2 million Americans are collecting unemployment in highest figures since pandemic

a year ago by Lee Duna to c/news

The new unemployment numbers come after last Friday’s grim July jobs report
floofloof 146 points a year ago

Damn, how many people does Trump have to fire before they learn to stop reporting these inconvenient facts?

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Xanthobilly 116 points a year ago

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Showroom7561 34 points a year ago

In any other universe that would be a joke, but in this reality, it's entirely possible that he will replace people who post the truth about his shit-show.

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chiliedogg 45 points a year ago

He is literally already doing that. After last month's jobs report, he fired the head of the Bureau for Labor Statistics.

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Showroom7561 18 points a year ago

Yup, but I can see this happening as a regular reaction to unfavourable facts. Mind you, he was doing this back during the pandemic, so this is just following the trend.

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Rhaedas 2 points a year ago

He had a show where the highlight was firing people. It's all he knows.

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floofloof 16 points a year ago path: 0 18691823 18692274 18695087, hotness: undefined, score: 16, children: 0
60d 1 point a year ago

Firing people in the UK would be pretty hard for him to accomplish but not impossible. He could just sue them like anyone else he disagrees with.

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DarkFuture 103 points a year ago

Trumpcession

Thanks dumbfuck conservatives. Maybe you could stop supporting pedophiles long enough to pick better candidates.

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teamevil 30 points a year ago
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uienia 7 points a year ago

And pedophiles.

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60d 2 points a year ago
  1. Be pedo
  2. Run as a Republican
  3. Profit!
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Catoblepas 46 points a year ago

This doesn’t include people who were ineligible for or have already run through their unemployment benefits, either.

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jjjalljs 22 points a year ago

I asked the person at the department of labor what the state expects to happen if my unemployment runs out and i, despite my best efforts, still don't have a job. She just laughed nervously.

Our society is a disgrace

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Nougat 2 points a year ago

She laughed nervously because when people are against the wall trying to survive, they will do whatever it takes.

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Krauerking 16 points a year ago

Its such a wild part that there is an even greater number that has fallen off and even people who are on disability as a way to simplify state budgets because of how many people are truly unemployed or underemployed now in the US.

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Fingolfinz 32 points a year ago
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monkeyslikebananas2 26 points a year ago

Who released those numbers!? They are probably going to be fired.

Release the Trump-Epstein files!

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60d 3 points a year ago

They should just be known as "The Pedo-Files" at this point.

Release The Pedo Files just sounds bad aloud, though.

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andyburke 25 points a year ago

I am tired of winning.

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HubertManne 4 points a year ago

I get this. Its like we are in a shitshow. Its hard to keep talking about shit because of sick of all the shit.

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SlippiHUD 19 points a year ago

I can't wait until his ICE raids lead to widespread famine and we call joke about eating our Trump Steaks.

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Whats_your_reasoning 19 points a year ago

I'm reminded of the phrase "Hoovervilles" which was used to describe the make-shift towns built during the presidency of Herbert Hoover at the start of the Great Depression. Apparently there were multiple terms named for Hoover in that vein:

Democrats coined other similar terms that were jabs at Herbert Hoover: "Hoover blankets" were old newspapers used as blanketing, a "Hoover flag" was an empty pocket turned inside out, "Hoover leather" was cardboard used to line a shoe when the sole wore through, and a "Hoover wagon" was an automobile with horses hitched to it (often with the engine removed).

Get ready to coin a new wave of disparaging terms for the things that Trump forces us to use to survive.

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SlippiHUD 7 points a year ago

Exactly what I was thinking of

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points a year ago

my trump limo (rickshaw) is almost ready to go!

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60d 2 points a year ago

You're awesome 👌

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 3 points a year ago

are those dog or cat?

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SlippiHUD 5 points a year ago

I normally heard about cats being called Roof Rabbit. I figured it would be groundhog, opossum, or skunk.

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EntropyFlux 19 points a year ago

Trump’s America!

However, LET’S SEE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

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zildjiandrummer1 14 points a year ago

Something tells me we're going to see way more Super Smash Bros characters in the next few months/years. The Blackstone CEO's assassination is pretty much the same as United Healthcare's assassination, but the Media learned not to call it what it is so they said it was a mistaken identity but the target was the NFL??? It makes no sense.

Also the VA councilman that got burned alive was involved in Blackstone real estate decisions, so it seems these two recent assassination attempts were very much related. It's like how a cancer starts to kill an organism but it triggers the body's natural white blood cells to re-balance things.

As Trump causes more and more fundamental issues, the "bread and circuses" will start to go away, and what comes after is... more white blood cells.

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Mbourgon 8 points a year ago
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Taldan 8 points a year ago

The Blackstone CEO’s assassination is pretty much the same as United Healthcare’s assassination

The two are nothing alike

  1. Shane Tamura wasn't targetting a specific person. That's why it's a mass shooting, and not a mass assassination

  2. He had a note on him explicitly blamine the NFL for his CTE, on account of them downplaying the risks of Football

  3. The Blackstone CEO wasn't even an intended target. He went up the wrong elevator, looking for the NFL HQ

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paraphrand 5 points a year ago

They didn’t target Blackstone.

Anyone cheering it on like it was a situation similar to Luigi is misguided IMO. You gotta be principled imo.

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HubertManne 3 points a year ago

I agree here. Im looking at peoples responses and its like dudes. He did not shoot a woman coming out of the elevator but he did shoot one at his destination. Sounds like he was not shooting random females. Seems to me the crux of the narrative is a note they "found" on him.

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TachyonTele 1 point a year ago

Gotta love a few conspiracy theories in the morning to really get the heart going.

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vivalapivo 10 points a year ago

Go work at ice

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aceshigh 10 points a year ago

I wonder if that will become mandatory. Apparently ice is struggling to find people to join.

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salacious_coaster 12 points a year ago

Because MAGAts are cowards. They want somebody else to do the bad things they voted for.

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aceshigh 8 points a year ago

I’m interpreting this as there aren’t enough magats that support the cause.

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UnderpantsWeevil 5 points a year ago

Gotta get that nut.

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Taldan 5 points a year ago

Honestly, people should

Get a job there, refuse immoral/illegal orders. Sure, you'll be fired pretty quick, but you at least get some pay and it gums up the works

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some_guy 9 points a year ago

Is America great again, yet?

No. Not until they get rid of all the brown people. Sigh.

But then it’ll be awesome, and I’ll be proven wrong and I’ll finally become one of the MAGA faithful. Also, I plan to have a lobotomy to help me get there.

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kikutwo 8 points a year ago

Muh Biden's fault!!!! LMAO

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Krauerking 3 points a year ago

I think the problem is that for so far the economy has just kept chugging along and the wealthy havent felt any different and the poors havent found any way to unteract with or make their issues felt by those that again are just doing fine.

I dont know how long that continues to last for but woth the world as it is today im not betting on tomorrow.

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bizzle 1 point a year ago

USA! USA!

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