Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Nope

 Trump has no authority to fire Lisa Cook. Media need to stop repeating what he says like he's a normal politician. He says he's ended seven wars? You don't need to repeat that. He says he has a trade deal with Japan? Let's see the deal. 

It is now an open question whether Trump is lying or confabulating - which is to say getting confused, because he's old and stupid. What is not an open question is whether to repeat what he says without LEADING with the context that he's lying/wrong/confabulating.

Also, firing Fed Governors was explicitly ruled out, even by the rubber stamps of the Roberts Court. They ruled it out, because while they are gleeful spectators of his destruction of the administrative state, they are not so keen on his destruction of the US economy.

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