Comments on: Fed Up http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/08/26/fed-up/ Reality-based political commentary Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:50:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/08/26/fed-up/#comment-220970 Kick Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:45:29 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26733#comment-220970 John M from Ct. 2 Exactly. John M from Ct.
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Exactly.

]]> By: Kick http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/08/26/fed-up/#comment-220968 Kick Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:40:40 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26733#comment-220968 To be convicted of mortgage fraud in a court of law would require proof of intent to defraud and not just some human shit stain who wants to control the Federal Reserve claiming he's firing you "for cause." Being fired "for cause" generally requires negligence or "screwing up" on the job for which you're being terminated and not the ravings of a lunatic old man who has made it obvious in multiple ways that he wants to control the Federal Reserve. Dotard Donald, the 34-time felon convicted on multiple counts of criminal fraud in a court of law by a jury of his peers continues to highlight why he is unfit to serve. As noted many times, everything with Don the Con is so frequently pure unadulterated projection. To be convicted of mortgage fraud in a court of law would require proof of intent to defraud and not just some human shit stain who wants to control the Federal Reserve claiming he's firing you "for cause." Being fired "for cause" generally requires negligence or "screwing up" on the job for which you're being terminated and not the ravings of a lunatic old man who has made it obvious in multiple ways that he wants to control the Federal Reserve.

Dotard Donald, the 34-time felon convicted on multiple counts of criminal fraud in a court of law by a jury of his peers continues to highlight why he is unfit to serve. As noted many times, everything with Don the Con is so frequently pure unadulterated projection.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/08/26/fed-up/#comment-220966 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:41:34 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26733#comment-220966 Test Test

]]> By: John M from Ct. http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/08/26/fed-up/#comment-220965 John M from Ct. Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:04:25 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26733#comment-220965 This is good - Cook has done nothing wrong, as far as the law is concerned, and the president is blowing smoke once again. (Others have noted the irony that, if fudging ones financials to get better credit terms is a crime, the number one criminal to have done so is, of course, this president himself - convicted for it in court, no less.) Regarding his attempt to hijack and subdue the independent Federal Reserve, I read an interesting comment on the E-V dot com blog. They note that the nation's banks follow the Fed's lead on the prime interest rate because it's in their interest to do so. But they are not required by law to do so. And they are not stupid: if the Fed reduces its prime rate to an unwise and ill-advised inflation-causing number, the banks do not have to do the same if their own economists advise them not to. So if the president acquires the power, via putting flunky nominees on the board, to make the Fed do his bidding on interest rates -- no matter the economic realities of the nation's money flows -- all he will do is incapacitate and emasculate the Fed. Interest rates in the banking sector will remain roughly what the market demands, although less coordinated without the Fed's credible guidance and power as a reserve depository. It sounds horrible. Wait, 'horrible' is the standard outcome for this administration's and this president's whimsical and vindictive policy-making. This is good - Cook has done nothing wrong, as far as the law is concerned, and the president is blowing smoke once again. (Others have noted the irony that, if fudging ones financials to get better credit terms is a crime, the number one criminal to have done so is, of course, this president himself - convicted for it in court, no less.)

Regarding his attempt to hijack and subdue the independent Federal Reserve, I read an interesting comment on the E-V dot com blog. They note that the nation's banks follow the Fed's lead on the prime interest rate because it's in their interest to do so. But they are not required by law to do so. And they are not stupid: if the Fed reduces its prime rate to an unwise and ill-advised inflation-causing number, the banks do not have to do the same if their own economists advise them not to.

So if the president acquires the power, via putting flunky nominees on the board, to make the Fed do his bidding on interest rates -- no matter the economic realities of the nation's money flows -- all he will do is incapacitate and emasculate the Fed. Interest rates in the banking sector will remain roughly what the market demands, although less coordinated without the Fed's credible guidance and power as a reserve depository.

It sounds horrible. Wait, 'horrible' is the standard outcome for this administration's and this president's whimsical and vindictive policy-making.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2025/08/26/fed-up/#comment-220964 nypoet22 Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:26:02 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=26733#comment-220964 the same scheme is being used against Cook as against Tish James and Adam Schiff, claim they took out mortgages on multiple properties as primary residences, and thereby committed fraud. even if the substance of the allegations were true, which I'm highly skeptical of, I've never heard of anyone anywhere ever being punished for it, not even having to pay a fine. it's pretty transparent that Donald is coming after political opponents this way specifically because a jury found him guilty of something he thinks everyone does and therefore he deserves to get away with. speaking of which, i wonder how many properties Jeffrey Epstein claimed as his primary residence, in the decade while Donald was visiting, and how many human trafficking victims donald saw there... the same scheme is being used against Cook as against Tish James and Adam Schiff, claim they took out mortgages on multiple properties as primary residences, and thereby committed fraud.
even if the substance of the allegations were true, which I'm highly skeptical of, I've never heard of anyone anywhere ever being punished for it, not even having to pay a fine. it's pretty transparent that Donald is coming after political opponents this way specifically because a jury found him guilty of something he thinks everyone does and therefore he deserves to get away with.
speaking of which, i wonder how many properties Jeffrey Epstein claimed as his primary residence, in the decade while Donald was visiting, and how many human trafficking victims donald saw there...

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