Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[iam416]

Sounds more good news for the Ds!

[froot loops]

My oldest daughter runs a fairly high end restaurant in Lincoln. They have gone to reduced hours...no more lunch hours just reduced dinner hours...and Friday/Saturday are reservation only for groups 20+. Closed on Sundays now which was their best day formally. They normally have a staff of around 50. They have 10 now.

But Chairman Joe still claims his policies are not restricting the workforce...and the MSM just swallows it like Mrs. Talent at a biker bar...

Lincoln's unemployment rate is 2.8 percent, matching the state's unemployment rate. You can blame Joe Biden all you want but you need people to flock to Nebraska to work. It is exactly what Trump and his supporters were arguing, restrict the labor supply to let the wages rise for Real Americans.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Sounds more good news for the Ds!

Only to the extent that they may hang onto the Virginia Governorship for another 4 years. I'm curious where turnout will end up. I've got two "gurus" saying different things on my feed. It won't hit the 2017 race but that was a record high.

[iam416]

Virginia is a blue state. Nominating a non-socialist means the Ds win.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Talent- I failed to mention this but on a recent trip to Chicago I purchased a bottle of Carl Jeppson's remarkable Malört.

Perhaps covid destroyed my sense of taste forevermore but I do not think it is as bad as the legends say. I would put it above slivo, even.

[iam416]

The firm ripe plums in Slivo are subtle as fuck.

Kudos on your Maloort procurement. I must admit, it’s tempting to hoof over to Pataskala for a swig. Maloort, tonight’s the night you fight your father!

[Dr. Strangelove]

Malort: Kick your mouth in the balls!

[Dr. Strangelove]

Steve Liesman was on Squawkbox earlier this morning and he had some interesting insights into the Unfilled Jobs data too.

* There's a demand for more workers than were even employed in Jan. 2020. Almost a couple million more.

* Data says that 2 million people retired early during the pandemic. A fraction of those might be coaxed back into the labor market but for the most part, they're gone for good.

* A portion of open jobs are for seasonal, summer jobs that traditionally a lot of resorts fill with temporary immigrant workers (Cedar Point is a great example here in Ohio). But there's still a lot of covid restrictions on immigrant labor.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2021/06/09/decoding-conflicting-jobs-data.html?&qsearchterm=steve%20liesman

[iam416]

There's a demand for more workers than were even employed in Jan. 2020. Almost a couple million more.

Right. I think this is a new assertion, but certainly believable.

Again, my complaint on this topic isn't that people aren't taking jobs. I've made it very clear that to the the extent that is happening, it's rational.

My complaint is with the $1.9T bill that was passed when everyone damn well knew the economy was not only on the runway and prepared for take off, but actually moving down the runway.

I said it then. I said after. I say it now. I think the bill was a massive overreach in scale. I think it could have been much more targeted. On this, I actually agree with the R version (on a lot of bills, I also disagree with the Rs, but just less than the Ds).

And, again, if this is the only massive spending overreach we get in the first two years of the Biden adminstration then we'll survive. It's still fundamentally in "do no harm" territory.

So, the idea that worker demand is super high is pretty much directly in line with what I'm saying. And, TBH, what you'd probably say, too -- though maybe not to the same degree.

[Jeff Buchanan]

I've read multiple fear allaying articles on inflation and employment over the last two weeks. All of them make the same point: fleshing out meaningful jobs and inflation data not significantly perturbed by the pandemic is nearly impossible. I suspect most of you hear have seen some of this stuff. I'm not concerned about inflation - which will dampen as normality in bottlenecks in production and supply chains ease. I'm even less concerned about jobs reports. The data is so skewed by the implications of the pandemic that it is probably worth ignoring it for a while ..... and while the US and EU, along with China if their data is believable, are moving towards a definitive end to pandemic's disruptive craziness, a good portion of the world where manufacturing and a large portion of low wage labor comes from are still struggling with the pandemic as a result of ...... oooooh, vaccine inequality.

There are better ways to describe that circumstance. It's a problem but not one to be fixed by liberal, leftist designed solutions.

[Kapture1]

Hunter had a habbit of using the N-word huh... I can imagine if Don Jr had been saying the N-word.... all that time and energy trying to find the Donald Trump N-Word tape that doesn't exist lmao

[iam416]

Geraghty does a remarkably good job of detailing the past 25 years or so of Democrat conspiracy theories and claims of "illegitimacy." https://www.nationalreview.com/the-m...ers-victories/

And Williamson with a fairly obvious but nice to read assessment of the Ds tactices of generally tarring anyone that disagrees with them: https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...utm_term=first

[Kapture1]

https://wallethub.com/edu/states-covid-recovery/90947

Michigan found to be the slowest recovering state in the Union.

[Tom W]

But at least we trusted "Science"..

[Mike]

Police did not clear protesters from Lafayette Park for Trump photo op, inspector general finds

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ys/7622478002/

Well, that's strange. The IG report doesn't match at all what was breathlessly reported at the time.