President’s targeting of Fed governor Lisa Cook highlights his efforts to remove diverse voices from government
A day after Donald Trump announced that he was firing Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the board of governors of the Federal Reserve, the White House proudly released a photo. It showed Trump, his cabinet and other officials giving a thumbs-up. Of the 24 people in the Oval Office, only one was Black.
For those who have studied the US president’s long and troubling history of racism, the two events were more than mere coincidence. They were indicative of a man who has recently brought white nationalist perspectives from the margins back to the mainstream.
Trump has vehemently denied that he is a racist, pointing to a modest increase in support among African American voters in last year’s election, when his opponent was a Black woman. But critics suggest that his effort to oust Cook fits a pattern of purging diverse voices from the higher ranks of leadership.
Trans isn’t a proxy war, they hate them too.
Oh, of course. And they hope if they can roll everything back there, they’ll move back to Teh Gheyz, too. And they just might be able to re-claim that turf, too.
It’s clear that Samuel Trollito is a very, very angry man about a whole lot of freedoms and seems poised to do whatever is needed to roll it back.
I have no idea why someone like Thiel would back these people - I assume he plans on moving to New Zealand if things get bad enough. I also think Thiel might be legit crazy given his love for things like the book The Sovereign Individual.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/05/justice-alitos-crusade-against-a-secular-america-isnt-over
Simple. This style of fascism is designed to give very rich people respite from the law and literal castles from which they can watch the rest of the world, if they feel like it.
The extreme right populist party in Germany is led by a Lesbian who lives with her immigration background POC wife in Switzerland. Let that sink in.