Trump's peak average was 12.779 million manufacturing employees in 2019.
We're at 12.732 million on average in 2025.
The 2023 average was 12.873 million, the post-Great Recession peak.
Friday, January 9, 2026
More people than ever are NOT in the labor force under Donald Trump in Dec 2025, 104.094 million, worse than COVID!, and 37.57% on average in 2025 were eating but not working
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| The Rush Limbaugh-Donald Trump Dumb Ass Unemployment Rate Dec 2025 spiked to 37.87% |
The unemployment rate in 2025 averaged 4.26% for 11 months of data even as initial claims for unemployment averaged an historically low, if not the lowest, 224k per week
The low but rising unemployment rate on a monthly basis since 2023 seems out of whack with a relatively flat initial claims average on an annual basis since 2021.
Just 49.02% had a full time job in December 2025
The October data remains missing, so the average for 11 months of 2025 comes in at 49.3%, down from 49.65% in 2024.
Full time has been trending lower on a monthly basis since the recent period peak in Jun 2023 at 50.92%
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Why not both?
Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not.
-- RFK
WaPo: ICE agent was able to move out of the way because victim steered car to the right to flee, and fired shots two and three from the side of the vehicle through the open window
Here:
ICE agent was not in the vehicle’s path when he fired the fatal shots, video shows
... The SUV did move toward the ICE agent as he stood in front of it. But the agent was able to move out of the way and fire at least two of three shots from the side of the vehicle as it veered past him, according to the analysis. ... The SUV quickly pulls forward, and then veers to the right, in the correct direction of traffic on the one-way street.
As the vehicle moves forward, video shows, the agent moves out of the way and at nearly the same time fires his first shot. The footage shows that his other two shots were fired from the side of the vehicle.
Videos examined by The Post, including one shared on Truth Social by Trump, do not clearly show whether the agent is struck or how close the front of the vehicle comes to striking him. ...
Video shows the agent walking around the scene for more than a minute after the shooting. ...
In November we get to remind Stephen Miller that government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed, whose duty it is to alter or abolish government when it attacks life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, abroad or at home
Stephen Miller Offers a Strongman’s View of the World
... “We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” Mr. Miller told Jake Tapper of CNN on Monday, during a combative appearance in which he was pressed on Mr. Trump’s long-held desire to control Greenland. ...
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
The Federalist goes full-on Orwell: Intervention in Venezuela was a win for Anti-Interventionism
We had to intervene in Venezuela to preserve the policy of anti-interventionism.
We had to destroy the village to save it.
We had to abandon free-market principles to save the free market system.
We had to attack the Confederacy in order to preserve the Union.
As usual Trump puts the cart before the horse: If you don't already have total access, you're not in charge
And you don't put protective tariffs on trade when you have nothing to protect.
“We’re in charge,” he told reporters. “We need total access. We need access to the oil and to other things in their country that allow us to rebuild their country.”
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