Unfortunately with declining vaccination rates, it’s not just the unvaccinated that will suffer (although they will obviously suffer the most initially).

Eventually if enough people don’t get vaccinated, it will lead to some mutations of diseases that can’t be stopped via old vaccinations

S***, this is facts

America done f***ed up this past election

F*** the big 3 nigga its just Big Xi

reuters.com/business/us-manufacturing-contracts-sixth-straight-month-amid-tariff-drag-2025-09-02

WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - U.S. manufacturing contracted for a sixth straight month in August as factories dealt with the fallout from the Trump administration's import tariffs, with some manufacturers describing the current business environment as "much worse than the Great Recession."

The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) survey on Tuesday also showed some manufacturers complaining that the sweeping import duties were making it difficult to manufacture goods in the United States. President Donald Trump has defended his protectionist trade policy, which has raised the nation's average tariff rate to the highest in a century, as necessary to revive a long-declining U.S. industrial base.

That was reinforced by government data showing spending on the construction of factories dropped in July and was down 6.7% from a year ago. A U.S. appeals court ruled last Friday that most of Trump's tariffs were illegal, adding more uncertainty for businesses.

"I continue to see the broad economy generally and the manufacturing sector in particular as in a holding pattern until tariff-related uncertainty recedes," said Stephen Stanley, chief U.S. economist at Santander U.S. Capital Markets.

The ISM said its manufacturing PMI edged up to 48.7 last month from 48.0 in July. A PMI reading below 50 indicates contraction in manufacturing, which accounts for 10.2% of the economy. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the PMI would rise to 49.0.
Seven industries, including textile mills, miscellaneous manufacturing and primary metals, reported growth last month. Among the 10 industries reporting contraction were makers of paper products, machinery, electrical equipment, appliances and components as well as computer and electronic products.

Tariffs continued to dominate commentary from manufacturers. Some makers of transportation equipment said conditions were worse than the 2007-09 recession, adding "there is absolutely no activity" and "this is 100 percent attributable to current tariff policy and the uncertainty it has created." Some viewed the conditions as consistent with "stagflation."

Some electrical equipment, appliances and components producers complained that "'made in the USA' has become even more difficult due to tariffs on many components." They said the "administration wants manufacturing jobs in the U.S., but we are losing higher-skilled and higher-paying roles." Others reported that because of the lack of "stability in trade and economics, capital expenditures spending and hiring are frozen."

Manufacturers of computer and electronic products said "tariffs continue to wreak havoc on planning and scheduling activities," adding that "plans to bring production back into (the) U.S. are impacted by higher material costs, making it more difficult to justify the return."

Not even factoring in ghost jobs.

Willing to bet most of them manufacturers voted for him despite Trump talking about tariffs openly prior to election day

Had to pause for a second to see if this was a legitimate source and think about if I was dreaming or if this is a real headline in real life

Republicans gotta be the most petty mfers ever lmao.

This literally contradicts every time they cry about 2nd amendment rights, but since it's a group they all hate, it'll have wide support.

This is the essence of the Republican party. Was never about rights, just about THEM having rights.

Before I sell you this here firearm, I gotta ask one very important question, are you a transgender?

"Uhh, no?"

Perfect, the total is $499.

I don't know, it's extremely consistent with what they did with the Black Panthers and gun rights too

Its not really about gun control or anything, it's about oppression of people they don't like or don't want here and Republicans have been wildly consistent about that for decades, even if the voters aren't smart enough to recognize that's what they want

I'm anti gun but as a realist I know that it's impossible in America, it'd be like tryna get all the plastic out of the ocean, you can't throw a billion dollars in 1s off a building and then expect the people below to give every single note back or even just hide some somewhere

(Definitely want more rules and regulations around gun ownership but I know a gun free america is damn near impossible)

In a place where everyone has guns & emboldened bigotry is rising, limiting gun ownership for one of the most disenfranchised and discriminated groups of people is some of the most heinous sh* possible

They won't be able to do it legally, but it's not like that has stopped them before. And besides, even if this somehow passed it won't stop them from actually getting their hands on a gun since it's not a nationwide ban.

What are ghost jobs?

Companies often post job positions
that they never intend to fill

What's the reason for doing this?

In some cases, they are required by law to make the job posting available to the public, but they may have already filled the role with someone internally.

Everyone should be sounding the alarm on this. If they can successfully target minority groups, who you think next on that list?

bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

Job report for August is out. Negligible change, +22k in non-farm jobs, mostly attributable to healthcare industry but offset by losses in government employment and in mining/oil and gas, unemployment rate still at 4.3% or roughly 7 million

Also employment revisions for June (revised down from +14k to -13k) and July (revised up from +73k to +79k)

Exactly. This isn’t a transgender rights issue as much as it’s an authoritarian issue — if the reasoning will be “trans people are too mentally unstable to use a gun” I can easily see them saying “the radical left are too mentally unstable to use a gun”

Life Section-type beat

Unfortunately this is going to work and I think we all saw this coming when this all started.

Mans got honey potted lmao

Project Veritas plotting on Trump? why the turn now?