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4 day week, but I am more spent than most. So here’s to the weekend. After today. And here’s to getting vaccinated or boosted if you’re eligible.

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  1. 1

    And a DEAD Murdoch, Putin, the feckless FREEDUMB KOOKUS and Matthew Kascmaryk.

  2. 2

    We’d be better off if Republican primary voters had preferred John Kasich in 2016.

  3. 3

    We ARE far, far, far better off with Joe Biden as our president.

  4. 4

    May jobs report continues to show new job creation.

    Black unemployment, after falling to record lows has jumped a full point, however.
    And while prime working age labor force participation has rebounded beyond pre-pan norms, overall labor force participation has not risen, indicated that older and younger workers may be facing employment headwinds.

    In the immediately preceding Wednesday post I alluded to some of the reasons for this. Younger workers seeking all important initial work experience are often shit upon by corporate employers in ways that defy description. And aging workers facing health challenges and complex responsibilities away from their jobs are heavily discriminated against by most employers and simultaneously driven away from the workplace by absurd employer demands.

    Sick kid has to be picked up from school? You get “points”. Vital doctor’s appointment that can’t be rescheduled? You get “points”. Accrue too many points in a rolling calendar period, you’re terminated by the computer. Can’t stand continuously for five hours straight on a diamond hard concrete floor without any bathroom breaks? You can’t clerk here. Can’t be available on a moment’s notice to fill an empty shift? We can’t count on you, so you’re fired.

    There is strong evidence that coming out of pandemic closures many employers in unskilled sectors relaxed workplace and scheduling requirements to be more accommodating of real people. But some of that relaxation now appears to be going away. And with it goes some percentage of the workforce simply unable to make the sacrifices demanded of them for near-minimum wage jobs. The highly intrusive, micro-management, “no excuses”, “meet arbitrary quota or die trying” HR mentality long popular in low wage employment sectors is slowly creeping back.

    Still the robots have not arrived to save us.

  5. 5

    We’d be better off if Trump had been re-elected.

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    @8

    Ohio has no background check law. Ohio has no extreme risk protection law. Ohio enacted “shoot first” protections to self defense in 2022. Ohio has no mandatory storage safety laws within the home regarding small children.

    Ohio’s Permitless Carry Law Goes into Effect Today: Here’s What You Should Know

    Ohio GOP lawmakers want to make guns cheaper by exempting them from sales tax

    Ohio is currently on pace to have an increase in deaths by firearms (murder/suicide) in 2023 over 2022.

    MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — Middletown police are investigating the accidental shooting of a 4-year-old who discharged an unsecured gun Wednesday night at Jacot Park, according to Police Chief David Birk.

    The incident happened at about 5:40 p.m. at the park located in the 4000 block of Grand Avenue. (4/2023)

    …

    COLUMBUS, Ohio — An 8-year-old boy was injured after police say he was accidentally shot in the face near Reynoldsburg Wednesday evening

    The Columbus Division of Police was called to a home in the area of Bayspirit Drive and Candlestone Drive for a report of an accidental shooting around 5:45 a.m.(4/2023)

    …
    CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WJW) – Four people are dead and one is seriously injured after a suspected murder-suicide at a home in Ohio Township on Monday.

    According to a press release from the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were responding to a home on the 1100 block of Riebel Ridge Road around 9:40 p.m. to serve civil paperwork when several gunshots were heard inside the home. (see no extreme risk protection order 3/2023

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    Where the GOP becomes the News of the World of politics.

    Having been told by the FBI director that an FD-103 form is literally a note of any wild ass thing anyone claims to the FBI, like say, Marjorie Taylor Greene telling the field office that the Jewish Space Laser roasted her Labradoodle right in front of her but then the neighbor’s dog ate the carcas so there’s no evidence, Chuck Grassley gives up the truth on Fox news,

    “We are not interested in whether the allegations against Vice President Biden are accurate or not.”

    “What’s important here is that we can publicly introduce this evidence that Hunter Biden ate a varenyky off Ukrainian hookers while Joe watched and Zelensky shoved piles of cash into a suitcase for Joe to take home. The American people need to know that this allegation has been made and we believe it to be true. Then they beer ponged with shots of stem cells mixed with pure unvaccinated blood of true patriots.”

  12. 12

    Speaking of weird

    Heritage Foundation is obsessed with Harry and Meagan.

    The conservative Heritage Foundation is taking the federal government to court in an effort to get records related to Prince Harry’s U.S. visa application, questioning whether the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) acted properly after the Duke of Sussex admitted he has used drugs on U.S. and foreign soil.

    “Widespread and continuous media coverage has surfaced the question of whether DHS properly admitted the Duke of Sussex in light of the fact that he has publicly admitted to the essential elements of a number of drug offenses in both the United States and abroad,” the complaint said. “United States law generally renders such a person inadmissible for entry into the United States (note, this is not actually true but is a potential barrier to entry, see hundreds of thousands of musicians regularly granted temporary entry and legendary drug fiends like John Lennon, Ozzy Ozborne, George Michael being granted permanent residency despite actual drug arrests.). Intense media coverage has also surfaced the question of whether DHS may have improperly granted the Duke of Sussex a waiver to enter the country on a non-immigrant visa given his history of admissions to the essential elements of drug offenses.”

    It’s a weird claim because, as famously married to a U.S. Citizen, Harry has more rights than your average would be immigrant. Yes, a green card CAN be denied to a drug addict or abuser of drugs but that’s a threshold that is grey. Is ‘youthful dalliance’ abuse? Also there is the ‘persons of extraordinary talent or repute’ exception, right Melania?

    And why does Heritage care if a mostly-Ex royal is living in California? One can only assume that marriage to a mongrel and the mongrel kids they are going to produce are the primary drivers of a deeply whacked conservative organization trying FOIA an immigration decision.

    And here you thought they only cared about people coming from shithole countries.

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    CLERMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WJW) – Four people are dead and one is seriously injured after a suspected murder-suicide at a home in Ohio Township on Monday.

    I suspect the Heterosexual Neanderthal Virus is to blame for that.

    But just think how much deficit reduction this country could have if there were less or no Heterosexual Neanderthals!

  15. 15

    “Police staged a Swat-style raid on Wednesday on the Atlanta Solidarity Fund (ASF), arresting three of its members.” ASF is “a bail and legal defense fund.”

    They’re charged with “financial crimes, including money laundering and ‘charity fraud,'” for helping arrested Cop City protesters raise bail.

    “After Wednesday’s police raid, Devin Franklin, movement policy counsel at [Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights], has also been hearing from defense attorneys who are concerned about becoming targets of the state themselves.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/atlanta-cop-city-protest-domestic-terrorism-statute

    Cute. If you’re a lawyer representing a protester, the GOP attorney general may send heavily-armed SWAT teams in armored cars to your home to arrest you for domestic terrorism.

  16. 16

    13,
    Careful now.

    Today we learn that as yet another condition of his humiliating Debt Default Deal, Brave Kevin has now been forced to turn over all the raw security footage from J6 to MTG and her team so they can slice, dice and Deep Fake the fuck out of it for clicks, follows, and beer drunk cash.

  17. 17

    @15 Will Jim Jordan’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Government look into that?

  20. 20

    19,
    This is a good thing for Democrats.

    It helps ensure Trump and Trump affiliated candidates control over the GOP. Which in turn not only increases traditional turnout for Dems but significantly moves unaffiliated voters in swing states and districts our way.

    And, as always, they are doing it all entirely to themselves.

    Who really knows if John Kasich would have beaten Hillary Clinton, right?
    But it surely would have put the GOP on a completely different trajectory from the one it is now zooming ahead on.

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    @19

    Speaking of me….

    I’ve been peddling discarded racist tropes on the Twitter just this week.

    Virtually every IQ study over the past half century shows that blacks, who are the rock-solid base of the Democratic Party, have the lowest IQ of any ethnic group, one standard deviation below whites and Asian Americans. How is this compatible with your thesis?

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/1434872

  22. 22

    @ 4

    In the immediately preceding Wednesday post I alluded to some of the reasons for this.

    Left off the list QoS McHillbilly posted is the new IRS 1099 reporting rule. Here’s CNBC to explain:

    The new ”$600 rule”
    Under the new rules set forth by the IRS, if you got paid more than $600 for the transaction of goods and services through third-party payment platforms, you will receive a 1099-K for reporting the income. With this new, lower threshold for triggering the tax form, more individuals with side hustles, small businesses and gigs may be reporting the income they earn.

    Now that the money’s being reported and traced, it’s frequently to the gig worker’s advantage to be an employee and only pay half of the payroll taxes required, PLUS get bennies, instead of pocketing the under-the-table payments. That means more jobs “created”.

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    @21

    Plus I’m a race baiter with this whole argument. If as observed 12% of the electorate in 2020 was black AND 80% of those voted democratic, a hair shy of 10% of the electorate were black voting Democrat.

    So out of the approximately 156M votes cast, about 15.5M were black votes for the Democratic Party.

    So making a claim that the IQ of the Democratic Party is low by extrapolating (15.5m/81m) 19% of those voters were low IQ blacks because we all know that ALL blacks are low IQ is pretty fucking stupid and racist and blatantly obvious that I’m being a racist.

    Even for me.

    MULES!

  24. 24

    Dinesh, you’re cut from the same cloth as that race-baiting Al Sharpton.

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    Why did Steve Bannon go to jail for contempt of Congress and Eric Holder, who committed the same offense, not go to jail?

  29. 29

    @28 It’s the difference between guilt and innocence, stupid. One has been convicted, the other hasn’t been.

    P.S., Bannon hasn’t gone to jail for contempt of Congress, and won’t until appeals are over, and may never, depending on the outcome of his appeals.

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