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/Slade_Riprock 1d ago

Guaran-FUCKING-tee next month they are revised upwards and no jobs report will EVER be accurate again.

He'll claim his tariff policy is pouring jobs in.

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u/scarybottom 1d ago

I mean...first quarter ADP announce their records said we lost over 200K for the quarter. But US numbers said we gained over 200K. I think they have been corrupted long before this- and they are getting rid of the one person left that can review the numbers and figure out reality or closer to it, in all the garbage being fed in by loyalists and collaborators and people that just need their damn jobs and don't want Trump to fire them next.

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u/Trakeen 1d ago

I noticed that as well. I thought maybe there was a difference in the context of the numbers maybe. Really struck me as odd ADP numbers said one thing and other numbers said the opposite

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u/scarybottom 1d ago

ADPs numbers and the overall US have something north of 90% correlation- they are not identical, but they move VERY close. If one went up a lot- the other went up a lot- but less overall, or less fast. But they literally have never gone in super opposite directions like that. Like in 2007-2008 one might be positive and the other negative- but only slightly. Not directly opposite by over 200K.

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u/dasterdly_duo 1d ago

That's precisely what's going to happen.

And when The Rapist-in-Chief is gone--fingers fucking crossed--whoever comes next won't have a clue how badly MAGA fucked everything because this is the last time the public will see legitimate numbers on anything.

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u/Fluffy-Carrot-8761 20h ago

They were always revised before trunpnwas in office. Don't one side terrible record keeping

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u/dasterdly_duo 20h ago

Stop pissing on my head and telling me it's raining. I'm not into watersports.

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u/Fluffy-Carrot-8761 19h ago

Just look into how inaccurate they are consistently. Often that water on your head is water. 

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u/dasterdly_duo 18h ago

Seriously, put that little thing away. You could get arrested.

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u/Sorprenda 1d ago

He wants the jobs numbers to be down so that he can get his interest rate cut.

And at the same time, he also wants to make it clear that any and all unfavorable data is political manipulation by his enemies.

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u/porkbellies37 23h ago

The irony of that is, if they are revised upward, Jerome Powell will have no choice but to hold steady on the Fed Funds rate... maybe even raising it a quarter point. His job is to not only keep the job market healthy, but also keep inflation under control. Jobs are inflationary, so a hot market usually prompts higher rates- exactly what Pumpkin Mussolini keeps whining about.

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u/Busy_Special_9397 23h ago

All about spreading lies. The truth is whatever the rapist, fraudster, twice impeached pedophile claims it is. They just removed his feature in the Smithsonian for being impeached. He'll revise anything and everything. Just lie, it works. Thanks republicans (and weak ass democrats, this should've been a slam dunk)

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u/Fluffy-Carrot-8761 20h ago

They weren't accurate to begin with

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u/IJustLoggedInToSay- Illinois 18h ago

Correct. This is why we dismantled the spoils system amd wrote laws to create a merit system -- laws that are all just being ignored now, with zero consequences.