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Over half a million jobs in July?!

That damn Biden! I’m so angry!


Chips bill, inflation reduction bill, green energy bill, veterans health care, and now this??? Brandon and his party are gaining some momentum. And right before the midterms? Shucks!

This Congress and president have actually been pretty damn productive. Much better than passing a tax cut bill and issuing out a Muslim ban via executive order.

I’m not tired from all of this winning!

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Over half a million jobs in July?!

That damn Biden! I’m so angry!


Chips bill, inflation reduction bill, green energy bill, veterans health care, and now this??? Brandon and his party are gaining some momentum. And right before the midterms? Shucks!

This Congress and president have actually been pretty damn productive. Much better than passing a tax cut bill and issuing out a Muslim ban via executive order.

I’m not tired from all of this winning!

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Analysts overall expected the report to find about 258,000 new jobs created, but it was more than double that, with 528,000 new jobs. Unemployment dropped slightly to 3.5%, which is far below the 5% mark economists used to use as a marker of “full employment.”

Economists cheered the results, with even those often more pessimistic finding the jobs report excellent news. Overall, many made clear there is no recession, and predicted inflation will come under control as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, and as the price of gas has dropped tremendously, with some stations now selling at under $3.00 a gallon.

Meanwhile, Fox News decided to use the White House’s prediction that the jobs numbers would not be great against them.

The Daily Beast’s media reporter Justin Baragona posted a screenshot of Fox News’s chyron that blasts the White House for not getting the estimate right. A casual observer, say, in an airport, would likely assume the jobs report was bad and blame the Biden administration.

It reads: “WH Misses Forecast on Lower July Jobs Growth.”


Media Matters’ Eric Kleefeld notes how Fox News Business’s Larry Kudlow, a former Trump top advisor, and former Trump advisor Kevin Hassett both predicted the jobs number would come in exactly the same as what the Biden White House predicted, and were preparing since Thursday for bad news: Public Notice’s Aaron Rupar says Fox News is suggesting the jobs report is too good:

Attorney Brad Moss, a frequent social media commenter, observed: “Fox News is desperately trying to spin this blockbuster jobs report against Biden. If Trump was in office, they’d be running celebration videos complete with champagne.”

Just after 8:30 AM ET when the report was released “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade immediately mocked President Joe Biden as they shared the numbers.

Fox News Business’ Charles Payne was on set to discuss the report. Looking for the negative spin he announced that the jobs number was the best since March, adding the numbers had “been trending lower since March sequentially.”

Begrudgingly admitting “it’s a really good number,” he pivoted to “participation” in the workforce. he called it “amazing that we have not gotten back up to the same level of participation” since before COVID.

But as CNBC reported: “private sector payrolls are now higher than the February 2020 level, just before the pandemic declaration.”


Poor FAUX news
 
Biden has picked up a little momentum recently on his policy agenda. Add to that inflation is starting to ease, gas prices are falling, employment is still extremely strong and you might have to start worrying about the mid-terms if you're a MAGA turd.

None of those things is even what Republicans should be most worried about when it comes to the mid-terms. The thing that should worry them is the reaction Americans are having to the now seemingly real possibility that the Republican party wants to turn the U.S. into Gilead after the Row V Wade decision. Many states have horrific anti-abortion laws that provide no exception for the life and/or health of the mother, or for rape, incest or the viability of the fetus. We've already seen a small preview of the horrors this lack of compassion will have on women and the people who love them. Then a bunch of idiotic Republicans have doubled down, suggesting that birth control should be banned, and that gay marriage should be abolished. Most Americans don't want to live in a theocratic nightmare.
 
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Biden has picked up a little momentum recently on his policy agenda. Add to that inflation is starting to ease, gas prices are falling, employment is still extremely strong and you might have to start worrying about the mid-terms if you're a MAGA turd.

None of those things is even what Republicans should be most worried about when it comes to the mid-terms. The thing that should worry them is the reaction Americans are having to the now seemingly real possibility that the Republican party wants to turn the U.S. into Gilead after the Row V Wade decision. Many states have horrific anti-abortion laws that provide no exception for the life and/or health of the mother, or for rape, incest or the viability of the fetus. We've already seen a small preview of the horrors this lack of compassion will have on women and the people who love them. Then a bunch of idiotic Republicans have doubled down, suggesting that birth control should be banned, and that gay marriage should be abolished. Most Americans don't want to live in a theocratic nightmare.
Let's hope they vote.
 
Most Americans don't want to live in a theocratic nightmare.

Let's hope they vote.
Yeah, let’s hope stuff like this scares the living bejesus out of enough Americans come November.


Calling for Christian nationalists to “unite forces”, Orbán told CPAC: “Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance. We must take back the institutions in Washington and in Brussels. We must find friends and allies in one another. We must coordinate the movements of our troops because we face the same challenge.”

He noted that US midterm elections will be later this year followed by the presidential contest and European parliamentary elections in 2024. “These two locations will define the two fronts in the battle being fought for western civilisation. Today, we hold neither of them. Yet we need both.”
 
Hey, maybe if Viktor Orban and the MAGA Republicans succeed, the 2024 Republican convention can look like this. At least, this seems to be what they want, for some bizarre reason, having to do with they lost their effin minds:

 
None of those things is even what Republicans should be most worried about when it comes to the mid-terms. The thing that should worry them is the reaction Americans are having to the now seemingly real possibility that the Republican party wants to turn the U.S. into Gilead after the Row V Wade decision. Many states have horrific anti-abortion laws that provide no exception for the life...
The thing Republicans should be most worried about when it comes to the mid-terms is how gullible voters are on the political left. There is no anti-abortion law in any US state that provides no exception for the life of the mother. I would bet if you polled leftists, the majority would believe there was such a law in at least one state. I don't consider Gameface to be unintelligent and he believes it.

There is no such law, not even in Idaho. If you think there is then you are a dupe who has fallen for propaganda. If you think there is such a law in any US state then it is you who Republicans should be most worried about when it comes to the mid-terms because a voter motivated by a fiction counts just as much as a voter who has all the information.
 
The thing Republicans should be most worried about when it comes to the mid-terms is how gullible voters are on the political left. There is no anti-abortion law in any US state that provides no exception for the life of the mother. I would bet if you polled leftists, the majority would believe there was such a law in at least one state. I don't consider Gameface to be unintelligent and he believes it.

There is no such law, not even in Idaho. If you think there is then you are a dupe who has fallen for propaganda. If you think there is such a law in any US state then it is you who Republicans should be most worried about when it comes to the mid-terms because a voter motivated by a fiction counts just as much as a voter who has all the information.

Have you heard about anyone on the right wanting to ban contraceptives?


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On a list of like 8 horrific things AI pulled a gotcha on me for one of them...

Yep
 
Have you heard about anyone on the right wanting to ban contraceptives?
So you found someone with a hot take. I've heard about a woman who eats fiberglass insulation but that wouldn't justify a blanket condemnation of women because they eat fiberglass insulation and that is effectively what you are trying to do.
 
So you found someone with a hot take. I've heard about a woman who eats fiberglass insulation but that wouldn't justify a blanket condemnation of women because they eat fiberglass insulation and that is effectively what you are trying to do.
No, not a blanket condemnation. Just a condemnation of the politicians espousing the ban and those who voted them into office, and anyone else who supports it. It's stupid, remarkably stupid. And reeks of attempts to simply control people instead of doing what's best for the country.
 
If you think there is such a law in any US state then it is you who Republicans should be most worried about when it comes to the mid-terms because a voter motivated by a fiction counts just as much as a voter who has all the information.
The largest group of voters believing in a fiction can be found among the MAGA Big Lie Republicans. But the Republicans are counting on as many MAGA 2020 election deniers as possible to be there for them, and voting at least in part on the basis of that very fictional fantasy that so motivates them.
 
Not sure this is a winning message either. Blake Masters is running for Senate in Arizona:


sees American governance as a piece of old software larded with junk code: an accumulation of inefficient solutions to coding errors encountered in its long existence. The best way to radically improve its operation… is to cease adding more workarounds and get rid of the junk code in one fell swoop. How? By replacing the president with a “Caesar” figure or “monarch” who would bypass the Constitution, shut down independent news outlets like CNN and The New York Times, and abolish many federal agencies.
This should be horrifying for any American who values freedom and our democracy. Peter Thiel, the billionaire funding his campaign:
The Thielites want to see the government hollowed out — to eject the administrative state and erase its memory — not to enhance liberty, but to make our nation’s current operating system more suitable for coercion. They wish to unseat the liberal technocratic elite only so they can install their own: a more competent, compliant and unfettered one.
This is fascism:
What this vision is not, is a conservatism of limits. Rather, it is Promethean, progressive, in the most basic sense: It deplores any constraint on its power to govern, shape the future, despoil the planet, innovate, and expand the American economy. All limits — pluralism, democracy, ecology, human frailty — must be overcome in pursuit of winning the world game, reasserting American dominance and dispelling our decadent malaise. (At one time, Mr. Thieland Mr. Masters were both interested in overcoming the ultimate limit: death itself.)
 
No, not a blanket condemnation. Just a condemnation of the politicians espousing the ban and those who voted them into office, and anyone else who supports it. It's stupid, remarkably stupid. And reeks of attempts to simply control people instead of doing what's best for the country.
I disagree with the idea of what is best for the country is letting women kill their children. I'm of the belief that a woman who intentionally kills her child should be subjected to the same consequences as a man who intentionally kills his child.

I can see justifications for abortion in the cases of rape, incest, birth defects, and life of the mother. That should be the common ground a solution can be fashioned from, but the statistical reality is that nearly all abortions do not fall in any of those categories and the pro-mothers-killing-children crowd have made very clear such restrictions are not acceptable. For all the cries about rape, incest, etc., the real point of contention is that one side wants the right for women to be able to kill perfectly healthy children who are the result of consensual sex while the other side finds that to be an awful thought. I think it is an awful thought. I think a women carrying out a premeditated killing of a perfectly healthy child is an awful thought. I don't care how inconvenient the perfectly healthy child might be, I don't condone killing it. It is a thing you and I will not see eye-to-eye on.
 
I disagree with the idea of what is best for the country is letting women kill their children. I'm of the belief that a woman who intentionally kills her child should be subjected to the same consequences as a man who intentionally kills his child.

I can see justifications for abortion in the cases of rape, incest, birth defects, and life of the mother. That should be the common ground a solution can be fashioned from, but the statistical reality is that nearly all abortions do not fall in any of those categories and the pro-mothers-killing-children crowd have made very clear such restrictions are not acceptable. For all the cries about rape, incest, etc., the real point of contention is that one side wants the right for women to be able to kill perfectly healthy children who are the result of consensual sex while the other side finds that to be an awful thought. I think it is an awful thought. I think a women carrying out a premeditated killing of a perfectly healthy child is an awful thought. I don't care how inconvenient the perfectly healthy child might be, I don't condone killing it. It is a thing you and I will not see eye-to-eye on.
Nice straw man attempt but this discussion was specifically about contraception.
 
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