Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Mini-Post: Trust

Friday, August 29, 2025

Mini-Post: Trust

Trump ran in part on a bold promise: to make Americans trust their government again. He spoke of draining the swamp, restoring truth, and cleaning up bloated, dishonest institutions. But here we are in 2025, and it’s time to ask: How’s he doing in the trust department?

You remember the TV show the Apprentice? Your... FIRED!

Well when he didn't like the numbers on inflation; Your... FIRED!
When he didn't like the numbers on employment; Your... FIRED!
When he didn't like the numbers coming out of the CDC: Your... FIRED!

He then replaced them with "Yes-men" cronies. Newsweek wrote;

A few hours after the BLS jobs report was published on Friday, Trump announced he was firing McEntarfer in a Truth Social post.

The firing of a high-level labor statistician after the release of adverse economic data raised alarms about the politicization of nonpartisan agencies and reliability of official U.S. economic statistics. Experts and lawmakers stressed that the integrity of the BLS is central to public trust and informed economic decision-making. The episode also unfolded against a backdrop of a cooling U.S. labor market and mounting pressure on policymakers, including Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, by Trump and his administration.

How can you trust an man who only wants to publish good news?

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) wrote,

Foundational to this approach is bringing back the Trump administration’s 2020 Schedule F policy, this time renamed Schedule Policy/Career. This policy would empower this president to dismantle the federal civil service by stripping wide swaths of nonpartisan career experts of their job protections as a precursor to firing and replacing them with partisan ideologues who would pledge their loyalty to the president’s political agenda and follow any order regardless of the consequences.

We have now seen it in action!

So I ask this question: Do you now trust the government unemployment numbers? Do you now trust the inflation numbers? Do you now trust the numbers coming out of the CDC?

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

“A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.”
― Booker T. Washington

"We will not walk in fear one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason."
– Edward R. Murrow

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Friday, August 29, 2025

Mini-Post: Trust

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