Trump fires labor statistics chief hours after data showed jobs growth slowed

Trump fires labor statistics chief hours after data showed jobs growth slowed
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Now you can never trust those numbers ever again

You can't trust any information coming out of the american government now. Who will risk their job now that being honest will just get you fired.

MechaHitler is here to save the day! 😈

Edit auto correct did not like what Grok calls its self.

All beautiful numbers only now

Is Trump stupid? Doesn't he have any advisors? He could have easily harassed and forced them to resign or get them killed in a few months but he decided to make it obvious by firing her within 24 hours of a bad data release.

Job numbers are released every month, no idea what they call their Labour Force Survey but numbers are published every month.

Even then, he had a month at the least.

So kind of like Blackadder but with a whiny toddler voice instead of Brian Blessed's incredible booming voice?

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Same strategy he deployed fighting covid - run from reality.

And climate change.

I'm detecting a pattern here....

This one is a big deal. This report is just the tip of the iceberg as we have only just begun to feel the pain of the federal layoffs (and don't get me started on tarrifs). If he removes people from accurately reporting, we're going to have a crashing economy with no metrics on what's really going on.

Totally not a demented rapist.

So our economy is going to be based on incorrect info. Every lie incures a debt to the truth, and that debt will eventually come due. Things will crash. Its not even a question. I figure the last protection in place is Powell. Once he is replaced by a yes-man, its all done for. Before that happens I plan on pulling all my investments. My question is where is a safe place to put it at that point?

Assets. But, be careful with gold. It’s already up from the announcement. Make sure you diversify.

Not financial advice. I’m a fool.

He should fire off those Epstein files to be released.

The numbers don't lie, but he wants someone that will.

What a pathetic little child rapist Trump is.

Did she learn nothing from Tulsi Gabbard's example?

I'm still waiting for some serious actual resistance to this guy's lunacy. At what point will the people say 'enough!'?

So many of us have. Idk what else I’m supposed to do. I’m not ready to die *or end up in prison for trying.

I just hope it doesn't get to the point where you don't have a choice.

There is no truth but Trumps truth. I don't think he ever read 1984, or if he did, that he'd be able to manage the whole book, let alone understand it. However, as with evolution leading to different species filling a niche, we has landed right there and is trying to achieve the same

If he did get through that book, he would probably take notes about Big Brother. "Hmm, great idea!"

Believe me, he's the Biggest, Greatest Brother that anyone's ever seen. Just like Hannibal Lecter, he's a good man. He told me he would put in tariffs, just like I did, remember?

LOL nothing that comes out of that shithole country has any value.