impartialobserver

Do you know what gets tiresome? The constant attempts at shock value by using Hitler, Nazis, fascism, communism to make your points. Every time X person does not like Y leader/policy.. it is fascist, communist, whateverist. Why the need for hyperbole?

I know that you can't be convinced but the President had absolutely nothing to do with the actual investigation. He may have read about it on the Internet much like you but he was not operationally involved. Also, the boots on the ground were simply following orders. Your attributing all of this to the President tells a lot about you.

Did you write this. If not.. I wonder who it was. "The rest of us, of course, really don't give a shit."

I am not taking your bait. The morality involved is not my point. Your wrath should be pointed at those at the very top and not the majority of employees in a given dept.

more obfuscation. I have never mentioned January 6 on this thread.. it is irrelevant to my point.

First, interesting that you dodged the challenge. Not surprising. You have shown yourself to not be objective. Second, you missed my point. Again not surprising. When someone does not validate your views, feelings, value... you always move the goal posts.

But you said that you did not give a shit? So what is it? Honestly the media is not talking about the unemployment rate yet. Why... because it takes times for claims to filter into the data. I know.. too much detail and minutiae for you. When someone files a claim on Jan. 1.. you do not see it in the unemployment rate until March at the earliest. It is not an exact count.. sorry too much detail for you. I am just giving you a heads up of what is coming. Will it be short lived? Probably. Will it get folks talking for those 3 to 4 months? Yes. The stock market will drop a bit, jobs numbers will be down, and yet life will be fine for most. And then in autumn 2025, the uptick will happen and folks will find something new to whine about. Never underestimate the modern human's true love for bit__ing and whining.

Can you give an exact quote that matches up with this ^^^^? No interpretations, paraphrasing, or subjectivity. I laugh at your simplistic reasoning. The _____ Dept of whatever was corrupt only because of _____. Yet the boots on the ground, everyday folks do the same job year after year.. from one president to another.

The best thing about the COVID topic is that it is over.

You would be amazed at how many conservatives care about the unemployment rate... regardless of who is in office or how it is doing. Besides, it is not the only metric. I gave others and you breeze over them. My guess is that you do not like to do analysis.

Your bias shows here. You would be amazed at how many care about those metrics. They do not all measure the economy by feel like yourself. I can guarantee that if the metrics are in your favor.. you will use them to back up your argument.

They measure this "doing better" by economic metrics. When you want to know is the economy doing better.. you use metrics such as unemployment rate, CES jobs. QCEW jobs, GDP. This is reality. This needs not your approval.

Trump and Hitler.. are in no way connected. Biden and Hitler... no similarities other than both being homo sapiens and conducting the ATP reaction.

You are fighting against human nature. They will care much the same as they have cared for decades. They will not stop paying attention because you say so. I do not care either way... believe it or not. I am just explaining the math equation that is economic metrics. If it goes up or not.. nothing changes on my end. anyways, the answer is 1.9%. Also, for 46 of 50 states, the rate is less than 1%. Lowest of them is SD at .03%

I hate to tell you again but there are 3 main econometric metrics that folks want every month.. every single month. The unemployment rate, CES jobs number, and consumer price index. Now every quarter, they want QCEW and GDP. Folks (on both sides) pay very close attention that unemployment rate.. whether you like it or not. Care to guess how much total employment in the US is Federal? If you want to know.. start here https://www.bls.gov/cew/data.htm. Click on one screen and I can tell you the rest if you are interested

I think folks like to be outraged or agitated. They know that if they watch FOX News (as an example), they are going to be fuming. Either in support of Conservatives or not. Either way, I do not see the value in getting all worked up unnecessarily.

Either way, you are filtering out unwanted content or information. Commercials, shows, channels.. anytime you filter out unwanted items, you are essentially ignoring it.

What is rather amusing is that folks think that the boots on the ground personnel are directly connected to the President.

I hate to tell you but Conservatives pay attention to these metrics. They pay very close attention to them. The media knows that folks care about this and so cater the content to that. Folks have short memories. Can you tell me where the lies are in this? If you find them.. can you give precise information (not feelings, opinions, or rhetoric) to counter it? https://www.bls.gov/news.release/laus.nr0.htm

If they truly wanted to affect Musk.. stop buying Teslas and stop reacting to his stuff. Not reacting is not the same as ignoring. you know what he says but you do not give him the satisfaction of emotional responses.

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That is my point. Now are these slight downturns going to be permanent? No. They are not systemic or based on lower demand. Will the unemployment rate, CES Jobs, QCEW jobs, etc recover? Most likely. however, the modern American does not look beyond the moment. They read on April 21, 2025 that the unemployment rate is up and immediately they think the following, "This is the start of something worse". Also, they blame the President only. Now, when it goes back up in July 2025.. they conveniently forget their paranoia on April 21, 2025.

By all metrics.. economy is going to see a slow down in the short term (read that carefully). Unemployment up, CES (the jobs number that the BLS put out) jobs down, stock market down, and in most states per capita personal income. That will result most likely in Dems doing better in the midterms like it or not. Believe it or not.. you are only person and your one vote does not change every Congressional race. I do not have an emotional dog in the fight unlike you. I am just explaining the math equation that is economic metrics.

Unemployment is defined as below. If the top goes up due to federal layoffs.. the ratio goes up. I challenge you to disprove this. It is a mathematical certainty. Second, it is human nature to see a rising unemployment rate and to react. It may only rise from 4.1 to 4.6 but folks will react.. your acceptance of that reality again is not necessary. unemployed / labor force (employed + unemployed).

Quite the master of exaggeration... "hysterics". I am as calm as can be. Simply explaining a math equation... you on the other hand are the one engaging in middle school ad hominem attacks. Again.. it is nothing but a simple math equation.. like it or not. If you have a fraction of x/y and x goes up more than y.. it goes up. Your acceptance of that reality is not necessary.