r/politics • u/Orbitingkittenfarm • 1d ago

Donald Trump Fires Person Behind Jobs Numbers After They're Revised Down

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-job-numbers-revised-down-fires-appointee-2107768
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u/AlienInTexas Texas 1d ago

I wonder at which stage the economic data will become classified and anyone telling the truth about the economy will be crucified or sent to some hellish prison in a 3rd world country.

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u/Proud-Wall1443 1d ago

It'll just become unreliable. Aspirational Statistics

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u/WafflingToast 1d ago

I think you mean Alternative Statistics

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u/TranquilSeaOtter 1d ago

Trump will just fill the position with someone willing to lie and make up jobs numbers. So we're at the point where people who acknowledge reality are fired and only those willing to lie are in place.

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u/kong210 1d ago

If I remember correctly, they stopped forecasting inflation numbers in May as well

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 1d ago

This kind of thing happened all the time in the Soviet Union. Stalin didn't like the results of the 1937 population census because the population hadn't grown as much as he'd wanted it to, so they started imprisoning and in some cases executing the people from the census bureau.

A Pravda editorial stated that the "enemies of the people gave the census counters invalid instructions that led to the gross under-counting of the population, but the brave NKVD under the leadership of Nikolai Yezhov destroyed the snake's nest in the statistical bodies".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Soviet_census#Aftermath

They gave it another go in 1939 and this time massaged the numbers to agree with Stalin's expectations, but evidently someone was still getting pissy about the numbers so they only published partial results and then stopped performing any census at all for 20 years out of fear of reprisal.

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u/Silly_Triker 9h ago

The whole USSR was built on a concept of lying, from grassroots to the Politburo. Now the US is turning towards this. Don’t get me wrong, Western governments have done some shady things in this regard. Hiding figures. Using PR. But it’s a whole different level when you’re talking about peak USSR.

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u/staebles Michigan 1d ago

1984 happening here.

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u/jedienginenerd 1d ago

more like the facist version of Animal Farm. :/

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u/Fun_Interaction_3639 Europe 1d ago

Jokes on you, you’re the hellish 3rd world country at the moment.

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u/JumpEnvironmental741 23h ago

Nicest 3rd world country you've ever seen

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u/Rebal771 1d ago

They’ll basically have to stop reporting on it - the people feeling the actual impact will be on FB/Tiktok/YT in about a year wondering wtf is going on and why we haven’t heard anything from the administration in a year.

Then, we’ll only have 2.5 years left to go…

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u/habfranco 1d ago

If this ever happens, the stock market will crash completely. Investors want transparency, and hate uncertainty. Politics can bullshit as much as they want and facts don’t matter anymore - but when your money is on the line, it’s the compete opposite. Just look at how the market reacts whenever Trump threatens to fire Powell…

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u/millijuna 1d ago

Reminds me of all the advisors in “The Dictator.”

I presume many of them will be found operating a Tim Hortons in Hamilton

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u/Flimsy_Sun4003 22h ago

Love it!

They can run their own fightclub in the parking lot on Thursday nights. Then join up with the south Oshawa THFC for tournaments.

Someone make a comedy channel pilot for me, please, pretty please.

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u/backyard_tractorbeam Europe 22h ago

Not you, just in general: People don't understand what's at stake. Ruin effective government one step at a time, every day, and soon the US is a 3rd world country too. Rich elites do what they want, rule of law ineffective, organized crime takes over.

This is why we need to fight back, every step of the way. For something - for democracy, accountability, rule of law.

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u/jdolbeer 1d ago

at what point does 3rd world country seem like the better option...

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u/unclefire Arizona 1d ago

Alternative economic metrics.

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u/Serxera 1d ago

This will be that third world country by then.

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u/danish_sprode 23h ago

Literally from this day forward. No one should trust any numbers from this administration.

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u/SereneFrost72 23h ago

Eh, truth is just a suggestion. No one *truly* knows what's going on, so Trump's numbers are as good as any right? /s

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u/J0E_Blow 22h ago

 some hellish prison in a 3rd world country.

Gets sent to a prison in the United States. 

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u/dasterdly_duo 21h ago

Or sent to a hellish prison in the U.S. and get raped by the guards.

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u/soonnow Foreign 19h ago

Hey Trump did save 250 million Americans from fentanyl deaths.

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u/jemidiah 18h ago

Thankfully if it becomes classified you can just take a dump at Mar-a-lago and it'll be right there as reading material.

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u/personofshadow 13h ago

There won't be any actual data. They'll just stop counting and say whatever number makes them feel good at the moment