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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11481793/Bidens-non-binary-nuclear-waste-guru-claims-accidentally-picked-2-325-bag-airport.html

He/She/They "Accidentally" took the suitcase from the airport in September (even though he/she didn't even check a bag on that flight) then (I guess) accidentally removed the ID tag from it and left the other person's clothes in a Minneapolis hotel.  

This dude(ette) "Non-Binary Drag Queen" is in a Senior position in the Department of Energy and is now charged with a theft crime.  (That he/she then lied to the authorities about) 

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Anyone else remember the Rose Garden ceremony in September?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-reaches-tentative-agreement-with-rail-workers-strike-2022-09-15/

Delivering remarks in the White House Rose Garden, Biden called the deal a "big win for America" and promised more worker-company agreements in the future. Averting a strike helped the Democratic leader avoid fresh supply chain shortages and inflation hikes ahead of November's midterm elections.
 

"I'm optimistic that we can do this in other fields as well," Biden said. "Unions and management can work together for the benefit of everyone."

https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/biden-blew-it-railroad-workers-unions-lash-out-at-president/

Rail workers unions blasted President Biden on Monday after he pressed Congress to force the organized labor groups to accept a tentative agreement in order to avert a strike. 

“Joe Biden blew it,” Railroad Workers United treasurer Hugh Sawyer said in a press release hours after the president told House and Senate leaders that one of his top priorities is to stop the looming labor strike.

“He had the opportunity to prove his labor-friendly pedigree to millions of workers by simply asking Congress for legislation to end the threat of a national strike on terms more favorable to workers. Sadly, he could not bring himself to advocate for a lousy handful of sick days. The Democrats and Republicans are both pawns of big business and the corporations,” Sawyer added. 

The White House argues that the impending strike threatens to unleash an economic nightmare on Americans before Christmas. Four out of 12 unions representing rail workers have refused to ratify a tentative agreement negotiated in September with the help of the Biden administration. 

POTUS is banking on nobody remembering his victory speech in September......Now he and his colleagues on the left have to make the decision to go against the unions who are not in agreement with the deal.

 

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On 11/30/2022 at 10:18 AM, swordfish said:

Anyone else remember the Rose Garden ceremony in September?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-reaches-tentative-agreement-with-rail-workers-strike-2022-09-15/

Delivering remarks in the White House Rose Garden, Biden called the deal a "big win for America" and promised more worker-company agreements in the future. Averting a strike helped the Democratic leader avoid fresh supply chain shortages and inflation hikes ahead of November's midterm elections.

 

"I'm optimistic that we can do this in other fields as well," Biden said. "Unions and management can work together for the benefit of everyone."

https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/biden-blew-it-railroad-workers-unions-lash-out-at-president/

Rail workers unions blasted President Biden on Monday after he pressed Congress to force the organized labor groups to accept a tentative agreement in order to avert a strike. 

“Joe Biden blew it,” Railroad Workers United treasurer Hugh Sawyer said in a press release hours after the president told House and Senate leaders that one of his top priorities is to stop the looming labor strike.

“He had the opportunity to prove his labor-friendly pedigree to millions of workers by simply asking Congress for legislation to end the threat of a national strike on terms more favorable to workers. Sadly, he could not bring himself to advocate for a lousy handful of sick days. The Democrats and Republicans are both pawns of big business and the corporations,” Sawyer added. 

The White House argues that the impending strike threatens to unleash an economic nightmare on Americans before Christmas. Four out of 12 unions representing rail workers have refused to ratify a tentative agreement negotiated in September with the help of the Biden administration. 

POTUS is banking on nobody remembering his victory speech in September......Now he and his colleagues on the left have to make the decision to go against the unions who are not in agreement with the deal.

 

Translation Unions we need your vote, until the election is over. And the union bought it, again. 

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https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/11/29/remarks-by-president-biden-on-growing-the-economy-and-creating-good-paying-jobs/

While Biden speaks about the low unemployment rate, growing economy, ect.....The labor participation rate isn't getting  closer to the pre-pandemic levels......With many wondering if it will get there anytime soon......

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/more-americans-leave-the-workforce-as-participation-rate-drops-again/ar-AA14PHDA?fullscreen=true&cvid=2e3fabf432d5432ea72c36cdd7aa7db5#image=1

The drop in participation is bad news for Federal Reserve officials, who have aggressively been rising interest rates this year as they try to tame inflation. They were hoping that cooling the economy would lure workers back to jobs. It hasn’t happened yet. 

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3 hours ago, swordfish said:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/11/29/remarks-by-president-biden-on-growing-the-economy-and-creating-good-paying-jobs/

While Biden speaks about the low unemployment rate, growing economy, ect.....The labor participation rate isn't getting  closer to the pre-pandemic levels......With many wondering if it will get there anytime soon......

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/more-americans-leave-the-workforce-as-participation-rate-drops-again/ar-AA14PHDA?fullscreen=true&cvid=2e3fabf432d5432ea72c36cdd7aa7db5#image=1

The drop in participation is bad news for Federal Reserve officials, who have aggressively been rising interest rates this year as they try to tame inflation. They were hoping that cooling the economy would lure workers back to jobs. It hasn’t happened yet. 

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Total agreement on labor market participation, honestly not sure we’ll see Pre-pandemic numbers for some time. Still a lot of pre retirement aged people who took buyouts. I would think the more likely scenario is second and third jobs being snatched up. This could make next month’s numbers look worse given normal seasonal slow downs. 

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On 11/9/2022 at 11:59 AM, swordfish said:

Joe Biden won't be President past January, 2023.  Been predicting this since the 2020 election.  He is the placeholder until then.  Have no prediction what will take him out, just that he will be out.

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Could the latest (2) "classified documents" scandal(s) be the catalyst for this theory?  

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ag-garland-expected-address-biden-classified-documents-matter/story?id=96391629

He sure takes his classified documents seriously........Biden has defended storing the documents at a storage space in his home garage, saying on Thursday that "it's not like they're sitting in the street."

So Trump had classified papers locked in a secured room that the FBI approved once then felt they had to come back and raid Mar a largo. Biden had classified papers in his locked garage next to his Corvette.

 

 

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A basic difference between the Trump classified documents and the Biden classified documents - Trump was a President before the documents were in his possession.  He had the ultimate power of declassifying anything he chose to.  Biden was a former VP, he did not have the same authority, in fact he had no authority over classified documents.  BUT - at least they weren't "in the streets".....

 

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On 1/12/2023 at 2:28 PM, swordfish said:

A basic difference between the Trump classified documents and the Biden classified documents - Trump was a President before the documents were in his possession.  He had the ultimate power of declassifying anything he chose to.  Biden was a former VP, he did not have the same authority, in fact he had no authority over classified documents.  BUT - at least they weren't "in the streets".....

 

Biden on 20/20 in response to Trump's document "scandal."

"How can someone be so irresponsible!?"

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2 hours ago, swordfish said:

Too many media types not carrying the water this time. This is the D’s dream, they get a viable candidate for 24 and the R’s will screw the pooch in the house. Gives the D’s the moral high ground headed into 24. D’s take control of everything again in 24. 

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11646417/Joe-Biden-named-2017-email-discussing-multi-million-dollar-gas-deal-China.html

Joe Biden was named in an email found on Hunter Biden's laptop discussing a 25 million-ton gas deal with China, DailyMail.com can reveal exclusively.

In October 2017, Hunter and his uncle –Joe's brother Jim Biden – were brokering a multi-million dollar deal to supply gas from Louisiana to the country on behalf of their business partners, Chinese energy giant CEFC.

At the time Joe Biden had finished his term as vice president and had yet to announce any plans to run for president in 2020. 

 

The texts AND the voicemails, now this - A far cry from what the former VP originally said about knowing or ever talking about his son's business dealings..........

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On 1/20/2023 at 11:15 AM, swordfish said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11646417/Joe-Biden-named-2017-email-discussing-multi-million-dollar-gas-deal-China.html

Joe Biden was named in an email found on Hunter Biden's laptop discussing a 25 million-ton gas deal with China, DailyMail.com can reveal exclusively.

In October 2017, Hunter and his uncle –Joe's brother Jim Biden – were brokering a multi-million dollar deal to supply gas from Louisiana to the country on behalf of their business partners, Chinese energy giant CEFC.

At the time Joe Biden had finished his term as vice president and had yet to announce any plans to run for president in 2020. 

 

The texts AND the voicemails, now this - A far cry from what the former VP originally said about knowing or ever talking about his son's business dealings..........

Nothing burger...

MSM focusing on the important matters...such as this one (which I actually saw on MSNBC over the weekend.)

"Bracing for Trump's return to Facebook and Twitter."

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The wagons are circling to try and protect the Bidens as the President becomes more and more useless and even a true liability to the Democrats......Any guess as to where the funding for this is coming from?

https://nypost.com/2023/02/02/hunter-bidens-legal-threats-have-no-merit-raises-political-questions/

Hunter Biden appears to have finally achieved clarity.

Months after The Post’s October 2020 reporting, Biden was warning reporters that his “alleged” laptop might be Russian disinformation — or it might be his. He seemed tortured by doubt in a 2021 CBS News interview: “For real, I don’t know. I don’t have any idea — I have no idea whether or not.”

It now appears he does know “for real.” His lawyers sent letters Wednesday requesting investigations into figures associated with former President Donald Trump who have used information from the laptop. The first son’s sudden shift to the offense follows a meeting of a Legion of Doom of Democratic operatives reportedly planning attacks on potential witnesses against Hunter.

At the same time, Biden agents are planning to create a large legal fund for the next stage. In a city where influence peddling is the leading industry, Hunter’s plight could easily become a cause célèbre. Indeed, there hasn’t been a greater sense of urgency or outpouring of humanity since the Kato Kaelin housing crisis.

The letters to federal and state prosecutors seem to confirm the plan for a scorched-earth strategy. The Biden lawyers accuse people using the laptop contents of possibly violating federal and state laws “in accessing, copying, manipulating, and/or disseminating Mr. Biden’s personal computer data.”

The Biden team is also threatening media that have covered the story, including Fox News, with defamation lawsuits. (For the record, I appear as a legal analyst on Fox News.) And it’s asking the IRS to consider removing the tax-exempt status of groups that used the material such as Marco Polo, a charitable organization run by Garrett Ziegler — in a letter copied to the agency’s criminal investigation unit chief.

The letters raise serious constitutional and political concerns. Critics using publicly available material are allowed to reach their own conclusions about the implications of these files.

The Biden team, for example, threatens a lawsuit against Fox News host Tucker Carlson while demanding a retraction of “false and defamatory statements.” It maintains Carlson falsely portrayed Hunter Biden as involved in a “money laundering scheme to finance President Biden’s lifestyle” by paying him $50,000 a month in rent. It claims the story was debunked.

But Hunter Biden is a public figure who must shoulder a high standard for defamation of “actual malice,” requiring that a false statement be made “with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.” Courts are highly protective of the exercise of opinion, particularly on subjects of great political significance like influence peddling.

The laptop’s legal status is also key. To all appearances, Hunter abandoned the laptop at John Paul Mac Isaac’s Wilmington, Del., computer repair shop. That’s different from the claims of Hunter’s sister, Ashley, who triggered a nationwide FBI investigation into the theft of her diary. While she left her diary at a third party’s home, she insists she did not abandon or forget it. Under standard terms of the agreement, an item left beyond a certain number of days at a business or rental housing becomes abandoned property. It can generally then be left on the curb, sold, or given away.

What’s most striking about the Hunter Biden claim is the delay. For more than two years, Hunter has refused to admit the laptop is genuine despite email recipients confirming the content of the communications. The laptop also shows Hunter engaged in potential crimes from drug use to prostitution offenses. Yet he insisted it might all be those pesky Russians again.

Now the laptop is his, and he is fighting mad. Indeed, he’s shocked that anyone would treat his property in this fashion — a property he left at a computer shop and failed to claim for years.

In the effort to target Marco Polo, the Biden team insists it “has operated as little more than a thinly disguised political operation to attack the Biden administration and the Biden family.” That sounds more vindictive than virtuous. Indeed, if the Biden administration started yanking the tax-exempt status of Biden critics, it would trigger an outcry over weaponizing the IRS. (A similar controversy during the Obama-Biden administration involving IRS official Lois Lerner led to a financial settlement with targeted conservative groups.)

Biden’s team seems at points as conflicted as its client. After denouncing the use of his personal property and files, it suggests they might not be his files at all. It claims that “downstream recipients of what has been purported to be Mr. Biden’s hard drive have reported anomalies in the data, suggesting manipulation of it.”

You certainly do not want to be downstream in any Hunter Biden scandal, but this raises questions as to whether these files are authentic while claiming ownership of them.

Notably, Biden has not brought a civil lawsuit for a privacy tort claim despite the bluster and bombast of these letters. The reason is simple: He does not have a privacy case against the media or critics.

Under the tort of “public disclosure of embarrassing private facts,” you can be sued for publishing even true statements that a reasonable person would find offensive. Showing Hunter’s selfie videos allegedly having sex with prostitutes would qualify as embarrassing to most people. But the tort has an exception for “newsworthy” stories or matters of great public interest. Biden may not be the energy or transportation expert his previous positions suggest, but he is most certainly newsworthy.

 

 

 

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Another Recession Sign: Part-Time Work Is Growing Faster than Full-Time Work: https://mises.org/wire/another-recession-sign-part-time-work-growing-faster-full-time-work

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The Bureau of Labor Statistic (BLS) released new jobs data on Friday. According to the report, seasonally adjusted total nonfarm jobs rose 517,000 jobs, which was well above expectations. The words used by the media to describe the report included “stunner” and “wow.” President Joe Biden claimed the number proves his administration has delivered economic prosperity. The administration has also noted that in the official numbers, the unemployment rate is at a multidecade low. This, Biden and his supporters insist, proves the economy is remarkably strong.

There are at least a few things going on that are problematic for this narrative, however. For one, the Fed is actively taking steps to reduce the money supply in an effort to slow price inflation. A second problem is that the federal government’s own numbers show that total employment actually fell in January. A third issue is the fact that what job growth exists is in part-time employment. Taking these together—and considering what they tell us about where we are in the current economic cycle—it’s very difficult to buy into any narrative that attempts to paint the economic situation as strong, much less “wow.”

Even the Fed Is Predicting Bad Employment News


Even Fed chair Jerome Powell refuses to use last month’s employment report as any sort of indication of the future state of the employment market. At Wednesday’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) press conference, for example, Powell was careful to state that the effects of the Fed’s (mild) tightening—i.e., raising the target interest rate, shrinking the Fed’s balance sheet—have yet to be seen. This is remarkable given that Fed personnel virtually always paint a rosy picture of the economy regardless of the timing. Rarely will one find a Fed chairman saying “We see a recession on the horizon.” Yet Powell last week admitted that he expects more unemployment soon (although he insisted it would be mild and stuck to the “soft landing” scenario.)

At this point, however, many industries rely heavily on continued easy money from the Fed. In the face of rising interest rates, we can expect layoffs. We can already see the effects in the tech sector, and without ultralow interest rates, demand for real estate services is plummeting as well. Housing slumps are often a sign of coming employment slumps.

Part-Time and Full-Time Employment Have Inverted, and That Means Recession


In recent months, employment growth has increasingly been driven by part-time rather than full-time employment. Since September, in fact, month-to-month employment growth in full-time jobs has been negative, while growth in part-time jobs has been positive.

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We see a similar trend in year-over-year job growth as well. In fact, in January’s jobs report, year-over-year growth in part-time jobs totaled 1.6 million, while growth in full-time jobs was only 1.4 million. The reverse is usually true in a time of economic expansion. For example, for much of 2018, year-over-year growth in full-time jobs numbered in the millions, while part-time employment actually fell.

Sometimes this situation reverses. Indeed, a switch from full-time-driven employment to part-time-driven employment usually indicates that a recession is coming. We saw it happen in 1981, 1990, 2001, 2008, 2020. Now it’s happened again in 2023.

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This rarely gets reported in the headlines about job growth. We only hear about the establishment survey of total jobs at big employers (seasonally adjusted), which makes no distinction between full-time and part-time work. It also tells us nothing about whether people are taking on second jobs.

But if we look at the household employment survey, which looks at employed persons and part-time status, we find that many of the jobs we’re hearing about in last month’s “wow” jobs numbers are actually part-time work. Most of the reported job growth, in fact, was apparently part-time.

This could be due to several factors, not least of which is the fact that nominal year-over-year wage growth slowed in January—and real wages likely went down as well. As inflation continues to take a bite out of the family budget, more workers will need to take on extra work. At the same time, employers may be reluctant to shoulder the cost of full-time workers as the economy softens.

In fact, the lack of real wage growth should cause us to question the narrative of the “robust” economy overall. Average hourly earnings in January were up 4.35 percent year over year. But according to the Cleveland Fed’s inflation nowcast, Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation in January was 6.4 percent. That means real wage growth fell by 2.1 percent. The cost of living is going up, and real wages have now fallen for twenty-two months in a row.


Apparently, the “wow” job growth isn’t enough to actually get wage growth to exceed price inflation.

All That Job “Growth” Is Just Seasonal Adjustment
Another reason to doubt the job-growth narrative is the fact that all the job growth reported by the BLS obscures the fact that total jobs in the real world actually went down last month. That actual jobs fell last month isn’t shocking, however, as total employment almost always goes down in January. It is reported as positive only due to sizable seasonal adjustments. But when the economy is in a transitional period, as it is now, seasonal adjustments may or may not actually reflect the current situation. In fact, as we can see in the next graph, when not seasonally adjusted, month-to-month January employment usually falls by at least two million jobs. Many Januarys in recent years have seen job losses of 2.8 million or more. In many cases, the BLS’s adjustments bring these numbers up by approximately three million.

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Is the current adjustment appropriate under the circumstances? We don’t know. It’s pure guesswork. And this all brings to mind Murray Rothbard’s observation about some of the trouble we encounter with these adjustments:

The further one gets from the raw data the further one goes from reality, and therefore the more erroneous any concentration upon that figure. Seasonal adjustments in data are not as harmless as they seem, for seasonal patterns, even for such products as fruit and vegetables, are not set in concrete. Seasonal patterns change, and they change in unpredictable ways, and hence seasonal adjustments are likely to add extra distortions to the data.

With numerous indicators pointing toward recession and with the Fed in the middle of a tightening period, the BLS is applying more or less the same January seasonal adjustment as usual. Will that prove to be the “correct” adjustment in 2023? It’s impossible to say, and it’s certainly impossible to take the make-believe number of “517,000 new jobs” as evidence of the underlying economic fundamentals at all. This sort of extrapolation is especially dangerous when job growth is increasingly all about part-time work.

Taken all together, January’s jobs report would seem to back up Powell’s claim that overall, the full effects of a falling money supply have yet to be fully felt. Looking at January’s jobs numbers as evidence of a strong job market requires that we ignore what we know about real wages, part-time jobs, falling home prices, and more.

All the POTUS's fault.  Right?

 

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