Trump Mimics Stalin, Uses Total BS to Kill BLS
You play with the truth. Oh you're killing me with your Pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro, Ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-ganda - Muse, "Propaganda"
Cliff’s Note
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Trump’s Reached HIS Stalin Phase Right On Schedule
Some of us always knew this was where this would end up. A bloated, stumbling, smash-and-grab, cash-licking cadaver who spent an entire life born on third base—yet somehow perpetually finding a way to get thrown out at second—taking out his vast wilderness of dumbf*kery on us all.
But we were sooo crazy!
Yes, this is what we we were told—like when we said if Hillary lost in 2016 Roe v. Wade would be overturned—in asking various “business class” Republicans “voting for the man not the policy,” far leftists who couldn’t lower their haughty superegos to vote for Kamala Harris or our grotesque monopoly media jonesing for clicks like Jake Tapper searching for a book to adorn with his name, WTF are you doing?!?
Special mention here to Merrick Garland, Great Protector of the image of institutions just so he could enable said institutions to be completely destroyed roughly 12-24 months later.
Bravo, Merrick, bravo. For possessing markedly more foreskin than foresight.
So, we’re there. The Corruptor-in-Chief has now crossed a few more bright red lines. No, this time he’s not firing some former circus-act, C-list celebrity from his sh*tty reality show, it’s the government. Our government.
And Trump just canned the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Because, gasp, the jobs numbers didn’t praise Dear Cheater, they just told us about the actual, ya know, jobs.
That’s right, folks. Donald Jong-Un booted the BLS chief faster than he fled Vietnam War service—though in his defense, it was hard to run with that mass infiltration of bone spurs—simply because the numbers didn’t lie...which is all that Trump can do.
It turns out that when you constantly do the TACO Trump with tariffs, nobody freakin knows what gonna fly out of your cheese-melt of a cerebral cortex next, so they don’t hire, purchase equipment, really expand their business at all.
I know, nutty, right!?
I mean, look at these jobs numbers? When Trump adds an extra caddie to help him cheat at golf at creates more jobs. This is not just humiliating, it’s I had 1000 FBI agents working 24-hour shifts to try and hide my appearance in the Epstein files, humiliating.
So Trump did the political equivalent of shooting the weatherman because it’s raining. Now of course he had to do it in his Trumpian way, undermining yet another American institution, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Trump’s called it partisan and pro-Kamala and blah blah blah can this man ever shut that giant cakehole?
Where’s Marie Antoinette when you need her? I mean, she’s just his kinda gal.
In any case, here we’ll share the oral droppings of the unhinged, the one for whom so many irredeemably daft dill-holes actually cast a vote. Not to sit in a dunking booth at the Florida State Fair or don a bucket on his head. But to be President.
Why, that feels familiar. Hmm. Oh, right, this is what I was thinking of:
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Put an economic plan in place that causes an utter catastrophe, and blame those counting the numbers. How very hammer and sickle of Trump!
And just to make sure we’re all clear this is not a single data point, but a direction, we have the masked, badge-lacking thugs of ICE, throwing teenagers—even U.S. citizens—to the ground because they look suspiciously Latino.
And now Trump’s adding to his Red October resume by opening an investigation into Jack Smith. Remember Smith, the prosecutor who had the audacity to investigate Trump’s attempted coup, his crimes, and, well, his dictatorship-in-progress (bet he’s also thankful for Merrick Garland about now)?
Stalin would be so proud of his Little Trump.
In fact, if he’d spray-tanned himself into a clownfish and swapped out military garb for a 48-long golf polo, we’d have a match! From 1936-38, to cement his control vs his rival, Leon Trotsky (whom he later had murdered in Mexico), Stalin held mass purges. The Moscow trials, to rid Mother Russia of those who could hold the homonculus heel to account.
You know, for things like ignoring and covering up a Stalin-induced famine from 1932-33. The one that led to five-to-nine million deaths (it’ll shock you to know they were mostly in Ukraine, because, Russia…always doing right by Ukraine).
I believe it was known as Stalin’s COVID.
Remember when Trump said “I’ll be your retribution?”
So now he’s got MAGA sycophants in Congress, red-state governors openly ignoring state constitutions to gerrymand…er cheat for him, right-wing entertainment complex Outriders and an entire Justice Department apparently moonlighting as his personal vendetta squad.
Outriders from Avengers: Infinity Wars
So Trump’s now openly cribbing from the “Totalitarianism for Dummies” playbook: Fire the statisticians, jail the prosecutors, silence the press (see NPR and PBS shutting down, which we just wrote about) and claim you’re “making America great again.”
Yeah, Stalin said something similar to that too—though in his case it was “glorious motherland” instead of “greatness.” And he probably didn’t tweet it at 3 a.m. from a gauche golden s*tter in Mar-a-Novosibirsk. But the logic’s the same: when reality doesn’t flatter a lifetime loser, don’t change your actions—change reality!
Or in Trump’s case, investigate reality for “election interference.”
This isn’t just Trump being Trump. This is Trump being Stalin, Mao, being every tinpot dictator who couldn’t handle bad press, bad numbers or really, really bad hair. Whose flaccidly, fragile ego was only matched by their appetite for revenge.
This is important: Don’t fall into Learned Helplessness. There’s good news out there too: judges standing up to Trump what feels like every day—even his appointees—huge rallies across the country surpassing numbers political scientists say are needed to stop autocracy, enormously popular talents jumping into key Senate races.
And efforts like our own, the Soundcheck Fund, to build up independent media and finally cast off corporate media for good.
But this is a battle for our very democracy, which means we fight on every front. If we don’t stop this kind of authoritarianism in our federal government, we won’t be debating jobs numbers or indictments—we’ll be debating whether it’s “legal” to criticize Trump at all.
Unless, of course, the new “Bureau of Labor Statistics and Loyalty” tells us it’s actually great that we’re unemployed—because now we have more time to attend Trump rallies!
Comrade Stalin would definitely approve.
VIDEO ON DEMAND! Like I said above, there is good news. Here’s Cory Booker calling out FELLOW DEMOCRATS to get tougher on Trump & GOP colleagues. This is what I’m here for. But we need more of this. It can’t just be once then done.
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—Cliff
Dictator Donnie LIES all the time..... He NEVER tells the truth! Do NOT trust anything he says or does......
All too true, Cliff. I was told since 2000, that I was crazy, and paranoid. It was pretty obvious to me that the republicans natural trajectory, after watching Reagan through the 80's, would bring them to full blown fascism. After the Bush coup in 2000, and the disaster of the "patriot" act, the ingredients were all there, just waiting for the demagogue who could mix them into authoritarian stew. At this point, thanks to the failure of practically every institution designed to prevent it, we are truly in a world of fascist hurt. Thanks to weak leadership, and timid appointments (AKA M.Garland etc..) in the quest for non-existent "moderation", the demagogue has been allowed to flourish in the weakness of opposition, and the corruption of the moneyed class, who always benefit from right wing government. To all my fellow citizens who still cling to belief that the center will hold, I say read a freaking history book for once. We have seen this all before, and the ending scene isn't pretty. Wake up and prepare for the shitstorm that is now inevitable.