The Worst Thing Trump Did on 8/1/25

Threatening a nuclear war in a desperate attempt to get Jeffery Epstein and bad economic news off the front page is always gold, but let's look at that economic news.

Yesterday, they announced that the July job numbers failed to meet expectations, with 73,000 jobs created versus the estimate of 109,000.  That's not great, but it's not fatal.  What was far more damning was the revised job numbers for May and June. 

Now, for the record, I had insisted that the job numbers for May and June were not right when they came out.  There seemed to be genuine shock and awe that they had come in at 144,000 for May and 147,000 for June. Considering how many Federal Government firings were happening alone, those numbers seemed exceedingly pollyanna. I doubted the numbers were legit.

They weren't.  The stunning revisions on the numbers, May down 125,000 to 19,000 total, and June down 133,000 to 14,000 total, point to Trump manipulating data to push a narrative, preventing the truth from coming out, that his economic plans are quickly souring the economy. His tariffs are weighing heavily on prices and hiring.  These are the worst months for hiring since he was in office during the pandemic in 2020. 

Trump did what all dictators do when faced with bad news: he fired the people who delivered the bad news.  Claiming with ZERO evidence that Commissioner of Labor Statistics Erika McEntarfer had falsified the job numbers to make him look bad, Trump fired her and said he wanted a new commissioner who would tell him the economic news he wanted to hear. 

It's pretty clear to me that somehow McEntarfer had posted the correct jobs data, CORRECTING THE FAKE JOBS DATA THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAD MANIPULATED TO MAKE HIM SEEM COMPETENT.  The fake numbers were the original numbers, and Trump is really angry about the truth coming out. 

But it also means no sane person would trust the job numbers that come out of this Administration from this point forward. TRUMP HAS DEMANDED THE NUMBERS BE DOCTORED! Already, many economic experts have stated that August jobs numbers will probably be worse than July's.  This means it will be easy to see the lies being presented as facts.

It also should be noted that a country falsifying jobs data to push a narrative not only creates a recession/depression free fall when the eventual truth comes out, but it also is a prime factor in what is called hyperinflation, when consumer prices skyrocket overnight, pricing the consumer out, devaluing the currency, and stifling spending. 

Fall is going to be an economic nightmare for this country. 

The Saturday Link for 8/2/25

Okay, I missed the Friday Link.  Guilty as charged. 

This year has been a freaking nightmare.  I think yesterday morning, when the truth came out about the jobs numbers in May and June, that they were falsely inflated to make Trump's economic policy look better than it was, I broke down. When the revisions for May and June came out with July's paltry numbers, someone didn't get the 'Lie for Trump' memo, and the truth came out. The whole firing of the numbers person has FAR more to do with trying to cover up the Trump Administration's initial lies when the job numbers came out, versus correcting any wrongs they insist they were never part of.

I'd had it. That was before Trump decided to start moving nuclear subs around to avoid the Epstein Files/bad job number talk.  I took the day and gladly did not look back.

This has been a really tough week for a lot of people.  I've had to become a counselor to a number of stressed-out friends over the last year and requests for me to tell people 'it's going to be all good in the future' skyrocket this week.  I had already taken a break from the WTTD threads, but I feel the need to get back to work.

Trump wants us to be depressed and submissive.  That's the only way he works. I took a day, and now here we go.

The first video is fascinating.  Hank Green's science-heavy discussions on certain topics are great, and I highly recommend following his channel. This week he talks about the evolutionary changes fish had to make to get on dry land, and it really is remarkable. Of the many evolutions that happened, he has one which he is positive was the most important. 

Another thing he does is explain how these evolutions happened, where usually some type of cell in a fish's body reinvented itself in a bizarre way to allow for a new adaptation.  See for yourself. 

Also, funny but with science, True Facts comes at us with the story of how crickets became the loud ones in the animal kingdom! 

Finally, some hope for you. In dark times, good people rise.  Texas State Rep. James Talarico came out swinging.  

As weakling Democrats cower and throw transgender people under the bus, insisting we should allow their rights to be diminished because 70% think they participate in sports is wrong, Talarico gives the response that should be the first thing out of our mouths when the HATE RIGHT attacks.  

You have to click on the link for this one. It's quick and it's worth it. 

https://youtube.com/shorts/i-FvSqPsMkA?si=VN-OrHdGYzJR3uGE

Have a great rest of the weekend!