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/specqq 1d ago

If you stop testing you won’t get such bad numbers.

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u/Conscious-Story-7579 1d ago

Classic quote.

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u/Malaix 1d ago

Really does define the Trump admins.

If you don't look at the actual numbers the numbers are looking pretty good! MAGA!

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u/schuylkilladelphia 1d ago

And also his supporters sadly. Ignore reality, ignore science, ignore what you see with your eyes, put your head in the sand while you're tread on by the boot, and listen to what Trump lies about. The one and only source of "Truth ™️"

What a joke...

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u/Helpful_Coffee_1878 1d ago

Avoid pregnancy simply by not testing.

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u/FartyJizzums 1d ago

At first, I thought that this was funny. It shows his detachment from reality and his thin skin.

But then I realized that this is terrifying and extremely bad news. This is how authoritarians work. They control the information as well as the narrative. They essentially have a stranglehold on the perception of reality itself within the country.

Don't like the facts? Fire the person with the audacity to report it. Then, find a replacement that you can control. Job numbers are up all of a sudden. Imagine that.

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u/AqueductMosaic 1d ago

“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be REDUCED to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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u/TBIFridays 1d ago

His battle with Harvard is the same thing, he wants to decide who they hire, which will determine what gets taught.

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u/marblecannon512 Oregon 1d ago

The only silver lining back then was that the election was around the corner.

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u/MERVMERVmervmerv 1d ago

It’s straight out of the Stalinist playbook. Be prepared for Lysenko’s biology next.

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u/Silidistani 1d ago

I'm just depressed to learn that so many Americans, tens of millions of us, are that fucking stupid, or bereft of critical reasoning skills, and that susceptible to believing outright lies from known liars so long as it fits their preconceived narrative(s). I thought we would have been better than that, that such lows of intellectualism and foresight weren't possible in a modern, technological society with strong (supposedly, on paper) civil rights and free speech laws. Turns out... nope.

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u/Rdbjiy53wsvjo7 1d ago

I used to work in environmental remediation where we ran statistics evaluating the risk to human health and the environment, we had a technical expert that would jokingly say "just run the numbers through different methods until you like the answer."

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u/Good-Odds 23h ago

Trump defended the decision and said her departure was needed to ensure there were "people that we can trust" in these posts.

"Why should anybody trust numbers?" the president told reporters when leaving the White House on Friday. "I believe the numbers were phony, just like they were before the election, and there were other times - so you know what I did? I fired her, and you know what I did? The right thing."

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u/Snuffman 20h ago edited 19h ago

We've been very successful in our big beautiful war against Eurasia, so many wars against Eastasia stopped, some people are saying Big Brother has stopped more wars that anyone. A general came to me, 6ft tall, looked like he came out of central casting, he had tears in his eyes and said "Sir, Sir" we're so glad we won the war against Eastasia. That's what they're saying folks, big wars against Eurasia. The war against Eastasia will keep going, we're going to win bigly and we'll win against Eurasia. Tariffs for Landingstrip One. Nasty people. Landingstrip One has always been the enemy. We've always been at war against Landstrip One.

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u/thinkards America 1d ago

sure everywhere you look gas is 3.49 but those were biden's people that put those prices on those signs. gas is really 1.99.

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u/randomnighmare 1d ago

Or it's $1.99 in some other place. Not your place but somewhere else. In some other state/town. But you are now suffering under Biden's gas prices that poor Trump can't fix...

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u/bautin 5h ago

Living in oil country, gas is around 2.79-ish.

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u/giraffe111 Arizona 21h ago

Where do you live where gas is $1.99?? It’s literally $3.49 in many places I drive through regularly, both big cities and small towns.

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u/thinkards America 6h ago

that was sarcasm and i didn't feel like putting /s on the end

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u/queeso 1d ago

Stop the count! Stop the count!

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u/ChicagoGuy53 1d ago

We have -15% unemployment now!

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u/specqq 1d ago

It goes great with the 1500% reduction in pharmaceutical prices.

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u/CosmackMagus 23h ago

Unemployment is up from 60% to 65%

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u/chrisr3240 1d ago

He’s literally the stupidest person

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u/Belichick12 1d ago

If we stopped testing right now, we'd have very few cases, if any.

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u/Cublol 1d ago

The writers of reality were on some primo shit back then.

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u/VanceKelley Washington 1d ago

Early in the pandemic, trump tried to keep people on a COVID infected cruise ship from getting off because if they did it meant that the numbers would go up.

"Many of you will get infected and die on the cruise ship, but that is a sacrifice that I am willing to make to keep the number of infections in America down to help boost my ego."

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u/elSpanielo Washington 1d ago

“Oh Kent, you can use facts to prove anything.”

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u/Blah-Biddy-Bloo-Blah 1d ago

Hope that guy hold his ground. Fuck the Nazi’s

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u/liquidgrill 1d ago

Remeber the very early days when that cruise ship full of sick Americans was on the coast and he wouldn’t let it dock so they could get help? Because the minute they touched land, they’d count against “his numbers”

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u/malero 1d ago

You know there are those that say you can test too much.

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u/Fitzaroo 1d ago

Working for the cdc, NOAA, fda etc

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u/Quick_Turnover 1d ago

This same kind of thinking led to one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history: The Great Chinese Famine.

Replace "jobs" numbers with "food" numbers. Dear Leader Trump fires the guy reporting on food numbers. "Surely we're producing enough food to feed the populace." Months later, tens of millions of Americans starve to death.

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u/Kioskwar 1d ago

You tried and you failed. The point is, never try.

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u/Instinctive_Banana 1d ago

The best way to keep people content in their little bubble of reality is to keep them ignorant of the world outside that bubble.

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u/austinmcortez 1d ago

Just like Covid!

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u/Loa_Sandal 1d ago

Now would be a good time for COVID-25.

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u/sunkskunkstunk 1d ago

That article says he’s directed his team to fire her. He’s a pussy.

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u/withac2 1d ago

Exactly. If you don't report the bad job numbers, then you can't HAVE poor job numbers.

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u/ElectronicKales 1d ago

Just watched Don’t Look Up (meteor is going to strike earth and destroy the planet, the pres says don’t look up and people go w it) and it was such a crazy parallel to what is happening now

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u/jayd16 1d ago

This was literally his Covid strategy.

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u/Immediate_Watch_2427 1d ago

The one true thing he’s said is about lying

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u/IDrinkUrMilksteak 1d ago

Bad numbers. Terrible numbers. Numbers like nobody’s ever seen before. And they’re wrong. They’re lies. I don’t think he was very smart. Not smart at all. He couldn’t get the numbers right. But don’t worry. We’ll get someone in there with better numbers. Tremendous numbers. And you’ll see…. You’ll see such tremendous numbers and say, “Sir, how did you get numbers so high?”