1. United States
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The President is subverting the truth and you are helping him do it. The NYT article below points this out in detail. I suggest you take a good look at what you are doing to our country by supporting Trump’s continual lying and firing the people who serve him with the TRUTH. Mr. Trump's war on facts reached new heights on Friday when he angrily fired the Labor Department official (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/business/economy/trump-bls-firing-jobs-report.html) in charge of compiling statistics on employment in America because he did not like the latest jobs report showing that the economy isn't doing as well as he claims it is. Mr. Trump declared that her numbers were "phony." His proof? It was "my opinion." (https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114955222046259464) And the story he told supposedly proving she was politically biased? It had no basis in fact itself. The message, however, was unmistakable: Government officials who deal in data now fear they have to toe the line or risk losing their jobs. Career scientists, longtime intelligence analysts and nonpartisan statisticians who serve every president regardless of political party with neutral information on countless matters, such as weather patterns and vaccine efficacy, now face pressure as never before to conform to the alternative reality enforced by the president and his team. Mr. Trump has never been especially wedded to facts (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/03/us/politics/trump-falsehoods-claims-election.html), routinely making up his own numbers (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/us/politics/trump-alternative-reality.html), repeating falsehoods and conspiracy theories (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/politics/trump-epstein-obama-conspiracies.html) even after they are debunked and denigrating the very concept of independent fact-checking. "Democracy can't realistically exist without reliable epistemic infrastructure," said Michael Patrick Lynch. "Anti-democratic, authoritarian leaders know this," he said. "That is why they will seize every opportunity to control sources of information. As Bacon taught us, knowledge is power. But preventing or controlling access to knowledge is also power." "It's a post-factual world that Trump is looking for, and he's got these sycophants working for him that don't challenge him on facts," said Barbara Comstock, a former Republican congresswoman from Virginia. But firing the messenger, she said, will not make the economy any better. "The reality is the economy is worse, and he can't keep saying it's better," she said. "Joe Biden learned that; people still experience the experience they have, no matter how much" you tell them otherwise.