President Donald Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt.
In a Truth Social post that also directed even more fire at Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of being a political appointee who was manipulating jobs data.
“I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s [Harris’] chances of Victory,” Trump wrote.
“We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,” he added.
adding one more to the number of unemployed isn’t gonna help
1984
And we’ve only just reached the 8th month of this 4 year term.
It’s ok, ai might reach super intelligence before then 😅, and climate change might be beyond recovery, nothing important the government should be working on.
Next job numbers are gonna sky rocket. Who will replace her? Another no neck crooked eye lackey?
This is why russias military was shit. Because dictators scare everyone into telling them there is only good news and then it rots from the inside out.
And guess what. It’s alll caused by a single micro-mushroom penis asshole at the top with no balls and a childlike ego.
The firings will continue until the job numbers improve.
Gonna be pretty awkward when he realises this isn’t the next season of the apprentice
This carries similar vibes to altering the weather map with a sharpie
sniff sniff A bad smell…? CUT OFF MY NOSE IMMEDIATELY!
Any second now they’ll announce the new government branch: the Ministry of Truth.
They’d be fine with ministry of alternative facts
They’re not alternative anymore.
This is satire right? Jesus H. Christ. We are so far into clown world that you couldn’t even make fun of it. No matter how ridiculous you make it sound- they will outdo you with reality.
How is this any different from admitting that whoever Trump replaces them with is going to report inaccurate numbers to make Trump look good?
In the era of global fascism, satire is dead. These aren’t bad ideas when you don’t care about anything passed your self image, and no one that matters will stand up to you.
This guy is gonna be the end of all of us. I feel sorry for Americans with an IQ above… 70 for having to watch this in real-time and live through the age of stupidity
Ever hear the expression, "Hitler made the trains run on time“?
Thing is, he didn’t. But everyone was afraid to report that they weren’t running on time, so officially they always met their schedules.
That’s where this is heading.
Spot on and Krasnov is copying the lunatic Austrian motherfucker.
It was actually Mussolini who failed to make the trains run on time. I mean, I haven’t heard of them being especially punctual under Hitler, either, but the phase is about Mussolini.
But he made them run on thyme, right?
Hitler’s more known for a different kind of train.
I only ever heard that Kruschev “made the trains run on time.” AFAIK, he did.
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Next week: there were 134 million new jobs
Well they saved “258 million” people from fentanyl overdose in 100 days; finding half of them jobs in a week should be no problem.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pam-bondi-fentanyl-258m/2/3rds of Americans OD’d in 100 days?
Where the fuck was I, someone must have been handing out the good shit for free.
134 BILLION NEW JOBS!!!
FTFY
I mean, it’s Trump. Do you really think he’d use a number that could be even remotely realistic? It has to be something truly stupid
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Fair, he did say he’d bring down the cost of drugs by 1000%. Chronic illnesses about to make BANK.
Woo-cough-hoo!
I was thinking about a number greater than the population of the US, but decided on a number that was equally impossible yet somehow believable by maga.
Doesn’t matter. If he says it, they’ll believe it.
Yeah, he would say, “1234 Billions New Jobs!”
Easier to remember.
12345 is even easier, it being the same as the combination on all of their luggage. :-P
He wants people who will lie for him, like bondi, bongino, kash, hegseth, tulsi, etc.
He wants people who will lie, break the law, or support/hide/ignore illegal activities. He’s a fucking mobster. Organized crime is at the executive branch. Arguably the judiciary and Senate as well.
Watching fascism play out in real time… What a time to be alive.
That’s how Putin got stuck in year 4 of the 3 day special military operations. Everybody lied to him about the state of his military forces. It’s inevitable with these “strong man” leader types.
So when this is all over. These enablers will go to jail right?
Why waste the space putting the crooks who willingly sold out the country on ice when there’s a perfectly good gallows?
Depends on timing. We’re in a small window between them showing their intent, and a first-for-humanity inability to organize against them. Once ORNL gets their nuke-powered AI up and running, and fed all the Palantir data and the decades of mass surveillance data the NSA has but hasn’t been able to use at scale, the regime will be able to have a constantly-updated list of the people most likely to instigate an uprising, and can just MLK them or blackmail them before their movement gets off the ground. All that will remain are easily-dealt-with and easily-discredited lone wolves.
Goddamn man. Depressing. This is exactly what I expected though, and nearly lost my mind over 20 years ago.
I was so excited about technology, and then it occurred to me that it would definitely have been used by Hitler 1.0 if he’d had it, and it definitely will be used by Hitler 2.0 when the time comes.
The next big authoritarian movement will not need neighbors informing on each other. People have unwittingly prepared a dossier on themselves and handed it to the Stasi.
Man, oh man.
What Hitler 1.0 actually had available to him was adequate to maintain complete control over Germany despite the German people going through much worse than what we’ve experienced (so far, at least). Germany had clearly lost WWII, her cities had been bombed into complete rubble (so much so that there really wasn’t anything left to bomb), and the Allied armies were rapidly closing in on all sides. And yet Hitler and his cronies didn’t lose their grip on power, not until the Russians were literally overhead and Hitler put a bullet in his brain. The German people never rose up and overthrew fascism on their own.
Which ones? The ones actively helping him, or the ones simply letting it happen?
Whatever helps you sleep at night!
I would like someone to create a website where we can list the enablers. All of them. Make a list. Start with Trump. Add everyone in his cabinet. Add all of his enablers, down to the people that voted for him.
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Unfortunately my knowledge of running an anonymous website is very limited.
All depends on your threat model. If a major government is after you, you’re screwed no matter what.
Otherwise, making a .onion for your website is straightforward.
We’re fucked. It’s all over but the fighting.
Until a few months ago, I was a statistician for the US government. 25 years. I’m so fucking glad I’m out, though I’m making far less than I used to, honestly not enough yet. But I’m glad I’m not under his thumb.
I cut my salary in half to get out. Wtf is money worth if you can’t even afford anything?
Makes sense - if you don’t like the numbers just fire the messenger.
Foxtrot Delta Taco.
Tango but I see what you did there.
Took me a second. Clever.
