President Donald Trump on Friday fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, hours after the agency reported that job growth in the U.S. had slowed to a near-halt.
In a Truth Social post that also directed even more fire at Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Trump accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of being a political appointee who was manipulating jobs data.
“I was just informed that our Country’s “Jobs Numbers” are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala’s [Harris’] chances of Victory,” Trump wrote.
“We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified,” he added.
Let me know when y’all want to march on Washington and physically remove these asshats from power. I can fit 4 other people in my truck.
Maybe we help each other get elected to local positions in our communities and state. Only way we can truly make some difference. Anyone in Oklahoma area won’t join the resistance?
Assuming there are still elections this time, I’m definitely running for something in Maine
Maine is civilized. They have legal weed.
I moved here on purpose
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The thing is, we don’t need you to march on Washington. We need you to march against your neighbor who’s so full of OAN that they still support the asshat in chief.
That’s just it though. These folks seem IMPOSSIBLE to get through to. Though admittedly my experience may draw from some of the lead-alzheimer’s cadre of boomers. I mean they spent fuckin decades making sure they had a poorly educated group that would VOTE, with the added bonus that so many of them were surreptitiously ending up brain damaged as well.
I really wish I knew how to help these people. I’ve been compassionate, patient, understanding; and I’ve also brow beat the shit out of em, gotten in screaming matches (not too often, but they tend to respect a level of violence). And it tends to have little effect. It’s the part of this that vexes and hurts me the most, and why I can’t help but feel this will only be rectified with chilling violence that none of us want and are ill-suited to execute. Ugh.
So far we’ve been screaming that the meteors are coming. They haven’t really hit yet. When they start landing next to them and on them, then most of them will start to believe it.
But one, how close the meteor needs to hit varies. And two, a few won’t even get it when their wife gets deported.
Their belief in MAGA is filling some deep psychological need. Logical reasoning around the belief is irrelevant because logic can’t activate whatever social buttons are being satisfied by their engagement with the MAGA movement.
Research trying to figure out what makes humans susceptible to this kind of stuff and how to protect each other was a hot topic, but then Congressional Republicans launched harassing investigations into everyone in the field and the institutions that supported their work, and of course the current executive branch has entrenched that fear. Gotta keep the victims coming to the grifter trough.
We can do both. Why not both?
We need both
No! Ant poison works because the workers take the poison to the queen. The same cannot be said for this circumstance.
Dude shot the messenger instead of facing the issue at hand.
He doesn’t care about the issue, he just wants to have good numbers.
He wants to replace them with someone who will fudge numbers to whatever is useful for Trump.
For a good 25 years now, the Republican party has treated reality as a messaging problem, not something to grapple with and use in planning. The only surprise is that it took this long to fire people in the federal government who didn’t give the “right” message.
That ought to fix it
The idea is to make sure others don’t release damaging data, and that they fudge the numbers or lose their job. It’s a warning as much as revenge.
Yup. And my comment was sarcasm.
Really?
I had no idea.
Hahaha I c what you did there
adding one more to the number of unemployed isn’t gonna help
The firings will continue until the job numbers improve.
We’re fucked. It’s all over but the fighting.
Until a few months ago, I was a statistician for the US government. 25 years. I’m so fucking glad I’m out, though I’m making far less than I used to, honestly not enough yet. But I’m glad I’m not under his thumb.
I cut my salary in half to get out. Wtf is money worth if you can’t even afford anything?
How do I short the entire US economy?
Normally I’d say this is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve heard, but I don’t even know if it makes the top 10 this week.
USA is emulating Russia and will be just as dysfunctional. China is at least producing results.
Chinese economy is the absolute shitter with no signs of improvement
The Chinese economy is not doing well… and they’re gonna be fucked too when USA sinks itself
1984
And we’ve only just reached the 8th month of this 4 year term.
It’s ok, ai might reach super intelligence before then 😅, and climate change might be beyond recovery, nothing important the government should be working on.
Makes sense - if you don’t like the numbers just fire the messenger.
Foxtrot Delta Taco.
Tango but I see what you did there.
Took me a second. Clever.
Next week: there were 134 million new jobs
Well they saved “258 million” people from fentanyl overdose in 100 days; finding half of them jobs in a week should be no problem.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/pam-bondi-fentanyl-258m/2/3rds of Americans OD’d in 100 days?
Where the fuck was I, someone must have been handing out the good shit for free.
134 BILLION NEW JOBS!!!
FTFY
I mean, it’s Trump. Do you really think he’d use a number that could be even remotely realistic? It has to be something truly stupid
Yeah, he would say, “1234 Billions New Jobs!”
Easier to remember.
12345 is even easier, it being the same as the combination on all of their luggage. :-P
Fair, he did say he’d bring down the cost of drugs by 1000%. Chronic illnesses about to make BANK.
Woo-cough-hoo!
I was thinking about a number greater than the population of the US, but decided on a number that was equally impossible yet somehow believable by maga.
Doesn’t matter. If he says it, they’ll believe it.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Slams.
I know they’ll just put in a yes man, but it would be hilarious to have the new appointee say, “yeah, she was right on point.”
Release the full Epstein files, you asshat
Conservative media was working overtime to spin those jobs numbers as positive😂😂
