'Public Service Sometimes Requires Standing Firm in the Face of Threats'

Sunday, January 11, 2026

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell took to social media tonight to announce that his office has been subpoenaed in a criminal probe that is an attempt to pressure the Federal Reserve to do the presidents bidding. "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions -- or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation," he said.

Posted by retort at 08:49 PM | 21 COMMENTS | permalink

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG ... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s ... [image or embed]
-- Federal Reserve (@federalreserve.gov) Jan 11, 2026 at 7:35 PM

Comments

Purposefully tanking the economy in violation of his fiduciary duties just to undermine Trump.

#1 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-01-11 08:56 PM

Purposefully tanking the economy in violation of his fiduciary duties just to undermine Trump.

#1 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

STFU you pathetic piece of cultist s%*^.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-11 09:10 PM

" STFU you pathetic piece of cultist s%*^.

#2 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-01-11 09:10 PM | REPLY | FLAG:"

Cultist. *drink*

#3 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-11 09:13 PM

You have a different opinion, JPW?

#4 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-01-11 09:16 PM

Ballwasher being a stupid piece of unAmerican s^*%.

*drink*

#5 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-11 09:22 PM

Yeah, they ran it based on data as they would have no matter who was potus.

It's f^*%ing pathetic how you sycophantic morons always think Trump is a victim.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-11 09:23 PM

Visitor is all for, "political pressure or intimidation," rather than evidence and economic conditions.

Because he's a good little cultist.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-11 09:24 PM

And like it or not, ballwasher, you maga fools act 100% like a cult.

Look up every characteristic and it matches.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-11 09:32 PM

" Ballwasher being a stupid piece of unAmerican s^*%.

*drink*

#5 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-01-11 09:22 PM | FLAG: "

Mocking you for overusing the word "cultist" makes me unamerican? Oh, okay. That makes total sense. /s

#9 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-11 09:32 PM

" And like it or not, ballwasher, you maga fools act 100% like a cult.

Look up every characteristic and it matches.

#8 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2026-01-11 09:32 PM | FLAG: "

Uh huh. You live in an informational bubble. I do not. Look in the mirror.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-11 09:33 PM

If Trump gets what he wants it would be short term gain followed by medium term crash. So once the new chair comes in, lock in those short term gains and use it to buy your own underground Topeka. Who cares what's happening if I got mine.

#11 | Posted by Duckman at 2026-01-11 09:47 PM

Explaining the Trump loyalty cult phenomenon

theloop.ecpr.eu

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-11 09:50 PM

#10

Just fuck off you fat, bald gutless cowardly cunt. You're nothing. Period.

#13 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-11 10:16 PM

Purposefully tanking the economy
#1 | Posted by visitor_

That can't be it.
Republicans keep telling us the economy is doing great.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-11 10:26 PM

Uh huh. You live in an informational bubble. I do not. Look in the mirror.
#10 | Posted by BellRinger

Who won the 2020 election?
Is Trump's action in Venezuela legal under the UN Charter?

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-11 10:38 PM

Who tried to illegally overturn the 2020 election?

Are Trump's economic policies growing jobs? Or was there a 70 percent decrease last year from 2024?

Inquiring minds.

#16 | Posted by Corky at 2026-01-11 10:46 PM

You live in an informational bubble. I do not.
#10 | Posted by BellRinger

Who pays tariffs?
Is a tariff increase a tax increase?

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-11 11:06 PM

Mocking you for overusing the word "cultist" makes me unamerican? Oh, okay. That makes total sense. /s

#9 | Posted by BellRinger

You're unAmerican because you continue to ignore everything that is going on to squabble with folks you view as being "the other side."

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-11 11:07 PM

Uh huh. You live in an informational bubble. I do not. Look in the mirror.

#10 | Posted by BellRinger

LOL this from the stupid f*&^ who thinks the National Review and Jonathon Turley are good sources.

You're a fool. Always have been.

#19 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-11 11:07 PM

"LOL this from the stupid f*&^ who thinks the National Review and Jonathon Turley are good sources."

They are good sources, in conjunction with other sources - that whole diversification thing that you cannot even abide, much less consider.

"You're unAmerican because you continue to ignore everything that is going on to squabble with folks you view as being "the other side."

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-11 11:07 PM "

How am I expected to take this: "&#(W&%(*#%&($*%&Q" seriously?

#20 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-01-11 11:18 PM

that whole diversification thing that you cannot even abide, much less consider.

I do have diverse sources.

They just not s(*& like National Review and Jonathon Turley.

How am I expected to take this: "&#(W&%(*#%&($*%&Q" seriously?

#20 | Posted by BellRinger

Nobody expected you to be smart enough to take anything seriously.

Just as you're incapable of discerning good information from bad.

And you continue to be incapable of discerning fascist behavior from merely bad behavior.

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2026-01-11 11:21 PM

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