๐บ๐ธ The painting above Trump was not random.
It was Taft. The 27th president. The last guy in the White House before the Federal Reserve even existed.
And that is a big deal.
Taft left in early 1913. A few months later the next president, Woodrow Wilson, signed one law that basically handed America's entire money supply to a group of bankers nobody voted for. They decide your interest rates. Your mortgage. How expensive your loans get. And nobody can touch them.
That stayed that way for over 100 years.
Until Trump
Jerome Powell runs the Federal Reserve today. Think of him as the most powerful unelected guy in America. Trump has been trying to get rid of him, threatened to sue the Fed, and his DOJ even opened a criminal investigation into Powell this year. Powell came out and said it himself: this is really just about Trump wanting lower interest rates and the Fed saying no.
That painting was not just hanging there.
It was the last president before the Fed existed. Right above the guy who might actually do something about it.
113 years later.
Source: Federal reserve, CNBC, Al Jazeera
BREAKING ๐ด๐ด
The FBI has warned police departments across California that Iran could retaliate for U.S. strikes by launching drone attacks along the West Coast, according to an alert reviewed by ABC News.
This is perfect.
ICE agent: โIf you cared, you would care about the child who got raped and the person who got murdered by the guy weโre looking for. โ
Awful, ugly white lady: โI donโt care.โ
The entire insane national debate encapsulated in 20 sec.