Trump makes America 1969 again

February 2026 might as well be July 1969, when the percentage of Americans working hit 59% for the first time.

America does not even come close to working up to its potential. 

(geek note: population estimates get updated at the beginning of each year, which means current percentage calculations and comparisons such as this one will not exactly match previous ones posted here in 2025, 2024, 2023, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera) 

 

Trump has cut federal employment down nearly to May 1966 levels

 

Manufacturing employment falls again in Feb 2026, back to Mar 2018 levels

 

As a share of the native born employment level, the foreign born employment level is much higher in Feb 2026 under Trump II than in Feb 2019 under Trump I lol

 

The unemployment level in Feb 2026 has risen very close to the Jan 2017 level when Trump took over for the first time: 8.05 million vs. 8.14 million

 

How come there are still 5.75 million more foreign born in the United States in Feb 2026 than when Trump was president the first time?

I used peak ! foreign born under Trump I in Mar 2019 just to be fair!

 

38.05% were eating but not working in the United States of Dumbasses Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh in Feb 2026

 

48.4% had a full time job in Feb 2026, similar to Jan 2009 when everything was so wonderful and getting wonderfuller

 

Total nonfarm payrolls "unexpectedly fell" by 92k in Feb 2026, unemployment rate ticks up to 4.4%

 U.S. payrolls unexpectedly fell by 92,000 in February; unemployment rate rises to 4.4%

 

Too bad Trumpy didn't refill it last year when WTI averaged $65: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve, depleted by Biden, remains down 37% from its 2020 high

 

You know the U.S. is struggling with Iran's drones when it must formally ask Ukraine for help

 

Komrade Karoline declares Venezuela's oil is our oil

 

GOP-controlled US House and Senate both cede war power to the president, shirking their constitutional duty

 

Republicans claim to be against more wars, but they let them happen anyway. 

 House rejects war powers resolution to rein in Trump on Iran

... The vote was 212-219, with four Democrats joining Republicans to torpedo the measure and two Republicans joining Democrats in voting for the measure. The Senate shot down a similar measure on Wednesday. ...

War powers vote fails in the Senate, allowing Trump to continue Iran strikes

... The measure, brought by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., faced steep odds and was largely symbolic even if it passed — Trump is almost certain to veto any bill aimed at decreasing his authority to use the military. The vote was 47-53, under the 50-vote threshold needed to advance the resolution. ... 

Speaking of crazies from Texas, Republican Representative Dan Crenshaw has lost his primary and ain't comin' back

 Dan has public opinions about what are the worst features of contemporary Christianity, which I imagine have not endeared him to the anti-woke warriors of recent ascendancy.

 

 

Texas Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico thinks the constitution's main features are bugs and imagines a past which never existed

 James also believes in 6 genders and abortion rights for trannies, among other lunatic things.

 

 

Kristi Noem fired, replaced by a plumber lol

 Trump says he will replace DHS Secretary Kristi Noem with Sen. Markwayne Mullin

Now he's poaching from the thin Republican majority in the U.S. Senate. Brilliant. Just Brilliant.

 

 

Jobless claims continue at the four year lows in 2026, at 216k on average in February

 Claims have averaged between 216k and 224k on an annual basis starting in 2022. 

We haven't had a monthly average number at or above 300k since Jan 2022. 

Private payrolls in Feb 2026 continue an anemic trend

The additions in the last year average just 26,500 per month.

 

The U.S. and Israel pulled the Iran war trigger when they did because intelligence revealed the opportunity to decapitate the regime in one fell swoop

Let's hope that this time they are successful in eliminating Iran's nuclear capabilities once and for all. 

 

Exclusive: The Trump-Netanyahu call that changed the Middle East

Last Monday [Feb 23], Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Trump with a stunning tip: Iran's supreme leader and his top advisers were all set to meet at one location in Tehran on Saturday morning [Feb 28].

 

They could all be killed in a single devastating airstrike, Netanyahu told Trump and his team, according to three sources briefed on the discussion. ... The Feb. 23 call — held from the White House Situation Room and unreported until now — was a pivotal moment that set the Iran war in motion. ...

 

On Friday at 3:38 p.m. EST, [Trump] gave the final order. Eleven hours later, bombs fell on Tehran, Khamenei was killed and the war had begun. ...                                                       

 

REVEALED: Mossad hacked Iran traffic cams to track Khamenei... 

 

... According to a Financial Times report, almost all of the Iranian capital’s traffic cameras were secretly tapped. ... 

Keystone Kash strikes again

 Kash Patel gutted FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before US strikes, sources say

 ... The removals have cost the Justice Department and FBI decades of combined experience in identifying the types of threats that sources say could appear in the wake of Operation Epic Fury. ...