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Both sites are Dems apologists for Khrist sake! I can't be bothered, but I could go fishing for right leaning sites and post them here as well!
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Both sites are Dems apologists for Khrist sake! I can't be bothered, but I could go fishing for right leaning sites and post them here as well!
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You live in hope don't you? Actually, with people like the bimbo AOC leading the Dems will ensure the Trumpet will win by an even bigger margin next time around!.
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What exactly did Obongo do to save the US's bacon?
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Well, first I did not reason that the one crazy post is what made the website crazy. I was simply factually describing the website. The fact that it also happens to have quite a few crazy links happens to be just be because it is a crazy website. However, I will admit that if you see a link on a website to "HITLER'S DOCTOR CURED CANCER AND NOW SO CAN YOU" you should start to get suspicious that maybe you are on the wrong website. And further, if you are on a website like that you should start to get suspicious that You are the problem. Sure, many broken clocks can be right twice a day. Even Hitler's doctor could be right about something. But seriously? I mean, come on, man...seriously?
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What? You missed it? The google "how Obama saved the US economy" for some history lessons.
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He was the Messiah?
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Well, I'd have to say it is a stretch to suggest that Pres. Obama 'saved the US economy'. TARP, though flawed was passed in Congress and signed by the Shrub. Sure he didn't break it further, like he could have (especially if he had followed Repugnican ideas). He fought for and got a few modest things passed to help like the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. But I'd argue that the Federal Reserve did the heavy lifting. Though the FR (and going back to Alan Greenspan) also did many things to help create the subprime mortgage crisis and stock market melt down. Congress barely did anything useful after TARP, and should have done a hell of a lot more as the FR gave them breathing room.
But is is funny to see right wingers/alt-reality types triggered by an obviously smart, young, and pretty women just getting started in the US Congress.
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Well, when the Fed was in notable cause of said meltdown, it was the least they could do.
Well, you'd need to talk to the Republicans in the Senate about how hard it was to get anything passed while Norm Coleman dragged his feet on the 60th majority seat election.
It isn't funny. It is by design to vilify her like they vilified Clinton... a person who really didn't need too much help on that. I think the GOP are frightened of Ocasio-Cortez because of Texas. If the GOP loses Texas, it is all over for the White House.
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What does AOC have to do with TX? You think she would be a big influence on the Hispanic vote?
There's no difference between a Puerto Rico and Latin America, apparently.
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Yeah, and Ocasio-Cortez has that political charisma you can't buy (see Hillary Clinton). If she can develop into a solid politician, she'll be a force in DC.
The GOP see her as a long-term threat, and launched the right-wing media after her... and of course, the right-wing brown shirts followed suit immediately. This thread is a really bad sign of how around the finger people are with the right-wing media. Talk about triggered!
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Public Citizen on Twitter: ".@AOC to Chase CEO: I represent kids that go to jail for jumping a turnstile because they can’t afford a metro card. Do you think that more folks should’ve gone to jail for their role in the financial crisis that led to 7.8 million foreclosures in the ten years between 2007-2016?… https://t.co/NFBYE8YV34"
In cases of outright fraud, yes. Like attempting to pass off bad loans and bad mortgages as good investments for potential investors, as apparently was common.
Financial crisis of 2007–2008, Subprime mortgage crisis
AFR on Twitter: ".@RepAOC points out that, with the RECORD profitability banks are reaping, we should be requiring banks to boost their capital NOW, to weather future downturns. We agree! @AOC… https://t.co/VNImbP4giT"
Regulation can be good here, as a way for bank managements to say no to shareholders who want bigger dividends: "The government made us do it". Something like what AOC herself experienced in her bartender days. She noted that it becomes easy to say no to visibly drunk customers if she can point out that it would be illegal for her to serve them (dram-shop laws).
In cases of outright fraud, yes. Like attempting to pass off bad loans and bad mortgages as good investments for potential investors, as apparently was common.
Financial crisis of 2007–2008, Subprime mortgage crisisAFR on Twitter: ".@RepAOC points out that, with the RECORD profitability banks are reaping, we should be requiring banks to boost their capital NOW, to weather future downturns. We agree! @AOC… https://t.co/VNImbP4giT"
Regulation can be good here, as a way for bank managements to say no to shareholders who want bigger dividends: "The government made us do it". Something like what AOC herself experienced in her bartender days. She noted that it becomes easy to say no to visibly drunk customers if she can point out that it would be illegal for her to serve them (dram-shop laws).
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She's a cat lady now? Weird take. Very strong AOCDS.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the Left's Manic Pixie Dream Girl - The Bulwark: "Once you see it, you can never unsee it."
Is she the Left's Donald Trump? That was author Robert Tracinski's theory for a while. This is because "they both rely so heavily on exaggerated promises and bluster." But he now has another theory.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "This puts me in danger every time. Almost every time this uncalled for rhetoric gets blasted by conserv. grps, we get a spike in death threats to refer to Capitol Police. Multiple ppl have been arrested trying to harm me, Ilhan, & others. @GOP, what’s it going to take to stop?… https://t.co/DN9ZjNu8yV" noting Dave Levinthal on Twitter: "In a fundraising email today, the @OhioCRs describe @AOC as a “domestic terrorist” — a term often reserved for the likes of Timothy McVeigh and people who kill children in their school classrooms… https://t.co/x3xunKbF8X"
That's College Republicans.
Is she the Left's Donald Trump? That was author Robert Tracinski's theory for a while. This is because "they both rely so heavily on exaggerated promises and bluster." But he now has another theory.
Then arguing that AOC fits very well.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "This puts me in danger every time. Almost every time this uncalled for rhetoric gets blasted by conserv. grps, we get a spike in death threats to refer to Capitol Police. Multiple ppl have been arrested trying to harm me, Ilhan, & others. @GOP, what’s it going to take to stop?… https://t.co/DN9ZjNu8yV" noting Dave Levinthal on Twitter: "In a fundraising email today, the @OhioCRs describe @AOC as a “domestic terrorist” — a term often reserved for the likes of Timothy McVeigh and people who kill children in their school classrooms… https://t.co/x3xunKbF8X"
That's College Republicans.
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Uhm, I was responding to the idea that Pres. Obama saved the day. What Obama wanted to do, or tried to do (but was blocked by Congress), isn't part of 'saving the day', so I didn't address that...
Yeah, I understand that it is being orchestrated, and the alt-reality folks are lapping it up...
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Yup, it is funny how Repugs are far more likely to have an opinion about her nationally, than Dems. Right-wing media fixation for sure...
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...lexandria-ocasio-cortez-poll-favorables-media
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Only *one-third* of American children in elementary & middle school can read at grade-level. One third. Yet Betsey DeVos is trying to cut *every* Federal literacy program in the country. Watch @RepJoshHarder point this out + dismantle her argument.… https://t.co/PhXrq73wjw" notes Rep. Josh Harder on Twitter: "The hypocrisy from @BetsyDeVosED is shocking. She does lots of photo ops reading to kids… but then goes to DC and tries to cut EVERY literacy program.… https://t.co/8Bsq9pTpEB"
With right-wingers not even trying to fill the gap. For all their bragging that individuals and private organizations are much more productive than governments, they don't even try.
NowThis on Twitter: "'We will have blood on our hands.' — @AOC called out the right's hypocrisy when it comes to government intervention on climate change… https://t.co/XjemPzTMLp"
She asks why Republicans love tax breaks for fossil fuels, but dismiss support for renewable energy as "socialism". I suspect that it is an issue of who is paying them.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "I’m not going to quote the NY Post’s horrifying, hateful cover. Here’s 1 fact: @IlhanMN is a cosponsor of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. She‘s done more for 9/11 families than the GOP who won’t even support healthcare for 1st responders- yet are happy to weaponize her faith."
ABC News on Twitter: "Rep. Ilhan Omar decries Pres. Trump's travel ban. "My birth country is now on the so-called list of countries that are banned...I think about the little Ilhans, who, like me, would also like to experience the American dream. They will no longer be able to fulfill that promise."… https://t.co/Fan1upGxlZ"
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "You refuse to cosponsor the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund, yet have the audacity to drum resentment towards Ilhan w/completely out-of-context quotes. In 2018, right-wing extremists were behind almost ALL US domestic terrorist killings. Why don’t you go do something about that?… https://t.co/Mn6GlPvPuh" referring to Dan Crenshaw, R-TX.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Yesterday at FSC, I asked CEOs about something known as countercyclical capital buffers. Think of it as a “rainy day” rule, so banks must stock up
to prepare for a downturn, so they aren’t caught empty-handed as they were in 2008.… https://t.co/dYdFbzRBKP" noting Victoria Guida on Twitter: ".@AOC told me after the hearing: “It’s an almost universally acknowledged economic practice that at times where the economy is surging, at least according to overall GDP, that we should be shoring up our capital buffers.” Otherwise, in a downturn “we won’t be as prepared.” #CCyB… https://t.co/TewvPLegiS"
That's the meaning of the Biblical story of Joseph and the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh dreamed of seven thin cows that ate seven fat cows, and seven thin ears of grain that did likewise to seven fat ears of grain. Joseph interpreted that dream as seven years of abundance followed by seven years of famine, and he recommend storing up some food in the good years for the coming back years. The Pharaoh ordered that, and Egypt successfully survived the famine.
This story is totally unhistorical. There are no Egyptian records of anything like it, and there is no convincing evidence that dreams are prophetic. But its message is a good one, unlike Jesus Christ's teaching that one should not have foresight because God will rain down on you all the food and clothes that you will need.
With right-wingers not even trying to fill the gap. For all their bragging that individuals and private organizations are much more productive than governments, they don't even try.
NowThis on Twitter: "'We will have blood on our hands.' — @AOC called out the right's hypocrisy when it comes to government intervention on climate change… https://t.co/XjemPzTMLp"
She asks why Republicans love tax breaks for fossil fuels, but dismiss support for renewable energy as "socialism". I suspect that it is an issue of who is paying them.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "I’m not going to quote the NY Post’s horrifying, hateful cover. Here’s 1 fact: @IlhanMN is a cosponsor of the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund. She‘s done more for 9/11 families than the GOP who won’t even support healthcare for 1st responders- yet are happy to weaponize her faith."
ABC News on Twitter: "Rep. Ilhan Omar decries Pres. Trump's travel ban. "My birth country is now on the so-called list of countries that are banned...I think about the little Ilhans, who, like me, would also like to experience the American dream. They will no longer be able to fulfill that promise."… https://t.co/Fan1upGxlZ"
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "You refuse to cosponsor the 9/11 Victim’s Compensation Fund, yet have the audacity to drum resentment towards Ilhan w/completely out-of-context quotes. In 2018, right-wing extremists were behind almost ALL US domestic terrorist killings. Why don’t you go do something about that?… https://t.co/Mn6GlPvPuh" referring to Dan Crenshaw, R-TX.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "Yesterday at FSC, I asked CEOs about something known as countercyclical capital buffers. Think of it as a “rainy day” rule, so banks must stock up
to prepare for a downturn, so they aren’t caught empty-handed as they were in 2008.… https://t.co/dYdFbzRBKP" noting Victoria Guida on Twitter: ".@AOC told me after the hearing: “It’s an almost universally acknowledged economic practice that at times where the economy is surging, at least according to overall GDP, that we should be shoring up our capital buffers.” Otherwise, in a downturn “we won’t be as prepared.” #CCyB… https://t.co/TewvPLegiS"That's the meaning of the Biblical story of Joseph and the Pharaoh. The Pharaoh dreamed of seven thin cows that ate seven fat cows, and seven thin ears of grain that did likewise to seven fat ears of grain. Joseph interpreted that dream as seven years of abundance followed by seven years of famine, and he recommend storing up some food in the good years for the coming back years. The Pharaoh ordered that, and Egypt successfully survived the famine.
This story is totally unhistorical. There are no Egyptian records of anything like it, and there is no convincing evidence that dreams are prophetic. But its message is a good one, unlike Jesus Christ's teaching that one should not have foresight because God will rain down on you all the food and clothes that you will need.
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You cited another web board... you couldn't link to the video otherwise... which is from August 2018.
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