Wingate

Let's try this... "John Durham, the former illegal rightist/repub" gave DCI John Brennan and everyone in both the agency and the bureau---save for one low level bureau agent---a clean bill of health for their part in the Russia investigation. Did I play Whataboutism as well as a MAGAnista? Do I get an Associates degree from Trump U ?

Which is to say "in character".

This is some funny stuff! Janitors, truck drivers and other MAGAnistas can tell us what is "TRUTH"? LOL! Let us not forget the Freudian, or not so Freudian, slips of the tongue of some of Trump's closest sycophants: "We have alternative facts" Kellyanne Conway (Kellyanne also gave us a history lesson on the Bowling Green Massacre (sic). I'm sure that even now MAGANistas lower the rebel flags on their pickup trucks on the anniversary to honor those we lost....in something that never happened.) "Truth isn't truth"---Rudy Giuliani Yea, those with an IQ above a turnip do not go to Trump or his favored "news" sources (such as Fox who lost a massive libel suit for lying about voting machines in 2020) if in search of objective truth.

The public---at least members of the public with some connection to reality, which necessarily leaves out MAGAnistas---were given an education over the weekend as to how the BLS jobs number is determined. It looks like Trump is going to have to fire hundreds of people, as well as rewrite computer code involved in running algorithms on the collected data. It also turns out the BLS Director does not even get the draft data until Wednesday of the week the report is to be reported. Now the hundreds of human beings involved in the data collection would know if what the final report is differs from what was collected, and nobody voiced any complaint about what was reported last Friday. Firing the messenger for doing their job properly has become a key tactic of this fantasy-driven Administration. Recall that a 30 year veteran in the intel community (Mike Collins) was fired from ODNI, as was the former #2 at ODNI (Sue Gordon) because they both gathered and collated intel whose conclusion differed from Trump's baseless gut feel. Now Erika McEnterfer was fired because the actual data---as gathered by hundrds of Dept of Labor civil servants---revealed that the supposed great economy is not actually so great. Trump lost face, and given his level of woeful personal insecurity, that is something with which he cannot live. Tulsi Gabbard was put in the penalty box just before the Iran strike, because she reported the actual intelligence which estimated Iran was a few years away from a workable nuclear bomb. She quickly recanted and agreed Trump knows best. And why not? I mean, a guy who could stop the greatest Holocaust in human history---the 7 million slaughtered in Rwanda in 1994 (sic)---was finally stopped by Trump (then just a casino owner filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection) as he claimed in his Scottish presser last week, certainly has some sort of clairvoyant insight into what the mullahs are up to in a country he unlikely cannot point out on a map. We are getting to the point where perhaps we can fire everybody who does any job according to the rules, and anyone who uses the skills that allowed them to be hired, because reports will just be what Trump wants them to be. It isn't hard to imagine---given Trump's penchant for both mendacity and hyperbole, that in a nation with a workforce of around 170,000,000, a future BLS report will say "2 billion new jobs were created last month." When it comes time to announce GDP numbers, I won't be surprised if it is announced that the economy grew 138% in the latest Quarter. The new BLS Chief will likely give Trump a call before the report is issued and ask, "What do you need the number to be, your Majesty?" Of course MAGAnistas will believe all of what spews from Trump's addled brain and delicate ego-driven gaping maw. Yea...last Friday's revisions are "rigged" and Trump shot a gross 69 over the weekend on the golf course (which means a 71, given his claimed handicap of 2). Frankly, Trump will have to do better if he wants to channel Kim il Song, the previous North Korean leader who "reportedly" shot in the high 30s in his first ever attempt at golf, shooting 7 or 8 holes-in-one in his round. Trump already has the groveling sycophants who clap liked trained seals whenever he says anything, just as North Korea's leaders have generals and officials who do that. Now Trump just needs to be more bold...and go after that 8 holes-in-one in a single round that set the gold standard of fantasy and hyperbole.

Oh my! You have it bad. Unlikely there is a cure for what ails you. The Founders would have hung Pence? Why? Because he did his job? As for "WINNING", it depends on how one defines that. Rational and sane people have one definition, MAGAs have another. The downward revision of 258,000 jobs---a 90% revision---and an upward tick in UE (even that was aided by the ,4% downward tick in the Labor Participation Rate since April) is not WINNING, except among the MAGAnistas. I guess the good news is there might be a strawberry picking job for you, now that those "rapists and murderers" working the fields in the Farm Belt have been sent home by ICE. It's possible you have the credentials for that. Or maybe truck driver. No partial differential equations involved, so go for it!

The Fed workforce number will be reflected in the unemployment rate, not the jobs number. The jobs number refers to jobs created. If those Fed workers don't look for another job, that will be reflected in the Labor Participation Rate (LPR), and as that shrinks, the UE number becomes deceptive. Disillusioned workers who have given up looking for work are not counted as "unemployed". The LPR under Trump peaked in Jan-Apr at 62.6%, but has now fallen to 62.2% as of July. The fall could well be due to some effects from the tariff debacle. That .4% drop actually benefits Trump's UE statistic, because none of the people represented in that .4% drop are considered "unemployed". Were they included, the UE number would not be just 4.2%, but higher.

So you believe Trump really did end the Rwanda slaughter in 1994? He has a true handicap of 2? Job growth in May and June really was 258,000 higher than the Friday revision? He actually is a stable genius? How about he won in 2020? If yes to any of the above, then "Mr Cecille Roads has left you $51,722,578 (fifty-one million seven hundred twenty-two thousand, five hundred seventy-eight dollars) in his will. Contact the Bank of Nigeria, Mr Bosco Nduja, to claim your inheritance."

You CAN fool some of the people all of the time. Those people are MAGAs. I fully expect one of his sycophants or idolators to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the Rwanda slaughter in 1994, as Trump claimed he did (in his whackadoodle Scottish presser last week). If Trump says it, it's Gospel to the most captured members of his Cult of the Absurd. Look at what the White House released yesterday, no doubt partly in reaction to the 90% revision in the May-June jobs numbers, which show an economy in decline. They announced Trump shot a gross score of 69 on the golf course, and given his ludicrously-claimed handicap of 2, that would mean he shot a 71. The statement the WH issued was: "Winning on and off the golf course" That statement was also likely prompted by another thing that happened in Scotland, in addition to his brain-addled presser. The widely seen video of his caddy tossing a ball backwards onto the short grass after Trump quite clearly shot into the deep rough shows his moniker "Commander-in-Cheat" is richly deserved. MAGAs will believe both absurdities: that Trump ended the "7,000,000" largest Holocaust in history in Rwanda in 1994, and that he has a handicap of 2 and shot a 71. I guess they'll also believe he's 215 lbs and never touched Stormy. LOL. One more thing: The petulant and wildly insecure child who is Trump went after a comedian/social commenter who appeared on some Fox Comedy News show, and said the Epstein debacle will allow actual conservative Republicans to reclaim their Party form the MAGAs. Trump then attacked the man, who goes by Charlamagne tha God, and called him "low IQ" and criticized him for his moniker using what Trump hopes his cult think she is...God. Oh, and as we have seen many times, Trump always uses his "low IQ" criticism when the person he attacks is Black. CtG is a black man.

From his recent Scottish presser: "7 million killed in Rwanda....machetes machetes everywhere....but I stopped that" It was 800,000 and in 1994, while Trump was filing for bankruptcy protection. He had absolutely nothing to do with it. That fantasy is just in his addled brain, where he's also fighting his cursed wind turbines like a bloated Don Quixote. That guy has the nuclear codes. In term 1 he wanted to nuke hurricane Maria, but didn't access the nuclear football back then. He could have, had he really wanted to do so.. Several times a day, those who fire the ICBMs, the ones with multiple W78 or other warheads, each with 1000 times the power of Hiroshima, are sent messages to launch. These soldiers are sitting in bunkers deep underground in places like North Dakota. They have a procedure they go through when receiving the order to launch. Each missile has two soldiers in charge of launching it, each with a key. After the entire check procedure, they insert keys and turn them, which would initiate the launch. They are given this degree and frequency of training so that they will fire when instructed. They never know if the order to fire is real or a drill. Obviously they tend to assume it's always a drill. If the proper code has been sent into the computers, along with the instruction to launch, the missiles will launch. Every day for more than a few decades, the instruction to fire has been sent, but the incorrect launch code was sent. Thus, no actual launch occurs. Each and every time, the soldiers turning the keys had no idea if they would actually be starting Nuclear Armageddon. Only the President can send the correct launch code. Nobody can stop him. He opens the nuclear "football" and gets the code and sends it. The same guy who thinks he stopped the Rwandan genocide has the authority to send the correct code at any time, initiating Nuclear Armageddon. If, in his increasingly addled brain, which we know produced his Rwanda fantasy a week ago, merely decides he knows Russia is attacking, he can send the correct code, and soldiers sitting in underground bunkers, who have been through the launch sequence hundreds of times, will do what they always do....only this time the missiles will launch. Don't play Whataboutism and say "Biden", because we now know the team around him made sure what Biden did and would not be allowed to do. There were guardrails. Trump has no guardrails, no Gen Mattis or Gen Milley. He has only groveling sycophants and idolators. Have a nice day, MAGAs.

What's that term MAGAnistas coined when justice was pursuing ACTUAL crimes committed by Trump, such as stealing all those classified documents? Oh yes.....weaponization of justice Let's see.....Comey, Brennan, Obama, ABC, Jack Smith, now Wray. I hope the Dems don't play catch-up when they retake the WH, Senate and House again, but they may. Certainly Trump's meme coin, selling dinners at Mar-a-Lago, the free airplane from Qatar, etc., may well be criminal. His kids' use of the family name trying to secure deals dwarfs anything ever concocted about "Hunter", insider trading of MTG when she was reportedly advised of the actions that won Trump his nickname of TACO, making a sweetheart deal with convicted human trafficker Maxwell....so many apparent crimes. Next thing you know Trump will be firing people who made him look bad.....and maybe finding "reasons" to prosecute them, such as Ms Erika McEnterfer, who showed his economy is actually pretty poor. I wonder what charges Commerce Dept officials will face when Trump's tariffs fully kick in and the economy shows it has moved into Recession, as well as UE jumping? Firing squad?

From some of the comments here it seems pedophilia is acceptable behavior in MAGAstan. It's no surprise. Perhaps MAGA Incels think it's their birthright to get it any way and with anyone they can, even by force. Be from south of the border, and by Trump definition, you're a "rapist and murderer", but be Caucasian and perhaps have dirt of Trump, and "I wish her well", even if accused of an active role in pedophilia and rape. How ironic that Trump gained the votes of the QAnon whackadoodles, who believe Hillary ran a pedo ring out of the basement of a DC pizza parlor that has no basement, yet when a real pedo ring is uncovered, many MAGAs are good with special treatment for the primary accomplice to actual rape and pedophilia. Yet more proof, too, that with Trump accusations are ALWAYS projection. Hints of a sweetheart deal for a vile criminal, just as violent terrorists from 6 Jan got pardons, but Trump says he wants to look into prosecuting Beyonce.

And that is relevant to the massive revision of 258,000 jobs NOT created how? Typical MAGA fan-Incel: disparage the messenger. Does the fact Trump isn't even the Second Coming of L Ron Hubbard make you Angrierguy? Maybe find a new deity, because the obese, mendacious, self-serving, corrupt, mentally deteriorating clown (No, he did not stop the carnage in Rwanda in 1994) isn't close to omnipotent. In fact, not even competent.

Is that the official Fox News spin for MAGAstan? It doesn't really work. First, the jobs number is for "Non-Farm Payroll", which means the folks who were helping to keep produce prices down and harvest before crops rotted are not part of the calculation. Second, if "undocumented" are part of the employed numbers, it means they are paying Social Security and having their income reported to the IRS, which also means they are likely paying taxes and helping fund the ever-ballooning deficit. If they are not paying SS and getting W2s, then they are not officially employed, and thus would not be included in any BLS Number. Oh, and again for the record....Erika McEnterfer was appointed BLS Chief in January 2025, by guess who? Finally, how many people have been deported? Hint: it isn't 258,000.

And you know that how? Because it hurts to realize Trump isn't Zeus, Thor, Jeebus, Yahweh, Allah, Krishna, Quetzalcoatl, and L Ron Hubbard rolled into one? I see him as more like Jim Jones, getting his cult to drink the original Kool Aid, oblivious to his charlatanism and personal weakness. I mean, you already buy into his lies about "political" release of the revisions and "rigging". Drink up, fella.

Knowing how Trump loves both hyperbole and unctuous sycophants (watch any Cabinet meeting to see this in action), the new BLS Chief will be announcing---likely via Executive Order---that "2.3 billion jobs were created last month under the wise, benevolent and god-like care of our Great Leader, for whom working is the greatest honor of my life as well as the greatest honor anyone in my extended family---both ancestors and future citizens---could ever possibly experience".

No, it is not. Per this article: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/president-trump-fires-bls-commissioner-after-july-jobs-report-disappoints-182118823.html "McEntarfer was confirmed as BLS commissioner by an 86-8 Senate vote back in January." Also in the article, Trump tries his Karnak the Magnificent act: "As he left the White House for the weekend later Friday, President Trump repeated his charges, without providing evidence, that McEntarfer was acting politically and that her "numbers were wrong."" How does someone dubbed the Commander-in-Cheat, who spends so much time and US Taxpayer money playing golf, know the numbers were wrong? It's kind of like his golf ball buried deep in the rough was "wrong", and Trump's caddy corrected it by tossing a new ball onto the fairway.

Simple question for MAGAs...... If May and June numbers were revised UPWARDS by 258,000, would Erika McEnterfer still be Chief of BLS? Answer: Of course she would. Trump would be doing his two man jackoff dance (hat tip Bill Maher) on the concrete steps where the Rose Garden lawn used to be, Fox would be carrying it live, and Ms McEnterfer would be nominated by Trump for the Nobel Prize in Economics.

If it's so common and normal, why did Trump feel the need to announce it? Maybe we'd all sleep better if he deployed the subs against those cancer-causing wind turbines he barked so much about last week in Scotland. I suppose those turbines are also Biden's fault. He can nuke them, like he wanted to do to Hurricane Maria. Good thing the "peacemaker" stopped the largest Holocaust in history...the 7 million killed in Rwanda back in 1994---and for which he also took credit last week in his Scottish presser. Heck, a guy who can stop that degree of slaughter all while filing for Chapter 11 protection for his New Jersey casinos is the kind of leader I want with the nuclear codes.

He did not fire the BLS Chief Erika McEntarfer because under her, the staff missed its initial assessment. He fired her because the real numbers made him look bad. He and his Carnival People administration had been boasting about the May and June jobs numbers, despite them being---in the original release---well below Biden's last month. Now, it's a Roseanne Roseannadanna "Never mind". The revisions were brutal. If the numbers had been revised upward by a similar amount, Trump would be crowing like he was the marshall leading the Gay Pride Parade......and Ms McEntarfer would be given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. There is no good way to spin this, no matter how hard the cult members try. The average person is not THAT stupid, though the average MAGA probably is. The numbers are horrid, and firing the BLS Chief makes Trump look like a petulant little child.

The Labor Dept just released July jobs numbers, and it came in at +73,000 well below the estimate of +104,000. UE ticked up to 4.2%. The June number, previously released as +147,000 was revised sharply lower to only +14,000. The May jobs number was also revised downward by 125,000 from its original 139,000, That means---if the news reports are correct---May and June COMBINED added only 28,000 jobs. Even if the July number is added (and one now suspects a downward revision in September), only 101,000 jobs were created since the end of April In Biden's last full month in office, 256,000 jobs were created. Must be Fake News and radical leftist Dems working in the Dept of Labor!

Did 20 this morning. 38 dips, too. Benched 140 kg 5 reps as my last set. Also did sprinting. Last DEXA had me at 11.6% bodyfat. I'd guess Trump is 40%. He's not hiding a 6-pack behind his overly long tie. Let's see if the obese POTUS can do 10% of what I can do. He's the clown who said he doesn't exercise, because "a person only has a finite amount of energy in a life". MAGAs are so silly defending their butterball golf cheating liar.

Do fifty push ups and fifty sit-ups, and maybe you burn the calories in 3 sips of Coke. Anyone who thinks that low level of activity is going to make a material difference in weight must be obese. People wildly over estimate their calorie burn from exercise, often believing they've earned some food cheating just because they did 20 minutes on a Pelaton. A much better way than lifting weights is dropping the fork.

True. I mean, what parents wouldn't be proud of their 16 year old daughter giving massages to fat, 60+ year old male members' members at Trump's club.

Trump must really be the Second Coming! It took a coalition of nations from the US to Russia, and every decent nation in between, to end the horror of the Holocaust, but Trump claims he ended an even bigger Holocaust (7 million vs 6 million) in Rwanda....and all while he was filing for bankruptcy protection in Atlantic City. Honestly, I think the guy didn't even take Air Force One to Scotland; he walked across the water. Heck, Jeebus didn't even know the Atlantic Ocean existed. Let's see if Trump can rise from the dead in less than 3 days.

"Seven million people died in Rwanda....machetes machetes everywhere.....I ended that" ---DJT in his batsh!t crazy, anti windmill-laden rant. No, Trump. 800,000 or so died, and it ended in 1994, when you were losing money in RE in New Jersey. You had nothing to do with it. (Hint: The Nobel Committee is not so easily fooled as your own addled brain)