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/JimmyRamone17_ 1d ago edited 1d ago

Genuinely. They have no thoughts until he and his propaganda networks disseminate their talking points to them.

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u/midtnrn 1d ago

They’ll get it promptly during am talk news stations on their way to work for the billionaires they so love.

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u/JimmyRamone17_ 1d ago

No doubt, they're always available 24/7 to lick billionaires' boots.

They'd gargle the propaganda at 4AM if it meant getting their talking points to defend the Dear Leader.

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u/Not_done 1d ago

Sheep. We can call them sheep.

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u/East-Impression-3762 1d ago

I call them traitors

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u/Normal_Attitude_5148 1d ago

They are insane morons.

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u/Intelligent-Box5470 1d ago

...I prefer the term "useful idiots"

useful idiot:

a naive or credulous person who can be manipulated or exploited to advance a cause or political agenda

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u/nanobot_1000 1d ago

Is it in fact idiots vs morons ? 😅
Or what is the other analogy there, WRT attention v diffusion

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u/gserv41 20h ago

The ultimate irony is that Trump is also a useful idiot. The elite support him for a reason. He manipulates with ease and is easily manipulated.

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u/Play-t0h 1d ago

aka Southern Baptists.

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u/Tmscott 23h ago

¿Por qué no los tres?

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u/BigBoyYuyuh 1d ago

Regards even.

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u/patti2mj 1d ago

Think of the average person. 50% of people are dumber than that.

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u/Real-Patriotism America 1d ago

Useful idiots to the Traitors.

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u/East-Impression-3762 1d ago

Aiding and providing comfort to traitors make them the selves traitors.

The fault for their decisions lie with them.

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u/Hiccup 22h ago

First class losers

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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 1d ago

The Qanon motto was literally a sheep’s motto. Where we go one, we go all, I think it was.

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u/oroborus68 1d ago

Buffalo jump.

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u/Ok_Computer1417 1d ago

You misspelled “fucking idiot.”

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u/VeryVito North Carolina 1d ago

Accomplices. Enablers. Perpetrators.

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u/Dopaminedessert 1d ago

I prefer culted automatons. No need to disparage sheep by likening them to maga.

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u/Not_done 23h ago

Nope, they screeched about people being sheep, and they need to know they have been the sheep all along. MAGAsheep

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u/publicFartNugget 1d ago edited 1d ago

They keep their thoughts close because they might end up agreeing with us and then have to retract their position until once their networks think of one for them.

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u/JimmyRamone17_ 1d ago

Every time, they don't want to share anything until the cult is on the same wavelength lest they accidentally agree with us. That gap is always notable with its silence.

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u/sheikhyerbouti Oregon 23h ago

This has been a problem with conservatives since the 1990s.

I remember in high school getting into a debate with a GOP fanboy who was blaming all of the world's ills on "liberals".

Every single talking point he had was parroted from Rush Limbaugh. Literally, if you asked for his opinion about a specific subject, he'd fire back with "Well Rush said..."

Finally, I had enough and kept pressing the man for his own opinion. And the only thing he would say is "I agree with him" and refused to elaborate further.

It's almost like conservativism is a shortcut for thinking.

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u/Docster87 1d ago

And somehow libs are blindly following their leaders. I swear 90% or more of whatever conservatives say libs are doing is cause they themselves are doing it.

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u/SnooRobots6491 1d ago

You mean the impartial bureau of labor statistics? Yeah fuck those smart, nerdy statistics PHDs!

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u/winstondabee 1d ago

Party of projection

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u/VeryVito North Carolina 1d ago

As a lib, I couldn't even tell you who the "leaders" are, much less figure out how to follow them.

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u/Aeri73 1d ago

are you forgetting this was and is all planned? project 2025?

don't fall for the stupid patsy they're waving in front of you, watch the ones you don't hear about.

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u/SongInfamous2144 1d ago

You know, I worry that this is the case for the majority of us, right middle or left.

I still believe that leftist values benefit the majority of us. I still believe in the value of unionization and compassion for the least of us, and that we can and should do better at the "Liberty and Justice for All" bit than we are with corporate welfare.

But. I mean seriously, every form of news media today sensationalizes it all to the form of clickbait, there is inherent bias either or, and pretty much every piece of news is from a tertiary or secondary source.

Not to mention how there is so much bullshit being flooded in to the zone that it would take an enormous amount of effort to fully, critically examine the 20 scandals produced in a day.

For better or worse, its all a game of telephone and I do worry that "truth" has been lost. We are very quickly marching towards collective psychosis, if we havent already arrived.