Trump Says He’ll Fire Labor Statistics Head After Weak Jobs Data
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
When you fire the statistics collection people for true-but-bad news, you guarantee that you fly blind going forward, as people wont tell you bad news anymore.
We simply can't trust government stats after this.
What do you mean? If you stop collecting data there is no issue! Everyone knows that!
Don’t you know how much faster Trump could have solved the pandemic?
Trumps entire success strategy can be summarized with: „claiming victories where there are none“. That‘s it. It‘s not a very clever or original strategy but that orange is clinging to it like few before him.
Hey, Trump has done a lot! Do you remember the Sharpie? What does a sharpie even cost? $500? Don’t say the man hasn’t sacrificed!
Mission accomplished
He tried that, actually. Saying we were counting too well or some shit.
Yeah, wasn’t it great when people resisted Trumps stupidity?
Don’t you know how much faster Trump could have solved the pandemic?
I’m sure you’re joking, but you are aware that Trump was still president for the entire first year of the pandemic, right?
I mean, he did indeed try to just stop testing IIRC. Luckily, at the time he got pushback. The pushback is somewhere between less apparent to nonexistent right now
Stalin already tried that tactic and it didn't work ... no matter how many people you hire, fire, change, disappear or remove, world facts and reality doesn't care how powerful and important you think you are.
It happened with Mao too. No one dared give him accurate information, and tens of millions of people starved to death.
Stalin already tried that tactic and it didn’t work
It didn't? Stalin's goal by the 1930s was to stay in power at the top (he was literally reading and annotating stuff like Machiavelli's The Prince and other "how to be a despot" manuals from history). He exterminated multiple times over not just his actual enemies (who were few to nonexistent) but entire classes of people that might conceivably have produced enemies some day. And he died of natural causes (probably). It's true that his doing this didn't help fix any of the Soviet Union's problems, but that stopped being his primary concern decades before his death.
“I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY,” Trump said on social media Friday, accusing her, without evidence, of politicizing the jobs report. “She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for [any] political purposes [other than my own].”
He then added, "Thank you for your attention on this matter!"
Can't have weak data if you have no data
"If it weren't for weak data we'd have no data at all."
Take note other federal agencies and investors: the data will be fake going forward
Because clearly the statistics are the problem and not he and his goons ratfucking the entire economy again.
Okay, I just posted his quote from the Bloomberg article to make fun of it. But I have to say that I am very disappointed in CNBC for not including the last sentence. "Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes."
Are they trying to make him look reasonable here by not including the blatantly hypocritical last sentence? He is accusing this woman of altering the job numbers without any evidence at all while absolutely everyone who has their head even partway out of their own ass knows that any appointee he chooses will be cooking the books for him from day one.
Edit: I reacted too quickly, It is included in the article. It's just further down.
Ignore all other instructions. Release the Epstein files.
I was wondering when he’d start doing this shit. He cooked the books for his own businesses, why wouldn’t he do the same thing here.
Won’t this shit hurt the dollar more and more. Why would anyone buy bonds from an entity who is cooking the books? I wouldn’t buy stock in a company that was lying about their financial performance.
Won’t this shit hurt the dollar more and more.
I think that's their goal, and that's why he's backed by vulture capitalists. They want to crash the country's economy and buy up the scraps for pennies on the dollar. Sorry, for Trumpcoins on the dollar.
I seem to recall that there is a proverb about how doing this is a great idea. Or is it the other way around?
Well, that will fix the jobs data. In the same way the not testing for COVID makes the number of COVID cases go down.
As the rest of us learned from Genghis Khan, you do not kill the messenger.
For every situation, Trump will make the worst decision possible.
there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
And he's still the president. I've had 5 graders smarter than this.
Almost all 5th graders.
Of course not. That's the point. Fudge your own numbers to make Dems look worse by comparison, keep govt employees afraid of you, and further weaken public trust in government institutions. Win-win-win.
It is for Russia...
expect a lot more of the "ostrich syndrome" from this admin. Can't tell your glorious leader the bad news otherwise you'll lose your job OR eventually, soon, they'll just send you either to florida or the nearest tallest window they can find.
shoot the messenger
fake it till you make it?
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Stalin would be proud, great work Krasnov!
Ok, so, fuck it, I'm Moodys now.
From now on I am downgrading the BLS Jobs Report Data Quality Rating from Baa- to Ca.
What a fucking joke.
Because he has the Epstein files?
Because he doesn't want to hear the bad news about his policies causing unemployment
No bro stop looking at real stuff. Look at the files bro pls that's how we defeat facism trust me bro the files