April 17, 2025

"We have now seen that the Trump administration manages the economy with the same expertise and competence it manages higher education, and as a result we might begin to rally the American people."

I'm reading "I’m a Columbia Professor. Here’s the Really Disheartening Part of This Mess," a NYT op-ed by Matthew Connelly, a Columbia history professor.

I'm all for expertise and competence, but who is this "we" threatening to "rally" us in the name of longing for expertise and competence?

Well, it doesn't say "rally us," it says "rally the American people." I used the "us" pronoun for "the American people," but that doesn't work very well with the "we" that is used twice in the quoted sentence.

Professor Connelly sees himself and his New York Times readers as the "we" who look on as Trump breaks things and hope to excite "the American people" to oppose and resist Trump. But the American people have supported Trump because the American people have seen what your "we" has done with its power when it has had the chance. "Let the Experts Handle It Again" is not a great rallying cry these days.

I'm railing about one sentence. Most of the column is about Columbia working with the Trump administration and professors at other schools boycotting Columbia. Connelly's "we" is not cohesive. It's in no position to "rally the American people." It's in what Connelly calls a "circular firing squad." And you want to be our "expertise and competence" providers?

89 comments:

mccullough said...

Trump cleans up 60 years of higher education flummery. Columbia professors hit hardesr.

Aggie said...

I think the esteemed college professor should take a refresher course in 'Learning How to Deal With It'. Because he is falling into the Progressive Democrat routine of making a very poor job of that, and the polls show very clearly how popular that approach is.

RideSpaceMountain said...

If "crashing this plane with no survivors" is Matthew's analogy for this administration's attitude toward higher education, then please count me as an ally of the League Of Shadows.

"Do you feel in Charge?" - Donald "Bane" Trump

ron winkleheimer said...

Right now the general public perception is that Trump and the right are the people who want to protect women and children while people on the left seem to be on the side of murderers, rapists, and child molesters.

Interesting branding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnN1a8nNCwA&t=31s

Immanuel Rant said...

As "we" all know, all economic policies are clearly good or bad in 48 hours, maybe 72 maximum. And whichever single metric we can point to in that time (bond yield, stock market, inflation, the price of eggs, trade imbalance, employment) will be the only metric we need to look at to determine that it is a disaster.

MadisonMan said...

"We have now seen..." bloviates the Professor, stating things without evidence. So it's not a very convincing argument he puts forth. Perhaps he should add facts that distinguish how what Trump is doing is different than Biden with respect to long-term economic prospects for the USA. As it is, it seems like he's preaching to the choir, the choir being filled with Democrats who unexpectedly find themselves in church but nodding along to a very agreeable sermon that doesn't challenge them.

ron winkleheimer said...

Oh, and wife beaters, can't forget who is on the side of wife beaters.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maryland-man-kilmar-abrego-garcia-exposed-police-records-violent-repeat-wife-beater

Lem Vibe Banditory said...

There was 4 years without Trump and they said, very convincingly (Trump carried every battleground state) that they wanted Trump back. Didn’t Kamala say that Trump is doing what he said he was going to do? Even Trump’s most battle tested opponent is given him props. I don’t remember ever seeing that in American politics.

Stephen said...

Althouse, the strong friend of the First Amendment and freedom of inquiry, has been unable to say, in her own voice, that the proposed actions with respect to Columbia and Harvard, like the actions against law firms, are transparently illegal and in violation of the First Amendment. This reticence, after years of blasting Democrats for suppressing speech, is hard to understand: it seems to violate her core principles, including the principle of cruel neutrality.

Randomizer said...

"We have now seen that the Trump administration manages the economy with the same expertise and competence it manages higher education, and as a result we might begin to rally the American people."

The professor makes a statement that both sides can agree on. My only quibble is that the American people did rally, and we want President Trump to get after higher education.

It reminds me of a "King of the Hill" episode where a liberal sneeringly accuses Hank Hill of being like Ronald Reagan. Hank takes it as a great compliment.

Paddy O said...

There are few people more authoritarian and privileged than tenured faculty. They will always be defending their privilege and are very, very used to other people having to bear the weight for their privileges. There are exceptions, but such people tend not to be the sort to become tenured faculty. Because those sorts of people don't assume that other people need to bear the weight of their privilege.

mikee said...

Nobody is denying the Columbia Prof, et al., freedom of speech. What Trump is doing is denying the Columbia Prof, et al., taxpayer funding of his still-free speech.

RCOCEAN II said...

Isn't it absurd the way the Democrat/Liberal/Left authority figures still think they have credibility with the public? We've seen the other side of your face, guys.

We all know you're amoral leftwingers who don't give a damn about anything except pushing the Leftwing agenda. And everything, ethics, norms, scholarship, standards, even laws gets subordinated to that.

Even during the CV-19 epidemic we had special "Ok to spread the disease, and not stay 6 feet apart, because its a BLM/Anfifa protest".

RCOCEAN II said...

Anyway, this is part of the contant party line drumbeat of propaganda. Attack Trump on the economy. Say, everything bad is because of his international trade policy. Report every up and down in the stock market. Constantly refer to how "crazy" and "incompetent" Trump is. Seek out those hurt by tarriffs. Refuse to mention those who are helped by it.

tcrosse said...

One of the occupational hazards of a professorship is the urge to pronounce on matters outside of one's specialty.

Kakistocracy said...

The nine most terrifying words in the English Ianguage: “I'm Donald Trump and I'm going to fix everything!”

Kai Akker said...

Stephen said...
Althouse, the strong friend of the First Amendment and freedom of inquiry, has been unable to say, in her own voice, that the proposed actions with respect to Columbia and Harvard, like the actions against law firms, are transparently illegal and in violation of the First Amendment. This reticence, after years of blasting Democrats for suppressing speech, is hard to understand: it seems to violate her core principles, including the principle of cruel neutrality.

4/17/25, 10:35 AM

LOL. Nitwit.

TreeJoe said...

Many experts seem to be begging to be returned to a lofty perch of respect, power, and requested pontification they feel they once had.

To your point Ann, that would require pointing to how things WERE and how they are now WORSE.

But Trump was elected and assumed power on the basis of the changes he's making. It's been less than 3 months. And it's being TRUMPeted that he's doing bad things...rather than recognizing this is what he was elected to do and it's premature to measure results.

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RideSpaceMountain said...

"The nine most terrifying words in the English Ianguage: 'I'm Donald Trump and I'm going to fix everything!'"

Lots of us hired Trump to break shit. If he starts fixing things that should be destroyed (like higher-ed) I'm gonna be really pissed.

Lazarus said...

"We have now seen that the Trump administration manages the economy with the same expertise and competence it manages higher education, and as a result we might begin to rally the American people."

The snark is strong in this guy, but that's what his readers demand.

People voted for "expertise and competence" in 2020 and look at what the hell they got. I'm not entirely at one with making DEI and the protests the foundation of the administration's universities policy, but the last administration was so fixated on DEI, LGBTQ, and climate alarmism that what it delivered was anything but competence. Arguably, Trump is doing the universities and the Democrats a favor by getting them to eventually focus on more important matters. Maybe the next time the Democrats are in government, they'll realize that the actual economic condition of the country is more important than pitting groups against each other.

Quaestor said...

Perhaps Professor Connelly has a tapeworm.

gilbar said...

support the Deep State! MORE Waste! More corruption!
foreign murderers are more important than Americans!
Chop off her Dick! Chop off his breasts!

i wonder that these rallying cries aren't working with US.. yet

Steven said...

I think Columbia is going to come out of this ahead. They did what the Trump administration asked and are being criticized for it from the left. The government is now in danger of being greedy and refusing to take the win. But the more Columbia gets hammered by the left for capitulating, the more pressure there is on the government to declare victory.

At the same time Columbia must be ecstatic about being attacked right before Harvard. The more Columbia and Harvard are mentioned together in the same sentence, the better for Columbia. It doesn't matter what they're saying about you, as long as they're talking about you.

gilbar said...

oh here! this one rhymes !

Don't WAIT!
Indoctrinate!
Castrate!
Mutilate!

MJ said...

But the American people have supported Trump because the American people have seen what your "we" has done with its power when it has had the chance.

The far left has had complete control of our education system for 3-4 decades. With that control they have:

1. Created an illegitimate campus sex police force which completely lacks due process or any sense of limitation and functions as a political retribution operation for far left women.

2. Engaged in a campaign to justify discrimination against white, Asian, and Jewish children by telling other minority children their white friends who sit next to them and live in the same neighborhoods are oppressing them.

3. Introducing children to strippers in drag to normalize sexualizing children and introducing age inappropriate concepts.

All this is of course done while educational accomplishment drops and is replaced with political loyalty tests. What's not to love?

Howard (not that Howard) said...

If he's proposing to apply the same degree of "expertise and competence" we saw during the covid response, no thank you. Very much.

Steven said...

"If he's proposing to apply the same degree of "expertise and competence" we saw during the covid response, no thank you. Very much."

This comment is funny to me, because I can't tell if the commenter is pro-Trump or anti-Trump. Trump was obviously leading the covid response as he was President at the time. So, are you saying he did a good job or a bad job?

Rocco said...

"We have now seen that the Trump administration manages the economy with the same expertise and competence it manages higher education, and as a result we might begin to rally…

I read thru to that point and thought it was from a fundraising letter from a MAGA politician.

tommyesq said...

Classic "expert" mistake - knowledge in one area does not necessarily translate into expertise in another. Say, for example, being a professor of history does not mean you can understand the economy better than Trump and his team.

tommyesq said...

One of the biggest problems with our current "expert" class is that they don't know what they don't know, and do so with utmost confidence.

hombre said...

What is really disheartening, although not surprising, is that Democrat “intellectual” elites assume that those of us outside their daisy chain have forgotten the four years during which Joe Dementia and the Obots destabilized the country. Alternatively, given who they seem to be, it’s possible they didn’t notice.

Rocco said...

Steven said...
At the same time Columbia must be ecstatic about being attacked right before Harvard. The more Columbia and Harvard are mentioned together in the same sentence, the better for Columbia.

Many years ago when I first met a European exchange student, he mentioned he had just spent a year in Colombia before coming to Cincinnati. So I asked him about the arepas and the coffee (being from the Balkans, he loved a good strong cup of coffee). The blank look I got clued me in that he was referring to Columbia.

Drago said...

LLR-democratical Rich: "The nine most terrifying words in the English Ianguage: “I'm Donald Trump and I'm going to fix everything!”'

I absolutely love the idea you thought that would be an effective or insightful comment.

LOL

Skeptical Voter said...

If I am looking for "expertise" I might find it in the higher portions of STEM faculty at major universities--and even minor ones for that matter. The physical world is the physical world and mostly stays free from DEI sorts of infections. But if I'm looking for competence, I'm not likely to find much of it at any university today.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

the proposed actions with respect to Columbia and Harvard, like the actions against law firms, are transparently illegal and in violation of the First Amendment

LOL is it what you don't know or that what you think you know is wrong? Hard to say. Harvard was judged to be in violation of the Civil Rights Act in Students for Fair Admissions case two years ago, which you may want to keep in mind as you review the 1983 case Bob Jones University v. United States.

It could be that some of the letter is Art of the Deal-style asking far more than what we want, but there is no doubt the law is on Trump's side and he will defund Harvard if they don't stop discriminating on the basis of race and gender and ethnicity. Take that to the bank.

Peachy said...

Biden puppet and his corrupt handlers destroyed our nation for their power.
Dear all leftist cultists - try to figure that out for once.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

If he's proposing to apply the same degree of "expertise and competence" we saw during the covid response, no thank you. Very much.

Nice one Howard. It's obvious from Trump's first moves, where he removed all those "experts" who advised him (wrongly) on COVID, that he is not going to make that same mistake. The BIG mistake of his first term.

Wince said...

...but who is this "we" threatening to "rally" us in the name of longing for expertise and competence?

"Come on, everybody! We're going streaking!!!

Jupiter said...

Presumably, Dr. Connelly takes it for granted that Columbia is doing a great job.

hombre said...

And another thing, from the President of Harvard: “First Amendment, blah, blah, blah.” It’s not enough that we have to listen to and be reminded of their spew, they expect us to pay for it too. Whose First Amendment is that?

Quayle said...
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Quayle said...

Funny thing about democracy, when a majority of non-experts think the experts are worthless, the majority of non experts usually prevails. This, of course, is what horrified the aristocracy of Europe. In a democracy, a “majority” is expert on what the majority wants.

4/17/25, 12:18 PM

Kakistocracy said...

“We have now seen that the Trump administration manages the economy with the same expertise and competence it manages higher education, and as a result we might begin to rally the American people.”

After four years of Trump/MAGA pretending Biden’s economy was as bad as Trump has made ours in four months.

America can Trump on his performance.

Tina Trent said...

Kai: you are confusing taxpayer-funded grants with free speech. You are also confusing violence and intimidation with peaceful protest. You are also ignorant of the rules by which green cards are granted and denied per rules created by our elected officials. Sad.

Kai Akker said...

Tina, you may be confusing me with "Stephen." I quoted his whole kaki post. My comment was the last line below it.

Earnest Prole said...

Democrats, for the love of God and all that is sacred, please realize how badly you’ve screwed the pooch when Americans prefer the Orange Shitshow to what you’re offering.

boatbuilder said...

Trump isn't "managing higher education." He's telling higher education to get its act together.
You, Professor Connelly, and your ilk have been "managing" higher education for a long time. It's outrageously expensive, its customers are failing and broke, and it is producing mostly nonsense, idiocy, Marxism (but I repeat myself) and virulent hatred.

Time for a change.

RideSpaceMountain said...

Earnest Prole said, "Democrats, for the love of God and all that is sacred, please realize how badly you’ve screwed the pooch when Americans prefer the Orange Shitshow to what you’re offering."

"That's why I'm down here in San Salvador trying to rescue a gang member. What more do you want of me!?! Sheesh!" - Chris Van Hollen

PM said...

Matthew Connelly reads like Lovey Howell.

Mr. T. said...

RichSockpuppet said...
“We have now seen that the Trump administration blah blah blah..."
America can Trump on his performance.

My tax returns showing how much worse the Biden economy was Trumps your pedantic, routine, ChatGPT-generated spam troll posts anyday.

Martin said...

Where is it written that Harvard, Columbia, and even XYZ State are owed Federal Tax Dollars? Harvard and Columbia can certainly take care of themselves. State Colleges are the responsibility of their State.

Epsilon Given said...

Steven said...
"This comment is funny to me, because I can't tell if the commenter is pro-Trump or anti-Trump. Trump was obviously leading the covid response as he was President at the time. So, are you saying he did a good job or a bad job?"

And this comment is funny to me, because Steven has no idea that Trump's covid response was largely led by Anthony Fauci ... someone who was, at the time, accepted as an expert!

jim5301 said...

The proposed conditions the government wants to put on Harvard are little less than a government take over of all aspects of operation, process, hiring, discipline and mission of the University. Very different from Columbia.

As one example - they must dismantle their entire DEI program regardless of its legality.

I guess this is where small government Republicans are these days:

See https://primarynewssource.org/sourcedocument/letter-to-harvard-university-from-the-federal-government/

Big Mike said...

As one example - they must dismantle their entire DEI program regardless of its legality.

DEI is nothing more than Affirmative Action plus hard quotas -/ which the Supreme Court has ruled to be illegal.

Ambrose said...

Whenever I have a question about the economy, I ask what do college history professors think about this one.

JIM said...

Make Private Universities Great Again!
I guess I'm supposed to shed a tear for all the people who occupy the Ivory Tower who are apparently above the law.

Dave Begley said...

"A Jesuit education teaches you how to think; not what to think." Fr. John P. Schlegel, S.J.

"An Ivy League education teaches you what to think; not how to think." David D. Begley

Breezy said...

That’s the thing about depending on government support for anything — that support can be taken away at a moment’s notice. History professors should know that.

Bob Boyd said...

Highly recommend the All In Podcast episode #223 with David Sacks and Chamath Palihapitiya debating Lawrence Summers and Ezra Klein on Trump's tariffs and trade policy. The 2 Dems don't want to talk about how we got here. They only want to talk about the "chaos" of the last couple weeks. Especially Summers who is very much personally responsible for Clinton Administration decisions that led to the de-industrialization of America and the rise of China as a dangerous adversary. He didn't like being called out on that at all.
Fantastic episode. Very enlightening.

Bob Boyd said...

Here's a meaty bit from the transcript and a video clip

https://x.com/theallinpod/status/1912536056584372690

Rabel said...

Several paragraphs here could well be summarized as -

What do you mean "we" Kemo Sabe.

Hassayamper said...

the proposed actions with respect to Columbia and Harvard, like the actions against law firms, are transparently illegal and in violation of the First Amendment.

BULLSHIT
BULLSHIT
PURE BULLSHIT

Allowing terrorist supporters to harass and intimidate Jewish students and faculty without any consequences is not "free speech". It's illegal, and it's evil, and every one of these foreign terrorist Muslim fanatics should be arrested today and deported tomorrow without the slightest attempt at "due process." Fuck that. These are enemy combatants who are lucky we don't put them against a wall, and universities that allowed such scum to run riot inside their walls should lose every penny of Federal funds.

Likewise, leftist law firms conspiring with rogue elements in the government to manufacture knowingly false narratives and commit perjury in filings before the FISA court cannot be said to be exercising First Amendment rights. They deserve a lot worse than being barred from contact with Federal employees or setting foot on Federal property. They should be stripped of every penny to pay compensation to their victims, like General Flynn, and the lawyers and their co-conspirators in the government should be shipped to North Texas or Idaho for trials that will put them behind bars for the rest of their lives.

I am 110% in support of Trump's war on the Deep State and the NGO/media/academia milieu in which our enslavement and oppression has been planned and implemented for the past 80 years. These people are our most wicked and dangerous enemies, far worse than Putin and Xi and all the criminals and drug cartels who ever lived.

Total victory for Trump and the free American people. Total destruction of every organ of the left-wing conspiracy to turn the earth into a gigantic gulag. Nothing else is acceptable.

Kakistocracy said...

Trump again calls for Fed to cut rates, says Powell’s ‘termination cannot come fast enough’ ~ CNBC

Translation: "Why won't Powell fix the mess I created!" 🤡

OldManRick said...

In order to understand why Trump is acting the way he is on the economy, you first need to understand that we can't go on the way we were doing without hitting a catastrophic failure of the system. There is an old saying that you go bankrupt slowly, then suddenly. He is attacking what he (and others) see as the path to bankruptcy - fraud, trade imbalance, destruction of the middle class.

The democrats like the status quo because they are effectively looting the government both directly and indirectly. The fraud that DOGE has uncovered is mostly to the benefit of the democrats, NGOs to provides them with cash (as they take positions on the boards), propaganda for their ego, and potential voters to keep them in power.

gspencer said...

His "Let the Experts Handle It Again" really means "Let Democrat Experts Handle It Again."

"We created the problems of Too Much Government, so you should let us put in even more government programs to fix the problems."

ron winkleheimer said...

"I guess this is where small government Republicans are these days:"

So you think we are still in the 90s?

ron winkleheimer said...

""I guess this is where small government Republicans are these days:""

This is not your grandpa's Republican Party.

Rosalyn C. said...

Higher education is over priced and certain groups are chronically unprepared to enter without receiving preferential treatment, many students are not counseled into productive use of their educational opportunities and incur outrageous debts which they can not repay.
But we like things just the way they are and we don't need to change a thing because we did a great job.

Jim at said...

that the proposed actions with respect to Columbia and Harvard, like the actions against law firms, are transparently illegal and in violation of the First Amendment.

How so? Be specific.

wildswan said...

"OldManRick said...
In order to understand why Trump is acting the way he is on the economy, you first need to understand that we can't go on the way we were doing without hitting a catastrophic failure of the system. There is an old saying that you go bankrupt slowly, then suddenly. He is attacking what he (and others) see as the path to bankruptcy - fraud, trade imbalance, destruction of the middle class."

This.
And also it is hard, no, not hard, impossible to get Dems to understand that we were going bankrupt and that bankrupt has a terriblely real meaning when a nation fails. I mean, regular people who support Dem positions just cannot understand why we can't go on allowing waste, fraud and abuse; why we can't go on admitting gang members and terrorists; why we need manufacturing; above all, why we can't continue spending way, way more than we have. I can see that the country as a whole is moving toward understanding the huge problem we face and I wonder why some are moving but others are frozen like the people of Pompeii.

Kakistocracy said...

Trump is in the process of attempting to capture institutions like the Federal Reserve and the Judicial system. He has not yet fully captured these institutions. In the U.S. we still have a federal system with devolved authority to the states where governors have a degree of independence. Risk premium still goes up and Trump is doing significant damage. How much is going to be reversible? Still an open question.

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RideSpaceMountain said...

@Kak, segments of the judiciary are in open revolt and acting in an executive capacity, and the Federal Reserve shouldn't even exist and is one of the greatest financial mistakes this nation ever made.

I'm less bellicose regarding the judiciary, but if Trump beat Powell to death with an olive wood club and wore his flayed skin like Hercules while ordering B-2s to carpet bomb the monetary hydra hiding in the Eccles building, I'd consider him an incarnation of Jupiter deserving a publicly expensed Roman triumph up and down the length of the Washington Mall.

Kakistocracy said...

^^ The Trump administration are running out of time with the Treasury maturity wall approaching, and they know it. Around 35% of all US bonds mature within a year. If rates stay this high and the Fed refuses to cut because of inflation and despite weak growth, then it's all over for them. People will need to protest on the streets for them to cut defence and other discretionary (cronyism) spending. There will be no tax extensions for the top 1%.

Failing that, we will see US depression era outcome and a dollar in freefall by Christmas. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

n.n said...

The progressive economic model is sustained through a kleptocracy (e g. redistributive change schemes) made viable through labor and environmental arbitrage.

Big Mike said...

It would not bother me at all if Donald Trump was to announce that the federal government has the right to claw back any research grants whose results are not reproducible. Better yet, give the government the right (in that densely-written, teeny tiny font “small print” lawyers love so much) to claw back 2X or 3X the value of the grant.

Rocco said...

n.n said...
"The progressive economic model is sustained through a kleptocracy"

And the progressive posting model is sustained through a Kakistocracy.

Rocco said...

Kakistocracy said...
"People will need to protest on the streets for them to cut defence and other discretionary (cronyism) spending. There will be no tax extensions for the top 1%."

Protesting not needed. Let's start with the tax exemptions on the $53b endowments on Harvard. And all other schools. And grants.

Temujin said...

I'm guessing he's proud of the fact that American kids cannot read, write, compose a paragraph, or think for themselves.

And as usual, he knows no conservatives, so he thinks his worldview is the majority.

chuck said...

If university faculty were capable of governing themselves, there would be far fewer administrators riding those donkeys. Giddy up, Jack.

bagoh20 said...

Do people really want the President to "manage the economy". That's adorable.

Political Junkie said...

The "Best & Brightest" he claims....

Mason G said...

"and the Federal Reserve shouldn't even exist and is one of the greatest financial mistakes this nation ever made."

From federalreserve.gov:

"The mission of the Board is to foster the stability, integrity, and efficiency of the nation's monetary, financial, and payment systems so as to promote optimal macroeconomic performance."

Note in particular: "Stability"

Now, using the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator, one finds that one dollar today has the same buying power as three cents did in 1913, the year the Federal Reserve was created.

Does presiding over a 97% loss of value of the dollar in a little over 100 years sound anything like "stable" to you, or is it closer to "mission failure"?

Drago said...

Rocco: "And the progressive posting model is sustained through a Kakistocracy."

LLR-democratical Rich has been predicting total armageddon every single day for years for Musk's companies, conservatives electoral prospects, Trump admin policies and actions, etc. Its just a vomit filled stream of predictions and "analyses" by Abacus Boy Rich that hit their deadline and die on the vine.

Over and over and over again. Even better is how he pairs with his failed predictions his David Hogg/Harry Sisson-like talking points and narratives that, for some bizarre reason, he seems to actually believe are effective...as history and reality point and laugh at him from the sidelines!

This Jerome Powell kerfuffle is perfectly representative of that.

Powell cant raise interest rates while the "fear of inflation" is so high! He is too "principled" for that!

Reality: inflation was thru the roof with no way to come down under biden policies and Powell dropped interest rates 50 basis points in the months leading up to the election!

LOL

So "principled" and "objective" and "neutral"!

Meanwhile, where is inflation now?....

....spoiler: you already know the answer to that, dont you?

Drago said...

Mason G: "Does presiding over a 97% loss of value of the dollar in a little over 100 years sound anything like "stable" to you, or is it closer to "mission failure"?"

It's "mission failure" for the normies that love the US.

It's mission success for the Dems/left/LLR-democratical lefties like Rich who want the US to be completely hollowed out for the ChiComs, islamic supremacists and the EU.

Kakistocracy said...

Trump attacking Powell for not bailing him out after his disastrous trade war adds insult to incompetence.

Trump has to refinance his corporate debt soon, so every 0.25% equates to large reductions to his monthly repayments.
No connection to any economic benefits to US citizens.

“CUT INTEREST RATES, JEROME, AND STOP PLAYING POLITICS!” ~ Donald Trump

One has to be above a certain intelligence to understand irony.

Trump needs Powell, so that when the economy goes totally to hell he'll say it's all Powell's fault for not cutting interest rates.

Blatant nonsense of course, but with his tweets & Truths and press conferences he's planting the conviction in MAGA minds that everything would be fine if it wasn't for Powell and the Fed.

Overall Powell's performance has been good. Whoever is Fed chair over the remainder of Trump's term is going to have to deal with monumental problems caused by Trump's impulsiveness, increasing senility, and his inability to conceptualize second-order and third-order effects.

Drago said...

Abacus Boy LLR-democratical Rich @7:02PM!

LOL

Right. On. Cue.

Pitch perfect gibberish layered thick with a seemingly endless stream of lies and mischaracterizations and misrepresentations...as if he were channeling Harry Sisson at scale!

Just in case anyone was wondering why the New Soviet Democratical Party is polling at 21% and literally put David Hogg into a leadership position AND has AOC as the current leading frontrunner for the New Soviet Democratical nomination!

Perfect.

mikee said...

Kak in his last comment above throws out "his increasing senility" as an axiom, without supporting evidence. I suggest the beam in his eye over Biden's administration be removed before he goes looking for motes in the eyes of others.

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