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by Carl Ballard — Friday, 8/1/25, 8:25 am

I am on vacation next week and part of the following week. So open threads may be sporadic.

Anyway, I’m glad that the mayor and city attorney finally realized that Trump’s executive orders are bad. It’s like having elections forces them to do things. But there are people who understood that Trump is bad already.

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  1. 1

    Make better choices next time spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 9:06 am

    The U.S. added just 73,000 jobs in July—far below expectations—while the unemployment rate rose to 4.2%. May and June payrolls were revised down by a collective 258K

    Voting for Republicans gets you unemployed

  2. 2

    FKA Hops spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 9:34 am

    @1

    It’s bleak. Remember how some were concerned replacing career economists, data collectors and mathematicians with AI and MAGA loyalists might lead to government agencies posting made up data to make the President’s economic policies more palatable?

    May 144K new jobs reported. Revised to 19k
    Overstated by 87%. That seems like, really really a lot to “misunderestimate”

    June 147K reported. Revised to 14K
    Jeeesus, that’s 90% of the jobs that were completely fake.

    So that extremely weak and below expectations 73k announced today is probably under 10K IF they only are lying by May’s 87% miss.

    Today, consumer prices go up on a bunch of goods due to tariffs. A whole lot more after next weeks 8/7 deadline.

    The reality is starting to set in.

  3. 3

    Donie Antoinette spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 9:42 am

    You get no Healthcare. And you get no food benefits. And YOU get a pink slip.

    And I get a Fancy Ballroom with a footprint twice the size of the current ground floor.

  4. 4

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 9:44 am

    @ 1

    Voting for Republicans gets you unemployed

    zerohedge
    @zerohedge

    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

    6:26 AM · Aug 1, 2025

    Yabbut illegals don’t vote. At least that’s what Democrats keep saying.
    ·

  5. 5

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 9:45 am

    @ 3

    And I get a Fancy Ballroom with a footprint twice the size of the current ground floor.

    What’s worse about this, particularly for Welfare Queen YLB, is that from 2029-2036 JD Vance’s “Hindu wife” will get to use it any time she pleases.

  6. 6

    Matt Drudge spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 9:49 am

    @4

    You still quoting that blog where everyone hides behind the name of a a character from a really crappy movie that Dude Bros are into? The character that turns out to be a figment of the protagonists’ imagination?

    Perez Hilton is still publishing. Go read it. It’s got EVERYTHING!

  7. 7

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 9:52 am

    Wages are up while job growth is slowing/declining. Why might that be?

    With the illegals getting kicked out and Americans findings jobs (383,000 jobs added for people born here), wages they are earning are increasing.

    Used to be higher wages was something Democrats celebrated.

  8. 8

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 9:54 am

    @ 6

    … hides behind the name of a a character from a really crappy movie …

    The biggest bloviating asshole on HA hides behind the name of a character from a really crappy movie.

  9. 9

    Tyler the Creator Steven Tyler President John Tyler spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 10:03 am

    @4/7

    If you base that number for “native born workers” on overall numbers now admitted to be fake as of today’s jobs report….

    A reasonable person would understand that 348,000 to be fake and not keep repeating it.

    But you be you, Dumbfuck

    Also, wtf are you talking about?

    Real average hourly earnings for all employees decreased 0.1 percent from May to June, seasonally
    adjusted, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This result stems from an increase of 0.2
    percent in average hourly earnings combined with an increase of 0.3 percent in the Consumer Price
    Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U).

    Real average weekly earnings decreased 0.4 percent over the month due to the change in real average
    hourly earnings combined with a decrease of 0.3 percent in the average workweek.

  10. 10

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 10:11 am

    lmao.. nice to know rogan bros are flocking to the high wages paid by berry farmers, dairies and car washes.

    well.. there’s pot operations.. that has a lot of appeal..

    And we only have to look forward to “costs” being passed to the consumer.. dang, that’s always been a winner to the magat voter.

  11. 11

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 10:17 am

    @ 9

    You’re quoting now-obsolete data. It’s from a July 15th announcement that referred to June employment/earnings data.

    In July earnings increased 0.3% and the length of the workweek increased as well.

    Your quoted numbers are no longer accurate.

  12. 12

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 10:21 am

    JD Vance’s “Hindu wife” will get to use it any time she pleases.

    Nope… pants shitter is preznit forever. Elmo is working on a rapebot to download pants shitter’s pea brain into..

    And the proper “subsidies” will then be put into a constitutional amendment.

    Upside: rapebots don’t poop their pants. maybe elmo is working on that, though. More “realism”..

  13. 13

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 10:22 am

    Democrat net favorability:

    Gallup minus 26
    CNN minus 26
    WSJ minus 30

    But there’s hope, libbies! Mayor Pete is now admitting that letting chicks with dicks beat the living shit out of real women raises “serious fairness issues”.

    As if that will make black voters like an incompetent midget homosexual come 2028.

  14. 14

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 10:26 am

    an incompetent midget homosexual come 2028.

    At one time kreepee dumbfuck slobbered over a centrist dem Governor, Jared Polis.

    Until KD found out Polis was married to a man.

    kreepee dumbfuck didn’t comment on Polis being one inch shorter than Slayer Pete.

  15. 15

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 10:34 am

    I heard yesterday on msnbc that elmo is cooling off on that third party dumbassery.. well maybe…

    Wants to pour millions into re-electing dumbass repukes who barely won their districts and will run in 2026 slobbering over pants shitter because they’d be roadkill otherwise.

    Should go as well as that Wisconsin Supremes debacle.

  16. 16

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 10:39 am

    lmao.. nice to know that kreepee dumbfuck is kneepadding and cheerleading for jerkoff dickhead bowman..

    we’ve seen that movie before..

    anyone remember how it slobbered over kon-klown DEE-santis?

    We all know how that turned out.. lmao.. what a joke..

  17. 17

    G spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 10:48 am

    What are we talking about today?

    Kamala? Jimmy Carter? Sleepy Joe who is more awake than a Grand Old Pedophile?

    Certainly not the economy or the stock market and the poor job numbers and rising inflation and unemployment or murdered babies in Gaza or pedophilia.

  18. 18

    Herbert Hoover spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 10:55 am

    It’s like telling us his (probably fake) options gains without ever mentioning the three previous losses.
    Gallup:

    In the second quarter of 2025, an average of 46% of U.S. adults identified as Democrats or said they are independents who lean toward the Democratic Party, while 43% identified as Republicans or said they lean Republican.

    That three-percentage-point Democratic advantage compares with a tie between the two parties in the first quarter of 2025, after a four-point Republican lead in the fourth quarter of 2024. Until now, the Republican Party had led or tied in most quarters since 2023.

    And that’s BEFORE toilet paper hits $2/roll and the office cuts off complimentary coffee.

  19. 19

    Pars Dominae Foetidae spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 11:14 am

    @8 – Yes, and we all know who he is.

  20. 20

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 11:57 am

    At least 11 1/2 more years of winning. Think about it.

    Corporation For Public Broadcasting to Shutter After Trump Cuts

    …we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said in a statement Friday.
    …
    CPB said that it informed its employees that the majority of staff positions will end with the close of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, 2025.

  21. 21

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 12:05 pm

    Libbies are too busy spending 10s to 100s of millions of dollars to keep their university funding to bother with keeping Steve Inskeep employed.

    Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️
    @realchrisrufo

    Conservatives should not forget that there has been virtually no blowback to defunding NPR. In the past, the Left would claim that Republicans wanted to execute Big Bird, and Republicans would dutifully back down. Not anymore. Simple principle: stop sending cash to your enemies.

    10:33 AM · Aug 1, 2025
    ·

  22. 22

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 12:06 pm

    In 2028, Rogan’s podcast will be 10x larger than Colbert’s.

  23. 23

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 12:07 pm

    @19 Shaking in your boots now that pants shitter is in charge?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q6l0tFwcv4

    omg.. nukular war! Quick tune to Judge N and Col MacGregor.. Is Scooter Ritter still around?

  24. 24

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 12:24 pm

    to bother with keeping Steve Inskeep employed.

    It’s little wonder kreepee dumbfuck even knows who Steve Inskeep is.. given how much of its “life” is taken up by swamp fever shit on AM hate radio, Xitter and kreepee always wrong wing blogs.

    It’s thanks to Mary Kay..

    Long may she live.

  25. 25

    Kim Jong UnderagePoon spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 12:34 pm

    She displeases me. FEED HER TO THE DOGS,

    “I was just informed that our Country’s ‘Jobs Numbers’ are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s chances of Victory,. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records — No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers.”

    I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes.

  26. 26

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 12:35 pm

    Don’t like the weather? Fire the weatherman! That’ll make the sun come out!

    President Donald Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt. …

    “I can’t believe what I just saw,” said Peter Mallouk, president and chief investment officer of Creative Planning. … “This is not healthy ….”

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/trump-erika-mcentarfer-jobs-report-fired.html

  27. 27

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 12:50 pm

    @15 He’s gonna need that money to pay off Death Car judgments.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/tesla-must-pay-329-million-in-damages-in-fatal-autopilot-case.html

  28. 28

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 12:54 pm

    @26 If the markets are “rational” then they’ll respond every bit the same as they would to a Fed Chairman getting the boot.

    We’ll see I guess. Hoo boy.. this is bad..

  29. 29

    Kai Rhysdahl spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 12:56 pm

    Pop quiz, what is rhe Corporation for Public Broadcasting and what does it do?

    For one, it neither hired, retained, or paid Steve Inskeep

  30. 30

    Joe Stalin spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 12:58 pm

    Yes. That is how economic data works.

    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonald Trump
    In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad — Just like when they had three great days around the 2024 Presidential Election, and then, those numbers were “taken away” on November 15, 2024, right after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs — A TOTAL SCAM. Jerome “Too Late” Powell is no better! But, the good news is, our Country is doing GREAT!

    Fuck your feelings!

  31. 31

    Pars Dominae Foetidae spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 1:00 pm

    @23:

    “@ 19 Shaking in your boots now that pants shitter is in charge?“

    Uh, no.

  32. 32

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 1:07 pm

    All the gerrymandering in the world won’t help Republicans next year if MAGA voters turn on them, as happened at a GOP town hall this week …

    A woman bluntly told him, “I don’t think you’re the right fit for us anymore,” to more cheers. “I just think it’s time to go,” she added. “You just don’t relate to most of us anymore and you gotta know when to step down. I think it’s time.” That led to a loud round of applause.

    https://www.rawstory.com/byron-stiel-wisconsin-trump/

  33. 33

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 1:13 pm

    So many people will need our sympathy it has become necessary to ration it and perform a kind of triage. Low on my list are new citizens who voted for Trump and now find themselves in ICE handcuffs. Due to my attention being directed elsewhere, they’ll have to be furious without my help.

    https://www.rawstory.com/trump-voters-furious/

  34. 34

    Donnie the Quack Duck spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 1:25 pm

    THE WHOLE WORLD IS AGAINST ME. MY BAD NUMBERS ARE FAKE NEWS!

    I AM THE GREATEST!

    YOU MAGATS LOVE ME FOR MY LIES!

  35. 35

    G spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 1:36 pm

    Please don’t do the TACO dance.

    Fire one of them babies off! Who really gives a fuck anymore.

    Till death do us all part!

    I’d be laughing in my grave!

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/us/politics/trump-nuclear-submarines-russia.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a08.PKY9.Hth_COcixj9c&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

    Besides – if you can’t clear your name, legitimately, of the EPSTEIN FILES, it would be a good way to go out in style.

  36. 36

    G spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 1:41 pm

    PEDOS eating pizza in the Whitey House.

    https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2025/08/donald-trump-used-registered-sex-offender-to-announce-return-of-fitness-test-for-kids.html?outputType=amp

  37. 37

    G spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 2:18 pm

    Bob, Vance being president in 2028 wouldn’t suit you well. You’ll probably want to leave Trumps shit pile for a Democrat so you can then blame everything on the Dem, Vance or any other Repuke won’t want that mess. Thats if Donnie hasn’t killed everyone first or doesn’t decide to leave.

  38. 38

    G spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 2:33 pm

    I might have missed it but did the markets hit more record highs again today?

  39. 39

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 3:01 pm

    AOC needs to assassinate Mike Johnson from the House floor.

    commentary
    Forget the 2024 autopsies. Democrats need to be bold — and ruthless
    To win against Trump and MAGA, the party must rebrand with an inspiring narrative and strong ideas

    Hey, Robinhood Dumbfuck Rabbit has said it for years. I’m just adding a bit of specificity.

  40. 40

    Vicious Troll spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 3:03 pm

    @ 35

    I’d be laughing in my grave!

    You’ll have that chance sooner than you think, G-clown. It’s always the guy with full-blown AIDS and amoebic encephalitis who’s the last to know his brain has turned to mush.

  41. 41

    Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 3:31 pm

    It’s the HUHR-DUHR REVENGE!!!!

    The Nazi Fucktard spent literally years bleating about how devastating the Huhr-Duhrham Report would be to Obama and Clinton. Then when it finally was released without any effect, he went radio silent.

    Lately the Nazi Fucktard has been pestering us with distraction porn about Clinton/Obama “corruption” to avoid commenting on Fat Hitler’s deep involvement with Epstein’s pedo-trafficking empire.

    Well guess what got declassified?

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/trump-clinton-emails-russia-investigation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a08.WmHr.TWoZEuTvFEKm&smid=url-share

    In a previously classified addendum to the Huhr-Duhrham Report, Fat Hitler’s own hand-picked legal henchman declares that the single piece of “devastating” evidence that lies at the heart of Fat Hitler’s and the Nazi Fucktard’s spurious claims was fabricated by Russian spies at Fat Hitler’s behest to smear the opposition.

    The Nazi Fucktard has been parading that Russian bullshit through these comments for weeks. Now his own beloved legal imp, John Durham has betrayed him in the end.

    👏👏👏👏👏and…🎬

  42. 42

    G spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 3:39 pm

    Isn;t this special.

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-people-shot-business-western-montana-atf/story?id=124287817

  43. 43

    United States Senator Tim Sheehy, war hero spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 3:57 pm

    @42,

    Suspect was observed fleeing in a Ford F 150.

    Obvious faggot from Missoula.

  44. 44

    Ghislaine Maxwell spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 4:04 pm

    Everyone gets that I’m obviously blackmailing Trump.

    But I’m still getting away with it.

    Just like Trump got away with raping little kids. And if everything goes as planned, so will I.

  45. 45

    G spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 4:12 pm

    Obvious faggot from Missoula.

    We will see.

    How’s the basement pizza?

  46. 46

    Ghislaine Maxwell spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 4:13 pm

    Thanks to Republicans, all your minor children are now just fuck meat.

    I guess elections really do have consequences!

  47. 47

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 5:22 pm

    Laura Loomer better have deep pockets in case she’s sued by dozens of federal workers for “tortious interference with employment relationship.”

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/laura-loomer-tip-line-disloyal-trump-firing_n_688d1fc0e4b022644fdf2e8f

  48. 48

    EvergreenRailfan spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 6:23 pm

    Who at the Hydro Museum had the bright idea to let a NASCAR driver drive the Blue Blaster this weekend?

  49. 49

    lmao spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 6:54 pm

    Careful of what you wish for.. heh.. lefties:

    https://seattle.eater.com/openings/87649/new-restaurant-openings-seattle-july-2025

    So many fucking restaurants…

  50. 50

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Friday, 8/1/25 at 7:48 pm

    @49 You won’t run into Doctor Dumbfuck at any of them. He frequents Dick’s Drive-In.

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