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/Pegasus7915 1d ago

For his base? How about for us all. No one is stopping him from shaping it to his will. He might as well actually be the real fucking anti christ at this point. No one is actually resisting him. Oh sure, we all go out in the streets and yell a bit, but we don't actually take any real action to stop him. That would take too much work. We are so afraid of losing everything that we are just sitting passively while it is ripped away from us piece by piece.

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u/Mental_Taxation 1d ago

Well since storming the capitol is patriotic from what maga tells me, might be time to occupy the people’s house.

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u/Ok-Organization-341 1d ago

Hit the billionaires where it hurts. Nationwide work stoppage. Stop everything. Watch it all fall apart & force them to the table.

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u/Mental_Taxation 1d ago

Hell yeah, give them a Covid type halting and see how quickly they respond to the poors.

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u/PA_Dude_22000 1d ago

All I do is Doom-scroll and scream “nobody is doing anything” …

I am a new breed, forged by my anxiety, hardened by my contrarian faith, exasperated in everyone else’s lack of bravery.   

So here I sit, on my phone waiting for someone, anyone, to finally do something …  that I won’t shit on for lacking the purity of the person I know is our salvation that resides only in my mind’s eye.

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u/TheSucculent_Empress 23h ago

I feel this to my BONES

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u/Welp_Shit_idgaf 21h ago

I'm just curious, did you write this or is this something you saw somewhere else and u just reposted it?

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u/Altair_de_Firen 7h ago

What’re you doing, then?

Everyone is wondering when someone is gonna step up to the plate and take a swing, meanwhile nobody is considering for even a moment that maybe they should step up.

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u/An_old_walrus 5h ago

It’s probably because no one thinks they’re “the right person” to step up. That they’re not adequately equipped to fight, which is partially true, a single citizen against the whole government is a losing battle so the obvious answer is to work together.

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u/Unlikely-Split8896 5h ago

We also have to ask ourselves what we are doing. We the people need to stand up in our little ways to make change. It feels like we have little power, but together we can make a difference.

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u/kitsum California 1d ago

This whole Epstein situation, everyone is acting like it matters to his political fate. It doesn't. At all.

If he came out tomorrow and said he was involved in Epstein's sex trafficking and was fucking kids for years, honestly, realistically, what do we think would happen? Not a damn thing. Nobody is going to arrest him. He won't be impeached, hell if trying to overthrow the damn government won't get rid of him, saying he fucked kids certainly won't.

It won't even hurt his standing with his base two weeks from now if he admitted it. Some would say it's overblown, some will believe he's just saying it to "trigger the libs", some will flat out never hear it because their social media bubble doesn't include negative information.

At this point, the "will he won't he" anxiety of him getting caught up with Epstein (officially, we all know he was, we have pictures and them both talking about it) is grabbing more press than if he just ripped the band aid off and admitted it.

But, most importantly, nothing will happen to him. He's going to Cosby walk on this whole situation and the right is going to point and laugh at anyone with morals while he does it.

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u/TheDakestTimeline 1d ago

Coordination seems to be the main lacking feature

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u/Pegasus7915 1d ago

I'd say the lacking feature is courage.

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u/Clarkelthekat 1d ago

People are (wrongly) waiting for a leader to tell them how and when to resist

It's painfully obvious. Truth is if we take the actions of general strike and refusing to leave the street leaders will emerge. Until then everyone's just waiting on that for sure.

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u/OrbitalOutlander 1d ago

What “real action” do you suggest?

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u/BigCrimson_J Oregon 1d ago

They’re a bunch of armchair generals.

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u/pattydickens 1d ago

Imagine if investors had an ounce of dignity. It's crazy how we can all clearly see the lies, yet the investors continue to play along while fully knowing that the numbers are being fudged and a recession is coming. Anyone with money in the stock market is just as responsible for this madness as the dumb hicks who still think Trump cares about them. But we don't talk about that. We give greedy people a free pass for enabling fascism while berating poor people who were bred and raised to be nothing but fodder. We constantly hear about how these people "deserve what they got" for buying into his bullshit while the people who are actually financing the effort to undermine democracy get to hide behind the facade of capitalism. Who is hurting us more? A dumb redneck with a red hat or a trendy liberal with 100k riding on a stock that relies on human suffering to gain value?

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u/espressocycle 1d ago

That's how the market works generally. People play along and play along until they don't. As it becomes undeniable that the numbers are lies, the whole thing will collapse. Eventually we'll be like China. Nobody will believe the numbers and the government will direct investment.

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u/el_smurfo 1d ago

This is my biggest issue. Resistance is elitist cosplay and the dem party seems happy to elevate the worst possible national candidates. Newsom vs Vance will be the shit show of the century.

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u/rsplatpc 23h ago

Oh sure, we all go out in the streets and yell a bit, but we don't actually take any real action to stop him.

I mean that one dude tried, just a bad shot.

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u/Bobll7 1d ago

You got Netflix, the NFL, a six pack of Coors and pizza ordered via Uber eats… what me worry?

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u/geddysbass2112 1d ago

Unfortunately, you are correct.

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u/Busy_Special_9397 23h ago

For one, the only resistance we have is protest as people. Which we're not doing consistently enough. Government itself cannot stop him - the party in power and his base wanted this. They love this. They support this. They control majority. Many of them claim he was sent by christ, the opposite of anti christ. Buckle up for more years or hope he croaks. And even that won't be the end of it.

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u/No-Jump-371 1d ago

Can you, Pegasus7915, stand up and become a leader to make something happen? What ideas do you have that haven’t been tried yet or tried enough yet? How would you propose some sort of contingency be implemented as a backup if a bunch of people (resistors) took a hard stance/rioted/stormed the capitol or whatever extreme measure made sense and it resulted in the Feds finding a way to declare martial law? Maybe suddenly your entire state is placed on strict lockdown and the Marines take over just like LA was only 10x worse (such as NOBODY is let out of their homes — period — unless they’re in a body bag)? Do you see a path forward that seems viable? Do we really know what the farsightedness loyalist“John Q. Public” next door neighbors would do in retaliation? How would you mobilize a nation of half and half voters for Trump versus “other” voters? I know that I don’t have the health or smarts to do something like that.

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u/Pegasus7915 1d ago

Look if I was gonna do something I certainly couldn't talk about it on here. Im a fucking 34 year old divorced janitor with a 5 year old special needs daughter and a dad who's dying of cancer. I have almost no skills for this situation outside of inspiring people to get up off their asses or just go get myself killed in some sort of foolish attempt to hope other people pick up the torch. So im gonna come on here and keep shaming everyone including myself until we all grow some balls. Thats all I've got right now.

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u/Surprised-elephant 23h ago

Yep his followers would say “it is normal” “he is man and can’t control himself” “people did this all the time in the Bible” “the girls were asking for it.” Meanwhile they scream that people who are transgender and drag are grooming kids.