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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  • @[email protected]
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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

  • @[email protected]
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    122 hours ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    9 hours ago

    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’

    • @[email protected]
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      237 hours ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      I once worked for an idiot who was a little high strung, and who responded to anything unexpected by getting angry. This exchange actually happened:

      Other employee: “Hey boss, the bank called, they made a mistake, you actually have $100 more than you thought you had.”

      Boss: “WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THAT?”

      • mommykink
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        5511 hours ago

        Never forget that the border deal that Trump ordered senate Republicans to veto was one of the most comprehensive policy proposals in decades

    • BarqsHasBite
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      Weirdo that wanted them to do it when he’s president, so he can say he did it.

  • @[email protected]
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    6011 hours ago

    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…

    • The Snark Urge
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      710 hours ago

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

  • HubertManne
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    3011 hours ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      1411 hours ago

      Everyone overlooks that. It’s the only knob we have and he abused it and we paid the price.

    • @Kecessa
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      The whole world got hit by inflation

      • HubertManne
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        yeah do to the dollar. “when America sneezes, the world catches a cold.”

        • @Kecessa
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          Interest rates didn’t disrupt supply chains and lead to price gouging though

          • HubertManne
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            price gouging was taking advantage of the intrinsic infaltion and supply chains were strained more by demand brought about by cheap money.

  • @xmunk
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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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    Dumbass complains that it is allegedly a political move but also wants Presidents to be able to dictate the Fed’s decisions.

    Everything that happens that isn’t to his benefit is a conspiracy to make him look bad. Everything that happens to his benefit was hard-earned and well-deserved.

    Fucking 80 year old baby wears diapers and people can attest to it. Smells like shit, cries, drools, no impulse control when it comes to random tits, can barely form a coherent sentence. No wonder his cabinet was a revolving door of blood relatives and his wife can’t be bothered to leave NY to visit him. Sad sad guy

  • @[email protected]
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    410 hours ago

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

  • Pantsofmagic
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    310 hours ago

    There’s been a lot of discussion about an interest rate cut in September for the last 6 months.