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Posted on 01/14/2026 8:09:17 PM PST by SmokingJoe
The video is a reaction/commentary piece analyzing a recent CNBC interview clip featuring Joe Kernen interviewing Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).
Key points covered: Warren criticizes Donald Trump for allegedly trying to exert political control over the Federal Reserve (e.g., threatening to fire Chair Jerome Powell and demanding influence over interest rates). She argues the Fed must remain independent and base decisions purely on economic data like inflation and unemployment, rather than political pressure, to avoid short-term boosts that harm long-term stability.
The CNBC host (Kernen) and the video's narrator push back, accusing Warren of hypocrisy. They point out that during the Biden administration (especially leading up to the 2024 election), Warren herself repeatedly urged the Fed to cut interest rates aggressively to ease affordability issues — high rents, mortgage costs, etc. — even though such cuts could be seen as politically timed to "juice" the economy. Clips shown include Warren previously saying "Enough is enough" on high rates, claiming they worsen inflation by raising landlord costs, slowing home purchases/construction, and driving up rents.
Kernen fact-checks Warren's current claims that Trump's policies (tariffs, energy decisions, Republican healthcare cuts) are causing today's affordability crisis. He notes that overall prices rose far more cumulatively under Biden (~22%) than recent inflation (~2.7%), oil prices are low, and core goods inflation remains subdued.
The narrator further argues Warren's economic points lack evidence (e.g., blaming tariffs for service-sector inflation like healthcare), highlights past Democratic pressure on the Fed (including delaying rate hikes in 2022 by calling inflation "transitory"), and questions potential political motivations behind recent rate decisions.
Toward the end, Warren says she's open to bipartisan work with Trump on legislation to lower costs (e.g., a housing bill), while the host briefly discusses Trump's reported outreach to Warren on capping credit card interest rates — which the narrator opposes as harmful price controls.
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Chief High Cheek Bones.
Creator of the dreaded Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB),
Gray Beaver got triggered.
22 minutes? Come on. Pocahontas is not worth it.
Watch the video on this at: Some creepy ass Leftist keeps intoning "Murder. Murder. Murder."
Sounds like one of the Manson Girls.
Did they challenge pocahantas on capping CC rates?
Because I think that’s terrible Trump idea - and it was originally her.
I hope it gets dropped — but at minimum, nail the collectivists against the wall and force them to disavow it.
Kernel has been on our side forever.
Indian Princess Pocahontass fall on butt:
https://youtu.be/9zS_vr0jF4A
Indeed! 22 seconds is pushing it.
Didn’t Lizzie used to hate the ‘Banksters’ before Trump came along??? (Or at least PRETEND to hate them, while gladly accepting their money.)
Ma Squaw speak with forked tongue.
I believe so.
Like a lot of leftist women she is clever at times but she’s not very bright. Hillary Clinton is another one of those whose cleverness is mistakenly seen as intelligence by the media and the rest of the left.
Neither Hillary nor Warren are half as smart as they believe themselves to be.
If there’s one thing idiot liberals like Warren know nothing about it’s economics.
“22 minutes? Come on. Pocahontas is not worth it.”
My first thought was, “There will be four commercials, forget about it.”
Princess Gray Beaver drinkum fire water beer. No peace in wig wam tonight.
More like Chief Gray Beaver.
Squaw Lie-a-watha triggered because of her hypocrisy
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