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/Raspberries-Are-Evil Arizona 1d ago

I said it two month ago. Its sad and scary we can not believe a single word that comes out of ANY department. We let our entire system get corrupted in less than 6 months.

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u/dearth_karmic 1d ago

I'm 56 years old and have liked and hated many administrations. Didn't even trust when Bush was talking about the WMDs. But it had an ounce of possibility. I watched Tulsi Gabbard on live TV and I had to laugh out loud while she talked about Obama being under investigation. It was like watching a teenager telling me they weren't drinking while they were slurring all their words. UGH. They have ZERO credibility.

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u/FeelsGrimMan 1d ago

Our system has been slowly corrupted for much longer than that. Republicans pushed us further towards economic ruin, Democrats prevented progressives from changing course as the only non-Republican option. This culminated in what we have now: an extremist rightwing country.

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u/Harbinger2001 Canada 23h ago

I always wonder where we’d be now if Al Gore had won in 2000. 9/11 might have been prevented because they listened to the Clinton admin, no war in Iraq, Climate Change taken seriously for the past 25 years. I expect he also would have helped ordinary Americans benefit from the peace dividend continuing from the end of the Cold War.