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    Doge has taken over private businesses and the supreme Court says the president can do anything they want (with some fine print that says as long as they are Republican).

    Our laws mean nothing now.

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      that’s all true, but what’s the foundation of all of that?

      money. which the fed controls. not potus, not scotus, not wall street-- the fed. if you look at business news it’s all about “what’s the fed going to do!? what are they going to set the interest rate to?!” etc. it’s never about “the fed did this because so-and-so told them to”

      and if you control the money, you control everything. including the people. as in ALL the people. as in the president’s allies, and the president’s enemies. they could contract the money, obliterate the economy and sink said president at will. no matter how godly he thinks he is. trump’s always boasting about how filthy rich he is. who literally printed all of trump’s money?

      the “fed chair” is just a flapping facehole whose main job is to make it look like government (or someone) has some kind of involvement in their decisions. they don’t. how many times have you heard trump bitching about the fed? and how many times have they done something because he wanted it?

      make no mistake: the fed doesn’t care about you, nor your best interests. but they are an entirely different monster, and if you’re already bummed about everything else, then maybe hold off on going down that rabbit hole until things are less of an absolute fucking shitshow

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        And yet, if Trump replaces the chair with a yes-man and no one stops him then he does control the fed and therefore the money. And it doesn’t look like anyone is stopping him from doing this kind of shit any time soon.

        Fucking hell, it isn’t that complicated.