May jobs revised down 43,000
May jobs figures were revised down 43,000, compounding the already weak June jobs report.
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The Supercut of Broken Promises and the Counterfactual Propaganda Machine
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The hosts play a supercut of Treasury Secretary Bessant, Commerce Secretary Lutnick, and National Economic Advisor Hassett each confidently promising explosive GDP growth in successive quarters — a chain of broken promises that perfectly mirrors how Ponzi schemers keep investors on the hook with a rotating payoff date. Ben contextualizes this as identical to the Special Purpose Vehicle fraud he prosecuted: the payoff is always just around the corner. Energy Secretary Chris Wright then gets his own clip, claiming that Kamala Harris would have caused mass blackouts if she'd won because the 'climate cult' would have closed coal plants without building alternatives. The hosts identify this as the MAGA propaganda machine's signature move: invent a catastrophic alternative reality and demand gratitude for having avoided it, even when that alternative was purely fictional.
Chris Wright's Counterfactual: 'Kamala Would Have Caused Blackouts'
Energy Secretary Chris Wright told audiences that if Kamala Harris had won, they'd be suffering blackouts right now because the 'climate cult' would have shut down coal plants without building alternatives. The hosts identify this as a signature MAGA propaganda technique: compare reality to an invented worst-case scenario and demand gratitude.
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