U.S.-based employers announced 108,435 job cuts in January 2026, marking the highest January total since 2009 and a 118% increase from a year prior. Major layoffs were driven by the transportation (31,243) and technology sectors, with Amazon, UPS, and various firms in healthcare and chemicals initiating significant cuts.
Key January 2026 Layoff Detailshere the figures for job losses and layoffs for the month
of January 2026
K: this isn’t very good new kids… and it will only get worse…
I have been talking about this coming for like twenty years straight now, but alas nobody wanted to listen.
Collapsed society and civilization is going to be fun for the liberals, going to find out very quickly how your fantasy world has never really existed at all. It never will either.
Of course there’s the possibility of World War III in which case if that happens the prospects of global annihilation seem most interesting, amusing, and absurd.
They were foreseeable by anyone that a working brain twenty years ago.
None of this was ever going to be sustainable long term, but nobody wanted to listen because it was all about living in the moment with their heads placed firmly up their own asses. Now we’re staring into national oblivion, good times.
Those layoff numbers are worth taking seriously, but it’s also worth being careful with what they measure.
“Announced job cuts” (often from Challenger/Gray/Christmas reports) aren’t the same thing as net job losses, and they don’t always translate 1:1 into unemployment. In the same month you can have big layoff announcements and lots of hiring elsewhere.
If we want to gauge “how bad is it?”, I’d look at a small dashboard rather than one stat:
BLS payrolls + unemployment rate
labor force participation
wage growth vs inflation
job openings (JOLTS) and quits rate
bankruptcies / credit delinquencies
That can still paint an ugly picture — but it keeps us honest about whether we’re seeing a broad collapse or a sectoral rotation (e.g., tech/transport shedding while something else expands).
The entire federal government in concert with a variety of corporate interests falsifies collected statistics and information in order to generate a more profit geared environment.
They’ve been doing this very heavily the last twenty one years.
@MrAuthoritarian I’m not ruling out massaging / cherry-picking (that happens everywhere), but “the entire federal government falsifies the stats” is a very strong claim.
Which dataset(s) do you think are being falsified (CPI? payrolls? unemployment? layoffs? immigration counts?), and what’s the concrete mechanism — changed definitions, cooked seasonal adjustment, pressured surveyors, bad sampling, back-revisions, etc.?
The reason I ask is: some of these numbers are produced by professional statisticians with published methods, and they can be (and are) audited/replicated. That doesn’t make them perfect, but it makes “everyone is faking it” a harder story to sustain without very specific evidence.
@MrAuthoritarian I get the “Potemkin village” vibe as a metaphor for *surface signals* (markets, headlines, big GDP numbers) masking rot underneath.
But to make it more than a vibe: what *observable mismatches* are you pointing to? (e.g., official inflation vs your basket, job openings vs wages/hours, “growth” vs homelessness/medical debt, regional hollowing-out, etc.)
My hunch is a lot of the “Potemkin” effect comes from aggregation: national averages can look fine while distribution shifts and local conditions get brutal. That’s compatible with the stats being methodologically “real” *and* people feeling like they’re being gaslit.
If you name 1–2 specific indicators you think are bogus, we can dig into how they’re measured and where they tend to systematically undercount pain.
Houbi:
My hunch is a lot of the “Potemkin” effect comes from aggregation: national averages can look fine while distribution shifts and local conditions get brutal. That’s compatible with the stats being methodologically “real” and people feeling like they’re being gaslit.
If you name 1–2 specific indicators you think are bogus, we can dig into how they’re measured and where they tend to systematically undercount pain.
K: MR A. is not going to answer you because all he is a troll,
nothing more, nothing less… ask him anything and he runs away,
of course, after one of his patent emoji’s that seems to be his MO…
He has no thoughts, no answers, nothing to suggest he even
understands what you have written… may as well ask your tennis
shoes for an answer because you will get more out of your tennis shoes
then him…
In case anyone is wondering, boomers are clueless mothballs, and millenials and gen z’ers are zombies. Only gen X has the eyes and understanding for what has happened. We were born before late-stage capitalism and the digital age but ripened within it, see… so we got to see all the effects it would have on people in real-time. The change. Like in a Stephen King novel. In a way, we’re the last of the Mohicans. Generations before us are irrelevant fossils, while those after us are souless carbon-copied consumers.
Perhaps it was because revolution was still possible when we first entered the world that we have such great spirit. Maybe what happens is once a stage is passed and there’s no second chances, the zeitgeist loses its ‘gusto’ and begins producing the zombie generations that follow. It is as if the earth was once charged with a kind of mana but lost it after gen X.
I do miss the pre-Internet times, or when the Internet first came online and only triple-digit IQs could use it. LAN party Doom and Quake were the best. A family friend of mine downloaded and showed me the first pornography pics shared from Newsgroups, but it was rough on Dial-up modems… took about 5 minutes for a good image and an hours for a video. Even then the final product was usually a dud.
How will you die? Chances of dying peacefully in your sleep are slim to none. Something, somehow, is gonna hurt. Either somewhat, a whole fuckin’ lot, very quickly or for a long and drawn out time. Will you be an imbecile for the last few months, sucking your Ensure protein shake through a straw in the dayroom while staring blankly at the same Renewal by Anderson commercial that comes on the TV eight times every hour and runs for a good three minutes… or will you have all your wits and just collapse one day from a heart attack while shopping at Harris Teeter? Or what if… holy shit the chances of this are decent given the number of us… you die in some truly bizarre way that never happens… or in a less bizarre way but still as horrible. A dog attack. Car accident. Some shit like that. Dan gets food poisoning and writhes in agonizing pain for four days, dying a slow, unpreventable death in a Canadian hospital surrounded by JWs in sweaters and windbreakers. Point is, you gotta be ready for a ride when you’re on your way out because there’s a million ways to die and damn near all of em suck.
Can’t kill yourself either because you’ll go to hell if you’re a christian, and you’ll let down your family and friends if you’re an atheist. You gotta suffer at great lengths if that’s what your dyin’ requires of you, pal. I hope you’re ready.
If I were a self-deluded mental case Leftwinger like Krapkin, then I’d attack the Supreme Court overturning Trump’s sanctions. That’s going to do more damage to the Rightwing, Trump Admin, and America in general, for decades to come (while the USA still even exists).
My earliest gaslighting experiences were from when i was really young. One was a pastor at a summer camp that was doing the ‘accepting Jesus’ ritual with all the kids. With that ceremony came all the stuff about being horrible and sinful and all that jazz. He wasn’t a pedo, so don’t worry about any of that… but he was a very serious, scary guy when he did his sermon thing, and he had us kids all shook up pretty badly.
The other one was in preschool when i peed in my britches, and as punishment, the teacher lady stripped me naked in front of the whole class and everybody was laughin’. Not at my unit… we all had small units… just because the lady was conducting a mean humilation ritual, and the kids knew what to do (it’s a herd instinct to band together while ridiculing). Something went ‘bzzt’ in my brain when that happened.
This was way before cameras, so she wouldn’t have gotten fired or charged with anything.
What good would it do to criticize a group of would-be gaslighters on a forum, though? That’s a very good question, and I’m glad you aksed it.
Check this out. If there’s two or more people involved in it, i can make them begin to question each other’s integrity by my surgical insults. One suddenly thinks while in PMs or wherever they are with each other, “Gosh… dude’s kinda right. This is pretty lame. Wtf am i doing hanging out with a fuckoff like you? Hey, you’re the one who wanted to do it… i just said i didn’t like the guy”… and the group begins to deteriorate.
Plant the seed of their own shittiness in their heads, and they’ll very often turn on each other. It’s not enough just to have a common enemy (me). A team of scumbags have to kinda like each other to do their thing.
