In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
There’s something mentally wrong with the President of the United States.
Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."
Another evasive, lying, election-denying loyalist.
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Just some of the most unhinged racist dreck I've heard in my life.
Mike Johnson: "There's always been untoward activity among political figures. Going back to time immemorial there's always been marital infidelity, there's always been despicable behavior."
WARREN: Name one aspect of President Trump's economic agenda with which you disagree
KEVIN WARSH: He said he thought I'm out of central casting. I think I'd look older, grayer, and maybe show up with a cigar
WARREN: Quite adorable
Scenes from a personalist regime: A nominee to an independent federal body refuses to acknowledge that the President ever lost an election.
CHRIS WRIGHT: What happens when the wind blows right now? We turn down natural gas plants and we save 2 cents in reduced natural gas price. We pay a 4 cent subsidy and save 2 cents
WYDEN: What you are describing is fiction
Thom Tillis still refuses to blame Trump for anything: "The problem I have is that some US attorney or assistant US attorney with a dream thought it would be cute to bring Chair Powell under an investigation ... the boss said he didn't know anything about it"
Weird how seemingly everyone in and around power has some kind of investing connection to Epstein, I'm sure it's just a coincidence
What is the U-3 unemployment rate?
How is this GDP relative to past years?
What’s the federal funds rate, and how could changing it impact growth and employment?
These are all factual questions too. If a public official chooses to mislead on some facts, how can we be confident he won’t on others?
VAN HOLLEN: If the central bank were to cut rates, that would typically push prices up, right?
WARSH: Unlike many of my colleagues, I don't believe I should be previewing what a future decision might be
VAN HOLLEN: I'm not asking you that. Most economists would agree that would dive up prices
Sen. Kennedy to Warsh: "My worry is that a lot of this stuff about artificial intelligence making us more productive is a bunch of hype by people who want to sell stock and an IPO. I'd be careful there."
asking questions in hearings is always better than speeches
future generations will need a series of textbooks just to explainhow this dumb question became a litmus test because these fascists were so stupid and their leader so far up his own arsehole that they couldnt even just lie about what they thought to get into power
Cortez Masto to Warsh: In 2007, you said 'subprime mortgages have gotten a bad name.' You said you have no regrets. How can we trust that you're accurate now when you were wrong then?
FFS
Wow 🤯
I honestly don’t see how the USA will survive the moral bankruptcy, democratic wreckage, and loss of international credibility caused by Trump 2.0
Just thinking about how *even Viktor Orban* realized that acknowledging election outcomes is a good thing.
A really easy question to answer, a telling one to get technical on.
WARSH: The broad contours of the economy are improving. The potential of the economy, the real results of the economy are improving.
TINA SMITH: The reality is there was almost 0 job growth in 2025. That looks to me like not a roaring economy, but a weak economy.
"The coming months should be brutal for Johnson — and will, hopefully, end with his majority and speakership destroyed in a humiliating and titanic blue wave."
Spot on from @nberlat.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's latest PN:
open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
I remember the Vietnam War well. Trump should too — we're the same age.
I was too short to serve and lost good friends in the war. Trump pretended to have bone spurs.
That war was characterized by lies, arrogance, and stupidity.
What's happening in Iran is starting to feel a lot like Vietnam.
HIRONO: Does anybody have the kind of expertise that Secretary Moniz had when he participated in the JCPOA?
CHRIS WRIGHT: Absolutely. Absolutely
HIRONO: Who?
WRIGHT: Our whole team
HIRONO: Can you see I have some major skepticism?
HIRONO: The rising prices of energy -- is that something you didn't contemplate happening before the president declared his illegal war?
CHRIS WRIGHT: No. We knew exactly what would happen
HIRONO: It doesn't seem like it, because the president doesn't understand how to open the strait
KIM: Are you concerned there could be real long-term effects of this war in Iran with fuel and fertilizer?
WARSH: If my reform agenda stands for anything, it's for the central bank to stay in his lane
KIM: But you're also charged with forecasting
This is already demonstrably incorrect. And Wright isn't even dead yet.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "I'm pretty confident coal will lead the world in global electricity production when I die"
