Given the players involved, that honestly seems to be quite controversial.
She should be the POTUS if she's really a felon.
This has been asserted but not proven to be true.
“…she shouldn't be in charge of anything.“
Even if sensible, this is clearly not a heuristic that is being applied universally.
It is not proven. Trump is merely alleging - it is a manufactured allegation.
> If she committed a felony, she shouldn't be in charge of anything
Apply the same logic to the 34 count felon in the office of the President. Until you apply the harshest standard to the President, none of your other complaints hold any value.
Big if, especially since she hasn't been formally charged with anything. In any case, even if she has, Trump and Pulte's authority to fire her is questionable. It would be like a mayor attempting to fire a private security guard that's contracted with the city, pending an investigation.
A couple of points: if it were a LEO, they would generally be put on leave, not fired. But, again, officer of a private entity (which the Fed) is; the mayor/president's ability to influence that entity's activity ends at the contracts/relevant statutes's stipulations - and if there's a dispute, it gets hashed out in civil court. Of course, if a felony has been committed, one could just wait for the conviction, which would likely lead to termination by one of several exigencies.
But, again, big if.
So you agree that if she did it, she should be fired, but not by Trump. But the effect is the same. Seems like you're making a mountain out of a molehill.
And by the way, if she did it, and whomever is (in your eyes) responsible for firing her chooses not to, would you consider that a direliction of duty, I.E. would that person deserve to be fired? And would it eventually get to the president's responsibility to fire someone if people kept deciding no to, all theh way up the chain? I'm really curious to know what your thoughts are on this, if any.
When Al Franken resigns because of allegations of sexual misconduct, it proves Democrats are evil. When Donald Trump is convicted of dozens of felonies, it proves Republicans are victims of politically motivated witch hunts. It shouldn't be a controversial opinion that being a felon should disqualify you from public service, but because of that very opinion, labeling someone as a felon as been weaponized to the point where the label can be dismissed by supporters
What? Name three please. You're just needlessly generalizing because you don't know anything.
How are markets supposed to react to that?
If markets are going to go up, and then down, do you buy or sell?
If Trump is going to take over the Fed, the smart move is to buy. If there's going to be a huge party before the world ends, you go to the party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Transparency_A...
The Fed will drop interest rates, this will make borrowing easy, people in the economy can get easy money. Inflation will rise, which makes borrowing even easier, because any debt is just inflated away. People will want to hold assets that can't be devalued by inflation, which means people will not want to hold government bonds unless the US pays a high interest rate on those bonds, and when the US government pays a high interest rate on its bonds.
So, we would expect the stock market to increase temporarily, and people will want to buy that increase. The long-term bond market would tank because people would know nobody will want to hold US bonds. Overall it would be a very schizophrenic market.
“Of these four interventions (deleting, killing, burying, and downweighting), the only one that moderators do frequently is downweighting. We downweight posts in response to things that go against the site guidelines, such as when a submission is unsubstantive, baity or sensational. Typically such posts remain on the front page, just at a lower rank.”
My personal encounter with the situation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44939626
There isn’t some secret cabal of MAGA types censoring you.
Thanks for deciding that without asking.
Stories about the Therac-25 - badly using a computer to control a radiation machine - are fine and often end on the front page. It killed 6 people.
Stories about DOGE - badly using computers, big data, AI to save "trillions" of USD - are apparently not fine. DOGE is killing tens of thousands of people, put Musk is close to Trump, so talking about it is "political" and therefore there is no interest in showing on the front page that DOGE's claims are wrong by several orders of magnitude.
Stories about Theranos - badly using computers to automate lab diagnostics - used to be fine. We talked at length about how Elizabeth Holmes was hailed as a genius, then how fishy it seemed, then the whistleblowers came and blew the lid off the deception that was going on. Holmes was condemned and sent to detention.
Will we be forbidden to talk about Theranos once she gets her pardon from Trump[0]? Because it would be "political"?
Are we forbidden to talk about Trevor Milton - co-founder and CEO of bankrupt electric truckmaker Nikola Motors, pardoned in March - was a fraudster[1], when he will inevitably launch a new startup? Will any mention of it be flagged because "we don't want no political flame wars"?
[0]https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/06/27/310688... [1]https://www.axios.com/2025/03/31/trump-pardons-bitmex-crypto...
Talk about it all you want. Don’t be surprised when people start rolling their eyes at you like we roll our eyes at the weird uncle who always ruins family gatherings by bringing up politics at the dinner table.
This is the same tired melodramatic trope that’s played out every time anyone even remotely to the right wins an election in the United States.
It should be no surprise that many people, myself included, aren’t interested in “discussion and debate” that amounts to “anyone who is disagrees with me is cartoonishly evil”.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42615336
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42614018
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38532483
"The beam of thine eye", heh.
But you don't live in areas where masked armed people disappear people in vans while shouting "ICE", so I guess you don't notice - and as you blank out any discussion of it as "political", as long as it doesn't happen to you personally, you will keep refusing to admit anything is happening.
Anything like that list:
Plenty of these hackers are aiding and abiding the slide. If not actively greasing the skids personally. Thiel and Musk are minor gods here.
There are enough MAGA adherents on HN with flagging privileges for this to be an actual problem. HN just does not aggressively police such brigading.
It takes only five flags for an article to be pushed down far enough that it might as well not exist and less than 10 for it to be killed entirely.
I think a lot of people don’t come here for politics and would like to filter some of the noise out.
0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43837358
Whoever was in the shadows pulling the puppet strings however is another story...
To be fair though: Biden should have stepped down halfway his term and handed the reins to Harris. That would have gotten the USA used to a woman as president and it might have saved a lot of misery. But we are where we are. Whoever voted for this grifter owns it wholly. Of course they'll all pretend they never had those yardsigns in the first place.
I'm not convinced that Harris would've been much better. She was given essentially one job: border Czar and she failed miserably at that. Although, I guess the open borders policy that encouraged unprecedented illegal immigration was intentional. and probably part of the greater globalist agenda. She is a DEI hire, chosen only because of her gender and skin color. Biden literally said he was going to choose a woman of color to be his vice president. Bear in mind that Harris was the first major Democrat candidate to be forced out of the primary, so she was not at all chosen on merit.
Despite what you hear, Trump is a much more popular president than Biden was here and he is mostly doing what people elected him to do. He's had a few missteps for sure, for example he needs to just release the Epstein files already and please stop talking shit about annexing Greenland and Canada. He also needs to stop licking Israel's boots so much. That being said, he's doing a fantastic job with securing the border, foreign policy (he's helped to secure several peace agreements... https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-where-donald-trump-has-he...), and so far the economy has been noticeably better than under Biden. Also, the way he handled the assassination attempt (that the media has done their best to memory hole) was incredible. He jumped up, blood dripping from his ear shouting fight, fight, fight! That picture of him with his fist raised and the secret service agents holding him back is just so powerful and iconic, just very Presidential. (https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/conte...)
He's also much more transparent than the previous administration. Biden would give extremely rare, short, scripted interviews with the press where he literally had maps of who to call on and what to reply back to their scripted questions. Even then, he would often botch the press interviews. In contrast, Trump gives frequent, lengthy, off the cuff unscripted interviews. He also, for good or for bad, posts frequently to social media with his real honest opinions and positions. People like that he has a certain air of authenticity about him. He's not the typical American politician that dances around questions and speaks only with perfect, politically correct, focus group tested language.
The news media in America is heavily biased towards the left and does everything they can to cast him in a negative light, so it is important to view everything you hear about him through that lens.
We’ll see what happens in 6 months as you said, but so far I don’t regret my vote.
I suppose we could paraphrase that by changing "salary" to "retirement" or "national economic health".
Yup. Boomers be the death of all. So much of what's been done over the past 5 years-ish has been because a stock market crash would devastate the largest voting bloc at the worst possible moment; there would be no "just wait for the recovery." Ironically, many of those measures have made any potential crash much, much worse. Not just in terms of a general collapse, but with disproportionate impacts because of the nature of the interventions.
Don't look into what's actually in those retirement funds.
Good thing we're replacing BLS staff with sycophants!
Seriously that's the allegation? When I heard false information on a mortgage I assumed inflated income or assets or concealing the source of a downpayment. Is this even material? Can't a person have 2 homes and live in both?
One home is always the "primary residence" for legal purposes. You can have and live in as many homes as you want, but only one counts as your primary residence.
That said, the allegation is just that, an allegation. Further, it's coming from people who are highly motivated to exaggerate or lie.
It is still a pretty massive pot meet kettle argument though. Trump's a convicted fraudster. Let's remove everyone who has committed fraud from office. Can we add Ken Paxton to the list with Trump as well? Oh wait, not my guys...
I was talking with a neighbor raging about how corrupt Lisa Cook is and how these people just think they should get away with anything and how these people need to be put in prison for a long time. After pointing out Ken Paxton (someone they hope runs for Congress) claimed three houses as primary residences, well, that's different see...
3 strikes: Black. Woman. Appointed by Biden.
C'mon, that's such a cheap take. The Fed has done nothing but destroy the value of the dollar since its founding in 1913.
This is not something subtle, this is something large, gross and horrendous. Call me alarmist if you want but in my wildest dreams prior to Jan 6th 2025 did I think that it would get this bad this fast. Things have already fallen off a cliff or they are about to and I'm not sure I will be able to spot the difference.
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