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On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 15:35:29 -0400,  -hh says...  

> Leisure and hospitality (-19,000),
> Professional and business services (-13,000),
> Financial activities (-9,000),
> Trade, transportation, and utilities (-7,000).
> Construction (-5,000),
> Manufacturing (-2,000).

Each and every one of those "jobs" could very easily have been filled with "summer hires".

I know... I've done most of those between school years.

Go back and get the stats for every September and see if there's a pattern.

Dollas to donuts... 

September and late August can also experience a slight dip in employment, particularly in certain industries. This phenomenon is 
often attributed to the following factors:

Back-to-school season: As schools reopen, parents may adjust their work schedules or leave the workforce to care for their 
children, leading to a temporary decline in employment.

Summer job end dates: Many students and young people work part-time or seasonal jobs during the summer months. As summer ends, 
these jobs often come to an end, contributing to a temporary increase in unemployment.

Changes in household and childcare arrangements: With the start of the new school year, families may adjust their childcare 
arrangements, leading to changes in employment patterns, particularly among parents.

According to BLS data, August and September have historically experienced a slight decline in employment growth, although the 
magnitude of this decline is typically smaller compared to December.

Here's a rough breakdown of the typical monthly job growth patterns in the United States:

Weak months:

December (as previously discussed)

August and September (due to back-to-school season and summer job end dates)

Strong months:

January (rebound after December jobs dip)

Spring and early summer months (March to July), which tend to experience stronger job growth

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane due to their dislike 
of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that broke TDS down into 
three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet provokes a firestorm, 
as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive language consisting 
solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to anything and everything 
Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS sufferers would suggest he was up to something 
nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received 
positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of Trump as president was a 
punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative columnist Charles 
Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal people in 
reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of George W. Bush."