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When you fire the statistics collection people for true-but-bad news, you guarantee that you fly blind going forward, as people wont tell you bad news anymore.

We simply can't trust government stats after this.

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[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I was wondering when he’d start doing this shit. He cooked the books for his own businesses, why wouldn’t he do the same thing here.

Won’t this shit hurt the dollar more and more. Why would anyone buy bonds from an entity who is cooking the books? I wouldn’t buy stock in a company that was lying about their financial performance.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Won’t this shit hurt the dollar more and more.

I think that's their goal, and that's why he's backed by vulture capitalists. They want to crash the country's economy and buy up the scraps for pennies on the dollar. Sorry, for Trumpcoins on the dollar.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It's so incredibly shortsighted if that's actually the goal. If the US falls from its superpower status, it's unlikely it will ever get it back again

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

These people don't give two shits about the United States per se.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

But that's where they live, and they're still part of the same damn environment that everyone else lives in. They're not inherently special. They're just as vulnerable to violent crime on the streets as the rest of us, or of climate disasters, or of dying of cancer. It's incredibly shortsighted

They’re just as vulnerable to violent crime on the streets as the rest of us, or of climate disasters, or of dying of cancer.

They have armed guards, they have necessarily convinced themselves that global warming is a hoax, and they have the best medical care that an unimaginable amount of money can buy. I agree with you that they're fucking up, and they're taking the rest of us down with them.