Let me get this straight, this is the same court that he defys their order to return a detainee from El Salvador and yet seeks their permission to fire people? Isn't it like having it both ways?
A general strike - like in shutting everything down - could be a wake up call for the dictator and his minions...
If noone do anything against this administration, they will just continue to lead USA down the autocracy path. And that would be a disaster for the world...
I have zero questions, but a statement. With voter suppression of all kinds and money in politics and the electoral college, I submit voters have not had a say in who we elect to the White House for decades. Gore was literally robbed. Blaming the voters is what they want. “It’s not us it’s you.”
The laws are the laws and the voters voted. We can only work with the world as it is, not how we wish it would be. We have immediate problems trying to resist an autocracy disappearing people off the streets, tanking the economy and destabilizing world order. Any help would be appreciated.
Interesting. So to be clear. You will still blame the voters. But yes. In addition to protesting we need to finally curb the voter suppression dog. The SAVE Act needs to fail. Everyone needs to be calling and protesting demanding that. It’s hard to see some voter suppression. This case is clear.
I’m not blaming anyone. I’m just stating a fact. The plurality voted for Trump. It’s not what I wanted but it’s what we got. If you don’t like how voting was handled in the past, just wait. Save Act is just the beginning. Nothing will change until Trump and his cabal lose legitimacy and are removed.
Yeah, we are cooked if the Orange Menace wrests control of the Fed from Powell and the Fed Board. It will be time to put our savings back under the mattresses like the good old days.
i already stopped entertaining those "surely they won't..." thoughts a long time ago, we must proceed as if they can and will do anything it seems like they might do, especially things they've said they wanted to do. These are criminal thugs taken over our government, they don't care about the law
Well, as we have seen, SCOTUS (6/9) have paved the way for autocracy. I doubt this ends well. Welcome to Hungary and destitution as we are literally ruled by lunatics with delusions of grandeur as they rob us and the country blind and sell it for parts.
No. No no no no no. The Fed Reserve is independent FOR A FUCKING REASON! Having the Reserve as a "government bank" was tried and relatively quickly abandoned (twice if I recall - need to look it up). Trump probably wants to do away with the central bank all together and that would be BAD.
Look - one of their primary functions is auditing banks - including shutting them down when they f' up in a "somewhat" orderly fashion. I get that the S&L crash in the 80's feels SO LONG ago - but even the 2008 Mortgage Crisis would have been worse without a Central Bank.
They're banking (HAH) on folks not understanding what the Fed does. Which is true - Macro Economics is either brain meltingly hard or just boring. The fact that you DON'T have to think about walking into a bank a wonder if you can get out your $$ is BECAUSE of the Central Bank enforcing policies.
I feel like I’m in a video game; every time I turn around there’s another explosion or machine gun fire or a bomb 💣 being dropped. We are being overwhelmed by a sick administration.
art 2 sec 4 impeachment is a removal clause
as is
art 1 se 5 cl 2 expel a member.
there is no expressed power or authority of a removal power of the President
ex
"he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons"
"The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies"
I wasn’t aware a president could ask special favors of scotus. It’s unbelievable after how republicans screamed over student loan forgiveness, can’t actually help non billionaires.
Musk is taking over every military contract
Another dictator move from the orange dicktator. Protecting Americans is exactly the opposite of what she is about.
Reject fascism!
Revolution is now!
🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🟧🌍💙
Jay, tremendous job. The best ever—some say that! Thank you for your service. Now go enjoy family, markets, golf—maybe all three! Wall Street’s gain, FED’s loss. Stay winning.
I wonder if the members of #SCOTUS are thinking about how they are setting themselves up for possible deportation in the future if the oligarch administration doesn't like what they are doing?
He wants the leverage so that he can try to force him to lower interest rates.
Which will increase inflation, he is obsessed with high tariffs and low interest rates, part of his frontotemporal dementia (not kidding IMMO)
Yes. He has said all along he thinks a president (really only meaning himself) should have more input re: interest rate cuts. He views Powell as an obstruction to his agenda.
Yes, but.. fast track impeachment, both POTUS and VP.
America would be toast financially, worse than Greece was.
If USA recovers, it will take decades.
GOP needs to be deemed terrorist organization. GOP will be compared to the Confederacy: Failed and strategically weak underestimating it's foe.
Would it be a surprise if he is? Sad fact is the GOP needs to re-find their principles, their courage, and stand up for our Constitution and country. Other sad fact…I’m not hopeful that will happen.
🍊🧀🐡 wants everyone gone who sees him for what he is. Pathetic. Or who are trying to , from the inside, stop his regime. Or who refuse to cower to his toddler tantrums, vengeance, and grievances.
Remember when we didn't have to worry about such ridiculous requests. In the days before the Supreme Court became an extension of Shitler's fascist government?
The Fed is going to have to raise rates this year; he's going to order the Fed to lower them instead, the Fed will refuse and he will fire Powell and install his own slavish apparatchik with the Supreme Court's blessing, at which point the economy and the dollar will completely collapse.
So is the Director of the FBI, but he did it twice. He can try to fire Powell as well, and the Supreme Court will let him. There’s literally a case pending about it right now.
The thing is, if the fed’s independence is destroyed to cut the base rates, the market will significantly increase their spreads over the base rates, due to the systemic risks of a fallen fed.
Consumer and corporate borrowing rates won’t go down.
Next President could then just remove the conservative Sup Court justices. Do it and defy them to do anything about it. We need to take the necessary actions to support democracy.
If you hated America, felt like you've been mistreated and wanted to destroy it, what would you do differently than what Trump is doing? Elected MAGA - got MAPDS: Making America Poorer, Dumber, Sicker.
The Chair’s FOMC vote carries no more weight than the other members except the FOMC body has chosen to evolve that way. It can stop doing that if it desires. Powell’s term as Chair ends just a year and a month from now, I thought Trump would let Powell be so he has someone to blame until then.
I can't believe these words are coming out of my mouth, but our one chance is Powell jacking up interest rates to avoid 1979 style stagflation and we get that until we get rid of trump.
THAT horror show is our one chance. If he fires Powell and installs a toadie that cuts rates, it's over.
Is trump a real person? does he know what a Powell is? Whats wrong with his body and face? Stephen miller and evil Musk rule your country now, trump is just the beautiful head figure that gives 1/3 of americans the power to destroy the world and feel good about it. PS your president is a rapist.🍻🇨🇦
Yes. And he will. The toady he appoints will put the last nail in our economic coffin. Although even Jerome Powell and the Fed probably can’t save the Trump economy.
Yes.Powell said of Paul Volcker:"I don’t think there has been a greater public servant in our lifetimes."
In Oct 1979, Fed Chair Paul Volcker announced new measures aimed at reining in the inflation that'd afflicted the US economy for several years. The interest rate would near 20% at times in 1981.
"R's" in "C" are worried about the midterms - basis of DJT's messaging to R voters but drip by drip DJT is losing & the last straw may come in the form of lost SSA payments. "R' voters" will be living on the street IF that happens.
The U.S. is not Russia !
Mighty Pen that message.
90% will still vote for hm! And between the Berners, anti vaxxers, anti immigrant and genocide Joe folks Dems will lose again…the Republicans are in a cult but Dems are splintered into immature one issue voters who don’t appreciate the major legislation Dems passed when in majority 🙄
💯 agree, it’s maddening. they don’t pay attention to the news until it goes viral and then suddenly it’s the only cause that matters … but they don’t become activists, they don’t want to hear about the other shit that is happening prior to & after the viral thing, & disengage after they get bored
I am not sure it is a dream that will be fulfilled in our lifetimes unless we put our bodies on the line and bleed for it. Even then, it might not be our dream to see fulfilled. Maybe our children, but this darkness is on the rise in nearly every country. Hope is tenuous.
Then the logical answer is to rid the nation of Trump. See, the problem isn’t necessarily a president having some of these powers…the problem is having an insane fucking president! Let’s stop that! Let’s install some safeguards to prevent that from happening every fucking four years!
If tRump is allowed by Alito Supreme Court, it would have the way for the administration to cross the line and interfere with the functioning of the Judiciary.
Or at the very least, one would hope those who've sold out recognize that enjoying ill-gotten gains is logistically challenging amidst a global economic collapse.
I understand the American people voted in republicans control of everything and we saw most of this coming. But WTF, can’t anyone do something? I am sincerely asking. What can be done?
Isn’t all of it worrying? Here’s one, don’t be surprised if they try to eliminate the minimum wage, unions with nation wide right to work, think pre 1929 employment.
I might add the final elimination of the middle class, which businesses and the rich and the wealthy have wanted since the middle
class came into being. Two classes, the rich and the poor.
All laws must be null and void so that Trump is never forced to hear a discouraging word, or a difference of opinion. He's much too fragile to withstand it. ❄️
i always said a second trump term would be horrible than the first because he learned he would have to surround himself with yes men and that’s exactly what he did and corporate america bends the knee and the last guardrail, scotus we all know will fall
It's one more step toward reinterpreting Article II as a Unitary Executive structure. Very dangerous, especially with an aspiring authoritarian in the White House.
Trump is itching to fire Fed Chair Powell so he can drop interest rates on a whim. Potentially disastrous for the US & world economies
He will definitely have Alito’s backing. And where Alito goes Thomas is not far behind. I don’t look for this corrupt court to do its job ever. Until it is the target and Trump announces it’s no longer “necessary” to his grand plan. They are either planning on this or still think they control him.
They will do it, too. Trump is exactly what he is, in the executive, where what he was anticipated by the Founders. The Supreme Court, though, that kind of behavior was not anticipated. It was planned, though, by the Federalist Society. Focus on the USSC and the Federalist Society.
There is no resistance, and never will be, to any of this shite. This will not stop until the great unwashed realize that he’s taking food off their tables. But because they are all so stupid, that could take a long long time.
If he were to fire Powell and take over the fed that would be it. He'd completely destroy the economy. You think the Republicans would stand up to him then?
At some point it will be all that is left, because all the things that were put in place to prevent America falling under the control of a fascist dictator are breaking.
Trump will fire Powell when he doesn’t drop rates bc that would be stupid. He is definitely planning it. And he really won’t care if he’s allowed to or not.
I don’t get it - they’re getting away with everything -no one is trying to stop them, and yet they’re working to get all power. They think ppl are going to rise up. People don’t even want read the news. They won’t do shit until there armed militia in the streets and even then they will do nothing.
SC will grant Trump the power. Trump will fire Powell and replace with loyalist. Interest rates will slashed as Trump has billions in loans. Trump has no issue destroying the country for his own benefit. In fact, he relishes the opportunity.
Nothing being done in the administrations name is safe or legal!
I truly don’t think Americans really grasp how quickly the world is turning on them.
Not even cheap flights will bring us to your country!
They can't just write the fucking story. They have to use words like "proliferate" when talking about govt agencies that WORK FOR the 🇺🇸 ppl, that are often at the forefront of protecting us from literal harm that Trump wants to UNDO so his billionaire buddies can make more cash on the backs of 🇺🇸's.
The 6R political religious cult judges on the SCt have been mealy mouthing their decisions after they granted drumpf immunity; they unsure of the rancor that'll happen when they give him absolute authority - including his next ask - the right to eliminate the Constitution with its restrictions.
Next he’ll challenge the SC about a Presidents limited immunity, stating that it should be total. When they agree, he can dismiss all of them from their jobs. And ta da! We have a king.
When are these Premium Court Justices going to realize they are in danger from this guy? Who's going to be left to protect them when he decides he doesn't need them anymore? Are their jobs going to be obsolete?
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USA, don't you think, it's time to grab the torches and the pitch forks and revolt??
If noone do anything against this administration, they will just continue to lead USA down the autocracy path. And that would be a disaster for the world...
Virtually no checks and balances as Trump weasles around court rulings.
You destroyed the U.S. in a way that even Putin couldn’t dream of
We won’t forget
Signed,
Real U.S. Patriots
You want a constitutional crisis, magats? Bring it!
as is
art 1 se 5 cl 2 expel a member.
there is no expressed power or authority of a removal power of the President
ex
"he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons"
"The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies"
"the express mention of one thing excludes all others.
it is expressed he can fill vacanies
therefore he can not create them
he has no removal power
The longer we wait the more time it will take to fight back to get the America back.
Resist!
All bad.
What we need is people in the streets 24/7 blocking everything.
General public strike and boycott.
Trump chaos is a distraction from Tech Bro $billionaire dismantling of US gov, and democracy ...
moving quickly to further disenfranchise millions of Americans.
https://www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics.html
Musk is taking over every military contract
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-just-killed-5-1-015956256.html
Reject fascism!
Revolution is now!
🌊🇺🇸🇺🇦🌈🟧🌍💙
competent be replaced w/ lackeys
Jay, tremendous job. The best ever—some say that! Thank you for your service. Now go enjoy family, markets, golf—maybe all three! Wall Street’s gain, FED’s loss. Stay winning.
Best,
Donald J. Trump
Which will increase inflation, he is obsessed with high tariffs and low interest rates, part of his frontotemporal dementia (not kidding IMMO)
Given Donald's grasp of economics there's a decent chance he just prints $30tn to pay off the debt. His cult will praise his brilliance.
America would be toast financially, worse than Greece was.
If USA recovers, it will take decades.
GOP needs to be deemed terrorist organization. GOP will be compared to the Confederacy: Failed and strategically weak underestimating it's foe.
Consumer and corporate borrowing rates won’t go down.
THAT horror show is our one chance. If he fires Powell and installs a toadie that cuts rates, it's over.
In Oct 1979, Fed Chair Paul Volcker announced new measures aimed at reining in the inflation that'd afflicted the US economy for several years. The interest rate would near 20% at times in 1981.
“I heard they’re twins.”
“Ah, that makes sense.”
The U.S. is not Russia !
Mighty Pen that message.
Millions of us must put everything on the line. It’s possible bcz we ARE the majority.
A good start: relentlessly pressure Congress in huge numbers. There *may* be some patriots left. Another Liz? Another Adam? More?
Like the whole point is to keep the fed as far away from politics as possible.
trump will be printing and stamping money with his predatory smile on the new money.
Dictators love putting their faces on their money.
Every single Republican from top to bottom is fixated on bringing the American populace, into a white Christian Nationalist hellscape.
Uncle Thomas will be laughing all the way to the bank
Start organizing.
https://www.fiftyfifty.one
https://Indivisible.org
https://Generalstrikeus.com
class came into being. Two classes, the rich and the poor.
Competence seems to be one of the leading reasons for termination.
Yikes!
Trump wants to fire NLRB leaders: We May Revisit This
Trump is itching to fire Fed Chair Powell so he can drop interest rates on a whim. Potentially disastrous for the US & world economies
Autocorrect changed it to weight ball because this bullshit is Roberts trying to look “weighty” instead of crass.
This is what democracy looks like!
I hope they are wrong.
Can we do NOTHING??? Are you just stoking fear ….
I feel more & more helpless & hopeless every fucking day 😡
Probably not, they'd go down with the ship.
At some point it will be all that is left, because all the things that were put in place to prevent America falling under the control of a fascist dictator are breaking.
I truly don’t think Americans really grasp how quickly the world is turning on them.
Not even cheap flights will bring us to your country!
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So what's the point of the law?
https://www.wmur.com/article/trump-supreme-court-independent-agency-board/64434181
https://www.anneapplebaum.com/2023/10/16/autocracy-is-not-inevitable/
(originally published in the Atlantic, but it's paywalled)
1. Request copy of birth certificate via county registrar office
2. File for Passport on line or in person. 6-10 week lag time. You'll also need a Passport photo. Available at CVS and Walgreens.
3. Apply for a Real ID. at the DMV
Is this what the MAGAs voted for ?