‘Banana Republic’: Social Media Reacts to Trump Firing Statistics Chief After Bleak Jobs Report
‘Banana Republic’: Social Media Reacts to Trump Firing Statistics Chief After Bleak Jobs Report
It's crazy how close to full on authoritarianism the US has become in only 7 months.
Americans were like that during the Bush years. Illegal wars, torture, inept cronyism.
It’s not all that crazy since they had a carefully designed scheme all planned out in Project 2025. People acted like that was some kind of conspiracy theory, but they literally printed it up. 🤬
Fucking pathetic... that's what those who see strength in that turd are.
if you don't allow X.com because of content tracking that is not an article but a long list of twitter garbage blocked
By firing him, trump ironically directly decreased the number of employment
... but they're gonna need to get 2 jobs to make up the money for whatever they were doing for "the government", so net positive jobs!!! <
<insert head pointing meme>
>/s
Go see The Naked Gun. It'll at least have you laughing at something meant to be funny!
I think it says something interesting that the American criticism of an American dictator put in place by corporatism is talking about that time America helped one its corporations conquer South American countries.
Fascist States of Murikka
Fascist States of Amerikkka
The bellends own words "... replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes". There is tragedy that we need social media to call out his misleading the public.
I'm confused -- if he knew Trump was going to be so mad, why didn't he just release better numbers? That's how it used to work in the USSR and plenty of people were able to keep their government jobs.
Because you can't just make up the numbers, everyone has to lie a little bit at every step or you get endless whistleblowers
It takes time to build that kind of administrative understanding
He's done it with the Epstein files...
Sorry to disappoint but that name is already taken. Lithuania is banana republic.
It’s probably tied up with the Epstein files and who is in them. A diversion.
How long before this and similar sites for rational and civilised discours are "banned" in the US.?
Oddly, bananas seem to be one of the few items relatively untouched by inflation.
And it makes sense that the US is turning into a Banana Republic itself, considering the Banana Republics were a result of American corporations and the US government using their power to undermine democracy in those countries.
From wikipedia:
A banana republic is a country with an economy of state capitalism, where the country is operated as a private commercial enterprise for the exclusive profit of the ruling class. Typically, a banana republic has a society of extremely stratified social classes, usually a large impoverished working class and a ruling class plutocracy, composed of the business, political, and military elites.The ruling class controls the primary sector of the economy by exploiting labor.
Sounds pretty familiar
How it happened in Guatemala:
During the 1950s, the United Fruit Company sought to convince the governments of U.S. presidents Harry S. Truman (1945–1953) and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961) that the popular, elected government of President Jacobo Árbenz of Guatemala was secretly pro-Soviet for having expropriated unused "fruit company lands" to landless peasants. In the Cold War (1945–1991) context of the proactive anti-communist politics exemplified by U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy in the years 1947–1957, geo-political concerns about the security of the Western Hemisphere facilitated Eisenhower's ordering and authorising Operation Success. It was a 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état by means of which the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency deposed the democratically elected government of Árbenz and installed the pro-business government of Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas (1954–1957), which lasted for three years until his assassination by a presidential guard.[2][19]
secretly pro-Soviet
Ah that chronic brain worm hasn't gone away... It is super handy to have a general purpose all-evil evidence-free adversary to blame everything on.
They've gone up quite a bit in my corner of the US. They used to be 30 cents a pound and now they're 53 cents per pound for the same product at the same store in the last few months.
Let's see what kind of creature he puts in her place to only bring favorable to Trump news.
Don’t like that they’re saying you’re a bad dictator? Fire them!
Saw this coming when he decided to eliminate bad weather by not reporting it.
And eliminate COVID-19 by not reporting it.
You hear about him getting rid of the NTSB because it made his military and FAA look bad.
I might be a traveler from thr future, only time will tell.