Econ 101: Employers are hiring, but not as much as economists had hoped.

  The US economy added 559,000 jobs in May, driven in particular by re-openings at restaurants, bars and hotels in particular. Economists had expected  675,000 for the month, but unemployment fell to 5.8 percent, the lowest since the start of the pandemic.

Despite the modest increase, President Biden described the report as “great news”, adding: “This is progress, historic progress [after] our worst crisis in 100 years.”

 At least 9.3 million people remain unemployed. It 5.7 million in February 2020 just before the pandemic bomb dropped..

  Biden said at a press appearance that, “We can’t reboot the world’s largest economy like flipping on a light switch.” 

  He said, “Jobs are up. Wages are up. Manufacturing is up. Growth is up. People gaining healthcare coverage is up and small business confidence is up. America is finally on the move again. As we continue this recovery, we’re going to hit some bumps along the way. Of course that’ll happen.”

Unidentified Flying Objects: US intelligence officials have found no evidence that the so-called “UFOs” seen by Navy pilots in recent years are alien spacecraft, but they still cannot explain what the pilots saw, senior administration officials have told news outlets. 

  A report yet to be released determined that the vast majority of more than 120 incidents over the past 20 years were not sightings of American military or other advanced government technology. That would eliminate the involvement of secret flight programs.

  Otherwise, the report is inconclusive. The current fascination with UFOs in recent weeks has been fed by new unexplained sightings, and an appearance by former President Barack Obama on “The Late Late Show with James Corden.”  Obama said, “What is true, and I’m actually being serious here, is that there is footage and records of objects in the skies that we don’t know exactly what they are.’’

  The report concedes that a lot about the flying objects remains difficult to explain, including their unbelievable acceleration and their ability to turn on a dime. 

Unidentified Political Objects: Speaking of UFOs, former federal prosecutor, New York Mayor, and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani hosted an hour-long discussion about them on his YouTube channel, “Rudy Giuliani’s Common Sense.” He said a number of sightings “haven’t been examined the way they should be.”

  Immediately damaging his credibility on that subject, or any subject, Giuliani peppered his show with a commercial pitch for Mike Lindell’s “My Pillow,” which Rudy describes as “simply the very best pillows ever made.”

 “I’ve been sleeping on them for some time now. I love them,” Rudy says.

  MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is a major supporter of Donald Trump and a proponent of the theory that proof of massive election fraud will restore Trump to office. Not only that, he also claims his pillows are good.

  “Donald Trump, I believe, will be back in by the end of August,” Lindell said late last month in an appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, claiming that even liberals like MSNBC host Rachel Maddow would admit the election was stolen. She hasn’t.

  Lindell is in the company of former Trump layer Sidney Powell, who said at a QAnon conspiracy rally that, “He can simply be reinstated, but a new inauguration date is set, and Biden is told to move out of the White House, and President Trump should be moved back in.” 

  Lindell claims that his lawyers and “white hat” hackers have amassed incontrovertible proof of election fraud to present to the Supreme Court and that the justices will undoubtedly vote  9-0 to return Trump to the presidency.

  “I spoke about it with my lawyers who said that they should have something ready for us to bring before the US Supreme Court by July, Lindell said. “So, in my mind, I hope that means that we could have Donald Trump back in the White House by August. That’s how I landed on August, and I’m hopeful that that is correct.”

  His lawyers must be sleeping on his pillows.

The Liar’s Club: CNN host Jake Tapper is refusing to book what he calls “Election Liars” on his show — people who claim Trump won and the election was stolen. That’s about two-thirds of House Republicans, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, Louisiana’s Steve Scalise, and New York’s Else Stefanik.

The Spin Rack: A federal judge has thrown out California’s 30-year ban on the sale of assault weapons, calling it a “failed experiment.” The judge wrote that, the banned were not “bazookas, howitzers or machine guns,” but rather “fairly ordinary, popular, modern rifles.” —  Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany is complaining that the current White House crew gets “fawning” coverage from the press. President Biden’s Press Secretary Jen Psaki is having her picture taken by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz for a magazine profile.

Like You’ve Never Seen Before:  Suspended from Facebook for another two years, Donald Trump is getting out there to campaign again. He’s speaking tonight at the North Carolina Republican Party convention, his opening act in what may be a string of appearances this summer.

 Trump called it “a great honor to be speaking” before the group.  He said in an email statement, “I understand the place will be packed, all records broken!” 

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