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Until the House impeaches and they convict, their words mean nothing. The Supreme Court was quite clear that the President is above the law, and impeachment is the only remedy. And if anything is impeachable, this is.
Lol, it will be such bullshit if this is the thing that actually brings him down. It will just codify that everything is ok until the money of the rich becomes involved
Then & only then will anything ever get “done”.
This affects their money.
Takes just a few more steps though.
Slowly, with a spoon? Just tap them until they fall off. Might take some weeks, but I'm willing to wait.
Ever seen that video of a guy trying to cook a chicken through slaps via kinetic energy? I'm imagining that.
I suspect we may be seeing more of this. Whether or not it adds up to anything, IDK. Trump is fucking up business with his dipshit moves like tariffs and attacking Powell.
No rich person in the US likes tariffs, they also don't like economic instability and inflation. Trump putting in a crony that lowers the interest rates to -1% will cause severe problems in the economy.
Powell has by and large been pretty competent in his job. He was perhaps a bit slow on lowering interest rates but not in an indefensible manner.
He wasn't slow on lowering interest rates, he was slow to raise them. Back under Biden they should have raised rates faster to offset the rising inflation.
However, under Trump there isn't any evidence yet that rates should be lower. In fact the Fed board has been split on raise/lower/hold rates, due to persistent inflation (due to tariffs and crazy economic policy) and a slowing economy (due to tarrifs and crazy economic policy). Basically, with an admin dead set on ruining the economy, doing anything with the rates seems likely to just accelerate things from bad to worse.
If there were any remaining doubt whether advisers within the Trump Administration are actively pushing to end the independence of the Federal Reserve, there should now be none. It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question.
This dipshit thinks there's a question about whether the DOJ is independent?
The message: "don't fuck wit da conomy".
Yeah, this.
Some press statements and hand wringing, no action.
So that means they'll impeach him, right? Right?
while we disagree with him in this matter we think he's doing such good elsewhere there's no way we could impeach him or vote to remove him from office - - insert gop congress member (and maybe some dems)
Oh wow this is what did it? Not the unconstitutional secret police? Not the murder on broad daylight? They weren’t mad when this was done to the nlrb
Yep! It could affect their money. So, now its a problem.
Fine. Just flush Shitler
I more wish he was slowly and painfully tortured to death, but a flush would be a satisfactory compromise
They might as well just say “thought and prayers for Jerome Powell”
Do something to stop it or stfu
They listed like 3 GOP-ers, which might be more than those who broke with him on the Epstein files. Anyone recall?