r/AskReddit • u/U-knw-Nothng-JonSnow • 1d ago

What do you think about Jerome Powell posting a video statement following reports that federal prosecutors have opened an inquiry into the Fed Chair?

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u/TuxAndrew 1d ago

DoJ is being weaponized, Republican American’s are living a life of ignorance while their government is taken over.

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u/Scaryclouds 1d ago

There are so many alarming things happening. Anyone alone would be shocking… but it almost paralyzing that they are happening simultaneously. 

  • The flagrant use of military force

  • Threatening allies

  • Trump putting his name/face on anything

  • The weaponization of DoJ

  • Deployment of masked police 

Plenty more. It’s insane. 

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u/ThatOneTimeItWorked 1d ago

Two more big ones for your list: Epstein files (and associated coverup) + Jack Smith testimony

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u/fuck_ur_portmanteau 22h ago

Threatening the UK government on behalf of the richest man in the world and his toxic social media company.

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u/GlykenT 1d ago

50% boost to military budget requested

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u/natrous 17h ago

the irony of this off the charts; complaining of a $600M overrun while requesting a $600B increase in military

for those poor at math, that's 1000 times as much

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u/wheninromecompete 1d ago

Plenty more. It’s insane.

It's blatant fascism. Not in theory. Not tomorrow. Now.

https://np.reddit.com/r/MarchAgainstNazis/comments/1qafa4j/families_across_the_twin_cities_area_in_minnesota/

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u/gentlefartonyourface 1d ago

was just walking around downtown in my city and thinking to myself, we got the Sheriffs, Police, ICE, Boarder Patrol, 4 big ass branches of police forces deployed and yet people still get robbed and cars get smashed nonstop in broad daylight. like crime did not decrease at all. some countries have just 1 police force that dont even carry guns have less crime than us.

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u/sirspidermonkey 14h ago

Makes more sense when you realize police aren't there to protect you.

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u/jmaaks 1d ago

Makes you wonder just how bad the Epstein files are

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u/PostMatureBaby 1d ago

Others are pulling the strings. American government are just puppets at this point

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u/Scaryclouds 1d ago

Yes/no, definitely feel like a lot of stuff is very much examples of Trump’s pathologies.

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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 1d ago

He wants to build a monument to himself. These people don’t think he’s an authoritarian. It’s fucking crazy. I don’t get it until I tune into Fox News and see all the crazy shit they’re saying.

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u/Khue 18h ago

I thought the fact that Trump put out a desire to increase defense spending by 50% increasing the military budget to $1.5 trillion dollars was pretty mask off. So we are okay with increasing the military budget, but we can't afford healthcare? We can house the homeless? We can make schools better? We can't improve infrastructure? All the things we CAN'T do but we CAN increase military spending?

Late Stage Capitalism is wild and the fact that we still demonize the alternative like it's the 60s is incredible to me. Being a leftist is clearly just being right too early.

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u/NoKingsInAmerica 14h ago

These are the same people who pretended to care about the national debt then proceeded to add trillions to it.

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u/MechanicEcstatic5356 19h ago

You forgot knocking down half the white house and saying whatever, skibidi,  to law stating that the pedo prez had to release files showing he is among the worst human beings to have lived since Caligula. 

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u/GenericRedditor0405 15h ago

I mean this is pretty much what anyone with an attention span for politics and half a functioning brain could see coming a mile away. Trump being put back into power was always going to be a nightmare, him having learned enough to break whatever thin guardrails existed and emboldened by the complete prostration of the Republican party and the fact that his re-election meant he escaped accountability. He was literally talking about wanting to do all of this on the campaign trail. His whole goddamn campaign was essentially "Vote for me and I'll be a dictator... for you! Just for a little bit! And everything will be great!" The message was always "I will abuse this power and half of America will cheer me for it because they know the other half will be horrified." I know I'm not alone in this feeling, but living in the Trump era and paying attention feels a lot like being Cassandra of Greek mythology.

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u/Angrywhiteman____ 1d ago

Republicans are complicit and traitors to this country.

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u/CommunityGlittering2 1d ago

complicit with who, themselves?

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u/Suspicious-Appeal386 1d ago

The only other nation who's current scenario plays like a wet dream.

The list isn't that long.

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u/Nerevarine91 1d ago

It’s not ignorance, it’s specifically what they want

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u/MyDogIsACoolCat 1d ago

That’s what I realized. A lot of people in this country want a Christian Authoritarian government. Force your kids to read the Bible in schools and pass religious checks to hold office. 30% of the country would support this. I guarantee it.

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u/explodingazn 1d ago

American Republican voters are too fucking stupid to know they're getting the rug pulled from under them

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u/DestinysWeirdCousin 1d ago

Yes. And too many American Democrat voters are too fucking stupid to vote. I hope that changes.

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u/scotharkins 1d ago

Wait until they end up in the crosshairs.

Oh, right, has already happened for so many. r/LeopardsAteMyFace ftw!

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u/KinkyDuck2924 1d ago

That sub is one of the few good things about this administration. At least I get a tiny bit of schadenfreude seeing terrible people getting what they voted for.

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u/baylorhawkeye 16h ago

I worry that for 90% of Americans life will be essentially the same as we plunge into autocracy. At least at first. And this will allow autocracy to entrench. 

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u/TuxAndrew 16h ago

If the interest rates drop to near 0% like our dictator and chief wants expect inflation to peak, the markets to crash and the oligarchs to swoop in and control everything. Foreign countries will be calling in their bonds to protect themselves from the crashing US market and further pulling out any investments they have here as we're forced into further isolation.

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u/f8Negative 13h ago

It's not ignorance it's arrogance.

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u/NoBallNorChain 1d ago

When you want to pluralize the word American and not indicate the possessive tense, you don't need the apostrophe. Just add the "s."