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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.

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[–] culprit@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 day ago

The firings will continue until the job numbers improve.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Xatolos@reddthat.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And we've only just reached the 8th month of this 4 year term.

[–] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

This carries similar vibes to altering the weather map with a sharpie

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

adding one more to the number of unemployed isn't gonna help

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ever hear the expression, "Hitler made the trains run on time“?

Thing is, he didn't. But everyone was afraid to report that they weren't running on time, so officially they always met their schedules.

That's where this is heading.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It was actually Mussolini who failed to make the trains run on time. I mean, I haven't heard of them being especially punctual under Hitler, either, but the phase is about Mussolini.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Hitler's more known for a different kind of train.

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But he made them run on thyme, right?

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 171 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Next week: there were 134 million new jobs

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 49 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

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

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fair, he did say he'd bring down the cost of drugs by 1000%. Chronic illnesses about to make BANK.

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[–] hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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[–] RustyEarthfire@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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/

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Any second now they'll announce the new government branch: the Ministry of Truth.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They'd be fine with ministry of alternative facts

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They're not alternative anymore.

[–] l_isqof@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Ministry of i-searched-it-on-google

[–] Wolf@lemmy.today 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is satire right? Jesus H. Christ. We are so far into clown world that you couldn't even make fun of it. No matter how ridiculous you make it sound- they will outdo you with reality.

How is this any different from admitting that whoever Trump replaces them with is going to report inaccurate numbers to make Trump look good?

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 9 points 1 day ago

In the era of global fascism, satire is dead. These aren't bad ideas when you don't care about anything passed your self image, and no one that matters will stand up to you.

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 104 points 2 days ago (2 children)

He wants people who will lie for him, like bondi, bongino, kash, hegseth, tulsi, etc.

He wants people who will lie, break the law, or support/hide/ignore illegal activities. He's a fucking mobster. Organized crime is at the executive branch. Arguably the judiciary and Senate as well.

Watching fascism play out in real time... What a time to be alive.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 12 points 2 days ago

That's how Putin got stuck in year 4 of the 3 day special military operations. Everybody lied to him about the state of his military forces. It's inevitable with these "strong man" leader types.

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (8 children)

So when this is all over. These enablers will go to jail right?

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Depends on timing. We’re in a small window between them showing their intent, and a first-for-humanity inability to organize against them. Once ORNL gets their nuke-powered AI up and running, and fed all the Palantir data and the decades of mass surveillance data the NSA has but hasn’t been able to use at scale, the regime will be able to have a constantly-updated list of the people most likely to instigate an uprising, and can just MLK them or blackmail them before their movement gets off the ground. All that will remain are easily-dealt-with and easily-discredited lone wolves.

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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 115 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

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.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 49 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 days ago

We can do both. Why not both?

[–] killea@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

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.

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[–] KumaSudosa@feddit.dk 26 points 2 days ago

This guy is gonna be the end of all of us. I feel sorry for Americans with an IQ above.. 70 for having to watch this in real-time and live through the age of stupidity

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 6 points 1 day ago

Gonna be pretty awkward when he realises this isn’t the next season of the apprentice

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I cut my salary in half to get out. Wtf is money worth if you can't even afford anything?

[–] pfc_hudson@lemmy.world 59 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Makes sense - if you don't like the numbers just fire the messenger.

Foxtrot Delta Taco.

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 71 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The administration equivalent of putting a piece of tape on your dash to cover a blinking check engine light.

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[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Since the first messenger who told Tigranes that Lucullus was coming had his head cut off for his pains, no one else would tell him anything, and so he sat in ignorance while the fires of war were blazing around him, giving ear only to those who flattered him.

Plutarch, ~ 100 A.D.

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago

sniff sniff A bad smell...? CUT OFF MY NOSE IMMEDIATELY!

[–] Kurious84 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Next job numbers are gonna sky rocket. Who will replace her? Another no neck crooked eye lackey?

This is why russias military was shit. Because dictators scare everyone into telling them there is only good news and then it rots from the inside out.

And guess what. It's alll caused by a single micro-mushroom penis asshole at the top with no balls and a childlike ego.

[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

kyle kulinsky from secular talk says we (the US) are already in a recession, and i really can't think of any evidence to the contrary. so, what I'm trying to say, is does anyone have anything fun going on? something positive to talk about? 😃

[–] derry@midwest.social 37 points 2 days ago (5 children)
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[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dude shot the messenger instead of facing the issue at hand.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He wants to replace them with someone who will fudge numbers to whatever is useful for Trump.

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 21 points 2 days ago

Release the full Epstein files, you asshat

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

to try and boost Kamala’s [Harris’] chances

Will everyone that needed CNBC to clarify which Kamala he was talking about, please raise your hand.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago (9 children)

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.

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