The job numbers were so bad . . .

[billvon 3,170]

 . . . that Trump is trying to bring up Epstein to distract from them.  From today's screed on Truth Social:

"The confused and badly failing Democrat Party did nothing about Jeffrey Epstein while he was alive . . . "

Etc etc.  How desperate must Trump be that he prefers people talking about his Epstein woes than his job numbers?

And the scary thing about the job numbers is that they are terrible even with Trump's thumb on the scales.  He fired the last person who reported accurate job numbers, so you know that the remaining people in the BLS are skewing everything as hard as they can in the "good news" direction.  Imagine how bad the actual numbers are.

[Phil1111 1,260]

Its all a part of the King's calculation to free up more workers for ICE deployments.

[kallend 2,216]

On 9/6/2025 at 8:21 AM, Phil1111 said:

Its all a part of the King's calculation to free up more workers for ICE deployments.

Of the remaining monarchs in the world,name any that are worse than trump.

Edited September 10 by kallend

[jakee 1,645]

4 hours ago, kallend said:

Of the remaining monarchs in the world,name any that are worse than trump.

Well... I'd say MBS counts as a monarch and he's Satan incarnate. The Thai royal family are also quite happy to sit back and watch horrendous human rights abuses occur in the name of protecting their honour from even the most petty of minor criticisms.

There's more than a chance that Trump would be just as bad if given the same opportunity, but these guys are actually out there doing it right now.

[Phil1111 1,260]

3 hours ago, jakee said:

Well... I'd say MBS counts as a monarch and he's Satan incarnate. The Thai royal family are also quite happy to sit back and watch horrendous human rights abuses occur in the name of protecting their honour from even the most petty of minor criticisms.

There's more than a chance that Trump would be just as bad if given the same opportunity, but these guys are actually out there doing it right now.

Good one as I could think of none. But there are a couple in the Arab world that govern with absolute authority. MBS certainly is a role model for Trump.

[kallend 2,216]

3 hours ago, Phil1111 said:

Good one as I could think of none. But there are a couple in the Arab world that govern with absolute authority. MBS certainly is a role model for Trump.

When then arab monachs were dethroned in Iraq, Syria, Libya. . . . they just ended up with somthing far worse.

 

All the European monarchs seem like pretty decent people.

[gowlerk 2,303]

9 minutes ago, kallend said:

All the European monarchs seem like pretty decent people.

Yea sure. And they all share one thing in common. They are powerless. 

[kallend 2,216]

On 9/10/2025 at 11:22 AM, gowlerk said:

Yea sure. And they all share one thing in common. They are powerless. 

Maybe there's a lesson there.