketing health care costs. Also predicted. But an entirely bad thing. Huge numbers of older Americans clinging precariously to Shit Jobs they despise simply to keep the affordable group coverage long after they otherwise would have retired.

    This is how bad faith kl🤡wnservatives cherry pick, twist, and misuse government statistics to gaslight. The economic trends of the last forty years of American kl🤡wnservative ascendancy are all 💩. All any kl🤡wnservative needs to do is be sufficiently selective and precise and they can tell any 💩 story they like.

  50. 50

    Including the 9 named yesterday, this brings the total number of POS Hamas to 17 killed yesterday. Hamas lies about all or nearly all of the rest of the dead.

    IDF names another eight terrorists killed in Nusierat UN school strike

    I was listening to a BBC interview yesterday, and the interviewee described seeing a body bag that was labeled as containing the remains of five children. He didn’t see dead children and he didn’t see dead bodies. He saw a bag with a label on it.

    UNRWA says it cannot confirm that there were terrorists operating in the school. It’s instructive to realize that neither are they denying that there were terrorists there.

    UNRWA = Hamas.

    Finish them.

  51. 51

    @ 47

    …Aileen Cannon was unqualified for a federal judgeship, and should not have been appointed or confirmed.

    The attorneys described Cannon as extremely diligent and well prepared, a tough questioner who accepts nothing at face value, and thoughtful in her rulings.

    That’s 10 attorneys CNN spoke with. Clearly unqualified.

  52. 52

    Dumb cunt @ 46

    Male prime-age labor force participation is basically back to pre-pandemic levels. That’s encouraging to see.

    But it just never recovered from the 2007-09 Great Recession.

    …

    Now who’s at fault for 2007..

    Physicians, mainly. It wasn’t 2007, it was 2008-2010. When people exhausted their unemployment benefits during the Great Recession many of them were declared “disabled” by physicians so that they wouldn’t end up with zero benefits. Once declared disabled and on the government dole, they stayed there. It’s why 25-54 male employment is at 89% instead of 90%.

    The data’s right here:

    https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/dibStat.html

    From ’09-11 the annual increase in the long-term disabled was 4.5-5.3%. Over those three years 3 million people were added to the rolls of the disabled, Queen YLB, and only 1.9 million were terminated. That’s a net addition of 1.1 million people receiving permanent disability benefits from SSA.

    Let’s compare that with the years 2017-2019. 2.25 million people were added and 2.6 million were terminated, for a net subtraction of 350 thousand people from long term disability benefit rolls.. That’s 1.2-1.8% of the total.

    It’s going to take at least another decade to strip away the deadwood from the long-term disability rolls, Queen YLB. Sooner or later we’ll get to you and strip your payment. The Biden administration is continuing the pattern of annual terminations well in excess of additions, I’m pleasantly surprised to note. (Same link)

    But to answer your question, it wasn’t a president who caused the participation to decrease. It was the willingness of physicians to lie so that their patients could continue to receive benefits during the Great Recession.

    No one knows better than you, Queen YLB, that sucking at the government teat beats working for a living. You’ve lived off of the labors of others your entire life, girlfriend.

  53. 53

    Physicians, mainly.

    More 💩

    Red states. And some blue states too.

    Once it was discovered that anyone on any state or block grant program shifted over to SSDI resulted in a net gain to the state, specialty contractors sprang into existence to collect a bounty for every long term UI, SNAP, TFAP, SEC8, SWE and HUD recipient they could coax across the line.

    Blame “Welfare Reform”.

  54. 54

    @ 53

    Add them to the list. But it wasn’t a president, as alleged by HA’s unserious twat, our precious Queen YLB.

  55. 55

    lmao @ 52…

    Heh.. nice way to try to sidestep the shrub Depression.. After two endless wars.. After goosing the housing market.. Anyone remember Shrub leaning on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?

    https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/business/worldbusiness/21iht-admin.4.18853088.html

    So you shift the blame to Docs? Oh that’s too rich..

    Applications for SSI were rising all through the Shrub years:

    https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/dibGraphs.html#2

    It merely peaked after Shrub set a Depression into motion.

    It’s going to take at least another decade to strip away the deadwood from the long-term disability rolls

    LMAO.. So you’re saying they’re gonna die.. You’re telling me, AGAIN, as my sons enter their prime earning years, the good times will roll for them..

    Thank you.

  57. 57

    Lowell: There is a Second Amendment right for my POS client to be stoned off his ass when he buys a gun and then leaves it around for his dead brother’s kids to find and fuck around with.

  59. 59

    But it wasn’t a president

    Of course it was.

    The incompetent Hollywood 🤡 suffering from Red Scare delusions and rapidly advancing Alzheimer’s who fabricated the myth of “The Welfare Queen” tooling around “Harlem” in her El Dorado washing down Lobster Thermidor with Thunderbird.

    Stop lying.

    “Welfare Reform” created the incentives to shift people to SSDI.

  60. 60

    “Welfare Reform” created the incentives to shift people to SSDI.

    So a Mississippi multi-millionaire could obtain a V-Ball facility for his daughter.

    awwwww. Free stuff! Isn’t that speshul..

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    Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasevpleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease let POS Hunter Biden testify in his own defense.

    Pretty please.

  62. 62

    60,
    Damn straight.

    Last thing those fucking pieces of shit would ever think of doing with extra gubmit munee is use it to pay for child care, workforce training or increase benefits for full time enrolled low income moms.

    A fucking millionaire’s daughter needs it more… long as she’s white.

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    Hunter Biden testify in his own defense.

    Sure.. the klowns really nailed him here:

    “For more than a year, your committees have hunted me in your partisan political pursuit of my dad,” he said. “You have trafficked in innuendo, distortion, and sensationalism, all the while ignoring the clear and convincing evidence staring you in the face: You do not have evidence to support the baseless and MAGA-motivated conspiracies about my father because there isn’t any.”

    As we have written, Republicans haven’t been able to establish that Joe Biden benefited from his family’s business dealings or used his position as vice president to aid those deals.

    and..

    Gaetz later asked if a dinner attended by a Burisma official, which Joe Biden also attended, amounted to a bribe.

    “I would love to see the evidence of that,” Biden responded. “I think the only person … that you believe that has evidence of that is a guy named Alexander Smirnov, who’s in lockup in L.A. right now, being charged and indicted for lying on behalf of Russian intelligence.”

    Earlier in his testimony, Biden made mention of Smirnov, telling Republicans on the committee that Smirnov “has made you dupes in carrying out a Russian disinformation campaign waged against my father” and “has been indicted for his lies.”

    https://www.factcheck.org/2024/03/hunter-bidens-testimony-in-context/

    Seems Hunter can handle himself just fine.. in the words of teh widbee kreepshit:

    “he’s made a completed recovery”..

    from the bad old days of striving to be a greedhead repuke..

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    @2 Yeah, geez Garfield, this is what you get from Republicans filling society with guns that end up in children’s hands.

    But the rich will always have their privileged — and safe — enclaves, won’t they? And fuck the rest of us.

    Are you curious why we don’t vote for your ilk?

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    @5 I’m against all dipshit vandals. You’re only against some of them.

    We’re not the same.

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    @23 How unintelligent. Crooks steal from a government program to help families and kids, so it follows that government programs to help families and kids should be abolished. This is like saying elections should be abolished because some Republicans vote twice.

    https://handbill.us/2022/07/22/another-case-of-voting-fraud/

    https://handbill.us/2022/05/01/trumper-who-voted-her-dead-mothers-ballot-screeched-about-rampant-voting-fraud/

    https://handbill.us/2022/04/26/more-voting-fraud/

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    @24 The GOP “solution” to people being forced to work longer is to raise the Social Security retirement age.

    At least Republicans are consistent. Their ultimate goal doesn’t change. They want a 19th century economy, in which children enter the labor force after sixth grade, and people work until they die. They want the dollar-a-week wages back, too.

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    @38 Defined benefit was never “free money.” It was part of an employee’s compensation, as was health care and other benefits.

    By doing away with these benefits, and throwing their costs on employees without offsetting wage hikes, employers cut wages and fattened profits.

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    @50 Amazing how IDF can link bomb-shredded remains to specific names on their terrorist list just a couple days after the bodies were blown to bits. They must have one helluva mobile DNA lab.

    Reminds me of when every Vietnamese villager, including the toddlers, was counted as a “Viet Cong.”

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    @51 Let’s add some context:

    They also said Cannon’s lack of trial experience, both as a lawyer and a judge, is apparent … some of her habits that have raised eyebrows … include a penchant for letting irrelevant legal questions distract from core issues, a zero-tolerance approach to any technical defects in filings, and a struggle with docket management that allows the type of pretrial disputes that other judges would decide in weeks go unresolved for months. “She is not efficient,” said one attorney who practices in south Florida. “She is very form over substance.” … They described her as latching onto abstract, academic questions at the expense of the type of on-the-fly decision-making required by trial judges that keeps litigation moving along … some said that her fixation on technicalities led cases to get bogged down in minutiae.

    This isn’t what you want a trial judge to do. But you’re not an attorney, so you wouldn’t know that.

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    President Trump should be granted a mistrial on the grounds that I am a gullible pinhead.

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    @ 70

    @34 Sure looks like labor participation started rising under Obama.

    It did. I never suggested otherwise.

    Obama had one down market year, 2015. Otherwise the economic recovery was a pretty nice one, particularly because the market became horribly oversold and then rocketed back and beyond. Same thing happened in 2020. And to slightly less extent in the Spring of last year.

    Never let a crisis go to waste. Sell the shit out of naked puts when everyone else is panicking. It will come back.

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    I think we need to remember that police officers aren’t supermen. They’re human, subject to human frailties, and could just as easily be the road rager who tried to kill you.

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    @75 “Can’t believe kreepshit didn’t run with this one”

    Maybe this time he’s wisely holding his fire until they figure out whether it’s a hoax.

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    @72

    They did it as quickly as they identified the UNWRA staff that participated in October 7th attacks. Two of whom were dead on October 7th. One had been dead for almost a year.

    IDF Literally has provided zero evidence 8 months later than any UNWRA staffers participated. Naked assertions from either IDF or Hamas should be treated as such, but dumbfucks gonna dumbfuck

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    The Newcastle city council voted not to raise a Pride flag this year. Mayor Robert Clark said,

    If people want to celebrate pride month in their own way, I will cheer them on. I will not, however, tell the rest of the community that they also must cheer them on and the government raising the flag would say that.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wIA0Zjifig

    I don’t know if Mayor Clark is Republican,* Democrat, or Neutral, but it sure sounds like he believes government shouldn’t tell women what to do with their bodies. (* I think I heard him say in the video, “if we raise the Pride flag, we gotta raise MAGA or Trump flags, too” or something like that.)

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    JD Vance

    “Ask the Greatest Generation what they feel about sex changes for minors.”

    Because as real as that is:

    Ask the Greatest Generation what they feel about Jewish Space Lasers

    Ask the Greatest Generation what they feel about cyborg flight attendants

    Ask the Greatest Generation what they feel about youth elixir that will kept them alive 290 years

    Ask the greatest Generation what they feel about clean coal

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