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Bluesmurf's avatar

"Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett was on Fox News this morning saying, “we’ll maybe be able to concoct something, but we’ll never actually know for sure what the unemployment rate was in October.”

All this DATA exists and all they have to do is pull it together - they are all such liars hoping that the "public" won't know anything about data, how it is collected, how it is stored, and for how long. Really? We have "data" from decades ago. Does anyone really believe that the employment and jobs and economic data disappeared in the 42 days that the government was shut down just because there were no actual people there that would gather it up and put together a report?

I will bet you that the report is automated and that it is sitting there, but the data output is so bad that they are using people's lack of knowledge in this area to keep from releasing it.

Well, that isn't going to stop the data from November from coming out and it won't look good either because unemployment is up, wages are stagnant or down, purchasing power continues to decline as prices continue to rise, the Big Ugly Bill that cuts SNAP and Medicaid is getting closer to implementation - with everyone cutting, gutting, and shutting to anticipate loss of revenue and profits for the richy rich. Inflation has been on the rise since the "Day of The Tariff" in May... and more ugliness.

Read more about what's coming from the Big Ugly Bill here: "Articles By Bluesmurf!" - https://bluesmurf.substack.com/p/articles-by-bluesmurf

Scroll down to the articles in July that break down the provisions in the Big Ugly Bill that will NOW be put into the budgets that are being passed - Or taken out, as it were.

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Michele Ashton's avatar

Isn't concoct a word you use when you're trying to think of a LIE??

Bluesmurf's avatar

Yes. It means to make something up. "an elaborate story, especially a fabrication." (From the Dictionary) - a fabrication is a "lie!" so yes, they think they might be able to lie about what the October numbers are. Is this transparency? To lie about facts out in the open and in our faces? Probably...

the real "fabrication" or "concoction" they are cooking up is that the "real" numbers don't exist because when the tree fell in the forest and there was no one there to hear it, it didn't actually make a sound....

C Bowlby's avatar

Clouds came by, oh please!!!!!!!

Michele Ashton's avatar

This was kind of a rhetorical question! But others might have needed the clarification - so thanks for that! And I'm not being facetious.

If I was a duck's avatar

Of subject and speaking of data here, supposedly the East Wing of the White House is where the bunkers that house the WH data centers. Now, this is only a theory, but considering the donors, size,cost and location, the "ballroom" is just a cover for a massive "upgrade" to the data center to basically spy and collect data on every single one of us, from birth to death. Everything from what toothpaste we use, what time we go to sleep, financial data, EVERYTHING (ex, Palantir). Real Big Brother dystopian shit. Again, just a theory

Just saying, they have and can collect the data, they just don't like the results.

Bluesmurf's avatar

they already know all there is to know about all of us. It is collected from every store we visit, every search on the Internet, every purchase we make, our cell phones, all the apps on our cell phones, our medical records are all digitized now. It's just not all in one place and we still do not have the computing power to run reports against yottabytes of data on each or 347 million Americans or any of the other 8 billion people on this planet.

They started collecting data decades ago when they started giving out courtesy cards. And they have never deleted any of it. I am old enough that they do not have digitized data on my whole life, just since grocery cards and store cards/discount cards and since I qualified for credit cards.

Smedley B's avatar

I can't stand Hassett, with that little shit-eating smirk of his, as he lies his ass off and thinks everyone is believing him.

Tina's avatar
Nov 14Edited

Trump keeps telling his cabinet "if you keep repeating the lie over and over they will eventually believe it."

C Bowlby's avatar

Smoke-screen to obscure EPSTEINrump FILES! Mollesters

to prison, now!

JOHN SMITH's avatar

I have a friend who just got a increase in health insurance from $850 to $3900 and is considering moving to south America country to get the health care she and her husband need. That is not making any American better.

Tina's avatar

I had to take my dog to the vet and the technician there told me he has Obamacare and he cannot afford it now and will have to cancel it. This is complete BS. Every time Trump and his goonies get on TV and trash Obamacare they need to show the clip of the debate with VP Kamala Harris in 2024 where he says "I have concepts of a plan". Now 15 years later he has NO PLANS.

Brian Wendorf's avatar

Ken fucking Starr! Not surprised but goddamn the hypocrisy as ever is off the fucking charts. Fucking fuck fuckity fuck fuck. Shit. Ok...back to work. Fuck.

Linda Myers's avatar

He investigated the Clintons for all those years, found absolutely nothing wrong, and wasted billions of dollars.

Sandy O's avatar

My MAGA friends health insurance went from $460 to $4600. He even tried to blame Obama, but I corrected him. I still feel bad for them (as well as others) as there's no way they'll be able to afford it.

Gigi Flor's avatar

Note 11: I requested deletion of my Starbucks account yesterday and cited the reason as solidarity with the striking baristas. (And besides there’s plenty of local shops where I can get much better coffee on the go.)

Ann Franklin's avatar

He’s a filthy, MONSTER. This involved children!

Kathy  Welch's avatar

The cologne spraying video was massively embarrassing! Is it any wonder the rest of the world is laughing at us 🤦🏼‍♀️

Carol's avatar

Oh my immortal soul! The Pope - what a dish!😳

Italien's avatar

Yeah!! No kidding!! Be still my bleeding heart!

AKRebel's avatar

I love Adelita already! She's going to be a force to be reckoned with :) And I also love this pope! (even though I don't belong to any religion). He's a breath of fresh air!

Linda Myers's avatar

Why would anyone listen to the trash that is Vance? But, even he isn’t the trash that Eric Trump is. 🤮🤮🤮

sherri's avatar

So now thanks to Jeanne “filthy rich and top shelf healthy and can eat anything anywhere at any time” screwed the America’s neediest population-that strata of our population will die of hunger and/or fatal healthcare situations. WTAF!!!!!!

io bonini's avatar

Hey SP’s…Another day, Another WTF…Thanks Sam & Adam for wading thru this “American shit house” for us. How many showers do you all have to take a day?

Come on SP’s all this about not having “the DATA” about every little thing. Like unemployment numbers? Do we really need it? We can’t believe anything these criminals tell us. We can see with our own eyes, hear with our own ears and talk with ACTUAL living humans that we know about what’s REAL. And WHY are we still taking any so called “orders” from unelected Nazi’s who wear their black robes during the day and their white robes with hoods in the evenings, and who take their marching orders from their rich handlers, and who go and speak at Nazi rallies (heritage foundation) and spew their religious Christian crap there. And why does anyone listen, read or believe anything from the mainstream media propaganda anymore? Fact Check everything. Whoa there…sorry about that SP’s I’m still pissed off about the f-ing traitor senators. *Word on the street is that the 2 Nevada senators got money from American airlines and the airports, cause Los Vegas is losing money, and well Uncle Fester needs to take his meds….OMG…Burgie time and some IB Profin might fix my ranting…Hang in there SP’s, and try to stay sane, it’s getting harder to do that by the day.

*link to article regarding this:

https://nevadacurrent.com/2025/11/11/nevadas-centrist-senators-took-some-heat-before-shutdown-deal-now-getting-some/

Italien's avatar

Is that fucking pope picture for REAL?? (You can tell I live in California..not a lot of fedoras in this neck of the woods. Looks like my father in the 30s in NY…the shades are definitely awesome too..Dude’s got absolute bella figura..)🤣

Scott Gilbert's avatar

Note: Look at him caress that chair... Yeah, that's Peter Thiel's chode.

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Note three: Guys, please stop using "Pedophile" and substitute "child molester." Please. PedoPHILE is just gentrification and Carlin's "soft language". PedoPHILE makes raping children sound like an elitist hobby instead of the horrible things these people are. AudioPHILES are fans of high quality sound. BiblioPHILES are fans of books. AngloPHILES are fans of England. PedoPHILES are NOT "fans of children". These people are CHILD MOLESTERS.

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Note six: No shit? I'm *YAWN* shocked.

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Note seven: I think we can believe this. Otherwise, there would DEFINITELY be "Clinton's On The Island" all over the fucking place.

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Note eleven: I have walked into a Starbucks exactly once, and that was to use the bathroom.

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Note thirteen: And don't forget Margery Taylor Greene and Handy Oakly...

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Note fifteen: The drawback of not having cable: No South Park...

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Note eighteen: After ten years of this shit, you have to give up on Corporate Media. YOU GUYS are the media now, along with dozens of journalists here on Substack.

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Note nineteen: Well DUH. He is a SOUL MAN.

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Republicans are fucking gross: Donald can't resign because the moment he does, he loses his immunity and off to the can he goes. And if there is even the slightest bit of FUCKING JUSTICE at all, he'll win the No-Bail Prize.

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Teri's avatar

Thanks, Adam. So Vance is now a doctor, too?

C Bowlby's avatar

Vance should sick to the couch. How can an educated man come out against ibuprofen, nowadays aspirin? Well, I guess insanity attacks smart, or semi-smart, or stupid people TOO!