Firing people for delivering bad news is a fascist move. It was popular with the likes of Joseph Stalin, Saddam Hussein, and dare say it, Adolf Hitler. Trump and Hitler both fired generals they didn’t trust.
Sometimes it would be a census taker telling Stalin that his famine was reducing the population. He wouldn’t just be fired, but shipped off to a gulag, or even murdered. The first thing to go in a dictatorship is a free press.
Yesterday, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Erika McEntarfer, delivered a negative jobs report. Trump, our Dear Leader and Fascist in Chief, didn’t like those numbers, so Hair Fuhrer fired her.
TACO said, “I’ve had issues with the numbers for a long time. We’re doing so well. I believe the numbers were phony, like they were before the election, and there were other times. So I fired her, and I did the right thing.” OK, Shitler.
Russia and China manipulate their economic numbers. Like Trump, they take apolitical agencies and politicize them. Yes, the BLS will now be politicized. People who don’t want to lose their jobs will only report happy news to Cheeto Mussolini. The government will be less informed. The American people will be lied to.
It will be like people in North Korea being told there is plenty of food while they’re staring at empty shelves in their markets. You’re not starving. Who are you going to believe, Kim Jong Un or your lying growling stomach?
Trump doesn’t want us to believe our lying eyes either. He’s lied about vote totals, crowd sizes, tariff formulas, and even weather forecasts. Remember when he tried to change a hurricane’s direction with a Sharpie. I can do a lot with a Sharpie, you’ve seen it, but I can’t move a hurricane with one.
We’re only into the first eight months of this growing dictatorship. How much worse will it become?
On social media, Trump claimed that McEntarfer”RIGGED” jobs figures “to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.”
BLS showed that just 73,000 jobs were added in July, way below forecasts of 109,000. I feel sorry for the messenger who tells Trump his numbers are way below President Joe Biden’s. When prices rise from Trump’s tariffs, will he lie again and say items are not more expensive, or will he blame a Democrat? Maybe he’ll say businesses are only jacking up prices to hurt him. If egg prices go up again, will Trump blame the chickens and claim they have it out for him?
Trump also posted to Shit Social, referring to himself in the third person, “The Economy is BOOMING under ‘TRUMP.” In the style of George Costanza, Trump probably screamed when he got the jobs report, “Trump is getting upset!”
Heather Long, chief economist at the Navy Federal Credit Union, said the job figures were a “gamechanger,” and “the labor market is deteriorating quickly” because of uncertainty caused by Trump’s tariffs.
Even as Trump says “winning” when the European Union agrees to a tariff deal, Trump is celebrating raising prices on American consumers. Many economists believe the EU got the worst of the tariff deal, but it’s not European consumers who will be paying higher prices because of it.
Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said: “Firing the head of a key government agency because you don’t like the numbers they report, which come from surveys using long-established procedures, is what happens in authoritarian countries, not democratic ones.”
Friends of BLS, a group whose members include two former commissioners of the agency, said, “When leaders of other nations have politicized economic data, it has destroyed public trust in all official statistics and in government science.”
Trump asked reporters yesterday, rhetorically, “Why should anybody trust numbers?”
That’s typical of your average MAGAt. They love polls when they tell them what they want to hear, but say the same polls are phony when they deliver numbers they don’t want to see. But these are the same cultists and idiots who’ll claim that thanks to the GropenFuhrer, their 401Ks are spectacular while they’re down 3 percent.
What’s for certain is that TACO is working to become a dictator, and there’s nothing we can trust that will come out from his regime.
Creative note: Who starts a cartoon at midnight and works on it until 4 a.m.? This guy.

The decision to go to war shouldn’t be left to a low-IQ racist, narcissistic toddler with impulse issues. I wonder if our generals feel like Hitler’s generals. In both cases, experienced and trained military professionals had to follow very stupid orders. In Hitler’s case, those orders cost Germany thousands of soldiers, either through death or capture.
Hitler was a veteran while Trump dodged the Vietnam War, citing bone spurs.
To the idiot conspiracy-theory spreading trolls at GoComics believing yesterday’s cartoon signals I’m for bombing Iran, no, morons. How could you come to that conclusion after years of reading my work?
To be clear, I do NOT support starting a war against any nation that hasn’t attacked us. This case is particularly stupid.
Donald Trump is demanding peace from Iran, which has never attacked us, after he dropped massive bombs on it. We HAD peace with Iran.
Years ago, Trump falsely predicted that President Barack Obama would start a war with Iran because he would be incapable of negotiating. Except it was President Obama who successfully negotiated for Iran to end its nuclear program, and the treaty was working. Iran was complying with all the conditions.
It was Trump who canceled the agreement and is now bombing Iran because he’s incapable of negotiating. And why would Iran want to negotiate with Donald Trump when they know they can’t trust him. How many treaties and agreements has Trump broken?
Iran doesn’t have a nuclear bomb today, or Trump and Bibi would not have bombed them. But Donald Trump just taught Iran that they need a nuclear weapon.
We may be slow learners of history, but the Iranians may not be. We forgot the history lessons of Vietnam and invaded Iraq. Iran probably remembers our demands on Iraq and Libya to lose their nuclear programs, only to see their regimes overthrown later.
Another history lesson we’re forgetting is our regime changes in Iraq and Afghanistan. How long is Trump prepared to commit US troops to this war? It’ll be a lot longer than Trump will be in office.
Last night, Trump said to the nation, “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” And then he said there are other targets.
So which is it? Are their nuke capabilities “totally obliterated,” or do we need to keep bombing them? Or are we going to keep bombing them because it gives Trump a woody?
This is Israel’s war, and a war they didn’t have to start. It’s not our war…or it wasn’t.
What happens next? Will Trump keep bombing Iran? Will Israel? Will Iran start targeting American ships in the Persian Gulf or our bases in the region? Will Iran target Americans in the region? Will they hit our embassies?
Trump doesn’t understand this issue, yet he’s gambling with our resources. He’s gambling with American lives. The problem now is that the Trump Baby has to save face. If Iran fights back, so will he, but not at any risk to him.
Creative note: I wrote six ideas for this subject, and I may use one or two of them later this week.