Kill The Messenger by Clay Jones
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Firing people for delivering bad news is a fascist move. It was popular with the likes of Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, and dare say it, Adolf Hitler. Trump and Hitler both fired generals they didn’t trust.
Sometimes it would be a census taker telling Stalin that his famine was reducing the population. He wouldn’t just be fired, but shipped off to a gulag, or even murdered. The first thing to go in a dictatorship is a free press.
Yesterday, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Erika McEntarfer, delivered a negative jobs report. Trump, our Dear Leader and Fascist in Chief, didn’t like those numbers, so Hair Fuhrer fired her.
TACO said, “I’ve had issues with the numbers for a long time. We’re doing so well. I believe the numbers were phony, like they were before the election, and there were other times. So I fired her, and I did the right thing.” OK, Shitler.
Russia and China manipulate their economic numbers. Like Trump, they take apolitical agencies and politicize them. Yes, the BLS will now be politicized. People who don’t want to lose their jobs will only report happy news to Cheeto Mussolini. The government will be less informed. The American people will be lied to.
It will be like people in North Korea being told there is plenty of food while they’re staring at empty shelves in their markets. You’re not starving. Who are you going to believe, Kim Jong Un or your lying growling stomach?
Trump doesn’t want us to believe our lying eyes either. He’s lied about vote totals, crowd sizes, tariff formulas, and even weather forecasts. Remember when he tried to change a hurricane’s direction with a Sharpie. I can do a lot with a Sharpie, you’ve seen it, but I can’t move a hurricane with one. (snip-MORE)
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Because the people, offered up their, independent and critical thinking skills, they allowed these mother @#$&ing leaders they elected into office to, MAKE these, decisions regarding the futures of a country as a whole for them, so, ultimately, it’s the people’s faults, these, god DAMN, electorally or popularly elected, AUTHORITARIANS control the lives of the, ENSLAVED…
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I also blame, in part, our voting system: you are a registered Democrat, by all that’s holy you would vote for King Kong if he ran on the democratic ticket. Regostered Republicans vote for only Republicans. This is how we get into these snarls. And the stupidity. They vote someone out of office because they are too short, too young, too intelligent, or they’ve been President too long and we need a new one.
I’ve been a registered Repub for 60 years, and only because my dad made sure I was. My first official act as a Republican was to vote for every damn democrat I could find. Some people even complain that they don’t like ‘their’ candidate but they have to vote for him because…”oh I couldn’t split my vote liike that, my husband would be FURIOUS”. So lie a little. =)
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