novanova

Here is an extract from a current column. Hard evidence that Trump is stupid and dishonest. Like all autocrats, he is weak and cannot abide being told he is wrong. Like all autocrats, he wants to pretend the world is the way he says it is; no evaluation of the facts is ever required. Friday, Donald Trump did what every good (bad?) dictator does: He shot the messenger. The monthly jobs report showed just 73,000 jobs in July, with big reductions to May's and June's numbers, so Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, casting aspersions on her in a social media post, calling her a “Biden appointee” and claiming, falsely, that she played games with the numbers. Donald Trump: I was just informed that our Country's "Jobs Numbers" are being produced by a Biden Appointee, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, who faked the Jobs Numbers before the Election to try and boost Kamala's chances of Victory. This is the same Bureau of Labor Statistics that overstated the Jobs Growth in March 2024 by approximately 818,000 and, then again, right before the 2024 Presidential Election, in August and September, by 112,000. These were Records - No one can be that wrong? We need accurate Jobs Numbers. I have directed my Team to fire this Biden Political Appointee, IMMEDIATELY. She will be replaced with someone much more competent and qualified. Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can't be manipulated for political purposes. McEntarfer said there were only 73,000 Jobs added (a shock!) but, more importantly, that a major mistake was made by them, 258,000 Jobs downward, in the prior two months. Similar things happened in the first part of the year, always to the negative. The Economy is BOOMING under "TRUMP" despite a Fed that also plays games, this time with Interest Rates, where they lowered them twice, and substantially, just before the Presidential Election, I assume in the hopes of getting "Kamala" elected - How did that work out? Jerome "Too Late" Powell should also be put "out to pasture." Thank you for your attention to this matter! The message to every single government employee is clear. If the numbers, the outcomes, or anything else look bad for Trump, fudge it or risk losing your job. It’s all about personal loyalty, which comes as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention. Still, this is 1984-level stuff. McEntarfer is an economist, a data person, with a Ph.D. The New York Times reported that she had broad bipartisan support when the Senate confirmed her to the position in 2024 in an 86-8 vote, which included yeas from then-Senators JD Vance and Marco Rubio. She had worked in the Census Bureau during both Republican and Democratic administrations for 20 years before going to Treasury. That’s not the resume of an ideologue. But Trump doesn’t care about people who’ve worked hard to build their careers as public servants. He just wants to look good, whether he’s doing good or not. So McEntarfer had to go.

You don't understand. There is nothing that warrants tariffs on the scale that DT puts forward. There is no clear thinking behind it; that's why they change on a daily basis. No high-end economist endorses this stupidity; DT had to hire docile yes-men to praise him. One of the many howlers in this tariff gibberish is that it's all about cash for goods; DT does not understand that, in the US, the payment for the service economy dwarfs the goods economy. The tiny amount that Heard Is generates does not justify any tariff. Fishermen visit and get stock, they sell the stock. Where is injustice? DT has dementia... everything is unfair, they are picking on him, and he wants more and more for himself. That's why he stole money from a charity and has committed fraud so many times. Meanwhile, Wikipedia corrects your misunderstanding: The islands, which are uninhabited, can be reached only by sea, and typically require a two-week voyage from Australia to visit... The islands are contained within a 65,000-square-kilometre (25,000 sq mi; 19,000 sq mi) marine reserve and are primarily visited for research, meaning that there is no permanent human habitation. With the end of sealing, the only exploited resource is fish; the Australian government allows limited fishing in the surrounding waters... In April 2025, as part of a sweeping campaign of tariffs against its trading partners, the US explicitly implemented a 10% tariff against the islands, despite the islands being uninhabited, earning the islands widespread media coverage. The US claimed it had a trade deficit with the islands, an allegation that appeared to be calculated from incorrect trade data. An analysis of US import data and shipping records by The Guardian indicated some shipments were incorrectly labelled as coming from the remote islands instead of their correct countries of origin. According to export data from the World Bank, the US imported US$1.4 million (A$2.23 million) of products from Heard Island and McDonald Islands in 2022, nearly all of which was "machinery and electrical" imports.

He is an oaf when it comes to economic policy. He doesn't even know high-school level economics, and is a world-wide laughing-stock. He thinks there is something intrinsically unfair about paying money to receive goods - clearly a sign of dementia, just like his father had. Don't agree? Then tell me what you think the tariffs on Heard Island should be... https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/us-defends-tariffs-on-uninhabited-australian-islands/e5p7j6ehi

You are being played for a fool. Here is an excerpt from one report on this nonsense: --------------------------------- Here's the problem: Gabbard’s memo is trash. It cites as evidence several intelligence documents from 2016 that she declassified. But these records have nothing to do with that assessment that Putin preferred a Trump victory. These documents noted that Russian efforts to penetrate US election systems—which had occurred throughout the nation in 2016—would not affect vote-counting. Moscow probing of election boards was a matter of great concern to US intelligence and the Obama White House, but it was an entirely separate subject from the hack-and-leak and social media operations perpetuated by Kremlin operatives. The documents Gabbard issued had nothing to do with the question of whether those covert operations were implemented to help Trump. She was pulling a disingenuous sleight of hand, conflating two different intelligence topics. (I explained this in more detail here.) And subsequent investigations by special counsel Robert Mueller and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (when it was chaired by then-Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican)—which each had access to much more information than the earlier intelligence assessment that Obama had ordered produced quickly in the waning days of his presidency—confirmed the obvious point that the Kremlin’s attack favored Trump. This is what the GOP-led Senate intelligence committee reported in 2020: The Committee found that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian effort to hack computer networks and accounts affiliated with the Democratic Party and leak information damaging to Hillary Clinton and her campaign for president. Moscow's intent was to harm the Clinton Campaign, tarnish an expected Clinton presidential administration, help the Trump Campaign after Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee, and undermine the U.S. democratic process. It’s hard to believe that Gabbard and her henchmen and henchwomen at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence made an honest mistake by using intelligence reports on one subject to challenge the finding on another. They can’t be that dumb. What we have here is Trump’s top intelligence official using the spy services to manufacture a blatantly fake case so that Trump’s DOJ can investigate and perhaps prosecute Trump’s political rivals and critics, including a former president of the United States. This is all so Soviet.

No question the bar and the girl are greedy and dishonest. But... - 2000b bar fine on Soi Buakhao - walk out - Must buy 10 lady-drinks - walk out

Yep, totally predicable - you right-wing dunces are all the same... this time, it's back to the old straw-man argument, then you change the subject. Yawn. At no time did I say that Wikipedia is unbiased and the absolute truth. You made that up. I happen to be a genuine expert in a particular area, and I know that the main Wikipedia article on that subject is flawed. There are statements that are wrong, and I know it. But here's the thing... what's there is "in good faith", which I rate as a a very important concept. I am in discussion with the posters in the subject, and their wish is to be factual, and we will iron things out eventually. Contrast that with Trump, a "not in good faith" actor, whose sole driver is personal benefit. He's even been found guilty in a court of law of stealing from a charity. then again, here is a detailed Wikipedia article - try finding errors in it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi Here are some sources that show that Kory is a fraud and a liar. Do some work - read and evaluate. If need be, change your mind. That's what intellectually-honest people do. Try it! Or you can hide behind "can't be arsed", which is just code for "I am a bigot who loves having my biases confirmed - I don't care about the truth". https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-american-board-of-internal-medicine-finally-acts-against-two-misinformation-spreading-doctors/ https://retractionwatch.com/2021/11/09/bad-math-covid-treatment-paper-by-pierre-kory-retracted-for-flawed-results https://doi.org/10.1177%2F08850666211049062 https://retractionwatch.com/2022/02/11/ivermectin-papers-slapped-with-expressions-of-concern/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10501341 https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-07-22/ivermectin-another-bogus-covid-treatment

"Bring court documents"??? Wow, you take 'desperate" to a whole new level. It's not up to me to make up for your intellectual laziness. Have you, or have you not, followed the Wikipedia references that show, beyond any doubt that Kory is a fraud and a scammer? The give-away is that he is selling magical cures - just another shyster. Go on... follow the links. Get to the reports by PhDs with decades of experience, who are sick to death of having to waste their time with con-men and people like you who are out of your depth, in an area you don't understand. You right-wing nuts really are a joke. Fox News admitted in a court of law that they lie to their client base and do not employ fact-checkers. If truth and accuracy meant anything, FN would have lost customers by the tens of millions. But their job is to tell foolish people what they want to hear, so their loyal base stays and gets fed lies every hour of the day. Pardon me if I stick to factual evaluation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuva

Being right-wing, logical fallacies are your preferred tool. Avoid the topic at hand, change the subject, straw-man arguments... that's all you've got. Generic criticisms of Wikipedia are a waste of time. The subject is the dishonesty of Pierre Kory, and the Wikipedia article shows that he is a fraud, liar and scammer. A valid response addresses what is raised by the Wikipedia article. That will involve following the links, researching facts and evaluating the evidence. You can't do that, can you? It would result in your having to change your mind, wouldn't it? Right-wingers hate evidence and having to change their minds in response to an evaluation. As the like goes, "Facts have a well-known liberal bias". So, tell us, what silly irrelevancy you can manufacture now? Whatever you do, don't address the facts... you've got an image to maintain. BWAHAHA!

Here is a quote from the Wikipedia article - it's as plain as day that you have no read it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Kory Kory in August 2022 falsely claimed that vaccines can disrupt pregnancy and fertility, based on his reading of Pfizer data submitted to the FDA, an interpretation which is not supported by peer-reviewed evidence. He represented the rates of miscarriage after COVID vaccination as alarming,[30] when the rates are in fact consistent with background miscarriage rates of 11-16 percent in the general population.[31] Multiple studies have shown that COVID infection, not vaccination against COVID-19, is risky for pregnant women. One study found that the risk of fetal or newborn mortality is higher in unvaccinated pregnant women who contract COVID, than it is for vaccinated women infected with COVID at the same stage of pregnancy.[32] Further, according to studies cited by the CDC, there is no evidence of decreased fertility due to COVID vaccination now or in the future, and changes in menstrual cycles are small and temporary.[33] Kory repeatedly questions peer-reviewed science on COVID, the COVID-19 vaccine emergency use authorization process overseen by federal agencies, and the profit motives of pharmaceutical companies, while he also profits from marketing off-label and "alternative" COVID treatments that are lacking in quality evidence.[34] His rhetoric carries many of the markings of conspiracy theory, which make emotional arguments that presume malfeasance and coordinated efforts and deliberate obfuscation of information. Such theories become ingrained in in-groups as a form of secret knowledge, which reinforces the fervor with which the ideas are believed. Kory's detractors such as David Gorski[35][36] have noted his efforts to promote and profit from alternative COVID treatments are similar to medical quackery going back centuries.[26][37] In June 2022, Kory tweeted that the American Board of Internal Medicine had warned him that his board certifications were in danger of being revoked for misinformation.[34] Effectively unable to practice within mainstream medicine, Kory launched his own “advanced COVID-19 care center", charging US$1,250 to 1,650 for a series of three appointments.[34] As you see, Kory is a conman and a liar. You can follow the links, you can check the assertions, you can evaluate the evidence provided. But you won't do that - a characteristic of the idiot right is, an overwhelming desire to see, hear and read only what they want to. Facts, studies, peer-reviewed papers, decades of expert knowledge... these have to be written-off with childish abuse. You never provided any facts to support your position. You never said where Wikipedia is wrong. That's because you can't. You are just another right-wing fact-free gasbag.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Kory OP, you have been scammed by a conman and a liar. It's time to evaluate the facts and change your mind.

They are laughing at DTs ignorance. After all, he is the dunce who thought Finland was part of Russia, and is unable to read or understand his Daily Security Briefing. Even Dubya could manage that...

By all means quote me. In what sense is this ad hominem? DT is being laughed at by high-end economists around the world. Read what the Economist magazine has to say. Check economic journals. DT is ignorant of the basics, and that is a hard. demonstrable fact, no two ways about it. Read up on this. Review the facts, Evaluate the information.Change your mind. You will be a better person for it.

Well-educated people avoid ad hominem arguments. Try evaluation... that way, you learn things, and avoid dogma prejudice. Meanwhile, as i said, many high-end, professional economists have used the "groceries" analogy to show how ignorant Trump is. Look this up. Review and evaluate the facts. Change your mind. You will be a better person for doing so.

Nobel-prize-winning economists (and many others) are using that example. Maybe they have no understanding of global trade. Read this: https://time.com/7274651/why-economists-are-horrified-by-trump-tariff-math/ You might learn something.