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fskimospy

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I'm sure this will do wonders for business confidence. Don't like the statistics that come out, just fire the stars guy. Republicans just don't want to live in reality.
BLS data is now worthless. If you get fired for putting out data that says things the president wants to hear the only logical assumption going forward is this is happening.
 
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Indus

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I think Republicans and much of the American public doesn't understand Chesterton's Fence, and they definitely don't understand that the systems that have made us all so prosperous didn't come to be on their own. People did stuff to make that happen through government spending and government agencies specifically set up to do these things.

The educated and self aware are 1% of the country.

The ones who try and inform themselves are maybe another 9%.

What do you expect from the 90%?
 

UNCjigga

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Jobs data disappointed Dear Leader…obviously the economy is booming under His Divine Guidance so we can’t possibly be expected to believe downward revisions to those rosy May and June numbers!!

Naturally, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics was just fired.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pres...r-july-jobs-report-disappoints-182118823.html
President Trump fires BLS commissioner after July jobs report disappoints

We are a banana republic.
 

VRAMdemon

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Jobs data disappointed Dear Leader…obviously the economy is booming under His Divine Guidance so we can’t possibly be expected to believe downward revisions to those rosy May and June numbers!!

Naturally, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics was just fired.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pres...r-july-jobs-report-disappoints-182118823.html
President Trump fires BLS commissioner after July jobs report disappoints

We are a banana republic.

It's pathetic that Trump sung this woman's praises just last month. Trump's answer to a bad jobs report? Adding one less employed person.
What Fox News toadie personality will get appointed to the job? When investors cannot trust the data from BLS our entire system could fail.

Stalin and Mao. They lived on fake numbers. Mao's fake numbers caused a famine in the 50s

Reality show Presidency. 6 months of embarrassment and counting. Another day, another brazen act of fascism.
 

VRAMdemon

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Trump Today:

1. Made deal to move Maxwell to cushy min security Club Fed facility.

2. Had worst jobs report come out in a decade.

3. Said report was rigged & fired govt employee who made the report.

4. Moved 2 nuke subs off Russia to threaten them.

5. Flew to a golf outing.

And Trump cultists are crying about some Jean commercial. Serving in the culture wars must be so much easier than having an actual job
 

Indus

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The educated and self aware are 1% of the country.

The ones who try and inform themselves are maybe another 9%.

What do you expect from the 90%?

@Brainonska511

Addendum to my original post: You can't fix stupid sadly..

Just look at this guy.
Sounds intelligent but his attachment to an ideology will bankrupt him.


And maybe rightly so nobody will care what his face looks like when he is living on the streets.
 
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[DHT]Osiris

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The GOP are advising Republicans to avoid town halls, which is a cowardly but somewhat crafty tactic. However, Byron Steil of Wisconsin decided to take a shot, and it didn’t go well.

Maybe we should just visit them at home instead.
 

outriding

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Trump Today:

1. Made deal to move Maxwell to cushy min security Club Fed facility.

2. Had worst jobs report come out in a decade.

3. Said report was rigged & fired govt employee who made the report.

4. Moved 2 nuke subs off Russia to threaten them.

5. Flew to a golf outing.

And Trump cultists are crying about some Jean commercial. Serving in the culture wars must be so much easier than having an actual job

To be fair. A lot of the cultists do have a job

But I feel like the line should be …

So much easier living in fantasy land
 

ivwshane

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May 15, 2000
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We all knew it was coming and was part of the big pile of shit bill. The IRS is ending the direct file program. The proper response is to file your taxes on paper forms going forward just to make it harder on the IRS.


This leach on society is the new head of the IRS.

Mother fers! God forbid the government be more efficient and make things easier for its citizens. Smh
 

K1052

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He legally can't fire Powell, But we know how that goes with the current SCOTUS. Also, Powell is one of 7 people on the board, and 1 of 7 votes.. he does't make the decisious unilaterally.

Assuming the court let him fire Powell, which I tend to doubt, canning the other governors on the board probably not much of an obstacle.
 

hal2kilo

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Feb 24, 2009
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Jobs data disappointed Dear Leader…obviously the economy is booming under His Divine Guidance so we can’t possibly be expected to believe downward revisions to those rosy May and June numbers!!

Naturally, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics was just fired.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pres...r-july-jobs-report-disappoints-182118823.html
President Trump fires BLS commissioner after July jobs report disappoints

We are a banana republic.
Trump loves to use the term Fake News a lot. You know why?, because he's used it all his life to promote himself. It exists because he creates it.
 

Moonbeam

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Trump loves to use the term Fake News a lot. You know why?, because he's used it all his life to promote himself. It exists because he creates it.
Trump is a master of denial. Any fault he has he accuses others of having he can deliver with total confidence and lacking any hint of organic shame, which for the average liar is a tell, thus deepening the illusion he is sincere. And he can do so because in addition to being a delusional narcissist he is also a sadistic psychopath. My theory then, as to why Trump has had his moment of success, is that the more negative the nature of one's low self esteem, the greater the need for narcissistic self flattery so they admire Trump out of envy. By standing behind Trump they can vicariously experience what it would be like to master the art of the lie of that feeling of worthlessness. Of course this will never build real self esteem because it is only someone's permission from him to them telling them it's OK to be a pig. But that is not OK as anybody with a modicum of real self respect knows instinctively.

Fortunately, while the need generated by low self esteem for mastery of denial, people discover with time that they still feel like shit no matter how much Trump can flatter them. For most people ego takes a back seat to having enough food to stay alive. Bellies are hard to reason with.