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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The MAGA apologists are now backing Trump’s decision.  There can be no data unless it’s data that Trump likes.  We are now in a Banana republic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/trump-republicans-bls-jobs-analysis.html

Republicans Suddenly Distrust Jobs Data After Trump Fires Statistics Chief
President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics forced his allies into the awkward spot of criticizing an agency they had freely cited in the past.[/quote]

I've seen countries where no one trusts the data, and it's not pretty.  Investors don't come in, because the political environment is too volatile and it's too risky to invest in something when you can't monitor basic facts about the economy.  It's sad that Trump is destroying the best of American research capabilities that used to be a model for other countries.[/quote]

Yes, low-trust countries are ugly.  Unfortunately, Democrats favor policies that are guaranteed to make the US a low-trust country.

If Dems wanted truthful leaders, they should have policies Slick Willy when he perjured himself.  Better yet, they should have stopped Archibald Cox from thwarting due process to get a preferred result.  But these people favored FDR's court-packing scheme, so we can't expect them to value process over results.  They've been this way for a long time.  The funny (and sad!) part is their process began when they opened the borders for low-trust people many decades ago.  Only stopping that invasion allowed the US to heal.  [/quote]

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