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It’s uncanny how accurate my prediction was. I gave it 12 months. Here we are 10 months later and Newsom is of course being investigated by the DOJ. So fucking predictable. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/15/gavin-newsom-trump-doj-investigation-california.html
Yeah, but here’s the thing…Newsom is filthy. His travel and some personal expenses are (a) being paid by companies with State of California contracts and (b) he is directing donors to bundle funding donations to these companies, including (c) his left-over ina
Feds zero in on Gavin Newsom’s travel, personal spending in DOJ probe
Thirty years ago, Fetterman would have been considered a typical Democrat. That party has drifted so far left, he seems almost obscenely conservative, at least from the point of view of the Israel/Jewish-hating Democratic Left.
To that point, the Democrats might not do as well in the mid-terms as they think:
Democrats might win in the midterms — but a whole new set of problems await
Senate candidate El-Sayed says he’s not a Muslim Socialist.
I learned a new term today “Functional Unemployment Rate.” It is also known as the “True Unemployment Rate.” It combines the traditional unemployment rate (quite low right now, dropping last month to 4.1% from 4.2%), with the part-time employment rate (but among people seeking full-time employment), with those earning a poverty wage (wage below the poverty level).
This measure, developed by the Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity, had its fourth consecutive increase in July, now at 24.9% overall.
Even more interesting to me is that their measure of the working-age population NOT functionally employed (including those who have dropped out of the labor force) hit 53.8%, up 0.8% since January.
For black workers, the functional unemployment rate is 27.3%. For Hispanic workers, it is 26.7%.
For men, the rate dropped 0.9% to 19.5%; but for women, it jumped 1.6% to 31%, marking the highest level women have seen since March, 2021.
LISER states that the AI boom has sparked a massive demand for construction workers, extraction workers, and other workers in skilled trades. Secondly, there’s been a crisis in family care service and AI is causing companies to reduce white collar employment, so women are pulling out of the labor market.
She was very impressive. Long line of charities supported, comfortable and at ease with men and women alike, hugely talented, rose up from disadvantaged upbringing. I admired her immensely.
Beer consumption on a per capita basis has declined in the United States since the early 1980s. Wine consumption is similarly down. A prominent vintner in Fresno urged California winemakers to remove 50,000 acres of grapes from production. 500,000 tons in wine grapes went unpicked in 2025. Pests like the diamond moth are making inroads.
It’s a tough racket. One of my marketing managers used to volunteer at Copia, a Napa Valley wine center, sort of a cultural/museum type of facility. It opened in 2001, Julia Child helped open it. Wish I could remember the name. It closed in 2008, and sold the property to the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) and became a food business school which opened in 2016.
Wine Demand Crisis: Is the Industry at Risk? | Cover | montereycountynow.com
GDP = G + C + B + E/I.
Gross Domestic Product is equal to government expenditures plus consumer expenditures plus business expenditures plus the net of exports – imports, which has been a negative since 1975.
Businesses have been doing more with less for decades. Consumer spending and debt are tapped. That leaves government expenditures.
Incidentally, between 2019 and 2023 (the last time you could really do an apples to apples comparison), both California and Texas received more fed money than they paid in federal income taxes. In the last year before COVID, Texas was in a very slight deficit, California was in a very slight surplus. But during COVID (2020 and 2021), both states ran giant deficits, which narrowed again in 2022 and 2023.
You can’t erase woke, according to the Washington Examiner.
AOC says “I think it’s important to assess what the candidate is saying now.” Yes. You’d say that after the multiple idiocies that came out of your mouth.
And don’t forget the treasure trove of bad ideas that the leading Democratic presidential challenger — Kamala Harris — supported. Green New Deal, Medicare for all, mandatory assault weapon buybacks, amnesty, packing the Supreme Court, and my personal favorite, transgender operations for illegal aliens who are in prison.
Lindy Li, former Democrat fundraiser, says Kamala Harris is “living in a fantasyland” if she things Democrat financial supporters will support her again.
Fox News on X: “Former DNC fundraiser @lindyli tells @LaraLeaTrump that @KamalaHarris is “living in fantasyland” if she thinks big Democratic donors will back her for another White House run in 2028, as the party faces significant fundraising woes. “She should just go away because the American https://t.co/77DeTjhCFG” / X
The “working class” rejects the left because the working class lives with what is true and now, and not with some academic worker’s struggle narrative. Tell me all the good stuff that has happened to the working class under any socialist rule. Socialists are academics who want something for nothing. They aren’t working people.
100% agree. Most interesting part to me is how the Democrats take the working class for granted. Witness Kamala Harris’s jaw-dropping insult to the head of the Teamsters Union.
He asked to meet her, she basically declined and literally told him “Get on board. This train is leaving with or without you.”
Oh really?
The Teamsters overwhelmingly supported Trump, 60% to 34%.
Kamala Harris Said Something UNBELIEVABLE During Her Teamsters Interview
I think it depends on how it’s presented. The two times in my professional life, I was ordered to lay off people, it was almost exclusively female, because both times I was told to cut headcount…not overall compensation. So I selected the eight assistants, secretaries and coordinators that I could live without, at least over the short run. Both times, it was 100% women, both times HR called me on the carpet, both times, they okayed it.
Why? Because at the end of the day, shit needs to get done, without drama, on time, under budget, and accurately.
My wife’s cousin is married to a wealthy venture capitalist who is based in Seattle. As soon as their kids are out of high school, they are leaving for either Florida or Texas.
She was a nurse, very sweet and kind lady, they’re both Democrats. But they can’t live with or support the craziness.
I think there is a perfect storm of social trends leading to males withdrawing from the labor force.
- The problem is less “no jobs exist” than “the available job no longer clears the man’s reservation threshold”
- Recessions “scar” men—and some never fully return
- Poor health is both a cause and a consequence of nonparticipation
- America eliminated a great many jobs that once converted average male physical ability into middle-class status
- Society has been on a very successful drive to push, promote and drive the success of women at the expense of men. It’s a zero-sum game.
- The education system is increasingly poorly aligned with boys and with noncollege male employment
- Criminal records and incarceration create a long employment shadow
- Marriage and work once reinforced one another; both feedback mechanisms have weakened
- Modern life has made withdrawal more survivable—and less visibly miserable.
- Men may be particularly vulnerable to losing institutions that confer role and status
