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[–] humanspiral 13 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Deportations are also lost jobs. Not sure they will be counted though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Good point.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is the point. They want to crash the economy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I mean, he said so himself even before the election. We just have the fucking stupidest, god awful people in this country that apparently wanted it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

he said so himself

I would love to be able to show some of my MAGA relatives that clip. Do you have a link?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Thank you for the link.

In the article Elon Musk said that we (and by we he means us) have to reduce spending to live within our means. LOL. This from the guy who sells $100k cars.

[–] SplashJackson 1 points 8 hours ago

Hurray for democracy! Everyone gets a vote just for showing up!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

But hey, look on the bright side: Musk and his rich bros will be able to buy up stuff for dirt cheap!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 minutes ago

Oh come now! That's surely just a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 16 hours ago

“Jesse Rothstein is an economist, and currently professor of public policy and economics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2010, he was chief economist at the US Department of Labor. He is the founding director of the California Policy Lab, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and is a member of the editorial boards of Education Finance and Policy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, American Economic Review, and Industrial Relations.[1][2][3][4]”

For those that don’t know the guy he’s got a solid pedigree

[–] [email protected] 45 points 18 hours ago (11 children)

Crises are a feature of capitalism. Marx talked about this. Things become hell for the working class, and the capitalists reap the rewards.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, and people with power, people with connections, and people who are rich will always benefit from crises. Naomi Kleins The shock doctrine explains this very well in a modern context.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Adding to my reading list!

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[–] Glent 11 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The people burning down the nation release the "report". Dear leader haz bestest economy evar will be the headline. We will never see clean information again, thats the point. Best unemployment numbers, homelessness over, drug war won, best economy ever, amerikkka has no gays, immigration solved, fairest elections ever. Im concerned that people dont see this coming and trust any information released by this new "government".

[–] humanspiral 3 points 10 hours ago

Demanding that reporters who make criticisms of Trump/Musk be fired and jailed, is going to get the agencies in line with our Fuhrers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

My guess is that the first bad report will be accurate, but once this administration gets caught with their pants down, they'll fire that team and start releasing jobs reports that have been sharpied to death.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Trump is going to cause the recession. Musk is there because of trump.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Musk paid to get Trump into office. Musk is there because of Musk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Worst bromance ever.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

By April, the employment report will probably be either heavily doctored or just downright not published.

Nazis don't care about the truth.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Taking a page from the CCP

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago

It’s sad that you have downvotes for this. It is a common practice in authoritarian states.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Who is there to warn though?

You got your normal Americans who already know this.

And then there's the manipulated ~~Nazis~~ Magas that won't even listen to this warning.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This is some of that bizarre, black-and-white thinking I've come to expect from Lemmy (and, of course, reddit). I can assure you that there are a lot of "normal Americans" who do not "already know this".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like too many of the people here really do need to touch grass. Idk if it's the high number of people in tech work or something else but I see so many takes of what "normal" people that's so far off the mark it makes me question when was the last time they spoke to an actual person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

If by "actual person," you mean Trump voter, I'm afraid our definitions of people might be different.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, don't worry, it's "a good thing" we're about to enter a recession!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Things are good because we do them!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago

Yeah no shit? Like anyone honest with themselves KNEW that would be the result if Trump won the presidency.

They should have been saying this BEFORE the election, instead of gargling the wrinkled, atrophied, and filthy balls of Trump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

What makes you think that there'll be a report in March or April?

[–] phoenixz 8 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The incompetent scammer isn't capable of making economic sound decisions? Who could have imagined that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

You think this isn't exactly what he wants?

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 day ago (4 children)

be richest person

crash the biggest economy in the world

buy the remains for cheap

not exactly a complicated plan.

maga voters want this to happen. they crave being worse off.

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