‘Banana Republic’: Social Media Reacts to Trump Firing Statistics Chief After Bleak Jobs Report
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Saw this coming when he decided to eliminate bad weather by not reporting it.
And eliminate COVID-19 by not reporting it.
And when he tried to eliminate the Epstein story by having him killed
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.
It's crazy how close to full on authoritarianism the US has become in only 7 months.
Stay tuned. It's going to get much worse before the American people actually do something about it.
Trumps approval rating is in the low 40s. Almost half this country are cheering it on.
Even then I doubt Americans will do much. We’re not a smart bunch.
You say that as if even if they were, they could do anything about it.
There were a ton of smart citizens in Germany in the 1930s.
Many of them did self deport. The rest became ash.
Americans were like that during the Bush years. Illegal wars, torture, inept cronyism.
I kind of excused some of that due to societal PTSD from 9/11 but in retrospect around half of Americans just fucking suck.
One could see how bloodthirsty they were as soon as they saw the opportunity to have extrajudicial punishment and the opportunity to kill a lot of brown people.
i was in college in utah. people at there were openly talking in the lunchroom about how excited they were to kill muslims. every time i'd challenge that narrative dozens of people would shout it down. it was disgusting.
I feel 9/11 was less of a "we were struck by the ravages of war" and more of a "how dare they shoot back" event. If it was like the bombing of London by the Nazis, that makes most people reluctant to go to war instead of making war popular.
I mean, who looks at 9/11 and says "we want more of this"? Apparently most Americans?
1/4 to 1/3 at most. Remember most eligible voters don't vote.
EDIT: it's also worth noting that many can't vote. Like voting day not being a public holiday and they cant get off work, mail-in not being available, public transport not being free on voting day, or simply being purged from voting rolls.
His poll numbers are still in the 40s
Not voting when the stakes are this high is as shitty as voting for Trump. Plus approval statistics don't care if you voted or not.
If anything, more than half of Americans suck at this point.
It's also worth noting that many americans are prevented from voting. Cannot get time off work, polling station too far, mail in not available, purged from voter roll.
It's still crazy to me that voting day is not a public holiday in the US and that all public transport is not free on that day.
In France voting day is always a Sunday to prevent issues like this. It seems very anti-democratic to not make sure that almost all the voting population can find the time for it.
Voter turnout in the 2024 election was 63.7%. That's still a lot of folks who didn't vote, but it's not "most."
But of the total adult population, only a minority votes. 63.7% is only of the registered voters.
I got the number from this page: https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2024:_Analysis_of_voter_turnout_in_the_2024_general_election
which lists it as "eligible voters," which is in turn based on data from here: https://election.lab.ufl.edu/2024-general-election-turnout/
which discusses the methodology:
So no, it's not just registered voters. It's their best estimate of how many people are old enough and not disqualified.
This is not even close to the same thing as the Bush years.
This post deserves more attention. It's disappointing how short people's memory is and how few can see the bigger picture. It didn't start with Trump and it's not going to end with him. I like to think of this administration like a comic relief that's not very funny.
The current regime is just the next step in authoritarian fascism from the Trump era. Democrats should have arrested and exposed all the criminals but they prefer neoliberal economics and performative actions over justice.
What's new is that an American politician uses all the dirty tricks on the US itself instead of a country on the other side of the globe.
No, Bush and Trump are not alike. Bush at least had some principles. Temp has none
Bush is an international war criminal and a US criminal by lying to congress to start multiple wars.
The fact that America didn’t have the balls to arrest its previous criminals only allowed the next set of criminals to take it even further.
America is a land full of subservient serfs that want an authoritarian figure to rule over them. They don’t even care if their master is a child rapist.
I mean, at least he went to congress. You’re right though.
No, Bush just had some decorum. Trump is also taking advantage of the weakening of institutions and norms that occurred during the Bush administration.
“Now watch this drive”
Bush deliberately accelerated the execution of majority poor black and Latino men in Texas as a popularity contest before he even thought about running for president.
He only seems affable because he's rich.
it's not dumb, it's just textbook fascism, this is straight out of Mussolini's playbook
The voters are dumb as dirt though.
The fascist supporters aren't a monolith. Yes many are dumb, but too many are aware and actively like the evil. Some are "smart" but are low information and still vote straight R like they used to, some are deeply in the cult (and just need to be silenced as much as possible, because they're too far gone to help), some are openly fascist, etc.
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
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
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!!! <>
/s
Go see The Naked Gun. It'll at least have you laughing at something meant to be funny!
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.
He's done it with the Epstein files...
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
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.
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.
Hm, you're right, they're 69 Canada cents/lbs and they used to be half that. I only buy two at a time so like I don't notice. They're still affordable in absolute terms, right?
Oh absolutely. I forget which government subsidizes it but they should be a lot more expensive considering the trip and handling required.
Sorry to disappoint but that name is already taken. Lithuania is banana republic.
Let's see what kind of creature he puts in her place to only bring favorable to Trump news.