Analysts were left shocked Wednesday after ADP released its latest jobs report that showed private employers had shed 32,000 jobs in September, a stark contrast to the expected gain of around 50,000 jobs.

The latest job numbers follow a wave of bad economic news for Trump, who raged against previous reports that showed a sharp decline in job growth, going as far as to call job numbers coming out of his own administration “rigged,” and firing the BLS chief in retaliation.

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    That’s how it’s worked since Reagan fucked everything up.

    Republicans break shit. Dems shore things up so it doesn’t collapse. Republicans get in and fuck every thing up again.

    Repeat until inevitable collapse.

    Nothing ever gets better as a rule. Steady unaltered decline that plateaus while dems are in control

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    I thought they had stopped gathering reports and just made stuff up?
    Are there still some people out there doing actual work that he hasn’t gotten rid of yet?

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    UPI report on same

    ADP also revised its August numbers – from an increase of 54,000 jobs to a drop of 3,000.

    “oh yeah that, sorry, NOT an increase of fifty-four thousand jobs. . lessee . . . ahhh . ah here we go: a drop by three thousand.”

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      Just to note because I misread at first…

      The revision to -3000 is for the August numbers.

      The -32,0000 is for September.

      So a net loss of ~35,0000 jobs in the past two months.

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        And the September numbers aren’t final yet, it usually takes a few months for the all the data to be collected and analysed.

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      I wonder what the used server market is going to look like a few years from now. They just keep throwing hardware at it

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      That’s the only thing keeping the major stock market indices up at this point. Once that bubble pops, everything is going to plummet

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      I’ve been watching not only people get laid off openly because of AI in my company, but also the leaders talk about it like it’s a wonderful thing for everyone. I’ve been asked many times to look into AI tools and see if they can do my own job.

      It’s fucking so messed up. I fucking hate people who think these tools can replace people.

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        Not just because the tools are inadequate, but people making a living besides bussing tables for the 1% isn’t sustainable without UBI. In the US, we can’t even get fucking free healthcare, there is no way we’ll get UBI in our lifetimes.

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    expected gain

    Someone on Trump’s team has the worst job on earth.

    Well, maybe they’ll be good, oh, who am I kidding? They’ll be garbage!

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      Big guy, crying, told me to buy. He said, says, crying. He said. Buy! Buy! And I says to him. I says. Said. Yeah I guess that’s what I said. I don’t know, we’ll see.

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      It feels like the last six months there’s always been bad economic news, but then the stock market rises anyway and the reported reason is that the news “wasn’t as bad as expected”.

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    I mean, if companies get hit by tariffs and amazingly decide to not pass on the costs to consumers as much as they could, of course there will be jobs lost. Something’s gotta give.

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    Sounds a like a good reason for less than 30% of the country to elect another republican while telling the country the silent 70% are enemies…

    I mean the GeNoCiDe isn’t so much, those folks will gladly allow in genocidal republicans…

    So let’s be clear, when push comes to shove a genocidal republican is always the better push than any one else for some reason… dems aren’t left enough, rights are bad enough… everyone keeps complaining while the republican with the worst ever ratings keeps claiming the most ever power… real good resistance you got going on here…

    A shock poll? Or a minor bug in the windshield of fascist dysfunction that purity testing horse shit fueled left wingers only seem to empower and not check…