The US government provides numbers. Lots of numbers. Numbers on every subject. There are numbers we all know about and some numbers the vast majority of us wonder, “what the heck is THAT all about?” YOU, personally, may never look at any of the numbers – except the weather report, of course. YOU, personally, may have NO IDEA what some of those numbers are, what they mean, or even who might need them. But somebody, somewhere relies upon them.

Somebody, somewhere needs those specific, often obscure numbers. So, somebody, somewhere compiles the numbers into some usable form. An initial number is released but it’s almost always revised as information comes in. Revisions are as common as the sunrise. They’re expected. Sometimes revisions go up, sometimes revisions go down but revisions always happen.

Businesses and industries use the numbers the government produces. They’re used to make projections and decisions. They’re used to spot trends. They can be used to measure successes. They can also be used to measure failure, and THAT is the reason Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of labor statistics, was fired.

Her job was to collect, collate, and report on employment numbers. She did. She reported that in July, only 73,000 jobs were created, well short of the 115,000 jobs expected. Remember, that’s an initial number. It will be revised, which she also did with the numbers for May and June. Her revisions to those two months slashed 258,000 workers that had been reported hired originally, but weren’t.

I’ll tell you the truth, I didn’t understand how the numbers for May and June could have been so glowing in the first place. How can unemployment go down while the government is laying off tens of thousands of workers because Donny doesn’t understand things, and private industries start laying off workers because Donny doesn’t understand things? So I wasn’t surprised the numbers were revised down. But Donny was, because Donny doesn’t understand things.

By now we all know the story, McEntarfer got fired for doing her job well and reporting accurately. That is, telling the truth. But consider this: What does that say about all the other numbers the US government, THIS US “government,” is producing? What happens to a business that creates a three-year plan based on numbers produced by the government? What if those numbers are not based on actual, solid information, but rather, based on what makes 47 happy? What happens to those business projections? What good are they?

This isn’t as big of a problem today as it will be in the near future. But the longer numbers produced by the “government” are massaged to make one orange moron feel better, the less value they have. My guess? McEntarfer is going to be replaced by a “yes-man” toady, someone who LIVES to make Donny happy. Someone who would pluck out his own eyes if Donny told him to, just because Donny told him to. Someone who will definitely and absolutely create glowing, but increasingly useless, jobs reports.

I suspect that in August, the US jobs report will reflect, according to the toady, at least 558,000 new jobs, magically restoring all of the false jobs McEntarfer had revised out. Won’t that be amazing? I mean, no, nobody will actually HAVE any more jobs, but the jobs report will make Donny happy, and isn’t THAT the important part?

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Why did Ghislaine Maxwell get moved to a minimum security prison? She had to get a special waiver to go there, did you know that? She’s not eligible to BE in that prison as a child raper, but there she is. She meets with one of Donny’s useless toadies and shortly thereafter, she gets this plush new “home.” Do you know what I think? I think she’s going to lie. I know, that’s a deep insight. My vision can be uncanny. But that’s what I think…

Meanwhile, STILL no word on release of the Epstein files. Everybody on the planet knows that Donny is working overtime – no, that’s wrong. Donny doesn’t work. He’s FAR too lazy. Donny is having OTHER people work overtime trying to protect his evil name from being associated with the things he has done. It strikes, me, though, that his goal, likely, included protecting other rich and powerful people who ALSO did terrible things to defenseless kids.

I think one of the things that bothers me the most about all of this is that. Rich, powerful men who KNEW they could get away with sexually abusing financially challenged girls. They count it as one of the “privileges” they’ve “earned” by BEING wealthy in the first place. Donny even used that word, “privilege.”

I think a person, or in this case, Donny, who spends so much time trying to protect the rich and powerful from the “great unwashed” doesn’t really, CAN’T really, have the best interests of the work-a-day Joes on his mind. To him, we’re just cannon fodder. We’re just a source of money. Out daughters are his to take – and abuse – because he’s rich. We know he’s not alone. We know other rich men ALSO feel entitled to our daughters, and we KNOW that Donny is doing everything he can to protect the rich, not the victims.

47 says he can’t release the files because there are names of a lot of innocent people in there and they have to be protected. He doesn’t give two figs about the victims. They were, after all, only “poors,” people he and other rich men could buy and use a playthings. They don’t count.

I’ll tell you this: Innocent men don’t have anything to worry about. If one rode on the so-called “Lolita Express,” Epstein’s airplane, from one point to another but didn’t abuse any girls, they would – should – have no objection to anyone knowing they accepted a ride. It’s only the guilty “innocent” men who should be concerned. But they aren’t, because Donny is protecting them.

And why wouldn’t he? He’s one of them. Despite his claims of being a “man of the people,” he’s really only a “man of the rich people” and he’s doing everything in his considerable power to protect them, the rich and powerful, from the masses…