shekels wrote: ↑Fri Aug 30, 2019 7:53 am
moda0306 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:41 pm
shekels wrote: ↑Thu Aug 29, 2019 9:12 am
Sorry, the statement came from the last paragraph in a Bloomberg article by Bill Dudley
"There’s even an argument that the election itself falls within the Fed’s purview. After all, Trump’s reelection arguably presents a threat to the U.S. "
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/artic ... nald-trump
So some in the Fed are also Political, So there is one more reason to question their Fiduciary duty to the United States.
Bill Dudley is a senior research scholar at Princeton University’s Center for Economic Policy Studies.
He served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2009 to 2018, and as vice chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee. He was previously chief U.S. economist at Goldman Sachs.
WiseOne,
What do you consider a “very, very long time?” That statement pales in comparison to what was said by broad swaths of “the right” about Obama.
Yes 0bama caught crap from "the right " So does that make the statement OK?
How many in "the right" that held key positions, could crash the economy and then 0bama's Presidency?
I think it's totally reasonable to assess a President as a threat to this country (though I'd like more specifics laid out). I agree that it's a terrible idea to use the deep state to engineer a coup or anything similar. Hence me being an advocate of disassembling the CIA, most of the FBI, vast swaths of the NSA, ICE, DHS, and 2/3 of the military. But what's dangerous is that they have the ability to do so and have done so, not that someone with little power says it out loud.
I don't mind valid assessments of anti-Trump hysteria in certain instances being overblown in the context of modern politics or more crucial issues. What I find ridiculous is folks leaning on the bad arguments and straw-manning the entire "left" as having no valid complaints while simultaneously ignoring the barrage of horse$hit attacks that Obama received... while, of course, he was committing war-crimes, expanding the surveillance state, etc (all of which were valid criticisms, rarely levied by "the right").
Making "the left" into a uniquely duplicitous group, while trying to combine the worst aspects of centrist corporatist war-mongers (Hillary Clinton), radical socialist revolutionaries (Antifa), and hysterical immature feministas into some sort of caricature is utterly ridiculous when juxtaposed against collective behavior of similar wings of "the right." For every AOC there are two Rapey Roy Moore. For every Hillary there is a Jeb. For every antifa nazi-puncher there's a white nationalist planning to shoot up a public locale (if they haven't already).
When AOC has her finger on the button, I'll worry about the soc-dem wing of the Democratic Party taking over. Until then, we have a man-baby with his finger on the button and fascistic police forces (but I repeat myself) at his disposal. Let's be adults and focus on the most powerful and violent powers/institutions in the country and how they should be used or, preferably, disassembled.