“You can’t really make the numbers different or better by firing the people doing the counting,” said Sen. Rand Paul
Several Republican senators and right-leaning experts have criticized Trump for the decision.
“If the president is firing the statistician because he doesn’t like the numbers but they are accurate, then that’s a problem,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wy.) told The Guardian. “It’s not the statistician’s fault if the numbers are accurate and that they’re not what the president had hoped for.”
“If she was just fired because the president or whoever decided to fire the director just … because they didn’t like the numbers, they ought to grow up,” said Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.).
“We have to look somewhere for objective statistics,” Sen. Rand Paul, (R-Ky.) told NBC News. “When the people providing the statistics are fired, it makes it much harder to make judgments that you know, the statistics won’t be politicized.”
We’re starting to see the type of delusion that led to the demise of the USSR. They’d commonly put quotas in place that were impossible to meet, then someone would fluff the numbers to make it look like it really happened, then the next year they’d raise the quota even further.
A great quote about this is from the series “Chernobyl”.
“Every lie told incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later the debt is paid.”
We are invoking an awful lot of debt today.
I find it funny that the “facts don’t care about your feelings” folks are starting to ignore the facts in favor of their feeling. America is not short on hypocrisy.
Starting? Conservatism basically requires that you operate on feelings because the facts never back them up. It’s basically their entire thing, and they hate that the facts tell them how wrong they are(like about how maybe white supremecy is stupid).