Trump orders firing of labor statistics chief hours after data showed jobs growth slowed
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/trump-f…
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Same strategy he deployed fighting covid - run from reality.
This one is a big deal. This report is just the tip of the iceberg as we have only just begun to feel the pain of the federal layoffs (and don't get me started on tarrifs). If he removes people from accurately reporting, we're going to have a crashing economy with no metrics on what's really going on.
So our economy is going to be based on incorrect info. Every lie incures a debt to the truth, and that debt will eventually come due. Things will crash. Its not even a question. I figure the last protection in place is Powell. Once he is replaced by a yes-man, its all done for. Before that happens I plan on pulling all my investments. My question is where is a safe place to put it at that point?
Assets. But, be careful with gold. It’s already up from the announcement. Make sure you diversify.
Not financial advice. I’m a fool.
I'm still waiting for some serious actual resistance to this guy's lunacy. At what point will the people say 'enough!'?
There is no truth but Trumps truth. I don't think he ever read 1984, or if he did, that he'd be able to manage the whole book, let alone understand it. However, as with evolution leading to different species filling a niche, we has landed right there and is trying to achieve the same
Now you can never trust those numbers ever again
Is Trump stupid? Doesn't he have any advisors? He could have easily harassed and forced them to resign or get them killed in a few months but he decided to make it obvious by firing her within 24 hours of a bad data release.
So kind of like Blackadder but with a whiny toddler voice instead of Brian Blessed's incredible booming voice?
So if you don’t lie to make the numbers look good, you’re fired.
Just great. And to think I was skeptical of the government’s economic reporting before this bs.
Your daily reminder that the President of the United States is a delusional narcissist with the emotional maturity of a toddler.
That's a pedo in the Epstein files.
Is this the same guy who said that less covid testing would result in fewer cases?
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A sharpie and pure force of will. Works kinda like thoughts and prayers.
New solution for jobs numbers... You run door dash and grubhub sometimes to subsidize your low wages at your main job, cool you count as 3 jobs. You gave your kid $5 allowance, that counts as him having a job. We can get those numbers up.
Just count if we're stressed about Trump enough hours of the day to hit full-time weekly hours. We'll achieve 100% employment in no time.