Trump and his allies are crying “election interference” over the Federal Reserve’s decision to slash interest rates

After months of complaining about the crippling burden of high interest rates and expensive borrowing, Republicans for some strange reason don’t seem too happy that the Federal Reserve has moved to do something about it.

On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced it is cutting interest rates by half a percentage point. It’s the first cut since 2020 and a long-awaited decrease to historically high interest rates.


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    Cloud passes in front of the sun, Trump calls ‘election interference’

    Trump drops his hamburger on the floor, calls ‘election interference’

    It’s Thursday, Trump calls ‘election interference’

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      He’s trying to destroy the meaning of the term just before him and his MAGA flying monkeys commit massive actual election interference.

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        He’s panicking.

        If the race is close, he can make a play to cause enough violence to reverse the result, like in 2000.

        But if it’s an embarrassing blowout? His fat ass is going to jail.

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          This isn’t panic. Stealing power through sabotage and violence has been the plan for over four years. It’s what all of MAGA’s efforts have been put towards (cultivating fascist paramilitaries, corrupting the judiciary, infiltrating the elections bureaucracy with zealots, etc.). Hell, just look at Trump’s campaigning: he’s spent absolutely fuck-all effort trying to broaden his appeal to win more votes, but lots of effort trying to radicalize his base to coup for him.

          He will make a play to seize power through violence, regardless of what the poll results are. That is his primary, intended, planned path to victory.

          • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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            No, you’re wrong.

            He’s a complete, delusional narcissist, he genuinely believes most of America loves him, it’s just his enemies who cheat to win. This is true in every setting for him, business, legal, personal, everything.

            He was sure he would win 2024 in a walk and blow Biden out of the water, and he’s shocked a woman, a half n-word/half curry-head WOMAN of all people is threatening him!

            You can’t understand how he thinks, you have to have been raised by them, he is a devout follower of the religion of Donald J Trump.

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              I’m not wrong; I’m just describing a different aspect of the situation than you are. I’m explaining what he’s doing, while you’re explaining how he deludes himself into thinking he’s justified for doing it.

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                You said his original plan was to use violence.

                I’m saying his original plan was to not need violence, obviously he would win legitimately, he’s Donald J Trump.

                And if there’s any chance his enemies will try to steal what’s rightfully his (ie America), he will use as much violence as he can to make them forever regret it.

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      A violent mob invading the Capitol, committing murder in the process, specifically to interrupt the certification of the election?

      Not election interference.

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        There was a murder on Jan 6?

        Edit: oh right, that woman. I don’t really consider defending the Capitol from someone trying to breach an inner entrance murder.

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          A police officer was ~~beaten to death with an American flag.~~assaulted, pepper-sprayed, and had a stroke from the stress.

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            Officer Fanone, the person you’re referencing that was beaten with a flagpole by Peter Stager, was not murdered. He’s still alive. He was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal just last year.

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              Your right. My mistake. The officer who died following the induction was Brian Sicknick, who was pepper sprayed and possibly struck on the head with a fire extinguisher, leading to lethal stress-induced strokes the next day.

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                You’re absolutely right that Officer Brian Sicknick’s passing was a tragic loss. However, it’s important to clarify that while there were initial reports suggesting he was struck with a fire extinguisher or affected by pepper spray, the medical examinations confirmed he died of natural causes, specifically strokes, with no evidence of injuries or an allergic reaction. While the events of January 6 were undoubtedly stressful, no specific physical actions from that day caused his death. I (and the medical professionals that examined him) would definitely not call that “murder.”

                If that’s the standard for “murder” than the two Trump supporters that died of heart attacks during the insurrection, the Trump supporter that died of a drug overdose during the insurrection, and that Trump supporter that was shot to death during the insurrection were “murdered,” which doesn’t seem accurate to me at all.

                My point was that no one was “murdered” during (or after) January 6. People died, but it was mostly preexisting medical issues or suicide. And the only people that died during/on the day of the insurrection were a part of the group of idiots that were participating in the insurrection in the first place.

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                  Other medical professionals criticized him for his call. The stress and fear from being assaulted by the mob almost certainly triggered the strokes.

                  If you’re allergic to shellfish and someone forcefeeds you shrimp and you die, they don’t get to say you died of natural causes.

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    Even as cynical as I am, it astonishes me that the Republicans have become entirely up-front about the fact that they don’t really give a shit about the American people and are only interested in how policy decisions affect them personally.

    It’s not just the case that they’ll institute harmful policies if they can blame the Democrats for them or oppose beneficial policies that they can’t claim credit for themselves, but that they do it openly and obviously.

    And their wholly emotion-driven supporters remain completely oblivious…

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      It’s really hard to make sense of their actions if you aren’t thinking of them as literal enemies of the republic.

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    Remember when trump lashed out at FBI directory Comey when he produced a new piece of ‘evidence’ against Hilary in October of 2016, calling it ‘election interference’?

    … yeah me either.

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    and lets not forget trump harrassed the fed to drop them to zero before covid which is how we got the inflation at the end of his term.

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    If he thinks that any positive change in an election year is election interference, then that would explain 2020. Maybe it is not that he wanted the pandemic or that he was too incompetent to just let experts help us. He was too concerned with election interference! /s

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      Which they would blame on Democrats. Any improvement under their opponents tenure has to be framed as a bad thing, lest voters notice something good happened with a Democrat in office.

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    Bitchboi who committed election interference calls everything election interference to try and deflect…

    You know what this reminds me of? A fucking six year old.

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      Umm.

      He also committed wire fraud to get lower interest rates on his loans by claiming false valuations.

      Think he’s awaiting sentencing for that.

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    Republicans getting Mad when Good Things happen to the Working Class is PROOF that DEMOCRATS Hate the Working Class!

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      How are lower interest rates, which leads to more money in the system, which leads to more inflation, good for the working class?

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        Lower interest rates also affect personal loans. Lower rates makes a new car more affordable.

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    It’s the opposite side of the coin of them taking credit for infrastructure improvements in their districts when they voted against that bill