Trump’s Baseless Accusation that the Top Bureau of Labor Statistics Official Manipulated Jobs Numbers “a Preposterous Charge”
What American actor and activist George Takei says here is 100% accurate.
If any sane and decent person were advising Republicans, he’d urge them to cut ties with Trump as soon as possible, and return to some level of credibility as a legitimate political party, rather than an organization of criminals and liars.
Virtually every day brings a new catastrophe.
Per the BBC: (Late last week) Trump has fired the boss of one of America’s most important economic institutions hours after weaker-than-expected jobs data stoked further alarm about his tariff policy. On social media Trump claimed that Erika McEntarfer, commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), had “RIGGED” jobs figures “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad”.
From ABC News:
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers called President Donald Trump’s accusation without providing evidence that the top Bureau of Labor Statistics official manipulated jobs report numbers “a preposterous charge” on Sunday.
Speaking with “This Week” anchor George Stephanopoulos, Summers said that one official would not be able to change the numbers. “These numbers are put together by teams of literally hundreds of people following detailed procedures that are in manuals. There’s no conceivable way that the head of the BLS could have manipulated this number,” Summers said.
Isn’t the entire Republican party cringing in embarrassment? The president of the United States rejects truth if it doesn’t represent him in a good light. This is depravity.
It’s long past time for a change. He’s insane, and needs to be removed via the 25th Amendment.
To the author of the meme here:
Former labor secretary Robert Reich notes at left that Trump’s firing of the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics comes right out of the playbook of all tyrants.
Here’s an excerpt from yesterday’s OpEd in the NY Times by David Brooks:
As a percentage, there are very few people on this planet who view Earth as “one big group project,” but these folks are, in the main, members of the more than 200,000 groups whose purpose is environmental and social justice.
We really do have a weird phenomenon at work here in the United States.
When my wife and I brought kids into this world in the 1990s, it seemed a reasonable thing to do. But that was before:
If the future looks like the past, it’s very clear that our legacy for generations to come will feature overwhelming amounts of authoritarianism, greed, ignorance, racism, environmental collapse, perhaps along with nuclear conflagration.
To be fair, the SCOTUS didn’t rule that the president is “above the law”; they ruled that the president can’t be prosecuted for something he did as an “official act.”
Part of the beauty of the societies of Scandinavia and most of the rest of the developed world is their understanding of the fact that a well educated populace tends to commit very few crimes. Sweden, for example, is closing some of its prisons because they don’t have a sufficient number of inmates to justify keeping them open.
