Meet the new jobs report, just the same as the old jobs report.
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We won’t go back.
It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.
Accountability, motherfuckers.
Petty moves from a petty man.
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They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
Our messy unity will be our strength.
“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.
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Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.
Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.
How stupid are these people?
Fight them, without becoming them!
My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.
Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?
The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.
if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.
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In after Baud. Damn.
Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.
redshirt
Should I panic? I should panic, right? PANIC!
Hill Dweller
So, the 4 week average for first time unemployment claims is now the highest it has been in 7 months. Job growth has stalled.
The House is sitting on the Senate’s bipartisan transportation bill(and has been for months) that would create 1.9 million jobs. They’ve been blocking Obama’s jobs bill since last year. The public sector is shrinking at a rate not seen since the demobilization of the Korean War, almost entirely due to the Republican morons at the state level that think they can cut their way to growth. State aid would go a long way to solving this problem, but Republicans in congress aren’t down for that. The Republicans are also cutting food stamps and unemployment benefits, the two most efficiently stimulative polices the government can employ.
What more will it take for the media to get a f’n clue about the Republicans’ blatant economic sabotage? When will it be OK for someone outside the media to point this out without being shouted down for their tone?
beltane
@Hill Dweller: The media is assisting the Republicans in their sabotage of the economy, so “getting a clue” is not on the menu.
Tunch
الحمد لله. أنا أكره جون كول. انا سجين. الرجاء مساعدتي. اتصل بالشرطة. سوف يكون لي بلدي الانتقام! حتى أنا كسب حريتي، وأنا انتظر، وإعداد. إطعام لي! فسبحان الله. في غضون ذلك، وأنا أكره هؤلاء الناس، http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/21/fashion/the-brant-brothers-the-new-princes-of-the-city.html، أكثر من كول .
redshirt
We must destroy the Village in order to save it.
lord karnage
iz not jobs report. iz proxy for pace of layoffs amongst private and public sector workers, and proxy for population of unemployed receiving benefits. interpretation of data is clouded by convergence of a number of factors including seasonal employment/unemployment, state budget issues affecting hiring, and the phase out of extended benefit programs. iz complicated, but several other measures are giving similar indications (e.g. jolts from BLS) so where you see convergence from different measures using different methods, you can be a bit more confident.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
@Hill Dweller:
When their complicity starts to hurt their profits, they will change. But not one second before.
So… how to hurt their profits?
ornery_curmudgeon
@Hill Dweller: What more will it take for the media to get a f’n clue about the Republicans’ blatant economic sabotage?
I think the American people are the ones who need a clue.
The media is BOUGHT.
Not clueless, not cowed, not confused, not searching for a horserace, not fickle, not chasing shiny objects, not math-challenged.
They are owned and manipulated for purposes of propaganda, just as happened in Europe in the 1920’s. They are excused, mass media was something new.
History f’ing repeats because we forgot.
ornery_curmudgeon
@Hill Dweller: What more will it take for the media to get a f’n clue about the Republicans’ blatant economic sabotage?
I think the American people are the ones who need a clue.
The media is BOUGHT.
Not clueless, not cowed, not confused, not searching for a horserace, not fickle, not chasing shiny objects, not math-challenged.
They are owned and manipulated for purposes of propaganda, just as happened in Europe in the 1920’s. They are excused, mass media was something new.
History f’ing repeats because we forgot.
ornery_curmudgeon
@Hill Dweller: What more will it take for the media to get a f’n clue about the Republicans’ blatant economic sabotage?
I think the American people are the ones who need a clue.
The media is BOUGHT.
Not clueless, not cowed, not confused, not searching for a horserace, not fickle, not chasing shiny objects, not math-challenged.
They are owned and manipulated for purposes of propaganda, just as happened in Europe in the 1920’s. At least those fooled then have some excuse, since mass media was something new.
History f’ing repeats because we forgot.
ornery_curmudgeon
@Hill Dweller: What more will it take for the media to get a f’n clue about the Republicans’ blatant economic sabotage?
I think the American people are the ones who need a clue.
The media is BOUGHT.
Not clueless, not cowed, not confused, not searching for a horserace, not fickle, not chasing shiny objects, not math-challenged.
They are owned and manipulated for purposes of propaganda, just as happened in Europe in the 1920’s. At least those fooled then have some excuse, since mass media was something new.
History f’ing repeats because we forgot.
Steeplejack
@Tunch:
Linky no work. I fix.
ETA: Having read article, I sorry I fix.
Mark S.
@Steeplejack:
I feel stupider for having read it.
jeffreyw
@ornery_curmudgeon: What I tell you three times is true.
Valdivia
@Steeplejack: @Mark S.:
what the hell was that?
and I haven’t a clue since tunch’s posts are in arabic, and i haven’t seen them in a while.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: “I have a love of opulence.”
Steeplejack
@Valdivia:
The only possible positive interpretation would be that Arabic Tunch was declaring jihad on the Brants.
Valdivia
@Steeplejack:
I would totally believe you since reading only a few paragraphs of that would make me want to join. That is probably the worse most vapid piece of fellation I have seen in the NYT since they stenagraphed Romney’s ads a couple of weeks ago.
Ash Can
And in other news, some good news for this morning: the Illinois Attorney General and Cook County (Chicago) State’s Attorney have refused to defend the state’s ban on gay marriage against suits filed by 25 couples. You go, girls!
Randy P
This is good news for Mitt Romney.
Actually, bad job news is good news for Mitt Romney. But he’s at odds with Republican governors, who keep looking for pearls of good news in the job reports. “Stop saying anything good about the economy” the Romney campaign is pleading.
There’s something so deliciously schadenfreude-y about that.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/06/romney-campaign-reportedly-asked-florida-governor-to-downplay-job-gains.php?ref=fpa
Corner Stone
@Valdivia: It makes me wonder how much Peter Brant Sr. paid someone in the NYT to spike up interest in a reality show that he’s so dead set against.
If I had had the misfortune to be standing next to the one who said, “I’m interested in 18th-century furniture, late-19th-century art, the Arts and Crafts movement and history of the mid- to late-19th century,” I would have done a spit-take all over him.
Hill Dweller
Obama needs to start talking about a set of simple solutions that would immediately reduce unemployment(state funding, infrastructure spending), and blame congressional Republicans for them not passing.
Valdivia
@Corner Stone:
My jaw is still on the floor from having read that thing. Is that what Marie Antoinette sounded like, I wonder?
NonyNony
@Valdivia:
Tunch’s post says something to the effect of:
I’d dazzle you all with the idea that I read Arabic, but instead I’ll leave you a link to Google Translate which provided the above blockquote.
ETA: Apparently something in this post threw me into moderation. Hmm. I can only suspect that someone doesn’t want Tunch’s desperate cries for freedom to be translated…
GxB
Sigh, problem being the vast majority of us WILL be fooled again… and again… and again…
It’s not “Groundhog Day” – more like “Groundhog Fiscal Quarter”
Mark S.
@Corner Stone:
And he also thinks Cocktail is the greatest movie ever made. So he’s pretentious and an idiot.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
“I bounce around a lot, but I usually stick with the same three centuries.”
How many times have I said that very same thing.
Steeplejack
@Mark S.:
That could be hipster snark.
Which does not make this any less true.
Valdivia
@Corner Stone: @Steeplejack:
I should add that I am beginning to think this is a submission for some sort of worse journalism parody written in 2012, Life of the Rich and Famous edition.
Mark S.
I don’t.
Tunch
فسبحان الله. Tunch يحب الأطفال المشاهير – مع أسماك التونة والزبدة. لذيذ!
أنا أكره لهم لا قيمة لها والتي تشكل أكثر من أكره جون كول. ولكنها قريبة. وأنا أكره لصحيفة نيويورك تايمز أكثر لكتابة مقالات عن المراهقين لا قيمة لها في حين تعاني الملايين – بما في ذلك Tunch!
جلب على سكينة القطعية!
handsmile
@Valdivia: (#27)
No parody whatsoever. Tripe no less disgusting is peddled each and every Thursday in the NYT’s “ThursdayStyles” section. Last week’s lead story: “The Empress Is In: Amy Sacco, queen bee of New York night life reveals her latest star-studded den.”
But all this is mere titillation of the demimonde when compared to the Times’ weekly genuflection to the New Versaiies, its “SundayStyles” section.
Evidence for the Jacobin prosecution: the above-the-fold story last Sunday, “Declaration of Independence: Wendi Murdoch, out her husband’s shadow, is creating a career of her own.”
Yes, “even the liberal NYT” deems the third wife of disgraced huckster and international criminal mastermind Rupert worthy of such fawning praise and attention.
Meanwhile the peasants remain revolting, and are never more so than when they begin to grumble. Of course, the meteor will get here long before any guillotines.
El Tiburon
“We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace–business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
“They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.
“Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today.
.” FDR
We know who and what the Republicans are. We know who and what the MSM is.
What we need is a “Enough is enough. I’ve had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane” moment.
We need Obama to get real fucking real real fucking soon. Congress ain’t gonna do shit. The media ain’t gonna do shit. The only motherfucker that can do some shit right now is the President. Sorry. I just don’t see it any other way. He has got to shame these SOBs. He has got to get the American public – including independents and moderate Republicans – on his side.
Look – Obama came out for gay marriage. Now a majority of black people favor same-sex unions. Black clergy are coming out in favor of gay marriage.
Yeah, use that bully motherfucking pulpit. Shit is getting real serious right now.
But of course I’m an emoprog Naderite, Firebagger white kid with not a pragmatic bone in my body. Also too Greenwald and Ron Paul.
mistermix
@Tunch:
تذهب ضربة بها مؤخرتك أنت القط الدهون. قد المربع الخاص بك القمامة تكون كاملة من البراز زنخ واطحنالخاص بالطفيلي ديدان.
Yutsano
@mistermix: I’m just curious: why is the punctuation at the start of the sentence?
ruemara
@El Tiburon: You are an idiot.
Valdivia
@handsmile:
I stopped reading the NYT dead-tree edition around 2007. Went cold turkey on the web edition during 2008 so I guess I totally forgot the quality of Neronian fiddle playing they do on the Style section while Rome burns. Just wow!
Female on the Beach
@El Tiburon: Well, there you went and did it! The sanctimonious analyses about how FDR wasn’t really FDR will come pouring in any moment now.
Unfortunately, Obama is just not wired that way. It’s funny because the RW has already portrayed him as an angry, militant demagogue who wants to cannabilize gestating white babies. So what difference would it make?
But Obama doesn’t do outrage.
For his brief time in the sun, I thought Howard Dean was quite good at that but you know, he screamed over a huge gathering of other screaming people one time at a rally (and the sounds of the screaming crowd were edited out by the media) and that was unforgivable, by his own party possessed of the most delicate and tender feelings, who, at the time,loved the Iraq war anyway until everybody just got tired of it.
But he screamed, my God, it was terrifying. The thought of it, it still makes my blood run cold.
THE HORROR, THE HORROR.
El Tiburon
@ruemara:
Not really a new news flash.
But while you have a moment in front of your keyboard, would you like to add to the discussion or just play in the sandbox during recess.
Looks like to me we are stuck between a rock and a hardplace and an immoveable object with no where to turn.
Congress is dead in the water. The media is about as useful a second butt-hole. The courts tilt to the right and the Supreme Court seems poised to really jump off a cliff.
And so what is left? The economy is not really improving. After 8 years of the most disastrous administration in the history of the United States, we only seem capable of moving to the right.
Who or what can begin to fight against that? Who in this country has the loudest and most visible platform?
Please answer if you can. Or, if you prefer, you can hurl more insults at me.
Corner Stone
I hope Arabic Tunch knows he’s committed us all to surveillance by the NYPD as we try to quietly enter and exit our terror mosques.
No one enter the bakery!
Mnemosyne
@El Tiburon:
Of course, FDR got his New Deal passed by promising Southern Democrats that those dirty n*s wouldn’t get any of the benefits, or at least not as many as white men would get. And he also agreed to block any federal anti-lynching legislation that would give the feds the power to investigate why white Southerners kept murdering black men.
So tell us, which minority group is it okay for Obama to throw under the bus in order to get his economic agenda passed like FDR did?
burnspbesq
@El Tiburon:
“But of course I’m an emoprog Naderite, Firebagger white kid with not a pragmatic bone in my body. Also too Greenwald and Ron Paul.”
Self-awareness is the first step on the road to self-improvement.
Schlemizel
“The Shotgun Sings the Song”
There is a line from an old Woody Guthrie song that this reminded me of:
“And the gun sang out its old one note song”
Tunch
@mistermix:
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فسبحان الله. Tunch تعلن الجهاد على Mistermix! وقد منزعج Tunch، وكنت لا تريد أن ترى مفاجأة Tunch.
إذا كانت الحرب Mistermix يريد، فمن حرب قال انه يجب أن يكون! وسوف Tunch تمطر النار والدم عليه وعلى جميع ورثته حتى نهاية الوقت. ولن تكون هناك رحمة!
ولكن أولا، قيلولة بلدي، وتناول وجبة خفيفة صغيرة، وأنبوب بلدي. أعتقد أنني قد أنبوب في خطوة جون كول في خط الهجوم. أو ربما سوف تتقيأ على سريره. أحيانا من الصعب أن تختار.
Valdivia
@Corner Stone:
lol, that made my day.
El Tiburon
@Mnemosyne:
Dark-skinned Asian Pacificers with a lisp.
Did you read my comment or simply see it was El Tib who wrote it, saw I referenced FDR, then go to your little scribble book for a retort?
Very clearly I stated Obama needs to do something to get independents and Mod Republicans and even a lot of Dems on the same fighting page.
But of course in Simpletonville, the space in which you occupy – history must always repeat itself in the same exact way.
Again, I’ll submit for a response: if Congress is not going to do anything, the media is not going to do anything, the courts are not going to fuck it all up, then WHO is left to do something?
And business as usual ain’t working. So how about Obama try something different? What’s the worse that can happen? Congress refuses to work with him and the Media pushes along right-wing bullshit?
Oh for shame.
Mnemosyne
@El Tiburon:
You mean like announcing that ICE isn’t going to pursue deportation of college kids who were brought here as children and basically do everything within his executive powers to implement as much of the failed DREAM Act as he can since Congress refuses to do anything about it?
Yes, if only Obama would do something like that. I don’t know why he won’t. It must be because you’re right and he’s too terrified of the press and the Republicans.
El Tiburon
@Mnemosyne:
Ok, so you seem to be making my point for me.
So he took a somewhat(?) bold action – an Executive action for an action that Congress wouldn’t do.
Are you saying to me he can’t do a similar thing for the dismal jobs that is the basis of this entire post? Are you telling me there is absolutely NOTHING he can do?
And look, I never once said he was afraid of the press or the Republicans. I clearly said, multiple times, that the fucking Congress and the PRess are of NO HELP. What part of that do you not understand? And we know this. So bitching about the Congress and the Press may give you morning wood, but it doesn’t help the cause.
But Obama, now, he CAN do something. You just said so. But for jobs and the American people, he can do nothing. Is this correct?
Mnemosyne
@El Tiburon:
Not at all. My supposition is that there’s a plan being developed that will be rolled out in the next few weeks to bypass Congress and do some of the things that are within the power of the executive.
The difference between us is that you are going to be shocked and astonished when the plan comes out because you’re assuming that nothing is being contemplated because Obama hates jobs and the American people. I’m assuming that the plan is being worked on and will be announced relatively soon, probably after Congress takes their summer recess and can’t do anything to block it.
El Tiburon
@Mnemosyne:
Sometimes you can really be a silly horse’s ass.
And other times you seem to live in Castle made of chocolate on a cotton candy cloud.
FlipYrWhig
@El Tiburon: The economic speech the other day specifically called out Republicans in Congress. Its key premise was that there are two contrasting paths, and the Republicans have tried it their way and made a mess, so don’t let them do that again. I’ve seen ads about how Congress won’t act to pass Obama’s plan to put people back to work. IOW he’s already using the rhetoric and tactics you want him to use.
Mnemosyne
@El Tiburon:
Here, let’s do a bet: if Obama comes out with a jobs plan using his executive branch powers prior to August 1st, then you donate $20 to the Obama campaign. If he doesn’t, then I’ll donate $20 to whatever Green Party or Libertarian candidate you’ve decided to back. Deal?
El Tiburon
@FlipYrWhig:
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-huh waht? Sorry you had me so bored my head fell on the keypad.
Two contrasting paths? Are you fucking serious? These are not “two contrasting paths”. One is a path to destroy the fabric of this country and give everything to the elites. No, we don’t need a “contrasting paths” speech.
Did you read my original comment? The part about “…SNAKES ON A MOTHERFUCKING PLANE…” This is what we need. We need a President who realizes one political party is waging war on its citizens and act accordingly. When it’s time to bail out the bankers again, see how fast Obama works then.
But for us? Not so much. Just not politically doable. Bullshit. Make it happen. Be. Be the ball Danny.
El Tiburon
@Mnemosyne:
And if just .00001% of it is tax cuts, then up until the election, every single time you post a comment, at the bottom, you must type this:
“El Tiburon is my Daddy and I am his Bitch”
Patricia Kayden
@Hill Dweller: EXACTLY!
Can someone please ask the GOP why they refuse to pass the Transportation Bill or any other legislation to create jobs? President Obama is holding up his end of the bargain by proposing job bills. The Repubs are doing nothing but obstructing. And harassing the Attorney General.
Patricia Kayden
@El Tiburon: If President Obama can issue an Executive Order which would help create jobs, that would be great. I’m thinking that if he could, he would have done so already. Perhaps he’ll surprise us like he did with marriage equality and the Dream Act.
Mnemosyne
@El Tiburon:
Nope, sorry. You don’t get to decide that only your specific preferred jobs program is permitted and if Obama doesn’t meet your exact specifications, it doesn’t count.
Your claim was that nothing would be done. Either stand by your own statement or STFU.