Trump didn’t “call for” the head of the BLS to be fired. He *actually fired her. Let’s get it right, people.
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Looks like we're going to have low inflation and low unemployment for Trump's entire term. 🤣
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NYT passive voice dictates that all horrible Trump decisions must be abstracted from him somehow
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I'm actually curious about his understanding of numbers and how they work. Does he actually know anything about math, business, economics, and finances?
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Do we know why the revisions were so big? What went wrong with the initial data?
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Mansplaining a colloquial figure of speech. Personally I think it is an appropriate use of the phrase. Especially after the melt down over the seashell 8647.
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Reminiscent of this
www.voanews.com/amp/covid-19...
Trump: ‘If We Stop Testing, We’d Have Fewer Cases’
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Yup.
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We've moved into Captain Queeg territory.
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Your job just got more complicated
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We need fact checkers for journalism.
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journalists really need to stop hiding behind the "allegedly" reflex when things are provably happening
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So now, all reporting on the economy and job numbers will need to be prefaced by “allegedly” correct?
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I'm old enough to remember when The Economist refused to publish economic data from Argentina under Christina Fernandez because her government was so corrupt. I guess we are approaching that moment in our timeline.
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In Trump’s America, you report the reality the deranged king wants to believe, not the unpleasant facts you have observed.
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Lying Lori Chavez Deremer and Felon Trump the Pedo need to be fired.
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How future BLS reports will go - "What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 [jobs], which is one more than we have."
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It's absolute power and abuse of that power
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What a time....
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I don't understand Trump using his social media app, Truth Social, to do the country's business. Are all government employees required to have accounts and check them hourly?
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He's a "stable" "genius." (Many people are saying.)
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I heard that on Morning Edition today too :/
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Because he didn’t think her numbers were right. And he would also be the person who said, repeatedly, other countries pay US tariffs. So relieved to know he’s driving this train.
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NYT got it correct:
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Next time the bank tell me my balance I’m gonna fire them.
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Bring me the head of Erika McEntarfer!
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We are seeing ourselves up for a recession that the government won't actually be able to acknowledge and thus address.
At least Herbert Hoover acknowledged what was happening in 1930.
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Dumb ass move on his part.
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Thank you for reminding us that words matter. I'd add to this that journalists should not just be stenographers. Yes, report what the President says, but then do journalism by reporting whether it's true or not.
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And does he have the authority to do this, or are they just “letting him do it?”
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Senate Republicans COULD EASILY send a message that they would not go along with this firing.
It is not an accident that Trump just fired this lady 1 day after they confirmed Emil Bove
If they were willing to confirm Bove it tells you they will confirm anyone he wants.
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I was wondering about that.
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Firing the truth and hiring more BS
