bemeruca:


Lol, something he has already done

ono:


Crazy judge.

Middle East Crisis
American Woman Shot and Killed at West Bank Protest
A 26-year-old American woman was fatally shot on Friday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where witnesses said she was taking part in a protest against a settler outpost when Israeli forces opened fire.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/06/world/israel-hamas-gaza-war

IjeBos:


You actually made a great point, probably unbeknownst to you.
Part of the reason interest rates are so high now is because they were kept very low by Trump's bullying of the Fed through his Presidency
Inflation rates were low under Obama because it was necessary since Obama was rescuing the US from a Bush recession.
But why were they low under Trump?
Because he bullied the Fed so that he could have better economic numbers.
But when Covid came, what happened? Interest rates were already so low that the FED lost one of its tools to combat an economic downturn. Hence the use and need of more demand-side stimulus.
Something we can again blame on Trump and the News media doesn't talk enough about.

kkins25:


Where can I verify this claim? unless America has become a shithole like Nigeria, I find it hard to swallow that an American president can bully the almighty FED reserve.

kkins25:


Where can I verify this claim? unless America has become a shithole like Nigeria, I find it hard to swallow that an American president can bully the almighty FED reserve.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday he had the power to fire or demote Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, adding new fuel to his long-running animus toward the central bank’s leader at a moment when the economy was at risk of edging into recession.

Powell announced earlier this month a half-point interest rate cut that shrank the Fed’s key rate to a range of just 1% to 1.25%. It marked the first time the central bank has cut rates between scheduled policy meetings since the 2008 financial crisis. And it’s the steepest rate cut the Fed has made since then.

Yet, the president continued to complain that he was “not happy with the Fed” because it was “following” and “we should be leading.” The president pointed to lower interest rates set by the central banks in Japan and Germany as proof that Powell had not been aggressive enough in bolstering the U.S. economy. Economists, however, say the lower rates reflect the weaker economic outlooks than the U.S. economy.
https://apnews.com/article/2a21e92ed9129e91e713495c9ef50050

IjeBos:


This is how nuts and how ridiculous Trump was. He was arguing that the key rate of 1% was too high.
Trump tried his hardest to turn America into Nigeria. He ran roughshod over every institution.
If he gets a second term he may well succeed.

bemeruca:


that's not him being nuts, that's him being proactive, and he was vindicated in the end. it is why under Biden they don't know what they are doing.

President Donald Trump directly accused Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell of endangering the U.S. economy by raising interest rates, according to The Wall Street Journal.

“I’m just saying this: I’m very unhappy with the Fed because Obama had zero interest rates,” Trump told the Journal on Tuesday. “Every time we do something great, he raises the interest rates.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/24/interest-rates-trump-attacks-fed-chairman-powell-wsj-reports.html

IjeBos:
This may be the one thing that can hurt Harris.

If Israel is this careless that they are killing Americans in the West Bank, I can't imagine what it's like for Palestinians.

happney65:
"The coordinated campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris raised $361 million in August, nearly three times as much as the $130 million collected by the coordinated effort of her Republican rival, Donald Trump, giving her a clear financial edge with two months to go before Election Day, her campaign announced Friday.

Harris’s larger campaign, which boasts hundreds more staff, dozens more offices and a bigger advertising budget than Trump, also ended the month with more cash on hand.

Read more: https://wapo.st/4e8kyzG

IjeBos:


Sit this one out.
1.) The Fed is supposed to be independent.
2.) He was doing this long before Covid.
3.) He was not vindicated.

This was in 2018. Long before Trump started lying that Covid would not be a big deal.

PDPGuy:
Judge Merchan - the judge in Trump’s hush money case - has postponed Trump’s sentencing to November 26.
He says he wants to avoid the appearance of political interference in the election..

bemeruca:


Maybe you don't know the subject or the contents of it.

Because it was embedded in the Inflation Reduction Act.

LordReed:


BS. It was not.

Abegi goan siddon. What do you know apart from stringing BS conspiracies together.

kkins25:


Where can I verify this claim? unless America has become a shithole like Nigeria, I find it hard to swallow that an American president can bully the almighty FED reserve.

bemeruca:


You don't get what's going on. Biden admitted that a couple of days ago.

ono:
Creepy Joe. This one speaks volumes!

LordReed:


Don't tell me, show me.

armyofone:
Comey should have done same to Hillary case at that time despite shaking hands of the "guy" trying to win election by all means.

Now he is no longer a supporter and singing like canary bird how he doesn't like the "guy"

IjeBos:
This may be the one thing that can hurt Harris.

If Israel is this careless that they are killing Americans in the West Bank, I can't imagine what it's like for Palestinians.

LordReed:


How will it hurt her?

Konkoja:
Q: What specific legislation will you commit to to make child care affordable?

Trump: Well, I would do that and we're sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka… But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about that because the child care is, child care couldn't, you know, there's something you have to have it in this country, you have to have it... I want to stay with child care… So we'll take care of it. Thank you

IjeBos:


Some people will stay home or be upset and thus less enthused about Harris's campaign.
A lot of Dems believe in fairness. And what is going on in the Middle East seems unfair.
And nothing adds to that sense when it's just not Palestinian lives that seem to be devalued, but American lives as well.

Netanyahu is doing Biden no favors. And he seems to be using the Presidential election and Biden's fear of ruffling feathers to extract as much as he can from the Middle East.
I want to see if Biden pushes back after the election

LordReed:


Strategic allies of the US get away with all manner. Look at Saudi's involvement in Yemen, what has the US said about it?