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.
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.
So when this is all over. These enablers will go to jail right?
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.
Why waste the space putting the crooks who willingly sold out the country on ice when there’s a perfectly good gallows?
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.
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.
Hitler’s more known for a different kind of train.
But he made them run on thyme, right?
Spot on and Krasnov is copying the lunatic Austrian motherfucker.
The administration equivalent of putting a piece of tape on your dash to cover a blinking check engine light.
This is so surreal, such a parody.
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.
This carries similar vibes to altering the weather map with a sharpie
Dude shot the messenger instead of facing the issue at hand.
1984
to try and boost Kamala’s [Harris’] chances
Will everyone that needed CNBC to clarify which Kamala he was talking about, please raise your hand.
adding one more to the number of unemployed isn’t gonna help
Conservative media was working overtime to spin those jobs numbers as positive😂😂
Pee hacking the stats
China has been providing false numbers, so here is a move to leveling the playing field by making USA numbers untrustworthy as well. One step closer to beat China.
Slams.
kyle kulinsky from secular talk says we (the US) are already in a recession, and i really can’t think of any evidence to the contrary. so, what I’m trying to say, is does anyone have anything fun going on? something positive to talk about? 😃
