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President Biden reacts to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) saying the jobs report has fake numbers: "If you notice, anything the MAGA Republicans don't like they call fake. Anything. The job numbers are what the job numbers are. They're real."
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2:24 PM · Oct 4, 2024
Oh, fuck off with the fakeness, MAGA. Your whole campaign is built on a throne of lies from Trump and JD.
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Prairie Gates
(2,674 posts)Why would a reporter even grace that nonsense with a question?
I don't remember anyone on the left ever calling the BLS numbers fake. The right has consistently done so, however, first during Barak Obama's term and now all through Biden's term.
doc03
(36,519 posts)4 or so Trump claimed unemployment was 30% or even more.
Prairie Gates
(2,674 posts)Wiz Imp
(1,507 posts)Even during the Bush years, I don't remember anyone on the left questioning the veracity of the numbers. What I do remember is members of Bush's economic team pushing to change how things were defined in order to make thing look better. I remember one guy saying fast food restaurants should be classified in manufacturing since they were manufacturing hamburgers. Yes, someone on Bush's team actually made that argument. Thankfully, none of the redefinitions that they pushed for were ever adopted.