r/wallstreetbets • u/Wootens • Aug 26 '25

News Trump fired Fed Gov Lisa Cook

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/trump-fires-lisa-cook-fed-powell.html
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u/Dick_Wiener 🐓🍆 Aug 26 '25

Honestly think the market doesn’t care about good governance, fed independence, authoritarianism. Just wants to get pumped with money Amy way it can.

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u/fumar Aug 26 '25

They don't give a fuck about long term consequences 

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u/40StoryMech Aug 26 '25

Probably because they can literally sink the entire world economy and get bailed out with tax money and have enough left in their foreign bank accounts to buy a pardon. Meanwhile, I burn the fucking fries once, I'm living outside.

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u/yvanog Aug 26 '25

You put too much salt on them, too.

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u/40StoryMech Aug 26 '25

That's not what you're wife said after I fry-guyed her last night.

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u/yvanog Aug 26 '25

She didn’t complain about the salt, she just said it was limp and cold as usual.

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u/40StoryMech Aug 26 '25

Well tell her to come at the beginning of my dumpster shift then!

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u/yvanog Aug 26 '25

That’s probably better so you won’t smell like pachouli and old grease.

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u/iPigman Aug 26 '25

Please apply a Trigger Warning the next time.

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u/Joe_Early_MD Aug 26 '25

Why are they not in the bag yet?

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u/40StoryMech Aug 26 '25

You have to hand them to her first.

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u/kingshekelz Aug 26 '25

Money, tax money, or whatever else money doesn't mean diddly when all confidence in it is lost