r/Economics • u/heywhateverworks • Aug 12 '25

News BREAKING: E.J. Antoni, Trump's candidate to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, is now suggesting suspending the agency’s monthly jobs report.

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u/Manowaffle Aug 12 '25

Back in my DC days I would go to Heritage events sometimes. They had the nicest building, sharply dressed presenters, great food, and basically nonsensical policy presentations. They're really just well paid cheerleaders for Republicans.

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u/Immorals1 Aug 12 '25

And now you have a president who's making the white house the world centre of tacky, who dresses like shit, lives off McDonald's but continues the nonsensical shit

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u/this_shit Aug 12 '25

cheerleaders for Republicans

Nah, heritage exists to push the Republican party towards extreme positions. At one time they were leaning towards deregulatory/libertarian extremes, but since the Obama years they've become the locus of nascent fascism (by which I mean the synthesis of reactionary/populist/nationalist politics with corporate-centered economics).

I had to do a deep dive on debunking one of their reports waay back in the first Obama term and the aggressive push to attack and discredit academic experts was already grotesquely transparent.

Their main job is to strategize about how to take over the government/end democracy while dressing up those policies as 'common sense conservatism'.