Attacks against Trump backfire on the conspiracy of dunces

The New York Post ^ | June 4, 2016 | Michael Goodwin

[2ndDivisionVet]

Are President Obama, Hillary Clinton and violent leftists in cahoots to elect Donald Trump? Or are they just idiots?

The evidence is overwhelming that they all belong to a conspiracy — either of secret GOP sympathizers or of dunces. Those are the only options after Democrats took turns denouncing Trump in ways that actually bolstered the potency of his arguments. Three examples tell the tale.

First, Obama traveled to Indiana to deliver what aides called his first attempt to influence the election. That’s a lie, of course, but not the biggest one of the day. No. 1 would be Obama’s touting the economy as a roaring success.

“If what you care about in this election is your pocketbook; if what you’re concerned about is who will look out for the interests of working people and grow the middle class,” the president claimed, “if what you’re concerned about is the economy, then the debate is not even close.”

He crowed about “progress” made during his tenure, and said sticking with Democrats was the only sensible option.

Two days later, the Labor Department reported that employers added a mere 38,000 jobs in May, the worst report in six years....

[jessduntno]

The one to REALLY worry about is this:

Within manufacturing, employment in durable goods declined by 18,000 in May, with job losses of 7,000 in machinery and 3,000 in furniture and related products.

The rest is bad, but doesn’t include our core abiity to make and provide durable goods without import, provide core abilities in manufacturing for defense and the loss of a production workforce to retraining, etc.

In May, mining employment continued to decline (-10,000). Since reaching a peak in September 2014, mining has lost 207,000 jobs. Support activities for mining accounted for three-fourths of the jobs lost during this period, including 6,000 in May.

Employment in information declined by 34,000 in May. About 35,000 workers in the telecommunications industry were on strike and not on company payrolls during the survey reference period.

Employment in professional and business services changed little in May (+10,000), after increasing by 55,000 in April. Within the industry, professional and technical services added 26,000 jobs in May, in line with average monthly gains over the prior 12 months. Employment in temporary help services was little changed over the month (-21,000) but is down by 64,000 thus far this year.

Employment in other major industries, including construction, wholesale trade, retail trade, transportation and warehousing, financial activities, leisure and hospitality, and government, changed little over the month.

[Fungi]

How did you arrive at 110? I “daresay” 66 would be impressive.

[trebb]

I daresay neither one has an IQ above 110.

And that's if they cook the data like they do everything else....