Who gave Harvey Weinstein a cattleman hat and a Senate seat?
Fucking Oklahoma, goddamnit.
Who gave Harvey Weinstein a cattleman hat and a Senate seat?
Fucking Oklahoma, goddamnit.
Boy, these people really want us to forget about Bush.
Oh, it's just Markwayne - the guy whose name accurately screams "I'm a dumb hick".
What a fucking embarrassment. Christ.
Mullin is one of the dumbest people ever elected to congress, and that's saying something.
I sumbit for consideration the honorable Louis fucking gohmert
The bigger the hat, the bigger the dead space under it.
Some people say he and Boebert share a brain cell like 2 orange kittens. Only 1 can have it at a time.
As @Flow pointed out, Louis Gohmert is part of the litter too. As is John Kennedy.
Kennedy is a fucking lawyer... I can't figure out if it's all an act, or if he has legitimate brain damage or something.
Litters aren't supposed to have this many orange cats, but when you're led by an orange painted object raised on lead paint, I suppose the litter could be all kinds of weird
Look at the little guy and his little hat. Precious.
This the idiot hick who wanted to fight the Teamsters guy in a committee meeting?
Yeah. Seems like a real genius.
A few weeks ago I had to correct someone on Lemmy who was blaming Obama for the "great recession". The comment even had a bunch of up votes.
Other people proceeded to also argue with me that Obama, who was sworn in on Jan 20th 2009, was responsible for the Great recession that started December 2007.
Though Obama did team up with Bush to ensure the banks that caused it were bailed out quickly. This happened sometime around nov or dec 2008, after Obama had been elected but before he was sworn in.
And it was changes made during the Clinton presidency that allowed so many high risk mortgages to exist in the first place.
Not sure if the approval to bundle them together and call them lower risk was a Bush era thing or came from before that.
But even if the timing of the recession had started in 2009, it would have been something Obama inherited from Bush and Clinton. He only controlled his response to it (which wasn't great, as that money was used to allow banks to pay bonuses and buy up foreclosed properties while people laid off for no fault of their own lost their homes).
He only controlled his response to it (which wasn’t great, as that money was used to allow banks to pay bonuses and buy up foreclosed properties while people laid off for no fault of their own lost their homes).
That 'not great' response prevented the complete and imminent collapse of the entire global economy. I'm not sure what the phenomenon of discounting the much worse outcome is once it is avoided, but I'm pretty sure it has a name.
It's the same phenomenon that has people say that the covid crisis was overblown and vaccination was unnecessary because it subsided on its own, ignoring the impact that billions of people getting vaccinated had.
That's a bit hyperbolic. Certainly a lot of big players in the financial industry would not exist anymore and a lot of rich people would have gone bankrupt, but for the majority of people, it would not have looked much different than doing nothing.
What should have happened is, instead of giving free money to the banks, the bad loans should have been paid off through a forgiveness program. That would have saved both the banks and regular people and wouldn't have given the banks cover to make up fraudulent liens to steal people's homes.
Though it was one of the least responsible ways to save it: handing a blank check to the ones that made the bad gambles in the first place. They didn't even have anyone go and look at what was being done with it. It might have been one of the biggest wealth transfers in history. Plus it set a precedent that the government will step in to limit risk, which encourages more of this shit.
Though at least they didn't do the same to bail out the shortsellers that were getting squeezed for GME and those other meme stocks a few years back (which could have also broken the economy). There was fuckery, but it wasn't "the taxpayers will pay your bills when you lose big while you proportionally pay less than most of them when you do win".
They should have made any bank bailout contingent on nationalization. That was the big mistake.
Is your bank insolvent to the point that it needs emergency federal assistance? Is it so grand that letting your Tower of Babel collapse endangers the entire nation? Do we the taxpayers have a guns to ours heads here, forcing us to give out these bailouts? All to clean up the mess left behind by overpaid, overconfident, completely incompetent bank executives?
If so? Fine. A bailout will be given to protect the customers and the nation, but the existing shareholders are completely wiped out. The feds take ownership of the bank. They divide the accounts and remaining assets of the megabank up amongst a dozen smaller new banks it creates as a replacement for the failed giant. The Federal Reserve provides credit to the new banks as they get started. Eventually, when they stabilize, the government holds IPOs for the new banks and completely divests ownership of them.
THAT is how bank bailouts should work. This way, moral hazard is avoided, the government isn't fleeced, and market consolidation is reversed all in one go.
Are we also ignoring that the AG that have Epstein the plea deal was Secretary of Labor under trump?
Denying the truth and rewriting history is tmright out of 1984. All they lack is the enforcement part where if anyone disagrees with the rewrite, they would get black bagged.
Oh, didn't ICE just get more funding then most military
Guys, he was the secret president before he was the real president!
-This jackass
This is what happens when you run as an R only. Oklahomans don't care about who or what is on the ballot. If it has a -R, then that's the ticket!
it’s sad how many people will just blindly believe this shit, despite all these things being explicitly documented and dated. very telling of the intelligence of the population
That's just unrealistic.
It'd take some kind of constitutionally guaranteed right to bear arms and something about well regulating a militia. Probably framed in terms of security of the union or something.
Then maybe these fascists might be kept in check.
That’s kind of unfair to people in blue states. Are they supposed to travel to other states where they are not residents and confront politicians elected in elections in which they could not vote?
Tough guy here
#5 guy here
Doesn't change that he's right.
how that would be achieved in a country of this size
That's why the civil war never happened. The country was too big for them to travel anywhere. And everyone was too scared that they would lose the comforts they did have, to risk changing anything for other people...
Yes @grue@lemmy.world is yelling SO loud. OW!
I've heard of having two first names. But two first names concatenated to make a first name? I'd say that's new except "Markwayne" wasn't exactly born yesterday.
His idiot redneck parents couldn’t decide on Mark or Wayne. The rotten apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Fkn hillbillies.
Why would he admit it? The MAGA base loves the lies. Why tell the truth if that would cause MAGAs to get mad and possibly not vote for you?
You thought he was a man, but he was a Mullin…
I will never get over this guy's name being Markwayne. It just screams ignorant redneck. His name alone should have reason enough to ban him from holding office.
No it shouldn't. His credibility and lack of interest in truth should.
This guy is a tool and all, but shitting on double first names is pretty ignorant. Is an old tradition that kind stuck in many places in the south US.
I know a lot of really smart and progressive southerners with double first names.
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