All purpose news and politics thread part VII: News & Politics Total Landscaping

[Gray Lensman]

Cue the sad trombone.

Sad trombone? I'm gonna laugh like Lamont Cranston.

The weed of crime bears bitter fruit. Hahahahahahaha!

Or maybe laugh like Booster Gold and Blue Beetle. Trump losing money is comedy..dare I say it ....GOLD. BWA ha ha!

[Kirby101]

Daaaaaamn.

Still way too high for a company with little earnings and lost $50 million last year.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

I hear you. I had never experienced this before, and even though it was just a few seconds long-- it was scary.

It only lasted about ten seconds, but, it felt like a train rumbled overhead while I was in my cubicle. Seriously unnerving.

[ed2962]

And LoTT now gets to ban books officially while engaging in terrorism, even if I know she can't be tried for it yet. The GoP are celebrating their peddlers of misinformation from on high and down low.

Right? She has no experience in education or literature, and doesn't even live in the state...yet the Oklahoma State Library Commitee said, "That's who we need!"

[Kirby101]

No Labels just perpetuates the myth that the Democrats are just a radical on the left as the GOP on the right. Objectively false. The GOP has become a fascist, right wing Party, while the Democrats are still to the right of most liberal Parties in Europe. No Label is not centrist, it is a conservative movement closer to pre-Reagan Republicans.
It is also astro-turf to help the GOP win.

[hyped78]

Strong US labor market underpins economy in first quarter

Nonfarm payrolls increase 303,000 in March
Unemployment rate falls to 3.8% from 3.9%
Average hourly earnings rise 0.3%; up 4.1% year-on-year
Average workweek rebounds to 34.4 hours from 34.3 hours

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/u...ly-2024-04-05/

[CaptainEurope]

Still way too high for a company with little earnings and lost $50 million last year.

It's now down 10%.


Unless the usual foreign powers pump serious money into this, it might be a penny stock before the end of the month.

[CaptainEurope]

Strong US labor market underpins economy in first quarter

Nonfarm payrolls increase 303,000 in March
Unemployment rate falls to 3.8% from 3.9%
Average hourly earnings rise 0.3%; up 4.1% year-on-year
Average workweek rebounds to 34.4 hours from 34.3 hours

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/u...ly-2024-04-05/

So the Biden Boom continues as Trump reminds the world he is really bad at business.

Edit:

'Is it too good?' Fox's Bartiromo struggles to spin new blockbuster jobs report

The latest jobs report showed another month of enormous growth, with over 300,000 new jobs created, far above the expected number of 200,000 — and Fox News' Maria Bartiromo struggled to find a negative spin to put on things.

Ultimately, she told viewers that the economy was probably "too" good.

"The household employment was actually up almost 500,000, and the unemployment fell, the work week was stable," said former Trump White House economist Joe LaVorgna. "It looks really good right now, certainly better than consensus expectation. Better than a lot of other data might suggest, the PMIs, for example, purchasing manager surveys, suggest there should be weakening employment. So at least for March, things look good. Even if we look at the private sector, huge job growth, over 200,000, if you take out health care, still looking at private, around 150. It's a good number, no question."



"Well it's a good number, but is it too good for rate cuts?" said Bartiromo, referencing the Federal Reserve's recent suggestion that three interest rate cuts could be coming this year — which would be a sign that inflation is cooling, although generally economic growth slows along with inflation much faster than it is currently. "The economy's on fire like this, and we've got 303,000 jobs in the month of March. Why cut interest rates?"

Bartiromo, who according to previous reporting played a key role in spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, similarly attacked the previous jobs report of 275,000 new jobs added, suggesting that the numbers had been rigged by Labor Department employees: "If you've got government holding the strings and pulling the strings, of course you're going to get a better showing than reality!"

[ed2962]

Kid Rock no longer boycotting Bud Lite but he does want to go after Planet Fitness and Ben and Jerry's

https://twitter.com/MonitorFake/stat...41641528488196

[Jack Dracula]

Correction, the epicenter was actually 5 miles northwest of Trump's Bedminster golf course. Make of that what you will.

A near miss. I’ll have to recalibrate and try again.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

So the Biden Boom continues as Trump reminds the world he is really bad at business.

Trump the expert businessman might end up being one of the all time biggest myths going. Everything, and I do mean EVERYTHING he's touched turned to crapola, the list being too long to mention. If Trump wasn't bequeathed a fortune from his father and actually had to work for a living like the rest of us, he would've starved in a week.

[Tami]

A near miss. I’ll have to recalibrate and try again.

My husband suggested that Trump was trying to summon Cthulhu and the elder gods to attack his enemies but got the words wrong in his usual fashion.

[Tami]

Democratic congressmen unveil bill to rename a federal prison after Trump

WASHINGTON — Three Democratic congressmen unveiled legislation Friday to rename a federal prison in Miami after former President Donald Trump.

The bill — offered by Reps. Gerry Connolly, of Virginia; Jared Moskowitz, of Florida; and John Garamendi, of California — comes in response to a measure introduced by a group of House Republicans to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after Trump.

The Democrats' bill would rename the Miami Federal Correctional Institution in Florida the "Donald J. Trump Federal Correctional Institution."

“When our Republican colleagues introduced their bill to rename Dulles after Donald Trump, I said the more fitting option would be to rename a federal prison,” Connolly said in a statement. “I hope our Republican friends will join us in bestowing upon Donald J. Trump the only honor he truly deserves.”

[mortari]

My husband suggested that Trump was trying to summon Cthulhu and the elder gods to attack his enemies but got the words wrong in his usual fashion.

"Niktu, barada..(cough, cough)...."

[CaptainEurope]

Dow Jones is up about one percent on the good jobs data.
DJT is down 13% now.