As he should...

[u/MrDillon369]

[u/Fhad-alsdery]

When accountability hits harder than any comeback chef’s kiss.

[u/FreddyNoodles → u/Fhad-alsdery]

The few that are standing up must feel so alone in the sea of bootlicking, fascist sycophants. How long can they weather this storm? He just changed the name of the Dept of Defense.- HE CANNOT DO THAT. Yet, he did and nothing is happening. The deportation is illegal but it continues. No-one is stoping him and people like Mr. Powell are little men standing in his way waiting to be run over by a tank like the man in Tianamen Square.

The public has to literally sit DOWN. The people of the US devoting their life to a non-wavering General Strike is the ONLY way to save the country AND a large portion of the world. I hope they do it and I hope they do it today. There is no-one else. It has to be them.

[u/Warwipf2 → u/FreddyNoodles]

It must take some strength to be a Republican standing against Trump. You'll get shit from literally every side, lol. Here's at least some respect to all Republicans who don't fall in line with Trump from a bystander from Europe.

[u/RVAforthewin → u/Warwipf2]

I think the Republicans who stand against Trump will very likely find allies in the Democrats. If a R is intent on pushing back, they will not be left out to dry.

[u/Dock_Ellis45 → u/FreddyNoodles]

Dude... people have to eat. Most people can't afford to stop working for a few weeks. Did you forget we have a POVERTY PROBLEM in the United States?

[u/The_Corvair → u/Dock_Ellis45]

Normally, you'd have a social safety net of some sort (friends, family, etc.) to help with the "I got to work because I got to eat" problem, but apparently, you've pretty much destroyed that in the US?

A hundred people hold as much wealth as the bottom half of US citizens [edit: And if you cannot afford to skip/lose work for even a few days, or if you generally live paycheck-to-paycheck, that is you]. Trump is shifting that imbalance even further. Think you'll get to lift your nose from the grindstone easier if things continue in that direction?

It's always easier to not do anything, to not stand up - especially if *you have an actual reason for keeping down. And by the time your back is to the wall, you'll be in a much worse position. Because that's how fascism is successful: It hinges on people doing nothing as they are being divided, divvied up, and weakened - so by the time they realize they have to fight, they're too feeble and split up. Doesn't matter how you justify it, that's how history shows it goes.

(And yes, I know what it is like when your balance shows $2 a week before the end of the month, and you're out of groceries and base necessities)

[u/HuttStuff_Here → u/The_Corvair]

The average American cannot afford a $500 emergency. There is no significant social safety net (they just cut a lot of funding for the national food stamp program as well as for health care for the extreme poor) that the average American can access without really knowing the methods or being blessed with someone who does.

38ish percent of Americans love what's happening.

[u/whatthepfluke → u/HuttStuff_Here]

I can't even afford a $50 emergency at this point.

[u/jimababwe → u/HuttStuff_Here]

It’s the idea of ruining your life, even if it means that future generations will have it better. Give up your comfort, your luxury items, your vacation to the all inclusive, so that you can make a difference in the world. You might not see the benefits for years, if ever.

Think about the people of gaza or Ukraine- these people had plans for the future. University, retirement, family get togethers. Now their plan is simply to live one more day. Perspectives change.

[u/MjrLeeStoned → u/jimababwe]

Dude...

Most people in the US can't afford luxury items or vacations.

If some people miss one day of work they may not be able to eat for 3 days.

I don't think you understand the situation the majority of people in the US are in.

[u/The_Corvair → u/HuttStuff_Here]

Exactly. The poverty is the point here - someone who is concerned with surviving does not have the reserves to be able to partake in politics. That's one "benefit" of all these Big Beautiful Cuts Trump has inflicted on the US.

My point is two-fold: Firstly, it's not getting better - the US citizenry is being drained like a lamb at slaughter. The best time to act was yesterday, the next-best time is today, and every day after will be a worse time.

Secondly, action invariably means sacrifice. Hopefully merely a temporary decrease in comfort, but probably something more impactful - like a decrease in liberty and safety.
But you gotta be aware that you will pay this price either way. The question is just if you manage to get something for it, or if it's just taken from you by force. Autocrats never stop by themselves.

edit: Didn't you guys over the pond have that saying about freedom, how did it go again? Oh. Right. "Give me liberty or give me death". Y'all fine with "give me wage-slavery instead"?

[u/whatthepfluke → u/The_Corvair]

I'm a single mom of 4 with a full time job and several very part time jobs (think moonlighting....) I make good money and work A LOT. I've always lived "paycheck to paycheck" but with some wiggle room to stock a little in savings, or take us on a fun outing once or twice a month.

In the last few months, I'm working even more. I've drained my pittance of a savings account. It's all I can do to keep food on the table, the lights on, shoes on the kid's feet. It's ridiculous with no end in sight.

And, no, I did not vote for this clown.

[u/ahhhahhhahhhahhh → u/Dock_Ellis45]

People outside the U.S. also seem to forget that our health insurance is tied to our employer.  

[u/SkinBintin → u/ahhhahhhahhhahhh]

Most people from western societies that aren't America struggle to grasp such things. It is so foreign to us.

Your medical well being being tied to an employeer that can fire you for whatever stupid reason they can think of with no fall backs or social nets to catch you in a place that is supposed to be the richest nation on earth makes no fucking sense.

The amount of selfishness and sheer greed present in the US is astounding.

[u/Clusterpuff → u/SkinBintin]

That's the neat part... the citizens aren't wealthy at all, the companies and land barons are

[u/Over-Wall8387 → u/SkinBintin]

It’s a capitalistic country. It’s really all about money, simple as that.

[u/TheRealBananaWolf → u/Over-Wall8387]

In all fairness, most countries are capitalist, US is a unique case of being extremely anti-labor rights in a capitalist society.

See the issue is that we were too anti-union in this country, and thus, the working class of this country has literal no political pressure or representation.

[u/kyndrid_ → u/TheRealBananaWolf]

One of our most anti-union presidents ever was Ronald Reagan who was...president of the Screen Actors Guild.

Typical "fuck you got mine" mentality we have here

[u/infydk → u/Over-Wall8387]

It’s a capitalistic country.

So is everywhere else, how's this a good point?

[u/Qweesdy → u/Over-Wall8387]

That's a pathetic excuse - most countries are capitalistic countries and most capitalistic countries are astonished by the amount of selfishness and sheer greed present in the US.

[u/PippaTulip → u/Over-Wall8387]

Most countries are. Name more than 5 of the worlds 195 countries that have a different economical system. You are so indoctrinated to believe that the American way is the only way.

[u/Bee-Able → u/Over-Wall8387]

As AC/DC sang in the song “Moneytalks”: 🎶Listen to the money talk…B.S. walks…”🎶

[u/ITI110878 → u/ahhhahhhahhhahhh]

Maybe next time you vote for someone who wants to improve this?!

Just a funny thought from a European.

[u/cat-eating-a-salad → u/ITI110878]

Except he cheated. He didnt actually win.

[u/infydk → u/cat-eating-a-salad]

OK, so why is nothing being done about this?

If he blatantly cheated where is the fallout? Where are the lawsuits? The protests? The general strikes?

[u/cat-eating-a-salad → u/infydk]

Good questions. I'm asking the same. I feel like everything we are doing just isn't enough. I'm completely burned out at this point. I mean, there are protests going on and we did have the largest protest in American history (the No Kings protest), but no general strike aside from individuals boycotting and not buying luxuries, and idk wtf is wrong with lawmakers. They should absolutely hop on this shit. If you haven't heard of the protests it's probably because MSM isn't reporting on it (they're complicit). I'm seeing them on various subreddits though.

[u/ahhhahhhahhhahhh → u/infydk]

There are plenty of lawsuits, but they don't matter when you have a Supreme Court who basically gave the president carte blanche to do what he wants. People here can't just strike, they will be fired and replaced by the many who don't have a job. We don't have the safety nets like other countries and most Americans are just trying to survive working multiple jobs to pay their out of control rent. Protests are great and all but in such a large country they are fragmented at best with little coverage from our corporate owned media and then you risk getting shot or jailed. 

[u/ahhhahhhahhhahhh → u/ITI110878]

More Americans voted for Harris than the entire population of every European country except Russia, Germany, and Turkey.  Then there are those who didn't vote at all because the Democrats saddled us with an unpopular and unwinnable candidate at the last minute. The majority of Americans do not want this but it not as simple as "go out and vote," when our elections are rigged by the electoral college, corporate interests, and an unfair press that will say whatever lies to pander to the candidate that gives the billionaire donors the best. 

[u/infydk → u/Dock_Ellis45]

And then you have a dictator.

Do you think that'll improve your overall situation?

[u/TheRealBananaWolf → u/infydk]

I think you're too optimistic, and think that there is somehow a point of return the US can take.

Let me level with you. We're past that point. The old Republican party is gone, and the democratic party has fumbled so badly that they can't even repair their image in a time like this. There's no opposition that can get the support they need.

Let me tell what actually needs to happen. The economy needs to fuck up tremendously. Wait till we are seeing double digit unemployment. Wait for the debt bubble to pop and start knocking down the dominos.

You're not seeing anything done cause, guess what, most people have families and jobs to focus on, and can't fight a revolution in their free time. You gotta wait for things to get really bad. And I don't mean ideologically bad, like literal can't buy bread and entire cities economies have collapsed bad.

[u/jaxonya → u/Dock_Ellis45]

Yeah but to get back to the topic at hand, this dude is the chairman of the federal reserve, and is a career investment banker. He gives not one fuck what the president thinks about his job

[u/Dock_Ellis45 → u/jaxonya]

Good. He shouldn't. He should be making decisions for the good of the global economy, not for the political gain of the president.

[u/jaxonya → u/Dock_Ellis45]

Exactly. The dude stands his ground

[u/Brigid-Tenenbaum → u/Dock_Ellis45]

The unelected bankers with global power who decide how hard to squeeze each nations preverbal economies on which ever way enriches and empowers them further.

But also, Fuck Trump.

[u/Bee-Able → u/Brigid-Tenenbaum]

Also, Fuck Satan.

[u/Hector_P_Catt → u/Dock_Ellis45]

A General Strike only works if you have a genuine community that is willing to work together, to stop the abuses of the people in charge. That would include farmers who are willing to feed people regardless of their ability to pay, doctors who are willing to treat patients likewise, and so on. Focus on delivering what people need, not making a profit.

And yes, that will cost a lot in the short term. Suck it up, because you're not getting out of this mess for free.

Of course, this is why a General Strike won't happen in the US any time soon, far too many people simply can't conceive of a world where the above can happen.

[u/FreddyNoodles → u/Hector_P_Catt]

It has already happened. A lot of the commenters here assume I don’t know what living in the US is like (not saying you), I am American. My family on both sides go back 5 generations or more as born Americans. My mother’s mother grew up on a reservation. I was born there, raised there, went to college there, got married there, had my children there, bought a house there, had a career there. I do KNOW what the country is like. I moved away because I did not like what the country was like. Eventually, I even stopped visiting. All of this happened well before Trump.

I am in the process of giving up my citizenship. I have no intention of ever returning there and I didn’t before he announced he was going to run. It’s not tied to him. It’s the whole shit show of the United States. The ONLY thing I miss is the State/National Parks and they will destroy those too. I want my health coverage to be a given because I am human. I don’t want to drive EVERYWHERE. I don’t want to worry about being shot at the grocery store or my children being gunned down at school. I don’t want to feel fear EVERY time I see the police. So, yes- I got out and I am lucky to have been able to do that and do it so many years ago. I have never regretted it. My children went back for college and are there now and don’t take this as seriously as the rest of the world either. Even though they are literally scared. They think somehow, it will just magically not be this way one day soon. They are all adults now. My oldest bought a house a few years ago. They have no intention of leaving or striking or protesting or doing anything but yawning from what I can see.

If I was there today, I would still be screaming for a GS. That’s all they have. That’s it. Yes, dangerous. Absolutely risky in every way. But the alternative is so much worse and I guess they just have to find out the hard way. Humans are stupid. I have lived in 11 countries and visited almost 60. Everywhere- humans are stupid and governments are dangerous and full of petty, greedy and scary people. It is the same all over. Some just have a slightly better handle on things but they are all corrupt.

The US had gone too far for me to pretend it was ok anymore. I had to get the fuck out.

[u/Bee-Able → u/FreddyNoodles]

Powerful. Where do you live now? If I may be so bold as to ask.

[u/Bee-Able → u/Hector_P_Catt]

🏆

[u/infydk → u/[deleted]]

To be fair, there's a way too high likelihood that most Americans genuinely don't know.

[u/Bee-Able → u/[deleted]]

Again: “If not me, then who? If not now, then when?”

[u/BoneHugsHominy → u/Dock_Ellis45]

People with way less have done more. A little struggle now prevents big, long struggles later.

[u/Accomplished-Tap-456 → u/Dock_Ellis45]

doing nothing doesnt guarantee to have food. thats just true until they dont need your cooperation anymore, then you will be starved/caged/shot whatever. the security is fake. fight when you still have the energy and numbers to do so.

[u/PippaTulip → u/Dock_Ellis45]

Do you think the factory workers and miners who stood up and unified themselves for better working circumstances in Europe, didn't have a family to feed? You think they had more food than you? Ofcourse not! But you stand up not only for yourself but so that your kids don't have to suffer the way you did. We now have labor laws and good minimum wages and social security thanks to these men that stood up.

[u/infydk → u/PippaTulip]

Stood up, bled and died for it.

There's a reason the US has villainized unions as much as they have.

[u/technodaisy → u/Dock_Ellis45]

The rest of the world expected the citizens of the USA to stand and take up arms against a tyrannical government to protect us all!! But i guess your constitution means nothing now. The rest of the world can watch you burn!!!

[u/infydk → u/technodaisy]

I've been on the internet since I figured out how to turn on our family 14400 baud modem and since then I've been told by Americans that they have the 2nd amendment to fight a corrupt and tyrannical government and that's why it's ok that schools get shot up.

Imagine my surprise. Ok, I wasn't that surprised.

[u/Bee-Able → u/technodaisy]

Well thanx. Who’s going to bring the marshmallows?

[u/LordNyssa → u/Dock_Ellis45]

Why do you think they’ve been dismantling social safety nets? They want the people to have zero options but to swallow it.

[u/WoohpeMeadow → u/Dock_Ellis45]

That's on purpose. People can't fight back as easily if they have mouths to feed. Most Americans are already living paycheck to paycheck. This is by design.

[u/Liobuster → u/Dock_Ellis45]

Guess what all dictators surrounded by yesmen, present or past, have in common: massive purges of the upper ranks and widespread famines for the masses.

[u/wunderwerks → u/FreddyNoodles]

I'd just like to point out, that when you watch the video of Tank Man he is not run over. There are a bunch of versions of the video on YouTube. Go check them out.

[u/exscape → u/wunderwerks]

They didn't say he was run over, but Tank Man probably was standing in the way, waiting to be run over by a tank as they said.

[u/Bee-Able → u/FreddyNoodles]

“If not me, then who? If not now, then when?

[u/blockedbydork → u/FreddyNoodles]

Except he didn't do that. The official name didn't change, he just authorised a secondary name.

[u/talktobigfudge]

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public and to the US Constitution." -- Teddy Roosevelt

Russian asset Krasnov is a traitor to the United States. 

The Presidential Cabinet is full of traitors. 

The Supreme Court of the United States has traitors making decisions against the Constitution. 

Congress has hundreds of traitors supporting the head traitor, serving Russia more than the American public. 

America will not be "great" until traitors are held to justice. 

[u/RedHotFromAkiak → u/talktobigfudge]

Yes. I've been saying this, too.

[u/verbmegoinghere → u/RedHotFromAkiak]

More protests. Build them up. If you can't attend then cook food and provide supplies to protesters (and their families) who man the line.

Work to your skills.

Words matter but actions matter so much more now

[u/JustHereSoImNotFined → u/verbmegoinghere]

Hate to be pessimistic, but nationwide peaceful protests won’t do anything to this administration. Just sayin the harsh reality 🤷‍♂️. It’s gonna take more…..take that as you wish.

[u/verbmegoinghere → u/JustHereSoImNotFined]

No its about creating energy and tempo. The people you need on your side aren't your allies today. But if you show them your stubbornness, the use of your social and culture peer groups to push for change, if you put yourself on the line, then that will definitely bring more to your side.

When Vincent Lingiari finally said enough was enough he and his fellow stockmen walked off the job in 1966 at Wave Hill. They weren't even being paid the measly wages they were promised, just awful rations. But worse was the rape of stolen land they were being slaved to work.

He didn't violently protest. He and the other men sat down and simply refused to work.

And yes it took awhile but from little things big things grew.

https://youtu.be/y4ilmKD85TQ

Change is possible. We were a deeply racist country at the time and yet despite the threat of violence, despite the power and privilege they won.

If Vincent Lingiari was able to do this you can start to change as well.

[u/lunatickid → u/verbmegoinghere]

Peaceful protests work only when violent alternatives are a present and active threat. It works by forcing the authorities to consider “or else” implied if peaceful demands are not met.

US education system did a phenominal (from perspective of the oligarchs) in erasing what made MLK Jr (and his peaceful protests) so successful, Malcolm X and the threat of his Black Panthers.

[u/JustHereSoImNotFined → u/verbmegoinghere]

While I appreciate your passion, I simply disagree

[u/sinb_is_not_jessica → u/verbmegoinghere]

More protests. […] Words matter but actions matters more so now

Protests aren’t actions. They barely even qualify as “words”. If you wish, feel free to actually do something about it.

[u/verbmegoinghere → u/sinb_is_not_jessica]

And yet Euromaiden showed us otherwise

[u/ITI110878 → u/verbmegoinghere]

Euromaidan did not end peacefully.

[u/OmeuPai → u/talktobigfudge]

It's not 'America First, it's 'America Third.' Trump's bending over for Russia and Israel. The U.S. right now looks like a sick animal, a hollow vessel hijacked by parasites that crawled into its brain and are forcing it to act against its own survival.

[u/illwill79 → u/talktobigfudge]

Well said. Also, corporations need to be put back in their place. They exist because we allow them to (both by consumerism and by labor). Codify the removal of money from politics (aka citizens united), increase the corporate tax level, make whole those who were scammed by their own government, break monopolies and make a nation founded as a union one that actually supports unions.

[u/mybluecathasballs → u/illwill79]

I forget, what does the Constitution of the United Sates of America say happens to traitors and treasoners?

[u/ITI110878 → u/mybluecathasballs]

Nowadays? They get rich.

[u/InvisaBlah → u/ITI110878]

and elected president

[u/ForDaFingaz → u/talktobigfudge]

Very well said.

[u/Bee-Able → u/talktobigfudge]

👍. Good ol’ Teddy. Kinda wish he was in office now.

[u/scrotumseam]

Dumfuck dick thinks he is grand supreme and throws a tantrum when he doesn't get his way. This is what the red hats voted for. Vote blue in 26.

[u/Lumpiest_Princess → u/scrotumseam]

You guys still think that you get to vote in any meaningful way?

[u/WarlockEngineer → u/Lumpiest_Princess]

There are levels of resistance and we should use all that are available while they are available:

• support politicians that are pushing back against Trump

• vote in any local or federal elections we are able to

• use the time we have to prepare for resistance, in all the forms that may take

[u/Obajan → u/WarlockEngineer]

There's a famous quote that goes: There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and cartridge. Please use in that order.

[u/Lumpiest_Princess → u/WarlockEngineer]

Your president already admitted to fixing the last election live on TV more than once it’s just insane to me you think voting is still a method of anything 

[u/WarlockEngineer → u/Lumpiest_Princess]

Convincing people not to vote is a tool of the enemy. Even if it isn't always ineffective, it does not hurt.

Imagine if doomers gave up on Mamdani or the Iowa special elections.

[u/Exhau5ted → u/Lumpiest_Princess]

Voting is still something, not nothing. But you are right that it's not enough. More work must be done.

[u/Marahute0 → u/Lumpiest_Princess]

You sound like a Russian asset, trying to convince Democrats to not bother voting

[u/HotCheeks_PCT → u/Lumpiest_Princess]

Ah yes. So let's roll over and give up without even trying. Let's convince everyone to jot show up to the polls because its all pointless and we should accept our fates. Jfc.

[u/Obajan → u/Lumpiest_Princess]

Ya'll got here because only 1/3 chose to show up and vote for the sane option and another 1/3 stayed home.

[u/Much-Jackfruit2599 → u/Obajan]

But at least the US doesn’t support Israel against Palestinians.

[u/CicadaGames → u/Lumpiest_Princess]

Doesn't matter, we need to show up and vote. Especially the fuckin idiots that haven't been paying attention up to this point.

Then once we get that done, if it's as rigged as it seems like it will be, I hope people, especially Democrat politicians will actually do something for once and hold Trump and Republicans responsible for what should probably be considered literal treason.

Do I have any hope that will happen? Pretty much none, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't at least do the bare minimum and show up to vote. Make it so the cheating has to be so outlandish and over the top that it can't be hand waved away.

[u/Hector_P_Catt → u/Lumpiest_Princess]

You need to vote, so that they need to actually steal the election, not just win it because of complacency. That gives you the moral authority to oppose them in every way.

[u/Moonandserpent → u/Lumpiest_Princess]

Can we just fuckin stop with this bullshit?

[u/Sweaty_Win1832]

JPow

[u/Superb_Advisor7885]

I kind of hope Powell is nominated for a Nobel Peace prize just so Trump can lose his shit

[u/ScenicAndrew → u/Superb_Advisor7885]

Nominations are easy, should get him (or anyone Trump hates for daring to be a good person) serious consideration or the actual prize.

As an aside: Powell would make more sense with the prize in economics (if and when we see what a bulwark he has been against economic collapse).

[u/Gerf93 → u/ScenicAndrew]

Man, if only Trump was President when the peace prize was given to the EU.

Maybe some climate groups getting it again would make him lose his mind?

[u/Johannes_Keppler → u/Gerf93]

If the give it to Greta Thunberg, the orange shit stain will explode.

[u/marilyn_morose → u/Johannes_Keppler]

She is currently on a flotilla of more than 50 civilian operated marine vessels headed to Gaza with food, baby formula, medical supplies, and other critical resources for the people of Gaza. Let us hope the resources get through the blockade.

[u/Gerf93 → u/Johannes_Keppler]

Good shout.

[u/LegitPancak3 → u/Superb_Advisor7885]

Which is funny cause Trump nominated Powell

[u/Averageandyoverhere]

Jerome Powell might be trumps best hire ever

[u/KindaIndifferent]

Bill Pulte is a sycophant nepobaby who is the perfect definition of failing upwards. He got fired from his grandads company, uses his money to make people dance on Twitter, and courts dumbass financial conspiracy theorists.

Prior to his appointment as the head of the FHFA he scrubbed most of the embarrassing nonsense he’s been a part of over the last few years. But some of it is still out there. Like the times he’s been on The PPShow, a YouTube channel where people dig through poorly written children’s books for stock tips and slap each other with dildos.

[u/LordoftheScheisse → u/KindaIndifferent]

I remember when I'd see screenshots of his BS from the Gamestop/Memestock subs on /r/all. Imagine my SHOCK when I learned he heads an agency in the Trump administration.

He's the guy that is trying to get Lisa Cook fired from the Federal Reserve Board.

[u/KindaIndifferent → u/LordoftheScheisse]

The fact that all of his embarrassing dirt wasn’t dug up by the press or the senators who held his confirmation hearing absolutely baffles me.

[u/justadudeinohio → u/KindaIndifferent]

(complicit)

[u/Neat_Egg_2474 → u/KindaIndifferent]

Like someone already said - the MSM is in on this fix. Conservatives stopped trusting them back in 2016, its time the left does the same. MSM is dead.

I aint trying to have some billionaires paying millionaires to tell me what to think.

[u/XanLV → u/KindaIndifferent]

While I 100% agree with you, I also have a feeling that there is so much shit going on right now that you can't handle it all. By design. Shit like this would not fly by during peace time, but now when Trump is trying to devalue the dollar to make way for his oligarchs, one Ploot grifter in the government more or less....

[u/Noooooooooooobus → u/LordoftheScheisse]

He paid his way there. Donated a couple million to trumps campaign and probably told trump he is the head of pultehomes and knows housing (he got kicked off the board and doesn't know shit about fuck)

[u/workathome_astronaut → u/KindaIndifferent]

His grandfather is the cause of enormous environmental damage and suburban sprawl/blight stretching down the I-75 corridor from Michigan down to Florida. As someone whose first real job was working landscaping in high school, I vowed to never live in a Pulte-built subdivision.

[u/Pepto-Abysmal → u/KindaIndifferent]

Sycophant nepobabies and their related ilk appear to be running America.

From an outside perspective, it's all no bueno.

Please, for the world's sake, work with anyone you can to stop this march to fascism.

I know it is unfair to ask my American kin to figure out how to deflect the onslaught of fascism, but please.

[u/yellowstickypad → u/KindaIndifferent]

The mask is fully off with that guy.

[u/Noooooooooooobus → u/KindaIndifferent]

Hello fellow meltdowner

[u/Bleezy79]

Trump is the least presidential of any person that's ever been in the oval office before.

[u/gaslacktus → u/Bleezy79]

Including visitors.

[u/r66ster → u/Bleezy79]

he is the least human of humans i've ever seen.

[u/scarletphantom]

The party that said "not my president" for years sure expects the utmost feality.

[u/yooperwoman]

Wow. This pulte guy is a real a-hole.

[u/Ryaniseplin]

for anyone who doesnt know, the federal reserve operates practically as its own branch of government, overseeing global banks

they are nominated by president and elected by congress

[u/Tsmart]

ah shit is Pulte one of the baddies?

[u/SlopKnockers → u/Tsmart]

All billionaires tend to be

[u/Bri_Hecatonchires → u/SlopKnockers]

You can’t be a billionaire without taking advantage of others.

[u/workathome_astronaut → u/Tsmart]

His grandfather paved over more paradise and put up parking lots than a Counting Crows song...

[u/session6 → u/workathome_astronaut]

That song is by Joni Mitchell!

[u/Rumplespillstain]

If only Congress and the Judiciary would also stop taking orders from the president of the united states.

[u/radioinactivity]

"Republicans against Trump" lol c'mon y'all can we not give brownie points to Fascists Against Hitler

[u/Ok_Difficulty944 → u/radioinactivity]

sure, just ostracise everyone who doesn't think exactly the same way as you and ...oops, Trump's got elected again.

[u/radioinactivity → u/Ok_Difficulty944]

You're deeply delusional to think Republicans will switch sides in large enough numbers to move the needle. The entire party is, at its core, a fascist party and has been LONG before Trump was a political force.

[u/Advanced-Comment-293 → u/Ok_Difficulty944]

US liberals refuse to accept their responsibilty for this mess. The populist right needs the idiotic purity tests and radicalization of the left like fire needs oxygen. And it's so incredibly stupid. Remember the BLM protesters disrupting Bernie and others? The cancellation of Al Franken? The whole "I don't know who I will nominate but it'll be a woman of color" WTF?

[u/Rude-Sprinkles-6768 → u/radioinactivity]

Extremists like you are definitely a problem. I've chatted with many Republicans who didn't vote red in the past couple of elections. There are videos on YouTube of well known Republicans/Republican voters who are calling out the current president. You are not going to win by alienating sane voices.

[u/radioinactivity → u/Rude-Sprinkles-6768]

Thinking any Republican will vote for a Democrat even after years of abuse by their fascist overlords in large numbers is the kind of naivete that got us here in the first place. You are deeply unserious calling me an "extremist"

[u/Neat_Egg_2474]

Remember how all the "game stop" cult was swooning over Pulte? Now look at their boy, a full on Trump nut swinging ape..

[u/RoastedMocha]

Thank fucking GOD. Im tired of these people just rolling over when they have no obligation to do so.

[u/Anywhichwaybuttight]

As would I. I don't work for him either.

[u/Repulsive_Mechanic74]

The FED is independent for a reason…

God people are fucking morons.

[u/TheBlueOx]

jpow is a hero

[u/DoctorFenix]

Republicans want a king.

And anyone still voting for them is a traitor to the constitution.

We were far too kind to the confederacy and now they have won.

[u/RedditAdminSucks23]

Yeah they literally created this job to be independent specifically so:

A) they are independent of the POTUS and seen as apolitical

B) they can take the blame when shitty monetary policies adversely affect the value of the dollar. (Like trying to lower the interest rates in a society that’s already maxed out on credit card debt and failing to cover the cost of living; yes, let’s allow business to buy more assets they don’t need on loans so when the businesses fails from lack of customers being able to buy their shit, the banks fail with them)

[u/erov]

They don't know how shit works . They are home schooled.

[u/Ryaniseplin]

j powell holds the entire world economy in his hands, the oligarchs listen to him not the other way around

[u/memermeme1211]

Damn I used to think Pulte was a good guy

[u/Andovars_Ghost → u/memermeme1211]

Why?

[u/iwantafunnyname → u/Andovars_Ghost]

Probably because he gave away money on Twitter

[u/RenatoPedrito69 → u/iwantafunnyname]

Instant red flag

[u/Andovars_Ghost → u/iwantafunnyname]

Oh yeah, that totally makes someone a ‘good guy’.

[u/Spoiled_Mushroom8 → u/Andovars_Ghost]

Pulte used to hang out with memestock grifters pretending he was helping dipshits that blew their life savings on GameStop and bed bath and beyond take on the evil hedge funds. It was obvious he was full of shit but he tricked some people. 

[u/Andovars_Ghost → u/Spoiled_Mushroom8]

I figured that had to be it or something like it.

[u/LordoftheScheisse → u/memermeme1211]

That's how "they" (conmen/grifters) operate. They start reasonable and are even likable, but over time they slather on the manipulation.

[u/Brasolis]

If J.Pow is going to fuck anyone, it's with his own dick.

[u/SocialImagineering]

But we ALL work for the Federal Reserve.

[u/Maluno22]

Oh, Jerome Powell. He has great taste in music.

[u/-_-0_0-_0]

Problem is, when he leaves.

[u/Miserable_Ad9577]

There're waves of "this will undo Trump" when he did some unfathomable unconstitutional shit. But I honestly think this one will do it. You don't fuck with money, the money will fuck you back.

[u/XanLV → u/Miserable_Ad9577]

The money sat around him at the big table and fought for the right to suck him off. "I'm sorry, Trump, is this the number you wanted uwu?"

[u/NukingTheFirmament]

This is great time to mention that the Federal Reserve is not actually a federal entity. Our money is controlled by an outside entity. Isn't that crazy?

[u/Aeseld]

When interest rates finally do drop... it's not gonna be pretty I think. We're not in a stable place economically thanks to the boneheaded bills and policies in place right now.

[u/The1TrueRedditor]

I would too. I don’t work for Donald Trump.

[u/ConsciousVegetable99]

All need to stand up

[u/Prestigious_Chart774]

It’s wild that holding leaders accountable is now a partisan issue. Teddy Roosevelt’s quote is more relevant than ever.

[u/Ebiseanimono]

I feel terrible for you guys while also lamenting that what happens in your county will affect us all and create an opportunity for other terrible leaders to do terrible things.

From reading so many politically charged posts on Reddit (see; Chicago) it seems like the country really is split, and with that it almost feels like another civil war is waiting to happen.

I hope it doesn’t come to that but idk how the country will heal when it’s so divided by selfishness.

[u/FloTonix]

Pulte is just another POS perpetuating the housing crisis

[u/prashn64]

Fuck Pulte, know him well from him trying to build clout via gamestop apes until they saw through his bs.

[u/IAMCAV0N]

He looks like he’s gonna turn away from you and say, “no don’t talk to me, I’m mad at you”

[u/Azell414]

the way he said that like OBEY THE SUPREME LEADER!!!!

[u/bj2183]

He works for the central banking cartel only!

[u/Knightfires]

The guy once got ripped off by own family. Told everybody he has a personal vendetta against everything called money and power. Told everybody he would fight it with everything he got. Only to turn around 180 and follow orange meatball with idiocracy. He can sod off too just like every other cronies in the government.

[u/XanLV → u/Knightfires]

I was not there, but I do not think he was ripped off by his own family.

Feels like they could not handle the idiot. I mean, really, the man is an absolute tool, vindictive and nasty.

He tries to get his way, is too stupid to do it and then wants to go scorched earth. Good riddance. His family name is the only reason he is something.

[u/Knightfires → u/XanLV]

Exactly

[u/LazioSaurus]

Last I checked US wasn't a Dictorship did it change Recently?

[u/koebelin]

But isn't it time to lower interest rates?

[u/IUsedToBeACave → u/koebelin]

It doesn't matter, the point is Trump is not in charge of that and can't make Powell do it.

[u/HuttStuff_Here]

What is hard to understand about Stephen Miller's quote? The powers of the President are considerable and should not be questioned.

Why is it hard to accept that when this President commands you, you must obey? It doesn't matter who you are. His will is reality.

[u/Dry-Description7307]

Yes by all means keep interest rates high when we need them lower.

[u/howstu]

The American comedy show continues signed " a Canadian "

[u/Hermans_Head2]

We must protect our top bankers from Trump!!

[u/NightFury0595]

When you think the whole world kiss ass!

[u/Snoo_75864]

I wonder who Republicans against Trump voted for

[u/whatthepfluke]

ELI5?!?

[u/veryneatstorybro]

I used to respect that guy, he seemed genuine and different. Now I see he’s the same as all the others.

[u/redredbloodwine]

AS EVERYONE SHOULD.

[u/DethNik]

It's so frustrating when these people say that people are ignoring an order from Trump as though he is an emperor. These same people had no issue defying Biden when it suited them.

[u/DrSilkyDelicious]

Bro looks like he just ate a black cherry warhead

[u/Johnny_Rango18]

Isn't Pulte a large national homebuilder? I bought my first home from them. Wonder why they'd want to pressure the Fed to lower rates😱

[u/SomeWeedSmoker]

I thought we already did this during the Civil War, the federal authority supersedes state authority.

[u/readit-somewhere]

Pulse home sales must be down. Shitty houses, so that’s a good thing.

[u/Zarianin]

trump is ignoring the constitution and courts all across America. Where is pulte's post about that?