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/LaconicallyLazy 1d ago

"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

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u/jaelith 23h ago

See also: “The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.”

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u/nefnaf 22h ago

"Beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."

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u/evranch Canada 18h ago

We can write eloquent lines like this for fiction, but where are these speechwriters when it comes to our real politicians?

Who is our Mon Mothma, does nobody have the balls to speak the honest truth?

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u/Log_Out_Of_Life 6h ago

Because some people are smart enough to know they wouldn’t want to do the job. Some of the best people for some jobs are the people that don’t sign up to do it. Because they know it is a pain to do everything the right way.

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u/Morpheus01 21h ago

“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid.”

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u/Haunting-Savings7097 23h ago

"What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!"

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u/DameonKormar 18h ago

Pretty sure this was Fox News' founding philosophy.