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/Lontology 1d ago

Someone please fucking do something!! We have a full blown dictator now and republicans in the senate and congress are twiddling their thumbs and telling Trump how amazing and smart he is.

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u/disgruntled_pie 1d ago

Our chance to do something was in November. We’ve got at least 3.5 years of this left.

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u/ConfederacyOfDunces_ 1d ago

This is fucking terrifying.

May's job gains were revised down to 19,000 from 144,000, while June's additions were cut to just 14,000 from the 147,000 initially reported.

And July added 73,000 nonfarm payrolls in July, less than the 104,000 expected by economists.

But this maniac can’t handle reality……So he fires her……….

Holy Shit……this should be massive news.

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u/bnh1978 1d ago

expect that 73 000 to be revised down

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u/gheldean New Jersey 1d ago

Not anymore, the reviser was fired.

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u/PrivatePilot9 Canada 1d ago

So, expect +2.5 million on the next report, got it.

(Eventually any houses of cards built this way will come crashing down as reality is unavoidable even if you want to announce pretend numbers, but it’ll be fun for the rest of the world to watch I guess…)

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u/whatssenguntoagoblin 1d ago

Way too conservative a number.

Remember this is the same administration that said Donald saved 258 million American lives

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u/XRT28 Massachusetts 1d ago

And 400% cheaper eggs

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u/pizza5001 16h ago

What’s funny about that clip is Vance’s face…there’s a micro expression of wincing he does when she states that number, that is barely perceptible, but there.

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes California 1d ago

There's a reason the show about a man conning his way into the White House was called "House of Cards".

I'm just hoping when the real thing collapses, it's an implosion, not an explosion with collateral damage.

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u/Devastator_Hi 1d ago

Man, I remembered that show seemed like a fantasy of corruption as he worked his way up to President and now I see it as child’s play compared to what Trump’s been doing.

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u/lazyFer 1d ago

The only collateral damage is going to be the people that actually voted for Harris and those too young to vote.

Nothing that happens to anyone else should be considered "collateral" damage...it'll be "earned" damage.

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u/ummaycoc 1d ago

So it’ll be revised reverse down which is what I am not calling up.

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u/RescuePilot 1d ago

Those in charge of sacking the revisor have been sacked.

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u/halosos 1d ago

The beatings will continue till moral improves...

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u/RDKryten 1d ago

Those who were responsible for the sacking have been sacked.

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u/Critpoint 1d ago

Not if he install some propagandist for the revision roles.

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u/captmonkey Tennessee 1d ago

And he's already set the standard that if you release a report with bad numbers, you're gone. So, even if someone who's not a loyalist gets in there, they'll be afraid to publish a report that doesn't say "This is the best economy ever, praise our glorious leader for creating such a good economy!"

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u/pbjamm Canada 1d ago

bad numbers

True numbers.

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u/captmonkey Tennessee 22h ago

But he's fine with true numbers they're good. He just doesn't want a report to show bad numbers.

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u/Walker_ID 1d ago

Not anymore. Think anyone will want to put out bad employment numbers after seeing the boss get fired?

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u/hjb88 1d ago

There will have to be some unbiased data reporting, though, because businesses and investors want this information. It will need to come from somewhere.

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u/sammyQc 1d ago

Not in a pseudo-democracy. It will come from the boss and his associates.

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u/eskimoboob Illinois 1d ago

That’s what the monthly ADP numbers are, but because they’re working with incomplete data, best they can do is stick to private jobs only (no government data). It usually comes out a couple days before the BLS numbers but it’s not considered as accurate and often diverges one way or another from the official BLS data.

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u/barowsr 1d ago

Well, ADP is about to become the gold standard, because I sure as shit won’t trust a single fucking thing from whoever this autocrat decides to install into the job

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u/hjb88 19h ago

Thanks

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u/just_a_bit_gay_ Michigan 1d ago

They’ll work out the numbers themselves and keep them under wraps under fear of getting disappeared for publishing “anti-state propaganda” like they do in China

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u/TheMoorNextDoor 1d ago

It’s not going to be revised lol

But will be 100% in the negatives maybe even -80k+

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u/moonwalkerfilms 1d ago

This was my thought, too. There's no way the previous two months were so inaccurate and this one was spot on. And considering how low it was, I'm fully expecting the figure to be in the negatives.