Donald’s Bullshit Factory Might Be Falsifying the Jobs Numbers
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been corrupted by Donald Trump and his fascistic regime.
by Bob Cesca
WASHINGTON, DC – I don’t trust the jobs numbers reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics anymore and neither should you. I’ll explain.
The BLS is part of the Labor Department and at the beginning of each month it issues a report about the total number of jobs that were added in the previous month along with the unemployment rate. It also revises upwards or downwards the numbers from prior months, giving a more accurate read of the overall employment situation here.
The problem is, the BLS has been corrupted by Donald Trump and his fascistic regime, driven solely by artificially characterizing the dictator in the White House as more successful than he actually is through disinformation, obvious lies, and, as you’re about to read, possibly falsified economic data.
This week, Fox Business published an article – based on a White House statement – claiming Donald is responsible for the addition of two million “U.S.-born” workers since January, while the number of “foreign-born” workers declined by 543,000. The article also claims “the number of U.S.-born workers increased by 830,000 from May to June.” The White House, meantime, created a social media meme to brag about the very misleading numbers. Propaganda minister Karoline Leavitt announced, "American-born workers have accounted for ALL of the job gains since President Trump took office.”
Sure, Jan.
It’s unclear where the White House is getting these numbers, especially the two million number. BLS shows around 789,000 “U.S.-born” jobs added this year so far. And that includes nearly a full month of Joe Biden’s presidency. It could be that 830,000 in June alone was the total number of jobs before subtracting the workers who lost their jobs last month? Again, who knows because the total non-farm payroll jobs created in June was 147,000, according to the BLS.
Obviously, the numbers are either fabricated or highly misleading.
The White House wants its sucker fanboys to think “foreign-born” means migrants – undocumented or “illegal” immigrants. The Fox Business article clarifies (in the very last paragraph) that the BLS “doesn't ask about legal status,” so “foreign-born” likely means American citizens who happened to have been born overseas and gained citizenship or some other legal status inside the United States. In other words, no, “foreign-born” doesn’t mean “illegal immigrant.” But the White House’s propaganda bullpen wants the suckers to believe it does – they want people to believe the mass deportations are helping Americans.
I also believe the BLS numbers are, at best, questionable. And I don’t mean the numbers are underestimating American jobs. The numbers could actually be inflated or incomplete.
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Back in March, Politico reported that Donald’s Labor Department “dismissed advisers to key statistical agencies behind major economic reports, sparking warnings that the cuts will jeopardize the quality of data.” At BLS, the “Technical Advisory Committee as well as its Data Users Advisory Committee” were fired.
Business Insider added: “Staffing shortages at BLS have resulted in reduced data availability.” The same article reported that the budget bill passed last week included $56 million in cuts to BLS.
Making matters even worse, Donald signed an executive order creating what used to be called Schedule F during Donald’s first term, but which is now known as “Schedule Policy/Career.” The rule strips government workers of civil service protections, ultimately meaning they can be fired by the president for any reason. It’s a key prong from Project 2025, calling for the firing of 50,000 federal workers and replacing them with political appointees loyal to Donald.
Schedule Policy/Career could either allow the president to coerce BLS experts to manipulate the data or lose their jobs, or it could allow him to entirely replace the bureau’s economists with disciples who will proactively cook the numbers for Donald’s benefit.
Fed chair Jerome Powell said last month, "I don't like to see the kind of stories I'm reading and the idea being that the data is going to become more volatile and less reliable. That'll make it more difficult for the private sector and for you and for us."
All of this indicates a damaged BLS in Donald Trump’s favor.
One more thing. ADP, the payroll processing company, issues its own jobs numbers every month, often in advance of the BLS numbers. ADP reported last week that, contrary to the BLS date, 33,000 jobs were lost in June. That’s negative job growth, compared with BLS’s 147,000 jobs gained in June. So we either go with independently reported numbers from ADP or potentially janky numbers from BLS, potentially skewed by the propagandists in the White House.
The success or failure of an authoritarian regime is often driven by its ability to manipulate reality, and given how this particular regime was propelled into office partly by economic concerns, it’s within dictator Trump’s best interest to always project victory on that front – and all the others for that matter. He’ll never admit to failure. He’ll do and say whatever is necessary to be seen as the greatest president ever. And the evidence is stacking up that he’s deliberately manipulating government data to back up his ridiculous brags. Don’t believe him. Never believe him. Question everything.
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That's exactly what I said last week. There is literally no reason to believe anything the regime says. They lie about literally everything, even things they don't need to lie about. They haven't earned the benefit of the doubt in the slightest.
The reason Trump doesn’t want any curb on AI is because he wants to use it !
I imagjne interviews that are pure AI and news reports even election results ! There doesn’t seem to be no end to what you can do .
I’m just scratching the surface. Are you scared yet ?