“You can’t really make the numbers different or better by firing the people doing the counting,” said Sen. Rand Paul
Several Republican senators and right-leaning experts have criticized Trump for the decision.
“If the president is firing the statistician because he doesn’t like the numbers but they are accurate, then that’s a problem,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wy.) told The Guardian. “It’s not the statistician’s fault if the numbers are accurate and that they’re not what the president had hoped for.”
“If she was just fired because the president or whoever decided to fire the director just … because they didn’t like the numbers, they ought to grow up,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).
“We have to look somewhere for objective statistics,” Sen. Rand Paul, (R-Ky.) told NBC News. “When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that you know, the statistics won’t be politicized.”
Can’t wait for stagflation to hit the US. May Murikkkans rot in their self-made hell forever.
Banana Republic behavior. The markets should be very scared of this
We are in a very dark place when Rand Paul is the voice of reason when talking about executive employees.
We’re starting to see the type of delusion that led to the demise of the USSR. They’d commonly put quotas in place that were impossible to meet, then someone would fluff the numbers to make it look like it really happened, then the next year they’d raise the quota even further.
A great quote about this is from the series “Chernobyl”.
“Every lie told incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later the debt is paid.”
We are invoking an awful lot of debt today.
I find it funny that the “facts don’t care about your feelings” folks are starting to ignore the facts in favor of their feeling. America is not short on hypocrisy.
Starting? Conservatism basically requires that you operate on feelings because the facts never back them up. It’s basically their entire thing, and they hate that the facts tell them how wrong they are(like about how maybe white supremecy is stupid).
Yeah, it just doesn’t mean anything coming from the mouth of a Russian asset like Rand Paul.
Were you just now realizing you all elected a 2 year old child into the highest office of one of the most powerful nations on the planet? Nice try suckas, you are all to blame for this shit. The lack of subtlety is very apparent you know exactly what you are all doing. Most of us still paid attention in class past 1st grade.
Yes, I just realized it this afternoon.
You fucking chowderhead.
When they can’t handle the truth, they try handling the messenger. They know it doesn’t work, but it only has to work until they die doesn’t it. After that, it’s someone else’s problem.
What a screwed up way they have.
Trump should be outlawed
Trump is acting his age: object permanence and not soiling his diapers is a incomprehensible task for him.
slam
My first slam of the day! I feel safer
BLAST
Do something you spineless weasels.
Look at the wording, they won’t even say he’s done anything. “If she was fired just for blah blah…”, “whoever did this blah blah”
Feckless fucking cowards. You know who’s doing this.
Yep, just a job that they can fire him from at any point. They just need the votes from their side.
They did. They wrung their hands & clutched their pearls.
“Republicans are angry,” right.
We know as well as Trump knows that they’ll fall in line. As long as he has broad support from the base the rest of the party can’t do shit - even if they wanted to.
Grow up? They’re just now figuring out they’ve been supporting a petulant toddler all this time? Should have listened to the rest of us.
He outright told everyone.
“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.”
You can’t but he can…
This is the problem!
I’m sure Susan Collins will be concerned and Lisa Murkowski will be disappointed that he didn’t keep to some nebulous standard she expected and trump will have learned his lesson …
Commence pearl clutching in 3…2…1…
