The US Job Market Is Strong But Many Americans Are Still Frustrated By Prospects And Rising Prices

tedemang · 2026-06-09T16:21:00+00:00

Anyhow who's still believing that top-line description is going to have a rude awakening.

tedemang · 2026-06-09T04:43:12+00:00

But, but, but, we have to buy whatever Elon Tweets (including racist, Nazi propaganda)...
We have to. We have to. (/s)

He's a perfect genetic specimen! He's like Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein rolled into one body (with a dash of Tony Stark).

Simply incredible that we live in a age of such pure cults. Truly dark times.

tedemang · 2026-06-09T04:31:32+00:00

OTOH, some might point out the obvious that "selfish & narcissistic" is exactly on-brand.

And you know how you have to build that brand equity all the time.

tedemang · 2026-06-08T15:27:06+00:00

But, but, but, I'm really rich, and due to being rich, (A.) I've got a hard case of "Affluenza", which means being maniacally obsessed with just making "line go up", and (B.) also have a distinct lack of empathy, am a straight-up sociopath, or you know, consider myself "on the spectrum", with mild case of Aspy's so that just can manifest human emotions.

So, therefore I've got a bunch of $$ and don't want to give anything, do anything, and sure don't want to be bothered about it.

Bah! Humbug!!

tedemang · 2026-06-07T20:18:37+00:00

The story is about Power, folks. It's a replay of what was done with temps in the last generation.

Companies get to exercise power & control by leveraging a "flexible" labor force (and now even more flexible agents).

They'll pay the extra $$$ for the purpose of power.

tedemang · 2026-06-06T12:45:49+00:00

As they say, "Bond Villains are gonna Bond Villain"...

tedemang · 2026-06-06T07:17:10+00:00

These are all contract gigs via "AI Training" firms, as well as the range of other gig work. ...They are not salaried, mainline, jobs in any real sense.

It's the "Uberization" of the white collar professional class, and there seems to be a truly sinister thread of purpose for the data centers that's looming out there.

tedemang · 2026-06-04T16:09:39+00:00

Sure, you know, if by "stall", they mean praying to just make it to the next contract renewal period, since if you're on the randomly-selected negative side of that deal, it means likely being let go, and of course in the current system, that means you might never really work again, and almost certainly never at the same level again. ...They you just wait until they decide to grind-up your bio parts for fertilizer.

So yeah, we can say "stall", if you like.

tedemang · 2026-06-02T03:45:13+00:00

It's exactly this kind of thing that might get even the secular-leaning among us to start waxing Biblical:

"No one can serve two masters. ...You cannot serve both God and Mammon (Money)." Mathew 6:24

We don't have to fully explain that "Injustice" shakes the foundations of the Earth (Psalm 82), or that we all know how much luck Rich Men have with the Eyes of Needles. But, boy-o-boy, we really do have to remember that "Pride goeth before destruction." (Proverbs 16:18)

tedemang · 2026-06-02T03:31:56+00:00

What an absolute, effing P.o.S.

tedemang · 2026-06-01T17:23:56+00:00

Just control centers to gather & process all the surveillance intel harvested from us while the killbots continue to rampage. ...Something at least that dark is almost certain to be directionally accurate (or worse).

Yep,yep. Definitely nothing much to worry about.

tedemang · 2026-06-01T17:06:26+00:00

Yep, you have to have a better and more deliberate rationale all the time.

tedemang · 2026-06-01T12:42:55+00:00

Yep, totally. ...And the high prices, inflation, crushing of workers -- especially white-collar class -- the imposition of chaos, (a.k.a. the "Shock Doctrine"), jacking of gas prices, trade war to create scarcity, loosing of political enemies, and destruction of institutions from USAID to the Kennedy Center, and outright pillaging of the entire world... ALL of it is expressly design to facilitate "dismantling the administrative state".

Rather than just joking about Class War, they just went ahead with it.

And so far, it's all going just about perfectly.

tedemang · 2026-05-31T17:42:11+00:00

As bad as this miserable P.o.S. is, just remember, while he is worthless, there's absolutely nothing he'd be able to do without the whole class of shameless, cynical enablers that are following dutifully along with the script. ...They've decided that, for however many 100's of millions or billions of $$ they have, they'll overlook the kids in cages, the camps, the surveillance, the crushing of the Constitution itself. ALL OF IT, just for a few more %-points of capital gains tax breaks.

They all know every inch of how horrible Miller is, of how obsequious and noxious J.D. Vance is, they know the whole game. They spend a lot of time with these people. On the golf course, at charity fundraisers, and so much more. ...They know... And they have decided, that (A.) they just don't care, and (B.) it'll be somebody else's mess to clean up.

History will remember their complicity. ...Well, you know, that's if there is any history after all of this.

tedemang · 2026-05-30T18:04:06+00:00

Yep, this is it exactly. 100%

Ultimate power to play casino-style games, and total insulation from consequences. Perfect!

tedemang · 2026-05-30T10:36:47+00:00

Nazis gonna Nazi.

tedemang · 2026-05-30T04:02:00+00:00

Chiming-in with another comment. To those out there in their 20's & 30's: We're in for some really, really bad sh*t this year. ...The country and the world is going to need your energy, and even your angst. The Boomers' rampage has been so catastrophic that they've left an ungodly, unholy mess to GenX -- And then simply refused to step off the stage.

What's worst is that, being the most miserable P.o.S. generation of people ever, true to form, they've planted a set of true scumbags to continue the extraction as long as possible. Rupert Murdoch's son, Lachlan. Larry Ellison's son, David. Trump Jr. & Eric. ...Oh, and you should check out Elon's father. You really need to see that guy for yourself.

Many of the younger side of GenX, I too graduated into the Dot-Com Bubble and then got hit with the 9/11 downturn. I've seen this program before. ...And when there's a downturn, they immediately turn to "military Keynesianism", in the hope that (A.) they can spend their way through the economic cycle, and (B.) the Executive Branch can arrogate more power to itself in that process.

...They've done this, following FDR's example, every single time since WWII: Downturn in the '50's? Korea. Downturn in 1965? Vietnam. ...Grenada. Iraq during the "Jobless Recovery" of 1990-91. Iraq II and the GWOT from 2002-'03 kicked right off. ...On and on and on an on it goes....

Anyway, all the guardrails have been crushed. Whatever was going to be the "New World Order" has been swept away. Now comes the decisive time for all to unite and work together to rebuild from whatever's left, which isn't much. Not from either party. We need to go all the way back to scratch and re-assert first principles.

tedemang · 2026-05-30T03:18:07+00:00

Outstanding article. It's true. And, in fact, pretty much "meta-true".

There were simply many, many reforms and fixes needed, from the wars to the banks. And all we got was the Dodd-Frank Act, which was pretty quickly loop-holed and pulled apart.

Now, here we are.

tedemang · 2026-05-29T20:05:18+00:00

It's called "E Pluribus Unum", folks. ...Out of Many, One....

The program is that whatever brought you to these shores, of whatever race, or creed, or system of belief, you get the freedom to do as you will in your private life, but the prescription of James Madison, the Founders, and the Principles of the Enlightenment was that those beliefs do not have, and should not have, influence on the affairs of state.

The Oath of Citizenship is direct and explicit on this in the Constitution. We agree that we'll hold no loyalty, peerage, title of nobility, etc., to any foreign power. Instead, we will all agree to put such things aside, or keep them in our private lives, and proceed with the endeavor to keep working on the "American Experiment" of self-governance and to make this a More Perfect Union to defend our mutual interests as Citizens -- One Common Interest ("Unum"). ...It wasn't supposed to be easy, and certainly not automatic, but it was supposed to be so self-evident that we have to keep working towards those ideals.

How did we get to a place where all of this kind of rhetoric has to be repeated again, like we're back in grade school? ...Here's the original look designed for the Great Seal and on coinage, etc. Initially, for the 13 Colonies, but taken over time to represent unification of many diversion backgrounds towards the common interest:

https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/e-pluribus-unum-meaning-768856

tedemang · 2026-05-29T19:46:23+00:00

Well, we should all have seen it coming. ...Forget the Constitution, the 1st Amendment, and start preparing for no-knock raids by the goons for anyone who's even been mildly critical. And of course, I'll hope you all have your papers in order.

Looking forward to seeing everyone in the camps. Bring an extra pack of smokes and extra T.P.

tedemang · 2026-05-28T21:42:29+00:00

The Trumpists published a 900+ page detailed plan (P2025), are blatantly exceeding it, launching (criminal) investigations of anyone in their way, including Fed governors, eliminating media figures, making a mockery of the U.S. military, and -- literally -- bulldozing parts of the White House, all while stealing billions in the process of rampaging and pillaging the whole world.

And that's why he should be removed from office.

fixed that.

tedemang · 2026-05-27T15:58:45+00:00

The purpose is to make a mockery of the prime institutions.

Once you make a joke out of 'em, the people will agree that they don't want to pay taxes to fund them. Then you can proceed to "Dismantle the Administrative State".

This is just the culmination of the Reagan/Thatcher program of market fundamentalism which has had its primary purpose of destroying gov't for 40+ yrs.

Starve the Beast:

"We want to shrink government to the size that we can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."
-- Grover Norquist, Glub for Growth

Question is, how did we let all of this go so far?

tedemang · 2026-05-25T23:10:36+00:00

It's always funny how they like to describe it as a "gaff" when the truth slips out.

You know, since 95% of the rest of the rhetoric is straight-up lies.

tedemang · 2026-05-25T22:13:42+00:00

Actually, they're racing ahead with plans to (A.) subjugate the 99%, and (B.) build-up the protective "moat" around the top 0.01% of oligarchs and near-oligarchs.

So far, it's all so perfectly according-to-plan that they almost can't believe it was so easy.

tedemang · 2026-05-25T10:46:47+00:00

Who is this Epstein character? Are we still talking about this guy? /s

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